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PITT CO0NTY.WOTR CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 19J8 NCMBEB THIRTT-ONE
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New Pitt Commissioners
Begin Two-Year Term
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Name Williams Chair
man; Coward Retained
at Auditor.
Greenville ? The old Board of I
County Commissioners went out of I
office at noon Monday, hut it was two I
hours later before the new board of-l
fkially took office, leaving the coun-l
ty without any government body fori
two hours.
J. N. Williams was unanimously I
chosen chairman of the new board. I
G. H. Pittman was elected vice-chair-1
man. The finance committee will be i
composed of Commissioners House !
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and Jolly and the county home com-1
mittee, Porter and Pittman. .
The post of county attorney went I
to SL O. Worthington, who received!
three votes against two votes for!
Arthur B. Corey. Mr. Worthington!
will succeed F. C. Harding.
J. H. Coward was re-elected county j
auditor and tax. supervisor. Miss I
Rosa Exum and Miss Sammye Lang-j
ley, present employees of the office,!
were reappointed. H. L. Andrews
was reappointed county tax collector, J
and C. P. Pieree was named deputy
oeOhctor.
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? Member J1 Ul? 010 WWWPHH
I mirtoners passed a resolution as one I
I of their last official acts. The resolu
I tion congratulated the citizens of Pitt
I county in their choice of new mem
I bent of the board, thanked all elected
I officers for their cooperation, ex- I
I pressed appreciation to the various I
? appointive officers and their assist- I
I ante for their work, commended the I
? ABC board and thanked the people [I
I of the county for their "interest in I
I us and their splendid cooperation atjl
I all times in helping us as we have I
I t^Wto serve."
members are David House,|l
I of Simpson, and G. H. Pittman of I
I boari-besides Mr. House, who did not I
I ' bar* opposition in the primary, are: I
I pshj|rk of Ayden, Walter Cherry of I
Groanvilie. and B. M. Lewis of Farm- I
I I
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^ Several Pitt county officers who I
were re-elected for another term be- I
I their new terms of office today. I
1H^g,ipehided: Clerk of Court J. I
Freak Harrington, Teasurer J. Vance I
Perkins, Coroner A. A. Ellwanger, I
Judge Dink James, and Solicitor I
Cnariea Whedbee. J. Knott proctor I
sheriff. He was named to fJD the I
unexpired term of ?& A. Whitehurst I
The resolution panned by the Board I
II {OBowb: 11
1 We would be i&dwd un
g?aCJ. if., we should fail t*-flank
as by Senator A. B. Corey in mat
ters pertaining to disabled World War
veterans.
as*fae thank Mr. R. W. Twine, ?B|h
erintendent in eharge of county
buildings and grounds, for his tre
mendous savings to the county and
his devotion to the numerous tasks
he has been called on to perform.
"We are proud of our County
Home and the improvements that
have been made there. The county
owes a debt of gratitude tu t^e gen
ial, capable and tireless superinten
dent, Mr. D. C. Wilson, and lb*, Rosa
Taylor, the matron, for the moet ex
cellent manner in which they have
handled their very difficult tasks.
"We certainly cannot forget the
most loyal services of Mr. Grover
Leggett, our efficient jailor, There
haft been a grat transformation in the
jail problem. We must give due
erwfit to Mr. Leggett and his co-ope
ration with Mr. Coward and the
Board for improvements in this de
partment.
? Trr- ?AAmmaTw)
mu: ne CJ>^CUOU/
Pitt county's A- B. C. Board, Chair
man Chas. O'H. Home, Mr. J. B.
Harvey and Mr. C. A. Tyson, and
their helpers for the splendid spirit
of cooperation they have shown to
the Commissioners. Theirs is no easy
task. They have to |b? best of their
ability given to the county what its
citizens voted for, via: "Control or
sale of spirituous liquors. -
"They have done a spelndid job and
should have the commendation of aH
the citizens. They make no pretense
of having solved the problem but they
have given to the county what an
overwhelming public sentiment asked
for. May they redouble their efforts
to do their beet to control this demon.
"Sixth: We thank all good dtisens
aH over the county for their interest
filifas and their splendid cooperation
at all limes in helping us as-we have
tried to serve. May all good citizens
continue to show more interest in
county government to the end that
democracy may live, and that it can
be free from corruption and graft
Only by such intelligent interest shall
we be able to pass on to posterity
such s government as will assure to
them the. rights of liberty, property
and the pursuit of happiness,
"We-should thank God that we. live
under such a democracy. May we
preserve and keep it in order that
it can continue to serve us,"
PitTTwister Wrecks
Three Farm Buildings
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Greenville, Dec. 6, ? Throe tobac
old Meekins Moye farm, a mile uigfafc.
