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MOUNT OLIVE, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954
NUMBER 89
The
Month
At least 100 ladles in<the Mount
Olive section should sport orchid
corsages next'weekend. That many
have been ordered' by Summer
lin’s Electrical Service here to
give free to the first 100 ladies at
tending their showing of 1954 ap
pliances this week end.
The flowers, direct from Hawaii,
, will be presented those attending
the showing between the hours of
7 and 9 o’clock Friday evening. Ce
cil Winstead assured us there would
be no sales of appliances during the
showing, but we don’t imagine
you’d have to twist his arm very
hard to get him to take an order
during that time.
If you’re the 101st woman to ask
for an orchid, don’t blame us!
Even after being notified about
the signal, we were fooled at first
by Sunday’s civil defense alarm
signal. To tell the truth, most of
the other firemen were, too. Habit,
long ingrained, makes local volun
teer firemen move when the siren
first sounds. Somehow or other
you just can’t sit around and count
the signals to see whether it’s a
' fire alarm,'-or a defense signal of
12 short blasts, in groups of threes.
Some citizens, commenting on
the signal/ said they just thought
somebody was blowing the siren
for a fire who did not know how
to handle the siren.
Mack Walker, who spent about
three years in a Korean prison
camp, evidently, got used to doing
without his freedom. We heard, in
a round-about way, that he was
married over the week end to Miss
Mary Rivenbark, Clinic drug
store’s blonde sodai clerk.
A lady from out of town (we dare
not mention any names), was visit
ing her daughter and son-in-law
'last week, and during the visit
went with her daughter to Raleigh.
While in the (capital city -this lady’s
false teeth began to bother her
something terrible.
So, this lady- goes by a-dentist’s
office in Raleigh and asks him to:
fix her teeth. The doctor was busjr
.at the moment, and asked the lady
to call back by before she left
town. Which she did.
Dthe way back to -Mount Olive
lady commented several
times that she didn’t know what
the dentist had done to her teeth,
but they felt much different than
they ever had before. For the next
day or two she suffered with the
misfitting plate, ’lowing several
times that the dentist had certain
ly done something to them.
A day or two after the Raleigh
visit, a long-distance telephone call
td the local home informed the
lady from out of town, that the
dentist had handed her the wrong
plate of teeth, by mistake, and
he was sending her plate here on
the bus, and would she please send
the plate he’d given her back to
him at once.
“No wonder these teeth have felt
so funny,” the lady ^Commented.
“I > wonder who in the world these
teeth belong to?”
>; Her son-in-law, who’d answered
the telephone, said, just as ser
iously as he knew how, “The doc
tor said they belonged to an old
colored woman out at the insane
asylum.” '
The story goes that our out-of
town friend spit the teeth into the
furtherest corner of the room, and
that her son-in-law (honestly now, j
do you know of but one person in
Mount Olive who’d do a thing like
that?) is still laughing. *
4 Never has there been a crime
in which liquor figured more con
spicuously than in the Bobby Green
lease Jupnap-murder case. The ab
ductor, Carl Austin Hall, 34, and
his , paramour, Bonnie / Brown
Heady, 41, confessed to an insati
,, able desire for alcohol. The sordid
plan was conceived, they admitted,
gt the bar in Mrs. Heady’s home.
In a letter written before she
was doomed to die in the gas
chamber for the’erime, Mrs. Heady
told the parents* of the six-year
old Kansas City victim:
“I am not trying in any way to
make any excuse for.my actions,
as I don’t have any.
“But I think anyone, will find
. that if he drinks from one to two
fifths of whiskey a day tor a year
m{ \ a half that your brain doesn’t
Viahctkm properly.
“Since I’ve -been in Jail is the
first time I’ve been able to reason
clearly for some time , . .’’—To
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Cadet Earl Grayet It
Promoted at Riverside
Cadet Earl P. Graves, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Char|es H. Graves,.
, North Church street, Mount Olive,
has just been promoted from the
rang of sergeant to sergeant first
tdass according to special orders
issued at Riverside’s Winter Horn'e'
at Hollywood, Fla.
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Final Report on Dimes Fund
Shows Contributions $2,040
Louis Parker, chairman, an-i
npunced yesterday Mount-Olive
contributed a total of $2,040 to the
March \of Dimes drive this year.
The drive ended Saturday.
This was the largest amount ev
er raised in Mount Olive during a
March of Dimes’ campaign, ap
proximately $740 more than was
collected last year in the city’s pre
vious high. About $1,300 was turn
ed over to the drive last year.
