COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIBAY, AUGUST K IMS 1 L' 1 . . ' - I' ' ' ■ Peak Prices Paid Farm* erg Far Offerings Of Tips and-Loirs Described As Inferior Grade Thousand* of farmers with their familiaa treked to Farmville, one of the leading of the 16 market* of the Eastern Bright Tobacco Belt for the opening, Tuesday, and witnessed the exchange of 613,048 pounds of flavoured tied cigarette-type tobacco for the sum of $267,893.53, which was paid by the buyers at an .average of $43.70 per hundredweight, which resulted in one of the most satisfactory openings in the history of tobacco auction sales here. Breaks throughout the Belt were reported as large, the demand strong and prices pleasing to the farmers. Daily Figures. Wednesday's sale totaled 596,600 pounds with an avenge ranging equal to that of the day before. Sales figures en Thursday were recorded as 630,770 and prices the same. Supervisor of Sales R. A. Fields reports the week's poundage, through Thursday, as 1,839,418, receipts $803,667.54, an average of $43.69. Harvesting Problems. As Farm vine's 41st leaf-selling season got underway this week, activity here has been multiplied a hundredfold and < the streets have taken on a carnival air as the farmers and their families have thronged the streets daily in holiday attire and mood. These farmers met the scarcity of manpower in the community, occasioned by war demands, with an almost superhuman effort this spring and summer and have been forced to pay almost double the cost of housing of last season's crop. With an early setting and growing season, resulting from the , unprecedented warm weather in March and April, the farmers were rushed to take care of their crops in the beginning and were faced with additional problems and obstacles, which have made the 1945 crop the most expensive and troublesome of any ever grown in this section. ginning of the housing period this J year and continued throughout with the ripening of the leaf proceeding at & rapid rate and growers were compelled to toil day and night Despite their efforts, a large amount of leaf was ruined in the fields due to lack of labor and curing barn space. Another unprecedented difficulty ariose from the acute shortage of tobacco sticks and farmers were forced to go into the woods, fell trees and hew out sticks throughout the night after laboring in the fields all day. So prices have to be good this season to please tiie tobacco farmer. Curing of the weed has been practically over in this area for two weeks and with one week used mostly in catching his breath, the fanner has spent the other m preparing the weed for market. Thus the blocked > sales prevailing on all Eastern Belt markets this week. The 1944 crop was late and the offering on the opening sale was the lightest in yean and it will be ~ recalled that light sales continued throughout the first two weeks flrf the season. Price Near Ceiling. Mark# officials of the Belt reported that the qufclity of tobacco offered Tuesday was regarded generally as, inferior to that offered during the past several yean. The price held near the $44-50 ceiling, however, with fM being^the practical top on most markets. As on the Border Belt, which opened August 1, there was very little differential in price between common and good grades. The cettiag this year is $1 higher than in 1M4. Ceilings apply only to the iwssimsl average a particular buyer pays for the tobacco. Thus the eeUing may be exceeded e* individual sales, bat season sales as a whole must come within the 44H-cent range. Steady to slightly higher prices providing a first sale evwry day tor warehouse Unas, •Honk's and *8, is one which continues to [ operate to the general satisfaction of i patrons of this market, since they are assured of a sale every day. Comply-* ins with the 3% hour sale-every-day rule, made general in this Belt, sales begin at 9.-00 o'clock and end at 12:30. Holding die record of topping the market average in the Eastern Bright Belt last season, the Farmville warehousemen are putting foit'i every effort to hold this position and to make the 1946 tobacco Boaaoti the most successful in the history of the market COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN AUGUST 30 Pitt County schools will open for the 1945-46 term on Thursday, August 30, the County Board of Education ordered at its recent meeting. The facilities for several county schools are not yet Completed. The Board of Education is having considerable difficulty in finding enough teachers to fill all the vacancies. Up to date, there are about 26 vacancies in the county. It is hoped that all Pitt County teachers who are not yet employed and who desire to teach this year will file their application immediately. The supply of welltrained teachers has reached a new low this year and indications now are that a goodly number of. positions will have to be filled with teachers holding non-standard certificates and even these teachers are. scarce. Several changes in county principalshipe have occurred since school closed. J. T. Biggers, who was formerly principal at Grifton, goes to Winterville to replace N. G. Raynor, who resigned to go in private business. William Futrell of Rich Square replaces Biggers at Grifton. Lessie R. Murray