e
Home Sphere
Edited by
hiss fi.okencf. COX
3^t Demonstration Agent
m Estelle M. Edwards
distant Home Dem. Agent
f„r Chicago
,,ifaX Count y will be repe.
ncxt «e.-: ft National 4-H
Cong:.- < m-ago w.th
delegates. \g <’s Ellen of En
, Rt 1, ai ,| Virginia I’ittrnan.
' “ Ut' j -| e girls will also
eVeiit N 1 amlina as Che
e winnu
!- in the Dairy
Demon' .11ion.
Slate ie icsentatives will
, RaU-iga the morning oi
Jiiber 1-t. i boy will have a
hour? in W ington, D. C. for
t seeing ! "i'1 leave f »r
The. "ill arrive in (. hi
on Satm do> morning and will
Satimlac t ■ get registered
heir Ht !'' Ket unpacked,
est and . ht-see. They will
h at the ’Vilnut Room at
shall Fie! ! mg store, where
wjl) sco ' he five stow tall
jjmas t " Sunday morning
iv;ll ivg tei for the Con
s and 1' o then on through
nestlay rigid their activities
varied an 1 nteiesting. inelud
confereitci . ours, banquets,
The delec . will lo ivj Cl i
at 3:l(t I1 M., Thursday, rc
jnK by »f Washington
into Rale'gh at 8:40 P. M.
iv night.
K jn a 1 i!"time does -inch an
rtunitj :c this come to a girl
thong ; they have worked
for it. • thout the coopera
>f all the • .ut 4-11 Club Girls
ie County. Agents and Pnr
that such a thing could not
happened.
ivill he Agnes’ and Virginia’s
ition to img back to llali
Tounty. and to the State of
i Carolina new insipration and
for furthering 4-lt 1 lub
Itmade Furniture Polish --
eaning up fi.r Christinas, Well,
is something you might he
tested in.
lesimple mixture of two parts
td linseed oil and one part
entitle makes an excellent
ih for ut- fire, according to
Y k w ...*■> extension
ts. TVood experts of the U
lepartmern d Agriculture a
i but add that the mixture
Id be used with plenty of el
grease m satisfactory re
e oil "lb -ds" the wood, and
turpentine loosens dirt and
i the oil penetrate the wood.j
polish removes the dull, fog
ppearance that furniture c ft - (
squires and helps conceal fine
is or cheeks in the finish. J
tply the mixture with a soft
• Then with a dry cloth rub'
ixcesspo.ish and keep rubbing |
the grain of the wood until
stir,ace is entirely dry and
not show a linger mark.
iA Soil Builders
ist Be Used
fore Jan. 1st.
i
i
was announced today by the
L Office in Halifax that farm
it Halifax County who have
M AAA limestone and AAA
^phosphate for use on 111ei 1
M must apply this material
* to January 1, 1945, if the
properly used the material. If
*rly used the cost of the ma
*1 will he deducted from the
[ materials allowance. I' not •
ied proir to January 1, 1945,
rill be necessary to transfer
material to the 1945 program
the farm will not he eligible
ece*ve as much material in
as it would have if the nui
had been spread during the
Program year. When the ina
“ I1815 been spread tanners
lr8od tu report it to the AAA
‘ in Halifax.
Cotton Ginning
Report
®*us report shows that 22,17t>
■nf cotton were ginned in Hal-:
County from the crop ofi
P'-or to November 14 as com
'“ with 22,207 bales for the
of 1943
'las ,lt'c'n n°tified by the '
. States War Department I
bas been missing in act- j
is to receive credit for tav
Parents Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
°n reside in Alexandria,
KEEP FAITH
^ \mthus~*\
\by buying'*
WAR BONOS
Seventy-Eighth Year
Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina
THURSDAY, NOV. 30th., 1044
Statement Of Senator
Bailey On Flood Control
In view of the requests trim
representatives of the press f0i
statements from me concerning th
matters in the pending Flood Con
Irul Bill, it seems well to make
one statement for all as follows
1 am supporting the hill and an
fully committeed to the policy o|
Flood Control. I have often sail
publicly and privately that I wn
g really interested in preventing
thi’ floods in the Yadkin Bivei
valley and especially the floo Is
up in the region of Wilkes Comi
ty. However, the Wilkes County
dam was connected with a long
series of dams stretching through
out the State and some of then
are manifestly not flood control
propositions. I think it is general
ly conceded that they arc to a
very great extent power proposi
tions. Moreover the proposed Wil
kesboro dam, if built, would flood
the valley from the dam site all
the way to Happy Valley in Cald
well County. The people in that
section are greatly aroused and
Mr. Houghton, the Representative
in Congress from the District in
which Caldwell County is located
has lodged with me earnest pro
test in behalf of the people of his
District. He appeared before the
Committee, stating tl.|kt in Ms
long career in the Congress hi
had never known the people to
he more disappointed and aroused.
