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vni. TWVNTY-FIVlg I FARMVILLB, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIPiY, JULY 5, IMS ^ ' NUMBER NINE * ? "?'.??/ ??/'?'??' ? . ^ Eastern Carolina Tobacco Markets to Open Aug. 26 ? i. ? ?? i. Representative Cooley Believes Tobacco Out look Favorable; Clark Says Flanagan Grad ing Measure "Useless" White Sulphur Spring*, W. Va., July 2?'The United States Tobacco Association was told tonight by Rep resentative Cooley (D., N. C.), that prospects seem favorable for a "rea sonable income" this year for the tobacco farmer as well as for those who handle the product of his soiL Cooley, who represents one of North Carolina's great tobacco raising sections, said there were several factors which led to his con clusion, including "splendid cooper ation" among growers which re sulted in a reduced crop last year, 1 elimination of excess supplies of 1 certain types, and increased work! consumption of tobacco. The association named the mar- ! keting dates for 1935 at its dosing business session today and reelected its officers, including W. T. Clark, J of Wilson, N. -G, president. The first market opens August 1 in Georgia, moves to South Carolina on August 8; Eastern North Caro lina, August 26; the Middle Belt, 1 September 17; the Old Belt, October : 1, and the Dark Virginia Belt, No- ( vember 12. '' --- ~1~? ' ine ZUU aeiegawrs auu iwinuv,. themselves as favoring a change in the government's silver policy, which William Holmes Davis, Nor folk, Va* shipper, said is ruining efforts towin trade in the Far East. By purchasing vast amounts of sil ver and increasing the price, Davis said the government is arousing a ( feeling of great resentment. He estimated exports to China j have fallen off 80 per cent since the silver program began. A committee was appointed to 2 confer with the government about the problem, and another committee { was named to discuss with the ad- j ministration the inclusion of tobacco reciprocity agreements in treaties being arranged with foreign coun tries. Other officers named include J. O'Brien, of Louisville, F. N. Harri son, of Richmond, Va., and James S. Ficklen, of Greenville, N. C.. i vice-president, and H. C. Moss, of Wilson, N. C., secretary-treasurer. New members named to the board of governors were U. H. Coxart and N. M. Sham, of Wilson, N. C.; Pem berton Pcnn, of Danville, Va.; and .< B. B. Sugg, of Greenville, N. C. J "Present indications are that there | will be an increase of consumption i in the United States of approxi- i mutely 20,000,000 pounds during the : year ending June 30, 1935, as com pared with the year ending Jane 30, 1 1934," Representative Cooley said, i "and apparently consumption has < been increased approximately 13,- ? 000,000 pounds in the United King- I dom during the same period? making an increas of 33,000,000 1 pounds in these two countries dur- < ing the year now closing, or from 1 454T,000,000 to 583,000*000 pounds." Caoiey said, however, gainsa^Dis I country and the United Kingdom I partly had been offset by losses in I other countries, particularly China. He declared if the crop this year ? should tarn out to be 575,90(^000 ? pounds, the total income from its I sale if it aaureged around 22 cents a pound would be approximately ? equal to that of last year. "Coming from a tobacco-producing I slate, my fondest hope for the to bacco farmer is that he may be die recipient of a price somewhat near Uw price obtained for last year's An attack upon the pending Flaanagan tobacco grading measure featured the address today of Presi .dent Clark. Compulsory government grading of toaf tobacco offered for sale at warehouse* "is a service that will -certainly do the buyer no good, and it seems that it is also one that the fanners do not wish," Mr. Clark I ?said "There has been no sentiment from the lhnner asking either for I "ichange in the present system of < safety w feeling on the put of the! president for the Wu of export j 1'WIIIIIUB . j O0Q XJIftv tilOSC TtSt of ZQ? I 000,600 pounds for the 1936 crottft be said. "The prices for the pest year," he said, "have almost caused 'the busi ness of the exporter, particularly those dealers in flue-cured types, to vanish. It is necessary for the pro ducer and or the tobacco trade gen erally that these world' -markets be aivtd, or i they are once lost, they will be doubly hard to regain. Ail officers of the-association were reelected and four additions were ' - * I - |t. a ? a? meuji.I-.iji -Jay - Mr. Parker Quotes Several Expressions g On Control Question] I, Watt Parker, have interviewed I a number of Pitt coonty citizens j regarding their convictions in : con-j nection with the liquor control - dec-1 tion, which will be held in this coun-| ty on Saturday July 6th, and have I been heartened to receive so l favorable comments in opposition;to] the socalled liquor Control in this] county. I quote from the foiloWaig:j ' "As a group of Christian minister, I we believe in total abstinence from | the use of alcoholic liquors, and op- j pose ite sale in . any form."