MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1956
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Every afternoon, Monday through Friday.
Welcome
Opening of the Dunn Tobacco Market has been a long
tihfie coming longest, probably, for the many farm fam
ilies who will be pouring in here for the opening days of
the market. To all these families, the Record wants to ex
tend its best welcome, knowing it speaks for the whole
town when it does so.
The opening of the tobacco market is always an ex
citing and pleasurable event. Although it has been around
for eight years that excitement has not in the least abat
ed. And the taste it gives is not a cotton candy sort of
thing, disappearing quickly.
Business people of Dunn, the many tourists who have
never seen a real tobacco auction are going to have as
much enjoyment from this as they would from a Mardis
Gras, but we know the ones to whom this is most impor
tant are the farmers.
Important, because here they have a real line of de
fense against one of the great profit-chippers the long,
expensive journey to a distant market which can turn
a season’s work so sour.
They have a market which is run smoothly and effi
ciently, without loss of energy and with no more bicker
ing than you would find in a good team of surgeons. Ev
ery year it gets a little better and a little bigger. This will
be no exception.
As farmers, we know, the tobacco market is not a
seasonal diversion for you. It is at the heart of your life
and your expectations. In the past many farmers made
the decision to support the Dunn market at its inception.
They have created the thriving enterprise we have now t
More families are expected to sell their tobacco here
than ever before. Those who supported it from the begin
ning will certainly be here because they have learned
there is no risk involved. Others who may not ever have
sold here will be coming this year, attracted by the suc
cess of others and the results of previous selling on this
market.
The opening, we think, is something like the birth of
a baby. The baby, of course, has been born before. It has
proved its hardiness, and a successful delivery is certain.
But we also feel that certain tingle which always comes
when there is new life.
Our market has never been dead This year it will be
more alive than ever.
You farmers will find, as you found before, a market
with more buyers than any other one-set market in the
world.
You’ll find everyone all the big foreign and domestic
markets represented.
You’ll find an apparatus expressly designed for the
not-simple business of getting tobacco into the hands of
thdfce who can pay the best, and who therefore want the
best.
You will also find complete shopping and business fa
cilities awaiting. Business people of Dunn have prepared
for this opening far ahead. They want no-one to go away
dissatisfied. They want you here, have worked to get you
litre, and are going to do everything possible to please
you.
And let us offer this further word, too. Tobacco isn’t
the only thing Dunn sells. It has equally fine facilities for
selling cotton and other crops and farm commodities.
Most of all, perhaps, it sells goodwill. There should be
penty of buyers for that. It is always in short supply.
+ FUNNY BUSINESS *
frfj orr.Cß °
“Care to Hire yiyory* in hi# place?” /
Fusfest
I WILSON Ml
ON BROADWAY
EARL AROUND THE TOWN . , .
NEW YORK I want it under
stood that this little story has
nothing to do with the Ugly Con
test in Pennsylvania.
Phil Harris recently told Toots
Shor that Rory. TOots’ son, 5, “is
the handsomest kid I ever saw—ex.
cept for one other child.”
•'Who?" demanded Toots.
“Me, when I was a baby/" Phil
confessed, shyly.
Alice Faye dug up from Phil's old
home town, Linton, Ind.. a baby
picture of her husband and rushed
it to Toots who then got one of
himself—with long curls, wrfhkled
stockings etc. . . . taken in Phila
delphia about 1908, which was
three tears before the self-starter
came out.
‘■Even I was prettier than you—
I don’t have to put my boy in com
petition,” Toots notified Phil. We
have a Miss America and Mrs.
America contest—next probably a
Beautiful Daddies contest.
“I had a fire,” Max Asnas of the
Stage Delicatessen told customers,
“and I didn’t even need It."
“Is your dog Cookie receiving his
birthday and Christmas presents?"
a voice asked me in Saks.
I didn’t even know our Schnau
zer’s birthday, but young Eric Rich
mond of the Dog Toggery got out
his book. “Slugger’s Cookie,” it
read, "July 16, 1947.”
