THE RED CROSS IS A SYMBOL OF MERCY-WE CANNOT FAIL IT!
The .1 ohnstonian-Sun ^
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER 3
VOL. 25
Air Raid Drill Monday
Nisht Complete Here
19 1QA9 TIi.p Alarm was given in Selma by the blowing
slen ten^^ort Sts, ani the flashing of lights three times at
two second intervals. —
Within two minutes after the=^ r» ' j
Fayetteville Man Burned
In Wreck At Holt Lake
NEW MAIL CARRIER
ON SELMA ROUTE 2
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warning had been sounded 95
percent of the Town and sur
rounding territory was in total
darkness. The first report re
ceived at Central Contool was
from the Selma Mills. They re
ported the Mill Village 100 pm'-
cent blacked out. Next reports
began to come in from each ot
the seven other zones reporting
•100 percent blacked out; the
last report was received at 8 ;oo
^.'irT the business district of Selma
directly after the alarm, the down
town district was in darkness with
two exceptions. A small light was
- showing from the front windows of
the Telephone Building, and an elec
trie clock and sign at Langley’s jew-
' elry store were still lighted. Mr.
Langley had failed to turn these out
■ upon .closing and it was necessary to
have him return to the store and
.i«m them off.
Several residential lights were
seen Ify watchers and wardens and
./efforts w®re made to get in contact
with these parties and have the lights
-turned out. In some cases, probably
the people were not at home, but dur^
.u idg these trying times lights should
be turned out, unless you can readily
put them out when a warning goes
off. Lights were reported seen at
\Mrs. J. B. Person’s, Mr. A. T. Faust s,
Mrs R- C. Mozingo’s , Mr. Johnny
Betts’, Mr. Hill Taylor’s, Mr. Eugene
Barker’s, Carolyn C.qurt, Selma Grad-,,
'"'"ed School,- and the new Community
t- Building. *
In most cases lights were turned
out upon request. It is our belief that
we all Yealize the seriousness of these
' Warnings, and desire to cooperate.
The Authorities of the Air Raid Pro
tection are well pleased with our first
* Practice Drill. The all-clear signal
was received at 8:50 p. m.
For information of the public, there
is *a Tovm Ordinance, that a person
• failing to turn his or her lights out
upon'the request of Wardens or
alvatchers, a Fifty' Dollar fine and rfO
days on the roads may be imposed.
B. A. JONES, Chief
• ■ “ Air Raid Warden.-
Roy Drtver Succeeds B. B. Lee,
Who Was Retired On January
1,1942. After Serving the
Partons of Route Two For the
Past 26 Years.
Two Murdcrod Another Shot Through
Head In Meadow Township Early Today
Scathing Flames of Burning
Gasoline Which Followed An
Explosion As Truck and Auto
Crashed, Made It Impossible
For Re.scue Workers To Re
move Man’s Body From the
Buniing Wreckage.
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aEO KIRKS DIES
FOLLOWING BURNS
-Fatally Burned Saturday After-
'noon At Her Home Near Sel-
' ma When Her Clothing Be-
■ came Ignited by Heater.
Cleo Kirks, the sixteen-year-old
* daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kirks,
•.who live-on Smithfield, Route 2, about
two miles west of Selma, died at
Johnston County Hospital SunJ^ay
morning from burns sustained at her
^home Saturday afternoon when her
- clothing caught fire from a heater.
Practically all her clothes were burn
ed from her body and she was severe
ly burned about the bead and body.
She was a member of the eighth
grade in the Smithfield school.
- was taken to the hospital Saturday
afternoon hut died early Sunday
morning. , t .uo
Funeral services were held at tne
home Monday aftemOon, and burial
took place in Oakland Heights. Ceme
tery at Smithfield.
Surviving, besides her parents, are
one brother, Wilbur Kirks of the LI
S. Navy^ two sisters, Mrs. M. O. Wor
ley, and Miss Helen Kirks, of Smith-
field, Rejd^e 2.
