Tuscarora Council Celebrates 50th Anniversary This Year
The Tuscarora Council takes
in four counties in die heart
of the Tobacco Belt They ire
Wayne. Sampson. Duplin ami
Johnston County. ?
P On June Sth through the 10th.
1973. the Tuscarora Council wi
ll celebrate Us 50th Anniversary
as the New Tuscarora Scout
Reservation., located near Ban
tonViUe, N.C. Bentonvllle is
ths sits of the last major bat
tle of the Civil War.
The New Tuscarora Scot*
! Reservation takes in 903 ac
res of beautiful rolling land
scape that was part of the
battle ground of the Buttle of
rt~ Hi- * ??.. 1
oentonviue
E. Demmifig Smith, manager
of the Carolina Wells Plant
of General Electric, Is tha di
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rector of die 50th anniversary
Program, assisted by Ray Gal
loway, an Insurance executive
with O*Berry and Lewis Ins.
Several major programs will
be carried on during the week
long celebration at the Reser
vation.
Silver Beaver Reunion-Bill
Kemp, Sr. one of the early
presidents of the Council along
with Bruce Boyers, Scout Exe
cutive Emeritus, will head this
program that will be conducted
on June 5th. The Silver Bea
ver is the highest honor thai
can be bestowed on a Scouter
on a Council level. There
are approximately 50 living Sil
ver Beavers in our Council.
Veterans Sc outer Reunion
will be conducted on June 6th
at the Scout Reservation and d
oes not have a chairman as yet.
This reunion will be staged to
honor the early founders and
leaders of the program here In
the Tuscarora Council. All
Scouters are invited to attend.
An estimated 1300 will parti
cipate in this reunion
Eagle Reunion-June 7th-This
program ip headed up by Dr.
Ashton Griffin, a three genera
tion EagR of the Council. Ap
proximately 500 Eagles will be
Involved in this reunion at the
new Reservation.
Order of the Arrow Reunion
Approximately 1500 Order of the
Arrow members will be invited
for a reunion at the new Re
servation. The Order of the
Arrow Is a honor society com
posed of a selected group of
young men
On Friday night there will
be an Order of the Arrow dance !
festival with invited dance teams 5
from Order of the ArrowLodg- ;
es all over the State. This j
program will be headed up by
17 year old Chief Burke Raper
of Mt. Olive and Lodge Advi
sor Rod Dew from Beulavllle.
ALL Boy Scouts will move
out onto the Reservation on
Thursday, June 7th and will
remain there through the dedi
cation on June 10th TMf will
be approximately 2000 Boy Sc
outs. Saturday evening, June
9th.. the Webelos Scouts made
up of Cub age boys preparing
to go into a Scout Troop will
also spend the night on the
new Reservation. TheCamporee
Chief will be Bill Faust of
Warsaw.
Saturday. June 9th, there will
bi a Scout-O-Rama (Exposition)
staged by the Cubs, Scouts, and
Explorers to demonstrate skills,
crafts, and showmanship. Ap
proximately 200 booths will be
expected in the exposition. Th
is will be under the direction
of Dr. Arthur Cliesson.
Saturday evening, June 9th,
there will be a big arena show
featuring the pld Guard from
Washington, D.C. who will be
bringing along their Fife and
Drum Corp and Orjll Team.
Othpr personalities from stage
and screen are expected tone
present atepg with various Sc
out participants. V : ^
Sunday morning. June 10th,
therea*rill be aareat religious
nf.UIMliTl jZ. I ?
|he&jAlr Force Singing groups
general public wjJU be
inyitdd to participate in this
acrnA. This program will
be ufflfar the direct Lou of Rev.
Barney-Davidson. Chairman.
Sunda'/.afternoon. June 10th,
at 3:00 o'clock, the formal de
dication and celebration speech
wili be given along with me
morials for those who have made
the Reservation possible. This
will be under the direction of
Council President Bob Hill.
Norwood Vann of Wallace and
Nare Reynolds of Goldsboro will
head up the feeding and eon
cession. Ed Webb will head
up Public Relations. DtckMan-v
ley will head up parking, trans
portation, and protection. Gene
Price will head up the Historial
Brochure, A1 Paddison - Com
meration, and Roger Searles -
Music.
The Board of Directors of
Branch Banking and Trust Co.,
meeting in Wilson on January 9
elected Charles Curtlss Cates
and E.C. Thompson III to the
Warsaw City Board.
