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|pv| BOOST FARMVILLE EVERY DAY! RsiSfii t44JTfrftWB THntTT-HGHT FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY * 1M7 g--? By Pitt Ladies on New York Tour (By Mrs. Bennett R. Fields) The week of July -7-12, 1M7, will be long: remembered by the 90 Pitt County Home Demonstration Club members, who, realisms a long cherished desire, went on a tour to New York City by way of Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, with stopovers and sightseeing trips in each of these cities. Arrangements had been made in advance by the conductor of the tour, H. H. Bollock of Kmaton, and Mrs. Verona Lee Langford, home agent, for hotel : servations, sightseeing tripe, yacht trip, etc., so that as much as possi ble might be included in the six wonderful days. v Since it was for most of the ladies their first visit to New York City, it was really an adventure, un dertaken with doubts and misgivings by some as to whether or not they could really take it. Incidentally; they were for the most part a group of not so young women, the oldest 67, the youngest 20. However, let it be said here, that to a woman, all proved to be good sports all the way through. A special Queen City Trailways bus (number 682), piloted by 'genial Robert Taylor of Fayetteville, left at 6:30, Monday morning, July.7, with the 30 club members, Mr. Bullock, Mrs. Langford and her secretary, Mrs. Ruel Tyson, aboard. Mount Vernon was first on the list of sightseeing stops and all were much impressed with it stately beau ty and historic atmosphere. Monday night was spent i? Baltimore at Hotel Emerson and all enjoyed a stage show which featured the great Arthur " Murray, dance instructor, who presented his Baltimore dxnting class. The next morning as we drove through the streets we were much impressed by the rows and rows of shining white doorsteps of all the buidings and the tradition that the housewives scrub them clean every morning. By 9 o'clock we were really on our way to the "Big City," which we entered by way of the Pulaski Skyway and through the Lincoln tuime^ under the Hudson river. Stop ping ?t our/hbtel, the Taft, in the heart of limes Square and Radio City district Just long enough to jet settled, our group visited the NBC Studios, making a tour of the eleven story building, accompanied by a guide and also saw a studio produc tion of a regular program, "Music for America," conducted, by Leopold Bertholdi. The eveniogs's enterainment was a* Radio City Music Hall, the world's largest theater, with the Rockettes, a dancing group, perform ing. A ride on the subway and a night view of Broadway and the "Great White Way" are "musts" to a New York (Sty visitor. These, came up to our e^pectattomf beyond any doubt. Wedsnaday morning saw everyone assembled in the hotel lobby blight and early, ready and anxious to get started on the grand tour of the city which included East Side, West Side, the Bowery, Midtown apd a 30 ramUte stop in quaint Chinatown. The famous "Little Church Around the Conner," "The Cathedral of St John, the Divine," the largest and most beautiful in the world (though unfinished) and Rockefeller's million dollar church were outstanding points of interest Grant's Tomb, the York home of Mrs. Roosevelt, jJdepie of the United of famous movie other famous people A glass-topped bus this tour so that a view of aH the sights Omof the highlights of the Studies In New York will be interested to team (that Wat Mary Faye Rogers, daughter at Rev. and Mia. Car! W. Rogers of Chattanooga, Tens., Is continuing bar study of voice at Juiliard's School of Music, New York City, this summer, with Conrad Baa, (Helen Tranbel's coach and accom panist) and Anna Hetman. Mrs Rogers is the former Miss Daisy Holmes of Farmville. - j Activities Of Local . Church Organizations Presbyterian Mrs. J. M. Mewborn and Mrs. J. C. Corbett had charge of the program and the devotional at Circle 1 Mon day afternoon using the ame to pics is were used by the night circle. Mrs. V. G. Dupree, Jr., presided in the absence of Hie chairman, Mrs. George Moore. The hostess, Mrs. J. M. Stansill, served an iced fruit drink, sandwich es, .nuts and cookies in the social period. The meeting of Circle 2 was held in the home of Mrs. C. F. Baucom Monday evening with Mrs. Joe'Flake presiding. During the business ses sion the home mission book was started on its rounds. Mrs. W. H. Moore, Jr, program leader, talked on the topis, "Sunday School Depends on the Home." Mrs. Cherry Eastey, Bible leader, took her scripture from the- "Sermon on the Mount" and spoke about the subject, "Do I Do What I Say?" She ad journed the meeting with prayer. Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Jr., recent bride, was guest of honor in the so cial hour when brick ice cream, homemade chocolate cake and salted nuts were served. There were 22 present with half the number being guests. Imperial Will Operate Its Plant This Year The Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd, will resume operation of its plant here for the coming season for the first time since 1939. A complete force will be on hand to maintain operations. . * The plant of- the Farmville Leaf Tobacco Company was destroyed by fire in October, 1939. In July, 1?0. this company, leased the Imperial plant, and kept it in operation until this year. Up to this time there have been -no indications that the Farmville Leaf Tobacco Company will " build a plant here. For the coming season the company plans to operate a green market, shipping purchases to affiliated redrying plants outside Farmville. Practically the entire staff of -the' Farmville Leaf Tobacco .Company will remain in Farmville, while the Imperial Will have a much larger force than it has had since 1939. Bert Watkins of the Atlanta, Qa., Bureau of Public Roads, is being transferred to the "Raleigh office of the Public Roads Administration whan he will serve as administrative officer. Mrs. Watkins will join him in Raleigh soon. Mr. Watkins spent the week end here with bis mother, Mrs. Helen Horton. ed yesterday morning with prises ranging several cents below open ing averages of a year fl| far their bookSlo, Many farmers were selling to the Tohscco Coop erative Stabilization Osrporation. It was the agency er cent of the Daring the first hoar of the opening, eaction tobacco brought between 46c end 47c at Valdoota. A lew of 14c given for leaf and 5?c for silky tors on this market - First Id baskets at Vidalia sold for an average of 4S.5 cents with the top prices later in the morning reaching tide. * - Prices averaged 44c at Statee 47.7c at Nancy Lewis And 7 ECTC Seniors Manage Home *Bc' Cottage The home management home con ducted by the department of home economic* at East Carolina Teachers college,, which was closed during the first summer Session, 1ms been open ed for' the second six weeks' term, with Mrs. Adelaide E. Bloxton, di rector of the department, in charge of the work. Eight home economics seniors are living there and teaming the various phases of home manage ment through practical experience. These students are Ruth-If.'Lassi ter of Four Oaks, Nancy Lewis of Ffcrmville, Edith Mpore of Bowden, Dorothy Wheeler of Boas on, Billie W. Perry and Doris Duke Strange of Lotdsburg, Catherine Dexter of Rich lands, and Arm S. Cottre 11 of Oxford. They will begin their summer-pro gram of social events in the home management house with a tea for public school teachers attending the annual vocational home economics teachers conference on the campus (his week.' During the summer they will also be hoatesaes at a series of dfamarS. MOVE INTO TEACHERAGE AT BELL ARTHUR SCHOOL Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bass and their two sons hare moved to the teachw are at Bell Arthur. Mr. Bass is the new agriculture teacher for Farm ville high school. TENNIS COURTS READY . The two tend* courts located at the municipal playground have beelT improved and are ready tot use. Mr. and Mrs. O .G. Spell and Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Spell, Jr., and son, Glenn, of Goldshoro have* returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. -Ben Sprague in Rochester, N. Y., a trip through the New York and Penn sylvania mountains and from a s?ay at Rouse's Point, N. Y. "vrg" ?' ? ii Vi iii'T ? miHf i riiinl" r"i Highway Patrol He** tariana And ; 1 A .scathing - denunciation of the. lenient attitude of courts toward reckless drivers and an equally scorching criticism . of law-abiding citizens who shonr'jttjle concern over North Carolina's mounting death toll from automobile accidents. were features of the address Colonel H. 3. (Doggie) Hatcher, head of the StateI Highway Patrol, delivered Tuesday] night at a joint meeting of Farmville Rotary and Kiwanis clubs.] i After summarizing