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♦♦4 4444M >♦»♦»»♦♦♦»»♦»♦♦*+♦»♦ BUY.... BANK •.. SELL... IN FARMVILLE Depression Foreseen Unless Congress Adopts A Sound Farm Program Fred Royster-of Henderson, who - knows most of the angles of the cur rent agricultural problems and who talks so convincingly his listeners an quickly aware tint he knows whereof he speaks, Monday night told a joint session of the Farmville Rotary and Kiwarns clubs that this country faces a depression and economic distress unless Congress adopts a sound farm program based on the policy of keep ing supply in line with demand. Royster, who serves 88 president of the Bright Leaf Warehouse Associa tion Which covers five states, spoke to a group of 100, a group which n .in cluded such outstanding figures in * the program as W. W. (Cap) Eagles of Macclesfield, former president of the North Carolina 'Farm Bureau, A C. Edwards of Hookerton, current State Farm Bureau president, and C. T. Hicks of Walstohburg, president of the StabiB ration Corporation and one of the developers of the tobacco pro gram which, so far, bite been the most successful of any of the price support programs. Royster's refer ence to these leaders was greeted with applause. ' ’' The Henderson tobacconist, a mem ber of the House of Representatives and a candidate, for speaker of the House in the 1951 General Assembly, stated that agriculture is the basic industry of the country but added . that difficulty has been experienced in developing a sound farm program because less than one fifth of the entire population is directly connect ed with farming and, consequently, the agricultural side of the national economic status has ijpt been present ed emphatically enough to a great segment of the population. He added that this minority group must im» press upon the rest of the country the time-proven fact that when agricul ture prospers the rest of the country prospers, and- that when agriculture fails the rest of the nation does like With the assertion that he is not a pessimist but tries at all times to be a realist; Royster warned that the agricultural outlook was not bright and cautioned that the situation must be faced and dealt with in a realistic and efficient maimer if a depression is to be avoided. He added that the present condition is a direct outgrow th of ever-increasing production of agriculture, an increase that develop ed as a -war-time measure but one which continued with the cessation of hostilities. He cited that industry, on the other hand, quickly cut its 60 and 72-hour weeks to the regular 40 hour work weeks and that laborers demanded higher wages' to offset the reduction in working time. Agricul ture, in the post-war period, set new production records in some crops; only tobacco was controlled. The in > evitable result was that prices drop ped, when supply exceeded demand, and farm income in 1949 was 20 per cent under that of 1948 and agricul tural economists have predicted an other loss of 15 per cent will be ex perienced this year. Failure by Congress and other na tional leaders to look at the situation in a realistic mariner was blamed by Royster as the reason for the current dilemma in all crops except flue-cur ed tobacco and he added that leaden must take corrective stem now or burdensome surpluses will make such drains on the national treasury that the entire farm program, will be Aa an illustration of how surpluses piled up during the period when production is not controlled, the speaker stated that the United States has enough government-owned corn to Make all the com starch, sugar and Byrap needed by this country for the wot fjve years; and enough to bake a birthday cake for every child under 15 yearn old every year for the neat 10 years; that it has enough cotton to make 64 dresses for every woman |1| the country; that it has enough prunes to provide a dish of prunes for the breakfast of every member of Congress every day until the year 8289. The government has $150 pillion invested in tobacco but he stated that only $30,006,000 is invested in flue cured tobacco. ■ ' >- ~ He attributed the success of the tobacco program to the foresight of ECTC Pianist Will Give Concert Here Thursday Night The Major Benjamin May chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu tion, announces that it will have the honor and pleasure of presenting George E. Perry of the music faculty of