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VOL. TWENTY-TWO _ PAKWttLi POT COUNTT, NORTH CAROLINA, FIBOAY, JULY 3rd, 19S1 J NUMBER EIGHT
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FARMVIDEM^m)S EIGHT MONTHS TERM
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Mass Meeting in School Auditorium on
SaturdayAfternoon Calledby School
Board for Purpose of Ascertaining the
Wishes of the People Largely -
ed?A Risirig Vote was Overwhelming
ly in Favor of Eight Months Term.
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At a mqss meeting held in the high
school auditorium last Saturday aft-,
ernoon, which had been called by the
school board for the purpose of as
certaining the wishjM of the majority
as to a six or eight months term for
the Farmville sch&ol district the
comfng year, it wa* most emphatical
ly seen by all in attendance that the
people of this community are not will
ing to take any backward step when
it comes to the matter of educating
its youth regardless of the depressed
financial conditions.
The argument for a six months'
term was led. by J. W. Holmes, which
had but little support, while the ar
ment for an eight months' term was
led by Dr. Paul E. Jones with con
siderable support. The final analysis
being that the people of this section
will resort to other ways of economiz
ing rather than by crippling the fu
ture of its youth on account of the
extravagances of its parents.
Of course there is more than one
angle to the school problem, however,
and this expression of wanting an
eight months' term is very commend
able on the part of our citizens, but
unless the people of this district fail
to pay their taxes this fall, then, of
course, there will be no funds avail
able with which to carry on this ex
tra two months not provided for by
the state.
Let us hope that our prosperity will
permit us to pay the tax and that the
school may run the full eight months.
Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Gates have
moved into the home formerly occu
pied by Mr. and Mr$. D. R. Morgan.
Intrepid Fliers Finish
Round the World Tour
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Winnie Mae, Carrying
Post and Gatty, Greet
ed by Thousands as
They Land
Roosevelt Field, N. J., July l.Tfie
flashing white monoplane, Winnie
Mae, carrying Wiley Post and Harord
Gatty, came in from the west at sun
set tonight, ending the fastest trip
ever made around the world.
The ship circled Roosevelt Field,
from which it started its long and
hazardous journey last week, as the
last blaze of sunlight faded from the
sky, and landed at 7:47:10 p. m., eas
tern standard time.
Then, suddenly it was dark, and
there was booming of flashlights and
a tumult of shouting as 10,000 per
sons welcomed them home amid a
joyous confusion unequaled for a hero
of the air since Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh came back from Paris.
But foremost in the frantic mob,
even before Colonel Lindbergh, who
waited on the field, was a tearful,
smiling woman who pushed her way
to the door of the plane. She was the
wife of a tired, almost exhausted pi
lot, who half stumbled from the
door.
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"Darling, I'm so glaa, so giaa: ? was
all Mrs. Post could say as she fixing
herself forward and her arm3 encir
cled the pilot's neck. Post couldn't
even reply. He merely wrapped his
arms around her and they pushed
their way through the crowd.
On the opposite side of the plane
another door was pushed open. In
side, almost unnoticed in the rush to
the pilot's seat, was Gatty, the skill
ful, unerring navigator - who had
guided the Oklahoma City plane on
a nearly 16,000 journey over oceans,
mountains, ice and forests, in eight
days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. He
couldn't end his journey alone and
they lifted him out bodily.
Mrs. Gatty, who raced eastward by j
plane to meet him, had been delayed, j
and was not at the field to welcome
him.
The two fliers were the least excit
ed persons in the crowd at the field
as they replied in matter of fact tones
to questions about their trip.
"Certainly, I think I could make an
other trip like this one," Post said,
snapping his words out doggedly de
spite hi^ obvious exhaustion. "This
home coming, getting through this
crowd, that's the hardest part of the
whole trip."
