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VOLUMES! MOUNT OLIVE, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954 NUMBER 31 The * Mouth * Piece I! i Quote for today: “A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a high mountain—every thing appears small to him, and he appears small to everybody.”— Rabelais. Mrs. “Tootie” Flowers was the perfect picture of relaxed comfort Sunday afternoon, as she enjoyed the hammock on her front porch. She had a book in her hand, and at some time during the afternoon she’d probably read in it, but when we saw her, the droopiness of her eyelids and the floppiness of the book, as its pages almost swung shut, were sure signs her brain was several jumps ahead of her eyes down the road ta sleep. By George, we reckon Charlie Matthews wishes now he hadn’t gone on a vacation to Cincinnati, and other places, last week! It’s so hard to go back to work. But it really shouldn’t bother Charlie. You see, to get a vacation, one has to work in the first place, and to dread ending a vacation, one has to go back to work, in the first place! , Sitting at our desk the other evening, we saw a pickup truck next to the railroad in front of the office. The driver called to two girls, evidently returning from the show. They went around to the driver’s side, and had a good time laughing and talking for a few minutes. AU of a sudden the two girls scooted around to the other side of the truck, and crouched down, evidently hiding from someone. One of the girls reached up, open ed the door, and both those young* uns slud into the foot of that pick up truck. When the driver driv off there apparently warn’t nobody with ’im. Still watching the scene, pretty soon there came into view a group of boys, and ever since then we’ve wondered where those two girls told two of those boys they were , that night! , . ? m rs. Willie Hood was visiting her {hter in Annapolis, Md., ra lly, and while there Mr. Hood «rote her he’d rented out her room. Not phased in the least, Mrs. Hood wrote back, "What does she look like?’’ D. T. McPhaU, so we hear, is among the latest Mount Olive folks building a cottage on Topsail beach. . To listen to Arthur Lane tell it, Frank Clifton is going to be a lot more regular at American Legion meetings in the future than he has been is the immediate past. Lane called Clifton, who didn’t recognize his voice, and told him he under stood he was very prominent in church work, ana that be, Lane, needed to talk with someone who had understanding in such mat ters. Clifton modestly admitted he WAS interested in church work, and would be very glad to talk with his unknown caller almost any night except that evening, which was Friday. “Tonight I’ve got to go to the Legion meeting,” Clifton said, “and I’m also very much in terested in the Legion movement.” So they made a date to talk some other night. . Then Arthur identified himself, and said-. “All right, Frank Clifton, you’ve handed me a big enough line. If you aren’t at the Legion meeting tonight I'm coming after you!” Sure enough, Frank was there. That was supposed to be all of the incident, except we can’t help asking Arthur if he’s ever worked such a trick on members of his Sunday school class who need a little prodding to. attend as they should? . - Some of you may have wondered . why the local Jaycees have not en tered a contestant in the Annual, “Miss North Carolina” event. Mon v mornig we heard a member of club explain why. First of all, takes several hundred dollars ,o see one of those events through, «and maybe mpre if the entry should be a state winner. Judging is in three classifica tions, looks, personality and talent. To find a candidate who excels in all three fields is difficult, but not impossible (especially in Mount Olive), but to find one who Quali fies, and is available for the con . test, is something else again. Up to now no member of the Jaycees has volunteered to enter the contest, and since the girls aren’t available, It appears Mount Olive may have to wait some little time before we’ll have an entry. And please dod’t ask us—we Just haven’t the time! • m -- ’ ' '■ \ .V, Croucho Marx has eloped with 34-year-old ex-model Eden Hart fcv‘4.1! ,• X 'r Calypso Apparently Has Lost Fight to 1 Force ACL to Maintain Its Railroad Station C-O-O-O-L—Even without the mermaids. Carter Barron Amphi-; theater in Washington, D. is a nice, cool place to be when the thermometer is having apoplexy, and a water show is in town.: “Miss Washington” contestants, making a heart-warming spec tacle in cool surroundings, are. from left: Jean Skidmore, 19; Ann Weaver, 20; Shirli Culpepper, 19, and, reclining, Jacklyn Traten, 18, all from the Washington area. All - Star Softball Game Will Be Played July 28 The city league all-star softball game will be held at McGee Field Wednesday night, July 28, Thomas Hollowell, chairman of the ar rangements committee for the game, announced this week. r;' - -i>. J V Proceeds will go to the league’s operational fund, to be used to