details of safe ty laws passed by the 1M7 Legisla-I h *k)L ] B ? Wl? ? I -.J: . ' - ; - Henry Johnson, had ? oTtfee program. Guests ind Leslie Everett, brother-in-law of Ro terian Paul K. Ewell; Qiffond Davis of Atlanta, Ga-, brother-in-law of Kiwani&n Gaial Modlin; Jotany Hat cher, sop of the speaker and guest of Kiwanian Larry Taylor; Charles W- Baucom, guest of Kiwani son; Q4is Taylor, guest of ? Jones; Police Chief Lloyd Lucas i Policemen Joe Gregory and Tanner, of the Eaimvills department; " Ste'ffighwaSgt- WitaM1 ?f N( | iegToes For 1 Amy Virgil Federal Land Grants Farai Loans The Federtel Land Bank of Colum bia made a total of slightly more than 11 million dollars fe new long term mortgage loans to fanners for the fiscal year ending June 30, statement received from H. Scarborough, president of the bank, by W. G. Standi!, tary-treasurer of the Washington National Farm Loan These loans which were made through Local national farm loan as sociations represent the largest vol ume of new loans for any year since 1934, and were distributed as fol lows: North Carolina, South Carolina, $1,808,761; Georgia, $3,648*082; and Florida, $2,326,320. Loan amounting to $188,250 were' made through the Washington Na tional Farm Loan Association," said Mr. Standi!. Farmers Set Record In Bank Loans And In Making Repayments Reflecting the increased costs ' of producing crops and the availability of more farm equipment, the volume of bank credit used by North Caro lina farmers is currently higher than it waa a year ago, according to W. H. Wools rd, president of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, who rep resents the North Carotin* Bankers Association as "Pitt County Key Banker. "However, North Carolina farm families are probably in the strong est financial position that they have ever been," Mr. Woolard said. "Con tinuing high turn incomes make it possible to finance operations out of income and when credit is used, it is retired when crops are sold." Reputing on the results of a third national survey of bank lending made by the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, Mr. Woolard said that North Caro lina fanners used only a portion of the' bank credit available to them in 1946. However, the 207 insured'com merrial hanks which serve agricul ture in this state made 187,686 loans to 75,766 fsriners. These loans ag gregated $67,209,000, of which $23, 400,000 remained outstanding on January 1, 1947. Banks had at least $199,815,000 available for additional loans to farmers if the demand exist ed. Daring 1946, lows on farm real estate in North Carolina increased slightly. There were 6,731 (arm mortgagee made for a total amount of $15,683,000; and $15,046,000 of this volume remained outstanding on January 1, 1947. Hie farm mortgage debt is higher than it was a year ago, although it still remains only about one-half of the'volume that existed in the comparable period fol lowing World War L Farm production loans classed other loans to farmers" wqre made to 67,883 farmers by North Carolina banks during 1946, in an aggregate amount of $49,215,000. The produc tion loans averaged only $726 each. The farmers' short term debt posi tion is favorable; and although they money last year, they bade a larger percentage of the borrowed. Another favorable factor in the- present situation is that the farmers own substantial savings in cash, bank deposits and United States beads. A possible source of danger lies in the trend towards the higher cost of equipment and improvements which sy reafch a point where these pur not be financed out of cur 'Another factor to the North Ca agricultural picture which ilM price of farm lands. Bated on 1912 x, at K)0, the ave._? land prices of the state on Match 1, 1947, reached 810, compared with 223 at the peak of the land boom in 1920. MR "* j***' i 16 * 1 fcL , " -m (?-Mirth Carolina Bankers A* a and dm Agricultural Cora of the American Bankers Association are working together to farmers of our state to a icial position. We* are customers to limit he. an This explah^fjthe latest national defense. ~ Hie Senate and the House have voted to "unify" the Army, Navy, and Air Force. This isn't a merger Or melting to gether of the armed services. An it means is getting them to work better together for national '! For example, it 1. Better teamwork in planning. 