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J VOLUME ttHRTT-ElGflr .fAWiviLuc, ntf oomm, mwm&aqsMkA. ::wtooAit ^___ >■ i. -- . J/ ■ .■ '• . ■ ■-' -■ -—' ■:,, Hie nation’s Boy Scoots are en gaged in the program of saving and producing food to alleviate the world’s food shortage. As part of their service program this year each .Boy Scout is expected to “save a bushel, grow * bushel, share a bushel” of food. In addition to conserving food rad will emphasize safety and fire pre vention, home repairs and personal ' - health. Through their Work! Friend ship Fund of wohmtmy glfts^the of supplies to help Scout organ! za • tions overseas to rebuild. This aid is to be continued throughout 1948. Scouting & having a rebirth in many of file countries ravaged ^ by the war. The Boy Scouts Iptema * tional Bureau in London reports . a world membership of rapre than four million boys and leaders in 42 na . - tions. - - / World peace and mutual under standing is fcn objective of Scouting. - Through World Scout Jamborees and the-resultant expanding interest in friendships, understanding and per sonal relationships through corres pondence, these aims are increasing ly being met. lie Sixth World Jam-' boree test summer brought 30,000 Boy Scouts and leaders together in France from 38 nations. ^ *■; The Boy- Scouts of America is the . largest group in the World Scout Brotherhood. Its 2,120,000 Scouts i and Leaders afe members of 68,500 units. They in turn come under the jurisdiction of 646 Local Boy Scout Councils which, provide camping ex periences, leadership training, Scout craft activities and Courts of Honor to mark individual growth through the grades of the various programs. In peace as in war, Scouts -try “to help other people at all times” in ac cordance with their Scout Oath or Promise, With 260 million: of the world's children on the “very border of,starvation”/due to the world food shortage the Scouts are “all out” in the food saving and sharing pro gram. \ Each Scout and Leader Will “save a bushel” by eating grain aubsti tutes. More potatoes, vegetables, fruits and other perishable foods will be consumed at Scout camps and less bread and meat Rural Scouts can help by destroying rodents who each year cause the loes of 6 per cent of stored gram or they can aid by feed ing livestock more hay, table and garden leavings airi-other grain feed J - guostmitep - Every Scoot and Leader with ac cess to a piece o£!and is encouraged to “grow an extra, bushel” or more of garden produce or field crops dur ing the year. Scout units are urged to “share a bushel” by sending CARE ! i I or otter equivalent food package to .S' a brother Scoot or needy family a* nSK broad by sharing in Relief Overseas Project, or giving a holiday food package to the needy here at home. During the,year Scoots will work - closely with governors sad mayors TBs State Board of Public Welfare will meet in Raeigh on Ftehruary IS to appoint one of the three members to the. public welfere boa*« in each cotmty hi North Carolina. The appointees will serve for a lehn of'three jpana ^ ^ ^ Dr. Ellen Winston, state commis sioner of welfare, stated Oat the be glad to receive from local citwens recommendations for the 'appoint ment in each connty. Board mem bers,' die pointed nut* should be representative, public-spirited citi zens, selected to give representation to various sections of the county whefe possible. They should be per sons having sufficient rime to give tfce trme required tin attending numth T The state wetfatocemflssfemier call ed attention to provision* efthelaw setting'up the load bo*** witrfcting membership to apt more than two successive terms after April 1, 1946. Thus all present board members are eligible to succeed themselves for an other three yeans. Hie appointments will become ef fective April 1. "" Mrs. J. M. Hpbgood of Fannville, who has been a member of the board Bince 1934, is the member whose term expires and it'is quite likely she will be reappointed. J. N. Williams, of Greenville, fath er of Farmville’s Dr. R. T. Wil liams, is chairman of the Pitt hoard and is appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. s Walter Cherry of near Greenville the third member of the hoard. He if appointed, by the other two mem bers of the board. , . i.