Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 15
Endorse Proposal
To Place Control
On 3-Year Basis
Bankers and Tobacco Men Hold Meeting in Raleigh and Vote
to Ask Congress to Amend Control Act So As to Allow
a Growers' Referendum in July on Question of
Continuing Control Through 1943
Raleigh, Feb. 18.—A proposal to
place tobacco control on a three
year basis was endorsed unani
mously here Saturday by a group
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
of bankers and tobacco men from
six states.
The group, which included
presidents of six tobacco ware
house associations, voted to ask
Congress to amend the control act
so as to allow a growers' referen
dum in July on the question of
continuing control through 1943.
At present a referendum is held
each year, and the result of the
vote —which determines whether
the size of the tobacco crop will
be limited by AAA quotas and ap
plies only to the following year.
Tobacco farmers and ware
housemen, meeting after the
joint session with the bankers,
said they believed control was
"absoultely necessary" if farmers
were to receive profitable prices
for their crop.
The tobacco men also asked
that a farmer be allowed to grow
less tobacco than his quota this
year, without having his volun
tary reduction affect his quota
for 1941.
Officials of the AAA, who said
they called the meetings to "find
out what the farmers want," were
urged to work out some sort of
plan so that foreign buyers would
be represented on tobacco mark
ets this year.
Last year, after British buyers
were withdrawn from the mark
ets, the Federal Commodity Cred
it Corporation purchased 170,000,-
000 pounds of tobacco, on which
the British firms have options.
Hope was expressed that a simi
lar arrangement cou'd be made
for 1940.
J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad
ministrator, said the resumption
of tobacco buying by the British
was "largely a matter of stocks."
"And when they have reduced
their stocks, they may resume
purchases," he added. "The Tur
kish purchase is only a small re
placement of American tobacco."
He referred to a recently con
cluded British-Turkish treaty, un
der which England will use 20,-
000,000 pounds of Turkish tobac
co annually.
Much of the session was de
voted to discussion of enforcing
the control plan this year. Hutson
pointed out that allotments this
year were on an acreage, rather
than a poundage, basis, and said
this change would necessitate
changes in enforcement.
The AAA, he said, was anxious
to administer the program as
economically as possible, and was
considering the removal of en
forcement men from tobacco
warehouses.
Several of the warehousemen
quickly turned thumbs-down on
that proposal, however, declaring
they did not want the responsi
bility of enforcement.
W. E. Fenner of Rocky Mount,
president of the Eastern Belt
Warehouse Association, .said the
AAA should check up on sales to
prevent "bootlegging" of tobacco
raised in excess of quotas. TTis
stand was endorsed by D. B. Sugg,
ELKIN. N. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940
[ Greenville warehouseman, who
asserted, "There's always going to
be a little stealing and a little
bootlegging, and we want to mini
mize it."
J. C. Eagles of Wilson, said the
AAA should provide a checking
clerk for each set of buyers, but
no action was taken.
Hutson said he believed prices
would be stabilized if control
were placed on a three-year ba
sis.
Asked whether his statement
meant he favored the three-year
control plan, he replied: "If it's
what the growers want, I'm for
it."
The Benkers organized the
Bright Tobacco Bankers Asso
ciation, and elected Wayles R.
Harrison of Danville, Va., as their
president.
Harrison said the association
would "co-ordinate all bankers in
the bright tobacco districts in co
operative efforts to promote the
welfare of tobacco growers and
tobacco-growing communities."
AAA. men present, besides Hut
son, included J. E. Thigpen, act
ing chief of the tobacco section;
E. Y. Floyd, North Carolina ad
ministrator; S. K. Cassell, Vir
ginia administrator; J. T. Lazar,
South Carolina district extension
agent, and S. Durden, Georgia
administrator.
Presidents of the warehouse as
sociations represented were Fen
ner; W. B. Daniel of Henderson,
middle belt; W. H. Daniel of Mul
lins, S. C., South Carolina-bor
der belt; F. P. Davis of Winston-
Salem, old belt; F. W. Brown of
Danville, Va., Georgia-Florida
belt; and John Buckley of Lex
ington, Ky., burley belt.
Accidents In
Rural Areas
State Are
Raleigh, Feb. 15.—Records of
the highway safety division reveal
that from four to five times as
many people are killed in traffic
accidents in rural areas of the
state as are killed in cities and
towns, despite the fact that the
total number of accidents, fatal
and non-fatal, is approximately
the same in cities as in rural
areas.
Last year, for example, records
show that 182 fatalities occurred
in 4,026 traffic accidents in North
Carolina cities and towns, while
761 people were killed in 4,131
accidents in rural areas of the
state.
Speed "too fast for conditions"
is held accountable for a large
proportion of the highway fatal
ities in rural areas.
"Too many drivers regard an
open road as an invitation to step
on the gas and see how fast their
cars will go," Ronald Hocutt, di
rector of the highway safety di
vision, declared after a study of
statistics relating to rural and ur
ban traffic fatalities. "Through a
statewide educational program
and stricter enforcement of our
motor vehicle laws, we can ma
terially reduce this wide margin
between deaths on our city streets
and those on our rural highways."
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Seen This
A rare and spectacular celes
tial "line-up" of the brightest
five planets in the solar system
will begin in the western sky about
February 23 and will continue
through the first week in March.
Mercury will be near the west
ern horizon shortly after sunset,
followed in order by Jupiter,
Venus, Saturn, and Mars. They
will be. almost evenly spaced,
"hanging one above the other in
t.he twilight glow like a necklace
of colorful jewels," according to
William H. Barton, Jr., of the
Hayden Planetarium. Mr. Bar
ton added that the spectacle
would be so unusual that even
eclipses would seem commonplace
by comparison. No one living he
said, will see a repetition of the
phenomenon.
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