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The Wallace Enterprise
* Bright Leaf Tobacco Mart
A Duplin County Institution
VOLUME XXXIV—Number 46
WALLACE. NORTH CAROLINA
MONDAY. AUGUST 29, 1955
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
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GROUNDBREAKING—Robert Frank Boone, Chairman of the Building Committee
turns the third spadeful of dirt as ground was broken for erection of the new Wal
lace Baptist Church edifice on West Main Street shortly after noon yesterday. Look
ing on (left to right) are Dr. Eugene Poston, pastor of the church, Rev. Grady P.
l' McKeithan, pastor of the Teachey and Corinth Baptist churches, Rev. W. D.
Caviness, pastor of the Wallace Methodist Church, W. N. McLean, Mrs. Deane Hund
1 ley and Mrs. A. H. Carter, Building Committee members, Arthur Dempsey, (Boone)
and Bob Sheffield, charter members, Tommy Baker, Chairman of the Board of
Deacons, D. D. Blanchard, Chairman of Building Fund Committee, Mrs. A. B. Bor
deaux, President of the WMU, represent'mg the Women, Ford Rivenbark, President
of the Brotherhood, representing the men, and Bob Blanchard, representing the
Young People. Following the brief ceremony lead by Rev. McKeithan a picnic
covered luncheon was served on the grounds. (Staff Photo)
DEDICATION—An inspirational service was lead before the Wallace Baptists Sunday
morning by Rev. Grady P. McKeithan, (far right), pastor of the Teachey and Corinth
churches. Standing at pulpit is Dr. Eugene Poston, the church’s pastor. Playing at
portable organ as unidentified little boy watches is Mrs. W. H. Farrior, for many years
organist at the church. (Staff Photo)
BONEY RE-UNION—68 descendants of James Wells Boney gathered at the American
'^Legion Building in Wallace Sunday for the third annual re-union. Following a lunch
eon in the building a business session with talk by Dr. DeWitt Boney, principal of an
East Orange, New Jersey elementary school was given, and reports heard of moving
of a family cemetery and coat of arms. Members of the clan from as far away as Lake
Worth, Florida were in attendance. The group agreed to meet again the fourth Sun
day in August next year “regardless of the hurricanes.”
Wallace Baptists Have Successful
Ground-Breaking Service Sunday
The members and friends of the
Wallace Baptist Church formally
started the new church building on
Sunday afternoon, August 28, when
they broke ground at their new lo
cation. The old Strawberry Ex
change in Wallace will be the lo
cation of the new Wallace Baptist
Church.
Rev. Grady P. McKeithan, new
pastor at the Teachey and Corinth
Baptist Churches read the scrip
ture and brought the challenge. He
also turned the first shovel of soil.
Rev. W. M. Caviness, pastor of the
Wallace Methodist Church, led in
the Prayer of Thanksgiving and
turned the second shovel full of
soil. The following people then
turned a shovel full of soil: Mr.
Robert Frank Boone, chairman of
the Building Committee; Mr. W.
N. McLain, Mrs. Dean Hundley,
Mrs. A. H. Carter, all members of
the Building Committee; Mr. Ar
thur Dempsey and Mr. Bob Shef
field, both representing the Char,
ter members; Mr. T. J. Baker,
chairman of the Deacons, Mr. D. D.
Blanchard, chairman of the Build
ing Fund Committee; Mrs. A. B.
Bordeaux, president of the W. M.
U., representing the women of the
church; Mr. Bob Blanchard, repre
senting the young people of the
church, and the Pastor, Dr. Eu
gene Poston, representing the en
tire church. After these represen
tatives of the church had finished
a great host of the people took the
shovel to turn some soil. Mr. Clute
Rivenbark, the fifth member of the
Building Committee, was not pre
sent.
After the ground-breaking a pic
nic lunch was spread and the peo
ple enjoyed an hour of Christian
Fellowship.
The contract for the new Wallace
Baptist Church has been let to Mr.
A. G. Carter. Mr. Carter is for
merlly of Wallace. He will arrive
in Wallace during the next ten days
to begin construction of the build
ing. Holloway and Reeves, ar
chitects of Raleigh, drew the plans
in conjunction with the architectu
ral department of the Southern Bap
tist Convention.
