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uni| mn| []H| I | || t ' I IH ^. 1 J ' (ifl 1^ ( 1 RALEIGH " The Motor Vehl- StheiaM- j/?* the. 3 l*?Attt. ?"Rmo- Jiwwtfcc Hwv)- m T^ r*,- 1 cles Department'* summery of ^11 I I traffic death* through 10 a.m. ...... g?g| * . rt._, ? !? Monday. August 22: HM JM VH^VHi VA ?? Kfltod To Date W2 kj Killed To Date Last Year.,919 M mJ |V ~*?? ?? .?'?.? nBBKs^ . VOL XXXIU NO. 33 KENANSVILLE, N. C. AUGUST 2g. 1966 '^g^ PRICE 10# PLUS TAX * Mr. Henry Belk. Editor of the Goldsboro News-Argus, who spoke to the Warsaw Rotarlans on Thursday at die Country Squire, others In the picture (1 to r) E. C. Thompson, Ro tarlan; Preston Ralford, chairman of the program committee; Mrs. Henry Belk, wife of Mr. Belk. Behind Mr. Belk is Rev. Norman Flowers. (Photo by Ruth p. Grady). Editor Belk PraisesDuplin ??Eastern North Carolina Is moving out In all directions," stated Mr, Henry Belk when he spoke to the Rotarlans at The Country Squire on Thursday. "Duplin Is In the center of tne forward move. Duplin has al ready stepped out and joined the main stream and I am im pressed with their progress." Mr. Belk Is Editor of the Golds - boro News-Argus. - - Belk was a guest of P. B. Ralford, program chairman for Jhe Rotarlans and also Execu tive Director of Duplin Develop ment Commission. In his talk, Mr. Belk con gratulated Mr. Ralford for glv ;ing the county such a great " ??push.' * He commentedon many ? of the new developments of the county,. such as the two new plants, tne gralnery and James Sprunt Institute. Mr. Belk fur ther suggested that this was a time for all counties to work together, and not spend time fighting each other. He pointed out Duplin's Municipal Council, which Is a wonderful example of towns of the county working together. Another example of co operation cited was the N. C Coastalland Historical Asso ciation In which 25 or 30 coun ties are striving to develop tou rist trade. He pointed out that we need these new Industries, but we also need to maintain a balance to go along with this Industry. E Frank Hobbs presided at^ the meeting and read a letter (rem the Rotaqf Governor who \ Coettnned to page t The Office of the Southeastern Farmers Gralnery is ready for use as scheduled. The scales have been installed, grading is being completed and*Mr. Gardner "says Tie wfll be ready for grain Thursday, September L (Photo i by Ruth a Wells) Grainery Ready for Sept. 1 The South Eastern Farmers Gralnery Is receiving the final touches and everything will be in order to start receiving grate September 1 as per schedule. Mr. Jim Gardner, Manager of the Gralnery, announces that scales have been Installed, the office completed .d the | grounds will be graued tv,? I week. A training period has start ed for the employees so that when the first load of grain Is brought In. It will be handled bv experienced personnel. Full itlme employees are Mrs. Linda West, and Mrs. Linda Wrby. * '-s. C. C. Rouse will assist i during busy season. Ot> ,*r sonnel Is King screened. Mr. Gardner Is looking for ward to a bumper harvest, and assures the farmers that trucks will be unloaded promptly. Bobby Lee Best Charged With Capital Crime Bobby Lee Best, negro male, age 17, of Route 1, Falson. Is being held in Duplin County jail without privilege of bond and is charged with rapelng Catherine Williams, negro fe male, age 47 of RFD Falson. Best Is also charged with break tag and entering. According to Information ob tained from th* Williams wo man, about So'cloc' Wednesday afternoon, Bob) Lee Best knocked on the or of the Wil liams residence, which Is about 1 -. mile off highway 117. South of Falson. Mrs. Williams open ad the door and Best told bar what he had come for. Mrs. Williams immediately closed the door and bolted It. Best tried to open two otherdoors and failed, going back to the first door, ne Moved against it with his shoulder and opened it enough that he used a part of a bush hook to gain entry into the house, where tne alleged attack took place. Mrs. Williams told her hus band Wednesday -night. How ever the incident was not re ported to the sheriffs office until Thursday morning. She had been helping some of the neighbors pick pepper end when they went !or her Thursday morning she was sitting on the porch crying. After hearing her story they Drought her to the sheriffs office. Sheriff T. Elwood Revelle Investigated the premises and swore out a warrant against Bobby Lee Best, charging him with breaking, entering, and rape. At a preliminary hearing gi ven Bobby Lee Beet, he plead guilty to the charges preferred against him. Best Is being held without bond for appearance at August 29th term of Superior Court. Votice Jurors $ Witnesses judge Joseph w. Parker will not be in Kenans ville to convene court on Monday. August 29. but will be here on Tuesday, August 30, at 10 a.m. All Interested parties, Jurors and witnesses need not appear at court until Tuesday morning. This an nouncement was made by R. V. Wells. Clerk of the Superior Court. School Opening Teachers begin the 1966-67 school year Wednesday, August 24th. Children report for re gistration Friday. August 26. High School students will go through a simulated schedule, probably