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VOLUME 52 MOUNT OLIVE, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY /, 1956 NUMBER 87
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Quote for today: “I would have
a man generous to his country, his
neighbors, his kihdred, his frjends,
and most of all his poor friends.
Not like some who are most lav
ish with those who are able to
give most to them.”—Pliny.
We think it’s a good omen for
the coming campaign for financial
aid to .Mount Olive college that,
to date, not a single person who’s
been asked to help conduct the
drive, has tried to wriggle out of
it. Everybody’s expressed a willing
ness to help.
There’s one man in Mount Olive
who’s always sold himself as being
completely independent—he could
do without his family just as well
as he could put up with them. We’re
not mentioning names, but if Mrs.
Bill Lee will give us 15 cents, we’ll
tell her who was mighty glad the
other morning that she was com
ing back home that day, after'be
ing away a little while!
We were in Dr. Thomas Shaver’s
home Sunday evening, and we de
clare if they don’t have a mighty
cute little baby girl. And she loves
her daddy. v
Mrs. Shaver admits that the ba
by cries iffter her daddy almost
every time he leaves the house.
She didn’t admit it, but she might
as well have, that she is just a lit
tle jealous of this. She realizes, of
course, that the baby sees her al
most 24 hours a day, under any
and all circumstances, while the
baby’s relation with her daddy is
almost always during the more
pleasant moments of the day.
i Then, too, she admitted spank
ing the baby’s hand a time or two
when necessary to teach her not
to meddle with things. Can you
imagine Tom spanking her hand,
or anywhere else?
And, although the baby is not
a year old yet, she's a woman-to
bgi. and smart, enough ti realise
the difference.
Rains came down here Monday
wsL like April showers—sprin
j, heavy showers, completely
», then start all over Sgain.
Henry King and Norwood Kor
negay, furniture dealer and city
mail carrier, respectively, were
busy Sunday congratulating each
other on their calls to jury duty
this week. You could tell at a lis
ten that both of them meant nary
a word they were saying.
Morris Swinson made the mis
take the other evening of taking
Rufus Ennis and Ernest Taylor
with him out into the country
where he was going to see some
one. Ennis and Yaylor wanted to
get back to see a television pro
gram, and according to them Mor
ris intentionally prolonged his
business so they'd miss their pro
gram, and according . to Morris
they interfered so he never did
get to see the psfrty he wanted to
see-' .
L. A. Bird, Jr., who has been
confined to his home by illness
the past few. weeks, got a hanker
ing for barbecued possum recent
ly, and Dr. and Mrs. Edis Tatum,
who had one in their freezer
which the doctor had caught some
time ago, sent him one.
They started, at first, to cook
the possum themselves, but finally
decided the Birds’ cook would
come nearer knowing just exact
ly how to prepare it to suit the
family’s taste — or rather, Mr.
Pird’s taste, for Mrs. Bird very
graciously consents for him to eat
all the possum for the family.
Roland Hodges was telling us
about a friend of hjs in the coun
try near hejre, and we can’t re
member now who he said, to whom
he spoke about getting Mr. Bird a
possum. Roland said the man told
him be took his dogs out in the
woods, stopped and ’ explained to
them very carefully that they were
' to catch a possum for Mr. Bird,
“then, 1*11 be durned if they did
n’t go right out and start running
a coon, after I told them, as plain
as I could speak, to get a possum,”
this friend said, very exasperated,
not at his dogs misunderstanding
Mm,, but disobeying him. .»
