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The Johnstonian Son is dedicated to the best interest of Johnston coun ty and its sixty thousand people. Read the news and advertisements in its columns each week.- . t Bailey V U. Ifiie Mm rt n rv i4 Weekly Newspaper Containing The News And Views Of Your Community And Surrounding Territory. VOL. 24. SELMA, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1941. SINGLE COPY 5c NUMBER 2. Selma offera splen did living condi tion, pure water, diversified indus tries, varied re sources, equable climate and mod ern city conven iences. Seima wel comes youl William I. Awarded Mr. Godwin Was Elected On First Ballot As Town's Most Useful Citizen During the Year 1940 Presentation of Cup Will Be Made Thursday Night of Next Week. Carrying out a custom which it established about 15 years ago the Selma Kiwanis club last Thursday night awarded its silver loving cup to whom it adjudged to be the most useful citizen and one who had con tributed most to the community dur mg the year 1940. The recipient is Solicitor William I. Godwin of the Johnston County. Recorder's court, former mayor of Selma. Balloting was secret and Mr. God win came through with an over whelming majority on the first ballot. The vote was then made unanimous. One of the outstanding contribu tions to Solicitor Godwin's credit is establishment of the Selma airport, for which he has labored untiringly for three or four years. Presentation of the cup will be made at the next regular meeting of the club, after which the name of Mr. Godwin will be engraved thereon, along with those of the dozen or more others who won this distinct honor in past years. Farm Conservation Checks Being Issued Johnston county farmers who com plied with the farm conservation pro "gram in 1940 are beginning to re .; ceive payments from the government, While only ; a . comporatively few farmers have received their payments as yet, it is reported that payments will be made earlier this year than usual, and that the total benefits to Johnston county farmers ( for ,1940 will amount to $510,000, as compared with $165,000 for 1939, the small amount for 1939 being attributed to overplanting. It is expected that practically all farmers will receive their payments . this year through January and February.. . Seen and Heard Along THE MAINDRAG By H. H. L. "How did you know Selmahad an airport?" MANAGER BILL GOD WIN, of the local airport, asked MR. HENRY E. OLIVER, manager of the Pittsfield, Mass,, airport, Tuesday night '"why, haven't you seen the new 1941 maps "he asked MR GODWIN "no, replied BILL "the Selma airport is on all the new maps," said Mr. OLIVER this well known aviator and his wife from the Massachusetts city landed on the Selma field about 4:30 Tuesday after noon en route to the Miami, Fla., air races after spending the night at the Brick hotel they took off bright and early Wednesday for Miami when asked what he thought of our landing field, MR. OLIVER said: "you have a well laid out field, but it needs developing" BILL GODWIN caught a fast train Wed nesday night for the Florida city to take in the air races BILL has a new Aeronica but at the last minute decided he would go by train instead of by air as it was too long a hop to go alone news this morning from Duke hospital that HERBERT WHITE, JR., was improving was great news to his many friends in Selma and elsewhere HERBERT has been a sick boy for the past few days and his host of friends rejoice with his parents that he is now thought to be on the road , to re-1 covery he is greatly missed from the Maindrag sorry to learn of the illness of MRS. R. C. BANKS, who is undergoing treatment at Duke hos pital and MRS. JOHN C DIEHL, , who is ill at Rex hospital in Raleigh hope these ladies will soon be restored to health two of our local drug stores have made big improve ments during the past few days BILL CREECH now has IDA BELLE WALL behind the fountain and STAR HARPER has 'employed EVA MASSEY two big drawing cards, gentlemen at WOODARD' you wfll find MRS. WOODARD, -but she is too busy sending and receiving Western Union messages, to make soda pops. Godwin Is Loving Cup Most Popular WILLIAM I. GODWIN Popular Young Man Taken To Hospital Herbert White, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. White, was taken to Duke Hospital, Durham, on last Saturday about midnight. Herbert, 20-year-old senior at Atlantic Chris tian college, was taken ill while at work at the Selma Drug Company around 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. He continued to grow worse until about J0:30 o'clock when he lost consciousness. Dr. Booker was called and advised his parents to send him to the hospital immediately. After a diagnosis at the hospital physicians pronounced his illness : as c spinal meningitis. At first his life was dis paired of hut ' reports -from -the hos pital last ! night stated that his