One of the most horrifying scenes
ever witnessed in Johnston county
occurred on the highway at the north
end of the highway bridge which
spans Holt Lake, Saturday night,
following the crash of an automobile
and a produce truck.
Milton G. Revelles, 34-year-old Fay
etteville man, was killed instantly
when his car collided head-on with a
heavy produce truck about 8:30 p. m.,
causing the car to catch on fire and
its gas tank to explode. Flames,
spurting high into the air, drove on
lookers hack and made any rescue at
tempt impossible. When the fire was
finally put out, Revells was pulled
from under the steering wheel, his
head burned almost off and his body
a charred mass.
The badly-wrecke I truck also
caught on fire and. its occupants, |2,P:
gene Bristol and Carl M. Hollenbeck,
both of'Orlando, Fla:','narrowly es
caped death.
Hollenbeck, suffering from bah
burns about the face, neck, hands and
arms, was admitted to the Johnston
County Hospital where attaches re
port that he is “doing well.” _
Bristol was treated at the hospital
for minor cuts and bruises.
Investigating officers said the
etteville man was traveling south and
was on the wrong side of the highway
when he met the produce truck.
The burning wreckage caused trai-
fic to be held up for nearly two miles
along the highway for more than an
hour, and rescue workers who workert
at clearing the wreckage declare that
the bitter cold Saturday night, to
gether with the horrors connected
with burning human form made it al
most an unendurable task.
The Smithfield fire department was
called at a moment when the firei^en
were engaged in putting out a smai ,
fire in fhe Belmont section of the city,
but this job was soon completed and
they hurried to Holt Lake For over
two hours the firemen worked to get
the gasoline flames under control.
Both the car and the truck were
total losses.
Dr. E. N. Booker, county coroner,
held an inquest in the death of Rev
elles and freed Bristol, the truck
driver, from blame. Hollenbeck was
the owner of the truck.
Funeral services for Revelles,
merly of Warsaw, were held at
Quinn and McGowan
Mr. B. B. Lee, who served the pa
trons of Route Two from Selma .as
Uncle Sam’s mail carrier for the past
twenty-six years, retired from the
service on January 1, 1942.
He was succeeded . by Mr. Roy
Driver of Selma, former railway mail j
clerk. i
IMr. Lee was sworn in as carrier on- j
October 16, 1915, retiring December-j
31, 1941. The route, according to Mr. j
Lee, was only 23 1-2 miles in length
when he first began carrying the mail„
and when he retired it had been in
creased to 65 miles in length. The first
seven years the mail was carried by
horse and buggy over all kinds of
roads, except hard surface, and it was
almost impossible at times to navi
gate on some of them, says Mr. Lee.
' The first carrier on Selma, Route 2
was J. E. Parker, with Berry Lancas
ter as substitute. Following the res-',
ignatlon of Mr. Parker, Mr. Lancas-,
ter was made temporary carrier un-.
til an appointment was made. When-
Mr. Lee was made permanent carrier,
Mr. Lancaster was made substitute
under Mr. Lee.
Mr. Lee is in receipt of a letter
from the Postmaster General, which
reads as follows: “It has come to my
attention that after many years of
conscientious and capable service you
are, in accordance with the provisions
of the Retirement Act, retiring with
annuity from the position of rural,
carrier at Selma, and will enjoy a
less active mode of life. Your record
as an employee in the postal service
has been commendable, and I congr^-
ulate you upon your loyalty and effi
ciency. Please accept my sincere
wish for yorrr continued happiness
and contentmentjj
Such a letfeV coming
from the highest postal authority, is
something which anyone would great
ly prize when he or she has reached
the retirement age. And here is our
congratulations to B. B. Lee!
Mr. Driver, the newly appointed
carrier on Route 2 from Selma, is no
stranger to the people of this part of
Johnston county, he having served
the town of Selma as Chief of Police
for several years before resigning to
accefit a railway mail clerkship. Mr.
