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\ ' y- ' *^7* ?»' -i:,* »?' ,;??•)>•' "X s-5^.^ For More TKan THIRTY YEARS Harnett Comity’s DEPEI^ABLE Newspaper IT’S YOUR COMMUNITY Do something to help make your community as good as you think it ought to be COUNTY News CONSTRUCTIVE... Harnett’s Only Co«mtyseat Newspaper ... PROGRESSIVE Vol. XXXII^No. 46 $2.00 PER YEAR—Sc A COPY Lillington, N* C, Thursdlay, November 23, 1950 “If It Harnett, IPs In THE NEWS* In and Out of Lillington PROGRESSIVE, SUCCESSFUL Hand it to the progressive people of the Fuauay-Varina community, who, when they undertake anything, push it to success. A report just released gives the amount paid out for tobacco on the markets there during the season which closed on Tuesday of last week the sum of $15,801,236.21. That's a whale of a-lot of money to be turned loose in a community In less than a three-month period, and though not all of it was spent in Fuqnay-Varina, it goes without saying that the community reaped a nice profit from its warehouse ven ture. * « * TOO MCE FOR SOME PEOPLE It seems that the New Lillington Theatre is jurt too nice for some peopis. That sounds awful, but what about the vandals who cut and other wise damaged the comfortable leath er-covered seats in the movie house recently? It would be a rather difficult task to keep out .such persons of degrad ed temperament, but wouldn’t it be fine If some sort of sifting process could be devised which would keep that nice theatre pretty and com fortable Just the owners made it? « « « ABOUT HW© COTTON YIELD “My estimate was that Harnett county wouldn’t have over 6,000 bales of cotton of this year’s crop," •Manager Sidney Howell of Farmers Cotton Oil Co. told The News as he commented on the first crop failure the county has ever experienced. “.\ndT didn’t even figure that we woitld gin the 400 bales that we have .?lready ginned," he went on, “be- canse when I saw what the weather and the weevil were doing to cotton, I was convinced that Harnett county was in the front line for a ‘first’— meahing the first trop failure.” “But I’ll say this," eaid Mr. Howell, "if a farmer is determined that he will not use poison on his cotton, he had be'ter save his time, land and money iu vested in fertilizer for other purposes, f can see no pos sible way to make a cotton crop without jioisoning the weevils." Harnett Grand Jury Puts In A Pfues AwaxM Foi 1950 Few Barbs With Its Nov. JURY SHARPLY RECOMMENDS COUNTY ACTION Finds Over $8,000 Unusable Funds For Court Fines Idle According to the report of the Grand Jury for the week ending Friday, November 17, partial pay ments on fines from both Recorder’s Court and Superior Court have piled up to the sum of |8,4J6.44. However, the Jury has found that this fund is unusuable so far as the county is concern ?d until either the full pay ment of the individual fines is made, or until the balance is written off the books as being uncollectable. Of this amount, $5,960.27 has eals In Production of Com Haiden Telb Rotuiails Business' Snccesi Seoet 7 REPRESENT HARNETT AT SCHOOL MEET John Harden, publicity director for the Burlington Mills Corporation of Greensboro, told Rotarians in Dunn last Friday night that the sec ret of success In operating a manu facturing plant or any other such business can be found In the get- together plan. It was the regular weekly supper meeting of the Dunn Rotary Club and there were several members of the Litlington club present including it.s president, Malcolm Fowler. Mr. Harden was not ready to give out any detailed plans for the large plant which his company will soon piled up from partially paid fines in I ®stabllsh on the Salmon tract which. Recorder’s Court, while $2,486.17 recently purchased from Sheriff comes from the same souVee in Su-1 Salmon. The tract of 325 acres perior Court. In a statement calcu- ^^®® forks of the Norfolk- ' Southern Railroad and Highway 15-A the THE NEW rOIJAUCO BUG Nothing further has been heard here about the new bug from South America that devours tobacco ten times faster that the boll weevil destroys cotton. Some weeks ago entomologists from the U. S. Department of Agri culture were in Lillington searching for some of the bugs that came in on a boat that docked at Wilmington. Some of the bugs, they said, came inland and they were trying to find Just how far they came in order to know just where to spread poison for them. One thing has ben established for certain: Pests are increasingly men acing the tobacco crop, and tobacco farmers are now up against just about as tough a problem as the cotton farmers have been facing. ... NAMES I.V THE NEW.S There’s hardly any doubt about the mentioning of names in the news columns making