At 9:48 there was a stir at the
doors of the hangar intc which the
fliers had been hustled. The fliers
emerged and they were escorted
through a narrow lane of humans into
the official cars, and the motorqade
set off for New York, to the accom
paniment of more banging flashlights
and the shriek of motorcycle sirens.
I Parrot! is Now
I Health Officer
New State Official As
sumes His Duties;
State Board to Meet
Again July 14
Raleigh, July 1.?Dr. James M. Par
rott, newly elected state health offi
cer ,took office yesterday. His first
day in the state's sendee was taken
up with work on the departmental
budget, reorganization along the lines
agreed to by the new state board of
health, and conferences with members
of the staff. *
Dr. H. A. Taylor, deputy health of
ficer under the late Dr. Charles O'H.
Laughinghouse, and acting health of
ficer since his death, became assis- i
tant to Dr. Parrott yesterday, be hav-!
ing accepted the position when the
board last met here.
tinder the decision to reduce the de
partment personnel, Ronald Wilson,
formerly assistant to the secretary,!
and Dr. D. A. Dees, left the state em
ploy yesterday, their positions are
not to be filled. -
The new board- will meet again on
July 14, $t. which time it will consid-;
e? change* in its original plan fos re
organization and decide on
eloctioa of H. ? Idler, whajq??&
en only a temporary selection ash head
of the division of sanitationwhen the
Gaily One of Best
Air Navigators
Hoover Invites Airmen
to White House Mon
day; Officials .Voice
Praise
New York, July ,1.?Wiley V. Post
and Harold Gatty, who circled the
earth by plane in about the time it
takes a liner to cross the Atlantic, to
gether constitute an unbeatable team
for long distance flying, in the opin
ion of other flying men, among them
ColSnel Charles A. Lindbergh.
Post at the controls and Gatty with
his precise knowledge of navigation,
they say, are capable of remarkable
performance, as demonstrated in their
breath taking jaunt a>t>und the world.
These two men met. in California
when Post was working as a test pi- j
lot at the Lockhead plant in Los An
geles. Gatty was instructing Harold
Bromley in the art of navigation for
a projected flight across the Pacific
to Japan. Gatty accompanied Brom
ley on the flight and when they were
lost in the fog, plotted a course which
brought the plane back to safety.
Post is 32 years old, and though
he lives in Oklahoma, he is a native
of Texas. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Post, have a 90 acre farm
north of Maysville, Okfh., and in a
recent interview the fliers' father told
of his efforts to keep Wiley on the
farm.
They didn't want Wiley to go
traipsing off to the oil fields like he
did. They had him cut out to be a
farmer. Wiley always had a knack
for mechanical things and was forev
er tinkering with mowing machines,
binders and whatnot around the
place.
Eventually, he went away to school
to study mechanics, and the first
thing his parents knew, he was work
ing in the Oklahoma oil fields. f)ne
day an accident befell him, and he
lost the sight of his left eye. He was
paid $2,000 by the firm with which
he worked, and that was the begin
ning of his flying career.
He started in 1924, as parachute
jumper with a barnstorming party.
Between jumps, he mhde 91 of thera
in all, he learned to fly. Finally, he
bought his own ship and became a
barnstormer in his own right
He first came into prominence in
1930 when, pitted against four of the
nation's fastest fliers, he won the
Pacific coast non-stop derby to Chi
?cago.
Paroles For
303 Convicts
Governor Frees Hun
dreds of Short Term
County Prisoners
Raleigh, July 1.?Three hundred
and three, convicts serving original
sentences of less than 60 days were
free Wednesday.
The men were serving terms in
county convict camps which were talc
en over by the State Highway Com
mission. Since the law prohibits pris
oners sentenced to less than 60 days
in these camps, Governor 0. Max
Gardner paroled them rather than
send them back to the county jails.
Most of the paroled convicts were
30 day prisoners and the majority of
these had completed more' than half
their sentences, Tyre Taylor, execu
tive counsel, said.