?Farm-j ville Ministerial Association. "The evils of liquor drinking-made j a deep impression oo me in my ear- j tier days, hence I took sides- with the ] prohibitionists, and do - not - yet feel inclined to change my position ' - on j that matter."?R. L. Davis. "It is my firm conviction that the jnly solution of the liquor problem is the prohibition law, .properly eh- r forced. I shall cast my- vote'against I Liquor Control in Pitt - County oh] Saturday, July 6th."?Mrs. J. M. J" Hobgood. ' It "Having in mind the responsibility ?vhich. is ours regarding the future ?f the boys and girls of our State, t shall cast my vote against socalldd"1 Liquor Control in Pitt County on Saturday, July 6th."?Miss Annie Perkins. No blind bigot, I maintain it still; Than he, who must have pleasure-, let come what will. (Time nor space does not permit further comment.) ?Watt Parker. Lespedeza seeded on small grain in Catawba County has begun vigorous rrowth now that the grain has been larvested. The outlook is for a 7.eavy production of both hay and ?eed this fall. Storm damage Still Mounts Up More Than Two Hun dred Acres of Tobacco and Other Crops Dam aged by Heavy HaiL Greenville, July 2.?Reports of in creased damage to crops from the trail storm which swept over this section Monday afterinoon continu ed to trickle into the city today swelling the loss in the Grimesland area by thousands of dollars. B. F. Buck, who was described as losing several acres of tobacco in initial reports received here yester day, said today he had actually lost $1 acres of tobacco, 10 acres of cot ton and 30 acres of corn. Mr. Buck also reported that over two hundred acres of tobacco and other crops had been destroyed in the area where he lives. The hail also struck with devas tating effect on the Tucker farm, although the total amount of dam age had not been reported. Several growers residing between Greenville and Grimesland, several miles from the latter town, suffered severely. Lightning struck south of Ay den^ killing Hubert Bland, white farmer, who had sought refuge un der a tobacco barn. Two other per sons working at the barn were shocked so severely they remained unconscious half an hour. Crops in the Ayden community were also badly damdged but it will be days probably before the total amount of the damage has been de termined. Gaston County will produce at least one-fourth more wheat this yeas than last. Five new thrashing machines and over 20 reapers were purchased this spring. Paralysis Rises In fltlisr States I ? ? - . -? " ij* ...'' . -I Total of 13 Dead in This State So Far; Govern j ment to Send More Ex >r pert Into The Field. ?* ^ ? Raleigh, July 4.?Infantile paraly sis claimed another life yesterday, a Granville county youth dying of the sficease as-the State Board of Health, receiving official reports of 10 new cases, announced two famous special ists would arrive in the State next week to study the situation in North Carolina, and adjoining territory, now under the South's first epi demic of infantile paralysis. Luther Dean, 18, died at the home of his parents, prominent citizens of the Knott's Grove section of Granville county. 'His was the 18th death from infantile paralysis since May 1, four fatalities having oc curred in Wake, two in Edgecombe and one in each of the following counties: Cabarrus, Swain, Halifax, Vance, Johnston and Sampson. ? Two. -new. cases . were reported from Duplin, Durham and Franklin comities,'and one each from Beau fort, Jones, .Rowan and Vance. . In - addition* it < was ? unofficially re ported that, the 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Price, 708 Tuck er ?Street, Raleigh, had- been stricken with the disease to become the 50th victim in Wake county. As North Carolina health officials struggled'- to .cheek the summer spread of infantile ; paralysis, the number of cases mounted in Vir ginia and South Carolina, with the' greatest incidence in "those states oc curring near the borders of North Carolina. South Carolina reported two new cases, and Virginia three new >cases to raise its total to 40 since June. The official total of cases in North Carolina this year now stands at 288, over three-fourth of which have occurred since May 1. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer, announced he had been in formed that Dr. J. P. Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service, con sidered one of the world's foremost authorities on infantile paralysis, and Dr. P. P. Hubbard, former su perintendent of the Warm" Springs Sanatorium, will arrive in North Carolina next week. He anticipated that Dr. Hubbard will report at GreensboVo for duty to carry on immunization work now being conducted by Dr. A G. Gil; liam, of the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Gilliam will be released to plan further stations in the State for similar work, the actual work to be carried on in new ter ritory selected by Dr. W. P. Dealing, of the Federal service, who is ex-, pected the latter part of this week. Fertilizer Placement Affects Cotton Yield Results this yearfrom experiments in fertilizing cotton have strength ened the belief that the method of applying fertilizer has a big influ ence on the yield of the crop. In the experiments it was found that where the fertilizer was applied in bands on both sides of the seed ten times as much eotton survived unfavorable soil and weather con ditions as was the case where the fertiliser was placed directly under the seed: This was a greater difference than had been found in 'previous years, said Dr. H. B. Mann, agronimist in* soil fertility at the N. C. Agricul tural Experiment Station, but it bears out the fact that the side place ment of fertilizer gives the best re sult On an average during the past four years, he added, the seed germi nation was twice as great with the side-band-method of- application. < This method also~gav?;aw?*ei*gfe' yield of 1,514 pounds of seed cotton I to the acre, as eorapawd with -1>080 I pounds when the fertilizer was plac ed under the rows. The idal placement, Dr. Mann said, appears to be in narrow bands about j two inches below the level of thel sepd and two and a half indies each aide of the- 'seed row. Similar results have, 'been hotedi in this and other-States pith trtcfc; crops. Many of -the . larger Ariah potato growers are using planters equipped to apply the fertiliser to the-side of the seed when planting. - Cotton planters of this .type are" available at ^reasonable prices, Dr. Mnriti said, and lecommeMed them quantities of fertilizer or who have [found it difficult to get a good stand of cotton. < Liquor Gontrol > Election ToBe Held July 6th Citizen of Pitt Comity To Say Whether or Not They Prefer Control 4b Present Violations, t Whether Pitt county will be able to establish a licuor system as pro vided under an act of the last Gen eral Assembly, will be decided at the polls of the various townships of the county on Saturday, July 6th. The polling place in Farmville, which is to be the B. and W. Chevro let storage garage, on Main street, scene of several elections, will be i open as usual from suprise to sun set. ? ' Memorial tridge Is Sold To State ? All Tolls on Wright and Roanoke Island Bridge I To Be Lifted; $275,000 The Total Price Paid. Elizabeth City, July 2.?The deed conveying Wright Memorial toll bridge across Currituck Sound to the State of North Carolina was signed here late this afternoon At jthe same time negotiations were underway in Dare County looking toward acceptance of the State's of fer of $125,000 for the county owned toll bridge across Roanoke So and. Tolls on the Wright bridge will be lifted at midnight tomorrow, ac cording to Charles Ross, attorney for the State Highway and Public Works Commission, who conferred here today with stockholders of the Wright bridge ^company. Tolls on the Dare bridge will go at the same time. A final vote of the stockholders was taken this afternoon on vsale of the Wright bridge to the State for $150,000. The final count was 735 shares of stock for the sale and 265 shapes against. Attorneys ex plained this action was necessary because at a previous meeting two thirds of the total issue of 1,000 shares had not been voted for ac ceptance of the State's price. Capus Waynick, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, made the.