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/ ; ? i . ? ?"1 . 1 .1 ? ? " . " VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT MHVIIU, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER #, 1?47 NUMBER SEVENTEEN * _ . ; . - ? . i ?t * IK-. te-L. - . ? 1 BOOST r* FARMVHAE EVERY DAY! BOOST ; FARMVILLE EVERY DAY! SALES ON FAJUMLU TOBACCO TAmr.comwE ucht, ? UTnf OUNCE NOTED HI PRICES Through Tuesday of this week,) 1,424,262 pounds of tobacco- had been sold in Farmville's five warehouses} this sens an, bringing ? total of morel than $600,000 and averaging $43.001 per hundred. Sales equivalent to opening day's I offerings were staged Friday, the last day the market was open prior J to Labor Day holiday. Sales were resumed Tuesday, with I light offerings but an upward trend | in prices. Prices ware weaker Wednesday I and Thursday, with losses from $1 [ to $4 that wiped out Tuesday's gain. The Eastern North Carolina mar ket showed its biggest volume of} sales this season on Tuesday. Sales time on the Eastern North I Carolina market, begining Thursday,} was Increased to five hours daily. [ Previously, the market had been ope rating on a four-hour sales schedule. The Border Beltr ^uiowed most I smoking leaf and cutiett down from I $1 to $4 from Tuesday, with most medium and better quality leaf and I lugs showing similar declines. Sev eral of the markets reported blocked | sales. At The Rotary Club At the regular meeting of the Ro tary club Tuesday night Dr. W. M Willis had charge of the program and presented Dr. Karl B. Pace of Greenville as speaker of the even ing. Dr. Pace talked about the pro posed new Pitt county hospital, pointing out that North Carolina is one of the states to receive Federal aid for such an institutions. Because it has one of the lowest national debts, this state is in a position to receive this aid, which will bo one third of the cost- The state furnish es one third and the county the other third. Deeming it wise that the mtisens of Pitt vote to have the hospital lo cated in the county, Dr. Ppee noted that the government kxuf .will not have to be paid back. If some ad joining county gets the hospital, the taxpayers ot Pttt will be called on to 4WT Of its expense. He re miudad hi* listeners that Tuesday, Uoptembst- 16, is the day to vote. Visitors were Dr. Phoe ~?nd Knott Proctor of Greenville and Edwin of flaleigh. 1 S?ven Pines dub Has Annual Picnic Th* flofen Plnee Rome Demon stration club held it* annual picnic o* Tuesday evening, August 3fl, *t 4 o'clock ftt the swimming pool and municipal put fo Fsrmville, Mrs. Clifton Hilt*, president, rh asunoed that supper was ready and Dr Charles B. Fltsgerald, * guest, ?atoned Hi?nt? A "lenje aunner of fried chicken, barbecue, h*m, potato iM, deyiled eggs, tomatoes, rolls, various ldnda of **ndwiok?* and cold drinks were served to about M club Kiss Hiaee of Greenville was a FAMILY NIGHT OBSHBVHD IT FOUNTAIN U, 0. CLUB The Fountain Ho Han stab held its first family night Sunday at the home ?f the Mrs, J, C. Parker, with Mrs, John Tuck as no hfiatnas A sW? as spr?d m tha 1mm in front of At., ftn 1, . . L._. Im* flnW WW#. Group singing was led- by Mrs. onni* Johnston said a movie 1 in Nash county was shown. It with the plants* and ears of the Mrs. Parker, who at Farm add ROSCOE A. FIELDS, SR. PASSES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS Final rites for Roscoe A. Fields, 3r., 60, who died Sunday following in illness of several months, were ?abducted Monday afternoon at _ 4 )'clock by the Bev. 'E. R. Clegg, MLstor of the Methodist Church, at he Farmville Funeral Home. Inter neirt was in Hollywood cemetery. Mr. Fields.was the son of Mrs. l>ula Askew Forbes and the late Al 'red Fields of Farmville. He was >orn January 19, 1887. He was a nember of the Methodist Church. He was publicity director and sales rapervisor of the Farmville tobacco narket until ill health forced him to resign about two' years ago. Surviving are his mother; his wife, he former Jennie Newell of Greene rounty; one daughter, Mrs. John E. ting of Farmville; one son, R. A. Fields, Jr., Robersonville; two half listera, Mrs. Lula Forbes of Farm ville and ? Mrs. Jack Hardy of La 3range; a half brother, Earl Forbes >f Hampton, Va., and four grand rhikiren. Active pallbearers were Wave 0. dolston, Robert Rouse, James Monk, Mi son and Theodore Moor?, Henry Johnson, W. Leslie Smith and Grov sr Webb of Pinetope. Activities Of Local Church Organizations