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VOLUME XXXIV—Number 26
WALLACE. NORTH CAROLINA
Monday. June 20. 1955
PITRI.ISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
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FINER CAROLINA PROJECT — The Woman’s Club
selected renovation of the Community Building kitchen
and rear as its project. Work had already begun on
the porch when this picture was taken. Partition view
above was taken out. Door leads into kitchen.
PROJECT COMPLETED — The project when complet
ed looks like this. The kitchen was considerably en
larged both by addition of the porch space and by re
moval of a partition leading into a former pantry. The
kitchen has been painted a cheerful bright yellow and
inlaid linoleum tiles placed on the floor. The Woman’s
^ Club also bought a new service for 60 complete with sil
»' ver, dishes and glassware along with four new alum
inum folding tables, gas logs for the fireplace and a
'Circulating heating unit for wintertime comfort. Note
that reduced size window and doorway were used.
Portions of two other Finer Carolina program pro
jects are viewable in the after picture. The large yel
low receptacle on left is one of two dozen pressed into
use for disposal for waste matter to help keep Wallace
clean (as the lettering reads on the side) and sturdy
fence with iron posts were erected to rear of Commun
ity Building to provid a safe playground for small
. children. The Junior Woman’s Club is soliciting eq
uipment now for the playground and hopes to have a
supervised recreation area for little children in the
near future. (Staff Photos)
Slow Soaking Rain Over Weekend Is
Ideal For Crops, Very Little Runoff
Rainfall over the week end
ieame ideally" and although not
leavy in the aggregate amount did
lot of good due to the slow soak
ig way it came.
Jesse W. Sumner, assistant-di
ector-in-c h a r g e of the Coastal
'lain Experiment Station at Wil
ard, said today that up until five
I’clock Saturday a total of .64 in
hes fell. On Sunday an additional
84 inches fell between the five Sat
irday and five yesterday period,
trough nine o’clock this morning
additional .03 fell. Sumner re
torted that the barometer was fall
ng and that prospects are for ad
itional rain.
Although the week end's rain is
irtually the only precipitation
hus far this month it is far short
f two big days of rain before the
8th last year. It failed to rain
gain during the month. Two big
.40 inch and 2.06 inche rains com
bined with three minor rainfalls to
Jve June of 1954 a whopping 4.96
ches through the eighteenth and
ilso for the month, the long dry
pell of last summer commencing
im that point.
Prior to the week end rains this
■ear saw .01 fall on the 7th; .02 on
ie 8th; .36 on the 9th; .04 on the
1th; .03 on the 12th; bringing the
ital for the month thus far to 1.97
iChes with ten days yet to go.
Sumner commented that the slow
taking manner in which water
Bne down over the week end
tide it do a lot more good than
real heavy rain would have and
bserved there was very little run
ff “It just came ideally,” he
lid.
The official Station temperature
aturday saw a high of 82 and a
w of 64 and on Sunday a high of
82 and low of 67. The highest for
the month occurred on Monday,
the 6th witli a reading of 95. The
lowest for the month was 49. The
June record low is 39 some years
ago.
13 Members Local
Lodge Of Moose
Attend Ceremony
Governor Luther Hodges and
three members from Duplin were
initiated into the Loyal Order of
Moose in ceremonies in Raleigh on
Sunday.
Making the trip up from the
Wallace Lodge of the Moose were
Claude Hepler, Gay Wells, Gilbert
Alphin, George Powers, Homer
Boney, Sr., J. S. Blair, Roy Lan
ier, Steve Gowan, Archie Mitchell,
Earl Whitaker, Duland Sellers,
John Croom, and H. L. Oswald.
John Croom, Gilbert Alphin and
Duland Sellers were initiated into
the Loyal Order of the Moose along
with a class of about 1,000 new
Moose members.
The new iniates were conducted
through the Moose ritual by the
State Champion Degree Team
from the Wilson Lodge. About 3,000
members were in Raleigh for the
special initiation ceremonies.
