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SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940.
SINGLE COPY 5c
NUMBER 42.
WORLD-FAMOUS
MUSICIAN COMING
TO SELMA FRIDAY
Doris Peterson Company To
Perform In Selma High
School Auditorium On Friday
Night, October 17, At 7:30—
Bing Crosby Calls Her Fine
Artist.
At 17, Doris Jeanne Peterson won
a city-wide marimba and xylophone
contest in Chicago ;then she entered
competition with musicians from all
over the U. S. and was proclaimed
“National Champion of Marimba and
Xylophone”. Miss Peterson began her
career as a member of the World’s
Fair Marimba Band in Chicago, 1933,
and in 1935 was one of the youngest
members of the International Ma
rimba Symphony Orchestra, played
solo parts on their European tour
and at Carnegie Hall, N. Y. Follow
ing her appearance with Bing
Crosby on the Kraft Music Hall pro
gram last fall, Bing said: “A truly
fine artist; and as definitely a de
lightful little gal.” One of Miss
Peterson’s assisting artists is Robert,
Fitzgerald—tenor robusto with opera
tic experience and entertaining ideas.
Miss Peterson’s pianist completes a
trio with sparkle, dash, and the peak
of musical enjoyment.
Don’t miss this fine program at
the Selma School auditorium Friday,
(tomorrow) nighty October 17, at
7:30 o’clock. Get your tickets early.
Sunday School
Installation Service
With the coming of the fall season
and with the new officers of the
Methodist Sunday school quite an in
crease was noted in the attendance
last Sunday. It is hoped that others
who dropped out during the summer
vacation will be seen in their ac-
;”Stomed places.
The following officers and teachers
were installed for the new Sunday
school year beginning the first Sun
day in October:
Superintendent, W. T. Woodard,
Jr.; The Adult Division, W. D. Per
kins, Adult Superintendent; Alma
Edgerton Bible class, President, John
Jeffreys; Teacher, Prof. Rowe Henry,
Assistant, Prof. O. A. Tuttle; Will
ing Workers’ class. President, .Mrs.
S. R. Lee; Teacher, Mrs. R. A. Ash
worth, Assistant, Mrs. James Kemp;
Bettie Noble Class, President, Mrs.
John Jeffreys, Teacher, Mrs. J. W.
Rouse.
Philathea Class, Teacher, Miss,
Margaret Etheredge; Young People’s
Division, W. L. Norton, Superinten
dent of Young People; Young Peo
ple’s Classes, Teachers, Mrs. C. A.
Bailey, R. A. Jones; Intermediate
Classes, Miss Sara Bain Ward, Mrs.
Frank Hood; Children’s Division,
Miss Ruth Avery, Superintendent.
Junior Teachers, Mrs. N. A.
Branch, Miss Ida Belle Wall; Pri
mary Teachers, Mrs. O. L. Hatha
way, Miss Ruth Renfrew, Miss Ruth
Avery; Beginners, Teachers, Mrs. W
E. Tyler and Mrs. B. C. DuBose.
Republicans To Hold
At Benson Sat.
Rally
COMING FRIDAY NIGHT
DORIS JEANNE PETERSON, National Champion of Marimba and
Xylophone, played with Bing Crosby, who said: “She is truly a fine artist
and a delightful little gal.” Robert Fitzgerald, tenor robusto with operatic
experience and entertaining ideas. High school auditorium Friday night.
Selma Man Seriously
Burned Tuesday Nisht
Bill Sutton, 35, son of W. L.
Sutton of Selma, was taken to Duke
hospital, Durham, Wednesday morn
ing for treatment for bums he sus
tained about one o’clock Wednesday
morning when it was found that the
bed in which he was sleeping at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Albert
Eason, with whom he lives, was on
fire.
It is not known how the fire started
but it is thought a lighted cigarette
may have caused it. He was ac
customed to having spells at times
which rendered him unconscious, and
it is believed that he had one of
these spells while smoking a cig
arette. Had he been in his right
mind it is believed that the burns
would have awakened him before he
was burned so badly. One of his
sisters sleeping in the home smelt
cotton burning, and at first thought
it was the odor from the car load
of cotton burned in a freight car
near the home a few n%hts ago,
but when she heard groans from her
brother in his room she made an in
vestigation and found that the bed
was on fire and that he was serious
ly burned. The most serious burns
seemed to be on his arms and chest,
and the doctors at the hospital said
Wednesday that his chances to live
were about 50-60.
Wilbur Wiggs and Albert Eason,
both of whom married sisters of the
^burned man, left here Wednesday
afternoon for the hospital to see if
their blood would match with that of
Mr. Sutton so they could furnish
blood for a transfusion.
Youth Week At
Methodist Church
J. G. Dixon Named As Candi
date For County Commission
er.