I Baptist "Indian > Life" was the program topic Led by Miss Elvira Tyson at the Y. W. A. Monday night. A true false quiz dealing with India was conducted in connection with the program, Miss Myrtle Nichols used Psalm 19 for the devotional, - The hostess, Mrs. H. B. Humphrey, served pineapple upside down cake topped with whipped cream and cherries to the members and a spe cial guest, Mrs. George Davis, Christian Mooting with Mrs. Lloyd Smith Monday evening, the members of Group 1 heard Mta. G. M- Shirley give the devptignal study and Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson,- the pro gram, The dhalrman, Mrs. F. A, DanJen, presided. ' Mraf L. R- Turage, in whose home Group S mot Tuesday evening, was devotional leader. Mrs. Lawrence Moye of Maury made a report on the International Convention of the Dis eiples of Christ which was held in Buffalo, N. Y? recently. A fruit drink, rookies and nuts served to IS members and one visiter. Group 4 was given a report an the International Convention' by Mrs. Moye at its meeting in the home of Mrs. Lewis Allen Monday night. 9 i Mrs. Robert MeClary read Mat 5.13-17 and led in prayer. id Visitors Mae Moore and Pitt-Greene Corp. Gets Loan Of $1,000 For Improvements Funds Will BtUitiT* Construct Seven Mile* Of Tie Lift* Ami 2*6 Mile. Of Conversion) Ale* Provides New Sobetatien , Officials of the Piti^Greene Elec tric Membership Corporation have been notified by the Rural Electrifi cation Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, that an iddiiional loan of (51,000 has been ipproved for the organization. The loan provides for financing necessary improvements which in clude seven miles of short feeder snd tie-in lines p Pitt and Greene counties, 29.6 miles of conversion, s steel substation and miscellaneous equipment. The conversion project has been estimated at $11,121, the new lines will cost $13,992, and the substation $18,000. Engineering and legal'fees, and miscellaneous expenses will con sume the remainder of the loan. I. D. Kirklio, superintendent of the' REA, and Cleveland M. Paylor, man ager, were in Charlotte last week conferring with engineers relative to Making the improvements for which the loan was obtained. Furnished power by the town, - the Pitt-Greene Corporation has about 1500 subscribers, with almost that many more* waiting to be added to the system, one of the town's great est advertising assets. Fountain School Has Opening Enrollment 256; Attendance Good The Fountain School opened last Wednesday with an enrollment of 266 pupils and an exceptionally good attendance continues in spite of the hot weather. The new lunchroom opened Mon day serving 175 pupils. The old ag riculture building was remodeled this summer into a modem lunch room which provides more apaoe for both workers and pupila, There is room now for orderly passing in and out of the building' without confus ion. The green linoleum Mends nice ly with the two toned green walls. New tables and chairs have been or dered. J The local North Carolina Educa tion Association has supported Mrs. Herman Baker, principal and county NCEA president, 100% with local, county, State and National dues. Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Walker, the first grade teacCv-r snd comity sec retary and treasurer of the NCSA, will attend a meeting at Catawba college, Salisbury, Saturday, Instructions Glyen For Cashing "GF Bonds Arthur B. Corey, veteran* serving officer for Pitt county, advises foAner servicemen who desire to cash their terminal leave bonds, that it will be necessary for the owner and payee to present their bonds in person at a'bank snd that when pre senting their bands they must also Show their honorable discharge. It wiU aim be required to be personal ly and satisfactorily Identified as the person to whom the bauds were is sued. '" - ?|g" *v. .. ? 