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VOLUME 51 „ MOUNT OLIVE, N.C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1954 NUMBER 50
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OCTOBER 8-PLAN TO BE PRESENT!
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Probably more startling than
anything we could tell you today
is J. Edgar Hoover’s semi-annual
FBI tyniform Crime Report to the
nation, which was released Thurs
day morning.
Some details of the report fol
low:
~T’~' An estimated 1,136,140 major
crimes were committed during the
first six months of 1964. This
represents an increase of 88,850, or
8.5 per cent*over a similar period
last year. If this trend continues,
major crimes will reach an all
time high during 1954.
n A major crime was committed
every 13.8 seconds.
Each day during the first six
months of 1954, it is estimated that
an average of 35 persons were fel
oniously slain, and 252 other fel
onious assaults were committed;
48 rapes were committed; 608 cars
were stolen; 197 robberies and 1,
454 burglaries were committed.
It is estimated that during the
" period from January to June, 1954,
a crime of murder, manslaughter,
rape or agpault to kill was com
mitted every 4.3 minutes.
•The timetable for crime during
the first half of 1954 is as follows:
1 murder or negligent manslaugh
ter every 40.9 minutes, 1 rape ev
ery 29.8 minutes, 1 robbery every
7.3 minutes, 1 aggravated assault
every 5.7 minutes; 1 burglary ev
ery 59 seconds, 1 larceny every
23.5 seconds, 1 auto theft every
, 2.4 minutes. -
KoDDery jumped zu.» per cent
while burglaries rose 13.2 per cent
and larceny 9 per cent during the
^ first six months of 1954.
f Estimated murder figures rose
/ 0.9 per cent and aggravated as
saults showed no change. Rape of
fenses declined 1.2 per cent and
. auto theft and negligent man
slaughter were down 2.3 and 3.9
per cent, espectively.
. Urbah crime rose 7.2 per cent.
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_ cent, while burglaries and lar
^ s in urban areas increased by
per cent and 7.1 per cent. Ur
S' murders decreased 2.1 per
cent and negligent manslaughter
declined 6.4 per cent. Auto thefts
in the <^ties decreased 2.7 per cent
while aggravated assaults in urban
areas declined by only 0.5 per cent
and urban rape Increased 0.6 per
cent.
Rural crime increased 11.9 per
cent in the period froih January
to June, 1954. Burglaries and lar
cenies in rural areas increased 16.7
per cent and 13.6 per cent, respect
ively. Robberies were up by 10.8
per cent in the rural areas, while
murders increased 5.8 per cent.
Rural aggravated assaults -increas
ed 1.8 per cent, but rape declined
3.5 per cent. Both negligent man
slaughter and auto thefts showed
. declines of 0.6 per cent, and 0.8
per cent, respectively, in rural ar
eas. ».
Although a decrease is noted ov
er the first six months of 1953, au
to theft continues a?a,major crim
inal problem in the United States.
During the first six months of
1954, an estimated 110,060 cars
were stolen as compared with 112,
600 in the same period last year.
Victims of killers in the Unitpd
States totaled 6,380, while more
than 54,000 other individuals were
feloniously assaulted by potential
killers or rapists. Robbers jeopar
dized the lives of 35,650 victims.
As of April 30, 1954, there was
an average of 1.8 police per 1,000
inhabitants. '
More than nine out of 10 homi
cides- committeed in 1953 were
cleared by arrest.
ANOTHER MERIT W Eagle
Scout Boyce Honeycutt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hon*
U eycutt of tyount Olive; re
•v,. cently received a Gold
Palm award at a Scout cer
emony. This award is his
10th merit since reaching
;tbe Eagle• ranker
Hurler for Giants Farm
Team Student at Mt. Allen
■Victor Davis, a New York Giants
baseball farmhand, is playing the
percentage*.
The lanky righthanded hurler
realizes t|ie time will come when
his curve will no longer fool the
batters. He is preparing for that
day by getting a college educa
tion now.
Davis, a native of Bladenboro,
is enrolled at the Mount Allen
Junior college here.