a paper popu lar. Newspaper folks make it a rule to get as many names in the columns as possible — that is, of course, names that can be mentioned In a favorable way—not in court or any thing like that, to be sure. For a weekly newspaper with limited space it’s quite a job to get all the names mentioned as often as desired. But if it were put to a vote, the ballot of this column would be given to Todd Caldwell’s Puquay Independent. Todd manages to get more names in his paper than any of comparable size we’ve seen. ... ms NAME IS ERTEL Judging by the inquiries coming to The News for the correct name of the Seventh District Congressman, F. Ertcl Carlyle is being beselged with communications or applications or something to a fare-ye-well. Funny thing about it, though. lated 10 bring prompt action. Grand Jury in its report made the recommend^ion that steps be taken immediately to collect the past due fines and costs, or to close the cases that are found to be uncollectable so the county can use the money. In another sharp criticism of the handling of county financial affairs, I he Jury reported that as the result of some more checking of books, it found that the administrators of some estates are delinquent in their settlements with the Clerk of the Court, 'fhe jury again showed that It means business by asking that a list of these delinquents be turned over to it so that proper action can be taken to bring about the settlements required to bring these records up (See GRAND JURY, paga 8) New Road Project To Be Let For Harnett and runs to Cape Fear River. Surveyors are now staking off the tract and determining grade levels from one end of the tract to the other, and it is expected that actual construction work will bo started soon. In a letter to The News last week Mr. Harden stated that just as soon as detailed plans were worked out he will give them to The News for publication. ,Mr. Harden, a newspaperman of long experience, illustrated his point of get-togethtf making top- success by saying that with all the efforts of all the people in a newspaper of fice, which are numerous and 'varied, it would amount to nothing If it were not for the actual contact that comes with the delivery of the paper into the hands of the subscribers. “There’s where the secret lies,” he emphasized in stressing the relations of employer and employee, with the customer to be served as the key to open the door to success. A more complete understanding of the idea which Mr. Harden meant to convey to his listeners can be gained when it Is learned that the Burlington Mills Corporation rarely if ever is faced with labor troubles. Recently a labor leader gave out a statement which was carried In the daily papers stating a complaint that anions don’t like the way the Burlington Mills manages to keep its employees satlsiied with their pay and working conditions. The complaint then went on to explain that the company raised its wage scale and improved its working con ditions before the labor leaders got around to registering a kick. Mr. Harden emphasized in his talk that good wages and good treatment bring amicable relations between employer and employee. Chapel Hill Site Of Meeting Of State Education Leaders Seven Harnett County men rep resented the school system of this county last week when they attended a State School Board meeting* at Chapel Hill. Chairman of the County Board Sidney G. Thomas and Super intendent of Schools C. Reid Ross headed the local group. The Hon. Thomas Banks, of Wake County, president of the State School Board Association, presided over the meeting which was held last Thurs day, November 16. During the after- nooj^ session Mr. Banks lead a d!s- To Speak Here Dec. 7 HARNETT GETS TWO INDUCTIONS IN EIGHT DAYS A new road project has been scheduled for Harnett county, the State Highway Commission announc ed today. Bids will be received November 28 at the Commission headquarters in Raleigh on a $200,000,000 bond project involving the hard-surfacing of 12.8 miles on a county road from 20 More Men Will Receive Orders To Report on Dec. 7 TWO HIGHWAY CRASHES ON FRH)AY NIGHT The local draft board office has reported that it’ has received another call for men for Induction into the Army, which will bring the number Stevenson’s Farm to Bailey’s Cross-1 inductees up to '3'6 for the 'alght- roads via J. B. Ennis Place, on a ! Period from the end of Novem county road from Coats north to the county line (O. I. Smith Road), and on a county road from Gainey’s Bridge to Dunn via Howard's Chick en Farm. If a satisfactory low bid is sub mitted, the project will be let to con tract with work probably starting within several weeks after the High way Commission approves the