1? VOLUME NO. 41 : MOUNT OLIVE, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1944Number 8 GRANVILLE WILT CAUSED LOSS 10,000 ACRES OF TOBACCO ' ", \ 1- % Resistant Varieties v V Expected to Be Ready Next Year Granville wilt destroyed . 10,000 acres of tobacco in this State last year—but “indications are that wilt resistant varieties which pro • . duce satisfactory quality tobacco will soon be available for general use”, according to a report re ceived by the State Department of Agriculture from the Tobacco Test Farm in Granville county. “It is hoped that some wilt re sistant seed can be released in time for planting in the 1945 crop,” declared E. G. Moss, super intendent of the farm.' In order to develop more effec tive control measures, a total of ^ approximately 10 acres of field plot experiments have been con ducted on Granville wilt since 1936. Although further tests on qual ity of the cured leaf are needed, .surmount able.” By working in close coopera tion the various agencies super vising the projects now being car ried on at the Granville test farm hope to reduce even further the diseases which tend to cripple the production of tobacco in North Carolina. CIVIL SERVICE NEEDS WORKERS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced the urgent need for war workers at Langley Field, Va., at the Nor folk Navy Yard, at the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, New port News, Va., and at the United iStates Naval Powder Factory at Indian Head, iMd. Free transportation to the place of employment, adequate salary and housing facilities are provid ed those qualifying for the posi tions indicated: Particularly needed at Langley Field are instrument makers, ma chinists, airplane modelmakera, toolmakers and laborers. The Norfolk Navy. Yard at Portsmouth, Va., is badly in need of painters, electricions, machin ists, gas welders, laborers, and -many other skilled and unskilled workers. r The Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation needs laborers and all types of tradesmen, including ' language instructors, interpreters,1 librarians, chemical warfare In structors, boat dispatchers, pa trolmen, truck drivers, cooks and ers. . , bjker • To air. and Mr*. James Thorn ton, of route three, a daughter, * April 10. To Mr. and Mr*. Robert Paul Iman, of Mount Olive, a'daugh $0 , April 22. k To iMr;^iid tbi. Willard Kor negay, offWite wro, a aon, April 28. : 11' ' ?>.. To Mr. gna ijlw. Ennie Hood, t:*?.. of route three, a aon, April 25. 1 M**' Bougainville Bath U. S. Mario* Cocp* Pfcow After a long tour of doty on the jnnfte flfhtlnf front, this U. & ! Marino and his Devil Doff take a well-earned bath on Boofain vule. The do*, a Doberman Pinscher* seems to bo wondering what will happen next. . STORM DAMAGE ? IN WAYNE HEAVY ^ Electrict Disturbance Only Effect Here Considerable damage -was done in Fork township, Wayne county, in the storm struck Selma, Pine Level and iPrinceton about 6 .p.m. Monday. The homes and farms of Lonnie 'Williams and Roy Wil liams, both on the William Roy all farm three and a half miles west of Goldsboro, were the Worstdam aged. ;.' Mount Olive was not affected. The only evidence of the storm here was some disturbance in th^ electric lights. ^ Lonnie Williams suffered a leg injury-when he went Out of his house during the height of the storm, to look toward the home of Roy. The front porch of Lonnie’s home was torn from the house. The smokehouse and a new tobac co barn were destroyed. At the Roy Williams farm a truck was hurled 20 feet, barns and stables leveled, windows blown out of the home and the roof dam aged. CLOTHING CAMPAIGN BEGINS MAY 1ST Raleigh. — Whole-hearted co-. operation throughout the State is meeting the scheduled campaign to collect clothing for the' people in wartorn Russia during the first, two weeks of May, it .was report-, ed 'by June H. Rose, director of the North Carolina collection. He reported an unusually good response from school authorities and school children, who will do most of the actual work of col lecting Serviceable garments and shoes which will be sent to our Soviet allies through Russian War Relief, Inc. No money will* be raised, and all clothing will be sent to headquarters in>New York express collect. DEDICATION SERVICE AT SMITH CHAPEL Rev. J. A. Russell of New Bern will preach at Smith Chapel Sun day evening at 8:30 p.m, and will dedicate the new church furniture that has recently been installed, new • pews, pulpit furniture, and choir chairs., All former members and friends of the Church are urg ed to. attend this service. Strawberries The Office of Trice Administra tion Monday advised Bailey Rich, 3tate Department of Agriculture market newsman,. that ceiling prices for fresh strawberries were to go" into effect Thursday, April 27. ^ Although no definite prices will be available until later in the week, Rich said he learned that the ceiling will bis based on. the national farm price of 1943-^$6.51 per 24-quart crate; ; - Strawberries sold in North Car olina last week averaged "a little better” than $10 per 24-quart, crate. • , ■ ." ' 1 : Renew You* Subscribtion WHITE BIRTHS LEAD NEGROES IN COUNTY Exactly Double Colored Births According to the monthly re port