^ Vlrs. Mossett Flowers \
, Heads Alumni Campaign
V Mrs. Mossett Flowers of Mouiit
Olive has been appointed to head
the annual campaign for funds fori
Duke university in this area.. She
5 will appoint other Duke alumni io
this section to assist in the drive,
f during which an attempt will be
made to reach all former students
; of the university. J > I
r INCREASE EARNINGS > j
The past several years have in
• creased earnings—and also brought ;
. increased yparnings,
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Five Men
In Affray
Warrants were served against
five men' here Saturday night as
the outgrowth of a free-for-all
which took place at Martin Cox’s
service station on S. Breazeale ave
nue. Three required medical at
tention. i
Police Chief Alton Daly said yes
terday that according to informa
tion he has the fight broke out
following'an affray between George
Oates of Faison and Frank Raynor,
Negro, of Mount Olive. He said it
is his understanding that follow
ing the iffray, Oates went home
and returned with a shotgun. When
he did, the free-for-all broke out.
Arrested were J. J$. Whitman of
Fort Brdgg, Bobby Sutton and
Martin Cox of Mount Olive, Ray
nor and Oates. Oates suffered chin
and hea4 wounds; Whitman sus
tained a* cut finger, and eight
stitches were required to close a
gash on Sutton’s neck, Daly re
ported.
Oates is charged with assault
with deadly weapons—a pocket
knife and gun; Martin with engag
ing in an affray and damage tq per
sonal property; and the others with
engaging in an affray.
They were released on bond for
hearings in Mayor’s court this
week.
WOW Here Begin
New Lodge Work
The Mount Olive Woodmen of
the World Camp approved build
ing plans at its meeting Thurs
day night, and work on construe-•
tion of a lodge began Saturday.
The land, which the camp pur
chased near McKee Oil company
on the B. E. Martin store road on
which to build its lodge, was level
ed Saturday in preparation for lay
ing a foundation for the building.
Most of the work. Camp Counselor
Thomas Shaver said, will be done
by members.
Detailed plans of the building
have not been released. Joe Lucas
has been appointed chairman of
the building Committee.
Sound Movie to Be
Shown Wednesday
"The Living World in Japan,’’
a sound motion picture in color,
will be shown at the Mount Olive
Presbyterian church Wednesday
night at 7:30.
The Rev. B. E. Dotson, pastor,
said this movie is being shown as
part of the church's world mission
work, which is being emphasized
this month. Mrs. John N. Walker
of Mount Olive, whose father is
executive secretary of the World
Mission Board of the Presbyterian
church, U. S., is in charge of ar
rangements for this month’s pro
gram. Other films and addresses
for the month will be announced
later.
Directors Elected
By Calypso Group
North Duplin’s Athletic Booster
club met last Wednesday night,
[elected 10 directors and adopted
a constitution for the organization.
Elected to the board of directors
were Pete Warren, L. R. Grantham,
Frank Casteen, Robert Pate, Tal
madge Waters, Jack Herring, M. C.
Bowden, L. L. Swinson, bene Bow
man and Roy McNeill.
In adopting the constitution, the
group voted to set the first Wed
nesday night in every other month
as the time for the regular meet:
April, June, August, October, De
cember and February.
Eldon Thornton, secretary, dis
closed at the meeting that 63 per
sons had joined the club since an
initial meeting was held in mid
January.
NOTHING NEW
The game of politics is usually
a contest built around allegation
and alibi
t..
H. M. Cox :
Was First
Scoutmaster
By CALVIN PORTER
A history of Scouting in
Mount Olive reveals this town pos
sibly had the first Boy Scout troop
in North Carolina and was one
of the first in the United States'
to be granted a charter by Con*
gress.
The written records of Mount
Olive’s first troop have been lost,
.but several members of that group
still live here, and it is through
them the beginning of the local
Scout movement has not been en
tirely forgotten.
Mount Olive Scouts ioin 4,
, 100,000 other Cub Scouts, Scouts,
Explorers end adult leaders this'
week to launch their four-year
program "Onward for God and
My Country" as part of Boy
' Scout Week being observed na
tion-wide.
As part of the observance, the
Scouts have a window display at
Kraft's studio on E. James
street. The Cubs will hold their
s. annual Blue and Gold banquet;..
this Tuesday evening #t 6:30 in
' . the elementary school’cafeteria.r
The Scouts will present a radio
program over station WGBR on
Wednesday night at >:15.
