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VOL. TWENTY-FOUR FARM VILLE, * PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1983 NUMBER EIGHTEEN
County Muss Meetings, Greenville 10 A. M., Farmville 2 P. M,, Knott's Warehouse
Government Promises Better Tobacco Prices
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Tobacco Holiday Expected
To End During Next Week
Tobacco acreage reduction campaign
will begin here Saturday at 2 o'clock
at which time contracts will be sign
ed by growers.
' Knotts warehouse will be headquar
ters for the corps of workers which
will include warehousemen and em
ployees with John T. Thome in charge
A ready response is anticpated as
a speedy concluding of this work will
hasten the reopening of the markets.
Governor Issues Proclamation
Hoping to be able to put an end
to the tobacco holiday proclaimed by
him last week not later than the last
of next week, Governor Ehringhaus
yesterday issued a proclamation call
ing upon all tobacco growers to seek
out thosd with acreage reduction con
tracts in order that the actual sign
ing of the contracts might be com
pleted not later than Thursday. "The
sincerity and interest of our people
is at stake," declared the Governor.
The Governor also called for the
support of all good citizens in the
campaign and made public the fol- j
lowing telegram sent to him late
Wednesday by President Roosevelt: i
"Regret exceedingly that because of
blated arrival I did not see you yes
terday. I am in touch with the to
bacco problem through the Secretary
of Agriculture and wish to assure
you, and through you the growers of
flue cured tobacco of our deep sym
pathy with their situation.
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Ttte ueparanenu 01 Agnuivuxc, ?
you know, is moving promptly un
der the Agriculture Adjustment Act
on program designed to correct con
ditions and'we are* confidently count
ing! on your co-operation and that the
growers in making it effective."
Governor Ehringhaus was informed
yesterday that copies of the reduc
tion contracts to be signed will be
available today in all the large to
bacco centres and expressed the hope j
that many farmers will sign them to
day and tomorrow in order that the
formal campaign, which begins on
Monday will be jin the nature of a
cleanup drive and will be over with
in two days.
The Governor conferred yesterday
with dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col
to who will have charge of the)
program and who haa directed county
agents to abandon activities for the
duration of the drive.
{There are this yAr 6724)00 acres
planted in tobacco in North Caro
lina and 1004)00 growers. However,
less than 40,000 of the growers are
landowners and under the plan
adopted aU land will be reached
through the landowners.
The proclamation issued yesterday
by the Governoi' follows:
"Whereas, the United States gov*
eminent has launched its effort for
an intelligent and proper control of
production in the flue-cured tobacco
areas and has started a whilwind
campaign to secure 'signatures of the
growers to reduce their production
for 1934 and 1935, as requested by
the government, not to exceed 30
per cent; and
"Whereas, with all markets closed
the necessity for immediate response
in signing without delay Is impera
tive in order to expedite the reopen
injg of the markets; and
"Whereas, the United States gov
ernment, through the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, has
pledged its full power in an effort
to obtain parity prices to the cooper
ating growers, not only for the crops
for 1934 and 1935, but also for this
year's crops; and
"Whereas, the sincerity and inter
est of ouj people, ad well as the ne
cessities of our tobacco growers, de
mand that we answer this challenge;
and
"Whereas, the growers in various
| meetings throughout the State have
enthusiastically endorsed this effort
and the extension service, vocational
group, and the warehousemen have
all plecfced themselves to assist in se-,
curing signatures; and
'Whereas, tentative contracts will
i be ready for signature at the time
hereinafter mentioned; and
I "Whereas, the citizenship generally
in tobacco growing counties is vitally
concerned-in the speedy and complete
acceptance of this program;
"Now, therefore, I, John C. B.