Registration Books
Opened Last Saturday
DRAFT REGISTRATION HERE
EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATION
FREE WILL BAPTISTS
MEET IN PINE LEVEL
Wilmington Conference Holding
Its 33rd Session Which
May Run Through Friday.
Johnston county Republicans will
hold a rally at Benson grove in
Benson Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock. Chairman Clyde Stancil an
nounced Monday.
The speaker will be Judge Callo
way, who has been sent to North
Carolina by the Republican National
Committee to help campaign against
Roosevelt and the Democrats.
Chairman Stancil also announced
that J. G. (Gid) Dixon of Benson
had been named by the county ex
ecutive committee as one of the Re
publican candidates for county com
missioner, replacing Matthew Raynor
of Benson who resigned to continue
serving as an election, judge. The
other candidate for commissioner is
M. B. Pleasant of Pleasant Grove.
Pleasant and Dixon will run
against Commissioners C. L. Den
ning and R. M. Pleasant, Democrats.
The Republican candidates for the
house are Alphonso Parker and Clyde
Stancil, opposing Lawrence Wallace
Democrats
Childhood and Youth Week will be
observed at the Edgerton Memorial
during the coming week. The pur
pose of this week is to bring to
gether the Home, Church, and the
School, and to become aware of the
basic need of children for religious
training and of the place of the
home, church and school in helping
them achieve Christian ways of
thinking, feeling and acting. At the
morning worship at 11:00, the pastor.
Rev. O. L. Hathaway, will use for his
subject “Family Religion”. At 7:30
Wednesday evening thfere will be a
“Get-together of the Parents of the
Church School Members of the Chil
dren and Young Peoule’s Division,
the Church Schol Teachers and Of
ficials, and the Teachers of the
Selma School” at the church. A
systematic plan of visitation is being
carried out through both divisions.
Charlie G. Mumford
Died Sunday Morning
The registration books opened
Saturday, October 12, and will re
main open through Saturday, Octo
ber 26th, 1940. If you registered and
voted in the general election in 1938
you will not have to register this
year unless you have moved into an
other voting precinct since last gen
eral election, but in such case you
will have to get a transfer card
from the registrar in the precinct
where you last voted and take this
card to the registrar in the precinct
where you now live, provided you
have been living in your present
precinct over four months. If you
have moved your residence within,
the last four months you can go
back to the precinct where you last
voted and vote in the election this
fall. But don’t make a mistake about
this. Be sure about the time since
you moved, and better still, see the
registrar in precinct in which you
now live and give him the details
and he can tell you what to do.
Unless you are dead sure that you
did register and vote in 1938, don’t
take any chances, but go to the
registrar and have him look up your
name. If it is not on the book have
him register you then and there.
People do too much guessing about
their names being on the books, and
for that reason, it often happens
that when they go to vote they find
that they are not registered.
A new registration has been called
for that part of Banner Township
formerly known as East Banner.
This precinct has been divided into
two separate voting precincts, known
as North Banner and South Banner.
Every one living in that section
formerly known as East Banner will
have to register this year. The
registrar for North Banner is Junie
V. West of Benson, and the registrar
for South Banner is Fulton Surles,
also of Benson. J. E. Wall is
registrar for West Banner, but no
new registration is required for that
precinct.
Some people may have gotten the
idea that if they registered as a
Democrat in the primary election
they will have to vote the Democrat
ticket in the general election if they
vote at all, but this is not true.
Every person has the right to vote
whatever 'ticket he chooses in the
general election, regardless of what
the registration books show as to
his party affiliation. Only the pri
mary registration books are required
to show a person’s party affiliation.
The books used in the general elec
tion this fall, under the Election
Law of 1939, shall not give a per
son’s party affiliation.
The 33rd annual session of the
Wilmington conference of Free Will
Baptist churches which convened
Wednesday is expected to continue
through Friday at the Free Will
church in Pine Level.
Plans for the three-day session
were announced’ by Dr. W. H. Carter
of Goldsboro, pastor of Linden
church.
J. M. Sharpe, of Wilmington, is
moderator and is presiding over the
conference. Rev. J. C. Howard of
Magnolia delivered the opening ser
mon.
Wednesday afternoon’s session was
devoted to the roll call of officers,
churches and ministers, devotional
services on Thursday and other
phases of the church program will
be discussed on Friday.
Among the speakers are Rev. J.
C. Lewis of Wilmington, Arbie H.
Homer Butler of Clinton, Rev. Bailey
Carter of Dunn, Dev. A. C. Thorpe
bf Rocky Mount, and Dr. Carter.
A memorial service will be held
Thursday afternoon to pay tribute to
the late Rev. C. J. Carr, one of the
organizers of the conference. Rev.
C. B. Garris, Rev. Joseph Carter,
Rev. W. W. Avant, Rev. Mr. White
and other deceased members.
