?' sriisBte' iflf-MlftlMJPUM mi YOUR BUSINESS WANTED ! MAKE FABMVILLE YOUR ! ! shopping headquarters:: ? ??** t: , 1 j Dr. Mew born Toastmas ter; Sam D. Bundy Guest Speaker At De lightful Affair A setting of gaily appointed ban quet tables, the presence of the Ro tary Anns, the graded school faculty and other special guests, a highly successful program and a sumptuous turkey dinner all conspired in making the Rotartans' annual Ladies' Night, on Wednesday, a gala occasion. Prior to the banquet, tomato cock tail and hors d'ouvres were served from an attractively appointed table in the old Rotary rooms by Mrs. T. Eli Joyner, Jr.," and Mrs. Lynn Eason. Seasonal decorations of autumn leaves, ears of corn* and stalks, witch es, pumpkins and black cats were used in transforming the school lunch room into a Hallowe'en scene. The tables were spread with orange crepe covers and centered with jack olan terns. The place cards bore Hal lowe'en motifs. Covers were laid for a hundred and sixteen. The invocation was offered by the Rev. E. S. Coates. " Dr. John M. Mewborn, president, acted as toastmaster and welcomed the guests in s witty speech, to which Mrs. R. LeRoy Rollins responded in her usual apt way. The speaker of the occasion, Sam D. Bundy, immediate past president of the Carolines Kiwanis district, sec retary of the local Chamber of Com merce and supervisor of the Farm ville tobacco market, whose wit and oratory have made him a popular after dinner speaker, was presented by Walter B. Jones. Bundy kept the assemblage "in stitches" throughout his humorous discourse on "Human Relationships" in which he told anecdotes involving himself and his Rotarian friends as well ps members of the faculty in illustration of the five points of his subject, namely: man and wife; pa rent and child; teacher and pupil; preacher and church' member; em ployer and employee. ? The speaker closed on a serious note relating to the service and build ing program to which members of the Rotary club and other civic organiza tions and school teachers have dedi cated themselves and pledged their interests and efforts. Walter B. Jones and Eli Joyner. Jr., conducted a drawing contest in which a number of valuable prizes were swarded the ladies. The at tendance prize for Rotarians was won by C. L. Langley. One of the most enjoyable enter tainment features of the evening was the musical program, presented by 1 Miss Rosemary Holmes, soloist, who J sang Ah! Sweet Mystery of life, Smilin' Through, One Alone and ] Without A Song, with Mrs. Berkley j Rut'edge as accompanist. Committee chairmen in charge of the affair were Eli Joyner, Jr., ar rangements; Walter Jones, program; Jesse Moye, decorations; Bill Rollins, cleanup; Herbert Acton, song leader. 1 State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: What an the most important points for a poultryman to. , EK: If yea am going tp eggs, C. J.Kaupia of State poultry spedalist, suggeata that yon consider three principal points. (1) Secure and maintain stock with good breeding. (2) Keep an all-pallet flock. (8) Grow oat laying stock early. Early laying meant production in Septem bar, when egg prfaea base bean high est in four oat of the last five years. QUESTION: An cowpaas aa popular at they onee wen for food and green manure? No. It teems that have found more profitable The U. S. Census for North thaws that 867 thousand eb of peaa wen harvested aa in 1*40 as compared with 10? Activities Of Local Church Orgaiiiiatiopfl Christian Group 1 of Mm Woman's Council met, Monday evening, at eight o'clock, with M?. Louise D. Harris aa host ess* and Mrs. F. A. Darden : A. Barrett conducted devotional, reading from chapter of Matthew as her , selection. Mrs. Sue Robinson, In charge qf the program, conducted the Hidden Answers quia from "The World Call." Met chocolate, cookies, candies apd nuts were served after adjournment Special guests were; Mrs. Lqla Joyner, Mrs. Dewey Hathaway, Mn.1 Joe Melton and Mrs. Minnie Dicker son. Mrs. L. E. Turnage conducted a devotional from Psalms and