spending ten minutes in each class, with the ma jority of the day being spent in the nome room. Monday, Au gust 29 the full schedule will be effective. Wallace Wreck I njures Two Failure to stop for red light resulted In a near fatal acci dent Monday mo/nlng about 9:46 at the Intersection of Highway 117 and East Southerland street in Wallace. A1966 Chevrolet truck owned and operated by William Frank lln Dall of Chinquapin, travel ing west on East Southerland Street, was hit by a 1966 Ford operated by Daphin Riley Bone Route 3. Nashville, traveling j south on N. C. Highway 117. I The truck was loaded with to- I bacco and had started to the I - Border market. Jarvls Lanier, white male age * 44 of Chinquapin riding In the truck with DaU was thrown from the truck, and pinned under the car with the truck resting on top of the car. Continued to page ? "Miss Warsaw Pageant 1967" Who Will She Be? . a l ne largest j ayceeproject in history has been discussed for many years now and looks as if It will become a reality this November U, 1966. The Warsaw Javcees, young men of action, wul take on the responsibility of sponsoring a $1,500.00 beauty pageant. The plans .new call for a pageant to be "held In the week of nor mal Veterans Day celebrations ? a ii along with all the other many projects of this time. This the Jaycees will do only If the peo ple In the Warsaw community are willing to help financially and .work nard along with the Jaycees. "The Jaycees are eager to tftempt this big project because we feel mat the young women In this community deserve the op portunity to let the rest of the state know what we have to offer In beauty and talent, we hope to have at least eight contestants to participate In the pageant and possibly more." stated a spokesman. If any of you know and wish to have a contestant in the pageant please contact Frank Steed, chairman of Entrees, other Chairman are Publicity and Program, Bobby Best and joe Allen Edwards. Awards Chairman, Dwlght Smith. Judges, Fisher Carlton with Gerald Quinn, over all Project Chairman. The plans are still incomplete but If you know of any way that you can help the Jaycees to carry out this project please CoaUnued to page t JERNIGAN HOSPITALIZED Glenn jernigan, popular de puty sheriff from Falson, has been hospitalized at Duplin General Hospital with a back injury. His many friends wish for nim a speedy recovery. Visitor Victim of Vicious Violence McCoy Matthews, 32, of Tur key, Route 1, was charged with murder in the pistol death Mon day night of Mary Lou Gavin of Warsaw. The woman was shot at the home of Ernest and Zella Lamb In Warsaw where she was visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb and Rose Williams told police that they were all sitting on the front porch when Mattnews walked up and asked the Gavin woman why she was there. "I'm going home now," she was quoted as saying. They said the woman Jumped from the porch and ran around the house with Matthews after her with a pistol. They said she came back and fell on the porch and Matthews ran. Coroner Hector McNeil said the woman died of four or five bullet wounds In the body. Given a hearing before Jus tice of the Peace A. C. Lockamy in Warsaw. Matthews was bound over to the August 29 term of Duplin Superior Court. I ??????????-???? BEULAVILLE TAX STATEMENTS Beulaville tax statements were all ready to go last week. The tax rate Is still $1.15 on the hundred. Kindergartens Set In Duplin With funds provided through the Elementary and Secondary Act passed by Congress in 1965, the State Department of public Instruction has approved a kin dergarten program for each 6f the sixteen target elementary schools in Duplin Count v. This program will begin in th I following schools on Friday, | August 26, 1966; Beulaville Elementary, Branch Elementary, C. W, Dob bins Elementary. Calypso Ele mentary, diinquapln Elemen tary n, Douglass High, E. E. Smith High, Kenansville Ele mentary, Magnolia Elementary, P. W. Moore Elementary. P.E. Williams Elementary. Rose HOI Elementary I. Rose Hill Ele mentary n. Teachey Elemen tary, Warsaw Elementary. All children who will be six years old by October 16. 1967 are eligible except children wt? are enrolled in .private kinder gartens for the school year 1966-67. Under the guidelines ofESEA all children who have not en tered school are considered educationally disadvantaged and are eligible for the kindergarten program. Parents are requested to bring certificates for the child when he Is enrolled on Friday, August 26. 