North Carolina Newspapers

THE DANBURY REPORTER Established 1872 I. M. Gordon Urges Stokes To Vote For Control In Saturday's Referendum Editor Pepper: We tobacco growers are again standing at the parting of tiie' ways—the forks of the road. The right hand road leads on for the' same splendid prices and condi- tions for flue-cured tobacco we' have enjoyed these happy years under marketing quotas with con-' trolled production, and that has made flue-cured tobacco growers, it seems, the best off financially of any class of farmers in the United Stteas. The left hand road leads down' grade to the same uncertain con- ! I ditions and finally, to the same "starvation prices" that enslaved tobacco growers for the long years till our control program res-! cued u 8 and put us on a solid fi- 1 nanci&l foundation, giving us and our families hope for a decent liv-' ing. The results of the election on tobacco marketing quotas that will be held Saturday, July 24, will determine which road tobac co farmers will travel. The wise course seems so plain to acy thinking individual, that it snnuidj be useless to debate the question. But human nature hae always been about the same. The Lord tried to make a great people and 1 a great nation out of the Israel ites, but when He would bless and prosper them they would for get, transgress, and go off to wor ship idols. We so easily "grow fat and lazy" and unappreciative, and are ready to smite the hard that gives us bread. It is feared ' that many who enjoy the results I of this marketing system Willi just fail to show their apprecia-1 tion by their votes and such neg lect may kill it; for it must pass/ by a two-thirds majority over the entire territory of flue-cured I tobacco. Our Congressmen, and our State and farm heads and officials and the N. C. Bankers Association as well as newspapers * are doing all in their power to save u a tobacco growers from de- 1 struct ion; and destruction will fi nally come to' us if we fail to C vote control July 24. Will we use our heads and save ourselves 1 and our neighbors, or ignore the advice and earnest admonitions of 1 the leaders of thought throughout the land; and by a stupid blunder C vote down the best marketing sy Stem that has ever been, or ever 8 Will be devised? And that will mean los 8 of untold millions of ° dollars to our people. Yes, our intelligent leadfers are doing all f possible to restrain u 8 from com mitting SUICIDE. Will we stop 1 before we plunge to financial death ? This marketing system belongs' Volume 72 jto US. It is our system. For many years on up to the coming of this regulated system, the to bacco growers were in a sencE 'slaves to over-planting and the consequent pauper prices receiv i ed. They" appealed to the manu facturers to pay better prices but were told that with no limit on production, if farmers were paid I better prices they would turn so much to growing tobacco that they would flood the manufactur ers till they would have surplus stock enough for many years, 'which they would have to store and carry at heavy costs, and would have no use for it. They i were forced to hold down produc tion by means of low prices, j Don't forget tobacco growers WILL BE CONTROLLED as to amount of toEacco produced, eith er by this our marketing system at splendid prices, or else by ths "starvation prices" formerly paid, that will force farmers to quit or reduce in despair, down to amount needed. An over-sized grain crop can be handled by using the' sur plus in form of pork or beef or I poultry. Only a limited amount of tobacco can be sold by the manufacturers, about 775 million pounds, and when they have Bup- I plied each mouth with a cigarette, (Continued on page 3) Polling' Faces For the Tobacco Referendum Listed below are the polling places for the tobacco referendum to be held on Saturday, July 24, jfrom 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. All tobacco growers are urged to vote. Notify your neighbors and urge them to vote. | Big Creek township—Francisco. | Beaver Island township—Stukz Store. Danbury township—Courthouse- Meadows township Palmyra school. • #> ~ Peter's Creek township—Harry Martin's Store. Quaker Gap township—Reyn olds school. Sauratown township Davis- Fulton Store. Snow Creek township Sandy Ridge school. Yadkin townsh'.p King Drug Company. Yadkin towiship Pinnacle school. , The three questions to be voted on are: 1. For 1944 and also the two following years. 2. Against 3 years but for 1944. 