$48.82 Average
Leaf Market
Reported Local
The Wallace Tobacco Market
sold 880,492 pounds of the golden
leaf for $429,811.29, or an average
of $48.82 during the first two days
as sales got underway Thursday
and Friday.
All three warehouse firms, Shef
field’s, Blanchard and Farrior and
Hussey’s reported full sales both
days and anticipated block sales
today and tomorrow. Farmers are
urged to call either of three ware
houses collect for space before
moving their tobacco around in the
current wet weather.
Morton Fields, Sales Supervisor,
said that all Wallace warehousemen
are going all out in rendering
their best efforts to get the highest
prices for farmers who patronize
the local market and that growers
appeared satisfied at the efforts
being made in their behaR
“We have three large waivhouse
firms with competent and well qua
lified tobacco men at the helms of
each to assure growers who sell
here of the highest prices paid
anywhere,” he said, in urging far
mers to make plans to sell on the
Wallace market.
At the same time he issued a
word of caution. "Grade your to
bacco very slowly and very care
fully. Throw out all the green to
bacco. Then watch it carefully and
don’t let it get damaged. Wallace
warehousemen guarantee you the
highest prices to be found any
where. The same good prices
grade-for-grade will prevail if not
get even better as the season pro
gresses so don’t rush. Take your
time and be assured of the highest
prices.”
Coaches Hope To
Select Tentative
Lineup This Week
The Wallace High School Bulldogs
will get down to hard scrimmage
this week was the report from Coa
ches Overman and Webb. The coa
ches reported also that they hoped
that they can start selecting a ten
tative lineup by the middle of the
week.
The Senior lettermen reported for
practice today after having missed
two weeks of drills. Board drills
are scheduled tonight (Monday) at
the high school for all football
players. Diagramming of plays
and defense will be taken up. An
other session is planned for Tues
day night. The squad plans to se
lect their Co-Capt. Monday night
and the Cheerleaders.
If the club shapes up, an in
tersquad game is planned for
Thursday or Friday night of this
week, it was disclosed.
Baptist Sunday
School Council
To Hold Meet
The teachers and officers of the
Wallace Baptist Sunday School will
meet Tuesday night, August 30, at
7:00 p.m. in the church basement.
A covered dish meal will be served.
Every class officer is urged to be
present. Plans for Promotion Day
will be made. All teachers and of
ficers of the East Wallace Baptist
Mission at Tin City are invited to
be present. This is the last meet
ing in the present Sunday School
year.
More than 80 million dollars has
been received and deposited in the
U. S. Treasury by the U. S. For
est Service as income from the
sale of timber, grazing permits and
other land use for the year end
ing June 30, 1955.
Cotton acreage in cultivation as
of July 1 was the smallest since
•ecords began in 1909.
Garden Clubs Of
Wallace To Meet
September 6th
On the evening of Tuesday, Sep
tember 6th, at eight p.m. at the
Community building, the Garden
Clubs of Wallace will hold their
initial meeting of the club year.
The clubs meeting jointly are the
Garden Club of Wallace, the Green
Thumb, the Camellia and the Pe
rennial—a department of the Wo
man’s Club.
For the programme, Mrs. John
Robinson will give the highlights
of her recent trip to Europe and
illustrate with pictures in color.
All interested gardeners and
friends of the clubs are cordially
invited to attend. 1
68 Attend
Boney Reunion
Held Here Sunday
Sixty-eight people were in at
tendance yesterday as the Boney
family held its third annual re
union at the American Legion
Building here.
The descendants of James Wells
Boney began assembling at the
building before 10 o’clock for the
all-day session. President John B.
Boney presided over the business
session following a bountiful cover
ed dish dinner.
Dr. DeWitt Boney of East Or
ange, New Jersey, spoke briefly on
the fellowship aspects of the gath
ering and reminiscing about the
old days in Duplin.
The clan heard a report and
voted to proceed with accumulating
data for plans for the moving of
the family cemetery from its pre
cent location adjoining an open
field cast of Wallace to Rockfish
Cemetery west of town.
The group passed the hat to pay
for expenses in connection with
holding of the reunion and after
collecting more than needed voted
to spend part of the money for
sending flowers to a kinsmen, Mrs.
Melissa Sykes, who is in very ser
ious condition in a Wilmington hos
pit;1.
