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SELMA, N. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1942.
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J Over the Top by New Year’s Is the
Plea of Secretary Morgenlhau
Verdict For $10,000^
Against Smithfield
November 13, 1942
As of today twenty-one million American
workers are investing eight per cent of their
salary — every pay day — in United States War Savings
Bonds. This is a very remarkable tribute to our
armed forces who are fighting this war. But this
job is only two-thirds accomplished.
There are nine million additional American
workers who are not investing in War Bonds every
pay day.
This appeal is directed to two groups of
Americans:
First - the twenty-one million people who are
investing eight per cent of their wages. We ask
them to increase their investment to ten per cent
or more.
Second - the other nine million whom we ask to
join the Payroll Savings Plan and to invest ten
per cent or more of their earnings.
It is our earnest hope here at the Treasury
Department that by New Year's Day thirty million
Americans will b& investing ten per cent or more
of their'wages in War Bonds through the Payroll
Savings Plan.
•CCRBTAHV or THE TRCASUHV
A Superior Court jury returned a
verdict against .the Town of Smith-
field late Friday afternoon in favor
of Dewey B. Dupree, who had brought
suit against the town as the result of
the death of his 13-year-old son who
was electrocuted by coming in contact
with some live wires when told to go
under .the Dupree home and clean out
some trash. The incident occurred on
June 13, 1939. , j .v,
Dupree, feeling that his son s death
came about as the result of faulty
wiring by the town and Carolina
Power & Light company, offered to
the town authorities ignored his
claim. He .then employed counsel and
entered suit for $50,000.
The power company won a non
suit at the close of evidence m the
case when it was shown that the
company sold power to the town by
wholesale contract.
After the jury had been out about
one hour they came in with a verdict
against the Town of Smithfield for
$10,000.
The town then gave notice of ap
peal to the State Supreme Cowt The
town attorney William B WeUons
and the firm of Ward, Stancil & Ward
represented the town. The power
company was represented by Abell,
Shepard and Wood and W. H. Weath-
erspoon, the utility general counsel.
Counsel for Dupree were ex-Gover-
nor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Leon G.
Stevens.
Dr. Atkinson Dies At
His Country Home
Princeton Woman Dies
Following Severe Burns
Mrs. Carrie Mae Braswell Suc
cumbs In Johnston County
Hospital As the Result of
Burns Received On November
9th.
Beloved Physician and Friend
Succumbs To Heart Attack At
His Johnston County H^e
On Little River—Short hu
meral Here Saturday Night—
Hody Shipped To WashmgtO'il
For Burial.
EARL A. LANE, 3rd Class
l^oman in the U. S. Navy, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Lane, of
^Ima. Earl is now stationed in
Iceland. He was connected with
the Dunn Furniture Co. before
enlisting in the Armed service
l^st May. His wife, the former
Hiss Margaret Rowland, is now
ing in Dunn.
Mrs. Carrie Mae Braswell, 22, wife
of Graham Braswell, Princeton, Rt. 1,
died at the Johnston County Hospital
Sunday at 4:30, from burns received
on November 9th.
Funeral services were held from
Pleasant Plain Free Will Baptist
church on Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock. Interment took place in the
Batten Cemetery near the church.
Surviving are her husband j her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. L.
T. Foster, Selma, Route 1; three
brothers, Edward and Lloyd Foster,
U. S. Navy, and Needham P. Foster,
Selma, Route 1.
Owners of Commercial
Vehicles Get More Time
The Office of Defense Transporta
tion has given notice that owners of
commercial vehicles who have not al
ready obtained certificates^ of war
necessity from the ODT, will be giv
en until December 1 to make appli
cation, instead of November 16. Farm
truck operators in Johnston county
may apply to the county agent s of
fice in Smithfield for their certifi
cates.