And the day his arm is no kinger
his bread and butter, he hopes to
have another profession on which
to Ml back.
t>avis has just finished his first
season in the pro ranks, pitching
for the Giants’ affiliate \in the
class D Pony league, Olean, N. Y.
Most of the summer was devoted
to the same thing he is doing at
the college—learning. Only in the
Pony league he was trying to learn
a batters’ weakness, while at
school he is concentrating on the*
academic subjects,
* He hopes the texts will be easier
to learn that those Pony league
batters. Davis didn't fare too well
in his first season, dropping seven
decisions. However, he did have
a respectable earn-run average, and
he believes the experience gained
during the summer will benefit
him next season.
Davis said he learned more base
ball during the summer than he
had in his entire high school and
sandlot career, and this fall ex
pects to pick up more information
in the academic line. The rookie
ball player hasn’t yet decided on
his major field, but confesses that
he leans toward social sciences,
still this doesn’t mean he plans to
major in this field.
College students rarely are en
couraged to pick a major before
their junior year. Davis is waiting
and meanwhile is taking liberal
arts courses so that when the daw
crimes to select a major field of
study he will have a general edu
cation background.
Davis got his baptism in the
play-for-pay ranks with Shelby of
the defunct Tar Heel loop, having
been signed .after graduating from
high school last spring. When the
circuit folded in mid-season, he
was transferred to the New York
club.
Davis realizes the roaa to the
big leagues is a rough one, and he
is willing to take the bumps to
make it to that goal. Regardless
of whether he makes it to the big
time, he knows the day will come
when organized ball will hand him
the pink slip (release) and he is
getting insurance, in'the form of
an education, for that day.
Rites Held
Tuesday for
Mr. Jordan
Perry Jordan, 80," died at his
home on route 3 Tuesday morn
ing. He had beeif in ill health for
nine years.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon from Pleasant
Union Christian church with the
Rev. W. C. Foster, pastor, officiat
ing. Burial was in the family ceme
tery.
Jordan was a member of Pleasr
ant Union churcn and a member
of the Mills Creek Masonic lodge,
Surviving are four sons, Ottawell,
Demison, Donald and Arnold, all
of the home; three daughters, Mrs.
Walton Keen of Newton Grove,
route 3, Mrs. Gardner Morris of
Four Oaks, Mrs. R. S. Harrison pf
Tarboro; one brother, G. C. Jor
| dan of Newton Grove, route 1; and
three sisters, Mrs. Etta McQullen
of Faison, Mrs. John Smith and
Mrs. J. B. Lockamy, both of Clin
ton. i ......
Change in Services
Of Eureka Church
Services at the Eureka Christian
church Have been.changed.
The Rev. W. O. Henderson, past
or, Sunday announced that services
at the church will bp held first
and third Sundays of each month.
The morning service will be at 11
o’clock and the evening service at
7:30.
It was also anounced that the
Christian Youth FeUowship of the'
church will serve home-made ice
cream tonight, starting at 7.o’clock,
and that the singing classes, di
rected by Mrs. Rostnberry, will be
concluded tonight. ,
William McCullen Is
Promoted to Corporal
William Mac McCullen, son of
Jim McCullen of the Dobbereville
community, has been, promoted
from private first class to corpor
al.
, MeCullen has been ip Korea
•lade August, 1953. - •;
VICTOR DAVIS
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Corn Harvest
Set Today for
Warren Farm
A corn harvest and field meet
ing will be held on the Carl War
ren farm, near Kermit Warren’s
cotton gin, about two miles west
of Mount Olive on Highway 55,
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
This will be the first official corn
variety test conducted in Wayne
county.
Clyde D. Peedin, assistant farm
agent, said the N. C. State college
experiment station has conducted
an official corn variety test on this
farm. There are about 36 differ
ent varieties of corn in this test,
Peedin said. Included are open
pollinated corn, recommended hy
brids, experimental hybrids and
hybrids from commercial compan
ies. »
Peedin said it is from tests sim
ilar to this that the experiment
station bases its recommendations.
He urged farmers and* other per
sons interested to attend this meet
ing.
