THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUN TY SUN CONSOLIDATED
VOL. 16
SELMA. N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.
NUMBER 2r,
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Selma Stores Close
Wednesdays At 1:30
Until August 30th
Following in line with a num-
• ber of other towns in Johnston
■County, Mayor Wm. I. Godwin
and Chief of Police J. Q. A.
Jeffreys, acting for the town of
Selma, having decided to give
the merchants of Selma an op
portunity to express themselves
on the matter the following
petition was presented them on
Saturday and was met with a
hearty response:
“We, the undersigned merchants
and business men of Selma, N. C.,
agree to close our places of business
Monday at 7 P. M., Tuesday at 7
P. M., Wednesday at 1.30 P. M. and
remain open Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights, beginning Wednes
day June 21st and ending August
30th, in order to give our employees
an afternoon of recreation and to
t)oost the Selma ball club.”
Wm. I. Godwin, Mayor
Dunn Furniture Company
J. E. Gregory Company
Belvin & Galloway
Selma Clothing’ & Shoe Company
Sanitary Grocery Company
A. V. Driver Company
A. W. Mitchener
C. A. Bailey
E. B. Creech
Smith & Cameron
J. C. Avery
Selma Cash Feed Grocery
Lee Store
Farmers Exchange
City Barber Shop
Walt Godwin
The Hardware Store, Inc.
L. George
The Hat Shoppe
Selma Barber Shop
A. L. Langley
John Edwards Barbel^ Shop
‘ Millers Store Company
G. N. Siler
Jones & Deans
Etheredge & O’Neal
Slodern Cash Grocery
H. P. Bailey
I. E. Coley
A. L. Bradley
Dr. R. M. Blackman
Floyd C. Price & Son
Local, City, County
Officials Invited To
Attend Institute
Governor To Open Program at
Chapel Hill Friday—Main Theme
Of Meeting Will be Interpretation
and Discussion of Legislation
Passed by General Assembly and
Congress.
Co.
City and county officials in John
ston county have been invited to at
tend the 1933 sessions of the Insti
tute of Government which are to be
held at the University of North Car
olina on Friday and Saturday of
this ■week, June 23 and 24.
Members of the North Carolina
delegation in Congress and represen
tatives of city, county, state and
fed,eral officials wil participate in
the sessions.
The main theme of the two-day
program, which has been announc
ed by Albert Coates director of the
Institute, will be detailed interepre-
tation and discussion of legislation
passed by the North Carolina Gener
al Assembly and the National Con
gress of 1933, for the benefit of
governmental units and all groups
of officials affected thereby.
The formal opening of the Insti
tute will be held in the Graham
Memorial Friday night at 7 o’clock,
when Governor J. C. B. Eliringhaus,
Lieut-Gov. A. H. Graham, and
Speaker R. L. Harris will'^ddress
the gathering. Presidents of groups
of officers and citizens affiliated
■with the Institute will outline the
work done during the past year and
indicate the program for the future.
Preceding the formal opening will
be a luncheon meeting in Graham
Memorial at 1 o’clock Friday of the
State Board of Advisers and a
buffet supper on the Unic'ersity
campus under the Davie Popular at
6 o’clock.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF
COTTON FARMERS TO
DISCUSS ACREAGE
REDUCTION
There will be a meeting
of cotton farmers in the
court house in Smithfield
Friday morning, June 23,
at 10:30 o’clock. The pur
pose of this meeting is to
explain to the farmers of
the pounty the cotton acre
age reduction plan which
is now being put into ef
fect by the Federal Gov
ernment. All farmers are
earnestly, urged to attend
this meeting and get this
information first hand.
Jndications are that an
other large crop of cotton
will be made again this
year, thus resulting in low
prices unless something is
done to reduce this year’s
crop.
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Must Have Coope- ! Selma Shuts Out
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rrmceton 7-0 Score
J4ere Wednesday
Growers
Wallace Not to Put Plan Into Ef
fect Unless Assured Destruction
of At Least Two Millioin Bales—
Campaign To Sign Up Growers
In Southern States Begins Mon-
, day.
