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street Commissioner E. J. Sas
ser Busy Supervising the
Work of Preparing Selma’s
Airport For the Thousands of
Soldiers Expected Here the
Latter Part of September.
Col. Craig, of the United States
Army, who was in Selma Sunday, an
nounced that an Advance Guard
of about 500 men will arrive about
September the 27th to make prepara
tions for the 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers
due to arrive on the afternoon of Sep
tember 29th. They are expected to
spend about two days here, but other
troops will be arriving from time to
time. Col. Craig stated.
The Colonel was well pleased with
the site, stating that it was one of
the best locations he had inspected.
Mayor B. A. Henry says the field at
the airport is being put in first class
condition for the soldiers, which is
one of the requirements asked by Col.
Craig. Street Commissioner E. J.
Sasser is supervising the job.
Water will be furnished the camp
by the Wood Grocery Company free
of charge.
MARKET SEEKING
TO KEEP BUYERS
Selma Kiwanians Go To
Carolinas G>nvention
Rev. D^I. Clemmons, president of
the Selma_ Kiwanis club; O. A. Tuttle,
Lieutenant Governor Fourth Division
of Carolinas Kiwanis District, and
M. L. Stancil, publicity chairman of
the local club, returned Tuesday aft
ernoon from Myrtle Beach, S. C.,
where they attended the annual con
vention of the Carolinas District of
Kiwanis International held at Myrtle
Beach September 7th through the 9th.
This was one of the best conven
tions ever held in the district, the an
nual report having shown that Ki
wanis made substantial gains in all
departments during the past year.
Selma was among the few clubs
in the district which received special
mention for the unusual amount of
publicity given Kiwanis activities
through the press during the year,
especially through the columns of
the local paper.
The district convention for 1942
will be held at Pinehurst.
During the closing hours of the con
vention J. Maryon Saunders of Chap
el Hill, N. C., was elected district
governor. Saunders, executive secre
tary of the University of North Car
olina Almuni Association, succeeds
Ray Albert Purr of Rocky Hill, S. C.
Lieutenant governors were elected
as follows; Hugh Beam, Marion, N.
C.; P. V. Fields, Mooresville; Marion
Allen, Elkin; D. B. Teague, Sanford;
W. Ernest Thompson, Graham; Wil
liam J. Norwood, Roanoke Rapids;
Aaron Goldburg, Wilmington; Jeff
Bates, Columbia, S. C.; and Harry M.
Daniels, Greer, S. C.
' Herbert W. Henning of Darlington,
who was reappointed secretary-treas
urer, announced that the registration
for the three-day convention was 485.
Smithfield, Sept. 8.—The Smith-
field tobacco market has carried its
fight for two sets of buyers to Su
perior Court and obtained from Judge
W. C. Harris of Raleigh an order
temporarily restraining the major
companies from withdrawing any of
their buyers from the local market.
Just before the start of the season
two weeks ago, it was announced that
the market here was being granted a
second set of buyers for a limited
period of two weeks. During the two
weeks’ period, tobacco has flooded
the market here and sales sales have
far more than doubled last year’s
sales for the first two weeks.
With this additional evidence of
Smithfield’s claim, the warehouse
men last week renewed their efforts
to maintain two sets of buyers perma
nently. When they failed they decid
ed to resort to court action.
The restraining suit was brought
by R. A. Pearce, F. L. Skinner, and
0. L. Boyette, trading as Gold Leaf
warehouses Nos. 1 and 2; H. B. Wal
lace, trading as Wallace warehouses
Nos. 1 and 2; and N. L. Perkins, trad
ing as Dixie Warehouse. The law firm
of Abell and Shepard are appearing
for the tobacconists.
Defendants are Imperial Tobacco
Company of Great Britain and Ire
land, Export Leaf Tobacco Company.
J. P. Taylor Tobacco Company, Amer
ican Suppliers, Ins., R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company and Liggett and
Myers Tobacco Company.
In their complaint, the warehouse
men allege that all defendants ex
cept the Imperial Company have been
willing for some time to provide two
sets of buyers for Smithfield and
that the Imperial announced it would
remove one of its buyers from Smith-
field at the close of the market today
and that therefore the plaintiffs had
reason to believe that the other de
fendants would do likewise.
Such action on the part of the de
fendants acting in concert, the com
plaint alleges “is an unlawful com
bination in restraint of trade and
commerce in the State of North
Carolina.”
Defendants were ordered to appear
before the Judge presiding at the
September term of Johnston County
Superior Court at 2 p. m., Monday,
Sept. 22, and show cause why the
temporary injunction should not^ be
made permanent of continued to final
hearing. .