-Sb.,— i ■»in . i *■ ■ ■■■ iiv i ■ CHURCH WORLD SERVICE SETS . , AMBITIOUS PROGRAM FOR 1948 Church World Service, leading Protestant interdenominational jelief and reconstruction agency, expects t» distribute overseas |S4,7d#,600 fe funds and supplies this-year. The “Ml a SBip with Friendship” drive, for which doting was- col lected in Farmville a couple of. weeks ago, was sponsored by' this relief agency. - Donations are still being accepted by 'Miss Tabitha DeViacohti. t * Hie current program is “greater than anything the Americas churches have ever attempted,” said Dr. A. Livingston Wqmshais, executive vice president of CWS, in amnottisiag. Hi# organization's 1948 plans. It is 201 million dollars larger thaif the pro- j gram accomplished in-1947. The proposed total includes $23,-1 960,000 in fte»da <ia4>e raised by mjSS through churches of the United] States) 'and 610,790,000 in contribut ed supplies'. , “Unless the Christian church does its utmost to help accomplish a new world, humanity will not soon again be impressed by the flii ijllan Malt variety^dTeendces, including ' work among Europe’ homeless carried on by the cm Committee on Disptafed Persons. About $2/400,000 is pro posed for this' work^Uie amount con tingent upon passage of legislation The 1948 program list tore of $9,102,000 for Dr. Warnshuis said, in a near fellowship—eomerthing new in Eurape; To the European churches, the 1948 CWS program proposes a total of |^38j0Ob. The elements of this aggregate are for £outh work, pur chased - relief supplies, evangelistic work, religious education through church schools, lay training centers, theological scholarships, aid to min isters, temporary church buildings, and repairs. - ,\ r A sum Of $1,OOP,000 is requested for the ecumenical loan Arad, availa ble to congregations throughout Eu rope at a low interest rate and at tached to national interchurch com mittees. . - Estimates are given for the sums have helped make * the estimate of needs for this year, based oh care ful surveys of attual conditions. ' «■' A part of the $23,954^000 in funds for the year will come through the American Overseas Aid-United Na vfw«o **rFw* *»r V”IwPmH coiiijiiujjiij Dr. Warnhuius reported. CWS is official rung, as sodf on Jawinry St Passing of the serdSe it nnfi&oume* and, for the moBt part, unnoticed. People long nince ham become de pendent upon din -means of tmi’ portatkm mid flte ttabra were prima rily important because of the mafi arid express they carried. These they will continue to haul—six days a week—but there will be no more hauling of passengers. Although the. company had been, authorized to permanently suspend passenger service Saturday, one woman from Arkansas rode to Nor folk Monday afternoon, twodays after the deadline, on coaches that Were being taken to ti*e Yfcginia city for storage or-bo betsedfor other knowing that coaches were being re moved, had probably purchased her ticket out of the state and had been routed via the Norfolk Southern. She Was entitled to ride-—and the com pany took her. — While most Farmvillians were in different to- the change, if it does not affect mail and express service, at least one person had a certain feel-' ihg ofnostalgiaabout the removal. That one is Miss Annie Perkins, dean of Farmville school teachers, now re tired, Who had ttJfe-pHvitege-of being the first woman to ride from Farm ville to Greenville when the servide was inaugurated. Mias Annie and some of the com pany’s engineers boarder at the same home. They promised Miss Annie that the could be the first lady rid er. One morning after tlfe close of the school tern—Miss Annie says it probably was in -May—they - loaded Miss Annie and her trank on a flat car and hauled them to (Jreenville, ifofc Miss Annie perched all The while atop “her trunk.' ~ > , WIU JWICT, OT*, orTO. rranK xv Williams, Mib- M. V. Jones, Mrs. A W. Bobbitt, Charles J1. Baueom- and BUI Morton with Mrs. G. Alex Rouse at the organ, rendered favorite hymns, Ten Thousand Times Ten ' • : ;■ m Service SSSPSISisc TiiouBsnd, uome, xe mseonsmate ana O Lamb Qf God Still Keep Me. Sorrowing friends braved a bliz zard, which rendered die use of «u tomobile* almost impossible, and fill ed the edifice to payatasi tribute to this beloved woman, whose, wish to have her final rites conducted from the' church of which she had been a zealous and loyal member for thirty years, was carried out by her only son, Max Frederick Jones, of Kins ton. Active pallbearers were Burrell, Matt'and Edward Stroud, J. A. Jones and M. H. Gibson, of Kinston, Robert r. Monk, Leroy Bass and B. 0. Lang, Jr. ' , ~ — v . A service, attended by Washington relatives .and friends, was Conducted in that city, on Friday morning at 10 o’clock from , the Chambers Fun eral Home by the Rev. Howard G. Dawkins prior to the trip, back to' North Carolina. ~ , ^ Interment was made in Maplewood cemetery, Wilson, beside her husband, who died in HMO, and beneath a large ai)d beautiful Sowd tribute. c Surrivtrfc afce * son, Mar Frede rick Jones, and a grandson,’Max Fred-' Bride Jones, Jr., of Kinston; a broth er, George R. Regds and a half-sister Miss1 Mary Reges, of Washington, D. G.; and a number .of nieces and lephews. . Mrs. Jones fame to Farm villa some thirty years ago as. a bride, the seo snd wife of O. A. Jones, whir wap manager of the Imperial Tobacco Company and a prominent Fa»nviUe ritizen. Her charming personality surd nobility of character, together with her interest in the religions «hd educational life of Fprmville and ac tivity in civic and