led Hidden Answers at Group S's meet ing, Tuesday afternoon, held in tire tiome of Mrs. Frank Davis, Jr. Fall foliage and berries were used in arrangements in the hostess' home. Ice cream and cookies were enjoy ed during a pleasant social houf.. Mrs. Z. B. T. Cox was a special gudpt Plans for the sale of Christmas cards were discussed at the meeting of Group 4 held in the home of Mqs. Howard Moye, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ernest Russell, chairman, con ducted the Hidden Answers and Miss Verla Williams gave the devotional based on Psalms. The Hallowe'en motif was carried out in the refreshments of sandwich es, cookies and hot tea. Chrysanthemums were used .as decorations. Loyal Woman's Class Mrs. Louise D. Harris entertained the Loyal Woman's Class, Friday evening, at her home in which fall flowers were effectively used. Mrs. Z. B. T. Cox was in charge of the devotional period and Mrs. F. A. Darden was program leader. Mrs. Darden conducted a quiz relative, to the work of the Christian Church riving Hallowe'en favors to winners. Mrs. M. P. Chandler, of West Point, Va., as a special guest, was remem bered with a gift at this time by the program leader. Chocolate ice cream, candies, brown ies and nuts were served, with plate iocorations suggestive of the .season,. . Episcopal Mrs. R. C. Copenhaver, assistant directress, presided at the .Alter Guild meeting, Tuesday evening, in .the ibeence of the directress and opened irith the creed and prayer. The hostess was Mrs. C. S. Hotch kiss who used fall flowers in pleas ing arrangements in her home. Miss Margaret Smith gave a r port on the sale of personal station ary and distributed some of the sta tionery to the meiflbers. Mrs. Copen haver reported on the photographer, Mr. Connelly, who was here recently under the auspices of the Guild. In the social hoar coca-colas, cook ies and peanuts were enjoyed. The neat meeting will be in the home of Mrs. Will Jones, Jr. c-1 Presbyterian Mrs. John M. Mewborn was hostess to the Presbyterian Woman's Auxili ary, Monday evenmg, and ?s PWSi dent, presided also. ' f 'i The meeting was opened by the l ^wilh tEE* Me Walk with Thee." Mrs. Charles P. Baucom gave a meditation based on Matthew and Mark. Mrs. E. S. Coates led the gieep ip prayer. Mrs. W. H. Moore^Jr., reported 1 members in attended!* at the thhpa Continuing the study of "I Want to Know" by Chaplain and Mrs. J. W. McQueen, Mrs. Moon reviewed Church history and that of the Auxiliary, prepared by Mrs. P. i Ewell, was read by Mi*. G. L. Gil at this tine. 1;: Raleigh, Oct 31.?Voter* of North -will.go to -th* polls next of ?angxsps, two associate of the State Supreme Court, IJ Judges of the Superior CourtfJ and twenty-one solicitors. In add! tion, a complete membership of the General Assembly sad a host oI coun ty officials will be The polls will be open from t:9d A. 91 to em P. M. " The statewide ticket shows only the aaaas of the two associate Justices, the eleven Superior court | Judgee and the name of the Congress man of each respective district. All at the Democratic Congressmen ex cept Representative John Kerr have opposition and the Republicans also have nominated one candidate for, the Supreme Court and a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court in the Sixth District. Herbert P. Seawell, Jr., Republican, will eerie to defeat Associate Justice M. V. Bamhill and Oscar B. Turner, Republican, will seek to defeat Judge Henry L. Stev ens, Jr. The Democratic ticket for s^to wide offices is as follows, with the instructions at the top of the ballot that in order to vote a straight Demo cratic ticket the voter need only mark an "X" within the dscle at the head of the Democratic ticket: For Associate Justices of the Su preme Court: M. V. Bamhill and J. Wallace Winborne^ For Judges of the Superior Court: 1st District?(X E. Thompson. 2nd District?falter J. Bone. 5th District?J. Paul Frisselle. 6th District?Henry L. Stevens, Jr. 8th District?John J. Burney. 