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Xrmy Officials Inspect
Selma Airport As Site
For Army Camp
Major W. A, Homewood Spent
Wednesday Here Inspecting
I Local Airport As Proposed
Site For War Maneuvers This
Fall—Said It Looked O. K.
Whether they take it or leave it,
the Selma airport has at least the
prospect of being approved for an
army site for approximately 5,000
men for war maneuvers to be held in
Eastern Noyth Carolina this fall.
Army officials, headed by Major W.
A. Homewood, spent the day here
Wednesday looking over the Selma
airport as a possible location for the
project. The official party from the
War Department were accompanied to
the airport by Mayor B. A. Henry, R.
A. Jones and other local citizens.
After making their inspection tour
of the Selma airport property. Major
Homewood is reported as appearing
favorably impressed with the location
as one of the best he had found in
point of space, water, highways and
railway facilities.
Lieut. Gen. Hugh Drum is expected
here next week to inspect the site. All
this does not mean that the Selma site
has been given approval for the lo
cation of these army maneuvers, but
after all necessary inspection is com
pleted, if these army officials see fit
to recommend the Selma site, we may
expect things to begin to happen in
short order.
Learning About Blitz Buggies
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Second Lieut. Johnnie C. Thorne, who lives on Selma, Route 1
is one of the officers being trained in operation and maintenance
of Ford-built military equipment at the Army Service School m
the Ford Motor Company’s Rouge plant at Dearborn, Mich. He
is shown removing a wheel of a “blitz buggy,” on of the revolu-
tionary midget reconnaissance cars Ford is building for the
Army. Lieut. Thorne is attached to 60th Infantry at Ft. Bragg.
Selma Has Handicraft
Production Project
Twenty Draftees To
Leave On July 21st
With the abolishment of Selma’s
Sewing' Room has come a Handicraft
Production Project, which began op
eration about July 1. Mrs. Maggie
Chamblee is the county supervisor,
and Mrs. Margaret Wilkins , unit
foreman. They took a course of train
ing in handicraft production work in
the Durham county unit before open
ing up the Johnston county unit. The
"Durham county unit has been in oper
ation for several years.
The Selma project will embrace
about 9 counties, and will do handi
craft work for tax supported institu
tions, such as county homes, hospit
als, sanatoriums, etc.
The Selma unit has eight looms
in operation at the present time and
employs 20 workers, who are busy
sewing cotton and woolen trimmings
together, dying them in the desired
color and weaving them in to beauti
ful and serviceable rugs, napkins, ta
ble cloths, bedspreads, draperies, tow
els, window curtains, floor mats, etc.
The rags and scraps are secured from
the sewing room in Durham county.
The warp is obtained from different
cotton mills.
They are now working on an or
der for towels and dresser scarfs for
the county home in Johnston county
and for the Pythian Home near Clay
ton.
The wages of the workers are paid
by the Federal Government and the
other expenses are born by the county
^ and State Welfare Departments, ex-
' cept the housing quarters and the
.water, power and lights which is
' "'furnished by the Town of Selma.
The following' Johnston county men
have been notified by Selective Service
Draft Board No. 2 to be in Selma on
Monday, July 21, at 7 o’clock to be
sent to Fort Bragg for a year’s train
ing:
William Gernie Hawley, Kenly, Rl;
Jesse Floyd Tyner, Smithfield, Route
2; Oliver Joseph Wall, Clayton; Wil
lie Woodrow Yarborough, Selma; Cleo
Edward Williams, Princeton, Route 2;
Marvin Washington Coltrain, Clay
ton; Benjamin Randall Alford, Kenly;
Jerry Myrh Fleming, Selma; Arthur
Lacy Hinnant, Kenly; Alton Boykin,
Selma, Route 1; James Alton Lamm,
Princeton; James Willard Lamb, Ken
ly; Robert Leroy Parrish; Wendell,
Route 1; Herbert Parnell, Princeton,
Route 1; Dock Pearce, Princeton, Rl;
Wilmer Glee Boykin, Kenly, Route 2;
Melvin Ransom Godwin, Kenly, R2;
Luther Barnes, Kenly, Route 3; Ru
dolph Euell Oliver, Pine Level; Wal
ter Elgin Edwards, Selma.