social drdee, eo ieared her to friends in every walk of life who were siddened4>y ihe news if her unexpected passing. She had keen suffering with arthritis and ieert complications for several months. ... .. .. , .itj A former Washingtonian, Mrs. fones returned to that dty following tbb death of her husband and- -had leld a position in the payroll section »f the Public Building Admiftiatra^ lion there since 1941, malting friends it scores, of her co-workers and aaae riates. She pas stricken in a taxi while returning fnbm work Wednes toy afternoon and died a few hours later at her apartment at 1415- ChAp b Street, N. W. ' ' - checks- in Lakeland, sod U»t Hoff, man had admitted to giving (lie fal lowing additional bad checks: Biount Hnt^y, GreenvUte, HOOO (draft); Western Untea, |600, Royal Grill, $2$, and,Hathaway service: station, $25, all of. FarmviUe; Robert Ray, Selina, $156. Information was also given Chief Lucas that Hoffmhn was wanted for giving the following bad i-necim in new uneans: macKS, two for$15; Owen Brenn*n,tlOte for 186, and the Rainbow Room, 7260. Freed under $660 bond after fail arrest here, Hoffman left for gaits unknown, insofar as law enforcement officers are concerned, a^d failed to put in an appearance whan his case was called for trial-Bond was posted by a Greenville agency. Since Hoffi&an is. wanted by Fhnn ville courts, Chief Lucas wired the sheriff of Bartow county, in which Lakeland -is located, and requested that Hoffman he held for estngK&m. ;Ihe date of Hoffman’s return may be hi the dim, distant future, how ever, as the police head received a reply that the “baa check artist” is being ^eW under detainers ismitt by Tampa and New Orleans, IF TOU HBNK PRESENT WEATHER ^ : ; r UNUSUAL, LOOS aftT 1947 RECORD _ ■/' - 'g-T»- III ~ ' - -,r-, , * - n , ' A11 sections, of North Carolina fromithe sea coast to the mountains wore exposed to “extreme contrasts in weather” during the past yen, ac cording to the 1947 metrological summary issued by the tJ, S. Weath er Bureau at N.C. State College. Virtually all citizens of the state were affected by the wide climatic fluctuations through agricultural and industrial damages, temporary loss of emplbyme&t, property destruc tion. had personal injury or other hardship stemming from temperature variations,/VE. Lamoureux, director of the College's Vhather Station, re ported. „ ** Director Lamoureux said tint 1947 included "the wettest November on record for. the stale as a whoter the second -coldest March and the'second coldest July on mcord, near-record high temperatures in January, light frosts in the higher moxmtain valloys in June and July, damaging flash floods in restricted areas of the Piedmont* and exceptionally high tides along the coast.” v.;' | Lamoureux’s summary continued as follows5", ^ v;_ • -\j; “The warmweather of October, November and December, 1946, con tinued through January, 1947. Jft was so wa«ft that apples Were blooming in Columbus county and tobacco wad up in that section. The month was the wettest January of record in the southwest corner of the Mite. - “In contrast to months of warm nwui^, and March were very cold. It was the—coldest February of record "at many stations in the western moun tain area. | Very little snow had fid; len the early part of the winter, l«it heavy snows occurred in the moon “June and July were cool, with July the second coldest of record. Record breaking low temperatures were reg istered on July 23 26, while light frosts were, recorded in the higher mountain valleys in both months. By ; yray oC contrast, near record high temperatures were registered in many localities oft the 10th and 11th 1 of Jttae. - " 1 — '' “Heavy rains along the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge caused da maging floods m the upper Yadkin on the 13th and 14th of June. At Poe’s Knob in Wilkes county 9.61 , inches of rain fell within 2% hoars. . In tiie eastern part of the state less , than'tme inch of rain fell in June in j portions of Robeson, Scotland and . ■Hoke counties.. ."U-'\ _ “Severe wind and hailstorms were reported locally during June and , July. The cool moist weather in July . •was favorable for the spread of boll ‘ weeviL ' _ ; T. “August, September - and October , were above normal in. temperature, , although there V as a very cool period.,, the last 10 days of September and , the first five days of October. The lowest September temperature in ti»6 , state <23 degrees) was recorded' at , Transou oh the 23th. Kilting frosts ^ were -reported in the mountains op the 28th- of September and again on , the '2nd of October. ' .ij “Heavy local rains in September , caused considerable damage. On the j 7th of the month local flooding oc curred in the; GreenviHe*Wsshingt©n ; a:-ea; 200,000 pounds of'tobacco were i damaged.in wnetMiwa 4 “%tthe 12tb and. 13th of October, , ik"' ItiiAeimrrio a## flin \Tai4Vi Puiwina heavy rain* along tiie