Those attending, he said, will
have the opportunity to observe
and study different hybrids and
open-pollinated corns shucked side
by side. Specialists from State
college will be on hand to discuss
the different varieties and answer
questions.
Local Nurses Get
Caps in Ceremonies
Miss Janice Carol Summerlin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Summerlin, and Mrs. Edward Par
ris, daughter of Norman Outlaw of
Mount Olive, were among 14
nurses to graduate Friday, Sep
tember 10, from the Park View
Hospital School of Nursing, Rocky
Mount.
The graduation exercises took
place at 8 o’clock that night in the
First Baptist church of that city.
Immediately following the serv<
ice a reception was held jh the
church dining room, where the
graduates were honored by the
Park View Hospital Alumni As
sociation.
Baptists of |
Area Meet 1
Next Month ■
Local Baptist leaders will have
program parts at the 127th anniiSU
session of the North Carolina East
ern Baptist Association.
The association will hold a two
day meeting, starting Tuesday, Oc
tober 5. The first day’s session will
be held at the Rowan Baptist
church in Clinton, where several
from the Mount Olive church will
participate on the program.
Next day the meeting will be
at the Johnson’s Baptist church in
Warsaw. There, the Rev. U. A. tytc
Manus and the Rev. Eugene Hag
er, pastors of churches near Mount
Olive, will take part on the pro
program.
Representing Mount Olive at the
first day’s session will be the
Rev. T. W. Williams, who will
give an introductory sermon, and
K. Eugene Martin, music director
for the local church, who will
give a vocal solo.
That afternoon, C. O. Whitley,'
a Baptist layman of Mount Olive,
will present a talk on colleges'and
seminaries.
Mr. McManus, pastor of the
Bear Marsh church, will open the
association’s session the second
day, reading the scripture and'
leading in prayer. Later during
the day Mr. Hager will report
on home for the aging.
Chairman for the association’s
program committee is Mr. Wil
liams.
Calypso PTA
Hears Head
Of District
The Calypso Parent-Teachers As
sociation met Monday night, voted
to change its meeting time to the
fourth Monday night of each month
and heard the organization’s dis
trict president speak.
Mrs. R. M. Piver of Wilmington
spoke on the basic principals and
functions of the P.T.A. She was
introduced by Mrs. Robert Fw
rior, president of the Calypso
group, who presided over the meet
ing.
The meeting opened with song
leader, W. W. Best, leading the
group in singing' “Onward Christ
ian Soldiers" and “The More We
Get Together.” James Strickland
gave the devotional, using as his
text, “What Is Man That Thotf
Art Mindful of Him/5
This-was followed with reports
by Mrs. Llyod Hontz and Mrs.
D. V. Gwaltney. Mrs. Hontz report
ed on Congressional publications,
and Mrs. Gwaltney reported on ex
ceptional children. Mrs. J. B.
Strickland was in charge of the
program.
Following the business meeting,
members were invited to _ the
school’s cafeteria where they were
served refreshments.
In Hospital
Among those from this section
who are patients in the Wayne Me
morial hospital are: Mrs. J. C. Mc
Cullen, R. E. Hatch, Mrs. Walter
Thompson, Mrs. Carl Coley, -Bill
Tillman, Jr., Mrs. Leonard Sutton,
Mrs. Julia Ann Benbow, Mrs. Win
nie Sutton and Ernest Bracey.
Paving of City Streets; will
yet Underway In October :
BEAUTY CONTESTANTS — Betty Alene
Dali (left) will represent B. F. Grady and
Ada Margaret Barfield, the Calypso school,
in the Mount Olive Farmers’ Festival beauty,
contest October 8. They will compete with
entries from Piney Grove, Seven Springs,
Grantham, Brogden, Mount Olive, Kenans
ville, and Faison for the beauty title. Con
testants are sponsored by their respective
home economic departments. Judging will
take place at a breakfast October 8, and the
winner will be crowned during intermission
of the football game between Mount Olive
and Richlands that night. (See Tuesday’s
Tribune for photos of other contestants.)-r
Tribune Engraving.