Cates is president of Addis
Cates Co.. Inc.. of Prison. He
is a graduate of Fabon Hflhf '
/? |fchooi and Davidson Colleg*'
Cates Is a member of (be Bo
ard of Directors sf the hfbrth
Carolina Pickle Produpcer^ g|
socUtion, Advisory Board of
,American Savings it Loan's M
ount Olive Office, (he Faison
Lions Ciub and past president
of the Faison Jaycees. Cates
Iis chairman of the Board of
Deacons, Elder and Sunday Sc
hool Superintendent of the Fai
son Presbyterian Church. He
served as a First Lieutenant
in the UA Army for twoyears.
Mrs Cates Is the*j^nner
Peggy Br ice of Chester, S.C.
They have three children.
Thompson is an attorney in
Warsaw. He Is a graduate of
Warsaw High School, She Uni
versity of North Carolina and
Wake Forest University Law
School' Thompson is a mem
ber of the North Carolina Bar
Association, North Carolina Tr
ial Lawyers Association, and j
American T rial Lawyers Asso- -
ciation. He is currently serv
ing as vice president of the
Duplin County Bar Association,
and he has served as secretary
treasurer of the Fourth Judicial
District Bar Association. Thom
pson has served as Town At
torney for Warsaw since 1967
and Town Attorney for Faison
since 1970. He is secretary
treasurer of the Warsaw De-J
velopraent Corp.. a member
of the Board of Directors of
the Warsaw Chamber of Com
merce and past vice president
of the Warsaw Jaycees. He
served three years with the
Marine Corps as a First Lt.,
and later attained rank of C
apuln in the Reserve.
Mrs. Thompson is the for
mer Mary Sue Kennedy of N
ewton Grove. They Thompsons
have one young son. v.
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TST t snn*!y
inc second in a series or
eleven colloquiums will be htfkl
oil the James Sprunt Campus
on January 17.1973 at TtODplm.
in room 203 of the Herring
building. These colloquiums ?I
the theme Traditions in Tran
Eare made possible by a
to the institute from the
Carolina Committee for
Continuing Education in the Hu
manities. Speaker at this week's
meeting will be Professor Wal
ser Allen of the History and
Religion Departments of UNC-W.
Mr. Allen's topic is "Social
and Intellectual History of the
South".
All adult citizens of the coun
ty are invited to attend the col
loquiums. County teachers will
be given one hour's credit to
ward recertiffcation if they at
tend as many as six of the ele
ven sessions.
E.G. Thompson. Ill
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Appointed To Advisory Board
and General Manager of West
Auto Pans Co, Inc. of Warsaw,
Kenansvllle and BeulavUle, N.C.
He is serving as chairman of
1 the Warsaw Schorl Advisory
Committee. He is a member
and past president of Duplin
Country Club, and ? former
member cfttae Warsaw Javcees.
1 He is married to the former
J Laura West. They have three
boys, Michael, Russell and fc
wrt.
^ Booth. ls^owner and manager
in the promotion of thrift and;
home ownership in the Duplin,
County area.
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Warsaw-Douglas
P.T.A. To Moot
The Warsaw-Douglas P.T.A.
will meet on Tuesday night,
Jan. 30th, at 7:80 p.m.
Superintendent Charles Yel
verton and members of the '
County Board of Education will
speak at the meeting on the
county budget and building pro
gram especially in the James |
Kenan school district. A ques
tion and answer period will |j
jj Correction
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KKCKIVES TROPHY - (L to H) teal Cahffl. Plant KW|K
ft National Spinning of Warsaw is shown accepting trophy torn
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?NOW &NXAHBD ,1B$F ? Uttt wteks snow caused many
people bardahipe la IKha &uaty. Saow was mponsible lor
the collapsing of the toot en this StxMO foot turkey bouse
located on Highway 34, east of Kanansvflle .The house belongs
to Tbnmy Wayne Stroud and had 7100 turkey* in it wbea the
roof fell in. Although the roof ruilfeed. only U tor*
keys were loot The turkeys were en contract by CarroUa MHk,
Inc. at Warsaw (PHOTO BY WINFORD HOWARD)
Teenage Boy Victim Of Accidental Pistol Shot
James Richard Grady. IS yr.
old East Duplin High School
freshman, died at 12:45 Friday
morning, some three hours af
ter he buffered an accidental
pistol would In his head.
