R. H. Knott, Veteran
Warehouseman, Grover
R Webb, John N.
Fountain And Jack
Moye Again Form
Powerful Combination
For Sales Service
A prominent figure in the promotion
of the Farmville tobacco market
since coming to Farmville m 1912, R.
H. Knott has, by his superior knowledge
of tobacco and sales managv"ment,
contributed greatly towards
winning for the market the worldwide
recognition it now enjoys and
has seen his ambition of the market
developing into the livest, most progressive
and dependable market in
the C&rolinas brought to fruition.
Mr. Knott, personable and affable
in his manner, has hosts of friends
also on the Kentucky market, where
he is connected with the warehouse
business.
Grover H. Webb, an experienced
and successful warehouseman, has
been an associate member of Knott's
warehouse firm for several years. His
reputation for integrity has grown
with the* years and he is widely acquainted
in tobacco circles where he
is recognised as one of the leading
warehousemen of the Belt.
Bill Sheldon of Buffalo Springs,
Va., who made many friends on this
market last year, will do the auctioneering,
assisted by Wyatt Tucker.
- Combining his business efficiency
and years of experience as warehouseman
again this season with that of
Mr. Knott and the-other partner, G.
H. Webb, will be John N. Fountain.
Mr. Fountain, well known for his genial
manner and straightforward dealings,
is widely acquainted, which, with
a sincere concern, has had a great influence
on the expansion of Knott's
warehouse and the Farmville market.
Jack Moye, who has had years of
experience and rendered exceptional
service on the Greenville, Wilson and
Farmville markets, is again associated
with this firm and will give a
cordial hand to old friends at Knott's
again this year.
The customers of Knott's warehouse
and the Farmville market as a
whole, recognize the initiative and
ability of these man and the market
has been enhanced by their association
from the beginning. They are
seasoned and able warehousemen with
many friends • and valuable contacts
among the farmers of this territory.
R. H. KNOfT
They form a firm of popular tobacconists
who work -f^fchfully to satisfy
their customers with good sales,
and. for the advancement of the market
as a whole.
This tobacco sales firm operates
two modern warehouses; Knott's No. 1
is on the same site on Wilson street,
where R. H. Knott launched out in
the leaf seHing industry 33 years ago;
the other, which covers an acre and a
quarter, is situated on South Main
street near the Norfolk- Southern railroad.
Large and competent sales and
office forces have been assembled by
the management, who, well chosen in
the beginning, have served long and
faithfully at their respective posts,
and from the time a tobacco grower
drives into Knott's warehouse until
he receives his check, he finds a
friendly courtesy accompanying every
phase of the operation connected with
his sale.
Members of the clerical force include:
Earl Trevathan, bookkeeper;
Mrs. Curtis Flanagan, pay-off bookkeeper;
Mr. Kilpatrick and H. R. Acton,
book men; Roy Vandifoid, floor
manager for No. 1; Willis Gray Allen,
floot manager for No. 2; Curtis
Flanagan, in charge of weighing;
Sam Lynn, ticket market.
LEGITIMATE ACQUISITION
A schoolteacher tells about a little
boy whose cost was so difficult to
fasten that she went to his assistance.
As she tugged at the hook,
she said, "Did your mother hook this
[•oat for you?"
"No," was the reply, "she bought
it."
GROVER H. WEBB
DDT To Be Offered
For Civilian Needs
Limited supplies of the wonder insecticide
DOT Will be available for
civilian use this month and during
the fall, believes J. Myron Maxwell,
Extension entomologist at State Col|
leg*.
He reports that a residual spray of
this material in kerobeae has proven
valuable for the control of flies in
dairies, and for control of mosquitoes
and bedbugs.
"This material can be badly misused
and the people greatly disappointed
in it unless they are properly advised
on the dangers and the effectiveness
of it," Maxwell pointed out.
He advised against the use of a
small hand atomizing sprayer in applying
the material and suggested a
three-gallon type garden pressure
sprayer so as to apply the solution to__
the walls in small droplets.
"Care must be exercised in using
DDT to prevent the operator from
breathing the DDT mist or getting
the oil solution on the skin," Marwall
warned "DDT can result in killing
many beneficial insects which may
leave us in worse condition than before
the discovery of DDT."
Tar Heel Labor Used In
Making Atomic Bomb
Shelby, Aug. 16.—Dr. J. S. Dorton,
War Manpower Commissioner for
North Carolina, said here today that
labor demands of the government's
atomic bomb development had drained
thousands of workers from the
State.
Some parts for the terrifying weapon,
he added, were made in plants
of the State.
Under the "Now it can be told"
heading, he disclosed that he had re
JOHN N. FOUNTAIN
eeived many complaint* from North
Carolina industries against the assignment
of bo many an tad women
to the Manhattan Project.
Neither the manufacturers nor his
office, of course, knew what the
Manhattan Project was, he said. Until
President Truman disclosed the
secret of the bomb production yesterday.
AID FOR GIRLS
- Washington, Aug. 12.—Bernard M.
Baruch wont have to play Santa
Claus to stranded government girls
after the war.
The government has taken special
precautions to see that the girls have
at least the price of a railroad ticket
when their {jobr end.
In 1918, Baruch, financier and elder
statesman, financed a trip home for
hundreds of hapless stenographers
and clerks who were moping about
Union Station without even the price
of a coach ticket.
A high Civil Service official said
tonight that, for a long time, a corps
of specialists has been preparing girls
for peace, the end of their jobs, and
the trip home. f • >
Personnel consultants have singled
out the misfits—the ones likely to
blow their lsst paycheck in celebrations—«nd
sent them home in advance.
They also have done some
long-range planning for post V-J Day
evacuations.
Hie official pointed out that War
Bond campaigns Also have helped.
Even one bond may mean the difference
between a stranded girl and one
who will be able to pay her own way
home, he said.
Dr. W. W. Garner, head of the
Division of Tobacco Investigations in
the USDA, has retired after 37 years
of service. *
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