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■ 'mm- tr’ir'‘lfrm - titiiTRyf ilMirw '‘t’V'*^'^^ ^^‘.^‘*" 'J*f '^ '" !' **' h 1 ' * * , “^ . ^ 1 '** 1 ' ♦ > * ‘ * ^ -m> HARNETT COUNTY NEWS CONSTRUCTIVE ... HAmcU** Only CiHmtya««t Newspaper ,.. PROGRESSIVE Vol. XXIX—No. 19 $2.00 PER YEAR—Sc A COPY Lillington, N. G, Thursday, May 8, 1947 Tf It Concerns Harnett, It’s In THE NEWS’* Loving Wins In Race For Mayor 2 VETS AND 2 OLD MEMBERS ARE ELECTED Sunday S]}eaker W. I*. SUTTON, JOEE l/AYTON, .IK., FRANK LEWIS, KA1A»H DAVIS AND H. H. >IAMILTON NE\V TOWN COUNCILMEN In an oloctioii that was marked for Its unusual number of candi dates. Lillington voters wont to the polls Monday ai.d selected Charlie Loving as their new Mayor, and cliose W. P. Sutton, Joel Layton, Jr., Frank Lewis, Ralph Davis and H, H. Hamilton to serve as Town Com missioners. In the .Mayor’s raco were: Charlie Lovinj:, S. G. Howell, C. S. Fowler, and C. E. Buss. Jn the Coiinoilmon race were: W. P. Sutton, .loel Layton, Jr., S. H, Wilborn, S, R. McKay. J. A, Sentor, Frank Lewis, Clarence Mann, Ralph Davis. R K. Footman. H. H. Hamil ton, n. C, O'Quinn, Joe B. Gotirlay, II. D. Carson. Sr.. Talbert Stewart. Tabulation of tlm 326 votes count ed showed: For .Mayor: Loving 178. Howell '.)2. Fowler 49, Bass 7. For Coiincllmen: Sutton 149, f.ayton 14 8. Wilborn 110', McKay 112, StMiter 131. Lewis 150, Mann 126, Davis 132. Footman 85. Hamil ton 14(1. O'Qninn 83, Goiirlay 59, Carson 131, Stewart 15. One vote was cast for C. S. Fowler for Coun cilman. A total of 338 voles wore cast, but 12 of them liad to be discarded bo- bause of irregularities In marking. The so-called Veterans Ticket lost in the Mayor’s race but won two members of the board—Lewis and Davis. An agreement entered into at the mass meeting April 7 when the can didates weie selected bound all can didates to “the high man rule.” Therefore. aU|iough the five men receiving the highest number of votes Motiday failed to secure a majority of the ballots cast, they are duly declared elected. Retiring mom hors of the board arc: S. H. Wilborn, S. R, McKay and J, A. Senter, all of whom had boon named as candidates. Retiring Mayor J. 0. Sutton declined to serve again. Two candidates named at the mass meeting. Mis, Howard Watkins and Oscar .\,tkln8, withdrew *from the race a week or so ago. The election was marked for its usual quietude and dignity, no in tense campaigning being done on election day. The registrar, Mrs, Marjorie Taylor, and poUholdors, N. S. Atkins and R. B, O’Qulnn, held f{>rth In the fire engine room at Town Hall and greeted' the balloters all day as If it were a picnic. Only a short time was required to count the votes after the polls closed. The now officials were, “sworn In” at the regular Council meeting Tues day night. MAKING UP NEW JURY LIST BIG JOB FOR SOMEBODY Harnett Farmer Has Secured Patent On His Power-Driven Tobacco Looper TWO TASKS: SECURING NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ELIGIBLE ' PKR.SONS; AND PROVIDING . FOR SEPARATE JURIES By virtue of a statute enacted by the 1947 legislature, two big tasks A special Baptist Hour program originating from the Southern iBiip- tist Convention in session at St. Louis, Mo., an^l .featuring Mother's Day, will bo broadcast next Sunday, May 11. Dr. Louis D. Newton, Presi dent of the Convention, will bring the .second of his ;wo messages, using as his subject. “Our Motherii,” us divulged in the announcement,' The Baptist Hour may bo heard in this section over radio station WPTF, Raleigh. MAKE CLOTHING DRIVE HERE TO DAY FROM 3 TO 6 ROY AND QIRIiS SCOUT TROOI*S WILL .MAKE CANVjI.SS TO COI^ IjECT AL1> OIFX.S I'OR OVER SEAS RELIEF VISITORS HERE FRIDAY Mrs. Helen Soagroves and daugh ter, Mrs. Annie Lee Bialock, and Mi.ss Charlotte Wilkorson of Angier were visitors here Friday. .Members of the Boy .ind Girl Scout Troops of LllHngton vRll conduct a drive hero today (Thursday) frojn 3 to 6 o’clock p. m. for collecting gifts of clothing, bedding and shoes for overseas rollof. Under sponsorship of the Church World Service, the collection is be ing made and the intention Is "to distribute overseas to the neodiest,” The nationwide program of col lecting clothing for the needy l.i foreign countries was scheduled for the period between April 20 and May 11. It Is hoped that by the end of that period to mako a generous