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VOL. 25
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER 42
MAIL PACKAGES
OVERSEAS SOON
Christmas Packages Going To
Men Overseas Must Be Mailed
In October—Should Be Limit
ed To Six Pounds And Re
stricted To Shoe-Box Size.
Intensive Drive For Scrap Iron To
Be Launched Here This Week
JOEL A. JOHNSON
Republican Candidate for Superior, Court of Johnston County
Attend Meeting Wildcat
Association In Raleigh
W. Luther Etheridge and J. Willard
O’Neal, members of .the Wildcat
Veterans Association, attended a
meeting of the association held at
the Carolina Hotel in Raleigh Sunday.
The association, composed of World
War veterans who served overseas
with the 81st Division, held a special
national reunion to amend the con
stitution and by-laws in order to ad
mit to the association members of the
reactivated 81st Division .
“The new 81st Division was acti
vated on August 25, at Camp Rucker,
Ala.,” said Mr. Etheridge, “on the
anniversary of the old 81st Division.”
The American Legion, at its recent
national convention in Kansas City,
voted to take into its ranks men serv
ing in .the current war.
The Wildcat Association also de
cided to incorporate in the State of
North, Carolina. The associa.tion is
national in scope .Most of the 81st
veterans are from North and South
Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Ten
nessee, with some from Pennsylvania.
New York, New Jersey and Middle
Western states.
The reunion was highlighted by a
luncheon at the Carolina Hotel. R. L.
McMillan, former State commander of
the American Legion, was the guest
speaker. The Rev. Newton Robinson,
pastor of the Hillyer Memorial Chris
tian Church, pronounced .the invoca
tion.
Greetings were extended to the as
sociation from two honorary life
members. Governor Broughton and
Josephus Daniels, who were unable to
attend. '
J. V. Chamblee Gets
Letter of Appreciation
We too often overlook the service
being rendered by people who hold
responsible jobs for the service and
protection of our citizens even under
.the most hazardous circumstances,
but there was at least one person in
Selma during the heavy wind and
rainstorm on last Sunday night whose
sympathies 'went out to those whose
jobs made it necessary for them to
take great risks in order that our
conveniences and pleasures might be
disrupted as little as possible when
Selma’s lighting system failed to
function. We quote below from a
letter Mr. J. V. Chamblee, local water
and light superintendent, received on
Monday after .the storm, written by
the Rev .D .M. Clemmons:
“Dear Mr. Chamblee,
I knew that I would not get the
chance to see you in the next few
days, so I decided to write you this
note and tell you something you are
not expecting to hear. Last night
about .two o’clock I saw you and your
men out in the storm of rain, wind,
thunder and lightning, fixing light
wires. It was a dangerous job on a
bad night. I just wanted to tell you
that I appreciate your devotion to
duty. I admire your loyalty to the
people whom you serve. God bless
you and keep you.”
Postmaster Henry A. Earp has
called attention of Selma area people
to the fact tha Chrismas gifts going
overseas to service men must be
mailed in October to insure arrival in
time for delivery on Christmas.
Incidentally, Christmas packages
for men overseas should preferably
be limited to six pounds and restrict
ed to shoe-box size. Postmaster Earp
said. They should be mailed in Octo
ber, but marked for Christmas de
livery.
Because so few civilians have any
idea what soldiers and sailors like,
a retail trade organization recently
conducted a poll among 1,000 service
men in 47 states to see what they
do like. The highest percentage of
men voted in favor of waterproof
watches, while cigarettes and port
able radios followed closely behind.
Many of the service men preferred
pen and pencil sets and leather wal
lets, also.
Postmaster Earp cited a govern
ment notice, which stated:
“Soldiers overseas may have writ
ten home for matches, cash money,
cigarette lighter fluid, or intoxicants,
but don’t send overseas troops any
of these items. Headquarters Fourth
Service Command warned.”
The army postal service has com
plained that many packages going
overseas are incorrectly addressed.
Mail going outside the continental
limits of the United Staes should
clearly show: the full name, serial
number ,service organization and
army postoffice number of the ad
dressees, Postmaster Earp stated .