8th District?K. Nimocks, Jr. 10th District?Leo Carr. 12th District?ft. Hoyle Sink! ' 14th JMstricfc-rWilliam H. Bobbitt.; 16th District?Wilson Warlick. 21st District?Allen H. Gwyn. The Democratic candidates for Con gress in the respective districts are as follows: First District?Herbert C. Bonner of Washington. Second District?John H. Kerr of Warren ton. Third District?Graham A. Barden of New Bern. ? Fourth District?Harold D. Cooley j of Nashville. Fifth District?John H. Folger ef Mount Airy. Sixth District?Carl Durham of Chapel Hill. Seventh District?J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville. Eighth District?C. B. Deane of Rockingham. Ninth District?Robert L. Dough ton of Sparta. Tenth District?Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte. js Eleventh District?A. L. Bui winkle of Gastopia. Twelfth Dj|?(^et^Mouroe M. Red den of Hendersonvillfe. from the Philippines t Bxpeetations and tide " 1**-'" ; *'? ?-.'???'jfi ? ? AtIP Christmas Seal Sale ay The announced today by Dr. N Thomae Ennett, General Chairman Pitrm man; Fermville?Miss Tabitha De* Vi^eonti; Greenville?Service League r ' ^USbest Drive f will get underway TUT nn?liiMf ?*n?*fear -? -m. iVMMM/f W?* m Be tion ff.f-O. By J. D. JOTNKB, ?r, Pitt County Ckilrau For . National UAO. The nnfiaisbadtask of the USO is art of the awftotohsrt task of win ling the war?of safeguarding the ndts of victory ao that peace can be Mfe secon. For maintaining essen lal services to ,0m 1*600,000 ot more rho will be the United States forces d 1947, U80 must cany on for one core year. WHAT'S LEFT TO DO USO has three major obligations to leet to 1947: 1. To serve those veterans of the rar who will not yet have been re rnsed from hospitals, armies of oc upation or overseas duty by the end f 1946. 2. To provide interim nativities for he peacetime Stated forces,' until oroe permanent plan for morale aer icee for the enlarged Army q*d levy has been completed. 8. To accomplish its own orderly emoUlisgtion at snob a tempo that t does not add te the gfqeral con cision, hut remains a steadying to luence during the transition to perm nent peace. HOW USO WILL DO IT _; USO operations to 1947 will to i ude i 1. 860-490 USO Clubs to the UnK d States for hospitalized veterans, roops to training and families of irvice men.' 2. Station Lounges, Travelers Aid ervicea and Clubs at transportation date tor troops to transit, men on save, and relatives of service men n route to military establishments. 3. .Overseas Ctebf 4nJth9 -?iilip ines, Hawaii, Alaska, Canal Zone, Uerto Rico, the Antilles, Newfound md and Labrador. ' 4. Camp Shows, entertainment tor tea - to the occupation forces jpd: lolated garrisons dveweas, as .well b veterans to hospitata. - . ? state College Hints To Farm Homemakers By Verna Stanton N. C. State College Oa cold winter nights, nothing can eat "sleeping warm" under a good lanket And this is one article in och. good supply that homemakem bopping for blankets may find a pmber in the stores from which to boose. To help those keying blankets to et the most for their money, textile [tedalists offer these suggestions, end labels carefully. If the blanket , marked "wool," the label must give M exact percentage of wool fiber. ls a rule, the more weed the warmer be blanket. It takes at least 25 per mt wool to make much difference in rarmth, or to give any of the charac sristics of a wool blanket, sock as luffiness, elasticity, end ability to without feeling addition trength of the be more important of the two. soft and ?twm o' of young folks *nd grown ups alike, from as tax M ton miles out will start pouring into the high school gym to takepert in the annual P. T. A. frolic, ground # thousand people are expected to attend accord ing to the co-chairmen, Kn. H. E. Pickett and C. & HotchMss, who Stated Thursday that ererything is HOW Stady for a fifll evening' of real entertainment There will be refresh ments too, and all of those things that *0 together to tpake real fun. JjjMr. HntehHss makes this final ap ical for patronage to the public at this time: "You have probably alspady