2. They can save money, time, ef fort, materials, and manpower in buying what they need. 1 4 The Army, Navy, and. Air Force wiH be under their own civilian sec retaries and their own commanders. They'll be separate branches of the armed .forces. \ Bat all of them will be under a "Secretary of National Defense." That is a new Job. It's never existed in this country before. . All this seems so natural and use ful you might think it would have been done long ago. True, it's been cooking for a long time. But it haaftt been easy to do. And it isn't finished. It should be soon. There's, still a slight hitch. This is it: The Senate voted for one biU to unify the services; the House voted for another. The bills arc almost identical. But there are some differences. The House and Senate will try to iron out these differences by setting up a joint committee?called a con ference committee?of both houses. It's expected an agreement will be reached quickly. Then the bill agreed to by both house will be sent to the President for him to sign into law, Hell sign it promptly, because, to a large degree, he's pushed hard for it ? The idea of unification isn't new. There's been talk of it since World War I. Since 1921 at least 60 bills to unify the armed Services have been intro duod into Congress. A number of studies wen made. But until now no action was taken. Yet the reel drive, for unification did spring out of World War II. That war showed some real weak' ness in this-country's national de fense set-up. For example: The scrambling the Army and Navy did to get what they needed when the war started. , ^4.'-";, If they had had a plan, ready they could have saved time, money, ef fort, materials. The admirals didn't want to wind up being bossed by a general. The geneialB wanted to be sure they didn't lose ground to the Navy. And the Air. Forces didn't want to be under the thumb of this Army or Navy. It wanted to run its own show.- ";?i Last year the Army came up with one plan for unification. The Navy came up .with another. They were miles apart. ? Even though President Truman asked for. action, the 1946 Congress went home without doing anything. Before this year's Congress con vened in January, Mr, Truman final ly got the Army and Navy to agree on a single plan He gave this plan to the Congress in February. Since then committees of both houses have held hearings on the unification plan. Finally, both committees okayed the plan, passed the word on to the House and Senate, tod both houses this month voted for it Mr. and Mrs- Sam D. Bundy, Miss. Tabitha DeVisconti and Mrs. J. W. Joyner attended" a dinner and reor ganization meeting of the Pitt Coun ty Tuberculosis association in Green ville Friday. Mr. Bundy/Mtss. De end J. W. Joyner wert Miss Kan secured to dal subject* in for the coming year, incement hy 4 Bundy. ? Miss little is a graduate of Eaat Carolipa Teachers college and last year in the Erwtn schools, Har "^TStium of IfiM little again completes the faculty for the 1947-48 term. She was appointed to fill the vacancy orested by the resignation of Hiss Harriett Cheetaat of Show Hill. > ? i 'Wi' no... i 58 Greene Farmers . Make Tour Oxford ^ Experiment Station Fifty-eight Greene comfy farmers made a tour of the Oxford Experi ment Station, July 18, to observe the experimental work g carried out by the station oh tobacco. A keen interest was shown Vy the group-in the work being done on varieties, fertilization, topping and suckering, crop rotation, tobacco curing, and special interest was shown , by the group in the research work on the different varieties resistant to black shank and Granville wilt diseases. It was a very profitable day for those tobacco farmers in attendance. New cases of black shank, and Granville wilt are being found each day. by the farm agent and his aides. Fanners having outbreaks of dis ease are urged to call on as for iden tification of the disease. In So do ing, we can assist in suggestions for resistant types of tobacco and crop rotation for 1948. Pfc. Samuel EX Brock Completes Course At Keesler Field, Miss. Pfc. Samuel E. Brock, am of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brock of Farmvilte, this week was graduated from of the world's greatest educational programs?one of the Air Training Command's airplane mechanics train ing courses at Keeakr Field, Missis sippi. ? , ~ " ' W 1 The training he received in the mechanics school covered basic air plane and engine mechanic opera tions. The