The Nash County News
VOL. VI.—No. 40
SPRING HOPE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY THIRTIETH, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
Public Schools
Faculty Named
For Next Term
Elementary and High Schools To
gether to Have Twenty-two
Teachers
The faculty of the Spring Hope
public schools for the next term,
totaling 22 teachers for the ele
mentary and high schools, have
been announced by Principal D. H.
Holliday.
The high school teachers will te
Miss Ellen Jenkins, of Rocky Mt.;
W. L. Rhyne, Bessemer City; Mrs.
Harold Saunders, Youngsville; J
D. Shields, Carthage; Miss Emmy
Lou Simpson, Monroe; Miss Alice
Grace Slaughter, Goldsboro; Miss
Alma Vester, T. H. LeCroy and D.
H. Holliday, Spring Hope.
In the elementary school; R. H
Boone, of Castalia; Miss Ann
Bridges^Forest City; Misfa Ellie
Grier, Pineville; Miss Mary Griffin
Nashville; Miss Alice Mannng, of
Elm City; Miss Hilda Modlin, of
Jamesville; Miss Margaret Pickens
Weaverville; Mrs. Vivian Smith,
Rocky Mount; Miss Jane Stewart,
Henderson; Miss Ruby Strickland,
Spring Hope; Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, Graham; Miss Ada
Valentine, Spring Hope; and Miss
Ruth Walker, Graham.
Allotments for the teachers have
been madet and approved. Stan
hope* and Momeyer elementary
schools, alsc^in this school district,
are to have five teachers each.
Electrification
Administration
Mrs J R Vann
Entertains
Mrs. J. R. Vann was host to the
Thirteen Club last Friday night-
at Mrs. Eugene Beddingfield’s
home. The rooms were charmingly
decorated with mixed summer
flowers.
While bridge was in progress at
the three tables, fruit drinks were
served. Miss Jessie Mae Luper and
Mrs. Beddingfield assisted Mrs.
Vann with the serving. Cantaloupe
a la mode was served after the
games.
Mrs. Effie Mae Morris received
the high score for guests, and was
presented a box of dusting powder.
High score prize for the club, a
potted plant, was received by Mrs.
Mallie Taylor.
Guests Wee Mrs. Percy Pitts,
Mrs. Charles Brantley, Mrs. Ben
Wood and Mrs. Effie Mae Morris.
Members of the club who were
present are Mrs. Ralph Hales, Mrs.
Finley Bissett, Mrs- Eugene Bed
dingfield, Mrs. J. R. Vann, Mrs. C.
C. Abernathy, Mrs. Elmo Edwards,
Mrs. M. T. Barnes, Mrs. John’Ba-
ker, and Mrs. Mallie Taylor.
Improvements
Xhree new windows and a large
door have been constructed in the
west wall of P. & M. Motor Com
pany. The windows open from the
office in the front of the building.
Besides affording more light and
giving a view to the west, they
serve the blessed functon of let
ting in a breeze. The door makes
another vehicle entrance into the
repair sHop in the rear of the
building.
Execution of a contract to lend
$32,000 to build about 35 miles of
rural electric distribution lines in
Edgecombe and Martin Counties,
North Carolina, was announced to
day by Rual Electrification Ad
ministrator Morris L. Cooke. REA
was also advised that the tovra of
Wilson, N. C., is advertising for
bids on materials to be used in
constructing about 128 miles oi
REA financed mral extensions ir
Wilson County.
The borrower, the Edgecombe-
Martin County Electric Member
ship Corp., of Tarboro, N. C., is
organized under the State REA
Act of 1935, and it plans to serve
163 farm customers. Energy will
be purchased at wholesale from
the municipal plant at Tarboro,
The cooperative is entering into a
service contract with the plant
to operate the lines. At the pres
ent time the Tarboro plant has
several miles of rural lines and the
contsruction will consist of two
short extensions and a longer line
extending between Tarboro and
Hassel. Funds will be advanced as
soon as construction specifications
have been prepared and a contract
or selected. .
North Carolina—Wilson:
About 600 new farms will re
ceive service over the new REA
extensions to the presnt system
of the Wilson municipal plant.
These lines will be built by the
plant’s own construction crew.
