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THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN. SELMA, N. C. — THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 1943.
PAGE THREE
Home Service Work
Red Cross Expands
to
(By MRS.^ T. J. LASSITER)
The employment of a full-time cler
ical worker for the home service de
partment of the Johnston county
chapter of the Red Cross was author
ized at the quarterly meeting of the
executive committee held in the
courthouse here Friday afternoon
with Mrs. C. E. Kornegay, of Selma,
chapter president, presiding.
Mrs. K. L. Rose is full time home
service executive secretary and has
been assisted on a part-time basis by
Miss Arab Hooks. But as the number
of Johnston county men in the serv
ice has increased the work of home
service has increased until a part-
time clerk is not adequate. Dr. E. N.
Booker of Selma made the motion
calling for employment of a full time
to make the appointment as soon as
helper, Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Kornegay
a suitable person can be secured.
The executive committee also re
quested that the office of the home
service secretary be moved from the
sheriff’s office but kept in the court
house if possible. The purchase of a
typewriter, the installation of a tele
phone and the securing of other
equipment necessary for an office
were authorized.
Mrs. Rose made a report of her
work for the past three months which
showed a large increase each month.
Dr. Booker, in connection with this
report, brought to the attention of
the executive committee the need for
babies born to wives of service men
to be registered immediately after
birth in order that the monthly
amount due to be paid the mother
under the dependency benefits act
be available. Delay means lost in
come for the mother, he pointed out.
The executive committee instructed
the home service department to get
out a letter at once to every doctor in
Johnston county and to every regis
trar of vital statistics urging their
cooperation in this matter.
Mrs. Hooks Resigns
Mrs. Thel Hooks, who for the past
three years has served faithfully and
efficiently as the chapter chairman of
production, tendered her resignation
to take effect Jan. 1. Reluctantly, the
committee accepted her resignation.
Mrs. Hooks gave a verbal report,
stating that knitting and the kit bags
for overseas service men are the main
production projects at this time. A
new quota of khaki wool has been re
ceived but this project will not be un
dertaken until the Navy articles now
in process of making are finished.
Mrs. Hooks reported on a donation
for local Red Cross work made re
cently by the Johnston County Triple
A. This governmental agency at the
close of the mattress and comfort
projects turned over unused materials
to the Red Cross, the most of w^hich
has been converted into cash totaling
$534.62.
Mrs. W. T. Woodard, Jr., of Selma,
chairman of surgical dressing, was
not present, but she sent a request
that announcement be made that all
surgical dressings now om-hand must
be shipped on December 1.
Mrs. B. G. Mattox, chairman of
camps and hospitals, made a report
on the progress being made in fur
nishing a sun room in the Seymour
Johnson Field Hospital at Goldsboro.
This project is expected to be com
pleted this week. Another project will
then be undertaken.
Branches Repont
Mrs. Doc Rand Oliver of Pine
Level was present representing the
Pine Level branch. She stated that
the Pine Level branch had completed
60 kit bags, 50 small sewing kits and
had turned in $50 in cash with which
to fill the bags. In addition, a hun
dred dollars, raised through rummage
sales, is still in the branch treasury.
Miss Margaret Etheredge of the
Selma branch reported $50 in hand
for filling 50 kit bags, but the ma
terial for making them had just been
received.
The executive committee approved
the constitution and by-laws with
minor changes which national head
quarters had made, and also approved
a budget for five months, or until
funds from the next Red Cross drive
in March is available. A budget for
the year 1944-46 was also approved,
These budgets had been made by Mrs.
Kornegay, chapter president and the
field representative from national
headquarters, who conferred with her
about two weeks ago.
Larry F. Wood, whose work as
chairman of the 1943 Red Cross drive
was outstanding, was unanimously re
elected to head the drive again next
March.
Oxford Orphanage
Gives 190 To Service
Some Of Its Members Have
Already Been Decorated
For Valor
December 11, Mr. Earle said:
“Cut a cord of pulpwood for every
local boy in the armed service means
imore than just an appeal to patrio
tism. It is an opportunity to back up
that boy with supplies, equipment,
and food. It may even save his life.
