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YOU TWENTY-SIX . ~" " FARMVILLE. MTT COUNTY* NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1W7 ' NUMBER TIlIRTt-jPTYl Advertising to Play Big Role inComing Boom, Says Roger W, ? Famous Statistician Is! "Bullish" On Advertis ing Now That Turn To ward Better Times Has! Come A note of warning to business men j who wouid poll profits from prosper- J ity is sounded by Roger W. Babson, economist and statistician, in the Ro-| tarian Magazine. "To my way of thinking," he says, I "advertising and selling are going to I j. I ay a tremendous part in the coming boom. Your sales department should be drilled into a 'prosperity psychol-l ? ogy.' The minute the low point of a| depression is reached and the turn towards better times comes, I become bullish on advertising. This bullish-1' ness develops into a white heat as bus- j iness reaches the normal line. It is in the normal zone that all the construct ive forces of your organization should work and work in harmony." Mr. Babson further urges that bus iness men consider these important factors: Credits should be kept in order at all times. As prosperity pro- j ceeds there will be increasing short- , ages of skilled workers and execu tives; so investment in your person nel now should pay handsome divi-l dends. Doing business in the prosper- ' ous days ahead without sound account ing and finance methods would be like ^ fighting a fire with gasoline. If you must borrow, at least be free from . debt one day of each year. Practical research in your business may mean 1 the difference between profits and ' just breaking even. "Strange as this may sound, less than 10 per cent of the business men of the United States actually pulled profits from the great 1929 boom! Remember this:" warns Mr. Babson, "Whereas depression hits everybody, , prosperity is always selective. Profit tickets are not passed out to all that enter the Big Tent of good times. In a period of business expansion you must work out just as hard to assure profits as in a period of depression you must work out to avert losses. "Only four times during my 35 years of studying business conditions has the Babson chart, on which I have spent over a million dollars in re search, crossed the "normal line' on its way upward. The first of these was m 1902-12, the second in 1915, ' and the third was 14 years ago, in 1922. The fourth has just occurred. "At the start of this impending boom," he says in conclusion, "you all have a new set of books to open. This is the time when everybody starts from scratch but some only scratch. The way to eliminate competition is not to meet it but to keep ahead of it." Credit Creep Names JacksonSecretary Wayne Native Succeeds Galloway as Officer of Greenville Organiza tion Greenville, Dec^ 30.?J. R. Jack son, native of Wayne County, was named ?etretary-treasurer of the Greenville Production Credit Asso ciation to succeed the late J. C. Gal loway at a meeting of the board of director* of that organisation today. Jackson has had 12 years' experi ence 3k the banking business. He has been employed by the Produc tion Credit Corporation of Columbia, S. C., for the past three yean. He has made his home in Greenville for the past two years. J. H. Hmrdison of Snow Hill was elected director to succeed N. F. Palmer of Hookerton, who died re cently. The Greenville Production Credit Association leaned to farmers in Pitt and Greene- counties during the year 1936 $2tt*000 for the produc tion of crop*. Dr. Paul Fitzgerald of GreentiBe is president ox the imoriitton. WALTS8 HENDERSON PASSES Henderson.?Funeral services for Walter Henderson, prominent tobac conist <& JhtXOB&b and Henderson, will be Ibii Wedneeiay afternoon at at the home of his niece, Mrs. Dorsey TWees, of-Henderson. Services will be i& charge of Rev. B. W. Hughes, pastor <rf Holy Innocents Eniscooal Ckvdt Vr. Header son died Toeed^ afternoon in Maria Par I ; , , . Two Prisoners Flee Pitt Jail Adams, The Convicted Fleecer, and Marsh burn Vanish Before Dawn Greenville, Dec. 30. ? Two white prisoners, each of whom was being held on robbery charges, escaped from the county jail shortly before daybreak this