fo^ai^il^and tptisfll q f*ih vi11p f!.fl^,pi'n|a1qp *** a? comb** inrttat GET The TOP Dollar! X IXC X ill XIX Y lllv JL/JL J. ^V/JL J^/J. t?i tomn with num. vol. TWENTY-FIVE ~ FARMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935 NUMBER NINETEEN _? S- ? - ? ^ySSL^V 4 ? Offerings Monday Established Poundage Record For FarmviUe ? ? ?20.11 Per Cwt Paid for Entire Break; Heavy Sales Continued This Week. mmmm^mmmrnrnrn ' * Frequent rains, cloudy and threat ening weather did not retard ? the movement of tobacco toward* the Farmville market during the week end, and as a consequence the pound age offered and sold on Monday broke all former records, and the up ward trend in prices resulted in an average of nearly $20 per hundred more than the previous sale of Fri day, the official figures disclosing a total of 667,196 pounds, which sold for $134,183.54, an average of $20.11. Blocked sales were cleared upon the four floors Tuesday'when 580, A heavy break was experienced again on Wednesday when 534,356 pounds were sold for $99p429.50, at an average of $18.94. Low grades of tobacco, which predominated the sales Tuesday and Wednesday together with much dam aged tobacco showing up were blam ed for the average falling downward. The better grades are bringing more satisfactory prices. Estimates of today's sale (Thurs day) were around 400,000 pounds * with prices said to be ranging around the same levels. Total sales for the season on the Farmville market are 5,922,424 pounds, which brought $1,157,255.63, an average of $19.54. The four large warehouses here with their experienced operators and unsurpassed facilities, continue to attract growers from a wide terri tory and new patrons are soon on the market daily. Heavy Docket In Mayor's Court Mon. The docket of Mayor Lewis' court * of Saturday and Monday, September 1 and 9, wa? fair'to medium heavy according to the report of charges and judgments, which reads as fol lows: Jack Creech, white, drunk, paid cost. Wilber Brewer, white, operating car while drunk, speeding and reck less driving, fined $75 and cost, li cense revoked for a period of 6 ; months. " Cleveland Price, white, drunk on . streets, paid cost. V John Mozingo, white, drank on streets, fined cost C. P. Haskins, white, charged with speeding, paid cost Herbert Ward, colored, engaged in fray, disorderly conduct pleaded guilty, sentenced to 9 days in jail, suspended 6 months on good behavior and cost. Lucille Powell, colored, disorderly conduct, found not guilty. Fred Hobbs, . colored, drunk on streets, fined cost Herbert Joyner, colored, assault on wife, sentenced 90 days in jail assigned to work on the public roads. Jarvis Tyson, colored, engaged m fight pleaded guilty, sentenced 30 days , in jail, assigned to work on the roads, sentence suspended upon pay ment of cost Bennie Joyner, colored, charged with fighting, sentenced to 30 days in jail, assigned to work on roads, sentence suspended upon payment of cost Ernest Tyson, colored, drunk on streets, SO days on roads, sentence suspended upon payment of cost Zell Joyner, colored, violation of traffic ordinance, paid cost Will ILwawm, - colored, shooting firearms ih city limits, paid $5 and cost ?? New Effort In Law | Enforcement Started Traffic officer, W. A. Martin and other member* of the local police fore* are making a great effort to see that the State's traffic laws are enforced here hi order that accidents | may be kfji * minimum and the hvea and happiness of the citizens and children of the eommumfr a wand Itt?Vj j _ t,t ^ nml SDAAdiiicr iLeaf Growers Ask 35 Percsit Acreage Git **:*?..y ' 7>r. '-i?"' '?*'?*/?'. ? - " Report of Committee men Shows 99 Per Ct of Growers Already Signed Greenville, Sept. 11?Pitt county tobacco growers today had signed a petition catting on the tobacco crop control administration to apply the maxamum 35 per cent redaction in tobacco acreage in 1986, it was re vested in a seport . released this morning by E. F. Arnold, director of the Pitt county Farm Department j Under the terms of the new four year federal control contract already signed by 99 per cent of the tobacco growers of this county, the tobacco administration is authorized to cut acreage to 35 per cent if conditions in the industry at anytime are found unfavorable to the growers. In the petition signed by 1,407 far mers in 11 townships of the county, it is declared that the signers feel "that growers are not receiving a just price for this crop" and that by making a cut 'you could permit grow ers to sell at their poundage made under their contracts without driving prices below a fair and equitable re turn to the farmers. It was said at the farm depart ment along with issuance of the pe tition that more than two thousand growers are expected to sign the pe tition urging J. B.