established 1916 SELMA, N. C., TH^RSI^Y-^TULY 21,. 1949. — ; ~~7 ' REFERENDUM REMINDER—“rm no tobacco farmer,** says young Larry Alien of Wake County, N. C., “but Saturday, July 23 is an important date for everybody. That’s the day every flue-cured grower landowner, tenant and sharecropper—should go to his com- inuiuty polling place to vote on TOBACCO ASSOCIATES and marketing QUOTAS. My Daddy says tobacco farmers have the best program they've evec had, but they must vote SaturH«v, .Tulj 26 to keep that program.” Johnston Has $7,562,800 At Stake In Vote Saturday MorR than 5,000 Tar Heel farm ers and homemakers are expect ed to gather on the State College campus in Raleigh early next month for what promises to be the most outstandin^g Farm and Home iWeex program ever, held in Nort' Carolina, John W. Goodman, as- jsistant director of the State Col lege Extension Service, said this ^we«ie. The four-day annual event, no held last year because of a polio epidemic, will begin with regis tration on Monday, August 8, and iconfinue until Thursday night jAugust 11, when Bob Hawk, na tional radio show quizmaster, will jpreside over a grand-finale con test during which more than $-5,- iOOQ worth of farm m.achinery and jequipment will be giv.en away. I Secretary of Agriculture Char les F. Brannan, author of the much-discussed Brannan farm program, will headline a list of notable speakers for the occasion He will address a joint session ot |men and women on Tuesday night. other featured speakers will be Governor Scott, himself a farmer and former county agent: Rep, Hai'-old D, Cooley of Nashville, chairman of the House Agricul ture Committee; Mrs. Camille Mc Ghee Kelly, of Memphis, Tenn., one of the best-known juvenile court judges in the nation; and Mrs. Raymond Sayre, president of Associated Country Women of the World. Congressman Cooley will speak on proposed national farm legis lation and will then participate in a round-table discussion on the same subject with Dr. J. H. Hil ton, dean of the State College School of Agriculture: E. Y. Bal- lentine, State agrictilture com- PRICE:5CENTS 5,000 ExpectedSelmi Test and Repeater Telephone Station Is An ror Farm Week j l i. i. i i ^ ppitant Link In Nations Communication System r , . — crop in T94^i-yra«,worth 'approximately $18,9S?T000, hut ■’Ivithout our for eignmarket we would have suf fered plenty. There wmuld have been, no place for that 40 percent we usually export, and the result ing depressed prices surely would have placed our loss far above the $7,562,800 we received for our exported tob,acco. ‘There’s no doubt that two- thirds of the farmers voting in North and South Carolina in the Tobacco Associates referendum will approve the continuation of ^he program. However, we must register an overwhelming vote iust as we did in 1947 when more than 125,000 voted for pro gram and less than 2,000 against it. A big v-ote will show everyone tobacco farmers are eager to do iomething to help themselves. Bet’s get out that big vote Satur day, July 23 for Tobacco Associa- Johnston County flue-cured Lo , tobacco growers have a $7 562 son acres, with an average stake in th. 'Vr.u f^’®®2.800 per acre yield of 1,341 nounds stake m the Tobacco Associates “Our county’s flue-cured referendum Saturday, July 23 fqr' ' that’s the amount th^-reSjfvfed for the exported portion of their 1948 crop. G. Willie Lee, Willow Springs, county chairman for the referen dum, last week pointed out the vital interest local farmers have in the export program. He urged every grower who will share in the proceeds of the 1949 crop to “get out and vote” on the 10-cents an acre self-assessment to support Tobacco Associates, and on Mar keting Quotas. The Marketing Quotas referendum will be held at the same time and in the same polling places. Other committee members are: A. J. M'^hitley, Smithfield, and Oscar L. Boyette, Princeton. “Every flue-cured grower de pends upon exports tor the sale of about 40 percent of his crop,' missioner; R. Flake Shaw, execd- ti„ues tive secretary of the North. Caro lina Farm Bureau; Harry %.C:ald. veil, master of the State Grhnge: -J. T. Scott, State director, of . roduction and Marketing 'Ad ministration, E. B. Garrett. State loil conservationist; and Dir. I. O. Schaub, director of the State Col- e,go Extension Service. Perhaps tbe.'jno#;-unioue his tory of any busirieS?'in Selma is ■hat surroundihg %e Ame-i-an Telephone and'' Tefegraph Com- 'any’s station in Selma. Tn ad., lition to the local t^eohone ex-' change, the loi^ linel departm-nt 5f the Bell Sy^fem.has a test and' epeater statioh^loctii'd here. The’ A. T. &.T. and'the ^uthern Belli ■ender two sgnarate;|ervices. Establi.shed in 191.f;fn ab-ut the, same location a.s‘t.bA'^'ty Barber! Shop on RaefQtd'Street, the’ station has a record ;16 vears nf. ■ontinuous service.^Irf 1915 the«^^ station was mo-ved'h4^ Ug' present ' location ,at the conj|r;§f Anderson and • Raeford 'HrS,|^.,,'’-How in- •■eresting to knowitic ejeact na t that the station Ta^^’yed in the communication |iS sfi-the 'nation! throughout this, l^y .'v/ere it' ■■■ossible to relate 'iqsh the la^t World ’iVar would « age a fitting! example. c-.