iWSr AW U.S.WAR BONDS The J ohnstonian-Sun AW U.S.WAR BONDS VOL. 25 SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942, Single Copy 5c NUMBER 46 Post Office Department Predicts Big Rush Tons of scrap iron, rubber, etc., are shown in the above picture, which was taken in front of the Selma Theatre on Tuesday afternoon when Rudol ph Howell, manager of the Theatre, was giving free theatre tickets for scrap. Shown here are a number of Selma children who contributed to the success of the drive. In the center of the picture are M. L. Standi, chairman of the local Salvage committee, and H. H. Lowry of The Johnstonian- Sun, who assisted Mr. Howell in the drive. Benson-Garner Road Now Open For Traffic The Benson Review says that after over 26 years effort the Benson, Gar ner, Raleigh highway is now open for traffic. The road is of secondary sur facing, concrete being the first grade. The route of the new road to Gar ner follows almost exactly the route of the old highway, barring cutting of corners and crooked stretches of the old highway. The roadway across Black Greek, the most troublesome of the entire road is located about 25 yards above the old crossing, thus cutting off the sharp curve beyond the creek on the old highway. The new route leaves Byrdtown to the left and the home of R. U. Barbour, Jeptha Benson and C .A. Johnson to the right. These three families suf fered more damage from the location of the highway than most others along the right of way. The new road way traverses high grade farm lands and splits some of the farms in half. The benefits derived from the new road are expected to offset the damage to the property. Route 60 as this road is known from Raleigh on through Benson to Newton Grove opens up a territory which for a generation has been with out any appreciable outlet. This road lacks one mile of being hard surfac ed near Newton Grove ,but Commis sioner Hackney of Wilson is quoted as saying that this will not be com pleted until after the war, since the war department will not permit the use of tar and other facilities to com plete it. The route from Garner to Benson is regarded by the Federal govern ment as being of military value and its use as such is expected to ma terialize. No such claim can be made for the route east of Benson, hence the inability to get it completed. At any rate the road to Garner is finished except touches by the state highway commission which are in progress. The dream of the business men of Benson of 25 years ago down to this good, hour has come true. Dozens of delegations have appeared before the state highway commission, hone of which availed anything. It was seen that if ever this road was to be completed other plans must be executed. All hail to the new road about which there has been more breath ex pended in long winded conversation than any other single thing in lower Johnston county in three decades. Former Selma Woman Passes In Raleigh Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Morgan, widow of the late Joe Mor gan, were held from the Edgerton Memorial Methodist church in Selma Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. O. L. Hatha way, former pastor of the church, as sisted by the Rev. Howard D. Mc- Lamb, pastor j)f Fairmont Method ist church of Raleigh. Burial , took place in Maplewood cemetery in Wil son. Mrs. Morgan was a member of the Selma church for 30 years. The body was placed in the church and lay in state from 1 o’clock to 3 o’clock. The deceased was born in 1876, the daugh ter of the late Rufus Daniel Wall and Emily Wall. She was married to Mr. Morgan in 1900. Mrs. Morgan had been living with her son, John W. Morgan, at 2614 Van Dyke Avenue, in Raleigh, since the death of her husband in January, 1940. During her stay in .Raleigh she was a member of Fairmont Methodist church. Mrs. Morgan had many friends in Selma who regret her passing. Cotton Bringing 20c Per Pound In Selma Brad McLamb Elected Constable Brad McLamb was elected con stable for Banner township, being unopposed and receiving 639 votes, this being 130 votes above the Re publican strength as evidenced by the vote of 609 for the republican can didate for sheriff. Monroe Adams received two write-in votes. “In the welter of dispute about war production; about steel, oil and rub ber; about plant conversion and anti cipated output, the one branch of American industry that stands head and shoulders above-all others is the railroads. And .this comes not from railroad men or shippers, but from the government itself.”