VOL XXJOV NO. ** KEKWSVnXE.N.C.?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^paaaaaT? Trial . ?%. V " 5 Delmar M Buick-Olds Dealer Duplin County's only Buick - Olds mobile dealers nip has opened In Wallace. Mr. Delmar Mlnchew, one erf the Wallace Community's most promising young leaders. Is owner of the new agency lo cated on East Main Street. He is a graduate of General Motors Institute, Flint, Michi gan and was also graudated From Wallace-Rose Hill High School and attended East Caro lina University In Greenville. Mr. Mlnchew has been asso ciated with an automobile agen cy for the past several years. He has competent staff of sales, service, and office personnel to serve the customers. The staff, In addition to Mr. Mlnchew Includes: Miss Jean Knowles, secretary; Lee Shef field. sales manager; Doug Short and Horace Rivenbark, new and used car salesmen. Terry Brown Is service ma nager: Buddy Brock body shop; Clifton Harrison, recondition ing; Ralph Pickett, Parts Mana ger, Jarvis Turner, Mack La nier, Marvin Usher and Junior A cordial Invitation is ex tended try Mr. Mlnchew "to come by and see our 1968 models. We have an excellent line of models to choose from, and will be happy tohave every one come by and look them over." A civic minded leader, Mr. Minchew is active in the Jay cees. other community pro jects, and the Wallace Metho dist Church. He is married to the former Jane Albrltton of Calypso and they have one son, Todd, three years old. !!_T~- .1 j^jwiuiiuaiwtwuuemerriacritne Service Men Remembered By Rose Hill Jaycees Rose Hill Jsycees make sure-th at'their packages to the boys In Vietnam arrive on time as they have them ready for mailing. Seeing the first fifty packages off are: J. W. Kelly, Zelbert Boyd, Jimmy Robinson, Bob Carr , President Dewltt Miller. Coleman McLaurin. Jim Gill, Ben Fussell. and Postmaster Ray Sanderson. (Photo by Ruth Wells). - L. 1 Farm Machinery Inflicts Critical Injury A Deep Run man was criti cally injured by a corn picker near his home on the Currin Howard Farm Saturday noon. A spokesman for the family said that Edwood Thiepen, 32, slipped into a corn picker as he attempted to clean the machine Rose Hill Jaycees prepared to mail Christmasgift packages to men from the Rose Hill area who are serving In the armed forces for Christmas. Forty four of the fifty packages pre pared are being sent directly to men serving In Vietnam, Thai land, Laos, and South Korea. Each package contains the following items: 2 lbs. homemade cookies, 1 pr. heavy black wool socks, 1 can foot powder, 1 plastic bottle of shaving lotion, 1 pr. foam rubber In sole boot lin ers, 2 handkerchiefs, 1 pr. 72" black bootlaces. 1 pr. fingernail clippers, 1 hand brush, 1 washcloth, 1 ball point pen, 1 box of "Q-TIps", 1 lb. of hard candy, 1 copy of the Wallace Enterprise newspaper, 1 copy of the Duplin Times Newspaper, 6 packages of "Kool-Ald" (used for flavor ing water treated with purifi cation tablets. The above items were pack aged In special boxes manufac tured and donated by Anderson Box Company in Rose Hill, N. C. Each package weighs ap proximately five pounds. The money for the merchan dise was raised by the Rose HU1 Jaycees at aspeclal chicken supper held at Rose Hill Ele mentary School In September. 1967. Much of the merchandise 1 ^ ii was in operation. His whole right side was involved. A nephew of Mrs. Thlgpen's just happened by and turned the machine off. Nearby rescue squads ans wered the call and worked one hour and fifty minutes before Mr. Thippen was freed from the machine. Conscious during the entire time, he assisted rescue efforts, using his left arm., He was carried to Lenoir Memorial Hospital by the Deep Run Rescue Squad where he was given multiple blood trans fusions and after treatment was sent to N. C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. 1 5th Grader Injured A fifth grade student at Ke nans vllle Elementary School was painfully Injured In a hunt ing accident Friday afternoon. Gary Wallace, 12-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Wallace of Route 1, Kenans vllle was hit In the arm with a 22 rifle bullet from his gun as he was hunting with his father. Unconfirmed reports s aid that young Wallace and his fa ther were standing on a log when the boy's rifle acciden tally discharged. The bullet Vat's Day Danes Featured at Vet's Day Dance at the Armory In Warsaw will be Dan Dionis andtheNoteables from Kinston. This renown mu slclan played with the Glenn Miller orchestra during World War II. The dance will begin at 9 p.m. Saturday, November 11, In the National Guard Ar mory in Warsaw. Duplin Men Charged In Nash With Telephone Larceny Three Duplin County men were tried In Recorder's Court In Rocky Mount Tuesday and were placed under 110,000 bond, each for appearance In Nash County Superior Court next week. Robert Otis (Bobby) Stroud, 41, white male of AlDertson In Duplin County was charged with breaking, entering, and lar ceny. resulting in damages ex ceeding the amount of 1200. Billy Wayne Stroud, 18 years old, son of Bobby Stroud, and ? Linden Hussey, both Albertson natives were arrested In North Wilkesboro on similar charges. Hussey was already on proba tion for breaking In Wilkes County. Bobby Stroud's car was Iden tified by his license plate and he was Identified as driver of the car leaving a public tele phone In Rocky Mount at 4 a.m. last Wednesday morning. The money box from the tele phone haa been pryed off and was missing from the public facility. Young Stroud and Hus sey were also Identified. These arrests were the out come of a selge of larcenies, of coin opeated telephone In an area Including Rocky Mount, Aurora, Jacksonville, New Bern Ellzabethtown and F avettevllle. Two phones in Rose Hill and two In Beulavllle have been robbed. Sixty eight coin boxes were stolen from the telephones In a period from September 11, through October 14. 