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VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 19S4 NUMBER TEN
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Opening Dates of All Belts Oftitfa&ySet by Administration Officials and Tobacco Men Thursday
Farmville Businessmen To Boost Local Tobacco Market
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N. C. Is Surpassed Only
By N. Y. inTaxes Paid U.S.
Five States Pay Federal
Gov'nment More Than
Half of the $2,672,318,
602 Received in Taxes.
Washington, July 11.?In five of the
forty-eight states, New York, North
Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania and
California, the Federal Government
collected more than half of the $2,
672,318,602 received from taxation in
the fiscal year just ended.
Eleven states, Arizona, Idaho, N.
Dakota, S. Dakota, Vermont, Wyom
ing. Arkansas, Mississippi Nevada,
Utah and Montana, meanwhile con
tribute less than 1 per cent of the
Federal tax yield.
As usual New York had the year's
biggest tax bill, $654,321,80$, North
Carolina was second with $260,344,
351, Illinois, third with $214,714,810,
Pennsylvania 4th with $193,552^222,
and California 5th with $151,245,457.
At the other end of the scale, Wy
oming paid the least, $1,170,330.
The presence of North Carolina, es
sentially an agricultural state among
the leaders was attributed by Treas
ury officials to source collected taxes
on tobacco manufacturers, later paid
by citizens of the country over. The
State's income tax payments 'were
$12,960,071 as compared with $217,
611,109 in miscellaneous taxes, in
cluding the tobacco levies.
Every State in the Union showed
increases, ranging in some cases as
high as 300 per cent, in miscellaneous
tax collections for the fiscal year as
compared with the year previous to
raise the grand total for the country
from $873,047,820 to $1,483,789,755.
MISSES DAVIS AND COATES
ENTERTAIN.
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Greenville, July 13.?On Thursday
evening from 6:30 to 8:00 o'clock,
Masses Sallie Joyner Davis and Miss
Dora Coates were hostesses at a very
delightful party in the Ragsdale Hall
gardens, to Mrs. J. B. Spilman and
their friends on the College campus.
I Sugg Denies Cod
I f lid in Leaf Dates
I Greenville Tobacco Man
I States that Buyers and
I Warehousemen Agree
I on August 23rd.
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I Greenville, July 10.?B. -B. Sugg,
I Greenville warehouseman, today de
? nied that there is any conflict between
buyers and warehousemen regarding
the opening date of August 23rd for
the Eastern Carolina 5ofaaeco belt.
? Returning from White Sulphur
Will Measure
Acreage Here
Supervisors Are Receiv
ing- Instructions Here
From State Specialist;
4,000 Cotton Tags On
Hand For Distribution
To The Farmers.
Greenville, July 11.?Eighty Super
visors who will measure cotton and
tobacco acreage for the Federal Gov
ernment were receiving instructions
here Wednesday in preparation for
beginning of operations immediately.
E. F. Arnold, director of the local
farm department, stated that Mr.
Johnson, of State College, was here
instructing the supervisors relative
to measuring acreage as provided
under government tobacco production
contracts and that work would get un
der way in Pitt County immediately.
Mr. Arnold, who returned from
Raleigh Tuesday night, stated that
he brought back 4,000 cotton tags,
and that tagging of 1933 cotton on
hand would begin within a few days.
All cotton of the last crop must
be tagged if it is to be relieved of
tax provided under the Bankhead
cotton control act recently passed by
Congress.
Rotarians to Meat
In Annual Outtng
NeitMayNiglit
Picnic Dinner Will Be
Served In City Park at
The Swimming Pool
The Farmville Rotary Club held its
Bweekly meeting last Tuesday eve
Ining in the Farmville Sigh School
?building at 6:45. A steak supper
?was served followed by the reading,
?correction and approval of the min
?utes of the previous meeting. Chair
Iman of the program committee ask
Hed for the co-operation of the mem
Ibers in the efforts of the commit
?tee to prepare the programs for the
?coming year.
I John Lewis asked the special com
Imittee which was appointed to get
lin touch with Mr. Jeffress relative
Ito the anticipated highway change
?through Farmville. The committee
Iwas so instructed.
I Discussion of the Club's annual
?outing waa advanced. at thi? point,
?it was moved, seconded and passed
?that the outing be held next Tues
?dar. July 17 at the Municipal Swim
?ming Pool. (I
I John Lewis was named as pro-11
IfpH&^eader for the evening bis II
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I BUSINESSMEN OF FARMVILLE GALLED
T8 MEET MONDflY NIGHT JULY 16th
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TO THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE TOWN OF FARMVILLE:
There will be a meeting in the Town Hall, Monday night at 8:00 o'clock
at which all interested business men and citizens will be present to formu
late plans for the advertising of the Town of Farmville as a Tobacco
Market and shopping center; lets all get behind it aijd maks 1934 the
best season Farmville ever had.
