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VOL. 24.
SELMA, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2. 1941.
SINGLE COPY 5c
NUMBER' 1,
Gurt Award Is Given
To Pine Level Scouts
Number of Presentations An
nounced at Johnston District
Scout Gathering.
Selma Man Builds Miniature Church
Smithfield, Jan. 1. The Pine Level
Boy Scout troop, the youngest in the
Johnston district, won highest honors
at the court of honor Monday night
. at-the Legion hut.
At the beginning of the program,
Council Executive C. H. Westin of
Goldsboro announced that the Pine
Level boys were the only representa
tives from the Johnston district at
the council rally at Goldsboro on
December 20. The troop also won
highest honors at the meeting Mon
day, being the -only troop to make
more than 400 points in the contest,
thereby winning a red ribbon stream
er. Fourteen of the 17 members, their
. scoutmaster and assistant scout
master, two mothers and other
friends from Pine Level were pres-
. ent.
Micro and Benson troops won yel
low ribbon streamers for attaining
more than 350 points in the contest
Smithfield won in the "fire by flint
and, steel'' contest. Billie Parrish se
. cured sufficient sparks at his first
-stroke to kindle his fire. He used a
granite rock instead of steel. Judges
were. 1$. At' Johnson of Benson; 'L.
J. : Worthington of Micro and Alvin
Kornegay of Pine Level. ; ,
G. W! Grier, district chairman,' pre
sented certificates of 'advancement
and merit badges. He announced that
Billy Oliver of Selma had completed
requirements for. an. Eagle Scout
badge and would receive his badge at
a later meetmgv i v !"
A number of certificates were de-
' .77 ,v-. , f fr " i'V .
This little church was built by Mr. R. A. Stevens of Selma,
as a part of the town's Christmas decoration. It is 86 inches,
wide, 48 inches long, and 44 inches from the ground to the top
of the roof. It has a belfry, in front which is 7 1-2 feet tall, a
bell is installed near the. top. This church has a vestibule that
is 14 inches square. It has 20 pews, 10 on either side of the
aisle. It has a pulpit and rostrum behind which is a pipe organ.
A kneeling rail encircles the altar, and it also has a choir loft,
The aisle is carpeted in velvet made from one of Mrs. Stevens',"
velvet dresses, and the windows are vari-colored. AH during''
the Christmas holidays this church was electrically lighted at
night, and the sound of Christmas carols coming from the
rostrum within attracted many local visitors as well as high
way tourists. It was erected on Highway 301, at the corner of -Anderson
and Pollock streets. ... . .
Judge Nimocks To
Hold January Term
A two-week civil term of Superior
court will convene in Smithfield Mon
day, January 6, with Judge Q. K
Nimocks of Fayettevile presiding.
- KiSftJSS S -SSf !S assigned to the fourth judicial
but , those entitled to them included
' Jiinmie Lane of . Pine Level, who has
district for the first 6 months of
won - his bronz palm; Billy Wilson of round months of service jn
omitnne.a ana irue Jones W the district at the DeCember criminal
"ow pcouta; rioya marun 01 onuin- , ,
fielif anil Rlnta Prij-o nf Pino Timl. t .
rm t;.j: -m t; jurors lor uie; January km veim
Level: ' nrsf cfass? arid Bflrfibirof s
Pine Level. Griffis Worthinirton of it Week I. w. Houana, fcieva-
Micro, Met Ausley of Micro, Rudolph
Langston of Micro and Calvin Wel-
lons of Micro, merit badges.
tion; T. W. Rhodes, O'Neals; W. M.
Grantham, Smithfield; J. D. Daugh
try, Boon Hill; Wilbur Stanley, In-
grams; W. Y. Beasley, Banner; C. R.
Blackman, Meadow; S. L. Coats,
Pleasant Grove; John B. Johnson,
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mm rm mm i mm . I meaqow; jonn a. oroen, nusoni
10 Hie ItlUle WarKetl Mills; J. W. Sawyer, Banner; Ralph
H. Fitzgerald, Boon Hill; W. M. Rad-
1 T TT.'ll . T T T T
ClaTde SullWan Te
. . I HnmflAn fTlnvrnn A. K. Mrtrcrnn.