More "than a third of the paroles
went to Guilford county, where 127
convicts were released. Thirty-three
were freed in Rowan. Sixteen in
Rockingham, 14 in Wake, 13 in Rich
mond, 11 in New Hanover and Dur
ham.. and 10 in Mecklenburg.
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4Quecn^o^l^ver Ball ^
j Kate Jones, of AsberOte, N. C,
was the Queen at the Rhododendron
i Fagrral held iu that city tids year.
SENATOR DORTCH ADDRESSES,
LOCAL D. A. R. CHAPTER
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Featuring the program of the Col.
Alexander McAllister chapter, D. A
R., at its June meeting held on Sat
urday afternoon, was an excellent re
sume of the important bills passed at
the last state assembly, and some in
teresting side lights of both houses,
given by Senator Hugh Dortch of
Goldsboro. A tribute to John W.
Holmes, Pitt county representative,
who lives here, for his loyalty / and
persistent efforts in relation to tax
reduction, was paid him by the speak
er.
Mrs. W. Leslie Smith was hostess
at her home on Church street, and
Mra W. B. Murphy, of Snow Hill,
the regent, presided. This chapter is
composed of members from Kinston,
Greenville, Snow Hill, Hookerton and
Farmville.
Upon arriving at the Smith home
i the guests were served iced punch
from a flower filled alcove in the hall
by Mrs. B. O. Turnage and Mrs. J. T.
I Thome, and an ice course was served
after the program, which had as an
! other feature, vocal selections by Mra.
J. W. Joyner, with piano accompani
ment by Mrs. J. L. Shackleford.
FIRST COTTON BLOSSOM
Alfred Moore exhibited the first
cotton blossom of the season on June
I 29th. Mr. Moore avers that the boll
weevil fodder came from his field
I near town, but Johnny Joyner has cot
ton in that neighborhood, too.
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tMs Week In Wd&ilngton
Washington, D. C.f July 3.?No of
ficial act of any president since war
time has been received with such gen
uine approval or enthusiasm as Pres
ident Hoover's recent declaration re- ,
garding Germany's war debts. In ef
fect he proposes to give all debtor na
tions a year's extra time, during
which no payments will be asked, ei
ther of principal or interest The in
tention is to stop the terrific drain
on the finances of the leading Euro- 1
pean governments long enough to per- .
mit them to catch their breath. i
No suggestion is made that any j
part of the debt will be forgiven. ]
Most Americans feel that the debts ;
should be met with a reasonable pay- i
ment, such adjustment, if arrived at, ,
to be made only after congress has
had ample time to view the proposi- <
ticn from all angles. The main pur- j
pose aimed at by Mr. Hoover, every- i
body agrees, is to suspend payment i
long enough to enable private busi- ;
ness to return to its usual channels, i
All foreign governments have shown i
agreement with the proposal, France 1
uttering the only discordant note by i
demanding that German payments for i
damage done its country by the Ger- ,i
man armies be continued. As this <
amounts only to $100,0000,000 a year, :
an insignificant sum . compared with ;
the full war debt, the objection is not j
expected to block'the adoption of the <
plan. ]
President Hoover'? statesmanlike i
proposal did not coroe as a surprise
to those closely informed on national
politics. Several days before the plan ;
was broached, Under Secretary Cas
tle, of the State Department; casually i
told newspapermen that the adminis- .
tration's mind was hot closed on the 1
ihbject of war debts.. When his re- i
marks went unchallenged by the ]
White House they were taken to mean :
that an official utterance on the sob
ject was impending. j
if The President did' not issue his '
statement without testing tl^e temper i
of congress, leading; democrats being -i
called in and soundedout as to their i
attitude. Their warm approval of <
.ULt, Hoover's ideas was followed by i
the public announcement Since then <
?uch leading candidates, for the dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency '
as. Newton D. Baker and Owen D. \
Young have expressed their approval 1
of the plan. Their action has removed 1
the' project from the partfean field 1
and elevated it to the broader field j
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A curious tlJng about the project
is that it came a few days after the ,
June 16 semi-annual payment of war (
debts had been made. No other pay
ment is due until December 15. Con
gress will meet eight foys before the
winter payment falls due and will
have to act almost instantly if the
plan is to be put into effect this year.
