Figuring Filberts:
Should Be Interested In
Wallace Tobacco Market
BY JOHN SIKES
WALLACE, Oct. 8 — Let us
bring the Statistical Seminar to
order, please.
Frankly, I would never have
thought of such a seminar if I
hadn’t listened exhaustively in
t« the broadcast of the Brook
lyn-New York World _ Series
game last Sunday. You li prob
ably recall that every time the
man sitting in the right field
bleachers—or any man sitting
anywhere for that matter—
blinked his eyes the sportcaster
fumbled through his books and
came up with an important an
nouncement that such-and- such
a record had been set.
I do not mean to say that
each time an auctioneer on the
Wallace Tobacco Market drops
an inflexion these days that a
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record has been set. But there
are many things over here in
this farmers’ town that should
interest the Figuring Filberts, of
whom I am one.
For example, when today’s
sales ended there had been
enough tobacco sold on the Wal
lace Market this year so far to
make 3,242,875,000 cigarettes.
(That's Billions. Madam Proof
reader.) Of course, the compa
nies mightn't use all these to
baccos for cigarettes. After all,
there are pipe - smokers, plug
chewers,- and snuff-dippers
who’ll demand a share of the
Wallace tobaccos this year, as
in all years. Too, some of the
pharmaceutical companies will
want some of the Wallace weed
from which to make nicotinic
acid. I believe it is.
Heaps Of Tobacco Sold
In terms of straight out
pounds, all this means there
have been 9,728,626 pounds of
tobacco sold here this year. To
day and tomorrow the buying
boys will run this total well past
the 10.000,000-pound mark.
This week might well turn out
to be a banner one in terms of
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dollars and cents for the far
mers of this area. Monday the
gentlemen who purchase the to
baccos for the sundry manufac
turers and dealers got bullish
blood in their veins and began
vying right sharply with each
other to see who could come up
with the best prices for the sea
son.
Guy Forrest, who buys the
kind of tobaccos Australians and
Canadians prefer to smoke,
chew and dip, began tipping his
eyebrows higher when Jim
Pearson and Lloyd McGowan,
Wallace auctioneers, pitched
their chants up to $60. Grover
Settle, who buys the stuff that
goes in Luckies, crinkled his
nose deeper at the $60 figure.
Andrew Comer, emissary of
King George as buyer for Im
perial. threw back his head a
little further. Sam Loftin, the
jovial big man from Kinston,
who buys all he can for L. B.
Jenkins, clamped on his cud of
chewing a little harder..
Robert Sisk, the Winston-Sal
em native, who naturally pur
chases Camel tobaccos, and who
walks in the sales line immedi
ately behind the auctioneer,
poked his thumb in the ribs of
the chanter harder.
Billy Barker, tne Kentucky
home folks who looks after the
interests of Chesterfield here,
gave the sing-song boys the
come-on look with a heartier
twist. And Johnny Crews, who
personally plugs for Old Golds
and who is a tobacco farmer
himself, waved his hand more
briskly.
All of which ensuing means
that the buying boys were all
pitching in there harder to get
the tobaccos. Result: the price
average here shot upward by
something like $8 to $10 per hun
dred more than in previous
weeks to better than $50 per
hundred. And the farmers had
thousands of dollars more to
take home for the same
amounts of tobacco.
Warehousemen Bill Hussey,
Oscar Blanchard, and Rack
Rakley, who lead sales here and
who’d been between a drip and
a drizzle with all the weather
inclemency all season, were
then moved to go out on a limb
and advise all their growers to
bring on their tobaccos and cut
in on some of the Wallace sta
tistics, mainly the statistics
about higher prices.
“Now is the time,” they chor
used, “for all farmers to swell
their homeward dollar take by
offering their tobaccos to these
buyers. They’re in a high price
mood and we have the room on
our warehouse floors to handle
the tobaccos when and • as
they’re driven onto our floors.”
They had a sort of an egging
on chant to the farmers them
selves as they stood at the en
trances to their houses. It was:
“Drive Into this money box,
Boys!”
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“pozzle” for place. Words end
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“mucko” for sailor, “robo” for
rabbit, “reffo” for refuge and
“susso” for sustenance.
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TRUCK ROUTE
YET UNDECIDED
Other Action Of City Coun
cil Reported At Meeting
Yesterday
Opposition to the City’s plan
for a by-pass truck route high
way around Wilmington by the
public roads association has
not “been taken as final,” ac
cording to City Manager J. R.
Benson.