showing for rollof of the people lii devastated countries. Housewives are urged to contrl- buto every article of clothing, bed ding and shoes that they feel they will not need again. Now that the spring cleaning time has arrived, ll is considered iulte appropriate tha': all such articles that will not bo oif further use to the owners be given in this campaign to collect them for destitute persons elsew'.ioro .; By giving now, the Church Worlti Service, overseas^ vellol agency for 26 Piotostant^ denomi lations, can get the contributions from this statu overseas by early summer. Rev, W. A. Tew is ounty chair-' man for the drive. Granting of Beer Licenses Big Item on Board’s Docket The Board of County Commlsslon- eis at their April meeting deferred adlon on granting beer licenses so that the new statute might be re viewed by County Attorney H. C. Strickland. It is about this time of jtar that petitions for beer licenses are renewed, and consequently ft pile of them had accumulated when the Douid met Monday for its May meeting. Attorney Strickland, after looking into the new law, found that nothing of great consequence had been made to differ from the old statute insofar a.i beer licenses wore concerned, but In the case of wine selling there Is a provision for review of applications by the ABC state hoard. The county executives then went alioad approving the applications Of tha.s0 who had filed. They fount’ ex- arily 20 petitions, and every one of tl'o applications was granted. They a:e: * » Clayton Stewart. Coats R-1. Robert Taylor, Coats R-1, beer and wine. Geo. H. Earnshaw Jr., Erwin. Janies M. Byrd, Elrwln R-1. Mrs. J. M. Bryant, Linden R-1, boor and wine. Roy Adams, Angler, heor and wlno. Edward W. Stone, Linjngton R-3. Florence Rice Monds, Dunn. W. B. McLamb, Angior R-2. W. M. Pitts, Dunn, beer and wine., Edwaid Eugene Perry, BunnleveV R-1. J. Gill Johnson, Angior R-2. Clarence E. Avery, Dunn. Wm. Earl Jernigan, iJunn R-3. Carl E. Lucas, Erwin. Harvey McLeod, Coats R-l. Wm. R. Moore, Dunn R-3. ■ Mary Ferrell, Lilllngton R'2. Dan M. Darroch, Lilllngton: Except where wine is mentioned, the application is for bjor alone, | Two road petitions were filed with the board and both were approved and ordered forwarded ,to the state highway commission. They were: In 'Barbecue township; From the Lee county line at Swann Station by the homes of Mrs. B. H. Wilson,, Mrs. Bruce Noell,.Worth McFarland; and Ellis Nordan, near i.he home of; John Harrington—about 4 miles—' an all-weather road Is a^ked. In Buckhorn township; About one and a half miles north ot Macedonia Baptist Church, following the lino! of the present old road northwester-: ly to the old W. H. Hobby place to the Chatham county line. The Board put In a full day’s work considering numerous matters and finally found time to draw a jury for the two weeks' Juno civil term before adjourning. faco Harnett county. One Is: Secur ing the names and addresses of all persons in the county who are eli gible for jury duty. The other is: Providing necessary rooms In the courthouse for male and female per sons, as well as white and colored, who serve on juvles. The job of securing the names and addresses of all who are subject to jury duty devolves upon Mrs. Inez Harrington, clerk to the Board of County Commissioners. The law stipulates that she must get these names and addiesses and present thorn to the Commissionors, and from her lists jury men and women will' be drawn from time to time. To get these names and addresses the statute points out one source, but gives no hint as to where the other source or sources might 'be. First, as the statute says, she can draw on the tax books to get the names of persons 21 years old or over. That will provide probably ten or twelve thousand names, but there are over forty-five thousand people in the county, and it is esti mated that around twenty thousand of them are eligible to serve on Juries. Best source, probably, for Mrs Harrington to secure the other names is from the registration books in 21 voting precincts in the county. That is a big Job in It self. But the statute specifically says she must present 'all of the names and addresses of all persons in the county over 21 years of age (ex cepting those who have been con victed of crime' and those' who are judged to be non compos mentis.) The Commissioners Monday order ed