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By Sola Nixon Greenwood
NEW HOPE FOR THE SOUTH—
This is to predict that big things are
in store for North Carolina's new
United States Senator, J. Melville
Broughton, who won from Senator
William B. Uinstead in last Satur
day's primary.
He will be able to look after him
self in the Senate, whether it be the
Democrats or the Republicans run
ning the show.
Sooner or later, he will become a
national figure. *
ONLY HOEY AND BROUGHTON—
With money spent lavishly and orga
nisation handled effectively, only
Glyde R. Hoey and J. M. Broughton
could have withstood the tremendous
power generated by the generals in
Senator W. B. Umstead’s headquar
ters. Until 11 o’clock Saturday night,
there was doubt that Broughton could
stand up against it. But stand he
did—by virtue of Baptist strength,
the rural and labor vote, and general
mass appeal Rut people are funny,
particularly when they • are voting.
Mecklenburg, home of the new Na
tional Treasurer Joe Blythe, an all
out Umstead man, gave Broughton a
huge vote, but Wake, Broughton’s
home county and the area which gave
him his start, went, for Umstead.
TWICE IN EIGHT—By winning,
J. M. Broughton—for the second time
in eight years—put the quietus on a
budding political machine. He did it
in 1940 and again lash Sjaturday* This
group must now decide whether it will
attempt to salvage something from
Saturday’s wreckage. Will it gd-with
Johnson—chances are it will—or with
Scott? After looking at Saturday's
returns, it Would not seem to make
too much difference either Way, if
the people are on their toes on Juite
26, date of the runoff.
*NOTES—In Alamance county, Kerr
Scott received 6416 out of 7,675._ In
Pender, Charles M. Johnson got
2,279 out of 2,648. In Scott’s home
county, Albright was in second place.
In Pender, Scott was second. Nash
county, home of Johnson’s manager
Tom Pearsall, went.for R. Mayne Al
bright. Guilford, home of Soott man
"Capos Waynick, went for Soott. Ed
win Gill, Johnson brain-truster and
Revenue Commissioner, saw his home
county, of Scotland go for W. Kerr
Scott.
Lloyd Griffin, strong Umstead and
Johnson man and head of the N. C.
Citizens Association, saw his home
county of Chowan go for Broughton,
and Scott.
Also, it is felt that the Johnson
folks brought out John Armstrong
against Thad Eure, Secretary of
State, and so Thad is expected to
work for Scott between now and the
runoff.
Will your next Governor be John
son or Scott? - •
NEW EDITOR—This column was
started five yean ago. Sometimes it
has been rather fierce in its attacks,
but it has not knowingly printed a
• - falsehood. It has tried at all times
not to take itself too seriously, hut in
any event always to be readable, in
teresting and maybe a little differ
ent from the usual run of Raleigh
stuff. ■
Several papers in the state during
the campaign ran articles on the can
didates for state office, usually be
ginning with Albright on down the
alphabetical Uri. This dolumn, figur
ing that Hie three principal contend
" ezs wood be Albright, Johnson and
' Scott, decided it would give out with
material about these *thiee. Rather
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Cart Hicks To Make
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Walstonburg Man, PfesMmt Of Flu**
Cared StakiUeatien Corporation,
Will Make Addreee Tomorrow
In Municipal BuOdfeig
Carl T. Hicks of Walstonburg,
president of the Flue-Cured Tobacco
Stabilization Corporation and recog
nized as an outstanding authority on
the tdbacco situation whose opinion
is highly respected by those respon
sible for farm legislation, will be the
principal speaker tomorrow (Satur
day) at the annual meeting of the
Pitt-Greene Electric Membership Cor
poration. The meeting will begin at
3 o’clock in the auditorium of the
municipal building. -
Mr. Hicks will be introduced by
Sam D. Bundy, principal of the Fs*m
ville school. Rev. Z. B. T. Cox, pastor
of the Farmville Christian church,
will deliver the invocation and Mayor
J. W.Joyner will officially welcome
the visitors to Farmville.
' Office Manager and Town Clerk C.;
M. Paylor several'days ago mailed1
notices of the meeting to the 1300
members of the corporation, urging
them to be present for the meeting.
The cooperative has shown steady
growth in thn construction of rural
electric lines since its organization
about 10 years ago and as soon as
the Farmville power plant has been
-expanded several hundred additional
members will be added.
