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Opening Dates For To
bacco Markets To Be
Set At Meeting Today
In Raleigh
Raleigh, June 27.?Opening three
day* of tobacco discussion bete, the
Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association
yesterday reeled off its 1946 conven
tion at the Sir Walter hotel at a test
dip that included the redaction of
its current slate of officers and the
adoption of a tentative contract with
the Federal Stabilising Corporation
for the handling of tobacco.
The Tohacco Association of the
United States, which is charged with
the duty of setting the opening dates
for the 1946 tobaceo marketing sea
son, will open its two-day convention
this morning with a series of com
mittee meetings. Announcement of
the market opening dates and the
election of officers will feature the
TAUS' general session Friday morn
ing. . The convention will end Friday
night with the annual banquet.
, Georgia Raps Association
In connection with the TAUS con
vention, The Atlanta Constitution, in
an . editorial, charges the association
with denying Georgia tobaccco term
ers a voice in the setting of the mar
ket opening dates and stating that
"the association shows little regard
for the financial welfare of Georgia
farmers."
In replying to the charge?, Presi
dent L. Leo Gravely, of Rocky Mount,
said that the association has done
everything in its power to cooperate
with the tobacco farmers throughout
the tobacco states.
? - Lists Dates.
Among the members of the sales
committee are five men from the
Bright Belt Warehousemen's Associa
tion and-five from the term group,
representing Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia. This
segment of the committee recom
mended to the full committee that the
Georgia opening be on July 22, and
South Carolina on July 29. The re
mainder of the full committee sug
gested the July 26th date for the
Georgia epapjqg, and they agreed.
The other opening dates recommend
ed were accepted. All the action of
the sales committee had unanimous
approval.
"The statement that farmers have
nothing to do with the setting of the
opening datee is utterly untrue," said
Mr. Gravely.
Farmers in Eastern North Carolina
object to fiie opening date of August
16 for that section, a date recom
mended by warehousemen and farm
ers, and accepted by the sales com
mittee. Those farmers protesting
that date appeared before the TAUS
sales committee this morning and
registered their protests.
The sales committee wfll recom
mend the 1946 opening dates to the
Tobacco Association of the United
States at its general session Friday
morning at 11 o'clock. TAUS will
then vote upon-the recommendations.
At The Kiwanis Gab
President Charlie Hotchkiss presid
ed at the Kiwanis Club, Monday eve
ning, and called on Bill Gamer to
welcome two new members into the
club, namely Rev. Z. B. T. Cox. pastor
of the Christian Church, and John
Council Parker, who made brief re
Bam Bandy announced the officers
elected at the recent convention in
Atlantic City. 8am afterwards sug
gested that this group join with the
other civic clubs of Farmville in send
ing s petition to the proper authori
ties requesting better long distance
for Fi
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?Jfaa
r JUtaLi
STORES HEBE TO
CLOSE JULY 4TH
This year Hie 4th. of July fells
Thursday which will be obew li
as a holiday and all stoves to close.
Therefore stores will observe the
usual Wednesday half-holiday and
also Thursday, July 4th. Buaineea
places will close Wednesday, July 3rd
at 13. o'clock noon and will re-open
Friday morning, July 5th.
The Chamber of Commerce and
Merchants Association office now
offers free Notary Public service to
its mem berg. All papers can be
notarised by your secretary without
aay cost to members. The usual fe
will be charged to non-members. Gall
upon us for this free service.
Your secretary will be glad to ob
tain any information for you at any
time on anything that you would like
to know. Please feeL free to make
use at "your secretary."
Town Improvement Bids
Were Let on Wednesday
Bids on contracts for improving
streets of Farmville with Curias and
gutters and by paving, and for ap
proved sanitation projects, in connec
tion with water and sewer systems,
were opened by the Town of Farm
ville in the Town Hall, Wednesday
morning, and submitted to represent
atives of the Brown Paving Co., of
Charlotte; Barrua Construction Co.,
of Kinston, and Exam vat Cline, of
Rocky Mount, who were present for
the bid letting.
The contract was awarded to Exum
and. Cline, Rocky Mount, for $264,
645.00, the bid of this firm carrying
a $1,000.00 deduction on awarding of
all three contracts.
The Brown Paving Co., made a bid I
of $293,510.00; Barrus Construction I
Co., $282,215,00; Exum and CUne, [
$265,645.00.
Work on the proposed project, the
largest of the town's postwar era, is
expected to begin around July 15, ac
cording to Mayor J. W. Joyner and
City Clerk R. A. Joyner.
Activities Of Local
Church Organizations!
Altar Guild
foe Episcopal Altar Guild met
Monday evening in the home of Mrs.