Ehringhaus, Governor of North Caro
lina, hereby call upon all tobacco
growers, all warehousemen, all or
ganizations, groups, services, mer
chants, and citizens generally inter
ested to make use of the tobacco holi
day already proclaimed, particular on
Monday and Tuesday, September 11
and 12, in assisting in the speediest
sign-up possible by the growers to the
tentative contracts submitted by the
government, and particularly do I
urge that the growers do not wait
to be called upon to sign such con
tracts, but that they seek out the
warehouse committeemen, extension,
vocational and other agents who have
these contracts ready for signature,
and sign them at the earliest possible
moment, so that by the close of Tues
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County Tax Rate For
This Year Fixed at 83c
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I Debt Service Require
ments Take Up More
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Ciw?HU, Sept 6.?County Com
missi oners in session Monday adopted
tax rate for tin. year of 88
cents 8100 valuation, against
a. rate of 83'* cents last year despite
a 33 1-3 per cent rednetiioB in real
bfbdi iiniic&tioQ
thf flsftLTBS for the ycEr'si
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imately 127,000,000 this year against
$38,000,000 lash year, the rate for the
various departments is as follows: ~
General fund, 14 cents?-I $37300
County home & poor, 5 cents? 13300
Health department, 2 cents? 5,400
School maintenance, 5 cents? 13300
Debt service, 57 cents,..?: 153,900
Additional funds to complete the
budget expenditures are to be derived)
from State aid, commissions and fees,
poll taxes, court costs and fines and
onpaid bsek
The 1334-3 per cent cut in real es
tate vahws brought this year's total
the psesest estimatedtotal valna
tioM of $27,000,000/ but efforts on
Government Will Aid *
If Growers Will Cut
Crop Next Two Years
n ?nwiiiwn tint mm i i ? i wim
"You Deliver and Well
Deliver," Government
Spokesmen Tells Farm
ers at Gathering Held
in Raleigh; "Sign-Up"
Campaign to Begin on
Saturday, Sept 8th*
Raleigh, Sept 6?Delegates repre
senting! tobacco farmers of North
Carolina today voted unanimously to
pledge themselves to cooperate with
the government to reduce-the tobacco
crops of 1934 and 1935 by any stipu
lated amount up to 39 per cent of
this year's crop after being assured
that the government is ready to aid
them.
Plans were launched pt a meeting
this afternoon for a crop reduction
campaign to begin in the State on
Saturday, Sept 8th, as the contract!
forms are expected to arrive from
Washington by that time. The co
operation of yirginia and South Car
olina was pledged in the campaign
with L. U. Lawson, of Darlington, S.
C., signing a copy of the tentative
contract that was available at the
meeting.
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"I dont want to be in tne lime
light, he said, but I want to be the
first person to sign one of those
contracts.
About 500 representatives sent here
by tobacco growers of the state's 57
counties producing floe cured tobacco
and 600 to 700 other interested per
sons, pledged themselves to adopt any
program the government may pro
pose by a standing vote. J. B. Hut
son, in charge of production for the
Agricultural Administration in Wash
ington, had just outlined the tenta
tive reduction contract. He told the
growers that "for our part we pledge
ourselves to use epery resource at
our disposal to see that you get a
parity price for this year's crop, as
well as the two following years if
the farmers will pledge to reduce pro
duction in 1934 and 1935."
The representatives of the growers
were asked to pledge themselves to
abide by the government's final de
cision for flue cured growers and to
work to pledge their neighbors also.
! Visitors from Georgia, South Caro
lina and Virginia were in the crowd.
Opponents of the government plan
wen asked to stand v?/, hut nobody
arose. "Stand up. Stand up, we want
to see who yon an," was shouted
from the floor, but noeone stood in
opposition.
Hutaon, speaking after Governor
Ehringhafus had emphasised to the
meeting that fanners must co-oper
ate for crop reduction to raise prices,
said: "The Agricultural Administra
tion realizes that the flue-cured prices
were too loir" hag 'lew
again this year, pad the government
is asking the farmers to pledge tSiem
souree atour hands to get you parity
prices this year, aa well as the two
years following. We
steps witt be necessary to take, but jpe
know some of them. Jt you deliver,
' we wflrb&bl#to
tattve contract which' pledges the flu*
cored grower*? to reduce eijher by
acreage or poundage, or both, up to
JO in^eent <rf Jhfapyear'a mop. $ He
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elected at county meetings of the to
bacco growers last week and supposed
to be empowered to speak for them
voted unanimously to accept the gov
ernment offer.
John R. Hutchison, of the Extension
Department of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, and D. M. Watkins, Exten
sion Department, Clemson College,
South Carolina, were present to rep
resent their States.