Automobile floorcoverings have
made a definite swing from wool
to longer - wearing, resilient tuf
ted rayon - nylon blends, a survey
of 1955 models reveals.
Mystery Farm
Last Week Is
“Real Mystery”
The Mystery Farm which ap
jeared in the Monday, June 13th,
;dition of the Enterprise really was
i mystery, judging from the identi
fications given by readers con
acting the office last week. A
lumber of different identifications
vere received from interested per
sons throughout the circulation'
irea.
Only three persons correctly
dentified the farm as the home
if Annie Kate Hayes, colored, of
A'allace, Route 1. They were Mrs.
Percy Croom and Miss Paula
3wen, both of Wallace, Route 1,
and Mrs. R. C. Powell, Jr. of
Wallace.
They all received tickets, good
anytime, to the Pen-Lin or Wal
lace Drive-In Theatre, courtesy of
the theatres. The owner will re-1
ceive a beautiful mounted picture j
of the home by coming by the En- j
terprise office.
The Hayes farm is. located ap-1
proximately ten miles west of Wal
lace on the Wallace-Harrells High-!
way.
Readers able to identify this!
week’s farm are asked to contact!
the office before noon Friday. Four
theatre tickets will be given, with
all identifying the farm correctly
eligible to win. The farm owner
will receive a free photo of his
home by coming by the office,
courtesy of the Enterprise.
Motorists Urged
Not To Drive Too
Far Too Fast
What is the death rate in this
country? Your own speedometer
may give you the answer.
That advice to motorists who
try to drive too far too fast on
holidays was issued by the Nation
al Safety Council, which is coordin
ating a nationwide campaign aim
ed at reducing traffic accidents
over the Fourth of July weekend.
One hundred and sixty national
organizations are participating in
Hie campaign.
The Council estimates that more
than 40 million vehicles will be on
the move during the three-day
week end and that they will roll
up more than three billion miles.
In such heavy traffic a driver is
never more than a second away
from an accident, the Council says.
It is estimated that he must make
from 20 to 50 decisions an hour—
and a wrong one can be fatal.
Over the Memorial Day week
end, 368 persons were killed in
traffic accidents. “If they had died
in a nationwide epidemic the whole
country would be taking frantic
steps to see that it never happened
again,” Ned H. Dearborn, . presi
dent of the'Council, said. “But they
did die from an epidemic — a
highway epidemic we might call
the three T’s’ — in competence,
indifference and irresponsibility!
“Their deaths are a tragic re
minder that too many of us have
forgotten to use the Golden Rule
in traffic. When we share a com
mon highway, we are our brother’s
keeper in a very real sense. I be
lieve the Memorial Day toll could
have been cut in half if that atti
tude had prevailed more general
ly.”
For a safer Fourth, the Council
offers four driving tips:
1. Start early, before traffic is
heavy. You can cover a lot of
miles in trelativfely light traffic
early in ' the day.
2. Don’t compete in traffic —
let the other fellow go first.
3. Don’t follow the car ahead
too closely. Double check before
passing or changing lanes.
4. Above all, don’t speed. Losing
a little time is better than losing
your life.
First Blossom
The first cotton blossom of the
1955 season was brought into
The Wallace Enterprise office
early Friday morning.
It was grown on the farm of
Rev. J. W. Powers, Negro prea
cher-farmer of two miles west of
Wallace near Duplin Forks.
It was a full grown and fully
opened blossom, not just a bud
and the first to be reported to
us this year.
Missionary To
Speak At Sharon
Baptist Church
A missionary to Africa will speak
;n the Sharon Baptist Church of
Chinquapin on Thursday evening at
sight o’clock, it was announced to
Jay by a church spokesman.
Mrs. Luther Morphis of Burgaw,
a former medical missionary to Ni
geria, will show slides and give a
talk concerning her missionary
work abroad. She is the wife of
the pastor of the Burgaw Baptist
Church.
The church would like to extend
a cordial invitation to everyone to
be present on this occasion.