made plans to he on hgn d, if however you hgye net, make your, plans right now .for many..people have contributed a great deal of time and effort that you might enjoy an evening of real' entertainment. Be sure to oome and bring a friend." At The Kiwaais Club Monday Night, Oct. 28 George Moore was in charge of the program and had-as his guest speaker W. C. Eagles, who is connected with the Soil Conservation and began by relating how the Soil Conservation Office wps acquired and dcacrihed the district which the Greenville Of fice serves. He also referred to the. personnel of that office and their duties. Mr. Eagles' talk was all the more interesting, as he used picture slides to demonstrate his points and highlights. Those slides shotted gulley erosion and how they could bo Stopped by contour farming and ter racing. The slides gave- a vivid pic tare of comparison of fields bring enriched with a cover crop and fields that were allowed to remain bare and lose a lot of top soil through wash in. Mr. Eagles explained and show ed how forest fires could be .prevent ed by heeptag the woods thinned out correctly. He also explained the the value of using drain tile to get rid of wet land. The entire talk was very interesting and instructive. * Z. W. Die. of Louisville, Ky., was a guest. Edgar Barrett will be program chairman next week. Record likely Raleigh, Oct 30.?Revenue from gasoline taxes may climb to a record high of *36,000,000 by the and of IMC, Statistical Engineer James Burch at the State Highway Com mission predicted yesterday in a re port which estimated more than 600, 000,000 gallons of gasoUlM would be sold during the year in North Caro lina. Burch attributed the increases to the fact that spore vehicles wan registered now than in any previous year, that old outs born more gaso- 1 line per mile than new automobiles, and to the fact that people are travel ing mora than before the war. North Carolina extracts a 6-cemt tax an every gallon at gasoline sold for ass in vehicles which operate over its highway system. The proceeds g? >1 to the State Highway fund for rtefC pair and construction of public mads. During 1M1, peak pre-war year, 6,280,000 was derived from taxes on-sales of a total of 431,907,000 gallons of gasoline. - EDENTON CONVOCATION MB) ?i?r in aurora The annaal meeting at the Convo-j.* or Luv Carolina, wm w nwo iwiiur rS, at Aurora. JCbeflev. William Gordon, Jn, missionary to Alaska dose the convocation with an address I r I National Service Life Insurance has no restrictions an oertpetfcms^ travel, or place i Final C i lWl m.* - gEL. / .-?;?? : North WWW* VPwv*fWl? Leads Array EnHgt- . rnents For The Year Knee the Armed Forcee Recruit nent Act ?m adopted on Oetoher 6, >f last yew, North Caroline Amy lecruiting activities have molted in he enlistment of mate men than any ither of the eaten aoqtheaatar* itates comprising the Third Army Reviewing the first yew of the tomy'B greatest peacetime recniit ng campaign, Major General Ed rard F. Witeell, .the Adjutant Gen eral, eaid today that more than 992, (48 volunteers had joined the Army teoe last October 6. 24,789 of these nen were volunteer* from North Carolina. While the current rate of enliet nente make it certain that the mil ion man mark will be reached this nonth, a remarkable achievement, Ifajor General Witaell pointed out hat attainment of this figure will lot aoive the Army's manpower prob em more than momentarily. Forty-nine percent of approximate ly 480,000 we short term enlistments. If these 270,000 will be discharged ly Jane 80,1947, therefore the Army oust continue to get about 40,000 inllstmepts every month to maintain he strength needed to discharge its hate, ef ,the country's world-wide ?b tgnflopa. "The Army is bending every effort o get as manj volunteers as po asi de," Major General Witsell continu d. "However, until it is known whether or not voluntary enlistments an meet the Army's requirements, Selective Service must be continued o fill the gap Between the voluntary nllstmenta and total manpower leeds." Of the 002,648 enlisting since )ctober, more than -298,617 volun eers have entered the Regular Army horn civilian life. NEnlistments reach d a peak in November 1946, when 83,588 signed up, the figure includ ng a heavy volume of enlistments by nen of tihe wartime Army of the Jnited States. GIRL SCOUT RALLY The GW 8ea*? 