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On August 23rd, the Farmville Tobacco Market will open; the more
tobacco that is brought to Farmville, means more motley to be paid out
here and more money spenders to be here; the greater the business for
the warehouse, the greater will be the business for the stores and the
Town in General.
Come to the meeting Monday night and help plan an advertising
campaign that will be worthwhile to all concerned.
JOHN B. LEWIS, Mayor.
Dollfuss Announces
Hus? Jew Cam
paignVs. Nazis
Cabinet Shake-up; New
List of Members Pre
sented for President's
Approval; Death Pen
alty For Mere Posses
sion of Explosives.
Vienna, July 11.?Englebert Doll
fuss, Austria's fighting little chancel
lor, announced a huge new drive
against Nazis today after concen
trating in his own hands all the mili
tary and police power of the nation.
The death penalty will be dealt out
for the mere possession of explosives,
Dollfuss announced, in an effort to
stop widespread bombing outrages.
In a cabinet shake-up Dollfuss pre
sented the resignation of the whole
group to President Wihelm Miklas
and then submitted a new list for
Miklas' approval.
Dollfuss appeared determined to
stamp out the whole Nazis movement
in Austria.
Taking a leaf from the note book
of his neighbor and friendly protector
Benito Mussolini, Dollfuss will add
several cabinet portfolios to his ac
tive duties.
He will be chancellor, foreign min
ister, minister of defense, public se
curity and agriculture.
All military and police power in
Austria will be concentrated in his
hands through Hie defense and se
curity posts.
A communique asserted the step
was necessary for peace and order
and to wipe out thp last vestiges of
treasonable movements.
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I MBS. JIBflTIE TYSON SMITH
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I Greenville*?Mrs. Bettie Tyson
I Smith, 56, died at one o'clock Wed
Ineaday morning; in Pitt Community
Hospital - after an illness of over a
I year. She had been critically ill the
?last several days.
Funeral services were conducted
Canal Claims
Child's Life
Edward Mooring Age 4,
Drowns in Small, But
Full Stream, In the Or
mondsville Section.
Edward B. Mooring, the four-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Moor
ing, of the Ormondsville section, in
Greene county,, was drowned in a
canal while accompanying his mother
from a tobacco barn to the home
Monday afternoon.
The body was carried about 500
yards down the canal and was not(
recovered until early Tuesday morn
ing.
The mother had a small child in
her arms and Edward was following
by her side when they reached the
! bridge across the stream. Hi^h wa
ter had washed out a {dace in the
bank and the child fell into the rag
ing stream and disappeared.
Funeral services were conducted
from the late home .Tuesday after
noon at .3 o'clock by Rev. M. Phillips,
of Hookerton. Burial was made in
the Heath cemetery.
Surviving are the parents and a
sister, Verna Erleen.
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Eastern Firemen
In Convention
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Sectional Association
Guest at Morehead City
and Atlantic Beach
New Bern, July 12.?The East
? ern Carolina Firemen's Association
I met Tuesday night at the fire sta
? tion in Morehead City, with Alfred
? A. Kafer, Jr., of this city, president,
? presiding. R. A. Joyner, of Farmville,
? acted in his capacity as secretary
? treasurer.
? Addresse of welcome were made
I by Ha^or IT S. Gibbs, for the city,
? and D. B. Willis, for the Rotary
? Club. Stanley Woodland, chairman I
? of the Morehead City Port Terminal I
I commission, bold of plans for early I
? starting of th? port development and I
? stressed that it was a state, not
host a local project, of benefit and I
B interest to ail North Carolinai'*1* - ifS 1
North Carolina
Gets Feminine
C. fcj. Camp
22 Camps Approved To
Date With Estimated
Enrollment of Around
1,700 Women.
Washington, July 11.?The Federal
Government was shown today to be
investigating a sizable pile of dollars
in a sort of feminine CCC plan, de
signed to fit womln to jobs by a
brief, but intensive re-education
course.
Thirty-one camps and schools for
unemployed, unattached women, each
an experiment painstakingly adjust
de to its community, will start func
tioning within the next four weeks.
Twenty-two have been approved.
Nine more are. under consideration,
with prospects of being approved.
Each individual camp or school re
ceived on the average of about $5,
000, which * will exhaust available
funds. Enrollment will total about
1,700.
The camps are partially an out
growth of an insistant interest on
the part of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt. Agreeing with some who wrote
her letters that unattached women
should enjoy some equivalent of what
CCC camps have done for un at
tached men, Mrs. Roosevelt last year
succeeded in having established Camp
Tera, at Bear Mountain, New York.
In April, she opened the White House
to a conference on the subject
Directed by Miss Hilda Smith, of
the Emergency Relief Administra
tion, the womens' camp will stress
a field in which she is expert-work
ers' education, which she definels as
"consideration of practical, economic
problems wage earners will meet in
their day-by-day working life."