Swearing In of Local Recruits in Air
Force Will Be Feature of Festival Day
A feature of the Mount Olive
Farmers’ Festival will be the pub
lie swearing in of local recruits in
th^ y. S. Air Force.
Men* Inducted at the October
8 ceremony, will be flown to Lack
land Aii* Force Base in San An
tonio, Tex., where they will re
main together throughout basic
training, barring sickness or emer
gency leave.
This will be the first special bud
dy group from North Carolina to
be sworn in, according to Sgt.
Whaley, recruiter for the Wilson,
Greene, and Wayne areas. Men to
be inducted here will be from those
counties and also from Duplin, Len
oir, and Sampson.
Sgt. Allen, recruiter for Samp
son, Duplin, and Lenoir, also will
take part in the swearing* in
Both recruiters said that if any
one wants to become a member of
this buddy group to see either Sgt.
Whaley in Wilson, Goldsboro, or
Mount Olive, or Sgt. Allen in Clin
ton or Kenansville before October
5.
The swearing in ceremony will
come at the height of festival acti
vities, and is tentatively set to
take place about the time the local
National Guard unit puts q.n a pre
cision drill.
Other features of the festival
will be the address by Lt. Governor
Luther Hodges, a grand parade,
crowning a beauty queen and the
awarding of prizes.
The Lt. Governor will give his
address at 1:45 p.m. At 11 o’clock
in the rtiorning the day's activities
will begin with a grand parade, and
the float committee reports that
the number to be entered in this
parade is growing daily.
Flqats in the parade will be en
tered by businesses, civic groups,
and farmers, with prizes going to
the top three in each classification.
Also participating in the parade
will be bands from Mount Olive,
Carver, Goldsboro high schools, Ed
wards Military Institute and Camp
Lejeune. Arthur Lane is parade
marshall.
The festival’s beauty queen will
be selected at a breakfast held that
morning, but crowning will wait
until half-time at the football game
between Mount Olive and Richlands
that night. Nine schools in this
area have been invited to enter con
testants in the beauty contest and
all have submitted entries except
Faison.
Representing Mount Olive is Bet
ty Ann Outlaw. Other contestants
are: Ada Margaret Barfield, Ca
lypso; Frances Sitterson, Kenans
ville^ Betty Alene Dail of B.
F. Grady; Myrna Grady, Grantham;
Carolyn Best, Piney Grove; Barbara
Jones, Brogden, and Anne Mozingo
of Seven Springs.
AMERICANISM—Students at the Faison school lined up
outside the building Wednesday morning for a flag-raising
ceremony. It is part of a plan the school h^s to make i|£
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students more conscious of their democratic heritage. At
. this service the students" were given instructions on the
j>roper respecjt for the flag.—Staff Photo by Cjtlvin Porter.
These contestants are sponsored
by their respective home econom
ic departments, and the department
hacking the winner will receive a
$25 cash award. - -
Carver Does '
Not Know Yet
About Team
Carver high school still is in the
dark on whether it will have a six
man football team this fall.
The final say now hinges on the
decision of another school. Carver
school officials approached prin
cipals at a meeting in Kinston last
Saturday and found two willing to
go along in forming a six-man foot
ball conference in eastern North
Carolina.
However, it is believed that an
other school is necessary in order
to get the conference off on solid
footing. An unidentified school, it
is understood, is considering the
proposal and the final outcome
will rest with its decision.
S. E. Durante, principal of Carv
er, who has spearheaded the drive
to form such a conference for the
Negro schools in the eastern part
of the state, has stated that if the
plans fall through this year, an
other attempt will be made next
spring.
In the event the conference is
formed this fall, the schools plan
to play an abbreviated schedule.
L. K. Hickerson, director of ath
letics at Carver, will coach the loc
al team if the loop is organized.
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’ Bonus Gets
Contract for
Local Paying
Mount Olive’s street paving pro
gram is expected to get underway
about the middle of October.
pity fathers, at a called session——
Tuesday afternoon, opened ' bids
for the work, and accepted the low
bid, submitted by Barrus Construc
tion company. The company, of
Kinston, bid $25,585 for the work, ,
with an alternate bid of $6.95 for
type F2 asphalt cement on 3,000
or more tons.