con dition was improved. He is one of Selma's most popular young men and his many friends here and elsewhere hope he will soon be well again. W. J. Barefoot To Head Benson Masonic Lodge BENSON, Jan. 8. Relief Lodge No. 431 at Benson has installed new officers. W. J. Barefoot is the new master, Jesse T. Morgan, senior war den, Arthur Stephenson, junior war den, W. R. Strickland, secretary, M. A. Peacock, treasurer, Alphonso Par ker, senior deacon, Howard Benton, junior deacon and Dudley Norris, tiler. The lodge had a successful year in 1940 under the leadership of E. M. Canaday. Master Mason degrees were given four new men. The lodge gave an expression of thanks to Past Master Canaday for his fine work for the last two years in office. Selmaites Leave For The Miami Air "Races Mayor Frank Hood, William I. Godwin and A. Z. Thompson, Jr., left Selma at 10:11 last night on the New York-Florida Streamliner for Miami, Fla., to attend the air races to be staged in that city Friday, Saturday and Sunday. While in Miami Mayor Hood will visit his brother, Sam Hood, who holds a position with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. . J. Ira Ryals Dies At Home Near Benson BENSON. J. Ira Ryals, 77, died on Tuesday at his home near Benson. Mr. Ryals had been in failing health some years. He recently suffered a stroke of paralysis, and pneumonia developed. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday at Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist church, near here, conducted by Elder Xure Lee, the pastor. Burial took place in the church cemetery. Mr. Ryals waa a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ryals, pioneer residents of this section. He was a native and lifelong resident of Johnston county. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Idella Ryals; seven children, Mrs. Joe Wood- all, Mrs. Mamie Blackman, Mrs. Callie Baggett, and Jasper, Edgar, Charlie, and L. J. Ryals; several grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. '" LIEUT.-GOV. TUTTLE INSTALLS OFFICERS Uses Impressive Story of the Transfiguration to Show That "Service" Is of Divine Origin. Using as his introductory, the story of the Transfiguration, Lieut- Governor O. A. Tuttle of the Fourth D i v i a i o n of the Carolinas Kiwanis District, told the Selma Kiwanis club on last Thurs day evening that he has been made to feel that "Service", is divine. ' Service" and "We Built" being Tthe key words in the motto of Kiwanis, the Biblical reference given by Gov ernor Tuttle will no doubt be the source of further study of the word "Service" by those Kiwanians who were privileged to hear him. Governor Tuttle then proceeded to I install the newly elected officers of the club, and the ' installation cere mony used by him was declared to be the most impressive ever wit nessed by members of the local club. Those installed were: f Rev. D. M. Clemmons, president; Bill Thad Woodard, vice - president; M. R. Wall, secretary - treasurer; directors, William I. Godwin, Leon Brown, O. A. Tuttle. R. H. Griffin and John Jeffreys. DURW00D CREECH HEADS KIWANIANS Lieutenant-Governor O. A. Tuttle conducted the installation of the new officers of the Smithfield Kiwanis club for 1941, at a business meeting of the club held in the Gabriel John ston hotel last Thursday evening. ; Durwood Creech, manager of the Underwood Funeral ' Home, was in stalled as president of the Smithfield club, succeeding Lawrence Wallace. Other new officers installed for 1941 were: Edmund Aycock, vice-president; John A. Wallace, Ury-trftJft Lawrence Wallace,, immediate pafcT d resident: Sol Noreck, l)r, J. H. Bunn, James I AT Wellons, Jr.jr Norman Shepherd and Jerry L. George, mem bers of the board of directors. Some of the achievements of the Smithfield club, under the leadership of Lawrence Wallace, the retiring president, were enumerated, and loud praise was accorded him for his out standing club activities for 1940. Johnstonian-Sun Force Given Nice Watermelon Mrs. Jra T. Buna of Selma pre sented a nic watermelon to the Johnstonian-Sun office force on last Saturday morning. Mr. Raines says he was the first boy child to be born in Selma, and that this watermelon was grown by him. He says that if anyone wants a prescription telling how to keep watermelons out of sea son, to see Bill Creech. The watermelon is of nice size and has deep green rine, and is now on display in the window at the office of The Johnstonian-Sun. Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Booker, George Suber and H. : H. Lowry visited Herbert White at " Duke hospital Tuesday. Selective Draft Men Volunteer For Training Draft Board No, 2 here has an nounced the names of 20 Johnston county men selected to fill the board's January draft quota.. All the selec tees are voluntera and they will leave Selma next Monday morning by bus for Fort Bragg where they will be in training for a year. The selectees are listed below with their home addresses: ' Selma Jesse Rock Wilkins, 28; Abdalla Joseph Abdalla, 21; Lee Henry Edwards, 23; John Leavy Rad ford, 31; Aaron Green, 21; Daniel Cole Ray, 22. Selma, Route 1 Braxton E. Bailey, 18; Arnold Rasper Phillips, 23. Selma, Route 2 John Allison West, 21. Middlesex, Route 1 Joe Narron, 24; Thomas Jefferson Narron, 28; Aaron Lewis, 24; Redger Boykin, 21; Robert Walter Godwin, 24. Zebulon, Route 1 Phillip Herbert Richardson, 27. Princeton, Route 1 John Arthir Four Young In Train- County Chairman Birthday Ball Chapel Hill, Jan. 8. - Dr. Julian Miller of Charlotte, who is serving at State Chair man of the President's birth day parties orf January 30 for the benefit of the infan tile paralysis fund, announces the appointment of Dr. J. H. Bunn of Smithfield as chair man for Johnston county. He said that North Caro lina is expected to raise about $35,000 this year and that one-half of all raised will be retained in North Carolina for infantile paralysis cases. UNCLE SAM NEEDS SKILLED WORKERS y Getting thfe skilled men needed for Rational defense jobs continues to be one of the greatest problems of the new year for the Cftil Service Com mission. Thousands were appointed during 1940 but thousands more are going to be needed during the com ing year at the arsenals and navy yards and in the air service. Tool- makers, instrument makers, and ma chinists are especially in demand, and they are especially necessary to the national defense program. Among others also urgently needed are: aircraft instrument mechanics; aircraft mechanics ;metalsmiths (avi ation); coppersmiths; lens grinders, loftsmen; ordnancemen (torpedoes); shipfitters; and ironworkers (ship- fitting duty). If you are skilled in any of these trades, and want a gov ernment job, write to or call for in formation at the office of the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at any first or cecond class post office. You may also learn about these jobs by consulting the notices posted in the third class postoffices. L. G. Sheets of Chestnut Hill township in Ashe county says he has grazed twice as many cows on a pasture to which .he applied super phosphate this spring as he did last year. :: .:. Braswell, 27; ' Iredell Clifford Pate, 30. ' ;.' Princeton, Route 2 Alex Ander Holland, 21. Smithfield, Route 2 Newton David Ward, 21. . Kenly, Route 1 Willard Rose, 22. - Notices of their induction into the army Monday were mailed to the selectees, who under the law must have at least five days for winding up personal business affairs. The Smithfield draft board after a session Monday afternoon announced the ' following volunteers had been selected to report at Fort Bragg next Monday: Dan Baker, William Elton Dixon, Donsie Harper, Frank Allen, Clement Layman Altmann, Robert .Ray Poole, Carlie Manley Williams, and John William Thomas. The board's January quota was seven, "but eight men were selected since one la needed to replace a De cember selectee who was rejected by Fort Bragg authorities for physical deficiency. I '' ' '- - -V L ':H lA v , Peo pi uto A w Accident Occurred At Railroad Grossing Friday Night Victims, All Members of Clayton High School, Were En Route to Benson ONE YOUTH IN GAR ESCAPES DEATH One of the saddest chapters ever written in the history of Johnston county is the story of how four Clayton youths, mem bers of the Clayton basketball team, had their lives snuffed out when the "car in "which they were riding was struck by a south bound fast freight train at an unguarded crossing at Benson, Friday night about 7 o'clock. They were enroute to the Benson METHODISTS ASK FOR REFERENDLM Raleigh District Missionary In stitute Asks for State-Wide Liqour Vote. Delegates to the annual Raleigh District Methodist Missionary Insti tute held at Edenton Street Church Wednesday passed a resolution ask ing the Legislature to order a State wide referendum on the legalized sale of alcoholic beverages. The resolution stated, "We, the ministers and laymen and laywomen of the Raleigh District of the Meth odist church, of North Carolina, re spectfully request the General As sembly of North Carolina the privi lege of having a referendum on the manufacture and legal sale of alco holic liquor." The meeting was attended by 225 representatives of the Methodist church in Wake, Granville, Vance, Johnston, , Harnett, and Franklin counties. The Kev. H. I. Glass, su perintendent of the district, said that 30 of the 35 clergymen in the area had attended. ; : -- Principal- speaker for;the gathering- was Dr. Frank S. Hickman, of Duke University," who spoke n; "World Need and Ministry "hnnh Meth odism." A Other Tfceakers were the Rev. O. W. Dowd7 the Rev. E. H. McLamb, the Rev. W. L. Loy, C. F. Heat. Rev. O. L. Hathaway, Rev. F. D. Hedden, Mrs. Gufhey P. Hood, and C. A. Dillon. News and Observer. Selma Man Found Dead In Bed Monday William Reuben White, 44, well