1. '• .» • V rpri : INTERESTS OK THE PEC PLE OF WALLACE AND DUPlS? COUNTY - „ .1 ,, ,,JL ■'. -L-’i-l—..l-lii-!—.. . ' -*..1,.. =— ■>'" -L-iSOU!, — — TWELVE VAGES TODAY ' WALLACE, NORTH^CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936 TWELVE PAGES TODAY ' I ___._,__' •' T eawcational Hfet-up emphasizing the , wrongs oi the North Carolina public school system, Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintendent of a Public Instruction, spoke to ||22B school teachers Tuesday af f ternoon in the auditorium of the Kenansville high school at > the first county-wide teachers meeting held in Duplin County during the present school term. Erwin traced the progress of education in the State ..since 1914, showing that- no other State in the Union had advanc >1 (Please Turn to Page Ten) —-V • ; . . Reports Feature * Last P.T. A. Meet ' • . New Officers Elected For Neat] ( Year; Encyclopedias j Given School -V*.*4 132'*j3 mm itl 1 | 1 |i a r ri rent-xeacnerj irganized in 926 under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. J; S.'Blair, with Mrs. William Brice as the first pre^ sident and Miss Mary Lou Wil sjkins as secretary. The associa tion was recognized by the State Congress in 1934, 1935 and in .all probability will be recognized again this year. Ife “ * ’ Storage Building i Razed By Flames Education Group Inspecting Plants The Duplin County Board of Education and Count# Super-' intendent of Schools, O. P Tohnson, today are concluding & two-day inapecion trip of all Duplin schools with the view of making necessary repaira prior to their opening this fall. Spe cial, emphasis is being placed on the condition of the build ings, furniture and sajiitary fa cilities. WALLACE MART BEGINS SALE OF STRAWBERRIES • __ ’ ' ‘ | The honor of selling the first crate of strawberries on the Wallace market, the World’s Largest Strawberry Market, goes to D. P. South erland, Pender County man who sold a crate of Blake mores here Tuesday after noon for $6.00. Miss Virgin ia Powers, also of Pender County, followed suit Wed nesday aftetrnoon with a crate selling for the same price. The first Duplin man tot pick a crate of strawberries was J. B. Wells, Teachey, who shipped a full $?--quart crate of Blakemora# to a New York commissiftfi house Monday night. Wefiw has a five-acre patch of Blake mores, sheltered by woods, and expects to pick several crates this week. The Wallace markft will officially open Monday, April JEM* is stated. recent freeze set the market back several days and at a serious cost, as latest scporte, state that the Eastern Shore mar kets will open at about the same time as that of the lo cal mart. Autmobile Kills Faison Bicyclist While riding a bicycle on a highway near Faison Friday night, Frank King, colored, was fatally injured as he col lided with an automobile driv (Please Turn to Page Ten) MEMBERS AND OFFICERS PICKED BY BETA CLUB The Beta Club of Wallace high school met Saturday night at the home of Bettie Blanch ard. Three juniors were elect ed as new members and eight sophomores as pledges. New of ficers were elected as follows: Dorothy Farrior, president; Joe Boy Bland, vice-president; Vivian Horne,' secretary and treasurer; Billie Carter, chair hum of the program committee, and Loleta Kenan, reporter. A program on “Washington, (Please Turn to Page Three) »■; "i!"w i" ■ ■■ 11 ■ Zone Missionary Meeting Is Held The Duplin'County zone of the Woman’s Missionary Soci ety, Wilmington district, met in the Wallace Methodist Church Thursday with Mrs. W. F. Muis phy of Wallace, zone leader, presiding. Representatives from Six auxiliaries were present and reported the progress of wo men’s work in the Methodist church. Warsaw was selected as if meeting next fall, included Mrs. W. G.1 ident of the local Society, Mr*. Floyd Whiteville, district Mrs. Henfy J. Fai Harvey Boney, Rose. _ North Carolina Employment Service Representative Here To Help Strawberry Growers' For the purpose of taking requisitions from Duplin straw berry growers for pickers during the approaching strawberry season, officials of the North Carolina State Employment Ser vice have announced that a representative will be located in the Town Hall, Wallace, today and for sometime thereafter. The' Service is free to growers and is part