North Carolina Newspapers

BOOST EVERY DAY! | L ~ ^ ~ " tolumb rftirrr-KiGHT fajuwum. pitt ooumty. nobth Carolina. friiuy, JULY is, ? ? - -M Growers Endorse Plan to Bolster Tobacco Exports Pitt county tobacco' growers Satur day voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to assess themselves 10 cents an acre to support Tobacco Associates in a? effort to find new export outlets for.tobacco. The county vote was 5896 for and only 15 against. Farmville had ^ spotless record, voting 550 for and not a single one against. Flue-cured tobacco growers in North and South Carolina have ap proved?by an overwhelming vote of 117,419 to 1,140?a 10-cent per acre assessment proposed to safeguard and expand export markets through a comprehensive program of educa tion, information and public relations to be administered by Tobacco Asso ciates. ,, ' The sweeping acceptance of the self-assessment was registered Sat urday in a two-state referendum, called by Legislatures of the two Ca rolinas, and final returns yet to be made are expected to push the majo rity even higher. Two-thirds of those voting had to approve the proposal before the program could be put into full effect. Through the tremendous vote of confidence, Tobacco Associates may go forward with full knowledge that flue-cured producers ? landowners, tenants and sharecroppers are back ing to the hilt the group's work to stabilize and enlarge foreign mar kets. J. B. Hutson, president of To bacco Associates, who is now in Ear ope, has been informed by E. Y. Floyd, Raleigh, secretary, of the re ferendum's success, a sterling tribute to the efforts of those who formed Tobacco Associates. The organization was set up by tobacco growers and dealers, ware housemen, fertilizer manufacturers, merchants, bankers and others inter ested in a prosperous agricultural economy. Need for the group was felt acute because of the decrease in exports of "The Bright Gold Leaf" fai recent years. Last year 40 per cent of flue-cured tobacco grown in Southern States was shipped abroad. In order to maintain and expand' this market, which in 1946 returned $182,000,000 to North Carolina and $70,006,000 to South Carolina, Tohac eo Associates will work here and abroad with government, j~ education al, aqd trade authorities. The tremendous vote cast Satur day is felt to be more than mere sanction of the program. It is taken as a directive to Tobacco Associates to use every available means to reach the goal of a secure tobacco econo my Eastern Star Leaders Help Present Charter To ML Olive Chapter Miss Elisabeth Lang, Mrs. J. W. Parker sod Mrs. 0. G. Spell attend ed an afternoon meeting and ban quet of the Mount Olive Eastern Star last Wednesday, at which time the chapter received its charter. Miss Lang was pianist and Mrs. Parker made a talk. Favors given the guests were jars of pickles packed in Mount Olive. ^ Farmville Unit TPA Formally Organized The Farmville unit of the Travel en Protective Association received its charter, V** lettered unit FT and elected and Installed the first meeting Jaat Thursday even ing in the Cw Ll ols, vice secretary-4 C. H. Of dir The form of a H I At The Rotsr? Club Miss Pattie Fraae, psychiatrist at the pre-conditioning center for the blind in Greenville, spoke to the Ro tary club Taeaday evening about her work with the blind. Sine* 83 per cent of the blind people are adults, her first job is to get thorn adjusted to their new life emotionally, next to find out what typo of week they will be beet suited for and from then on she tries to make them happy. Is closing she commented that if people would try to understand each other in their homes, their neighborhoods, the state and the nation that they would certainly lead more pleasant lives. C. L. Langley, who was in charge of the program and introduced Mies Frase, had as his gnest, Sam D. Bun dy. Bill Creekmur . was the guest of his father, George Creekmur. President Jim Monk recognized E. P. Bass, baby member of the club, Mr. Bass was winner of the attend ance prize." _ V Richard D. Harris Is New President Of Tobacco Trade Board Election Of Officers, Plans For 1947 