The drive locally Was sponsored
by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce with other organizations
and businesses cooperating. Par
ticipating were Carver and Mount
Olive schools, 'theaters, restau
rants, businesses, American Legion
post and the citizens of this com
munity, who gave so generously,
Parker said.
Schools solicited funds for the
drive, while the American Legion
turned over proceeds from a Satur
day night dance. Businesses and in
dividuals contributed, while two
restaurants, Rusty’s Grill and
Reaves’ Restaurant, held coffee
days. The theatres let the Girl
Scouts solicit during the intermis
sion and showed mpvies to the'
grades at Both Carver and Mount
Olive Schools getting the largest
amount of contributions.
Kelly Has
Filed Foi*
Duplin Post
Duplin County will stagger terms
of its commissioners in order there
will be^no complete changeover on
the board.
This will take effect this year
with the three candidates getting
the largest number of .votes being
elected to a four-year term, while
the two low men will be in office
for two years. In future elections,
all- winning' candidates for county
commissioners will be elected for
four years. '
Only one candidate has filed for
commissioner to date. He is E. E.
Kelly of Glisson, representative of
the second commissioner district,
composed of Wolfescrape, Glisson,
Albertson, and' Smith : township,
j Kelly is an. incumbent.
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Firemen Are
Coifed to 2
Grass Fires ,
Firemen answered alarms to two
grass fires over the weekend.
The first alarm was sounded
Saturday morning and firemen re
sponded and prevented a grass
fire on Johnson street from damag
ing nearby houses. At noon yester
day, .the department -answered an
alarm to another grass fire, this
time on Nelson street.
The fire Saturday was believed
to have started from a dropped
match. A man living in a house
at the edge of the blazing field re
ported he had dropped a match
after lighting a cigarette as he
crossed the lot and by the time
he reached the house the field was
blazing.
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Trash burning was believed to
have started the fire yesterday.
Beta Club Plans
Dance Tomorrow
The Mount Olive Beta club is
sponsoring a ■ dance tomorrow
night, Wednesday, in the commu
nity gym with the Rhythm Four
Plus One furnishing the music.
Highlight of the evening activit
ies, which get started at 7:15 and
end abound 11:15, will be a con
cert by the Dew Droppers of which
a Mount Olive boy is a member.
Tank.Better Than ^
First Anticipated
Mount Olive’s water tank is in
better condition than city officials
had expected.
An inspection of the tank showed
that 75 percent of the tank’s bot
tom and structure to be in good
shape, Mayor T. Nelson Ricks re
ported. It previously had been in
dicated., that .the tank was excep
tionally thin 'and would "fall out.
any minute.”
Ray Scarborough of Mount Olive,
major league pitcher, who announc
ed his retirement from organized
baseball last fall, received a spec
ial certificate of merit for having
distinguished himself in the field of
sports.,
This certificate was awarded the
former American League hurler
Sunday afternoon at a Jaycee meet
ing in Greensboro. He received the
certificate in connection with the
state Junior Chamber of Com,
merce’s Distinguish Service
Award, which was won. by Oland
Peele of Pikeville..
The- award to Scarborough was
not made for any specific achieve
ment, but for the general manner
in which he conducted himself as
a sports figure, setting a good
sportsmanship example during his
long career in the Major Leagues.
The North Carolina Junio$Chain
ber of Commerce Distinguished
Service Award made Sunday to
Peele is not connected with the
recent selection of local young men
’who have been outstanding in their
respective communities.'The nam
ing of the state winner of the Com
munity-Young-Man-of-the Year will
take place in early spring. Benny
Franklin is Mount Olive’s contest
ant in this forth-coming distin
guished award naming.
In recognizing Scarborough for
'the award, Dick Bennet of Golds
boro, state DSA chairman, who
’made the presentation, brought out
that the Mount Olive man by his
general conduct had’ set a high
standard in the national game
and was an inspiration to young
people in North Carolina.
Local Jaycees attending the
meeting in Greensboro were'Louis
Parker, E. J. Bundy, Bill Bizzell,
Wilson* Lewis, and Scarborough.
Scarborough, now associated with
a feed, seed, and fertilizer busi
ness in Mount Olive, broke into
the major leagues with Washing
ton in 1942 and later saw duty
with Chicago, Boston, and New
York, before’ calling it quits qfter
finishing last season at Detroit.
