I The Johnstonian-Sun VOL. 25 SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942. Single Copy 5c NUMBER 27 Three Resistrations To Be Held Durins July Passenger Car Owners and Mo torcyclists To Register July 9-11 — Dealers and Distribu tors July 13-15 — Owners of Trucks, Pick-Ups and Trac tors July 16-18. There are three distinct registra tions to be conducted in connection with the coming registration for gas oline. Passenger Cars and Motorcycles. First, all owners of passenger cars and motorcycles "will register at one of the following five places on July 9th, 10th and 11th, from 9:00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m.. War Time: Smithfield—Old A.B.C. Store. Micro—At School. Four Oaks—At School. Clayton—At School. Princeton—At School. (Pocket registration cards are re quired of all applicants). Dealers and Distributors. The second registration will be that of dealers and distributors who will register at the local Rationing Board in Smithfield , from 9:00 51. b. until 5:00 p. m., on July 13th, 14th and 15th. Trucks, Pick-Ups, Tractors, Etc. The third registration is for those owning trucks, pick-ups, tractors, etc., and car owners tha t require more gasoline than is allotted on the so- called A cards; these will all register at the local Rationing Board in Smith- field, from 9:00 a. m., until 5:00 p. m., July 16th, 17th and 18th. (Truck owners in addition to having pocket registration cards must be able to furnish the following information: Miles driven during May, 1942, mil eage to be driven July, August, and September, 1942, and average miles per gallon.) These three registrations will en able every class of motor vehicle own er and distributor to get registered before the effective date of the com ing rationing of gasoline which is at 12:01 a. m., Wednesday, July 22, 1942. The local Rationing Board is asking all those who have not registered for canning sugar to please register be fore July 9th, or wait until July 25. 1,388 REGISTERED BY COUNTY DRAFT BOARDS TUESDAY Warehouse Association Elects Bill Blackman Former Selma Boy Among New Officers of The Association— Frank Skinner of Smithfield Is Made A Director. There were 1388 young men regis tered in Johnston County Tuesday between 18 and 20 years of age. In the district comprising Draft Board No. 1, with headquarters in Smithfield, there was a total regis tration of 6,88. In the district . comprising Draft Board No. 2, with headquarter's in Selma, there was a total registration of 700. There were six registration places in the Selma district as fol lows: The Transylvania County salvage organization promises to reach out to even the remotest parts in the ga thering of vital scrap materials, says Farm Agent J. A. Glazener. Seen and Heard Along THE MAINDRAG =^=By H. H. L. '■ BERNARD W. LEE, son of MR. and MRS. B. B. LEE, who is stationed at Keesler Field, Mississippi, writes the Maindrag scribe that he likes it fine do-wn in “Ole ‘Mississip’ ”—he is located near Biloxi, almost right on the Gulf of Mexico — the weather has been right warm, he says, — “there are about thirty boys from North Carolina, including Fred Wood, whom almost everybody in Selma knows, in the barracks with me,” he writes — before entering the service BERNARD held a position with DICK LEWIS — ERNEST WOMACK was seen Sunday wearing a brand new Panama hat — not quite so flashy as the last one ERNEST bought — “TEX” WILLIAMS, popular clerk at the News Stand at the Union Station, is in receipt of a letter from his father, CAPT. MACON GREY WIL LIAMS, “somewhere in the far east” — before entering the service CAPT. WILLIAMS was connected with the Social Security Board in Washington,* D. C. — his family recently moved to Selma from New Jersey and are occupying the residence recently .va cated by MR. R. A .JONES’ family — “SHORTY” STANCIL, linotyper for The Johnstonian-Sun, was among the 18-year-olds to register Tuesday — “SHORTY” says he’s ready to go when his Uncle Sam calls — that was some sermon preached by that inimit able character, A. K. EASON, at the Kiwanis meeting on last Thursday evening —■ and the jokes he pulled on that popular Baptist Parson, the REV. MR. CLEMMONS, wouldn’t do to repeat — the REV. has already said he would sue us if we dared put them in print —■ (but if you look carefully on another page you might find some of them) — our good friend, BILL GODWIN, who is training boys how* to fly at Bennettsville, S. C., spent