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CHURCH
NEWS

2;30 p. m. the celebration will be
highlighted with Passover
Feast. The public is invited to
attend. Sunday, June l, Rv.
M. w. Williams, pastor of Arch
Street Baptist church will deliver
the sermon The corner stone will
be laid by the Trinity Lodge No
33. j. B. Hashin, Worshipful mas
ter. The Harris Temple church
has invited churches from all over
the state and out of tha state
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HARRIS TEMPLE BAPT
Seven miles South hiway IS

The Harris Temple Baptist
church opened its educational
services for their NV church
Sunday, May IS and will close on
June L. The laying of the COR
ner stone will close the meeting.
This is a combined service with
the Rock of charity organization
which donated to this building
fund. The opening sermon was
delivered by Rev. j. II. Mack,
pastor of Harris Temple and Rev.
N. Nichols of Collins Temple Bap-
fist church delivered the evening
sermon at 800 p m. May Is at
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Card Of Thanks

PINE BLUFF-We, the relltives
of the late Mrs. Bertha Stew
art, take this method to express
to our many loyal friends, well
wishers, and sympathizers our
sincerest appreciation and deepest
gratitude for your heart warming
assistance, and expressions. We
shall ever treasure your kind Tnd
sympathetic thoughtfulness shown
to us during the illness and death
of our sister-in-law.
Signed: Mrs. Susie Tiggin, sister,
in-law; Rudolph Tiggin, bro
ther-in-law.
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WESLEY CHAPEL
11th & State
Rev. A. NJ. Anderson, pastor


Our Most Slnc re Welcome to
our visiting friends. We pray
Gods blessings upon you and So
lieit your continual prayers and
presence. Come again, often.
We Extend Our Deepest SYM
pathy to Sister Clara Young, who
recently lost her mother. We do
pray that God has been and will
continue to be source of
strength for her and her family.
Daily Vacation Church School
The dates for Daily Vacation
Church School will be from June
2-13. We are still appealing for
teachers and volunteer workers.
II you would share your skills
and talents for the training of our
Children during this period please
see Mrs. A. r. Foster, Mrs. M, A.
Lawson, or J. S. Cullins. A period
of training for all DVCS workers
will be held Friday, May 80 at 7
p. m. Each member of the church
is asked to help in the recruiting
by encouraging the children in
your nelghborhood to attend.
The Men of Weslay will present
the Most Outstanding Event Of
The Century-A Womanless W.dd-
ing Thursday, May 20. Come and
see the groom from First Bap-
fist church, and the bride from
Bethel AME church. See the
weeping mother of the bride. the
amazing brides maids and un-
known third lady.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-05-23

In loving memory of our dear
brother, Boyd Harrison, who de-
parted this life here on earth a
year ago in Detroit, Michigan.
One year has passed, dear bro
Their,
Since God has called you home
To be with him in heaven,
Around the snow white throne,
Sadly missed by Mrs. Artie Liv-
ington. Mrs. H nrietta Thomas
Mrs. Mary Darthard, Miss Viola
Harrison, Mrs. LOWE Brewer and
John Harris, Ernest Harrison and
Caleb Harrison.
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of the Crusade to find those who
have gone astray.
The chairman, eo-chairman ana
members of the Christian Board
of Education are grateful for the
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Church Votes TO
Withhold Funds
From PhiIander

The Augusta Methodist church
has adopted a resolution directing
that its race relations day offer
ing be given to some Negro col
lege other than Philander Smith
college of Little Rock.
The resolution was sent to Rev.
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BULLOCK TEMPLE CINE
18th and Cross
Rev. c. T. OdOm. pastor

The pastor and members of
Bullock Temple CINE church in
vites you to sip tea with them at
their first auxiliary TIA Sunday,
June | at Dunbar Community Cen
ter, 10th and Chester streets.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-05-23
LIBERTY HILL
cath & Spring
Rev. w. ii. Marley, pastor