Selma Man’s Brother
Killed In Plane Crash
Naval Aviation Cadet Lawrence
L. Perry, Brother of E .C.
Perry, of Selma, Killed When
His Plane Crashes in Florida
—Biody Brought to His Home
In Sanford—Burial Occurred
At Mays Chapel.
Mayor Urges Support
For Scrap Drive
Parents Advised Son
Is Alive But Wounded
Cpl. Luther D. Bunn
Visiting His Parents
Corporal Luther D. Bunn, who is
stationed at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, with the Marines, arrived in
Selma early Sunday morning to spend
a furlough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. C. Bunn, of Selma Route 1.
Young Bunn joined the Marines
two years ago. This is his first visit
to his home in about a year. His
parents, brothers and sisters, .were
at the Union Station here Saturday
night expecting the young Marine to
arrive on a A. C .L. streamliner due
here around 10:30, but he did not
reach Selma until 4:30 Sunday morn
ing, arriving on a Southern train
from the West.
Selma Man Promoted
Sergeant In Air Corps
Charlie Grimes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Grimes of Selma, has
been promoted to Sergeant in the Air
Corps, and is now in charge of the
Communication Tower and Radio In
jstructor at .the air base. Big Springs,
Texas.
They have also received word from
their son, Walter (Buddie) Grimes,
who is somewhere in England. He
reports that he is getting along fine.
A message from the War Depart
ment to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson
Friday night informed the parents
that their son, Lawrence Alvin John
son, previously reported as missing in
action, was alive but seriously wound
ed. The young man, who is 22 years
of age, was somewhere in Australia
with the MacArthur forces when he
was wounded .Mr. and Mrs. Johnson,
who reside on Smithfield Route 1,
have two other sons in the service, all
volunteers. They are nephews of Dr.
W. B. Johnson, of Selma.
Urging every man, woman and
child in Selma to hasten the day of
victory by salvaging needed, scrap
materials, Mayor B. A. Henry today
pledged full support to the local sal
vage committee, headed by M. L.
Stancil.
“By turning over to the Salvage
Commitee of Selma every available
pound of old materials, we all can
make a direct and helpful contribu
tion to our national victory effort,”
said Mayor Henry.
'“Every pound of steel means an
other 105mm. shell; a discarded door
knob will help make dozens of cart
ridge cases; 25 tons of steel will make
another tank.
“I call upon every resident to
search his home carefully from
cellar to attic, looking for s'crap iron
and steel, copper, brass, zinc, alumi
num, rubber, rope, burlap, etc. Every
one of these materials is needed to
day by American industry for manu
facture into weapons and equipment
for our armed forces,” continutd the
Mayor.
“There are many tons of valuable
scrap in this section. We must collect
every pound of it and see that it
gets into America’s war plants. Our
steel mills, tank factories, shipyards,
airplane plants and other war indus
tries are already exceeding their for
mer production records. We can help
them attain even higher production
by sending them all .the scrap mater
ials we can find.
A message received in Selma Mon
day morning by Mr. E .C. Perry
from .the commanding officer of the
Naval Air Station in Miami, Fla.,
that his brother, Lawrence L. Perry,
aviation cadet, and his plane in which
he was flying had been missing
several hours, was advised by wire
Tuesday by the commanding officer
tha.t Cadet Perry’s body and his
plane had been found.
No details of the accident were
given as to whether Cadet Perry was
alone at the .time, and if the accident
occurred on land or on the water.
Cadet Perry would have been 22
years of age .this month. He was the
son of Mrs. N. H. Perry, formerly of
Cumnock, and the late Mr. Perry. He
was a graduate of State College,
Raleigh, where he majored in fores
try.
Enlisting in the Naval Air Corps
December 18, 1941, Cadet Perry since
then had been stationed in Atlanta,
Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., and for the
past four months at the Miami Naval
Air Station. He was scheduled to
gradua.te and to. receive his commis
sion this month.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. N,
H. Perry, of Sanford; three brothers,
E. C .Perry, Selma; Garland Perry,
Sanford; Lenj^LLI. Perry, U. S.