It does appear that the proposed
tlain would permanently flood the
Yadkin Valley from the dam site
to the foot hills of the Blue Ridg<
and oust hundreds oil good people,
most of them farmers, from t ie r
homes and lands.
So I decided that the proposi
tion should be taken out ot the
pending measure, referred to
the Committee on Commer e, and
introduced an amendment provid
ing for this and further providing
that report should be made to the
Senate within six months. This
may bring about a good llood con
trol measure for the section in
volved and at the same time pre
serve the homes of the people. IT.is
1 hope to accomplish. There will be
no delay as the bill does not be
come effective until after the war,
and I think it is generally believed
that the war with Japan will last
throughout- 1945.
I wish to assure all concerned
that it is my earnest desire to
provide for flood control. I do not
abject to the incidental production
of power, but I do not wish to
erect dams in the name of t'loou
control the purpose of which is,
to produce power. The truth is,
Congress has no authority to do
this. i
1 introduced an amendment on]
the subject of the general power
policy and 1 think this amendment
necessary to the preservation of
the whole flood control policy. The
amendment provided that the Gov
ernment should sell the power
at the point of production, and it'
ninety per cent of it shall net
lie taken then the Government may
build necessary transmission lines
for the wholesale sale of such
power. It was my belief that three
years was a reasonable time to
allow for the purchase of such
power, but 1 accepted an amend
ment providing that unless the
power should be purchased when
the dams should be completed, the
Government might proceed to build
transmission lines for wholesale
sale of the power.
1 also accepted an amendment
providing further that transmis
sion lines may be built by the
Federal Government for the pur
pose of supplying the rural elec
tiii-al coperative association with
such power as they may require.
1 lielieve in the policy “of live
and let live.” Moreover, 1 wish to
keep the Federal Government out
of the retail power business. The
State of North Carolina can and
does control utilities operating
within the State, but it cannot
hope to control the Federal Gov
ernment. Our State gets large rev
enue from the utilities, but it ean-i
not get revenue from the Federal
Government.
rt should be borne in mind that
the Yadkin-Pee Dee project, in
cluding the Wilkes County dam.
was placed in the bill prior to the
receipt of the Engineers’ report.
The people had no chance to he
heard as they did not know the
contents of the report. My amend
ment provides that the people con
cerned should be given a chan.e
to be heavl; and 1 feel that every
body will approve this course, as
the right of petition cannot be
denied in this country. At least I
do not intend to deny it.
Appalachian
Pulpwood Receipts
Fall Sharply
Pulpwood receipts by mil!.- in
the Appalachian region have
dropped liarply, revet sing for the
first, time this year a stead;, pro
duction trend, and as a conse
quence the immediate ou'.hmk lor
this vital war material is sei toils,
according to the Forest Pioducts
liureau of the War Production
j Board.
j Mill receipts of pulpwo id n
October were 1)5,300 cords or about
20 percent below those of October.
1D11. Imports amounted to 12,400
cords.
“If this downward trend is not
checked anil reversed in the imme
diate lUture,” W'PB said, " a ser
' ious situation may he anticipated
| in this area. Inventories in th s
I region may have to he drawn upon
heavily to keep up production.
“The situation in this area cads
for serious A fort by the industry
and cooperating government agen
cies alike to attract and stubil ze
labor which has been temporily di
verted to harvesting activity anu
is now slow to return to woods
work.’’
The WPB Forest Products Bu
reau, noting that pulpwood pro
duction declined nationally in Oct
ober, said:
“The optimism which swept the
I country with respect to the early
1 and successful termination of the
European war in late summer and
early fall may be in large part re
sponsible for a marked decline in
pulpwood receipts during the
month of October. j
“It is of primary concern to the I
successful prosecution of tlie wai.
that the United States nulpwood
requirements he successfully met.
The 11)45 requirements fur mili
tary and essential civilian items,
produced by the pulp and papei (
industry, cannot he fulfilled unless j
increased quantities of pulpwood,
are produced and delivered to the'
mills in the desired species and,
specifications."
October receipts of domestically|
produced pulpwood amounted to
1,155,500 cords or about 6 percent
below October, 1043.
Club Women
Meet At Halifax
November 15, 1944, Halifax, N.