Cotton Quotas Vote
Set For December 12
Auto Tire Record
Forms Being Filed
Methodist Minister
Assures His People
Mailings For Christmas
Should Be Done Early
stamp No. 3 of the “A” gasoline
rationing books will become valid on
November 22. After that date, we un
derstand, the fellow who has been
getting 4 'gallons for one of these
coupons will only get 3 gallons.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
H. L. Si—^
:By H.
a wo“-''mRsI"" GeItouVI
STRAUGHAN, wife of the city s po-
liceman-GERTRUDE, took the hon
ors from DAVID BALL a few nights
ago when she got FIVE strikes in a
row DAVID’S previous record was
four in a row — CHARLES said
GERTRUDE fainted when g^t the
FIFTH—but, did he and HERBER
WARD, and HERBERT’S better-half
look cheap—GERTRUDE simply ran
rings ’round ’em—“ W IMPY’’ POL
LARD, who has been away from the
Maindrag these many months, is
back again — WIMPY, about three
and the last two years he has been in
Dutch Harbor-WIMPY says the
thing he liked most in this cold coun
try was the beautiful Aurora Bore
alis-these Northern Lights can be
seen from .this country, [ou
should see it in Alaska, said WIM
PY—“and those mountains, covered
with snow the year ’round are also
beautiful,’’said WIMPY-thanks to
CPL JAY BATTEN for a copy of
“TROPICAL DAZE,” a magazine
published by and for the enlisted men
of the United States Arrny Bas^
APO, care Postmaster, New York
r;itv_“The finest men and the hnest
base in .the U. S. Army Overseas, is
printed across the bottom of the
North- Carolina cotton producers
will join with others over the Cotton
Belt on Saturday, December 12, in a
referendum on marketing quotas for
the 1943-44 marketing year, according
to G. T. Scott, chairman of the State
AAA Committee.
The referendum was called by
Secretary Wickard in proclaiming
quotas on the 1943 crop. Quotas will
not be in effect, however, unless ap
proved by at least two-thirds of all
producers voting in the referendum.
A total of 73,291 North Carolina cot
ton producers voted in the referen
dum last year with 69,756 favoring
quotas and 3,535 voting against the
quotas for a majority of 96.2 per
cent. In the entire Cotton Belt 93.9
per cent of the growers favored mar
keting quotas.
Cotton marketing quotas are pro
vided in the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1938 under which the Secre
tary of Agriculture must proclaim
quotas -in any year in which the cot
ton supply reaches more than 107 per
cent of the “normal” supply. The Act
defines this “normal’’ supply as_ a
normal year’s domestic consumption
and exports plus 40 per bent for
carryover as a margin of safety. The
indicated supply of 24,700,000 bales
of American cotton for the 1942-43
marketing year is 136 per cent of the
normal supply provided in the AAA
act, Scott said.
The nation already has nearly two
years supply of cotton on hand, but
a larger than usual part of this sup
ply is composed of shorter staples
and lower grades. Cotton producers,
wherever practical, have been asked
to shift production to the longer
staple lengths. Quotas never have
been applied to cotton of 1 1-2 inches
and longer.
Under the marketing quota system,
growers may sell free of penalty all
the cotton produced on their allotted
acreage. The penalty is 50 per cent of
the basic loan rate for the marketing
year. The basic loan rate on the 1942
crop is 16 cents per pound.
Hundreds of people all over John
ston county are being called upon
these days to file records of the se
rial number of all tires owned by
them with the Tire Rationing Board
in Smithfield. The final limit for fil
ing these forms has been set for No-
vember 22. .t
All car owners must file with the
board a form showing the exact num
ber-of tires owned by them and - the
serial number of each tire. It is not
necessary to make a trip to Smith-
field to obtain the proper form for
this business, but these forms may
be obtained at any of the following
places: -,
Luther Hinton, Clayton; E. M.
Moore, Clayton; Paul McMUlan Sel
ma; Carl Little, Smithleld; Ed Wood-
all, Smithfield; F. H. Lee, Smithfield;
Albert Stallings, Smithfield; W. A.
Finch, Smithfield; Ogborn Wilder,
Zehulon, Route 1; Langley Narron,
Kenly; Glenn Hinnant, Kenly; M. S.
Toler, Princeton; G. F. Brown,
Princeton; L. H. Parrish, Benson; R.