East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, to this community in a piano concert at the chapter house next Thursday evening, April 13, at 8 o’clock. Mr, Perry, who has- become well known throughout the State since coming to East Carolina two years ago, has selected the following com positions for Ms concert program: Eight Bach Preludes; C Minor Fan tasia, by Bach; Sonato Opus 28, by Beethoven; Chopin group—3 preludes, waltz, etude, mazurka; Concert Etude in F sharp by MacDdwnll; 5 preludes by deBussey; Liszt ti nscription Z of Rigoldtto. A native of Wisconsjp, Mr. Perry was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and of the Wisconsin School of Music and has Studied with a number Of outstanding piano in structors. He taught piano' and theory both in his native state and in Florida prior to coming to North Carolina. He is in great demand throughout the State for concert appearances and the local chapter was fortunate in secur ing him for its spring concert. The pianist performed On the dedication program of the CAR chapter house last Apr!) and on other occasions here, always receiving praise from his large and appreciative audiences. Tickets, now on sale, may be ob tained from any member of Hie Major May chapter or from the Committee in charge, Mrs. Haywood Smithy Mrs. M. V. Jones, Mrs. & Alex Rouse and Miss Tabitha DeViscopti. The seat ing capacity of Hie drawing room of the chapter jiouse is limited and pa trons are requested to secure their ticket* early. ' The paramount purpose of the. lo cal DAR chapter" in building and maintaining its chapter house is to provide a cultural center for Eastern North Carolina and for this commun ity ^particular. The purchase of a Steinway parlor grand last year was in line with this worthy objective and will enable organizations and musk patrons here to ifWite gifted artists of recognized ability for the pleasure and inspiration of those who enjoy entertainment of the highest type .and as an incentive to the youth of the community to study and develop their talents. SPECIAL EASTER RADIO PROGRAM SUNDAY AT 5 P. M. Thorne-Wooten Furniture company is joining with 13,000 <}ther Hotpoint appliance dealers in presenting * spe :ial Easter Sunday radio broadcast jver the entire _ Columbia Broadcast ing System of 176 stations. The “Hot point Holiday Hour" will present such stage and screen successes as Charles Boyer, Dorothy McGuire and Rosalind Russell. The program can be heard jver WRVA, WBT and other Colom bia stations from 5 to 6 o'clock Sun day afternoon. - REVIVAL Rev. Leon Russell, pastor of the larvis Memorial Methodist church, Greenville, will conduct a revival (tpril 23-80 in the ParmviUe Metho Jonathan Owrton of Willbe Srt' 'ir.j Two Baseball Games To Be Played Here Saturday, Sunday Manager Bonnie Allen of the Farm ville baseball team has booked two game's for this week end for which no admission will be charged. Satur day afternoon the Lowland team from near New Bern will furnish the oppo sition and on Sunday afternoon the locals will play Arba. The games are schedued to start ft 3 o’cloc^. Bright Belt schedule gets under way Saturday, April 22. Manager Allen wants a good name for his club and is offering $5.00 t« the fan who submits Hie best name for the Farmville team. Growers May Ask For Afore Cotton Acreage New cotton 'legislation recently passed by Congress provides forLmin imum 1950 acreage allotments, based on one of three provisions. The revised allotments are based on the larger of (1) 65 per cent of Ui average acreage planted to cotton (or devoted to wpr crops in place of cotton) in 1946, 1947, and 1948; (2) 45 per cent of the highest acreage planted to cotton (or devoted to war crops in place of cotton) on the farm during any one of the three yean; but (3) not more than 40 per cent of the y949 acreage which was tilled on the farm or in Regular rotation. Any owner or operator of a cotton Farm who believes he is entitled to an acreage increase and wants to be con sidered by the county committee for possible allotment adjustment under the legislation must file an applica tion not later than April 21, 1950. “We utge farmers or operators who want their farms considered for re used allotments to file applications by April 21,” sayB F. C. Darden, chair man of the Greene county Production md Marketing Administration “Those who are satisfied with their present allotments need not file, im plications. However, those