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Final Meeting *
Os Summer Set
By Teen-Agers
Members of the Liliington Teen
age Club are urged to be present
at. the final meeting of the sum.
mer to be held Saturday August
27 at the Recreation Center In
dividual vote will decide at that
time whether or not the club will
continue its meetingi throughout
the school year.
The • mage Club was a project
sponsored by the town's Recrea
tion Commission to provide en
joyment for youth during the
summer months. The desire of
many to continue the gatherings
after the end of the season is
proof of its success. Membership
a; present is approximately
excellent attendance. The steering
committee appointed by the Com
mission includes Mrs Hal Bradley,
Mrjr Charlie Morton, Mrs Casey
Fowler, Mrs. Thelbert Dean and
Mri. Leo Keily.
FARMERS:
WHEN IN DUNN
VISIT OUR SHOP
SHOE REPAIRING
CATSPAW HEELS
Service Shoe Shop
BROAD STREET
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Phone 2417 ESTABLISHED IN 1912 Dunn, N C
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PURDIE BROTHERS, INC.
mfSIESALE GROCERS
Welcome You To The
DUNN TOBACCO MARKET
anil extend best Wishes to you
Mr. Farmer
For A Very Happy Harvest
WE AER DISTRIBUTORS FOB FAMO FLOUR
raRRIE BROTHERS, INC.
Wholesale Grocers
Phone 2246 Dunn, N. C.
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Lloyd Stephenson
Is Big-4 Auctioneer
By TED CRAIL
Record Staff Writer
Lloyd Stephenson, wartime sergeant in a combat in
telligence group called the “Earthquakers,” came back to
a job that’s just as tricky when he left the service.
He's tobacco auctioneer this year
for the Big Four Warehouse. If
you ask him in a polite way. he’ll
give you a sample of the vener
able singsong which has become
the most famous sound in tobac
co land.
Better than that, you can go
down to the marke; and hear for
yourseif. You can see Lloyd
measuring the buyers who have
been sent out by big companies
like R. J. Reynolds, and catching
bids with his eyes as niftily as
he invites them with his mouth.
USES PSYCHOLOGY
"I think therepsychology in an
auctioneer's job, all right,” says
Lioyd. "You gotta figure your
man, and of course we face the
same buyers through the season,
and we get to know ’em.”
Fast-talking by profession, Step
henson also moves his tongue at
a pretty good clip in conversation.
Let’s say Walter Winchell would 5
have a hard time scoring. The
w’ords come out crisp and clear
- -about four hundred of them
a minute - - in a voice which tells
you he doesn’t mind the tobacco
business at ail.
“When I first started doing gen
eral warehouse work in the to-
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LLOYD STEPHENSON
industry sometimes maybe
I wished I was back selling shoes
again like I had been. But you
work your way up. It’s got a be
like that. I wouldn’t .tjhde my
Job now.”
FIRST YEAR HERE
This is Stephenson’s first year
on the local mart although be
has worked all through the to.
bacc<j country as an auctioneer
- - Georgia, Tennessee, even Flori
da. When not auctioneering, he
returns to his farm at Angier. It's
on Route 1, about 14 miies Ncvth
of Dunn.
“ ‘Course I raise tobacco my
self and I raise'cotton and hogs
. - Hampshires and Jerseys. I
don't make any money in hogs
rijgiit now, but you gotta stay
with it.”
He has stayed at auctioneering,
except for the five years he spent
fn the senyicei, since 1939. But
this job on the Dunn market is
“like coming home,” he says. He
is adopted and Mr. and Mrs. J.
Romme Stephenson who raised him
are with him on the farm near
Angier.
His wife, Mary, a former die-'
tician turned schoolteacher, has
no objection to his «;hizophrenip
business life but son, Jerome
Bruce, 7, has so far shown no
interest in the auction chant.
“My son Graram (eight months),
does more than Jerome when it
comes to imitating my chant,”
Stephenson said.