C. S. Hotchkisa. Mrs. John D. Dixon,
directress, opened the meeting with
prayer, followed by the creed. After
a brief business session, the hostess
served refreshments consisting of Ice
cream, cookies and nuts.
Presbyterian
The-Presbyterian Auxiliary held its
regular monthly meeting Monday eve
ning at the church with the president,
Mrs. John M. Mewborn, presiding.
"Holy, Holy, Holy" was used as the
opening hymn and Mrs. Allen Drake,
in charge of the devotional, gave an
explanation of the Church Seal, after
which Mrs. E. S. Coatee led in prayer.
In the business session the presi
dent presented a letter from the Unit
ed Church Service Center on the need
of clothing in the war-torn countries,
and the Auxiliary decided to partici
pate in the drive.
Charles F. Baueom most, impres
sively developed the third - topic of the
study for the year on the subject,
The meeting closed with the entire |
group repeating tile Mizpah benedic
tion in unison.
COFFEE TO RISE
Washington, s
in retail cc
five cents;
the Office
The boost will compensate pro-}
ducers for loss i \ _ ,,,
when the currant coffee subsidy ends |
on Jupe ao,4,:?|
was discussed at
a today be
Uvea of Economic
He
Raleigh.?The OPA ana price con
trol board m Greenville has ban re
placed "in the internet of better price
control," according to Theodora S.
Johnson, State OPA director. s
Johnson ysatarday declined to com
ment further on the matter. Sources
in Greenville, however, stated that
the board was dismissed "because it
was not in sympathy with the OPA
J. B. Kittrall served as chairman
of the Greenville board since its or
ganisation January 3, 1942. Other
members of the board were J. L. Kil
gore of Greenville and T. G. Worth
ington of Ayden.
When questioned yesterday as to
besid, Johnson refused to comment
on the matter other than to
that the action was taken "in the
interest of better price control."
Reports from Greenville were that
the board was dismissed on com
plaint of OPA Investigator Arthur
Ruffia because it had not been ~
forming satisfactorily in the interest
of OPA price control.
: A new board was appointed, con
sisting of William J. Bandy, who
was elected chairman; and Dr. Paul
A. Toll, Edward W. Harvey, Jr.,
Claude D. Ward, and Frank M.
Woo ten, Jr.
Buxton Well Nearing
Mark Of 10,000 Feetl
Buxton, June 25.?Grinding away
In. a sort of geologic hash at?,570
odd feet rock-bits in the Standard 1
Oil of New Jersey's exploratory I
well here till no* down to I
basement ana comjdetton of the
well today nor does one ?f thai
ranking geologists in America, to*
I for several days viait as guest of
K. D. White, director of the com
pany's exploration, hasard more
than a gneaa as to when the drill
1 This geologic hash is made up of
almost everything, including some
|r?d .and with bits of quarts and
feldspar and occasional curious pre
historic specimens of vanished shell
fish. the visitor is Wilbur A. Nel
son, head of the school of Geology at
the University of Virginia.
Prospects of completing the well
last week went glimmering when
the drills cut down into the mix
ture of stuff that they are now bring
ing to the surface, though geologic
opinion appears to lean to the theory
that the stuff is a sort of accumula
tion right on top of the granite and
that the end may come almost any
p. Progress is slowed somewhat
the difficulty of the formation and
[by the fact that the machinery is
carrying almost its maximum load,
that the well is approaching the
ad of the second mileJ
.AIR CORPS
? From the time that the Wright
brothers fink flew their original
plane at Kittytiawk?the Amy has
kept pace with aviation until today
the U. S. Army Air Force is the
.test organization of its kind in
world. In two wans and the
intervening ysunt of peace, from the
days of fl?e Lafayette Eaeadretle and
the "Hat in the Ring" Circu# to the
immortal runs over Ploesti, Marion
berg and Tokyo, they have outflown
the enemy and helped to assure final
victory. They hare contributed much
to man's knowledge in the air, and
for that reason they are proud num.
Today, the blue and gold of Am
Force wings is Masoned across the
airways of the globe wherever Amer
ican soldiers stand guard to the?
leas vigil of peace.
No more do the armadas of
Btruetion and retftxrtion drone aci
the aides. In their place flies
r^e. - - 'swr-. '-n:-.. ^ tbe|
hospital]
Chapel HOI, June
and natural
economic level of
vnnced here today by President Frank I
P. Graham, of the University of North
Carolina and by Charles A. Collier, I
vice-president of the Georgia Power J
i Company, f
Addressing the third _
Bicm of the Southeastern .
for commercial organisation
taries which will continue through
Sunday, with morp than 260 exec
utive secretary and their staff
members from 11 Southern states
attending, the two speakers pictured
the south as "America's region of
greats* opportunity today" and
told the executives they faced a
challenging opportunity to do pie
need work in advancing the South's
progress.