3. Against 1944, 1945, and 1946. JACOB FULTON, Chm. Stokes County A. C. A. Danbury, N. C., Thursday, July 22, 1943 * * * WHY VOTE FOR TOBACCO QUOTAS FOR 1944? [ By R. FLAKE SHAW, Ex. Sec'y.; N. C. Farm Bureau r 1. In 1932, the tobacco farmers r were all broke. We had no pro gram. In 1933, an attempt was made to produce and market to bacco in an orderly manner. Since that time except for one year (1939), we have had some t kind of a tobacco program sup ported by quotas either on acres ; j or pounds and price support. In j a ten-year period, the income of I tobacco growers was advanced . from approximately 35 million to j 309 million dollars. Statistics WIT also show that similar gains , were made in food and feed crops j and living conditions were im i f proved in a like manner through _ out the tobacco states, much of which was made possible by the I extra income from this crop, j j 2. In compliance with the re quest of many of the leading to , bacco farmers who pioneered with { the quota provisions of the law when it was an unpopular issue „' and Bad to be sold and proved to t many of our leaders, Congress has j jseen fit to grant a special privi . j lege to this group by the passage . of a Joint Resolution No. 144. The . j responsibility rests with the to , bacco grower to reaffirm bis faith in the quota provisions of the to bacco fcct. This is considered the most important referendum ever held, since the government has forced abandonment of quotas on all other crops except tobacco, and unless a large percent of our tobacco growers go out and ex- i press their approval in this refer-' endum, in my opinion, Congress J next year will fail to give us the privilege of voting for 1945. 3. The Food and Feed Program lis Item No. 1 in our defense pro gram. I realized that the tobnr-: co farmers North Carolina aie as patriotic as any other group in the nation, but if we sell our 1943 toßacco crop for an average of above 40 cents per pound and , quotas at the same time are tak en off of tobacco for 1944, there will be a large number of our far mers who will transfer from Food and Feed Production into the wholesale production of flue-cur ed tobacco. Another contributing factor to fMg switch has been the collapse in pric eof most perish able food crops in North Carolina this year. W#- •A" 4. Price support means to the tobacco farmers exactly what the Minimum Wage and Hour Law 1 means to the laboring man. We 1 know now that regardless of 1 what happens to the war or any- 1 thing else, the 1943 tobacco crop 1 cannot sell for less than 90 per- ' cent of parity. This guarantees perhaps will not mean much to us this year, but within a short time ' (Continued on page 2.) I News of OUR BOYS • Pfc. Hubert E. Corn, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Corn of Sandy s Ridge, has been promoted to his -1 present rating. He entered the 3'army October 3, 1942, trained at - jFort Riley, Kansas, and has been . on maneuvers in California. He : is now at Fort Knox, Ky. - , Private James C. Montgomery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mont ; 'gomery, of Pine Hall, has noti [ fied his parents that he has ar -1 rived somewhere overseas. He > | entered the army November 17, 5 1942 and trained at Camp Crow -3 der, Mo. I » Birthday greetings to Staff j - Sergeant Thomas C. Butner, son r of Mr. ana Mrs. D. C. Butner of i King. Sgt. Butner took his basic J training at Fort Bragg, and is; - now serving in North Africa. I Pfc. Leo Pulliam, son of Mt.| r and Mrs. Sim Pulliam of King liak s been promoted to his present ra > ting. He entered the army Aug i ust 5, 1942, and trained at Camp • Grant, 111. Is now in Africa. > Seaman Second Class Rirhard . M. Tuttle, son of Mr. and Mrs. i Will Tuttle of Rural Hall, has ■ been promoted to his present *a ; ting. He entered the navy Mar. • 12, 1943 and was trained at Bain i bridge, Maryland. Private Jack Duggins, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Duggins of Tobaccoville, has notified his par ' ents that he is now stationed ir. II Australia. He entered the army February 2, 1943. Received his basic training at Camp Lee, Va. Seaman First Class Loweli Woodrow Joyce, son of Lee' I Joyce of Sandy Ridge, has been j promoted to his present rating. I He entered the navy October 5. | 1942, and now an aviation cadet at Miami, Fla. Commissioned—2nd Lt. Clyde Redding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Redding of Rural Hall, has re ceived his commission after grad-1 uatin| from the Officer Candidate ' School at Miami "SeacTr,' Ffa. -He is a graduate of King High 1 School and Guilford College. He 1 entered the army in 1942, and is now stationed at St. Louis, Mo. ' First Sergeant Clyde Boyle.-?, ' son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Boyle 3 of King, has notified his parents that he has arrived in North Af rica. He entered the army Feb ruary 16, 1941, and received his training at Fort Benning, Ga, > ■ i Mrs. Harrell Mabe of Francisco ( is a patient at th'e Stuart Hos- 1 pitaJ at Stuart, Va. i Published Thursdays J. W. Barber Dies At Walnut Cove John W. Barker, aged 79, of r Walnut Cove, Route 2, d.ed at r l.ifi home thi» mor»it.