morning, and no trace had been found of them late this aft ernoon. James M. Adams, convicted at the last term of Superior Court nere on charges of participating in a ruse whereby J. E. Pinkham, Beaufort county farmer, was robbed of more than $400, was one of the escapees. He was being held in jail pending an appeal to the North Carolina Su preme Court The defendant had been unable to post the required bond pending the appeal. Randolph Marshburn, one of the three men being held for trial on :harges of robbing the Turnage Mer cantile Store in Farnmlle, was the other to make hie escape. He was being held for trial in Superior Court and his case was scheduled to have been tried Thursday. Officers quoted Marshburn as admitting his guilt following his arrest for the Farmville robbery. The sheriff's office said the pair escaped by tearing up the concrete floor in the toilet of their cell and then sawing the bars in the second story window and leaping to a garage and then to the ground. The time of the escape was set at about 5 o'clock this morning. No Sweeping Job Changes at First, Hoey Promises To Make Announce ments Immediately; Is Finishing Inaugural Address Shelby, Dec. 29.?There will be no wholesale changes made in the per sonnel of State departments when Clyde R. Hoey becomes Governor on January 7, the Governor-elect said here today. "Very few appointments will be made when I first go in," said Mr. Hoey.f The first to be announced, probably on inauguration day, will be his private secretary, a post expected to be filled by Robert L. Thompson, of Raleigh, which undoubtedly will include Miss Mamie Turner, executive clerk for six administrations. Major engagements have been post pond by the Governor-elect until Sat urday or Monday, while he completes his inaugural address. -He expected to finish .a tentative draft of the speech late tonight, after two? days of writing and dictation. ?% * On Wednesday night he will be the honor guest at a dinner party given by the 6oey Bible Class of the Cen tral Methodist - Church, a group of men he has taught for over 50 years. On New Year's Eve, former Govern or 0. Max Gardner, Mrs. Hoey's brother, and Mrs. Gardner will hold open house in honor of the Hoeys. Most of the visitors to the Govern or-elect's office today were job-hunt , ers or their friends. On Monday Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, presented to Mr. Hoey figures on the estimated costs and probable dates on which the free text books system, advocated dur ing his primary campaign, can be es tablished. The Governor-elect will make recommendations on the sub ject in his message, immediate appointments, Mr. Hoej While he is considering a list ol said today, "I don't intend to make any wholesale changes until I get ir and get a chance to look around." Reemphaairing his campaign as sertion that no one has been prom ised a job in his administration, he de clared that each office would be in vestfgsted and appointments made oi merit ATTEND WEDDING A number of relatives and friend attended the wedding of Miss Bett; Spencer and Mr. Sam D. Bandy, s ! ??board. Saturday morning, a ttoUod r* Mr. Bandy, sen of Mr. and Mrs. J priBdpd 0< 4 *:1 ? Negroes Killed In Pitt Canty Two Murders Lead Hol iday Violations; Two Officers Injured Greenville, Dec. 29.?Two murders, one inside the city and the other in Ayden township, a number of auto mobile wrecks and* several arrests for drunkeness were reported in this sec tion during the holidays. Booker T. Andrews, Negro, was held on a charge of murder following a preliminary hearing in City Court Monday morning. The Negro was de nied bond and will be held in the County jail until the case is called in Superior Court, probably some time during this week. He is alleged to have shot his brother following an argument over their automobile. Po lice said he bred five shots into his brother's body. Andrews was quoted as admitting the slaying. Charlie Evans, Negro, is being held in jail without bond on a charge of shooting Eddie Jones, another Negro. Jones was shot in the leg and bled to death. Coroner A. A. Ellwanger de clared. Evans is said to have confess ed the crime. Highway patrolmen reported a num ber of accidents, but said that no se rious injuries were sustained, although the wrecks resulted in heavy proper ty damage. Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst suffered painful injuries and had to have sev eral stitches taken as a result of an automobile accident Saturday night at Cox Mill Cross Roads when a car is alleged to have sped from a side road without stopping, running info the car occupied by the Sheriff. The car which ran into Sheriff Whitehurst was said to have been occupied by Lehman Modlin, Beaufort County white man and a girl friend whom he was teaching to drive. They were or dered to appear in County Court here next Tuesday morning. Sheriff Whitehurst, who was injured about the head, said the couple were appar ently drinking. Another Pitt County officer, Con stable Herbert Adam-., of Swift Creek Township, was injured during the hol idays. He was said by the Sheriff's office here to have been shot in the hip with a load o No. 4 shot when he went to serve a paper. John Exum, Negro, is being held on the charge. The constable's condition is considere ed serious, but not critical. He is con fined in the Greenville hospital. PROSPEROUS 1937 Raleigh, Dec. 31.?If motor cars are an index to prosperity, a Happy New Year is in sight for North Caro lina, motor vehicle division officials said yesterday. They predicted that the number of automobiles licensed for 1937 would set a new State record. Sales of tags, they said, are continuing well ahead of previous years. A total of 125,721 pairs of plates had been sold through yerierday, compared to 79,541 at the same time last year. The 550,065 persons who bought 1936 tags established a new mark at the time, breaking the previ ous record of 512,176 in 1930. Arrest faces motorists driving with old tags after today. ' CONTEST WINNERS DECIDED UPON \ ?? ? In a Christmas decoration contest, sponsored by the Garden Club, as sisted by the Woman's Club, Liter ary Club, Rotarians, Merry Matrons and the U. D. C., and judged by Mrs. R. A. Fountain, Jr., Mrs. J. M. Hor ton and Mrs. E. Bruce Beasley, Fountain, on Wednesday, December 23, the following contestants won the prizes given below: 1st prize, outdoor Christmas tree, $2, won by Mrs. T. E. Joyner; 2nd, Paul Scarlet climber rosee, by Mrs. G. M. Hoiden; 1st, indoor tree, $2, by Mrs. G. A. Rouse; 2nd, rose, by Mrs. D. E. Oglesby; 1st, best deco rated home, outside view, $2, by Mrs. J. I. Morgan; 2nd, rose, Mrs. W. A. McAdams; 1st prize, best windows, ; Miss Tabitha DeVisconti; 2nd, rose, Mrs. Alton W. Bobbitt; 1st prize, best store windows, f 2, by Roebuck's Grocery; 2nd prize, Du pree's Department Store. ' In justice to many other beauti '? -fully decorated homes and store win dows is issued the statement that " for various reasons they were not ' officially entered in the contest, and " so rwere not consireded by the judges " when dicisions were made. \ 1 The Garden Club committee ir charge of the contest was composed of Mrs. D. E. Oglesby, Km. John T, Thome and Mrs. B. S. Sheppard. ? ? : . j HPPING FOR CITY DELIVERY k' 4 'V* /'iC. .'"4 ? rl' '? r<?.' - t Postmaster B. O. Turnage report thai present receipts at the loca f. Post .Office now exceed the amouni e required by the government for dt; deHvefy. (Welcome 1 ' / I; > &utg <0ut, 39tto PeUsi Ring out, wild bells to the wild sky, The flying clouds, the frosty light; The New Year is dying in the night; Ring out. wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the new. Ring out a slowly dying cause, ? And ancient forms of party's strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, /With sweeter manners, purer laws. ? ? ? ? ?, ? Tennyson No Inaugural Invitations; 'All Welcome'! Says Hoey Arrangements Made to | Broadcast Elaborate I Ceremonies Jan. 7th Shelby, Dec. 30.?Don't wait for an invitation to Governor Clyde R. Hoey's inauguration. Just go. With a pile of requests for tick ets and inquiries about the cere monies on his desk, the Governor elect today issued a blanket invita tion to the people of North Carolina to attend the installation. Nearly everybody in Shelby intends to ac cept. ] Representative Ernest Gardner of j Cleveland County, chairman of the , House inaugural committee, ex- ( pects to leave here next Monday for { Raleigh, where he will attend a j luncheon meeting of legislative and local committees to complete in auguration arrangements Tuesday. Governor-elect Hoey and his fami lyly will arrive in the Capital Wed nesday, the day before the inaugu ration. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Hoey, , there will be Miss Isabel Hoey, who will live with her parents in the ( Executive Mansion, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey, Jr., of Canton, Mr. } and Mrs. Charles Hoey of Shelby and their two daughters, Elizabeth, 5, and Charlotte, 2. The Governor-elect and Mrs. Hoey have been invited to spend Wednes day night at the Mansion with re- , tiring Governor and Mrs. Ehringhaus. After two days and nights of writ- ^ ing and dictation, Mr. Hoey today had completed the first draft of his inaugural address, to be delivered Thursday morning. No tickets are necessary for the J inauguration exercises, to be held in ?' Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh at ] noon, and no invitations have been sent for the reception at the Execu tive Mansion Thursday night. Every body will be welcome. No invitations will be issued to the Inaugural Ball, Governor-elect Hoey added, but tickets may be se cured from Mrs. S. Brown Shepherd, Jr., of Raleigh, chairman of the ( Junior League committee sponsoring 1 the ball and will vedote the proceeds to its baby clinic. HOLIDAY SEASON OVER; SCHOOL RE OPENS MONDAY Activities will be resumed at the Farmville graded schools on Monday, ' January 4, the teachers being ex pected during the week end, after a j holiday period of twc weeks. With mid term exams over, pupils will return to their school rooms with lighter spirits than usual to take up work for the second semes ter. The holidays have been filled with much gaiety here and the constant boom and crackle of fireworks has 1 been sufficient this Christmas to > delight all the young hearts of the town. I - 1 ATTACK PROJECT Railroads have begun an attack on the Florida Canal from the Gulf to the Atlantic, asserting that the cost i will be nearer $866,000,000 than the [ estimated $162J?0,000 of the special t army board. Whether the project f will be completed, or not, depends iqk on Oongressional action, Luck): Customers Of Eannrille Firms The Turnage Co., and Farmville Furniture Co., Distribute Valua ble Prizes Xmas Eve The following customers of the Farmville Furniture Company were nade happy on Christmas Eve by winning the many desirable prizes, >ffered by this firm, prominent hroughout Eastern Carolina, during ;heir fall and early Winter sale: PRIZE WINNERS?FARMVILLE FURNITURE CO. Grand Prize ?1937 Tudor Ford? lim E. Owens, Fountain. 2nd?Free Trip to Florida?Pearl Sandlin, Verona. 3rd?5-Tube Philco Radio?V. N. [lanady, Swansboro. 4th?9x12 Velvet Rug?E. A. Wil iams, Farmville. 6th?45-piece Dinner Set?Bea ;rice Streeter, Farmville. 6th?Alladin Lamp?-Bessie Moore, f\yden. $10.00 in Trade?E. L. Jones, Walstonburg. $10.00 in Trade ? N. F. Palmer, Hookerton. . t Winning valuable prizes, given by rhe Turnage Co., Inc., widely known Farmville merchants on Christmas Eve were: ?RIZE WINNERS?THE TURNAGE COMPANY 1st Prize?1937 Chevrolet Coach? Russell G. Joyner. 2nd?$100 Allen Princess Copper Bearing Range?Peggy HarrelL 3rd?$80 Thornhill Wagon?Julius Harris. 4th?$46.35 Remington Automatic Shot Gun?L. R. Jones. 5th?$35.54 Sixty-two Piece Set Bavarian China?R. E. Belcher. 6th?$17.50 Five Gallon Athey's 100% Lead and Oil Paint ? C. P. Brady. 7th?$17 National Pressure Cook er?Jasper Lee Jones. 8th?$15.15 One-Half Ton Golden Crown 3-8-3 Fertilizer, Hade by Fannville Oil and Fertilizer Com pany?Mrs. Tom Dail. 9th?$9.00 Barrel Roller Champion Self-Rising Flour in Sacks ? J. K. Hedge peth. 10th?^$7.00 Barrel Matchless Self Rising Flour in Sacks?Reba Lee Strickland. 11th?$5.25 Ten-Cell Bond Flash light?S. B. Rouse, Jr. 12th ? $5.00 Pair Men's Dress Shoes?Witt's?Jimmie Gay. 18th?$6.00 Trade in Dry Goods Department?J. R. & S. T. Lewis. 14th ? $5.00 Trade in Hardware Department?B. H. Lovic. 15th?$6.00 Trade in Grocery De partment?Hattie Register. 16th?$5.00 Mule Collar ? M. A. Peed. 17th?