Between now and that time it is cer- 1
tain that business men, bankers and
farmers will bring pressure to bear
upon their representatives in Con
gress to make them fall in line be
hind the president and nobody ex
pects but that the plan will go
through, practically overnight, when ?
congress gathers.
If any further proof of the presi
dent's ability to gaauge public senti
ment were needed, it can be found by
the favorable reaction of the stock ex
change to his proposal, and to the
fillip given business in general i
throughout the country by Mr. Hoov- i
er's utterance. It points to the fact i
that a return to normal conditions is ;
Dnly being prevented by the mental <
attitude of business men. Although <
they realize that the President has i
done nothing that can have any mate- 1
rial effect for another six months, ?
yet psychologically the nation has re- .
sponded enthusiastically and evi- j
dences are already beginning to ap- j
pear that conditions are easing off 1
and the country Is feeling it has a j
man at the helm who can be trusted
to indicate the pathway to a return to j
prosperity. i
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ine presidents aaaress at inuian- i
ipolis, which preceded his war debt
announcement, is being taken by poli- <
tical observers here as embodying all :
the principal planks that will be <
placed in the republican party's plat- I
form a year hence. It contain sal the i
constructive policies the party heeds, <
it is asserted, winding up with its i
twenty year plan" for American cap- ]
italism which is designed as an ans
wer to the Soviet's five year plan. It ]
is considered as a complete offset to i
Communistic teachings and will prob- 2
ably be featured In the appeal to the '
country's voters next year. 1
It is to be remarked that Mr. Hoo- <
ver made absolutely no reference to
prohibition in the speech, an indica- <
don that the wet and dry issue is not ;
likely to be jgiven much importance s
i>7 the campaigners next year. Both j
parties look upon prohibition as a S
iangerous subject, certain to alienate i
many voters no matter what decision
step ttat robjwt ' ^istPas the Presi- 1
FREE BLOOD TESTING CLINICS
FOR COLORED PEOPLE
The Pitt County Sypilis Control
Demonstration has been in operation
since March, 1930. The demonstra
tion was made possible by the cooper
ation of the United States Public
Health Service, the Rosenwald Fund
and the Nofth Carolina State Board
of Health. Pitt is the only county in
North Carolina which has had th'e^ad
vantage of such r a clinic. It wa3
through the efforts of the late Dr.
Charles O'H. Laughinghouse that Pitt
was selected, rather than several oth
er counties which were anxious for
the clinic. The colored people of Pitt
county should forever'be grateful to
Dr. Laughinghouse for his efforts in
their behalf.
A physician and two* registered
nurses have devoted their entire time
to the work since the clinic began
operation. The members of the Pitt
County Health Department have ren
dered invaluable aid. Weekly clinics
have been conducted for the diagnosis
and treatment of syphilis in the coun
ty at the following points: Bethel,
Pactolus, Greenville (2), Simpson,
Grimesland, Ayden, Winterville and
Farmville. Approximately 13,000 free
blood tests have been given and more
than 1,300 people have received free
treatment.
The clinic will stop treating June
30th and will spend the month of
July conducting Free Blood Testing
Clinics in the county for the benefit
of those who had clean blood last
year when the survey wa3 made. It
is advised that all people who em
ploy colored help should encourage
them to take a blood test in July at
which time it may be obtained free.
couraging them to tike advantage of
this opportunity to have a free blood
test. Clinics will be held in Greenville
during the week beginnng July 20 and
clinics in the county will be held prior
to that time. Watch for the sched
ule of clinics which will appear in a
few days.