It seemed that the pampered
pooches of Eddie Fisher, Janis
Paige. Constance Bennett, Dagrrtar,
Joni James, Betty Hutton, Arthur
Treacher and many others get his
Christmas trinkets and birthday
cards,
"You as! d whether dogs smile "
said "Uncle Eric,” a? some dogs
call him. ’Sure they do, especially
when they get these cards.”
A woman dog-owner who took
her dog to a phychiarist sat In on
the session and felt much better
afterward herself, Eric said. Eric
admitted that one dog collar he re
cently had made sight unseen—the
dog was gallivating around the Ri
viera—was a flop. The owner
brought the collar back, with the
dog, and asked for n personal tail,
oring job.
“The first collar,’’;,the owner said,
"doesn’t fit the dog’s personality.”
Taffy Tuttle says her new beau’s
a perfect gentleman at all times—
but he’s better thaft no boy friend
at all . . . Concerning recent
floods. Taffy says that on her va
cation she wants to go some place
for a change of wet.
The late Joe Laurie, Jr. first
wrote the line, “I wouldn’t give a
darn for a man who can only spell
a word One way”—and Will Rogers
often got credited for It. He also
wrote, “He who laughs, lasts”—and
ah English paper recently credited
it to Schopenhauper. I’m glad that
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Pocket Books and Jerry Lieberman
will soon be bringing out the Laur
ieisms in a trilogy.
THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . .
We’ll betcha that Peggy King will
be back on the George Gobel show!
. . . Margaret O Brien, leading lady
in RKO’s “Glory” was at the Har-
Wyn with singer Dick Kallman . .
Marian Colby’s back from Mexi
can-dlvorcing broker Arthur De
Satnek . . . Henry (“The Neem”)
Nemo got the word: his show "The
Happy Way" out-Runyons Runyon.
Danny Scholl’ll sue Delilah" for
SIOO,OOO, he says, for not using him
after he did several auditions to
raise money . . . Frank Sinatra
visited Geo. Shearing at the Em*
bers . . , The Harwyn’s cigaret gal
Joan McCraa got an understudy
part in "The Wooden Dish” ....
Bob Alda was served divorce papers
in Las Vegas.
Cary Grant once a BVay aetdk,
returned to Saidi’s after doing a
stage appearance at the Paramount
with "Catch a Thief,” but was so
on edge he only ate candy he’d
brought along . . . Joey Adams, no
teen-ager, learned to hoof beauti
fully for his Latin Quarter show
which ended triumphantly last
week.
All Khan’s lawyers really excor.
late Rita and her counsel in their
atest court effort to get Princess
Yasmine over to Europe . . Mary
Martin accepted Noel Coward’s
invitation to work on their TV
spec at his Jamaica home.
Earls Pearls ...
With women wearing shorter
shorts and going barefoot, the
Manhattan Mercury wonder whjtt
the girls wont be wearing next
year.
TODAYS BEST LAUGH: In
Russia, where they even Joke about
their poor-duality products, a sales
man asked a customber, ' Shal I
wrap up your suit, or do you want
your money back right away ”
WISH I’D SAID THAT: "Why
doesn’t Rocky Marciano train in
the Poke-arn ose Mountains?”—
Robin Rusti*.
Taffy Tuttle's girl friend a see
retary, looked at her watch during
her afternoon coffee break and
said. "Gee. I’d better get back to
the office or 111 be late for quitting
time" . . . That’s earl, brother.
Any accessory as showy as a
white collar must be kept immacu
late! Prominent as it seems, it’s
small enough to suds easily in the
basin. If you like your white col
lar stiff, let it dry after starching
anl then spring it before iron
ing. A crisp white touch Will keep
you looking fresh and peppy even
qn the hottest day.
Television
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30
7:00 Morning Show
8:25 Carolina Weather
8:30 Morning Show
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9:00 Kroll’s Nest
9:30 Don Baggard Show
10:00 Morning Meditations
10:15 Godfrey Time
10:30 Strike it Rich
11:00 Musical Scrapbook
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11:45 Guiding Light,
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12:30 Welcome Travelers,
1:00 Farm Facts
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ADD FARMERS HUE
(Continued from Page One)
ienee of surveyors, the majority
school boys, now emoyployed in the
land measurement. But hottest
words were reserved for the regu
lation calling for compliance up to
one one hundredths of an acre.”