£ at 5.0S o'clock. He had been in de'.lin:ns ( health for some time and his con , dition had been serious for the k past three days. ,j Mr. Earker, a well known far jmer, was born in Stokes county jjune 17, 1864. a son jf James A. and Lucy Jane Lewis Bakor. He ihad lived in the same community all of his life and attended Salem Chapel Christian Church. Survivors include three niects, Mrs. John C. Myers, of the hoire, Mrs. Enie Neal, of Kernersvill?, J Route 2; and Mrs. Luther Verncn ■of Winston-Salem, Route 3.. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home and at 4:30 o'clock at Salem Chapel Christian Church. Rev. E. G. jParrom officiated and burial was tin the church graveyard. Mrs. Murry Handy, 29, Dies at Lawsonville Funeral services for Mrs. Mur ry Handy, aged 29, of Lawson vill, were held Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock at the Oak Ridge Baptist Church with Rev. Joe Hall and Rev. J. A. Joyce in charge of the services. Burial was held in the church cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Handy are the husband, one daughter, Laura El len; two sons, Donald Gray anr'. Buddie Ray, all of Lawsonville; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jessup of Mount Airy, Route 1, three brothers, Ed Jessup, Mount Airy, Route 1; Private Wade Jes sup, Camp Hon, Calif.; Grady Jessup, Martinsville, Va.; one sis ter, Mrs. R. D. Rodgers of Fiel dale, Va.; and a grandmother, | Mrs. Mac Jessup of Lawsonville. Mrs. Handy died Thursday night at the Stuart, (Va.) Hospi tal. District Bar Meeting- To Be Held July 31 The seventh annual meeting of the 21st Judicial District Bar As 9«ciatiort will be held in Yancey jville on Saturday, July 31 at 3:00 o'clock, according to an announce ment made by A. J. Ellington, secretary-treasurer of the associ ation. Judge H. Hoyle Sink will deliv er the principal address. Probably 4 or 5 of Danbury's attorneys will attend the meeting. R. J. Scott is vice president. J Priddy - Gusler Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Gualer of Woolwine, Va., announce the marriage of their daughter, Ver na, to Claude Allen Priddy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Priddy of! Hartman. Mr. Priddy is now en-1 gaged in business at Francisco ! * * * Number 3,7 1b*. Fisher River Holds I 111 th Session I The one hundred and eleventh t! session of the Fisher's River An- M ■ , sociation was held at Holly [Springs Primitive Baptist Church . last Friday, Saturday and Sundry. jThe three-day program opened ■ Friday morning at 11:00 o'clock, ' ' Elder F. P. Stone of Pilot Moun • 'tain, moderator for the past sev eral years, called the session to order. j Elder Stone was ! re-elected moderator for the coming year and Gabel Key of Ararat wi'.sj I elected clerk of the 'association. There are 20 churches in the association and conferences which took care of the associational bus iness were held on Friday and Saturday. Reports were heard from the member churches, dele gates were recognized, und it wad decided to hold the next annual session with Tom's Creek Primi tive Baptist Church at Westfield, Surry county. The churches o£ the association extend through out Surry and Stokes counties, and has Holly Springs as the only Yadkin member. The three-day session was f*a» tured by adoitjEja by some 20 | ministers, whom were the I following: Rev. *;ii Dct;uy of Wil son; Rev. Broadway of Salisbury; Rev. Ger«. >o Dennv .-f Pilot Mountain; Rev. James Creed, of Ararat; Rev. Charles Hall of Win ston-Salem; Rev Carl Mabe of Stokes county; Rev. Edd Priddy of Danbury; and Rev. Mr. Moore of High Point. J All sessions were well attended and there were picnic dinners spread on the grounds each day. ! ~ i j North View News ? ———— 1 North View.—Mrs. Branscome ! Young, who is in the City Hospi tal recuperating from an opera* tion, is getting along very nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Young and Son, Junior, of Alabama, are spending their vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Banner; Young. Mrs. Will Harrell and 'son William accompanied them on their trip. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Manrinff and children of Lawsonville spent last week-end at the home of Mr. jand Mrs. D. B. Young. I Mr. and Mrs. Jack Alley and son, Swanson, attended the regu lar meeting at Walnut Cove Ban tist Church Saturday. • The farmers of this community will soon be busy saving tobacco. Sergeant James B. Young, Jr., stationed at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., is at home on furlough. Annie Ruth, Isabelle and Win fred Young and William Hkrrell of Phoenix, City, Ala., visited , Margaret Flinchum at Danbury I Sunday night. , >,.