Revival To Begin At
Selma F.W.B. Church
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Father 01 Selma Man
Died Monday Night
Henderson Lee Woodruff, 81, prom
inent Johnston County farmer, died
at his home on Selma, Route 1, near
Carter’s Chapel church, at 8:20 Mon-
- day night after an illness of two
weeks. ,
Funeral services were held irom
Carter’s Chapel church Wednesday
■ afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted
by the Rev. Debro Stancil, of Kenly,
Route 2, and the Rev. D. M. Clem-
. moni pastor of the First Baptist
' chureh of Selma. Interment took
' place in the family cemetery near the
home.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
H. T; Flowers, of Selma, Route 1;
two so-fts, B. F. Woodruff, prominent
merchant of Selma, and Jodie Wood-
- ruff, .of Selma, Route 1; two brothers,
-UTonah Woodruff, of Knightdale, and
J. Woodruff, of Spartanburg, S.
C.; one-sister, Mrs. Fred Williams, of
Durham.
Beginning Sunday night at eight
o’clock, July 13, and continuing for
approximately ten days, a revival
meeting -will be in progress at the
Selma’ Free Will Baptist church, the
pastor. Rev. Clarence Bowen, announ
ces.
The pastor will do the preaching
each night, and special music will be
a feature of the entire meeting.
Mr. Bowen has served the Selma
church for three years and will begin
his fourth year this fall. The church
has grown appreciatively with an ad
ded membership, an increasing Sun
day school, growing young people’s
leagues, and a wide-awake mission-
ary society.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the people of Selma to worship with
this congregation in the revival.
New Tax Collector
Is Kiwanis Speaker
Mr. Ira Ford, Johnston county's
new tax collector, was the principal
speaker at the weekly meeting of the
Selma Kiwanis club last Thursday ev
ening. He was introduced by Program
Chairman Da-vid S. Ball.
In speaking of taxes, Mr. Ford
said that this was no new subject to
mankind; then citing the case of
Zacheus of old, who was bidden of
Christ to come down from the syca
more tree; and to show that tax col
lectors are not always regarded as
the most undesirable company, he re
minded his hearers that Christ even
went so far as to accompany Zacheus
to his home and dine with him.
Mr. Ford said that many people
seem to feel that taxes are just
something placed on them in order to
make life more miserable, but that
this was not true at all; but on the
contrary, he said there could be no
society maintained in which culture
and refinement exists without some
form of organized government, and
that it is through the system of tax
ation that government and society
are maintained.
The speaker also expressed his be
lief that the present system of col
lecting taxes in Johnston county wfil
not only save considerable money m
the operation of the affairs of the
county, but predicted that it would
result in a more equal distribution o
the tax burden among the people ot
the county through a more adequate
system of collecting' taxes.
SELMA MAN HURT IN
HIGHWAY ACCIDENT
Saturday night about 11 o’clock,
while E. V. Woodard, Jr., of Selma,
and Bill Joe Stallings of Smithfield,
were returning from Holt Lake near
the Neuse River bridge, their car ran
into the rear of a truck. Another car
was coming in front of them and the
headlights of this car blinded them so
they did not see the truck in front of
them until they were within a few
feet of it. The breaks were suddenly
applied but a wet pavement caused
their car to skid into the rear of the
truck. Both men were rendered uncon
scious by the impact, but some one
quickly came to their rescue and took
them to the Johnston County Hospit
al at Smithfield where it was found
that they were suffering from bruises
and lacerations. They had regained
consciousness before reaching the
hospital, however.
E. V. Woodard, Jr., seems to have
gotten the worst end of the deal, he
having gotten his heelstring torn in
two, it not having fully healed from a
previous hurt. An operation was per
formed on his heelstring Wednesday
morning to tie it back together, and
at last reports he was doing as well
as could be expected. He is a son of
Druggist and Mrs. E. V. Woodard, of
Selma.