offer on November 30. Tobacco Sale Report Issued From Fuquay Tobacco sales on the Puquay-Va- rina market, which closed last Tues day, totaled 27,60'8,665 pounds, ac cording to Sales Supervisor Jesse Jones. her to the 7^h of December. The latest order is for 20' men to report on December 7. Thes* induc tees will receive orders to be at the local board office in the Allred Buil ding in Lillington at 8 o’clock on the morning of December 7. From there they will leave for Fayetteville at about 8:30 o’clock. Up until this week the last call for inductees from this county had been for 16 men to report on No vember 30. These draftees will also he sent to Fayetteville for induc tion. So far, no pr^-induction call has been received by the local office for the month of Det^mber. Patrolman Has Busy Time; Canady Brick Truck in One Wreck Cub Scouts To Pick The average price per .100 pounds , (Jp Rummaire for Sale was $57.23, Jones said, adding that , ^ , total money paid out was $15,801,-1 All persons who have used cloth- 236.21. Jones described the recent ing for the Cub Scout rummage sale tobacco season as “one of the best are urgently requested to call 2876 seasons Fuquay-Varina has ever and it will be picked up before Sat- had.” urday. HARNETT TO GET MORE MUES IN RURAL ROADS every request coming here for the figures on ezpeditures Congressman’s name has been anony- ^ noua. That is to say, the phone- caller will ask for the information without ever divulging who is doing the talking. Please don’t blam^ us, Brtel, if you’re swamped. • J • SWIPING PAPERS Out on Carl Byrd’s Route Three there are some subsertbem. to The (8m in AND OUT, page 2) Harnett county stands to get add ed mileage out of the $200,600,060 rural road program, perhaps double its original allotment, according to George Coble of 'Lexington, highfray commissioner for the Sixth Division, of which Harnett is a part. At a meeting at his lodge near Lexington last Friday night, Coble gave legislators of the Sixth Divi sion and other political leaders some of the Dlvi- vion’s allotment, revealing that as of October 1st of this year $6,560,- 925 bad been spent in the Division and that 864.9 miles of road had been built of the Division’s quota of 1,200 miles. Coming as a pleasing surprise was Coble’s prediction that be will be able to pave 2,500 miles in his Divi sion instead of tbe 1,200 miles orlgi- naUy.contsoRilAtjSd. ■ Coble explained that he had been •able to put a large portion of tbe Division's $1'9-,114,20.0 allotment of the $200,000,060 road fund into pav ing rather than “stabilization" of roads. (Stabilization is the State High way Department’s term for a rock surfaced road meeting certain stand ards as to base, alignment and drain age.) Coble showed that he has spent 34.3 per cent of the Division’s funds in tmilding 864 miles of bond pro gram paved roads. The commissioner explained that he 'was offering the figures to reas sure officials of some counties, who have expressed the fear road bond funds allocated to them will run out before they get their quota. Counties in the Sixth Division are Chatham, Davidson, Harnett, Hoke, LfiOf JfQore, Randolph, Robesoii and Scotland. State Highway Patrolman George Carroll stationed in Lillington, htul a busy time last Friday night when he went to Investigate two separate auto crashes within, two hours. The first happened around 8:30 p. m. on the outskirts of town, and the other was at about 9:46' was was near tbe Cumberland County line.. A truck used to haul brick was involved in the earlier wreck when a truck owned by E. T. Canady of Bunnlevel and a 1941 Bulck sedan mashed fenders. The Bulck was go ing west on the C. C. Road and was driven by Sandy L. McNeill, Negro, of Fuquay R-2. The Canady truck, >1948 Ford driven by Lacey Moore, Negro of Bunnlevel R-1, w coming out*^12th Street, The two ve hicles met at the intersection of tbe C. C. Road and i2th Street at tbe Green Heights Grill. The brick truck was not loaded at the time. Later in the evening, at about 9:46 p. m.. Patrolman Carroll was called to investigate a wreck on Highway 210 about 2 miles north of the Cumberland County line. There, a 1949 Kaiser sedan, driven by Thomas A. Guiton of Lillington, and a 1950 Chevrolet convertible coupe driven by Louie Laven of Fort Bragg, had collided. Laven, who was traveling south, attempted to pass a car, according to Carroll’s report, and could not get back into the^ right lane com pletely before the cars had made con tact. cuBsion on a legislative program that tbe State School Board is working on to present To the next general assembly. President of the Greater Univer sity of North Carolina Gordon Gray was on hand to give the welcoming address to the