J. J. TYSON, M. D. ?
"WMteCoilar"
Jobs Preferred
Figures Indicate Over
alls Are in Disfavor in
North Carolina
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Raleigh, July 1.?During the last
10 years North Carolinians have
3hown a decided preference for the
socalled white collar jobs, the profes
sions, merchandising, banking, insur
ance and real estate, or maybe these
occupations have demanded their ser
vices against their will, according to
an analysis of census figures made
by the State Department of Conser
vation and Development
At any rate, the department re- :
ports employment in the white collar
Fields has almost doubled in the last
ten years, whereas the population has
increased by less than 24 per cent..
The number of Tar Heels employed
in gainful occupations of all sorts
showjed an increase of 27.3 per cent
in 1930, as compared with 1920. J
Only slightly more than one-third 1
>f the population of the State, 1,141,- 1
129, Or S5.9 per cent, were gainfully
employed in 1930, as compared with 1
395,862 or 35 per cent of the total ?
in 1920. This represented a numeri
:al gain of 246,277 but the percentage
increase was only nine-tenths of one
per cent.
In addition to those gainfully em
ployed, 796,426 were reported as be
ing in school; 476,977 ; were under
school age, and the remainder, 756>
724, were engaged in housewoj-k,
vere sick ,in institutions of some sprt
>r were out of employment
There were 867,807 men gainfully
employed and 273,322 women. The
proportion of men employed declined
six-tenths of. one per cent while the .
proportion for women increased frpm
!2.6 per cent in 1920 to 23.9 per cent
n 1930^/or>b3f. l,8 per centa l 1 ,
C .
v Mr* and Mrs. B. -R. Fields and chiK
Iren of Greenville, accompanied jby
[feifus: RqIUbs, spent Saturday night,
vith Mr. and Mm T. M..Davenport,
iea;:;Fayetto?ilfe? i'h
Changes Become
Effective Here
State Enters New Bien
nium With New Faces
In Officialdom and Old
Ones Missing
Raleigh, July 1.?(North Carolina
entered u?on a new bienium today
with numerous changes in organiza
tion and personnel, most of it the re
sult of the record breaking 1931 gen
eral assembly which adjourned in
May, taking effect.
More than 45,000 miles of county
highways were placed under state
control and maintenance ,in addition
to the 10,000 mile state system, and
two new branches of the government
were officially lunched on their ca
reers.
The state entered the 1931-33 bien
nium with a deficit expected to ex
ceed $1,700,000 from the 1929-31 pe
riod. The exact figures of the deficit
will not be known until the state au
ditor completes his report and 'the
combined report of the auditor and
treasurer is prepared.
New faces were in many of. the
state offices and a number of old ones
were missing.
A. S. Brower officicHy opened the
state's new department of purchase
and contract which will buy the ma
jor portion of the state's needs. This
office was created by the 1931 legis
lature.
Frank Dunlap, former state senator
from Anson, officially opened the new
department of personnel which re
places the salary and wage commis
sion Both Mr. Brower and Mr. Dun
lap sent out memorandum calling
state emplgyes attention to the ten
per cent salary cuts which went into
effect yesterday. Their next pay en
velopes will show the slash.
The State Industrial Commission
and the Child Welfare Commission,
which will henceforth be known as the
DWision o^Standarta ami Inspection,
came under the Department of Labor,
which was reorganized by the past
legislature.
Two vacancies were left in the cor
poration commission through the res
ignations of I. M. Bailey, counsel, and
Carl Hill, director of the securities
department.
A. At. F. Sea well, of Sanford, as
sumed the post of assistant to the at
torney general, and Office vacated by
Frank Nash, who succeeded E. C
Seawell as clerk of the state supreme
court.
Georgia Gov.
to Cut Salaries
Rusuell Also Wants To
Shorten Own Term by
Six Motfths
Atlanta, July 1.?The Georgia leg
islature today considered the recom
mendation of Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
new 33 year old bachelor governor,
that all state salaries be cut five to
ten per cent for the next two years,
and that his own term as governor
be shortened by six months.