$4.50 One-half bbl. Roller Champion Floor?Robert J. Joyner. 18th?$3.60 One-half bbl. Match less Flour?R. F. Tugwell. 19th ? $5.00 in Cash ? Thekaa The bicycle given away by Kemp's Barber Shop waa won tty. Joe E. Moore, Fumvil* R. F. D. * ? r vr ?. "* . * ' s - J ' V i ? ;kv ?. Greemillsibn Beaten, Robbed 6. L. Pleasant In Critic cal Condition After -Thugs Steal Taxi Greenville, Dec. 29.?G. L. (Lem) Pleasant,, local owner of a taxi cab ser vice, is in Pitt General Hospital, crit ically wounded and police forces are searching for two white men alleged to haVe beaten, robbed and shot him. The pair fled in the taxi, leaving their victim by the side of the road. The. automobile in which the pair fled was found abandoned in Dunn this morning and local police offi cers, including Chief George Clark, father-in-law of Pleasant, went to that city to take up the search. A car was stolen from Dunn this morning and officers said the couple evidently abandoned the taxi for another ve hicle. The pistol which was said to have been used by one of the men in shooting Pleasant was found in the car, it was reported here. Hospital attaches this afternoon re ported that the victim, while remain ing conscious, continued in a critical condition. The attack took place some time around 6 o'clock last night Pleasant was found on the Stokes Road about 9 o'clock by Rupert Beal, employe at the Greenville Hotel, and a girl com panion. Beal did not recognize the wounded man and rushed on to the filling sta tion, put his girl friend out and he and Rudolph Phillips returned to find Pleasant staggering along the road, from side to side. Although having been beaten over the head with what was thought to have been a hammer, and shot just over the right eye, Pleasant was con scious and told officers the circum stances. Beal quoted Pleasant as saying that a call came for a taxi at 7:10 o'clock and that his driver being out to sup per, he answered the call himself. He said he went to the Busy Bee Cafe, picked up two white men, who looked to be from 20 to 28 years old and drove them out to the Old Stokes Road. The Chief said that Pleasant told him he was suddenly hit on the head by one of the young men, who was sitting on the back seat. The blow knocked him out for a moment, but regaining consciousness, Pleasant is said to have sesn a pistol in one of the men's hands and to have begged them not to shoot, agreeing to give them his money. The two white men then were said to have beaten him se verely over the head some more, rob bed him of a small amount of money he had in his pockets, taken his watch, shot hinf and left him, appar ently for dead. Pleasant was unable to say how long he had been left on the road when he was found, but was quoted as saying, by Mr. Beal, that it had been quite a good while. The taxi service operator had stag gered and crawled a good distance from the scene of the attack when he was found. He was blinded complete ly in both eyes. The shot entered just over his right eye and took a course down just below the ear. The wound from the shot was not considered as serious as the blows from which his head was said to have been crushed severely. Pleaslnt was brought to the hospit al and police officers notified immed iately. A thorough search for the two attackers was started and con tinued throughout the night and on through the day. Peace officers from all departments joined in the search and officials in all nearby places were advised to be on the watch for the pair in the stolen automobile. The attack took place on the Old Stokes Road, just across the railroad tracks. Officers who went to the scene said they found Pleasant's hat and fountain pen. They also said there were signs of a struggle. No arrests have been reported by officers at a late hour tonight. Fatal Wreck Survivor Released by Hospital Greenville, Dec. 29.?Miss Alma Lee, teacher in the Greenville City schools, who was injured in the wreck on November 15 in which Dr. Marion F. Davis and Charles Heber Forbes and a Negro^chauffSur, 4H of this city, were killed1 near Morehead City, was released froin iPItt General Hos pital Sunday afternoon. Miss LucieUe Norton, her compan ion in the wreck, is