known merchant of near Selma, was found dead in bed by his wife at 5 o'clock Monday morning at his home near the Eastern Manufacturing com pany. Mr. White was a World war veteran and a member of the Selma American Legion Post No. 141. Funeral services were held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. D. M. Clemmons, pastor of the First Bap tist church of Selma. Interment took place In the city cemetery. Surviving are his father and step mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles White; his wife, one son, William Reubed, Jr.; five sisters, Mrs. Donnie Jerni gan. Pratt, W. Va.; Mrs. Jesse Hill, Charleston, W. Va.; Mrs. A. L. Hawkins, Wrightsville Beach, N. C., and Mrs. A. J. Worrell and Mrs. James Eason. Selma; three brothers, Herbert L. White and C. L. White of Selma, and Luther G. White, Charleston, W. Va. SYRUP A Texas farmer is converting watermelon juice into a syrup by pressing the juice from the meat and boiling it down, ten gallons of juice making one gallon of deep red syrup. Farmers of the United States are now passing up every year $150,- 000.000 of income that could be realized through better management of farm woods, says the U. S. Forest Service. Selma Legion Post Gets $300 Donation The Johnston County com missioners Monday ordered payment of $300 to the Selma post of the American Legion as a contribution toward de fraying; expenses of the NYA community hut project now underway here. The money had been previously allocated for the project by vote of the board. , e Are Killed reck In Benson public gymnasium to play a double - header game, and as their car was passing over the railroad crossing the train struck their car in the center and carried it about four blocks down the track before the train could be brought to a standstill. David Satterfield, a brother of James Satterfield, was the fifth member of the party and the only one to escape death. He was rushed to the Johnston County hospital where it was found that he had suffered a fracture of the pelvis, fracture of a thigh in several places, a double fracture of one arm, and internal injuries. Those killed were: James Ralph Satterfield, Jr., 18, driver of the car, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Satterfield, and a student at Georgia Military Academy who had returned to Clayton to spend the holidays. He was a 1940 graduate of Clayton high school. John Arch Vinson, 17, Clayton high, school student and only son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vinson. Yvonne Whitley, 16, high school student and daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Ivan Whitley. Lilburn Barnes, 16, high school student ' and daughter itiiSxmd j Mrs. Rudolph. Barens ' - All were killed instantly- axces the' Vinson youth, who , died in sat . T ambulance enroute to the Harnett County hospital at Dunn. -AH victims of the accident were members of the Clayton high school basketball squads except James Sat terfield. John Arch Vinson and Yvonne Whitley were wearing their uniforms, having dressed for the games before leaving Clayton. The crash occurred at the church street crossing of the A. C. L. double track, one block north of the Main street crossing where a watchman is kept on duty. The Church street crossing has no electric signal or safety gates. The five young people, after reach ing Benson, had diven to the school building several blocks east of the railroad only to find that the games were to" be played at the community building, located on the west side of the tracks on a street south of the business section. They approached the crossing from (Continued on page eight) BR0GDEN WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS Mrs. Sarah Bizzell, 77, was fatally burned Monday morning at the home of her son, A. F. Bizzell, with whom she lived in the Brogden community. The accident occurred about nine o'clock when her clothing caught fire as she massaged herself with lina ment before an open fireplace. Alone in the house except for her small grandchildren, the flames had gone beyond control before assistance reached her. She was rushed imme diately to the Johnston county hos pital where she died at 12:05 o'clock. In spite of being a cripple for several years, Mrs. Bizzell was quite active and used her crutch with a dexterity attained by few. She main tained a bright outlook on life and a cheerful disposition, and without see ing her crutch one would never have suspected her affliction. Surviving are several grandchildren. Services At Schna Episcopal Church Bishop Edwin A. Penick will preach at St Gabriel's Episcopal church here, Sunday afternoon, January 12, at S o'clock. Miss Stella Etheredge's Junior Choir will furnish the music Every body ia invited to be present at thia service and hear Bishop Penick, whe is one of North Carolina's most dis tinguished ministers. f
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