DDAHDrCC CPMTTMn JrnUutlLiJd 3LN 1 II?Jili _____ - ? ^jj ? 1 ? ._. _ r VOL. XXXI NO. 60 KENANSVILLE. N.C. THURSDAY DECEMBER 10. 1964 PRICE 10c PLUS TAX ? nsr- : zr _ _ _ BEULAVTLLE CHRISTMAS PARADE. - Playing "Hark tba Herald Angels Sing." the East Duplin High School Band led Beu laville's parade Saturday afternoon. Dark skies threatened, bat the long parade"made it before rain and most folks said that It was the best one yet. Miller Home Demonstrtion Club won first prize for the best float; Mrs. Macy Thomas' Kindergarten Chil dren won second place and the 4-H Club came in third. Carolina Bowen of Faison was crowned queen by Miss North Carolina. Miss Sharon Finch. Susan Humphrey of Richlands was first run ner-up and Iris Brown of Chinquapin second runner-up. Annual DPCA Meeting Jack Williams, executive sec retary of the Georgia Associa tion of Broadcasters. Inc. and Assistant professor of Journa lism, Georgia State College, At^ lanta will be the guest speaker in Kenansville an Friday after- , * ' neon. . - * W?itfairia?Wt)> speak at tlgTJ Annual Stockholders; Meeting of the Duplin Production Cred it Association which will be held Friday, December It at 3 p. ra. in the Kenpnsville Grammar School Auditorium. Reports of the operation of the association for the past year will be given, and a direc tor will be elected. Door prizes will be given. Garland P. King, Secretary Treasurer extends a cordial invitation to everyone to at tend the meeting and hear Jack Williams. Jack Williams spent 40 mon ths as one of Uncle Sam's in telligence officers In the Penta gon specialising in foreign and political affairs. He's a student of the Soviet Union and has studied the Russian language. Jack has been a public rela tions director for General Mo tors Corporation: TV news di rector for KETV, Omaha, Ne braska; radio news director for KCRG. Cedar Rapids. Iowa: and a news editor for CBS. Chicago. An honor graduate of North western University in 1952. Wil liams received a Master's De gree and won both the coveted Harlngton and Bastian Awards for radio-TV achievement and academic excellence from the Medill School of Journalism, lie has completed some work to ward a Ph.D. in Journalism. The 35-year-old. father of three, is a member of Sigma Delta Chi. the Radio-TV News Directors Association, Associa tion for Education in Journal ism. American Association of University Professors. Public Relations Society of America. JACK WILLIAMS Trial & Error Susan Sykes. niece of Miss Mary Lee Sykes, county Health nurse, has painted a scene of four carolers on the windows of the County Health Depart ment. It is a fabulous job. you should ride by and see it. One of the nurses in the Health '' Department told me that from CMttaued to page it _____ Judge Lanier Hears 137 Cases Solicitor iW>. E. Craft prose cutad numerous cases before Judge Russell J, Lanier in General# County Court last week. Judgements were hand led down in 137 cases One man received a sentence of IS months for making liquor, lost his automobile and had his pistol confiscated. Another re ceived 6 months for speeding 93 miles an hour in a 60-mile zone. For driving without an ope rator's license, a man will have to spend the next thirty days in jail. Two drunks drew 30 days each and one was senten ced to six months on the roads because it was his fourth off ense in the past six months. Judgments were handed down in 69 speeding cases. It is interesting to note that only 17 of these were teenagers. Court records reveal that near ly three-fourths. 52 out of 69, of those cited for speeding were middle-aged folks, a few women, but mostly men old enough to know better. JUDGMENTS HAND ED DOWN FOLLOW: Bascom Mack Bristow. Wal lace, operating auto while Int oxicated, judgment absolute on $200 bond. Jack Wayne Roberts, Chapel Hill, speeding. $10 and cost. George Dewey Maready.Chl nguapln, operating auto while Intoxicated, not pros with leave. James Pickett. worthless _____ cneck, not pros, "cost taxed ag ain* R.J. Hursey, prosecuting whtou^s. , , M. H. Parker. tTlftldR , che<3t, not pros. David Lee Speight. Walston* burg, speeding, $10 and cos't. Ralph Grady, Monroe, speed ing, not pros with leave. John Howard Blanchard, Warsaw, no operator's license, not guilty. James Oliver Sutton, Wilm ington, speeding, not pros with leave. Continued to p*|t I Joe Lewis Deaver was ar rested at his home near Ken ansville and charged with pos session and seiling non-tax - paid liquor. Officers Alfred Basden, Glenn Jernigan, E. S. Thigpen, E. G. Chestnut!, E E. Proctor and Earl Chestouti investigated BAKE SALE A bake sale will be sponsor ed by the Woman's Society of Christian Service of I'nity Methodist Church December 12 at 2:00 P. M at C M. QM law's Grocery Store Editorial Next Tuesday, flue-cured tobacco growers will vote on whether to continue the current tob acco program. This is one of the most inpmortant votes to come along in Duplin County and in North Carolina for many years. We believe the referendum will pass. We hope it will pass by a big majority as it has in every referendum on tobacco quotas since 1938. But in that year, growers voted it out, with the result that tobacco prices fell sharply, down to 15c a pound average. It costs at least twice that much now to produce a pound of tobacco. Some people about the county are confused about what they will be voting on next Tuesday. A great many of them think they're voting on whether or not to cut tobacco acreage. That's not it at all. Some think they are voting to shift the system to an acreage-poundage control system. But, this is not it at all. Some have heard this and some have heard that. What is the farmer voting on? The vote is on one thing only: "DO YOU FAVOR CONTINU ING MARKETING QUOTAS ON FLUE-CURED TOBACCO FOR THE NEXT THREE MARKET ING YEARS, BEGINNING JULY 1, 1965?" If more than one-third of the votes are "NO" there will be no tobacco program at all. If more than