A number of new churches are
asking to be admitted into the con
ference. These are White Lake, Lum-
berton, Elizabethtown, and a church
in New Hanover countv. The church
West Selma Precinct Registers 379 While East
Selma’s Registration Shows 290—Wonderful
Spirit Shown Among Registrants Here
All other activities were put into the background in the United
States Wednesday as Uncle Sam’s 16 million young men of draft
age made their way to registration quarters to help make sure
that Hitler’s dictatorial powers shall never engulf these United
States because of an untrained army. From every section of the
* country comes reports of true
WORK PROGRESSING
RAPIDLY ON GYM
The new recreation building spon
sored by the American Legion and
patriotism as a spirit of true
Americanism dominated in
every registration precinct.
Even before the registrars in East
and West Selma precincts could get
all their helpers sworn in and ready
for business both registration quar-'
business men of Selma is f crowded with enthusiastid
sing nicely. Approximately 60,000 of
the 160,000 brick have been laid.
floor sleepers placed and several
door sills set. All material used to
date has been paid for.
Various committees were appointed
by Dr. E. N. Booker to solicit funds
to cover expenditures of this build
ing.
Starting today committeemen have
been asked to start collection on
pledges, so as to have sufficient
funds available for material arriving
daily. If you have pledged, please
pay promptly as possible to your
committeeman. Those who have not
pledged and desire to have a part in
making this building a credit to
Selma, send amount either to Dr. E.
N. Booker or R. H. Griffin at the
Branch Banking & Trust Company.
Visit the new building and let W.
L. Etheridge or W. A. Hood, the
foreman, show you around and see
what a fine job the NYA is doing.
at White Lake will
Thanksgiving day.
be dedicated
Attendance At Jubilee
Larger Each Saturday
Another big crowd attended the
Merchants’ Jubilee here last Satur
day. The attendance seems to get
larger each Saturday. The time for
the awarding of the prizes has been
changed to 3 o’clock, instead of
3:30, so don’t forget the hour. Those
winning prizes on last Saturday are
as follows:
Ruby Foster, Selma Route 2, $2.00.
A. W. Davis, Selma, $3.00.
Bill Hall, Selma, $5 00.
Mrs. Sol Gordon, Selma Route 1,
$5.00.
Magora Taylor, colored, Selma,
$5.00.
R. L. McCray. Selma, $5.00.
Mrs: H. G. Carlisle, Selma Mill,
$5.00.
T. J. Lackey, Selma, $10.00.
W. 0. W. Log Rollers
To Meet In Warsaw
Charlie G. Mumford, Selma, Route
2, died at his home Sunday morning
about 2:30, at the age of 65. He
had been ill about eleven months.
Funeral services were held at the
home Monday afternoon at two
o’clock, after which burial took
place in the Smith cemetery near
Mic£o.
WARSAW, Oct. 15. — The Cape
Fear Log Rolling Association of the
Woodmen of the World will meet in
annual session in the high school
auditorium here on Friday, October
18th.
Plans for the session were an
nounced today by Luther B. Pope of
Dunn, Route 1, president of the as
sociation, who has charge of the
program.
The program will open at 3 o’clock
in the afternoon and continue through
the evening, with a dutch supper in
the high school gymnasium at 6
o’clock.
Principal speakers in the after
noon will be Charles A. Hines of
Greensboro, national director of the
fraternal order; Dr. W. H. Carter
of Goldsboro, state director of pub
lic relations; Col. T. E. Newton of
Kinston,, state manager; and Miss
Blanche Eakin of Raleigh, head of
the women’s division of the Wood-
Football Coach Is
Kiwanis Speaker
Prof. H. W. Broughton, coach and
history teacher in Selma high school,
was the principal speaker at the
Selma Kiwanis club meeting last
Thursday night. He emphasized the
importance of sports as an important
factor in the school life of the youth
of our country, and paid a fine
tribute to the local football team at
the school here.
Johnnie Colones, one of the star
players on the local school team,
told something of the accomplish
ments of his team in the past and
predicted that his team would be
heard from again this year.
Program J. G. Avery introduced
both speakers, and urged that all
members of the local Kiwanis club
give their wholehearted support to
these boys by attending the games
and thereby showing that the Ki-
men who had come to enlist them->
selves for military training when
ever their country sees fit to call
them. But certain information had toi
be obtained from each registrant and
entered on a card, and then another
card had to be filled out for the
registrant to carry with him. All this
required time in order that the
registration records be correct. But
despite the fact that many who had
come in order to get it over with
early, there was no complaining, and
as the registration machinery prog
ressed they stood around and talked
in humorous vein until their turn
came—a true American spirit. By H
o’clock they had thinned out con
siderably, but even then enough new
faces kept coming to keep the
registrars and helpers busy most of
the time throughout the day and
even into the early evening.