90. " art of tboif celebration of Girl Scout Peek at the municipal park, Wednes ay afternoon, at four o'clock. The airls. standing in horseshoe ormation with the U. S. flag at one nd and the Girl Scoutflag at the ther, were led in the Pledge to the y* m*- he singing of America by ?ts: Vid^ Joyner, Wana Monk, | louise Lovatt and Mary Prances Joy-1 .Sa&'gft'jft pZ} lolmes led the Bnownie Promise and Stunts were given by end. troop or The Brownies under the di of MrJlVr and Mrs. Oo*| a playing piano; Bed Rose a silent churclj; Cardinal F? w _ Mrs. Leirfs dancers of the prise *?? ? j. W. Miller, Mrs. Frank K. at 11 o'clock Sunday nvoro in uniform. -? '.J*.K 'F* fSa. D.Bnndy, ^ The Farm vi lie Tobacco L___ pamed all expectation for the first three days of this week when ap proximately one million and a half pounds of tobacco were sold. T% j Monday's sales went well over the half million mark and Tuesday's sales hit right at the half million mark. On Monday, 841,612 pounds were sold for 1359,818.54 for an average of $68.10 per hundred; Tuesday's sales unounted to 453,038 pounds, for 1230,718.55, for an average of $62.00, wd Wednesday's sales totalled 316, 102 pounds for $166,817.84 for an tverage of 52.41, The totals for the week (first three days) amounted to 1,410,062 pounds for $755,864.48 for in average of $63.60 per hundred. Die total for the season through Wednesday's sales amounted to 27, 189,414 pounds for $14,815,981.19 for i season average of $58.93 per hun ired. It is estimated that Friday's sales will put the market a little over 28, $90,000 pounds, or just 2,000,000 diort of the goal set' st the begin ning of the season. With approxi mately three more selling weeks many close market observers believe that the 30,000,000 goal will not pniy Je reached but that it may well go )var" that amount. Monday, November 11, has been ieelared a holiday and the markets >n all belts will be dosed for Armis tice Day. Farmers are urged to market their tobacco aa quickly-as possible while the floors are cleared daily and be fore* prices decline to a lower level, [fobacco can' now be sold on the same lay that it is brought to market. Although prices are somewhat lower than a week or so ago they have re mained fairly steady for the week. Sugar Stamps Good Through November Raleigh, Oct 31.?Spare Stamps Mo. 9 and No. 10, need for home can ling sugar, will continue good hroughout November, OPA District Director Theodore S. Johnson, said ?day. Originally slated to expire October 11, these stamps have been seeanse millions of ] he nation have been unable to hem, due to the scarcity of robnson said. Many women who have already laed their table sugar for canning of teasonal fruits in expectation of be ng able to spend their canning sugar stamps later for table use, would save been "caught short" if this ex tension had not been granted, John ton explained. Butchers Must Meet Health Regulations The Pitt County Health Depart nsnt through its sanitarian, H. A. Hendrix, has found that since price lontrota have been lifted from beef ind pork that certain persons are rotcbering tad retailing meat with >ut meeting the State Board jf Health Regulations. Mr, Hendrix advises that any per ton contemplating the butchering or retail sale of meat, got in touch with lim in order that tbey may under itand the sanitary regulations to bo net Mr. Hendrix calls attention Jto the fact that persons violating the" State Sanitary Code an subject to ration. ' Raleigh, Oct 81.?Caution on the ?rt of both industry and vas urgpd as the key to the decade ahead, in a," w m 1 ' in the history said. "Em even with at attdime If: s'-fSllIi ^Tli>"t I hie-} 'iM)wa| i, m s ?BpnB ea^vacmSf I** 'mtt Wl $22^2 ur !M ?V* > iw ? %