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The Johnstonian-Sun
AUGUST 27, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER
These pictures just released by the army air forces, show the first of
the new 15-place troop-carrying gliders, the CG-4A, now in quantity pro
duction. The glider can carry 15 fully equipped men, including pilot and
co-pilot. It has a wing span of 83 feet, 8 inches, and a length of 48 feet,
3 inches. At the top we get a good idea of the glider’s size by comparing
it with the size of the men. Below is an interior view showing pilot and
co-pilot at the controls.
Brins Vour Junk To
Selma Friday/Sept. 4
That Is the Day On Which Every Citizen of The
Community Is Called Upon to Scour the Entire
Premises For Scrap Material To Aid the War
Program — Don’t Be A Slacker.
Many of Our Sons Are On The
War Fronts and Uncle Sam
Is Pleading With Us To Back
Them Up by Salvaging Scrap
Materials To Make Guns and
Shells For Them To Use.
The drive for scrap iron, rub
ber, rags and other much needed
war material will reach its cli
max in Selma on Friday, Sep
tember 4th, when every possible
elfort will be made to round up
these materials in this locality.
We have been only playing at
this job so far, but the time has
come for real action on the part
of every citizen in this surround
ing community.
With mills and war officials daily
reminding us of the need for these
materials in order .to win the biggest
war the world has ever known, there
is no more time for delay.
Whether you are a man, woman, a
boy or a girl, there is a task for you
to do. Hundreds of our own brave
boys are now in the Army doing their
bit to maintain our American way of
life, and there is no task too great
for us to perform in order that they
may win the war and come back to
our firesides again. If you have these
surplus war materials and fail to co
operate in seeing that they are put
to the proper use for war production,
you are just as much a slacker as the
man who deserts the Army. There
fore, let it not be said that there are
any slackers in Johnston county. To
do so, we would prove untrue to our
own brave sons.
Friday, September 4th, is Junk
Rally Day for Selma and community,
and we want to make it a Red Letter
Day in this Salvage Campaign. We
can do it if everybody will rally to
the cause and make a diligent search
of his or her premises for scrap ma
terials. Don’t put this matter off for
some future day, thinking that there
is still “plenty of time’’ to do the
job—it’s too late to shut the stable
door after the horse is out and gone.
So act now, and through Rally Day,
September 4th.
Those having scrap materials who
do not live in Selma are asked to
take them to the va/«ant lot just east
of the Johnstonian-Sun office. If you
want further details, communicate
with M. L. Stancil at the office of The
Johnstonian-Sun, who is chairman of
the local Salvage Committee.
If you live in Selma and have no
way of getting your scrap to the
proper place, see or phone M. L. Stan
cil at 205, and arrangements will be
made to pick up your scrap by town
truck. Mayor Henry has given assur
ance that the town truck will be at
the disposal of the Salvage Commit
tee on September 4th, so get your
scrap ready at some convenient pla^e
about your home or place of business.
If certain items prove to be too heavy
for you to handle, all you have to do
is to let us know where they may be
found and arrangements will be made
to move them.
Every time a 16-inch gun is fired,
one bale of cotton goes up in smoke;
the amount of alcohol to fire one of
these guns requires .the output of one
acre of sug’ar cane. This is taking
lots of cotton and sugar cane, but
before the guns can be fired, we must
first make the guns and shells; be
fore we can make the guns and shells
we must have more metal; before
more metal is available for war pro
duction, more scrap mus.t be salvag
ed. This places the burden of the war
at the door of every man, woman and
child in America. Let us now assume
that responsibility as true Americans.
Don’t let Uncle Sam down. For the
sake of our own household and for
the sake and safety of our sons at
the front—DON’T DO IT!
Firms sponsoring this Rally will be
found in an advertisement appearing
on page two.
Annual Smith Reunion
Held On August 23rd
Relatives and friends of the Smith,
Peacock, Johnson, and Hood families
met once again on Sunday. August
23, in the grove at Peacock’s Cross
Roads in celebration of their 14th
annual reunion.
The Rev. J. P. Smith of Smithfield,
opened the celebration with prayer.
A welcome was given by R. F. Smith
of Benson. Lawyer F. T. Dupree of
Angier introduced the speaker, the
Rev. J. J. Gray, of Raleigh.
A bountiful dinner was enjoyed by
all. Mrs. Dora Kirkman of Smith-
field, who is 87 years old, related
some of her interesting Civil War
experienaes.
