It!.'. m- w-' i4'«' Vol. XXX—No. 39 $^.09 PER YEAR—Sc A COPY CONSTRUCTIVE... Hwiiott^s Cteljr Safety-Minded Group Seeking To Make Thoroughfares Safer ALL TOWNSfflPS REPRESENTED ON SAFETY COUNCIL September Civil Term Called Off; Bar Fixes Oct. Docket “SCHOOL CHILD SAFETY" IS FIRST AIM OF COUNCIL; CAPT. JAMES SMITH SPEAKS TO MEBTINO IN COURTHOUSE Meeting In the courthouse In LIU- Ington last Friday night for the pur pose of perfecting the organisation of a Harnett County Safety Council, those present named a representa tive from each of the county’s 13 townships to serve on the Council hoard. The meeting was presided over ■by Mr. C. G. Fields of Angler, who had previously 'been named as pre sident, and Mr. C. H, Hood, secreta ry of the Council was on hand to aid In the meeting. After opening the meeting, Mr. Fields introduced Capt. James R. Smith of the State Highway Patrol, who gave an informative talk con cerning the value of Safety Councils in curbing accidents. Capt. Smith stated that since the formation of such a Council in neighiborlng Cum- ';erland county, that hlgflhway acci dents and fatalities resulting from such accidents had been drastically reduced. He stated that Cumber land’s Council elected tc have a civic organization sponsoi- ;he safety program tor each month in the year. In relating how these safety groups can help keep down acci dents and fatalities, Capt. Smith said, ‘‘Such groups coordinate the efforts of law enforcing agencies such as Highway Patrol, sheriffs, deilvty sheriffs and chiefs of police. The Council acts as lalson between the public and law enforcement of ficers. It gives the public an oppor- '' tunity to sit in on meetings and voice opinions as to what should te done to curb accidents. The 'pttb^ lie can make complaints to officers and then follow through at later meetings and see what is 'being done to check the violations complained against." Capt. Smith made a strong appeal to the public to cooperate in forming Safety Councils to aid the officers in (Continued on page eight) The September civil term of one week in Harnett Superior Court, scheduled to begin Monday of this week, has been called off and the County .Bar members met In Clerk Howard Godwin’s office Monday and fixed the calendar for the October civil term 'of two weeks. Clerk Godwin stated that Judge Henry A. Grady of Now Bern will preside at the October term. Con flicting dates of court terms in the district made it necessary for Judge Clawson Williams to preside else where. The Harnett October term Is considered an extra added term, since it was inaugurated after the regular schedule was arranged. The October term will convene on Monday, the 4th. It will be the last civil teim of the year. Only one term will remain—the November ciimln- al term of two weeks. Although the criminal docket is considerably crowded, with seven murder cases and numerous other charges of a serioup nature, no move has beep 'made to call for an other special term this year. JUDGE HENRY A. GRADY Solicitor Jaek Hooks has stated he.will •bfT'ablo to clear the criminal docket at the Noyeraber term.. No jurymen were summoned for the Septenrher civil term. Revival Services At Neill’s Creek Church 11,000 N. C. JOBS AT STAKE IN NOV. Reitnbllcan Victory Would Give OOP Party Members 'Crack At., N. C. Patronage Jobs By Julia G. Erwin Erwin News Service Washington. D. C., Sept. 22.