“The State—the public roads
association—all along has not
been any too favorable to our
plans for a bypass. They have
always taken the position that
the highway should run through
the city. We haven’t accepted
that view as final, and we aren’t
now,” the city manager said
last night.
In a meeting of the City
Council yesterday, a PTA
spokesman, representing a
group objecting to the possible
use of 10th street for a truck
route for the highway now
routed along Third street, read
a letter from State Highway
Commissioner A. H. Graham
citing the PTA’s opposition to
such a plan.
Stating that the proposal to
use the 10th street route origi
nated with city officials, the let
ter expressed the opinion of
Graham that such a plan could
not be successful without PRA
support, because this Federal
agency is designated to supple
ment State funds in such con
struction.
Benson said that the State
has been opposed to routing
the truck lane around the city,
and that it did go so far as
to agree to moving it as far out
as Seventh street.
In addition to representatives
of the PTA, of the Williston Ne
gro schools, the interdenomi
national ministerial alliance
and interested Negro property
owners were on hand at the
council meeting yesterday to
oppose the use of 10th street
for the bypass' Petitions show
ing opposition were presented.
The councilmen | discussed
without difinite action establish
ment of a definite policy by
the city on water line installa
tion charges outside the city
limits.
They took action closing an
alley in Sunset Park and failed
to act on closing a portion of
Green street near the cemetery.
One amendment to the zoning
ordinance removing commer
cial restrictions at Eighth and
McRae streets at Red Cross
was passed, but an amend
ment covering the northwest
corner of Second and Queen
streets was rejected.
Beer licenses were approved
for Emmerson D. Lewis, 1000
North Sixth street, and
to George T. Lane, 928 North
Fourth street.
MATTER OF FACT
(Continued from Page Four)
most mathematically calcul
able. The inclusion of France
and Italy with the Soviet pup
pets in the Kremlin’s new inter
national reveal how confidently
the Kremlin is calculating on
these results.
That is why the Administra
tion’s lawyers and experts have
been told to go back and try
again to find some means—al
most any means—of getting dol
lars to Europe without pre
liminary Congressional sanc
tion. To this end a new series
of conferences is about to start.
The Export Import Bank, the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
the frozen holdings of European
nationals in this country, these
and other possible sources of
dollar aid will again be care
fully scrutinized. Possibly in
formal Congressional sanction
will be requested before any
thing is done. Even so, as one
Administration a d viser re
marked, “it will take a lot of
pulling and stretching of the
original Congressional intent.”
Certainly, if ever before in
American history, a bit of “pull
ing and stretching” can be justi
fied
Copyright, 1947, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
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BID ASKED
Aviation Shares .50c 5-30 5.76
ACL of Conn 4.00a 56 56 3-4
Boston Fund 2.16b 10.03 M.65
Carolina Insurance 1.40a 16 18
Chase Nat Bank 1.00a
Ex Div .40c £3 1-8 37 1-8
McBee .40a 7 1-4 7 3-4
Mass Inv Tr 1.89b
Ex Div .26c 16.07 37.10
Nat Tran New Stock W. I. 3 3-8 3 3-4
Peo Sav Bank & Tr 3.00c 80 —
Red Rock Bot (Inc., Ga.) 7 8
Sec Nat Bank .80c 27 38 1-2
Standard Stoker 3.00c 11 23
T W P Common .60a 8 8 1-2
Wil Sav & Tr 2.00c 49 —
a. Indicated annual dividend rate.
b. Income and profits dividends paid
in past 12 months.
c. Paid in 1946.
The above quotations are nominal and
are believed to be indications of the
price at which the securities may be
purchased or sold.
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STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
NEW YORK, Oct. 8. — (/P) —
Sales closing price and net
change of the fifteen most active
stocks today:
St Regis Paper 46,700-11-No.
Texas Co 20,100-57-%.
Int Tel & Tel 16,700-11 %-No.
Packard 13,000- 4%-yg.
NY Central ll,400-145/8-y8.
Balt & Ohio 9,900-13ys-No.
Va Caro Chem 9,300-9 upy8
Burlington Mills 9,300-20 up Vs.
Schenley Distill 8,9900-36%-%
U S Steel 8,700-71%-iyg.
Nat Distill 8,500-21%-%.
Colum Gas & El 8,400-12%-yg.
Chrysler 8,00-59%-%.
Penn R R 7,800-18-No.
Int Paper 7,700-54%-iy4.
Greenland, world’s largest
island, is three times as bic as
Tams.
