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PROGRESS SENTINEL
VOL. XXXI NO. 29 KENANSVtLLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JULY 16,1964 PRICE 10# PLUS TAX
East Carolina Mdse. Show,
Warsaw Armory - Aug. 5 & 6
Quinn Wholesale Co.. Inc. of
Warsaw Is sponsoring the 2nd
annual East Carolina Fall and
Christmas Merchandise Show
August 5th and 6th from 1 till
10 p.m. at the Warsaw Armory.
Over 80 exhibitors will un
veil their line of fall merchan
dise to the 300 retail store
operators who will attend.
Last year's show was an
immediate success with area
merchants, and won the much
coveted "Event of the Year'
trophy awarded by Harrison
Hardware' Co. of Chicago.
The show is the brain child
of Mflford Quinn. president and
general manager of Quinn
Wholesale Co.. Inc., who in
seeking ways to improve ser
vice to his customers, wond
ered why a North Carolina mer
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If you do not get your new
subscription to the Duplin
Times-Progress Sentinel this
week, please be patient with
us. Response to our special
price has been so great that
we have been unable to keep
up with it. But we ylll catch
up soon.
I received a five year re
newel from a faithful subscri
ber to our paper, Dick Out
law. who keeps up.with.all of
the Duplin County news and
especially the newt in an?
around Mbertson or Chocolate
as Dick would call h. He says,
"Dear Ruth; I am 72 years
old and an avowed OPTWIST.
Best Regards, Dick.'
The opportunity to take ad
vantage of this price will end
July 31, and no subscriptions
will be accepted at that price
after July 31. Check your label,
if you are due, send in your
subscription. If you are not up
to date on July 31, you will not
receive the paper any more.
Tell your neighbor about this
wonderful opportunity.
Alice Elks' grandson Is in
town for the entire month of
July. My grandson only stayed
in Kenansville one week. You
should see how "stuck up"
she Is! In fact 1 haven't seen
her since the grandson came
to town?confidentially I bdieve
he is keeping her so busy she
can't find time to stick her
head out of the door.
Everyone is so busy in to
bacco and canning these days
that it is hard to strike up
a .conversation with anyone.
Maybe I will hear some in
teresting morsels by next week
that I can share with you.
Ruth
FIFTY ENROLLED IN ARTS
CRAFTS WORKSHOP
Greenville- The seventh an
nual East Carolina College
Workshop in Arts and crafts
for Elementary Teachers has
enrolled 51 elemeisa ry and high
school teachers and others from
North Carolina, New Jersey
and Virginia for a 10-day pro
gram.
The workshop is presented
under the direction of Dean
Wellington B. Gray of the School
of Art and Thomas E. Mims,
assistant professor of art.
chant had to travel to New York
and the bis merchandise marts 1
to be able to view the latest
goods available? whv he had to
buy enormous quantities
to get a good price and re
duced freight rates. The ans
wer was simple?bring New
York to Warsaw. Qulnn would
be the center point of a new
system. He would furnish the
display space and professional
know-now and would group all
orders into one. The system
was perfected, it now haa to be
sold, and this was the easy
part. The national distribitors
were looking for ways to gain
more business from the grow
ing Eastern Carolina market
and agreed to participate with
Qulnn Wholesale Co., Inc.. in
this pioneering venture.
The results were so specta
cular, requests poured in from
around the country for display
space.' The Qulnn buyers and
merchandisers selected items
from those offered that were
outstanding values and would be
in demand ny the public.
In addition to many door pri
zes a continuous buffet dinner
will be served through the cour
test of the meat division of
Qulnn Wholesale Co., Inc., Mr.
Milford Qulnn extends a very
special Invitation to the retail
merchants In die Duplin Times
Progress Csntinel coverage
area.
Firemen Offer
Helps To Prevent
Tobacco Barn
Fires
The Duplin County Firemen's
Association offers suggestions
to help prevent losses of toba
cco and barns by fire.
The firemen advise that the
farmers have their burners in
spected by qualified personnel
to make sure that they are in
proper operation order. Do not >
try to adjust the regulators
and control valves yourself, but
call your servicemen if they
are not operating properly. Be
sure all pipes have been chec
ked for leaks or faulty connec
tions. Air vents should be shie
lded to prevent drafts from
blowing through the barn.