Program Planned
For "Farm Week"
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^Several thousand North Carolina
farmers and farm women are looking
forward to an "educational vacation*
at Parfa and Home Week at State
eoUege^July^l ^to Aftyuflt ^ ^
With delightful recreational activi
Tobacco Markets
OponsAig, 23rd
Local Warehousemen
Advised That August
23rd Date for Opening
of Eastern Carolina
Markets Accepted
The opening date of Thursday,
August 23rd, for Eastern North Caro
lina tobacco markets fixed by the
United States Tobacco Association
in session at White Sulphur Springs,
W. Va., last Week has been accepted
according to information received by
local warehousemen.
An effort had been on foot the last
several days to change the date to
the 28th, but the decision Thursday
definitely retains the date formerly
approved by the tobacco association.
August 9 for South Carolina and
Border markets, and August 1 for
Georgia, previously set by the Unit
ed States Tobacco Association, were
also decided upon, it was stated.
Local warehousemen are putting
their warehouses into condition for
the early opening date.
J.C.L?iirAe
cspts Post as
Gods Hsid
Acceptance of Position
As Tobacco Leaf Code
Administrator Unoffi
cially Announced.
Greenville, July 11.?It was unof
ficially announced here today that
J. C. Lanier, a former Greenville
lawyer, and member of the tobacco
section of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration, has accepted
the position as Code Administrator
of the loose leaf tobacco industry.
Mr. Lanier was tendered the posi
tion, which is said to carry quite a
boost yi salary by the code authority
of loose leaf auction tobacco ware
houses at the annual convention of
the United States Tobacco Associa
tion at White Sulphur Spring last
week. i
Doubt was expressed at the time
that Mr. Lanier would be able to ac
cept the offer because of regulations
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration barring those who nego
tiated codes from administering them.
The report received here today in
dicated that obstacles in this connec
tion had been removed and that Mr.
Lanier would take over the duties, as
Code Administrator. '
This means that headquai$?fcs of
the code authority will be established
possibly in Greenville. It was said
that 180 field mon would be employed
in enforcement of the code, dealing
with weights, fair trade practices,
of was stated^,
so that a definite check may be kept
Delegations Boost
More Health Money
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I Call on County Commis
sioners to Increase the
Budget to Aid in Fight
I ing Death ToiL
Greenville, July 10.?Recommenda
Itions for an increase in health ap
I propriations in the county for the
next fiscal year were given hearty
I support by two delegations repre
senting the Pitt Copnty Medical So
I ciety and the Kiwanis Club, appear
j ing before the Board of County Com
Isioners in regular monthly session at
Jibe court house Monday.
A proposal to increase the health
department budget from around five
thousand to eight thousand annually,
to permit the employment of an all
Itime sanitary inspector and additional
I nurse was presented to the Board
J several days ago, in the hope of im
I proving the infant mortality death
rate in this county, described as the
["highest" in the state.
Although the Board listened to the
I delegations' request that the increase
be included in the new budget, no
{definite action was taken. The mem
bers, however, assured the visitors
fhttt something definite would be done
by the first Monday in August.
Mayor Roy C. Flanagan and Joe
Taft. representing the city of Green
ville, informed the commissioners the
aldermen were ready to do their part
in the employment of the all-time
sanitary officer, believing that it
would throw an additional safeguard
around the lives of people in all
sections of the county.
Taft, a member of the city council,
acted as spokesman, and said the
city fathers at a previous meeting
had decided to join the county in the
proposed movement for. improved
health. The city and county will be
asked to appropriate $100 each a
month for defraying the expense of
the sanitary expert.
Spokesmen of the Medical Society
who have vigorously stressed the
pressing need of improved health
facilities in view of the continued in
crease of the mortality rate among
children, were Drs. L. C. Skinner, K.
B. Pace and Tom Watson.
The death rate amorg children in
Pitt was said to be 55.0 per cent com
pared with the state average of 19.3
per cent. The situation has been de
scribed as "alarming" by members of
the medical profession, especially in
| view of the fact that infants seem to
be bearing the brunt of death's as
sault. The causes of the mortality
toll were ascribed mainly to stomach
disorders most common among babies
The commissioners also voted to
! increase the salaries of court house
employees ten per cent of the three
I cuts ordered the past three years.
The commissioners had promised to
restore the salaries as soon ai con
ditiona justified. The cuts in most
instances were of .a; voluntary nature,
especially flTT>nng elective officers.
Those voting for the increase were
Cox,. Smith and McLawhorn; against,
Williams and Dudley.
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YOUNG PABMVIIXB MAN i
MAKES HIGH RECORD
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Citizens of Farmvjille and Pitt
County feel a touch of pi-ide in, the
recent achievement of a y&tgr follew
townsman, Mr. James M. .Wheless.-.
muatStf
in standing the N. C. State Board
examinations for Pharmacists, He
made the highest score of all those
The Sfc Newa and Observer
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