visiting 'educators. Mr. Gray was introduced by Chan cellor of the University at Chapel Hill Dean Robert B. House. Main address of the lay was made by Walter D. Cocking, chairman of the board of editors lor "The School Executive" magazine. Harnett men other than Thomas and Ross, who made the trip were A. C. Barefoot, chairmaO of the An gler District Committee, G. P. Carr, principal of tha Angier schools, A. B. Johnson, principal of the Dunn schools, and D. W. Denning, Jr. and J. D. Currin, Angier District school committeemen. WEAVER SPEAKS TO MEETING OF FARM BUREAU PRANK H. JETER Frank H. Jeter, Agricultural Edl- 4or of State College Ehetension Ser- rice, will address Lillington Rota rians-at their regular weekly supper •meeting on Thursday, December 7, in th' local high school cafeteria. County Farm Agent C. R. Am mons will have charge of the pro gram and will introduce Mr. Jeter. SON OF LOCAL MAN APPOINTED TO LABOR POST Officers For Comuisr Year Elected; Com Contest Prizes Given B. Harper Barnes Is Made Assistant Federal Solicitor Ralph Johnson Gets Purbred Heifers Scout Officers Named For Harnett District the J. K. Bruton, an official of Erwin Cotton Mills Company, been reel'scted chairman of the Har nett County Boy Scout District for the coming year. The election took place at a combination ifupper and business meeting of Harnett Scout leaders. A1 G. Wulleuwaber of.Dunn was el'seted vice chairman of the organi zation and Rev. Wllllarm M. Latta was renamed county Scout commis sioner. Ralph Johnson of Kipling obtain ed five bred Angus heifers from the Pate sale held at Laurel HiU. Th^se heifers will be used as a foundation for starting a small b?ef herd of commercial cattle. Mr. Johnson plans to use a registered bull. He has already seeded some 16 to 12 additional acres of Ladino clover and fescue pasture. Cameron Harrington of Broadway R-1 Is plann^g 1o add several head of bred heifers to his herd of Here ford beef cattle this fall. He has about 15 head apd plans to build 2! this up to arouna 25 or 30 head. Prayer Meeting at Woodside Church There will be prayer meeting at the Woodside Methodist Church in Mamers on Thursday night at 7 p. m. This is a special service and there will be a special message. Brother Will Stephans and Rev. James Fauoett will both be present. The public and members of the oth er churches of the Charge are in vited to attend this ftrvice. B. Harper Barnes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Barnes of Lillington R-1, has received an appointment as the new assistant solicitor for the Fad- erai Department of Labor. A former resident of Wilson, Lillington and Graham, Barnes will be in charge of international labor affairs for tbe solicitor’s office. Barnes was educated In the public schools of Wilson and Lillington and attended the Univsrsity of North Carolina Where he was president of the student body. While at Carolina, be was also a member of the Golden Fleece and the Phi Beta Kappa. In 1940 he Joined the Richmond regional staff of the Labor Depart ment and remained there until he joined the Navy in 1944. Since his return to civilian life, when he joln- od the Labor Department In Waohlng- ton. Barnes has served as a litigation supervising attorney, special oash ant to the solicitor, and chief of the legislative and bureau services branch of the solicitor’s office. Cotton Report Up until November l only 5,247 bales of cotton were ginned in Har nett County from the 1950 crop, ac cording to the latest cotton ginning report from tbe bureau of census uf the Department of Commerce. This 5,247 bales is 7,891 boles less than were ginned at the same time in 1949. Up until November 1 lost year there had been IbvlSS bah brought in. N. C. Voters Show Change In Attitude Toward Changes Homecoming ut Ephesus Church There will be a Homecoming Ser vice at Ephesus Presbyterian Chureh today (Thursday). A picnic luneb will be served at *12 o’clock. In the oftenMon a Harvest Sola will be held: The public 4s eordially invited to attead. A wise person change his or her mind; a fool never. That old saying packs a lot of something truth maybe. Anyway, it’s very evident that a great majority of North Carolinians have ch'apged their miqds about changes—In the State Constitution, that is. For some several election times proposed changes have been presented to the voters in one form or other. And rarely has a change in the age-old document been ap proved by said voters. But in 1950 the attitude of voters is, like many oth^ things, different. The voters want some changes—and there’ll be some changes made be cause tbe tout vote m November 7 overwhelmingly in favor of was each of the five Constitutional Amendments presented on the ballot. - Overwhelmingest vote favoring a change was that tor protecting the fund tor rstiremmit of teachers and other- state, employees. It passed by better .tluni-4 to- !;■ And the amendment providing more pay tor legislators, bblleve it or not. 