1 Towns In Six Counties Compose Joyner's Area Mayor J. W. Joynar of Faimville, who was elected as a member of the executive committee of the North Carolina League of Municipalities at the league's 38th.Mpual convention two weeks ago, w^he dlrectorof the fourth district composed of Pitt, Lenoir, Wayne, Greene, Johnston and Wilson counties. Teachers Plan Home Economies Course At Wintervflle Meeting Vocational home economics teach ers of Pitt county met an Wednes day, Aug. 27, in the Wintertfjle home economics cottage at 4 . o'clock. ? The meeting was called to order by the chairman, Misa Alya Rae Taylor and the discussions were be gun. In a meeting with Supt. Con ley on Monday, Aug. 18, the teachers decided, to teach the units in home economics in the same order In all schools of the county for the benefit of any students who might transfer from one school to another during the year. The order in which units will be taught follows: ^om? economies I?Pood preserva tion; living happily with ourselves and our families; preparing simple meals; caring for children; looking your best; the modern miss planp for better living throagh improved housing. Home economics II?Food preser vation; learning to use advertising; using standards and labels; beauty in clothes; being a well-rounded per son; helping in personality develop-, ment; enjoying good health with my family; furnishing and equipping the home; meals for the day. Home economics III?Pood preser vation; cooking for special occa sions; happiness in homemaking and other vocations; planning the house; life begin*; before:you invest, in vestigate; constructing garments; on the beam through home nursing. Each teacher explained good ideas she has used as an aid in her woTk and in leaching the courses outlined. Present we're 'Misses Taylor, Nora Lee Hinnant, Eleanor Watkipa, Huth Parker, Thelma Whitehead P*g? *nd Mrs. Wait Sdwarda. The meeting adjourned at 6:48. The teachers ;*U1 hpld their next meeting Tuesday, Sept 16, to the Ayden home eoonmnica cottage. SAMUEL W. COOPER. Samuel W. Cooper, 64, died at Ms lome near Ballard's Crossroads early, Sunday morning following several nonths' illness. Furfural services were field at the Famville Funeral Hone Tuesday afternoon, conducted try the Rev. E. S. Coates, Presby terian minister of Psnnvllle. Inter ment waa to Hollywood cemetery. Surviving are his wife: two daugh ters, Mrs, Bob Melton and Mrs. Jsase Wairtwright of FUrmville; tMee sis ters, Mrs. B. T. Cox pud Mrs. Annie Mtdgett of Washington, D. C,, and Mrs. Alton Allcox of Vanceboro; one brother, It, It Uooper of Huntington Park, <7nHf-r eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. FarmvHle Football Team Will Hay Games This Season Opens Sept. It W** mouth Ptorftng Here; Coach MM Expects Light, Scrappy S*?a4 ? The Farm villa high school football team tackles an eight-game schedule this fall, begining Friday Sept 19, with Plymouth furnishing the appo sition in a mm-conference game to be played on the local field, lb? re* mainder of the schedule follows: Sept. Farmville at Selma. Oct 10?Warsaw at Ftamville. Oct. 17?Clinton at Farmville. Oct, 24?Farmville at La Grange. .. Oct 31?Ayden at Greenville. (Site of this-game is tentative.) Nov. 7?Mt Olive at Farmville. Nov. 14?Farmville at Wallace. Oct 8 is an open date. The local school is a member of the East Carolina Athletic Confer ence, organised last January when representatives of seven high schools gathered in Golds bo ro and laid the foundation for the new group. Other members are Mount Olive, LaGrange Wallace, Clinton, Selma, Ayden and ? Warsaw. J. H. Moore, former su perintendent of Farmville, served as vice president of the conference. J. C. Stabler of Mount Olive was pres ident; S. R. Edwards of La Grange was secretary-treasurer. Coach John Johnson, who is enter ing his first year as director of Farm villa's athletic program, ex pects a light, scrappy squad which will be facing stiff opposition in each of its games. . Greene County Has Lost Only ll Barns By Fire This Season R. R. Bennett, Extension Tobacco Specialist from N. C. , Extension Ser vice, Raleigh, visited D. D. Raids, Walstonburg, on Friday, Aug. 29. The purpose of this visit was to as sist Mr. Fields In trying to produce in 1948 a better quality of tobacco than he is now making- Mr. Fields iif? to grow Oxford 26 on his farm due to his land being infested with Granville Wilt. R. L. Croom, R-2, La Grange,-farm manager of the H. F. Hardy Estate, plans to improve *60 acres of per manent pasture on this farm by re seeding and fertilization this fall. Tim last survey ofc tohaxo barns ! lost by firs in Greene county was 11 barns. This compares with a total of 83 in 1946. The annual meeting and supper of the Greene county Farm Bureau will be held Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 o'clock at the Snow HiH high school. Local Student On Dean's List at UNC William Rasberry of Farmville was among the 818 students enroll ed in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North -Carolina who made the Dean's list during the summer