—^Ac- ' cording to the estimates of North Carolina Republican leaders, eleven thousand Federal Government pat ronage Jofbs In Tar ‘Heella are at stake in the November general elec tion. The election of Governor Thomas E. Deprey as the nation’s first Re publican President since Herbert Hoover would give North Carolina Republican party members a crack at those eleven thousand jobs. It has been noted ,in this depart ment before that the new OOP na tional Committeeman for North Carolina. J. E. Broyhill, the Lenoir furniture manufacturer, is deter mined to apply practical and effi cient standards in recommending party members for Government jobs if Dewey wins. Mr. Broyhill 'wiU re commend no one whom he would be unwilling to hire for his own fur niture business. He 'believes public servants should do/an honest day's work every day and earn their salt. In this connection, GOP leaders also have reached another conclu sion. If Dewey becomes President In January, Federal employes there after will be required to treat tax payers courteously, and to exercise this courtesy particularly in writing letters to taxpayers on official mat ters. In recent years, the Tar Heel GOP leadership has noted a rather dicta torial, at times high-handed and discourteous attitude on the part of the so-called ‘‘Bureaucrat,’’ an at titude that the Government Is boss ing rather than serving the public. The entire matter has 'been 'brought up in Repuiblican councils and discussed thoroughly. From this has come the policy of courtesy, contingent, of course, upon GOP vic tory in the national election in No vember. As one spokesman put it,, “The Republicans expect 'when, they-get in, power to require all go'Vernment employees in corresponding with cttlzens of the United -Btateis to write iiMM letters In polite langaitge." REV. CHARLES HOWARD Revival services will begin at Neill’s Creek Baptist Church next Sunday night, Sept. 26, at 7:30. iRev. Charles Howard will be the visiting Minister. Bennie Slaughter will be In charge of the music. ■Services will bo held each night at 7:30 through the following week. Charter NisfKt Set For Coats Council ‘Eighty petitioners of the Coats area for a charter to establish a JOUAM chapter will hold their Insti tutional meeting on 'Friday night. It was announced Monday. The charter is expected to be granted with more than I'O'O' appli cants as charter memibers. The -Ben son degree team will have charge of the program and the Capital City Council of Raleigh will assist in the institution of members. Judge W. C. Purcell of Durham, State JOUAM Councilor, will attend the meeting. Here Comes The Lane! The Motor Vehicle Inspection Lane serving Harnett and Banq>- son counties is moving to LUl- ington from Dunn today, and t4>- morrow. (FViday) It will be set up ready for business on- J street facing the Northam Motor Com pany. AH 1987 and 1946 models must be inspected by September‘80, and the lane will remain'here tlirough that date. The old caution, “Come' early and avoid t^ msh," Is given to all owners of *87 and *46. modiels. MINISTERS TO meet at BUIE’S CREEK MONDAY ALL ministers OP HARNETT COUNTY INVITED 'TO PARTICI PATE IN PROGRAM ^R^ CLOSER COOPERATION .Alt minister of the gospel ln Har nett county are. scheduled to gather at Campbell' College next Monday, Seviptember 27, at 2 p. m. for a pro gram designed to “.bring the .forces Df Christianity in .ouir..!;.;cpinflY iiiio closer cooperation." In issuing the invitation. Secre tary Richaird Rhea'Gammon says to the ministers: “If yen' have some layman in your' congregation whom you would like to invite to attend this, meeting as your guest, pleace feel free to do so. The meeting will not last longer than two hours.” Rev. X. c. McCall, pastor of Bunn- level Baptist Church, will preside. Following is the program; Opening 'Hymn: “The Chw-ch’s One Foundation." Prayer of Invocation, Dr. George Cuthrell, Dunn. , Scripture reading. Rev. C. P. Mar tin, Dunn.. Address: ‘Interdenojplnatlonal and Interracial Cooperation”, Carl R. Key, Executive Secretary, N. C. Council of Churches, Durham. Period tor questions and dlacus- ston. . Special music, .Address; “The .Church In Our Day”, Dr, S. L. Morgan, Sr., Wake Forest. Period for questions and discus sion. Special music. Address: “Our Harnett County Program", Rev. W. A* Tew, Lllling- ton. Period for questions and discus sion. Time and place of next meeting. Closing hymn: ’-All Hail The Fewer of Jesus Name”. -Benediction. Besides bri; customers, the Days staged. by iugtott last' Th'i Saturday fdstere^'' _ ^ the hundrilis cK^^egnUr vialtora wtio seemed glad(^^renew thiiir ac quaintance and 'with 4^1- 'ers here. After qu9stlofi|b« Ria marebants and 'business who s|K»asored the event. The NbwV^fltHls all of one opinion; That t^d .Bbod -Wtil trvde days are of m6re„|Shah caanal im portance, 'and will prove of lasting benelRthe -tOWu. Grocery, ■dry, hardware, furiffture, and'' merohandlse stores throughoi|| thra town's (busi ness district rei^rt ^ The News that' sales for ika ' thrm days tar exceeded"' expecti^tau. But most of the dealers 8dd ''^im it" was ' not merely the inerei|sed sales that brought satisfactioki 'to them-—“it was indeed a pleun^re (o BMqt our old fHe^s and '^ualii- tgiifeis.*’'t'hoy daclifift.’' '' wm 'irrants was held last' ^ luterest aroused'/among ^ |he ' eommunity's triUUng pnhlk waa so marljiad that It 'Sriui 'Abided to hold the' bargain festi'fal at reguli^ intervals. ' Amdni^thili 89Dd!;hatiired bargain hunters, pdidtblf'hobs g>ive outward expresstoB of a.mora marked degree ^an th'e'fncky ones '#ho won certlfll^pa in ^e-' “Matt on the Street”'tjutsses! 'One''lady trpin tba Western part ^ tiie county came Into The NeW8'''4ffioe holding high a certitficate cai&g'for fS.OO worth me to toll him ''^tbe population of li'ardett eoWniy.^^ didn’t iraow how many people we'^have,”' she confesa- ed,!^|||^ I told'himand he the certltiemt^” MtS-aim Sftdnid'hhVe said-dd,229 .according-^to the 1240 csn'Stis, she' countered with; “But I got the certificate just the same WnaWlT M. POTBAT €LYDB IKLLON Dr Poteat, professor of Laflu Language and Literature at Waka Forest. College, wiU be the speaker next Sunday night, September 26, in Angler Baptist Church where a series of meetings Is In progress. Laymen speakers at the meetings are dtocnsslng Christian Living. Dr. Poleat’s subject will bo “Christian Brotherhood.” The meeting opens at 8 .p. m. ■ Clyde A, Dillon, president of the Dillon supply \jompany of Raleigh, was the speaker last Sunday night. His subject was “It’s Time to Re turn to Religion.” QUALITY HIGHER ^ ARE PRICES ON DUNN MARKET MANAOBR BDCK OUBW^ 18 JNHNBD BY HUB ASSOOIATHI IN / RABSKNO BffinMATB OP TOTAL SRA80N SALIM with my bum guess.^ W. €. LOWDERMBLK DffiD LAST THURS. PMNaer Oounty GOaMhlmkaMO' Passes At His Home At BfamoMt Fumtr- al Friday Afternoon BIRTH ANNOUNOEMENl’ Mr. and Mrs. C.'Osmond Kearney, Snow Hill, announce the birth of a .ion, Clarence'Osmond, iJr., on Sep tember I'D at Memorial General Hos pital, Kinston. Mrs. Kearaey is the former Miss Rublneal Mason of An gler. Homecoming At Metho.dist Church Is Well Attended The annual Homecoming celebra-' tion of the Lillington Methodist Church held last Sunday wao term ed most succeeaful and drew a large, congregation that filled the church to its capacity. The services were 'begun at 11:00 a. m. with an inspiring message by Rev. Walter Neill McDonald, a na)> tlve of Lillington. Rev. McDonald Is the son of Mr, and Mrs. A. A, Mc Donald of Durham, who made their home here for a number of years.' During the morning worship serv ice a ceremony of, .