*Hutson, tobacco code administrator, to make suffi cient deductions in acreage to create an active market and thereby se cure equitable prices for tobacco of fered. ? The petition follows: "To The Hon. John-B. Hutson, Tobaco Administrator, Washington, D ,.C. - Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, have signed 1936-89 tobacco contracts and do here by petition and urge that you apply the maxamum tobacco acreage in 1936. We feel that the growers are not receiving a just price for this crop, aqd feel that by making a maximum cut, you could permit growers to sell all their poundage made under their contracts without driving the prices below a fair and equitable return to the farmers. * Respectfully submitted." Baptist Revival To Be Missed Through Sunday The series of meetings, which be gan in the Baptist church here, last Thursday, with Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, Cr of the first Baptist church, / Mount, as the preacher, will be continued through- Sunday/ the 15th, according to the pastor, Rev. L. R. Ennis( who is conducting the revival^ and leading the inspiring Tim attendance is reported as in creasing steadily and the interest and enthusiasm constantly growing, which bespeaks a successful termina tion. ,.The entire community is'again ex tended a cordial invitation to attend by the pastor and. the congregation, and receive the blesings of the Gos pel messages delivered twice daily, at 9:00 A. M. and 7:80'P.-'It ".P; IfeV NEW DEAL CLUB ; J : "?.D3 Morgan entertained ner contract duo ; and two additional tables of friends on Monday afternoon, the four being arranged in a setting of lovely fall m At the eenchiston of six progres sions, the hostess presented Mrs. f Bert McCullum, hig]| scorer for the tehib, with an amber flower container, And Mrs. I. E. Satterfield with' a set : of attractive coasters as guest i prize, lira Alton Everett James, a i recent bride, was remembered with we^ril Italy's Camouflaged Tents in East Africa Enemy plane* would have a difficult tlmp spotting these Italian tents which are camouflaged the color of the ter rata. The tents are erected in Eritrea, not far from the Ethiopian border. The men are awaiting Mussolini's "Go" before starring their Invasion. ? ! < i ?. Legion Post Elects New Officers r,;; ? > vs*? ? The regular meeting of the Farm vOle Post American Legion No. 151, held on Friday evening in the Legion home and presided over by the re tiring commander, O. G. Spell, was featured by the election of officers and the appointment of committees as follows: Alton W. Bobbitt, com mander; Leon Janes, 1st vice com.; C. S. Keel,v2nd vice com.; Zeb M. Whieehurst, 3rd vice com.; Wiley 1). Dildy, adjutant and. finance officer; John H. Paylor, service officer; Mil ton'.L. Eason, sergeant at arms; Chas. F. Baucom, chaplain; Dr. W. M. Willis, child welfare officer; B. LeBoy Rollins, ? grave registration; James W. Joyner, employment offi cer. The membership committee will be zomposed of John H. Paylor,- chair man, C. T. HickTs, James W. Joyner, L. P. Yelverton, J. L Creech; execu tive, R. LsRoy Rollins, Arthur F. Joyner, J. H. Bynum, D. G. Alien; I vays and means, Dr. Paul E. Jones, jr. L Creech, Frank Harper, W. D. The local post has had a most sue Resettlement Plan la Boon To Tenant Farmer Government Will Loan Money to Worthy Per sons With Which To Purchase Or Lease Farm Lands In This And Other States. Farm families in North Carolina who are aided by the Resettlement Administration will be advanced funds-for the purchase or lease of land, livestock, equipment and sub sistence goods, according to Homer H. B. Mask, of Raleigh, Director of Rural Resettlement for Region IV, which is made up of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. ?r "AH advances will be properly se cured by mortgages on real prop erty, on personal property or on crops, and are payable within a rea sonable period," Mr. Mask declared. *The Resettlement program has two' .main phases," Mr. Mack said, rehabilitation, the temporary phase, and resettlement, the permanent phase." ' : "Rehabilitation," Mr. Mask ex plained, "was inherited from FEIiA, which had taken 290,000 families Under care during the year ending July 1, 1935. These families had been -taken from direct relief, and helped to become, in part, at least, self-supporting. A- farm and home program had been laid out for each such family. Agricultural extension workers have now assumed joint re sponsibility with the Rural Resettle ment Division for planning and sup ervising the program, which is be ing continued as the temporary phase of the Resettlement Administration activities. ? , "Resettlement deals with four main groups, as follows: "h Farmers living on lands ?L:-L ????