-Roanoke, Va., World News. The firms of Floyd C. Price & Son, and Henry and Nordan paid more than 20 cents per pound for cotton here this week. Cotton has been brought here from distant places all the way from Fremont in Wayne county,,, and from points in Nash county. Make county, and many places in Johnston county, which goes to show that the Selma market is pay ing the highest price for the fleecy staple. “Storm’’ cotton is selling here at from 16 to 17 cents per pound. Our two big ginning plants here have been running day and night all this week. Bring your seed cotton to Sel ma where these two big ginneries will give you as good yield as you can get anywhere, and then, if you want to sell it, contact our cotton buyers for highest prices.' New Methodist Pastor Holds First Service The Rev. G. W. Blount, who was transferred from Spring Hope to Cel- ma at the recent North Carolina Methodist Conference, held his first service Sunday morning at Edgerton Memorial Methodist church. A good congregation greeted and welcomed the new pastor. With Mrs. W. H. Call presiding at the organ, the choir sang an anthem, “My Jesus, I Love Thee.” The minister read from the first Epistle of John. “We love Him because He first loved us,” was used as his text. His theme was “Stead fastness of Spirit in Strenuous Times.” WANTED—Logs and standing timber. For Cash. —^W. E. Parker and Son, Micro. 4tp Civil Term of Johnston County Court Begins A two-week term of cicil court for Johnston cosnty began in. Smithfield Monday morning, with Judge Henry L. Stevens presiding for this week, and for next week’s session Judge J. D. Johnson, Jr., is scheduled to preside. DR. CARTER TALKS TO KIWANIS CLUB Dr. William Howard Carter, pastor of the Goldsboro Tabernacle church, came back to Selma on last Thursday evening to celebrate his 20th birthday in the ministry, having preached his first sermon exactly 20 years ago that day. Since Dr. Carter is a former Selma boy. Chief Bradley Pearce, the program chairman, invited him to be his guest speaker at Kiwanis. Dr. Carter was introduced by the Rev. D. M. Clemmons, pastor of the .local Baptist church, who paid a fine tribute to Dr. Carter in the splendid_ work he is doing, and also took oc casion to welcome Mr. H. B. Carter, father of Dr. Carter, as guest of Ki wanis on that occasion. In the course of his address the speaker took occasion to refer to his father with a spirit of love and ap preciation for his life and the many ups-and-downs he encountered in rearing his' family. His address was one of inspiration to the entire club, revealing to them that the speaker was a most busy man and a man who is doing a great Service to humanity. He told of the countless calls he receives from people over a wide area asking him for ad vice, many of whom write in, while others phone or call in person. “Some days,” said the speaker, “I get as high as 500 pieces of mail, ranging from 1 to 20 pages, revealing their troubles and wanting some comfort ing advice.” Upon top of this he holds many funerals, performs many mar riages, preaches from two to three sermons each Sunday, besides making radio addresses and performing many other exacting duties. Dr. Carter is a very forceful speak er and his services are in great demand wherever he goes. He is never at a loss for words, which flow forth as he drives home the message which he is endeavoring to get across. We have heard many complimentary remarks about the fine address Dr. Carter delivered before, the Kiwanis meeting here last week. Service Flags Free At Johnstonian-Sun Office The Post Office Department now is starting the most gigantic task in its history—the movement of a de luge of Christmas parcels, cards and letters while maintaining the regular flow of millions of pieces of mail daily to and from our armed forcts all over the world. Indications are that the volume of Christmas mail will be the largest on record. Already in September, latest month for which figures are available retail sales had reached a level second only to the record month of December 1941, according to the Department of Commerce. And sales are rising. Such heavy purchases always presage heavy mailings. If thousands of our soldiers, sailors marines and civilian friends are not to be disappointed at Christmas time, the public must cooperate by mailing earlier than ever before and by ad dressing letters and parcels properly. The best efforts of the Post Office Department alone cannot be enough, in view of wartime difficulties faced by the postal system. The public must assist. About 25,000 experienced postal workers already have been taken by the war services. Arrangements are under way to add thousands of tem porary personnel to postal staffs, but this man power is hard to find and is inexperienced. Facilities of rail roads and air lines are heavily taxed by movements of huge quantities of war materials and personnel. Extra trucks are almost impossible to ob tain. Winter weather, hampering all transportation, is beginning. The free-mailing privilege granted to