Never close barn vents com
pletely so that these is always
sufficient oxygen for the burn
ers.' we~nave clrcumstan
ial evidence that gas fumes
gven off by tobacco in tight
trns while "killing out" me
stems accumulates ui the barn
and will reach such concentra
tion to be ignited. These aro
matic fumes are usually Ignited
soon after the doors have been
opened which lets in an extra
supply of the oxygen. The re
medy is simple, nave the top
vent slightly open when kill
ing out so the gas fumes can
move out of theDarn, the fire
men recommend.
Tractors, Drugs
Targets of Rural
Safety Campaign
July 19-23 has been proclaimed
National Farm Safety Week.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
called on all persons and organiza
tions in the nation "to unite in a
strong and purposeful effort to re
duce farm, home and rural highway
accidents to an irreducible mini
mum."
Quinn Wholesale Co., Inc.
has shown phenomenal growth
In the last few years and pre
sently is the biggest wholesaler
in Eastern Carolina. Quinn
management gives credit for
this surge of growth to the fact
that they have adapted to die
changing economy and growth of
the area they serve, ideas play
a big role in all their plann
ing and they maintain a staff
of 5 merchandisers skilled in
retail knowledge to assist their
customers in keeping abreast of
modern trends.
Currently, Quinn is engaged
in a warehouse expanslonprog
ram that will more than double
their present space, plans are
also being drawn for a refri
gerated warehouse to handle the
increasing flow of meats, pro
duce, and dairy products.
The Duplin Times-Progress
Sentinel is now gathering a
story of this expansion for a
feature in a forthcoming edi
tion in line with our policy of
keeping our readers ^informed
of area happenings. /.,
Duplin School
Schedule Set
O.P. Johnson, superintendent
of Duplin County.Schools has
announced the calendar for the
1964-65 school year:
It is as follows;
* August 11-Principals report
for work; August 24-Students
report for books, assignments
etc.; Auguat 25-Students report
for work.
* September 21 - First month
ends.
October 19 - Second month
aids; October 23 - Schools
close for District NCEAjrteet
%ovember 17- Third month
ends; November 26-30 Schools
close for Thanksgiving.
December 17-Fourth month
ends; December 21, -Schools
close for Christmas.
January 4, - Schools open
Christmas vacation ends.
January 27 - Fifth Month
ends. a
February 24- Sixth month
ends
March 24- Seventh month
ends.
April 16- 19- Good Fri
day and Easter Monday-School
Closed; April 23- Eignt month
ends.
May 21- Schools close for the
year; May 24 &25 - Teachers
report for work to complete
records.
June 4- Last day principals
on pay roll.
Social Security
Talk Tuesday
The James sprunt institute
will sponsor a lecture on the
latest Developments in the So
c ial Security At ministration in
cluding the bill recently pass
ed by the House Ways and
Means Committee in Congress.
The meeting will be held in the
Duplin County Court House
Courtroom at 8 p.m. Tuesday
July 21, . After a brief lecture
and film, questions wui oe an
swered from the audience.
The instructor will be Mr.
Ed w. Deese, a graduate of the
Atlantic Christian college, who
has been with the Social Se
curity Administration for six
years and is now serving as
Field Representative or the
Duplin County Area. Mr. Deese
is currently living in Go Ids
boro where he is the President
of die Toast master's Club.
Jenkins New
W-RH Principal
Elmore R. Jenkins of Tea
chey his been named princi
pal of the Wallace-Rose Hill
Hlflh School.
Mr. Jenkins luts taught at
Lumberton High School and was
Ugh school supervisor there
last term, w-rh will not be
new to him as he is a native
of this area, graduated from
Wallace High School and taught
one year at W-RH a year or
so ago.
He holds a BS degree and a
Masmc|sdegree from^East Ca
years fai the Navy during the
Korean Conflict.
The new principal will con
tinue to live at Teachey where
they built a new home two years
ago. Heia married totheformer
Frances Dickson of Rose Hfll
and they have two children.