technical course < over a period of approximately 16 weeks instruction,'i in ' aircraft electrical systems, operation, fuel and oil Bystem*, pi pellers, structures, instruments and basic inspection. This qualified Aim for additional specialized training in the maintenance of heavy bombers, cargo planes, Jet and rotor aircraft. VetsMneurance Dead line Extended to Jan. The deadline for reinstating GI suranoe without a physical tioii has been extended from August 1, 1947, to January 1, 1948. This means that most veterans may rein state their GI insurance without a physical examination anytime up to January 1. All a veteran needs, is to in as' good sign s statement he is in as good health as he was when his insurance lapsed and submit two monthly premiums to the Veterans Adminis tration. Of course, this does not ap ply If the veteran has converted to s permanent plan of National Ser vice Life Insurance. P'! . Veterans are invited^ to jnabe u? tact office, National G mrd Armory, Greenville, for information or a in their insurance or any to the Vet BASEBALL HERE SUNDAY South Edgecombe and teams of the Bright Belt play here Sunday afternoon at o'clock. Admission will be 26 fcei rTb.ty ?*>.???* of flue-cured five per year's all-time record first forecast made i subject I m To inform motorists shock) know in order to drivers licenas in North Coleman W Roberts, Caroline Motor Club. timely articles prepared using the Driver Manual issued by the High way Safety Division of (he North Carolina Department of Motor Vehi cles as a reference guide. These articles concern. "General Information and the Eye Tert, "Mead Sign Test." "Road Rules Teat," and "Practical Driving Teat." When you apply for your examination, you should have a' car in which to take the test, have somebody "who la a licensed driver with you if you an * applying for a license for the first time, have the fee to pay for your license and be familiar with driving rules and safe driving practices. To be eligible for a driver's license in North Carolina you must he at least 16 yean old. Application for s license for a person under 18 years of age must be countersigned by a parent, guardian or employee. You may apply for a license at one of the ' J Department of Motor Vehicle exami nation stations. . jS?j|sjrey The two types of driver's IthMils"j obtainable an operator and chauf feur. Chauffeur's licenses must be renewed on July 1 each year and a person must be 18 years of agf to procure one and must be 21 yean old to drive a public passenger-carrying vehicle. Pee for both operator's and chauffeur's license is $2.00 for the original and bO cents for a duplicate. Ihe operator's license is effective" for four years. I A person' who drives a read roller or road machinery if it is only being \ moved from one job to another does not need a license of ari^ kind. It is possible to obtain an instruction per mit frem an examiner, which is good for 80 days, but yon must be accom panied by a licensed driver sitting in :Jfj& the seat beside you while you are earning to drive. This permit may be extended mere than a month if necessary. _ Driver's licensee must be carried always while driving and yon must diow your license to any law en forcement official who asks for it, also to any person involved in an accident with yon if he requests to lee your license. . Restricted licenses can he issued to Aiose persons needing special equip ment to drive. To keep your license up to date, any change of nameor addroas should be sent to the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles, eje mlmmm*! Out of state dihwi may tan > tome state license for a period of pot move than 90 days In North Caro lina providing the motor vehicle is luly Yen must first be state before fob in North The Highway Safety Division ex aminers, according to the Driver Manual, may ask you the fo questions which-a - careful studs this article will L Why is a driver's | nation necessary? 2. How old must you be to get a regular driver's license? 3. What are the four tests given license examinations? 4. When does your driver's license spire? ;>-i i-i'N 5. Under what, conditions arner drive? 6. How long can you. drive in North Carolina on an out of reuse? 1. How old must 3 tar % chauffeur's 8. When driving, 1 four 9. OIUHUO you np?? ? craiga kddreas to the ~ *" --^j(j|g Vehicles? vision them
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