$125,000 offer for the Dare owned Roanoke Island Bridge at a public meeting of the Dare county commissioners this morning. The commissioners held an executive session immediately after the conference with Waynick and tpnight held another meeting in a Nags Head hotel with Julian Wood, Edenton member o the High way Commission, present. The offer was not accepted at this meeting but negotiations went far enough for the county commissioners to decide to remove the tolls tomorrow night on the assumption the sale would be consummated within the immedi ate future. I I(Mm B. Lewis Takss Office As Presideit irvin Morgan Gave An Interesting Account of Inter-National Rotai^y Convention in Mexico. / I H I The Farmville Rotary Club met fat 6:45 last Tuesday evening in the Farmville high school building. The minutes of the previous meeting wire read and approved, following which, President Alex Rouse made brief and extremely will timed remafks before he turned the president's chair and\gavel over to the incom ing president, John Lewis. John ac knowledges the honor. After thai conclusion of this part of the pro gram. a "fried chicken supper was served. The report of the member ship. committee was heard at this .>... : ?';}<? The remainder of the time allotted for the program was used by Irnjn Morgan who told the Club of tfie *26th Annual, Convention of Rot?jgl international which pr held I in Mexico City, and which he attended. li The /meeting adjourned to meet again Jaly 9, ' ; i The pine seed broadcasted in Lee and Moore counties in early March did not come ^ up to a full staftd E. C. Scurfs Prepare Ifor ScerfJrtUree (Over 40 Scouts of East Carolina Council to At tend National Affair J August 21st to 30th. Each day brings August 21-30th, I the time when tie scout representa Itives of not only the East Carolina Council, but all over America will I trek to Washington as the personal fguests of the President of the Unlt I ed States, who is "the Honorary Pres iident of the Boy Scouts of America, Jin their greatest of- all 25th Anni Jveraary projects?the-National Jam jboree. > I The Scout Executive informs us | that the Jamboree City is nearing J completion and will be ready at the appointed time. Already registra tions have exceeded the 30,000. In -Region Six, of which the East Caro lina Council is one of the leading councils, being up in what is known as the 'Mighty Six' of the Region, the Region that leads all other Re gions in America as to the number of applications for reservation for attendance at the Jamboree. - ~ ?- ?? ? m it. _ r< _ .i President W. &. Helms or me ciaw Carolina Council said this morning, "The Atlantic Coast Line, with all other great railroad systems of the Nation, is prepared to handle the momentus transportation problem and about noon August 21st will find our council scouts arriving for their ten-day experience that will go down in history as one of the landmarics in the life of each boy who attends." The East Carolina Council Scouts have been given the Troop numeral 38 for their special Jamboree troop under Scout Commissioner Charles Benbow, Jr., who is serving as the Scoutmaster. Mr. Benbow will have Mr. Bill Alligood of Roanoke Rapids and Mr. Needham Bryan of Wilson and J. Q. Patrick of Grifton, as As sistant Scoutmasters. It is under stood that a Senior Patrol Leader will be announced soon; therefore assuring that the local contingent will have adequate leadership. John J. Sigwald, Scout Executive, has been assigned a special duty as leader of Reviews and Parades for the National Jamboree and in addi tion wiL assist with the broadcast ing facilities. The United States Government > is cooperating in many, t many ways and it was through an act of Con gress that 8,500 tents were secured as well as cots and blankets. They cooperated with the laying out -of the Jamboree city in questions of sanitation and other engineering problems. Parents need have ? no fear that their boy will be in any but good hands. Scoutmaster Ed Nash Warren and his troop of scouts have selected Roland Modi in as the troop repre sentative* I FOUNTAIN NEWS (B, MBS. M. P. YELVERTON) PERSONALS Miss Mary King Fountain is visit ing Miss Sarah Wariner of Ruff in. Mr. Wyley and Miss Lucile Ycl verton visited in Aulander, Sunday. Mrs. Joy Cooke of Aulander is spending a few days with Miss Lucife Yelverton. Miss Eleanor Boney and Miss Vir ginia Blanchard of Wallace are visit ing Mrs. C. L. .Owens. Miss Hazel Wilder and Mr. Julian Timberlake of LouiSburg spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Eagles. Mr. Wyley Yelverton, Mr. Glen Newton, Mrs. Joy Cooke- and Miss Eleanor Whitehurst spent the fourth of July at Carolina Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Williams and son of Red Oak spent the week end with Mrs.