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VOL. 25
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER 21.
Don’t Turn Them Down
Judge Brooks Tells of
Conversions In Prison
Thinks Newspapers of County
Would Render a Worthwhile
Service by Furaishing A Few
Free Copies Each Week For
Benefit of Prisoners.
Johnston County Author |
Writes Her First Book
The above young ladies will call on you Saturday offering Pop
pies for sale. Back row: Misses Mary Louise Jeffreys, Frances
Branch, Dorothy Jean Creech, Myrtle Thompson, and Nell Ful-
ghum. Front row: Joyce Ann Henry, Betty Booker and Imo-
jean Henry.
Saturday Is Poppy Day
In Selma—Buy One I
America’s battle dead will be hon-
' bred here Saturday by the wearing of
poppies, the memorial flower of the
English-speaking world since the first
World War.
Poppies will be distributed on .the
streets by women of the American
Legion Auxiliary, who will at the
same time receive contributions for
the Legion and Auxiliary work among'
the war disabled and families left in
need by the results of war.
The custom of wearing poppies in
tribute to the dead sprang up sponta
neously in the United States, Eng
land and the British Dominions at the
close of the last war.
The custom was inspired by the po
em, “Flanders’ Fields”, which con-
- tains the lines:
“In Flanders’ Fields thejoppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row ”
Poppies were first worn in America
in New York City on November 10,
1918, the day before the Armistice.
They were adopted as the official me
morial flower of The American Le
gion in 1920, and one of the first acts
of the American Legion Auxiliary
when it was organized in 1921 was to
name the poppy as its memorial flow
er.
Poppy Day is observed in the Unit
ed States on the Saturday before Me
morial Day, when more than 13,000,-
000 of the little red flowers are worn
by patriotic citizens. The poppies are
made of crepe paper by disabled war
veterans working in government hos
pitals and in poppy workrooms main
tained by the Auxiliary. More than
$1,000,000 is contributed annually to
the welfare of the war’s living vic
tims by the wearers of the poppy,^
• There are already 100 soldiers ^of
this war who are patients at Oteen
and the need is greater than it has
ever been for generosity on Poppy
Day.
COTTON FESTIVAL
FRIDAY NIGHT
Don’t forget the Cotton Festival at
the Gold Leaf Warehouse in Smith-
field, Friday night. May 22. This fes
tival is being sponsored by the Smith-
field Kiwanis club. Arrangements
are being made at the warehouse for
ample accommodations for the large
crowd expected, and besides bmng an
interesting and profitable occasion, a
good time is in store for all who at
tend.
The main feature of the Cotton
Show will be a dress parade, and this
in itself will be well worth seeing;
but in addition there will be a Baby
Contest in which a number of entries
have already been made; also a Dog
Show, with several entries already on
the calendar.
There will be no admission charge
to the contests, and merchants are
permitted to enter a sponsor in the
Fashion Show without charge. All
profits derived from door receipts
will be used by the Smithfield Ki
wanis club for some worthwhile locaT
cause, such of aid to the underprivi
leged child, etc.
Selma Firm Offers
$25 Defense Bond Free
I have been going to the Johnston
County Prison Camp for nearly a
year holding religious services bi
monthly, and have been visiting tfie
prison camp since its first setablish-
ment by Smithfield Township Road
Commissioners. I learned yesterday
afternoon that the Hospital Ward
has been fitted up a little and used
for a reading room, and a room where
the prisoners hold prayer-meeting
each Wednesday and Saturday nights.
It started off with eleven, and last
Saturday night had 32 in attendance.
Paul Massengill and Herman Pender-
graff are the two leaders of the meet
ings. After Rev. B. H. Houston had
preached a fine sermon to the crowd
of forty or more who had gathered in
the dining hall, I called on these two
men to come forward and tell some
thing of their experience with the
prayer-meeting. Herman came first
and said that there had been a great
change come into his life; that he had
accepted Jesus Christ since he has
been in prison and was doing all he
could to induce others to accept
Christ as their Saviour, and was
ready when released to do all he could
■to further the cause of Christ—even
to preach, if the Lord led him to do
so; that he was happy and not ashem-
ed of Christ.
Mr. Massengill made a brief state-
men, saying that he thanked 'God for
the salvation that had come to him
since his imprisonment, and that he
was happy in Jesus, and doing what
he could in the prayer-meetings and
elsewhere.