Judge John J. Burney of Wilming
ton is scheduled to preside over the
September term.
HOT DAYS BOOST
COTTON OUTLOOK
Raleigh, Sept. 9,—Cotton farmers
throughout North Carolina were
cheered yesterday by a report of the
State Department of Agriculture in
dicating their 1941 crop “w'ill be ap-
oroximately 4 per cent larger that in
dicated earlier, resulting chiefly from
favorable weather during August.”
Hot and dry weather that left Tar
Heels sweating and complaining about
general weather conditions last month
brought cotton growers prospects of
an additional $2,000,000 return on
their investment, based on mid-Aug
ust price quotations,” T. L. Stuart,
assistant statistician, said on the bas
is of the September 1 cotton summary
issued by the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service.
Farmers indicated on September 1
that they expected a 1941 cotton crop
of 616,000 bales, 30 per cent under
last season and 18 per cent below the
State’s 10-year (1930-1939) average,
despite the indicated increase in pro
duction of four per cent compared
with prospects a month ago.
“The yield per acre is now indicated
at 315 pounds, a reduction of 26 per
cent compared with the all-time rec
ord set last year, but 10 per cent
above the past 10-year average,
Stuart said.
“The acreage for harvest is now
placed at 783,000, the lowest since
1878 with the exception of 1939.
Abandonment of acreage has been un
usually heavy in the Piedmont this
season due to excessive grassiness,
brought about by heavy July rains.
In the Coastal Plain abandonment of
acreage has been lighter that average
although heavier than last year.
“August weather was generally fa
vorable for cotton development. Hot
and dry conditions checked boll wee
vil activity and it now appears that
total damage from this pest vcill be
less than was earlier expected. Da
mage from weevils earlier in the
season was particularly heavy m the
southwestern part of the State. The
Piedmont crop is considerably later
than usual with the^ final yield still
somewhat uncertain.” , n rri o
A United States crop of 10,710,-
000 bales was reported by the Agri
cultural Marketing Service, showing a
decline of 15 per cent from last year
and 19 per cent from the 10-year pro
duction. Conditions during August
were reported “improved” in Texas,
Oklahoma and North Carolina, but
declined in practically all other major
producing States. ,
The total United States indicated
production was indicated to be one
uiiM. pua eqt l^ads
per cent less than August 1 estimate.
Filling Station Operator Held Up
Robbed And Shot By Negroes
REVEL HELD ON
CHARGE RECEIVING
STOLEN CATTLE
J. H. Revel of Raleigh was ordered
bound over to Superior court under a
$500 bond after probable cause was
found against him in recorder’s court
Wednesday on a charge of receiving
stolen cattle. W.S. Murchison and L.
S. Hall, Raleigh men who faced simi
lar charges were acquitted.
Evidence tended to show that Revel,
an employee of Murchison and Hall,
proprietors of Southern Packers, had
purchased cows which Walter Edmun-
son, alias W. R. Johnson of Wayne
county had stolen from Norman Ed-
gerton and W. C. Daniels of Beulah
township; and that Revel had known,
or at least suspected them to be
stolen.
Negroes Hold Up Young Edesell Grumpier, Rob
and Shoot Him—One of Assailants Was Shot
Before Escaping In Gar Having Gonnecticut
License Plates.
OFFIGERS GHASE NEGROES TO WILSON
Johnston County Fair
Week Of October 20th
Plans are going forward for John
ston county’s annual fair, to be held
at the Legion fair-grouiMs October
20-26. “It will be bigger and better
than any held yet,” Dr. J. W. White-
head, secretary-treasurer of the fair
organization announced this week.
Featured in the celebration this
year will be the Penn Premier Shows,
widely known in fair circuits.
Premium books are being complet
ed, Dr. Whitehead said, and will soon
be ready for distribution throughout
the county. Around $600 to $700
worth of prizes will be given away
at the fair.
Farmers in the county will learn
details about the different types of
fair exhibits when the premium books
are issued.
William A. Starling
Died Suddenly
Monday Morning
Gotton Growers
Gooperative Ass’n
Makes Appointments
Announcement has been made by
the Noith Carolina Cotton Growers
. Cooperative Association of the ap
pointment of ten official warehouses
and refeeiving agents in Johnston
county.
The Cptton Association is prepared
to bring' farmers the full benefits ^ of
the government loan and in addition
is prepared to make its own advance
oH cotton. The Government Loan in
this county is 16.24 cents per pound,
basis middling 15-16.
