The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5. NUMBER 46.
Farwtgrs Receive
' Loans From FSA
For Medical Care
Plans Worked Out In Co-operation
With Medical Societies
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Acting on the principle that a
family in good health is a better
, risk than a family in poor health,
the Farm Security Administration
lias put through plans looking to
ward complete medical coverage for
all its borrowers.
"Quite aside from any humanitar
ian purposes, it has as a lending
agency," said Dr. W. W. Alexander,
administrator, "found that a family
in good health is a better credt
' risk than a family in bad health."
Plans for medical care and hospi
talization at nominal cost to low in
come farm families who have been
without tliis service, wore work.'d
out by the Farm Security adminis
tration through co-operation with
physicians and established medical
societies.
The first step is an agreement
with the State Medical Societies out
lining general principles acceptable
to both. Next, medical societies in
areas where need seems greater
are approached and the details of a
local medical care plan for borrow
ers are worked out. In the past,
families from this group have been
a large part of the tremendous bur
den shouldered by doctors without
pay.
In oc-operation with medical so
cieties, the Farm Security Admin
istration already has brought 60,0 f ,O
r low income farm families in IS
states within the plan and they are
now being given medical car§ at a
cost they can afford. The adminis
tration found it necessary to help
provide such care in the course of
its efforts to rehabilitate more than
60,000 low income farm families,
many of relief levels.
Annual cost to member familiej
►| yis between sl2 and S3O a year, ad
# vanced in the loan by FSA. Tnis
provides for Minna! physicar-'Cxam
• ination, needed homo and office vis
its, and, in most cases, drugs and
hospitalization. Physicians sub-tit
monthly bills for services rendered.
In general, if total bills exceed till
amount available for a given month,
'physicians are paid their pro-rj'.-i
part of the month's allotment. Blilj
are paid in full when the allotment
is adequate. If a balance remains,
; it is carried over to the next mou'.h
% or to the end of the period. Any
I surplus loft at the end of a year
may be returned to the family.
Since these families have net in
| comes of only S2O to S3OO a year,
{ what medical care' they lind was
largely without any compensation to
I the doctors who helped them. Under
I this plan, the physician will be BP
| sured of payment up to the limit
I of the ability of the ordinary bor
; rower to pay. One southern county
- "with 300 FSA farm families paid 73
per cent of the total monthly a v
tors' bills presented from January
f to September.
County plans are in operation in
f 50 of.*he 75 counties in Arkansas, in
|l 'l3 counties in Missouri, 12 in Mis
sissippi, nine in Texas, five each in
North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia
I and Ohio, four in Tennessee, tiir.- j
I in Indiana and Oklahoma, two in
I Virginia and one in lowa. Agri-e
--ft ments have been reached with State
I Medical Societies in seven other
R states. "•
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■J. CANDIDATE WILL GO
TO STATE BOARD
BRobbinsville, Nov. 16:—Republican
candidates in the east and west
•wards of Robbinsville precinct whose
» petition for a recount of votes ca«t
in the general election was denied
S by the Graham county board, headed
1 their case to tho state eections board
today.
The protesting candidates are Roy
Garland, candidate for sheriff > T.
0 M. Jenkins, candidate for represen
tative; Dillard Orr, Jess Stone aod
J. Harve Crisp, candidates for coun-
I ty commissioners and A. J. Crisp,
candidate for cllerk of court.
Tho county board said that in its
opinion a recount would not change
the result of the entir|e vote and that
the matters presented, in which ir
regularities were charged, were *riv
olous.
Their Real Names
Gary Grant —Archibald Alexande-
Leach.
Edgecombe Picks
Farm Committees
i
County And Township Farm Prog
ram Administration Officials
Announced
Members of the county copimittc •
of the Edgecombe Agricultural Con
servation Association who will ad
ministrate the 1939 farm program
have been announced as follows: C.
H. Gorham of Battleboro, chair
man, H. G. Shelton of Speed, vico
chairman, and W. J. Eason of Tar
boro. Alternates a»e R. L. Corbett
of 'Macclesfield and Leslie Calhoun
of Rocky Mount.
Community committeemen for Ed
gecombe townships are.
Township numbor one —W. L.
Page, C. J. Weeks and R. D. Cok-jf.
Number two —P. E. Warren, G. O.
Cobb and J. C. Walston.
Number throe —John Mayo, T. J.
Taylor and A. R. Savage. 
Number four —A. M. Turner, M.
P. Edwards and F. L. Davenport.
Number five—J. T. Lawrence, Jr.,
Walter Chierry and P. A. Weeks.
Number six—Henry A. Br as well,
Cicero Denton and Harold A. Bras
well.