Priver is. a son of the late A. K.
Driver who played an important part
in the business life of Selma for a
numbers of years. And to you, Roy,
here is wishing you good luck and s
pleasant journey each day among the
rural population along Selma, Route 2
Kenly Man Killed In
Accident Near Lucama
Jack Ballance, Kenly Filling Sta
tion Operator, Instantly Killed
When Car Skidded On Icey
Road—Son Suffers Fracture
of Skull—Funeral Held Sun
day Afteraoon.
Funeral services for Jack Ballance
44, -Kenly filling station operator,
who was instantly killed Saturday
morning when his pick-up truck over
turned on the icy highway near Lu
cama, were held from the Kenly Free
Will Baptist church Sunday aftrnoon
at 3 o’clock, conducted by the Rev.
G. B. Starling of Kenly. Interment
took place in the Kenly cemetery,
near his home.
The accident occurred just north
of Lucama when the truck skidded on
the icy road while going at a fast
pace and hurtled along 150 feet be-
forq stopping. In the truck with Mr.
Balance was his 12-year-oId son, Rollo
Ballance, who suffered a fracture of
the skull and was taken to a hospital
in Wilson. A Negro was also riding
in the truck at -the time of the acci
dent and, although he received hos
pitalization, was not seriously hurt.
The funeral and burial were large
ly attend.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva
Hales Ballance; three sons, Wallace,
Harold and Rollo Ballance, all of
Kenly; three brothers, George Bal
lance and Tommie Ballance of Kenly,
,and Clarence Ballance, of Norfolk,
Va; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Pittman,
and his mother.
SELMA=KH^NiANS
HEAR BIG LEADER
Herman Allen, Banner Township Man, Using A
Shotgun, Early Today, Shot and Killed His
Wife, Ruth Lee Allen, and Gap Raynor of Ban
ner ^Township, And Seriously Wounded Grady
Lee, Brother of Allen’s Wife.
Herman Allen, 35-year-old Banner township man, used a 16-
gauge shotgun to blast the lives of his wife, Ruth Lee Allen, ana
Cap Raynor of Banner township, and seriously wounded Grady
Lee, brother of Allen’s wife. . j 4-u i.
Raynor, around 35, was the first victim. Evidence showed that
Allen went to the Raynor house about 3 a. m., and called nun out
to the porch. When the Banner township farmer appeared, Allen
shot him point-blank twice, the first load entering
shoulder and the second hitting lower down in his chest. Ihe vie-
tim was said to have died instantly.
. From that point Allen appar
ently walked to the Delmon Lee
Rental of Text Books
Starts Battle In Johnston
SchiDol Officials Draw Up Resolu
tions Declaring the Plan Sub
mitted by the Commission As
Un^tisfactory.
DRAFT BOARDS SEND
MORE MEN TO ARMY
for-
the
Funeral Home
af-Warsaw Monday at 2 p. m. vvith
the Baptist minister officiating. Burial
followed in the Warsaw cemetery^
Surviving are has wife, the former
Miss Mary Brown Best of Warsaw;
, parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Revel
les. of Warsaw; two
Revelles of Warsaw, and Elvood
Revelles of Alexandria, Va., hve sis
ters Mrs. Aubrey Fry of Alexandria,
Mrs’ John Rhodes of Beulahville,
Mrs. John Chestnut and Mrs. Henry
Robinson of Clinton, and Miss Grate
Revelles of Warsaw.
Power Will Be Ofi
Short Timi Sunday
The Carolina Power and Light Co.,
advises all users of power in Selma,
that they will pull the switch for a
‘.short time Sunday afternoon. Current
•will be off from 2 to 2:30.
More than 6,000 feet of tile was laid
bv farmers of Greene County during
the year just closed,
Grant, assistant farm agent of the N.