still confined in the hospital. Miss Lee has vone to visit her sister, Mrs.: Dan Piggott in New Bent, after which she will re turn, to her home in Se'ma. Miss Lee and Miss Norton were the sole sur vivor* of the wreck. , ; . fllgll|g| gf ::i,r A/y.v Drafting Model measure For Control of Tobacco A ft* -ft A M . . Agricultural Adntuiig tratkm and Growers Meet to Plan for Prob able Compact Washington, Dec. 29.?A model in terstate tobacco compact bill, provid- 1 ing for flexible Control and State pen alties or non-compliance, was drafted here today by representative* of the growers and the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration. Ben W. Kilgore, Jr., of Louisville, ? Ky., secretary of the Kentucky Farm > Bureau, said the .bill expressed the principles of State tobacco compact legislation agreed upon yesterday by a grower's steering committee. f Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennes see and Virginia must effect a com pact for control of hurley and dark fired tobacco. For flue-cpred crop control, there must be a compact am ong North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Of these states, only Virginia now has adopted the necessary legislation, Kilgore said the bill would be submit ted Thursday to the Kentucky legisla ture. The compacts must be effected by May 1, he said, to control the 1937 crop. The Kentuckian described the Dili drafted here as following the general outline of the Virginia tobacco com pact act and paid revisions agreed up on by his committee would not call for amendments to the Virginia law. Control of tobacco production by types through interstate compacts, as provided for in the 1936 federal act, would be authorized by the bill. This control, based on State quotas to be fixed by agreements between State commissions after compacts are sign ed, would be aciininistered by State tobacco commissions. The State commission, working through County committees and Coun ty agents and in cooperation with oth er State commissions, would fix a quota for each producer based on 1933-34-35 acreage and production records available through the AAA. Each producer would be entitled to market tobacco up to the amount of his quota or his crop harvested, "whichever is smallest." The com mission would be authorized to issue marketing certificates up tc> the am ount of Individual quotas, however, and provide for transfer of these cer tificates by regulation. Sale of tobacco by anyone except the owner, or without accompanying certificates obtained by the buyers and handlers, would be forbidden. Vi olations would be punished by forfei ture of three times the value of to bacco sold unlawfully, recoverable by the State in civil suits. Producers who planted more than their quota acreage would be liable to penalties of $50 an acre on the excess. Complete Signisg Application For Benefit Payments Total of 3,050 Individual Contracts Signed At County Agent's Office During December Greenville, Dec. 30.?R. R. Bonnett, Pitt county agent announced today that farmers in all townships had completed signing applications for benefit payments under the Soil Con servation program and the forms were being sent to Raleigh. The task, which was started two weeks before Christmas, was com pleted only this week. A total of 3,- ~ 050 individual contracts was signed. It was estimated an average of three tenants signed the work sheets with the landlord. The old Tucker building in which the agent's office is located was crowded by farmers, landlords and tenants, during the entire time the work sheets were being (jrigjaed. Already a number OfT-the con tracts have been sent tp . Raleigh and the office |befe will' spend the rest of the week in preparing and transmitting the remainder to state headquarters. \ \ W h tr CHRISTMAS FINDS ROSES HERE ?, Warm and balmy days have pre vailed throughout the holidays with Christmas being much like a spring day, sunny and pleasant The tot White Christmas of t many seasons was experienced here last sear, when saar and ice covered , the ground, this year, rosea, haw . thorne and several other shrubs were ^ J^SS^dn the Florida-like weather.
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