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Founders Award From Heart'
Asso. Presented To Three
Mrs. Sammie Carter, of Wal
lace, Mrs. Hattie Dobbins of
Teachey, and Mrs. T. A. Jer
nigan of Mount Olive were se
lected from over 100,000 Heart
Fund volunteers to receive an
award for outstanding service
at the North Carolina Heart
Association's 19th Annual Meet
ing held in Winston-Salem at
the Robert E. Lee Hotel on May
29th and 30th.
The awards were presented
at the Awards Breakfast of the
Association held annually in
honor of Founders Award reci
pients. The wife of the Chair
man-Elect of the Board of Di
rectors of the North Carolina
Heart Association, Mrs. Fred
W. Klein, presided at the
Breakfast and presented the
Awards.
Mrs. Sammie Carter has ser
ved as City Chairman for the
city of Wallace for the past two
years and each year she, to
gether with her key workers,
was responsible for oreanizin?
and presenting two of the lar
gest and most entertaining
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1SI Mm. Thomas Hall ReceWes
National Scholarship J
Thomas Hall, Dean of In
struction at James Sprunt In
stitute, has received a scholar
ship to attend the National Cor
rections Seminar at Rutgers
State University in New Bruns
wick, New Jersey, for two
weeks beginning June 16, 1968.
Mr. Hall, recipient of the only
award given in North Carolina
and of thirty in the nation, will
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Annual Red
Cross Meat
The Annual Red Cross meet
ing will be held on Thursday
afternoon, June 20, 1968 at 4
o'clock In the afternoon In the
Conference Room of the Duplin
County Education Building at
Kenansville, N. C.
All officers and committee
chairmen are urged to be pre
sent also the F. A. and H. N.
Instructors.
Come and bring some one
with you..
Duplin Lists Fourth
Traffic Fatalitv
A Warsaw man walked into
the path of a car Sunday after
noon and became Duplin Coun
ty's fourth traffic fatality of the
year.
The accident occured about
S:1S p. m. June 9, when Elijah
Thomas Dewitt, 63, negro male
of Rt 1, Warsaw after stopp
ing on the left side of North
Carolina highway 117 to allow
a south bound vehicle to pass,
walked into the path of a north
bound car. ^
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He was admitted to Duplin
General Hospital where he died
three hours later, at 8:15 as a
result oI brain injuries.
State trooper E. R. Kirby,
who investigated the accident,
said that Thomas A. Johnson,
47, white male of 1612 Ren
mark, Rd., Richmond, Virginia
skidded his 1965 Chevrolet a
bout 30 feet in ah effort to a
void hitting Dewitt.
Trooper Kirby listed John
son's speed prior to the acci
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ireiu ai ? miies per nour. fost
ted limit was 60 miles per hour.
The south bound vehicle,
which Dewitt waited to pass,
was operated by State Senator
John J. Btirney, Jr. of Wil
mington.
Listoa Summerlin of Rt. 2,
Warsaw was also a witness to
the accident in a car immed
ately behind the car driven by
Mr. Johnson.
No violation was indicated.
Methodist Ministers Assigned
'^iStomual Method iefr~* Con- -
ference held last week at the "
Methodist College in Fayette
vflle assigned the following
ministers to this area:
Renansville - Woodland, W.
T. Clark; Sarecta, K. R. Min
ton; Turkey, V. N. Moore;
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? Warsaw,-CE. Owens: Faison,
J. M. Roberts; Pink Hill, B. R.
McCuIlen; Magnolia, Raymond
W. Hall, Sr.; Rose Hill, C. E.
Sparks; Walace, F. R. Ran
doph; Bethel - Rones, J. W.
Hicks, and Mount Olive, J. G.
White, Jr.
*? MBS PATRICIA HOPKINS WHO WILL REPRESENT WAR
SAW IN CHARLOTTE AT THE MISS NORTH CAROLINA CON
TEST - This is the week Miss Pat Hopkins, plus 85 other young
ladies, is in Charlotte competing for the title of Miss North Caro
lina. Miss Hopkins left this past week end for the week long
competition which will culminate Saturday night when the new
Miss North Carolina will be crowned. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Bill Fesperman of Fahon, official chaperone. Miss War
saw will spend the week at receptions, talent reversals, swim
~ 'Birth of the Bhies' . On Saturday evening, 10 semi finalists will
be aelened out of which the new Miss North Carolina will be
chosen. In the picture above. Miss Hopkins is shown at the Vete
ran's Day celebration when she was crowned Miss Warsaw in
Nbrgafenr of 1*7. Good Luck to yo?||biss Warsaw!
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A fir* re-occuring within aix hours reduced this brick house to way 24 near James Kenan High School was owned by A. C. Lock
* ? rubble ??* Saturday morning Tht gilding located on high- amy and Occupied by Mrs. Louise Merritt Pope.
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ed by A. C. Lockamy * Rt l,
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cupants
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Mr. Lock a my. Justice of the
Pewe of Warsaw, said he^was
station soon after midnight
Saturday morniim June t.
^*s Pope had gone to the
amy said that he issued a war
rant charging Pope with as
sault with ideadly weapon with
intent to kill.
While wilting (or an officer
to get die warrant and serve it
on Pope, a call came to the
The Warsaw Fire Depart
ment logm a call at 2:00 a.
m. Saturday June ? to the Pope
.a Vannncuille
Highway. The fire was restrict
ed to the interior ot the build
ing and was soon extinguished
with the walls and roof of the
building still standing.