“Few people realize how important
a part pulpwood products play in the
daily life of a fighting man. He gets
his food protected from spoilage or
contamination in water-proof and
weather - proof paperboard boxes or
multi-wall bags. He gets his shells,
hand grenades, and other ammuni
tion in paperboard cases. And he
fires them with smokeless powder
made of pulpwood.
The Oxford Orphanage at Oxford,
North Carolina, has a record of sev
enty years of service to the children
of North Carolina. Over five thou
sand have been cared for and trained.
Its graduates and former pupils are
in all walks of life and there is no
record of a former pupil having been
convicted and sentenced for commit
ting a major crime. It is the oldest
Orphanage in the State and receives
children other than those of member
ship of the supporting order.
At the present time less than fifty
per cent of the population of the Or
phanage is of Masonic parentage. The
home possesses valuable buildings,
grounds and equipment and has had
no operating deficit for several
years.
The annual budget of the Orphan
age calls for an expenditure of $170,-
000.00. This provides shelter, clothing,
and food, recreation, heat, light,
books, school supplies, health pro
gram, staff of trained workers, voca
tional training in several depart
ments, laundry, repairs and upkeep to
ground, buildings and equipment, and
experienced case work for a family
of 313 children.
Superintendent C. K. Proctor an
nounces that the sum of $10,000.00 is
needed this year for operating ex
penses in order to balance the budget.
The Oxford Orphanage is more
than a philanthropy—it is an invest
ment in the lives of North Carolina
boys and girls who would not other
wise have a chance. It pays to the
State and its citizenship the high
dividends in character and trained
young people. It is an opportunity to
day for North Carolina citizens to ex
press in a substantial way their de
sire to help others.
The orphanages of the State use
the Thanksgiving season as an oc
casion to appeal to the citizens of the
State for much needed assistance.
The Superintendent of the Oxford
Orphanage announces that the home
is open for visitors each day, and
hundreds of North Carolina citizens
visit this historic spot every year.
Homemakers Asked
To Store Potatoes
Nutrition specialists with the State
College Extension Service urge North
Carolina homemakers to buy Irish
potatoes in large quantities this fall.
Homemakers who take advantage
of the abundant supply of this nutri
tious food will help relieve the short
age of farm storage space, and assure
their families of plenty of wholesome
food through the winter.
The Food Distribution Administra
tion offers these rules for housewives
who plan to take advantage of the
national Victory Food Selection of
October 21 to November 6.
First, inspect the potatoes carefully
for decay, and take out all decayed
potatoes before storing. Segregate
the badly bruised or cracked potatoes
and use them first. This will cut down
on future deterioration. Be careful
Selma School Exceeds
War Fund Goal
Two Johnston Women
Join The Marines
An Opportunity
Worth Considering
not to bruise potatoes, as bruises lead
to decay.
Find a dark, cool place, preferably
one where the temperature does not
rise much above 40 degrees. However,
in the fall a temperature as high as
60 degrees would be satisfactory for
a month or six weeks. By maintaining
a temperature of 40 degrees or under
potatoes will keep for three to five
months after harvest, depending upon
the variety.
For this storage, a cellar, closet,
back porch or barrel buried in the
backyard will do. If a cellar or back
porch is used, be sure that the pota
toes are not placed in the light, as it
will cause them to turn greenish and
taste bitter. A cloth or paper cover
ing or a bag. may be used to shut out
the light, the Food Distribution Ad
ministration says.
Of the $2,000.00 that the Town of
Selma was to raise, the school took
one-tenth of the amount
as their goal.
The following account speaks for it-
self. The goal was reached to the ex-
tent of 150 per cent.
ROOM
AMT.