A dwelling house on the farm pert
ly w?? unroofed by the severe wind :
strayed barns killed several hogs in
PflM^^pen. The owners salvaged'
SISs
fore election and thh people after the
Up Cash Basis
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Roosevelt Says He Is
Against Further Bor
rowing For Defense
Expansion.
Washington, Dec. 6. ? President
Roosevelt disclosed today that he
favors financing' his new billion dol
lar national defense program on a
pay-as-you-go basis and/ suggested
additional taxation, as a mtans of ob
taining this objective.. He declined,
however, definitely to commit him?
self to such a cotfrse.
- At his first preaa conference af
ter returning .from Warm Springs,
Ga^ he said.he flatly opposes paying
for the expanded,- armament program
through additional borrowing. He
added that the program has not pro
ceeded beyond the study stage and
that no decision as to the apportion
ment of costs has been reached.
Because defense expenditures are
seldom self-liquidating, he said, he
firmly believes that such spending
must be paid for-from year to year.
Following the conference, the
White House stressed that Mr.
Roosevelt's remarks should not be
interpreted to mean that new taxes
are being considered as a means of
financing rearmament It also was
indicated that new taxes for this
purpose might be avoided, through re
ductions in other budget items.
Not Pa?p-l*ijning ?
Replying directly to recent criti
cism tjiat his proposal to arm the J
Western Hemisphere against foreign
aggression might be a mask for ad- j
ditional government pump-priming, |
the President said that the program
should not be construed as supple-f
menting the administration's efforts
tou bring about recovery and reduce
unemployment. I
The dissertion on defense came af
ter Mr. Roosevelt met with Ambassa
dors Hugh Wilson, William Bullitt
and William Phillips, assigned re-1
sportively to German, France and
Italy. He told newspapermen that
the meeting was merely continuation
of discussions which herbegan with
the envoys at Warm Springs,"
He spoke at length on government
finftTttfcp' in * COBTttHftli WftttMy |
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Sweden, where expenditures fall into
three categories those which cover I
routine spending for current workT
and are financed entirely by taxation;
the self-liquidating activities, such as I
the Boulder Dam construction In this
country; expenditures designed to in
crease the national income, where
much of the money spent is returned [
in some form. - . .
So far as armaments are concern
ed, some of the projects considered in]
the present program might well fall]
jntp the ae*f-liquidating category, he
said, thus indicating that new taxes ]
might not be necessary. I- -g.
His remarks were prompted by $
question whether it was contemplate
ed that the administration's arms ex
out of current revenues.
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more ways than one. .
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l and more equitable f^vor^ble
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Greenville. ? County Agent R. R.
Bennett today announced plans for
conducting the tobacco referendum in
Pitt county Saturday, revealing the
voting places in the various town
m . v fW:
J The polls will be open from 7 a.
to 5:30 p. m. Poll holders have
been .selected from all the respective
township committees, as specified by
law. ,rV ?
AljLhough the anti-crop control com
mittee announced some time ago that
it would have representatives at each
of the voting places, it was not known
here whether the plan wouldbe car
ried out. ^
A 75 per cent majority is necessary
for -a favorable vote. 'Farmers will
[vote on whether they wish marketing
quotas set up for flue-cured tobacco.
; The vote will bring to a dose a
campaign, which has seen J. B. Hut
son, assistant AAA administrator,
come to Greenville and three other
phtces in the state, and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace delived an ad-j
dress a Kaieign.
Day and night forces have been
working at the county agent's office
for the past several weekf in- order
to complete the individual allotments
before Saturday so that each fanner
would know what his marketing quo
ta would be before he ballots on the i
question.
Voting places in the county are as
follows: Farmville, town hall; Swift
Creek, Stokes' store; Wintervflle,
town'hall; Chicod, Black Jack; Ayden,
high School building; Falkland,
Moore's filling station; Behroir high
school building; Carolina, Junior Cr
der hall; Greenville, court house;
Beaver Dam, Mack Smith's store;
Bethel, E. L. Mayo's office; Pactolus,
high school building; and Fountain,
high school building.