- • _ The inifla for e nti Selma con sisted of two men}.;pnfier‘-the late Norman M. ScpewSl'as,Chief Test-! board Man. As is. to he-expec‘ei economic condmona^and; techn"!'- gical improvement^' ffev? res Ite ’ in the number ,nfen being- varied up and dovgg. bid at i+s peak the station rfeqtdred about 17 men. - 1 In 1920 Mr. Screwy j.was suc ceeded by E. O. l^oi 'now de ceased, who serv^: sibout eigh* years. He in turn .Svas succeeded by Charles W. Scs^esL -who re mained about 10 ^rs and was *-ransferred to Grinyille, S. ,C Mr. Scales served April 15 1926 until Set>temp» 1 lOgg, M- Wood went to Dej^ark S. C serving there ni l JB death .few years a^io. Mh” S'’ale= Greenvllt Carty who Giant Test Board at the Selm a Test and Repeater Station ^ J. C. Diehl, test board man is shown at the large test board in the Selma station. On this board wire .trouble is located between Selma and Richmond and Selma and Denmark, S. C. a con- in GreenvfUe. He was followed here by Ci F served six yeays. Mr. Carty wa.5 succeeded b' Bernard C. TJuBOse.'iioresent ch’e toe in Selma is a Test IBh P.%pe-^te the “tele- Selma Firms Get Safety Awards the chairman said. “In our coun- jtes and ^Marketing Quotas two ty last year, we produced 37,815,- vital parts of our board tobacco 938 pounds of tobacco on about urogram. Too Much Speed Blamed for Most Highway Wrecks JEFF B. WILSON Woodard Takes Civil Service Job Ernest V. Woodard, Jr., left by plane Sunday morning for Rad ford, 'Va., where he has been ap pointed analytical chemist by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. Since his graduation from Atlantic Christian College in February, he has been employed in the Chemis try Department of the State Laboratory of Hygiene, Raleigh. Mrs. Woodard will join him in Radford in the near future. Raleigh.—Speeders lose' With this warning the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicle to day launched its July safety pro gram against the dangers of ex cessive speed. This concentration on speed is part of a continuing, year-around traffic safety pro gram conducted, nationally by the [National Safety Council and in North Carolina by the Depart ment. “Too much speed is a contribut ing factor in one out of every three fatal traffic accidents,” said Jeff B. Wilson, director of the Highway Safety Division, “This means that too high speeds play a part in the deaths of approxim ately 250 person.' yearly on North Carolina highways.” I Fully as important as posted speed limits—if not more so—, according to Wilson, are the speed limits that each motorist should impose upon himself. “Call them conscience speed limits’ if you wish,” the Highway Safety Department director said. “But in every driver there should be a sense of responsibility to ward his driving—a realization that posted speed limits are an in physical condition, and countless safe speed on a road under ideal circumstances. “Too seldom, however, is the road traveled under circumstanc es. Night; rain, fog, other traffic, the road surface, the driver’s physical condition, adn countless other factors must be taken into should be a guide. Often condi- (See A Page Four) Worley Beverages, Inc., and lean-M-Right Cleaners today were awarded- a Certificate of Safety Achievement signed by State Labor Commissioner , For rest H. Shuford for having achiev ed a perfect record of no lost-time accidents during 1948. The safety award was present ed to the firms by T. B. Knight, safety inspector representing the North Carolina Department of Labor in the Raleigh District. The certificate cites these two firms for having made an out standing record in the field of ac cident prevention last year and for preventing the human suffering and economic loss which are caused by industrial accidents. The .award is presented to establishments which qualify by having! perfect safety records having accident rates at least 75 per cent below the State average or by reducing their accident rates 40 per cent or more during any calendar year, Mr. Knight ex plained. Qualification of industrial nlants for the Certificate of Safety Achievement is one phase of the Labor Deoartment’s Manpower Conservation Program, which also includes safety education work and periodic inspection drives the inspector said. station and not [nhone offlce.,’5ijElr. DuBose has been in Selma since 1928. he hav ing served as telegraph sendee man, transmission man and test- board man prior to his appoint ment as chief. Perhaps a brief technical des cription of the function of Selma’s most unusual business should be ?iven here. The station acts as a “repeater” point on long-haul telenhone circuits; ie, long dis- System. It is well known over the nation to telephond", men, and many people now serving in various part of the United States have at one time served here. Or they have been connected with it. in .some capacity. Men assigned to the loca' station are, in addition to Mr. DuBose;. J. C. Diehl, G. H. Youn ger, Ben A. Brantley, J. L. Mc Millan, W. H. Hightower, Jr., and Howard V. Gaskill. The system takes considerable pride in the ■fact that.,the.se meh and the'r ™ - families'—as their nredec-essors— 