Mrs, Harrington to proceed with preparing the names for the Jury box, and County Attorney Strick land stated he would help ber in the work. Judge W. C. Harris, presiding at the May term of Harnett ;Superior Court, appeared before the board and instructed them that they should immodiately start making plans to | afford accommodations tor men and women jurors, both White and coI-[ orod. j County Attorney Strickland was Instructed by the executives to con- j tact contractors and get estimates of the cost of preparing separate | accommodations for the se>xes and j races. j It is the intention ot the Commis- j sloners to get all the work done In pieparing for the new jury lists and accomntodations as early as possl-1 bio because the nov; statute states that June is the month in which the new order is to bo put into etfect. LOOPED HIS OWN AND NEIGHBORS’ CROP LAST YEAR CYRUB McNEILL OF UPPER LIT- TLR RIVER IS A GENIUS NOT ONLY IN GROWING TOBACCO RUT IN MECHANH'S Pictured above is the power-driven tobacco looper in vented and manufactured by Mr. Cyrus McNeill of Up per Little River Township. Although Mr. McNeill did not secu.re a patent on his new invention until December 12, he perfected it last summer and harvested his own and his rieighbors’ crops of tobacco with it. Those who have seen it work declare it the biggest boon to tobacco growers in all, time. It eliminates three helpers in curing tobacco. Visitors have come from far and near to see the new invention, and among them, especially tobacco growers, are‘"some who are highly enthusiastic in praise of both the machine and its inventor. A • At left is a photo of Mr. McNeill. He is a farmer and to the manner born. Even when he is posing for his photograph, he keeps on his work clothes—which de notes move than words can speak that he is a real dirt farmer and a hardworking man. PostpoKkcd Cou.nty Wants Its Cottage on the Square For some time the Board of Coun- Sale of tlM; •roiuity'.s little piece of land northwest of the couvt- lioui!ie and running along the Nor folk Southern 'Railroad was post- |H>ncd Moiulny' so that a survey 4'aji be made. Uouiity Attorney H. C. Strick land tried to have a surrey wade but the effort got tangled and the Count}' Sur\'eyor didn't finish the Job. The land W'a.s .scheduled to be I sold at unctiom Monday at 12:00 i o’clock noon. j The county does not know exact- j l.v Itow nwch land it ba.s In the I little tract, ami those interested I in buying it want ,to know how much they are asked to bid on. I Side of the little tract has ere- I ated much interc.st, and there arc I , S4‘veral parties ,'n’anting it. The advertisement will be run again for sale of the property. It is a snui!ll piece left over from tlie “courijiouse site” wlilch comprised originallj’ SO acres o;r ty Commissioners has been seeking more. TAX AMOUNT TO 6.65 PC OF LEVY to got possessioii' of a cottage on ir^JPAID courthouse square owned by the* * ivUL/ county, but so far has been unsuc- cessful. Monday the board ordered County .\ttorney H. C. Strickland to take legal steps to oust the family of Bonnie Matthews, nov/ occupifing the cottage. The board wants to the cottage for a residence for L. B. Mcl/ean and family. Mt*. McLean is Ifeterans Service Officer for the county. Tho little building was for years used by the Lilllngton 'Vi^oman’s Club. AS HE COMES TO LAND SALE, COLLECTOR HARRINGTON’S UNPAID RAIANCE FOR * ■ ONLY 1129,546.27 Second Order Although practically everybody read about it, very few seem to have heeded it—t^c.order passed by tJ«e Board of Commissioners several months ago to the effect, that all county officials who want to make purchases must first see CountV Purchasing Agent R. L. Pate or IjJs assistant, County Au ditor Herbert Carson, and o^btaln authority for making such pur- chasos——the .County Exeentives de cided at Htelr session Monday to issue another order of the .same tenor and to the exact same ef fect. Tlie order roads: “All county officials, before iifaking purchases for and on be- luilt of the county, must first sub mit the ' purchasing proposal to Purchasing Agent R. L. Pate or to County, Auditor Carson.” While running through the bills >. Monday, ,pre|)aratory. to putting ids official Q. K. on them so they cau he paid, Conunlssloner Pate threw up his hands in dismay as he ran Into bills without any au thorization at all. As he came