(tnusual' interest to the local Methodists' took place. The ceremony was that of ibumlng^ the note oti the newly erected. p‘arf| soaage. The. note represented thp payment of the final dbbt against the parnonage. Rev. W, A. Tew, pas tor of the church, c«^Ied upon Mr. Henry Spears, president of the Bank of Lillington, and l^rs. Jpai' Layton, Jf., chairman of the finance' committee to burn the note' at the altar ' of the church.' ' "At the conclusion' of the morning service the congrega'tion was invi'ti^ to the church lawh ’U) partake of a bountiful ‘ .picnic'* dinner that had been plrepared by tlie. women of the Church', ■ ' A large number of'former mism'-' hors of the clrairch were' p’rosent or the hoih'^omlng' serviceB, among) •whom' 'w.6re"‘two 'former p»'storii''o'f' tfa'e''churcll,',Revi C. 'JB, Vaughn and W. C. Lowdermilk, prominent Harnett citlxen,.dled'-at his home at Mamers last Thursday at 8 p. m., following a 'Short illness. He was 76 years old. Mr. ,Lowdermilk served .on the Board of County Commissioners. for one' term, 12M-24). 'He wmS' also a leader in' his community, being ac tive in church affairs. He was a steward' in the Woodside Methodist Church. Funeral services were conducted Friday at 3 p. m. Rev. O. C. Melton, pastor of Woodside, and Rev, R, B. Moore, pastor of Antioch * Baptist Church, officiated. The services were held In the Antioch ChtftCh; Mr. LowdeYmllk moved to - Har nett from Randolph county sdwut 80' years ago and had resided .at Ma mers since that time. Surviving are hls' jrMe; two sons, Aldo and Qulntoil, ifitth of Mamers; two daughters, -Mrs. A. W. Fowler and' Mrs. J. T. Honeycutt, both of Raleigh ; and three sisters, Mrs. Ann Groves of Gatlford Oollt^e, Mrs; Etta Frasier of High Point and Mrs; Roy Eller Edwards of Norfolk, Va. MRS. LBNA msmwnf Mrs. Lena Johnson, 84, of Ms*- chester, died Wedneeday movnlog in a local htmpltal. att«r a shmrt 1Ubm». Surviving are one son, Jaek JduMOn. Coats; a daughter. Mrs. Daky T«neey of Spring Lake, four graadehBdreB and a brother, Herbert WoodnU of Angler. Funeral e«rrteea we» held iThursday at 8 p. «. from ttM bernib of her daughter at Spring Lake. £f g SlylM At of { Perfaape. the hens ^ ha»n_ i> the cWoiige In ^ lepst it tfuiit. way. B, 'V. 'ihlnks so. ‘ A fiw days afo^ Mb’, 'briwgbt to TKo ^ows bffied sm egg ia''|^eet V^thape, te'Mmntt r»y like .a Itett “I ■d«mn;'ltnOif'wMilW'.Bte tele , imy hisns,’* ’ . ilaibek, 'thftt’B 'Uitoaf'0a»w' out.'of' eke of ' Waaid'he haida*t "iiMdead 'any 'anyttiteg''iHte With salea already patt the four- million pound mark. Manager OBaok Currin and bis aaaoelates of the Dunn tobacco market are rafiteg their sights on the total eutlmuted pounds to be sold on the market for the 1248 aeason. County Ag«a(t (R, Ammoas told Thwllyg.‘'.,liajt' hik.uitteuiie' uiih.^ total 'eesfteu’s salea Wta u Me hlglMir at the bi^nnlng than most of those who put figures bu It' at' that time. Agent Ammons estimated the sales would reach neaier six mil lion by the end Of the seailoa^ Ndiw, be says, he is raising’ his estimate and believes from present iadlm- tlons the sales will reach nearer eight miillon pounds. ' Manager Cnrrln Is Intending to keep the market open till the end' of November. Quality tobacco is now coming in, and' the rdyult is . that prices ■ are higher than when the market open ed' and only the lower 'grades weia offered. The News 'makes it a practice to question ' farmers Tlaiting this of fice about thelo- experience' at the Dunn market. Everyone questioned has te^reswd - not only satisfaction 'With prices but also praise Is given for 'courteous trea'tmont. RSrnett farmers are gratified at the estab- IMhment of a tobacco market in Dunn','and they are highly pleased that it Is 'iheetlng with success. As one farmer 'exprwBsed It: “It is our 'market, and we like it.” Estimates of the pereeutage of Harnett’s crop already uold vary greatly. The eatimates rttn front 86 to . 