1966, at 8:30 a.m. Kindergarten children who will attend Warsaw School are asked to go the the Primary Building to enroll. County Court At County Court which con vened lest week, the following cases were heard: David Lawrence Reed, speed ing, 70 mph In 60 mph zone and no operators license, $25 fine and cost. Ervln Norman Robinson, speeding 70 mph In 60 mph zone, pay fine $10 and cost. Chester Leroy Decker, Fail ure to comply with restriction on drivers license. $10 fine and cost. Carl Marvin Lewis. Jr., speed Ins, 73 mph in 60 mph zone, $10 fine and cost. Ronald Houston, speeding, 70 mph In 60 mph zone, $10 fine and cost. Glenn Huff, speeding, 49 mph In 35 mph zone, $10 fine and cost. John Daonald Hlatt, speeding, 73 mph In 60 mph zone, $10 fine and cost. Leornard Harold Romblad, speeding, 70 mph In 60 mph zone, $10 fine and cost. Leon McRae, no operators license. $25 fine and cost. Thomas Evans Jenkins, no operators license, $25 fine and cost. Thurman Henry Locklear, speeding, 70 mph in 60 mph zone, pleads guilty to exceed ing safe speed, plea accepted Why Vote YES Saturday, August 27^ For ThfigHospital Bond Election??? | " K| I HERE ARE SOME OF THE" RE ASONS - The Hospital nea* room, room and more room. If you vote YES en Sarurday. August 27, for the 50 private rooms and baths to be added to the present facilities, you will relieve some of the condition pictured above. On Monday Morning, July 22, 88 patients were being taken care of In a 75 bed hospital. Here is what was happening. Picture 1 was a scene In the hall on third floor, 2 patients in beds and one in a wheel chair. Picture 2 shows a scene In the hall on the second floor, with two beds In the halL? Picture 3 was taken at the other end of the second floor. Nate the suitcase In the chair. Scene 4 shows what Is left of the L* " mm* . - 1 Meditation Room whlqh ha4jo be taken over for tile storage ot medical records. Out of (tiej?paL'nts who were l\.rky enough to set admitted over the iHWfMtPl 6 were children, 7 <ew babies and the rest adults. Oftheseipatiantt,4Z were Medicare patients. - In the month of July 212 Emergency room patients were treated. There has been considerable utMrest on the part of some outside specialists in coming to Ms arm. The Medical Staff Is now 1 Studying a number of apple ants from the field of surgery, X-ray and Internist, whs are Interested In locating here. Ttie Maternity Ward at General Is running full capacity at all times - 10 patients. R Is p) to you the public, do we need more room? f Cyclist Critically Injured Allen W. Sutton, 60, Route 1, Pink Hill received serious head Injuries Saturday night when he was knocked from his bicycle by a car, as he traveled N. C. Hihway II, North of Pink Hill. Sutton was taken to a K Inst on Hospital with severe head In juries and was transferred to North Carolina Memorial Hos pltal In Chapel Hill where his condition was termed critical. At last reports he was still unconscious. Dennis Ray May of F armvllle was driving the car, which de molished tne bike and the car received damages estimated at $900. The windshild was knoclr ed out. May said the bicycle was mas tag him, however evidence stioir ed that Sutton was traveling to ward pink Hill and was hit froao the rear. Sutton was reported to have received severe head Injuries about seven years ago in an auto accident. Scon Irving, State Trooper, j J is Investigating. Stolen S. C. Car Recovered Saturday afternoon bet we?. 1 and 2 o'clock. Glenn Jernlg? answered a call to Potters Hfll where a man. stranded with a flat tire admitted the car he was driving was stolen. Splvey Hartley, white male age 26, of Lancaster. Sooth Carolina had sold the spare tire from the 1961 Corvalr he had stolen from Calvin Lloyd, also of Lancaster. S. C. The car had literally been stripped of al extras and a flat tire haulted his travels. Brought to the sheriffs offlpi j on a charge of no operators license. Hartley admitted steal kg the car on 12. He also aamtM* stolen four cars before this one, and that he was currently under three years probation. A call to police In Lancas ter verified the car owner, and Mr. Lloyd came for his ear. Hartley Is being held on a no operator license charge in Duplin County jail. The FBI Is expected to pick him up today (Monday) and carry him before a U. S. Commissioner for his arraignment In Federal Court as crossing a state line with a stolen car Is a Federal <g*BSe Lane Member FHA Comm Vv. David Lane of Route 2, ?? Mount Olive, has been appointed as a member of the Duplin Coun ty Farmers Home Administra tion Committee, Rhone Sasser, the Agency's County Supervi sor, announced this week. Each agricultural county In North Carolina has a three member committee to work with the county supervisor to make the best possible local use of the agency's farm credit ser vice program. The Comrdttee determines the eligibility of applicants for all types of Far mers Home Administrate loans, and determines the suit ability and fair and reasonable values of farms to be taken as security for real estate loans. It also reviews borrowers'pro gress as they pay off thelrFHA loans by means of Improved farming and turn to banks and other lenders for the credit they need. The F armers Home Adminis tration Is an agency In the U. S. Department of Agriculture that supplies long-term credit to farmers to buv or Improve their farms, establish suitable soil and water conservation mea sures, and build or repair ru ral houses or other essential farm buildings. R has Interme diate or short-term credit for farm operations or to meet emergency needs. Mr. Lane Is a farmer of the Faison area and is married to the former Louise Byrd. He has served as Farmers Home Administration Commit teeman several terms in the past and Mr. Sasser expressed pleasure that Mr. Lane Is serv ing in this capacity again. mifaira h , JU ...... jiJ
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