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TODAY
Thursday, Nov. 9—Sun
rise, 6:42 a. m. Sunset, 5:11
p .m. Length of the day 10
hours and 29 minutes.
ESTABLISHED 1916
SELMA, N. C., THURSnptY— XOVEMBER 9, 1950.,
PRICE: 5 CENTS
Johnston Co.
Unofficial Vote
STATE SENAT£
Hardy Talton (D) - 6199
Adam J. Whitley, Jr. ^D) .. 7112
Julian T. Gaskill (R) 2511
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
J. Hayden Wiggs (D) 6604
J. Troy Page (D)'.—^... 6631
F. Bowen (R) 2670
TREASURER
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J. Narvin Creech (D) 6732.
■J. Colon McGee (R) 2803|
SHERIFF
iBarnie.A. Henry (D) 6238
i Joel A. Johnson (R) 4219
PRESIDENT GORDON GRAY
REGISTER OF DEEDS
Selma Woman’s
Brother Passes
Alonza E. Scarboro, 59, died
Monday morning at 6:15 o’clock in
the Veterans Hospital in Fayette
ville after several years of illness.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday after
noon from the Hephzibah Baptist
Church in Edgemont, near Wen
dell. The Rev. Joe Roach, pastor
officiated and burial was in the
Scarboro Cemetery on Highway
64. Mr. Scarboro was the son of
the late George and Emipa W.
Scarboro of Wake County. He was
a veteran of World War I.
Surviving ’are four sisters, Mrs.
B. A. Weathers, Sr., and Mrs. W.
C. Pulley of Wendell. Mrs. B. A.
Henry of Selma and- Mrs. Bill
Sutton of Portsmouth, Va.
W. G. Massey (D) 7171
W. E. Boyette (R) 2670
JUDGE RECORDER’S COURT
William I. Godwin (D)
Jane A. Parker (R)
6663
3348
TAMMAGE CORBETT
ath."
£1
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Talmage Corbett Is Selma's New
Town Commissioner
SOLICITOR RECORDER’S
COURT
Gordon Gray, President of the
Greater University of North Caro- - _ _ ..
lina and former Secretary of H. t. NCWman
Army will head vae .j^nn\x3.\\ Gives Travel Lectui'e
hristmas Sdal Campaign'in North| —
Carolina to be con^ctgd from' By MRS. E. V. WOODARD
November 20 to .cWisimas day O" ^°"day afternoon
according to an annoU^eHient this Presbyterian
week by Dr. Hemfen' -E. Eason, ™eetmg of
Billy Britt (D)
Marion G. Lee (R)
7066
261,1
District Boy Scouts
to Meet In Benson
The .'\nnual Meeting for the
Johnston District Boy Scout or
ganization will be held on Wed
nesday night, November 15th, at
the American Legion Building in
Benson. Thi§ will be a dinner
meeting at which the ladies are
Talmage Corbett, vice-president
of. the Selma Chamber of Com
merce and director of the Selma
Kiwanis Club, was named to fill
a vacancy on the town board
when the body met in regular
monthly session at the town hall
Friday night. Mr. Corbett is part
owner and manager of the Selma
, Eyrniture Gbv
He is ah active member of Sel
ma Baptist Church, being an or
dained deacon and is at present
chairman of the Board of
Trustees. For several years he was
superintendent of the Sunday
School. Mr. Corbett opened the
furniture store four years ago.
“I plan to put interest of the
town ahead of personal feelings, , , .
was the declaration made by the should attend this meeting
AUDITOR
J. Marvin Johnson (D)
Bernard S. Godwin (R)
6874
2633
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Floyd C. Price (D) ...... 6774
J. Charlie Parrish (R) ... 2687
R. G. Gurley (D) 6816
J. C. Langdon (R) 2648
R. P. Holding (D) 6733
Sam H. Massey (R) ^80
at the
Church the regular
the Women of the
Prlsident ^'thrNdrth ^^aroiina Church was held with the presi
Tuberculosis Association and Me-i O Neal, presiding.
dical Director of the-“ Eastern'Ihe devotiona was led by .Mrs.
North Carolina S^atbrium in Hogue. A brief program on
Wilson. A former Wins’tpn-Salem! Jhanksgiving was given by Miss
lublisher and businifesslnan, Mr. Tuck.