President Joe Overby was re-elect
ed, and Myrtle Sue Smith was elected
secretary of "the organization.
Draft Boards Send
54 Negroes To Bragg
Selma Board Sends 29 Men and
Smithfield Board Sends 25 For
Physical Examination — Two
Weeks Furlough Allowed.
The two draft boards in Johnston,
county sent 54 Negro men .to Fort
Bragg last Saturday for physical ex
amination. They will be allowed two
weeks furlough before returning to
camp for service if they passed the
physical test.
Selma Draft Board
Those sent by Draft Board No. 2 at
Selma were:
Sam Buster Pace, Rt. 2, Zebulon;
John Ashley Hinnant, Rt. 1, Selma;
Joe Williams, Selma; James Henry
Godwin, Selma; Madison Wilbur Wat
son, Clayton; Lester Yates, Rt. 2
Clayton; Robert Ernest Edwards, Rt.
2, Selma;
Garland Addison Watson, Clayton;
Otis Fuller, Rt. 2, Kenly; William
Otis Jones, Selma; Fletcher Williams,
Pine Level; Willie Herring, Rt. 2,
Kenly; Henry Charles Delaine, Jr/,
Rt. 1, Clayton; James Arthur Wil
liams, Clayton; Willie Arthur Pette-
way, Selma; Early Pace, R. 1, Zebur
Ion; Samuel Blue, Clayton;
James Ira Vinson, Clayton; Irish
Deloris Powell, Selma; Charles Rich-'
ardson, Rt. 1, Zebulon; George Ed
ward Stevens, Rt. 2, Smithfield; J. B...
Watson, Rt. 2, Clayton; Lester
Wright Neal, Rt. 1, Middlesex; John
Wallace Moore, Rt. 1, Clayton; Dock
Everett Scarboro, Rt. 1, Middlesex;
James Matthew Williams, Rt. 1, Zeb
ulon; Robert Oneal, Selma.
Draft Board No. 1
Those sent from Smithfield by
Draft Board No. 1 were:
Neb Junior Perry, Smithfield; Lou
is Darden, Four Oaks, Rt. 2; William
Richmond Bell, Smithfield; James Mc-
Cullers, Fuquay Springs; David Wil
liams, Four Oaks, Rt. 1; Roscoe Boy
kin, Smithfield; Romie Avery, Jr.,
Smithfield; Edward Watson, Rt. 2,,
Smithfield;
Bobie Augustus Williams, Rt. 1,
Four Oaks; Booker Green, Benson;
Nathaniel Sanders, Rt. 1, Smithfield;
Roscoe Avery, Rt. 1, Angier; John
Irving Baines, Smithfield; Willie Silas
Dublin, Rt., 1, Smithfield; Samuel
Baggett, Rt. 1, Garner; Carl JuniouS
Dublin, Rt. 1, Clayton;
James Williams, Rt. 1, Four Oaks;
Eliston Frierson, Jr., Smithfield;
James Elec Sanders, Rt. 1, Smithfield;
Jesse Bristol Sanders, Smithfield;
Cortelyou Quinton Campbell, Rt. 2,
Clayton; Leon Jones, Hyman, S. C'.;
Samuel Neil Barnes, Smithfield; Sam
uel'Merritt, Smithfield; Johnnie Bos
tick, Smithfield.
HALF BROTHER OF
W. H. POOL DIES
Funeral services for George Ed
ward Pool, 67, who died in Rex Hos
pital, Raleigh, Sunday afternoon at
2 o’alock, were held at Oakland Pres
byterian church in Johnston county
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock, con
ducted by the Rev. J. F. Menius, pas
tor of the First Vanguard Presbyte
rian church in Raleigh. Burial took
place in the church cemetery.
The body lay in state at the Brown
Funeral Home in Raleigh until taken
to the Pool home at 806 West Peace
Street in Raleigh where it remained
until taken .to Oakland church Tues
day afternoon.
Surviving are three daughters, Ma
ry Jones Pool, Sarah B. Pool, and
Bertha L. Pool; a son, Thomas E.
Pool; two sisters, Mrs. B. R. Wise,
of Pour Oaks, and Mrs. J. B. Harri
son of Clayton, Route 1; and a half-
brother, W. H. Pool of Selma.