Number seven —F. E. Price, W. K.
Benson and H. N. Davenport.
Number eight—Sam R. Moore, J.
C. Dunn and E. E. Ilarrell.
Number nine—Joe H. Corbett, J.
F. Eason, Jr., and C. S. Wiristead.
Number 10— J. H. Little, Fnd
Phillips and A. A. Atkinson.
Number 11. —S. J. Proctor, M. A
Killebrew and W. H. Shirley.
Number 12— R. C. Brown, G. E
Goff and P. D. Proctor.
Number 13. —Mayo Cherry, T. W.
Norville and George Proctor.
Number 14— S. D. Parker, H. R.
Hinton and G. K. Taylor.
C. 6. Deanes Is
Chosen By Baptists
L. T. Monffifrp of ■4Jn-l(4phv and
C. B. Deane of Rockingham yester
day were reelected as statistical see
retary and Recording secretary re
spectively of tho Baptist State Con
vention, in session at tho Taberna
cle church. "See how easy it i 3 to
do it when you don't have to bother
with absentee ballots," observed
Convention President R. N. Simms
after Deane's election. Simms refer
red to Deane's recent political 'con
test in which W. O. Burgin of Lex
ington won the Democratic nomina
tion for congressman from the Bth
District. Burgin won by arbitration
and agreement after a lengthy dis
pute over absentee ballots.
Truck and Auto
Wrecked In City
Four Persons Injured As Vehicles
Collide And Turn Over Eearly
Today
Four peisons were injured bnt.
none seriously when a produce
truck and a car with six occupants
collided and turned over at an inter
section hfcro about 1:15 o'clock this
morning.
The truck, loaded with beans, was
driven by George Coleman of Bel
grade, Fla., and liad one other oc
! cupant.
liut'us Walston of Elm City rout e
one, driver of the car, was arrested
on a charge of reckless driving and
was released under bond. The foil
persons injured, all occupants of the
I car, were taken to a local hospital
for tjeatment but were not detained
. as patients.
Tho car and truck collided at the
Sunset Avenue and Church Street
intersection, one block from the
I heart of the downtown business dis
-1 trict. Both vehicles turned over.
Police Officers H. C. Sellers and
T. R. Vaughan investigated the ac
cident and charged Walston with
reckless driving.
Practical Nurses
Organize Registry
The undergraduate and practical
' nurses of Rocky Mount and vicia
ity have organised, a registor.
These ladies have all had hospital
training and years of expericn.'?,.
The register is now opeu and the
registrar will serVe you in the ve y
best way 4 possible day or night.
The register will be in charge of
Miss Maggie Alford, Phone 403.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938
Easy To Hold Election Without
Absentee Ballot
C. B. Deane, declared at one time to be the nominee of the
Democratic party for Congress in the Eighth District but
later superceded by a candidate nominated for the party by
three gentlemen who did not live in the district, was elect
ed to an important office of the Baptist State Convention as
recording secretary. The election was held in such a Dem
ocratic and open manner no question was raised about the
fairness of the election and in such harmony that the Pres
ident of the State Convention, R. N. Simms, was caused
to exclaim "see how easy it is to do when you don't have
to bother with absentee ballots." This question of absen
tee ballots has become one of the major troubles in our
Democracy and unless something is done about it, it appears
that we will have Democracy only in name if at all. The
election laws are in the hands of the Democratic party and
it is up to the Democratic party to give clean elections. In
the western part of the State there has been claim after
claim of dishonesty this fall. Appeals have been made to
the county boards and from the county boards to the state
boards of elections. The condition is such that the Bap
tist State Church Convention has gone on record this year
asking for the repeal of the absentee ballot law, and yet
those in control of the party still seem to be holding back.
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TOBACCO SEASON VERY SHORT
The tobacco selling season for Rocky Mount has about
closed—the shortest season that this community has evei
witnessed. The tobacco crop is the crop that brings in a
good deal of money but it is a very expensive crop. The to
bacco season in years gone by used to run up as late as
February and even to the first of March which was a bene
fit to the trade of Rocky Mount. The stemmers were given
longer employment. The sales this year opened on the 26t.h
of August, and for practical purposes lasted about twc
months. The stemmers are idle as the tobacco is practical
ly all gone and we are afraid much of themoney. The short
season for selling may be advantageous to the tobacco com
panies, but certainly it is not advantagous to the trade.
