established 1916
SELMA, N. C., TH^RSI^Y-^TULY 21,. 1949.
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REFERENDUM REMINDER—“rm no tobacco farmer,** says
young Larry Alien of Wake County, N. C., “but Saturday, July 23 is
an important date for everybody. That’s the day every flue-cured
grower landowner, tenant and sharecropper—should go to his com-
inuiuty polling place to vote on TOBACCO ASSOCIATES and
marketing QUOTAS. My Daddy says tobacco farmers have the
best program they've evec had, but they must vote SaturH«v, .Tulj
26 to keep that program.”
Johnston Has $7,562,800
At Stake In Vote Saturday
MorR than 5,000 Tar Heel farm
ers and homemakers are expect
ed to gather on the State College
campus in Raleigh early next
month for what promises to be the
most outstandin^g Farm and Home
iWeex program ever, held in Nort'
Carolina, John W. Goodman, as-
jsistant director of the State Col
lege Extension Service, said this
^we«ie.
The four-day annual event, no
held last year because of a polio
epidemic, will begin with regis
tration on Monday, August 8, and
iconfinue until Thursday night
jAugust 11, when Bob Hawk, na
tional radio show quizmaster, will
jpreside over a grand-finale con
test during which more than $-5,-
iOOQ worth of farm m.achinery and
jequipment will be giv.en away.
I Secretary of Agriculture Char
les F. Brannan, author of the
much-discussed Brannan farm
program, will headline a list of
notable speakers for the occasion
He will address a joint session ot
|men and women on Tuesday
night.
other featured speakers will be
Governor Scott, himself a farmer
and former county agent: Rep,
Hai'-old D, Cooley of Nashville,
chairman of the House Agricul
ture Committee; Mrs. Camille Mc
Ghee Kelly, of Memphis, Tenn.,
one of the best-known juvenile
court judges in the nation; and
Mrs. Raymond Sayre, president of
Associated Country Women of the
World.
Congressman Cooley will speak
on proposed national farm legis
lation and will then participate in
a round-table discussion on the
same subject with Dr. J. H. Hil
ton, dean of the State College
School of Agriculture: E. Y. Bal-
lentine, State agrictilture com-
PRICE:5CENTS
5,000 ExpectedSelmi Test and Repeater Telephone Station Is An
ror Farm Week j l i. i. i i ^
ppitant Link In Nations Communication System
r , . — crop
in T94^i-yra«,worth 'approximately
$18,9S?T000, hut ■’Ivithout our for
eignmarket we would have suf
fered plenty. There wmuld have
been, no place for that 40 percent
we usually export, and the result
ing depressed prices surely would
have placed our loss far above
the $7,562,800 we received for our
exported tob,acco.
‘There’s no doubt that two-
thirds of the farmers voting in
North and South Carolina in the
Tobacco Associates referendum
will approve the continuation of
^he program. However, we must
register an overwhelming vote
iust as we did in 1947 when more
than 125,000 voted for pro
gram and less than 2,000 against
it. A big v-ote will show everyone
tobacco farmers are eager to do
iomething to help themselves.
Bet’s get out that big vote Satur
day, July 23 for Tobacco Associa-
Johnston County flue-cured Lo ,
tobacco growers have a $7 562 son acres, with an average
stake in th. 'Vr.u f^’®®2.800 per acre yield of 1,341 nounds
stake m the Tobacco Associates “Our county’s flue-cured
referendum Saturday, July 23 fqr' '
that’s the amount th^-reSjfvfed
for the exported portion of their
1948 crop.
G. Willie Lee, Willow Springs,
county chairman for the referen
dum, last week pointed out the
vital interest local farmers have
in the export program. He urged
every grower who will share in
the proceeds of the 1949 crop to
“get out and vote” on the 10-cents
an acre self-assessment to support
Tobacco Associates, and on Mar
keting Quotas. The Marketing
Quotas referendum will be held
at the same time and in the same
polling places.
Other committee members are:
A. J. M'^hitley, Smithfield, and
Oscar L. Boyette, Princeton.