C.' State College Extension Service.
COfrONld^ET
The following is today’s cotton
market report as furnishe^d by the.
Arm of Floyd C. Price & Son of Sel
ma, N. C:
Strict Middling 3-4c
Middling IP 1-d to 19 l-2c
Strict Low Bright t9c
Strict Low Dark d-4c
aged SELMA MAN
DIED WEDNESDAY
‘ Burnice C. Harper, 81, who Ih’ed ^
South Webb Street ,, ,
Wednesday morning at 10:30 follow
ing an illness of two months duration.
Funeral services were held at tne
home Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock,
and burial following in St. Marys
church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy
L. Harper; one son, B. A. Harper of
Clavton; four daughters, Mrs. Joseph
Walker, of Clayton; Mrs. Paul Strick
land of Selma; Mrs. R. P- Oliver, Jr
of Selma, and Mrs. Velma Jones, of
Raleigh; one brother, J. B. Harper, o
Angler, R. F. D.
STAMPS
Thirty-eight Johnston county white
men w'ere sent to Fort Bragg last
week for induction in the. United
States army, draft officials revealed
Monday. Following an order from
Selective Service headquarters par
tially lifting the recent press ban on
draft information, the draft boards at
Smithfield and Selma released the
names and addresses of the latest
selectees, as follows:
Board Number 1.
Joseph Carson Sanders, Smithfield,
Route 2; Lundie Clyde Andrews,
Smithfield; Grover Barefoot, Benson,
Route 2; Harold Bledsoe McGee, An
gler, Route 1; James Everett Ford,
Alexandria, Route 1; Lester Ezekiel
Cox, Four Oaks, Route 1; Clarence
Develor Warren, Selma; Loyd Thur
man West, Clayton, Route 1; James
Harlest Stevens, Benson, Route 1;
Zola Wilton Johnson, Jacksonville,
Route 1; Walter Jasper Stanley,!
Smithfield; Quinton Lee, Four Oaks,
Route 3; James Robert Laughter,
Smithfield, Route 1; Paul West, Four
Oaks, Route 1; Emory Morris, Four
Oak's, Route 3; Young Nathan J. lart,
Benson, Route 2; Christopher Walton
Johnson, Benson; Jesse Buron Daugh
try, Smithfield, Route 1; William
Alonzo Woodall, Smithfield, Route 1;
Lacy Wilson Coats, Smithfield, Route
1.
Board Number 2
George Willard Corbett, Selma,
Route 1; James Ray Woodard, Prince
ton Route 1; Curtis Renfrew, Kenly,
Route 2; demon Eason, Princeton,
Route 1; Willie Ashley Brown, Kenly
Route 1; Percy William Hocutt, Zeb-
ulon, Route 1; Sam Ellwood Crocker,
Selma, Route 2; Bennett Strickland,
Kenly, Route 2; Wiley Vernon Wat
kins, Kenly, Route 2; Marion Rudolph
Bowen, Princeton, Route 2; Howard
Franklin Thorne, Selma, Route 1;
Thurston Odell Godwin, Kenly; Cecil
Pittman, Selma, Route 2;
' Albert
0 A. Tuttle, immediate past-lieut.
governor of the Fourth Division of
the Carolinas Kiwanis District, and
Bill Thad Woodard, President of the
Selma Kiwanis club, attended a meet
ing of Kiwanis leaders of the Caroli-
nas District, held in Chapel Hill,
Wednesday night, and heard an ad
dress by International Kiwanis Pres
ident Charles S. Donley, of Pittsburg,
Pa President Donley spoke on
“Kiwanis Cooperation with Govern
ment in the War.”
Mr. Tuttle was among those mak
ing official reports and taking part in
the discussions of the evening-
J. Maryon Saunders, University
alumni secretary, was formally in
stalled as Governor of the Carolinas
District by retiring Governor Ray A.