tie fray the lighting expenses. Under the present set up, no admission is charged for loop games. However, Publisher of Near Faison Dies Friday Hugh McKenzie, 62, of Faison, route 2, founder and former pub lisher of the Sampson News in Clinton, committed suicide at his home Friday morning. He was found in his room where be had used' a .12 gauge single barreled shot gun and killed him self by placing the muzzle in his mouth and pulltng the trigger. No reason was given for his action. McKenzie had been operating a printing shop at his home in the Piney Grove community for a number of years, and also at one time he had a printing plant in Wilmington, where he printed a weekly fishipg guide. He founded the Sampson News in 1928 and sold it about 10 years ago. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon from the home with the Rev. T. O. Bird, Presbyterian minister of Faison, officiating, as sisted by the Rev. J. L. Powers of Turkey and the Rev. M. C. Mac* Queqn of Clinton. Interment was in die Clinton cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Grant McKenzie; one son, H. Nel son McKenzie of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Geofge Clark of Georgia; one brother, C. S. Mc Kenzie of Faison; one sister, Mrs. C. E. Lyda of Richmond, Va.; two half-brothers, J. E. Rich of Clinton and L. T. Rich of Holly Hill, Fla.; one half-sister, Mrs. C. A. Dean mister of Jacksonville, Fla. The Television Writers of Amer ica have announced-they will strike against three major TV networks Wednesday. The TWA said eight months of negotiations have failed to pAxhice contract agreements with NBC, CBS and ABC. ■ ..III J.IJ gill. ......... r y .."* [the Jaycees, sponsors of the pro gram, hope sufficient revenue can be secured from the all-star contest to keep the league in operaiion. The major expense is furnishing lights for the contests. Hollowell saitPde tails for the contest have not been .worked out completely, but tha^tbe committee is tinkering with two ideas on what procedures should be used in pick ing the teams. One plan calls for. the selection of two teams with the managers of each team selecting six players. This plan would have the first place, the fourth place, and sixth place teams meeting the others. However, ’ the committee also has shown definite interest in let ting the fans select one team, with that outfit meeting the team in first place, which under a new decision made by the organiza tion's recreation committee, is the Methodists, although the Presby terians have a better record for the entire summer. NEWS BRIEFS Hwre and Elsawhwa The U. S. Department of Agri culture announced that opening day tobacco sales on the Georgia Florida markets averaged $52.67 per hundred pounds, up 56 cents from last season's opening prices. The Georgia-glorida markets open ed last Thursday. Interest in the Citizen’s Service Association, an organization of the white people opposed to non-segre gation, has been building up since an- initial meeting was held last week in Duplin county. A light easing of tension was reported in the Indochina peace talks Sunday after a brief secret session of the nine chief delegates and their top advisors. An explosion in a fireworks and munitions plant in Chestertown, Md., killed at least 12 and hurt 60. The explosion occurred Friday. Farmers Festival Question Whether a. Farmers' Festival will be held in Mount Olive this fall is expected to be determined today when members of the Chamber of Commerce hold a luncheon meet ing to decide whether to proceed with {dans to hold the affair or, to abandon the project. The luncheon meeting will be fteld at Rusty’s Grill, at noon today, Tuesday. • A meeting to plan for the festival was kdd Thuwday night at the " ' ^ ” .. v l . v * ? '■ ' ■ • ■ '“n , * •' , * J -v _ V . ‘ - community building. 'Approximate ly 15 persona attended this gather ing and several believed more would have been there had in clement weather not been prevail ing. i Those at the Thursday night meeting expressed a desire to see the festival resume, after an ab sence' of nearly two decades, but postponed taking any definite action until the meeting today, ' Calypso apparently has lost its fight to retain its railroad station. The station now has been reduced to a flag stop. The State Utilities Commission last week authorized the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to discontinue its services in the Duplin town. There has been no report from the town as to whether the city will press for a rehearing or take legal steps to block the commission’s decision. A fight appears in the making on the ownership of the station pro perty. The property, it is reported, was given to the railroad approxi mately SO years ago on condition that it revert to its original owners and heirs when it ceased being' used as a “station.” The Commission in hearing this ruled that the question is for the courts to decide. Should the town question the Commission’s ruling, it will have to ask for a rehearing, and if a re hearing is rejected, then take the matter before the courts. 