Gray has long taken ah active part The main event of the after- i
in the civic life of his hbine city noon, however, was the very in-
and of the entire st^O- ’‘'Itis with teresting and informative lecture
Teat pleasure,” Drf Easjim- said.
Mrs. W. H. F. Ivey Given Surprise Party
Mrs. W. H. F. Ivey, chief opera
tor in the Selma office of the
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany. who retired October 31, was
given a .signal honor
the
that after-
personnel of her
invited. Reservations fopj plates
should be made through your
Scoutmaster or Cubmaster. Plates
will cost $1.25.
The Speaker of the evening will
be Horace Seely of Raleigh. Mr.
Seely is well known throughout
Johnston County, and those who
have heard him speak are most
generous in their praise of his
ability. Every parent of a Scout,
and every registered Scouter
U. S. SENATE
(Regular Term)
Clyde R. Hoey (D)
Halsey B. Leavitt (R) ...
6662
2423
U. S. SENATE
(Unexpired Term)
WUlis Smith (D) . -6480
E^' L. ®aviri .. 26011
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
Harold D. Cooley (D) 6581
Ray F. Swain (R) 2310
Santa Claus Thinks
Toys Will Be Scarce
or discourse, given by Mrs. How-
That l'announce thd app^tment„ard F. Newman, who has recently
by the Board of D,^ec«6rs of the returned from a year aboard. The
North Carolina Tu^cfulo.ys As- Rev. and Mrs. Newman spent last,
sociation, of Mr. Girdoh Gr'dy to year studying at the University of
the Chairmanship,.^!- thh 1950 Edinburgh, Scotland, and the
Christmas' Seal Campaign and the;summer traveling through Europe,
acceptanbe of thatl-jChairmanship parts of Asia and Africa, having
by Mr. (jrav. Fundscrived from'spent a short time in Egypt,
the sale £rf Christmas sials^re thel Mrs. E. N. Booker was program
sole support of the aSfbciation and chairman for the afternoon, and
with Mr. Gray heaefc^ the. drive was responsible (for the appear-
we are confident of ivy. success.” lance of Mrs. Newman, whose hus-
^-4 ■:—. i•: [band. IS a former,.castor of -the
j Selma church. ; j
Mrs. Newman relg'ted^thSif ^.tjjle
.
preacbed anfroSr
section? of Scotland,
noon by
office.
As a complete surprise to Mrs.
Ivey the members of the staff ar
ranged the party to coincide with
her departure for home following
the day’s w/erk.
In the recreation room of the
office a color scheme of blue and
white was observed in decorations.
The lace covered table had as a
central arrangement a white vase
of lovely white chrysanthemums
All table appointments and re
freshments emphasized the color
note. Party cakes decorated with
blue bells, representing the Bell
Telephone Company, block ice
cream, nuts and mints were ser
ved. Napkins and other tabla
accessories repeated the motif
with blue bells predominating.
The honoree was presented a
Quaker lace table cloth. Sh®
completed 31 years of service with
the Company. She will be official
ly honored by the Telephone
Company later with a banquet, in
appreciation of her efficient ser
vices during those years.
All members of the office staff
were present and included: Mozell
Bailey Allie Brantley, Marjorie
Brown, Vallie Coats, Marie Cul-
breth, Janie McVickers, Marjorie
Jones, Dorothy Marlow, Lena
Moore, Lucy Stancil, Ruby Tyner,
Mabel King, and Evelyn Johnson.
School Halloween \R. B. H. Librarian
s’5/m/| Attends Conference
Party Success]
Last week’s Hallowe’en carnival Miss E. Elizabeth Chambers,
librarian of Richard B. Harrison
omecom
'Wilson’s Mills Baptist Churchi,. . . j i., j -
, „ - . „ , 1 the ■ lowlands, highlands, country,
will observe Homecoming Sunday,! —,, ,
at Selma School netted the school
approximately $’700.