will be principal at Belvoir to succeed W. E. .Cain, who resigned to accept a position with C. H. Edwards Hardware Company of Greenville. R. C. Polk, formerly a principal at Stokes, and Mrs. Herman Baker at Farmville, formerly a teacher in the Snow Hill schools, will" be principal at Fountain. The principals of the other schools in the oounty and who are returning to their same positions are: Falkland, Mrs. Ellen Lewis Carroll; Bethel, W. C. Latham; Grimesland, M. L. Basnight; Chicod, Newman Lewis; Ayden, E. F. Johnson; Arthur, Paul J. Clark, and Farmville, J. H. Moore. SERVICE MEN'S • CENTER • Visiting Service Men at the Center during the past week were: Famrw ville, T/Sgt, James T. Lang, Page Field, Ft Myers, Fla.; Albert Q. Roebuck, Jr., HX2/c, U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. Cherry Point, Pfc. Dale B. Martin. Knightsville, Indiana; Cpl. Frank Demyanovich, Lincoln Pailc, Mich.; Cpl. Jimmie Giatos, Baltimore, Md.; Cpl. Jerry A. Peck, Lake Placid, N. Y. * Camp Lejeune, Pfc. Hubert L. I'hipps, Baltimore, Md.; Cpl. Theodore C. Hood^Akron, Oh\o; Sgt. Dave L. leaner, Clyde, Texaa; John L. Thom.ten, A-8, U.S. Naval Hospital Staff, Warren ton, Va., guest of Mrs. Ethel Thornton; Pfc. John R. A. Byrnes, New York City. , Greenville 'Air Base, Cpl. Charles EL Sholdes, Cleveland, Ohio, guest of Miss Tabitha M. DeVisconti. Donations were tomatoes, figs, gTepes, flowers from Mrs. Ben Lewis* tomatoes, use of percolator, Mrs. B. Streeter Sheppard; potato salad, doughnuts, Mrs. H. S. Hatem; toll ho«se cookies, salted nuts, Mn. Louise Harris; apples, Mrs. Redden. Lewis; milk, Mrs. B. A. Norman; one dollar, Mrs. Frank Davis, Jr. Deviled eggs, meat sandwiches, cheese rehsh sandwiches, tea and coffee were also served. LOCAL CENTER TO REMAIN OPEN AS LONC4IS NEED FOR ITS 8ERVICK8 FELT Many people feem to think because the Japs have surrendered that the Service. Men's Center will soon close. y ai tii. sugar jCdiuiy Due To Continue Nolncreaw In Sopply in Prospect Until Next Year; Reasons Outlined Washington, Aug. 21 .—Don't h>ok for more ngv this year. A spokesman for the Agriculture Department gives this pitftan: Americans now receive about 73 pounds of sugar a year, each. It wUl remain lib* that—no increase—way past Christmas. (Before the war Americans got about 100 pounds yearly, each.J The situation iant likely to improve until the latter half of 1946, even though Army requirements art cut way down. The reason:: The general lack of sugar in the world. The present world supply has to go around with far less sugar produced than before the war. The Japanese let the Philippine sugar fields go to seed. They have to be re-established. Those islands were gnat producers. France grew sugar. During the war its machinery deterioated. It didn't have labor. These are examples of the general problem of sweetening the world's cup with less sugar. Here is something else: Before the war Americans cons sumed about 6,800,000 tons of sugar yearly. Now, Including the sugar taken by the armed services, America's consumption is 6,200,000. Of that the Army takes 1,100,000 tons." That leaves civilians 6,100,000 tons. As noted, they got 6,800,000 before the war. And the population is larger than it was four yean ago. The Army has been using about 280,000 to 300,000 tons every three months. Suppose it cat that in half in the last three months of IMS and the other half was givvn to civilian*, r That would mean only 140,000 to 150,000 tons for civilians in those three months or—about 2K pounds more per civilian. ' We grow in this country about 2,000,000 tans of sug«r from cans and sugar beets yearly. This yew's crop has been almost all harvestedf Cuba, a great supplier of this country, hoped to have a crop of 4,800,000 tons. But the worst drought in 87 yean wiped out 900,000 tons. We know how much the Cuban crop wil| be because it has been harvested. It is, instead of the hoped for 4,800,000 tons, only 3,900,000 tons. • Helping out, of course, will be sugar from American - grown sugar beets, and sugar from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. But then the liberated, countries need sugar. So do countries like Canada and England.; Here just isn't enough to go around'nnd give us all we had before. Seed Small Grain Crop At Right Time Plan to pi ant small grain on time or prepare to accept much lower yields per acre because of the delay in planting, say Extension agromomists at State College. They point to tfcA three-year records of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Piedmont Test Kmto, States ville, to show that a delay of 30 to 46 days in plSntfag will on the average bring reductions in yield varying, from 28 to 67 per cent . -Oats planted on November 16 yielded 26.4 bushels per acre for the threeyear period as compared with 61,2 bushels when planted on October 1. There Was a gain of S4.8 bdshels per sere for 46 days difference In plant-, fog. When the same test was made for barley, the difference w*s 13.6 bashels per acre. Late planting cut the yield 33 per cant With wheat the November 16 pliant* mg produced 18.1 bushels as compared with 28.2 bushel* per acre for the October .16 planting. , • ,||| The agronomists call special atK !!