The Moimt Gilead native was of
fered a 'coaching job at Buffalo,
but turned it down in order to re
main in business here.
More than 40 clover varieties
have been tested for possible use
in seeding United States pastures.
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Begin Tests .1
To Uncover 7
nicenee UAa,A
uisease nere
The blaodtesting campaign which
started in'Mount .Olive yesterday
to uncover syphilis is now in full
swing. The North Carolina State
Board of Health emphasized that
the program is for everybody.
Educational part of the program,
which is a movie on health, includ
ing a cartoon, is being shown in
colored schools because time does
not permit the filip to be shown
to everyone. ^However, syphilis is a
d ft ease which affects us all and all
residents of the area are urged, to
take a, blood test.
No one is safe or immune from
syphilis; it knows no race or creed
and is a constant menance to ev
ery citizen of this county. Health
officials say, “Don’t be ashamed to
take a blood test; syphilis is a dis
ease and should be treated as such.
Only those ignorant of the rages
of syphilis will refuse the request
of their state and county to partici
pate in this program. Tell your
friends to take a blood test and
take one yourself.”
The health department apologiz
ed for any misunderstanding that
the program is for any specific
group. Everyone is to be included.
Syphilis cannot be stamped out un
less the entire population of Wayne
county cooperates in this program
and takes a blood test when the
opportunity is presented to them,
officials reported. , a
Entertainers'
For Vets Are
To be Here
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Bobby Del Rio, sacred accordion
ist and his group of veterans hos
pital entertainers will appear at
the First Methodist church of
Mount Olive Thursday nigl)t at
7:30.
The Rev. Russell Harrison, pas
tor, said no admission will be
charged, but a free will offering
will be taken to defray the group’s
expenses in 'entertaining serylce
men in veteran’s hospitals.
This grbup, headed by Del Bio,
fs •sponsored by the Veterans Hbs
pita! program, which was formed
by Protestant churches. The Rev.
Harrison explained they -perform
at veteran’s hospitals and occasion
ally appear at churches.
Del Rio has been called “The
World’s Greatest Sacred Accord
ionist,” and has been .in China.
Japan and Korea. ’ '
Demonstration On
Sewing is Planned
Special interest meetings for
those' interested in learning how to
use their sewing machine attach
ments will be held in several places
in Duplin county, Mrs. Pauline S.
Johnson, home agent, has announc
ed. ■
She urges interested individuals
to plan to attend the one held in
the community nearest them. Mrs.
Johnson stated each meeting will
be held from 2 .to 4 p.m. and wijl
be taught by the home agent.
Schools will be held as follows:
Friday, Penny Branch club house
near Warsaw; Monday, February
22, hqme agent’s officer Kenans
ville; Tuesday, February 23, La
Place club bouse, Rones Chapel;
Thursday, February 25, Teachey
Presbyterian recreation room,
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The 1954 United States soybean
crop will be supported at a national
average price of 2.22 per bushel,
80 per cent of the mid-December
soybean parity. ~
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FIRST FAMILIES—LAST WORDS—The right hand of President Eisenhower awaits the fare-t
WeU handshake from Turkey's President Celal Bayar, left. Mamie Eisenhower, third Iromleft,|
Mcortt Mrs. Bayar down the .White House steps as Turkey’s first couple prepares to leave Watb«J
.^jpgtoa tbjft^onth’s good;wUlJovu^of jhe, United Stotoa, , ^
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NEWS
from
Here and Elsewhere
Dr. W. A. Criswell, pasta* of
the First Baptist church, Dallas,
[Texas, reputed to be the largest
Protestant church in the world,
[will be among the distinguished
speakers appearing on the program
of t^e Presbyterian (Conference' on
Evangelism February 17-18 at Ra
leigh.
. A Republican criticized and a
Democrat defended President Eis
enhower’s decision to send 200 U.
S. Air Force mechanics into Indo
china to aid anti-Communist forc
es. The defending Democrat was
| Senator John Sparkman of Alaba
ma, who was his party’s choice
for vice-president in the past Presi
dential election. Sen. Watkins of
Utah Was the criticizing' member.
| Russia has chosen to break off
the Big Four foreign ministers,
conference in Berlin on Thursday
rather than grant independence to
Austria.
Nationalist Chinese planes rained
i 30 million small leaflets on Com
munist Shanghi Saturday night as
the Chinese Reds were celebrating
the fourth anniversary of the treaty
Of friendship between Red China
and Russia. Leaflets bore anti-Red
slogans.