Rev. T. H. King To
Preach Here Sunday
The Rev. T. H. King, of Wake For
est, a former pastor of the Selma
Baptist church, will preach at the lo
cal Baptist church next Sunday morn
ing at 11 o’clock. There will be no
evening service.
The Rev. D. M. Clemmons and fam
ily are spending the week near Fay-
ville where Mr. Clemmons is conduct
ing a series of services which will con
tinue through Sunday.
Estimates Tobacco Crop
In County at $8,000,000
To Honor Selma Man
On His 90th Birthday
The Ladies’ Aid of Selma Free
Will Baptist Church will sponsor a
picnic supper on the church lawn on
Tuesday evening, September 1st, at
7:30 o’clock, in honor of the 90th
birthday of the Rev. J. H. Worley of
Selma. This is an annual picnic sup
per given in his honor each year. His
many friends are in'vited to come and
bring well filled baskets. A special
invitation is extended to all ministers.
County Agent M. A. Morgan esti
mates Johnston County’s tobacco
crop this year will bring $8,000,000.
Mr. Morgan bases his figures on the
fact .that there will be produced in
Johnston county this year 23,000,000
pounds of tobacco.
The county, which ranks as the
second largest tobacco county in the
United States, planted 27,000 acres
in tobacco and the indicated yield per
acre is 850 pounds. The 1942 crop is
slightly larger than last year’s crop,
which totaled 22,478,113 pounds pro
duced on 24,000 acres. This year’s out
put would have shown a substantial
increase if adverse weather condi
tions in June had not seriously damag
ed many fields.
Eastern Markets Average
Nearly $40 A Hundred
Meandering Around
On Selma R. F. D. 1
(By H. H. L.)
The writer on last Friday morning
paid a visit .to several of our friends
on Selma Route No. 1. The first stop
we made was at the home of Mr. W.
G. Pittman, a good friend of this
paper. We found him sitting on his
f ont porch waiting for the mail car
rier, he said, to bring him The John
stonian-Sun.
Next we visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard S. Warrick. Mrs.
Warrick was busy doing her week’s
washing, while her “old man” was in
the field gathering peas. Mrs. War
rick is a great lover of flowers. You
can find almost any kind in her front
yard. “I always look forward to get
ting the Selma paper,” she told us. “I
enjoy the Maindrag, in fact that’s the
first thing I read when I get the pa
per,” she said .
At the old fashioned home of Mr.
J .L. Seate, situated among a grove of
big oaks, we found him. He has a
splendid farm of 100 acres on both
sides of the highway. He promised us
some good apple cider a little later
in the fall. This home is made very
attractive by an abundance of flow
ers, growing everywhere.
Mr. Thad Starling and his family
were busy grading tobacco when we
arrived at his home. He has some
very fine tobacco, which he expects
to sell on the home market.
At the home of Mrs. S. R. Hinnant
we saw a star in one of the front
windows. She told us that she had a
boy in the Army, now stationed at
Camp Craft, Spartanburg, S. C. His
name is Garland Raeford, 21 years
old. The Hinnants have a fine farm.
. At Avery’s Filling Station we ran
across Berry Vause, who is at home
from Newport News, Va., where he is
employed in a defense plant. He re
turned to his work Monday.
We had dinner with Mr. and Mrs.
R. H. Murphy, and did we enjoy that
good buttermilk, country butter and
hot biscuits. The Murphy’s have a son
just out of the Army, who is now at
home. They have four sons at home
and all are fine looking youngsters.
Mr. D. M. Morris, who lives just
north of Avery’s Filling Station, and
one of the county’s leading farmers,
came along about 1:30 o’clock and
brought us back to Selma. We really
enjoyed our visit to Route 1.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
:By H. H. L.
With Two Sets of Buyers On the Smithfield Mar
ket, The Chant of Auetioneers and The Spicy
Smell of The Golden Leaf Which Sold High On
The Local Market Tuesday and Wednesday
Made Johnston County Farmers Step At New
Pace and Gave Business Men New Hopes.
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Kenly Building & Loan
Asso. To Buy U. S. Bonds
“The Kenly Building and Loan
Association of Kenly will participate
to the extent of $2,000 in the $100,-
000,000 War Bond drive planned by
the United States Savings and Loan
League for the last half of 1942,”
Miss Gladys Neighbors said today.