___ T' 1L. mm i ^ D-nKor ^ Iff*; I0H% i\lilllMir) - 1 pf|Qn MarfSoon New Peacetime Goods to Be iScM At or Near) 1942 Price Leveln .Washington, Aug. 2*.—New Urea, .nylon stockings. now radios. The government.dropped food news about all three into American lava Wednesday. Government official* were careful not to ip& of an end to rationing, but they aald motorists might get a break on new tirss within #0 days. They predicted production might jump 100 per ecnt in the next three month*. OPA officials said they thought they could hold moat of the new peacetime goods — when it readies the stores ^ain—at or near 1942 prices. Nylon stockings may be. back in circulation by Thanksgiviing, or at least by Christmas. The government has turned loeae its controls on nylon *nd rayon. It still haa a few details to work out about giving permission for making nylon hose. This should come qttickly. Plenty of Radios. WPB said 2% milium radios may be On the store shelves by Christmas. The reason: An 80 per cent cut in military orders for radar and radio. Rent ceilings are expected to disappear soon in certain places. For example: in areas where Army camps close to war plants shut down and people move away. OPA indicated meat points would be reduced, beginning next month. Agriculture Secretary Anderson already has said meat rationing would end soon. WPB said it would scrap its complicated network of controls over allocating materials and setting up prioirtiea by the end of September. * . Control Overboard. So—by October 1 "CMP'—the controlled materials plan — goes overboard. This was the government's control over steel, copper and aluminum. Also to be dropped will be the whole aeries of priority ratings— AA-1, AA-2, AA9, and AA-4. Replacing them will be a simpler system, much reduced. Producers for military requirements will get an "mm" rating. Then there will be a junior rating called "cc." The government told business men to build all the new factories, plants and additions they could. Yams and Hays Also Enjoyed Pine Recoveries, Crop Service Reports General crop growth in North Carolina during July was "almost miraculous," the Crop Reporting Service, of the State Department of Agriculture said Monday in its release on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and hays. After coming through a dry June, crop^ — particularly those m the western half of the State, were badly in need of rain. General rains started throughout the Slate early in July and lasted long enough to be excessive fn the Coastal Plain counties. Rainy days and wet fiieids prevented farmers from properly cultvating their crops, so that as July closed graas was becoming' a serious crop hasard. Although grassy peanut fields, excessive plant growth * in cotton, and rapid ripening of tobacco were detrimental, corn, hay crops, and pastures showed improvement during the month od excellent feed crops were' | Early Declares FDR •, Had Newspaper Plan Washington, Aug. 19. — Former Presidential Press Secretary Stephen T. Early Bald tonight that the late PreaMfent Roosevelt intended to publish a newspaper when he retired from the White House. "I often heard Jit. Roosevelt say that he wantei to start a paper after he left public office," Early said in an interview. "It waa to be a tabloid and would have no editorial pejje." He said that Mr. Roosevelt believed "an editorial page was unneces*"He believed that if 4s people were^fivm the facfs they could DttHHO UpCVI f: P UUiililP •'IDiHMll IH 1MKHH1 More Than Two Million Homes Planned For Three Years Following The War New York, Awg. 1«*—More than 2,100,080 persona will buiki homes within three" years after the war end*, making joto for more than 1,000,000 man, George W. Warnecke, president of one of the nation's largest real estate mortgage and survey companies, said today. "As soon as materials are released by tin government, more than 500,000 individuals or cotntrtnies an prepared to pot up houses in one year alone," Warnecke said. The building expert, head of his own company, set up the Navy's building contract division in INS and served, with the rank of lieutenant commander, as head of the division for one year. Materials Released He estimated that huge Army and Navy buildings supply stockpiles will be released as surplus .supplies to civilians contractors within two and one-half months after the war ends. The N»tian!s four largest household equipment companies told the; United Press that they will be ready to supply plumbing for all the homes within three months, after V-J Day. "The homes built after the war won't be modernist or made, of prefabricated or plastic materials," Warnecke said. "As head of a mortgage company, I feel feat any homes made of untried materials are a bad investtive builders seem leery too.? The building expert said that between 430,000 and 450,000 men will be needed to build homes during the first year of peace. Each $6,000 fiveroom home requires 1800 man hours to build, he pointed out. Labor Needed ' Besides the builders, approximately 1,000,000 workers will be needed by companies making household equipment and supplies, Warnecke said. Warnecke said that 750,000 homes will be built .during the second year after the war ends, and 860,000 during the third year. "After the first three years of building, about 750,000 homes and apartment units will be built each year," he said. "It's obvious that the reason for a boom for some time to come is that building has been virtually at a standstill for so many years." ■ * .CONFUSING INSTRUCTIONS In civilian air circles a "short" is a non-priority passeager who must be removed from a flight if a heavy priority passenger comes along. If possible, what is known as "protection" is given him. Arrangements are made to continue the journey by a later flight, by train, pony cart or whatever is available. Recently a young steward nesa, unfamiliar with flight vernacular, went to work for American Airlines. An hour out of Chicago she received by radio the following instructions: "Prepare to remove shorts at Detroit. No protection." For a while she was quite unhappy about it all.