The monthly musical program
will be presented Sunday q, p
n. The snior choir will render
all request numbers, sponsored by
MRS. Loretta Henderson.
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UNIOR AME
Wright & Pulaski

lsev. Y. z. Dryver. pastor
aev. F. d Gipson, presidirs
elder of the Hot Springs district.
viii fill the pulpit of Unto.
vnureh Sunday, May 10 at eleSen
a. m. at which tim. the pastor
VIII deliver the baccalaureate
sermon for the Turner Theologic-
al seminary at Morris Brown col
lege, Atlanta, Georgia.
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untiring efforts and cooperation of
those who participated in this eff
fort, and are anticipating a sue
cessful leadership institute and
Vacation Bible school
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BELHAVEN TO CELEBRATE
JULY FOURTH AS USUAL

Two bands and a drill team will
be on hand to make this years
Fourth of July parade in Belhaven
the biggest ever, according to of
ficials of the American Legion,
sponsor of the celebration. The End
Marine Aircraft Wing Band from
Cherry Point and the Washington
High School Band will take part in
the parade, and the Washington
Band, now nationally known for its
excellence, is expected to play at
the Community Center at the time
of the Beauty Contest. The Amer
lean Legion Drill Team from Ra-
per, North Carolina, will take part
in the parade.
The schedule for the days ac-
Invites is as follows: $3.50 am
Water Show, which will include a
boat parade and water skiing;
:3O-Street Parade; 1900 noon
Fish Fry at the Community Cen
ter. for which a nominal charge
will be made; 500 p.m.-Baseball
Game between the Belhaven Towr
Team and Douglas Cross Roads,
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CURRITUCK HAS ONLY p. O. i
IN COUNTRY NAMED MAMIE

While many postoffices in the
United States have been named for
women, the postoffice of Mamie in
Currituck County is the only one
of like name in any state in the
Union. When the late Taylor S.
Harrell, prominent citizen, farmer
and merchant was successful in
1904 in getting a postoffice estab-
lished in this community in lower
Currituck he was appointed post
master, and permitted to choose
the name of the new office. He
gave it the name of his wife, whom
he carried in 1900. She is the for
mer Mamie Crank of Currituck,
and after living in Edenton awhile
after their marriage, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harrell settled down in Currituck
County. He was a native of BERTHE
County. Mrs. Harrell resides at the
old home next to the post office
which is now held by her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. 7. S. Harrell, Jr.
Mrs. Mamie Harrell, although in
her late 70's is very active.
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Gallant Deeds Of By-Gone
Years in The Walter
Raleigh Coastland.
OF THE SCHOONER
CHARLES c. LISTER. JR.