session, it was announced by Dean William Wells. To be listed in this honor group, a student must average a "B" or high [er on every course. Aside from critical international problems, there is an all-pervading one that looms large in the thought of American businessmen, and in the thinking -public, -It runs something like this: What is to prevent- a con tinuance of the business boom! Or conversely, Is the United States fac ing a substantial recession? - The factors which bear on the answer land themselves to widely contradic tory conclusions. Judgment as to what is likely to happen must necessarily be influen ced by knowledge of -what has taken place under more or less similar cir cumstances in the past. The late Henry Ford said. "History is the bunk." Another observer pessimisti cally stated something to the effect that "history shows that people learn thing from history." Nevertheless, it behooves the commentator to weigh the available evidence and so obable course of events. Currently, the country is riding a om of large proportions, with tional income after taxes of --.J" incon wiKh" wmcn 'Jr inga of 451 leading corporations for the first six months of 1947r compil ed by the National City Bank, were 16 per cent above the last half of 1946. Net was at an annual rate of 16.6 per cent on capital and surplus, compared with 1S.5 per eeht id the preceding half year and with 9 per cent in the first half of 1946. With the foregoing favorable fac tors already a matter of record,-what are the portents which darkest the skiee for many observers? Perhaps the biggest cloud today is the defi nite expectation that exports ate due for a sharp drop. Thsy have been running at an abnormally high rate for over a year and a half. TT-.e' val ue of exports last year, for instance, was over three times that of the average of the prewar yean 1986 87-?. ' M ' , .-r ; Qm of axioms in business circles is that the volume of exports pments the deference between good times and bad times in Amen . Foreign nations today a? evident last year, tp no arming. - Wholesalers took ? v daftfi > mmm l J ??; ?. WtK >V?U. 1> Building in prewar years was a big | sustaining factor 111 keeping up em ployment and incomes. Today it is far under its potential capacity?less than 6 per oent of gross national out put The American economy will not be hitting on all cylinders until build ing assumes its rightful place as a major sourcie of productive enter Labor aj solve their squabble or a further re tarding factor to high operations and reduction of costs will impede pros perity. Further price rises induce the thought that the higher they go, the harder they falL And the de mands of various large unions for 16 to 20 per cent additional wagn in creases, regardless of any productivity, do not indicate an . im mediate end to the current inflation. But price r&es cannot go up in [definitely. The GI terminal cash will bolster buying and so relaxing of consumer credit g could tome after that J SATURDAY LAST DAY! CAN REGISTER FOR . BOND ELECnOH, SEPT. 16tb W^w ' AN EDITOKAL It seems incredible that, citizens of Parmville township, owners of real tstate valued at?more than six mil ion dollars, would nonchalantly ait >y and let the rest of the county de side whether or not bonds shall be ssued for the canst ruction of a hoe >ital. It seems unbelievable that they could be content to let other prop erty owners decide what taxes, if my, shall be levied against their zeal istate, without even fairing the trou >le to vote for or against a proposal ailing for county-^ide ldvies.' Yet, that's exactly what is hap >ening today. The county commis lioners have called for a special elec ion'to be held on September' 16- for he purpose of deciding whether 1360,000 in bonds shall be issued to rapplement State and Federal ap propriations for the construction of i 1900,000 hospital. bt'ofQer to rota lither for or against the proposal, it s necessary that citizens register es pecially for ,11118 election. Less than L00 in Farmville township have tale nt the trouble to do so. The books :lose Saturday, The Enterprise is in favor of the iroposal. The $560,000 received from mts^a. sources is a gift, not a loon. iVe believe the county has a golden ipportunity to get an adequate hos pital* for $860,000, or approximately me-third of the cost Regardless of oar personal feel ngs in the matter, The Enterprise is no re concerned over the indifference >f local citizens who are willing to pass up the privilege of exercising me of the democratic rights, that of ,-oting, which was written with the >lood of our forefathers. Larry TaytoRefl?ns From State Patrol l H (Larry) Taylor, popular nember of th* State Highway^? vho-has beeh sLaUaned m leveral manthfc, has'tendered bis w agnation as a patrolman and will** Associated with the Farrovffle Motor Company His "on^of the new pfctrolmen stationed as Taylor's relief, jeen stated. IIISS EDNA. BOONE TAKES OVER RURAL CHURCH WORK Mjss Edna Boone of NsahvUle ar rived Monday to assume tor duties J rural church worker for the Meth odist church, filling the va^yR^ ated hy the death of Mrs. A. <?