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VOLUME XXXIV—Number 64 WALLACE. NORTH CAROLINATHURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY PRICE 5 CENTS
HARVEY ARNOLD EMERGES AS VICTOR IN
BIG DUPLIN ASC VOTE BALLOTING TODAY
Everything Set
For Wallace’s
Halloween Fete
A number of additional amuse
ments and features have been an
nounced for this year’s Halloween
Carnival to be held at the Wallace
High School, sponsored by the Wal
lace PTA, on Monday evening, Oc
tober 31.
The event will get underway at
7:00 p.m. with the crowning of the
King and Queen for the Primary
Grades, the Grammar Grades and
Lthe High School to be the outstand
ing highlight of the evening. Each
room in school has a king and
queen with votes one cent each. The
girl and boy having the most votes
in each of the three sections will
be crowned. This will take place
in the auditorium.
As a special attraction, featured
for the first time this year, a
dance will be held in the school
gym with music provided by a
juke box. This will be undpr the
direction of Coach Overman, Mr.
Webb, and Miss Daugherty. Ad
mission will be charged at the gym
door, but those attending the dance
will be allowed to come and go
as they please, the spokesman dis
closed.
A turkey raffle, cake walks, an
auction, house of horrors, and a
fortune telling booth, will be only
a few of the attractions at the af
fair.
Plenty of good things to eat will
be available, such as hot dogs, iced
soft drinks, home-made candy, etc.,
the spokesman said.
The Halloween fete is an annual
affair, sponsored each year by the
Parent-Teacher’s Association, with
all proceeds to be used in connec
, tion with projects right in the
■' I school.
Everyone is invited and urged to
attend for an evening of fun and
y entertainment.
Kenansville
Town Clerk
Resigns Job
D H. McKay has tendered his
resignation as Town Clerk of Ken
ansville and Mrs. Ruth Wells has
been appointed to act in his place
“until such time as the vacancy
can be filled.”
Such was the word today from
Phil Kretsch, Mayor of the Town of
Kenansville.
Kretsch, who assumes his duties
as Mayor on July 1st, said the town
clerk supervises the water depart
ment, maintenance and the ceme
tery.
The Mayor said that McKay’s re
signation was submitted to the reg
ular meeting of the Board of Com
missioners last Thursday night and
was accepted unanimously. Mc
Kay has held the job of Town Clerk
* since about August of 1954. Prior
to that he was an office deputy
under Sheriff Ralph Miller, a po
sition he had held since Miller took
over as Sheriff.
The temporary Town Clerk is
employed in the office of J. Oliver
Stokes, a Town Commissioner.
$500 Damages
Result From
3-Car Smashup
Approximately $500 damages re
sulted when three cars pancaked
together Saturday night about 7
o’clock 7 1-2 miles west of Mag
nolia on the Delway highway.
Car No. 1 was a 1950 Chevrolet
tudor being operated by George B.
James of Winston-Salem, colored,
41. It sustained $150 damages.
Car No. 2 was a 1952 Ford tudor
being operated by Willie S. Sellers,
colored, also of Winston-Salem, and
was i nthe act of being shown the
„ route to Hihghway 421 by Car No. 1.
Car No. 3 was a 1952 Chevrolet
fordor being operated by Alvin
i. Williams, colored, 24, of Route 1,
^ Rose Hill. It sustained $200 dam
ages, as did No 2.
Corporal T. G. Brooks, investi
gating officer, said No. 3 ran into
the back of No. 2, knocking it into
No. 1. He said the first was stop
ping to turn off and pick up another
subject and both drivers had given
proper hand signals.
The driver of No. 3, William;,
was charged with following too
closely, causing a wreck.
Wallace ■ Warsaw Football Contest
Expected To Draw Large Crowd
Excitement is running high as the
football game which will pitt the
Wallace Bulldogs against the War
saw Tigers nears, scheduled for
Friday night in the Wallace Amer
ican Legion Park.
The Wallace squad is in fairly
good shape, Coach Overman re
ported today, with the exception of
a number of minor bruises. All the
Bulldogs are expected to dress for
the game with the exception of
Deane Hundley who is still out due
to injuries received several weeks
ago.
The Warsaw - Wallace gridiron
battle is expected to be one of the
most thrilling of the current sea
son as the Tigers will be seeking
revenge on the locals for the up
set last year when the 7-7 tie brou
ght the Warsaw team down from
the East Central Class A Conference
championship slot to the co-cham
pion position with LaGrange.