L. B. Rrourk, former Wilmington
police sergeant, is in jail without
.privilege of bail, facing a double
murder charge. He is charged with
shooting his estranged wife and an
oil station employee.
Oland Peele, whose home is in
PikeviUe, received the N. C. Junior
Chamber of Commerce Distinguish
I ed Service Award Sunday and pro
claimed the) outstanding young Tar
Heel of 1953.
| Legion Dance Will ,
Benefit Band Club
American '-Legion will ton
the proceeds from its Saturday
night -dance over to the Band
Patrons club and club members
wil} Inake dancing more attractive
that night by giving door and other
prizes.
Proceeds raised by the dance
'will be used, among other things,
for the purchase of more uniforms
for the growing high school band,
an officer of the club disclosed.
. The American Legion customari
ly holds dances at the gym every
Saturday night and occasionally
proceeds are turned over to other
civic organizations, Felix Bell, Jr.,
commander of the local Legion
post, said in reporting proceeds
from the dance on February 6
were contributed to the March of
Dimes.
The dance will be held at the
community gym.
Funefal Rites for
Mrs. Anderson Held
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara
Anderson of Mount Olive were held
Sunday afternoon from the North
east Free Will Baptist church of
which she was a member. The
Bev. Wesley Price, pastor, officiat
ed. Burigl followed in the''Anderson
family cemetery near the home.
Mrs. Anderson, 81, died at her
home three miles east of town Fri
day afternoon.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Ada. Proctor of Wilson and
Mrs. Alma Branch of the home;
three grandchildren, end four
great-grandchildren. . . f
SHE IS UP THERE—Jimmy Carroll search
es the sky with his binoculars and reports
on planes flying over to Charles Johnson,
who writes down the information and passes
it along to the telephones, who in turn will
relay it to. air defense headquarters. These
boys were on duty Sunday afternoon when
the Mount Olive Ground. Observer Corps
practiced plane spotting.—-Staff Photo by \
Gordon Williams.
Civil Defense Ground Observer Corps
Here Undergoes Test Alert on Sunday
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25 Cases Disposed'of By •
Mayor in Coiirf Saturday
A total of 25 charges were dis-<
posed of in Mayor’s Court Satur
day when 21 defendants were taxed
with court costa*|i&
Paying costs ijw two infractions
of the law were Bennie Copeland,
Negro, of route 1? Edd Pearsall
and Joe Wolfe, local Negroes, and
Marvin Tanenhaus of Binghamton,
N. Y.
Copeland was found guilty of
speeding and disorderly conduct;
Pearsall, engaging in an affray and
public drunkenness; Wolfe, inde
cent exposure, and Tanenhaus, dis
regarding stop signal and speeding.
Florietta Brown, Mount Olive Ne
gress, was fined court costs for
assault on Willie Kornegay, and
James Kornegay,'and James Sloan,
Negro, city, paid costs for disor
derly conduct. Also paying •costs
for disorderly conduct or engaging
in an affray were Daisy Jones,
Willie Korengay, and Ervin Korne
gay, Negroes, of Mount Olive.
Marvin Brewington, Negro, of
Warsaw, paid costs for having im
proper brakes.
Taxed costs for public drunken
ness were Tommie Rivenbark, city;
Lorenzo Price, Seven Springs; Em
mitt Davis, and Bernice Stokes,!
j local Negroes.
Traffic violators were: Joe Mor
Mount Olive Is City of
Ex-County Commissioners
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Among its many claims, Mount
Olive also can claim title to the
city of living ex-county commis
sioners. -. ... •
• Of 11 living, former Wayne Coun
ty Commissioners four reside in
Mount Olive, and another one lives
nearby, giving a grand total of
Rye, and another is expected to be
added to the list next year.
J2. D. Burnette,. who has serv
ed lor five, years, including one as
chairman of the board, has an
nounced he will not seek re-elec
tion. -When BUrnette bows out next
year at the time a new board takes
over, he will join Robert Holmes,
Rqdoey Knowles, Faison Withering
ton,! Dr. G*F. Herring of Mount Cl
ive and Kenan Jordan, who lives
near Mount Olive, as. ex-county
commiswhers and will bring to
50 per cent the number of former
Wayne commissioners living here,
provided of.counse, other, members
of the boa^d are re-elected.
It is not known whether other
members of the present board are
planning to run again, but veteran
observers believe they will.