Rocky Mount has enough warehouse space to sell the crop
in one month which would be detrimental to the business
interest of Rocky Mount. The longer the season the bet
ter for Rocky Mount. The money from hogs,
and truck while much smaller than tobacco means much in
the trade to Rocky Mount by reason of the all year xounii
selling Many of us who receive our money in bulk do not
have the capacity to hold and spent it, systematically and
orderly We Mend it as we receive it and sometimes before
Cooley Buick
Is Recovered
Congressman's Car Stolen In Nash
ville; Thief Is Unknown
Nashville, Nov. 14. —Congressman
Harold D. Cooley's Buick sedan,
stolen at his home in Nashville
Thursday night, has been recovered,
near Fayetteville, Nash county o?.
ficers reported during the week-end.
The car was found, apparently
abandoned, Friday night, according
to tho report.
Tho automobile was stolen in front
of the congressman's home, where h \
had left it for a few minutes. Tin
night policeman saw someone drive
the car away, but supposed it was
the owner.
Textile Pioneer
Taken By Death
John W. Arrington Dies At Gren
ville, S. C., Following Long
Illness
Greenville, S. C., Nov. 14.—Joan
W. Arington, 72, president of Union
Bleachery and Greenville civic "lead
er for many years, died at his r;s
idonce hero early today followi ig
a lengthy period of declining heal Mi.
Arington was born at Warrent.cn,
N. C., on February 28, 1866, a son
of Samuel Peter Arington and Han
na Bolton White Arrington.
His faifiily moved to Richmond,
Va., and before he was 21 lie wis
president of the Old Dominion coi
ton mills, one of the first of tho
southern textile plants.
In 1895 he went to Reidsville, N.
C., and built the Edna Mills, serv
ing as its treasurer till 34 ye*?s
ago, when he came to Greenvii'e.
He took over the struggling Un
ion Bleaching and Finishing Con
pany and its forward march has
been unbroken since.
Arrington served as president of
tho Greenville Chamber of Com
merce and as director of the Cham
ber of Commerce of the Umtod
States. He was the first president
of the Greneville Kiwanis Club and
of the community Chest and lus
served as a director of several
banks, Piedmont and Northern Rail
way, Atnorican Cotton Manufactur
ers Association, South Carolina Cot
ton Manufacturers Association and
the Great American Life Insurance
Company.
New Count Fails
To Change Races
Three Democratic Candidates In
Cherokee Enter Appeal To Stat?
Board
Murphy, Nov. 15.—The Cherokee
County board of elections, which
yesterday rejected charges of irrep i
larities made by three defeated
Democratic candidates in the election
on November 8, today completed its
official count of ballots. The work
of tabulating the returns began last
night.
T_h e official returns show that the
offices of representative in tho Gen
eral Assembly, sheriff, elbrk of Su
perior Court, surveyor, and or.e
count commissioner went to Rcpub
licans; others 'were won by Demo
crats.
Fred O. Bates, chairman of the
county board of elections, said to
day that the three Democratic can
didates who filed the charges of ir
regularities had entered an app m 1
to the State Board of Elections. The
three are J. N. Mody, who was a
candidate for representative; L. L.
Mason, who was seeking the office
of sheriff, and Winslow Mclver, who
was a candidate for the office of
clerk of Superior Court.
ELDERLY RESIDENT
SUCCUMBS TODAY
Funeral Services For Mrs. J. H Wal
kcr Were Conducted Hert
Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs. J. B.
Walker, elderly local resident wa >
died here of infirmities of old age
after a long illness, was conducted
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from
the home of her daughter, Mrs. K.
T. Knight, at 310 Nash Stret.
Interment is to be made at noon
Thursday in the Maplewood ceme
tery at Durham.
Mrs. Walker was a resident of
Durham before coining to Rocky
Mount in 1932. Before marriage ah,,
was Miss Ada Tillery, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Til
lery of Granville county. She was
educated at Greensboro College.
Surviving are one son J. B. Wal
ker of Durham two daughters, Miss
Elizabeth Seott Walker, of Wash
ington, N. C., and Mrs. K. T. Knifcln
of Rocky Mount; two grandchildren,
Mrs. C. S. Carter of New Haven,
Conn., and Kenneth T. Knight, Jr.,
of and a great-grandson,
Jere Carter of New Haven.
"King of the Golden Weed Seed"
Nash County Books Another
First. Oak Level Man Is Be
lieved To Be Champion To
bacco Seed Raiser of the
World.
A Nineteen-Year Partnership W'th
Nature Finds 71-Year Old Fanner
Willing to Spend Rest of Life In
His Seed Business.
The average Tar Heel farmer es
timates two tablespoonfuls of to
bacco seed will sow two hundied
yards of spring plantbed. From this,
on an average year, he gots plants
to set five acres of tobacco—provid
ed, in the last few years, he has
been lucky enough to have that
much allotment or nervy enough iC*
ignore the flood of figures with
which the county agent deluges hid
mail box.