of an effort tb give North ’ Carolina's unemployed the opportunity to get work during a' puruuu ui tue summer, at least. The Service will make every effort to be of assistance to ■both growers and workers dur ing the coming season, it was stated. Representatives of the Ser vice are now making a survey of the1 berry pickers available' at Wilson, Rocky Mount, Golds (Please Turn to Page Ten) HAILED IN COURT FOR TRADING PISTON RINGS In a magistrate’s court here Tuesday afternoon Archie Batts, young white man of near Wallace, was remanded to Re corder’s court on charges of stealing a set of piston rings from Hubert Brown, a mechan ic at the garage of Robert Cav enaugh, near here, and subse quently selling them to Hubert Wells, service station operator of Tin City. - Batts pled guilty to the char ges, £ut was unable to make the $150 bond and was confined in jail. He is said to have been released from a reformatory two years ago. Duplh Populace Shuns Sufferers County Has Thus Far Contrib uted Only $181.29 For Bene fit Flood, Wind Victims Duplin County contributions for relief to flood and torna do sufferers have amounted to only $15.00 above last week’s total, according to statement yesterday by Capt. J. E. Jerritt, acting chairman .of the Duplin County Chapter of the Red Cross. Last week leaders of the Duplin chapter were noticed that the original quota of $300 had been increased to $800 as ja result of the intensive de struction, especially in North Carolina. The total last week amounted to $165.35, of which Calypso contributed $60.50, the Magnolia white school $9.14, the Magnolia community $27.10, and Wallace only $6.60. The total collected to date according to J?rritt, is onlj $181.29. ^Congressman Poet Laureate] El rrwBnmKMm . . . Congressman J S. McGroarty of California ' (above;, be given the title of hope. poet laureate of •the U. S. Representative Monaghan introduced 1 the resolution. Three Tried For Rose Hill Thefts Three Goldsboro negroes have been given preliminary gearings and two more are im plicated in the case of the rob bery outbreak in Rose Hill last Week, at .which time an automo bile belonging to the Rose Hill mayor, Dr. C. F. Hawes, was stolen, Hyman dry goods store i was entered and robbed, and other places of business report ed attempted robberies. 1 Before magistrate C. E. Ste phens in Kenansville Tuesday, Lee Currie was charged with j breaking and entering and Phillip Perkins and Edna Ruth Tiler were charged with dispos ing of stolen property. The trio is held in jail in default of | bond for appearance at the next term of Duplin Superior Court. (Please Turn to Page Ten) l----—■— -- Overhead Bridge Bids Announced 8. H. & P. ,W. C. Opens Bids On 24 Projects In Part of Road Betterment Plan Although Capus Waynick, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, advised the Duplin Board of Commissioners, that the pub lic hearing on the matter of the overhead crossing at Calypso,' slated to have been held last Friday, would have to be post poned, press reports today re veal that the S. H/& P. W. C. has evidently decided to do without a hearing and con (Please Turn to Page Three) HOME EC STUDENTS TO PRESENT FASHION SHOW The Home Economics depart ment of the Clement high school will present a fashion revue in the form of an oper etta, “The Suzanne Shop”, Fri day night at eight o’clock in the high school auditorium. The (Please Turn to Page Three) I NEGRO PAYS FINE FOR GOING OVER FIRE HOSE For driving a mule and cart over a fire hose during the fire here Tuesday, Eugene Stallings, colored, paid a fine of $5.00 and costs at a hearing before a lo cal magistrate. Politics Now Warming Up As Candidates Announce ■ i —11 ■ TEN COUPLES PURCHASE LICENSE DURING WEEK Licenses to marry were is sued to 10 couples, six white and four colored, by the office of the Register of Deeds dur-1 ing the past week. White cou-j jples were Elwood Grover, Lil lian Miller; Tommie Hawkins, (Craven County, Junie. Lee, Len-‘ oir County; Clyde Williams,! Mettie Brinson; John H. Ban dy, Elva Herring; J. L. Raynor, Nancy Brinkley; William N. Rose, Alice Farrior. Colored couples were Lewis Bannerman, Frances Murphy;1 Douglas Miller, Lee Barden; Le1 Roy Brown, Virginia Bell Far-j rior; Charles Conyers, Lillie Mae Barden. To Washington