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A Conservation
I Message
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I From Miss Bettie Joyner
Would you go in your neighbor's
house and take his furniture to adorn
your own house or his clothes for
your personal/ use? Certainly* not I
When we wish for Christmas greens
to decorate for Christmas we should
remember a landowner's trees are
possessions of his just , as much as
his furniture or clothes. We have
no right to take them without per
mission. The common law recognizes!
the natural products of the soil as the
property of the landowner; but the
public has not yet quite abandoned
the pioneer id& that unfenced woods
and fields are public property to Be
used or abused at will. Not only*
does the country dweller fill hia^truek
with evergreens for the market from
his neighbor's land, but the well-to
do village and urban resident drives
out in the cotuitry and cvts. his tree
and other decorations from land the
owner of which he may never lvave!
seen, and that^ without so much as!
"by your leave."
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? Yearly it becomes naraeFTOnHHF
er to find berried holly trees any
Bwhere near- civilization. In fact, the
catin^jjfelttive measures, We
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a^^shouia not be pruned oftener than
SpayiCfr
Raleigh, Dec. 7. ^ Widespread
revision of the State's. public school
system, including' ?naolkiation of
state administrative boards, pay in
creases for more experienced teach
ers and addition of the 12th grade,
were recommended to Governor Hoey
and the legislature by a special stndy
commission yesterday.
The proposed changes will be made
at a time when the legislature will be
faee$''with a struggle to bring gen
eral fund appropriations within the
limits of general fond revenue.
The commission recommended that
salaries of. 'teachers who hold "A"
grade certificates and; have taught
nine years be raised J5 a month dur
ing 1989-1940 with an additional raise
of $5 a month during 1940-1941.
Cost $886,000 '
' State School Commission officials
estimated yesterday the cost of that
step for white teachers during the
twryears would be $7150,000 and for
I Negro teachers $138,000.
The proposed raises would increase
maximum pay of white teachers to
$128.75 a month for eight months
during the first year and to $183.T$j
a month for'eight months the second
That additional cost would increase
each year as more and more teachers
joined the group which haV taught
nine or more years. Even without'
those raises, the bill -for teachers'
salaries during the coming biennium
trill be $2,942,150 higherthanfor the,
current two years due to increments
already, in effect,
Major Recommendations.
The study commission, with Dr.
Julian Miller, editor of The Charlotte
Observer, as chairman, was autho
rised by the 1937. legislature and ap-,
pointed by Governor Hoey. In brief,
its major recommendations were:
That the ljth grade be added grad
ually and that it be in full effect Jn
all public schools by September, 1943.
School officials were unable yesterday
to estimate cost of that step, since it
will be taken gradually.
That the State administration set
up for schools be consolidated, with
the School Commission becoming an
advisory commission to the Board of
Education, which is. required by the
Constitution.
Ninth Month Optional.
That "for the present" then addi
tion of a ninth month to the school
tem should be. a- responsibility of
the local government units, not of the -
State. ?
That the industrial aHs and pre
vocational program be established on
the junior high: 'school level; that
more attention be given to. vocational
courses in schools and to the possi
bility of setting up .state-supported
jifriior colleges to give additional
higher education of a vocational niK
ture. ?
That the 1939 legislative, "what
ever else it may do," enact * program
of retirement im^e hv .all-toaahwu
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;he Reich had made no formal de
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mands and did .not intend to do *?
A similar attitude was- understood
to have been taken toward the recent
Italian clamor for recognition of he*
ties of developing mated trade.but
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who have served m many as 86 yean
and aa rapid inclusion id possible of
all teachers. ? Jj
That the age for cotapuleory School
attendance be raised from 14 to ft
and-' that the attendance law be ea
forced.
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Farmer* Will Vote s #
- On Quotas Satarday
Cotton and flue-cured tobacco fay*
m?rt Will gtt to the poUs Saturday,
December 10, to decide whether they
The Voting will be by secret ballot, in
community polling places set up by
County JiXk Cfunmjtteefi, snd-sep
arate ballots will be cast for eecfc|
crop.
It will.be nation-wide referenda and
the total vote of fanners in all state*
will determine whether the market
ing qoutas will be in effect next year.
A two-thirds majority of approval is
required for the quotas to become ef-:f
fective.
All growers of flue-cured tobacco,
in 1988. jabd all producere of cotton
with , a staple length of less than 11-2
inches this year are eligible to vote,
Each grower will have only one vote^
even though he operates two or moid j
farms.
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In explanation or we reierenuu, n.
Y. Floyd; AAA executive officer at
State Qollege, said the secretary of j
agriculture is required under the 1938
Firm law to call for votes on. mar-j
keting quotas when the supply of
cotton, or tobacco, or both reaches a
cdrt|rin level. Such is the case now.