Hoyd C Price Off
Columbia, S. ., and Memphis, Tenn.,
where they will purchase a car load
of young mules and horses. Mr. Price
is expecting this stock to arrive
about the first of next week.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
By H. H. L. i
EDITOR STANCIL is not only an
editor but an aviator as well the
Editor took charge of the controls
in RTT.T. fifinWTN'S now Amnion
Wednesday and flew the plane from Bowen, Smithfield; A. D. Hayes,
Pin- Tvp1 in Selma onH after n. raeuowi " names, ruevawon;
Harrison, Clayton; A. F. Morgan,
Banner; M. A. Bunn, O'Neals; W. A.
Massey, Bentonville; W. S. Marcom,
Pleasant Grove; W. T, Rogers, Micro;
L. C. Johnson, Elevation; S. E.
Sherrill, Boon ,Hill; E. O. Hatcher,
Micro. :':
Second Week Floyd C. Johnson,
Meadow; W. J. Tart, Meadow; Earl
Aycock, Micro; R. Vernon Woodard,
Beulah; J. B. Atkinson, Beulah; H.
G. Johnson, Smithfield; Ray Allen,
Ingrams; C.T. Thompson, Boon Hill;
W. P. Woodard, O'Neals; Wilmer
Boykin, O'Neals; Hugh Young, Mead
ow; Anderson Edgerton, Beulah: W.
Selma Men Are
Charged With Larceny
Napoleon Deans of Selma, and son,
Lonnie Deans of Smithfield, Route 2,
after being paroled a . few months
ago of a 30-year sentence for
murder, of which they had only
served eight years, have been arrest
ed along with two others on a charge
of larceny. They are charged' of
larceny of mill machinery and, farm
equipment belonging to J. D. Parker,
Smithfield lawyer. Tne, stolen prop-,
erty is valued at $125.00.- ' E- 5.
JXhvvf. iamd - in.. ft-':nrraita iaisi Joidani here it wa,fund ihat
circling the town of Selma took off
to the Neuse river where he
meandered down this stream for
some distance he says it was lots
easier than he anticipated and he
wasn't scared one bit either DR.
BOOKER has moved across the
street into the PERSON & VICK
building a new ladies' and children's
ready-to-wear shop will open up in
the building vacated by DR. BOOK
ER DR. LASSITER says he's
tickled to death to have DR.
BOOKER as a neighbor BILL
CREECH was invited to take a ride
with BILL GODWIN in his new
Aronica the other day and, in fact
started with BILL to the airport,
when all at once he remembered a
remark that BILL GODWIN made
during Christmas that he hoed to
get even with BILL CREECH don't
know what BILL CREECH had done
to the other BILL that he wanted
to get even with him, but BRE'R
CREECH decided that he didn't want
to ride and hiked back to his drug
store said he wasn't going to let
BILL make those tail spins, wing
overs, nose dives, etc... with him
. . . i . . t :
iOM lie cuuiu ren murni-iii
some other way if he wanted to
EDITOR STANCIL says BILL
couldn't scare him, in fact, he would
like a few nose ' dives, etc. DAVE
BALL made the local' Kiwanis club
a very fine president during the past
year and another capable man has
been named to ' preside over the
workings of the local club during
1941 luck to you, PREACHER
CLEMMONS.
B. R. Smith, Pleasand Grove; Jesse
L. Fulghum, Selma; T. F. White,
Boon Hill; Milton Daughtry, Boon
Hill; J. H. Creech, O'Neals; Rudolph
E. Oliver, Pine Level; C. N. Rose,
Bentonville; Hector Strickland, In
grams; Percy 'Bass, Beulah.
Dr. Booker Moves
To New Quarters
Dr. E. N. Booker, whose offices
have been in th,e old. bank building
on the corner next to Gregory's 5
and 10c Store for the past few years,
has moved Jnto the Person & Vick
Building next to Woodard's Drug
Store, the offices of which were
formerly used by the late . Doctors
Person and Vick. Dr. W. H. Lassiter
was already using part of these
offices and Dr. Booker now occupies
the others.