members of the armed forces has raised their mailings some 30 per cent it is estimated. Expansion of those forces also is adding rapidly to the postal burden. The deadline already is past for mailing gifts to Army and Navy per sonnel overseas with assurance that the parcels will arrive by Christmas. The New York post office reports that in late October, 350,000 such parcels were handled daily in that of fice alone. The Post Office Department is making strenuous efforts to avoid such a terrific jam as it faced in 1918 under similar conditions, during the First World War. It can succeed in those efforts—and avoid many heartaches for its patrons—if the public will cooperate by mailing ear ly- Another Township Is Heard From We have a limited supply of Ser vice Flags on hand for those who have a son in the service. These red- bordered Flags with the blue star, which came into general use during World War Number 1, convey this message; “From this home a man has gone to do his duty for his country.” It is the pride of every town to see its population climbing to higher figures, and the people of Selma proudly boast about being the second largest town in Johnston, while Smithfield “takes the cake” and continues to strut ’er stuff. • But our superior numbers were very much against us in the recent Scrap drive in Johnston county. Although Smithfield had to its credit more than 175,000 pounds of scrap, and Selma more than 107,000 pounds, neither of them had a ghost of a chance of winning the $150 first prize. Beulah township, with 119,810 pounds of scrap, managed to get second prize, while Meadow, with only 92,827 pounds, won first prize. And then there was a third prize to go to Pine Level for only 55,469 pounds of scrap. The reason for this was that the scrap campaign was on a per capita basis. The smaller the population of a toWnship the fewer pounds of scrap was necessary to win. If it had been figured purely on a pound basis, Smithfield would have won first prize, Beulah would have still held second, and Selma would have come |in for third. See tabulated account by townships elsewhere in this paper. Buy War Bonds and Stamps RETURN TO SELMA Mrs. G. H. Morgan and M-rs. H. T. White returned home last Sunday from Wilson where they have spent the past two months with the families of Mr. C. D. Wood and Mr. Herbett Morgan. October Scrap Collections By Townships Township Population Pounds Per Total Pounds Capita Meadow .. 2,957 92,827 31.39 Beulah ...4,208 119,810 28.10 Pine Level .. 2,124 55,469 26.11 Clayton .. 5,329 105,660 19.83 Selma .. 5,480 107,375 19.63 Smithfield . 9,020 175,185 19.42 Cleveland .. 1,873 : 31,118 16:56 Banner .. 4,919 79,925 16.25 Boon Hill .. 4,149 32,131 7.74 Ingrams .. 4,390 39,570 6.73 Micro . 1,659 ■- 9,570 5.76 Wilson’s Mills .. 1,400 6,826 4.87 Elevation .. 1,873 2,165 1.18 O’Neals ... 5,039 No Report No Report Wilders ... 3,080 No Report No Report Pleasant Grove .... 3,3016 No Report No Report Bentonville ... 1,857 No Report No Report Wendell Y outh Killed When Hit By Truck Attention Ladies Be the women behind the men in the parachute! You can do your part to help win this war by donating your dis carded Nylon and Silk hose for national defense. One thousand hose or 500 pairs make one parachute. Boxes for this donation will be locat ed in the postoffice, the Selma Drug Company, Woodard & Creech Drug Company and Carolina Beauty Nook. So ladies, please bring your wornout hose to these places at once, for this is very ur gent. This drive is being spon sored by the Selma Junior Woman’s club. Official Returns Show G)unty Vote Was Light The following figures show the to tal number of votes received by each candidate in Johnston in the election on November 3rd, as furnished by L. L, Levinson, chairman of the John ston county board of elections: STATE SENATE J. B. Benton 6084 Thos. O’Berry -5823 JUDGE RECORDER’S COURT Larry Wood 6227 J. Ira Lee 3455 SHERIFF Kirby L. Rose 5795 L. D. Mitchell 3972 REGISTER OF DEEDS Bill Massey 6305 I. V. Lee 3360 CLERF OF COURT H. V- Rose 6134 Joel A. Johnson 3549' COUNTY AUDITOR Marvin Johnson 6110 C. S. Creech 3457 COUNTY SOLICITOR W. I. Godwin 6119 E. A. Parker 3474 HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES - L. H. Wallace 5987 R. T. Fulghum 5933 Walter Batten 3437 N. W. Harrison 3376 SURVEYOR C. B. Fulghum, who had no opposition 6104 CORONER Dr. E. N. Booker 6102 Herbert E. Dupree 3397 COMMISSIONERS R. P. Holding 6094 Jesse H. Austin 6061 Jack B. Wooten 6100 D. Harvey Parrish 3396 A. H. Morgan 3388 H. A. Stancil 3373 * AMENDMENTS School—• For 2399 Against 4755 Solicitorial—■ For 1830 Against 3820 According to the above figures, the people of Johnston county voted against both amendments to the State constitution, but both carried in , the. State as a whole. Bob Warwick Moves Into New Quarters Bob Warwick has moved his automobile repairing business to .the building on Highway 301, opposite the First Baptist church. 