Mr. Piylor and these in charge of
Saturlay’s meeting have announced
that 18 valuable electric appliances
have been donated by business firms.
These will be awarded as prizes at the
meeting. A Firestone, washing ma
chine, purchased by the cooperative,
will be awarded as the grand prise.
CHANDLERS STORE GETS
MODERN GLASS FRONt
Work was started Monday on in
stalling a new, modem,, glass front
in Chandler’s store on South Main
street.
Pratt Gaskins, store manager,
hopes the work will be completed in
two weeks. The improvements will
add oonsidetably to the appearance
of his store.
Miss Tabitha DeVisconti is owner
of the building. _
CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULED
Sunday, June 6, is the deadline for
filing entries for the Country club
championship golf tournament which
begins the next day. The tourna
ment will be played in flights, de
pending upon the number who enter.
The entry fee will be $2 and prizes
will be given to the winner and run
ner-up of each flight.
than be like the other column and pa
pers, this column decided to begin
with Scott,' then Johnson', then Al
bright There was no beating about
the bush when this was done. Scott’s
article went out And then for -the
first time in five years, an attempt
was made to throttle this column, to
control it, or possibly stop it When
the Johnson piece went out, the Scott
folks probably raised Ned, but no at
tempt was made to control the
column.
But the first -article for Scott was
the reason you missed seeing this
column for at least one week and1
that’s why the person who has been
assisting with the column for five
years now has complete charge of it,
and bears all responsibility for what
appears in it. It should be pointed
out that at no time did any candi
date for Governor or any of the as
sistants or managers in the various
headquarters attempt to control tide
r column. And the Johnson folks in
the county which tried to pressure
the column, and did get a new editor,
* saw their man ran third in that coun
: ty, and the county paper no longer
1 receives the column.
Smith, a member of the Grsemille
club, was a ▼bating Kiwunitm,
WIT
DEand TwneW streets m
VICTORY JPAJtK PAVED
A delegation of home-owners in
Victory Pack appeared before the
Board of Commissioners Tuesday
night and requested that arrange
ments be madb to ffcve Pitt and Pine
streets. The petitioners, mostly vet
erans, want one bibdt paved on each
street. ' -
Mayor J. W. Joyner told the group
AjdniMataJ - JSOVLJ
engineers n&a esnmavca vm p*”
ing could be' done for $6,622 and stilt
ed that if the property owners on
the blocks would pay their two-thirds
of the east the town would pay 40
share and thus make the project, a
cash proposition, elminating the ne
cessity of calling an election er is
suing bonds. The cost to the own
ers would tie about $2.08 a running
foot, as compared with an average of
$2.37 on the paving completed by the
town last .rammer.
R. R Newton, Jr^ Who is putting
finishing touches to hb home on Pitt
street, acted as spokesman for the
dozen members of the delegation..
JAYCEES MAKE IMPROVEMENTS
AT RECREATION CENTER
At their meeting last Friday night,
members of tin Farmville Junior
Chamber of Commerce voted an all
out effort in the sponsorship «and
operation of the concession at the
recreation center near the swimming
pool. ~
Floors have been installed in one
of the mam buildipgs, a drink, and
sandwich bar has been built, and . a
coin phonograph has been placed in
the center. . Soft drinks, ice cream
dud sandwiches will be on sale in the
stand.
Date for the formal opening has
not been set but will be announced
in the near future. -
Profits fpom the project will go
toward- improving facilities at the
park.
Operation of the concession stand,
for the purpose of adgbg funds is
another at the projects for which the
Jaycees were organized and toward!
which they-have been working.
The Jaypee recreation committee
is composed of EUis Rabil, Bill
Creekmur, Arthur Joyner, Jr., and
Robert Teel.
MISS MEREDITH BREAKS HIP
Friends wiH-regret to leam that
Miss Violet Meredith, who makes her
home with her niece, Mm. Corinne
Stflley, fell Tuesday end broke
hip. She is a patent at
Herring hospital, Wilson. ,
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Wilson street last Friday afternoon
** 8 :45 to an iflsees which only a
Active business and brought death, al
ways a shock, so quickly that the
town and surrounding communities
were, stunned.