While returning from his south
ern beat at o'clock in the morn
ing of Dec. 22nd, 1888, the patrol
at the Oregon Inlet Station (then
Sixth District), coast of Dare
County, N. c., discovered schoon-
er that had just stranded about a
mile and a half southeast of the
station. After making signals to
inform the sailors that help would
at once be summoned, he hurried
back with the alarm. In the mean
time, however, the vessel had been
seen by the surfmen at the sta
ton. A cold, northerly gale prevail
ing at the time raised very rough
sea and the surfmen accordingly
took both the surfboat and the
beach apparatus upon the wagon
and started for the scene without
delay.
Arriving shortly abreast of the
vessel, which they found to be
about one hundred and fifty yards
from the shore, they soon had a
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line over, the first shot from
the Lyle gun proving effective.
Soon after the whip and hawser
were sent off, the keeper and the
crew of the Pea Island Station hav-
ing seen the ship, at once set out
for the vessel, reached the place
and at once gave their assistance.
Six trips of the breech-buoy were
made without mishap, but as the
rig was going out for the Captain,
who alone remained on board, the
schooner swung around, stacking
and fowling the gear so that it
became impossible to continue it's
use.
Meanwhile, the keepers and men
from the neighboring stations, Be-
die Island and New Inlet, arrived
and joined the others in the work.
The tide having fallen somewhat
it was proposed to haul off the
surfboat by means of the hawser,
the shore end of which was led
down the beach as much as pos
sible, in order to gain something
of lee. This project, natwithstand-
ing the surf and heavy storm and
one or two failures in the struggle
to get out away from the beach
through the breakers, was at
length accomplished, and the cap
tain was thus brought ashore.
The schooner was the Charles G..
Lister, Jr., of Wilmington, Della
ware, from Bay River, N. c., bound
for Philadelphia, with a cargo of
lumber valued at $4,000; the YES
sci was valued at $4,000, all of
which was eventually saved. Her
crew numbered six, and there was
one passenger, woman. She was
wrapped warmly in blankets and
conveyed to the Oregon Inlet Sta
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ton, all being wet and thoroughly
chilled, We're provided upon reach
ing the house, with clothing from
the gift of the Women's National
Relief Association until their own
could be dried.
On subsequent days the crew of
the Oregon Inlet and Pea Island
stations worked on the stranded
craft, saving her stores, sails and
other articles; also a portion of the
lumber which constituted her car
go. She was floated by a wrecking
company some ten days after the
accident, but was quite badly dam
aged and the loss of the cargo
amounted to about half its value.
One of the rescued remained nine
days at the station. The others
stayed only five days, at the end of
which time they proceeded to their
homes, one of the surfmen taking
them to the steamboat landing.
The following letter, with refer
ence to this rescue was received by
the General Superintendent of the
Service:
"Sir: We came ashore in the
morning of the 22nd in a heavy
north-by-west gale, and we want
to inform you of the timely heroic
service that was rendered us by
the crews of the Oregon Inlet and
Pea Island Stations. They bravely
did their work, in saving our
lives, landing everyone safely, and
we join in sincere thanks to the
crews for this and for the kindness
and care we received since we have
been here. They were abreast of
the schooner within forty-five min
utes from the time she struck, for
which rapid work they should re-
ceive the credit that truly belongs
to them. If they had not been on
hand we should all likely have been
lost. We also thank the keepers
and the crews of the New Inlet
and Bodies Inlet Stations, who ar
rived in time to render must as
sistance in rescuing us.
with much respect,
"William Palmer, NJ "a ster;
George 7. Stowe, Mate; Parnell
Short, Steward; John A. Boyce,
Seaman; Caesar Karnat, Seaman;
Charles Karnat, Seaman; Ida L.
Hill, passenger of the schooner
Charles C. Lister, Jr."
Oregon Inlet Station,
December "a, 1883.
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necessary eye appeal. A & P,
Safeway and other chains became
steady buyers.
Little wonder then that Wood
house has a contented look in his
eye when he sees the cleaning and
bagging machines going full speed
in his warehouse.
They've put us back into COM
petition" said he. "Used to be that
the growers in California were
putting up a better pack. They
had higher production than we
did and they could pack their po-
tatoes, ship them across the coun-
try and still outsell us in the same
market" That would be, mostly,
in New York.
California potatoes hit the mar
ket at about the same time pota-
toes begin moving from North
Carolina. Ten years ago, this was
a serious problem for Tar Heel
growers. Woodhouse and the other
packers have made their move in
the last five or six years.
"Now," Woodhouse said, "the
situation is changed. Now our po-
tatoes are selling in the same mar
ket and bringing as much money
as the California potatoes, or
more"
Potato Promoter
He helped persuade fellow Cur
rituck growers to produce more
Sebago potatoes. This is a long
potatoe with smooth eyes which is
a favorite of potato chip manu-
facturers because it turns out a
smooth, white chip. In the past
five or six years, Currituck, has
expanded its Sebago production
until now the Sebago makes up
the bulk of the crop in the county.
The cobbler, once the entire crop,
presently is only 40 per cent of a
seasons crop.
Woodhouse is a man who stayed
at home to find his calling. He
was born within a mile of Grandy
on February Z, 1910, of a farm
family. His father and mother,
Leonard B. and LOWE Hayman
Woodhouse, still are living and his
father still is active in farming
and poultry raising. He carries a
pickup load of chickens and eggs
to the Norfolk market every week.
Orville worked on the farm in
his boyhood, while attending high
school at Poplar Branch. He earn
ed extra money by driving a
school bus.
He finished high school in 1881
and went into business immediate
ly, buying grocery stores owned
by Dan Leary and J. T. Grandy.
He closed the Grandy store and
combined the preparations in the
Leary store. Business was good
enough for him to take a wife that
same year, and on September 3 he
married Ola Louise Aydlett of
Grandy.
With J. T. Grandy's store, Or
vile also acquired the local post