Family Of Late
Charles Williams
To Hold Reunion
A reunion of the family of the
late Charles Williams will be held
in Wallace beginning Friday and
continuing through Monday.
Two people from the West Coast,
Miss Louise Cobb of San Francisco
and Mrs. J. F. Cobb of Los Ange
les have already arrived.
Others expected for the four
day reunion from far places are:
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Williams, Mr.
and Mrs. Pat Williams, Jr., and
family, Mrs. Riphard Finley, Mrs.
Charlie Reese, all of North Wilkes
boro, Mrs. Fred Hubbard of Gas
tonia, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Williams
and Charles Williams, III, of Jack
sonville, Florida; Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent Fite and family of Los
Angeles, Miss Louise Ward of Cha
pel Hill, Lt. Col. and Mrs. T. Boyd
Spiller of Boston, Massachusettes,
and Mrs. R. M. Williams and
Worth Williams of Greensboro.
The returning members of the
late Mr. Williams family will stay
with kinsmen in Wallace during the
four - day period.
Mrs. J. F. Cobb plans to be here
for about a month.
Sarah Wheeler
Wins Prize In
“States Contest”
Miss Sarah Wheeler of Wallace,
Route 1, was the recipient of a
$40 Prize Certificate in the recent
ly conducted “Unscramble the
States” Contest, sponsored by the
Monarch Sewing Centers, Inc., Ral
eigh, an advertisement of which
appeared in the Enterprise in May,
it was announced today.
The $40 Prize Certificate may be
applied toward the purchase of any
new De Luxe Model Kingston Sew
ing Machine.
Miss Wheeler is the daughter ol
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Wheeler oi
Wallace, Route 1, and is an em
ployee of Lees Stores, Ine., Wal
lace.
The members of every profess
ion, with few exceptions, stress the
importance of their profession,
| which means incidentally, them
selves.
Funeral Services '
For Mrs. Blanton !
Held Saturday
Mrs. Mary V. Blanton, formerly !
of Wallace, died in a Winston Sa
lem hospital Thursday morning at ;
10 o’clock.
She was born in Wallace Feb
ruary 9, 1894. the daughter of the
late George and Edith Johnson '
Blanton. She was a member of j
the Wallace Baptist Church. Mr.
Blanton had moved to Winston-Sa-1
lem to make her home with her
brother, A. J. Blanton. She was
married to the late George L.
Blanton and taught school in east
ern Carolina prior to her mar
riage.
The body was brought to Wallace
Friday where funeral services were
held from the Wallace Baptist
Church Saturday afternoon at 3
p.m. with Dr. Eugene Poston of
ficiating. Interment was made j
in Rockfish Cemetery. The body
was carried to the church at 2:30.
Surviving in addition to her bro
ther, are one other brother, G. H.
Blanton of Wallace, Rfd. 1, and
one sister, Mrs. Alberta Brice of
Winston-Salem.
Active pallbearers were Felton
Rackley, Dewey English, Roy Ca
veraugh, Bill Sholar, Herbert Mil
ler, Jr., and A. McKoy Herring.
Honorary pallbearers were Rob
jert Farrior, William Farrior, A. B.
I Bordeaux, Joe Wood, T. L. Riven
jbark and Dr. Grey Kornegay.
| Local funeral arrangements were
I handled through Williams Funeral
Home.
Facts About The
Mosquito
Mosquitos plague man from the
tropics to the Arctic Circle, from
coastal marshes to far inland de
serts. Yet, our knowledge of thier
habits has so far been relatively
scant. Entomologists, studying this
universal pest, have learned a good
deal about it. Some of their find
ings are revealed by Allen Rankin
in the July Reader’s Digest.
Only the female mospuito bites,
the male not being equipped to.