Not even two reglvered surveyors
could possibly survey land and ar
rive at the same result with this
fine "yardstick" was the commerf,
heard against them.
GARRIS SPEAKS
Thurman Garris, the county su
ervlsoor of the Agriculture Stab
ilization and Conservation office
who assumed his duties on May 15
was the government’s single spokes
man. Outnumbered almost 700 to
1. Garris politely, but firmly de
fended the government's position.
“We are dissatisfied, too." he coun
tered “with the delay. We want
more help." He credited the one
one hundredth regulation to the
request of burley grower’s and
pointed out that it was not truly
applicable to flue cured tobacco."
"But that's our regulation and we
have to abide by it.”
Only Everett Barnes of the
County ASC committee was pre
sent. Mcßryde Cameron of Olivia
and B G. Altman of Dunn other
member’s, sent word they were were
unable to attend. Cameron said he
was obligated to appear at a wed
ding, and Altman pleaded a prior
engagement
Announcement had been made
that E. W Avant, State field repre
senatlnve of the ASC would attend,
but no federal official except Gar
ris appeared. The new county sup
ervisor is a native of Pender Coun
ty and was named to succeed Kyle
Harrington who resigned this
Spring af:er nearly 20 years with
the agency.
GARRIS STANDS UP WELL
While the audience at times
booerd Garris from their rear rows
of the auditorium, he never once
lost his temper and insisted that
the government was as interested
as the farmers in more efficient
operations.
Upshot of the meeting was that
a steering committee was named to
work out improvefnents with the
local ASC committee, and if neces
sary. to take the fight against the
one one hundredth regulation to
State and National levels
Recommendation calling for
such a committe came from J. T.
Lamm, new Lillington attorney,
who told the farmers "Don’t go out
of that door without an organiza
tion. If you get rcsul a you must
have an organization. You have
fclamed the government: the gov
efmnent has in turn blamed you.
But in order to do something a
consiructive about these com
plaints. you need a committees to
work out changes in procedure. If
you don’t take any affirmative ac
tion, you have wasted your time.”
Harvey O'Quinn of Mamers then
suggested that James Spence, the
presiding officer, be designated as
a one man committee to seek rem
edial action from the ASC authori
ties.
Lamm countered by saying,
“Don’t place responsibility of the
fight on any one man, however
broad, his shoulders. You have a
good representative audience here
tonight. Select one man from each
township.’
GARRIS DEFENDED
Here W B. Byrd. Bunnlevel,
arose to say, T think the fact that
one one hundredth of an acre rule
in the real reason we have not got
ten the land measured in a reason
able length of time That is not a
personal matter with Mr. Garris."
Joel Layton Jr.. Lilling on said
he thought the idea of a steering
committee proposed by Lamm wAa
an excellent one “Garris is not the
target, he is the victim of this reg
ulations” commented Layton.
Byrd then proposed that one
tnan‘ from each township and one
alternate make up the commute*.
COMMITTEE NAMED
The folowing steering committee
was named to seek improvements
in the ASC administration The
committeeman is listed first and
the alternate second.
Averasboro. W. D Wood. Bensoh.
RFID; Claude Young Dunn
Anderson Creek. Bob Butler.
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Spring Lake, Route 1; and Gilbert
McPhail Lilhngtdh, Route 3.
Barbecue, Neill Rosser, Broad
way, Route 1; G. L Cameron. Oli
via
Black River. Walter McLeod, An
gier: O. B. Currin, Angier, Route 2.
Buckhorn. Bobby Jonhson. Fn.
quay Springs, Rou e 2.
Duke, R. H. Hamilton. Dunn
Route 4: Cling Williams, Erwin.
Grove, Jarvis Pleasant, Angier,
Route 2; Carson Gregory, Coats.
Hectors Creek, Staey Spence,
Lillington. Route 1; T L. Caviness.
Fuquay Springs. Route 1.