mastership-a job he still holds.
Currituck Politics
Politically, Currituck has beer
divided for decades into two camps.
One was pro-Joe Knapp and the
other was anti-Joe Knapp. The
center of the political storm was
the late Joseph P. Knapp, wealthy
Crowell- Collier publisher WI o
hunted for many years in Curri-
tuck and was one Of the leading
benefactors of the public school
system there. The dispute began in
the sound---i. e., over hunting
rights--and eventually spilled over
into the schools. The factions re-
main, although the underlying
cause Of their division has faded
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into the past.
Woodhouse was an original
member of the pro-Knapp faction.
When Knapp established the Cur
rituck Mutual Exchange in the
early Depression years to help
Currituck farmers with crop loans,
| Woodhouse was the Exchange
representative in Grandy and the
southern part of the county. When
the Exchange went out of business
in 1885, Orville opened his produce
warehouse. He continued as post
master and as store proprietor,
and farmed about 1880 acres. In
1948, he sold, his store to Melvin
Dowdy, who operated it for a
year and then disposed of it to
become farm manager for Orville.
While everyone in Currituck
knows he's Knapp man, and Or
vile is definitely aligned with his
faction, he has managed to main
tain the respect of the opposing
faction. In Currituck, this amounts
to a real accomplishment and gives
testimonial to his political astute-
ness.
Wildlife Chairman
He was elected to the county
board of education in 1914. Four
years later, he supported Kerr
Scott in the Scott-Johnson guber-
material campaign. Next year, win
ner Scott promptly appointed Or
vile to the North Carolina Wild
life Resources Commission. He
was reappointed in 1855 by Gov
ernor Hodges and now he is chair
man of that board, which regulates
hunting and fishing in the State.
Orville has four of the best
coon hounds in his section and he
likes nothing better than to get
out at night on a coon hunt. He
does great deal of duck hunting
on several hundred acres of
marshland he owns in Currituck
Sound and he does a good deal of
fishing in the spring and fall.
He has been a member of the
Mt. Zion Methodist Church all his
life and chairman of the official
board for the past 10 years. He
was an organizer and is past
president of the Poplar Branch
Ruritan Club.
He and Mrs. Woodhouse have
three children, Mrs. Phyllis link,
81; Orville Larry, IT; and Rebecca
Joe, 6. Their home is only few
hundred feet from the postoffice
building which stands in the clus-
ter of buildings making up the
village of Grandy.
Duke of Currituck
To members of the N. C. Wild
life Resources Commission, of
which he is chairman, Orville
Woodhouse is the "Duke of Curri-
tuck"
Orville figures that such jocular
titles come naturally to members
of his clan.
"My grandfather, the late Major
Woodhouse was sergeant-at-arms
of the House in the early 1920's,
he recalls.
"They used to call him the "Hel
Raiser from Currituck.'
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500 p.m.-Fireworks over tn e
Pungo; 900 p.m.-Dance at the
Community Center.
"Miss Independence" the winner
of the beauty contest, will be
crowned that evening during the
dance. The trophy which will be
presented to her is now on display
in the building next to O'Neals
Corner Store on Pamlico Street
Other trophies which will go tC
the best entries in the parade in
the float and bicycle divisions are
also on display.
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Editors Note: Among our many good neigh
bors in CurritUck County is q young mon OF
distinction who deserves much credit for his
rise TO success. We take pleasure in for.
Wording 70 your readers by courtesy Of
The News & Observer. this recent ortiele
Qbout OrVille Woodhouse by Woodrow Price.
In the summertime, when the
Irish potatoes are ripening and the
plows are breaking them free of
their loamy beds, the busiest
place in all Currituck County is
the rambling, wooden warehouse
of the Woodhouse Produce Com
pany, Inc, at Grandy.
Here, in an organized kind of
disorder, $50 men and women work
rapidly, washing, grading and
sorting potatoes and bagging them
for shipment to the big markets
in the North. In a season, 20 mil
lion pounds of Irish potatoes flow
through the warehouse and into
the trucks that carry them to the
consumer. Another $4,000 so
pound crates of cabbages from the
rich soil of Currituck find their
way to the markets through the
Woodhouse company, along with
10000 bushel hampers of green
snap beans, hundreds of water
melons and a goodly supply of
sweet potatoes.
Produce Center
1t is the second biggest produce
warehouse in Eastern Carolina.
Only the Scott and Halstead Ware
house at Weeksville in Pasquotank
County handles more potatoes and
other produce than the Woodhouse
operation, and Woodhouse in re-
! cent years has expanded his area
to include some of the produce
from the fields of Camden and
Pascuotank Counties.
The boss of the business is Or
vile Leonard Woodhouse, who is
AZ. He's a fellow with twinkling
blue eyes and a roly-poly sort of
figure (190 lbs in five feet six
inches) and a vast store of physi-
cal energy which has made him
one of his sections most aggres-
sive business men and political
leaders.
He has carefully nurtured his
business from it's inauspicious be-
ginning in 1885 and in the process
he has become one of North
Cardinals leading opponents of
better packaging for agricultural
products. With good reason: Better
packaging has been the key to his
business success.
He gives credit to Harry West
colt for leading him in the right
direction, and to Warnie Baum Jr.
for helping him follow. Westcott,
now a member of the State Utili-
ties Commission, formerly was po-
tato marketing specialist for the
Department of Agriculture, and in
this role he helped counsel Wood
house. Baum is manager of the
warehouse operations, and has
been for the past 10 years.
A Pioneer
With their help, Woodhouse
pioneered in North Carolina in in
staIling machine to wash and
dry his potatoes. Then, he began
packaging the cleaned potatoes in
five and 10 pound paper bags and
in so pound paper bags as well as
the standard 100 pound burlap
sack in which potatoes have been
marketed for many years.
The smaller bags-the size a
housewife finds on the super
market shelves enabled Wood
house to deal directly with
the big chain stores. Middle men
were eliminated. The washing
drying, heretofore job for the
middle man, gave the potatoes the
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COMPLETES BASIC TRAINING

