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The Wallace Enterprise DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS Oh' THE PEO PLE OF WALLACE AND DUPUN COUNTY fOL. XIV. WALLACE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936 No. 52 ft ower Show For Fall Federation Slated Tomorrow Hone Demonstration Members to Compete in Fall Federa tion Flower Show in Kenans , ville Tomorrow. COURTHOUSE SCENE OF * FEDERATION MEETING Members Allowed to Enter Ex hibits in Three Divisions; 4 Place Own Exhibits Final plans are already com pleted for the fall federation of Duplin county home demonstra tion clubs, which will be ob served in the form of a flower show in the Duplin courthouse in Kenansville tomorrow after noon, beginning at two o’clock. {^Members of home demonstra tion clubs may submit flowers in three division® as specimens, in arrangements, and as spe cials, Miss Jamye Martin, Dup l|p home demonstration agent, has announced. (The entry list Was made public in this news paper last week. An individual can make en tries in all divisions, the'home agent said, and insofar as pos sible each exhibitor will be per mitted to place her own exhi bit. Other regulations govern ing the Fall federation hold that all containers used must be furnished by exhibitors and ilf exhibits must be entered and placed prior to the opening hour. s Local department stoi^ and tome others will heifcief<&th dose one hour earlier thsa t*a lal on Saturday nights, «6c iording to an announcement carried elsewhere in this is uie*. This group of merchants ias had the earlier closing un ler consideration for some time Hit it was not until this week hat definite action was taken, flhe new schedule calls for a dosing hour of 11:00 P. M. in itead of midnight as hereto &e. The list of cooperating mer hants is to be found in their id elsewhere in this issue. FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE While participating in a icrimmage session of the Cle nent high school Cavaliers here Monday afternoon Allen ’owell, 13-year-old son of Mr. ind Mrs. P. O. Powell, receiv ed a broken arm. Following UMpxamination at a local phy sician’s office he was carried to; i Wilmington hospital where 5-fray pictures showed both' rones in his left fore-arm were This marks the second major bjury to any player on the lo ;al high school’s football wjuad, one player having suf-, £red a broken nose. ^ ! c <wer Teacher Fa Address Body Joland Will Make Talk Before Local Parent-Teacher Group S- Here Tuesday Night N. Roland, superintendent few Hanover county schools, address the Wallace Par S-Teacher association here esday night at its regular jting, at which time empha gvwill be made on the struc of courses of study, Mjss y -Lou Wilkins announced sday afternoon at an exe jjye committee meeting of ^association. the meeting Tuesday re of various committees | presented by their chair center Dry Leaders Hold T emperanceRally Church Representatives Take Part In Temperance Meet ing In Magnolia Temperance leaders of Mag nolia precinct gathered in the auditorium of the high school Sunday night and heard O. P. Johnson, superintendent of Duplin county schools, C. E. Quinn, treasurer of the Duplin dry forces andl the county’s representative - to - be in the forthcoming legislature, Miss Macy Cox, chairman of the county’s temperance group, and representatives of five chur-, jches in the precinct decry li jquor and urge similar meetings! throughout Duplin. j Miss Cox presided at thej meeting and quoted figures said to regard beer and liquor con (Please Turn to Last Page) Democratic Rally For 3rd District Party Leaders to Meet Wednes day In Goldsboro; Barden Chief Speaker Democrats of the Third Con gressional district will convene 'in Goldsboro Wednesday for a district rally, Congressman Graham A. Barden announced1 yesterday through Robert L. Thompson, publicity director of the state committee. Barden himself will be the principal speaker, although Wallace.* Winborne, state chair mm', Spitaflui, vice chairman; and Libby Ward, secretary; Ed Butler, president of: the state Young Democratic organization; and Tommy Gres jham, YDC committeeman, will ^probably appear on the prog ram. With this meeting, which is slated to begin at 2:30 o’clock, every district in North Caroli na will have held its rally. In dications are that many party ,a*4‘ts from this section will attendance. Marriage Licenses Marriage licenses were issu ed: to six white couples in this -county during the past week. They were: George W. Hous ton and Miss Rovene Sandlin; Harvey F. Penny and Miss Dor othy Mae Wood; Alton Carter and Miss Sallie Sholar; Melton Williams and Miss Ruth Wha ley; Horace Barwick and Miss Essie Lee Deaver; Horace Da and Miss Viola Harper. 