75 per cent. MBTH ANNOCNOMMMNT : Mr. and Mra. Raymoad Rutoe Jafceman, Xrwin, annoanoe tha birth of a son, oa September. lh at.Qf>ed Hope Htrapltal, Ikwin. Mrs. Jideeman is tba former Miss Roth Shaw of Maaehester. ANGIER TO VOTE ON STREET BONDS NEXT SATURDAY QVBgTIOlir 18 WMrrKKR TO 18- SUM 9aO,W» IN BONDS F(m PAVING TOWN’S SnOSBTS; FAVORABUB VOTE BXPBCTHD Angler voters will go to the mu nicipal poBs next Saturday, Septem ber 8dL and'dep|||p>whetiier tits, .lawn will tssWa Ndtft6 in bonds for pan'- iag Ifs'streata. ■'At a maas -xsaetteg called for the late(.'J!Minii^^..jrighL r . «iqmared tnat’.a :ma|«rffr'- of> the citlaeas pre sent are sappoittUg 'the bond Issue. However, ' those favoring the bond lawie are oatapoken in claim tor its ehrtala'passage^ The (^HmaiUon, of coarse; la predictiag its fallnre. Spankers at the mess meeting made comparison of Angler with neighboring towns which they deelg- nated as progressive.. The compari sons .tended to -s'boWr Angler leas pro- greaeive than the nrighbors. A few years back, Angler listed a forward step in iUstaUing its water system. The torwn has been build ing np, too.' since that time. This has been pointed out by advocates of the street bond issue, who declare that it the town’s streets are paved there.wlll be‘even more buildlug. Angler’s .location is* one to be en vied. Situated in the heart of the richest tobacco growing section In the'^Stete, it has reaped good trade from rural dwellwra. The 'Population 'of the town is abodt'the same as thit of Lillington. • Anglsr's -.near neighbor, 'Fuquay- Ywrina, -has already paved its streets, and- ccMtinictlon of new buildings, both fMr ftwelUngs and' business, has been in-continual progrees over the past several years. IN vmmtAsa hospital W. A. Puryear. of LJUington R-8 entered. Veterans Hiwpital, -Fayette- yille, on Monday of last week for an' pya operation. He expeote to remain in ihs htepital for a^nt a month. Mr. 'ihwryear 'is a veteran of World War I. A ruling by W. B. Basteriteg, Secretary of the Local. GovemiMnt Commission, caused a littie shnCCle in LilUngton’s street paving pro- giam Monday, but Mayor Ohnrlle Loving and Town Attorney W. A. Johnson tell The iNewe they |Mive straightened oat the kink. Before beginning -the pa'vlng pro ject. the town asked for a .vote of the 'eiUsens to endoras the teine of 148,096 In 'bonds. This anthortty was granted by the voters tost May, and bids for the |48,000 bonds were ^1- ed for. -In the mesntlme a contract waa awarded to the Selgtor-OUaa Oon- strcetion Co. for pavliig the rantolh- ing uapaved streets in the town at a cost of |«8,dt0—thto to iaotede grading, storm drains, paving Inter sections, etc. Town Oonnell then asked for Tte- auteer property owners to pay In ad- vanee the cost of paving etieets twn- nlng by their pitmerty- Around ftC.- OdO has besn collected in this way. and Mayor Loving says he is oontl- dent the prepayment sum will reach around 128,066. Secretary Bssterllng now iafOicns the Town Connell it cannot proceed In that manner; that it mast have authority to issue a snfttolaBt anm la bonds to cover the entire coet of the itoigtor-Cline conract. .. The $48,090 bonds anthortoed toat May will not cover the contract price; therefore Seotelary BaBterUng adriaea that an aidHlteml $80,000 be anthortoed. Then, he saye, the proiram.' Although the total anthortoatlon after the new issue will amount to $78,000, it is not the purpose of the Town Ccmncll to