According to current belief, the fe
male of many mosquito species
needs an occasional sip of human
or animal blood as a kind of vita
min. Without this rejuvenating
charge at least once every 25 ge
nerations, the breed begins to wea
ken and die.
naniun s aim:it*, cunueiiseu iiom
La Revue Moderne, states that the
female mosquito’s high - frequency
drill slips easily through the tough
est skin. Generally, she can take
off before you slap because the
sudden tension of your skin “tele
graphs” the blow. To the mosquito,
the slightest nervous rippling be
neath her is like an earthquake.
The pests seem to bite most of
ten at night probably because the
species that is the biggest nui
sance happens to be a night-feed
er. The female finds her way to
the target in the dark by means
of a "chemoreceptor” — a combi
nation sense of smell and radar
like sense of “feel” beamed to
heat waves and odors given off by
the human body.
The common house mosquito sel
dom flies more than 1,000 feet from
its birthplace. Some of the big salt
water marsh breeders, however,
can raid towns 50 miles distant.
The male mospuito lives only 8
or 9 days, the female about 30. In
her life span, however, the female
of the common species lays about
100 eggs, and in temperate cli
mates 15 generations are born in
a season. The resulting progeny,
if unmolested, would reach astro
nomical figures.
Mosquitos are actually good for
something, from the human view
point. Without mospuitos as food,
many insect - eating birds and ani
mals might perish, allowing even
I worse pests than mospuitos to pla
gue us.
Henry Vann’s Take Up Canary-Raising After “Male”
Bird They Purchased Laid Egg,- Raised 3 Young Canaries
By Irene Clark
For the past several months, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Vann of Wallace
have enjoyed a rather unusual
pasttime — raising canaries.
How they got into this hobby is
unusual in itself. They were think
ing of nothing but hearing a little
warbling when Mrs. Vann purchas
ed their first canary early this
spring.
Thinking they had purchased a
male bird, they named him “Mr.
Stinky”. Imagine their surprise,
when, a few weeks later, “Mr.
Stinky” laid an egg. “His” name
was promptly changed to “Mrs.
Stinky”, and they got to thinking
about getting a male bird and
possibly raising some little canar
ies.
So, they purchased “Amos”, a
sweet-tempered warbler who, ac
cording to Mr. Vann, “took to”
his new missus immediately. “It
was really something the way they
courted”, he reminisces. “Amos
took to strutting around just like
a turkey”.
Soon, Mrs. Stinky began attempt
ing to domesticate her establish
ment. (Perhaps it might be well
to say here that the birds, though
possessing cages, are turned out
to fly in the house quite often). The
lady bird set out with great de
termination to build a nest.
“We enjoyed that part most of
all”, says Mrs. Vann. “She was
the cutest thing trying to find ma
terials to put in her nest”. Seems
she was a believer in making the
most of her opportunities, and soon
the nest' was beginning to take
shape. Included in the nest were
such items as bits of chenille
(which she pulled from the bed
spread in the bedroom), hair pull
ed out of a bearskin rug on the
floor, pieces of yarn unraveled
from an old sock (for this she en
listed the aid of Amos, who would
pull against her in the unraveling
process). One of her most interest
ing nest-building items was hair
pulled from Mrs . Vann’s head
whenever she lay down to take a
nap.
Finally, the nest was done, and
the Vanns placed it in the cage
sitting on Mr. Vann’s bedside table.
That location, however, did not
suit Mrs. Stinky and she kept fly
ing to the top of a window in the
bedroom and looking hopefully at
her owners. They cooperated by
fastening the nest, inside a cigar
box to provide a floor in case the
young birds fell out, at the top of
the window.
That, it seems, is what the
mohter bird was waiting for. Soon,
three tiny blue eggs appeared in
the nest, less than an inch long.
A constant vigil over the nest
was kept by the parent birds, as
well as the Vanns. Having studied
up on canaries’ breeding habits,
they knew the birds were supposed
to hatch in about 15 days.
“They were right on time”, said
Mr. Vann. “On the afternoon of
the 15th day, I told Mrs. Vann to
peep in the nest, and there they
were”.
“They were certainly ugly little
things”, put in Mrs. Vann. “They
looked just like little worms, as
they didn’t have any feathers.”