While there with these men, the
thought came to me that it would be
a fine thing if the newspapers of our
county would send two or three copies
each of their papers to the Johnston
County Prison Camp, Route 2, Smith-
field, N. C., for their reading room
where the 'ifiSh from our county and
elsewhere, imprisoned there, might
read and keep up with the news on
the outside. This would not cost very
much, and I believe the prisoners
would sincerely appreciate this cour
tesy. “I was imprisoned, and you
visited me”, spoken by our Saviour
to Ye Printers might some day be
welcome words. Knowing my friends
of the above newspapers as I do, I
believe it is only necessary to mention
the matter for the suggestion to be
readily acted on. Let me hear from
you.
With best wishes and kind regards,
I am.
Yours very sincerely,
. F. H. BROOKS.
Selma Native Writes of Early'
Indian Folklore — Dedicates
New Book to Her Father, The
Late Thomas Rulfin Fulghum.
Johnston Pioneer.
“I Take This Squaw” is the title of
a new book just off the press. The
author is Rosa Fulghum Biggs, of
Fayetteville. Mrs. Biggs, a native of
Johnston county, is a sister of our
townsman, Charles B. Fulghum.
The story of Betty She-horn has
been told and re-told in that part of
North Carolina of which Mrs. Biggs
writes and where she herself was
born. It has its basis in an early
American legend about a well-to-do
and popular plantation owner of
Johnston county, who frequently trad
ed with a nearby Indian tribe.
On one of his visits to the Indian
country, he witnesses the annual cer
emonial dance, during which the In
dian maidens choose braves to be
their husbands.
The daughter of the Chief is at
tracted by the debonair white man
and picks him to be her mate. When
he objects, her father gets out his
tomahawk and is ready to kill him on
the spot. Life is too sweet to end so
suddenly, and the white man takes
the squaw home with him, .to the
amusement of the entire county and
the chagrin of his respectable moth
er and his wife.
The author paints a colorful pic
ture of .the plantation life of the old
South; of the doings in the Big House,
with its air of luxury and leisure; and
of the Negro slaves in their humble
shacks, with their strange ideas of
God and the devil.
The book is dedicated to the au
thor’s father, the late Thomas Ruffin
Fulghum, father of Charles B. Ful
ghum, of Selma. It is the first book
she has written for publication.
Rationing Boards Say
Duties Are Increasing
STORES CLOSE EACH
WEDNESDAY P. M.
Selma Newspaperman
Winston-Salem Visitor
H. H. Lowry, a member of the s.taff
of The Johnstonian-Sun at Selma,
passed through Winston-Salem today
en route to his home from Mount
Airy, where he spent Mo.ther’s Day
■with his mother, Mrs. T. J. Lowry.
Mrs. Lo-wry, the widow of the
founder of the Mount Airy News and
editor of that publication for 45
years, is the mo.ther of eight children.
All but one daughter were there for
a reunion- yesterday.
H. H. Lowry was in the advertising
department of The Journal early in
the present century. He has been at
Selma for the past 12 years. Prior to
that he was with a newspaper at
'Newton.—Winston-Salem Daily Sen
tinel, May ll.th.
Messrs. Floyd C. Price & Son are
going to give a $25 Defense Bond ab
solutely FREE to the person who
brings in a bill of sale for the most
poundage hf scrap metal sold to any
junk (fealer between May 23 and May
31st.
The war industries need the scrap
metal that is piled on your farm in
order^ to continue to make bombs,
tanks, battleships, and bullets. Your
Government has asked that it be
made available now. Won’t you do
your part by collecting every bit of
junk metal on your farm? Bring it
with you the next time you come to
town. Remember you get a $26 De
fense Bond free if you turn in the
largest amount of scrap. Take or
send it to some junk dealer and get
awreceipt from him showing the
weight of your scrap.
Prominent Farmer Dies
At Home Near Micro
Belvin Strickland
Gets Army Promotion
Belvin Striakland, son of Mr. Jesse
B. Strickland of Selma, is now a 5th
Technician in the Headquarters Com
pany of the 813th Tank Destroyer
, Battalion, located in Fort Bragg. Due
'to his efficiency as Morning Report
Clerk for this Battalion, 6th Tech
Strickland is held in h'/gh regard by
, both the Officers and enlisted person
nel he comes in contact with daily,
-reports Jerome A. Kliman, 2nd Lieut.;
813th T. D. Bn., Personnel Adjutant.