Marketing Season Main Items Considered At Meeting; New Sales Supervisor Sought Richard D. Harris, buyer for the A. C. Monk and Company, was elect ed president of the Farmville Tobac co Board of Trade Friday afternoon! as members of the organization con vened in the office of Sales Super visor Sam D. Bundy and made plans for the 1947 marketing season. Har ris, whose election-is a popular one, succeeds H. H. Bradham, whose ten ure of office was highly successful. John N. Fountain of Fountain, one of the operators of Farmers Ware houses, was elected vice president. The resignation of.Mr. Bundy, who becomes superintendent of Farmville schools, becomes effective August 31. A committee was appointed to con fer concerning the appointment of Mr. Bundy'a successor. This committee is composed of Mr. Bradham, L. R. Bell, James Y. Monk, Jr., and Grover Webb. Tobacconists are anticipating an other successful sales season. Last year the market sold more than 31 million pounds. Greatest need fit present is another set of buyers. Local Tobacconists ? Leaving For Florida, Georgia Markets By Saturday the majority of FVmnviUe's tobacco colony will have gone to Florida and Georgia to buy the golden weed on the markets which open Thursday, July 24. A list of companies, representa tives and the markets to which th^ will go appears below: Imperial Tohaeco Company; Pal Ruffin, Jimmie Stocks, live Oak, Fla.; Willie Edwards, Lake City, Fla.; Harold Rouse, Vidalia, Ga.; Ho mer Spell, W. M. Palmer, Black shear, Ga.; James Corbett, Meadow, Ga.; James Johnson, Tifton, Ga. Farmville Leaf Tobacco Co., Inc.: H. N. Howard, Ben A. Smith, Joe Summrell, -Sonny Bradham, Robert Teel, R. C. Copenhaver, Arthur Joy ner, Jr, Robert Alien, T. K. Kim brough and Tom Buckner. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: R. E. Pickett, Wayfeross, Ga. \ Liggett-Myers Tobacco Co.; W. S. Royster, Lake CXty, Fla. Falls City Tobacco Co.: R. S. Scott, Valdosta, Ga. A list for the A. C. Monk company is not available as The Enterprise to press. - * ' ? Wilson Man Joins Local Police Force " W. P, MMfifaiiypTtoon haa joined the Farmville police department and haa already taken up hi? duties as law enforcement officer. at the home of 1 Farm vi lie Presbyterian Church on Tuesday morning was filled to overflowing with sorrowing friends, who assembled there at 11 o'clock for Coal rites for Bdvin S. Coatee, GI, |0, who succumbed Sunday evening, in a Greenville hospital, to a critical ulness of only a few hours duration. The young man was the only son of the Rev. Edwin S. Coates, Jr., Pres byterian pastor, and Mis. Coates. * Dr. J. W. Hasseli of Greenville, executive secretary qf Albemarle Presbytery, was in charge of the service. Assisting were the Rev. C. A. Lawrence, pastor of the Falkland Presbyterian Church, a former pas tor here; the -Rev. M. Y. Self, of Si Pauls Methodist Church; the Rav. E. R. Clegg, pastor of the Farmville Methodist Church; the Rev. Z. B. T. Cox and the Rev. W. I. Bennett, pastors of the Farmville and Wal stonburg Christian Churches. The Presbyterian choir, augmented by the Rev. E. W. Holmes, pastor of the Baptist Church, and Elbert C. Holmes sang He Hideth My Soul and Nearer, Still Nearer during the ser vice and Come, Ye Disconsolate at the graveside. Elbert C. Holmes rendered No Night There as a solo. Interment was made in Hollywood cemetery beneath a handsome floral tribpte. Born in Timmonsville, S. C., July 7, 1927, "Bubba," as he was familiar ly called by scores of friends in the community, came with his family from McColl, S. C., to reside here, in 1943, in the Presbyterian masse, when his father took over the pas torates of the Farmville, Carraways ?and Ballards Presbyterian Churches. Young Coates was graduated from Farmville -High in 1946. He was popuar .with his classmates and an outstanding member of the school's basketball, baseball and football teams. He was active in Youth Fel lowship work, the Beta Club and ether school organisations in McColl and was president of his Sunday School class St the time of his pass ing. He had been connected with Dupree's Department Store for the