' Navy Pre-Flight School, Athens, Ga,;
two sisters, Mrs. Grover H. Jones,
High Point, and Mrs. Grace Tolar,
High Point.
Funeral services will be held from
May’s Chapel church eight miles
northwest of Sanford, Thursday af
ternoon at 2i o’clock. The Rev. Mr.
Wall, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Sanford, assisted by Rev.
Mr. Keller, also of Sanford, and the
Rev. Mr. Glawson, of Moncure, will
have charge of the rites. Burial will
take place in the church cemetery.
BILL WOULD AID
BLAST VICTIMS
Many Prizes Will B,e Auctioned
Off For Scrap—Theatre Wifi
Give Tickets—“Perk” From
Dixie Warehouse Coming.
Congressman Cooley Presents
Measure For Relief of John
ston County Residents—Bill
Was Intnaduced After The
Congressman Conferred With
E. G. Hobbs, of Selma.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Beginning November 1st.
1942, the subscription price of
The Jiahnstonian-Sun will be
as follows:
IN NORTH CAROLINA
One Year $1.50
Six Months - .75
Three Months .50
OUT OF STATE
One Year $2.00
Six Months — 1.00
Three Months .50
All subscriptions (new or
renewals) received on or be
fore November 1, 1942, will
be taken for $1.00 a year.
The nickel which went into the 1941
output of nickel-plated tableware
would huve supplied all the nickel
needed in production of 43 heavy
tanks.
Purchase Feeder Calves
For 4-H Club Boys
“On Thursday of this week a trip
was made .to Worsley’s Stock Yard
near Rocky Mount to purchase some
feeder calves for 4-H Club boys,”
says M. Edmond Aycock. “The boys
who purchased calves were as follows:
Durwood Thomas, Four Oaks, 2 calves
Nolan Lassiter, Ivan Lassiter, Jessie
Simon Massengill, and Cliffton Tem
ple. All these boys were from the
Four Oaks Club. In addition to these,
Paul Dunn of Selma and Cur.tis John
son of Glendale both purchased calves.
These calves will all be fattened out
to be shown and sold at the Pat
Stock Show which will be held next
spring.”
Chairman David Ball
Attends Scout Meeting
Chairman David S. Ball, of the
Johnston County District, accompan
ied by C. H. Weston, Scout executive
of the Tuscarora Council, Goldsboro;
Emil Rosenthal, president of the Tus
carora Council, also of Goldsboro, and
Eugene Caudill, of Smithfield, district
commissioner, a.ttended a Regional
Meeting of Boy Scouts in Charlotte
Saturday. The meeting was held at
Hotel Charlotte, lasting the entire
day, closing with a banquet at the
hotel Saturday night. Mr. Ball reports
a very enthusiastic meeting and a
fine attendance.
Registration Books To
Close On October 24th
The registration books are now
open and will remain open until
Saturday, October 24th. All who ex
pect to vote in the general election on
November 3, 1942, mdst have .their
names on the registration books. If
you are not sure your name is on the
books in the precinct in which you
expect to vote, it will pay you to see
your registrar at once and find out
about it.
If you have moved from some oher
voting precinct since the last general
election and have not registered in
the precinct in which you have been
living for the past four months, you
will have to register before the books
close on October 24th.
All those becoming 21 years of age
between October 24th and November
3, can register and vote on election
day. If you become 21 on election day
you can register and vote on that day.
Mrs. Millie Pittman Dies
At Home Near Micro
Mrs. Millie Pittman, 76, wife of
Gaston Pittman, died at five o’clock
Tuesday afternoon at her home near
Micro following a lingering illness.
Funeral services were held from Old
Beulah Primitive Baptist church on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
conducted by Elder W. E. Turner, of
Wilson. Burial was in .the church
cemetery.
Surviving besides the husband are
two half-sisters, Mrs. William Parker
and Mrs. Burl Whitley, and a number
of nieces and nephews.
The body remained at the Bailey
Funeral Home until 2:15 Wednesday
afternoon.