- Williams' father and mo ther, Mr.-and Mrs. F. L. Eagles. The following spent Wednesday and Thursday in Cash Corner: Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Eagles, and sons, Larry and Guy, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Yelverton and daughter, Doris. ? " ?? ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE Mrs. R. jL Fountain, Jr., entertain ed at bridge for Misses Sarah Wari ner of Ruffin and Larrairte Sills of Nashville. After several progressions, Mrs. jtOXXXiZSIJI DcrVcu 3 G611CIOUS TF9Z6T1 salad course. High score prize was presented to Miss" Lorra Brothers. Table prizes were presented to Misses Laura Overton, Grace Smith and Lsrrtine Sills. Guests of honor prizes were presented to Misses Wariner, Sills and Elizabeth Overton. ? Over 500 acres of farm land hafe been designated by Buncombe <Joun? ty farmers for soil erosion control woftunder the direction of th* coun Wi i in ; ? | 23,000,000th Ford ! Car Completed by Ford Motor CO. _ ' ii '?!?'??- ??? "? v 1 Dearborn, Mich., June 13. ?'Hie 2,000,000th V-8 Ford?the one mil lionth Ford built in less than 12 months and approximately the 28, 000,000 Ford ever built?was produc ed today at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company here. Henry Ford, founder, -and Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, watched the final assem bly of the historic Ford. The car started at once on a 2,700 mile jour ney to San Diego, Calif., where it will be placed on exhibit in the Ford Exposition at the California Pacific International Exposition. The completion of 1,000,000 Fords in less than a year since the 1,000, 000th V-8 Ford was manufactured June 19, 1934, recalled Mr. Ford's prediction late last year that the Ford* Motor Company "WOQld build better -than a million in 1935." The 2,000,000th V-8 Ford is tic. fourth historic Ford car which has biased a transcontiencal trail to the Pacific Coast, each over one of the four principal trunk highways be tween the Atlantic and Pacific. Back in 1909, a Motel T Ford, then virtually a newcomer in the automo bile field but destined to become the most famous type of motor car ever manufactured, dashed across the con tinent from New York to Seattle to win the Guggenheim trophy in a transcontinental race ending at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Mr. Ford himself greeted the winning Ford car at the finish. The next historic Ford to write transcontinental history was the 10, 000,000th For, another Model T which, after it came off the final as sembly line at the Highland Park plant in 1924, was driven from New York to San Francisco over the Lin coln Highway. The third was the 20,000,000th Ford, a Model A. After it was com pleted at the Rogue plant in 1932 it was driven to New York and thence across the country to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The fourth Ford to make trans portation history was the 1,000,000th V-8 Ford which was manufactured at the Rogue plant June 19 last year and driven to Chicago where it was placed on exhibition at the Ford Ex position at the World's Fair. M Fred A. OUs Dies alAge of 81 Conducted Over 300,000 Children on Tours of of Capital; Established State Hall of History. Raleigh, uly 2.?Colonel Fred A. Olds died yesterday afternoon. Death came quietly with the dusk, as Colonel Olds slept, to stilL forever, the heart that endeared him to four generations and made him the best known personality in all of North Carolina. Senility ? the infirmities of ad vanced age?claimed the old mbn of 81 who was the idol of yodth throughout the State for half > a century. For six months he had lain in' a stupor on his bed in the infirmairy of the State Hospital, oftimes vain ly trying to rouse into rememb rance the agile memory that once gave him a most comprehending grasp of the history of the State he loved and served. The end same at 6:20 p. m., while a hospital attendant sat by Colonel Olds' bed. He would have been 82 years old had he lived until ndxt> October 12, Colonel Olds, founded the Stoto Hall of History, without competed tion, in 1887, and since that date he escorted 300,000 visitors bn rounds of sightseeing in the Capi tal City. Practically all of his charges were children, and it was among