Dean I. 0. Schaub, head of the Ex
tension Department of North Caro
lina State College, presided over the
meeting.
TOBACCO MEN
WILL HELP IN
SIGN-UP DRIVE
Eastern Carolina Ware
housemen Pledge Sup
port to Government
Plan.
Greenville, Sept. 7.?Tobacco ware
housemen of Eastern North Carolina,
meeting at the city hall today, pledg
ed their support to the government
crop reduction contract drive and
tendered their services and that of
all4 their hundreds of employees to
assist in getting the farmers' signa
tures to the contracts. The meeting
was presided over by E. V. Webb,
president, of Kinston, and was at
tended by more than a hundred ware
housemen from this section.
Following an address of welcome
by Hayor R. C. Flanagan, in which
he expressed complete confidence in
our warehousemen and appreciation
for their spirit of co-operation and
their efforts with the government in
behalf of the farmers.
The address of welcome was fol
lowed by a report of the warehouse
men's committee at the recent
Washington conference by B. B.
Sugg, warehouseman of this city.
Mr. Sugg went into the details of the
conference and expressed gratifica
tion at the result of the labors of all
those who bad a part in the Wash
ington gathering. He paid highest
tribute to Governor Ehringhaus and
others who tool# part and declared
that they had rendered a great ser
vice to the people of the tobacco
States. -
Hie warehousemen were unani
mous in tendering their aid in the
sign-up campaign and urged that
every grower sign just as soon as
given an opportunity in order that
the. sales might be resumed at the
earliest possible date.
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Talk Of Visitor
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The feature of the Rotary Club
meeting on Tuesday evening was a ?
well chosen and timely address by
2"J?'-*'
Baptisl| Church, fcdctotg$ his :
theme, "The Debt 'of-f&e Creditor,"
he pointed out foreefoliy that Ch$is- I
tian creditors could onl# expect-pig
ment on the part of their debtors ac
cording to their ability to pay; Stat-.
Rule in business he said in effect
that one she aid exact payment from
his debtors in proportion as he would
desire, under similar circumstances, !
his creditors to ?xa<$ from him.
Coming, -pa Mb talk did, in the fall ?
of the year it was both pointed and
would have to- forsake his jo? ,*s
pianist and accompanist to resume
his schoolteaching job. It was with
the greatest displeasure that the Club
listened to the announcement because
Sam will be mhch missed. It was
Warehousemen Pass
Resolutions At Meeting
A group of 150 warehousemen rep
resenting all Eastern North Carolina
markets met here Friday, night, Sept
2, and unanimously pledged their full
cooperation in the marketing holiday
which began the following Monday, j
Warehousemen, in their Farmville
meeting), adopted the following reso
lution:
(Whereas, the Governor of Nifth
Carolina has issued a proclamation
requesting all tobacco sales ware
houses in North Carolina to suspend
sales pending a conference of Gov
ernor Ehringhaus and a committee
of gentlemen representing the farm
ers with Government officals in Wash
ington, D. C., with a view toward im
proving prices now being paid for to
bacco.
"Be it resolved, that the Eastern
Carolina Warehouse Association join
wholeheartedly in their support and
co-operation with- the Governor's
proclamation and freely comply there
with. It is understood that all ware
houses in the border markets and
South Carolina markets will likewise
comply therewith, as it would be
exceedingly detrimental if some mar
kets remained open while others aijp
closed.
"Be it further resolved that every
possible effort will he made to as
sure an early reopening of markets,
in view of the fact that much tobac
co is graded and liable to damage if
not marketed at an early date. Fur
ther, thousands of people now em
ployed in warehouses and factories,
will be thrown out of employment un
til markets are reopened."
The warehousemen appointed the
following committee to accompany
Governor Ehringhaus and the dele
gation of farmers to Washington: W.
Z. Morton and B. B. Suggs, Green
ville; W. EL Fenner, Rocky Mount; J.
Y. Monk, Farmville; and J. C. Eagles,
Wilson; E V. Webb, of Kinston, presi
dent of the Association accompanied
the committee.