the week end at home — he is missed on the Maindrag these days. Princeton 61 Selma 261 Micro Kenly 99 Corinth-Holder 83 Clayton 166 Draftees Are Allowed Fourteen-Day Furlough From now on drafted men sent to the amy from Johnston county and accepted will automatically get the privilege of a 14-day furlough before they begin actual training. The idea is to give the accepted selectees a chance to go back home and straighten out business and per sonal affairs. Heretofore, men have been called to report for examination and induction and have made all arangements to leave their jobs and homes without knowing for sure whether they would be accepted at the military point. Some have resigned jobs, disposed of automobiles and other property, only to find themselves rejected after a physical examination at the army camp. The new plan will eliminate any such embarrassments and inconven iences. As soon as a drafted man is accepted at Fort Bragg or wherever he is sent, he will be transferred to what is known as the enlisted reserve corps and granted a 14-day leave. The furlough, however is not com pulsory and a selectee may begin his training immediately if he wishes. The new plan of induction will be come effective with the July calls. Colored Men Leave Today For Ft. Bragg At a meeting of the Eastern Caro lina Warehouse Association, held in Kinston last week, N. G. Blackman, •Jr., of Wilson, a former Selma boy, was elected secretary-treasurer of the association. Frank L. Skinner of the Gold Leaf Warehouse in Smithfield, was elected one of the new directors of the as sociation. The session was highlighted by adoption of a resolution recommend ing to the sales committee of the United States Tobacco Association that the daily sales period be cut- from six to five hours, that each hour’s sales be limited to 360 baskets and that all piles be held to 400 pounds. The action was taken in an effort to alleviate conditions growing out of the labor shortage. A committee was authorized to work for an opening date for the Bright Belt not later than two weeks after the Border Belt opening. The association voted to allow each market to retain its current number of buyers. New Officers New officers chosen at the meeting included: Allie W. Fleming of Wilson, president; H .A. Easley of Rocky Mount, vice president; N. G. (Bill) Blackman, Jr., of Wilson, secretary and treasurer. Elected to the new board of direc tors were: B. B. Suggs of Greenville; Herman Laws, Kinston; W. E. Cobb, Rocky Mount; J. C. Eagles, Jr., Wil son; F. L. Skinner, Smithfield; L. R. Bell, Goldsboro; Garland Hodges, Washington, N. C.; J. C. Carlton, Farmville; H. I. Johnson, Tarboro, and W. H. Atkins, Robersonville. R. S. Witherington, Kinston, was retir ing .secretary-treasurer. .. ' The association retained the retir ing president, J. Roger Brooks of Kinston, as its member on the board of governors of the United States Tobacco Association, of which he is also president. Petition to Kill Home Agents^ Office Before Commissioners; Woodard Issues Statement Petiticoi Presented At Special Meeting Which Calls For The Elimination of Home Agent— Also Wants More Economy In Public Welfare Office. Ministerial Association To Meet July 6th The following colored men left to day (Thursday) at 2:30 for Fort Bragg, where they will be inducted in the army:, Willard Jones, Clayton, Rt. 2, John Ashley Hinnant, Selma, Rt. 1, Oliver White, Selma, Paul Edward Watson, Kenly, James Baker Wooten, Selma, Levi Goodson, Clayton, Rt. 2, Hughie Augusta Ford, Selma, Haywood Wild er, Clayton, Rt. 2, Thomas Godwin, Princeton, Wilbert Sanders, Clayton Rt. 1, Spence Jeffreys, Zebulon Rt. 2, Thomas Durham Jr. Selma. Willie Linwood Wilson, Clayton, Rt. 2, Ruvick Tomlinson, Clayton, Rt. 1, Wade Watson, Clayton, Oscar Junior O’Neal, Selma, Charles Rawlings, Princeton, Samuel McCallater, Selma Rt. 1, German Godwin, Middlesex, Rt. 1, Willie Cockley, Selma, Joseph Clin ton Barnes, Kenly, Rt. 2, Lonnie High, Kenly, Rt.. 2, Charlie Jackson Ed wards, Selmm Rt. 2, Chester Ray Spell, Princeton, Rt. 1, James Able Patrick, Micro, Levi Exum, Kenly Rt. 1, Rodney Whitley, Middlesex, Rt. 1. Harden Sanders, Clayton, Rt. 2, Levi Smith, Clayton, Ernest Pinch, Zebulon, Rt. 2, Charles PeiTy, Selma, and Hardy Lee Bass, Clayton, Rt. 1. Twins Are Born On Separate Days Twin girls were born on separate days to the wife of Charlie Hall, colored, who lives in the Grahamtown