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400,000 Acres To
Be Cut From Cot
ton Crop in N. C»
Dean Schaub of State College Has
Called State Meeting For Wed
nesday, June 21—District Meet
ings Mill Be Held June 22, at
Rocky ftlount, Fayetteville And
Charlotte. Campaign Through
Week of June 2.3.
Raleigh, June 18.—Cotton acreage,
like government costs, must be re
duced, the agricultural extension
service at State College declared to
day when the whole organization
was drafted for a campaign to cut
the production in this state.
The campaign runs during the
week of .June 25. Dean I. 0. Schaub
Washington, June 19.—Secretary
Wallace today called for the des-
tructoin of ten million acres of grow
ing cotton in a long-limbed experi
ment to curb production and re
duce the potential surplus of the
South’s big money crop.
The secretary announced that
maximum processing taxes about
4.1 cents a pound on the basis of
resent price relationships—would be
’evied beginning’ August 1 to finance
the program under which growers
will be asked to plow up portions
of their crop in return for rental
benefits payments and the right to
obtain options on government-owned
cotton.
A campaign will be started in the
South next Monday when growers
will be asked to sign contracts to
rent cotton lands at from $6 ah
acre up, depending on the average
past yields and estimated production
of the land this year.
Farmer Has Choice. ^
The farmer can either offer to
take an outright cash payment for
plowing up portions of his crop or
can take a smaller rental and ob
tain in addition an option on about
2,400,000 bales in an amount equal
to the estimated output of the land
he reUres from production.
Thes\options will be offered Mm
at .six* cehts a pound or nearly thi’ee
cents below the current market price.
He may order these options exer
cised at any time up to next Jan-
Bible School Gives
Enjoyable Concert
JOHNSTON COUNTY LEAGUE
who directs the extension service profit being the ’difference
Selmaites Go A-Fishing.
The following left Wednesday af-
■ternoon for Morehead City where
’they spent the night fishing, return
ing to the city this morning. They
report a great trip: A. L. Brinkley,
George N. Siler, Berry Lancaster,
Lehman Batten, Wiley Strickland,
Le.slie Ward, Wilbur Wilson, How
ard Wilson and William Branch.
FacultyBible School
Guests Kiwaniaiis
Seen Along The
IMAIN DRAG
(BY H. H. L.)
The BLACK CAT did the work
at the ball game Wednesday—Keep
Mm for Kenly next week—STAN
LEY ARMITAGE wearing new Pan-
.ama—Have you heard about that
Championship Bridge Game for July
4th?—for particulars call on DR.
LENTZ BOOKER or COL. LIGHT-
NER HUGHES—or you might con-
•sult SELDOM SOBER STRICK-
ILAND or SIR WALTER RALEIGH
GRIFFIN—do you ever see ODELL
STRICKLAND on the Maindrag on
Sunday nights?—well, we know
■where his hang out is, but don’t
ask us to tell you—that black cat
(referred to above) got in Selma’s
dugout yesterday and BILL SPIVEY
was threatened ■with instant death
if he didn’t get rid of Mm imme-
- diately—have you heard P. C. WOR
LEY’S radio when he drives along
■the Maindrag?—that is a radio
-worth ha’ving—you can hear it for
a mile—While sitting in on JUDGE
AYCOCK’S court Wednesday CHIEF
JOHNNIE JEFFREYS heard a com
motion on the outside, like a can-
■non, “Poor fellow,” thought Johnnie,
■“a blowout this hot day”—but when
court was over and JOHNNIE
started to drive off he found that
it was HIS car that had “busted”—
but that is not the worst of it, when
-returning he saw a fire near the
highway and in going to it he slew
a 6 1-2 foot black runner, hung him
up that it might rain, but he would
not stay “hung” and crawled off—■
he killed Ms head alright but death
did not reach his tail until some
'iime afterward, he said.