Marketing quotas are designed to
keep fupplis more closely in line with
demand; Floyd said. Quotas also
serve as a protection to farmers who
plant within their acreage allotments.
Without quotas producers who over
pl^nt their allotments may defeat the
efforts of those who try to adjust
the supply to the demand, he point
ed oqt.
v Cotton loans will not be available
unless marketing quotas are approv
ed, Floyd reported. "Farmers have
only? to remember that they can sell
ait much cotton and tobacco over a
period off-years with a program as
they can without a program; statis
tics prove this," the AAA officer-con
cluded.
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70 Per 'Ce^^;;':^
Flue-cured tobacco growers have
been allotted 764,000,000 pounds of
leaf under the 19S9 AAA program/
says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive of
ficer at State Colelge. North Caro
lina will receive approximately 70
per cent of thia amount if more than
two-thirds of the growers through
out the flue-cured area vote in favor
of quotas onDecomber 10. ?;t.? j
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Smaller
' The U. a Bureauof. Agricultural
Economics expects the 1980 Irish po
tato crop to total -about 810,000,000
bushela, a crop Smaller by ?M>00,000
bushels than that eMOa* ^ Jpfclf
- The eariy shopper often gets bar
gains^ but, more to the point, efti-ex^
erdsee first choice in selecting par*
theses. "3 ^Jr! :i
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Predict Law, Ifewgtreug
gram Is CaatAaMe.
Farm leaders are making a last
appeal for the controj^^y^
expect prices to slldf dowato ? Me
ra?&?s?K?%
Meetings JmveJjeen heldihrongh
out the tobacco growing sections, .of
mW^. io?;*yer*,wS? ^ tbe
interest of the control ^eppfem *>
be held in the. Bright ^af_^ft, Sat
urday, December 10.
- XT ittj^of the State extopaio.
department in- Raleigh, stated. tMt'"
"regulation in marketing is the best
w10 *et??<* ?*???*???
CO crop, or of any ottcr cui CTop,'a.
be warned farmers m meetings this
week that "the producers can grow
some 25 to SO per cent more tobacco
without building any more bams
over last year."
He told gatherings that ?w? have
an enviable jioritbrn In t$a fbie cured
tobacco farming in North Carolina at
present, but if there is itotontrol iro
gram next year other stateswSW
growing tobacco in large quantfliaS,
which' will for all time MWpu
centage of tobacco grown 'lit this
State."
Attention haa been brought to the
fact that the State hadJkut?
of the fine cured belt's tobacco in
the last two years with soil, conserva
tion program and good peyme^an*
when be farinmrs giva pther states
the opportunity of taking over men
of North Carolina's prestige It; wffl
be too late to dream of recovering
any part of it
The principal complaint of tha
farmers toward the! ,*enk jMRi
seems to be the transfer of aUotSMUt
cards.under the biih. KdaMR
state that this had been fi??u?*r
new rules so that no grower will ha
County Agent R. B. TrtnnsU baa
announced plans for conduct!ngthe
tobacco referendum in Pitf county
Saturday, revealing the voting places
in the various townships.' * ?
The polls will be open from 7 a.
m. to 5:30 p. m. here at the town
hall. Poll holders have, been ssieetad
froln the respective township commit- ?
tees, as specified by law.
The. anti-crop control committee c
has announced that it willhave rep- .
reaOntatives at each of 'the voting
Dlaces.
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A 76 per cent majority is nenMirr
for Rotable v3t%armeri will .
vote on whether they wiah npAwttut
quotas, aet up for ftae-ct?ed tofcaceo. ,
The vote w^W''* <|S a
come to Pitt county ami'three otlwr
dress to Raleigh. : "" V
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Working ?t the county agent's offie*
for the past several, weeks in ojMr
to complete the individual allotments
before Saturday so that each fanner .
Would know what his marketing quota
would be before he ballots^ oh thsf .
quest! ?
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1. When did the Spanish cfcrii irsr
! begin ?
2.: Is there * monkey oolokyin the
ftjH*S*tern Hiedephere?^ ',.^ ^ ^> !$> ?**??/
I 3. How much money did-John D.
Rockefeller give away?
ft 41 What is . meenfe vbjr China's " .
"scorched earth" policy? ?
I * Who mWm "Cactus &
| 7. v When ylow. Congress ^ convene? -
Lrithdd
: Did Canada rtjoct m< iftriitf ST:
I fAMmwt! tweuU fcmafcir tliA Tlmto*
redprocsi ,?Ta<26 trewy wiia w V9lw
ed States?
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