HUGE 1951 TOBACCO CROP BEGINS MOVEMENT TO BRIGHT LEAF MARKETS TODAY
THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVI. Number 97.
Wendell Market
Set for Largest
Year in History
Inspired by the growth of the
Wendell Tobacco Market over the
past three years, warehousemen
and other tobacco men interested
in the local market, are confi
dently predicting that the 1951
season will easily prove to be the
most successful in the history of
the market when the opening auc
tion chant begins August 21.
The Wendell market was one of
the few markets in the Eastern
Belt to sell more tobacco in 1949
than it sold in 1948, and in 1950 the
sales on the local market were
greater than the most optimistic
booster of the market had expect
ed when they almost doubled those
of the year before.
Sales increased in 1950 from a
little over eleven and a half mil
lion pounds in 1949, to more than
seventeen million pounds. This in
crease put into circulation here
over four million dollars more than
was counted for 1949.
60,000 Square Feet
With one more warehouse with
a capacity of 60,000 square feet of
floor space added to the market,
making a total of nine; and with
the redrying capacity of the Monk-
Henderson Tobacco Company
doubled from what it was in 1949,
facilities on the market are ample
to care for double the poundage
sold last year.
Spacious and well - equipped
prize houses are available for the
staff of the buying companies, and
nothing has been overlooked to
see that all here on the Wendell
Market is in readiness for a boom
year.
“Last year the extremely good
tobacco crop had a great deal to
do with the success of the local
market,” said E. H. Moser, Sec
retary of the Wendell Chamber of
Commerce and Sales Supervisor
for the market, “and from the
crops I have observed in the area
served by the Wendell Market
this year, this is going to be a
banner year as the crops look as
good as they did last year. Then,
too, the increase in the plantings
is going to have some effect on
the amount of tobacco to flow to
market.”
While the average price paid for
tobacco in 1949 on the Wendell
Market was $47.30, in 1950 the
average price was $55.95.
“We are expecting a full com
plement of buyers for both sales
on the Wendell Market this year
from each and every major buying
company whether domestic or for
export,” said Moser.
Tobacco Expert Speaks
A tobacco expert in Wendell
looking over the market had this
to say: “The industry now recog
nizes Wendell as a two-sale mar
ket and as good as any in the East
ern Belt. The warehousemen and
other interested people in Wendell
who were responsible for develop
ing the second sale deserve a lot of
credit, and I am one to compliment
them for it.”
A farmer talking to a group in
front of the Town Office had this
to say about the local market: “I
have been bringing my tobacco to
the Wendell Market for 20 years
or more, and the price I get has
always compared favorably with
the price some of my neighbors get
on way-off markets. As a matter
of fact, I have to laugh at some
of them who haul their tobacco to
some other town and come back
with a check much smaller than
they could have gotten here on the
Wendell Market.”
SELL YOUR 'sl TOBACCO CROP
WENDELL AND WILSON OPEN TODAY
Wendell Attorney Notes
Market's Great Growth
By J. Bourke Bilisoly
Since the completion of the 1950
tobacco marketing season Wendell
has grown in the same great style
as the neighboring town of Zebu
lon, also building rapidly.
At the head of Main Street,
fronting on Wilson Avenue, is the
attractive new building of the
Amoco Service Station. This build
ing is located where the home of
Mrs. Ernestine Mattox formely
stood. The Mattox house has been
moved around the corner to face
Main Street Extended.
Further down Main Street, on
the corner of Main and Fourth
Streets, is the new, modernistic
building of Philip R. Whitley. Fea
turing an extended roof which
covers the sidewalk in front of
the store, this building is equip
ped with a sprinkler system for
fire protection, a modern heating
plant, and other architectural
adornments designed to make it at
Bright Leaf Tobacco
Warehouse Association
Sets 'sl Regulations
For the continued welfare and
for the improvement of the pub
lic auction system of marketing
flue-cured tobacco, we adopt the
following marketing rules and reg
ulations to be observed by mem
bers of the Association through
out the marketing season for the
1951 crop:
(1) The maximum hours of sale
per day per set of buyers shall be
as follows: Fixed by the Board
of Governors at a meeting to be
held not later than July 1, 1951.
(2) The maximum rate of sale
shall not exceed 400 baskets or
piles per hour.
(3) The net maximum weight of
any basket of tobacco offered for
sale at auction shall not exceed
300 pounds.
(4) No auction sale of leaf to
bacco shall be conducted on any
market on the following holidays:
Labor, Armistice Day and Thanks
giving.
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Zebulon, N.*C., Tuesday, August 21, 1951
once comfortable and functional.
The Wendell Furnture Store has
increased the size of its floor
space to nearly double, and has
constructed for display purposes
attractive rooms where furniture
can be seen just as it will appear
in a home.
On the corner of Third Street
and Hollybrook Road is a new
steel warehouse covering sixty
thousand square feet of floor space
which will be operated on the
market this year as Farmers Ware
house No. 2. This is a substantial
building with a full concrete floor
and adds materially to the busi
ness scene of the town.
Austin’s Chicken Plant
The new home of Austin’s Farms,
chicken processing plant on Fourth
Street begun last year is now com
pleted and in full pperation. This
building is designed to be one of
the most modern of its type and
enjoys a Grade A rating by the
Health authorities.
A new business is seen out on
Highway No. 64 in the spacious
Whitley Building. This is the Wen
dell Tractor and Implement Com
pany which carries Ferguson Trac
tors, and all kinds of farm equip
ment and supplies. Also handled
by this company are refrigerators,
sinks, washing machines, pumps,
and a host of other items used on
the farm and in the home.
