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VOL. XMXl N047 / 4 KENANSVILLE, N^/fwjyS^AY NOVEMBER 19. 1964 PRICE 10 c PLUS TAjT" |
W-RH Senior Crowned
r^^Miss American Legion"
Warsaw oaused WmImiHav tfian" at th? Hanra WaAnam. ?j? ??* -"-1 ai?_
to honor the area's war dead.
A mile-long parade, a forma
tion of four super-sonic jets
from Seymour-Johnson Air
Force Base; high school bands
from New Hanover High,
James Kenan, Douglas. Hobb
ton, Charity and East Duplin
and some 80 floats parade
' units saluted the 45th annual ?.'
celebration.
The activities were sponsored
by the Charles R .Gavin Post
of the American Legion of War
saw and the Warsaw Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
A western dance group, the
Warsaw Seesaws won the first
'prise for the best float in the
?parade, Miller Home Demon
stration Club took home the
second prise and third place
went to the James Kenan
Cheerleaders.
Perhaps the climax of the
ceMfration was the crow ping of
Mist LuAnn MacMllllan, a 17
y ear-old senior at Wallace-Rose
Hill, as "Miss American Le
day night. Miss MacMiUian is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Moyer MacMlillan of Wallace.
She was crowned by Miss
North CaEpHraC Miss Sharon
Finch m . Thomasville, and
>100 check from
Home Fetlttal Savings and
Loan in Warsaw, by Robert
Kornegay, manager and asst.
vice-president.
?UO awuu BUIl CUIU MUCUI U> V
is ion of the contest was held
Tuesday night at a teen dance
and the evening dress section
of the contest Wednesday
night. Miss MacMillian also
won in the swim suit division
The- talent division was won by
Miss Beverly Bradham, Miss
East Duplin, who performed a
modern jazz dance. In the ta
lent division, Miss MacMillian
recited the monologue, "The
little Match Girl" to back
ground piano music she had
taped herself.
Miss Sue Carol Coley, Miss
North Duplin, was presented a
$50 check by Pepsi-Cola and
Made-Rite Bakeries of Golds
boro, as first runner-up.
Warsaw Motor Co. presented
|he second runner-op. Miss CaK
olyn Ray nor, Miss Hobbton, a
$55 check.
Memorial services for all
those who laid down their lives
in peace and security were
conducted Sunday by the Rev.
Norman Flowers in Warsaw's
Pinecrest Cemetery.
BRIEFS
' FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
MEETING
A meeting will be held in the
American Legion Hall in Wil
son, North Carolina at 1:00 a.
m. on Friday. November X, to
discuss the supply and demand
outlook for flue-cured tobacco
and to obtain views and recom
qwluffor*the*u2w? markqtir!|
year. .
Duplin County farmers are
urged to attend this meeting to
express their views and learn
other ideas on this serious sub
ject, according to Rufus Elks,
Jr..
WARSAW And KENAN8VILLE
TO 8EE ALPHABET FILM
A forty-minute film on the
Initial Teaching Alphabet will
be shown to the Warsaw Rotary
Club on Thursday, December
3 at 1:30 and at the Kenanaville
Elementary School Auditorium
at 8 p. m. Sponsored by the
James Sprunt Institute the film
is designed to acquaint the tea
chers and other Interested
adults in the county on an en
tirely new system of teaching
pre-school age children and pri
mary grade children hew to
read.
WLSE THANKSGIVING
PROGRAM
Hie title of next Sunday's
Christian Science radio pro
gram is thanksgiving in Ac
thai."-if wll be broadcast Sun
day afternoon at 4:30 on sta
tion WLSE, Wallace. This spec
ial holiday program is part of
* the regularly broadcast series
"The Bible Speaks to You."
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Safe ^T-?
Drivers
Mr. Lloyd V. Capps, field
representative for Carolina
Casualty Insurance Company,
will present safety awards to
the drivers of Beulaville Mil
ling Company on Saturday, No
vember 31. ReceMne the a
wards are: Goakn Miller, for
9 years of safe driving; G. I.
Brock, r yeaam^Edmond San
derson, 6 yesM&arl Whaley,
6 years; H. D.^fcrner, 5 years;
L. H. Hinson, t years; Hoover
Pickett, 5 years; Tom Parker,
9 years; Bernard Sandlin, S
years: W. M. Suggs. 3 years;
Bobby Harrall, 3 years; and
Lois Geigher, 5 years. - A total
of 65 years of safe driving for
the drivers of Beulavilh
ling Company. At the Present
time, this firm operates be
tween Beulaville and Norfolk,
Virginia, Hauling Feed.