Jonah Pittman, 60, prominent far
mer of Selma, Route 2, died at his
home one mile south of Micro, at 2:30
Thursday afternoon after an illness
of three weeks.
Funeral services were held from
the home Friday afternoon at 3
o’clock, conducted by Elder Turner of
Wilson. Burial took place in the fam
ily burying ground near Micro.
Both the funeral and burial service
were largely, attended.
.Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Ellen Phillips; three sons, Ar
nold, Willard and Billy, of Route 2,
Selma; two daughters. Misses Velma
and Ruth Pittman, of the home; four
brothers, Jasper Pittman, Julian Pitt
man, Jimmie Pittman and 'George
Pittman, all of Selma, Route 2; four
sisters, Mrs. William Henry Creech,
Mrs. James Turner Creech and Mrs.
Claude Smith, all of Selma, Route 2;
and Mrs. J. W. Thorne, of Selma, Rt.
Do you want a $25 War Bond free
See Floyd C. Price & Son, Selma.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are only too
glad to follow up Judge Brooks’ sug
gestion, and are placing the Johnston
County Prison Camp on our mailing
list to receive three copies of The
Johnstonian-Sun each week.
Smithfield Man Believed
To Be Prisoner of Japs
Norman Shepard Named
State OPA Attorney
Norman Shepa»l, Smithfield attor
ney and member of the law firm of
Abell and Shepard, has been appoint
ed as state 'attorney for the Office
of Price Admi-nistration. Mr. Shepard
plans to take up his new duties in
Raleigh immediately. For the present
he plans to retain Smithfield as his
home and will not move to Raleigh
unless the gas and tire shortage
makes it necessary to do so.
Following Mr. Shepard’s appoint
ment it was announced that Judge
Larry Wood of Benson had been ad
mitted as a member of the Smithfield
law firm, which will be known as
Abell, Shepard and Wood. I.t is un
derstood that Judge Wood plans to
move to Smithfield at an early date,
but will not resign as Judge of the
Counity Recorder’s court; however,
the firm will not practice in record
er’s court while Judge 'Wood is on
the bench.
The first news from Norwood
Stancil, son of Mrs. J. C. Stancil of
Smithfield, since the bombing of Pearl
Harbor, was received by Mrs. Stancil
a few days ago in the form of a let-
.ter. Norwood has been employed by
an American tobacco firm in Shang
hai, China, for the past several years,
and was in Shanghai when the Japs
first bombed that city, and actually
bombed the hotel where Norwood
was lodging, but he happened not to
be in the hotel at the time.
Since the Japs first overran Shang-
hia, much of young Staneil’s duties
had to do with guarding American
property to prevent sabotage, etc.
No news having been received
by his people in Smithfield since act
ual war with Japan broke, they had
concluded that he must be dead or a
prisoner of war, and the latter now
appears to be .the case. Norwood
wrote that arrangements had been
made to exchange some American
prisoners for Japanese prisoners held
by the United States, and that he
would probably be home about Sep
tember.
Beginning yesterday (Wednesday)
the, stores of Selma will close each
Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock,
through August 15th. This is done in
order to give their clerks, as well as
the owners themselves, a half holiday
during the hot months. On page three
of this week’s Johnstonian-Sun will
be found a page advertisement sign
ed by a number of our business men
thanking their customers for the lib
eral patronage given them in the
past and soliciting their future busi
ness. Firms and individuals greeting
you are:
J. E. Gregory & Company, Vanity
Fair Beauty Shoppe, George N. Siler,
Pay & Save Market, by H. W. Ever-
itt. Peoples’ Grocery & Market, City
Barber Shop, by N. V. Smith, Henry
& Nordan, Coley & Sons, (Carolina
Beauty Nook, Smith & Cameron, Sel
ma Clothing & Shoe Company, J. C.
Avery, L'. George Grocery, Walt God
win, Selma Cash Feed & Grocery, by
G. C. Hinton, W. E. Parker & Son,
A. L. Langley, Proctor’s Store, by
B. F. Proctor, Branch Banking &
Trust Company, by Raleigh Griffin,
Economy Furniture Company, by Hub
Brown, Floyd C. Price & Son, Wood
ruff & Canady, Wiggs Grocery, Yel-
verton’s Grocery, City Shoe Shop, by
A. L. Bradley.
New Quarters Have Been Given
And Additional Clerical Help
In An Effort To Improve The
Efficiency Of The Board’s
Rapidly Expanding Adminis
trative Work.