Members of the faculty of the
Daily Vacation Bible School, which
has been in progress at the First
Baptist church for the past two
weeks, were guests of the Selm^^
Kiwanis Club Thursday night. R^
D. F. Waddell delivered the address
of welcome which was responded to
by Miss Margaret Creech. Other
short talks were made by Miss
Mabel Nordan, Miss Pinky Gulley,
student at Boiling Springs College,
Rev. W. J. Crain and M. R. Wall.
Miss Ida Belle Wall, winner of a
gold medal in a recitation contest
at the close of the Selma schools,
gave a reading, “About Our Folks,”
which was enjoyed by every one
present. Miss Wall is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Wall. Several
“stunts” were pulled by the club
and these also were enjoyed.
Members of the school faculty
present were: Misses Margaret
Creech, Mabel Nordan, Irene Jones,
Mildred Hayes, Effie Grant, Mary
Parker, Inez Wilkins, Mr. D^vid
Liles and E. V. Deans, Jr.
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Rev. Mr. Inman To Preach
At The Methodist Church
The Union services will be held at
the Methodist church on next Sun
day evening at 8 o’clock, Rev. S. E.
Inman, of Atlanta, Ga., will fill the
pulpit at that time. The public is
CG-rdially invited to attend.
Brock-Watson
Percy L. Brock, son of Mrs. A. L.
Brock, and Miss Kathleen Watson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.
Watson, of Smithfield, motored to
Emporia, Virginia, Thursday, where
theye were married by Rev. J. Au
brey Hughes, pastor of the Emporia
Methodist church. These young
people are popular with a large
circle of friends. They will make
their home in Smithfield. Mr. Brock
is a nephey of Mrs. E. M. Gordy, of
Selma.
the college, received a telegram
from C. A. Cobb, federal adminis
trator in charge of the cotton acre
age program instructing the dean to
proceed immediately with the organi
zation to handle the cotton acreage
reduction campaign. Everything that
is to be had about State College is
to be drawn into this movement. The
exact plan of destiuction hasn’t been
announced, but that is a detail which
may be worked out.
It isn’t the old plan of plowing up
every third acre. It isn’t likewise the
^ery interesting child of the big
braii^ of James H. Pou, of Raleigh,
who, despite his eminence as a law
yer, perhaps knows more about cot
ton than he does about Blackstone.
But there is something of the morali
ties found in the Pou plan. There
will be an effort to compensate the
rowers, in part, who surrender
some of their acreage.
Under the plan outlined in the
wire, Mr. Schaub will seek the co
operation of the state department of
agriculture. Co-operative Cotton as
sociation, general farm organization
4-H clubs, home demonstration
workers, young Tar Heel farmers
organizations, and others. The divi
sion of vocational education of the
state department of public instruc
tion is_ actively co-operating in the
program.
Mr. Schaub said today he would
call a state meeting in his office at
State college next Wednesday June
21, when the state leaders of the
various groups will secure specific
information as to the offers to be
made growers by the government to
remove one-third of the cotton now
under cultivation and to study the
form of contracts that will be of
fered. Thursday June 22, three dis
trict meetings will be held in the
chamber of commerce in Rocky
Mount, the courthouse at Fayette
ville and the chamber of commerce
in Charlotte.
These district meetings will be at
tended by county agents, vocational
teachers, cotton association field men
and others from cotton producing
counties in each of three areas.
“We are going to need all the help
we can get in handling this cam
paign during the next two weeks,”
said Mr. Schaub today. “We have
been expecting definite word from
Washington for some days but the
time limit is shorter than we anti
cipated. However, we are hopeful
that we can so arrange the cam
paign that every cotton grower who
desires may have a part in reduc
ing his acreage. The campaign is a
direct attack on the surplus cotton
now in existence. The secretary of
agriculture, and his associate, Mr.
Cobb, are hopeful of retiring ap
proximately three million bales from
cultivation. This will mean about
between the six cents and the price
cotton is selling for at the time he
.sells.
Up To Growers.
W'allace said operation of the
wiole plan was contingent upon the
d^’ree of cooperation shown by
growers during the week’s campaign
to obtain contracts.