The board is comprised of five
members elected at large. This
means that no commissioner has
to come from a certain town or
township. All could be from the
same town or section of the coun-'
ty, it has been pointed out.
There has been no indication of
any local person seeking Burnette’s
seat at the commissioners' table.
The political pot locally has not
come to a boil yet, but during its
simmer, street talk has not brought
forth any prospective candidates.
This is alarming to some civic
minded citizens, who feel that since
Mount Oliye is the second largest
city in the county and is the trad
ing center for a sizable portion of
the county, a representative from
here should bleated on the board.
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Meeting to Discuss
Ammonia Fertilizer
Farmers of this section are
invited to attend a meeting on
anhydrous ammonia at the Mount
Olive high school auditorium to
morrow night, Wednesday, at
7:30.
The meeting is sponsored by
Standard Fertilizer company,
which is bringing an anhydrous
ammonia and bulk storage plant
here, and will deal with types of
equipment farmers will need to
apply the chemical fertilizer
how farmers are to usd this form
of fertilizer and the results to
expect from the use of this type
risey, Turkey; Robert Amen, Jr.,
Clinton; Robert Chesson, Rocky
.Mount; Johnny Williams, Negro,
Princeton; Matthews McCray, Ne
gro, Pinetops; Leonard Jones, Ne
gro, Newport News, Va.; and Irven
Harris, Negro, Rocky Mount.
Tribune's
Columnist
Gets Letter
Kay Mitchell, The Tribune’s teen
age columnist on young folk’s ac
tivities, received her first fan let
ter this week and it was from none.
other than the wife of the bureau
manager of Hearst Newspapers,
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Mary Steel* Sentner, a na
tive of Mount Olive, daughter of
the late Dr. W. C. Steele, and wife
of David Sentner, bureau manager,
wrote Miss Mitchell the following:
“Dear Kay Mitchell: This is a
letter I’ve intended writing ever
since you began your gay, chatty
column in THE TRIBUNE,
“You write with such ease and
charm that I hope you intend to
be a newspaper girl. You have a
naturalness of expression that is
most unusual and you string words
together like bright colored beads.
That means, I think, that you like
writing and find it fun instead of
a chore. ': ■ ■ ■ -
“When I,first knew Dorothy Kil
galien, she was a. little younger
than you are/ but like you she'
wrote with spirit and verve and
Dorothy loves a typetfjrlter the way
Lorelei Lee loves diamonds.’* j
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> With shrill blasts of the fire sir
en Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock
the Mount Olive Ground Observer
Corps flew into action, checking all
planes flying over this territory
and reporting same to air defense
headquarters in another section of
the state. . ' 1 '
It was a practice session and >
members of the corps had been
notified in advance, but Edward
F. Carroll, supervisor of the corps,
said next time the ' Mount Olive
unit would not be informed wheth
er it is a practice session dr not.
Within 13 minutes after the siren
had sounded 12 blasts in groups of
four, and the first telephone call
had been placed, 23 volunteer
members of the group had report
ed for duty at the corps’ station
at Luby Bell’s home on Church
street extension.
The local corps is comprised of
some 30 volunteers, but others were
out of town or for some other
reason were unable to report for
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wnen it was ait over, around
4:30 p.m., Carroll said he was well
pleased with the way the group had
responded to the alert.
Purpose of this practice was to
give volunteers actual experience
in checking and reporting planes.'
This is being done so that in ease ■
of an enemy air attack, air de
fense headquarters can be alerted,
and follow the planes’ approach
with the help of other observation
-units scattered throughout the
state.
After the 23 volunteers reported
for duty they were assigned shifts
by Carroll and Mrs. Bell, who is
chief observer. Shifts were com
prised of five members, one at the
telephone, one acting as chief ob
server and the other three acting
as observers.
When a plane approached, the
one assigned to the telephone
would place his call to air defense
headquarters and when the plane
was passing immediately over or #
by his station, the'report was giv
en in code. . • ' ; ’
Mount Olive firemen and citizens ■>.£
had been prepared for the siren ■
blast last week at a firemen’s
meeting.'At that time Fire Chief
Ennis Korengay revealed the sig
nal to be used in civil defense,
This report was .carried in the '
Tribune Friday, : i
Publicity School lor
Club Loaders Planned
A publicity leader’s School for •
publicity leaders and secretaries of
Duplin county Home Demonstration -
clubs will be led by Miss Jean Ad- *
derson, extension specialist, Thurs
day at 2 p.m. in the Home Agent's
office at the agricultural building
in Kenansville,
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