An employee of the town ex
plained that, by including the al
ternate bid in the contract, the
city will get its paving cheaper,
and will have more funds to ap
ply to the entire project. It was
explained that in the original bids
the asphalt runs slightly over $7
Cost of the program is being fi- ^
nanced by the Powell Aid funds,
allocated to cities and towns for
improving their non - highway
streets. These funds are allotted
each , year, and last year Mount
Qlive saved its funds and added
it to this year’s to give Mount Ol
ive approximately $33,000 to be
used on street work.
May6r Nelson Ricks said most
of the streets in town will benefit
from the project. Some, however,
will not be paved, but recondition
ed. Streets marked for paving are:
Center , street, resurfacing and
extending pavement to hog mar
ket; John and James streets from
Center to the schools; ’Chestnut
from Pollock to College, resurfac
ed; E. John extension, one block,
paved; -•
Witherington from highway 117
to Center, paved; Martin, twd
blocks, resurfacing; Southerland,
two blocks, resurfaced; Lee, one
block, paved; Henderson, tw6
blocks, paved; Nelson; paved; W.
Short street to highway 117, paved;
Anderson, one block, paved; and
Pollock to Breazeale, resurfaced.
Ricks also said that any funds
left over will be used to work on
other streets.
Burgaw Attorney
Speaks on Issues
The Board of Deacons on the
Mount Olive Presbyterian church
has invited Lynn Corbett, a Bur
gaw attorney, to speak to all of
ficers and interested persons on
the two major issues facing the
church-merger with the northern
church and segregation.
Corbett, who has done extensive
study concerning the two issues,
will speak Sunday night at 7:30
at the local church. Corbett is
an alumnus of Davidson college
and is an elder in the Burgaw Pres
byterian church.
Local Soldier Hurt
In Auto Accident
Pfc Harold Lewis, who is sta
tioned at Fort Benning, Ga.,*was
involved in an auto accident in
Georgia, his parent#, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Lewis, of the Indian Springs
community, have been informed.
Extent of his injuries were not
reported. He is recuperating at a
base hospital at Camp Gordon, Ga.
Garden Club Will Have Lead
In Festival Flower Exhibit I
The Mount Olive Garden club will
have charge Qf the Farmers’ Festi
val flower exhibit October 8. Rules
and classification for enrties were
released this week by Mrs. Luby
Bell, club president
The exhibit will be held, in the
Steely Memorial Library building
on Chestnut street. Entries must
be made between 1 p.m. and 6
Thursday, October 7. Exhibits will
remain all day Friday, but are to
be removed immediately after the
festival.
All dubs and organizations are
invited to enter exhibits and win
ners will receive cash awards in
each dassification.
Theme for the arrangements wijl
be “Arrangements for Fun.” Those
serving on the committee in charge
of the exhibits are Mrs. James Dav
is, chairman; Mrs. Jennings Price,
Mrs. Paul Eason, and Mrs. J. S.
Vetter.
Mrs. Bell, in releasing the rules
and classifications for the exhibits,
said only judges and ^proper offic
ials will be allowed' on the floor
during the judging period, and that
all entries in horticulture must be
grown by the exhibitor and label*
ed, if possible. Another rule states
materials used in artistic arrange*
ment classes need not have been
grown by the exhibitor ,but ar
ranged by hef or him. '
Classifications are as follows:
I— Roses in silver container;
II— Roses in any container;
III— Dahlias in , any container; .
IV— Flowers in any container;
V— White flowers in white con*
tainer (foliage may be used);
VI— gArrangement featuring chy*
santhemums;
Vn—Arrangements of fruits*'
vegetables, flowers;
vm—Arrangements Including J
driftwood or cypress knee; y,
IX—Collection or arrangement of
gourds;
’,X—Dried arrangements;.
XI— Foliage arrangements; '
XII— Potted plants (all plants
mu8tv have been in exhibitors poa.
life
session at least three months); and,
XIII—Horticultural Class Speci
men blooms—any kind.
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