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Selma’s War Bonds
Auctions Around $7,000
Selma’s War Bond Quota Has
Now Reached About 70 Per
Cent of Its Goal — County
Drive Continues With Fig
ures Still Mounting.
Despite the fact that last Saturday
was one of the coldest days of the
winter, the War Bond auction here
was held right in the main street of
the town. The cold had a tendency to
keep many people away from the
sales, but those who did attend were
spirited in their bidding, and every
item of merchandise and other dona
tions by Selma’s business people was
sold at the high dollar, for which
War Bonds in the amount of their
hid were duly issued to the buyer.
C. H. (Hub) Brown was the auc
tioneer for the occasion, and it is
needless to say that he made a good
one. He was ably assisted by Rudolph
Howell, who displayed the items be
ing auctioned off while the bidding
was in progress.
Raleigh y Griffin of the Branch
Banking & Trust Company says total
sales as a result of the auction
amounted to around $7,000. Mr. Grif
fin reports that about 70 per cent ot
Selma’s Bond quota of $125,000 has
been sold up to this time. . u
\t a War Bond auction sale helfl
in'Smithfield Saturday, W. M. Gas
kin, chairman of the auction, reports
that around $52,000 worth of bonds
were sold.
Johnston county has reached its
overall war bond ouota of $958,000 in
the Fourth War Loan Campaign but
is approximately $129 000 short of its
“E” bond ouota of $330,000. it was
announced Tuesday by Chairman R.
P. Holding of the war finance com
mittee. . ‘
Sales of all type§^of war securities
credited to Johnston county in the
fourth drive reported up until Satur
day night totaled $906,000. Not in
cluded in this figure were sales re
sulting from Saturday’s war bond
auction in Smithfield, which were
just' enough to put the county over
the top as far as the overall quota is
concerned.
Smithfield Kiwanians
Plan Garden Contest
Grand Jury Now Has
Nine New Members
ADULT COUNCIL IS
ORGANIZED HERE
Immediately following Kiwanis
meeting on last Thursday evening
at the Woman’s club building the
officers of the newly organized Youth
Council met with a group of adults
and elected an Adult Council, to act
in an advisory capacity to the Youth
Council, composed of the follows:
John Jeffreys—President.
Davis S. Ball—Vice President.
The other members of the Adult
Council are 0. A. Tuttle, Joe Creech,
M. L. Stancil, W. T. Woodard, Jr.,
Mrs. Macon Williams, Mrs. Clarence
Bailey, Mrs. W. C. Sasser, Mrs. Ral
eigh Griffin, Dr. E. N. Booker, Mrs.
W. L. Etheridge, Paul Brown, Paul
Harris, B. A. Henry, and E. L. Wom-
The two councils then went into
joint session, at which time the
stitution and By-Laws of the,Youth
Council were read by Stanley Armi-
,tage, Jr., president of the Youth
Council. Upon recommendation of the
Adult Council, a few minor changes
were made in the By-Laws of the
Youth Council.
Meeting with the two groups was
Mr. Woodward, representative of the
Federal Recreation Commission, who
acted as an expert advisor on Con
stitution and By-Laws.
At a joint meeting of the two
groups held at the Woman’s club on
Tuesday evening, W. T. Woodard, Jr.
made a report on the progress he had
been able to make in locating a suit
able building for the recreational
center, in which he reported that he
had run into some difficulties -which
had to be smoothed out. He was then
asked to continue his search for suit
able quarters somewhere in the cen
tral district of the town.
RAXiONlNGWiPE
Jline new members of the grand
jury were sworn in as Johnston Su
perior court opened a one-week crimi
nal term Monday morning. They re
place nine men whose 12-month term
expired in December.
•The grand jury also has a new
foreman. W. Thurman Boyette, prin
cipal of the Pine Level school who has
been on the grand jury since the Au
gust court term, was appointed to
head the body, replacing A. J. Whit
ley, Jr., who served as foreman for
12 months. Whitley’s term on the
jury expired at the December term.
The new members of the grand
jury are: Jenkins Johnson, Four
Oaks; S. H. Massey, Smithfield; C.