Warehouses and receiving agents
of the Association in this county in
clude:
Cotton Growers Cooperative Ware
house, Smithfield; Benson Cotton
Warehouse, Benson; M. C. Hooks,
Clayton; N. O. Wilder, Emit; J. A.
Barbour, Four Oaks; L. G. Pope,
Kenly; Dr. M. Hinnant, Micro; Dew
ey C. Taylor, Pine Level; L. D. Mitch
ell, Princeton; J. J. Sanders, Sanders
Gin, Smithfield.
CLIMATE MAKERS
Northwest Areas
Have Snowstorm
Denver, Sept. 8,—A Chicago hiker
collapsed from exhaustion and barely
escaped with his life in the mountain
West’s earliest widespread snowstorm
on record, which ranged down the
Rockies today from Montana to sou
thern Colorado. .
(Yesterday was a sizzler in North
Carolina, with Raleigh’s maximurn
temperature reported at 99 degrees.)
A Chicago capitalist’s daughter and
two companions were marooned near
ly 24 hours in a blizzard-stalled truck
in Montana until ski-equipped res
cuers. reached them. _
Two fishermen, marooned overnight
in Forest Canon in Rock Mountain
National Park, whittled wet sticks un
til they managed to build a fire that
saved them froiii freezing. No deaths
were reported. _
Whipped by strong winds, the snow
piled into drifts five feet deep on the
Trail Bridge Road in Rocky Mountain
Park. Temperatures fell far below
freezing at high elevations. ^
The temperature atop Pikes Peak
was nine degrees above zero, the
Pike’s Peak Highway was closed by
snow.
Glinton Man Is Held
As Death Gar Driver
Carl Simmons, 25, of Clinton, driver
of the automobile which had the col
lision with a motorcycle, causing the
death of Richard Morris Upchurch,
18, of Apex, on August 30, was tried
in Recorder’s Court Tuesday corn
ing and, probable cause being found,
was placed under $1,500 bond for his
appearance at Superior Court under
a charge of manslaughter.
Simmons had been in Johnston
County jail sine I the accident until
trial Tuesday, after which Henry
Vann of Clinton posted bond for him.
Upchurch and J. B. Regan of New
Hill were on a motorcycle going to
White Lake when the accident oc-
curred around 11 o’clock Saturday
night at the intersection of Highway
70 and 40 just east of Clayton. The
car was saidlto have ben entering the
highway frcli a filling station as the
motorcycle "came along and caught
it head-on. Upchurch sustained a bro
ken leg, broken neck and skull frac
ture He was rushed to Rex Hospital
and'died around 12:30 . The warrant
alleged that he is permanently injured.
Glayton Boy, 17 Dies
Of Accident Injuries
William Ayden Starling, 67, one of
Johnston County’s leading farmers
died suddenly Monday morning at
10:15 o’clock in his back house near
the home, of a heart attack.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, E. S. T., from
Pleasant Plain Church . Interment
took place in Batten Cemetery at
Call’s Crossroads.
Surviving are two sons, Jasper
Starling of Selma, Route 1, and Ar
thur Starling of Washington, N. C.
three daughters. Misses Mary Jane
and Elizabeth Starling of Selma,
Route 1; and Mrs. A. C. Vann of
Selma.
Edesell Grumpier, 19, was held up by Negroes at Crumpler’s
Filling Station, three miles north of Selma on Highway 301, about
9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning and shot in the arm.
The Negroes, three men and a woman, stopped at the station
and asked for 10 gallons of gas. After inquiring the price, one of
the men ran his hand in his pocket as if for the money, but drew
out a .22 automatic gun instead and ordered Grumpier, who was
alone, inside the station and asked where his money was.
— * Grumpier, pretending that the
money was in the rear, managed
to get to his own rifle and then
jumped toward the counter. As
he did so the Negro fired, in
flicting a flesh wound on his
right arm. After he fell behind
the counter the Negro fired four
more times, the bullets penetrat
ing the counter and barely miss
ing Grumpier.
When the firing ceased Grumpier
crawled to the end of the counter and
fired on his assailant, striking him,
he reported, either in the chest or
abdomen and he thinks wounded him.
As the Negro staggered, another who
had been getting money from the
cash drawer and cigarettes, grabbed
his wounded companion and rushed
to the car where the woman and one
Negro had waited.
They drove off rapidly toward Wil
son. Besides the gas, they had gotten
around $6.00 in cash and some cigar
ettes.
They were traveling in a ’39 grey
ish Plymouth sedan with a Connecti-
license, said young Grumpier, who
described the men. One was real dark
and weighed approximately 190
pounds, he said. Another was light
and weighed around 160, while the
third was also dark and weighed, ha
thought, about 180. He could not de
scribe the woman as she did not leave
the car.