Government Asking For
$42 Pay For Soldiers
Selma Woman^s Brother
Dies Near Smithfield
James J. Duncan Hamilton, 83, died
at his home near Smithfield at 3:20
o’clock Wednesday morning following
a heart attack. He was .the son of the
late B. B. and Nancy Hamilton.
Funeral services will be conducted
this (Thursday) afternoon at 4 o’clock
from the Smithfield Primitive Bap
tist church with Elder Shepherd Ste
phenson in charge. Burial will take
place in Riverside Cemetery.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
'George Morgan, of Selma, and Nancy
Hamilton; two brothers, R. L. Hamil
ton, of Oxford, and D. S. Hamilton,
of Smithfield.
Big Sing At Benson
Cancelled This Year
Benson.—Add another victim of
the tire and gasoline shortage—the
annual state-wide song festival that
usually held here the fourth Sun
day in June.
L. L. Levinson, president of the
festival, announced i.t would be sus
pended for the duration because many
of the singers live hundreds of miles
away and would be unable to get
here.
“We feel that it is our patriotic
duty to conserve gasoline and to co
operate ■with the government in con
serving transportation facilities,” he
added’.
It is the first interruption of the
event since the singing festival was
I inaugurated in 1920.
KENLY MAN GUEST
SPEAKER TO KIWANIS
The principal speaker at the Selma
Kiwanis club on last Thursday even
ing was Attorney Jack Hooks of Ken-
ly, who was introduced by Kiwanian
William I. Godwin. The. program was
in charge of Kiwanian J. V. Chamblee
of the local Water and Light Depart
ment.
The- speaker’s remarks were filled
with timely thoughts on the present
plight of world affairs, calling atten
tion to the new order which seems to
be enveloping .the world as a result
of World War II. His remarks were
well received by all present.
President Bill Thad Woodard and
the Rev. D. M. Clemmons were elect
ed delegates, and 'Vice-president How
ard Gaskill and William I. Godwin al
ternates to the International Kiwanis
Convention, which meets in Cleveland,
Ohio, June 14-18.
Washington, May 19.—Congress
ional leaders were advised today that
the Administration favors the Sen
ate-approved $42 a month minimum
pay for Army and Navy enlisted men
over the House proposal of $50 a
month.
This word came as Representative
May (D) of Kentucky, chairman of
the House Military Affairs Commit-
•tee—anxious to “get those boys’ pay
to them”—declared himself ready to
tackle the conference battle on Army-
Navy pay increases as soon as possi
ble.
But just when the five Senate con
ferees would sit down with May and
his four House conference committee
members was uncertain.
May pointed out that the Senate
has the farm parity fight on its hands
and that leaders of the upper cham
ber needed time for the White House
and the budget bureau to check the
bill.
One authority estimated that the
$50 increase alone would add $150,-
000,000 to the first year’s increased
cost, pushing the additional amount
from all provisions in the bill to
about $445,000,000.
(Smithfield Herald)
Swamped by an avalanche of in
creasing activity, the county ration
ing board last week was given new
quarters in the courthouse and addi
tional clerical help in an effort to
improve the efficiency of the board’s
rapidly expanding administrative
work.
The board, which has .temporarily
been using an office in the Thornton
building, is now quartered on the sec
ond floor of the courthouse in the
grand jury room. Mrs. Roy Johnson,
secretary to the board, continues in
charge of the office.
A steady stream of applicants for
gasoline ration cards—motorists who
failed to register at the schools last
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday—
has kept the rationing board office
working overtime during .the past
several days.
Other visitors to the office have
been motorists who decided they
should exchange X cards or B cards
for lesser ratings. More than 100
cards have been turned in for ex
change here, Mrs. Johnson estimated.
It was pointed out Monday that
motorists with B-3 cards who are not
entitled .to X cards but who feel they
need more gas for business uses than
^ rating provides should make
application for a supplementary al
lotment to the rationing board on
forms printed for that purpose. A
great many traveling men fall into
this classification.