to cry off land upon which 1946 taxes' had not 'been paid, Monday. County Tax Collector "W. D. Harrington subnilttod his report to the Board of CommiBsIoners show ing he still had, on his books the sum of 529,546.27, or 6.65 per cent of the last year’s levy remaining unpaid. The collections on the same date last year amounted to 91.00 per cent. This year ' the percentage is 93.35. ■ ' Total receipts'' in the- collector’s of|ice for .4pril were $30,18'4.17, de rived from tho following sources: From current J.ixes 57,347.76; de- li:jquent taxes 5J|276.2S, making a total of 58,624.04. Other levenoe:' General county fund 52,712.8'3; ‘ school fund 52,- 545.41; old age fund 55,410.3-4; aid to dependent children fund 52,-830.- 50; child feeding program ,,57.069.- 80; veteran farmers’ training 51.25, making a total o'l 521,560'.13. The total levy for 194-6 was 5444,- 174.60. Collections to the tlrst of May were 5'*I^>S^’8.'2'3. The collector sold the delinqnent property at tho courthouse door Monday. The county, in order to protect its tax Hans, was the princi pal' bidder. COURT GRANTS SIX DIVORCES .May Civil TPerm Adjourns After Half A Day's Work; Next Term, Criminal, SLirt.s May 19 Harnett Superior Court, meeting for Its May term to hear civil cases, adjourned sine die Monday after about half a day’s work, daring which it granted six divorces. Decrees granted were: Malcolm Thompson fiwm Louvenia Thomp son, Claudia Lee Allen from Alfred H. Allen, Cora Bell Hudson from William L. Hudson, Doris Grey Hol land from Earl G. Holland, Melvin Lee Morgan from Beatrice Sawyer Morgan, Lucille Higgins Browning fiom John L. Browning, Martha Taylor Rouse from Everett Croom Rouse. Cases were scheduled for only two days of the -week,-Monday and Tuesday, and a very short calendar had been prepared. The next term will convene May 19. for the trial of crimintd cases. FIRST COUNTY HEALTH NURSE VISITS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Staton Boyette and children of Smithfield vished Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore at their home here Sunday. Mrs. Boyette is the former Miss Hazel Parrish^ who came to Lilllngton nine years ago as the first county health nurse'. GUITON TO GIVE FINALS SERMON liocal Stdiool Conunencenient Gets Uii- denvay May IS; Rev. R. K. Brown of Durliam To 3Iake Ad1rp.ss Lilllngton school's finals program starts Friday night, M.ay 1-6, with tho annual recitation and declama tion contest, and will be followed Sunday, ' May ISt with the bacca laureate sermon by Rev. T. A. Oui- lon, pastor of the local Presbyterian church. On Wednesday night the class day exercises will be held under tho di rection of Miss Belle Hockaday. Fred Holder is president of the senior class. Rev. R., E. Brown of Durham will deliver the commencement address on Thursday night, at which time diplomas will be presented to the graduates. Principal H. H. Hamilton has ask ed County Supt. C. Reid Ross to de liver the diplomas. bu:mmbr .school at Campbell Bummer school at'Campbell Col lege is announced for June >9 to August. 15. High school and re fresher students will register June 9. College students will register June 16. Courses will be offered in Eng lish, Math, natural science, history, foreign languages and commercial work. Jurors Drawn to Serve Two Weeks of June Civil Term The following have been drawn to serve for the two weeks of June Civil Term of Harnett Superior Court, beginning June 9: To serve for tho first week, be ginning Juno i9': Averasboro: Dennis Strickland, M. P. Butler, P. N. McLamb, Troy Jackson, Clarence Lee Tart. Barbecue: Johnny C,. Thomas, A. C. Thomas, Wharton Swann, W. O. Johnson. Black River: E. C. Reaves, Leo Johnson, Anderson Pittman. Buckhorn: A. W. Baucom, J.' H. Wells, W. J. Blalock, I. L. Powell. Duke: Richard D. Baker. Grove: Roy Page, Herbert Greg ory, David Avery, Johnnie Avery, H. S. McLeod. Hector’s tCreek: J. H. Gardner, E. J. Smith, H. iB. Ligon. Llllington: T." M. Stewart, W. J. Byrd, T. C. Basom, John li. Roberts, M. N. Whittington, Henry Temple. Neill’s Creek; Herman Weaver. Stewart’s Creek; Franklin Cole man Jr. Upper Little iRiver: M. B. Dar roch, J. Carrol Thomas. .To serve for the second week, be ginning June 16; Averasboro; M. W.. Smith, Mout roe Coats, W. P. Adcock, T. A. Core, Ernest J. Holmes, C. H. Carr, John D. Hockaday, Thad Pope, W. O. Dixon, Dallas J. Reaves, George Jo seph, W. M. Draughon, Hugh E. Black. Anderson Creek; Jasper B. Puller: Barbecue: L. L. Williams. G. T. Thomas. 