Young Grumpier ran a quarter
mile to a neighbor, Frank Batten,
who got Carlyle Batten to take him
to Smithfield, where he received first
aid at the Johnston County hospital,
Officers, who were notified, were
soon on the trail chasing the Negroes
as far as Wilson, but had failed to get
up with them at last report.
Johnston Boy Writes
Of WBdlife Project
Franklin Batten of the Micro 4-H
Club and Doris Braswell of the Pine
Level 4-H club were the winners of
the Johnston County wildlife project
contest, it is announced by C. C.
Clark, Jr., assistant farm agent in
Johnston county. They received a
trip to the State 4-H Wildlife Con
ference at Camp Millstone.
In describing his 4-H Wildlife proj
ect, Franklin Batten wrote the fol
lowing under the title: ‘My Contribu
tion to the Wildlife Conservation
Program.”
“Since the cave man began to kill
wildlife and eat the raw meat for
food, wildlife has been an important
factor in every man’s life; but now
wildlife is getting very scarce. Thus
it has to be preserved. This is the
major purpose of the Wildlife Con
servation Program. I am proud to be
a contributor to a program that’s
The Department of Agriculture ex
plains how air conditions and other
environmental factors can be made to
vary as they do on ordinary days dur
ing a growing season. Special ap
paratus controls the temperature,
humidity, and flow of air in each
chamber. Soil temperature, moisture
content, and nutritional value are un
der control. Varying lengths of day
and different light intensities simu
lating cloudy or clear weather can be
provided. Recording devices trace an
accurate, continuous account of the
manufactured weather and soil condi
tions inside the-.'chambers.
Prominent Princeton
Man Died Monday
L. D. Grantham, Sr., 66, of Prince
ton, died Monday noon at his home
here following an illness of about 2
years. He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Eunice Grantham; three sons,
Lawrence and Henry of Philadelphia
and Luther D., Jr., of Mount Olive;
three daughters, Mrs. R. T. Boykin of
Wendell, Mrs. Bailey Perry and Mrs,
L. H. Teachey of Wilson, and 13
grand children.
Funeral services were held at the
home at 5 o’clock, Daylight Saving
Time. Burial followed in Riverside
Cemetery in Smithfield Tuesday. Mr.
Grantham was one of Princeton’s
most- prominent citizens and was ru
ral carrier from this Post Office for
30 years.
Wilson, Sept. 8.—William Moser,
17-year-old Clayton youth, died in a
local hospital yesterday from injuries
sustained in an automobile wreck
here last Friday night when cars
driven by William Wilkins, 16 of
Clayton, and Carl Quinn,_ prominent
local man, collided at the intersection
of Tarboro Street and Seven Hills
Road.
Moser was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Moser of Clayton.
Chief of Police C. P. Hocutt said
here today that both Wilkins and
Quinn would be charged with reckless
driving in the case. Wilkins and Miss
Dorothy Mitchell, 17, of Glayton, were
both injured, but not critically. The
tw'o cars were demolished.
Brief funeral services for young
Moser will be held at the home in
Clayton Tuesday at noon and will be
conducted at the graveside at 3 p. m.
at Oxford. Surviving are his parents,
four brothers and two sisters.
Women Get Praise
For Sewing Project
Smithfield, Sept. 9.—Mrs. E. L. Mc
Donald and Mrs. B. L. Owen of
Smithfield have done outstanding
work on the Red Cross layettes, hav
ing made 100 garments each, accord
ing to a report from Mrs. Thel Hooks,
production chairman of the Johnston
County chapter.
Despite the faithful work of these
and other women and of Mrs. Hooks
herself, the first shipment had to be
postponed. All of the garments have
not yet been tumd in, and, besides,
there is still some work to be done on
baby quilts. Mrs. Hooks is anxious
for the layettes to be completed as
soon as possible and requests that
cutters and sewers meet her at the
Red Cross sewing room at the Legion
Hut on Thursday from 10 a. m. until
5 p. m. If the women prefer, they
may go and get the work and take it
home with them for completion.
Four Oaks Man Hurt
As Two Gars Gollide
purpose is to protect nature and the
natural things of life. During my
four months of actual protection of
wildlife, I have contributed very
much of which I am now proud and
do not regret. I have long had a de
sire to conserve and protect the wild
life on my farm and now I have final
ly succeeded.