12,746.85 In cash was stolen from the boxes and damage to the In struments was set at S13.600. Sheriff Elwood Revelle said that Bobby Stroud gave his of fice permission to search his car. Deputies found a home made device of steel that clam ped over the coin box and with pressure exerted on a pipe used as a lever, the boxes were "snapped" off In Just seconds. Bobby Stroud, his son Billy, arid Linden Hussey are under Indictment in Duplin County for possession of burglary tools. Farm Bureau Elects Directors The annual meeting of the Duplin County F arm Bureau was held in the conference room of their office building Tuesday niojg October 24, 1967 at 8 p.m. Resident David J. Kllpatrick presided and spoWfe briefly on the bureau's participation far the year.-The invocation was given by rfcency Manager Ro ert L. Worthlngton. Delegates to the state con vention to be held in Durham were elected as follows: O. R. Blizzard, C. F. Blan chard, Mrs. C. F. Bfanchard, Jr., George Dickson, L*wls Outlaw, David J. Kilpatrlckaiw Donald K. Outlaw. Delegates at large are: Mrs. Ruby Grady, Mrs. ffess Davis, Sr., Carl Powell, Orlan James, Sam Wal ler, Jack Patterson and Em mett Rogers. "Hie Board of Directors elec ted for the coming year are: David J. Kllpatrick. Kenans ville, Presidenti George Dick son, Rose Hill, vice president; Donald K. Outlaw, Albertson Township, Seven Springs; Or lan James, Cypress Creek, Wallace, Route 2; John N. Kal mer, Faison, Falson Rt. 2; Cecil Kornegay, Glisson, Mt. Olive, Rt. 2, C. Frank Blan Contlnned to page I National Spinning To Expand Allle B. Bell, General Mana ger of the Warsaw Plant of Na tional Spinning Company, has announced an expansion of the plant with construction starting in early 1968 and completion In the spring of 1968. The local plant produces tex tured and textrallzed yarn for the hosiery, - men, women and children, outerwear trade. ThL expansion Is being made, ac cording to Mr. Bell, due to In creased market demand for this type product and the excellent 'labor and communiyrelations .. '. ii i : in the Ouplin County area. Mr. Joseph Leff of New York is president of National Spinning Company. Barbecue Supper The Women's Society of Ch ristian Service of Betnel Me thodist Church is sponsoring a barbecue pork and chicken sup per at Oak Ridge Community Building Saturday night, No vember 4, 1997. Plates $1.00. Supper beginning at 5:00 o'clock until Tj30 o'clock. A Woman r ittdH k ?? ?? i i.,? ALEX HOUSTON Alex Houston Killed In Vietnam v 1 Funeral services for Army Corporal Alex R. Houston, age 21. who was killed In Viet nam last Wednesday, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 1, at Sandy Plain Free Will Bap tist Church. Rev. C. B.Hansley, pastor, conducted the services. Burial followed with full mili tary honors at Oak Ridge Ceme tery near Pink Hill. He Is survived by his wife, the former Kathy Patrick of Chinquapin; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe O. Houston of Route 2, Pink Hill; six sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Sumner, Mrs. E. G. Futrell, Mrs. Maurice Sumner, and Mrs. A. V. Jones, all of Rpute 2. Pink Hill. Miss Hope Houston of Mount Olive College and Miss Donnle Houston of tne home; two brothers, Tom Houston of Route 2, PlnkHUl and Cecil Houston of the home^. Corporal Houston was as signed to the 25th Infantry Di vision In Vietnam on August 24. 1967. A rifleman assigned to Com pany A, 2nd Battalion In the division's 12th Infantry near Dai Tleng, Corporal Fbuston entered the army in February, 1967 and completed us basic I training a Fort Br?gg, N. C. 1a He was previously stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington. Corporal Houston was a 1964 graduate of East Duplin High School at Beulavtlle, N. C. Miss Warsaw Contestant Miss Donna Sue Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Edwards of Warsaw, has Joined . the eight other contestants for I the Miss Warsaw Pageant. The pageant Is to be held on Novem ber 10 In Kenan Memorial Audi torium at 8 p.m. Miss Edwards Is a 196S gra duate of James Kenan High School where she was a Ma jorette for four years, one vear of which she was Chief Majo rette. She had studied piano for ten years, band for six years and voice for six years. She has also studied dancing for two years. She was selected by the fa culty as one of the most out Standing students In her senior year. Miss Edwards was on the annual staff and a member of |4 A!