From then until about the second
week, when the birds began to fly
somewhat, both Amos and Mrs.
Stinky were kept busy flying food
—and water—in their beaks to the
nest for the little birds. For some
reason, after about a week, the
mother quit paying the little birds
any attention, ^nd Amos had to
take over full time.
“He was really good to those
little birds”, says Mr. Vann. “He
would spend most of his time fly
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IN EUROPE—A-.?e Hugh
ie D. English, 19, son of
Mrs. Leona English and the
late John J. English of Pen
der lea, has recently spent a
furlough at home before
leaving for Europe where
he will be stationed for
three years. A 1954 grad
uate of Penderlea High
School, he joined the Air
Force immediately after
graduation and received
basic training at Sampson
Air Force Base, New York.
Before leaving for overseas
duty he received teletype
operator schooling in Wy
oming.
Raleigh Girl
Wins “Good Will”
Visit Austria
A winsome young lady who is a
specialist in homemaking will leave
June 24 for Austria as Raleigh’s
Community Ambassador of good
will. She Is Rosa Lee Armstrong,
home economist for Carolina Pow
er & Light Company.
Miss Armstrong will live for
weeks with a family in Klagenfurt,
capital of the Austrian province
of Carinthea. Then she and her
host will tour Austria, visiting Ven
ice, Verona, Innsbruck, Salzburg
and possibly Vienna.
The good will ambassador is busy
packing sleeping bag, napsack, hik
ing boots and other gear she will
need. She is also brushing up her
German. Austria was her first
choice, Miss Armstrong says, be
cause the recent treaty giving
Austria its first independence in 20
years makes it newsworthy.
Miss Armstrong is the daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Arm
strong of Salisbury. She attended
Greensboro College and Catawba
College, where she won a degree,
and WCUNC, where she took grad
uate work. She taught school in
Rowan County and worked for the
N. C. Department of Public In
struction before joining CP&L’s
home service staff in 1950. Her
work in teaching blind homemakers
to use electrical appliances has
won national attention.
In Germany
Pvt. Alfred W. Thigpen, whose
wife, Mary Catherine, lives in Beu
laville is a member of the 2d Ar
mored Division in Germany.
Now undergoing rigorous train
ing as part of the U. S. Seventh
Army, the 2nd Armored is main
taining the peak efficiency in thrust
and mobility that earned its repu
tation of “Hell on Wheels” in World
War II.
Thigpen, who attended Beulaville
High School, is a supply specialist
in the division’s 2d Armored Quar
termaster Battalion. He entered
the Army in November 1954, com
pleted basic training at Camp Gor
don, Ga., and arrived in Europe
last April. His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. W. Thigpen, live on Route
2.
Schedule Revised
\fter Town Fails
fo Field A Team
The Little League baseball game
icheduled with Wilmington this
>ast Saturday was rained out. The
tames have been rescheduled for
next Saturday afternoon in the
ocal park. The Little League will
slay a double header Thursday
light in their local four - team
eague.
The Adult Recreation program
will be held Tuesday night. A11
cam managers are urged to have
their teams ready to play.
The American Legion team de
feated Chinquapin twice this past
week in practice games. Clinton
failed to field a team. Represen
tatives from Wallace, Burgaw and
Wilmington met last Thursday
night and made out a new sche
dule with these three teams. Wal
lace plays at Wilmington Wednes
day and Burgaw at Wallace Fri
day. Citizens are urged to sup
port the teams.
The revised American Legion
Baseball Schedule is as follows:
Friday, June 17 — Burgaw at
Wilmington.
Monday, June 20 — Wilmington
at Burgaw.
Wednesday, June 22 — Wallace
at Wilmington.
Friday, June 24 — Burgaw at
Wallace.
Monday, June 27 — Burgaw at
Wilmington.
Wednesday, July 29 — Wilming
ton at Wallace.
Friday, July 1 — Wallace at
Burgaw.
Wednesday, July 6 — Wilming
ton at Burgaw.