—Mania Winn in Chicago Tribune. Keen Competition For Broiler Growers North Carolina's broiler industry has shown rapid progress under the stimulus of war conditions and' the State now ranks sixth in the United States. Its probation is valued, at about 11 million dollars annually. Along with this development there are abort 76 processing plants employing about 660 people. ' The demand of the present broiler market has been increased by the buying of the armed services, tfee shipyards, and the transient population in areas near government activities. The broiler industry must meet keen competition after the war and Prof. Soy S. Dearstjme, head «f the Poultry Department at State Oolleg**, domes forward with some timely suggestions. p. Present needs call for maximum livability of, the chicks started, lower cost of production, and. high quality of the broilers offend for sale. The chicks must feather aaad grow rapidly, and they must possess good broiler quality. "As breeding enten very greatly into the production of such a chick, more breeding flocks for this specific purpose must be developed," Presbyterian, Christian and Baptist Chnrches Open For Special Service Following a "Sarest Hoar of Prayer" held Tueaday evening August 14. •t the Christian Church immediately after the broadcasting of Japan'* surrender, and another hali Wednaaday evening at Parkin. Hall, Farmville citiaena farther celebrated the rrsaatiim of hostilities la accordance with Pi mMhiI Truman'i proclamation by observing Sunday, August 19, as a day of prayer to God to "support and guide us into the paths at peace." TSe President stated further in his proclamation issued to the nation, Thursday, August 16: "I call upon the people ef the United States, of all faiths, to unite in offering their thanks to God for the victory we.have won, and in praying that He will support and guide us into the psthr of peace. "I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to . the memory of thoae who gave their lives to make possible our victory." ' With August being ohaerred here . as usual aa vacation month by a majority at the ministers, the various congregations assembled at the Presbyterian, Christian and Baptist Churches, the three worship centers open at the eleven o'clock hour, Sunday morning. Pastors of both the Preebyterian and Christian Churches were in their pulpits, but dneto Rev. Mr. Coatee, Presbyterian minister, being at the bedside of his father, who is ill st his home in Angler, at the time, it was impossible to obtain an excerpt of his message for publics, tion. Dr. W. C. Seed, Superintendent of the Kennedy Home, Kinston, brought the impraeaive message, appropriate for the day at the Baptist Church, choosing as the subject for his remarks, "The New Age." Rev. Mr. Maahbuin, of the Christian Church, chose as his subject, "The Day Dawns," and baaed hia "victory sermon" on the 12th verse of the 13th Chapter of Romans: "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand; let us therefore east off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light," and made an eloquent and stirring appeal for en awakening of the Church to the tremendous opportunities afforded by the dawning of a new era in the life of mankind Key. Mr. Hubburn said in put: "Time ia divided into day and night. Night has its twilight, darkness and dawn. Day, its sunriae, zenith and decline into runaet Paul uses this figure from nature to appeal to the Roman church to 'Awake out of sleep,' and match the glory of the day with 'work* of righteousness.' He probably had in mind the daikneas of paganism coming to an end. and the riae of the 'Son of Righteousness with healing: in His wings.' This figure is applicable to this 'Season.' The night of dreadful darkness, caused by war, is passing, the new day at peace ia at hand. The same mighty urge is upon us—to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. "The Night ia Par Spent — The night through which we have pawed is perhaps the darkest mankind has ever passed. It has. been Tilled with false propaganda, hate of the vilest kind, separation of loved ones, lonely hours for those at home and homesickness for those away, cries of the wounded, and tha closing of tte eyes in death of many millions. What a night of terror! It staggers the imagination 1 • But thank God, it ia far ■pent, and the day ia at hand.' "The Day Has Dawned—No, it it not yet sunriae! But we do begin to see the bright nays of light ascending heavenward, which is an w