actually aell mora bonds than to absolutely neoeisarr to complete the paving according to contract. Mayor Loving and Attorney John son explain that those property own ers who have made payments to cover the. cost of paving atreeto by their property will be abeolved from' any other liability In the street pav ing program except that they iwUl pay in taxes their proportionate share of the cost of the town’s por tion of the work, such as paving In- tereeetlons and the like. ' Asked what prooednre will be adopted to , collect from thoae who fait to pay in advance. Attorney Johnson explained that the reepec- tive amounts due by each SHroperty owner will be assessed against each: that they must eventually pay up, and that no part of this uneollaeted- (Continued on page two) Antioch Study Course Begins Next Week Ymn' Credit bn’t As Good Now Aa It Was Saturday Thinking nbont bujdng an ante;', mobile, cook irioim, iNtohlng nutoh- tee, refrlgiFator, or somethingT If ao, better, prefaced , te .pw. *9^^ caidL Bee'aitoCr It yjoa ciwdlt; yod’H have to put up 'idl^ cash now. On Monday, ‘ SepteUlber 20, the screws” •werb 'tikhtened on Instal ment 'Wjring.' Tltoi’nlwians down ulaj- mkhts 6h sudh " thinks mentioned ^v«, and other thlh^ too, 'meat be larger. FuHh^raiolw, yon won’t be iM(^ed as toiUbb time to make tiie iiutypaj^emt.' ' "'liM "Instisnce, ‘you must pay 29 pele 6ent (Town. Xt the t^l amonnt tb' gfijirchase' tmtote to l«M''tha'n otW >on^ mUjft pay air* all" in l8 months. Xt ^t’s m^ than fi.O^ you may take 1$ months to k6j£tW '' ’i^iwwal loatto' totcy ite 'repkld te ritib.' ' Tour mwditor ■mdMt' cbtettol'yoti' tA thess "requtriimants. otherwise the .government will put him out of the credit bosteessl '.^It lt'',one of the rules laid down in a tew teaotell by, tee reoent odn- jrres# to dgbb' laDatioa. President Truii|an ' ^ sfdd . it w*$ not strict enough. - H6 thinks Inflation can be Mrbed .more,, effectively if inatal- ineht'teiyihf is tightened up. Medical, educational, hospital and funeral ex^tettow are not terindod to tee itemsiso teetrtotedte to credit. But such Items as pianos and other hiualoal Instruments, silverware and jewelry,,whtoh were not included, in fp^dr controls,'now come under the citodlt credit reetiddudna. M^t confNimer .goods eoating 880 tb 18,660.' arc coVarad. Mjft'Inilmjstipn te given m to bog: lb^;«l6h oo|iitrols i^l stay on,, nor yimiiir. lfe^'"inay.-,hji' * “ *" If Inflatibh. bOnttenes to ipenece. fh* eoohomy itriMbntw. The new officers of the Antioch BTU will be instelled at 7 p. m. Sunday in a very attractive service being planned by the direetw, Mrs. E. L. Powell. A sitoolal week of study will begin Monday night tor the officers and members. The teachers, of the de partments will be: adults, Ruy. C.'ll. Ruffta, Broadway; young people, Mr. 'Roger Johnson. LtlUngton: 'In termediates, -Rev. -R. B. Moore: ju nior, Mrs. R. -F. Patterson: Interme diate leaders, Mrs. R. 2. Moore; jn- nlor leaders. Miss Bessie M^ellL The leaders state that they Invite one and nil who wish to become bet ter workers for Christ to come' and study with teem. Join Now! Officials end mamberehlp eoln> mtttees mr the Barnett Os«Mi|r Warm Bureaa'ave’'iiiBldB8 wa'nk* gent appeal to all tansera In tee eotn^ "to Join the Bbreato. A drive te now belag made for edil- big 1800 meinbsri to tee rsB the wimberslite fee Is fBAO. 'Quotas have been aesigned ta tofumshlp towashtses, vtee feel coianddat they wtB be ahie ta Merit' or perhaps eaeet goal. The Bbueett Bareaa to imi He 'il>itiiteieitel|i drive aleaf WtllK QWW BWBMIi WMpMm tiie aetton.' OtHMals pplat ont teat tea 9m reea hae of fteat to \ V ■ I 1 % a' I m . I'' ip A, If 1* -.11 ■' ■