Avon.-Earl T. Miller, Seaman
apprentice, USCG, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William T. MilleN, has COM
pleted 13 weeks of Cyast Guard
Receiving Center, Cape May, New
Jersey. Miller entered the Coast
Guard last March. He graduated
from Cape Hatteras High School.
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Editors Note: Among our many good neigh.
bors in CUFrifUek County is young mon OF
distinction who deserves much credit for his
wording TO your readers by courtesy Of
The News & Observer. this recent article
0boUt Orville Woodhouse by Woodrow Price.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-04-11

physical threats arrests financial pnches
participate and leadership 10 all
good OF necessity the risk Of being
compacen predicted
his critics,
only print he must roll his sleeves
citizenship Those who disagree win
who win take IL for granted that he
special thanks
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90, The osmoe,s,. foo, OF Our Brothers. Neck,

Editor The Negroes stspa
Capitol joined
justice legal ynchng
Jeremiah Reeves Jr grim things
~ continue 70 supply The vote that intimately puts southern
Democrats power
The which years gone Uy string cons the
nearest tree tie hap Negro to tho stake Coz public burning
obsolete thanks effort by the National Association
nr the Advancement Of colorod People tNAAcpt.
pu Alabama has oui,aed the MACE During the 1855 eec-
ton campaign predicted hat should Democrats could
we'll be the beginning q the end Of the organization that has
consistently fought rights the Negro
North Carolina the only Southern state during 1887 where
the membership ue EAAcr da fall
ports the delegates the sixth regional SAACP
venion a Greensboro. NC
Raby Hurley nAAcr Regional Secretary
probes membership Florida Georgia
Carolina Tennessee that branches Msappi
the hammer q fear from white Citizens Councils
We Eastand a. speaking
the Mssisappi
us' a. 1904 and telling them not obey The supreme
ruling segregation
miee When speaks
approve Appointments
Rights
ne senator Eastlands Committee up President
rcnhoers appointment Tiffany Of the
c Rights Commission and therefore Mr. Tiffany could not select
the members Of his staff
gastand Senator John Mcclellan 90 ArlJ hold
chmsnps q powerful committees and their foot the Negroes
neck
aspp pcuocrat officials threatened Army set John wheeler
with 10 yeas prison bringing to his home town
Laurel Mississippi Apparently Mcclellan
wanted the provision Army Camps tho south
Those % who Southern
Democrats put laws prohibiting marrying
they said bat know put prevent
the mother compelling father to give anything
10 support
Arlington Hsh Ms.l.sppi Nesro editor escaped alive IN a
wooden coffin because his county
who fathers Negro children
Those % that conditions that
exist there let us remember that when
the North that putting antNeEro politicians tn charge
o. vital committees where Cusrns Councils ana
The kn kuS Khan IN expressing the Negroes that dare live th
Remember how fered the sincerely
Right.
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