I Rich In TtjUttJ*.
President Graham aajd "the South
is rich in great historical traditions,
having produced more national lead
ers in proportion to population
any other section of the country, __
has abundant human and natural re
sources that should be conserved.
I "On the other hand" he aaad, the
South has "the poorest health records
(more Southerners were rejected for
military service in the last war than
from any other section), the poorest
I housing, lowest wages, lowest pur
I chasing power, highest interest rates,
I least per capita circulation of books,
I highest illiteracy, and least propor
Ition of young people in high schools
| and colleges.
"The combined endowments of Har
Ivard and Yale are greater than the
I endowments of all the colleges and
I universities in the Southern states,"
|he said.
The deficits of the South, President
I Graham said, must be ascribed raain
lly to "uneconomic tariffs which tare
I lifted wealth out of a region largely
agricultural and put it m the larger
?centers; dinrrtrnfaiiBBii.g Ciiinli| rates:
land a population structure in which
| the Southern states, with 92 per cent
the nation's children, have only
ht per cent of the nktional income.
I The Southern people spend more
money on education for their children
|m proportion to their wealth than any
?other people on earth."
I Collier said the South had wasted
?its natuhd resources and had "lost
I hundreds of thousands of its most
?courageous, imaginative, and ambiti
lous young people to other states be
cause it has failed to provide economic
'itions which would give them the
rbmity to progress and because
| it has not made homes and towns
tly attractive places m which
to live."
I He said-that census reports show j
?that more than four million young
I people were lost to the South by
Imigration to other sections between
ll920-40. Georgia lost almost 1,000,0001
and North half a million in
I this way, he added. "The returning
?veterans are our greatest assets and
lets make the South attractive enough
to keep them here," he said:
WOMAN'S COUNCIL HONORS
? NEW PASTOR AND HIS WIFE|
A delightful social affair of the
week was the Open House ev
Thursday evening, by the
Council of the
buftor of the
B. T. Cox
of Mr.
of Mr.
24. ? Mamw
FCNaai
from seven to
?rMf?
Nfaiocks fa
today oft.
out of
?mOmU daughter. >J
| The child suffered term injuries
after allegedly having- boon beaten
with a bait by her father. The little
girl incurred bronchial -
and spent several weeks is the local
hoepitiu. \
It was broftght oat fa court testi
mony that the child has now retain
ed home bat still has not regained fall
use of her arms and legs.
Young was first scheduled to be
tried at the April tesm at
Court, but the
pending the -outcome of the child's
condition.
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Final Rites HeW Ftor
Emily H. Everette!
Mm. Emily Hands Everette, 86 'a
citiiens of Norfolk, Va., and a former
resident of Farmville, succumbed |
Monday afternoon, at fee home of a
daughter, Mrs. Maude E. Hinaon, in
Greenville, to an illness of several
weeks. Mrs. Everette was the widow
of the late Louis E. Everette. I
Funeral services were conducted,
I Wednesday afternoon, at 8.-00 o'clock,
from the Farmville Funeral Home, by I
Elder i. B. Roberta, pastor of the
local Primitive Baptist dmmh, as-1
?frtod by Elder A. B. Den*?, of
Rocky Mount, pastor of the Norfolk
Primitive Baptist *f*fimiftd I
hr Mia. Everette. Interment was
made in Forest HOI cemetery here,
beneath a lovely floral tribute. Fav
orite hymns, How Firm A Foundation
P*' ^ ?weet Bye and Bye^ were I
The ministers paid tributes to Mrs.
Everette aa a "Mother of IsnuL"
whose qualities ef dietth mad service
made her comparable to both Maiy
and Martha, and whose Christian for-1
|titude and loyalty and devotion to the]
Church, since early girlhood, w
held worthy ?of
I Mrs. Everette, who visited in Farm
ville .from time to thn^ waa ^
known here and held in Mgfc gam,
|by * large circle of friefcia. i
I She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. I
Maude E. Hinaon, of Greenville, four
?ons, a E., s. b.( E. L., of Norfolk,
. ^ CWJotte?vi)le.
v*. Surviving also are 12 gnmdchil
dwn and 14 groat grandchildren.
Pjte College Hints For
. Farm Homemakers ''
| Byjjl I
N. C. State Coilege.
I It's the way a girt carries
that counts most, fashion serpen* say
& if you want to look nifty in your
clothes, give a .little thought to the
matter of carrying- yourself well.
