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Members cf Rescue Squads taking the first aid course taught
by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Seliars of Mount Olive are: James A. Po
well ?nd Cliff Guy of Magnolia, Herschel A. Fields of Mt. Olive
0 Allen Wood, Steve Williamson. Steve Summerlin, McRae Sharpe,
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Joe Qulnn, Paul Ingram, Larry Hoffman, Mike Hasty, Billy
Craft, Shannon Brown, Ronnie Bostic, Bobby Bostlc, Chief Lau
ren lharpe, Assist art chiefs, W. F. Stephens and Tyson Bostic;
Captains Willard Brinson, Hiram Brinson and Gene Nethercutt.
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, Mrs. Mary V. Bishop
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extra Mite Contest Winner
u Mrs. Mary W. Bishop of
Magnolia was winner of flight
of Branch Banking k Trust Co.
Extra Mile Contest.
This contest was sponsored
by the bank for a period of
six months, and the prize, a
weekend-for-two in historic
Williamsburg. Virginia, was
awarded to the employee secur
ing the greatest number of
of new accounts in the 'jiven
Period.
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Mrs. Bishop is mana-rer of
the Magr.oiia Office cf E3 4 T
havinj held that post lot .he
past six years Her banking
career however, started with
Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co.
ia Rose Rill, where she was
employed for more than seven
years. She also was employed
in the Magnolia Post OfficeJ^^
several years.
The former Mary Sue Wil
kins, Mrs. Bishop is a native
of Rt. 1 Magnolia and is mar
ried to Ralph Bishop. They live
in the historic Wilkins home
about five miles west of Mag
nolia and are active members
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Rotary Hears Christmas
Story
The Warsaw Rotary Club was
priviledged to hear an inspira
tional Christmas message by
the Rev. Lauren R. Sharpe,
Pastor of the Kenansville Bap
tist Church, at As December 21
meeting. Mr. Sharpe's remarks
were concluded with the fol
lowing item entitled "A Chris
mas Biography."
THIS STORY OF JESUS was
taken from a speech made by
the author whose address is
Chetwynd Drive, Rosemont,
Pennsylvania. It seems appro
priate for the first page of our
special Christmas issue.
CHRISTMAS BIOGRAPHY
Wm. J. McCormick
He was Born in an animal
shelter?a stable, midst the
dumb creatures of His Own
creation, in an obscure village,
the Child of a young simple
peasant Jewish maid?the spou
se of a carpenter. His relations
were inconspicuous, uninfluen
tial and had neither training
nor education. He grew up in
another village where He work
ed in a carpenter shop until
He was thirty; then for three
years He was an itinerant
preacher, but in truth The Mes
siah, teaching the gospel of
love. He never visited a big
city nor travelled two hundred
miles from the place of His
birth. He never held an office.
In infancy He started a King;
in childhood He puzzled the
learned doctors; in manhood
He ruled the course of nature
by walking upon the waves as
if pavements and hushed the
sea to sleep. He, Himself, had
neither wealth or influence,
but possessed dauntless cour
age, which faltered only once,
in the Garden of Gethsemane,
and then for only a moment
when He cried "Abba, Father,
all things are possible to You.
Remove this cup from Me; yet
not what I will, but what You
will." His only weakness was
human sympathy and, if He
ever faltered; again, it was 01
.the side of mercy and pity. He
never had a family or owned a
house. He didn't go to college
but all the Ichools put together
cannot boast of having as many
students. He never wrote a
book, and yet all the libraries
of the country could not hold
the books that have been writ
ten about Him. He never wrote
a song and yet He has furnish
ed the theme for more songs
than all the song-writers com
bined. He never practiced
medicine but He went around
healing the multitudes without
medicine and making no charge
for His services, and He has
healed more broken hearts
than all the doctors that ever
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BRIEF
OFFICE CLOSED
The Duplin ASCS County Of
fici> wiH be closed .Monday,
January 1. lt?W in observance
of New Year's Day.