“Every flue-cured grower de
pends upon exports tor the sale
of about 40 percent of his crop,'
missioner; R. Flake Shaw, execd- ti„ues
tive secretary of the North. Caro
lina Farm Bureau; Harry %.C:ald.
veil, master of the State Grhnge:
-J. T. Scott, State director, of
. roduction and Marketing 'Ad
ministration, E. B. Garrett. State
loil conservationist; and Dir. I. O.
Schaub, director of the State Col-
e,go Extension Service.
Perhaps tbe.'jno#;-unioue his
tory of any busirieS?'in Selma is
■hat surroundihg %e Ame-i-an
Telephone and'' Tefegraph Com-
'any’s station in Selma. Tn ad.,
lition to the local t^eohone ex-'
change, the loi^ linel departm-nt
5f the Bell Sy^fem.has a test and'
epeater statioh^loctii'd here. The’
A. T. &.T. and'the ^uthern Belli
■ender two sgnarate;|ervices.
Establi.shed in 191.f;fn ab-ut the,
same location a.s‘t.bA'^'ty Barber!
Shop on RaefQtd'Street, the’
station has a record ;16 vears nf.
■ontinuous service.^Irf 1915 the«^^
station was mo-ved'h4^ Ug' present '
location ,at the conj|r;§f Anderson
and • Raeford 'HrS,|^.,,'’-How in-
•■eresting to knowitic ejeact na t
that the station Ta^^’yed in the
communication |iS sfi-the 'nation!
throughout this, l^y .'v/ere it'
■■■ossible to relate 'iqsh the la^t
World ’iVar would « age a fitting!
example. c-.- •
_ The inifla for e nti Selma con
sisted of two men}.;pnfier‘-the late
Norman M. ScpewSl'as,Chief Test-!
board Man. As is. to he-expec‘ei
economic condmona^and; techn"!'-
gical improvement^' ffev? res Ite ’
in the number ,nfen being-
varied up and dovgg. bid at i+s
peak the station rfeqtdred about
17 men. - 1
In 1920 Mr. Screwy j.was suc
ceeded by E. O. l^oi 'now de
ceased, who serv^: sibout eigh*
years. He in turn .Svas succeeded
by Charles W. Scs^esL -who re
mained about 10 ^rs and was
*-ransferred to Grinyille, S. ,C
Mr. Scales served April 15
1926 until Set>temp» 1 lOgg, M-
Wood went to Dej^ark S. C
serving there ni l JB death
.few years a^io. Mh” S'’ale=
Greenvllt
Carty who
Giant Test Board at the Selm a Test and Repeater Station
^ J. C. Diehl, test board man is shown at the large test board in the Selma station. On this board wire
.trouble is located between Selma and Richmond and Selma and Denmark, S. C.
a
con-
in GreenvfUe. He was
followed here by Ci F
served six yeays.
Mr. Carty wa.5 succeeded b'
Bernard C. TJuBOse.'iioresent ch’e
toe
in Selma is a Test IBh P.%pe-^te
the “tele-
Selma Firms Get
Safety Awards
the chairman said. “In our coun- jtes and ^Marketing Quotas two
ty last year, we produced 37,815,- vital parts of our board tobacco
938 pounds of tobacco on about urogram.
Too Much Speed Blamed
for Most Highway Wrecks
JEFF B. WILSON
Woodard Takes
Civil Service Job
Ernest V. Woodard, Jr., left by
plane Sunday morning for Rad
ford, 'Va., where he has been ap
pointed analytical chemist by the
U. S. Civil Service Commission.
Since his graduation from Atlantic
Christian College in February, he
has been employed in the Chemis
try Department of the State
Laboratory of Hygiene, Raleigh.
Mrs. Woodard will join him in
Radford in the near future.
Raleigh.—Speeders lose' With
this warning the North Carolina
Department of Motor Vehicle to
day launched its July safety pro
gram against the dangers of ex
cessive speed. This concentration
on speed is part of a continuing,
year-around traffic safety pro
gram conducted, nationally by the
[National Safety Council and in
North Carolina by the Depart
ment.
“Too much speed is a contribut
ing factor in one out of every
three fatal traffic accidents,” said
Jeff B. Wilson, director of the
Highway Safety Division, “This
means that too high speeds play a
part in the deaths of approxim
ately 250 person.' yearly on North
Carolina highways.”