W. Massey, Smithfield; Ted Barbour,
Benson; Gilbert Rowe, Princeton; C.
R. Blackman, Benson; W. W. Stewart,
Pour Oaks; J. Edward Mitchell,
Princeton; J. B. Lee, Four Oaks.
Grand jurors who were sworn m
last August and who have six more
months of service ahead of them in
clude W. Thurman Boyette, Kenly,
Route 2; W. C. Carroll, Clayton, Rt.
2; C. E. Penny, Clayton, Route i;
H. Thigpen, Clayton Route 1; J- C-
McGee, Angler, Route 1; A. A. Wel-
lons, Smithfield, Route 1; N- L. John
son, Benson, Route 2; C. P. Godwin,
Middlesex, Route 1; and R. C. Og-
burn. Willow Springs, Route 1.
Form R-140 Available
Alter February 21st
The Smithfield Kiwanis Club is
sponsoring its second annual Victory
Garden Contest, according to an
nouncement from Johnston’s county
seat. i
Billy Creech, chairman of the ivi-
-wanis committee on agriculture, an
nounced that the club had voted to
award cash prizes totaling $30 to
Smithfield’s best gardeners in 1944.
Judging will take place late in May
or the first part of June with State
College specialists making the deci
sions. , , ,,
For the best all-round garden, the
Kiwanians will award a first prize of
$15. A second prize of $10 and a third
prize of $5 will be offered.
The judges will take into consider
ation the variety of vegetables grown,
the stands and the size of the garden
in relation to the family needs.
No member of the Kiwanis club
wil be eligible to win any of the cash
prizes but all the members will be
Retailers can secure from the War
Price and Ration Board, Smithfield,
North Carolina, after February 21st
Form R-140 to which stamps may be
attached to exchange at the Banks
for tokens.
urged to lead the way by planting
Victory gardens and there will be a
separate contest for the club mem-
IjGrs.
The Kiwanians last year conducted
a campaign to promote increased in
terest in gardening as an aid. to the
war program. A community-wide con
test was held in which Mrs T J.
Johnson was declared Smithfield s
champion gardener. ■
With the nation facing the prospect
of a diniminishing supply of canned
vegetables on the market this year,
it will be more important than ever
for families to help the general food
situation by planting Victory gardens
in 1944, it was pointed out by Kiwan-
ian Creech. , 4.
C. W. Kitchen, deputy director ot
the Office of Distribution of the War
Food Administration, declared in a
speech before the FooA Processors
convention in Chicago that “the pro
jected vegetable supply for civilian
distribution in the coming season will
he nearly 40 million cases less than
the quantity consumed in 1941-42 and
nearly 25 million cases less than the
supply available during the current
season.”
The WFA official also announced
that cmlians are in for a 43 per cent
cut in canned fruits during 1944.
PROCESSED FOODS
Green R, H, G, and J (Book Four)
expire February 20. Green K, L, and
M (Book Four) now valid, expire on
March 20.
MEATS AND FATS
Brown V and W (Book Three) ex
pire February 26. Brown X (Book
Three) now valid, will expire Febru
ary 26. Brown Y (Book Three) now
valid, will expire March 20.
PORK
Red stamps A-8 through M-8 (Book
Four) (120- points) valid- in advance
to purchase pork from farmers only,
not from retail stores.
SUGAR
Sugar stamp 30 (Book Four) good
for five pounds. Expires March 31.
Sugar stamp 40 (Book Four) good
for five pounds canning sugar until
February 28, 1945 (13 months).
SHOES
Stamp 18 (Book One) valid indefi
nitely. Airplane stamp 1 (Book 3) is
now valid.
FUEL OIL
Period 3 coupons (10 gallons) now
valid. Expire February 21. Period 4
and 6 coupons (10 gallons) expire on
September 30.
GASOLINE
A-9'i coupons, now valid and will
expire May 8.
Ruling About Dealer
Transfer Of Gasoline
On and after November 22, 1942, no
dealer or distributor shall discrimi
nate in the transfer of gasoline
among any consumers lawfully en
titled to acquire gasoline upon evi
dence issued by the Office of Price
Administration. This would be a di
rect violation of Government regula
tions.