'got an o. k. of 2 to .1. Such proposals have been turned down de cisively heretofore, although a few years back the lawmakers were granted a slight increase. Their “np" in wages this time is a real hum dinger of a raise. It may induce some talent to "rnn"—^they say. Times when pay raise or legisla tors were proposed, the “in the street’’ voter merely shrugged it oft with “Aw. if anyone wants the honcur, let him*take honor for his pay." As before observed, there’ve been some changes. The complete total vote in the November 7 election was mneh low er than some of the gnessee..It was 548,276, including 2v269 written in tor Frank Graham in preferencs to Willis Smith, even after Graham had begged everybody to vote the straight ticket. P. Brtel Carlyle, Congressman from the Seventh Dietrlet. of which Hgmett is A part, heat his levin B. Tncker, RepobUean, 6 to 1. The members of the Harnett County Farm Bureau biard an ad dress by Mr. D. S. Weaver. Director of Agricultural Extension Service ai State College, when they met for their annual get-to-gether here last Friday. Dr. J. H. Hilton, Dsan of the School of Agriculture at the Goliege, was sick and unable to be at the meeting. In his talk, Mr. Weaver told of the opportunities that the North Carolina farmer has. He compared the farm.s in this state with those in oth?r states ail over the nation, sice of farms, opportunity tor improve ment, average income, and other pertinent comparisons. He emphasiz ed the point that the Farm Bureau is an institution for farm leadership. The program was opened by Mr. VV. H. Rogers. 'Pr?sidenr of the county bureau, who gave an account of the activities of the bureau in the county during the past year. Follow ing that, the awards were made to tbe winners of tbe 1950 corn contest. County prizes given, incindlng the amount of the prize, the .winner, and his corn average production for the contest acre, were: First. $20. Carson Gregory, 161.68 bushels; sec ond. $26. Lenwood Jones. 125.67 bushels; third. $10. T. B. Dewar. 117.3 boshels. First prize (five acres- or moraL—$26, Byrd Bros. Farm, 122.68 hushels: and second. $20. Hassell Lewis, 118. Veterans prizes went to Halford Bell, first. $30. 138 bnshela, and Roy Bills, second, $20, 122.24 bu shels. Township prizes in the corn con test, which were $10 each, wore awarded to the following: Averos- boro, C. Glenn Miller of Benson R-2. Ill bushels; Barbecue. B. R. Tlngen of Broadway R-1, 83.06; Bnekhom, Bobby Abernathy, 107.16; Grove, J. Sherrill Stephenson, ■ Angler R-2, •111; Hector’s Cre^. M. C. Collins. 117.1; Johnsonvllle, Lyston Taylor, Cameron R-2, 55.62; Lillington, Wright McKay. Lillington R-2. 11?.- 85; Neill’s Creek. O. B. Ramer, Bute’s Creek, 117; Stewart's Creek, P. M. Allen. Bunnlevel, 106; and Upper Little River. Clifton Smith, 81. Nomination and election of offi cers tor the next year were made after the awards for the com con test were given out. President W. H. Rogers was reelected to the some office. Others elected were Vice- President, Carson Gregory; Secre tary, Walter Rogers; and Treasurer, J. B. Womble. Directors tor the townships rep resenting the Farm Bureau were: tor Black River, D. W. Denning; Johnsonvllle. Gradiy Adcock; Upper Little River. Uoyd Stewart. Ander son Creek, Edwin Bain; Bnekhom, Jeter Jones; Ullington, J. H. Tart; Hector's Creek,, T. L. Cavlness; Bar becue. Alex Cameron. Averasboro, P. G. Altman; Grove. Gerald Haynes; Duke, R. Raynw; Stewart’s Creek. J. H. WUlloms; and Neill's Creek. Series Johnson. After the meeting in the Ulling- ton school aadttoriam, tbe mmibers and their guests went outside to the athletic field where a barbecue sup per was served. A very large crowd attended the meeting Inside and the snppar served ontside in the open despite the cold damp weather Fri day evening. Road Paving In Harnett The State Highway Commission bos finished another eight mites of paving in Harnett connty under the $160,006,906 bond Issne program. The following projects were com pleted during October: River Road from Htram Stewart's ruling Station to Erwin vto Laanter Tarm, 5.5 miles; from Jonesboro Rond to US >301 at Mary Stswort School. 2 mUes; Cut off Road from NC 217 to NC 82 aontb Erwin, 0.5 ■Mors than 105 mllss of new hard- surfacing have been added to Har nett county’s road system ataee the start of the accelerated coastrnetlon pmgrom last jreor. according to Geo. a tGoMs. .ttsth OlvlMon Highway
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