Drive
Carefully
A New Year's resolution to'
make yourself a better driver
in 1968 will lessen your chance
of crashing irfto one of the
thousand - old traffic accidentB
which the N. C. State Motor
Club warns may take up to 27
lives on North Carolina's
streets and highways during
the long holiday weekend.
The state will officially count'
its New Year's traffic toll from
6 p. m. Friday, Dec. 29. thro- .
ugh midnight Monday. Jan. 1,
a 78-hour period. In the same
1966-67 period, a record-break
ing 29 nmra? were killed and
595%ijnred in 1.029 accidents.
Leading driver violations were:
speeding. 245: failure to yield
right of way. 136: and driving
^left of center. 125.
"Let's start the New Year cff
right and hold traffic fatalities
to a bare minimum on this
first holiday weekend of 1968."
Thomas B. Watkins. persident
of the motor club, urged. "It
may prove the best year, of
your life, so don't risk losing
it by driving carelessly on the
highways."
Babson s Business And Financial
Forecast For 1968
The coming year threatens to
be one of varied and recurring
crises. Virtually no area of hu
man activity will be snared...
social, economic, political, or
International. After years of
progress and prosperity, the
American people will be faced
In 1968 with many decisions
that will prove difficult to make
and even toughter to carry out.
Don't expect the final solu
tion to 1968's many problems
to be worked out during the year
ahead. But the manner in wnich
our nation tackles Its predica
ment will determine whether the
U. S. will be able to strenghen
its position as world leader.,
or be toppled during succeed
ing years and reduced to an
interior standing.
To be without hope is to sin.
And we do have hope that our
citizens and their government
will rise to defeat tne many an
tagonists - Inflation, social cor
ruption, greed, crime,fear, and
despair - that are pressing upon
us as a new year begins. It
is said that the Oriental con
cept of crisis Is opportunity.
In that sense, we predict with
out reservation that 1968 will
hold opportunities unlimited for
our country.
1. Now that the pound has been
devalued, perhaps our greatest
opportunity for the year ahead
Is to prepare a strong defense
for the dollar. We forecast that
after some early fumbling both
the Congress and the Federal
Reserve will move with deter
m in at Ion to protect our dollar.
2. The effects of the battle
to save the dollar promlsetobe
unpleasant. After an early-year
surge to new highs for dollar
values and production, business
will find the going rougher as
the months unfold. Scarcer and
more costly money will take its
toll of growth.
3. Major stimulation to the
economy in the early part of
1968 will come from ascramble
by auto and allied lines to make
up for production lost in 1967,
combined with a stockpiling of
steel and aluminum in antici
pation of strikes later next year
in these activities.
4. Some additional escalation
of the Viet war will occur next
year. But we have already ex
perienced the major Impaict on
business of the massive buildup
in arms outlays; whatever addi
tional procurement comes will
not be a determining factor on
the course of 1968's business.
5. President Johnson is torn
between a desire to "pour it on"
In Vietnam and bring home vic
tory before voting time next au
tumn and his sincere wish to go
down in history as a peace
maker. If recent and prospec
tive tightening of the military
vise on North Vietnam falls
to bring results by late spring.,
look for spectacular moves to
ward negotiations. Under these
circumstances we feel the chan
ces are 60-40 that 1968 will
mark the phase-out of our mili
tary operations in Vietnam.
6. Bit the most decisive con
flict next year will not be fought
on the battlefields of South
east Asia. It will be here at home
against the one enemy that has
the power to destroy the U.S....
INFLATION.
7. Contrary to the old adage
that Congressmen won't commit
political suclde by voting a tax
hike in an election year, we do
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Mrs. Lee-Chief Whitaker
DirectorsOf March Of Dimes
airs. 10m (HopDie) Lee and
Earl W. Whitaker of Wallace
have been appointed Directors
for the Duplin County 1968
March of Dimes Campaign, it
was announced today hy Clar
ence W. Walker, volunteer
State Chairman.