All Cubs, Scouts and Explor
ers are asked to attend Ihe
church of their choice in uni
form Sunday and sit with their
parents. Sunday afterneon at
4 o'clock a Scouting program
will be presented at the element
ary school auditorium.
Mount Olive organized its first
troop in 1913, three years before
the general organization was chart
ered by Congress. Within 30 days
after Congress acted, however,
Mount Olive received a charter.
It is not known exactly how
many troops were chartered be
fore the local unit, but the gen
eral* opinion here is the Mount
Olive troop was the 424th troop in
the United States. This conclusion
is reached through a number ap
pearing on a duplicate of the orig
inal charter.
- Just how the Scouting idea de
veloped or how Mount Olive went
about securing approval for a troop
is somewhat hazy. It is conceded
that H. M. Cox, who became Mount
Olive’s first scoutmaster, was re
sponsible for organizing a troop
here.
' Scouting had been active in
England for several years prior to
the chartering of Boy Scouts of
America. It is believed Cox read
an article about Scouting and de
cided to see about organizing one
here. Just how he went about se
curing permission is not recalled
now, but the troop was formed
with 20 members, including Mose
ley Davis and Durald Wilson, who
presently live in Mount Olive and
through whom ngich of the in
formation concerning early Scbut
> (Continued on back page!
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PATRIOTISM—As the nation observes Scout Week, three,
npwer members of Mount Olive’s Scouting units demon
strate one of the things they have learned in Scouting—
proper respect for their country and flag. Shown saluting
the flag are, left to right, Cub Scout Clayton Brock, Ex
plorer Leslie Ray Whitted, and Scout Bernard Dotson.
Patriotism is one of the many things taught in Scouting.
Others include morals and skills of almost every kind.
—Staff Photo.
PIONEERS IN -SCOUTING—Mount Olive, which possibly
had the first Boy Scout troop In North Carolina, dates its
Scout movement back to 1913—three years before Scout
ing was chartered by Congress—when H. M. Cox, shown
at right, organized a troop here. The troop received its char
ter within a month after the general organization was char
tered by CongressHSeten members of the 1913 and 1916
troops stiU reside here. Five, Moseley Davis, Durald Wil
son, Boyd Wilson, Dan Kornegay and Ennis Komegay, left
to right, are shown in the above photo. Two others, Wil
liam Ricks and James Davis, were absent when picture
was taken. Moseley Davis and Durald Wilson were mem
bers of the 1913 troop of which Cox was the Scoutmaster,
while the others were members of the first chartered troop.
—Staff Photo.
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Dean of Mount Olive College
Dies of Heart Attack Friday
t
PTA Speaker
Is Specialist
On-the Skin
Speaker for the Parent-Teachers
Association meeting Thursday at
7:30 in the auditorium of the Mount
Olive Elementary school will be Dr.
S. T. Withers, Dermatologist, of
Kinston.
Dr. Withers attended V. P. I. and
graduated in medicine from the
Medical College of Virginia. He
then specialized in diseases of the
skin at the Skin and Cancer unit
of Bellvue Medical school and hos
pital at New York university.' Aft
er serving 13 years in the Navy
and attaining the rank of command
er, he settled in Kinston where he
has a private practice as a derma
tologist.
Dr. Withers will talk about a
very timely subject, “The Salk Po
lio Vaccine,” which will be follow
ed by a 13-minute film on the sub
ject. He will try to clarify the con
fusion that exists in the minds
of many relative to the safety of
the Salk polio vaccine.
A. C. Lovelace, 66, who joined
the faculty at Mount Olive college
as acting dean last month, died
suddenly of a heart attack near
Charlotte Friday afternoon.