1/There were no colored cou ples securing a license. pTHF Groups In Bi - County Meet Farm Youths of Pender and Duplin Meet and Form Organization Representatives of Young Tar Heel Farmer chapters of; Duplin and Pender counties' met with vocational agricul-j ture teachers in Kenansville on Tuesday and organized a bi county Y T H F organization, with the aim of bringing farm youths of these two counties into closer association for a mutual cooperation in rela tive problems. Officers elected were, presi dent, J. D. Grady, B. F. Grady high school; vice-president, Clayton Herring, Rose Hill; secretary, Wirt Casey, Bur gaw; treasurer, Donald Pig ford, Wallace; reporter, Clar ence Salyer, Long Creek; ad visor, C. J. Ghomas, teacher of vocational agriculture in the Rose Hill high school. Constitution, program of work, and entertainment com mittees were appointed. The organization will meet Novem Ijer 3 in the Burgaw high ';ool, and at that time will Wallace Host To Over 500 People At Fellowship Fish Supper Here -1 - :- - Guidebook Ready For Distribution Covers AI1 Phases of Elections and Duties of Officials; Ur ges Use Each Precinct The election official’s of this county and all its precincts are being urged by the State Board of Elections to secure and use I copies of the 64-page Manual for their instruction and guid ance in the coming election, just brought out by the Insti tute of Government in Chapel Hill. “The most valuable election guide yet made available”, com mented Raymond Maxwell, Sec retary of the State Board, “ii hope that every registrar will j be supplied with a copy”, he i wrote the Chairman of the i County Board last week. “I feel j that it will result in a more or derly election and will reduce! the chances for contests andj other troubles. These usually arise because of certain com missions or omissions on the part of the election officials. And these are due generally to a misunderstanding of their (Continued on Page 4) District Meeting P-T A. Announced — i m Associations ^hiSouthegstpra The program of the annual conference of the* Southeast ern district of the North Caro lina Congress of Parents and Teachers, which will be held Saturday in the Hoke county high school, Raeford, has been announced by Mrs. J. S. Blair, Wallace, district president. The program is planned to embody (the conference theme, “home and school cooperation.” The district meeting will get underway at 10:00 o’clock and is slated to close at three o’ clock. The Hoke county coun cil, of which Mrs. H. A. Cam eron is president, will be hos tesses. Among those who will speak are Mrs. J. B. Sidbury, Wil mington, president of the State Congress; Mrs. Charles E. Roe, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. W. A. Miller, Wilmington, corres ponding secpetary of the State Congress; Mrs. W. A. Fonvielle, Wilmington, fifth vice-presi dent; K. A. MacDonald, super intendent of Hoke county schools; D. V. Carter, president of the Southeastern district, NCEA; Mrs. ”G. K. Savage, pre (Please Turn to Last Page) I. N. HENDERSON REPORTSj GOOD TAX COLLECTIONS! Tax collections reached a re cord high is this county dur ing the past month according! to the monthly report of Col- i lector Henderson which was. filed with the Board of County Commissioners at their regu lar first Monday meeting held at Kenansville this week. Dur ing September, which was the first month the new tax books were in the hands of the col lector, a total of $52,110.75 was collected. Of thfh amount $40, 716.43 represented collections | on the current year’s levy. Schedule B license revenue amounted to $87.50 and the bal ance was made up of collections j an back years from 1925 to the j current year. Collections by years were as follows: 1936-, $40,716.43; 1935, $6,637.43; 1934, $1,298.80; 1933, $984.03; 1932, $984.13; 1931. $636.64; 1930, $220.19; 1929, $204.53; 1928, $158.31; 1927, $89.96; 1§26, $63.61; 1925, $3?.20, and Schedule “B”, Tommy Gresham Pays Tribute to World’s Greatest Straw berry Market In Talk at Fish Fry Here Friday Night. PENDERLEA RESIDENTS GET SPECIAL GREETING Local Business Men Hosts; Signal Development Town Wallace Emphasized Hospitality bubbled over the floor of the Brick Warehouse here Friday night when local citizens and business men were hosts to over 500 persons of this section at a fish supper, immediately prior to which an impromptu program was pre sented, featuring a short eulo gy to the potentialities and cur rent prestige of Wallace as the leading city in this section. Approximately 400 pounds of salt water fish were prepared for the visitors, with Penderlea homesteaders |being present as guests of honor. The supper was served in trays laid out bn temporary tables in the rear of the warehouse. Tommy Gresham, Jr., youth ful mayor of Warsaw and pro minent leader in the North Carolina Young Democratic or ganization, was the chief speak er of the evening, being intro duced by Mayor J. Aubrey Harrell following variety pre sentations by Misses Annie Laurie Harrell, Bessie Brice, and Virginia Browder, along With Mrs. Clifton Knowles. Remarking fir terms that would have possibly chagrined his home town citizens Gresh am paid splendid tribute to Wallace’s