'Mrs. James Dies Here Last Friday Mrs. Hattie O. James, 86, died early Friday morning at her home in Mount Olive. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday afternoon with the Rev. T. W. Williams, Baptist minister, officiating. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Oscar White of Mount Olive; Mrs. L. M. Shaddeau and Mrs. Paul Allard, Jr., both of Norfolk, Va.; three sons, W. Doran James of Goldsboro, Edgar J. James of Norfolk, Va., and Clarence H. James of Boston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. Dollie Andrews of Raleigh; a half-brother, Job K. Savage; a half-sister, Teresa Davenport, both of Speed; 1-grandchild and 12 great-grandchildren. . Mrs. James was the daughter of the late John Henry and Pattle Savage of Speed, and widow of the late W. D. James of Mount Olive. Section Dies Union, S, C.1 Fred L. Barfield, 78, son of the late George and Betty Manley Barfield of Mount Olive, died at his home in Union, S. C. Thursday. He had been in ill health for a year. Funeral serivces were conducted Saturday afternoon from the Grace Methodist church in Union with the Rev. T. C. Schuler officiating, as sisted by the Rev. R. L. McCraw. Interment was in Forest Lawn cemetery in. Union. Mr. Barfield was reared in Mount Olive but left here, as a young man to become a conductor on a passenger train, a position from which he had retired. Surviving are his wife, three daughters, two sons, three sisters, and three brothers, including Jack and Burke Barfield of Mount Olive. Kirby Sasser Buried in Snow Hill Last Friday Kirby C> Sasser, 61, of Snow Hill, brother of Mrs. Essie Kramer of Mount Olive, died Wednesday night at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Pierce of Garner. Funeral services were held in Snow Hill Friday. Interment was in the LaGrange cemetery. Native Mrs. Bert Topka Is Bereaved In N. Y. Local friends and relatives of Mrs. Bert Topka, resident of New York City, have been advised of the death of Mr." Topka, 59, which occurred July 1, in St. Elizabeth hospital there following a series of heart attacks. M!rs. Topka is the former Miss Mary Campbell Davis, more famili arly known here as "Mary C”, daughter of Mrs. Robert H. Davis and the late Mr. Davis of Mount Olive. Mrs. Davis was visiting her daughter at the time of Mr. Top ka’s death, and is still with her. ifr. Topka was an official with the Delaware and Hudson rail road. No Music Teacher in Sight Now Mount Olive has suffered at least a temporary set back in securing a public school music teapher who also would direct the high school band this year. M. S. Porter, Jr., member of the local school board, yesterday morning disclosed that the person the board had its fingers on for the position has rejected the offer. According to Porter, the board now will take steps to secure a first grade teacher for the elemen tary school and continue to search for a musk and band in structor to take the post on a private basis. He said that with the enrollment the local school has, it is mandatory that an academic teacher be hired. He pointed out that teachers are allocated according to the average daily attendance, and last year the enrollment was sufficient for the state to allocate an extra teacher for the elementary school here this fall, A music teacher employed on a private basis, however, will not be counted against the teacher al location. In an effort to bring a music teacher here, members of the band patrons' club and other interested citizens met with the local school board last week. At that meeting at whfch R. S. Proctor, county superintendent of schools, was present, it .was agreed to try and secure the services of Miss Eliza beth Goode, either on a private or regular basis. Miss Goode was contacted over the week-end and rejected both offers. Under the present arrangements the band is sponsored and financed by the band patron’s club. The club, furnishes the instrument, un iforms, as well as paying a part time director, who comes weekly to rehearse the group for several hours. The club also provides transportation for band members to football games and other sche duled concerts, with members of the band patron’s organization act ing as chaperones. Bible School for Negroes Continues The community daily vacation Bible school for Negroes, with an enrollment of 131, will continue in its third week. Highlighting the closing week’s activities will be an outing at the Holloway Beach in Kinston Thursday. Parents, those enrolled in the school, and the instructors are in vited to attend this outing. Workers in the school are the Rev. T. T. Platt, superintendent; Mesdames Amanda Dawson, Daisy Durham, Maude Kornegay, Misses Joyce Hunter, Nellie Baker, Marie Oliver, Mary Francis Lane, Juanita Brock, Mrs. Rosa Jarmon and Solomon Elliott. Betty Jo Ring of Lexington has been named “Miss North Caro lina.” 31 Defendants Appear in Cfly Court Saturday; Parking Charges Among Cases STEEPLE GETS PAINT—The clean-up campaign in Mount Olive officially ended nearly two months ago, but that has n’t stopped the town folks from making improvements on their property. An example of Mount Olive’s continued in terest in a clean city is shown in the above photo as work men prepare to paint the steeple at the Presbyterian church.