One of the largest crowds ever
to attend an event at the school
wagjeji hand for the 8 o’clock au
ditorium 'program- and, tbg,-P.u,tdoor
Newt?Srt\^ts which preeed^ it. , ' '
A mtisical pnpgriHn ' was pre
S^rited ui^etjh.e directlo'n of Mes-
1.T . T, i Small towos and in Edinburg,
November 12. The pastor, Rev. C. , . , ^ ,, j i
-ur 11 c !which gave them a wonderful op-
W. Teague will speak at 11 a. m.
portunity to learn more of the
new commissioner. He assumes
the post of building commissioner,
which was vacated at the October
meeting when J. N. Wiggs was
elected mayor to succeed Barnie
Henry. Henry resigned the town
position to run in*'the election for
the sheriff’s post.
Corbett is married to the former
Thelma Brown of Selma and they
have two children.
At Friday night’s meeting, he
was notified of his election and
came down as a spectator. He re
ceived his oath of office Saturday.
Corbett was nominated by R. E.
Suber. The only other nominee
was Dr. E. N. Booker, who was
proposed by E. V .Deans.
R. L. Ray appeared before the
board to request installation of
two additional stoplights on High-^
way 301 within the town limits
for the re,^lation of traffic to
protect children.
The beard agreed to his request
as it had already taken steps to
procure the lights. On October 10
—Ifcefore the serious injury of 6
year-old John Wayne Brown on
his way from school across the
highway—the town board had re
ceived a letter from the Selma
School District committee asking
that the lights be
Another feature of the annual
meeting will be the election of
new officers for the year 1951.
Present officials of the Johnston
District Scouting organization are
C.'H. Beddingfield of Clayton,
Chairman, „ N. P. Williams of
Smithfield, 'Vice Chairman, and
I. T. Uzzle of Wilson’s Mills, Dis
trict Commissioner.
New York.—Santa Claus
probably get around to every
kiddie this year, but it’s not going
to be easy. Following a tour of 50
toy factories, the executive secre
tary of the toy industry’s trade as
sociation states that almost with
out exception they are complain
ing about material scarcities. Some
need packaging materials, others
basic materials such as copper
wire, wood, zinc and steel.
Toy'makers are not big consum
ers of materials, consequently they
do not have the standing with big
suppliers that other large civilian
manufacturers enjoy. Moreover,
, ,i their problems are not going to
Thirty-three cafes, 27 meat-g^t too’much sympathy in Wash
markets and 12 tourist courts,National Pro
tourist homes and hotels wereLu^ion Authority is readying an
County Health Dept.
Releases Rate Report
Mrs. Calvin Wood will
soloist. Mrs. Wood has
will moved to Raleigh and united with
the North Street Baptist Church.
She and her husband were both
members of the choir and they are
greatly missed in the Wilson’s
Mills community. The choir is
planning some special music.
Annette Ellis, of Thanksgiving
Church and a relative of several
of the members of the Wilson’s
Mills Church, will give part of her
requirements for becoming a G. A.
Queen. Wilson’s Mills has 13 G. A.
Maidens and several of them are
working on their requirements to
become a G. A. Lady-In-Waiting.
Plans are being made to have
several of them give some of their/
,, country* and people as a whole,
recently!
be
rated Grade A on the inspection channel most copper and
for the quarter ending-September,military users..
Tuberculosis Seal
Sale Starts Monday
The 1950 Seal Sale campaign in
Johnston County will be conduct
ed by the tuberculosis association
and will officially continue until
Christmas Day. J. T. Matthews of
Selma is county chairman for the
Seal Sale. Mrs. Frank Hood of
Selma is town chairman of the
Tuberculosis Seal sale.
‘‘Christmas Seals have always
been messengers of health,” be
cause they represent the people’s
light against tuberculosis and re
work at the 11 o’clock worship us that this nationwide bat
A.i
Enjoy First Hike
By KAY WIGGS, SCRIBE
The weekly meeting of the
Grade A is given for a rating of
90 to 100, Grade B for 80 to 89 and'Selma BrOWnieS
Grade C for 70 to 79. '
The County Health Department
has released a list of the ratings.
Cafe Ratings
The safe ratings:
Grade A—Sugar Bowl of Ben
son and Worth’s Drive-In of Route
3, Smithfield, 93; Wilbur’s
of Selma, 91.5; Waltz Court of at the Girl Scout Hut at
Route 3, Smithfield, Stephenson’s
Barbecue of Route 1, Benson,
installed and Shorty’s Cafe of Kenly
service. Also, some of the R.
give their work for becoming
Royal Ambassador Page.