Unless Wallace is certain that he
can take a large amount of cotton
out of production, equivalent to at
least 2,000,000 bales production, he
is not prepared to proceed further
with the plan.
However, he indicated thsfr he was
confident of the success of the cam
paign and his associates said there
was virtually no doubt but that the
plan would be employed and that
about $100,000,000 would be distrib
uted in rentals to growers in the
next few months.
4 Men Burn
to Death In
Wreck
Four men were killed
this morning about one
and a half miles south of
Lucama when two trucks
collided headon. Two of the
men whose homes were in
South Carolina and a
third who lived in Monroe,
were burned to death when
the trucks caught fire and
were, destroyed. The fourth
victim died in a Wilson
hospital soon after reach
ing there. The truck going
north carried a. load of
beer and the one coming
south was a fruit truck.
An amateur boxer who
was riding on one of the
trucks was slightly injur
ed. We have been unabl^
to leai-n the names of the
victims.
10,000,000 acres of average cottou
out of the 40,000,000 planted. For
North Carolina it will mean retir
ing about 400,000 acres.”
The director explained that each
grower .will be paid a rental benefit
for the cotton removed as soon as
the actual destruction has been com
pleted. In addition, cotton options will
likely be offered each grower for
the amount of cotton which he re
moves from cultivation.
The Baptist church, on Sunday
night last, was filled with an audi
ence of old arfd tried church goer.s,
men 'and women who have heard the
Bible preached year through year
until their Biblical enthusiasm is
now on the wane. Yet on Sunday
night their interest in the Daily
Vacation Bible School Commence
ment program never for a moment
ceased. There was not a glancing
to the ceiling, a study of window
designs, nor a “wondering of what I
shall do on the morrow,” nor “what
shall I have for dinner,” nor “I
don’t like that woman’s dress and
her hat is horrible”—nor any of
the other similar and quite common
church thoughts. For once the
audience had found interest and new
life in an old, old thing. And one
who from an old subject can rebuild
a program of interest and inspira
tion, he falls not short of greatness.
The success of the Bible School
Commencement was due in. the fact
that it was a program of youth, for
youth and by youth. Approximately
one hundred and fifty children from
“tiny tots” to high school seniors
took part. Some twelve teachers, all
youths, not one over twenty-five,
sponsored the program. It was
Youth that marched down the aisles
of the church carrying the flags of
[riotism and service. It was Youth
marched to Onward Christian
diers. Youth saluted the flag of
patriotism and sang America. Youth
saluted the Christian flag of love
and service and sang Stand Up for
Jesus. Youth saluted the Bible and
led the people singing Praise God
From Whom All Blessings Flow.
Though having the most difficult
group of children, Miss Flora Grant
and Miss Irene Jones in the
Beginners Program gave a credit
able account pf their two weeks
work.
Perhaps an audience in a Selma
church has not had the treat of
hearing such singing as the Pri
mary Deparment, under the direction
of Misses Mable Nordan, Mary
Parker, and Mildred Hayes gave
Sunday night. The children sang
with their hearts in their song and
a smle on their face. To see and
hear them was a pleasure indeed.
The play of the Junior Depart
ment (sponsored by Mi.sses Effie
Grant, Edna Earl O’Neal and as
sisted by Mr. John W. Blackman)
was fresh and clever. Of special
note were the piano solo by Charles
Denning and the vocal solo by
Gordon Whitaker, Jr. May Selma
awake even more than it has in the
past year to the potential musical
talent of her Youth.
No greater thought or way of liv
ing does Christianity or any other
religon give to the world than that
of the good Samaritan, a friend to
man, than that of love and service.
And it was the Youth of the Inter
mediate Department (sponsored by
Miss Margaret Creech, Mr. David
Liles ,and E. V. Deans, Jr) who
presented his conception of Christi
anity to the church. Of specal note
wa.s the talk by Hilda Earp which
was filled with yofcthful thought and
delivered with youthful fire that de
manded the attention of an audience
tired perhaps of .^preaching.