Sealed bids for furnishing the ma
terials required for construction
will be received until 2 'o’clock, p.
m,, July 30, 1936, in the offices of
the City Manager, Wilson, N. C.
The city is acting as engineer for
the borrower, the Wilson County
Electric Membership Corporation.
Smith Douglas
Refunds $100,000
Norfolk, Vo.—Oscar F- Smith
President of Smith-Douglass Co.,
Inc., fertilizer manufacturers, an
nounced today that his company
is immediately mailing to about
12,000 customers a total of nearly
$100,000 is rebate checks.
These checks represent savings
effected by the growers by reason
of the Smith-Douglass policy of
guaranteeing prices against their
own decline, and also by reason of
the special discounts allowed for
early payment of fertilizer and
for cash on delivery, or cash with
order payments. The discounts for
early payment were, in many in
stances, allowed at time of pay
ment, so that the actual savings
to the grower are greatly in ex
cess of the amount being refunded.
The checks are going to growers
who ordered fertilizer and paid for
it at a higher price than the low.
est Smith-Douglass price for its
goods of the same grade in the
same area during the season.
Mr. Smith called attention to
the fact that there had been no de.
dine in the price of Orange Tobac
co Fertilizer, because the company
establishes that price before the
season opens and then maintains
that price throughout the entire
season. Therefore, no refunds on
account of decline in price were
due on purchase* of Orange.
HOLC Extended
To Home Owners
FARM NOTES
Collections of the 15 year 5 per
cent loans throughout the
country reported good
DEFAULTS BY “MISGUIDED”
More than $3,000,000,000 has
been loaned to more than a mil
lion distressed home owners in the
United States since June, 1933 by
the Home Owners’ Loan Corpo
ration. Of the amount 131,394,417.
12 has baen loaned in this state to
approximately 12,500 home own
ers. Of the total amount loaned in
North Carolina, $222,864.10 has
bean loaned to 95 distressed home
owners in Nash county.
Under the Home Loan Act a fif
teen year loan at five percent was
granjed distressed home owners
while the holders of their default
ed mortgages received HOLC
bonds backed by thei Federal Treas
ury.
The work of the Home Owners’
Loan Corporation has shifted from
“lending” to “collecting” and (he
job is far from being completed,
but the State Manager of this
Agency reports that there has been
no foreclosures out of the 95 loans
mada in Nash county.
There have been some defaults
by home owners in every part of
the country and foreclosuras have
been started. However, officials
state that collections have been
unusually good over tha entire
country and that the percentage of
delinquent accounts is relatively
small.
The defaults, they added, are com
paratively few chiefly by “mis
guided” persons. Only 111 fore . |
closures have bean made on HOLC
mortgages in North Carolina as of
June 80, 1936.
Farmer-Corpening
Miss Elizabeth Corpening was
married to Joseph Farmer, former
Jy of Spring Hope, Friday night
at Granite Falls, the home of thci
bride.
Following a reception at the
home of the bride’s parents. Dr.
and Mrs. 0. J. Oorpening, the
brida and bridegroom left for a
short wedding trip in the westeni
part of the state. Next week they
will be at home in Chapel Hill,
whfire Mr. Farn^et is studtying
medicine.
Mr. Farmer is the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Farmer, of
Shelby, and is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina.
Power Line
Progressing
The new Carolina Power and
Light line out to Justice is pro
gressing rapidly. The construction
crew which has been in Spring
Hope for the past week expect to
remain for another week or so.
Members of the crew are J. J.
Broadwell of Biscoe, foreman; B.
Benedict of Albany, N. Y., H. B.
Mims of Merry Oaks, J. T- Allen
of Sanford, J. M. Jonesof Raleigh,
Paul Gardner of Smithfield, and
H. h. Barbee of Cary.
To be safe: Think safely, drive
safely, act safely-
By T- H. LeCroj-
Tobacco in Nash county aver
ages better at this period than in
any county in this section of the
state. With the exception of a few
farms, this immediate territory
has medium to good tobacco. The
yield will be fair and the quality
good. Cotton vrill be far b'etter
than was expected a few weeks
ago. The yield of cotton will be
c^ more due to poor stands than
any other factor. So far, there ap
pears very little boll weevil signs.
Com and hay crops will be better
than normal.