I Fully as important as posted
speed limits—if not more so—,
according to Wilson, are the speed
limits that each motorist should
impose upon himself.
“Call them conscience speed
limits’ if you wish,” the Highway
Safety Department director said.
“But in every driver there should
be a sense of responsibility to
ward his driving—a realization
that posted speed limits are an in
physical condition, and countless
safe speed on a road under ideal
circumstances.
“Too seldom, however, is the
road traveled under circumstanc
es. Night; rain, fog, other traffic,
the road surface, the driver’s
physical condition, adn countless
other factors must be taken into
should be a guide. Often condi-
(See A Page Four)
Worley Beverages, Inc., and
lean-M-Right Cleaners today
were awarded- a Certificate of
Safety Achievement signed by
State Labor Commissioner , For
rest H. Shuford for having achiev
ed a perfect record of no lost-time
accidents during 1948.
The safety award was present
ed to the firms by T. B. Knight,
safety inspector representing the
North Carolina Department of
Labor in the Raleigh District.
The certificate cites these two
firms for having made an out
standing record in the field of ac
cident prevention last year and for
preventing the human suffering
and economic loss which are
caused by industrial accidents.
The .award is presented to
establishments which qualify by
having! perfect safety records
having accident rates at least 75
per cent below the State average
or by reducing their accident rates
40 per cent or more during any
calendar year, Mr. Knight ex
plained.
Qualification of industrial
nlants for the Certificate of Safety
Achievement is one phase of the
Labor Deoartment’s Manpower
Conservation Program, which also
includes safety education work
and periodic inspection drives the
inspector said.
station and not
[nhone offlce.,’5ijElr. DuBose has
been in Selma since 1928. he hav
ing served as telegraph sendee
man, transmission man and test-
board man prior to his appoint
ment as chief.
Perhaps a brief technical des
cription of the function of Selma’s
most unusual business should be
?iven here. The station acts as a
“repeater” point on long-haul
telenhone circuits; ie, long dis-
System. It is well known over the
nation to telephond", men, and
many people now serving in
various part of the United States
have at one time served here. Or
they have been connected with it.
in .some capacity.
Men assigned to the loca'
station are, in addition to Mr.
DuBose;. J. C. Diehl, G. H. Youn
ger, Ben A. Brantley, J. L. Mc
Millan, W. H. Hightower, Jr., and
Howard V. Gaskill. The system
takes considerable pride in the
■fact that.,the.se meh and the'r
™ - families'—as their nredec-essors—
'hei statiulflarf-' 'tecewSiizbff'*a's t citizens
Professionally all of them are
known and recognized by their
fellows as being able technicians
The work is so divided that each
nan has hi.s own responsibilities,
and he has the ability and know
ledge to assume and dischargf
them.
In addition to the day-to-da:
job of furnishing the various ser
vices the station forces attend tc
the job covering inter-cd|toan>
work performed at the
pffices in it’s area. Plans an
Johnston Beer and Wine
Election September 20th
Legion Installs
New Officers
tance circuits that connect two specifications are prepared locall
switchboards at considerable dis- as required by job conditions
tances frorp each other. ForiThey .also are responsible for
example, direct circuits between maintenance o'f technical equip
Tew York, Washingt-i, or other,ment attached to pole lines, al
hough ordinary maintenance
Small Change Paper
Money Still Good
Miss Blanche Mitchener of Sel
ma has sever.al pieces of American
naper money in small denomina
tions ranging from 15c to 50c. The
dates on the money range from
1845 to 1866. The money was tak
en to London, England in 1895 by
a Mr. Powell, who sent them to
Mr. Lahey ot Umatilla, Fla., who
in turn gave them to John A.
Mitchener, Miss Mitchener’s
father.
cities in the North pass througf^
Selma where they are “repeafed
or amplified enroute to the next
direct switchboard which may b
4. u g 11 s t a, Atlanta, Cha- 1's‘on
M ami. Jacksonville, Palm B-a h
nr Kev lYest. By the same toker
the distant termination may be i -
toe mid-v/e.st, near the ' Grea'
Lakes, along the Gulf or on the
far Pacific coast. These may b-
direct circuits, as oreviousiy
noted, with no intermediate
operators.