D. Lambert, Benson; R. W. Montague,
Clayton, Route 2; J. O. Barnes, Clay
ton; Route 2; W. H. Brown Four
Oaks; S. W. Brown, Four Oaks, Joe
Austin, Four Oaks; Lonnie Grant,
Selma; Millard Stallings S^i^Lfield,
Charlie Beasley, Smithfield; E. W.
Ellis, Clayton; E. E. Hall, Garner,
Route 1; James Langston, Micro.
J Emphasizing “Complete Victory
Over Sin” the Rev. G. W. Blount, new
pastor of Edgerton Memorial Method
ist church, declared in his sermon
Sunday evening, that “We can do all
things through Christ, who strength-
eneth us”.
Taking as his text, Romans 6:14,
“For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion
Over You”, Rev. Mr. Blount stressed
the necessity of winning a moral vic
tory over self first of all. We must
must be tremendously concerned
about the moral laxity all about us—
in the moving pictures, the current
magazines and prevailing cus,toms.
meant the physical urge, within
us to be a creative, ennobling force.
He charged the youth especially to
lay a good foundation now for the
future.
■ “Sorrow,” he said, “either embit
ters or ennobles life.” We must grow
in grace through sorrow. Overcome
our enemies with goodness. If you
harbor resentment against an enemy,
a poison goes .through ones physical
being. The love of God is so powerful
that we can forgive our enemies.
He warned that we must work to
gether for a complete victory, and
we have a tremendous task.
The Rev. D. M. Clemmons and his
congregation of the First Bapti.^t
Church, joined the Methodists for this
service. The Methodist pastor was es
pecially appreciative for this gestuie
of friendliness and co-operation.^
The Junior choir, under the direc
tion of Miss Stella Etheredge, fur
nished music, and Billy Creech sang
a solo.
The bulk of Christmas mail must
be in the post offices by December 1
•this year if deliveries on time_ are to
be assured, according to Smith W.
Purdum, Second Assistant Postmas
ter General. Mr. Perdum is responsi
ble to Postmaster General Frank C.
Walker for smooth and efficient air
and railway mail service.
Unprecedented wartime demands
on the postal and transportation sys
tems, plus a prospective record
of Christmas mailings, were cited by
Mr. Purdum as necessitating earlier
mailings than ever before. _ “It is
physically impossible for the railroads
and air lines, burdened with vitally
important war materials, to handle
A short funeral service was held at
the First Baptist church of Selma
Saturday night at eight o’clock, for
Dr. Wade H. Atkinson, who died sud
denly at his home on Little Fiver
about 10 miles north of Selma, Satur
day morning at 4:30 of heart attack.
He was 76 years old. The Rev. D. M.
Clemmons, pastor of the local church
conducted the services. He was assist
ed by the Rev. Mr. Parrish.
Pallbearers acting at the funeral
here were P. H. Howard, Selma Rt.l,
Obey Hodge, Kenly, Route 2, F. E.
Parker, Micro, C. E. Kornegay, Sel
ma, and D. T. Bailey, Selma, Rt. 1.
Following the funeral here Satur
day night the body was shipped to
Washington, D. C., where burial
services were held on Tuesday,
ment taking place in Rock Creek
Cemetery in Washington.
Dr. Atkinson had made his home m
Washington for the past 50 years,
where he did an extensive practice
until failing health caused him to
have to retire a few years ago.
A few years ago he came back to
his native county of Johnston where
he spent much of his time in recent
years, having devoted considerable
time to developing his large farm
estate on Little River where he built
a nice home and improved his farm
and mill property. He erected a nice
home and improved his farm and mill
property. He erected a concrete dam
across the river and installed a corn
and Hour mill which is serving a good
purpose to a large area of farmers.
Dr. Atkinson took a great interest
in livestock and has devoted niuch at
tention to sheep and hog raising, but
one of his main hobbies was the pro-
Christmas mailings as rapidly as i une ux mo ' i." tt
normal times”, Mr. Purdum said. If 1 pegation of different kinds of fish. He ^
the bulk of parcels and greeting cards several -small. pools - near thft
fhp usual time— lip nlaced these fish and
wit; uuin. WJ. o —
are held back until the usual time
the period of about December 15 to
23—they simply cannot be distributed
in .time, and thousands of gifts will
reach their destination after Christ
mas,” he continued.