"It's time we stop telling
ourseives mat Dirth defects
strike only at 'other people'
and ' other people's children',
Mrs. Lee said. "A birth defect
can hit any family, rich or
poor, any race, any national
ity.
"Birth defects are this na
tion's second greatest destroy
. er of life, claiming approxima
(ely half a million unborn ba
bies each year and killing 60,
000 of our children and ad
ults," Mr. Whitaker declared.
"More than 250,000 American
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Killed Bv New Gun
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Douglas Pricpi VLM R? 1,
Mount Olive, was fatally injured
Thursday when his hunting com
panion's new shotgun discharged
accidentally and struck Price in
the chest.
Duplin Deputy E. E. Proctor
said the accident occurred at the
home of Adrian Bell of Rt. 1,
Mount Olive. Bell, who had just
acquired the $150 shotgun, had
| to be given sedatives^ Proctor
said.
According to Proctor, the boys
were in Bell's yard preparing to
free df s to hunt rabbits. A
next-door neighbor drove home
and Price suggested Bell fire
qne shot to attract his attention.
"They wanted the neighbor to
go hunting with them," Proctor
said. "Bell said he pulled the
gun from his shoulder and it
discharged. He said he didn't
Vnoiv if the safety was on or
not."
Proctor said he and Coroner
iHerbert Best ruled the shooting
accidental.
Pink Hill Man Dies
HORACE G. TYNDALL
KINSTON ? Funeral services
for Horace Greeley Tyndall, 73,
of Pink Hill, who died Sunday,
were conducted at 3 p. m.
Tuesday in the Pink- HHt"*
Methodist Church of which he
was a .member by the Rev. 4- L.
Hood. Burial was in the
Tyndall family cemetery with
full Masonic ritesPsurviving are
his wife. Mrs. Ruby Evans Tyn
dall; one daughter, Mrs. Julian
Hanson of Hackensack, N. J.;
three brothers, Joseph F. of
Knoxville, Tenn., and Jaspar D.
and Alton C. Tyndall, both of
Pink Hill; four sisters, Mrs.
una lynaaii, Mrs. a r n 1 e
Kornegav, and Mrs. Earl D.
Smith, all of Pink Hill, and Mrs.
Alvin Kornegay of Albertson. He
was a Mason and a retired
merchant. |
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New Years Eve
WatcJmight Service
A New Year's Eve Watch
night service will be held on
December 31. at 9 p.m. at the
Beulaville Free Will Baptist
Church, sponsored by the Youth
Fellowship.
Rev. Eugene Summer will be
the guest speaker.
A film will be shown en
titled. "? Seven", from behind
the Berlin Wall, stimulating
drama of courage against un
beatable odds, upon its ans
wer hangs a boys future.
Refreshments will be served.
Calypso Men Shot In Fracas
Two Calypso men were
brought to Wayne Memorial
Hospital by the Mount Olive
Rescue Squad last night after
being shot with a 12 gauge
shotgun during a lracas in
Calypso.
Roosevelt Usher, 30, also ?l
[ Calypso, was arrested and plan
ed in the Duplin County jail 011
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Mr. O. P. Johnson, Superintendent of Duplin County Schools,
seated at his desk in the O. P. Johnson Education Building at
Open House Wednesday afternoon, December 20. Members of
the Duplin County Board of Education present for the occasion
wer^ . iu r: D. D. Blanchard, Chairman of the Board, Wallace;
Emmett Rogers, Route 2, Pink Hll; and Dr. E. L. Boyette of
Chinquapin. Absent when the picture was made was Russell
Brock of Route 2, Mount Olive. (Photo by Ruth Wells).
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Freak Accident Desruots Electrical Powerl 1
A transfer truck, apparency,
towering higher in the elements
than the driver calculated, rip
ped utility wires from a pole
in Kenansville causing a neon
time blackout in three towns.
The truck, property of Mc- I
Lean Trucking Company was
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