'Black River: J. L. Lewis, P. W. Pleasants, L. O. Carroll, D. W. Den ning Jr. Duke: J.. Ehu .Stewart, E. M. Bost, Lacy A. Dawkins. Grove; Eddie L. Parrish, Jessie H. Parrish, H. T. Roberts, Carl Avery. Hector’s Creek: B. W. ‘Ballard. A. R. Bradley, J. O. Cotton. JohnsoBvllIe: JauMs B. Brown. LtUington: John A. Seatw^. NelH’s Creek; Brooks 'W’estMr. Stewart's Creek: J. B. Mergan. A. E. Morgan. ' Upper Little River: Bmeat W. Holder. Proving that he not only knows a thing or two about growing bright leaf tobacco but also is a genius when it conies to making labor-sav ing machinery, Cyrus McNeill, mid dle-aged farmer of Upper Little Riv er township, last summer demon strated his brand new invention, a tobacco looper. The big-hearted and communtty- , minded farmer, when he had con cluded in his mind the details of tho I new machine, went ahead and built it. Then he took it out to his tobac co barns and operated it till he had bariicd all of his own crop. Then he helped out hla neighbors, who were also short ot laborers, and "mach ined” their tobacco into their barns. .411 this, too, without ever going to the trouble of fir: t obtaining a patent on his machine. After all of his own and his neighbors’ tobacco was safely swapped for dollars at the warehouse, Mr. McNeill turned his attention to protecting his new invention. He applied to the Patent Office in Washington for inventor’s riglUs and on December 12, 1946, he secured his patent. Now Mr. McNeill is planning to get mass production on his tobacco looper. He does not know exactly what the new niachiues will cost or what they will have to retail for. But as soon as his plans are perfect ed he will have at least a pretty good idea about how many he can turn out In a given time and what he will have to charge lor them. Thousands of tobacco farmers have already asked “Will It work?” "Action speaks louder than words” will be Mr. McNeill’s answer as he points to the splendid accomplish ment of his new machine last sea son. But that win not be all. Those who have not seen It work may still be among the Doubting Thomases. So, within a little more than sixty days the Upper Little River inven tor will welcome all who are “from Missouri” to come out to his farm and see the looper in action. Mr. McNeill’s machine is powered by a small gasoline motor which sits on top of “the works.” The operator stands beside the machine and “feeds It” as a couple of helpers pass the “hands” to him. It takes a couple, at least, to deliver the “hands” fast enough to keep the machine going. To the uninformed: “hands” means the bunches Into which the leaves are tied for curing, and' they are placed on sticks that way for hanging in the curing barn. A spool of white cotton twine, called tobacco twine, is placed on a spindle atop'of the looping arms of the machine, much after the fash ion of spooled thread on an ordin ary sewing machine. When the “hands” are fed to the machine, it automatically loops the twine around the ends and binds the leaves securely so that none of them will slip from the sticks while In the'curing process. This operation Is very important in harvesting to bacco. Farmers will tell you that a looper can “make or break you" by the expertness or inefficiency of the looping job. Loopers, too, are the highest-priced labor in tobacco fields. Mr. HcNeiirs machine, as at pre sent constructed, will tie up as much tobacco as two hand loopers. and probably more. Besides,., ft. is much more satisfactory, Uian hand-., work. May Day At Campbell Monday Robert Hamilton of Kipling and Ruth Wiggins of Raleigh were crowned King and Queen of May at Campbell College Monday afternoon by Robert Barbour ot Raleigh and Mary Baity of Greensboro. . Majr Day festivities had to be postponed from Saturday to Monday on account of rain.' Miss Imogene Riddick was In charge of the pro gram, assisted by Misses Kathryn Willis ajid Rsby Williams and Mrs. Jack Ragland. Program tbeme was “Highland Fantasy," a medley of Scotch songs and daniM. Sengs were led by Claud White. The dsMss included s ballet by Maelen Machfe. a tap dance by Charles Snaser, the Highland Schot- tischa. the Highland Fling, and the Maypole Dance.
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