Besides calculating his buyers
carefuliy so he cffi move tobacco
at the best prices, Stephenson has
been out contacting farmers m the
area so he’ll have plenty of to
bacco to sell.
His best argument: he’s selling
his own tobacco right here.
And in case selling or hogs ever
bores him, he always has tourists
ground anxious to talk to a ‘‘real
auctioneer.”
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Senator Sam
+ Ervin Says +
WASHINGTON The Nation
focused attention on the Carolinas
as the hurrieane struck from the
Atlantic. Perhaps no more atten
tion has ever been given to ap
proaching disaster than the Wea
ther Bureau now gives hurricanes
SAVING LIVES
The improved system of hurri
cane forecasting has saved untold
numbers of lives. While traveling
through Southeastern North Caro
lina last year after Hurricane Hazel
has left its destruction, I was im
pressed with the great damage and
the loss of life that might have
been without warning. Upon return
ing to Washington, I vowed that
I would do everything within my
power to see that the Weather Bur
eau was equipped with the latest
radar devices to track those great
storms and adequately warn our
citizens of the approaching danger.
We were able to increase the ap
propriations for this purpose con
siderably. I am convinced that no
penny-pinching must be practiced
for adequate storm warning re
research and development.
DISASTER AREA
As a result of Hurricane Connie’s
destruction, the Small Business Ad
ministration declared ten Eastern
North Carolina counties eligible for
disaster loans. The counties are
Brunswick. New Hanover, Pender,
Onslow. Carteret, Pamlico, Craven,
Jones, Beaufort and Lenoir. Loin
offices are being established by
SBA In New Bern and Wilmington
These disaster loans are made at
a low interest rqte of three per
cent.
On March 25, I introduced a bill
in the Senate, which was co-spor.-
sored by Senator Scott, to author
ize an appropriation of $5,000,000
to repair hurricane damage along
the Coast of North Carolina as a
result of Hurricane Hazel. This bill
is pending In the Coftgress, await
ing studies by the Budget Bureau
and other agencies of the govern
ment.. I hope that something can
be accomplished in the next Ses
sion for hurricane aid.
CROPS HARD HIT
Many people overlook the terrible
damage to farm crops done by the
high wind and water. Inland from
our fast developing Coastal region,
we find some of the finest agri
cultural land jn the Nation. On
these fertile farms are produced
corn, tobacco, peanuts and other
crops in abundance. It. is a most
discouraging sight for a farmer to
see a field of corn flattened by the
wind, and this is the story that
is often not told about hurricanes
the great damage to crops. Not
only is the financial loss heavy
along the beaches, but it reacnes
inland to depress the farm economy
of many areas. In providing disaster
measure for hurricane areas, the
damage to farm crops must not be
overlooked.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
I have been travelling in a num
ber of~ North Carolina counties
since the Congressional recess.
What attitudes am I finding
among the people? I believe there
is a strong sentiment that the time
has just 'about arrived when we
I ought to put an end to foreign
aid except military aid. I have also
■ found that the people are proud
of the way Democrats and Repub
licans have cooperated on foreign
policy, and I want to see it main
tained. It is a rather shopworn
statement that our political squab
bles should end at the shore line,
but. I think it is important. Poten
tial enemies see in us undivided
strength. _
SPECIAL NOTICE :
While S. Clinton Ave. Is Under Con
struction Please Use Rear fenirdrice
Thru The Alley.
Auto Glass - Auto Pairftlng
Wrecked Cars Rebuilt
HENRY'S BODY SHOP
306 S. Clinton Aire.
Phone 3474
LOFTY SPEECH— Standing on a specially-built platform In the White House Rose Garden, Presi
dent Eisenhower tells Republican Congressional assistants and secretaries that the one thing he wants
In government Is •'honor and integrity.” Male members of the group, who call themselves Bull
Elephants, presented the President with a pledge of all-out support if he should run for re-elec
tion in 1956.
Tobacco Marketing
Fascinating Business
The tobacco industry offers the
most interesting marketplace In
the world that is not approached
directly by camel, and for the past
eight years, Dunn has held a
share in this curious, rather won
derful business.