Bobby, 10, and Winifred, 8,.
The Jenkins are members of
the Wallace Methodist Church.
Mr. Jenkins succeeds D.D,
Abernethy of Rose Hill, who was
principal at W-RH for four
years and resigned to accept
Ilk potSl Wet .
. Jhlyyii ivi-.
Aspirin Chief
Child Poisoner
Each grew 600,000 children under
J (wallow poisonous subttancet
found in their homes. About 430
cases are fatal, according to the Na
tional Safety Council.
Aspirin is most frequently involved.
Bat there are many ordinary and
seemingly innocuous substances found
in every home which are poisonous
if swallowed by small children.
Neat to aspirin in order of fre
quency are insecticides, bleach, deter
gents, soaps and deanera, furniture
polish, kerosene, vitamins and iron)
preparations, disinfectants, deodor
HAPPY GRANDSON.?Jack McNalry of Goldsboro, grandson
of Dr. and Mrs. Guy V. Gooding, caught-* 6 1/2 pound bass
from Alton Newton's pond while visiting his Kwansville
grandparents. Young McNalry said that the big fish took
a rubber worm as it was slowly dragged by a line along
die bottom of a fishing bank. ^
Club Women
V J*
Attend Home
Makers Week
Twelve to fifteen hundred of
Home Demonstration Club wo
men from sections over tfee
State attended Home y.aka1-:
Week at North Carolina State
College Raleigh, July 6-10.
The year 1964 marks the
50th anniversary of the Found
ing of the Agriculture K>.Tvi
sion Service.
Club members are recogni
zed for having attended Home
Makers Week for 30-32 and
35 years.
Mrs. Willard Westbrook of
Alberts on was a winner of the
Leadership award from District
27, when twelve women were
recognized during the awards
program.
Among those attending from
Duplii County were Mrs. Mae
H. Spicer, Home Economics
Agent. Mrs. J.W. Evans, and
Mrs. J.a Stroudm Mrs. Edgar
Wells, Mrs. Marzarlte Tea
chey, and Mrs. carl Ivey.
Horace Komegay
Receives Award
Horace w. Komegay, a
graduate of B. F. Grady Ugh
school, who la currently a part
time statf member of the
James Sprunt Institute at Ke
nans vllle, recently received a
cash award from the Air Force
for exception service la the air
conditioning and refrigeration
shop at Seymour Johnson Field,
where he Is employed.
It was revealed that doe to
hid department's work major
overhauls to heat pomps at the
base have dropped by about ode
fourth. Savings to the taxpey
era was estimated at $?,
886.0$ annually. '
Komegay teaches air condi
tioning at the Institute on Mon
day and Friday nights at James
Kenan Ugh school. He Is mar
? rted to (he former Irene Jeyoe
d$u(^$UF| Angela
BRIEFS
W.H. FUSSELL RESIGNS
W.H. (Bill) Fussell resigned
as a member of the Rose HOI
Board of Total Commissioners
effective July 14, because his
new home is located Just be
yond the town limits on Ridge
Street. Mr. Fussell has ser
ved several terms on the board.
MARKET DATE SET
South Carolina tobacco sales
will begin August 6. The op
ening date was chosen Monday
by the directors of the Soutn
Carolina Warehouse Associa
tion, who govern sales at nine
tobacco markets in S.C.
RADIO PROGRAM
"The truth shall make you
free!" is the title of next Sun
day's Christian Science radio
program. It will be broadcast
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 over
station WLSE, Wallace, on the
"Bible Speaks to You' series.
The truth of God's all-em
compassing love and man's
spiritual perfection in God's 1
mage and likeness has a trans
forming effect on the individual
who prayerfully acknowledges it
freeing him from sin, disease,
or deformity? from all the
errors of materiality.
"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniqui
ties; who healeth all thy dis
eases: Who redeemeth tny life
from destruction" (ps 103:
2-4).
This same program can al
so be heard Sunday morning at
9:10 on station WMFD, Wil
mington.