She pointed out that the national
business organization’s president has
asked all cooperative banks and sav
ings, building and loan associations to
inves.t their own funds in the financ
ing of the war to a minimum of $100,-
000,000 during the next six months.
“Two of the seven points which
President Roosevelt listed to Con
gress on April 27 as parts of the na
tional economic policy are being
vigorously pursued by .the thrift and
home financing institutions in their
day to day activity,” she' said. “On
the one hand, we have encouraged the
purchase of War Bonds with the in
creased earnings of people and we are
also encouraging them to save money
over and above .their War Bond pur
chases so that the associations can
channel these further funds to the
war chest of the nation by bond pur
chases for our own portfolios. And on
the o.ther hand, we are encouraging
the^aying off of debts, both by our
m. ily repayment plan on loans and
b, ^. willingness to accept payments
in advance, so that this further means
of keeping exitra dollars out of the
upward spiral of prices is being em
ployed for the financially healthy
prosecution of the war.”
“To date a large percentage of the
War Bonds sold by these institutions
has been in Series ‘E’ Bonds, because
they have been able to reach .the
smaller investors, who might not
otherwise have become part-financiers
of the war. The adition of a campaign
to have the institutions themselves
increase their purchases of ‘F’ and
‘G’ Bonds rounds out more adequately
their War Bond contribution.”
Noteworthy Was The Re-ap
pearance of a Large Number
Of Horse-drawn Carts As Old
Diobbin Is Haltered In To Re
place Gas Driven Vehicles.
Mrs. Warren Johnson
Died Monday Night
Selma Folk Graduate
From A. C. C. College
Mrs. Leon Woodruff, Mrs. Percy
Strickland and Herbert White, Jr.,
all of Selma, were members of the
graduating class at Atlantic Chris
tian -College, Wilson, Thursday even
ing, at the close of .the summer
school. Mrs. Woodruff was one of six
to graduate cum laude.
That “fly electrocutor” at the
PITTMAN HATCHERY is a curiosity
—drop in and take a look a.t it—
there are at least two colored men
from this town in Ireland, according
to a letter just received by MRS.
MACON WILLIAMS from her hus
band, CAPT. WILLIAMS, stationed
in Ireland——“I got .the Selma paper
and enjoyed reading it,” he wrote,
“and I wasn’t the only one here who
enjoyed it, for there are two-colored
citizens of Selma in camp here in
Ireland who were tickled to get hold
of it,” he wrote MRS. WILLIAMS—
he did not give .their names—the Sel
ma paper is read the world over—^it
goes to Australia, Hawaii, Philippine
Islands, Alaska, Iceland, Ireland, Pan
ama, South America, Canada, Bataan,
and to practically every state in the
United States—hundreds of our cit
izens have a “crick” in the back of
their necks from looking at the moon
last Tuesday night—it was a beauti
ful sight—we watched it from the
time the eclipse started at 9:01 until
it was total—news has been received
by MISS HAZEL LANE from her
brother, EARL LANE, telling of his
arrival somewhere in Iceland—anoth
er brother, MUTT LANE, is on for
eign soil, somewhere in Australia—
the Selma boys are scattered to all
four corners of the globe—ALTON
STANCIL writes the Maindrag that
he has been transferred to Field Ar
tillery Radio corps—says he’s getting
along fine and will be stationed at
Fort Bragg for some time—his ad
dress is D-12, FARC, 3rd Platoon,
Fort Bragg, N. C.—write .to the boy,
he’ll be glad to hear from his Splma
friends—MAYOR HENRY had a busy
court on Monday evening—a colored
man was heard to say, “I shore woufd
hate to be Mayor of this town—MR.
HENRY makes a good Mayor, but he
hates to put a fine on anybody, just,
the count costs, and you go free”—
the old colored man may be right, but
you had better not come up before
his honor the second time for the
same offense, he’ll stick it to you
then—the Mayor has a big heart,
maybe a little too big.
Dunn.—Mrs. Warren O. Johnson,
66, well-known Dunn woman, died
Monday night at her home here. She
had been in ill health for sometime.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at ’ll o’cloak at the
Divine Street Methodist Church. The
Rev. Frank Culbreith of Fayetteville
and Dr. Angus R. McQueen of the
Dunn Presbyterian Church officiated.
Burial took place in Greenwood Cem
etery here.
Mrs. Johnson, the former Virginia
Byrd, was a native of Cumberland
county, the daughter of the late Ru
fus H. and Narcissus Droughon Byrd.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. A.