Kr?ts<^
Key Bamtei^
A leading. North t Carolina
banker has feen named "Cou
nty Key Ipnker" for Duplin
County. Ha will coordinate the
farm activities of the N. C.
Bankers Association in this
"IwBA President Robert P.
Holding, Jr., of Smithfield, has
announced that Philip Kretsch
Jr., will serve as County Key
Banker during the next 12 mon
ths. Mr. Kretsch is Cashier of
Waccamaw Bank and Trust
Company, Kenansville, N. C.
Noting that the NCBA con tin
ues to spend more time and
money on its farm programs
than any other phase of its ac
tivity, President Holding thank
ed the 100 County Key Bankers
for the significant role they
play in banking's service to
agriculture.
He called attention to the
projects sponsored by the As
sociation such as the annual
farm credit conference, the
two-week school at North Cam
Una State for ISO young farm
leaders from every section oi
North Carolina. These scholar
ships have totaled over 1,400,
all expenses being paid by
their hometown banks. Anothei
project is the land judging
contest in the interest of soil
conservation.
Achievement
Program
The MM Achievement Prog
ram of Negro Home Demon
stration clubs will be held on
Friday night, Novemebr 30, at
8:00 p. m. at the Agricultural
Extension Office In Kenans
vine.
The program will feature a
FaMimfijiow to ? display of
* 'OdhsertfM and home - made
products. A panel of H? D.
etubl&i* will also prteent
achievement in home improve
ments, club projects, and com
munity projects
Several awards will be pre
sented for excellence in active
participation during the year
by Miss Alice Chestnutt,
Home Ecootifaics Extension
Agent. All club women, friends
of Home Demonstration, and
the general public are invited
to the program.
Telephone Co.
To Begin Rural
Project
A telephone project that will
provide new and better service
to approximately 10 rural resi
dents in the W. G. Blanchard
and K. D. Fussell area is sche
duled to begin within the next
few days.
Street Richardson, Local
. Manager for Carolina Tele
phone stated that construction
' forces will soon begin work
and that the undertaking will
| be completed around Decem
ber IS, 18M.
An expenditure of approxi
; mately $10,000 will be required
' to place about 6 miles of cable.
' The new facilities will be plac
; ed underground along Road
1 No. 1105 toward Fussell Gro
cery.
Magnolia Woman Murdered
Miss Helen Marie Whaley. SO.
of Magnolia, waa raped and
strangled to death with her
blouse Friday night near her
home.
A neighbor and former class
mate, Linwood Brooks, 90, is
being held in the county Jail at
Kenansvilie, without privilege
at bond.
Judge Chester Morris of
Colnjock is scheduled to hold
the next term of criminal court
in Duplin during January. Both
rape and murder are capital
crimes and carry a possible
ppnishment of death.
Brooks and Miss Whaley liv
ed only a few blocks from each
other on opposite sides of Mag
nolia along Highway 117, both
attended James Kenan High
School in time, but it is thoo
ght that Brooks had dated the
girl only one other time. Miss
Whaley was employed in the
admitting office of Duplin Gen
eral Hospital in KenaosviOe.
Hector McNeill. Duplin Cor
oner. E. G. Chestnutt. Duplin
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County Deputy Sheriff and
Magnolia Police Chief Hugh
Sanderaon investigated the
double crime.
The man surrendered volun
tarily to Policeman Sanderaon
about 11 o'clock Friday night.
Sanderaon was taken to a
wooded area behind the Magno
lia Elementary SpKi?j m>i
shown the body of the woman
with her Mouse knotted about
her throat. Brooks is quoted as
telling officers. "I don't knew
why I did it'
Apparently, Miss Whaley left
her home earlier Friday even
ing with a sister of the accus
ed a little later stopped at a
grill near Rose Hill. While the
girls ware at the grfll. It Is
alleged. Linwood Brooks rode
up with a Drew boy from Mag
nolia. who get into the car with
the Brooks girl. The Drew boy
left his car to his friend. Lin
wood Brooks, to drive Idas
Whaley home.
Later that night. Brooks
confided to Drew that he had
Killed the girl and pulled her
body from Drew's automobile
to a wooded section behind the
school gymnasium. Drew did
not believe Brooks until taken
to the spot and shown the body.
Hie two then drove to die Mag
nolia business section where
they found Sanderson, who
summoned other officers.
Funeral services for Idas
Wbaley were held at die Car
roll's Street Freewill Baptist
Church in Magnolia Sunday
afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, con
ducted by the pastor, Rev.