—Staff photo by Vaden Brock. Some Damage Caused When Wind, Rain Storms Strike James Davis of Seven Springs lost his tobacco barn to lightning, and Burt Potter of the same com munity had his truck destroyed when wind uprooted a tree on it. This was some of the damages caused Thursday night by a severe wind and thunderstorm which struck in sections of the county. Winners in First Half Play Named Eddie Summerlin, director of the Jaycee summer ' recreation pro gram, which includes the city soft ball loop, this week disclosed that the recreational committee has de cided to split the softball season, made retroactive to July 6. With this change, the Presby terians and Bear Marsh were de clared loop winners for the first half of the season. Second half of the season stand ings, according to the committee’s new ruling, have the Methodists on top with a 3-0 record; National Guard second, with a record of one win against no losses; Presby terians, third, with a 3-1 record Baptists, next, with 1-3 record; Bear Marsh, fifth, with one loss and no wins, and the Baptist B with no wins and three losses. Expect a square deal from no one except a square dealer. Methodists Best Presbyterians, Baptists Have Civil War in Softball Play Friday Buddy Pope, who led off the frame with a single, scored on an error to give the Methodists a 9-8 last inning victory over the league leading Presbyterians Friday night. In the nigbeap, the Baptists gained momentum in the late frames to thrash their B brethren 20-10. The Methodists took an early 8-0 lead as Shelton Boyd pitched shutout ball until the fifth, but after scoring twice in the fifth and once in the sixth, the Presbyteri ans staged a five run rally in the seventh to tie the score. The Meth odists picked up two of their runs in the first frame on singles^by Dave Wilson and Pope and a walk by Specs Harper. In the third inning, singles by Harper, Andy Andrews, and Luby Bell and a walk to Wilson gave the Methodists three more runs, and the winners repeated the sccfrjng - is the fourth on Wilson's single, and , ::'■ >.>■ . ' ■ i ' * \ • ' « "’VO • • H V -St.. ..' ! two errors. The Presbyterians came to life in the fourth and rapped out three hits, but two of the runners were caught off base, and the club lost a golden opportunity to score. However, in the fifth, the club took advantage of two errors and a walk to score two runs, and sent home another tally in the sixth on an error and a single by Johnny Walker. In the seventh, the losers batted around with B. j. Lee opening the frame with a single and scored on an error, and Dempsey Lane’s double. Paul Crompler, Presbyteri an hurler, enjoying a perfect night at bat, connected for his third hit of the game, a single to score Lane ,and Bracy, who had been safe on the error. A walk and Billy War rick’s single gave the losers an other two runs before Crumpler settled down and retired the side. | la the Baptists contest, the Bees batted around in both the first and second frames to command a 9-3 !ead, but the mainliners came back to score four runs in the third and four metre in the fourth and from there coasted to an easy vic tory. After the second, the losers were held from scoring until the sixth when singles by Sutton and Ferrell accounted for. a lone tally. Yates Lee hit a four-bagger for the Bees. His came in the second Highlighting the fourth inning rally ,was Edward Taylor’s home run for the regular Baptists. In the same inning Eddie Summerlin rap ped out a double, while a two-bag ger by Charles Kraft in the third kept the rally in that frame alive. The winners got to the Bees, Hooty Lewis for three runs on three hits, including a double by Dave McClenny in the sixth, and in the seventh ran up the score by ^coring six tines. *- _ * ' ■■■: ■■■'■.I ."V"; ( • *-!? ■',/:*< ■ 5 1 Other sections in the path of the storm wre Saulston and Pikeville, where barns were blown over, and roofs torn from houses. Elsewhere, the wind was not a S' severe and the rain was welcomed. Farm authorities here said that crops, not in the path of the wind storm, were benefitted tremendous ly by the rain, which fell steadily for several hours. Mark Goforth, Jr., farm agent, said the rain will really help to bacco. and will particularly bene fit newly planted milo and soy beans. Dallas Price of Seven Springs reported tobacco and corn in that section were severely damaged by the wind, which hammered and twisted the crops. There has been no official estimate of the damages in this section, but some farmers said crop damages ran to as much as 30 percent. Davis narrowly escaped injury when lightning set off 10 sticks of dynamite and 100 caps in his pack house. Davis said he had started