An acre of tobacco requires ap
proximately five thousand plants.
With these figures as a gauge, piv
turc if you can, nearly a ton of t.ny
brown tobacco seed: stacks of fer
tilizer sacks bulging with Proctor's
Silver Dollar, Bonanza or Virginia
Bright Leaf, rows of bins where you
can plunge elbow-deep into Coker's
Gold Dollar, Jamacia Wrapper, Ad
cock or Cash, millions multiplied by
millions of infinitesimal seed, enough
to cover every acre of cleared lund
in North Carolina with tobacco. It
is this that wins for, Mr. Wilia.il.
Henry Proctor of Oak Level com
munity the title "King of the Gold
en Weed Seed" and books another
first for Nash county.
Mr. Proctor believes he grows
more tobacco seed for sale than au>
other man in the world. His claira.
has not been disputed. He names
David R. Coker, founder of the
Coker's Pedigreed Seed Company in
Hartsville, South Caerolina, as the
next largest tobftcco seedsman in
the United States. These two men
of sister states with such common
interest have never met. So much for
quantity; as to quality, Proctor is
also positive "no man in the United
States sells better seed" than the
W. 11. Proctor Seed Company sells..
And there, in this simple fact, and
the, gold-edged confidence with
which it was spoken are the reasons
why Proctor's business has knoive
no depression but has increase.-!
yearly since its beginning ninete-fi, ]
years ago until his 1938 seed 'har
vest amounted to over eight hun
dred pounds.
The beginning of this industry l.s
one of those things that just hap
pen unexpectedly. One day in 1919
Mr. W. H. Proetor was merely ano
ther good Nash farmer who sold
a few vegetable seed on the 3id>!
line. The next day he atteude! a
meeting of Oak Level farmers call
ed by Nash County Farm Agent Par
Iter for the purpose of testing f> •
tilizers. With Parker was 11. A. Mc-
Gee, State Tobacco Specialist, wlw
suggested it might be profitable t
some farmer of this community to
raise tobacco seed for market. Me
Gee gave Proctor a sack of certified
seed for a start. A year later McGeo
left for Canada, out the business
lie was responsible for sturting pros
pered, perhaps beyond his wildest
dreams. But, Proctor warns, don t
take this success story as a path
of roses skipping from a free sack
of seed, to a healthy income no >*.
J ''lt takes a heap of work, particular
work," he says, "and five or six
OCTOBER DEATH RATE IS
HIGHEST IN LAST 20 YEARS
Rocky Mount recorded during
October the greatest number of
deaths in any one month since the
influenza epidemic of 1918, officials
of tho city health department ex
pressed their opinion on the basis of
vital statistics for last mouth.
There were-64 deaths in the city
during October, about twice as
many as in th e previous month and
more than in any other month wi ti
in the memory of health officials ex
cept October, 1918, when 75 deaths
were recorded here.
Births, which N during September
about doubled tho number of deaths,
barely exceeded deaths last montl
with a total of 65.
Thirty-nine of tho births and 33
deaths were among residents of
the city, while 26 deaths and 20
births were among non-residents in
local .hospitals. Threo of tho bit Us
among residents were illegitimat)
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(Photo Courtesy Nash County News)
Pictured is W. H. Proctor of Oak
Level and his pet terrier "Poll/'
who obligingly posed for this ex
clusive NEWS photograph on a sack
of his master's special Silver Dollar
tobacco seed.
years after I started, it was so hard,
I wished I never had."
However, Mr. Proctor admits ho
is glad he stuck it out now and
plans to stay in this business >f
selling tobacco and some corn seed
the rest of his life. He is now 71
years old(, was born just four miles
from his present home and has spent
the past thirty-eight years on his
Oak Level one hundred aere farm
with fifty acres cleared.
The "particular work" Proc:or
mentioned is found all the way
through his seed saving system that
goes like this. After the usual plaif
bed and setting processes which are
a little moro complicated than the
regular farmer finds tliem beenesj
of keeping the various kinds separ
ate, the interesting work begins
Each promising looking stalk u th?
field is inarkd with a tag showin.;
kind and identification number, "'w.i
leaves are then primed from each
stalk and marked wirn correspond
ing tags. These leaves are cured and
any stalk not turning out a first
class cure is untagged and forgot;
ten. Stalks standing up under tii-s
first elimination test are put through
exactly the same process again with
leaves of another stage of growth.
Again only the perfect specimen;"
retain their merit tags.