Mr. Stalling's, who was driving the
car at the time of the accident, is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Stallings
of the Sanders Chapel section. He
was not seriously injured and was re
leased from the hospital Monday
morning.
Riding on the rear seat of the car
were Jimmie Lane of Selma and a
young man from Raleigh. Jimmie
Lane also sustained painful cuts but
no serious injuries. The Raleigh
youth seems to have escaped uninjur
ed. The car was badly damage.
Johnston Tops Quota
In U. S. O. Campaign
CELEBRATES FOURTH
OF JULY IN BIG WAY
Mr. Albert Ballance, of Selma,
Route 1, celebrated July 4th in a big
way at his home last Friday. About
7:30 Friday morning an eight-pound
girl was born at his home. He had a
fine spotted poland china sow which
he was planning to slaughter for
pork next winter, but when he went
to feed her Friday morning she had
nine fine White Chester pigs. His son,
Jarvis Lee Ballance, who is among
the Selective Service group of young-
men in camp from Johnston county,
showed up at his home unexpectedly
for a three-day furlough before re
turning to Camp Jackson. Jarvis had
just returned from Forrest, Tennes
see, where he was among those en
gaged in sham battle maneuvers dur-
the past few weeks.
Mr. Ballance’s neighbors quote him
as saying that he never felt more like
celebrating the Fourth of July than
he did last Friday morning.
Beginning the Drive With $750
As the Gaal For Johnston
County, Chair-man R. P. Hold
ing Announces That This Fig
ure Has Already Been Passed
—R. A. Jones, Chair-man For
Selma, Makes Detailed Report.
Young Adult Fellow
Workers Is Organized
Tom Scott Is Chairman
Farm Defense Board
G. T. Scott of Selma, Route l,.who
is chairman of the State AAA com
mittee, has ben designated as chair
man of the North Carolina State
Farm Defense Board by United
States Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard. The boards will help admin
ister programs designed to. adjust
crop supply to the special needs of the
national emergency.
Composing these boards will be
representatives of agencies of the Ag
riculture Department, including the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra
tion, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics, the Farm Security Adminis
tration, the Soil Conservation Service,
the Farm Credit Administration, the
Surplus Marketing Administration,
the Agricultural Marketing Service,
the Rural Electrification Administra
tion and the Federal-State Coopera
tive Extension Service.
The Young Adult Fellowship of the
Methodist Church of the North Caro
lina Conference was organized at the
Young Adult section meeting, with
the other Adult Workers in the sec
ond annual Christian Workers Assem
bly at Louisburg College, June 30-
July 3. The following officers were
elected:
President—Mrs. Harry Boyd, Jr.,
from the Trinity Methodist Church,
Wilmington.
Vice President—Miss Evelyn Wil
liams, from the Swepsonville Method
ist Church, Swepsonville, and Secre
tary and Treasurer, Miss Ettat Mills,
from the Queen Street Methodist
Church, Kinston.
According to Rev. O. L. Hathaway,
Conference Director of Adult Work,
plans are being made for the organi
zation of district Young Adult Fel
lowships in the latter part of the
Summer and the early part of Au
tumn.
The Johnston County U. S. 0. drive
already has gone over the top in col
lecting its quota of funds, it was re
ported by R. P. Holding, chairman of
the U. S. 0. committee in Johnston
county. The allotment for Johnston
county, according to Mr. Holding,
was placed at $750.00, but collections
reported through noon Monday were
$779, with one or more sub-commit
tees yet to be heard from Chairman
Holding thinks probably that they
will reach $800 by the end of the
campaign.
“I wish to extend thanks to all who
worked so faithfully in collecting
funds,” said the chairman, and re
marked that on account of the size of
the county, covering it was much,
more difficult than city canvassing.
“We had to do quite a bit of riding,”'
he said.