Sign-Up To Be General Saturday
Sign-up in the government tobac
co crop reduction campaign will get
under way Saturday morning at ten
o'clock when every land owner in the
state is urged to go to the nearest
point for a mass meeting at which
time individual contracts will be of
fered the farmers. The government
has definitely promised to raise prices
of this year's flue cured tobacco crop
if the growers will sign up 'to reduce
their acreage for 1934 and 1935 and
all warehouses in North and South
Carolina are closed and will remain
I closed until the contracts have been
signed* and the sooner the farmers
sign the sooner the markets will be
re-opened.
. You get the contracts signed and
the government will use every re
source at its hands to get you a par
ity price for tobacco, J. B. Huston,
chief of the tobacco section of the
/gricultural Adjustment Administra
tion told growers^meeting in Raleigh
yesterday and now the next move is
up to the growers.
Warehousemen have tendered their
entire corps of employees to aid in
the detail work of the signup and
it is expected that the campaign will
be carried to a successful completion
in very hort order. A great number
of interested citizens are expected to
have a part in helping put the cam
paifen over in every township.
The township meeting Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock will be as fol
lows: ?
Farmville, John T. Thorne, chair
man; Falkland, J. C. Parker; Beaver
Dam, Mark H. Smith; Grifton, W. M.
Taylor; Swift Creek, Hugh Stokes
Store, Fited Taylor; Grimesland, R. L.
Little, Black Jack, Marvin Smith;
Winterville, John R. Corroll; Ayden,
J. D. Cannon, Pactolus, J. P. Daven
port, Stokes. A- L. Wpolard; Bethel, v
F C. Martin; Belvoir, T. E .Parker.
It was at first thought that the
sign-up would not begin until Monday
bekause contracts could not be re
ceived before that time but today J.
C. Lanier, assistant; to the director of
the tobacco section, advised they
would be ready by Saturday morn
ing.
PRESENTATION OF PLAY
GROUND PAGEANT TONIGHT
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On account of other events sched
; Jed for Friday afternoon, Sept. 8th,
the closing exercises of the Welfare
Playground, under the direction of
Miss Vivian Case, will be held in the
evening of that day, (today) at 7:30
o'clock in Perkins HalL
The program, in which seventy
children will take part and which
comes as a brilliant climax to the past
few weeks of happy hours providing
recreation and fun for them, is as
follows:
Exercise Song Entire Group
Pa&eant-"King Cole Comes
To Town." Entire Group
Dramatization-"QmlereUa_01der Girls
Square Dance? Older Girls
Everybody is invited to attend
these .exercises.
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Farmville High School
To Open September 18
A Few Changes Made In
Faculty Since Last
Year; jSupt. Boyd Get
ting Schedule Ready
For Opening Day.
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The. Farmville High School will open
its doors for the fall term on Monday,
September 18, at 8:3<f ?o'dock, ac
cording to -Superintendent R. E. Boyd,
with the lunch, recess period and
otter general rules of t^e schedule of
(he past year ta be observed.
The faculty, whieh has undergone
few cjianged since the last term is as
follows:
First grades, Miss Annie Perkins
and Jfrs. Florence Thorne; second
grades, Miss Vivian Case and Sirs.
W. B. Carraway; third grades, Miss
Eugenia Gray of Cary, and Miss
Margaret Lewis; fourth grades, Miss
Chrytelle Lucas and Miss Sallie
Norwood; fifth grades, Miss Edna
Robinson and Miss Elizabeth EeLfe
Hobbs, Belhaven; sixth grades, Miss
Mamie Proctor and Miss Janie Davis;
seventh grades, Miss Susie Copeland
and Mrs. L. P. Thomas ;high school,
Mrs. J. B. Joyner, English; Miss
Kathleen Boatright, Latin and
French, Miss Russell Whrd, Math
ematics, Mr. Francis M. Pratt, Wins
ton-Salem; History and English, Mr.
R. H. Cason, Science and History,
Supt R. E. Boyd, Home Economics,
Miss Alice Coggins. .
The registration of high school pu
pils will be held on Monday, Sept.
11, from 9:00 to 12:00, for the pur
pose of arranging the pupil's sche
dules and the distribution of book
lists. [
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WBTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Moore of the
Falkland section announce the birth
of a son on Wednesday, September -
6th.