Wallace Is now leading the Con
ference with Warsaw in third place,
LaGrange holding fourth.
The only other conference game
set for Friday night will see Beula
ville travel to Mt. Olive for a con
test.
The Wallace band is scheduled to
perform during half time.
A big crowd is expected for the
Wallace - Warsaw game as fans
from both ball clubs are anxious
to see how Coach Bill Taylor’s boys
face up to Coach Overman’s single
wing Bulldogs.
Kickoff time has been set for
eight o’clock.
Wallace Woman’s Club To Sponsor
Unique “Hot Cake Supper” Nov. 11
An unique event in the form of a
“Hot Cake Supper” is being plan
ned by the Wallace Woman's Club,
it was announced today.
The supper, which will feature
“all the hot cakes you can eat,”
will be held at the Wallace Com
munity Building on Friday even
ing, November 11th, fiom 5un
til 8:00 o’clock. Plates will oe 75
cents each.
Mrs. W. B. Knowles, Mrs. J. D.
Robinson and Miss Helen Hunt
make up the committee in charge
of the supper.
The Pillsbury Pancake Company
is putting on the event, the Wallace
Woman’s Club spokesman stated,
with the company furnishing the
ingredients for the pancakes. They
will also send a man to do the
cooking, as well as the gridles.
Coffee and hot chocolate will be
served by the Nescafe Company
free of charge with the Vermont
Maid Syrup Company donating the
syrup, and the Pet Milk Company
the milk.
Butter and sausages will also be
served, the spokesman said, but
have not been donated as yet, she
added.
The Wallace Woman’s Club would
like to take this opportunity to ex
press their sincere appreciation to
the N & W Grocery, of Wallace for
their he;p in getting this evenc lin
ed up, and for their help in contact
ing the different firms which are
making donations for the supper.
All proceeds from the event will
go to the Wallace Woman’s Club
to be used for the Community
Building kitchen project, the spok
esman asserted.
“Everyone is invited and urged
to attend the ‘Hot Cake Supper’,”
the sponsoring group’s spokesman
said, adding that it promises to
be one of the most enjoyable ev
ents of the season, and emphasiz
ing the fact that those attending
can get all the pancakes they can
eat.
Chief Buying Emphasis In Duplin Is
For Food With 26 Cents Of Each
Dollar Going Into Grocery Stores
Retail Business Of Count/
Amounted To $18,161,000
Last Year, Am Increase
Over The $16,949,000 Re
corded In 1953; More Lux
ury Buying; Buying Is $505
Per Family
CARS, FARM MACHINERY
SALES SHOW INCREASE
General Merchandise Stores
Account For 14 Cents
Out Of Dollar
(Special To The Enterprise)
NEW YORK — With incomes of
Duplin County residents running at
a high level, the questions arise:
How much of this money are they
spending? Where are they spend
ing it and for what?
Answers to the questions are con
tained in a copyrighted study made
by Sales Management of the spend
ing habits of people locally and in
other parts of the country. Put
under the spotlight are each com
munity’s purchases of food, autos,
general merchandise and the like.
In Duplin County most of the
earnings in 1954 went into the cash
registers of the local retail stores.
These expenditures produced retail
business in the amount of $18,616,
000 for the year, an increase over
the $16,949,000 recorded in 1953.
The chief buying emphasis was
on food, which took 26 cents of
each dollar spent in the local sto
res. It was more than families
elsewhere in the United States al
lotted. The average was 24 cents.
In the State of North Carolina it
was 22 cents.
The volume of such purchases
indicates a trend toward more lux
urious living. Duplin County’s food
bill, in meat markets, grocery sto
res, delicatessens and such, came
to $4,852,000 in the year, an in
crease over the $4,323,000 of the
prior year. Divided equally among
the local families, this amounted
to $50 per family.
The local ability to indulge in
more and better food is but one
facet of an overall improvement
in the standard of living.
Luxury buying in Duplin County
was indicated also in outlets sell
ing new and used cars, farm ma
chinery and other automotive eq
uipment. Such sales ran to $3,
562,000, compared with $3,408,000
the previous year, accounting for
another 19 cents of the retail dol
lar.
Another outlet was in general
merchandise stores, including de
partment and variety stores. The
volume was $2,599,000, amounting
to 14 cents.