According to word received here,
Mr. and Mrs. Lovelace were on their
way to to their home in Forest City
to spend the weekend and had a
flat tire ilear Charlotte. Mr. Love
lace got out to change the tire and
was stricken with a heart attack.
He is survived by his wife and
two 'Sons, Austin, a professor at
Garrett Seminary, Evanston, 111.,
and Marc, a professor at Southeast
ern Seminary, Wake Forest.
Mr. Lovelace was formerly dean
of Wingate Junior college and had'
been a member of the- faculty of
Coker college, Hartsville, S. C!, and
High Point college. For a num
ber of years he was principal and
principal supervisor in the Ndrth
Carolina public school system.
He received his Bachelor of Arts
degree* from Wake Forest college,
and his Master of Education from
Duke university and had taken post
graduate studies at the University
of North Carolina.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock
from the Pleasant Hill Baptist
church near Rutherfordton. A
group of students will represent
the college at the services.
Route Three Residerit Takes
His Own Life Last Saturday
Ed Harrell, 66, of Mount Olive,
route 3,'died Saturday afternoon
of self-inflicted shotgun wounds.
Coroner I. T. Seymour said Har
rell shot himself behind the right
ear with a .12 guage shotgun. The
shooting took place under a barn
near the home at 1:15 p.m, Satur
day: ,
According to the coroner, mem
bers of the family said Harrell
had been sick in bed for a year
and had threatened several times
to take his life They said they
thought they had hidden all guns
on the premises from him.
The family said they paid no at
tention when Hairell got out of
bed, put on his overalls over his
pajamas and went outside in his
bedroom slippers. They said it
was a frequent occurrence to
break the monotony of lying in
ted.
Seymour ruled the shooting ac
cidental. •
Funeral services for Harrell
were held Monday afternoon from
the Eureka Christian church with
tte Rev. W. O. Henderson, pastor,
officiating. Burial was in the
rhurcli cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Bethana Pearce; four sons,
Gordon of Goldsboro, Elbert G.,
Gilmer E. and Ellis Harrell, all of
Mount Olive, route 3; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Newton Williams Of Clin
ton, Mrs. W. H. Britt and Mrs. W.
H. Denning of Newton Grove, and
IQ grandchildren.
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Ambition causes some people to
do something and be somebody,
and others aim to do somebody and
be something. -T.'
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H. M. COX
Rotary Club Plans
Ladies Night Soon
The Mount Olive Rotary club will
celebrate the 51st anniversary of
Rotary International Thursday eve
ning, February 23, with the annual
“Ladies Night” banquet.
Miss Nancy Lee Smith of Wash
ington, N. C., who studied in Eu
rope on a Rotary fellowship, will
be the principal speaker. Frank
Ruble, district governor, will be
present and introduce Miss Smith,
A concerted effort is being xd by a group of interested
citizens in Mount Olive to take dm *ntage, Of 'pledges made to
obtain the proposed consolidafu Presbyterian college for
Goldsboro, to divert these pledges, or as much of them as
possible, to Mount Olive college.
Pledges made for the .Presbyterian college were to he
paid over the next five years, in the case of indivlfluals, or 10
years for business firms, provided the college was to be lo
cated at Goldsboro. <
Now that Wayne county has*
been by-passed by the commit
tee which will determine lo
cation of the college, local
friends and supporters of
Mount Olive college are seek
ing to get as much of this fi
nancial backing for the insti
tution here as possible.
Officials of Mount Olive college
have been hesitant in the past
Rites Monday
For Resident
Of Mt. Olive
John D. Price, 69, of Mount Ol
ive died Saturday night in Wayne
Memorial hospital, Goldsboro.
Funeral servies were held Mon
day afternoon from Tyndall Fune
ral home with the Rev. T. W. Wil
liams, pastor of the First Baptist
church, and the Rev. B. E. Dotson,
pastor of the Presbyterian church,
officiating. Burial was in Maple
wood cemetery.