Mrs. Eloise Boney Baird report
ed on the coat-of-arms project. It
was dee led to explore further whe
ther the mme Boney is an offspring
of the name “Bonney.”
Coming the furtherest to attend
the re-union were Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Tate Roney of Lake Worth,
Florida. The oldest descendant
present was Mrs. Pearl Williams of
Wallace. The youngest descendant
present was Thomas E. Boney, Jr.,
also of Wallace. The furtherest,
oldest and youngest were the same
as last year.
It was decided to hold the next
meeting at the same place and
the time was fixed as the fourth
Sunday in August next year.
Many out-of-town and out-of-state
guests were in attendance. The
function began to disband about
five o’clock.
Need Of Red
Cross In Flood
Areas Urgent
H. E. Kramer, president of the
Duplin County Chapter of the Am
erican Red Cross received a tel
egram Friday stating the urgent
need of the Red Cross in flood
stricken areas of the North and
East.
The telegram from E. Roland
Harriman, National officer in the
Red Cross is as follows:
“Needs continue to grow in the
disaster affected areas. Estima
ted number of families looking to
the Red Cross for assistance ex
ceeds 10,000 and continues to mount.
This will require funds in excess
of $8,000,000. Your chapter has
b,een assigned a rock bottom quota
of $500 and expect you will make
every effort to have it substantial
ly oversubscribed.”
Mr. Kramer said that the local
chapter is looking for voluntary
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Duplin Negroes
Arrested For
Theft In Bladen
Three Duplin County Negroes
were arrested Sunday night in co
operation with Bladen and Pen
der County authroities for the
theft of about $400 worth of as
sorted merchandise from Hamil
ton’s Store, across the Pender
County line from Atkinson in Bla
den County.
The theft occurred late Friday
night apparently. Sunday night
Deputy King and another deputy
and Constable came to Wallace
and accompanied by Constable
Snyder Dempsey, Coy Carr, Nor
wood Boone and Sheriff Ralph
Miller proceeded with a warrant
and casts of tire tracks to the
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Drunk Negroes Toss Body Of Willard Boy Into
Yard Abandoned Home After Running Into Him
Two drunk Negroes are in jail
awaiting Superior Court trial, pos
sibly this week, after committing
one of the most inhuman crimes
heard of in these parts in a long
time.
After running into the rear of
a newspaper carrier boy on a scoot
er they picked him up, carried
him over eight miles, dumped his
apparently lifeless body in the
yard of an old burnt house on a
country road after taking his mon
ey and left him.
Deputy Norwood Boone accident
ally happened to run across the car
before the body was even found.
He gives the following account of
the affair:
About 7:30 o’clock Leon Rawls,
16-year-old son of Marvin Rawls of j
Willard, News and Observer paper
carrier, was returning from Rose
Hill on his motor scooter. About i
200 yards north of Teachey he was j
struck from behind by a 1940 or
1941 Plymouth operated by Hay
wood Sykes, Negro of near Char
ity. Sykes had a passenger in the
car, identified as Johnny Moore.
The latter alleges he was picked
up by Sykes hitchiking in Mag
nolia. He lives four miles north
west of Magnolia. Both were in
toxicated.
The white boy was knocked off
on the highway’s shoulder when
struck Moore said they picked [
him up, pulled the motor scooter
from the center line over to the
shoulder and left.
He alleges that he requested Sy
kes to take the boy to a doctor or
hospital. When he refused he said
he offered to pay for the expenses
if he would. Instead, Sykes drove
up the Hubert Boney road and on
up N. C. 11 to Register where they
turned off on an unpaved county
road. They stopped at an old burnt
house 8.1 miles from the accident
when the boy lapsed into uncon
sciousness and he was left for
dead in the yard of the abandoned
house.
Wallace Police Chief Earl Whita
ker contacted Norwood Boone a
bout 9 o’clock and told him there
was an accident reported at Tea
ehey but that people had checked
with all the doctors and hospitals
around to see how the boy was get
ting along and could find no doc
tor or hospital that had treated
anyone.
Boone and Wallace Policeman
Floyd Murray drove up to Charity
and on up N. C. 11 toward Ken
ansville. A witness to the tragedy
had said the Negroes drove off, he
thought to take the injured man to
a hospital in a 40 or 41 model Ply
mouth.
