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Bring Yonr Scrap to the Auction Sale Saturday
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The J ohnstonian-Sun
SELMA, N. c„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22.1942.
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Shuford Says Child
Labor Laws Violated
NUMBER 43
rhfn"; i' Selma, Route 1, and his big Poland
China hog. The hog is three and a half years old and when
qnn the scalles at
900 pounds. Some pig,” did we hear you say?
Conrad Parker Is New
Member of School Board
Boon Hill Man Succeeds C. G.
Holt, Took Up New Duties
Monday.
The Democartic Executive Commit
tee of Johnston County, in session in
Smithfield Friday night, elected Con
rad H. Parker of Boon Hill Township
as a member of the Johnston County
Board of Education, to succeed C. G.
Holt.
Parker qualified and took up his
new duties with the board at a meet
ing held in Smithfield Monday night.
The Democratic Executive Commit-
1)ee under the law is empowered to
fill the vacancy on the education
board only for the period between
now and the 1943 session of the
legislature. The committee, however,
nominated Parker to complete the
unexpired term of Holt, which runs
until the legislature meets in 1947.
Parker’s name will go before the
1943 General Assembly, which elects
board members in North Carolina. W.
H. Call’s name will also go before the
next legislature for re-election for a
six-year term.
Other members of "the education
board whose term do not expire in
1943 are P. B. Chamblee, J. W.
Woodard and Dr. J. Hi Stanley.
In the resolution naming Parker to
the board, the Democratic Executive
Committee'' paid tribute to the late
Mr. Holt “as a lifelong Democrat
always interested in working for the
upbuilding and constructive education
of the children of Johns.ton county.”
County Salvage Drive
Extended To Nov. 1st.
Closed Wednesday
of This Week—Much Scrap
Salvaged Throughout County.
The Johnston County Salvage cam
paign to collect scrap metal for war
purposes, which was to have closed
on Wednesday along with the closing
of the State campaign, has been ex
tended until bjovember 1, according
to C. E. Bingham, chairman of the
Johnston County Salvage .Committee.
While the county will get credit in
the State contest for all material
salvaged up to and including October
21, when the State contest closed,
Johnston county is conducting a sal
vage contest of its own separate arid
apart from the State campaign, hence
the extending of the closing date of
the county campaign does not in any
way affect the State contest.
The township collecting the most
scrap during October will receive a
$150 war bond. Second and third
prizes will be a $50 and $25 war bond
respectively.
Meanwhile, the state newspaper
salvage committee has announced
that there will be no extension of
time in the statewide contest in which
the counties are competing for a $1,-
000 first prize and other valuable
awards.
CHICKENS STEAL
RIDE TO TOWN
Wilson’s Mills—(Special to John-
stonian-Sun)—October the fifth was
an unusual day in the experiences on
the calendar of Mr. Jim Lee, who
lives on a big farm about one mile
from Wilson’s Mills.
At 5:00 that Monday morning he
arose, went to the truck shed, and
drove his machine down to the pack-
house. There he turned on the lights
both inside and out of the building.
In thirty minutes he had loaded his
tobacco, and by 5:45 he had reached
a tobacco warehouse in Smithfield.
There he had unloaded just half
of the “golden weed” when a negro
man on a pick-up behind him asked,
“Boss, whose chickens is dem in the'"
driveway ?”
Mr. Lee quickly turned, and upon
observing two rather sleepy-looking
fowls, he immediately recognized
them to be his.
Easy was the explanation. Knowing
the habit of some of his chickens to
roost on the rear axle of the truck,
the owner of said chickens readily
related how they must have traveled
the six miles under the influence of
that friend Morpheus, only to awaken
when Mother Nature beckoned them.
Needless to state they did not make
the return trip by means of an axle
rail—they came back in a box—alive.
Loans Made On 1942
Wheat Crop In State
Joint ’Hostesses At
Birthday Dinner
J. F. Kornegay, Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs
W. P. Pendergraft, of Pine Level,
were joint hostesses at the birthday
dinner, given in honor of Mrs. Pen-
dergraft’s mother, Mrs. R. L. Ether
idge of Wilson. Mrs. Etheridge en
tered the dining room and was greet
ed by her granddaughter, Carolyn
Faye Howard.