past several months. Survivors are his parents, a sister, Miss Margaret Coates, of the home, and his paternal grandfather, Edwin S. Coates, Sr., of Angier. Active pallbearers were/Frank Ge rald Dupree, Allle Melton, James Bennett, Frank Baucom, Bobby Smith, Dickie Thornton, Ferd Sat terthwaite and Edward Beckman.. . Honorary pallbearers included former classmates and other friends, A large number of friends from McColl attended the funeral. Activities Of Local Church Organizations Baptist Regular services wiH he held at the Baptist church, Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. "Hie puipit will be supplied by visiting ministers while the pastor, Rev. E. W. Holmes, is on vacation, which begins after July 20. Mrs. John ?. Dfaron, directress, led the devotional and presented the six th chapter from ""Dairyman's Book," which was entitled "You Can't Blade Out the Stara." ? Committee and treasurer's reports-were, heard. Pray er adjourned the meeting. Mrs. Jack I#wia> who waa hostess to the Altar Guild, Tuesday evening served refreshments afterwards. CSreVs Poor met at the home of Mrs. E. C. Car* Monday afl Mrs. J. H. Harris giving the topic an "Stewawtihip or embers decided not to meet August. 4 i * ' Ice cream, cake and nuts (By A. J. Barrel 1) Alton Bobbitt's Fsther Monday Nfeht Palmer Springs, Va. ? Edward Fletcher Bobbitt, 8?, died Monday night. Funeral eer-viees wen held Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock in Grays Episcopal Church. Interment was In Union Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery. He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. W. I. Rex of Richmond, Mn. Jesse Cunningham of St. Petersburg,* Fla., Mrs. C. P, Ryerly pf Durham, and Mrs. R. S. Bryant of Winston Salem; four sons, J. Branch Bdbbitt of Wamnton, N. C., A. W. Bobbitt of Farmville, Brame ^ Bobbitt of Hellam, Pa., and George J. Bobbitt of Phimer Springs; One brother, Fletch er Bobbitt of Macon, N. C.,; and six grandchildren. Shirley's Pine Hurling Gives Farmville 6-0 Victory In Game Here (By Jackson Butts) Carl Shirley pitched beautiful base ball Sunday afternoon in the local stadium to shutout Macclesfield, 6-0, allowing only eight hits and fanning si*. ?Horace Tugwell led the way in hit ting, getting two doubles and a sin gle in four trips to the plate. Shirley and Frank CorWtt had two hits in four tries. Farmville scored twice in the first inning. Brock gained life on an er ror, took second base on C. Little's sacrifice bunt, and tallied on Tdg well's double. Two Macclesfield er rors allowed Tugwell to score. Stewart, with two for five, led Macclesfield. Farmville plays Saratoga here to morrow (Saturday) afternoon. Sup day's attendance eras one of the larg est of the season and the entire com munity is urged to turn out for the game with Saratoga. Line-ups: Faramlle ABBHO A E Brock, cf _? ' 5 1 0 1 0 0 little, C., rf ? . 3 0 0 0 0 0 Moore, rf. 0 0 0 1 0 0 Tugwell, c 4 2 3 6 0 1 Stell, If. 4 1 0 3 0 0 Little, G., 2b . 4 1 0 3 6 0 Corbitt, J., lb . 4 0 0 8 0 1 Morgan, 3b . 4 0 0 1 2 0 Corbitt, F., ss . 4 0 2 3 2 0 Shirley, pi ' '4 0 2 1 2 0 Macclesfield AB RH O A E Webb, R., If ?. . 3 0 0 0 0 0 ?Ayers ??? -.1 0 1 0 0 0 Phillips, 2b 4 0 1 8 4 3 ??Crisp 1 0 0 0 0 0 Stuart, lb 5 0 2 8 0 0 Herrendon, F., ss 4 0 1 2 4 1 Herrenden, C., 3b 4 0 0 1 2 1 Webb, 0., e. . 4 0 1 4 0 0 Lamb, J., cf. . 8 0 1 1 0 1 Allen, rf.. ? . 4 0 1 0 0 0 Ellis, p. - - 1 0 0 0 0 1 Lamb, C., p . 3 0 0 0 0 0 ?Batted for Webb in 8th. \ ??Batted for Phillips 4n Oth Army Air Forces Will Be Forty Years Old Friday, August First Governor Cherry last week pro claimed that August 1, 1947, would bq Air- Force pay in North Carolina. Witnessing the signing of the pro clamation were: Col. Paul H. Pren tiss, commanding officer of Pope Field; Major T. F. Corrigan, special project officer at Pope Field; and Ben R. Rudisill, president of the Air Force Association?the organisation that is sponsoring this, the third, of ficial observance of Air Force Day, which marks the 49th anniversary of the AAF. The proclamation follows: "Now, therefore, I, R. Gregg Cher ry, governor of the State