Another imnortant but possiblv
lesser known phase of the vas“
communications industry as it
■elates to activities in Selma is
of
‘hese outside facilities are cared
’or by a staff of three section
inemen reporting to Selma.
The test and repeater station in
Selma contains thousands of mile'
of wire. The nearest station north
of its type is Richmond, while
the nearest southern statio!
Denmark. S. C. The station is
equipped with a C carrier system
which is so sc'entific that two
wires can carry four two-way
telephone conversations and two
telegraph circuits at the same
time and not get them mixed up.
On the first floor is loca+ed
the company’s power plant. The
Stork Club
by the Long lines department.
These are nrovided newspaoe-s
and radio, stations and the huge
'^ress associations themselves fo-
their use in the transmission of
news and photographs which
make up the daily fare of the
large crops of readers and listen
ers in our country. Included, too,
is the orovision of an uniisuallv
high grade type of telephone
circuit—or Circuits—employed to
interconnect the broadcasting net
works. .
The leased wire telegraph se--
vice is also employed on a large
scale by commercial concerns,
such as stock-brokers. Thus if
may be e.asily seen that threaded
through the sometimes humdrum
and placid daily life of a small
town is the day-to-day perticipa
tion by a small group of highly
skilled technical men in the
momentous miracles of modern
communications. This is tnio
largely because Selma acts as a
repeater and distribution point
from which any number of points
in eastern North Carolina are
bridged from the main
th.. ■ • . me company s power pjant. me
t^>^es regular aiternatlng
city current and puts it through
——
Fremont announce the birth of a
son, on Sunday, July 17, in the
Goldsboro hospital. Mrs. Kirby is
the former Miss Rebekah Ful-
ghum of Kenly.
TO FURNITURE SHOW
Talmage Corbett, of Selma Fur
niture Co., left 'Wednesday to at
tend the furniture show in High
point.
— through
Mr and Mr' -RnccoU v u outlying point. Hence
5.®'. ofjthe person (or persons) on duty
at any given time at the Selma
Testboard exercise supervision
Over the provision, and mainten
ance of a number of types of ser
vice over an area extending from
the Virginia line to Darlington,
S. C., and to Ralejgh west and to
the ocean towards the east.
The Long Lines’ test and re
peater station at ^Ima is one of
the oldest in existence in the
ectifics and its comes out 24 and
130 volts direct current. In case of
power failure there are three
engines that can be switched on
to produce current. One engine
generates 130 volts of negative
direct current, while another one
generates 130 volts of positive
direct current. The third engine
develops 24 volts of direct current.
In the event that the city cur
rent fails and the engines a'so
fail, the office has storage bat
teries that will produce current in
sufficient quantity to last eight
A referendum on the sale of
beer and wine in Johnston County
will be held Tuesday, Septembe
20.
No .special registration will be
required. Registration books wi l
'op«sL to the ^9 precincts in. the
county from Saturday. August 20
to Saturday, Septmber 10.
Johnstonians will vote on the
two beverages separately as fol
lows: ^
(1) For the legal sale of wine.
(2) Against the legal sale of
vine.
(3) For the legal sale of beer.
(4) Against the legal sale of
beer.
A majority of those persons ac
tually voting in the election mus1
last ballots against the sale ‘of
beer and wine for the two alco
holic beverages to be outlawed i -
the county.
If the citizens vote out beer and
wine at the referendum, places of
business in Johnston County
would have 60 days from the date
of the election in which to dispose
3f their stocks of beer and wine.
Date of the referendum was se
by the County Board of Elections
It a meeting Saturday.
The election was originally
scheduled for Tuesday, July 26,
but was cancelled in early may by
the elections board because the
date set for the vote would have
fallen within 60 days of the state
wide school and road bond issue
election of June 4.
The 1947 General Assembly act
nroviding for county and town re-
ferendums on beer and wine sale
stated that such an election could
not be held within 60 days of any
other election.