Furr of Rock Hill, S. C., along with
other leading officials of the district^
among whom was D. B. Teague, lieut.-
governor of the Fourth Division who
installed the officials of the local club
on last Thursday evening.
OFFICERS MAKE RAID
ON WHISKEY STILL
Smithfield, Jan. 14.—L. A. Martin,
county constable, reported the raid
ing of a 60-gallon capacity still m In
grams Township near Hannah’s Creek
recently. One Negro, Martin Sanders,
was captured by the officers, Martin
and Joe Royal. The still had just been
placed in operation and no liquor was
found, but approximately 100 gallons
of mash was confiscated.
Sanders, who was brought to jail
and later released under bond, was
tried Tuesday morning in
Recorder’s
Court and sentenced by Judge Larry
Wood to the roads for four montlis,
the sentence to be suspended upon the
payment of a $50 fine and costs.
Poultry Truck Making
Weekly Stops Here
Mr. D. B. Willis, of Greenville, is
buying chickens and eggs again this
season. Many remember sel ing to
him here last year and at Kmly. His
truck stops at Pittman’s Hatchery
each Saturday from 9 a. m. to 12.00
m., and from here he will go to Kenly
where he will buy poultry from 1:00 to
2:00 p. m. Mr. Willis says prices have
advanced over last week’s market and
that he vdll always give you the mar
ket price and the best of service.
Loadings to continue as long as con
ditions permit. Watch his ad for any
announcement he may make.
UNIFORM
Smithfield, Jan. 14. — Johnston
County is continuing her struggle to
withdraw from the State textbook
rental system.
The county school board, together
with all the principals of the county
schools, committeemen from the sev
eral school districts, and County Su
perintendent H. B. Marrow, met Mon
day afternoon in the courthouse at
Smithfield and drew up resolutions
declaring the plan submitted by the
commission by which the county will
be-^ri-hAve4-t»^-withh'aw“-ft«« ■4;}wr«rF-;
tern, to be unsatisfactory but express
ed their willingness to pay to the
State Commission the full amount
which the latter claim is due for the
purchase of books that have been
rented by county schools.
The county officers claim that they
entered into'the State system only .as
an experiment and with the promise
of E N. Peeler, secretary of the com
mission, that they might withdraw if
they should decide to do so upon eith-
er of two conditions: First, that they
turn over to the commission all the
books rented and all rental fees col
lected during the time books were m
use; second that the county pay the
State for the books, which would then
become the property of the county.
Johnston county elected to meet the
latter condition and has been trying
for two years or more to withdraw
from the State rental system.
The State Commission denied that
such an agreement as the above had
been made; and that even if Peeler
had made such a promise, he had no
legal authority to do so; and that be
fore the commission could release the
county from the State system, legis
lative action would be necessary.
In order that immediate, steps
might be taken toward withdrawing,
the County Board of Education re
quested a statement as to "'liat
amount it owed for the books. No ac
tion, however, was taken until Sep
tember, 23, 1941, Superintendent Mar
row, said when a committee composed
of T. N. Grice, R. G. Deyton, and E.,
N. Peeler, appointed to make recom
mendations in the matter, discussed
the affair with Marrow, and a month
later submitted the terms on which
the county might withdraw.
The condition which the county
school officers is unwilling to meet is
that of paving to the commission all
rentals collected and letting the
amount above that owed for the pur
chase of books already secured be
credited to the county and used to
buy more books through the commis
sion. The Board of Education found
that the price charged for the books
was far above that which the county
would have had to pay if it had got
ten' them directly from a book com
pany, said Marrow, and realizing that
if it continued to purchase
residence, a few miles away in
Ingframs township, where his
wife had spent the nig'ht.
rivinR around six o’clock, the
killer peered through a window
and saw his brother-in-law, Gra-
dv Lee, sitting at the breakfast
table. Without warning. Allen
fired at the man, _ the shotgun
charge striking him in the side
of his head.