of North Caroina, in order that we msy-hnso* the men and women of the Army Air Forces who have given their livea in the defense of the United States and that we may recognize the service of those who, in the armed forcer, or in the civilian centers of science, re search and production, have contri buted to the building of par air do hereby proclaim Friday, I ^ir Force Day, in 1418 pounds of relief supplies from Farmville www received during June at the Church Worid Service] Center, New Windsor, Maryland. The shoes, clothing, bedding and other relief materials included in this con tribution have already been sorted! and packed for shipment and are on I their way abroad. Overseas they wittJ be distributed through our church channels to those to most need. All Church World Service relief supplies are given out without diserimtoattod of any kind. ' l_'.. . With the flood of materials being received for oversees to the last to# weeks, the workrooms at toe New] Windsor Center an bussing with activity. New workers have been added to make sun that the goods will be ready and overseas for use this fall. Packing goea on eight full hours a day. with more than 100 96 pound bales being completed to a day. Shoes an repaired, inspected and packed into burlap bags lined with water-proof paper. To make preparation for shipment easier, mill donors an urged to tie shoes to pairs and to make sun packages are box ed and tied firmly shut. Word from relief workers abroad dedans that the clothing shortage! will reach h peak this winter. Withl no factories operating to P??"* new garments to practically all of Europe for seven yean,jaone an available to toe stores. What little I clothing is to be had is out of reach in price. The ordinary woridngmsn, earning |2 a day, cannot afford to j feed his family, pay rent, buy "W and spend |20 to 840 for a pair of 8>iThe war brought untold damage to textiles. Factories wen Aatroyed and remain in ruins. Homes were burned or looted with a resulting loss of 'all span clothing, shoes, bed-j ding or valuables. MBMens of people I have had to wear the same outfit for a year or more, letters from abroad tell that most people have no under wear lefts stockings an worn out; .bees an in shreds. Many chikti??| have outgrown toe clothes they had and have nothing to replace them. It-is to meet these needs, to sup ply new garments to place of rags, to restore self-respect, health and comfort, that the thousands of pounds of donated goods from North! Carolina and every other state to the nation have been given. North Carolina now leads toe ? tion to the amount of goods given by her citizens through Church World Service to 1947. She also leads in the per capita giving of her peopto To July 5, 614,122 pounds of relief goods from the state had been given for overseas relief to. 1947. NEW BOOKS GIVEN TO PUBLIC UBBARY Several books have recently been donated to the Farmville public li brary by individual members of the Literary dub. The title, author and donor axe: "Woman as Force in History," Beard, Miss Ta'aitha DeVisconti; "Delta Wedding," Nulty, Mrs. A. B. Moore; "Bride's Way," Malloy, Miss Annie Perkins; "The Snake Pit," Ward. Mrs. H. Neal Howard; "The Auto biography of William Allen White." "Change of Heart," Baldwin, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Smith, "Blue Marigolds," Miller, Mrs. J. H. Harris. Mr. ahd Mrs. Lloyd Smith visiting in Lenoir and Black tain this At The Kiwaitie Club President Alex Allot and Secre tary John FfeAer, who attended the Tii^ftiineUwl Ifl.,,,t.. At ? x irtcnmnoiuii zuwinil cunren vioii in reporhron the ccLmitiaa and ma the'test of the members realise wh they missed by not being able to ta! in the annual get-together. Seth Barrow and,Sam D. Bundy also at tended the convention. Their reports were saved for a later meeting cause there aimply wasn't time for four summaries in one night Dr. Charles E. Fitafenald was the guest of Bill Gainer. Alio welcomed were two Kieranleae from Greenville, Glasgow Smith and Had J Jr. Ihe heard of .directors will vene Mender night fee * but the dub is foregoing its meeting in order to