Those present were, Mr. and Mrs.
E. L, Etheridge of Wilson; Mrs. Bob
Gurganus, of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. H.
C. Howard, of Morehead City, Mrs.
C. L. Carpenter, of Wilson; Miss
Gladys Pendergraft, of Pin? Level;
Mr. Walton Howell, of Kenly, and
the grandchildren of Mrs. Etheridge.
J. S. Sullivan Reunion
To Be Held Sunday
The J. S. Sullivan family reunion
will be held at the home place on
Sunday, October 25th. All family rel
atives are invited to attend and bring
Well filled baskets.
More than 400 North Carolina
farmers have obtained federal loans,
to date, on 91,430 bushels of the 1942
wheat crop, according to W. Herbert
White, Caswell County farmer and a
member of the State AAA Commit
tee.
The wheat loans are made by the
through county AAA officesnowsUth
Commodity Credit Corporation
through county AAA offices, and are
available on wheat produced on any
farms operated substantially in com
pliance with the AAA program.
North Carolina’s loan rate this year
has been set at $1.37 per bushel for
■No. 2 wheat amd_$1.35 per bushel for
No. 3 wheat, with' lower rates for
corresponding lower grades and with
discounts for garlicly and smutty
I grain.
The 409 loans already made in
North Carolina this year include 27,-
628 bushels of wheat stored on farms
and 63,802 bushels stored in commer
cial warehouses. The total amount ad
vanced to producers is $121,967.44.
Storage of wheat on farms for the
purpose of obtaining federal loans is
being permitted for the first time this
year in view of the shorage of storage
space to house the nation’s 1942 crop.
White said. Producers storing wheat
on their own farms receive an allow
ance of seven cents per bushel in
storage fees, and are responsible for
care of the wheat during the time it
is in storage.
Applications for. loans may be made
at any county AAA office through
December 31, 1942. All loans mature
on April 30, 1943, but may be called
before that time by the Corporation.
During the period of the loan, the
grower may repay he loan and re
claim the wheat. Warehouse storage
costs are assumed by Commodity
Credit Corporation unless the loan is
repaid before maturity.
Raleigh, October 20, 1942:^Despite
the fact that North Carolina’s Child
Labor Laws permit abundant employ-’
ment opportunities for children be
tween the ages of 12 and 18, reports
reaching the State Department of
Labor indicate that the privilege of
employing minors is being abused by
some employers. Commissioner of
Labor Forrest H. Shuford said today.
“There are plenty of employment
opportunities within the limits of the
Child Labor Laws to give employment
to all minors who have attained suf
ficient. age and are available for
Work,” Shuford stated. “Conforming
to the law does not bar young people
and children from working. It simply
channels their work into lines iSnd
hours of employment which -will -not
hinder their physical, mental and
moral development.” ' - .i
There are very few places and oc
cupations in which young people 17
and 18 years of age are not permitted
to work, the Commissioner said.
“One type of establishment' in
which minors under 18 years of -age
are definitely not permitted to work
is places' cf business where wtees,
beer, and other alcoholic beverages
are sold. The law is very explicit upon
this point, and I want to promise that
where employers persist in this type
of flagrant violation they may expect
to face prosecution at the earliest
possible moment,” Commissioner Shu
ford declared.
It ^ is hoped that when unwitting
"violations of the Child Labor Laws
are brought to the attention of em
ployers who may not have been a'w^are
of the provisions of the lam. .they will
immediately bring themselves into
compliance so as to avoid the neces
sity for legal action,” the Commis
sioner added."
_ “Our Child Labor Laws were de
signed to prevent the exploitation of
children,” he said. “While not pro
hibiting the employment of minors
generally, the laws do set up stand
ards regarding age, hours of wojk
safety, - -and other conditions' of’em
ployment, and it is the intention
the Department of Labor to enforce
these standards. We must not forget
that children under 18 years of age
are no yet mature, either physically
or mentally. They are not equipped
to stand protracted periods of strain
in their work, and when such strain
occurs it may result in permanent in
jury to the developing child.”