C.--Sixty six women from eleven
of the twenty two Home Demon
stration Clubs of Halifax County
met in the Woman’s Club House
in Halifax on the above date to
observe Achievement Day. The re
port of Miss Florence Cox showed
outstanding work done in every
department. The highlight of the
day was an address “A Sense of
Value” by Mrs. Estelle T. Smith
Assistant to the State Home Dem
onstration Agent. Miss Agnes El
len of the Enfield 4-H Club mod
eled a most attractive green wool
costume, trimmed in black fur with
bag and hat to match. Miss La
Rue Whitley also of Enfield, dem
onstrated the value of Dairy
Foods by making ice cream. These
girls were trained by Miss Estelle
Edwards. Mrs. F. W. M. White
of Halifax presided over the
meeting with Mrs. V’. .A. llocka
day oit South Rosemary as secre
tary.
Mrs. Sterling M. Gary,
Reporter.
Dr. Linwood H. Justin
Littleton—FVineral services for |
Dr. Linwood Hancock Justis whoi
died Wednesday morning, will be(
conducted from St. Alban s Epis
copal Church Friday at 2 p. m.
by the Rev. A. P. Chambliss, Jr
Burial will be in the Littleton
cemetery.
Surviv/ag are his wife, Mrs. An
geline Alexander Justis, a dau
ghter, Mary Shield Justis; three
brothers, Robert Justis of Rich
mond, Va„ Hugh Justis of Bal
timore, Md., and Edward Justis of
Suffolk, Va„ and his stepmother
Mrs. Ira Justis.
Miss Morehead Gets
Teaching Practice
Raleigh, November 28—Rosemary j
Morehead is one of the Meredith (
seniors who is practice teaching
' in the Raleigh schorls. Miss More
’ head is teaching first grade at the
Hayes-Barton School. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. G.
Morehead of Weldon.
Old Friends Together In South Pacific
Chums during the days before i TeBis I\ !oiu . :1 of \.'A
the war, these North Carolina debrand, a. 1.
Leathernecks have served togoth- Jones enlisted twj months ear*
er in the South Pacif c for several than his triend in 1941, but
months. They are Marine Ser- ‘he two have together here
. c - ,, r» , , .. for some time. Both participated
geant Samuel H. Page, J (kit. • ,, . ,
’ ' in the invasion ot Guam and have
of Halifax, X. ( . and Marine ( * r- been overseas nearly two years.
Drive On For Gifts To Those
Confined Service Hospitals
The William Shaw Post N'o. 08
of The American Legion ami its
Auxiliary Unit are working in
cooperation with Kddl : Cantor and
his “Time to Smilr.'.p radio pro
gram, in seeing to it that every
man and woman confined in a ser
vice hospital in the United States
will receive a gift box at Christ
mas time.
By means of the radio and local
publicity, all ciivlians are urged to
purchase gifts suitable for presen
tation to hospital patients, pack
or have them packed at the store
where they are purchased, make a
list of .the enclosed gifts and at
tach or print on the box covering
and turn them over to the local
American Legion Post or Auxiliary
Unit for presentation by the Le
gionnaires and Auxiliary members
at Christmas.
A release from authoritative ser
vice hospital officers make it im
perative ijiat certain articles not
be included in the boxes and that
other articles are needed and wel
comed. Undesirable gifts are candy
food, lit|uor, articles of civilian ap
parel, magazines, crossword or jig
saw puzzles, scrapbooks, and any
used or second hand items. Sug
gested gifts are based on a poll ot
hospital patients include handker
chiefs, olive drab socks, ties and
scarfs, toothbrushes, tooth paste or
powder, razors and razor blades,
hair tonic, jacknives, cigarettes,
pen and pencil sets, checker and
cribbage boards, poker chips, sta
tionery, cigarette lighters and
cases, soldier’s buckles and belts,
shaving kits, pipes, zipper bags,
shoe shining kits, hair brushes and
billfolds. It is very important that
each package must have a list ot
contents on the outside. It the
package does not have the contents
listed on the outside, it must le
opened and a list attached bef >re
presentation. Your personal card
may be enclosed i desired.
post Commander H. (1. Leigh,
and the Auxiliary urge that yout
immediate purchase ot a g It box
be made and turned over to the
American Legion as your contribu
tion to a great Christmas party
Protect Your Home from
TUBERCULOSIS
BUY and USE Christmas Seals
for 500,000 Yanks Who Gave. All
the gift boxes must be received
by the local Legion by December'
10 in order that delivery be made
to the various hospitals for pre-j
sentation. Won’t you help make
this Christmas happy for the hos-1
pitalized service men and wom
en ? |
The following stores are co
operating in this drive. Gifts may
be purchased and left with the
store.