Matthew Bobbs. Burial follow
ed in Devotional Gardens near
Warsaw.
Miss Whaley is survived by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cla
rence Whaley: five sisters,
Evelyn Faye, Bet tie Lou, Bar
bara Ann, Karen Elaine, and
Sharon Jane Whaley, all of
the home; her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Ellen Daushtery
of Magnolia and the paternal
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Whaley of Richlands.
' MISS LuANN MaoMlLLIAN. "Miss American Legion," (center) receives 1100 from
Robert Kornegay, mgr. and asst. vice-president of Home Federal Savings and Loan,
Warsaw as Miss Caroly- Ravnor ?Jss Hrhbton, a runner-up, looks on holding her check
presented.hy Warsaw lu&r Co. * ? '? ' <
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NCounty s Tax
Value $74 Million
The 1964 Report of Valua
tions and taxes shows the fol
lowing:
Total valuation of Real
property $54,703,987.00, an in
crease of $860.35540 over 19
63.
Total valuation from State
Property 17,764,219.00, an in
crease of $1,019,772.00 aver 19
63.
Total valuatio nfrom State
Board of Assessment $2,122,
214.00 an Increase of $160,390.00
over 1963.
Grand total of all property
listed and assessed for coun
ty-wide taxation: $74,590,430.
00, an increase of $2,040,517.00
over 1963.
Grand total of taxes levied
$1,251,081.55. and increase of
$33,424.07, over 1963.
Football
W inners
Mike Hasty of Kenansvllle
was first place winner in the
ninth week of the 12 week foot
ball contest, according to the
judges announcement today.
Hasty was the only entry to
miss only three of the 14 games
listed in the contest and. like
almost all contestants, he mis
sed by picking Duke, U. N. C.
and Air Force. Hasty takes the
ten dollar first place money
and puts himself in line for
the grand prize of $100 and two
tickets to the Orange Bowl
game in Miami.
Russell J. Lanier of Beula
ville took second place prize of
$5 with four misses. Lanier
missed the same ones missed
by Hasty plus the Oregon State
game. There were ten en
tries missing only four of the
games, so the decision was
made on the basis of a guess
as to the highest number of
points scored by any one of
the teams listed. East Carolina
set the points with 49 scored
last weekend. Lanier guessed
the nearest with 42.
Others to pick all bat four
winning teams, but losing only
on the points, were: Moyer
MacMOlian of Wallace, Rudy
Hasty of Kenansville, Michael
Fox of Wallace, Betty Taylor
of Kenansville, Milton Costin of
Warsaw, Eugene Wells of Rose
Hill, Mickey Davis of Warsaw,
Harry Eisenberg of Wallace,
and Tommy Herring of Wal
lace.
Only three more weeks are
left in the football contest and
plenty of time for anyone to
win the grand prize which will
put him in Miami just about
the time the snows hit North
Carolina. Although the teams
have not been selected for the
Orange Bowl game, rumors
have it that it will be two of
the mast interesting teams in
Drug More
Plans Opening
The Grand Opening After
Remodeling of the Kenansville
Drug Store has been set for
Friday and Saturday, Decem
ber 4 and 5.
The budding has been en
larged to provide ample room,
new lighting has been installed,
the fountain and food center
has been moved towards the
back of the -store, attractive
paneling has been placed on
the walls, and new shelving
has been Installed .
When completed the store
will have a completely new
and modernistic look, as mod
em as any business in Duplin.
Mr. Amos Brinson and Mr.
Earl Hatcher invite all of their
friends and customers to visit
the remodeled store and see
the innovations and improve
ments. The Times-Sentinel
plans to carry pictures and
features of the remodeling in
an early issue.
vacation trends
Almost five times as many
people take non-summer vaca
tions now as in 1947. Today
12% take vacations in winter,
19% in the fall, 14% in the
spring and 55% In summer. In
1947/90% of the public took
summer vacations.
"irs the up-Kiir
Today's cars cost an average
of $150 each annually to main
tain, not counting tire and
accessory purchases, according
to Industry estimates, says
Wall Street Journal. When
trucks are added the average
rises to $200.
Flimflamming
"REA Men"
Get f1275
Mr. and Mrs. Needham
Brown, aged couple of the Cy
press Creek Community, were
flimflammed of $1275 Friday
morning by two men posing
as REA workmen.
Mr. Brown is 78 years of age
and practically blind. Two men
called at the home Friday
morning and claimed they were
with the electric company in
stalling wires to keep lightning
from running into the house.
They argued that it wouldn't
cost much and that if it were
not installed that the com
pany would have to discontinue
the service.