■ A picnic dinner will be served
on the church grounds if the
weather permits. In the event of,
»rain this will be served in the
Community Building. All former
tie must continue until
dames Fred Woodard" iitS Margar
et Herndon, with primary child
ren in seasonal songs and cos
tumes performing.
Cjpwning the kings and queen
and^recognizing winners in the
costume contest followed.
Primary
King—-Gary Broadwell, Queen
Judy Stranaland.
Grammar
King—Billy Smith, Queen
Mary Bea Ray.
High Schooi
King—Cecil Parrish, Queen-
Ruby Hicks.
Winners of costume contest:
Andrew Edwards, Mary Bea Ray,
Billy Oliver.
Those taking part on program
were; Jim Woodard, Bobby Perry,
Jimmy O’Neal, David Creech, and
Dicky Wiggs, goblins.
Frankie Willie, Norwood Thom
pson, R. D. Norris, Daniel Crocker
113 Years Old
^ victory over the disease is won.
The Tuberculosis Bond Sale
will begin November 13.
Kiwanis Club is sponsoring
Bond Sale.
HIGH TRIBUTE
The dollars’ and cents’ cost of
complete and Ralph Thorne, pumpkin men.
Kathy Lassiter, Brenda Parrish,
Brenda Lynch, Betty Jo Matthews
and Joan Brantley, witches.
The
the
Post Office Be Closed
members and friends are given a’tuberculosis in this country is con-
special invitation to attend and
Barbecue Supper
There will be a barbecue supper
enjoy this happy occasion with
Brownies Scouts was held on Sat-l^^^® The church is making
urday, November 4, in the forml''"P''°'^''"'ents in its physical
Place'of a'hike. Thirteen Brownies met feature to add to the comfort of
' 10*00 a members and visitors,
m. and were taken to Jones^ Tur- All now resident members are
key Farm near Smithfield as a
Carolyn surprise trip for November by Mr.
that lines be marked on the high
way Ray was informed.
'The corners to have the new
lights are Pollock and Watson,
where many Negro children cross
the highway to and from school,
and Pollock and Richardson,
where many white children cross.
The town board has had on or
der for some time, it was brought
out, dummy policemen to be
placed on the highway near the
schols.
A request from Mrs. Walter
Warren to mark off space for non
parking beside Buddy’s
Court of Selma, Fred’s Place of
Smithfield and Glendale Grill of
Route 2, Kenly, 91; Thompson’s
Grill of Route 3, Smithfield, Ben
son Cafe of Benson, Holt Lake
(See C Page Four)
and Mrs. Herndon.
After arriving at the farm wel®^.^^°^
walked among the bronze and
white turkeys and fed them corn.
now
urged to attend so it will be a 100
per cent membership present
Please bring a picnic lunch and
servatively estimated at $350,000,-jTuesday, November 14, from
000 a year. ' until 8 p. m. at the Selma Legion
That is high tribute^ to pay a Hut, sponsored by
disease.
It is particularly high tribute
to pay a preventable disease.
Even so, it is only a small part
of the cost of tuberculosis. The
worst toll exacted by this disease
cannot be computed in dollars and
Selma Home
Demonstration Club. Home made
cake for desert. Price $1.00 per
plate. Prizes will be given away,
such as Home-made cakes, dressed
Jien, fresh eggs, home-made
candy. Proceeds will be used for
Community Building.
the Christian fellowship
with the resident members. The
worship service will include the
Motion pictures were taken of usiS^thering of tithes and offerings
at that time which we shall enjoy
at our Thanksgiving meeting.
From the turkey range we
walked on a wooded road across
unto the Lord for his many bless
ings.
Johnston Club Plans
ThanksPivine Party^ enjoyed
* * \ gathering pine cones and rocks.
Chapel Hill,—The - Johnston
County-Carolina Club held -its
second meeting on Monday night,
ServicelO'^'-o^®'^ 30, in the Alumni Build-
taken under con-
Station was
diseration.