Recreation Leader Talks
To Selma Kiwanis Club
Program Chairman Bill Thad
^oodard had as guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Selma Ki
wanis club last Thursday evening,
Mr. Stewart Woodward of Raleigh
and Washington, who is connected
with the Recreation program for Ar
my Camps. Kiwanian Woodard intro
duced the speaker and asked him to
tell of some of the work being done
in other fields to afford recreation
for the teen-age group of boys and
girls.
The speaker said he had spent sev
eral years in the recreation field, and
that’.he was immensely interested in
the new' recreation program for Sel
ma, stating that, so'far as he knew,
it is the first town of its size in the
entire state to undertake this type
of program for the teen-age group
of boys and girls. Mr. Woodward said
he would watch the success of the
undertaking here with keen interest
and if it- goes over in a big way it
will mean a great boost for Selma
and those responsible' for the under
taking.
The speaker told of tthe Recreation
program put on in Raleigh, Durham
and other places, and said it had
inspired him to note the wonderful
work these programs are doing to
help the youth of these communities.
Mr. Woodward offered many fine
suggestions as to how such a pro
gram might prove most helpful at
the least possible cost to the commu
nity.
Discharged Service Men
May Lose Insurance
More than 800,000 veterans of this
war are already back - in civilian
.clothes. Men and wpmen are being
1 discharged at the rate of 1,000 daily,
it is known that in some instances
the government insurance has been
allowed to lapse. The service you can
render is to contact these discharged
veterans, or their families, and tell
them that the insurance can be re
instated without a physical examina
tion up to FEBRUARY 23.
All discharged service men and
women should check up on this mat
ter at once.
Red Cross Machinery Is
Geared For Master Drive
County Chairman Howard V.
Gaskill .Announces Complete
Working Organization In Va
rious Parts of Jiohnston Coun
ty — Drive to Begin March 1.
District Meeting Of
Order Eastern Star
Selma Boy Awarded
Good Conduct Medal
Pfe Kirby Henry, of Selma, who is
with the Ninth Infantry Division
overseas, was recently awarded the
Good Conduct Medal by Major Gener
al M. S. Eddy, commander of the
Ninth Infantry Division, for “meri
torious and soldierly conduct as a
member of a field artillery unit The
award was made somewhere in Sicily
at the end of the Sicilian campaign.
Private 1st Class Henry participat
ed in the landing in North Africa- in
November, 1942, and in the Tunisian
and Sicilian campaign. He is tne
nephew of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Henry
of Selma.
Soldiers Mail Should
Omit Sentimentality
Feels Duty Bound To
Help Brother Fight War
Walter Earl Avery, who left Friday
for the U. S. Army, had the follow-
I ing statement to make: ^ _
“I have a brother fighting in the
war in Italy and I feel that it is my
duty to try to help him out the most
I can. I hate to leave Selma and my
many friends here, especially Mayor
Barnie Henry and Floyd C. P™®’
hope all my friends will buy all the
.War Bonds they can so that I can
soon come home again.
Chairmen have been named in ten
of the 16 townships represented in
the Johnston county Red Cross chap
ter for the War Relief drive sched
uled to start March 1 and continue
through the month, announces H. 'V.
Gaskill of Selma county chairman of
the -drive.
These township chairmen are: Sam
H. Stallings, Smithfield; Mrs. Doc
Rand Oliver, Pine Level; Rudolph A.
Howell, Selma; Mrs. H. M. Grizzard
and E. E. Crawford, Beulah; Mack D.
Overby, Banner; Mrs. C. H. Aderholt,
Meadow; Rev. R. N. Hinnant, Micro;
J. B. Wooten, Boon Hill; Howard
Mitchiner, Wilson’s Mills; Mrs. H. M.
Cox Bentonville;- and S. E. Sherrill,
Ingrams.
Mr. Gaskill states that the other
chairmen will be named this week.
A supper meeting for the campaign
workers arranged by Mr. Gaskill at
the Selma community house Friday
night was featured by a talk' by Miss
Marian Weinell, Red Cross field rep
resentative of Raleigh, and by a mov
ing picture giving selling points for
solicitors in the coming campaign.