Middlesex People Like
The Johnstonian-Sun
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Godwin, of
Middlesex Route 1, were in town
Friday. Mr. Godwin is one of the
county’s best farmers. He said he
sold three acres of tobacco for $1,200,
and had eight bales of cotton he
raised on seven acres. Mrs. Godwin
has a son, Roy Hatcher, in .the army,
now stationed in the New Caledonia
Islands. He volunteered one year ago
last June. “We like the Johnstonian-
Sun, and when our time expires you
can expect a renewal,” Mr. Godwin
told us.
A bill to provide $187,760.47 for
the relief of 199 persons affected by
■the explosion last March of a muni
tions truck one mile south of Selma
was introduced in the House Tuesday
by Representative Harold D. Cooley,'
of Nashville.
Senator J. W. Bailey indicated to
Mr. Hobbs that he would introduce a
companion measure in the Senate
later this week.
Cooley introduced the bill after
I conferring with Attorney E. G.
I Hobbs, of Selma ,who ■ represents
I some of the claimants.
“After' the accident, in which seven
lives were lost and many persons
were injured,” Congressman Cooley
explained, “Governor Broughton ap
pointed a commission to investigate
and pass upon the facts as well as
the amount of claims .that would be
just. ■
“Many of the claims were in excess
of those found reasonable by the
commission. My bill .is in exact accord
with the findings of .the commission.”
Members of the commission were
Charles Ross, of Lillington; R. P.
Holding, of Smithfield ,and W. H.
Call, of Selma.
The epcplosion occurred when a
truck with 30,000 pounds of muni
tions en route .from Charleston ,S. C.,
to Edgewood Arsenal, Md., caught
fire at the intersection of North
Carolina Highways 301 and 70.
Mr. Marrow Explains
School Bus Situation
Mr. H .B. Marrow, Superintendent
of schools in Johnston County, says,
“there are three main reasons why
the school buses in Johnston County
have not been permanently routed as
yet.” “First,” he says, “a very deter
mined effort is being made to reduce
bus mileage to a point that will en
able our buses ahd tires to last for
the duration of the war. Second,
definite routes and loads cannot be
determined until the cotton is picked
and nearer all the children are in
school. And third, it is hoped that in
many instances drivers can be quali
fied and secured who live nearer the
end of the routes than many of the
present drivers do.
“A check-up of all bus routes, as
operated on October 7, showed a total
daily mileage of 3,371 as against 4,-
438 for last year. This saving of 1,-
067 miles per day reduces the mileage
of last year by 24 per cent. However,
there are at present nine buses not
operating. As soon as cotton picking
is nearer over, and these nine buses
are put into use, the above saving will
be considerably reduced. Therefore, if
a saving of one-fourth of the daily
mileage is to be maintained, after
these nine buses are put into use, it
will be necessary to shorten existing
routes by the mileage of the nine idle
buses.
“It is the opinion of .the school
authorities that a saving of one-
fourth in daily mileage can be effect
ed by adjusting existing routes as the
other buses are put into use, and at
the same time, not require children to
walk more .than two miles which is
the Federal requirement to secure
tires. Except in very rare cases chil-
drtn will not be required to walk
more than two miles.”
Dr. Petry Addresses
Selma Kiwanis Club
Selma Kiwanians were privileged
to hear a short address by Dr. Petry,
of Duke University, who was the
guest speaker at the weekly Kiwanis
meeting on last Thursday evening.
He emphasized the importance of
civic clubs like Kiwanis and the great
work 'they are doing. “In the Selma
Kiwanis club,” said Dr. Petry, “you
have a cross section of .the outstand
ing citizens of your community, who
are ever glert to carry on and cham
pion the cause of the best things in
the community, whether they be of a
religious, civic or moral nature.”
The speaker was introduced by
Program Chairman J. C. Avery. Dr.
Petry was engaged in a series of
services at the Edgerton Memorial
Methodist Church here last week,
which came .to a close on Friday even
ing.
Rudolph 'Watson, of Fort Bragg,
spent the week end here with rela
tives.