Commissioner Odell Strickland
reported completion of painting
and repair of the town’s water
tank. One-half the cost had been
paid and the commissioners de
cided to have a qualified man to
inspect the finished job before
paying the remaining $600 due.
Routine business included men
tion of adjusting the line of
Smithfield Street and moving a
hydrant which now is in the
street.
The mayor asked Strickland to
have moved a water line across
the biisines property of R. G. Gur
ley. Gurley, said Mayor Wiggs,
wishes to build
mg
Plans for a party during the
Thanksgiving holidays were made.
The party will probably be held
in the Woman’s Club building in
Smithfield. It is definitely to be
on Friday night, November 23.
There will be a discussion on
the Christmas dance at the next
meeting, Monday, November 13.
Turkey Dinner
On Thursday evening at 6:30
p. m. at the Community HouS'
in Wilson’s Mills, the Homemakers
will serve a turkey dinner at one
dollar per plate. The proceeds will
an office where! go into the local funds for further
the pipe runs across his property.limprovement to the club building.
After our hike we returned to
the farm to build a fire and have
our picnic lunch. While we were
finishing our lunch the program
committee had some of the mem
bers sing songs, tell jokes and
stories, and we ended the program
with the group singing together
our Brownie song. During the
program a motion picture was
being made as the various mem
bers did their parts. Finally sever
al still, pictures were taken for our
scrapbook.
Going back to the farm house
of Mr. Jones we found an abun
dance of turkey feathers where
the turkeys are dressed, so we
took feathers home as souvenirs.
Mr. Jones was there so we thank
ed him and returned to Selma
singing songs.
We enjoyed having Betty Driver
go with us and appreciated all she
did to help us on our first hike of
the season.
cents. It is paid for in suffering.
Sylvia Holder, Negro woman
residing on south Raeford street
in Selma, observed her 113th
birthday Wednesday of this
week. She has nine children^ 7t
grandchildren, 87 great-grand
children and 10 great-great
grandchildren. The Johnston-
ian-Sun published her picture
on her 111th birthday and so
did The News and Observer.
in the pain of separation for mon
ths, perhaps years, from loved
ones, in the sense of frustration
when careers are interrupted.
(See B Page Four)
Former Selma Man Now With U. S. Navy
Tobacco Prices Pai^ Farmers Dec. 14, 1931
Pounds
320
96 .. ..
36
36
Price
1/4
1 1/2
2 1/2
1
Total
.80
$1.40
.90
.36
488
Warehouse
Charges
$3.50
.75
Farmer Got $2.75
Tobacco Prices Paid Farmers Sept. 27,1950
Pounds
246
258
300
286
i.090
Price
Total
65
$159.90
65
. $167.70
. 65
$195.04
, 64
.. $183.64
$705.64
$19.73
$685.91
School, Selma, attended the 16th
Annual Conference of the. North.
Carolina Negro Library Associa
tion held at Booker T. Washing
ton High School, Rocky Mount, on
November, 3 and 4. The theme of
tyio conference was ‘‘Book Friends
yoT a DemSScatic Speiet^?.--,
addresses relhttv*- to
the’ general theme were given
Mrs. EthIynne . TTiomag,:* Direetpr
of Dramatics, SliaW''-University,
Raleigh, Dr. Rufus E. Clement,
Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. Robert
Christ,- Assistant Librarian, Duke
University, Durham.
Among the visitors who attend
ed the conference were five Ger
man librarians who are in the
United States for a year studying
the various activities of American
libraries.
The Selma post office will be
closed Saturday in observance of
Armistice Day, according to Post
master Frank Hood. There will be
no city or rural delivery. The
stamp window will be open front
8 to 9 a. m.
ADOPT A DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie W. Strau-
ghan announce the adoption of a
daughter, Linda. Mrs. Straughan
is the former Miss Gertrude
Strickland of Selma.
Farmer Got
Standing ready to secure the line in the forward part of the mo-tor
launch is Floyd W. 'Vann, seaman apprentice, United States Navy,
who is serving aboard the Atlantic Flee Destroyer Force Flagship,
USS Yosemite (AD-19). Vann is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E, W. Vann,
of 503 South Austin Ave., Durham, N. C. Prior to entering the Na'vy,
Vann attended Sehna High School and was a member of the foot
ball team and was active in other sports.