In 1941, about 21,950 mail cars
were required between December 12
and 24 to deliver Christmas mails
enough cars to make a train 270 miles
long. This year, the extra cars need
ed to move holiday mails are large y
being used by the armed services, and
a severe shortage is in prospect.
Bill Joe Austin Is
New Kiwanis Head
Quint C. Pollard
Here On Furlough
Negro Accidently
Shoots Self With Gun
Benson Youth Killed
In Plane Accident
Quint C. Pollard, Private First
Class, who is a member of the Infan
try Division in the United States
Army, is spending a few days he
on furlough with _ his s'^ter, M ^
George Pittman. Private Pollard has
been a member of the armed forces
for the past 33 months, and since that
toe lie he hae
many states. He spent several months
Tn California during the time; aLo
spent several months Jar
ohna Georgia and Louisiana Before
oiina, „-rn\r dutv he plans to
returning to army au y _ v
1 visit his brother and sis.ter in No
folk, Va.
Willie Rowland, Jr., 18, of Cleve
land township accidentally shot him
self to death Saturday morning while
helping his father saw some wood.
When the family dog took chase af
ter a rabbit the youth reached for the
shotgun setting behind a stump, and
as he raised the gun over the stump
while holding to the barrel the
trigger struck the stump and fired,
the load taking affect in his face and
coming out at the back of his head.
He died instantly.
Bill Joe Austin, manager of the
Farmers Cotton Warehouse in Smith-
field, was elected president of the
Smithfield Kiwanis club last week,
succeeding Edmund Aycock. Sam H.
Stallings was elected vice president
of the club. The following were elect
ed to become the new board of direc
tors for 1943: Dr. W. J. Whitehead
Dr. E. F. Boyette, M. A Morgan the
Rev. B. H. Houston, and C. W. War-
*^^*Kiwanian Durwood Creech made a
report to the club on the recent drive
for funds to promote Boy Scouting,
which showed that the club s commR-
tee on boys and girls’ work had rais
ed over $600 as Smithfield’s
carry on Scouting activities for the
next year. Tuscarora Council had
placed Smithfield’s quota at $450.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Byrd of Ben
son have received news from the War
printed across nocrom u. ' r)e ^tment that their son, Eaton
front page-on page 20 of ^ DAZE
niiciiG vxxwv —- . ^
(Monk) Byrd, had been killed in a
plane accident in the Hawaiian Isl
ands. No details were given.
Byrd, who was in his early .teens,
entered the Army air Corps less than
a year ago.
Stores To Close For
Thanksgiving Day
front page—uu ^7 - 7
we found this paragraph, which 7^
are reproducing: “Cpi. JAY BAT
TEN is adapting his mechanical min
to the uncanny heat-he gripes that
it gets so hot down here that he s
thiLing of inventing a portable duct
attachment to drain off excess perspi
ration . . . • he’s got drains on his
brains”—the price of the ^
one shilling-again, we say, than
you for the paper—we found ^ J® y
u'*^A^FTN^hT was^^a great shock to 1 All Selma stores will be closed on
no maf^ Johnston County had Thanksgiving Day, . and everybody
ua—no man __ shopping before that
“"’■^ ^wbil ws body lay in state day? it'has been the annual cus-
Baptist church last Saturday j tom of >'ip«ess houses to close
Sternoon hundreds of friends viewed Thanksgiving and this year
. _ whnm left th.6 nn pxceDtion.
Sundav Services At
Methodist Church
The Rev J. w. Blunt, pastor ot
J^|fi,erton
SunS a? eleven o’clock,
?efus The Christ.” At the evening
sLvice at seven-thirty, his subject
will he, “The Man Who Chang •
Sundkv school at nine forty-hve.
The Fourth Sunday Missionary pro
gram will be held at the opening of
the Sunday school.