two-thirds are "YES", price supports and quotas will be continued iWhtput supports, the financial losses on the farm, in the processing industries and in the busi-;. ness community in general could total more^man a billion dollars a year. It would be impossible to solve the problems of tobacco without a price support program. By continuing this support program hundreds of mil lions of dollars in income will come tn North Car olina that would be lost if the program were re jected. If the program is rejected, next year's tobacco in Duplin will probably sell for an aver age of less than 30c per pound. There will be a loss of some 950 million pounds of tobacco being held in Stabilization. Lending agencies will im mediately drastically reduce their loans to farm ers. Many people in Duplin will be forced from the business of farming. Few farmers will have trouble making up their minds. It amount to a choice between some degree of prosperity, of a way of making a living in Duplin and poverty which will force many off the farms, even away from Duplin to seek other ways of earning a living. Congressman Urges Vote To Continue Leaf Programs " ON NOVEMBER 3. 1964, the voters of North Carolina turn ed out at the polls in record number to cast their votes for the leaders of the "overnment of our state and the nation. All of us recognized the import ance of that vote. Of almost equal importance to the people of eastern North Carolina is the referendum to be held on December IS on whether we will continue the basic tobacco program for the next three crop years. Unlike the election of our public officials, continuation o( the tobacco program requires an affirmative vote of 2 3 ot the eligible voters, who are tobacco growers, either land lords or tenants or self-employ ed farmers. To vote "NO" in the referen dum means that you are vot ing to abolish all price supports and all allotments. It means a return to what we experienced in 1938 when everybody watt free to produce all the tobacco he wished and at selling time a tot of it failed to bring ware house charges. To vote "YES" in the ref erendum means that you ex press your desire to continue to receive the protection of price supports and your wil lingness to accept governmen tal controls in order to have price supports Don't vote "No' because you think the currently-announced cut is too big or because you oppose poundage controls or because you think your allot ment should be increased. Don't vote "No" unless you favor doing away with our program altogether. Vote "Yes" and give those of us in authority a chance to work out our problems in Congress and by further administrative ac tion within the Agriculture De partment Rose Hill Yule Events Tomorrow "Santa Claus is coming to town!" is the tunc everyone is singing these days. On Friday * afternoon at 3:30 p.m.. all will j have a chance to see Ole Santa n In person in the annual Jaycee ? Christmas Parade in Rose Hill. ^ Shrinu the spotlight with .. Santa wilf f .? Miss North t'aro lina. Ester Sharon Finch of : Thomasville. and the Poultry s Princess, Jean Marie Haggerty of Wallace. DECORATIONS: The Jaycees are installing completely re worked Christmas decorations along villi new decoration along Highway 117 and invite every ] one to visit Rose Hill to see ( this. The lights will be turned j on the day of the parade. , HANQl'ET: Miss North Caro lina and other area beauties will lie feted by the Jaycees and wives at a special banquet Friday evening at 7 30 p.m. at the Rose Hill Restaurant CHRisJMAS DANCE: Kin ,hing cut the .Tayeecs Christ tas activities on Friday. Dec. I, will be their annual Christ las Dance with Woody Hayes land of Raleigh playing. Miss L C. and the other area benn ies tvi'K t?a?p- g.i< t appear ances The dance will be held it the Rose Hill Elementary school Gymnasium beginning at l p.m.. admission three dollars >er couple. Everyone is invited o make plans now to tak^ in ill the day s festivities RALEIGH - The Motor Ve hicles Department's summary ?f traffic deaths through 10 A. M Monday. December 7: Killed To Date 1447 Killed To Date Last Week 12M ORANGE BOWL OR BL'ST Congratulations . . . Mas Offerman of Wallace It about the luckiest man In the county . . . Max is the big winner in the Duplia Tlmes - Progress Sentie-I U-week Football Contest. As a result Mr. Offer man wins the grand prize of two tickets to the Orange Bowl in Miami plus $100.00 for expenses. Max will get to see the number one team In the country . . . undefeated Alabama. (10-0) tangle with Texas with a 9-1 rec ord. By the way Texas was pre-season favorite as the number one team. It will definitely be the best post season game. The game will be played under the lights . . . the first post seuson game ever played at night . . . Best of luck. Commissioners Recommend Value Cut On Tobacco Acreage The Duplin County Board of Commissioners at their meet ing Monday, recommended to the County Board of Equaliza tion and Review that the value placed on tobacco acreage al lotments in 1964 be reduced SlS.Sa*? for 196S on account of the change in acreage allot ments. SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE TIMES - SENTINEL Bow den Man Bends Crowbar Over Barbe Townihiph Joe A Sutton, elected this HI year for county commissioner for Dist. l. composed of WarMMr nod Faison Townships, to fill the vacancy when Mr. Lott K or needy decided not to fUe to succeed himself after serving the 4UM4t lor ten years; W. E. Craft. Solicitor of the General County Ceutt; Assistant Registers of Deeds Mrs. Zoma Q. Jenkins. Miss Elisa beth G. West. Barbara S. West, Ruth S. Herring and Miss Janice Smith and Mrs. Christine W. Williams, Register of Deeds since December. 1962. Mrs. Winifred T. Wells was reappointed County Attorney for a two year term. Mrs. Wells has served since IMS. Commissioner J. W. Hoffler was re-elected Chairman of tin . Board of Commissioners (or a one-year term. Other members at