To begin at the bottom, say the
experts, look at your feet. Do your!
t??s point straight ahead? You
should walk in a straight line ami
the weight of your body Aagti fait J
through the
front is due to bad yumu
cany the body properly L
gradually tone up the
too much, you know wfcat.l
Yaw i "n ?
your hips. .
ft the net of the body is m * ma-|
sonably plump line. In the poised
body, the head is * " 1
will be held in
with ? joint Marion of
Town and Community Plan
nine Board*. Monday night, July
O I I IBIII ?? I " ?#-? W ^ ?
1. at ? 8:00 o'clock, in the Town
Hall, for thp purpose of <
tag Ovdinanca!*^y|
Citisensare urged to attend and
express their opinion on **?<? im
portant iteue at tibia
Auto Accident Fatal
To G G Hedgepettt
Ac tea go to prsas, we leant of. the
death at Clannoa C. Hedgepeth, buy
er for A. C. Monk and Co^ which oc
curred at *:ZS, Uranday afternoon,
in a Haw Bam hospital, aa the reeult
of aerate injuries, suatainad in an
automobile athlete lata Wednesday
Hie ear, almost demoliahed, and
the drinr, paralysed from spinal in
juria* wane diaeonrered sometime fol
lowing the accident at the foot of an
Vauceboro. Mr.
to ^annville
From New Ron /?"
The yoanc tobacconist was a native
of Stem, N. C. He is survived by
bis widow and two children, Donita
and Winston.
its are incom
plete at this time.
At The Rotary dob
111* Rotary program, Tuesday eve
ning, was featured by echo?, given
by RoUu-ians LeRoy Rollins and Joe
Raabemy, of the recent 87th mmual
convention of Rotary International,
beW fat Atlantic City;
The Farmville delegates gave ex
cerpts of artdraasae by T. A. Warren,
the preaidret, r*1?"*rwi P. Aadaraen,
Secretary at-U. & Dept. of Agrisul
tura and a past president of Rotary
ad that of
Waiter H. Jedd.1
by the All
Sirl Orchestra and Choir, featuring
Evelyn and bar magic violin; reception
red ball, honoring president said Mrs.
Warren, and the pageant, "Rotary on
the March" with Quentin Reynolds aa
A total of 11,235 delegates
rhorne, a charter member; whose ire
cent passing was received with pro
found sorrow by every member of the
club. Hie reeohitione were adopted
is read and the entire group row si
m added-mark of esteem.
Rotarian Ed Nash Warren, local
Boy Scout Master, was presented a
wrist watch by Frank. Wil
m a toUi of appreciation of the
splendid service Warren'baa rendered
the dub and the community in this
soneection.
F. W. Mewhe-ter, of Rasfwd, e
ruest Of Flanagan, and Rotar
an Martin Swarea, of Qraanvillet were
cxtanded a cordial welcome by presi
fant Williams at this time, v ; J
M1SSUSONA
m "most
the national nfenmhrni
to^^eld an July IS to detgj^;
continued an floe-cured tobacco be
ginning with 1947 crop. Prod S. Roys
"oat at the Bright Belt
Association bee urged ell
in the six five-cured tobacco
State* to go to the pelts and vote
according to their own conviction*.
"The referendum will give each
grower the privilege of an equal
vote, regardless pf whether he pro
duces one-half acre or 10 acres,"
Royeter declared. "Every tobacco
grower should make a thorough
study of the favorable prices re
ceived for his erop since quotas
have been in effect to keep produc
tion iu line with the damnd." .
Royeter said that quotas have fat
eased the income of tobaeoo grow
ers from an approximately $112,000,
000 to $618,000,000. He pointed out
that in 1982, before marketing quotas
were ia effect, flue-cured tobacco sold
for an average of qnly 11.6 cent per
pound and when quotas were voted
out in 1969, the price dropped from
22.2 cents for the previous year to
14.9 cents. The 1946 crop sold for an
?erage of 48.7 cents per pound.
Approval of quotas will assure
continuation of loons at 90 per cent
of the parity price to protect grow
ers in the event tobacco does apt
bring a higher price. If quotas are
not approved, the Government is not
authorised to provide loans for the
1947 crop. ,
As to the present supply and de
end picture, the 1946 crop is ex
pected to supply enough tobacco
to equal world consumption and
to replenish a substantial pert of
the present foreign shortage, be
said. The future sales of tobacco
will depend upon the availability
of dollar exchange, which foreign
countries can use to bay tobacco,
and also upon the success in sell
ing U. S. tobacco in competition
with that produced in other coun
tries.
TEN THOUSAND
Benicia, Calif., June 24.?Ten thous
and car-hungry vriwiaiia, forgetful of
wartime vows never to ride a jeep
again, besieged Benicia Arenas! to
day to boy 1,688 jeeps offered for sale
by the goveraMRt.
It was flrat come, first served.
But it waa the 26th man in line,
Peter Books, 24, of
ex-corporal, who bought the first