Opossum Caught In
Fish Trap Near River
Selma Negro Dies
From Broken Neck
DUllL sevcxen oiiAc*x. * --
river where he placed these fish and
took great pride in looking after
them and showing them to his
friends. ,
Dr. Atkinson is better^raiown tor
his service to humanity, he haying
held many adenoid and tonsil clinics
for underprivileged children in recent
years. During one such clinic he per
formed 205 operations on children not
able to pay for the operations. He
later set up an office in the Person
Building here where he has performed
many such operations from time to
time, donating his services free to all
who were not able to pay for same.
His services given so freely along this
line has endeared many people to him,
causing them to feel that in his death
they have suffered the loss of one
of the greatest friends to humanity
Johnston county has ever produced.
The people of Corbett - Hatcher
school are even more endeared to him
for installing such a splendid library
in that school, which he continued^ to
build as long as he lived by adding
new books.
Dr. Atkinson always greeted his
friends with a pleasant smile and an
outstretched hand. If he had despon
dent moments his friends were un
able to detect it, he always seemed so
pleasant and congenial.
Dr. Atkinson is survived by hiS
wife, the former Mary Eishman, na
tive of Virginia; three brothers,
Thomas H. Atkinson of Tampa, Fla.;
Robert Atkinson of New Orleans; aim
Albert Atkinson of Washington, D. C.
and one sister, Mrs. L. H. Cannon of
Washington, D. C.
Mr. W. A. Watkins, of Selma, Rt. 1,
told the editor of this paper Wednes
day that on last Saturday night he
was out ’possum hunting with his
dog and the dog “treed” something
down on Little Liver. He went to the
dog and found that he had “treed
’possum in a fish trap near the
bank of the river. He said the pos
sum was of pretty good size.
the remains, many of whom left the exception,
church weeping, men and women a
good man has passed to his rew^d
sorry to learn pf the illness of MRS.
JOHN DIEHL,Hrust she soon will be
restored to her .usual good health.
The mountainous Caucasus isthmus,
slightly smaller than Montana, con
tains 16 seperate states of the Soviet
Union.
Rev. Mr. Newman To
Preach Here Sundav j
The Rev. Howard F. Newman ot
ihe nev.
ance is desired.
Thanksgiving Singers
Going To Smithfield
An unusual thing happened at the
Selma Theatre here Saturday night
when David Laney, 23, accidentally
fell down the stairway leading to the
balcony of the theatre, breaking his
neck and dying almost instantly. T e
accident occurred about 8 o clock.
County Coroner E. N. Booker, who
made an investigation of Laney s
death, decided that an inquest was not
necessary since it appeared to be
purely a matter of death from acci-
'^^Laney is survived by kis wife and
one child. He was in the employ of the
Southern Railway company as section
worker under Capt. D. Johnson.
Selma Kiwanis Cluh
To Sponsor Minstrel
At the regular meeting of the Sel
ma Kiwanis club on last Thursday
evening it was decided to sponsor a
minstrel show here on Tuesday night,
December 8th, in the Selma school
auditorium. It will be a local talent
nlav, composed of Kiwanis members^
and others. Howard V. Gaskiil, th
newly elected Kiwanis president,
H. Lowry, Kiwanis^ "i’
and Kiwanis secr^
have bew.nampd^
rangej
Proiike to P^"^®4°ir’friends'ih’^
a that we live in the
jecti''’
Buy War Bonds and Stamps
There will be a singing in the
county courthouse in Smithfield Sun-
day afternoon at 3 o’clock by the
people of the Thanksgiving commu
nity, under the sponsorship of the
Aeolian Music club, to which .the pub
lic is invited, especially all service
men, since the outstanding theme
will be “Thanks for America.”
There will be hymns and patriotic
songs, and all church choirs are in
vited to attend.
Odis Parrish Finds
Freakish Irish Potato
ACE
tiorXii
, ourselves to its defense.
lMA, N. iC.
Mrs. Odis Parrish, who lives
Gurkin’s Tavern, was in to^
Ja^JL^ weTkeAibMng an Irish j^jg-jying
?ato which her husband found wi
digging his crop. The potato
grown with a harness buckle in,
locked in it.
Buy War Bonds and ^