The Leader, Freids, L. Kittners,
Weldon Drug Company, Father
and Josephson, Rahils Dept. Store,
Seldens Pharmacy, H. and B.
Store, Willey Hardware Co., Til
ghman Furniture Co., Overtons
Jewelry and Gift Shop, Pierce
Whitehead Hardware Co., Terminal
Drug Store, Joyner Furniture Co.
Roses Five and Ten Cent Store,
Weldon Furniture Company.
I
Dr. B. Ray Browning
Funeral services were conducted
from the Littleton Baptist Church
Monday afternoon for Dr. B. Ray
Browning, 77, who died Sunday
morning at his home. Burial was in
Sunset Hill cemetery.
Survivors are h.s widow, Mrs.
Eva De Kalb Browning, a daught
er, Mrs. L. E. Williams of Essex
and a son, 11. R. Browning of Lit
tleton. |
AIR MEDAL
Lt. Willie J. Long, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Long, Sr. of
Garysburg, has been awarded the
Air Medal for meritorious achieve
ment as pilot of a P-51 Mustang
figher plane in the Italian thea
ter of operations. Lt. L . , ■ w
sent overseas last August. His
wife, Mrs. June Bourne Long, lives
in Turboro.
Lieutenant
Quinton Victor Cheek, JO, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cheek of
Weldon, has received the silver
wings of bombard er tnd his
commission as second lieutenant
in the Army Air Forces. Prior to
his graduation from Bombardier
School at Midland. Texas he took
preflight training at Tuskegee In
stitute, Ala. and aerial gunnery at
Tyndall Field, Fla.
L'eutenant ("neck spent a few
lays with his parents before going
:o Godman Field, Ky.. where he is
now stationed.
National 4-H Acheiement Week j
o he observed by every club in
Smith Carolina, will be held front
November 4 through 11 this year.
Perennial hay experiments esta
blished in the fall of 1J4J imit
ate that alfalfa can be success-'
'ully grown on both Piedmont and
Coastal Plain soils, say the agro-1
— ,
Firebreaks, either plowed or
■aked, offer good protection to the ,
farm woods. Save the woods t>e
?uuse they offer a good field for
postwar employment. 1
Christmas Seals Placed
Cn Sale By Association
Roanoke River Only
N. C. Project In
Flood-Control Bill
Washington, Nov. 29--I he
Roanoke River basin is the onlv
North Carolina project remaining
in the $1,000,000,000 p..-t-'var.
I loud control hill now before the
Senate.
It calls for a $36,110,000
Buggs Island reservoir on the
Roanoke River in North Caro
lina and V irginia, and the 1’hit
pott reservoir on the Smith Riv
er, Va.
Pulpwood Pound*
Gates Of Berlin
Gp’ < i-l Eisenhower is authority
for .iie stat neat that o.OOO pounds
ot ammunition are being poured
into German defenses on the west
ern front every minute. Six mil
lion rounds of artillery fire and
2,000,000 rounds of mortar fire are
being hurled at the^ Nazis each
month.
That’s a lot of gun powder and
explosives, and it took a lot of
pulpwood to manufacture it. Pulp
wood now makes HU percent of the
smokeless powder used by our
armed forces.
While pulpwood producers may
feel justly proud of their part in
blasting the Nazi fortresses, they
should also head the plea of Gen
eral Eisenhower for even greater
production on the Home Front:
Unless everyone all the way
through the nation, those at the
front and those at home, keeps on
the job everlastingly and with
mounting intensity we are only!
postponing the day of victory."
he said.
As a No. 1 war material pulp
wood is playing a vital role in
th<' Allied advances in Europe and
in the Pacific. But this is no time
for over optimism. It is essential
that Home Front production be in
creased to overcome last fall’s lag
when many persons believed the
European war was about to end.
‘ We c. nnot all fight the enemy
face to face,” said our Pi esident.
But there are two things we can
do: Buy more War Bonds and cut
more pulpwood.
S - Sgt. Seldon Pierce
At Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 30th—
S Sgt. Seldon M. Pierce, 35, Wel
don, N. C., has arrived at Army
Air Forces Redistribut'on Station
No. 2 in Miami Beach toi reas
signment processing after com
pleting a tour of duty outside <he
continental United States and a
21 day furlough at home. !
Medical examinations and class-(
ification interviews at this post,
one of five redistribution stations'
operated by tl*e AAF Personal
Distribution Command for AAF
returnee officers and enlisted men,
will determine his new assign- |
ment. He will remain hero about
two weeks, much of which will be
devoted to rest and recreation.