Local sales of furniture, house
hold equipment and radio and mu
sic supplies were $1,091,000, equal
to six cents.
Drug store operations came to
$564,000, for an additional three
cents.
Bullpups To Play
First Game At
LaGrange Friday
The Bullpups football team, or
ganized recently by Nearl Carlton,
eighth grade teacher at Wallace
School, will play their first football
game of the season on Friday aft
ernoon, traveling to LaGrange for
a 3:30 contest. LaGrange will re
turn the game, coming here for a
contest next Friday.
Probable starting backfield to
morrow afternoon will be Sonny
Shelton, LH; A. J. Carr, RH; Jim
my King, FB; Edgar Warren, QB,
but has not definitely been decided
as yet, the Coach disclosed.
A group of grammar grade boys
weighing over 115 pounds are also
working out under the direction of
Coach Carlton, and it is hoped that
a game may be scheduled for them
in the near future.
The Bullpups have been practic
ing for approximately ten days.
Jacksonville Man
To Speak Legion
Meeting Tuesday
John J. Sanderson of Jackson
ville, former Grand Chief de Gare
of the 40 & 8, will be the featured
speaker at the joint meeting of the
Wallace American Legion Post No.
156 and the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Wallace American Legion Post No.
156, slated for Tuesday evening, No
vember 1, at 7:30 o’clock at the
American Legion Home.
Heard on previous occasions by
several members of the local post,
Mr. Sanderson is reported to be an
excellent speaker and it is felt
that those attending Tuesday night
meeting are in for a real treat.
To get the meeting underway, a
covered dish supper will be held at
the American Legion Home, begin
ning promptly at 7:30 o’clock, fol
lowed by the principal speaker’s
address.
It was also announced that the
Gold Star Mothers of this area
would be honored on this occasion.
Members of both groups are cor
dially invited and urged to attend
the event, the spokesman assert
ed.
Guests in addition to Mr. San
derson will be Mrs. Sanderson and
Mr. and Mrs. Z. E. Merrell, all of
Jacksonville.
Revival Services
Slated Rose Hill
Baptist Church
Revival services will begin at the
Rose Hill Baptist Church on Mon
day evening, October 31st, with the
Reverend J. C. Mitchell, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Clin
ton, as guest preacher. Services
are to be held Monday through
Sunday at 7:30 o’clock each evening
and Tuesday through Saturday at
8:00 o’clock each morning.
Reverend Mitchell has been pas
tor of the Clinton Church since 1952,
having previously served as pastor
in Texas, where he received his
training at the Southwestern Bap
tist Theological Seminary in Fort
Worth. He is a native of the west
ern part of North Carolina and a
graduate of Wake Forest College.
The adult and youth choirs and
the church quartette will present
inspirational music at the evening
services.
An invitation to attend these ser
vices is extended to the public.
The Rev. Julian Motley is pastor
of the church.
Rev. Morris To
Speak Holiness
Revival Services
The Reverend Hubert A. Morris
of New Bern will be the guest
speaker for revival services sched
uled for November 4 through No
vember 13 at the Wallace Pente
costal Holiness Church, it was
learned today from the Reverend
J. Moses Thomas, pastor of the
church.
Services will begin at 7:30 each
evening.
Slogan for this series of serv
ices, Reverend Thomas disclosed
will be “We Must Capture The
Thinking of Jesus,” with three
things expecting to happen:
1— The sick are to be healed.
2— The lost are to be saved.
3— The people are to be united
in the spirit of deliverance.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all services.
Dupin Shrine
Club Holds Meet
Faison Wednesday
The Duplin County Shrine Club
held a dinner meeting in the Fai
son Community Building on Wed
nesday night, with wives of Fai
son Nobles in charge of the meal.
Following the dinner, a business
session was held. It was decided
to have a Ladies Night and Dance
sometime in November, the date
of which will be announced later.
Noble Harry Kramer of Wallace,
President of the Duplin County
Shrine Club, presided over the
meeting.
As a highlight of the event, vi
siting Noble Hal Tanner of Jack
sonville made a short talk.
One Delegate Resigned Yesterday, Another Withdrew
On Account Of Illness As Hotly Contested Election Held
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Revival Services
Planned Wallace
Baptist Church
Revival services will be held at.
the Wallace Baptist Church Sunday,
October 30 through Sunday, Novem
ber 6, with Dr. J. C. Canipe as the
guest speaker.
