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r 7: ? ? TW? ? ? ?' IvT ' i ' '? ? , ? ' ?* ** , f ' ? 5.. r- ?. _ v ' > M: 4ra| flr# r mmmM! CVITTIIIVT >WWB SliNTIMEL VOL XXXIV NO. <43 Trial & Error i Halloween is Just around the corner. In fact, it is next Tues day night. Witches, ghosts and Goblin will be lurking In every corner. Rose HUT School has planned an old-fashioned Halloween Carnival for this year. M*iy young boys and girls are looking forwara to the ex citing night ? a night of mixed feelings of frolic ami fear. ? ? ? ? ) Have y ou read the book "The Fox ana The Hound". It is one of the condensed novels In the latest Reader's Digest Book of the Month. If you have not read it. read it at once and it will be one of the most delightful evenings you have spent in a Ions time. It is tne story of a fox, a hound and a hunter, and how the fox outsmarts all of their efforts to catch him. But you read it, you will not be sorry, tha| you did. ? ? ? ? The following poem was sent I In by Miss Linda Carol Walker of Albertson. Continued to Pace 2 Who Is The Oldast Vat? Mr. Vet. How Old Are You? With an Idea of honoring the oldest living Veteran In Duplin County, an appeal Is made to you to help us locate this per son. To date the oldest Vete ran contacted thus far has . reached his 88th birthday. If this Is not the oldest per son, please help us find him. We urge you to contact The Dup lin Times-Progress Sentinel for any suggestion you may have. Pre-Dawn Wreck Oil 24 A Florida man driving a 1968 Ford bumped a Volks wagon In front of Leo Jack son's Store Tuesday morning about 5:46 a.m. * Earl Hawkins whose address is listed as Palm Beach, Flo rida, told Kenaimville Police man, Tyson Bostlc that he th ought he was on U. S. Highway In making a U turn on High way 94 he tangled with the small car driven by Robert Lee Price, P. O. Box 128. Warsaw. Damage estimates to the Ford were $50 and to the Volks wagon $200. No one was ser iously injured and no charges KENANSVILLE, N. C. OCTOBER 26, 1967 Duplin Sheriff Heads Enforcement Association ? . ? * ; ... . The Eastern North Carolina Law Enforcement Association held Its semi annual meerlng at John Yaney Motor Hotel, At lantic Beach, last week. Sheriff T. El wood Revelle w as elected President of the Asso ciation. Other officers elected I were: First Vice President, Sheriff Frank Outland, North ampton County; Second Vice Presldem, Tom Benton, C.I.O. Cherry Point; Third Vice Pre sident, Clyde Cook; Sergeant at Arms, Sheriff Ralph Thomas of Carteret County; Jin Durham of the SB! in Raleieh was re elected Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. W. H Gibson, Director o f the State Probation Com mission was. the featured after dinner speaker. Mr. George Kennedy of Hns ton, was presented a plaque in recognition for this outstanding work In law enforcement. Mr. Kennedy, now retired, was Dis trict Supervisor of the State Bureau of Investigation. It was through the efforts of Mr. Ken nedy tnat the Law Enforcement Association has proven Invalua ble In bringing about good will Confined Is Page > IXiplln County Sheriff T. Elwood Revelle was elected President of the Eastern Carolina Law Enforcement Association at the fall meeting at Atlantic Beach. The association is composed of civil, as well as military officers, and the dinner meeting was attended by a good representation of Duplin County as well as eastern North Carolina. _nr?nrnm . |. . . . i *** ^ wp, ~~T~TTT7 " - Municipal Asso Protests Lack Of Hiohwav Improvement a tuT Mr;.Gibbons from the Ur ban Development Department in Atlanta was meat mfiakeTi' W^Preston Raiford.EifeawltA and Sewerage Report, recently AeArltatlon was extended by MapK Herman Gore fer the groiwttp meet In Beulaville at thepflr regular meeting. . flijr following resoltitlbn drawvPby Mr. Melrin Cording was adopted. WHEREAS, one year ago die Duplin County Municipal Asso ciation presented to the State wa y Commission a rea sonable and urgent request for consideration In providing a long overdue Highway Improvment, and i WHEREAS, this proposal en visioned a direct route from the Piedmont and allied areas tp a point in the vicinity of JPGoldsboro with connecting links ? to the ports of Morehead City and Wilmington, and WHEREAS, such a program would encompass the widening, and Improving ,* Highway iff which traverses the heartland of the state's agricultural star * ? bllity and tea Industrial potew t&Ss'1 tun funds for highway lm- ) proVemenfstnore beneficial tto resident^ of^an other state dim pi the taxpayers serwd by an inadequate lad obsolete 117, now, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, th* this association In regular meeting go on record as. appalled by the thought that another Ad ministration and Sdbther High way Commission tar In the final months of anhorigr and again nothing hSs been aafiieved to re lieve long existing Inadequacies through this section served by Highway 117 as It relates to tourism, transportation of our vast agricultural ptoduct^amMj industrial potential, and |M further RESOLVED, that thlPVI> soclatlon again petl Ibn for Jus tified relief by forwarding a copy of this Instrument to His Excellency, Governor Dan K. Moore, to the Honorable Joe Hunt, the Honorable