Mrs. Claudia Lee, Grady’s mother,
was in the house at the time. She
heard the shot, ran into the room,
and screamed, “You’ve killed him!
Then Allen reportedly shouted, “And
I’m going to kill you too.” Mrs. l.ee
ran out of the house and hurried to
the home of a neighbor, Carl Lee, a
short distance away.
Apparently Allen then went into
the house where Ruth, his 25-year-old
wife, lay in bed, and dragged the
young woman outside. Indications
ib4U8iith-;!Jiroke Jrojn, be?-.
husband and ran around the barn.
Tracks showed where he had chased
her. In deadly fright, the woman
stepped inside a mule stable and tried
to elude her husband, but Allen, go
ing around to the opposite side of the
stable, leveled his shotgun through/
the cross-bars and blew his wife^i
brains out. The young, black-haireu..
woman was found lying on her back
in the stable, the top of her head al
most blown off. The woman, partially
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Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
——-—py H. H. L. —
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books
through the commission at the price
charged by it, school children would
have to pay higher rent for their
books than they have been paying
since the county, during the contro
versy, has gone back to its own sys-
The county system is being used
solely for the benefit of the school
children, county school authorities
said, who claim that they can save
the children much in rental fees if al
lowed to run their own system.
Carvin
Lenoir County farmers who have
Blue food stamps added approxi-
matelv $8,000,000 worth of farm pro
ducts to the diets of 3,300,000 pereons
eligible to receive public assistance
during November.
tS.Sy“«
demonstration
Most of the hens in farm demon
stration Hocks on which records are
Thanks, HOOVER ADAMS, for the
nice editorial in THE DUNN DIS
PATCH of Jan. 13th, and the compli
mentary reference to The Maindrag
“THE JOHNSTONIAN-SUN,” says'
HOOVER, “carries a coverage of the
hews in Selma and Johnston County,
with plenty of interesting _and_ lively
features, outstanding of which is MR.
LOWRY’S ‘Maindrag.’ which is usu
ally read first by subscribers who ea
gerly grab the paper” — “it is need
less'to laud MR. STANCIL,” contin
ues HOOVER, “who many years ago
attained a place of prominence among
North Carolina’s weekly newspaper
publishers, and as a civic leader and
an inHnential leader of his communi
ty”—“the same can be said of MR.
LOWRY,” the Editor of The Dispatch
I continued, “who has been dishing out
the news for all these years. He s
knows in newsrooms from one end of
the State to the other and has a rec
ord for which he may be justly proud
—again we thank you, HOO'Vl.R
drop in at the “weave room” in Sel
ma and take a look at the beautiful
things the ladies are now turning out
—we were shown through this inter
esting place yesterday by MISS MAR
GARET WILKINS, who took a spe
cial course in wea-ving at the Arts and
Craft Project in Durham—we were
shown towels, napkins, bedspreads, ta
blecloths, drapery, in all designs and
colors-JMRS. MAGGIE CHAMBI.EE,
overseer, says they are now \\mrking
on a big order for the Durham County-
Welfare Department—that blackout
in Selma went over 100 per cent on
last Monday night and we
now, to congratulate R. A. JONES,
Chief Air Raid Warden—MR. JONES
put it across in a big way it was so
dark on the Maindrag you coutdnt
see your hand in front of your face-
in less than one minute after the
alarm sounded all lights in the city
had been extinguished — BILLIE
CREECH, son of MR. and MRS. BILL
CREECH, has a wonderful imagma-
tiontion-BILLIE was asked by ffis
teacher, MISS ELIZABETH WHIT-
AKKR, a few days ago to take a look
at a famous painting and then write
a paragraph as to what
the picture represented—BILLIE dia
it and it was a good job—wish we
here to reproduce it.
but
ren Edward Messer
2.
Clayton, Route | in the bed, reports
I S-wicegood.
being kept in Cumberland County are had room Johnston-
|l. B. Laws.
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