Violators of the Child Labor Laws
face the prospect of fines up to $50.00
30 days imprisonment, or both, he
said.
“The County Welfare Department
in each county is the local representa
tive of the Department of Labor and
is charged with issuing employment
certificates for children in cases
PROMOTED
Saturday Is Red-Letter
Day For Selma Township
Scrap Tickets To Be Used In Purchasing Mer
chandise At Big Auction Sale Here At 2:30
Saturday Afternoon — Many Tons of Scrap
Gome In — Theatre Gave Seven Free Shows
Tuesday.
Mack avery lamm, son
of Mrs. Katie .Lamm and the
late Mr. Lamm, of Selma. Youn^
Lamm, ■who is in the Marines,
has recently been promoted to
Staff, Sergeant. He is stationed
at Parris Island, S. C.
where their employment is in con
formity with the Child Labor Laws,”
the Commissioner said. “County
Welfare Departments are also charg
ed with supervising the welfare of
all children in their respective coun
ties. When an employer wishes to em
ploy anyone under 18 years of age
he should contact his local County
Welfare Department and request an
employment certificate for the minor
in question.”
In issuing the above 'warning to
employers of children in Johnston
County, Commissioner Shuford cited
a recent letter he had received from
Mr. W. T. Woodard, Jr., Johnston
County Superintendent of Public
Welfare.
“This county, as well as most other
counties, and the states of the Union,
is now faced with a serious shortage
of labor,” the Superintendent wrote.
“We feel that this shortage is going
to affect us in many, many ways, and
we are vitally concerned about the
problem it is apparently creating
■with child labor here.”
“On a number of occasions,” the
letter continued, “our case workers
have found small boys and girls—
some only nine and ten years of age
—working around cafes, filling sta
tions, bowling alleys, and other
places of business in the county. This
is probablyf due to the fact that the
proprietors of .these places have been
nnable to find older boys and girls to
fill these jobs and have taken in
these small children and work them.”
Smithfield Tobacco
Sales Exceed Goa
Tobacco sales in Smithfield for the
current marketing season 'have al
ready exceeded .their minimum goal
million pounds they had
ptMBlW’W sell, “and-with full floors
and higher prices the first three days
of this week, it is safe .to say that
the former goal has already been far
exceeded, and Smithfield tobacconists
are very optimistic about still higher
prices during the remainder of the
marketing season.
The minimum goal was passed last
rriday when sales for the season
reached 15,077,872 pounds. Farmers
who marketed .their tobacco in
Smithfield had been paid, up to Fri
day’s close, $5,677,467.77, making a
seasonal average of $37.66 per hun-
dred.
According to G. Willie Lee, Sales
Supervisor for the Smithfield market,
the average for last week was $44 32
as compared w:.th $44.26 the preced-
ing week.
have already been unloaded here and still it^comes^ ^
Important Notice To
Farm Truck Owners
List Of Places Where Assistance
Will Be Given In Filling Out
Certificates For Necessary
Amount of Gasoline.
Mill Men Give
Enjoyable Chicken Fry
William Hinton Joins
Aloha Lambda Tau
Raleigh, Oct. 21.—William Hinton,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Hinton of
Sel.ma, has accepted a bid to join the
N. C. State College chapter of Alpha
Lambda Tau, national social frater
nity, Dean E. L. Cioyd, secretary of
the Inter-fra.ternity Council, announc
ed today.
A total of 197 students accepted
bids to .the college’s 13 social frater
nities after the chapters had staged
their annual Rush Week. A good
scholastic average is required for
membership in a State College fra
ternity.
More than half of the nation’s
cigarettes are manufactured in North
Carolina.
Lt. Barden David Hooks
Visiting Sister Here
Mr. U. M. Rogers, overseer of card
ing, and Mr. Lehman Hoffman, of
Eastern Manufacturing Company, en
tertained the key men of the compa
ny arid their wives at a chicken fry
served at Holt Lake Wednesday ev
ening.
Guests included: Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Grier and daughter Ann, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Woodall, Mr. and Mrs. D. S.
Ball, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. McDuffie!
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Meadows, Mr. and
Mrs Harvey D. Wright, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Sc(^A, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hinnant,
and Mrs. Lehman Hoffman.