“In four months I sowed three well-
located and good-sized food patches
for game to feed on this Winter. I
also got my father to leave small
strips of lespedeza, soybeans, wheat,
etc., around the field borders adjacent
to the woods. I built bird ^ boxes
enough to allow twenty pairs of
adults to nest, but I only got sixteen
nests of birds in these boxes for the
required four months. I posted my
land with wildlife posters and fixed
the cardboard poster so as to be ex
empt from rain touching the card
board and soiling it. This required
much time and labor because I put
them on the farm at every angle from
my home. I reduced the number of
cats and dogs on the farm. I spent
numerous hours collecting insects and
leaves and mounting them. I let the
ditch bank weeds and briars grow up
and I can truthfully say that our
weeds are much thicker now than
when we first posted the land.
“Besides labor, I spent money buy
ing lespedeza, soybeans, cane, wheat,
peas and other seeds that went with
my mixture for sowing the _ lood
patches. I spent money buying timber
to place the posted land signs and to
make them water-proof.
“I have done everything I could to
increase and protect the game on the
farm in the last four months. I also
aided in making squirrel dens. As a
result I see more game on our farm
tan there has been in approximately
ten or eleven years. Since taking
wildlife for a project I can truthful
ly say that I have learned to like
wildlife more by protecting it and 1
have learned to appreciate the
ce of wildlife more.”
The Navy is considering plans
which may lead to the adoption of
bales of cotton as protection for war
ships against torpedoes.
James C. Allen, Four Oaks, Route
3, was taken to Rex Hospital Satur
day night with a broken knee cap and
other injuries received in an automo
bile collision with a car of Fort Bragg
soldiers on Highway 301, three miles
north of Four Oaks.
None of the soldiers was seriously
injured, though Robert Matthews of
the Cleveland section of this county
was knocked unconscious but regained
consciousness on the way to the John
ston County Hospital, where he and
others received first aid for minor
injuries. In the car with Woodrow
Little, the driver, besides Matthews,
were L. E. Adams, Jr., Dan Smith
and Wilson Buskirk from Fort Bragg.
Allen was alone.
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Merit Examinations
To Be Held Soon
Anyone
a state or
Watch the label on your paper and
renew your subscription before the
expiration date.
interested in trying for
county job through the
Merit System, should contact County
Welfare Supervisor W. T. Woodard,
Jr., Smithfield, N. C., or write to Dr.
Frank T. De Vyver, Merit System
Supervisor, Box 2328, Durham, N. C.
The time limij; for filifig applica
tions for taking these examinations is
September 15, 1941.
There are many clerkships, stenog
raphers bookkeepers and machme op
erators to be filled through this sys
tem of hiring helpers, with salaries
ranging all the way from a few hun
dred dollars a year to as high as
$1,500.00 a year. Mr. Woodard at
Smithfield will be glad to give full in
formation about the Merit System
examinations.
But for a “strike” in the last box,
made by DAVID BALL, MRS. MAG
GIE CHAMBLEE would have carried
off the honors in a bowling contest
last night at Holt Lake—DAVID de
feated MAGGIE by only a few points
—MRS. BALL took MAGGIE’S hus
band in tow, defeating him in two
games by only ONE point in each—■
but it takes PARSON CLEMMONS to
lick the whole bunch—just Before the
games last night DAN JONES, the
clever manager of this famous bath
ing, fishing, and boating resort, “set
up” the crowd to some of the best
bass you ever ate—the fish, DAN
said, were caught around five o’clock
and were on the platter red hot at
seven—it was a race between EUKIE
and MAGGIE which could dispose of
the most—the men folk just looked
(?) on and enjoyed the race—MAG
GIE having the advantage of EUKIE
in avoirdupois won—we welcome WIL
LIE HICKS to the Maindrag—MR.
HICKS, who hails from the Corbett-
Hatcher section, has accepted a posi
tion with FLOYD C. PRICE & SON
as salesman and field representative—
the Editor of this paper and PARSON
CLEMMONS left the Maindrag last
Sunday afternoon for Myrtle Beach,
S. C., as delegates from the local
Kiwanis Club to the District Conven
tion, which convened in that famous
resort Sunday, lasting through Tues
day noon—“we have reached an
agreement among ourselves,” the
REVEREND told us just before pull
ing out, “that we will not tell on each
other”—LIEUT.-GOV. TUTTLE had
to be on the job early Sunday morn
ing, so he left Saturday night—the
party returned Tuesday evening after
having had a wonderful time—-the
popular manager of the Dunn Furni
ture Company,.TALMAGE CORBETT
is a proud “papa” today—when asked,
“what is it?” TAM replied, “why, he’s
a girl”—HAROLD HALES writes the
Maindrag scribe that he is now work
ing in the Government Printing Of
fice in Washington—“but I’d rather
be back with WALT GODWIN”, hq
says.
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