CITY MAY GET
CLUB PROPERTY
FOR PARK SITE
City Manager J. R. Benson
told residents of the Country
Club Pines sub-division at a city
council meeting yesterday that
he has hopes that the city might
acquire the club property as a
public park.
His statement was made after
the property owners had asked
the council to reject a Cape
Fear Country club request to
commercialize property aban
doned as part of the golf
course.
The city manager said that
he thought that such a park
would prove an asset to the
community instead of a detrac
tion.
Opposing the proposal to re
zone the land north of the
Wrightsville Beach highway and
east of the ACL railroad belt
line for commercial use, the
Pines residents appeared en
masse at the council meeting
Deferring action pursuant to
an investigation by Benson,
members of the council showed
interest in his proposal to pur
chase the site for a park.
Charging that the request for
commercializing the area is a
selfish one which would benefit
only the country club, the ob
dential restrictions in the area
jectors said that lifting resi
will greatly damage adjacent
property.
SCOUTS ENROLL
625 GIRLS HERE
Forms Largest Body In
History Of Scouting
In This Area
Six hundred and twenty-five
girls are officially enrolled in
the Girl Scouts, a Red Feather
service, for the largest enroll
ment in the history of Wilming
ton, it was announced yesterday
by Mrs. J. M. Autry, troop or
ganization chairman.
Mrs. Autry said there were
150 additional scouts enrolled,
but not officially registered with
the local Scout office.
George Stearns, executive of
the Community Chest, said that
in order for the girls to receive
Scout qualifications Scout lead
ers have to fill applications and
turn them in to the Scout of
fice. He added that all Scout
leaders should turn the applica
tions in immediately, so that 775
Scouts will be officially enrolled.
The Scouts are divided into
three classifications, Brownies,
Intermediates, and Seniors, ac
cording to their age. The Inter
mediates have the largest num
ber of students with 281 en
rolled. Brownies, the younger
Scouts, have 235 registered with
the Seniors, older Scouts, having
46 members.
The record -breaking enroll
ment consists of white and Ne
gro girls.
The white Scouts have three
senior troops, 14 intermediate
troops, and 13 Brownie troops.
The Negro Scouts have two se
nior troops, three intermediate
troops, and one Brownie troop.
A training course for new vol
unteers in Girl Scouting will be
gin this morning at 10 o’clock
and last until 12 noon at the
Community Center, Second and
Orange streets, with Miss Doro
thy Wells, field executive, in
structing.
Miss Helen Jones, executive
secretary of the Girl Scouts,
said that there is a long waiting
list of local girls who wish and
are hoping for more women to
volunteer their time to take
troop leaderships so they ean
organize new troops.
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Sealed Bid Sale To Be
Held At Maffitt Village
A $16,000 sealed bid location
sale of government surplus
property will begin today at the
Hewes Community building at
Maffitt Village and will continue
until 12 noon Saturday, it was
announced yesterday by J. M.
Vines, assistant manager of the
WAA Customer’s Service Center.
Inspections will be held this
morning from 9 o’clock until 4
p. m.
Bids must be submitted on or
before 12 noon Saturday to the
WAA Customer Service Center
on N. Second street. Awards
will be made and sales con
summated daily, when bid tabu
lations are completed.
Vines urges the buyers to in
spect the property as failure
to inspect will not constitute
basis for cancellation, refund,
or adjustment.
No priorities will be required
for this sale.
The property will be sold on
an “As is-Where Is” basis as
the property is offered as it is
at the present location, with
no warrant as to condition, and
without recourse against the
government.
Sucessful bidders must be
present at the opening of the
bids, Vines said.
Articles listed for sale are
springs, benches, piano, stoker,
blower, hose, stoves, hot plates,
and other items.
PRICES SPIRALING
ON WALLACE MARKET
WALLACE, Oct. 8—The up
ward spiraling price surge that
began with a bang on the Wal
lace Tobacco Market Monday
continued today and for the
third successive sales period
the average was $50 per hun
dred or better, John Sikes, Sales
Supervisor, reported.
In spite of rains that fell in
this section yesterday, last
night and most of the morning,
hampering growers in their ef
forts to get their offerings on
the market, warehouse floors
were fairly well filled and the
market came within a few thous
and pounds of selling its quota.
A total of 260,000 pounds
brought farmers a little better
than $50 per hundred to match
virtually Monday’s and Tues
day’s good prices.
Warehousemen Bill Hussey,
Oscar Blanchard, and Rack
Rackley repeated their advice
today to farmers to bring *
offerings on to the market ^
“Prices are good and
have the warehouse spat *
handle our customers m ' 1,1
shape,” they said.
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