Though not on display completely
the leather work, bead work, and
shipbuilding under the direction of
Mr. Lies falls in the category of the
importance. This service was render
ed not without patience, not without
a gift of time. To this same order
belong the sewing work of Miss
Creech and the hand work of the
other departments. ■»
Before the close of the service
Youth rose, sang Are^We Down
Hearted, shouted No; Showed its
head, sang prayerfully Now 'The Day
Is Over.
The entire exercise was one of
youthful religious enthusasm, mak
ing an old audience for one night
forget to think, but made them sit
up and listen.
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Pet.
Kenly
6
1
.857
Clayton
5
2
.714
Selma
3
4
.429
Princeton
3
4
.429
Pine Level
2
5
.286
Smithfield
2
5
.286
(BY BILL
Selma defeated
SPIVEY)
Princeton
here
Wednesday afternoon by a 7 to 0
score. Selma scored 6 runs in the
first inning and 1 in the second.
It would have been a wonderful ball
game if the first inning could be
scratched off the records. Fuquay,
pitching for Selma, struck out 14
Princeton batters and allowed only
3 hits. Selma collected 9 hits off
Arthur and Snipes, Princeton hurl-
ers. Manager Ed Creech and John
McMillan again led the hitting each
getting 2 apiece. Ed only went to
the bat twice and handled a beau
tiful chaise in the field. Selma plays
Princeton at Princeton Friday aft
ernoon.
The box: ■ , ■
PRINCETON:
Player ab r h e po a
Toler, ss 4 0 1 2 5 4
Rose, 2b 2
Edwards, 2b
Smith, cf ....
Cockrell, 3b
Brewer, c ....
E. Rose, rf ...
Young, If
Toler, If
Stevens, 1 b
Arthur, p
Snipes, p
h
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
4-
0
0
0
0
0
0
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TOTALS 80 0
SELMA: M
Player ab
Fields, cf 0
Eason, cf 2
3 G 21 U
2b
2b
Creech,
Talton,
Kemp, c
Parrish, If
McMillan, rf
Corbett, rf ..
Harris, 3b ..
G. Worrell
L. Worrell,
Fuquay, p
ss...
3b
e
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
.0
0
0
0
po a
0 0
’TOTALS .32 7
Umpire.s: Gaskill and
Scorer: Spivey.
9 0 13
Arthur.
SELMA LOSES TO CLAYTON.
Clayton defeated Selma, at Clay
ton, Wednesday afternoon to tha
tune of 4 to 1. The local boys were
not able to hit safely, manager Ed
Creech and John McMillan contrib
uting ail of Selma’s hits with 2
each. Baucom, Barnes, and Blinson
were best for Clayton, each with 2
hits, one of Barnes’ being a home
run over the left field wall. Fuquay
pitched for Selma and struck out 12
Clayton batters, but allowed 10 hits.
It seemed that the Clayton batters
either hit safely or struck out, Sel
ma’s infield getting only 5 chances
on the ground. Moore, Clayton’s
high school southpaw pitched a very
nice .game for the winners.
KENLY LICKS SMITHFIELD
Kenly, June 21.—Kenly clung to
its one-game lead in the Johnston,
County League by defeating Smith-
field, 11-2, here today behind seven-
hit pitching of Ballance. The locals
got 15 hits off Johnson.
Honeycutt caught for Smithfield;
Evans for Kenly.
Hinton and Evans shared batting
leadership for Kenly, each getting
three hits—all doubles. Parrish was
Smithfield’s best.
WILDER HURLS SHUTOUT
Clayton, June 21.—Clayton stayed
on the {reels of Kenly’s league lead
ers by blanking f»ine Level, 7-0, here
today as "Yance Wilder held the vis
itors to three safeties.
Baucom, Blinson and Gattis, each
with two hits led Clayton. One of
Blinson’s blows was a homer. Price
and Edwards pitched and White
caught for the visitors. Massey
caught for Clayton. ^
Mr. E. L. Cobb, of Wil.son, was the
guest of J. T. Wilkins Wedne.sday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Screws have
returned after spending a short va
cation with relatives and friends in
Georgia.
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