The salary slash, which he said fie
wished to have applied to himself as
well.as to other state employes, was
urged as a means of economy.
The reduction in the length of His
term was advocated in order to
change the date of inaugurating gov
ernors from June to January. Under
the present system election is in No
vember but inauguration does not ,
take effect until the following June.
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July 1 Was Red Letter
Day For North CaroUna
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First State in Union to
Take Over Mainten
ance of Roads and Con
vict Forces
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The following letter in regard to
the change in North Carolina's high
way law has been issued from the
Governor's office: ?
. Raleigh, June 31.?On July 1 will
take place an unprecedented event in
North Carolina. On that date the
state for the first time in history, and
the first state in the United States,
.will take over from the counties the
job of maintenance and construction
of every mile of public road and ev
ery bridge in North Carolina and will
assume the responsibility of paying
the cost of this tremendous job.
The state will also take over
around four thousand convicts and
relieve the counties of the burden of
their support and maintenance. On
July 1 all of the chaingangs and pris
oners in jail serving more than sixty
day sentences will cease to be fed
and clothed and supported by the
counties. The state will serve over
twelve thousand additional meals, of
a uniform and balanced food content,
on July 1. ?
From that date the county commis
sioners are prohibited from levying a
cent of tax to support the mainten
ance and construction of roads in
North Carolina. The state appropri
ates a minimum of $6,000,000 to coun
ty roads, to be derived from the
proceeds of the present six cent gaso
line tax. This automatically lifts
from the land and property of the
state an ad valorem tax of $6,000,000,
now levied for roads. Three million
of this will be new money, and three
millions comes from the state aid cre
ated by the 1929 General Assembly
and largely used by the counties for
debt service.
On July 1 the county commissioners
and highway commissioners of the
one hundred counties, or a total of
more than five hundred men, will turn
over to a commission of seven men
composing the State Highway Com
mission" the combined responsibilities
of their duties.
The State Highway Department is
already organized for completing the
transfer of the forty-five tlwusand
miles of county roads and the four
thousand county prisoners. In fact,
since before the adjourning of the leg
islature, the entire organization of
the highway department has centered
its thought on the working out of
plans for taking over county roads
July 1.
The commission has laid out and
organized the state into districts, and
districts into sub-districts. Every mile
of road is charged to someone in
tjie state organization. That is to
say, every mile of road in every
county has a maintenance supervisor
responsible to an engineer, in turn re
sponsible to a district engineer, in
turn responsible to the State Highway
Department, in turn responsible to
the State Highway Commission. And
there is, in fact, in the entire forty
five thousand miles, less likelihood of
any particular road getting lost in the
shuffle, and receiving inadequate at
tention from the maintenance forces,
than would have been the case under
local responsibility for maintenance.
Of course the Highway Department
and the administration realize that
the present organization has of ne
cessity been hastily created and hns
actually been thrown together within
a period of thirty days and that there
will be many changes and adjust
ments to work out before the organi
zation can reach the maximum of ef
ficiency. I feel, however, that it is a
remarkable demonstration of organi
zation and drive that? 40 much has
been done in such a short time. Un
der the intense leadership of Chair
man Jeffress ' and Chief Engineer
Ames and their staff of assistants,
every one connected with the State
Highway Department has been work
ing at full power tc get ready fo$
July 1. I commend the counties for
their splendid , cooperation with the
state in effectuating the change in or- "
gapization. And I trust that our peo
ple will be patient and not expect too
much at once as the state moves for
ward in its vigorous determination
to assume the responsibility for this
heavy task.
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Geo: D. Taylor, Jr., Miss Edna
Poust Harris, Louise Smith, Harry
Cook and Frances May of Sanford,
spent last Thursday in Wilmington
ind Wrightsviile Beach.
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. Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Jonas, accom
panied by their daughter, Vernics .
[*ng, and Mrs. W. M. Willis, spent
Wednesday at Camp Sacarusa, with
Etas Jones and Biliie Willis.
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