**? Work Ito churches she is serving Sfw. I*** Farmville and Walsto^g. A 1947 graduate ?f High Po college where she moored mrehgi ous education, Miss Boone did K? tice work in this ?eM to ** "jj Presbyterian church of High Pofa*. Her college activities inctate to?g a member of tto collegetour. U* ing the Red Cross unit in year,'and belonging to the the* Lighted Lamp and the Chrmtian Religious Education club of which she was vice president in tor jmrior ^""sh. n. W* to Jfi-S? ta American College. ?nd Dal"**1 0eg|f1M'temporarily waiding JS3 3 ?' ?* E MRS. J- H. DARDRN^STRR KILLED IN- FALL FROM At -_.Ml services were told last Friday miming >? w??? JfcSTM&rBSffSS* tie. ririyed in ? ?? ? ?? MW Cowan was called to *yn Bnnch. S. O., on ? srssst were preceding eg Mr. Pitt county Citizens wishing to Ike part in the hospital bond elee bn on Tuesday, September Id, must agister by sunset' tomorrow (Sst rday) or be content to sit on the idelines and let the rest of the qunty decide what to do about the mpoitant issuer ' Registration books will be open at he town hall in Farmville and at 11 other polling places throughout he county. Friday, eligible, persons lay register with Mary Thome Ty on in the office of the town* clerk. To date, only 70 Farmville town hip voters had registered, a shame ulljj low percentage. The issue to be decided in the elec ion is whethed the county shall sell 351,000 worth of bonds to help pay or a hospital which will be erected nth county, State and Federal unds. $248,000 will come from tl\p itate and $300,000 from the -Federal overnmcmt These appropriations are utright gifts, not loans. Although the site for the hospital as not been selected?or if it has een picked it has not been "made lublic, concensus opinion is that it rill be placed near Greenville, the enter of the county, possibly be ween Farmville and Greenville. Circular letters explaining the pro posal have been distributed in Farm ille. Citizens have been urged Jto tudy the' question closely and then ecide for themselves whether to avor or oppose the issue. Ab'.vx^ verything else, they must register? r their opinions will have see bear og on the' outcome because they will e barred from voting. / At The Kiwanis Club Rev. J. D. Young, pastor of the avalry Methodist church in Snow bll and a former Army, chaplain po served 80 months in San Juan, rto Rico, explained some of the oms and mores of that tropical ' Monday night at the Kiwanis Rev. Young was the guest of ?? Barrow. The minister made an interesting explaining that the goal of the" is to get to the United a land they believe to he with milk and honey. There no middle class in Puerto Rico, 1 the line which divides the upper j.--up from the lower rlanncm is Jharply drawn. When a person's an il income roaches $1,000, he anto tically steps into the upper brack Jim Joyner received plaudits for aving been elected a member of the Cutive committee of the North olina League of Municipalities, mayor talked briefly, citing in tces in which Fanr.ville .excelled, u John Johnsoh, ? new local high hool coach, was the gtiest of Supt. un Bandy. ' - ~'v' Bernice Tdcnage, general chair .the Kiwanis carnival to be 1 Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19 20, reminded members that all nust cooperate and work in order to * the event a success. ?reene 4-H Boys Will Average Nearly 160? Bu. Corn Per Acre One fourth of the 60 4-H club era planting hybrid corn in e county will make "lent to [100 bushels of com an acre. Club nbers have their com planted 9, and have fertilised heavily. Some of the club members with that wiU approach the 100 1 mark are: J. B. McLawhcn, Hinson, Douglas McLawhon, James May, Johnnie and Robert Pfcr " Phillip Beam an, Tommy Joe Edmundson, Billy ? Harrison, Warren ? McCoy, Delano Sink, James Dalton Harrison.