FLUE-CURED PRODUCTION
OFF 11 PERCENT
North Carolina flue-cured to
bacco production forecast at
817 million pounds Is down 11
percent from the 921 million
pounds harvested In 1963, ac
cording to the North Carolina
Crop Reporting Service. Under
a 10 percent cut in allotments
the crop will be produced on
an estimated 415.000acres with
an expected yield of 1,969
pounds as cormared with the
record yield of 1,999 pounds
on 460,500 acres for 1933. The
current forecast is based on
reports from producers as of
July 1, and the final turn-out
as compared with this report
will depend upon the various in
fluences affecting the crop dur
ing the remainder of the sea
son.
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Farm Managers Tour
Duplin Industries
The Trailways Bus, loaded
with 50 professional managers
and appraisers, pulled up to the
Rose Hill Poultry Corporation
Friday morning for the first
stop on their tour of Duplin.
Vernon Reynolds, County Ex
tension Agent, greeted the group
and gave them facts and fig
ures on the poultry industry and
agricultural achievements of
Duplin?the No. 1 agricultural
county in the state.
Merrltt Watson welcomed
them to the processing plant
and told them that they were
right in the center of tne chi
cken industry in Duplin as from
that point they could see a pro
cessing plant, two hatcheries,
three feed mills and 26 chicken
houses. He graciously conduct
ed the group through the plant
so they could follow the chicken
from coop to iced-refrigera
tion, 4800 an hour and sold
under the Watson label from the
stores of Rose Hill to Germany.
Jesse Summer of the Willard
Experiment Station{ led the
group to the Ramsey Feed Co.
mill, where they saw the spec
on which the chicken industry
was started by Ramsey in 1954
from scratch and has grown into
a twenty million dollar Industry.
Dennis Ramsey said that tne
mill could make 20 tons of feed
per hour and used a million and
a half bushels of corn a year,
about one-third of which had to
be brought in from Kentucky.
Mr. Ramsey said that he be
gan ten years ago with a goal
of producing four thousand
broilers a week with 8 grow
ers. Now, the mill feeds 15
tinlllion a year, has 146 employ
ees and over 200 growers. By
following a strict program of
sanitation and disease pre
vention, he said they were able
to feed out a 3 3/4-pound broil
er in less than 9 weeks with a
feed conversion of around 2.
They have had some with less
than two pounds of feed per
pound of chicken.
The bus rolled on to observe
hatching egg flocks in the Gold
Pond section, 8 miles west of
Rose Hill, broiler flocks and
hatchery operations. Ramsey
has a number of chicks free
from PPLO and by breeding is
trying to build flocks that will
be relative free of respiratory
diseases.
The next stop was the O.S.
Carroll hog operation near
Warsaw, thence to Cates Pic
kle Co. at Faison where a mil
lion and a half cucumbers are
packed daily. It requires 4,000
growers in Duplin and sur
rounding counties to supply this
firm with cucumbers. The firm
is building a 25,000 square-foot
addition on their building to re
quire even more cucumbers,
for this, one of Duplin's lar
gest industries, with a half mil
lion dollar payroll. They gave
each one on the tour a four
jar holiday pack of the famous
Cates Pieties to uke home and
enjoy.
Frank B. Boyette, superln- |
tendent of the Coastal Plain
Vegetable Research Station, had
some cool shade and a cold
bottle of soda pop waiting for
the group. He said that N.C.
was second in the nation in the
growing of pickling cucumbers, |
and that Michigan, the No. 1 t
state used Mexican labor for
98$> of their picking, but that
recently enacted laws prevent
ing further use of such labor,
so N.C. may now become No.
1. He said that research show
ed that where we now plant
12,000 cukes per acre and pick
by hand about eight times that
we will eventually come to plant
some 80,000 per acre and pick
by machine at one time. He
sent the group off in a happy
mood by allowing each to take
with him a small bag of pep
pecs, cukes, tomatoes and egg
plfts. home grown there on
the 45-acre test farm establish
ed IS years ago to provide new
findings that will enable grow
ers to meet the demands of the
market.
Clyde Weathers, extension
farm management specialist at
N.C. State and secretary of the
society, said that the Duqplin
area was picked for the tour
"Because of its diversification
in agriculture." E. Hervey E
vans, Jr., of Laurinburg is
president and W.D. Whlsnaat of
Charlotte is vice-president of
the North Carolina Society of
Farm Managers and Rural Ap
praisers, who were making
their annual summer tour.