Friday, July 8 — Burgaw at
Wallace.
Monday, July 11 — Wilmington
at Wallace.
Wednesday, July 13 — Wallace
at Burgaw.
Friday, July 15 — Burgaw at
Wilmington.
Monday, July 18 — Burgaw at
Wallace.
Wednesday, July 20 — Wallace
at Wilmington.
Friday, July 23 — Wilmington
at Burgaw.
Monday, July 25 — Burgaw at
Wilmington.
Wednesday, July 27 — Wallace
at Burgaw.
Friday, July 29 — Wilmington at
Wallace.
Recreation -Schedule
Monday, 3 p.m. — Yankee and
Colts baseball practice.
Monday, 3 p.m. — Girls’ Recrea
tion.
Monday, 5 p.m. — American Le
gion Baseball Practice.
Tuesday, 9 a.m. — Cubs and Dod
gers Baseball Practice.
Tuesday, 3 p.m. — Indians and
While Sox Baseball Practice.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. — American
Legion Baseball Practice.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. — Girls’ Rec
reation.
Wednesday, 8 p.m. — American
Legion Baseball, Wallace at Wil
mington.
Thursday, 9 a.m. — Indians antfl
White Sox Baseball Practice.
Thursday, 3 p.m. — Cubs and1
Dodgers Baseball Practice.
Thursday, 8 p.m. — Little League
Baseball double header, White Sox
vs. Cubs and Indians vs. Dodgers.
Friday ,3 p.m. — Yankee and
Colt Baseball Practice.
Friday, 3 p.m. — Girls’ Recrea
tion.
Friday, 8 p.m. — American Le
gion Baseball. Burgaw at Wallace.
Saturday, 3:15 p.m. — Little Lea
gue Baseball, Wilmington at Wa?
lace.
ADULT RECREATION
Softball
Tuesday, 8 p.m. — Methodists vs
Carter Fabrics.
Tuesday, 9 p.m. — Presbyterians
vs Baptists.
Volley Ball
Tuesday, 8 p.m. — Presbyterians
vs Baptists.
Tuesday! 9 p.m. — Methodists vs
Carter Fabrics.
Horse Shoes
Tuesday, 8 p.m. — Presbyterians
vs Baptists.
Tuesday, 9 p.m. — Methodists vs
Carter Fabrics.
Tuesday, 8-10 p.m. — Free Play—
Football, Basketball, Playground
Equipment, Tennis.
This week’s Tennis Schedule to
be played any time this week.
(Continued On Page Eight)
Finer Carolina Meeting Friday Night
To Determine Spendng Prize Money
A highly important meeting of
the Finer Carolina Committee will
be held Friday night at 7:30 at
the Wallace Town Hall, it was an
nounced today by Vice Chairman
E. S. "Gene” Browder.
Appropriation of the money won
in last year’s contest will be a
leading item on the agenda, Brow
der said, but several other impor
tant items are also up for consi
deration. Election of a new chair
man to replace Richard Glassford
who resigned last week is one and
selecting five of the six projects
to continue with must be done at
the Friday night meeting, he said.
Finer Carolina Contest rules al
low dropping of one project by the
end of June and continuing on to
completion with the remaining five.
In urging a full turnout, Browder
said, “We also need committee re
ports on all projects to help in de
termining which project to drop.”
Representatives should be pre
sent from all organizations in town,
he said. He urges all representa
tives to check with their treasurer
and see if their $5 contribution to
the work of the committee has
been made yet. About half are now
outstanding, he estimated.
Browder pointed out that meet
ings are normally held at the Com
munity Building but the site has
been switched to the town hall this
month due to a conflicting engage
ment at the regular place.
Browder said that everyone
should be thinking and talking with
others regarding how best to spend
the $1,000 prize money. It will be
recalled that much discussion arose
at the last meeting before it was
finally decided to postpone action
until the June meeting. It now ap
pears likely that the money will
all be spent (with the exception of
the colored’s $200) in one project
or parceled out equally to all re
questing organizations.