Johnsonvile O. H Mangum,
Cameron, Route 2; Eddie Perkins,
Olivia.
Lillington W. H. Byrd; J. J
Lanier.
Neill’s Creek, Joe Cannady. Lil
lington. Route 1: Alfred Ray Up
church, Lillington, Route 1.
Stewart’s Creek, W. B Byrd,
Bunnlevel; David Blalock. Bunn
level.
Upper Little River, Harvey
O'Quinn; Fulton Patterson.
The meeting, marked a: times
by bitter exchanges from the aud
ience, ended on a harmonious note.
Representative Carson Gregory,
who had said nothing during the
meeting, pointed out that “There
is a lot of work to be done. There
is a lot of help you can give. I
dont think we farmers nave had
much attention during the past
two years Anyway I can assist you
I will be happy to do so.
PLEDGES HELD
Garris told the farmers in part
ing. "We think you have done a
good thing in selecting this com
mittee. Anything we can do, we
uromise to do, to improve the ad
ministration ot this program. After
all, this crop compliance program
belongs to the farmer, and it is to
his advantage to have it work
efficiently”.
Spence, Lillington attorney, pre
sided at the meeting and set forth
the grievances in an opening
statement. We know that it is not
easy to administer the crop compli
ance on 6,000 tobacco farms, he
said. "It is a big job, but it can
be done. We are here to see that it
is done ’’
"Our job, he continued,” is to get
good, efficient overall system of
pre-measurement of our crops.
Then we would have none of these
headaches we are now hearing
about, burned crops, crops plowed
under and ail the difficulties we
, have run into.
“And if it takes the farmers
i themselves to do the measurement
i we are ready to do it,’ he suggest
• ed. "I hear much about the diffi
. culty of getting surveyors,” Spe«ce
i charged, "but have seen no ads in
■ the papers, no one I have seen has
i been asked to work.”
However, once, when Garris ask
ed how many farmers present
would volunteer to help survey,
only five men stood.
Spence explained that the credit
for the gathering should go to
Staley Spence, Lillington, Route 1
farmer who was on the platform
with the presiding officer. Staley
Spence, was one of six candidates
for sheriff this past Democratic
election. ,
FARMERS SPEAK
Attorney Spence who is a nephew
of farmer Spence, called on delega
tions from each township to sound
their objections to the way in which
the *ASC had been administered.
"It would take me all night,’
said Harvey O’Quinn spokesman
for the delegation of around 70
pefsobs from Upper Little River,”
to tell all that was wrong. Person
ally. I know of plenty of tobacco
that never has been measured the
first time.”
H. L. West of Johnsonville said
- farmers in his-section had only one
basic complaint: they want the
tobacco measured early in tit e
Spring.
W. H. Byrd, Lillington, said,
“Personally, I haven’t seen any
body who was satisfied with the
program.”
Garris, then arose with the com
ment. “None of us is satisfied,
certainly not the government. We
do not have enough help, we have
to use old maps which has delayed
the measurement notices going out.
We have had a new spot checker
and while this strict supervision
is what we want, this supervision
teamed with the new one one-hun
dr*d regulation has made more
work for the surveyors.
The ASC head went on to ex
plain that the one one hundredth
regulation was placed in the law
on demand of burley growers and
"there Is nothing we can do about
it unless we work it out ourselves
Farmers, he noted, frequently re
fuse to cooperate with the crop
reporters, asking them to eturri an
other day. All of this delays the
work.” he said.
Garriss offered these figures to
the audience Out of the 4,908 to
bacco farms in Harnett, 1.530 have
overprinted. There have been
1,185 tobacco disposition cases. The
extra expense, he said of remeasuve
ment fees, has been brought about
largly by "excess planting.” ‘This
is your program, and to your ad
vantage to see that this compliance
program, works. Working together
we can do a better Job.
TAYLOR INJECTS POLITICS
Here A R. Taylor, Lillington
politician in g speech blamed the
crop compliance troubles on the
PAGE FIVE
Sgt. Vernon Will
Participate In
Aircraft Show
PHILADELPHIA Army Sgu
Max B. Vernon. 26. whose wife,
Martha, lives on Route 1, Bunn
level, Is scheduled to take part In
the National Aircraft Show at
Philadelphia International Airport,
Sept 3-5.