'hei statiulflarf-' 'tecewSiizbff'*a's t citizens Professionally all of them are known and recognized by their fellows as being able technicians The work is so divided that each nan has hi.s own responsibilities, and he has the ability and know ledge to assume and dischargf them. In addition to the day-to-da: job of furnishing the various ser vices the station forces attend tc the job covering inter-cd|toan> work performed at the pffices in it’s area. Plans an Johnston Beer and Wine Election September 20th Legion Installs New Officers tance circuits that connect two specifications are prepared locall switchboards at considerable dis- as required by job conditions tances frorp each other. ForiThey .also are responsible for example, direct circuits between maintenance o'f technical equip Tew York, Washingt-i, or other,ment attached to pole lines, al hough ordinary maintenance Small Change Paper Money Still Good Miss Blanche Mitchener of Sel ma has sever.al pieces of American naper money in small denomina tions ranging from 15c to 50c. The dates on the money range from 1845 to 1866. The money was tak en to London, England in 1895 by a Mr. Powell, who sent them to Mr. Lahey ot Umatilla, Fla., who in turn gave them to John A. Mitchener, Miss Mitchener’s father. cities in the North pass througf^ Selma where they are “repeafed or amplified enroute to the next direct switchboard which may b 4. u g 11 s t a, Atlanta, Cha- 1's‘on M ami. Jacksonville, Palm B-a h nr Kev lYest. By the same toker the distant termination may be i - toe mid-v/e.st, near the ' Grea' Lakes, along the Gulf or on the far Pacific coast. These may b- direct circuits, as oreviousiy noted, with no intermediate operators. Another imnortant but possiblv lesser known phase of the vas“ communications industry as it ■elates to activities in Selma is of ‘hese outside facilities are cared ’or by a staff of three section inemen reporting to Selma. The test and repeater station in Selma contains thousands of mile' of wire. The nearest station north of its type is Richmond, while the nearest southern statio! Denmark. S. C. The station is equipped with a C carrier system which is so sc'entific that two wires can carry four two-way telephone conversations and two telegraph circuits at the same time and not get them mixed up. On the first floor is loca+ed the company’s power plant. The Stork Club by the Long lines department. These are nrovided newspaoe-s and radio, stations and the huge '^ress associations themselves fo- their use in the transmission of news and photographs which make up the daily fare of the large crops of readers and listen ers in our country. Included, too, is the orovision of an uniisuallv high grade type of telephone circuit—or Circuits—employed to interconnect the broadcasting net works. . The leased wire telegraph se-- vice is also employed on a large scale by commercial concerns, such as stock-brokers. Thus if may be e.asily seen that threaded through the sometimes humdrum and placid daily life of a small town is the day-to-day perticipa tion by a small group of highly skilled technical men in the momentous miracles of modern communications. This is tnio largely because Selma acts as a repeater and distribution point from which any number of points in eastern North Carolina are bridged from the main th.. ■ • . me company s power pjant. me t^>^es regular aiternatlng city current and puts it through —— Fremont announce the birth of a son, on Sunday, July 17, in the Goldsboro hospital. Mrs. Kirby is the former Miss Rebekah Ful- ghum of Kenly. TO FURNITURE SHOW Talmage Corbett, of Selma Fur niture Co., left 'Wednesday to at tend the furniture show in High point. — through Mr and Mr' -RnccoU v u outlying point. Hence 5.®'. ofjthe person (or persons) on duty at any given time at the Selma Testboard exercise supervision Over the provision, and mainten ance of a number of types of ser vice over an area extending from the Virginia line to Darlington, S. C., and to Ralejgh west and to the ocean towards the east. The Long Lines’ test and re peater station at ^Ima is one of the oldest in existence in the ectifics and its comes out 24 and 130 volts direct current. In case of power failure there are three engines that can be switched on to produce current. One engine generates 130 volts of negative direct current, while another one generates 130 volts of positive direct current. The third engine develops 24 volts of direct current. In the event that the city cur rent fails and the engines a'so fail, the office has storage bat teries that will produce current in sufficient quantity to last eight A referendum on the sale of beer and wine in Johnston County will be held Tuesday, Septembe 20. No .special registration will be required. Registration books wi l 'op«sL to the ^9 precincts in. the county from Saturday. August 20 to Saturday, Septmber 10. Johnstonians will vote on the two beverages separately as fol lows: ^ (1) For the legal sale of wine. (2) Against the legal sale of vine. (3) For the legal sale of beer. (4) Against the legal sale of beer. A majority of those persons ac tually voting in the election mus1 last