Almost before Dr. Booker could
remove all his furniture and fixtures
from his former quarters, carpenters
began work of tearing out petitions
and painting and remodeling these
quarters for a new store, to be known
as "The Walda. Shoppe". We under
stand that this new store will' be
under the management of Mrs.
Erma Brown who,' for the past 15
years has been with Walter Godwin's
Department Store here. Mrs. Brown
will specialize in Ladies' and Chil
dren's Rady-to-wear. Watch ; for
further announcement of opening
date, etc
K. F. Lawhon, 54, and -Albert Strick
land, 45, both of Selma- -
The four men were arrested Friday
by Constable Zeke Creech of Smith-
field, who had worked on the case
with Mr. Parker for a week. They
were given a preliminary ' hearing
Saturday afternoon before. Justice of
the Peace Everett Jones and held for
Superior court. The trial was set for
February 10.
Bonds were set at $500 each, but
none had been posted Monday. The
men are in the county jail.
The Deans were convicted of the
murder of W. H. Waters on May
30, 1932, and were sentenced in Su
perior court that year to serve 30
years in the state prison. They were
released in May of this year under
parole.
The larceny of the mill and farm
equipment from Mr. Parker is alleged
to have taken place on December 21..
Stolen were fly wheels and crank
shaft of a gas engine, a small feed
mill, an iron pulley, a force pump,
a steel beam ana otner equipment.
The machinery was taken from Mr.
Parker's farm near Smithfield on the
Brogden road.
Smithfield News Boy
Killed By Automobile
Smithfield Negro Being Held On
Charge of Murder and Driv
ing Reckless While Drunk.
V .
James Edward Stephenson, 16, and
only son of ', Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Stephenson of Smithfield, was almost
instantly killed and. his body badly
mangled when struck by a car driven
by Levi Smith, 45-year-old Negro
resident of Smithfield, Sunday morn
ing about 6:45, which was about half
an hour before sunrise.
Young' Stephenson was delivering
Sunday morning copies of The News
and Observer on the suburban Holt
Lake road, in the southern edge of
Smithfield. He and another carrier,
Roy Parker, were making deliveries
by automobile, with Miss Violet
Jordan, who holds the agency for
The News and Observer in Smith
field, as their driver. Miss Jordan's
car was headed south, but had come
to a stop on the east shoulder of
the road almost in' front of the Hugh
McGowan residence, according to in
formation obtained by H. C. Bobbitt
and Claude Fuller, who assisted in
the investigation. Stephenson is
alleged to have been standing on the
running board next to the pavement,
while Parker made delivery at the
McGowan home. The Smith car was
seen coming from the direction of
Holt Lake, zig-zagging across the
pavement, and that young Stephen
son jumped from the running board
and tried to avoid being hit by at
tempting to run around behind Miss
Jordan's car, but was struck by the
Smith car before he could clear him'
self of its uncertain path, the rear
fender of the Smith car striking the
rear fender of Miss Jordan's car as
the drunken driver whirled by at 45
or 50 miles per hour, striking the
Stephenson youth and knocking him
40 or 50 feet, landing almost directly
in the driveway to the ;: Durwood
Creech home. Stephenson was rushed
to the Johnston County hospital by
Kiwanis Officers To
Be Installed Tonight
Surrenders Gavel
he had suffered a broken" arm, s
broken leg . and a possible fracture
of the skull and vertebra, as well as
internal injuries. He died a few min
utes after reaching the hospital.
Riding in the car with Smith were
Ezell Bunch, Allen Eason, and Chas.
Watson, all Negro residents of Smith-
field. Smith made his escape from
the . scene of the tragedy, but. later
gave himself up. He was then held
without bail, jwhilehis companions
were held as state witness under
$100 bond each.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the Smithfield Baptist
church, by Rev. C L. Gillespie, the
pastor. Interment followed in the
Sunset Memorial Park.
Surviving, besides his parents, are
two sisters, Alice Marie and Cornelia
Anne Stephenson.