nationwide preemin ence as the world’s largest strawberry market. He espe cially reminded hiS' audience, which filled every available (Please turn to Last Page) Authorities Want Trio Gymnasiums Commissioners and Educa tors Get Together and Push Plans For Gyms Duplin commissioners and the Duplin board of education met in Kenansville Monday and started the ball rolling on be half three gymnasiums for high schools in this county, and Superintendent 0. P. Johnson conferred with WPA officials in Fayetteville yesterday, with the same subject being the chief topic. For months, even years, Ken ansville, Warsaw and Wallace schools have looked at gymnas iums with woeful eyes, and now it seems that through coopera tion with the WPA a gymnasi um for each of these schools is the offing. No announcement was made regarding the structures, or when construction will begin. It is understood, however** that construction on each of the plants will begin simultane ously. Vision Big Profit In Western Swine Anticipate §30,000.00 Income From 1,144 Hogs Delivered In County Farmers of Duplin, the larg est hog-raising county in North Carolina, have purchased S2, 756 pounds of pigs from the drought-stricken area of Ne braska this summer,- thereby becoming the heaviest purchas ers in this state, it was announc ed by the office of the Duplin farm agent yesterday. y Eight carloads, or 1,-444 pigs, have been delivered to fattners in this county, 16 farmery get (Continued on Page 4) .. ... . . Registration To Begin Saturday Registration Books Will Be Op en For Two Weeks; Chal lenge Day Oct. 31 ITihe attention of prospective voters who have come of age and have not previously voted has been called to the opening of registration books for a two weeks period beginning Satur day. Registration during this time will entitle them to vote in the general election Novem ber 3. Challenge day will be held October 31. Registrars in the several voting precincts in the county will keep their books open at the polling places all day Sat urday, as well as on October 17 and 24. On other days during this period persons eligible to vote may contact the registrar at his home or place of busi ness. Election officials who served in the primaries will have charge of the November elec tion. A Republican judge, however, will be present at each voting place along with two Democratic judges. Congressman At Penderlea Meet Reminds Homesteaders-pf Ap proaching Registration and Election Making a short and informal address at the semi-monthly general meeting of Penderlea homesteaders Monday night Graham A. Barden, member of Congress from the Third Con gressional District, urged his hearers to be certain they are properly registered for the forthcoming general election November 3, pointing out that registration books would be opened Saturday for a two week’s period. The Congressman spoke at the invitation of homesteaders on the project, for which he se cured gigantic Federal appro priations. He was introduced by W. H. Robbins, manager of the project. Barden paid particular trib ute to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as empha siging the fact that the admin istration was, through projects similar to Penderlea, attempt ing to give tenant farmers a fair chance for security. C. B. Faris, assistant direc tor of region four of the Reset tlement Administration, was al so presented. PAJAMAS ON FIRE; BOY HURT TUESDAY MORNING Playing with matches came near being fatal for Edward Livesay, three-vear-old Wallace boy, when his pajamas caught fire. He is now in bed suffer ing with second degree burns on the 'upper portion of his body. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Livesay; was burned early Tuesday morning. At tracted by screams, his parents tore the pajamas from the boy and averted more serious in juries. A Better Living The purpose of the Resettle ment Administration, states a bulletin of that agency, is to help people who live and work on the land to achieve a better living. The organization, es tablished by President Roose velt in April, 1935, has three major duties—to help distres sed farmers with loans, to car ry out projects for the better use of land, and to help fami lies resettle on better farms and in better homes. Rural Women In Study Of Chairs Home Demonstration Agent Tells of Work With Rural Women During the past month 1,504 women and girls and boys at tended 23 club meetings, either 4-H or home demonstration, ac cording to a summary of Sep tember activities released by Miss Jamye Martin, Duplin home demonstration agent. No ticeable among the work in the| past month is the fact that six junior 4-H clubs were organ ized in the county, being in the Kenansville, Beulaville, Chin-j quapin, Faison, Calypso, and Wallace schools. At all 4-H club meetings, Miss Martin said, new officers were elected and plans for the year were discussed. Those I (Please turn to Last Page) Party Executives Figure On Rally Democratic Executive