According to information from
the Duplin County Sheriff's dep.,
Deput Rodney Thlgpen reported
tfcat the youth, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Monroe Grady
d Rt 1, Albertson died of a
22 catihre pistol wound. He
said the youth shot himself
accidentaley at his home while
allegedly playing with the wea
pon.
According to the Sheriff's
dep., in the presence of an
older brother and two friends,
Grady apparently "put the pis
tol to his head and pulled the
-trigger." The older brother
William Monroe Grady, Jr.,
Jtoid that he had asked his bro
ther to put the pistol away
before someone got hurt, just
prior to the fatal shot.
Mount Olive Rescue Service
were called to the seen?, abocf
9:30 p.m. Thursday. Rescue
men Ben Claude Southerland.
Wayne Brock, and Kenneth Ja
ckson aided the young man.
They applied a head bandage
and inserted an "airway" de
vice in Grady's mouth to faci
litate his breathing. En route
to Duplin General Hospital, the
rescuemen also used an as
pirator and administered oxy
gen.
The youth was transported
from the hospital at Kenansvi
lle to New Hanover Memorial
hospital in Wilmington, where
he died at approximately 12:43
a m The Duplin County Am
bulance service transported the
youth to Wilmington.
Grady was a freshman at
East Duplin High School where
he was known to his classmates
and friends as "J.R." Last
year he attended B.F. Grady
school, where he was a member
of the baseball team.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3 p.m Officiating
minister was the Rev. Henry
Jewette of Kenans ville. In
terment was in Oak Ridge M
emorial Park in Pink Hill.
Survivors besides his par
ents and brother are two sis
ters, Mrs. J. Forest Tyndall
of Kenansvllle and Mrs. Bus
ter Spence of Pink Hill.
Melting Snow Will Make
Trenching Work Hazardous
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it.
''Any :rinching job can be
made safe by following the cor'
rect sloping and shoring prac
tices," he added. "For years,
we have been distributing many
thousands of copies of Informa
tional bulletins on this subject
to contractors aid other people
in the construction industry.
Yet workmen continue to be
killed needlessly in trench cave
ins because someone has taken
a chance and neglected to fol
low the sound, proven, and re
adily available Information on
safe trenching practices."
Commissioner Creel urged
313-829-4880. Vdiiress: P.O.
Box 1151. RtMgh. N.C. 27602
r i RALEIGH -- Lis: week's he
j?vy snowfall in North Carolina
1 will make trenching and other
: excavation work unusually ha
eardous during the next sever
al! Weeks, State Labor Com
Snlssioeer Billy Creel warned
i "Melting snow and Ice will
make the ground soggy all over
the State and will greatly in*
crease the danger and proba
bility of cave-in* on all exca
vation projects,'* Commissioner
Creef pointed out. "For this
reason, both supervisors and
workmen on theie jobs should
Warsaw DSA Banquet To M
Be Held During Jaycee Week
Jaycee Week, the Annual An
niversary observance of the U.S
Jay sees, begins next Sunda]
in Warsaw, local Jaycee presi
dent Hars'd Rose announce*
today.
A highlight of the week';
events will be the presentatioi
banquet will be Or. Norman A.
1 Wiggins. President of Campbell
i College. Buie's Creek. N.C.
Dr. Wiggins holds degrees from
1 Campbell College, Wake Forest
College, Wake Forest School
s of Law. Columbia University
i School of Law and Gardner
Webb College. His profession
al experience include: Assis
tant and Associate Trust Of
ficer. The Planters National
Bank and Trust Company, Ro
cky Mount. N.C.. 1952-55; As
sistant, Associate, and Pro
fessor of Law, Wake Forest
University School of Law, 1956
67; and General Council of Wa
ke Forest University, 1984-67.
Soybean Production
Meetings
What Is the key to more pro
fitable soybean production? This
I and other questions, will be
answered at a series of two
meetings to be held January
33 and January 30 at the Agri
cultural Building in Kanansville
Specialist in management, weed
control, cultural practices will
conduct the discussions. Corn
production will also be dlscus
- sed. it is important that grew
g ers attend each meeting, as
- different material will be pre
i- seated. Each meeting wiU be
e gin at 7:30 p.m. $ :
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k. :y;r, i 2 HI1IC0 -
Or. Wiggins
of a Distinguished Service A|
ward to an outstanding your*
man who has mads an out
Standing contribution to the con
S. The DSA winner will b
at a banquet, Friday
Jan. 19th at the Country Squirt
jl - "woTbar tot
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