KENLY MAN HURT IN
GOLDSBORO STORE
An unidentified Negro man was the
object of a police search in Golds
boro Saturday after an incident in
the Kress store on N. Center street
Friday afternoon in which a white
man was knocked to the floor of the
crowded store. '
Larkin Ballance of Kenly, Route 2,
was painfully though not seriously
hurt when he was floored as the
Negro hit him on the nose with his
fist
Levi Smith, driver of the car, was
given a hearing before Magistrate
E. C. Jones Tuesday afternoon and
bound over, to the Superior court.
Bond was set at $2,500 but bond was
not posted and the negro was taken
to jail charged with careless and
reckless driving, driving while under
the influence of an intoxicant nar
cotic, manslaughter, and hit-and-run
driving.
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Lieutenant-Governor Tuttle To,
Conduct Installation Presi
dent Clemmons Names Com
mittees To Serve With Him
During The Year 1941.
DAVID S. BALL, retiring presi
dent of the Selma Kiwanis club who
will surrender the gavel to D. M.
Clemmons, the new club president, at
an installation service tonight.
Strange Bird Attacks
Wayne County Man
A loon or a goon or something
definitely out of the ordinary flew
down out of the blue or the gray
and attacked Raymond Grant of the
old Sheriff Grant homeplace off the
Goldsboro-Kinston highway about
miles, east of Goldsboro, Thursday.
Grant won the fray, however
when he captured the strange, migra
tory fowl in a bed sheet.
The bird, which furiously, thrust at
Grant with its two-inch, Sword-like
beak and moving with swiftness of a
dive blmmerfldwover the" ? Grant
place Thursday morning at a height
of about 100 feet. The tourist looked
down at Grant standing in his yard,
new on aDout 100 yards, men re
turned to dive straight at the farmer,
attempting to peck him on the arms,
Grant then brought the bed sheet
into play and captured the bird
which, because of its three-toed
webed feet, could be identified only
as a water fowl.
, The - bird, - weighing - about two to
two and a half pounds, was slate
colored with a duller gray belly,
cried in a voice that was a cross
between the croak of a bullfrog and
the quack . of a domesticated duck.
Persons familiar with water fowl said
they were unable to identify the bird
and did not recognize its family.
Aside from its strangely thin, scaled
legs and thickly webbed : feet, the
flying stranger, now a ; captive,
closely resembled a Canadian goose.
Goldsboro Transcript and Messen
ger.
Legion Auxiliary
Entertained Friday
The Legion Auxiliary met Friday
at the home of Mrs. C. A. Bailey
with Mrs. John Jeffreys and Mrs.
W. D. Perkins as joint hostesses. The
business period was presided over by
the president.
The Auxiliary reported several
needy families helped during the
holidays. The hostesses served light
refreshments. J
New Year Is Greeted
By Safe Celebration
The weather man and caution com
bined to .give America an Jipparent
safe celebration of the New Year.
With inclement 'weather prevailing
in most section of the country Tues
day night and ' Wednesday, and
motorists evidently observing police
warnings not to drive after imbibing,
the nation's violent death toll for the
holiday 'was less than two score.
There were 131 persons killed
throughout the country, most of them
in traffic accidents, on Christmas Eve
and early Christmas morning a week
ago.
Of the 36 deaths of a violent na
ture reported throughout the nation,
27 were traffic fatalities. Thirty-two
of the 48 states reported no traffic
deaths, while 11 states each reported
one fatality resulting from auto
mobile accidents. New York's five
dead in auto crashes was the top
among the , states, while Ohio, Mich
igan and Pennsylvania each re
ported three and Wisconsin two.
OFFICERS GET STILL
OUTFIT; TWO MEN
: Officers captured a 50-gallon oil
drum whiskey still last Tuesday in
Wilders township and arrested two
men who were preparing to operate
the plant. .
Arrested were Frank Johnson, 20,
and James Sanderford, 22. Johnson
was released under bond and Sander
ford jailed in default of bond. They
wtll get a hearing in recorder's court
January 8.
Taking -part in the raid were
Deputy Sheriffs C. C. Liles, Merton
Whitley and Jesse Creech, Wake
County ABC Officer H. V. Andrews,
Constable Otto Creech of Clayton
and Constable Wright Sanders of
Wilders.