section of Johnston county, on last Wed nesday and Thursday. Bernice Hall was born Wednesday at high'noon and her twin-sister Vernice, was born at 9 o’clock Thursday morning. The monthly meeting of the John ston County Ministerial Association will meet with the Benson Grove Bap tist Church, Rev. H. M. Hall, Pastor, Monday morning, 10:00 o’clock, July 6, 1942. Benson Grove Baptist Church is located on Highway 50, about ten miles from. Benson, North Carolina, leading toward Garner. Our organization from its begin ning, we feel, has made worthy con tributions to help make cooperative the endeavors of the Christian Lea dership of the county. It merits, as we see it, a permanent place in our constructive efforts. Your presence and active support are needed by it. Therefore, you are cordially invited to be with us at the forthcoming as above indicated. PROGRAM 10:00 a. m. —■ Devotions, Rev. C. L. Gillespie, Smithfield, North Carolina. 10:20 a. m. — Business. 10:35 a. m. — Song Selections, Ministers 10:45 a. m. •— Message, “SIN”, Rev. W. H. Pair, Rt. 1, Clayton, North Carolina. 11:15 a. m. — Benediction. The North Carolina Highway Com mission maintains a total of 60,100 miles of state and county roads and 18,000 bridges. At a special session of the county board of commissioners, held last Monday, to study the new county budget, they had laid before them a petition, which had been signed by several hundred Johnston county tax payers. . The petition was presented by a delegation of citizens headed by James A. Wellons, Smitlifield lawyer. In brief, the petition provided for: 1. A substantial reduction in the appropriation for the county 'welfare department. 2. The elimination of all appropria tions for the office of home demon stration agent. 3. A careful scrutinization of re quests of the county health depart ment and other departments. The Petition “1. We are not unmindful of the fact that a few years ago we had a great depression. However, those dark days have passed and the conditions prevailing in this county today are such that almost any person worth his salt can secure a job paying suf ficient wages to amply provide for his and his family’s needs. “2. In our opinion, thegenerosity of the welfare department has been abused in too many cases by lazy and unworthy people, both white and colored, who have sought public re lief when in truth and in fact they could have provided for their own support. We have observed specific cases where those on relief have re fused employment and given as their reason that it was not ncessary for them to work because the government was feeding them. “3. We recognize the difficulties which face your Honorable Board be cause we know that you are called on each year to increase your appro priations, and of course, money must be provided to meet these requests. However, it appears to us that it is a dangerous thing for our county government to undertake to match appropriations by the state and feder al governments as we understand is the practice in practically all the counties now. If we follow this course, the time will soon come when the overburdened taxpayers will no long er be able to carry the load. If the money is not really needed, why make appropriations just because some other governmental agency does? The commissioners Monday took no final action on the petition, but did pass an order requesting Welfare Superintendent W. T. Woodard, Jr., to submit a list of persons receiving surplus commodities to the board for close study by the commissioners. AYDEN LASSITER NAMED RATIONING OFFICE MANAGER The county rationing board has ap pointed Ayden Lassiter of Wilson’s Mills as full-time manager of the ra tioning office. His salary, paid by the Federal government, will be $1,800 a year. The appointment was confirmed Monday by J. Robert Barbour, local secretary of the Civil Service Com mission. Lassiter started work Mon day morning. While Lassiter will be in charge of the rationing office from now on, Mrs. Roy Johnson, who has been serving as executive secretary of the ration ing board, will continue on the staff as first assistant office manager. Others on the office staff include Miss Vivian Hooks, Mrs. Walter G. Lassiter and Mrs. Geneva Graves. All these workers are paid by the federal government. Besides the regular staff, WPA workers will continue to assist with the rationing work. Welfare Superiintendent W. T. Woodard, Jr., Gives Summary