Ashley Murphy. local Cotfcty Commls &'?5r!1is c^bs 'be distributed to the netsk media. APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 18 day of October 1967. DUPLIN COUNTY MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION F aison, N. C. C. A. Precythe. Chairman Mrs. Hazel KeUy, Secretary Named On Project RAUfiGH - Miss Margaret Elizabeth Grady, a sophomore at Meredith College and daugh ter of Mrs. J. R, Grady, Box68, Kenansvtlle, has been selected to work with the Blind School Project for the Meredith Chris tian Association this year. * The purpose of the project is to provide a friendly link for the children at the school with the community. The girls are divided Into two groups rulhuil Is Pa?? I Car Theft Thwarted An attempt to steal a car, and escape from jail, failed Thursday afternoon as an alert barber recognized the plan. Officers had Jailed Paul Gra ham of Teachey on a Public urunKenness cnargc, wiiw discovered that a capius had been issued for the same Paul Graham for driving without a Town Clerk To Preside At Raleidh Meet Mrs. Dsvetta L. Steed, Exe cutive Director of the North Carolina League of Municipali ties, Raleigh, North Carolina has announced that Town Clerk C. T. Fussell, Jr. of Rose Hill will preside at the Group Meet- ! ing of Clerks and Tax Collec tors on Friday. October 27th at 9:30 a.m., in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. This will be in conjunction with the 58th annual convention of the North Carolina League of Municipalities. ^Mr. ^Fassell has been Town convention that he has at Tfca first speaker of the ses ! Assistant Director institute of C. Chapel Hill, whose topic is *?lty Government: A review ! of its purpose and Function.'^ njSgMllHI. N. C. League ^ of Mr. Mckeldtn is also a for c. T. Ft>: Ell.. fOWN <?l& ' . 1 ?< ' : > U * ?* & Xb-ii" ? Duplin Men In Who's Who Who's Who In American Po litics 1967-68 chose among its many notable characters a re presentation from Duplin County. i ' Receivta# ih&Juaor tnbefea tured in the first edition were F. W. McGawan, Kenansville, County Accountant; Third Dis trict Congressman. David Hen derson at Wallace; and Repre sentative Hugh S. Johnson of Rose Hill: Excerpts from Who's Who are as follows: FABON WELLS JjfcGOWENt Accountant and Tax Supervi sor, Duplin County. C? Bom Kenansville, N. C.. 7/20/03; son of Thomas James McGo wen and Julia Robert Stokes M; married 7/7/32 to Pearl Cyn thia Canady. Education, James Sprunt Institute; Grove In stitute; Kings Business Col lege ; Institute of Government University N. C. Chapel Hill. Political and Government posi tion; Accountant and Tax Super visor, Duplin County, N. C., 29-, secretary, M C. Commit tee for Study Public School Fi nance, 57-58; chairman, Duplin County Democratic Executive Committee, 29 years; Co - chairman, Civil defense. World War II; Deputy sheriff andtrea Centtnned to page t An Interdenominational revival "Duplin Cru sade For Christ" will be held In the Beulaville Elementary School Auditorium from October 29 through November 5 at 7:30. each night. The Rev. Floyd B. Cherry of Greenville, pasto r of the Black Jack Free Will Baptist 1111 ? Church near Greenville, will be the guest evangelist. The Rev. Willis W. Wilson of Win tervflle, pastor of the Reedy Branch Free Will Baptist Church near Winterville, will serve as the Director of Music. Everyone is invited to attend. Beulaville Child Killed : NEW TOPSAIL BEACH - A six-year-old boy was struck and killed here Saturday morning when he ran into the path of an ? oncoming car. Malcolm Earl Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Brown of Beulaville, died of head Injuries at the scene of the 11:30 a.m. accident on N. C. 50. Pender County Coroner Blrk Simmons said the child was struck by a car operated by Melvin Spry, 37. of Linwooa. Simeons said the Brown fa mily w '* visiting the town for a day of surf-fishing. He said the boy apparently triad to return from the beacn to the family's cottage across the road. Mrs. Brown told Simmons she had warned her son to watch fo r cars and that he had let two carspass before running CMtfnued to page S Veterans Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m? November 11th. This will feature floats, pro fessional, Amateur, pet division, Bands. R.O.T. C? Drill units, military units, scout troops, . horses, and clpwns. Beauty Queens and con testants for Mils Vet. Day. PRICE 101 PLUS TAX New Program Federal Funds Stopped For County Schools ? ? Duplin County Schools, facing the loss of certain federal funds, will contest the Office of Educa tion's ruling last week that the system has not achieved * 'signi ficant progress'^desegregat lng local schools. Superintendent O. P. Johnson and the Ebard of Education stated "We have no choice but to answer these allegations and request a hearing" on the deci sion. Duplin, along with seven other North Carolina school systems, was cited last Thursday for fail ure to comply with federal de segregation guidelines. Other school systems were Perquimans, Hyde, Camden, Johnston, Martin and Chatham Counties, and Clinton, Wilson and Kinston city schools. Duplin County has received a letter from U. S. Commission er of Education, Harold Howe II, barring them from receiving S;overnment