The officers found no trace of
the car and turned around and were
coming back down N. C. 11 when
they spotted the car, the imprint of
the scooter was on the grill and
wet blood on the rear seat. It
now contained Sykes and four other
Negroes. He steadfastly denied
any knowledge for about fifteen
minutes. Finally he broke down
and confessed and led them to
where the boy lay in the yard.
Boone picked up the boy from
the hot Saturday morning sun at 11
o’clock, radioed ahead on his police
radio to Kenansville where prepa
rations were made for the youth’s
arrival at the hospital. He drove
the eight miles in slightly less than
five minutes, reaching speeds of
110.
Sykes was jailed and Moore ev
entually picked up and jailed also.
They may be tried at the term of
Superior Court commencing this
morning but will probably be held
for trial at the next session in Oc-~
tober. A whole host of charges
have been placed, including kidnap
ping, highway robbery, drunken,
driving, careless and reckless driv
ing and hit and run ,as well as.
others. Some are felony offenses
but none are capital offenses. Dep
uty Boone said that he has secured
a previous conviction for Sykes on
highway robbery charges.
Rawls condition upon arrival at
Duplin General Hospital was repor
tedly serious but not critical. He
was removed to Duke University
Hospital about midnight Saturday
night where he today is reported
to be still in serious condition. An
other few minutes without medical
attention may have caused his
death, it is thought, due to the ex
tensive head injuries he sustained
and the hot pre-noon sun.
Wallace Drive-In
To Discontinue
Double Features
Beginning the first week end in
September, Friday and Saturday
double feature programs at the
Wallace Drive - In Theatre in Wal
lace will be discontinued. This po
licy change was announced today
by Earlie C. Sanderson of Wallace,
owner of the theatre.
Currently released, major pic
tures will be substituted for the
usual old - timey double features,
he disclosed. Most of these will be
in Cinemascope and all will be top
movies of the current season.
“Playing major pictures on Fri
days and Saturdays will enable the
theatre goers in this area to see
currently released pictures not of
the western type,” the outdoor mo
vie owner pointed out.
For those who enjoy the wild
and wooly West themed films, the
Pen-Lin Drive-In Theatre, also own
ed by the Wallace man, will con
tinue to show a double feature on
Saturday nights.
“It is felt that this change of po
licy at the Wallace Drive-In Thea
tre will meet with the approval
of our patrons,” Mr. Sanderson as
serted. “It is our aim to bring
to the public the best in motion
picture entertainment for the en
tire family,” he added.
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Wallace Team Wins Southeastern
Little League Championship
The Wallace Little League de
feated Wilmington Fire Depart
ment 3-0 to win the Southeastern
Little League championship. The
tournament was sponsored by the
Optimist Club. Twenty teams from
Southeastern North Carolina par
ticipated in the tournament.
A. J. Carr pitched for Wallace
and struck out five, allowing four
hits. James Rivenbark caught for
Wallace and hit a triple in the 4th
inning with Shelton on 3rd and
Wilton Rivenbark on 1st. A. J.
Carr had already scored in the
same inning on Rivenbark’s hit.
In the top of the 4th, Wilmington
made their only serious threat.
With men on 3rd and 2nd, Sonny
Shelton, playing shortstop, made
the outstanding play, of the tour
nament when he ran back and
leaped into the air and caught Lar
kins line drive. Shelton in catching
the drive fell to the ground but
threw to 2nd to Ronnie Brown to
catch Horton off base to retire
the side.
It was a sweet victory for the
local Little League. The boys have
worked hard and sacrificed vaca
tion trips to play ball this summer.
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Applications Being Accepted To
Rotary Foundation Fellowship
Applications are now being ac
cepted for Rotary Foundation Fel
lowships for Advanced Study, it
was announced today by a spokes
man for the Wallace Rotary Club,
for the 1956-57 school year.
The purpose of the Rotary Foun
dation Fellowships for Advanced
Study program is to provide an op
portunity for young men and wo
men of all nationalities, races, and
creeds to live, study and travel in
countries other than their own in
order that they may better under
stand the way of life and thinking
of peoples of these other countries,
which understanding is essential to
the advancement of international
understanding, good will and peace,
the spokesman pointed out.
The Rotary Foundation Fellow
ships program provides this oppor
unity only to highly qualified stu
dents who can meet the exacting
requirements, whose personal and
academic records give satisfactory
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