Dr. Canipe, director of Fruitland
Baptist Institute, is the former Sec
retary of Evangelism for North Ca
rolina Baptists. He will conduct
services twice daily at 8:30 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m.
Special music is also planned dur
ing these services.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all the worship services.
Electric Co-Op
To Increase
Debt Limit
The Four County Electric Mem
bership Corp. plans to increase its
debt limit from five million to 46
million dollars.
The action was approved yester
day by members of the coopera
tive, which serves 9,20 customers
in Duplin, Sampson, Pender and
Bladen counties.
Some 2,000 cooperative members
were told that the increase was
necessary to assure future expan
sion capital as needed. J. A. Ward,
secretary-treasurer of the coopera
tive said engineering studies show
ed that by 1980 the cooperative
will be serving 14,000 members.
The increased debt limit, he added,
will permit the cooperative to con
struct its own power generating fa
cilities if such a step proves feas
ible.
William T. Crisp, executive man
ager and general counsel of Tar
Heel Electric Membership Assn.,
said, “We are hopeful that Kerr
Dam power will begin flowing to
the electric cooperatives very
soon.”
Halloween Fete
Rose Hill Begins
Turkey Supper
A turkey supper will highlight the
activities to be held in connection
with the Halloween Carnival, Fri
day evening, sponsored by the Rose
Hill PTA, it was announced today.
Plates will be served in the school
cafeteria from 5:30 until 7:30 with
adult plates $1.00, children’s plates
fifty cents.
Following the supper ,a formal
program will be presented in the
school auditorium with admission
10 cents.
To climax the affair, the gym
will be opened following the pro
gram in the auditorium for the car
nival where many amusements will
be offered, highlighted by a cos
tume contest with the boy and girl
with the best costume to be given
prizes.
“Everyone is invited to attend
the Halloween Carnival Fridas
night,” the spokesman asserted
“and enjoy the many features of
fered.”
This is an annual PTA-sponsorec
event.
Harvey Arnold emerged victor
ious today as the Duplin County
ASC vote battle went right down
to the final vote in atmosphere
charged with excitement and elec
tric with mounting tensions.
Arnold won over Gordon Thig
pen of near Lyman by 7-6. There
are thirteen townships in Duplin,
each being entitled to a delegate.
Forces opposed to Arnold ques
tioned procedure and employed ev
ery parliamentary maneuver as
they sought to challenge almost
every move made.
O. C. Burton, the Federal man
from Brunswick County, presided
and opened the meeting. Follow
ing the calling of the roll he an
nounced that all 13 delegtes were
present. Pencils were then passed
out. Only nine people were in the
agriculture building auditorium be
sides Burton and the 13 delegates
when the meeting opened. Sev
eral farmers and citizens stood out
side in the hallway and outside
the building.
Burton first expressed apprecia
tion to the people of Kenansville
and the county for the courtesies
extended him while here. He point
ed out that Duplin is a rural co
unty and the election is very im
portant. He said that he didn't
come here to straighten out the
“so-called mess” but to do a job.
He said the “mess exists in peo
ple’s minds.” He asked the dele
gates to forget the "maps” for to
day and “vote according to your
convictions. The people of your
township expect you to vote as
your township would have you to
vote.” He added, “I hope that no
one will get mad and walk out be
cause you are the delegate from
your township and will be unfair
to your trust.”
Burton then read out the duties
of the County Committee. Before
moving to a vote Billy Blanchard,
the Rose Hill Township delegate,
suggested that the meeting be op
ened with prayer. Burton allowed
him to conduct the prayer.
Shortly afterwards, Steve Wilkins
of Rose Hill Township entered and
asked Blanchard to step outside
for a minute. Burton asked if
Blanchard would like the meeting
held up during the conference and
Blanchard replied in the affirma
tive.
Blanchard was a patient in James
Walker Memorial Hospital for the
past day or so and was there
early this morning, getting out of
his sick bed to be in attendance.
The meeting was suspended for
about ten or fifteen minutes while
the conference went on outside. A1
Dan Whitfield of near Mount Olive,
a spectator, questioned the proce
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Magnolia PTA
To Sponsor
Halloween Fete
A Hallowe’en Carnival and Har
vest Sale, sponsored by the Magno
lia P.T.A. will be held Friday, Oc
tober 28, at 7 o’clock p.m. in the
school auditorium.