The chickens were furnished by Mr.
Hoffman from his flock.
_ After a thoroughly enjoyable meet
ing and delicious dinner, the hosts
were accorded a rising vote of appre
ciation for the happy-occasion.
B. S. A. Directors Hold
Interesting Meeting
Lt. Barden David Hooks, son of
Mrs. A. G. Hooks and .the late Mr.
Hooks, of Kenly, is spending today
with his sister, Mrs, Howard V.
Gaskin. Lt. Hooks is en route to
Philadelphia where he will be sta
tioned. Lt. Hooks is in .the Signal
Corps and was formerly stationed at
Fort Monmouth, N. J.
Gol. Joe D. Richardson
In Officer’s School
Corporal Joe D. Richardson, Jr., has
been accepted for Officer’s Candidate
School and has begun his .training at
Camp Hood, Texas, where he is sta
tioned.
The Bopd of Directors of Tuscaro-
ra Council, Boy Scouts of America,
met with the Johns.ton District Com
mittee in Selma, Friday evening, Oc
tober 16, at 8 o’clock, in the Ameri
can Legion Hut.
Dinner mas served by -the Ladies’
Auxiliary.
After the reports of the Directors
Were made and other business of the
Council disposed of, Mr. Emil Rosen
thal, President of Tuscarora Council,
asked for reports from those who at
tended the Meeting in Charlotte. Re
ports were made by E. G. Caudill of
Smithfield, D. S. Ball of Selma, and
Emil Rosenthal of Goldsboro.
Mr. Rosenthal .then turned the
meeting- over to D. S. Ball, District
Chairman, for .the district meeting.
The reports of the committeemen
were very encouraging and the pros
pects look good for scouting in the
future.
The local troop is sponsored by the
Selma Kiwanis Club.
(By M. A. MORGAN)
All farmers who have trucks or
pick-ups will be affected by the re
cent Office , of Defense Transporta
tion Order which s.tates that on and
after November 15, 1942 all trucks
that move property will be required,
to have.a Certificate of War Neces
sity in order to operate and secure
gasoline. The applications are being
mailed to the .truck operators from
the ODT at Detroit with the instruc
tions that these applications must be
returned within ten days. Under a
ecent announcement, all farmers will
be expected to hold their applications
until the 22nd, 23rd,' or 24th of Oc
tober and to carry .them to some
central place where the recently ap
pointed Transportation Coraniiittea
will have someone there to help -with
the filling ou of these application^.
The applications will then be taken
by this Committee who will make its
recommendations and send them in a
group to' the Office of Defense Trans
portation at Detroit.
A farm truck has been defined as
one which 51 per cent or more of the
operation is for hauling farm prod
ucts from the farm and farm supplies
to the farm. The application is com
plicated, and we have been notified
that those which have been sent to
Detroit by operators are being re
turned because they were improperly
filled out. The following schedule has
been arranged by the committee for
the convenience of farm truck own
ers in Johnsiton County. All farm
truck operators are requested to go
to one of these places listed below
and fill out .their application. The
schedule is as follows:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
October 22, 23, and 24 at the Smith-
I field Production Credit Association in
Smithfield.
j Thursday, October 22 at .the
Woman’s Club In Kenly.
Thursday, October
Woman’s Club in Selma.
Friday, October 23 at the Bank of
Four Oaks.
Friday, October 23 at the Town
Hall in Princeton.
Saturday, October 24 at the Town
Hall in Clayton.
Saturday, October 24, at the
Woman’s Club in Benson.
These places will be open from 9:00
A. M.. to 5:00 P. M., and the schedule
has been arranged in order that there
could be a saving of tires and gaso
line.
The application asks for the size
and mileage of each tire which is on
the, truck or which is .stored, the
miles that .the truck has traveled for
each quarter from January 1, 1941
to the present time, and .the mileage
which will be needed until June SO,
1943. ^ They also ask for the number
of trips made each quarter and the
average load for each trip. Each
operator should, to the best of his
knowledge, have this information
■when he comes to fill out the applica
tion. There will also be another form
which the committee would like to
have filled out in order that they
might be able .to do a better job of
recommending what each one should
have.