Bom in Greene county on Sept 14,
1899, Mr. Thome graduated fromthe
Farmville high school, spent one year
*t Trinity college (now Duke univer
sity), and graduated from Massey
Business college in Richmond, Va. He
was in the employ of Farmville Furni
ture company for 30 years, first as
talesman and then as assistant mans
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ger. Last fall he organized the
Thorne-Wooten Furniture company
of which he was partner *nd mana
ger at the Bine of his death. He
served in 1*47 as president of the
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
Association.
The seriousness of his condition was
not known until he entered Duke hos
pital a month ago-for a series of ex
aminations and tests which lasted fair,
more than a week and at the con
clusion of which he returned to his
home.
Mr. Thorne was a Christian of the
highest-type and the genuine expres
sions of regret at his passing, heard
from people in every walk and file of
life, attested to. the real esteem in
which ftp was held by those with
whom he had come in contact
His activity in affairs was ' not
limited to the realm of business. He
had been a member of the Christian
church for many years and served it
as an elder. In the S|onday School
ha taught for several years a class
of young men. His name was con
nected, with the worthwhile things of
Hfe.
Funeral services
were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the
Farmville Christian church. The
throng attending was so large that
many were unable to obtain seats.
Rev. Z. B. T. Cox, Hr. Thorne’s pas
tor, officiated, assisted by Rev. E.
W. Holmes, Baptist minister.
Excerpts of the outstanding tribute
Rev. Cox paid Mr. Thome follow:
“ ‘The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall
not want.’ .To such a Shepherd have
we come for our comfort in the pass
ing of our beloved brother, Maynard
Thome, Sr.
“He was * member of this church
and served as a teacher of the young
boys’ class and an rider for many
years. Ln> every way his service was
of the highest type.'
“His faith in Cod transformed his
conversation and , deeds into une of
the highest types of Christian man
hood. He never spoke unkind of any
anyone nor have I ever heard anyone
apeak unkind of him. He was a de
voted Christian father, a loyal, church
member arid a Christian in all of his
relationships.
“It was said by one of his best
friends, ’If I were allowed in heaven
and <fid not see Maynard Thome,
would wonder.' ’ j
“guch is the concept , held in the
mimfa of these who knew hfin best
His passing is a challenge to us to
day to:come.up higher and to walk
the Ring's highway. His passing calls
us to change our vfays of livmg and
imitate mere perfectly the pattern of
our .Lord.”
In clesing, the pastor quoted these
lines:
Build thee more stately
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Wile Chamber-of Commerce and Mer
chants Association, was retained to
Pitt county in the custody of Chief of
Police L. T. Lucas and two county
officers who-made a special trip to
Florida' and obtained Hoffman for the
company which stood Hoffman’s bond
when hewaa -first arrested in the,
fail He had been U Jail at Travers,
30 miles from Defend, Florida, since
January 30. He was Jailed for the
same type of offense committed here
but Chief Lucas was told that Hoff
had settled his account in Flori
man had settled his account in Flori
da and had made good checks he had
issued.
Hie Atlantic Bonding company of
Elizabeth City signed Hoffman’s bond,
last falL
Chief Lucas stoted that two
rants are outstanding against the man
in Pitt comity, one by - Western
Union which claims the company has
Hoffman’s check for $50Cf and the
second1 by Judson Blount, Greenville
merchant, who claims a $1,000 check,
against the former secretory,
policeman said a third
charging him with giving Hathaway
Service Station a check for $26,
been withdrawn and the account
been settled.
Early this week the Wilson police
department forwarded another ware
rant, signed by Bruce Lamm, charg
ing him with giving Lamm’s clothing
store a budcheek for #65.
An automobile dealer in §t. George,
S. C., so Chief Lucas says, has noti
fied local officers that he has a $600
check given by Hoffman and his ask
ed that Hoffman be' turned over to
proper authorities there after the
North Carolina courts have finished
with Urn. It is ,Uso stated that
Louisiano authorities have filed de
tainers for Hoffman and want
transferred to their state' to stand
trial for issuing worthless checks.
oh mjr Soul
As the swift seafons roll.
.Leave thy no. vaulted past
Let each new temple nobler than the
last '>
Shut thee from heaven with a door
more vast
Till at last thou art free.
“Truly we leave God's noble servant
sleeping and walk in the memory of
a great and true friend. ‘Sleep on,
sweet prince.’ ’’
Mr. Thome was laid to rest in
Hollywood cemetery beneath dozens
of beautiful floral tributes.