of Welfare Activities In John ston County — Enumerates Many Duties Involved In Wel> fare Work. 45 Paratroopers Will Thrill Large Crowd At Dunn “V” Celebration Spotted Fever Frances Brannan, four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brannan, Jr., who live on the James Earp farm, near Thanksgiving- church, is con valescing from Rocky Moun tain spotted fever. This is a rare condition and somewhat of a medical curiosity. Only five cases have been reported in this county during the past several years, all occuring be tween the ages of four and seventeen years. All recover ed. Doctors of This County Joining Armed Forces War Bond sales must be doubled. Are you budgeting your household money to buy War Stamps every week? Dr. W. H. Lassiter, of Selma, has been commissioned as first lieuten ant in the army and directed to re port for duty at Camp Davis on July 10. Dr. Lassiter volunteered his serv ices to his country, after relinquish ing a good practice as a medical doc tor in Selma and community. Shortly after setting up an office for the practice of medicine in Selma, fol lowing the death of Dr. G. D. Vick, Dr. Lassiter was appointed County Health doctor, which position he gave up some time ago in order to resume private practice here. Dr. T. G. Upchurch, Dr. Watson Wharton, Dr. Bunn, and Dr. J. C. Stancil, of Smithfield; Dr. C. C. Sox, of Kenly, and Dr. Donnie H. Jones, Jr., of Micro, and Dr. Landis Bro-wn, formerly of Selma, have been in the service for some time. Dr. Jones was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the medical corps reserve of the United States army following graduation from the Uni versity of Virginia School of Medi cine on June 15. Dr. Jones will serve his interneship at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, un til called to active duty with the army. Dr. V. A. Davidian, of Smithfield, was host to the doctors of Johnston county Wednesday night at his home at Holt Lake in honor of the doctors who have been called into the service. Dr. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Brown, formerly of Selma, now of Smithfield, holds a commission with the U. S. Navy and is stationed at South^|“vt, where he is in charge of a Navy hospital. Dr. Stancil, son Dunn, July 1.—The biggest para chute demonstration ever staged off a military reservation will take place here on Friday afternoon, July 3 as a feature of Dunn’s Victory Celebra tion. 45 dare-devils of the sky will bail out of four-huge bombers in a beauti ful and colorful spectacle never before witnessed in public. A half dozen parachutes carrying guns and equipment will also be thrown from the bombers and the minute the paratroopers hit the ground a mock battle with blank am munition will get underway. The paratroopers will 'work out a technical military problem and will take the guns thrown from the planes and start firing at an imagin ary enemy. This demonstration wilt take place at 6 p. m. two miles east of Dunn on the Jonesboro road on the farm own ed by Walter Adams, just beyond the Harnett County Training School. This event will be the most spec tacular of the many events to be staged in honor of General William C. Lee, Dunn native who is chief of Airborne Command. The parachute jump alone is ex pected to draw a crowd of 15,000 people to Dunn. More than a dozen highway patrol men, local and county officers, sol diers and members of Dunn’s State Guard unit will be on guard to handle traffic and keep the jumping field clear during the demonstration. Spectators will witness the demon stration from the highway. The view is clear for miles and the spectacle can be seen from a long distance. A group of Ft. Bragg officers and members of Gen. Lee’s Staff have been in Dunn making plans and map ping out details for the jump. Officers here were: Major H. P. Harris of the Airborne Command, Lt. H. T. Mitchell of the 503rd para chute infantry. Major R. H. Betts of the public relations office, Capt. Ed ward G. Krause of the 503rd para chute infantry, and Capt. A. J. Martin of post headquarters at Ft. Bragg. In addition to the paratroopers who jump, a crew will be on. the ground when they land. Among the boys who will jump is a Dunn man, L. C. Blackburn, Jr., who has been in the parachute divi sion for several months. He was re cently transferred from Ft. Benning to Ft. Bragg. Gen. Lee himself will witness the jump of his men. A large number of officers 'will be