Some said that the Cats*
Pickle Co. at Falson; the Ross
Hill Poultry Corporation at
Rose HOI; Quinn Wholesale Co.,
at Warsaw; N&W Grocery Co.
and Wallace wholesale Co. at
Wallace, five large distri
butors, distribute more food
from Duplin County than is dis
tributed from any other county
in North Carolina, with the ex
ception of chain store distribu
tion from Wake and Mecklen
burg, another first for Duplin.
First in agriculture, and may
be first in the distribution of
foods.
Scouts Leave For Jamboree
Frank Thomas, Magnolia
Scout Troop 49, advises that
he and a number of Duplin
Souls left Goldsboro by bus
Tuesday night for Valley Forge
State Park, valley Fi>rge^?tmn
sylvania, and the Sixth Nation
al jamboree.
Over 50,000 Boy Scouts, Ex
plorers and their leaders will
participate in the eek-long
encampment, beginning Friday.
"American Heritage Day"
wil be observed Saturday as
a program to strengthen Amer
ica through reverent, resolute
and responsible patriotism. It
will focus the Interest of five
million scouts, in 138,000 Cub
Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops
and Explorer units.
While the 1,200 Jamboree
troops hold Heritage campfires
at Valley Forge, tens of thous
ands of similar Heritage camp
fires will be held across the
nation.
In our Tuscarora Council fi
nal preparation for Heritage
Day activities are keeping busy.
Boy Scout troops are plann
ing their American Heritage
campfires. Twelve hundred
troops at the Sixth National
Jamboree at Valley Forge
Penn., are setting the pattern
for the thousands of campfires
that will be held across the
country.
Another July highlight for Boy
Scout troops will be a weekend
overnight camp using the na
tional jamboree activities and
called "A Day at Valley Forge"
Cub Scout Packs a re also fol
lowing Out American Heritage
theme and will feature historic
or patriotic stunts, historical
scrapbooks, and the singingof
patriotic songs at American
Heritage Day pack nettings.
Each pack or its dens will
also be visiting historic sites
during July ana taking part in
' special heritage c itizenship
projects.
High school age Explorers
will select from a varied list
< *i %, . ]
VaJWi.' k i
of suggested Explorer post he
ritage activities including visits
to historic sites, providing a
merican heritage ceremonies
for community organizations,
and carrying qqj special neigh- -
borhood or community Ameri
can Heritage Day prqgrams.
Otfler activities suggested for
Explorer posts are an aquatic
treasure hunt, a night or Hob
bies Unlimited, ana a review
and renewal of the post code
that deals with self-improve
ment and traditions.
J S Records
Session-Lunch
Country Squire
Monday
The James Sprunt Institute
has acquired an excellent sup
ply of phonograph records on
"Salesmanship" edited and mo
derated by Earl Nightingale who
is considered one of the nation's
leading authorities in the field
of human motivation and, as
such, is in contlnous demand
by companies and associations
as a speaker on this subject.
It matters little whether he
appears on the stage of the fa
med Carnegie Hall or in a small
town. His audiences listen and
profit from the impact of his
revelations., learned through
more than twenty years of
painstaking research.
Opportunity to listen to the
records will be made available
Monday July 20, at 12 noon
at a dutch luncheon meeting
in the Country Squire Restau
rant. Sales managers and their
staff will find the session both
informative and inspirational.
For further information, in
terested persons are invited to
call, write or visit the office
of the James Sprunt Institute
in Kenansville, North Carolina.
DUPLIN GUESTS. The North Caroline Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
toured Duplin on Friday. They debused at the Rose JUill Poultry Processing Plant for their
first stop., then toured the Ramsey operations, Carroll's hog farm at Warsaw, Cares pickle
Co. and the Faison Auction Market.
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COUNTRY CLUB PICNIC
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Duplin Country Club announ
ces that a family picnic will
be held July 21st at 6:30 p. m.
at the club. Bring a picnic
lunch, bring your family and
enjoy the fellowship.