B. Godwin, Sr., of Dunn; one brother,
Gary B. Byrd of Bunlevel; and sever
al nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Johnson’s husband, who died
several years ago, was a relative of
M. L. Stancil of The Johnstonian-Sun.
Former Selma Woman’s
Husband In War Service
Smithfield. — Treading their
way through the narrow tobac
co-piled aisles of warehouses re
dolent with the dry, spicy small
of golden leaf tobacco, two sets
of buyers on Wednesday entered
the second day of bidding in
Smithfield’s 45th annual market.
Experiencing its yearly
“boom” days, the Johnston
County Seat is crowded with
farmers in to see what returns
their crops will bring and the
numerous buyers representing
from 15 to 20 tobacco companies
from all over the world.
Noteworthy is the re-appearance of
a large number of horse-drawn carts
as Old Dobbin is haltered and reined
in .to replace gas driven vehicles.
This is the second year Smithfield
has had twm sets of auctioneers, and
prices Tuesday and Wednesday for
the weed loomed high and rosy. As
the buyers surreptiously raised an
eyebrow or flicked a cigarette ash
the farmers stood aside smiling glee
fully at what is giving signs of bring
ing excellent monetary returns. Dur
ing the 1942 season, $40 averages
were paid on the Border Belt mar
kets.
Taking advantage of the two sales
carried on simultaneously, which in
sures ready sales, farmers from not
only Johnston but those in Harnett
and Sampson and o.ther neighboring
districts have brought in huge piles
of the cured leaf to be put up for
auction.
Smithfield is situated in the heart
of the second-largest-tobacco-produc
ing county in the United States and
her five spacious warehouses pro'vide
adequate space for the buying and
selling.
Smithfield’s modern warehouses
are operated by the same men as in
1941. Holton Wallace is operating two
warehouses, known as Wallace’s No.
1 and 2; Roy Pearce, Oscar Boyette
and Prank Skinner are in charge of
the two Gold Leaf warehouses, and
N. L. (Perk) Perkins is back again
at the Dixie Warehouse.
Among the companies known to be
biiying are the following: the Ameri
can Tobacco Company, R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, Export Leaf To
bacco Company, J. P. Taylor, O. W.
Dudley, Cunningham Tobacco Com
pany, Dixie Leaf Tobaaco Company,
Venable Tobacco Company, P. Loril-
lard, A. C. Monk Company, Dibrell
Brothers, R. P. Watson, and Larus &
Brothers.
Despite the crowd, .the large ware
houses and the two sales going on
simultaneously mean no real confus
ion or congestion as in smaller mar
kets.
It’s a banner year, and if you don’t
believe it just ask the buyer, the far
mer or just the casual onlooker who
can tell you its a top-flight season at
the Smithfield, and new pep has been
added to the step of the farmer and
new hope to the business man.
W. G. Carr, Jr., of Wilson, has been
commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the Army Air Forces, stationed at
Miami Beach, Fla., where he will be
for six weeks’ training, after which
he will be stationed at Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, Ala., where he
will be joined by Mrs. Carr, the for
mer Miss Helen Dixon Massey of
Selma, who i^ now staying in Selma
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Massey.
NAVY RECRUITING
OFFICER IS HERE
Red Light In Center
Of Town Discontinued
You won’t have to stop for “red
light” at the corner of Anderson and
Raeford streets, in the center of
town, as it has been temporarily dis
continued. Mayor B. A. Henry, how
ever, warns the public to watch out
for the other fellow at this intersec
tion. Since there are not as many
cars on the highways as formerly, it
was decided to discontinue the abov%
mentioned stop light.
Chief Gunmen’s Mate Silhan, Navy
Recruiting Officer from Raleigh, ar
rived today. His headquarters is at
the Selma post office building. He will
be here .through Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of this week for the
purpose of interviewing, examining
and enlisting men for the Navy.
Young men! Join the U. S. Navy!
Selma Presbyterians
To Worship Sunday
There will be preaching service at
the Selma Presbyterian church Sun
day, August 30, a.t 11:00 a. m., and
at 8:00 p. m. The Rev. Howard New
man of Richmond, Va., will do the
preaching. ,
Sunday school each Sabbath at ID
o’clock. “Come out and s.tudy the
Scriptures with us,” advises Superin
tendent M. L. Stancil. _