assemble which time Col. 8. JJiUtefceF ufctht State1 Highway Patrol will the clubs. New2 Step Signs At Several The temptation to speed on newty paved streets end to whir pest dan great, since the town's im pleted, that Chief of Police L. T. Lu cas, with toe approval of other Farm ville officials, has ptooed stop sigi at crossings he eonshleis more dan gerous than the others. signs, Chief Loses asks Farmville motorists to cooperate with hhn is seeing that toe law is eafonaa thereby minimising toe possibility of serious accidents, with perhaps loss of HJu J- ? _ * aV- llM, ii, nxe, occurring- wnjiiin. me civy limivs. Oliver Mtirphrey Has Narrow Escape As Truck Is Wrecked Lady Lock was riding with Oliver Murphrey, Farmville tracker, and his load of cucumbers last Thursday as his tfcaek ploughed into another that was parked, with lights off, at Hol land, Va. Murphrey escaped unin jured; his "cukes" were not damaged. The cab of the truck was pancak ed as if it had come in contact with a mammoth pile driver. Parked in toe lot beside Biff Chevrolet Co., the "remains" attracted a greal deal of attention from local persons who agreed that toe driver was fortunate to escape with his life. Cecil Winstead Has v/W1I TT IIIDVVPU Two Stories Published gg Cecil Winstead, Farmville man who writes criminal and stories, has had two of his published recently in mg nLtom-wide circulation, of .the Dallas Carrol murder in | leigh last year appeared in the new issue of "New MacFadden Detec tive." He also has an article in the "Detective World.'. So far this year, Winstead reports that he has sold eight of hia stories, although not all of them have yet been published. \ School Board HartM* Gtoetoot of | Hill -has tendered her nrigHtiofl.u Farm villa Mfceel, Sept. end the ? . .. ? . , . . This Proves Fei "More Deadly f Female black widow spiders liter ally an mon deadly than the mala, although very few deaths are credit ed to their bite. And mm seem to be bitten far more frequently than women. Ilwae interesting facts and many others are contained in a new illus trated circular written by Frank B. Meacham of the State Museum, has a limited i available to adults an ?I as the supply lasts. While the bite of the black widow assisted in culling for fowl pox all pn are being saved for layers. An of:40 pullets < by sacb dub member. Twelve by at a show in H 9 fl > Jed ? n ' s : Jj 1 It 1 / they have a to prove it. I' 1 (fortified or net^ihe enemies of "John pears Jfeher now during the 18 .moist peal of the 18th The drys claim that one tfcmd of the territory ef rise IMSsdritsSsa, vith almost 80i'OCO^OO persons, .al rtady hi legally dry toeaomei Mtet. largely as a nsaaitof ? local - opriea i The drys also are en by Whether the Copper hffl theflfcnate floor?and 11m prospects n doobtful ? organisations such the Woman's <Birtitton Temper Union, Antlsaloon Lews, Methodist Board of TSmpemwse, and National Prohibition Party feel they hare won eome "kind ? tnokal vic toty hi that-it finally received a Jm I lic 1 Bwt a more consistent source of joy and hope to the drys has been the restdts of local optUm elections ?local referendum* to consider dry ing np all or a given part of the traf fic in hard liquor, wine and beer. The scope of the etoetfcma Wflee from county to precinct size, and the issues vary widely, too?from com plete prohibition to adding the sale of only one kind of intoxicant or Mi? in's particular kind of place. Thus, when the drys speak of one third oik the nation's territory going dry, they don't mean Ifs dry for every kind of drink. Since repeal, says the Uptto prance gitmpa have won W09 of 20,469 local option elections. teen of the states rertiln eomplrtely I No state has outlawed, beer. , tian gains by the drys in 1946 were twiceTnwt as la Ml**" the drys made a net gain of 868 vot-. ing upite while the wets pickatL only 51 ? ... One dry .gronp which still - word prohibitidn is the whose national president, Leigh Colvin, says: "Yon cent have real ? prohibition without the eminent SB] " " hibitian to there arent grip who public support for greater- than at peal." On its side, qnorri jQywi