desirinj increases will be considered J>y :ounty committee after applications tor such -increases aw filed in the :©unty office." Each operator of a farm for which m application is filed will receive a notice from the county committee of he revised 1960 cotton acreage allot ment. When the new allotment no tice is mailed it will replace any pre vious 1950 allotment notice already received by the farm operator. SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Easter holidays for . dents wiU begin today noon tod will comtimu day. Classes will be day morning. The Junior Woman's club hold open house Sunday afternoon at the Girl Seoul hut- on North ^ontentne* at., the occasion befog the presentation of the recently-completed building to the community. The reception room was beautifully decorated. The gift and refreshment tables were centered with arrange ments of jonquils and fern flanked by candles. The mantle and boric -cases, which extend the length of one end of the room, wore bantered with ivy and candies fn pastel shades, potted azaleas an^ Easter bunnies, set in green excelsior. Potted/Easter Ulies were used on pedestals at the opposite end of the room where a table held scrapbooks and mementoes of the Junior Woman's club and the Girl Scouts. The Scout flpg was,in a standard close by. "Refreshments consisted of fruit punch, a variety of sandwiches in Easter motifs, cookies and sand tarts. Mrs, j. M. Gibbs, Junior Woman’s chib president, Mrs. R. T. Williams, administrative Girt Scout leader, Mrs. Carroll IX Oglesby and Mss. J. M. Carraway, mepbers of foe buikHhg committee, received foe gueats at foe front door. Mrs. Lyaian Baas’ and Mrs. D. Registering callers were lbs. Ernest Guthrie and Mrs. X R. Harris. '■ Punch was poured by Mrs. AlUh M. Harris, Mrs. Dewey Fuquay and Mrs. Graydon Liles. Mimes Anne Morgan, JFlaye Mewborn, Lou Taylor Lewis, Martha Holmes, Dotdee Janes, Shirley Newton and Videan Joyner, Girl Scouts, ■assists^ fo serving. - Misses Agnes V. Quineriy and' Lula Hardy had charge of the muSic. Good byes were said by Mrs. R. D. Harris, Mrs. W. R. Burke, Mrs. Allen Drake and Mrs. W. C. Hathaway. Refreshments were prepared by Mrs. W. C. Garner, Mrs. J. H. Darden, Jr., Mrs. I. D. Kirklin, Mm. J. C. Brock and Mrs. Mamin Speight. Many useful gifts of china and cry stal were presented to the hut by foe guests. PERSONAL ITEMS Mm. L. W. Batchelor of Rocky ML spent the week end with her son, Joseph Batchelor, and Mrs. Batchelor. The Batchelors and their guest viaited the planetarium in Chapel HMl Sun day. Mrs. Joseph Batchelor is spending the week end in Richmond, Va., with Mrs. Fred Pfaoa. Bill Rasberry, student at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania dental Bchool, will arrive Monday to spend the spring holidays at hoitae. Mr. and Mm. Harold Sugg Askew Local Churches Plan For Special Easter Services a**d Music Two community service* are sche duled in Parmville Easter day. The sunrise service will begin at 5:37 at the Methodist church, and a canta ta will be presented,at 8 o’clock that night in the Baptist church. Sermo» topic8 and special music for the 11,o’clock services follow: At thb Baptist church, Rev. E. W. Holmes will speak on "The Import ance of the Reeurrection.” Elbert Holmes will sing "Open the Gates of the Temple,” and the choir will rend er an anthem, “Thp Risen Lord.” Rev. Z. B. T. Cox’s topic «t the Christian church will bo “The Leading Role." The choir wfll sing "The Holy City,” New members will be received into the Methodist church and Rev. H. L. Davis has chosen, as his subject, "When Death Cl Gain.” The choir will sing "The Reeurrection” and Miss Wills Rae Harper, soloist, will sing "Gome Unto Me.” “Can We Trust Jesus?” will be the topic of Rev. E. S. Coates’ sermon at She Presbyterian church. "New the Mr. Davis will hold an Easter and communion service at Monk Manorial b£ 9:30 a. m.. Mr. Coates will preach at Carraway’s chapel Sunday after noon and at Ballards Sunday sight. Special music will be rendered bjf the Ballards choir. Jack Tyson Heads Local VFW Post The Bumette-Rouse post, V< of Foreign Wan, elected officers for the rum yearat the regular meeting, held'in the clubhouse two weeks ago. - J Officere are: Jack Tyson, er; Jake Joyner, senior vice mander; Earl Redic, junior vice mander; Harry D. May, BXj Lyman Bass, chaplain; R. R. New ton, Jr., judge advocate; Dr. Frank Harris, post surgeon; Wl C. Tucker, Jr., three-year