e^hlheaaterJt^ slopes of the mountain*. Dry condi tion* were relieved. “November and' December were , cold, with the cold weather oonlaflH iag Hurougb January, 1948. It vraa nr to Ilia flak situation deteri October and November tod wellinto GINNBRS WILL MAVS ANNUAL CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE %J " . —*>■■ r The thence of the Annual Conven tion at the CatoBnaS GiAneft Associ ation, which convenes in Charlotte, February 8, will be “Cotton in the New Agricultural Pattern for the Southeast,” it bar. bean announced. Fred P. Johnson, executive secre tary of file organization, states that some 250 gamers,.other raw cotton interests and s^ricultonaF leaders are scheduled to attend. Principal speak ers for the occasion will be Ef. D. Day, vice-president of The Murry <5ompany, Dallas, Texas, represepMiif the Cotton Gin Machinery Manufac turers Association; EL 5- William son, assistant director, Federal Agri culture Extension Service, • Washing ton, D. CL; a S- McDaniel, area su pervisor, Field Service, National Cot ton Council; and Lt. Governor L. Y. Ballentfhe of North Carolina.'' The ginners 1048 program will be presented Jby the Board of Directors. This program, gives special attention .to co|ton seed marketings, one-varie tv wnrk. ftiiri nnrfli»WjAn'fl daIi/ cies in respect to new improved gin service and-its influence on produc tion," Johnson said- "'V- , The gibers program wfll be co ordinated* witii the cotton programs of State agencies, particuariy the Ag ricultural Extension Service, he add ed. The program 'submitted by the Board will be analyzed by'a panel of specialists and authorities in several fields of production,. ginning and*, marketing. 'V- -jr'C ft:. j This panel will ^Include agrono mists, entomologists, practiced gin- ' ners, gin engineers, representatives of gin machinery, seed crushers, cot ton merchants and -gin specialists from State College, Raleigh,, and demsoii College. , ? - All persons present are expected to take an active part in discussions. 1 Snow follows portatioh-'And To " The weather took a long wind-silt and 3uew everything in-the book at ParmyiHe last week. On top of a solid sheet of sleet and ice Saturday night came a snow, estimated conaervative ly dt 11 fitches, that paralysed trans portation, closed schools for an en tire week, and brought business in the community to a standstill. It was theheaviest snow PhrcnviUe has had since 1927, and like practi cally everything else that comes in contact with the community, it “StUCk” v'-T ;■ i - — _ . The atom forced suspension of schools this week, caused ihMC^fthe churches to cancel Sunday echoed «ful preaching services (the Christian church had Sunday school), cancell ed practically all of the social en gagements schedued for the forepart >f die week,- and generally stepped the diode. *>- ' " - nncmUn fka aiianww 4a «JL ,..1% this section of the state is unaccus tomed, superintendents of the wi »us utilities reported that compara tively little trouble was experienced, it- L- -Spivey, manager of the Caro-' lina laeptaoae 'ii&d Telegraph eoni aany’s local office, stated, that he was saving less trouble than la had anti cipated. W. A. McAdams, head of the town’ water rad power depart ment, stated that he. had only One weak-down on the town lines and that the REA lines had had fewer broken lines and less trouble than would he expected. ' " Unlike some eastern North Caro ina towns which are sitting by and waiting for nature to dispose qf the mow, Fgrmville officials proceeded ;o make the stress passable and to >. dear1 the sidewalks. By Sunday afternoon, the town’s motor grader was ip operative, pushing the snow rut of the way so care - could pro ved. B. M. Burress, the .new itreet superintendent, worked all Sunday night. Motor driven ^cooni? ’rom the Pecan Grove Dairy and the farm of Dr. Paul E. Jones were: turned over to Jhe town -toad ased to scoop up the snow from ? - streets and to load it on town trucks, which hauled it away. -r a County's -Rural Slows Huge Valuation Finn property'to Ktt county is u»w worth more than $26,847,000, md rural homes here rad throughout he state are in the best condition in li story, according to a report judt ■eleased by the Tile Council of Ame iea. ' '■' ’ 'v. More than 75 per cent of farm Iwellings in North Carolina and the Jouth are in excellent condition or teed only such minor repairs as uqntfog or general maintenance, the epbrt revealed. Only 61.1 per bait rare in good repair in 1M0. The-re mit was based on Bureau of the Gen us surveys. ’J* aThe rise in fay*0 incomes and Ffoflbrty veluas since 1940 has been j ccompanted by a great increase in M- number of rural home equipped With SUih modern conveniences os dectric lights, tiled baths and show T8 and running water,” said F. B. )rtman, chairman of the Council’s esidentisl construction- committee. ■ 5
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