Mr. Price was a retired farmer
and a member of the First Baptist
church.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Effie Holloman of Wayne
county; three daughters, Mrs. Bes
sie Bland of Mount Olive, Mrs.
Carmie McCullen of Mount Olive,
route 4, Miss Edna Gray Price of
the home; 12 sons, Pink, Ivey, Mel
vin, Eddis, Ray, and Cullen, all of
Mount Olive, Harvey and Dallas of
Goldsboro, Allen of Savannah, Ga.;
John of Montgomery, Ala., George
of Fort Jackson, S. C., and Norman
Price of Kinston; one sister, Mrs.
Minnie Carter of Wilmington; one
brother, Monroe Price of Golds
boro; 27 grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
Estimate Damages
In Wreck at $830 '
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An estimated $830 in property
damage resulted from a three-car
accident on S. Center street Satur
day night. Driver of one of the
vehicles was charged with drunk
en driving.
According to police, a car driven
by Dennis Rowe, Jr., Negro, of
Mount Olive, collided with a park
ed car and knocked that ear into
another car which was parked in
a yard. Owners of the two parked
automobiles were identified as Mrs.
Ben Waters and Ralph Anderson,
both of Mount Olive.
Police estimated damage to Mrs.
Water’s car, which was parked on
the street, at $500; $30 to Ander
son’s vehicle, and $300 to Rowe’s.
Rowe was charged with drunk
en driving.
who is expected to tell of her ex
periences in Europe.
The banquet will be held at 6:30,
tentatively planned at the Mount
Olive college cafeteria.
Members of the committee ar
ranging for the annual banqi^t
I are James Francis, H. M. Cox, and
W. A. Patterson.
Batson Consents to Become
Candidate for Rotary Post
J. A. Batson, principal <)f Mount
Olive schools, has consented to be
come a candidate for the district
governorship Of Rotary Internation,
al and already has been nominated
for the post.
The announcement was made
at the Mount Olive Rotary meeting
Thursday night by Charles Whit
ley, who served with W. A. Pat
terson and C. B. Burnette oh a com
mittee to solicit the principal’s
candidacy. Whitley said Batson
agreed to seek the office after the
local school board i gave its ap
proval.
J. A. BATSON _
Whitley said Batson already* has
been submitted as a candidate
since the deadline for nominations
was last week but that he will
have to be nominated again, this
time from the floor, at the district
meeting to be held in New Bern
April 8 and 9. So far, Batson is the
only candidate.
Should he be elected, Batson will
become the first member of the
Mount Olive club ever to hold the
office of district governor. The dis
trict has 43 clubs.
Following Whitley’s report, Pres
ident Norbert Wilson, on R. L.
Cox’s recommendation, appointed
Whitley and Patterson to serve
as a campaign committee to pro
mote Batson’s candidacy. It was re
ported that many Rotarians in
othdr clubs have promised to sup
port the Mount Olive choice.
Secretary George Sutton report
ed the Mount Olive club'had 100
per cent attendance at* three meet
ing last month. /
A suggestion by Clay Casey that
a Christmas fund for needy fami
lies be set up now was accepted.
A container will be available for
members to malA donations
throughout the year.
Scoutmaster James Hatcher re,
minded that the Boy Scout pro
gram will be held in the elemen
tary school auditorium Sunday aft
ernoon, February 12, at 4 pjm.* and
urged all members to attend. Ro
tary sponsors tfce local Scmlt move
ment \
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about actively seeking financial
support from this area, preferring
to have, the college established on
the interest of the denomination
it represents. Now, however, that
it has reached the place in its prog,
ress where accreditation is only a
matter of time, these officials have
indicated they would welcome such
support.
Originally it was planned by lo
cal backers of the college to con
duct the drive for funds last De
cember, but the Christmas holi
days intervened, and before con
crete plans could be carried out
after the holidays, fhe four-year
Presbyterian college situation de
veloped.