An officer at the scene of the
fire arrested Pope on the char
ges brought by Mrs. Pope and
carried him to Warsaw Jail. He
was released by bondsman Sat
urday night, and incidentally
was picked up on a public
Yelverton New Superintendent
Of Duplin County Schools
Charles H. Yelverton has
been selected as the new sup
erintendent of Duplin County
Schools at recent meeting of
the Duplin County Board of
Education.
Yelverton will take office on
July 1, 1968 and he plans to
move to Duplin County as soon
as possible.
The present superintendent,
0. P. Johnson, is retiring as of
June 30. He has served as sup
erintendent of schools for the
past 31 years. Yelverton stated
that he feels most fortunate to
have been selected for this job
but feels that he has some big
shoes to fill. However he is
lookino; forward to the chal
lenge. he said.
0 P. Johnson stated that he
feels that the Board of Educa
tion has made a wonderful se
lection and that Duplin County
will have good schools.
Yelverton comes to Duplin
from Southern Wayne High
School in Wayne County, a sch
ool which he opened in 1967. He
also opened Orange Senior High
School in Orange County. Both
consolidated schools were ac
credited by the N. C. Depart
ment of Public Instruction and
Southern Association of Col
leges and Schools.
He is married to the former
Barbara Barnes of Four Oaks
and they have two children,
Paul Glenn, age 7 and Pamela
Dail, age 5.
Mr. Yelverton has served in
the United States Army from
1934-56, being stationed in Eu
rope the major part of his mil
itary service. He was born in
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:
CHARLES H.YELVERTON
Wreck Hospitalizes Two
State -Trooper S. T. Joyner
of Warsaw investigated a
wreck Thursday morning at
8:20 a. m. two miles south of
Wallace. Two persons were
hospitalized.
According to Trooper Joyner,
Mr. William T. Bianchard, 49,
white male of Rose Hill, driv
ing a 1965 Pontiac, passed a
stop sign on rural paved road
1162, also known as the Bay
Road.
In turning left on highway
117, he collided with a 1960
Buick operated by Mrs. Dolly
Rouse Hanchey, 73, of Rt. 2,
Wallace. The brakes on the
Pontiac failed.
Mr. Blanchard received sev
ere lacerations of the head and
face. Mrs. Hanchey received
fractured ribs and lacerations
of the right arm. Both were
admitted to Duplin General
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Selected For
Camp Staff
Ray Johnson has been select
ed by Chief Scout Executive,
Dick Auger and Camp Direc
tor of Camp Tuscarora, Larry
Wheeler to serve on the Sum
mer Camp Staff and a special
Pilgrimage Staff to the Trek to
Bath. The son of Mrs. Dorothy
Johnson, he is an Eagle Scout
and a member of Post 20 of
Warsaw. Ray reported for his
duties June 8th.
Faison
School
Robbed
Deputy Sheriff E. E. Procter
said investigation was continu
ing into the Wednesday night
break-in at P. W. Moore Ele
mentary School in Faison
where more than $2,000. worth
of equipment was stolen.
A flat object was inserted in
the side door and used to pry
the lock which easily opened
the door for admission into the
building. The vandals then en
tered the principals office by
breaking out a glass door.
Items removed from the prin
cipals office included: lawn
mower, typewriter, calculator,
16 MM B & H Movie Projec
tor, adding machine, 6 record
players, 3 film strips, 1 tape
recorder and one reel.
Linesman
Injured
In Fall
A South Carolina man was
painfully injured Thursday
morning near Kenansville when
he fell from a utility pole.
Hilton Calcutt, 54 white male
of Sumter. South Carolina was
admitted to Duplin General
Hospital with a back injury.
Calcutt was employed as
foreman for Sumter Building
Company which was putting in
new poles for Tri-County Elec
tric on a secondary road num
ber 1516 just off highway 11
south of Wesley Chapel Metho
dist Church.
The auger, used to bore holes
for the utility poles, was re
ported to have "hung" and Mr.
Calcutt, climbed the pole to re
lease the auger. He was re
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Williams Waller
Reunion
The Williams-Waller Famiy
Reunion will be held Sunday,
June 16, at the B. F. Grady
School in Duplin County near
Pink Hill. This is an annual
gathering of the relatives of the
late Stephen Malachi and Nan
Williams Waller .The program
will begin at 11:00 in the school
auditorium with Curtis Tarle
ton. President this year, presid
ing, and Billy Kennedy in ch
arge of the program, followed
by a picnic dinner on the
grounds at 12:30.
In case of rain, dinner will
be served in the school cafeter
ia. Friends and relatives are in
vited to attend and bring a pic
nic basket. Ice and plates will
be provided for all.
Welfare Building Nears Completion
Twenty employees of the Du
plin County Welfare Depart
ment are eagerly anticipating
moving into their new office
building.
Located on Seminary Street,
one block west of the Court
House in Kenansville, the beau
tiful antique structure is sche
duled to be completed by Au
gust of this year.
Mrs. Millie Brown, acting di
rector of Welfare, says that she
and the entire staff are hoping
they will be able to move into
the new building in July.
The department has exper
ienced growing pains for many
years. In the present building
a 14x20 feet office provides
working space for six pecple.
The new building will pro
vide a private office for the di
rector, as well as private of
fices for the social workers
and home makers. It will also
contain a secretarial pool.
Low bidder for the project at
approximately $125,000. was
Godwin Building Company Inc.
Mrs. Brown said they have
participation by the state and
federal government for money
to apply on a rental basis and
this will probably provide as
much as half the initial cost
Duplin County Welfare building, beautiful in
Colonial splendor. Is rapidly approaching com
pletion. The building is scheduled to be turned
over to the county fur use In August.