Pant
$ 5.00
Everett
5.16
Strickland
6.11
Woodall
2.37
Herring
4 50
Blackmore
5.00
Perkins
3.50
Spiers
5.00
Watlington
5.26
Boyette
15.70
Moore
7.56
Pittman
5.06
Wood
3.00
Fitzgerald
7.60
Godwin
3.31
Nelson
11.00
Woodard
5.92
Whitaker
7.50
Starling
7.87
Harris
7.50
Jones
10.00
Massey
8.50
Outlaw
11.93
Gunter
6.75
Livingston
20.15
Covington
22.30
Glenn
21.00
Ward
40.50
Others
5.00
TOTAL
$282.20
Yellow Jacket
Cotton Ginnings Near
Mark One Year Ago
The census report
shows that
there were 17,494 bales of cotton
ginned in Johnston County from the
crop of 1943 prior to
October 18, as
compared with 17,858
bales for the
crop of 1942.
Among the forty women from the
State of North Carolina to date who
have joined the Marine Corps Wom
en’s Reserve to free male leather
necks to, fight, are two from John
ston County, Nellie R. Boyette of
Four Oaks and Christine K. Rose of
Smithfield.
Growers can change their farming
plans slightly to include several acres
of food crops without interfering with
tobacco or cotton, say Shoffner and
Holmes, farm management specialists
at State College.
armers
elcome
VEGETABLES
The aggregate tonnage of 8 im
portant processing vegetables, for
which estimates had been made on
October 1, show a decline of 9 per
cent below 1942, says a BAE report.
“This community has a great op
portunity to show our boys in the
armed forces that we’re behind them
100 per cent and that while they are
fighting at the front we are working
at home to keep pace with our pro
duction of war material”, Mr. T. W.
Earle, Manager Wood and Land De
partment, North Carolina Pulp Com
pany, Plymouth, North Carolina, said
today.
“We may not have the huge war
plants that you find in large manu
facturing cities”, he continued, “but
we do have an essential war indus
try that it just as important to the
ir effort as the production of
It is estimated that drought has
cut the corn crop of Mexico by 20
per cent and all commercial stocks
of corn have been placed under Gov
ernment control.
planes, tanks, and guns. It’s the cut
ting of pulpwood.
“Many of us, because of age or
family responsibilitiesf are unable to
join the actual attack on the Axis in
Europe or the South Pacific. But that
doesn’t mean we can’t have a hand
in winning - and shortening - the
war. Our country needs every man,
some of them for fighting, but the
majority to keep the combat troops
supplied with supplies in good condi
tion and on time.
“That’s where pulpwood comes in.
Without the thousands of military
products into which it is made, our
boys would be severely handicapped.
With an abundance of it, our boys will
be able to do their job effectively and
quickly. They will lick the Axis and
be home sooner if we do not falter.”
Reciting the slogan of the newspa
per pulpwood drive for November 11
JUST
ARRIVED!
Another Ship
ment or
iSinger and
New
Home
Sewing
Machines
Floyd C.
Price&Son
of 2-Way Help*
suggests you try
FARMERS OF JOHNSTON COUNTY
I
are always welcomed at this market where
your hogs always bring Top Market prices.
Here you have no sales fees to pay — no
weighing fees taken out of your check—we
pay you full prices for every ounce your
hogs weigh.
Bring your next load here
and try our buying method.
Sampson Livestock Market
Fairgrounds,
Phone 390-1
Clinton, N. C.
STACY HONEYCUTT, Mgr.
Thanks to You
special Services At
Tabernacle Church
On Sunday, November 7th, 1943,
the pastor of the Church of God
(white), located on Waddell Street,
will speak at the Tabernacle Holiness
church (colored), on the subject of
“The Third Appearing of the Dove”,
as found in Genesis 8:11.
Services begin at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon.
Rev. Cloer is a gifted sneaker and
the message will he enjoyed by both
whi+e and colored.
Music and singing by gifted sing
ers with string instruments.
REV. E. L. STOKES, Pastor.
I wish to thank all my friends for their past
patronage, and will be glad to take your
subscription or renewal to The Johnston-
ian-Sun or The Raleigh Times. Come to
see me at the Pittman Hatchery in Selma
and give me your newspaper business.
Thanking you again, I am
Yours respectfully.
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