Rather than, carry on campaigns
for funds to two colleges, it was
believed wiser here to defer the
plea for funds for Mount Olive
college until the Presbyterian col-,
lege question was out of the way..
Also, other persons and groups in
Wayne county assured those inter- '
ested in the local college of their
support, in the drive for Mount
Olives college if the campaign here -
was postponed until a definite de- -
cision, as far as Goldsboro was
concerned, had been reached in the
consolidated college.
Already, assurance of some of a
the support originally pledged to
the consolidated college, have been
received here on behalf of Mount
Olive college. •
A meeting of some of those push
ing the campaign for the school
here was held in the fire house
Saturday afternoon at 2:30, when1
an executive committee of Mayor
B. E. Bryan, Alderman Ray Scar
borough, Former County Commis- j
sioner C. D. Burnette, Mrs. Rodney
Knowles, Mrs. Milton LoWhes and
Dr. C. C. Henderson was appoint- -
ed. -
This executive committee, with
other interested persons, met in '
the Baptist church Sunday after- s
noon at 3 o’clock and began formu
lating plans fqr conducting the
campaign. Also committees which'
will‘assist in-thedrive -were ap«-^.
pointed. \Z:'~
Tentative plans call for a house
to-house canvass in Mount Olive, *
and an intensive campaign among
business places here, seeking
pledges for the college, to be paid '
in much the same manner as was
requested for the Presbyterian col- ;.Y
lege if it had been located in
Goldsboro.
Also efforts will be made to con
tact persons and business firms in
Goldsboro who had pledged for the
Presbyterian college in an attempt
to get them to divert their pledges
to Mount Olive college.
Free Will Baptist churches in
Eastern North Carolina are also to
be contacted, as are the backers of
the moves to get the Presbyterian .
school in Kinston and Snow Hill,
i Civic and social clubs in this area
are also to be solicited in an effort ■ -
to get as much financial backing
, for the school as possible.
Mount Olive college, now in its
second full year of operation here,
has made remarkable growth, ac
cording to officials of the school,
and is already outgrowing domitory
space in its present building, fu
ture plans call for new dormitory
building, more classrooms, and ac- "
quisition of space for an athletic
program. Accreditation by., the
North Carolina Council of Colleges
is expected this fall. # ;■
Committees set up by the execo
tive committee at its Sunday after
noon meeting are as follows:
Co-chairmen of the over-all ef*
fort: B. E. Bryan and C. D. Bur
nette; survey and presentation com
mittee: C. O. Whitley, chairman,
Bill Wilkins; publicity and adver
tising, Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Brock;
Steering committee: Mrs. Milton
Lownes, chairman, Frank Clifton,
Mrs. W. K. Lewis and Mrs. B. E.
Bryan; executive and correspond
ing secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Frank
Clifton; assistant, Mrs. Cletus
Brock; churches of Mount Olive,
W. A. Patterson, chairman, mem
bers to be named later. S
Committee for contacting inter
ested groups in Goldsboro, Snow
Hill and Kinston, Mr. Bryan, Mr.
Burnette, the Rev. W. B. Raper, the
Rev. B. E. Dotson, Dr. C. C. Hen
derson, C. O. Whitley. BUI Wil
kins; business district, Harry
Cooke, chairman, A. C. Hatch, E.
C. Casey, James Reaves,
Cherry.
Residential district committee,
Mrs. Rodney Knowles,- chairman,
Service League members; rural
areas, Miss Margaret Martin, chair
man, Norbert Wilson, S. M. Davis,
Mrs. Jack Barfield.
, Committee’ to have Charge dl the
drive among churches in eastern
North Carolina, and to solicit rural
areas in this immediate vicinity
will be named later.
Tentative plans call for active so
licitation to begin February 15, but
those persons desiring to make
their pledges now may do so by
contacting Mrs. Frank Clifton, at
the Chamber of Commerce office,
'which will be headquarters for the
campaigns