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Every farmer should take a lit
tle time at this season of the year
to look around at his neighbors’
crops. Some of the best lessons on
farm practices can be observed st
this season. The use of proper fer
tilizer, good seed and plants, pro
per varieties, control of diseases
and insects, proper land prepara
tion, proper cultivation, and other
factors show to their best advan
tage at this time. When there is a
difference in value to as much as
fitfy to one-hundred and fifty dol
lars on an acre of tobacco in field
side by side worked by two dif
ferent farmers, there must be a
good reason for the difference.
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It is very important that every
farmer who can do so make plans
to save all the soybeans and cow
pea seed possible. With a contin
uation of the soil conservation pro
gram, the seed of summer legumes
will continue to be in demand.
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A number of farmers have men
tioned that they would like to
plant some vetch, Austrian winter
peas or clover this fall. If those
intending to plant some of these
winter legumes would order the
seed by the middle of September,
considerable money can be saved
as the price always goes up by the
first of October. Seed can be or
dered through the Farmers’ Ex
change, teachers of agriculture,
county agent or local seed deal
ers. It is a fine thing to plant
some winter legumes. They hold
the soil during the winter, make
land work better, conserve mois
ture following summer, and when
turned under add as much or more
nitrate as 300 pounds of nitrate
of soda to the acre.
The hay saving problem this
fall will be greater than usual
due to the fact that more people
have planted hay crops and be
cause the hay crop will probably
be better than usual. Many farm
ers lose hay every year in the
field- To insure curing and to get
the maximum yield, several rules
might be given: First, cut the hay
when the first pods begin to ripen
unless excessive shedding has
started before that time- Second,
use three-cornered hay racks, if
possible, letting the hay merely
wilt before being placed loosely on
the racks with the center open
for air. Third, remove the hay to
the bam, bale it, or make large
water proof stacks as soon as all
the stems in the hay will break
when bent. By using racks as in
dicated above and following the |
simple rules, hay can be saved
any year regardless of weather.
Rain-damaged or moldy hay is
poor feed.
Farmers To See ,
Coastal Plains
Rural Station
LOCAL MEN TO VISIT UPPER
COASTAL PLAINS EXPERI
MENT STATION AUG. 6
Farmers of Stanhope and Tay
lor’s Cross Roads communities
plan to go in a body to the field
day program at the Upper Coastal
Plains Experiment Station below
Rocky Mount on next Thursday.
August 6. The trip will be made
under the direction of T. H. Le
Croy, local teacher of vocational
agriculture.
In addition to the trip to the
experiment station, the group
plans to meet for a yield guessing
contest on nitrate of soda demon
strations on the farms of C. B.
Barnes and J. C. Taylor of Tay
lor’s Cross Roads community.
The guessing contests, which
will start at C. B. Barnes’ at 8:00
a. m- will be sponsored by the
Company which furnishes nitrate
for the demonstrations and who
will furnish the prizes to be given
for the closest guesses.
After the guessing contests, the
group will leave for the Experi
ment Station to see and hear re
sults of experimental work being
conducted as well as to partake of
the barbecue dinner which will be
served in connection with the field
day. Farmers from several coun
ties will attend the field day at the
Experiment Station.
Cypress Chapel
Homecoming
Home-Coming will be observed
at Cypress Chapel Baptist Church
August 9. The services will begin
with Sunday School at 10 o’clock.
An interesting program has been
arranged, including talks by form
er pastors and a history of the
church. All present members, form
er pastors and members are cor
dially invited.
Dinner will be served on the
grounds. Come and bring your bas
ket.
U D C To Meet
The John W. Bryant chapter of
the U. D. C. will have its regular
meeting in the home of Mrs. Liz
zie Brantley Monday, August 3,
at 4 o’clock. All members are ex
pected to be present. ; :
Lovely American
Girls
A series of beautifully colored
reproductions of famous paintings
by Zoe Mozert, eminent woman ar
tist. Every Sunday in the Ameri.
can Keekly, the big magazine
which comes regularly with the
BALTIMORE AMERICAN. Or
der your copy from your favorite
newsboy or newsdealer.
Little Miss Rapemell Langley
entertained at a lovely birthday
dinner. Thursday of last week in
viting a group of friends to cele
brate her second anniversary. The
dinner was given by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Langley. Bar
becue, creamed potatoes, chicken
slaw, cake and ice cream were
served.