/>?. Kn nntfivotnl tn the wiui; ii uuuiivw w vuivi.MvwM advantage of the farm family or the B Nation. A preliminary survey By the National Resources Board indi cates that about 460,000 farms, in cluding 75,000,000 acres of land, should be devoted' to uses other than araWe?farming in order that both the natural and the human resources of the Nation may be conserved. "2. Those among our 2 1-2 mil lion tenant, farmers who are capa lb? of rehabilitation. "3; Young married couplec with farm experience. "4. The more capable and indus trious of the 'rehabilitation' families. ."The purpose of Resettlement is not only to help the farmer himself but to help the Nation as a whore by Stabilizing that Segment of the Nation's population which has been shifting back and forth between cbfintry and city?comprising in l^ttnes of depression a large percent age 6f the total of unemployed. "A good many rdiabilitation and resettlement families will be placed on individual tracts. However, a number of group settlements have also been planned, a few completed and occupied, and others are under construction. Projects begun under FERA and the Department of the Interior have been turned over Resettlement Administration. ;^t is the heart of the resettlement program to rectify many of the mistakes made during this nation's great, unguided rush for farm lands: But not everything the Resettlement Administration is going to attempt 'is in correcting errorB made by pre-, vious generations. Thousands of families are now living in what were not disadvantageous locations at t# J$ne they were settled, but the eco nomic scene has so shifted since the day . of their settlement that the* areas are no longer capable of pro viding a satisfactory living." FarmviUe High School Has Auspicious Opening New Superintendent J. H. Moore Presided ? Dr. T0 E. Browne Delivered Inspiring Address; Building'Presents New Appearance Children Must . \ . ' ' v' '? Attend School Welfare Department Announces All Child ren Prom 7 to 14 Must Enroll This notice is to inform the general public that all children between th? ages of seven and fourteen years are required by law to attend the public school in the community in which they reside while the school is in ses sion in their respective communities. Parents and guardians of children that fall within the provisions of the compulsory attendance law will please take notice to the end that children be provided with the neces sary '??bihing and books for them to attend the pqblic school. The principal or superintendent of the school may excuse any child com ing under the provision of the law for temporary non-attendance for various reasons. The Rural schools open on Thursday, September 12, and every child between the ages of seven and fourteen will be expected to enroll during the first five days of' school. Principals and teachers have been asked to report the non attendance of all children who come within the provision of the law to the atendance offieer at the close of the first week. It is hoped that full cooperation will be given in the several commu nities to the end that no children will be deprived of their right to attend school. K. T. FUTRELL, Attendance Officer. See Early Slut I I On Port Project I At Morehead City Senator Bailey Says Only Remaining Tech nical Detail Stands In Way of Release of I Federal Funds. Washington?An early start of construction on the . proposed $2,000, 000 public works port terminal de velopment at Morehead City, N. C.J waa predicted today by Governor Eh ringhaus and Senator Bailey. , ' Bailey said only one remaining techical detail stood in the way of release of federal funds for the work and afserted this would be cleared jup shortly.; Governor Ehringha^s said the state was prepared to take over management of the Atlantic* and North Carolina