An evening of fun and entertain
ment is planned and everyone is
invited to attend.__
Duplin Drivers
Urged To Obey
Traffic Rules --i
“Make Safety have real meaning
for you, observe traffic rules at all
times,” said Corporal T. G. Brooks
of the State, Highway Patrol today.
Brooks said that a program of
stricter enforcement would continue
to be carried out by all patrol of
ficers in Duplin County.
“Driving to the right of center
will come in for particular atten
tion,” he cautioned. “We have re
ceived orders from higher up to
give the strictest enforcement pos
sible to this law, violation of which
has been causing an unusually large
number of fatalities lately, includ
ing the last one in our own coun
ty.”
Another violation set for stricter
enforcement is “no passing when
yellow line is in your lane,” he
said. “Some folks are getting care
less about observance of the yel
low line.”
Improper or the so-called “gut
ted” mufflers will also receive at
tention, he_saUL ,
"Traffic ~laws are made for ev
eryone's safety and convenience.
Drive like your life depends on it
because it does,” he added.
Duplin 4-H’ers
To Attend
District Meet
A group of 4-H Club delegates
from Duplin County leaves Satur
day for the District 4-H Achieve
ment Day in Fayetteville.
Members going for the luncheon
and afternoon program are James
Brinson, Kenansville; Mary Vann
Wilkins, Rose Hill; Jane Faison,
Rose Hill; Louie Jones, Faison;
Lorrie Currie, Kenansville; Polly
James, Wallace; Melvin Williams,
Pink Hill; Annette Holmes, Bow
den; Carol Miller, Beulaville; W.
G. Simmons, Albertson; Gerald
Cherry, Mt. Olive; Shelby Batts,
Magnolia; Douglas Turner, Rose
Hill, and Kenneth Brock, Kenans
ville. __
Wildcat Division
To Hold National
Reunion Concord
The 81st or Wildcat Division will
hold its annual National Reunion
in Concord on November 11, 12 and
13th, it was made known today by
a Wallace American Legion Post
No. 156 spokesman.
A number of men of this com
munity were members of this out
fit and should attend this event,
the spokesman pointed out._
Warsaw Tigers Travel To Wallace
Friday Night Gridiron Thriller
One of the most thrilling grid
iorn battles of the current season
is anticipated for Friday night
when the Warsaw Tigers travel to
Wallace to meet the south Duplin
town’s Bullodgs in the Wallace
American Legion Park.
Despite the fact that the Warsaw
team has lost seven men during
the season this year due to injur
ies, feeling is running high in War
saw that the Tigers will be the
team to upset Wallace’s undefeat
I ed conference record.
1 Coach Bill Taylor’s eleven will
I go into the Friday night game with
; an entirely new backfield from the
one that started the season except
for quarterback Charles Braswell.
The Warsaw team is in high spi
rits, it was learned today, and has
been practicing long and hard all
week in preparation for Coach
Thell Overman’s single wing Bull
dogs.
To date the Tigers have a 3-2-0
conference record, winning over
Smithfield, Richlands, and Burgaw,
to hold the third position in the
conference standing lineup, witn
Mt. Olive in the second slot, Wal
lace holding first.
The only other conference con
test slated for Friday night will
see a Panthers vs. Panthers strug
gle as the Beulaville team meets
the Mt. Olive eleven at Mt. Olive.
The Warsaw Tigers are as fol
lows ( with name, number, posi
tion, and weight in order ):
Charles Braswell, 22, QB, 168;
Bobby Braswell, 37, LH, 140; Bud
dy Blanchard, 25, LH, 125; Jerry
Davis, 29, LT, 150; Wayne Davis,
21, RE, 175; John Godbold, 31, FB,
180; Drew Grice, 26, QB, 130; Gail
Henderson, 38, LG, 135; Litch Huie,
35, RH, 140; Jay Kornegay, LG,
120; Jimmy Lanier, 34, C, 160;
Deams Pollock, 27, QB, 145; H.C.
Phillips, 40, LG, 140; Charles Po
well, 33, LG, 105; Allen Sutton,
23, LT, 150; Walker Stevens, 20,
RG, 135; Larry Taylor, RG, 140;
Ronnie Torrans, 24, RH, 125; Ja
mes West, 32, RE, 175; Jimmy \
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