Another interesting sidelight on
the rationing program is the fact that
from 50 to 100 persons have volunta
rily turned in sugar ration books in
cases of duplication where a member
of a family had obtained books 'with
out knowing that another member of
the family had made application.
Rationing authorities here com
mended the “honesty and fine patri-
o.tic spirit” of Johnstonians gener
ally.
The rationing office Monday called
attention to the fact consumers who
failed to obtain sugar ration books
during the recent registration at the
schools could apply at the office here
for sugar books on or after May 21.
American Legion Aux.
Met Last Friday Night
Selma Unit No. 141 of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary met Friday
night at the Legion Building. During
the business session the following
were elected officers for .the ensuing
year:
President—Mrs. W. L. Etheridge;
Vice-President—Mrs. C. A. B'ailey;'
Secretary — Miss Mamie Bailey;
Treasurer—Miss Julia Grant; Ser
geant-At-Arms—Mrs. Hunter Price;
Chaplain—Mrs. Zeb Thompson; His
torian—Mrs. Ed Creech.
Plans for Poppy Day, May 23rd,
were discussed. The president an
nounced that the Annual Convention
of the American Legion and Auxiliary
would be held in Asheville June 20-23.
Miss Mamie Bailey had charge of
the program. She presented Dr. Wade
H. Atkinson, who gave a talk on his
recent Western trip, and also showed
moving pictures of the “Annual Ro
deo Festival” at Tucson, Arizona,
along with scenes of the Atkinson
Mill Farm. The hostesses, Mesdames
W. H. Creech, Herbert White and N.
A. Branch served punch and cookies.
Albert S. Eason Now
In Charge Waltz Court
Albert S. Eason, who for several
years conducted a cafe in Selma, has
leased Waltz Court one mile and a
half south of this city, and has taken
charge of same. Mr. Eason, after
selling his business in Selma, accept
ed a position in Newport News, Va.,
which he held for some time, resign
ing same to take charge of the new
filling station and cafe recently erect
ed by Walt Godwin.
AL ROWE GASKILL, who’s about
as popular- with the kiddies, as well
as the grown-ups of this town, as
MICKIE ROONEY is with the movie
fans, had a birthday a few days ago
—AL ROWE was six and his Mom
gave him a birthday party—but, in
speaking of birthdays, DONNIE
LEE BROADWELL also had a birth
day this week and what do you
think he got for a birthday present,
nothing but his questionnaire, and it
was his 21st birthday, too, the irony
of it—thanks to CAPTAIN W. H.
FIELDS for a lovely bunch of flow
ers—MRS. FIELDS had one of the
prettiest flower gardens this spring
we’ve seen anywhere—last week the
writer of this column spent a few
days with his 90-year-old mother in
Mt. Airy—on Mother’s Day our
brothgr-in-law, ROBT. W. AUS-
BURNE, of Bassett, Va., and his
aged mother, our mother and thia
scribe took a motor trip over the
Skyland Drive on the top of the Blue
Ridge Mountains and saw .the most
gorgeous display of azalias, dogwood,
honeysuckle and other mountain flow
ers it has ever been our privilege to
behold—we didn’t get to see pur old
friend, L. H. HILL, a former Selma
resident, on this trip—MR. HILL
conducts, a store on the side of the
mountain and is doing a nice busi
ness—Saturday is Poppy Day in Sel
ma and don’t fail to have your change
ready when the young ladies (whose
pictures appear on the first page of
this paper) call on you—buy a Poppy
and help care for the boys who fought
in .the first World War and who are
confined in hospitals—these wounded
men made these little flowers and
every man, woman and child should
have one pinned on his or her coat on
next Saturday—don’t fail them—news
from the bedside of ALTON STAN
CIL, son of the Editor of this paper,
who has been ill for the past week,
is very encouraging, his many friends
will be glad to learn—ALTON has
been a very sick boy—MISS LUCY
On anoither page of this paper Mr.
Eason invites his friends and former I STANCIL, one of the Hello girls in
customers to visit him at his new 1 the Central Telephone Office here, and
place of business. Read the advertise-la sister of ALTON, and their mother,
ment and when you want a good din-1 MRS. STANCIL, are also on the sick
W. T. Woodard will have charge ©finer or a plate of barbecue, Albert Ynllllist, their host of friends will regret
Ithe program tonight (Thursday). Ibe glad to serve you. (to learn. ^ ^ •-
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