'This building was formerly occupied by Gray Wad dell and Thompson’s Garage. Bob, who is considered one of the best mechanics in Johnston county, is prepared to do any kind of repair work. He is a native of Warren coun ty, but has made his Rome in Selma for the past sixteen years. Yates Perry Is Promoted To Sergeant Yates Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Perry, was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, fourth class Techni cian, from the rank of Corporal in September. He is also' a member of the 120th Infantry Band, stationed at Camp Blanding, Fla. NOTE OF THANKS. The Selma Post of the American Legion and the members of the Le gion Auxiliary desire to thank all who cooperated in helping with the carnival here last week. We especial ly want to thank the young ladies who sold tickets, the Boy Scouts and the citizens who helped take up the tickets at the gate and the different rides and shows. THE AMERICAN LEGION AND AUXILIARY OP SELMA POST. Accident Occurred Near Clayton Early Saturday Morning — Was Standing On Running Board of Car When Struck— Funeral Held Sunday After noon. Clyde E. Clark, Jr., of Wendell was killed Saturday morning about 12:30 when he was struck by a truck while riding on the running board of a coupe driven by Durward Strickland, also of Wendell. The accident occurred about .three miles .west of Clayton on Highway No. 70. There were three persons in the coupe, traveling west after hav ing been to Clayton, where they pick up boys and girls who wanted to ride to a filling station near the Johnston- Wake line. Clark got on the running board to make room in the car for the girls. At the time of the kccident there were nine on the coupe. The car met a truck .traveling east, and the side of the trailer apparently struck Clark on the left hip, knocking him to the pavement. His hip and side of head were crushed. His neck and right thigh bone broken, and- his pelvis shattered. He lived about 15 minutes, dying while en route to hos pital. Funeral services for Clark were held Sunday afternoon, at 3 at the Wendell Methodist Church, with the Rev. B. F. Boone, pastor, in charge. Burial was in Greenmont Ceme.tery. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C .E. Clark; four brothers, How ard and Henry of Fort Bragg, and Robert and Gene of the home; and three sisters, Mrs. Pauline Jones of Broklyn, Margaret and Edna Earl of the home. Young People Present Program Sunday Program For Young People’s Night to be presented by League members at Fairview Sunday night, Novem ber 15th at 7:30 o’clock. A cordial in vitation is extended to the public to attend. Order of Service; Prelude: “Immortal Love, Forever Full.” Call to Worship: Hymn: “This Is My Father’s World.” by Choir Offertory and Special Music: “Give of Your Best.” Prayer (by Pastor) Response: “Hear Our Prayer, 0 Lord” Hymn: (by congregation) “Come, Thou Almighty King.” Leader’s Introduction—Subject: What Is Worship,—Pauline Corbett Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8 Eugene Creech Talk: Isaiah—Alone With God in His Holy Temple Hazel Corbett Hymn: (by Congregation) “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Scripture: Acts 16:22-34 P. W. Corbett Talk; Paul and Silas —Worshipping God in Prison Mary Ellen Creech Hymn: (by congregation) “Faith of Our Fathers.” Scripture: Acts 1:12-14; 2:44-47; 12:- 5,12 Ruby Parrish Talk: The Early Christians—Wor shipping God Together in the Upper Room Mamie Parrish Hymn: (by congregation) “O Wor ship the King.” Closing Thought: What Is Worship ? (Pastor) Prayer: (That we may find the real meaning of worship in our lives), Prayer-Hyfn: “Seal Us, 0 Holy Spirit.” Benediction— (Pastor) Fairview Sunday School at 10 A. M, Regular meeting of League at 6:30 Theme: Gratitude for the Richness of Life. Young People’s Service 7:30. Fred A. Woodard Promoted To Sergeant Fred A. Woodard, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard, has been promo ted to the rank of Sergeant, fourth class Technician, from his former rank of Corporal. The announcement came from his commanding officer Lieut.-Col. Hammond Birks, of the 120th Infantry Regimen, Camp Bland ing, Fla. Fred is a member .the the 120th Infantry Band. His rating be came effective Oct. 18. Railroads in 1942 are turning out 1 1-2 times as many ton-miles of freight transportation service as in .the peak traffic year of the first World War. “Railroad transportation is a link in a chain that connects us with vic tory, and if it fails, all fails.”-Col. J, Monroe Johnson, Interstate Commerc^ Commission. ,, u n

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