In spite of the rain, 33 were pres
ent representing Selma, Smithfield,
Pine Level and Beulah to'wnships.
Mr. Gaskill presided and presented
Miss Weinell, who told of the various
phases of Red Cross work, of the in
creased work and the need for more
funds than ever before. She called
upon Mrs-K. L. Rose, executive secre
tary of the home service work of the
Johnston county chapter, to tell of the
home service being done in Johnston
county. , . ,
A 20-minute film was shovm, which
presented seven selling points that
Red Cross leaders say should be given
consideration by those who go out to
solicit for the-Red Cross next month.
These points briefly, are: know your
sales story; see each prospect prover-
ly; touch each base; make each sell
ing point stick by a story; press ex
tra hard on the hot button; make
your selling points add up: and ask
your prpspect to buy, if necessary,
three times'.
A delicious supper was . served f ri-
dav night by the Selma Woman s club
and the guests were seated around a
table arranged in the shape of the
Red Cross- .emblem. ■
Supnlies for the coming drive were
given out to the local chairirien pres
ent.
German Businessmen
Owners In Name Only
A German businessman needs per
mission from 30 agencies before he
can construct an industrial- pffint.
And while company officials ha-ce
been retained and private ownership
upheld, gradual strangulation has oc
curred through regimented trade as
sociations which cover the entire
German economy und in which mem
bership is compulsory.
These findings of the Brookings
Institutte show that the German bus-
■ inessman, far from influencing or be
ing protected by the state, has be
come a mere government agent in a
complicated maze of official controls.
A meeting of Royal 4th District
Order of Eastern Star of North Caro
lina, was held in Rocky Mount on
February 10th, with Mrs. Miriam
Longest, District Deputy Grand Ma-
tran, of Rocky Mount and Wilbur D. .
Perkins, District Deputy Grand Pa
tron, of Selma, presiding.
The chief speakers were Mrs. Mar
tha McGee, Worthy Grand Matron
and Sam Young. Worthy Grand Pa
tron of Raleigh, Geo. R. Bennett,
Supt. of Masonic and Eastern Star
Home of Greensboro.
Other distinguished guests present
were Mrs. Mary K. Fleet, Past Grand
Matron and Bessie R. Mangrura,
Grand Secretary of Rocky Mount,
Mrs. Athalea Bro-wn, Past Grand
Matron and Dr. J. Howard Brown,
Grand Chaplain of Tarboro, Mrs,
Blanche C. Twiford, Associate Grand
Matron of Elizabeth City, Wade M.
Jenkins, Associate Grand Patron of
Fayetteville.
The Chapters in the Fourth District
include: Goldsboro No. 54; Glover No.
107; Lydia No. 109; Wilson No. 145;
Norlina No. 158; Wellons No. 167;
Enfield No. 183; Charles Austin No.
193; James B. White No. 199; Rich
Square No. 201 and Selma No. 209.
Those attending from Selma were
Mrs. G. A. Earp, Mrs. J. T. Hughes,
andTdr. and Mrs. W. D. Perkins.
Mrs. Miriam Logest will make her
official visit to the Selma Chapter on
Tuesday night, February 22, at 8
o’clock, at which time other disting-
.ujshed.guests,are expected to be pres
ent. A salad plate will be served prior
to the meeting.
Chicago. — Maj. Gen. George F.
Lull, deputy surgeon general of the
United States Army, said “a soldier’s
mail should not contain sentiment
such as T can’t get along without
you’ or ‘when you get home?’ and so
forth, but should encourage him to
get out and get the job done.”
The statement was made in an ad
dress prepared for the annual Con
gress on Medical Education and licen
sure in which Lull declared causes of
psychatric casualties among fighting
men “start right back here in the
home territory.’ ”
-“Radio programs frequently carry
the same note of nostalgic sentiment
ality, and this war has yet to produce
a stimulating, stirring song such as
has always been developed in past
wars,” he asserted.
Lull quoted one medical officer as
saying “good leadership is considered
the most important factor in obtain
ing and maintaining morale,” and
that “figures of neuropsychiatric cas
ualties are high in the units where
the leaders become neuropsychiatric
casualties.”