A. M. Lansford, well known 'piano dealer of Wallace, left'4 this week for Washington, D. C., where he expects to pur- j 1 chase considerable lew stock to , be brought here in the near fu ture. A card received from j him today stated that he and President Roosevelt were among ' Hie more than 82,000 fans whoj' witnessed the opening game be- | (Please Turn to Page Ten) 1 --- ' 1 Visits Hero - i Miss Dorothy Evans of N«w« [»rn «n*nf Atai» La1:4w«.s^ ■fL _■ Solicitor and Representative Races Now Hold Spotlight In County With less than 30 days re maining during which would-be County office holders can file notice of their candidacy, the political waters are beginning to ripple as prospective candi dates begin feeling the politi cal pulse of the electorate in an attempt to see what their chances are. Activity along the political front this week was very pronounced as several candidates passed the guessing stage and made formal an nouncement of their candidacy However, none of them have dug into their pockets yet for a filing fee as the books will not be formally opened until mem jers of the Board of Elections meet at Kenansville Saturday ind select a chairman. When his has been done then would >e candidates may begin to >onder the matter of depositing »ne-ha!f of one percent of the nearly salary they will receive i elected. The position of Solicitor of ;he General County Court has ;hus far appealed to more mem >ers of the legal fraternity than iny other office. There are hree definitely in this race vith probably others to enter. A Ward, Wallace, the derlea Project May Expanded By 6,000 -:-, K< nansvillerinal Exercises Slated Clyde A. Erwin will make the address at the commencement exercises of the Kenansville high school, as announced this week. The complete schedule is as follows: Grade commencement, April 17, B o’clock; Recitation Declamation contest, April 29,1 8 o’clock; Musical recital, Mayj 1, 7:45 o’clock; Baccalaureate, sermon. May 3, 7:45 o’clock, to be delivered by Rev. C. B.j Mashburn, pastor Farmvillej Christian Disciple Church;! Class night exercises, May 7,1' 7:46 o’clock; Graduation exer-1 cises, May 8, 7:46 o’clock, the] address to be delivered by Clyde A. Erwin, State Superin-[ tendent of Public Instruction. PLAN OPENING BEAUTY PARLOR IN ROSE HILL, Miss Harris of Oxford andj Miss Pearl Bowen will open a| beauty parlor in Rose Hill, and Miss Walker, formerly associ | ated with “Carolyn’s Beauty Parlor*’, will remain in Wal lace, it has been stated. Last week a Rose Hill story announc ed that Miss Walker would re turn there, but this has been found in error. ; Local Finals To j Start Next Week A :■ . t Johnson To Preach Sermon and Erwin To Deliver I Address , ! The first feature of the com mencement series of the Cle ment high school will be the . annual baccalaureate sennon Sunday morning, which will be preached by Rev. Talmadge' C.i .Johnson, pastor of the First. Baptist Church of Kinston, au-j thor of two books of sermons (Please Turn to Page Ten) 1 - | YOUNG PEOPLE HONORED I AT PARTY FRIDAY NIGHT _ i Miss Thelma Pierce of Wal lace, Route 2, entertained with a party at her home Friday night. Assorted candies were made and served to the following; guests: Leslie Batts, and Wood-1 row Wilson of Magnolia, Bart1 Davis, Miss Vermelle Prescott and C. M. Prescott, Jr., of Sum ter, S. C., Graham and J. D. Brinkley, Shine Sandlin, and Junius Atkinson, Misses Min nie and Maggie Wood and Leo na Brinkley of Chinquapin. Also Thad Jones, Woodrow! English, Edmond Blake, Morris Williams, Ray Batts, Horace Hanchey, Odell and Leroy Hen derson, Clearance arid Raeford (Please Turn to Page Ten) Seven Man CMTC Quota For Duplin ^ - Duplin County’s quota for enlistment in the annual en campment- of the CMTC, which will be held at Fort Bragg *"'n August 5 to Septemb seven men, according nouncement mad s weelc| The Pender quot three and the Onslow quota, is four. | Citizens Military Training I -Camps by the War Department' [under 'the National Defense] act, the government paying the expenses of those attending, consisting of asportation to land from the p, uniforms, food, medkal ration, and [other, necessary expenses. Offered in these camps g together high ill see-;

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