among those jumping. In the morning at 10:30 o’clock, the famous paratroop division will be on parade for the third time in America. The paratroopers have pareded only twice before, in Washington and New York. Dunn will be the third city to witness them on parade. The parachute demonstration here is not only receiving State publicity but nation-wide publicity and will be the most sensational thing of its type ever presented in this section of the State. In reply to the petition presented to the County Commissioners on Mon day, June 29th, it seems that in all fairness to the departments and agencies involved that some facts should be made public which were not mentioned in the petition and which might help clarify some misconcep tions which may have been had by the petitioners, or which the petition may have created. The Welfare De partment welcomes this opportunity to present some pertinent facts about itself in hopes that they may enable the general public to better under stand its many activities and its ef forts to handle the relief problems fairly and impartially. At the present time approximately 650 needy Johnston county citizens 65 years of age or older are receiving Old Age Assistance grants. Each per son receives an average grant of about $8.50. The annual appropriation for the needy aged in this county is $68,250.00. Johnston County puts up one-fourth of this amount, the State Government one-fourth, and the Fed eral Government one-half. In the Aid to Dependent Children program the county has approximate ly 190 families with about 425 chil dren receiving grants. The grants are made to mothers who have dependent children under the age of 16, or 18 if they are in school, whose fathers are dead or separated from the mother, or physically or mentally incapacitat ed. In a few instances the grants have been made to the father if he were physically incapacitated and could provide no means of support for his children. The county now has an ap propriation of $31,920 a year for those dependent children and this ap propriation is shared in like the Old Age Assistance appropriation. The average grant for each family is $14, but the size of the grant for each family is determined by the number of children in the home, and by the particular needs of the family. The county has 33 blind or near- blind citizens who receive Aid to the Blind grants. The annual appropria tion provisions are made for the ser vices of a blind case worker whq works with the Aid to the Blind cases four days out of each month, and whenever feasible, she teaches them Brain, jobs which they can learn to do without the use of their eyes, and renders any other services which she can to these handicapped people. The Welfare Department supervis es about 35 parolees from the state prison and prison camps. These pa rolees are required to make monthly reports to their case workers. Crip pled children from all parts of the county are taken to the crippled clin ic in Goldsboro once a month by work ers in the Welfare and Health De partments. Those crippled children who are admitted to the Orthopedic Hospital in Gastonia are first approv ed as needy cases by the Welfare De partment before they are admitted, and quite frequently this department must make some arrangements for their transportation to and from the hospital. Every child under 18 years of age who secures employment at any type of work other than that to which the Labor Department makes exceptions, must apply for a work permit at the Welfare Office. The ap- (Continued on page four) Court House To Be Closed Monday The County court house will be closed on Monday, July 6th, in ob servance of the Fourth of July, and the County Commissioners will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, July 7th, instead of Monday. A Large Egg Mr. H. D. Benson, who works for Local Plumber Catches Large Chub Glenn Vause, local plumber, caught of Mrs J C 1 Town of Selma, presented The 1 a chub in the old Atkinson Mill pond f ij J 1. ' 1 Johnstonian-Sun management with a 1 last Saturday which weighed five and Stancil of Smithfield and nephew of Monday that measures six one-quarter pounds. Vause is not only Editor M. L. Stancil, of Selma, is inches around and is almost three 1 a good plumber, hut seems to he with a hospital in the Canal Zone. rinci.l^s long. ^ . Iplumh good fisherman as well. i - 3*1'. i-X/

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