Com mittee Meets and Plans For Party Rally The Duplin county Democra tic executive committee met yesterday afternoon in the courthouse at Kenansville and made preliminary plans for a I Democratic rally immediately prior to the general election November 3. George R. Ward, Wallace, presided at y the session which gor underway at 4 :36 o'clock. While no conclusive Arrange ments were made, the future of the rally was left in the hands of committees, some members being appointed prior to the close of the short session. The personnel of each committee is to be announced later. A deviation from the usual barbecue dinner was discussed, it being argued that expenses incurred could well be used in getting voters to the polls. This matter, and the question of the date for the rally, was left up to committees, however, with their decisions to be announc ed later. Named to arrange for pre [Cinct meetings and select speak ers for the rally were Mrs. Marshall Williams, Mrs. E. J. Johnson, Sheriff D. S. William son, Rivers D. Johnson, and George R. Ward. In the past the governor-elect has been presented to the Democratic audience, but it is not yet i known whether or not Clyde R. Hoey will be available. County Infested Robbery Band ' Three Robberies In Past Week; Deception Gains Money From Woman A series of robberies, [thought to have been the work of a band of roving thieves, .were perpetrated in this coun ty last Friday when one person iwas held up at the point of a [gun and robbed, a store broken into and robbed of a consider able amount ,of merchandise, and a safe hammered open in a garage. Mrs. Fred Darnell, who re sides near Kenansville, was the victim of the hold up. Accord ing to the story told officers who investigated the affair, Mrs. Darnell was alone in her home early Friday morning when two men and a woman drove up to the door in a Chrys ler car. The men approached the house on the pretex of wanting to sell or repair va cuum cleanets. When inform ed by Mrs. Darnell that- she was not interested, the two are said to have drawn guns and forced her back into the house where they made a systematic search of he premises, finally I (Continued on Page 4) as, - ■- ■ Spears and Grady Exchange Duplin Court Schedule* i Grady Emphasizes Gravity of Slander In Charge to Grand Jury As Court Session Got Underway Monday. MUCH PROGRESS MADE IN CRIMINAL COURT TERM Heavy Docket Scheduled to bo Aired This Term; Judge ments Withheld Superior court for the trial of criminal cases was conven ed at Kenansville Monday with JVdge Henry A. Grady presid ing instead of Judge Spears, the two having exchanged as signments. Immediately upon convening court attaches went about the business of selecting a grand jury who will serve at this term only. Judge Grady then deliv ered a very able charge to the eighteen men composing the body, In his charge Judge Gra dy touched specifically on slan der, stating that- he had been requested to bring this oft broken law to the attention of the grand jury in order that they might make presentments wherever they found evidence of the law having been violat ed. Quite a heavy docket was scheduled to be aired at this term and when court adjourned for the day yesterday after good been on It with'“the fof CPlease Turn to Page Four) ' P.-T. A. AND FACULTY HONORED WITH DINNER Mrs. William Brice was hos tess Tuesday night at her home here when the faculty of the Clement high school and mem bers of the local Parent-Teach er association were entertain ed at a picnic dinner. Mrs. Robert- Carr and Mrs. J. E. Lan ier welcomed the guests and J. S. Blair introduced the faculty members. The dinner was interspersed by talks by Rev. Mr. W. P. M. Currie, Rev. Mr. E. C. Maness, and Mr. Blair. Following the dinner Misses Mary Gamble and Nancy Conduff led the as semblage in songs. WPA HIRES 115 DUPLIN PERSONS FOR PROJECTS At the end of last week there were 115 people at work on four projects of the Works Pro gress Administration in Duplin county. Throughout the 14 counties of the fourth WPA district 3,344 people were at work on 100 projects. Of the workers in this coun ty 68 are men and 47 are wo men. Of these 64 men and 46 women are from the relief rolls. There are 1,949 men and 1,395 women at work in the district, of which 1.855 men and 1,335 women are from relief rolls. Construction On Gain, Study Says Department of Commerce Re ports on Nation’s Trade For Past Week The end of September found •;'$ retail trade throughout the country on advanced ground compared with the same period last year, according to reports to the Department of Commerce from the principal cities. Fall buying was proceeding briskly ; although in a few areas there were slight recessions from the previous week due to continu ation of unfavorable weather. The general tone was favorable and retailers were reported to' be optimistic over the trade outlook for the immediate fu ture. (Please Turn i
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