the younger element of the State's population that Colonel 0)d? loved -best-and was best loved. ? h The greatest^ discovery a man don make in life is his own limitations. ??? M W m ft i* ? . , ' m Corn growers of Haywood County recoprt more than't&ual trouble from the bud worm and corn borer this Season, - '* . : ; / Boll weevil control is largely- a concern of the individual grower, Brannon observed, and" each shdtld get his dusters ready for use as tool? Wilson Opens First Liquor Store in North Carolina in 26 Years Sales Opening Day Run Over $1,000; No Rush, No Disorder; State To Get 3 Per Cent Only. Wilson, July 2.?Legal liquor? legal, at least, until the Supreme Courtr- decides? between conflicting opinions from the Superior Court bench?came quietly back to North Carolina today. R. L. Perry, of Raleigh, who was the first customer of the first Wil son County liquor store when it started business at 11:05 o'clock on Tuesday morning, was also the first man in North Carolina to make a legal, over-the-counter purchase of whiskey since January 1, 1909. Wiley Bunn of Wilson, customer No. 2, took the honors as to gin. The opening of the store, where a limited stock of less expensive brands was available for purchases of from a pint to all the customer could pay for, created little more attention than the opening of an other grocery. Business was good?675 custom ers paying $1,003.79 for 825 bottles during the first business day?but at no time was there a rush neces sitating the formation of long lines which some had predicted. Fre quently the customers' side of the single counter was crowded, caus ing the poorly ventilated store to steam like a laundry, but the ma jority of those inside were looking over the posted list of prices or looking for excitement which was not there to be found. There was not - an arrest for drunkenness by either police or sheriffs men during the day. No crowds, no disorder, no whoopee. Wilsonians greeted legal liquor with little if any more comment than they did the sales tax . TWO MORE COUNTIES WET Two more Eastern North Carolina counties, Craven and New Hanover, went wet by sweeping majorities yes terday. New Hanover, however, can not open up liquor stores as the au thorities were enjoined by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle. They have appealed to the Supreme Court. The vote in Craven, with one small precinct missing, was 2,237 for liquor stores, 553 against?a better than four to one victory for the wets. I only two precincts in the entire coun ty went dry. I The vote in New Hanover was 5,403 for liquor, 758 against How ever, the New Hanover wets were "voting against" a registration of 7,192,. necessitating 3,596 to win. So far every county which has vot ed on liquor since the Legislature made it possible for 19 counties to get legal liquor has gone wet The counties that have voted are j Edgecombe, Wilson, Beaufort, Vance, New Hanover and Craven. In Frank lin the election was enjoined as well as the opening of stores Nine additional counties, Paspuo tank, Martin, Halifax, Carteret, Ons low, Pitt, Lenoir, Warren and Nash, are scheduled to vote on the question Saturday, July 6. ,...*?*? RUM SALES LIGHT AS SECOND COUNTY OPENS LEGAL SALE Raleigh, July 4.?The wave of legal liquor spread to a second East ern North Carolina county yesterday without creating more than ripple of excitement. Tarboro, where the first of the Edgecombe county liquor stores was opened at 1:80 in the afternoon, ' was not interested enough to buy more than $401.08 of the first legal liquor available in its borders in more than a quarter of a century. REV. W. H. LAUGHINBHOUSE Greenville, July 2.?Rev. W. H. Laughinghouse, 81, died at his home [?in the Cox Mill community Tues day afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from 'angina pectoris.. He was taken -suddenly ill about 2:80 o'clock and passed away two hours latere Mr. Laughinghouse has spent his entire life in Pitt County and was one of the best known men of the county. He'began in the Free Will Baptist ministry fifty-seven years ago and had been pastor of the Rose Hill Baptist Church for the past 23 years. Funeral services were con ducted from his late home on Wed nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. An economists pleads for a stabi lized economic system. The ants have had one for ages, and look at 'em. ? i ? A New York banker says he wouid like to run a newspaper for a week. Miltt ?n editor cooid do with a bank in one day.