ballots against the sale ‘of beer and wine for the two alco holic beverages to be outlawed i - the county. If the citizens vote out beer and wine at the referendum, places of business in Johnston County would have 60 days from the date of the election in which to dispose 3f their stocks of beer and wine. Date of the referendum was se by the County Board of Elections It a meeting Saturday. The election was originally scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, but was cancelled in early may by the elections board because the date set for the vote would have fallen within 60 days of the state wide school and road bond issue election of June 4. The 1947 General Assembly act nroviding for county and town re- ferendums on beer and wine sale stated that such an election could not be held within 60 days of any other election. The movement for the beer wine referendum got under way in Johnston County last winter Dry leaders, headed by Judge F H. Brooks of Smithfield. circulat ed petitions at the general election in November requesting the vote. These petitions, containing 4,432 signatures, were presented to the County Board of Elections. The law provides that the referendum must be called if the petitioners are 15 per cent of the voters in i . ™ ‘ ^ ^ I toe gubernatoral contest at the November 2 general election. The required number was 1,937. The check of the names of pe titioners from only half of the precincts against the registration books turned up more than 2,000 signatures of voters in the general election. The election was called and set for July 26, but/ later had to be cancelled. Text of the order signed by Elections Board Chairman C. H. (Hub) Brown of Selma and call ing the -September 20 vote: “Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1084, of the laws of North Carolina, Session 1947, the Board of Eelections of Johnston County has called a special elec tion in Johnston County for the purpose of submitting to the vot- eres of Johnston County the ques tions of whether or not wine and beer, or either, shall be legally sold within Johnston County, said and tested every Thursday. The office has its own lighting system that switches on automatically when local current fails. The system works on 24 volts, instead of 110 as in the case of regular city current. The light bulbs u-sed on the 24 volt lines all have left handed threads and cannot pos sible be screwed into 110 volt recepticles. The second floor of the building is taken up with test boards and hundreds of miles of wire. All toll wires passing through Selma ter minate at the test board. All wires running between Selma and Rich mond and Selma and Denmark, S. C., are tested on the local board. The third floor is taken up with repeaters and amplifiers. These machines take voice.s and signals and amplify them. This is neces sary every 200 miles. An electrical] (See B Page Four) The officers of Selma American Legion Post No. 141 were install-. ed as follows: Wilbur D. Perkins, Commander; Roland Fields, First Vice Com-, mander,, Fuller Suber, Second Vice Commander; Newton A. Branch, Third Vice Commander; C. A. Bailey, Adjutant; J. L. Mc- Laurin, Finance officer; Wilson Broadwell, Chaplain; Alton Meece, Historian and publicity; Leland M. Grice, Sergeant-at-Arms. The following committees were appointed; C. B. Fulghum, Grave registra-. tion; H. S. Ward, Guardianship; E. B. Creech, Athletic officer; John Jeffreys, Sr., Americanism; H. V. Payne, Boy’s State; Dr. E. N. Booker, Boy Scout; Dr. Will H. Lassiter, Child Welfare: H. l! Boney, Employment; Hunter Price Membership; R. H. Griffin, Ora torical contest: Norwood J. Jack- son, Sons of Legion. Commander Perkins stated that he felt very humble in accepting the responsibility as leadership of so great an organization, but he honed to continue the high stand ard of service of his predecessota in office, and to bring to the mem bers a fuller realization of the Legion’s responsibilition and posi tion in the community. He also, stated the objectives of the post for the forthcoming year would be the continuation of the SDonsorship and support of the Arnerican Legion Junior baseball activities. The sponsorship of sending a boy to the “Boy’s State” forum at Chapel Hill, for instruc tion in local and state government affairs. The assisting other local civic organizations with the com munity underprivileged oppor tunities and to carry out the Veteran’s grave marker project, for the Selma community, hoping that all information be given to C. B. Fulghum, the Post’s Graves Registration officer, so that all Veteran s graves could be proper ly and permanently marked. — . )' RETURNS FROM MARKET C. H. (Hub) Brown of the Economy Furniture Co., Selma at tended the furniture show in High Point, Monday and Tuesday of this week. Special election to be held on 20 day of September, 1949, in accor dance with the provisions and pursuant to the terms of Chapter 1084 aforesaid. “The registration books will be open in all voting precincts of the Comty for the purpose of Regis tering qualified voters beginning on Saturday, August 20, 1949, and. closing Saturday, September 10 1949.’!’ .,y> 37