E. J. Sasser, registrar for West
Selma precinct, reports that 379
registered in his precinct, while W.
L. Etheridge, registrar for East
Selma precinct, reports that 29d
registered in his precinct, making a
total of 669 for Selma township.
A telephone call to the office of
the Clerk of Court this morning re
vealed that the tabulation of the
registration for Johnston county was
around 7500, but we were told that
this does not include those in high
school and in prison but that these
would be made up later.
wanians are behind them
splendid work they are doing
the
Selma 4-H Girls
Make Another Score
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
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Confederate Money
Gracie Radford and Mattie
jnerf,, nurses at Springfield Hos-
fiTJ^sviHe, Md., are spending
Mr. C. W. Fulghum of Selma says
he was going through some of the
old papers of the late W. A. Green
a few days ago and ran across some
old Confederate money. Two bills
were pasted on a piece of cardboard,
one of them was a large Two Dollar
bill and the other was a much smaller
bill representing a value of only 5
cents. This money was issued during
the (iivil War but has been well
preserved.*
Attorney Tommy Gresham of War
saw will deliver the welcome address
and Otis Duncan of Smithfield will
respond. Special music will also be
presented.
Judge Barrington T. Sill ofWades-
boro will be the main speaker at the
evening supper session, and visiting
field men will be given recognition.
Pope said today that he was ex
pecting a large crowd to attend.
Miss Doris Virginia Byrd of Golds
boro is secretary and treasurer of
the association.
The Johnston County Poultry
Judging team competed in the State
Judging contest, Friday, October 11,
at State college. Those on the team
were Mabel Parker and Dorothy
Wilkins of Selma, Doris Crocker of
Pine Level, and Marjorie Dickinson
of Cleveland.
Although the sweepstakes was not
captured, the team came home re
warded. The team as a whole won a
ribbon for rating fourth in judging
White Leghorns.
Judging began at 9 o’clock and
was completed about 11. All team
members were given passes to the
fair and to a freshman football game
at State college.
All teams, including, Poi:j}try, Seed,
and Livestock Judging teams, as
sembled in State College Y.M.C.A.
at 6 p. m. to hear the announcement
of the winners. IJncoln County Judg
ing teams won the Seed and Poultry
contests, 'while Guilford county won
the Livestock Judging contest.
Contrary to previous custom, there
was no banquet this year,
wishing to do bought their supper
in the college dining hall.
Harry Candler Is
Promoted To Captain
oUr renewal subscription
Harry Winston Candler, son of
Mrs. Mamie Candler of Selma, has
been promoted from First Lieutenant
bo Captain in the army stationed at
Fort Bliss, Texas. Harry is a gradu
ate of Fort Knox Mechanized Unit,
and of Eiquita ^hq)5l at ,Fort Riley,
l^aivsas.
WILBUR WIGGS was the first
man in Selma Township to register
yesterday for the first peace-time
draft in American history,—WILBUR
says he hopes he won’t be the first
man called —■ MAYOR FRANK M.
HOOD also registered for the draft
—you know Selma has one of the
youngest mayors in the state—>
RALEIGH GRIFFIN says the draft
almost got him, missing him by
days—MRS. DAVID BALL is the
town’s newest aviatrix—she took to
the air a few days ago and really
was in charge of the controls—
EUKIE says she wants DAVID to
give her an airplane for a birthday
present—come down, JUDE and
HESSIE, and take a ride with the
new aviatrix—PILOT ROBERT SIG
MON, student at Lenoir-Rhyne Col
lege, Hickory, landed at the Selma
airport a few days ago and paid a
visit to his aunt, MRS. C. E. KOR-
NEGAY, while here—ROBERT was
flying a government plane—don’t for
get to attend the Johnston County
Fair this week—DR. WHITEHEAD,
the secretary-treasurer, is to be con
gratulated upon the splendid display
of exhibits—the ZACCHINI BROS,
carnival is one of the largest that
has visited this county in several
years—-big fireworks display each
night—many of our people have al
ready attended and report a very
enjoyable time—among those seen
there Tuesday night were PAUL
STARLING, CLARENCE BAILEY,
C. L. DUGGINS, P. D. YELVING-
TON, and others—WALTER PRICE,
junior at Duke University, spent the
week-end with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. HUNTER PRICE—MRS. W. P.
SELLERS dropped in The John
stonian-Sun office today and got her
fourth pen offered for new sub
scriptions—MRS. SELLERS said; “I
wish I could send the paper to every
person in North Carolina. It is the
best paper published in Johnston
county” — “Have you been fishing'
lately?” she was asked. “No, IjJit’I
am going one of these days,” she
•replied — MRS. SELLERS is the
champion fisherman of Ahese parta.-
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