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
:By H. H. L. =S=
Sailor’s Mother Speaks;
Strike Is Called Oil
Chicao-o. — A woman war worker,
the mother of a sailor, was cited by
Lt. George Barnes of the police labor
detail Monday night as being instru
mental in terminating a strike called
at a Chicago war plant.
Barnes said officers of the AIL
United Automobile Workers Union ot
the Armstrong Brothers Tool Com
pany had ordered a strike for Mon
day because two workers had been
transferred from the day to the night
shift.
The woman employe, whose name
was withheld, refused to strike, Lt.
Barnes said, telling other workers:
“I’ve got a war job to do. My boy
may be waiting for this material.”
Barnes said the strike was quickly
settled after a conference by union
delegates and company officials.
J. H. (Jim) Snipes
Undergoes Operation
In renewing his subscription to The
Johnstonian-Sun this week, Mr; J. H.
Snipes of Durham, better known to
his friends here as “Jim” Snipes,
writes:
“Dear M. L.: , no .t
“You 'will find enclosed $1.00 tor
subscription. I have spent 42 days in
Watts Hospital with operation. Came
home the 10th. Can sit just a while
at the time; am very weak.”
Thinks Johnstonian-Sun
The Greatest Weekly
Buy War Bonds Today!
In renewing her subscription to
The Johnstonian-Sun this week, Mrs.
H. L. Tolly of Salisbury, writes Edi
tor Stancil as follows:
“Dear Mr. Stancil:
“Enclosed you will find $1.00 for
which I would like to renew my sub
scription to The Johnstonian-Sun.
We enjoy the paper every week and
think it’s the greatest weekly paper
we know of.”
Rex Hospital, Raleigh, Feb. 19—We
couldn’t make up -our mind wheth
er to write a line for the Maindrag
this week or not, but since so many
letters, cards, etc., have been coming
to us we want to take this opportu
nity to thank oiir many friends for
their kindnesses—it does one good to
get these beautiful sentiments—one
•we got today from RUDOLPH HOW
ELL was especially fine—thank you,
RUDOLPH — my doctor, DR. WIL- ^
LIAM R. DEWAR, says I am getting
along fine, but will have to stay here
a while-longer—he is about the bus
iest man in Raleigh with his big of
fice practice and his many patients
in the hospital—“I’d^like to swap
places with you for aMut two weeks”
he told me today. *1 am needing a
rest,” he ' said — SENATOR J. B.
BENTON, editor of the Benson Re
view, was able to go home this week ,
—he has been a mighty sick man—•
his many friends will be glad to learn
that he is much improved, however—’
DICK LEWIS came after MR. JOHN
H. TALTON Sunday—MR. TALTON
is also much better—MRS. C. W.
FULCRUM, is also a patient here—
MR. FULGHUM visited her Sunday
and dropped into see us—we had a
very pleasant visit with MR. GADDY,
superintendent of Rex Hospital, this
morning—MR. GADDY is an old
school mate of DR. R. E. EARP of
Selma, and a close friends of POST
MASTER H. E. EARP also of Selma
—he was formerly head of the city
schools of Raleigh—he told us that
Johnston county was well represent
ed on the hospital staff—five nurses
are here from Johnston county—we
are well situated here—have a pri
vate corner room with two windows,
getting plenty of good things to eat,
the best the market affords—I was
told when I came that I would be
given a “light” diet—after a few
meals had been served me I told the
nurse “if you call this a ‘light’ diet,
I would like to see one of the ‘square’
meals you serve here.”—'wish I could
have been on that howling party last
Friday night—the YEditor of The
Johnstonian-Sun would have had a
different tale to tell—MR. S. M.
PARKER writes us that the Editor
captured two out of three—just wait
till I get back—hold him down this
coming Friday night—if DAVID
BALL can’t do it, we can—what has
become of the lady bowlers, MRS.
HERBERT WARD, and MRS. GER
TRUDE STRAUGHON?—also R,
BRITT—^keep us posted.
Zek; “Did the cyclone hurt your
house much,”
Obadiah: “Dunno, we ain’t located
her yet.”