Two barrels of beer found at the
still were poured out.
The newly elected officers of the
Selma Kiwanis club will be installed
at the regular meeting of the club
tonight (Thursday).' Lieutenant-Governor
O. A. Tuttle, of the Fourth,
Kiwanis District, will conduct the in-
stallation. ; v j.
Rev. D. M. Clemmons, president;
BillThad Woodard, ' vice-president;
M. R. Wall, . secretary-treasurer;
directors, William I. Godwin, Leon.
Brown, O. A. Tuttle, R. H. Griffin
and John Jeffreys.
President Clemmons has named the
following committees to serve with
him during the year 1941:
Boys and Girls Work Haydeq,
Wiggs, chairman, Charles E. Clark,
M. L. Stancil. .
Inter-club Relations S. W. Ami-
tage, chairman; Bill Thad Woodard.
Public Affairs John N. Wiggs,
chairman; W. T. Woodard, William
I. Godwin. '
Churches and Their Spiritual Aim,
Charles Clark, chairman; J. C
Avery, David S. Ball.
Citizenship C. P. Harper, chair
man; Frank Hood.
Business Standards C. E. Korne-
gay, chairman; Raleigh Griffin, M.
R. WalL
Underprivileged Child , Howard
Gaskill, chairman; J. Oscar Creech,
Music H. H. Lowry, chairman;
John Jeffreys, Miss Delia Batchelor.
Kiwanis Education David S. Ball,
chairman. h;-1. .'''
Agricultural J.f C. Avery, chau
man; John Wiggs. . .'
Attendance Paul McMillan, Leon
Brown.
v. Pubjicitg-Mi ,Ls tancil, ctoattinanjf
Public Safety Frank' Hood, chair J
man; H.'B. Pearce.
House and Reception . J. V
Chamblee, chairman.
Vocational Guidance W. E. Tyler,
chairman; O. A. Tuttle.
Boy Scout Troop John Jeffreys,
chairman; Paul Starling, B. A. Henry
R. P. Oliver, D. S. Ball, Paul Harris,
J. C. Avery.
Negro Fatally Injured
ay nit-ana-Kun unver
John Sanders, 45-year-old Negro
of the Holt Lake section, was.
fatally injured by a hit-and-run
driver between Holt Lake and Four
Oaks, Christmas Eve night between.
8 and 9 o'clock.
A passing motorist discovered
Sanders lying in a ditch beside U.
301 in front of the Negro school
between Four Oaks and Holt Lake
and notified Chief Collier in Four
Oaks. The officer with Dr. J. B.
Surles went to the scene, found the
Negro still living and rushed him to
the Johnston County hospital in
Smithfield where he died about 4
o'clock Thursday morning.
The Negro, who worked on Frank
Skinner's farm near the lake, had
suffered a compound leg fracture, a
broken arm, numerous bruises and
lacerations.
H, C. Bobbitt, highway patrolman
of Smithfield, started an investiga-.
tion immediately after Sanders was
found beside the road, but Monday
had made little headway toward
locating the driver of the car that
struck the Negro.
Services At Selma
Episcopal Church
Bishop Edwin A. Penick will preach
at St. Gabriel's Episcopal church
here, Sunday- afternoon, January 12,
at 8 o'clock.
Miss Stella Etheredge's Junior
Choir will furnish the music. Every
body is invited to be present at this
service and hear Bishop PenicV -"
is one of North Carolina's
tinguished ministers.
Greek War Relief Fund
The contributions to the Greek
War Relief fund is steadily growing
in spite of the fact that a thorough
canvas of Selma has not been made;
Indefinite plans are now underway
for a canvas of the whole of John-,
ston county. Help Selma raise the,
biggest contribution!
Those who have contributed thH
week are as follows:
Selma Leon Brown, Judge W, P.
Aycock. i . ,
Pine Level Leon Godwin.
Smithfield Baker's Garage, J. D.
M-M-on, f ' Fruit Co., Rose's
Soybeans are
facture of
creams, "
creaff"