Railroad which itl controls and which will connect the port with the interior of the stage. J. T. Crowell, former manager of the Belfast and Moosehead Railway in Maine has been chosen manager of the North Carolina line. is a detail in connection with state operation of the railroad the two state officials said which iiaj I holding up release of $466,000 in PWA funds to the Morehead City Port Commission for construction of terminal facilities and $1^500,-1 000 to the war department for har bor improvement.. The 3,000 foot jetties which are to be built will be constructed of graniti) and Ehringhaus expressed Hope the state will be operating the and Jff. C. rairoad in" time to jet the business of transporting tils; material to Morehead City. 1 "That revenue will mean much to us" he said "end I think we are en titled to it" : ? ????V ??"V v ? ? :? With what appeared to be the largest .enrollment in the history of the Farmville high school, and certainly with one of its most aua V picious openings, the doors of the local school were flung ajar this morning at 8*45 o'clock 'for the 1935-36 session. * Following the assembly in Per kins Hall, the invocation was giv ^ en by Rev. L. R. Ennis, and the S Scripture lesson read by Rev. H. . M. Wilson under the subject of "The Workman's Ambition." J. W. Holmes, chairman of the school board, introduced the new superintendent, J. H. Moore, who presided over the exercises. May or John B. Lewis extended a wel- m ?come to the teachers, which was fol i lowed by a group of songs by Miss Mary K. Jerome, music and expres sion instructor, accompanied by Mrs. Haywood Smith, piano teacher. John T. Thorne, of the. County Foard of Education, introduced his friend, Dr. T. E. Browne, of Raleigh, State Director of Vocational Educa tion, the speaker of the occasion, as a man, "who is just as big as the State of North Carolina." V Placing the proper amount of re sponsibility for a successful session on the shoulders of the Board mem bers, superintendent, teachers and children, as a preface to his talk, Dr. Browne presented the Farmville high school as an investment by the State of North North Carolina, the county of Pitt and the Town of Farmville, in good citizenship, in which tile habits and attitudes instilled in the next generation will be reflected in its ability to control the affairs of its state and country. ? Listing as the most important ana valuable attitudes to be developed in the individual child by the school as Good Sportsmanship, Dependability, Tolerance, Appiyciation of the finer things of life and Occupational Effi ciency, the speaker urged each child to play the game of life fairly, to so conduct .himself as to be relied upon in any situation; to have a great re gard for the rights and property of others; to "fill every chamber of the structure of your life with beautiful and useful ideas, which will crowd out baser thoughts," and to be pre pared to carry out his part in this business of living, by developing a v skill of performance in doing -some one thing well and turning out a worthwhile product. He concluded with a summary of these objectives of public education, and assured his hearers that an ef fort to make them living attributes would make North Carolina proud of its investment Greetings and informal messages were brought by the two members of the Board of Trustees, J. I. Morgan and' Dr. P. E. Jones, in addition to that of J. W. Holmes, chairman, and by G. A. Rot^se, editor of the Farm ville Enterprise. The school building presented a fresh and inviting appearance, hav ing been renovated and put in ex cellent condition during the summer months, the most notable improve ment being the newly painted walls. $40,001,01)11 Must Cover Projects Officials Face Problem of Making That Sum Meet the State's Fede ral Works Relief Pro gram Which Already Totals $96,000,006. ' -L-v* ?; t?vt . - Washington?North Carolina today faced the problem of making $40, 000,000 meet its federal works relief program which already totals $96, 000,000 in proposed PWA and WPA projectc. A deelgation from the state was told by Works Progress Administra tor Harry L? Hopkins that the state proportionate share of the $4,000, 000,000 federal fi-fund was $70^)00, 000 while $30,000,000 of that amount already had been allocated for CCC camps, federal highways, rural re settlement, and ? subsistence : hom$ J the state office at Chapel Hill cajjqft Cle land ha * certiiicauon ct ownKIW