trustee Volunteer delegatee to the state convention were: R. R. Newton, Jr., Earl Redic, Marvin Hinson and Geo. M. Allen, all of Farmville, and L. Scott Peel© and Julian Gaynor of Fopntein. . CROSS OVER QUOTA Snn— This total < * Julian Vainwrighfc ' of Greenville, grandson of Ka J. 0. Gibbs and nephew of J. M. Gibbs, was crowned king at the coronation ball, sponsored by the Greenville high school sopho more class, Friday night Julian, an outstanding baseball and football player, was away with the baseball team when ballots were counted Fri day afternoon and was not notified of his wtoi$ig onto he reached the ball Another surprise was in store for the "Wag.” Peggy Joyce Barrow, his girl frieftd, was OnterSd to the race for queen Friday morning, unknown to him, and won. , Balloting for the royalty had been in fail swing for several weeks. Min Hazel Garris, state 4-B pres ident, was the ooly member of the fashion review staged by Pitt county Home Demonstration and 4-H clubs in Greenville Saturday afternoon. Hazel modeled an afternoon cotton. The re view was a part of the fifteenth an nual Community Arts festival. Give an art student some old newspapers, gummed tape, glue, paint and shellac, and the result may be an attractive window decoration.. The big green Easter bunny in the win dow of the Farmville Flower Shop was made by Mary Frances Allen in an art class at ECTC. Small yellow bunnies were painted on the sides and back. Miary Frances is the dasuhtec of Mrs Frances Davis, operator of Have j^j&ettced the sign between Farroville and Bruce on a farm build ing which reads “Trayed at White's Store in Greenville”? • 1 n ■ Bob Morgan, who delighted a num ber of Farmville audiences with iotos Mrs R. P. Doorley, Mr.- Thomas’s laughter. . . A graduate of Purdue university, he bride-elect is enrolled to the school of social science at Columbia iniveraity. She is* a member of Pi Beta Phi, social sorority, and the Jun ior League to ha* hometown, Evans rills The grooto-etect received his legree to ceramic engineering at State college, where he was a mem tor of Pi Kappa Tau, social frater 30UNCJL CONCLUDES HOLY VSHK SERVICES TODAY Successfully warding off a tempta tion to giro in to spring fever, Rum villa’s Board of Commiaaigners Tues day night turned out the work 'and tackled an agenda which fauJMed such controversial issues as purchas ing a new automobile for the police department, renewing a contract with the Ktt-Greene Electric Membership Corp., leasing some town property to J. B. Taylor and studying proposals to paint and renovate the town halL The board authorised the flwaneo committee to proceed with purchasing a new car, after studying bids. The town was offered $606 for the present 1946 Chevrolet >y B & W Chevrolet company as a trade-in; Eason Motors set the trade-in price at $800 if ex changed for a new Plymouth and Pol lard Auto company offered to give the town $906 for the old car on a texted . ’ l .. The property leased to Taylor in cluded two acres, a port of they town dump that has been cohered and is suitable for the ejection of a house thereon. Taylor wanted to buy the property but the board compromised by leasing it, to him for 10 years at an animal rental of $25. Taylor in tends to mgve a house on the proper ty and will- rent it to an employee of the town’s street department The matter of negotiating a con tract with the REA was discussed at length before the board voted to re new the contract on the same Basis that has been in effect since Oct, 1948. This contract provides for the sale of power to the REA at a whole sale price of 13 mills per kilowatt, on sliding scale which provides for the rate to be increased or reduced in accordance with the price of oil. A* present the rate is 12.5 mills. The REA is preparing to set up an office of its own and will do so shortly after May 1. Hie building on North Main street formerly used by the Ethel Kjttrell Shop, has been rented to the REA and'will be used as headquart ers until a permanent home can he The town’s financial sheet showed that the buget had been set up' for tin policemen but that only five had beeh employed. It was pointed out therefore, that the board could Use the money saved in that department and use tt for painting the town hall, a project that was diiscuaed several Choirs Will Present Cantata Sunday Night Hi*. Turasge Win Direct 39-Voice
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