There may be some truck o’wners
that have not received an application.
If .they do not receive an application
by the 22nd of October, then they
should go to one of these places and
give the make, .type, year model, and
license number of their truck.
22 at the
The drive put on by the Selma
theatre last week closed Tuesday
night, when more than two thousandl
people saw the “Grand Ole Opry” on
free tickets given by Rudolph Howell,
manager of the Theatre, for scrap.
All afternoon, droves of children en
tered .the Theatre for each showing,
but by early nightfall there was a
camplete congestion of men, women
and children around the thea.tre en
trance which steadily grew into such
proportions that by 9 o’clock .the line
of theatre goers extended clear
around the Branch Bank down Ander
son street almost to the office of
The Johnstonian-Sun. It was one of
the largest crowds we have ever seen J
here for any single show.
All day Friday, Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday the scrap rolled in, by
truck, wagon, .trailer, by toy wagon,
in sacks, in their hands and arms and
every conceivable manner to get it
here and secure free tickets to .the .
show. On small boy carried a .load to
Mr. Howell at the Theatre, and when
he called for his tickets he lacked
just a few pounds having enough to
get .the desired amount of tickets,
Mr. Howell told him to go back and
get a little more scrap and he would
give him another ticket. With a grim
look on his face, the kid snatched up
his toy wagon and threw it on the
scrap heap, exclaiming, “There she
goes, gimme my .ticket.” It is needless
to say he got it, too.
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 the big
auction sale will begin, when every
one holding .tickets for scrap brought;
to Selma will have an opportunity to
bid on the merchandise being auc
tioned off. You use your scrap tickets
as though .they represented that
many dollars. When you bid a certain
number of pounds of scrap, if your
bid is not raised you get the mer
chandise. There are many prizes
which are being donated by the Selma
merchants and others, and you stand
a good chance to get something if
you have a ticket for scrap. Don’t
miss this sale—i.t’s something new in
the scrap drive, and will be interest
ing.
The amount of Scrap brought to the
Salvage piles here so far is not
definitely known, but a safe estimate
places it around 75,000 to 80,000
pounds. Let’s make it 100,000
2:30 Saturday afternoon.
by
First woman prison superintendent
in North 'Carolina history in Mrs. C.
D. Strickland who assumed the head
of woman’s prison, Raleigh, this
year.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
==By M. H. L. =a
by
Rivers are things that run by banks.
So are borrowers.
Rev. Mr. Newman To
Preach Here Sundav
The, Rev. Howard F. Newman, of
the Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Va., will preach at the Selma Presby
terian Church on Sunday, October
25, at 11 o’clock in the morning and
at 8 0 clock at night. A cordial invi
tation is extended to all to attend
each of these services.
A solid gold ladies’ diamond ring
is one of the prizes to be given away
for scrap Saturday by JEWELER A.
L. LANGLEY—another prize, donat
ed by JOHN JEFFREYS, vice-presi
dent of WORLEY’S, INC., is a whole
case of DRINKS—.the most attrac
tive poster we have seen in many
day is the one just gotten out
GUY C. LEE MFC. CO., of Smith
field—at .the top is a picture of a
Soldier, a Sailor and a Marine in
brilliant colors—just below the pic
ture is the following wording—“No
effort in this war is great enough if
a grea.ter effort is humanly possible”
—ROBERT L. RAY, JR., had some of
the posters on display yesterday—
the editor of The Johnstonian-Sun,
M; L. STANCIL, was a busy man
last Monday and Tuesday—there’s no
telling how many .tons of scrap iron,
rubber, etc., he weighed on those two
days while busy in the office trying
to correct the mailing list, he had to
drop everything and rush across .the
street and weigh another truckload—
and this went on all day long—“looks
like I’ll never get that mailing list
corrected” he was heard to say dur
ing the rush to see the show Tuesday
evening, MISS DORA O’NEAL hailed'
EDITOR STANCIL and asked him if
he had seen the show—she assured
him he should see it, and .then with
a shuffle of her feet and a twist of
the body she said “when I saw it,
I was reminded of my courting days.’*