Specialists in this industry have
assured Mr. Proctor that this is th"
best known way to improve heed
yearly. And so well has the method
worked that it has not only a -Id
the named varieties of seed to tneir
highest levels but has developed an
cntirly new strain that the origina
tor considered fine enough to honor
with his own name. Proctor's Silw
Dollar is characterized by a larger
and heavier leaf, advantages sought
especially by farmers who ha e
which this tvno e.a'"e into being.
It is the firm doctrine of Mr. Proc
tor, after trying both covered snd
uncovered seed heads, that seed need
sunshine, rain and air to mature
properly. When almost dry, the/.?
heads are cut. They are then ground
Heart disease was the chiof caui.,
of deaths last month with 15 f-.
talities, and the majority of deaths
werja among elderly persons. Sixteen
deaths were among persons between
40 and 6o years of age and 14 death'-
were among those over 60. Fifteeu
more deaths occurred in the age per
iod between 20 and 40. There were
12 deaths of babies under one ye^r
NOTICE
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in a mill designed by Mr. Proctor
and sacked in close-woven fruano
bags to await a trip to the nearby
village o fßed Oak. At Rod Oak
they are run through a seed clea«e»
that blows out chaff and faulty s?efl
under supervision of K. H. Melntvro
dean of vocational schools of N. C
About, one-third of the original
weight is lost in cleaning. The s>Md*
are then stored in big wooden bins
to await orders. In the meantime,
Mrs. Proctor and her daughter, M.ss
Minnie Proctor, who was recently
made Supervisor of Nash County
Lunch Room Projects, have spent a
number of fall evenings convervng
their yearly purchase of two-hundred
yards of heavy domestic into sacks
designed to hold from onahalf
pound to ten pounds of seed. Small
er orders are mailed in envelopes
with special leak-proof clasps.
Mr. Proctor estimates a yield of
five hundred pounds of seed from
ton acres of big tobacco. His best
customers are county agelnts and
warehousemen with the largest num
ber of orders bearing South Caro
lina, Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia,
Alabama and Florida postmarks.
The order books show the most pop
ular varieties are in order named:
Proctor's Silver Dollar, Coker's Gold
Dollar, Bonanza, Virginia Bright
Loaf, Jamacia Wrapper, Adcock and
Cash. Keeping these seven varieties
separate is a careful job. It get*
more complicated when you learn
that tobacco seed are good fcor five
years and that some-customers be
lieve old seed better than new and
demand one-year, two-year, three
year or older seed in their choseN
variety.
Since our country began to control
acreage, foreign countries have be
gun to order seed rom Proctor. An
order of forty pounds went to Bra/nl
last June and a recent shipment of
one hundred pounds .sailed for South
American points. Most interesting
was an order and inquiries about
barn building, curing methods, ete.,
in Spanish coming from Mexico re
, layed throunh a Washington ■'»«•
gressman with translation.
Prom Thanksgiving until the last
of February Proctor will be bMy
filling such orders. The peak of tie
season falls in December and Jan
uary. To expedite 1038 mailing, I'rss!
tor has just purchased a new pair of
scales indicating weight with pos
tage to ;;11 zones although a mig'- ;
. accurate s;uoss to start with is
iuart weighs one pound.
This an;le of tanning has its o -
meats of ill nee, it-« u ! v'or .••>'h
| and is jus. a dep n-■ • . upo.i ;he
caprices of \\v ithor a.i an> otlii r
partnei slii) lien, MI man and r, tur i.
In It'llt, I'ro-tor iwa.ls that a p o
tracted rail y spe.l fore d li in to
cut his se •(! lie.un i.i lie rain a:.d
dry them on scaffolds over Lis bun
llues. This year, his crop suffer. 1
slight damage from hail. But desj '.'.u
such accidents, Proctor veil meii-'y
declares every seed sold by iii- com
pany is raised by him under his own
specific regulations and fUat ' A\j
tlier man couldn't give me his seeti.*"
In a special statement to the New*
reporter, Nash County's -'King of
Golden Weed Seed", in the sinip'c
gracious manner that is a mark of
older gentlemen said", "My sue.ess
in the seed business has been
long and tedious work, patience ar. I
strict honesty to my customers niak
ing sure that I furnish them the Leitf
seed that can bo had."
old, 'and only six deaths betweoc
the agos of I to 20.
The deaths included two homili
es, one by pistol an done by Suit.}
wounds, and three accident f&tal>-
ties, one in an automobile accident,
one in a railroad accident and one
from clothes catching fire.
Life In The U. S. A.
Grasshoppers invading New Mux
ico are being opposed by the Na
tional Guard. This raises tho gras*
hoppers' march to the dignity of an
incident. —Toronto Star.