The movement for the beer
wine referendum got under way
in Johnston County last winter
Dry leaders, headed by Judge F
H. Brooks of Smithfield. circulat
ed petitions at the general election
in November requesting the vote.
These petitions, containing 4,432
signatures, were presented to the
County Board of Elections. The
law provides that the referendum
must be called if the petitioners
are 15 per cent of the voters in
i
. ™ ‘ ^ ^ I toe gubernatoral contest at the
November 2 general election. The
required number was 1,937.
The check of the names of pe
titioners from only half of the
precincts against the registration
books turned up more than 2,000
signatures of voters in the general
election.
The election was called and set
for July 26, but/ later had to be
cancelled.
Text of the order signed by
Elections Board Chairman C. H.
(Hub) Brown of Selma and call
ing the -September 20 vote:
“Notice is hereby given that in
accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 1084, of the laws of
North Carolina, Session 1947, the
Board of Eelections of Johnston
County has called a special elec
tion in Johnston County for the
purpose of submitting to the vot-
eres of Johnston County the ques
tions of whether or not wine and
beer, or either, shall be legally
sold within Johnston County, said
and tested every Thursday. The
office has its own lighting system
that switches on automatically
when local current fails. The
system works on 24 volts, instead
of 110 as in the case of regular
city current. The light bulbs u-sed
on the 24 volt lines all have left
handed threads and cannot pos
sible be screwed into 110 volt
recepticles.
The second floor of the building
is taken up with test boards and
hundreds of miles of wire. All toll
wires passing through Selma ter
minate at the test board. All wires
running between Selma and Rich
mond and Selma and Denmark,
S. C., are tested on the local
board.
The third floor is taken up with
repeaters and amplifiers. These
machines take voice.s and signals
and amplify them. This is neces
sary every 200 miles. An electrical]
(See B Page Four)
The officers of Selma American
Legion Post No. 141 were install-.
ed as follows:
Wilbur D. Perkins, Commander;
Roland Fields, First Vice Com-,
mander,, Fuller Suber, Second
Vice Commander; Newton A.
Branch, Third Vice Commander;
C. A. Bailey, Adjutant; J. L. Mc-
Laurin, Finance officer; Wilson
Broadwell, Chaplain; Alton Meece,
Historian and publicity; Leland
M. Grice, Sergeant-at-Arms.
The following committees were
appointed;
C. B. Fulghum, Grave registra-.
tion; H. S. Ward, Guardianship; E.
B. Creech, Athletic officer; John
Jeffreys, Sr., Americanism; H. V.
Payne, Boy’s State; Dr. E. N.
Booker, Boy Scout; Dr. Will H.
Lassiter, Child Welfare: H. l!
Boney, Employment; Hunter Price
Membership; R. H. Griffin, Ora
torical contest: Norwood J. Jack-
son, Sons of Legion.
Commander Perkins stated that
he felt very humble in accepting
the responsibility as leadership of
so great an organization, but he
honed to continue the high stand
ard of service of his predecessota
in office, and to bring to the mem
bers a fuller realization of the
Legion’s responsibilition and posi
tion in the community.
He also, stated the objectives of
the post for the forthcoming year
would be the continuation of the
SDonsorship and support of the
Arnerican Legion Junior baseball
activities. The sponsorship of
sending a boy to the “Boy’s State”
forum at Chapel Hill, for instruc
tion in local and state government
affairs. The assisting other local
civic organizations with the com
munity underprivileged oppor
tunities and to carry out the
Veteran’s grave marker project,
for the Selma community, hoping
that all information be given to
C. B. Fulghum, the Post’s Graves
Registration officer, so that all
Veteran s graves could be proper
ly and permanently marked.
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RETURNS FROM MARKET
C. H. (Hub) Brown of the
Economy Furniture Co., Selma at
tended the furniture show in High
Point, Monday and Tuesday of
this week.
Special election to be held on 20
day of September, 1949, in accor
dance with the provisions and
pursuant to the terms of Chapter
1084 aforesaid.
“The registration books will be
open in all voting precincts of the
Comty for the purpose of Regis
tering qualified voters beginning
on Saturday, August 20, 1949, and.
closing Saturday, September 10
1949.’!’
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