He served as an administrative
„oii commissioned officer during
n.ne months in the European thea
ter. He attended tile of
North Carolina and worked us
cashier for the Southern Cotton
Oil Company, Weldon, be ore
joining the AAF August 5, 1942.
His mother, Mrs. J. W. Pierce,
lives at the same address, while
his wife, Dozene, lives at Uarys
burg, N. C. _
Last Chance
This week is your last chance
to mail out of town Christmas
gift packages.
That last minute reminder
came yesterday from Harry II.
Kosewan, District Manager of
the Kaleigh District Office of
Defense Transporation.
Heavily overburdened trans
portation facilities can handle
the enormous volume of 194 f
Yule (lift sending only if the
December 1 deadline set by the
government is met, the ODT of
ficial emphasized.
So. the ODT District Man
ager urged, if you haven’t mail
ed your gift packages yet. get
them off at once.
Packages mailed after the De
cember 1 deadline may not be
delivered in time for Christmas i
he pointed out.
The Halifax County Tuben 'In
sis Association was organizi d 'list
one year ago. This connects the
Association with the National ami
State Organization. The entire sup
port of National, State ami Cm my
Association being solely -upp 11 .1
by the sale of the Christmas S ails
wmch opened on Monday. No em
ber 27th, to last until Chri mua.-.
The quota this year for th • t'uua
ty is $2500. Of this am unt -■>
per cent goes to the State and
National organization, 5U p i e il
to the County Association, and -■>
per cent is kept locally.
What has the Association done
with the money made la-t year
from the eSal Sale in the C uni
ty?
1. Part of expense* o: Health
Educator of tne Edgeeombe-iiali
fax District Health Department,
(this phase of our program is
sponsored by the Halifax County
Tuberculosis Association, the Ed
gecombe County 1 ubercjlosis As
sociation and the North Carolina
State Board of Health),
Our Health Educator, .uiss Mary
Elizabeth Foster, has had pro
grams with approximately all civic
clubs throughout the County. She
has also sponsored a Health Edu
cation Program over WCBT earn;
Wednesday morning at 10:0U A.
M. for weeks.
2. The distribution of cod 1 ver
oil to all children who are con
tacts of tuberculosis patients.
3. X-raying of adults who need
this type of examination and are
not able to pay for same.
4. In connection with the tuber
culosis survey to be made hi all
high schools of the county, the seal
sale fund will pay for X-ray pic
tures on children whose parents
are unable to pay.
5. The purchase of literature on
tuberculosis lor distribution to
school ci.ouren, civic clubs, wom
en’s clubs, c'nurch organizations
and other interested persons.
Remember the buying and using
at these Seals will help make some
one else happy.
Virginia Blounl.
Begin Seal Urive
In Local Schools
The Weldon Schools will begin
the sale of Christmas seals t-i.s
week.
Please be very generous. 'lhe
Halifax County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation is trying to work to blot
out Tuberculosis in our toil i and
county. The quota for llaiitux
County is $2500.00. Weldon is ask
ed to buy all we can.
At Camp Lejeune
Camp Lejeune, NT. C., November
29—Marine Second Lieutenant
Harry Kittner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Kittner, Weldon, N. C., lias
been assigned to duty as a stu
dent in the Engineer School here.
Lieutenant Kittner attended Wel
don High School, Weldon, N. C.,
the University of North Carolina,
North Carolina State College and
was graduated at Duke University.
He is a member of Delta Epsilon
Sigma Fraternity. Lieutenam. Dave
id Kittner of the United States
Army Engineers is his brother.
Mrs. Eudora P.
Hawkins
Mrs. Eudora P. Hawkins, 71,
died at her home in the Hawkins
Chapel community Friday after an
illness of several months. Fune
ral services were conducted fron.
the home Sunday afternoon by the
Rev. Mr. Boone and burial lo1 low
ed in the Hawkins Chapel ceme
tery.
Mrs. Hawkins was the widow oi
the late Charlie Hawkins former
deputy sheriff of Faucetts town
ship. She was a member of Hawk
ins Chapel Church and had lived
in this community for ifty years.
She took an active part in the
church and civic activities of her
community.
Survivors include two sons, Irw
in G. Hawkins of J|ianoke Rap
ids, Raymond C. Hawkins of IbHi
mond, Va., four daughters. Miss
Ethel Hawkins of the home, Mrs.
J. W. Steele of Norfolk, Va , Mrs.
T. J. Carpenter and Mrs. Clear
ence Hawkins of Roanoke Rapids,
one sister, Mrs. Madison Shearin
of Roanoke Rapids, one brother
George Pittard of Connerticutt,
eleven grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.