The Army's part of the show
will feature a square dance team
of helicopters moving to the steps
of the caller's chant. These acts
will demonstrate the maneuvera
bility of the helicopter.
A mock battle with Infantrymen
and artillerymen turned “helitroop
ers” and brought In by transport
’copters will illustrate how air
craft can supply and support the
Army's “flying cavalry” in event
of war.
Sergeant Vernon is regularly
stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va..
where he is a helicopter machunlc
with the 509th Transport Com
pany.
Area Sailors
Are On Cruise
Enroute to Europe on the sum
mers second Midshipman train
ing cruise aboard the battleship
USS Wisconsin Is Welllhgton P.
Sutton, Jr., seaman apprentice,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wel
lington P. Sutton of Lillington.
Aboard the destroyer USS Allen
M. Sumner is Dennis O. Boyette,
gunner’s mate first class, USN,
son of Mrs. Anna Boyette of Four
Oaks, Rt. 2 and husband of the
Firmer Eloise Tart of Dunn.
Fourteen ships of the Atlantic
Fleet left Norfolk, Va., July li
with more than 1,700 Naval ROTC
Midshipmen aboard. The ships’
crews supervise the middies’ train
ing during the two-month cruise.
The ships will visit Edinburgh,
Scotland; Copenhagen, Demark;
Oslo and Bergen, Norway; and
Stockholm, Sweden.
Gunnery practice at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, will climax the cruise
before the midshipmen disembark
at Norfolk September 2.
The University of North Caro
lina at Chapei Hill is a
the American Revolution. It was
provided for in the State Constitu
tion of 1776. was chartered in 1781,
aid was opened in 1795. It was the
first state university in America
to begin operation. Joseph Cald
well, a Prinoeton graduate, was its
; first president.
change in political administrat
ions.
1 "There was a change of admin
-1 istration" Taylor said. “There was
* a new broom, a new crop compli
ance reporter, and it swept clean.
. ki fact, it nearly swept most farm
ers out of business. We think we
have talent here in Harnett Coun
ty. Yet last spring we know that
the State ASC committee took
things into then - own hands. They
by-passed applications from Har
nett County and imported a super
visor. Why, I have been told that
a man came here from Indiana to
check tobacco and did not even
know what a tobacco plant was
when he saw it.”
"Why can’t we have the same
number of farms measured this
year at the same time in the sea
son as we did a year ago?” asked
Taylor. “The only difference is that
we have had. imported help. A
sane person knows that no one
can measure to the accurary of one
one hundredth of an acre,” con
tinued Taylor.
“I want to defend our county
ASC committee,” Taylor said. "It
is a good committee. They are
stymied by those in Raleigh and
Washington. They are trying to
cram this regulation down your
throats.
Taylor then charged that Secret
ary of Agriculture Ezra Benson,
a Republican, really want* the
farmer to get disgusted with the
compliance program and reject it."
Let's send Benson back to business
or where ever he came from and
keep him out of government,” said
Taylor.
FARMERS DISAGREE
WITH TAYLOR
The audience ctjeered. Garris
then asked farmers who had been
swept clean, to stand and no one
stood.
Here Presiding officers spence
went back to his original contention
that an effective system of pro
measurement would solve mo*‘ of
the difficulties of' the administra
tion. '• Thousands of dollars,” he
said have been paid out by the
farmer because of a complete mea
surement program was not mappjd
in advance of the tobacco season.”
CITES DIFFICULTY
Garris, pointed out that due to
the terrain of Harnett County end
distance between arms surveyors
can not make money at the prevail
ing pay and that many had quit
in disgust. Other have been insult
ed by farmers. And he contended
again that the three weeks lost be
fore a successor was named for
Harrington delayed the program
the crucial three weeks which rati
the measurement into the harvest
season.
I would like to say here and now,
"Said Garris that I do not think
I should be personally blamed for
matters that are not my fault I
have a good staff and we arc will
ing to work with you for improve
ment.”