The money collected locally will be
sent to national headquarters and ad
ded to a common fund which will be
used to finance wholesale recreational
facilities in communities adjacent to
army camps.
R. A. Jones, chairman of Selma
township, reports the following con-,
tributions from this area: "
C. A. Bailey $1.00
Floyd C. Price ^ 2.00
James C. Woodard 1.00 .
S. L. Canaday l.Off
L. 0. Davis 1.00
W. E. Tyler 1.00
B. C. DuBose 1.00>
S. R. Renfrew 1.00
Leon Woodruff 1.00
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Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
=By H. H. L.
New Lottery To Give
Registrants Call Order
Ervin Godwin, of Washington, D.
C., spent the Fourth of July holidays
with relatives and friends in Selma
and vicinity. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Howard Stancil and Miss Edna
Earle Stancil.
Washington — Selective service of
ficials made plans Monday for a new
national lottery, probably late this
month, to determine the order in
which 21-year-old youths who regis
tered July 1 will be integrated into
the lists of older registrants by local
boards.
Numbers of the new registrants, it
was disclosed officially Sunday, will be
fitted into the existing local number
sequences according to the ratio of
new names to old.
Thus if a local board had 500 older
men on its list and 100 of the 21-year-
olds registered, the number of a new
registrant Would be inserted after
every fifth name on the list. Numbers
drawn in the new lottery will be pre
ceded by an “S.” The holder of “S-1”
in this board’s area would become
the sixth man on the list, the holder
of “S-2” twelfth and so on.
Tonsil, Adenoid Clinic
To Begin On July 28
The Johnston County Health De
partment will sponsor a tonsic^d
adenoid clinic, in cooperation with Dr.
J H Fitzgerald of Smithfield during
the week of July 28 through August
1 1941 The clinic will be held in the
bksement of the Smithfield school
building. A maximum charge of five
dollars will be made for the opera
tion.
This clinic is held for indigent
cMldren, and it is the purpose of this
clinic that this type of child will re
ceive full benefit. Blanks will be put
in the hands of all practicing physi-
clans, and all applications must be
made through the family doctor. Af
ter application has been approved,
each child will receive a physical ex
amination by the health officer. At
the time of examination, further in
struction will be given.
Any child who will be 8 years old
by October 1, 1941, or not more than
12 years of age by October 1, 1941,
will he eligible for this clinic. Chil
dren under or above this age will not
be considered by the clinic committee.
Any person or organization inter
ested in helping a child through this
clinic, may be advised by Dr. W. H.
Lassiter, health officer, or any of the
health department staff.
President Eastern Mfg.
Co. Dies In Charlotte
Mr. C. W. Johnson, president of the
Eastern Manufacturing Company, of
Selma, died at his home in Charlotte
Friday night after an extended ill
ness. Funeral services were held from
the First Presbyterian church in
Charlotte Sunday afternoon. Burial
took place in the family vault in the
city cemetery.
Mr. Glenn Grier, secretary and
treasurer, and Mr. David S. Ball, su
perintendent, of the Eastern Mfg.
Company, of Selma, attended the fu
neral services.
William Henry Batten
Died Friday Afternoon
William Henry Batten, 68, of Sel
ma, Route 2, died at his home Friday
afternoon at 12:30 o’clock following a
prolonged illness.
Funepl services were held Satur
day afLr.iqon at 3:30 o’clock at the
home, ebnaheted by the Rev. Debro
Stancil of Kenly, and interment took
place in the family burying ground
near the home.
Surviving besides his second wife,
Mrs. Minnie Deans Batten, are one
son, A. L. Batten, and one grandson,
: J. W. Batten, both of Selma, Route 2;
two brothers, Jesse Batten of White
Hail; Arkansas, and Starling Batten,
of Lake 'Village, Ark.
GO TO CHURCH
Sunday School at 10 o’clock each
Sunday morning. Your teacher and
your classmates will be expecting
YOU.
Preaching services at eleven o’clock
next Sunday morning and again at
eight o’clock at night.