funds for new pro ects, pending public hearings in Washington. Quoting from a letter re ceived by Superintendent John son from Mr. Howe: "The staff of this Department has informed me....That the re sult of their contact s with you indicated that further efforts to secure voluntary compliance would not be productive. Ac cordingly, I hereby determine that compliance by your school district cannot be secured by voluntary means and! am re ferring Vtfn&Mef to fhe Office of General Counsel of this De-, partment with a request that ad- ' minlstrative enforcement pro ceedings be initiated to seek a final order withholding Federal financial assistance to your dis trict." The letter continued, "In ad dition, this letter is to notify your district that action on any application by it for Federal assistance administered by this office for new programs and activities Is hereby ordered de ferred for failure to comply with requirements under Title VI...Each Federal agency ex tending assistance to schools will be notified of this action. In addition, pursuant to dele gations of authority by such agencies to this Department, we shall notify these agencies that their efforts to secure vo luntary compliance have failed, and they will be given the op portunity to Join the enforce mem proceedings." Attached to Howe's letter was a notice of "Request for Mr missions of F act and Genuine ness of Documents" and "No tice of Opportunity For Hear ing". These documents cited the Duplin County Schools, among other tpuea of having "all schools of respondent school district attended exclusively by non-white children prior to Continued to Page 2 Mrs. Ramsey At National Convention For Mrs. Ruby T. Ramsey of Teachey is one of the 1,000 delegates attending the 18th an ual convention here of the Na tional Association for Retard ed Children, a voluntary orga nization of 120,000 members devoted to the welfare of the mentally retarded of all ages. Mrs. Ramsey left from Portland for Hawaii by plane October 22, for one week, a gift from her husband and children. The convention began with a banquetOctober 18th at which John W. Macy, Jr., Chairman of the U. S. Civil Service Com mission was the main sepaker. Other speakers during the three day session that ended October 21, were Miitney M. Young, Jr.,' executive director of the. .jjatlonal UrV' , "League; Mrs. Hubert Himphrey, wife of the Vice President; and members of the President's Cfljnmittee on Mental Retardatioi Eminent scientists and pro- ' fesslonals In the field, as well 1 as delegates representing NARC'S 1,200 state and loci associations, are discussing leeds and ways to meet the leeds of retarded adults and Continued to Page 2 \ HMWmmr. MRS. RUBY T. RAMSEY Ramblewood f Country Club Gets Tentative Annrnval L. C. Turner of Pink Hill and Wilbur Hussey, Jr. of Beu lavllle co-chairmen of the Board of Ramblewood Country - Club Inc. announce that they have received tentative commit ment from Farmers Home Ad ministration for a loan in the amount of $182,000 for the con struction of a rural recreation al facility. The facility will con sist of a nine-hole golf course, modest club house, swimming pool, tennis courts and related facilities. The facility will be construct ed on a 130-acre site midway between Beulaville and Pink Hill on rural paved road No. 1005. The organization will have at least 200 members Initially. Private lenders will provide the loan fund which will be In- _ sured by Farmers Home Ad- T ministration and will be re- k payable over a period of 40 * years at the Interest rate of 5 per cent. The loan is being secured through the IXiplin County Far mers Home Administratfon Of fice of which Rhone Sasser is County Supervisor. Homecoming fbmecomlng will be observed at Harper-Souther land Memo rial Presbyterian Church on Sunday. October 29. Rev. Jam?? W. Brown, Regular Pastor, wfil bring the message at 11 o'clock and a barbecue dinner will be served on the grounds with all the trimmings at noon. - We would like for all who will to come and fellowshlpSvith us on this special occasion. Most especially all of our oldwnem bers who have moved away and those that have not been able to attend regularly because of ill ness in their families. Come if you possibly can. Miss Warsaw Contestant Miss Mary Lou Potter, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pot ter of Warsaw, has entered the Miss Warsaw Pageant. She was a graduate of James Kenan High School, class of 1961, and at tended Mount Olive College for three years. She received her degree In associate science and a certificate In business. Miss Potter is five feet, 9 inches tall and weighs one hun dred twenty-five pounds. She was a marsnal her Junior year, a member of the Beta Club for two years, Music club for three years, French Club for two years, Monogram Club for three years and a cheer leader for three years. Her hobbies are knitting, playing guitar, accordtan and the organ. She also enjoys swimming and cooking. She is a member of the First Baptist Church where she attained Queen Regent in G-A. She Is employed at General Motors Acceptance Corporation In Kins ton. JUDGES Judges for the Pageant are CouttMM-d to P?ce 8 i. '?> .. J?l-i .
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