-- Mount Olive citizens were urging local physician Dr. C.C. Henderson and businessman C.D. Burnette to run for seats in the General Assembly. At that time, the last person from Mount Olive to serve in the General Assembly was Fred Mintz, founder of the Mount Olive Tribune, who served three terms.

--From the Mouth Piece: “You know it’s spring when you see a couple of young boys pushing their lawn mower and carrying their jug of gasoline, going from house to house wanting to cut lawns to earn spending money.”

--A front-page photo showed Carver High School Future Farmers of America officers Leslie Loftin, president; Dennis Baker, vice president; Willie Sutton, secretary; and Walter Martin, treasurer.

--Police Lt. Hardy Davis said that Ralph Kelly of Mount Olive suffered lacerations of the arm and chest in an affray on Hickory Nut Hill. (Hickory Nut Hill was the name of an area of East James Street near the town limits.)

--From the Piney Grove column: “Miss Hazel King returned home Saturday from Sampson Hospital where she was treated for an injured arm.”

--A whiskey still was found on a small island in the Glisson Township of northern Duplin County and deputies had to wade through water in a swamp to reach it, Constable Rodney Thigpen said. (Thigpen was a well-liked Duplin County sheriff’s deputy who lived near Rones Chapel.)

--From Negro News by Mrs. Maude M. Kornegay: “Alton Barfield of N.C. College, Durham, and Lela Barfield of the Durham Business School, spent the Easter holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barfield.”

--Miss Janice Carol Summerlin of Mount Olive and Boyd Barfield of Faison were married on April 6 at Rooty Branch Baptist Church near Mount Olive .

--From the Corbitt Hill column: “Mr. and Mrs. Marion Westbrook are about to complete their new home on their farm here.”

--Army Pvt. Durwood Holloman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddis Holloman of Mount Olive and a graduate of Mount Olive High School , was assigned to Sandia Base, Albuquerque , New Mexico .

--Births included a daughter, Brenda Faye, March 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Sutton of Seven Springs; a son, Jimmie Paul, March 31, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Williams of Faison; and a son, March 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Peterson of Mount Olive .

--A photo tagged “What A Hog” showed William Loftin of Mount Olive with a giant, 650-pound hog owned by Jonas Dail of route 2 that Loftin had purchased for slaughter.

--Girls of Brownie Scout Troop 41 toured the Tribune’s printing plant and included Sue McKenzie, Joanne Lownes, Gloria Malpass, Bobbie Jean Odom and Ida Elizabeth Parker.

--You could get men’s sport shirts for a dollar and ladies’ “luxury lingerie” for $3.19 at Belk-Tyler’s downtown.

--From Summerlins Crossroads: “Miss Lorraine Ivey attended a F.H.A. rally in Raleigh last Saturday.”

--You could get a large box of vanilla wafers for 29 cents and a half-gallon of Hines ice cream for 89 cents at Thompson & Francis supermarket on East Main Street downtown.

--From What The Young Folks Are Doing (a Mount Olive High School column): Couples who attended the junior-senior prom included Sue Lowe and Carroll Lindsay; Kathryn Brown and Stuart Patten; Johnny Thigpen and Ann C. Wilson; and Carole Brock and Ed Lewis.

--The Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce was preparing for its third Festival of Flowers with events that included a parade, a square dance, garden tours and more. (The festival was the forerunner of the N.C. Pickle Festival that is held here each April.)

--A feature story, with a photo of Mount Olive volunteer fire fighters, noted that the department was “getting younger “with the average age of volunteers at 33 since many older fire fighters had retired. Asst. Fire Chief Ralph Hollingsworth, 53, was considered “one of the old timers.” (Hollingsworth has been retired from the department for several years.)

--A campaign was under way by the Southern Wayne Sanitary Water District to request the General Assembly to allow a referendum on turning 25 square miles of rural southern Wayne County into the county’s newest municipality to be called “ Southern Wayne .” (The municipality never materialized.)

--Suzanne Weaver, 16, of the Grantham community, was a state winner in the 4-H accumulative record keeping contest and as a result would attend the National 4-H Congress in Chicago .

--A photo showed little Robert Lambert Jr. of Calypso with a giant stuffed bunny rabbit—much bigger than he was—that he won in a promotion at Mack’s department store here.

--A building permit was issued to Ronald and Mary S. Nobles for alterations to the old IGA store at the corner of Breazeale Avenue and Station Street for a new pizza restaurant, Pizza Village , one of Mount Olive ’s first pizza restaurants. (The restaurant is still in operation today.)

--Local attorney George R. Kornegay Jr. announced the association of attorney Janice S. Head with his office at 232 Smith Chapel Road . (Today, Ms. Head operates her own law office on North Center Street downtown. Kornegay, who is active in local civic and political affairs, is retired.)

--You could get a pound of bacon for $1.29 and a family size “homemade” coconut cake for $5.99 at the Mount Olive Piggly Wiggly.

--A Bland’s Focus feature photo showed three little girls, Jeronda Stringfield and her sisters, Jacquetta and Jasonia, with a pet rabbit named “Ivey” at the Head Start Center here.

--From Black Community News: “Missionary Doris Kornegay will render services Sunday at Perry’s Temple .”

--Winners of a children’s Easter coloring contest sponsored by the Tribune and local merchants were Jennifer Westbrook and brothers William Saviak and Michael Saviak.

--You could get three hot dogs for $1.19 and a banana split for $1.19 at Smitty’s Big-T Family Restaurant on North Breazeale Avenue . (The popular restaurant, known for its “Smitty Burgers” and operated by Relma “Smitty” Smith, was torn down several years ago to make room for an ATM in front of Southern Bank.)

--Miss Debra Doreen Dazey of Calypso and Kenneth Ray Barwick Jr. of Mount Olive exchanged wedding vows on April 3 at the Northeast FWB Church just northeast of Mount Olive .

--And, a photo showed Mount Olive public works director Lloyd Warren striking a match to show how “Grease Ball,” a dog that hung around the public works building, would scratch out the fire and eat the match.

The dog was found one day after it fell into grease pit at the building. It was rescued, cleaned and adopted by public works employees who fed it.

Warren said the canine had “a thing against fire” and couldn’t stand a match being struck. “He’s okay as long as you don’t strike a match around him,” he said.