Redrying Plant Annex
The Monk-Henderson Tobacco
Co. plant has again been increas
ed in size by a handsome brick
addition to the old building. Os at
tractive architectural design, this
addition adds materially to the
commercial scene.
The Wendell Christian Church,
in process of building last year,
is now completed and its unique
church design has attracted atten
tion from many out-of-town peo
ple. Some have driven miles to
view it. It sets upon a knoll
facing Highway No. 64, and is an
attractive feature of the eastern
part of Wendell.
Aside from the above, new resi
dences can be seen in every section
of town, and many more in the
process of being constructed.
Nine Warehouses to Sell
Record 1957 Leaf Crop
On the Wendell Market
With the new Farmers Ware
house No. 2, adding 60,000 more
square feet of floor space, the
Wendell Tobacco Market will open
with nine excellent warehouses
ready to receive the largest to
bacco crop grown in the Eastern
Belt in several years.
Farmers Warehouses
The Farmers Warehouses No. 1
and No. 2, the latter a brand new
metal structure on the corner of
Third Street and Hollybrook
Road, will again be operated by
L. R. Clark, Sr., Mrs. L. R. Clark,
Sr., and L. R. Clark, Jr.
The Clarks are well known in
tobacco circles as civic-minded,
progressive warehouses people who
have worked untiringly to build
the Wendell Market to its present
size with two sets of buyers and
one of the highest consistent aver
ages of any market in the Eastern
Belt.
Liberty Warehouse
The Liberty Warehouse is the
newest firm operating on the Wen
dell Market. The warehouse was
purchased from the Producers
Cooperative Association which was
dissolved . following last year’s
market, and will be managed and
operated by Fred Harris and Isaac
Medlin, two of the most experienc
ed warehousemen in the belt.
Everyone interested in the
Wendell Market is welcoming these
two men here with their new set
up, and looking forward to their
progressive policies to aid in mak
ing the 1951 season locally a great
success.
Connected with the Liberty
Warehouse will be a familiar fig
ure to farmers in this vicinity in
the person of J. I. Lynch, who was
one of the operators of the Plant
ers Warehouse here for several
years.
Northside Warehouse
The Northside Warehouse, which
has poven to be one of the most
popular on the market, will be op
erated by Graham Dean, J. H.
Sanders, Jr., and E. H. Price.
With Dean as sales manager,
Price as floor manager, and San
ders as office manager, this trio
through ethical practices with the
farmers’ interests in mind, have
aided largely in attracting many
additional pounds of tobacco to the
local market.
SECRETARY
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Pictured is E. H. Moser of Zeb
ulon, former principal of Wake
lon School, who is the popular
sales supervisor on the Wendell
Tobacco Market as well secretary
of the Wendell Chamber of Com
merce.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
The Planters Warehouse will be
operated this year in conjunction
with the Northside Warehouse. The
operators of the Northside leased
this warehouse at the close of the
market last year, and will use
many of the staff members of the
Northside in its operation.
This has been a favorite ware
house in the past with growers
and under the new management
will be expected to continue to
draw many a pile of the golden
weed.
Banner Warehouses
Banner Warehouses No. 1 and
No. 2, will be under the direct
management of J. W. Dale. Jr., of
Nashville, Ga. Last year Dale had
associated with him Fred Harris
and Isaac Medlin, who will this
year operate the Liberty.
Dale has made himself a popu
lar warehouseman in Wendell, and
has made the Banner warehouses
two of the most successful houses
on the market.
Star Warehouses
The Star Warehouses No. 1 and
No. 2, owned and operated by J.
S. Bernard and Curtis Walker, are
two of the best known on the
market. The No. 1 is perhaps the
oldest warehouse on the market.
Experienced warehousemen,
Bernard and Walker, and Robert
Coley, floor manager, have con
tributed as much as any one to
build the Wendell market to its
present size.
Great Sales Force
Fair treatment and good prices
have always featured the ware
houses operated by these men.
With ample space, excellent
light, and good service, the ware
houses on the Wendell Market of
fer to the farmer as much as any
warehouse on any market no mat
ter what the size may be, and from
the steady increase in the number
of pounds sold each year, it is ob
vious to tobacco men that the far
mers in this area are beginning to
realize the truth in that statement.
Wilson Maifcet Well
Represented in Zebulon
The Wilson tobacco market, the
world’s largest bright leaf mart
for many years, is well patronized
by farmers of the Zebulon com
munity and several agents haul
tobacco to the Wilson warehouses
from this area.
Eugene Jones, Wakefield farm
er and business man, has hauled
tobacco to the largest market in
the world for several years.
Wainwright’s Warehouse is lo
cally represented by T. J. “Jack”
Mitchell, who runs a store and
operates a farm at Glory.
Herman “Bubber” Eddins and
his younger brother, Berdon, of
Wakefield are the Zebulon agents
for the huge Planters Warehouse
of Wilson, operated by R. T. Smith
and Carr.
The auxiliary facilities required
to operate a great market are to
be found in Wilson, where the re
drying plant space is ample to al
low for heavy sales each day for
weeks at a time.
The Wilson market is represent
ed by five sets of buyers, which
means minimum delay in getting
the farmer’s tobacco sold.
With better facilities than ever
before, the Wilson warehousemen
invite Zebulon farmers to sell all
their 1951 crop in Wilson.