Her entry on the tobacco market
was abrupt - - though not quite
sq abrupt as the college boy who
cnee became famous overnight by
penning the immortal lines begin
ning, “Tobacco Is a dirty weed - -
I like it.”
Actually, there was a market
here as far back as fifty years
ago standing where Gardner’s
Dairy and the Chamber of Com
merce now make a different kind
of music, but it passed away, some
how. George Cannady was the auc
tioneer, moved a lot of tobacco in
his time, but one day it died.
HERE TO STAY
The present market is the third
try and there is no doubt that
this one has longevity in its bones, i
It will live. It* does live.
Its godfathers are a group of I
local businessmen who saw the
prospects for a .market long be
fore there was any market in fact.
Nine years ago these men put up
$20,000 as an outright gift - -
money to be used as part of the
cost for a warehouse.
The gifted ones included every
person in this county, for every
one here has profited from their
move. Having a market in Dunn
has brought buyers right to the
farmer’s door and the clean sell
ing apparatus which has been set
up guarantees prices that meet or
better the best to be had.
IT'S snowballing
In thirteen weeks last year the
local mart broke all Its own re
cords with 10 and a half million
pounds sold; Compare that with
the 1952-53 season when the sales
were something over 866,000 pounds’
and you get an idea of how the
thing is snowballing.
Auctioneers, bookmen, clip men.
salesmen and office people - - all
these are needed to get tobacco
in the hands of the buyers and
out of the hands of the producer.
Our two local warehouses have
sought and hired- the best. The
men who run them are experienced
*AC® WV»
in tobacco and command respect
from those In the industry.
Buck Currin at the Planters
Warehouse on the south side of
town, on the Fayetteville highway,
was an organizer of the market
eight years ago. The Big Four
warehouse, on the north side of
town just off the Benson high
way, has Tom Smothers, Jack Cal
houn, E. L Dudley - - all polished
hands.
PRICES HIGH HERE
Figures from the Department of
Agriculture prove that optimistic
statements about the market at
Dunn are more than boast. It
shows our prices last year were
above the border belt, and have
consistently gone over the aver
age for the eastern belt.
The market Is run here by the
Tobacco Board of Trade. This in
sures smooth mechanical handling
and keeps control on selling
methods. The result of this and
the local spirit of cooperation is
fast, efficient, and ethical ex
change of tobacco from the hands
of the farmer to those of the
manufacturer.
Dunn has more markets direct
ly represented than any town on
the Eastern belt. All the major
companies have buyers here. There
are a number of independents
among the buyers, representing
Congratu/af/ons, Mr. Farmer
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Contracts For All Types of Residential,
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R. M. TURLINGTON
GeriOriH Contractor
MiJiHfllEffi, N. .Phone 3061
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST
many smaller firms.
Dunn has everything to make
the farmer happy, and everything
which will make the buyer glad
MR. FARMER:
Let Us Put Your Car In top Notch
Condition For The Fall Season. -
Your Reliable Auto Repair Sltop
When Yob Need Help.
Dealer In Dbuglds arid Exide Bat
teries.
New and Rebuilt Ford Engines.,
Powell's Garage
Coats, N. C.
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MYSTERY CLEARED
NEW ORLEANS OPi Joan Bar
rios, just returned from a Mexi
can tour to brush up on her Span
ish, was amazed when a depart
ment store clerk here called for
an interpreter.
The mystery was cleared qp
when Miss Barrios realized she
had absent-mindedly used Spanish
when asking for lipstick.
to deal through this market.
All this and atmosphere, too. If
you want to soak in some of that
atmosphere, go down and see the
auctioneers at work. It’s time well
spent.
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Give Us A Trial
J. P. LEE’S
TEXACO
Now Open In The Quinn
Shopping Center. We Wel
come You To Dunn’s New
Ultra Modern Service Sta
tion, . |
WASHING -r GREASING
COMPLETE TEXACO LINE