After some hesitancy, Mrs.
Brown permitted them to go
ahead. They simply ran a
single wire from the service
conection to the house under
the house but now into the 1
ground and wanted $275 for the
"service
As Mrs Brown talked to one
of the men on the outside of
the home noe was waiting to
get her "change" from three
$100 bills, it is believed the
other man went into the house
and stole the balance of their
life-long savings, a thousand
dollars, to net the men a total
of $1275.
The power company warns
that their men are required to
wear uniforms with proper 1
dentification. These good folks
lost every penny they had sav
ed and it would be prudent to
question any stranger and
require him to show proper
identification before passing
money.
The sheriff's department is
making every effort to get in
touch with these two "gentle
men."
NOTICE!!
Because of Thanksgiving
hoUdays. the Duplin Times
Progress Sentinel will go to
press on Tuesday after
noon. Correspondents' and
all other news must be re
ceived not later than Mon
day to appear hi nest
weeks' publication;.
MRS. NORA (L. W.) REGISTER first president of the Rock
fish Home Demonstration Club, organized in 1914, and celebrat
ing its 50th Birthday here Friday. Mrs. Register presided over the
memory book at the occasion.
Rockfish HDC
Celebrates
Anniversary
The main event of the achie
vement day program of the
Duplin County Home Demon
stration Clubs Friday was the
"Golden Anniversary" celebra
tion of the Rockfish Home
Demonstration Club and the
home economics and agricul
tural extension work.
Mrs. Norma (L. W.t Regis
ter, president of the Rockfish
Club when it was organized in
March of 1914, fifty years ago,
presided over a memory book
at the reception in the Agri
cultural Building following the
formal program held at the
Masonic Hall. Guests inscribed
their names in the memory
book.
Greetings were received in a
telegram from Miss Lucy Cobb
of Raleigh who was Duplin's
first "home demonstrator"
back in 1917.
Mrs. David Williams, recent
ly State President of the Home
Demonstration Clubs, present
ed a history of the Rockfish
Club, which began as a quilt
ing party of ten ladies. Among
the early activities of the club
were clinics for typhoid pre
vention, typhoid being preval
ent in the area fifty years ago.
Mrs. N. B. Boney of South
Kenansville Club won the out
standing club leader of the
year award. Mrs. Boney re
marked that she came so near
not even sending in the blank
to enter the contest and was
somewhat surprised that her
club won.
Scotts Store won the Duplin
CMUamd to po?re 7
Hospital Earns I
$1/2 Million I
Audit report of Duplin Gener
* Ho*M' "* "" ye"
ended September 30. 1964. has
been received. The audit was
k?f A \M Dnlkn anJ
Ul?ut UJ f?. HI. A UUCII BIIU I
Company. Certified Public Ac
countants.
The Balance Sheet shows
the following assets: Cash
$4,563.24; accounts receivable
<86,745.05; inventories $22,686,
61; perpaid insurance $555.67; I
equipment $39,373.81; total
$153,924.38.
Liabilities are: Salaries
payable $9,292.92; accounts
payable $34,687.68; note pay
able $2,696.96; Fund balances
$107,246.82; total $153,924.38.
Gross earnings for the year
amounted to $528,672.86.
Questionnaires
Sent To Farmers
Questionnaires for the 1964
Census of Agriculture are now
being mailed out to farmers
and ranchers of Duplin county,
according to Mrs. Grace H.
Carr and Henry A. Precythe,
crew leader in charge of the
census in the county.
The questionnaires are ex
pected to reach the farmers
within a few days. This will
allow the farmers a period of
time in which to consult their
1964 farm business records in
order to answer questions on
the form accurately before en
umerators be"in calling on in
dividual farmers to collect the
questionnaires. These visits are
scheduled to start on Novem
ber 23 in this county
An enumerator will call on
every fanner in the district
under his supervision, the crew
leader said. At the time of the
call, the enumerator will help
the farmer complete answers
to any questions that prove dif
ficult to understand and check
the form for accuracy.
The do-it-yourself aspect of
the farm census is aimed at
saving time and effort.
The Census of Agriculture is
taken every five years in the
years ending in "4" and "9"
to gather needed, up-to-date
information on the nation's
agricultural resources and pro
duction. Such information is
vital in making decisions
affecting many segments of the
U. S. economy. Data gathered
include the number and size
of farms, acreage and harvest
of crops, livestock inventory,
information on farms equip
ment and facilities, farm pro
ducts sold, and use of fertili
zers, insecticides, and herbi
cides..
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