Active pallbearers were WH1 Jones,
L. J. Williford, R. L. Joyner, Alfred
Lewis, Vassar Reids, Jesse Smith,
William Thome and Joe Joyner.
Surviving Mr. Thome are his en
dow, the former Miss Tommie Dea
son of Lincolnton, Ga., to whom he,
was married on July 20, 1927; two
sons, Maynard, Jr., and James, of the
home; his mother, Mrs. Florence
Thome of Farmville, and an aunt,
Miss Agnes Moore of Farmville mid
Henderson.
Among the out-of-town persons at
tending the rites were Mrs. A. J.
1 Peterson of Sanford, Fla,, a sister of
Mrs. Thome; J. E. Deason of .Lin
.
iiiditor
of Labor
District
G. H. Pittman
W. C. Wooten
County Commissioner, I
Marvin W. Smith
Wayiand L. Hnnsucker
W. Leslie Elba
DOZEN NEW HOMES WILL BE
^BROUGHT HEBE FROM
NAVAL HOUSING PROJECT
The local veterans’ housing corpo
ration, which .was organised a year
ago and bought all the homes from
Portsmouth, Va., the government
Would let allow Farmville, is still buy
ing them.
In addition to the more than 35
bought by members last summer, the
corporation is buying from a naval
housing project in South Carolina a
doxen that have lien declared sur
plus. -
Two of these homes, owned by R.
TL Newton, Jr., and Hallett Willough
by, have already been set up <xn Pitt
street in Victory Park. Most.of the
others will go into that (section, but
some will probably be scattered in
different parts of town.
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At The Rotary Club
Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Jr., presented
Bob Morgan and Sidney Carreway,
who sang solos, at the Rotary dub
Tuesday night. Mrs. Pollard was in
troduced by W. J. Rasberry, program
leader.
C. H. Flanagan, who will assume
the .presidency in July,, and LeRoy
Rollins made reports on the district
meeting held in Fayetteville last
J. D.
prize.
Joyner won the attendance
PRO AT AHOSK1E
Graydon Liles has recently ac
1 cep ted the position bf golf profession
al at the Beechwood Country club,
which is now under construction at
Ahoskie. Mr. Liles was formerly ai
sociated with the Hillahdale Country
club, Durham.
Mrs. Liles, the former Franks
Howard, is visiting hear parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. N. Howard and will join
at >hoslde.
William J. (Dick) Bundy, candidate
for solicitor of the fifth judicial dis
trict, led the ticket, polling 70S votes
to 88 for his opponent, Charles L.
Aberaethy, Jr., of New Bern. Dr.
Paid E. Jones, who bad two oppon
ents in his race for State Senate,
polled 689 to 82. for Arthur B. Corey
and 20 for J. F. Arthur. In the offi
cial tabulation for the county, Dr.
Jones received 3795 against Arthur’s
2130 and Corey’s 1853. Dr, Jones
lacked only a few votes of polling
more than the combined vote of his
two opponents, both strong men. The
vote indicates the esteem with which
he is held.
W. C. (Luro) Wooten felt short of
winning a seat on the county Board
of Commissioners but it wasn’t the
fanlt of Us Farmville neighbors, who
voted 608 to 188 in his favor. His
Opponent. G. H. Pittman, was chosen
again to represent this district on the
county board;
The closest balloting was in the
races for state offices. And the big
gest surprise of the primary was the
showing of Albright, whose 298 votes
placed him within two of Johnson,
whose 800 gave him the honors. W.
Kerr Scotty who has called for a run
off with Johnson on June 26, ran
■third, with 184. Albright was elimi
nated in the primary; Johnson led
Scott, state-wide, by several thou
sand votes.
The contest for United States Sen
ate developed into a red-hot affair,
with Pitt county following the rest
of the state in nominating J. M.
Greenville and
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JOINT M. Y. F.
Seven-five menders of
lowships of WabstooJfeffft
Wesley, Lang’s and Bell Arl
odist churches held a joint :
Lang’s church Sunday i
heard an address, ‘‘What
For,” by Rev. Ben Mosaer
Hope, youth director for
Mount district
ATTEND POSTMASTERS
CONVENTION AT MO
Henry D. Johnson, postmaster,
Ed Nash Warren, postal clerk,
Wednesday morning for Aw
Beach to attend the annual can
tion of North Carolina postmasl
They will return to FarmviUe
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