Your pastor and brethren- will ex
pect you, and will miss you if you do
not come.
Negroes To Get Two
More CCC Camps
Bill Thad Woodard, head of the
Welfare Department of Johnston
County, has just been informed that
the State of North Carolina has been
granted two additional CCC camps
for Negroes.
All Negro boys who wish to enroll
in a CCC camp may do so now, says
Mr. Woodard, and should go immedi
ately to the Welfare Department in
Smithfield, for a group of 15 Negro
boys will be sent to camp next week.
All boys interested should lose no
time in making their application for
admission to the camps.
EXTRA!
Selma Legions took Ral
eigh in tow here today
(Thursday), winning 4-3.
Medlin pitched his first
game during the series for
Selma. Holding pitched for
the losers, allo-wing 9 hits.
Raleigh got 5 off Medlin.
Selma plays Raleigh there
tomorrow (Friday).
Nine Negroes To
Leave For Fort Bragg
The following Negroes have been
ordered by Selective Service Draft
Board No. 2 to report here on Tues
day, July 16, to be sent to Fort Bragg
for induction in the army: Johnnie
Cox, Jr., Princeton, Route 1; Claude
Barnes, Selma, Route 2; James
Wiggs, Clayton; Joe Henry Crudup,
Selma; Cornelius Parker, Kenly; Jim
mie Lee Wimbley, Princeton, Route
2; George Woodard, Jr., Kenly, Route
2; Robert Joe Everett, Princeton,
Route 1.
JEAN MANNING holding down
store for her daddy while he’s at ball
games—MRS. KORNEGAY and MRS.
CHAMBLEE window-shopping
—MAYOR HENRY en route to ball
game—MRS: GORDON WHITAKER
and MRS. ARMITAGE leaving for
Raleigh on shopping tour—CHAS.
DENNING arrives from Washington
City to spend vacation with his pa
rents, MR. and MRS. C. E. DENNING
—MR. and MRS. NARVIK SMITH
back from trip through the northern
states and a drive over the nation’s
greatest scenic highway, the Skyland
Drive—FLOYD C. PRICE,' SR., buy
ing cotton—sorry to hear about E. V.
WOODARD, JR., getting hurt in an
automobile wreck, but glad he is do
ing fine-—MISS ANNABEL FLOW
ERS en route to Selective Service
Board—glad to have “WOOSEY”
KEMP back on the Drag — “WOO
SEY” says he’s liking army life—
CITY BARBER SHOP erecting new
awning—JAMES DRIVER advertis
ing Legion game over loud speaker—
RALEIGH GRIFFIN back on the job
after spending the holidays at ? ? ?
—thanks to MRS. A. L. BRADLEY
for some of the most beautiful dahlias
we’ve ever seen—big crowd attends
opening of WALTZ COURT on last
Monday, notwithstanding Jupiter Plu-
vius had full swing most of the day—
CARL WORLEY, JR., getting ready
for camping trip to Tuscarora—
WASH HARE and RILEY REN-
FROW discussing the war situation—
“how big is Iceland,” POSTMASTER
EARP wanted' to know — “oh, about
the size of Pine Level,” somebody
said—BILL GODWIN has been una
ble to fly since the flood on last Sat
urday—the flying field is still covered
with water, but if the sun stays out
for a couple of days it’ll be all right
—glad to see LAWYER JIM POOL,
G. A. ALLEN, Hudson-Belk’s mana
ger, and WILLIE SISKIN at the Le
gion game—WINFIELD TALTON,
manager Selma Drug Stote, visited
STAR HARPER Sunday and reports
his condition much improved —■ EDI
TOR STANCIL pays visit to Johnston
County’s only rug-making factory,
located right here in Selma—drop in
and let MRS. CHAMBLEE show you
around—DAVID BALL and GLENN
GRIER are back from Charlotte,
where they attended the funeral of
C. W. JOHNSON, president of the
EASTERN MFG. COMPANY.
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