into the burning building, formerly Grants Chapel church, to start re moving 3000 tobacco sticks when the explosives went off. He was partially in the building at the time but was not hurt. Duplin Women at Music Workshop Mrs. Adrian Davis of Calypso and Mrs. Walter Rhodes of Beula ville, music chairman for Duplin Home Demonstration clubs, at tended a music workshop at Ca tawba college, Salisbury, last week. ' The workshop was sponsored by the State Federation of Home Dem onstration clubs. Dr. Arnold Hoffman, instructor of public music, and his staff di rected the school, which taught church and recreation music. Billy Ray Talton, 20, of Pike ville drowned Sunday afternoon in an irrigation pond on the farm of George Wayne Aycock'near Na hunta. Talton, who could not swim, was wading with two smaller boys and apparently steped into a hole.' ^ '-V v: > Paul Thompson of Mount Olive, charged with driving without licenses, and driving under the in fluence, was bound over to county court, following a preliminary hearing before Mayor. Protem D. F. Odom, Jr., in Mayor’s Court Saturday. He was one of 31 defendants ap pearing on the court docket, and one of three sent to county court. Clarence Nichols, Negro, of Nor folk, Va.. and Starkie Slade, also of Norfolk, were the others who will have their cases heard in the higher court. Nichols is charged with driving without licenses and Slade is charged with transporting whiskey and driving under the in fluence. . Cases against five charged with illegal parking were dismissed. Those charged were Mrs. Wade Weeks, city; Edd Grady, route 1; Clayton Holmes, route 2; Joseph Moore, Negro, route 1; and Tom mie Ferrell, city. Other cases dismissed were against Dorothy Raynor, Negro, city; Carson Lane, city; Moses Matthews, Negro, Faison; Henry Oats, Negro, Faison; Johnnie Oates, Negro, route 4. The Raynor woman was charged with disorder ly conduct; Lane, with public drunkenness and assault; Matthews and Henry Oates with assault, and Johnnie Oates, with careless and reckless driving. David Rivenbark of Calypso was taxed with cost for using vulgar and indecent language on the streets of Mount Olive. Others paying cost were, for pub lic drunkenness: Harry Battle, Ne gro, route 2; Robert McGowan, Matthew Houston, and Isiah Artis, Negroes of the city; Robert Hard erson, route 2; Haywood Bass, Negro, Magnolia; and Joe Pate, Negro, of Salemburg. For disorderly conduct, Jadio Royal and Morris Raynor, Negroes of Mount Olive, and Pate. For traffic violations, Troy King, Negro, Clinton; Thomas McDuffie, Negro, Chapel Hill; Robert Grice, city; Eddie Bedon, Negro, Balti more, Md., Tommie Robinson, Negro, Pink Hill, Charles Ebron, Negro, Baltimore, Md.; and Frank VanBauef, WiHard. Cox Gives Program At Rotary Club H. M. Cox was in charge of the" program at the Mount Olive Rotary club meeting Thursday night. He told the club’s new officers that members of the organization are behind them in their endeavors to make this a banner year for Rotary. Cox pointed out officer? of Rotary International take office July 1. but that Rotary goes along without radical changes, even if new men are in charge. These men, he said, have been trained for many . years in the purpose and spirit of Rotary and they take their new duties with a feeling of confidence and pride. Cox also spoke about the recent, annaul meeting of Rotary Interna tional, held in Seattle, Wash., where the new president of the organiza tion, Herb Taylor, was installed. Cox said Taylor has worked for good citizenship and developed the four-way test of Rotary. Before Cox spoke, Charlie Bur nette, program chairman, made program assignments for the club year. Willie Hood of Mount Olive was introduced as a visitor. Calypso May Hire Full Time Officer Calypso is considering the pos sibility of employing a person to serve as tax collector, policeman, and street superintendent. The town now has part time em ployees to handle each depart ment, but commissioners at their July meeting, held last week, ex pressed an opinion that one person ^ could handle all. three without it costing any more than it is under ■ the present set up'. In other actions, the board voted :t; * to keep the 1954 tax .rate, the same as last year. The -rate is 75 cents ,/* per $100 Valuation.’ , Chief James Keeps Word to Bystander in Mayor's Court Police Chief P. O. James kept his word; - - ■ v - • 1. "f After Mayor’s Court .had ad journed Saturday afternoon Chief James, strolled over to .a by-stand er, and said be believed the man was selling illicit whiskey and warned him that if he continued, the police department was going to put him out of business,' •* - Saturday night, the department raided the home of Willie “Roose velt” McKoy, Negro, oi Mount Olive, apprehending a jar Of illegal whiskey and arresting McKoy on charges of possessing illicit whis key for pupose of sale. McKoy was the by stander to whom toe chief had addressed his remark*.':' •*;*> >;■>? irk IX" V
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