(By H. H. LOWRY)
To rneet the nation’s war needs
for scrap iron and other salvage
materials, a new intensive drive will
be launched on Friday and Saturday
of this week in Selma, to obtain at
least five tons of scrap materials, it
was announced this week by M. L.
Stancil,t>hairman of the local Salvage
Committee. The local drive is part of
the nationwide drive announced by
Donald M. Nelson, WPB chairman.
“As the war becomes more inten
sive on .the various foreign fronts,’*
Mr. Stancil said, “the need for scrap
materials has steadily increased.” He
declared that while collections of
various^types of salvage have already
been riiNe here from time to time,
the expanding reguirements of the
war program have made it necessary
to obtain much larger amounts of
materials.
“The American steel industry this
year hopes to produce a record-break
ing 85,000,000 tons of steel—as much
as all foreign countries put together
can make. Our country alone .this year
is going to produce three tons of
steel for every two tons the Axis,can
.turn out.
“To bring steel production up to
the industry’s full capacity of 90,000,-
000 tons in 1942, however, our steel
industry needs an extra 6,000,000
tons of scrap steel for its furnaces.
Every ton of scrap we can send them
will swell our national production of
tanks, ships, planes and guns.” ■
Members of .the local committee,
Mr. Stancil said, which has charge of
the salvage campaign, are: Mayor B.
A. Henry, John Jeffreys, H. B.
Pearce, J. Y. Chamblee, C. A.- Bailey,
Mrs. W .L. Etheridge, Floyd C. Price,
Jr., W. T. Woodard, M .R .Wall, O.
A. Tuttle and N. A. Branch.
In addition to scrap iron and steel,
.the materials to be collected are brass
and other non-ferrous metals, rubber,
rope, rags and fats.
Collection depots at which scrap
iron and other salvage may be left
have been established. They are locat
ed as follows: Next to Branch Bank
ing & Trust Company, and on the
vacant lot east of The Johnstonian-
Sun office.
We, on .the home front, must see
to it that industry shall not lack the
materials needed for adequate arming
and equipping them .Every housewife
can play an important par! in this
irive. She should carefully inspect
all of her house furnishings, to find
out what^ equipment she has that has
lutlived its usefulness.
An old iron pot or a knife in the
kitchen, the steel springs of an old
uphols.tered chair in the attic, some
discarded pipe or heating equipment
in the cellar, unused wire clothes
hangers in a closet .these are a few
of the items that will provide pounds
and pounds of scrap.
WALT GODWIN says: “A business
without advertising is like a watch
without hands—the watch may keep
on running, but without hands it does
not tell the time—a business may be
running, but without advertising it
does not tell customers—and if it
does not tell customers, it won’t be a
running business very long—advertise
regularly and customers will be
running to your store”—we heartily
agree with WALT, who believes in
advertising—glad to see GEQRGE
SUBER on the Maindrag—GEORGE
has been doing defense work in Bal
timore for the past year—he came
home to spend a few days before en
listing in Uncle Sam’s Navy—ALTON
STANCIL’S many' friends here were
glad to see him on the Maindrag
Saturday—ALTON is in .the PARC at
Port Bragg—he is as brown as an
Indian and from all appearances Ar
my life agrees with him—sorry to
hear of the death of our friend, E. C.
PERRY’S brother, which occurred
when his plane wrecked somewhere
in Florida—he was his mother’s
youngest son and his brother in Selma
was the elder brother—a big crowd i.s
expected on the Maindra'g on next
Saturday to attend the Auction Sale
of many articles donated by the" bum
ness firms of Selma—farmers, bring
all the scrap iron you can find and
exchange is for some valuable prizes,
to be auctioned off on .that day—
RUDOLPH HOWELL, manager of
the local theatre, ■will give you a
FREE ticket to his theatre for only
FIVE pounds of scrap—^he’s planning
to give two shows at his theatre on
next Tuesday, when a very fine pic
ture will be put on the screen—so
bring your scrap and get your ticket,
and then come to the show Tuesday—
your neighbors will all be here, so
join them and let’s have a big time.
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