of the Wayne county health department, white births in the county during March exactly dou bled the Negro births, when 88 white children, and ,44 colored children were born, makihg n to tal of 132 live births recorded dur ing March. lOther facts released by the de partment’s report included: , A large number immuniza tions were'recorded due to the act that Special clinics Were held dur ing the month. Smallpox 70 white, 583 Negro, total 653; diptheria 41 white, 152 Negro, total 193; ty phoid 487 white, 3,982 Negro, to tal 4,469; whooping cough, 39 Ne gro. Treatments for syphilis were 40 white, 1,288 iNegro, total 1,328; gonorrhea, five white, 28 Negro, total 33. Deaths from TjB. during March totaled 7, all were Negro. PVT. ABURA BEST IS NOW RATED EXPERT Pvt. Abura Beat, formerly of Mount Olive, who is now in the army, and stationed at the armor ed replacement training center, Fort Knox, Ky., recently made “expert” on the machine gun, scoring- among the best shots in his company, it was announced this week by the public relations department at Fort Knox.' l$rs. iBest is the former Miss Helen Keel, also of Mount Olive. STRAWBERRY CEILING WENT ON THURSDAY Raleigh, April 25.—The state ! department of- agriculture said to day they had been notified by the office of price administration that effective after noon Thursday there would be a $8.88 ceiling on 24-quart crates of fresh strawber ries. The, department said these av eraged approximately $9 per crate in the state today and that thes ceiling' would be lowered to $7.80 per crate May 2. \ . MAYOR’S COURT There was only one case tried ibefore Mayor M. J. Hatcher in the city court this week.. It; charged Johnnie Hunter with assault on Mose Pearsall, and Hunter was given 30 days, suspended on pay ment of costs. , < e\^rtonor Capt. L. H. (Fountain, Dayton, Ohio. h. K> Jordan, City. ■ . N Mrs. E. N. Ricks, Sr. city. Opl. Haywood Whitfield, Over Mra, M. D. Davis, Calypso. ~ Pfc. Mallard (Davis, Ft. C us tin, Va.' - ‘ Jesse Martin, City. ' Mrs. Paul Howard, Kinston. Lie Ingram, Rout* 8. ’ MYERS TO LEAVE It was revealed here this week that Rev. Donald G.; Myers, who has been pastor of the Mount Ol ive Baptist church for the past three years, will leave June 1 to accept a call from the (First Bap tist church of 'Wadesboro.' NEXT GOVERNOR WON’T BE NATIVE OF TAR HEEL STATE First Time In i 104 Years Governor • * Was Not Native For the first time in 104 years, North Carolina is destined to elect a Governor who was born in another state. 4 Both of the major candidates for Governor, Ralph McDonald and R. Gregg Cherry, were born outside the TaT Heel State. Both decided on. North Carolina as a good place to work and live. Cherry was bom in’ York coun ty, S. C. McDonald .was born in Omaha, 111. As a baby, he was taken to Arkansas and was reared in that State. Like Cherry, he re ceived his higher education at Duke. One of the men, barring a tremendous upset, will be North Carolina’s next governor. It was in 1840 that North Caro lina—for the first and only time— elected a Governor born in anoth er State. He was the able John Motley iMorehead, * a native of Pittsylvania county, Va. To go a little deeper into his tory, Morehead was the second Governor elected by popular vote in North Carolina. The first was Edward Bishop Dudley, a native of Onslow county and a resident of New Hanover when he was elected in 1836. STATE’S SHOPPERS HELP WIN BATTLES SAVING BAG A DAY Bag A Day Saving v Would Amount to 74,002 Pounds Daily North Carolina’s 789,560 house wives could conserve enough pa per daily to make 41,112' contain ers for 75 mm. shells hy saving one paper grocery bag S day, ac cording to an announcement by Howard Coonley, director of the conservation division of the War Production Board. This daily pa per saving would amount to 74, 002 pounds. Paper conservation also re leases supplies for ammunition and food boxes, practice bombs, 'bomb bands, blood plasma car tons, protection of ambulances in shipment, camouflage materials and many other items. ‘More than ten times as much tonnage of munitions, food and materials is being shipped overseas > in this war as in 1917-1918. “The paper shortage.is creating a critical scarcity of bags in gro cery stores,” Mr. Coonley explain ed. “So far during the emegenoy bag have been available because .of inventories and the elimination of variety bags, but in the future stores 'Will have to depend entire ly upon current reduced produc tion and buyers’ cooperation. Food buyers and other shoppers are asked to conserve bags by having several items put in one sack, bringing their own bags for re-use, or carrying home packaged items unwrapped. Housewives are asked not to return bags for re use by others than themselves. If all housewives in the United States saved one ounce-and-a-half bag each day, the saving -would amount to nearly 600,000 tons an nually. Allocations of pulp for the man ufacture of- wrapping paper and bags during the second quarter of 1944 have been set by WPB at less than one third the quantity using during a comparable pre war period. Labor shortages in the wood pulp industry and the loss "of pulp imports, as well as military demands, have caused the paper scarcity. THREE CASES TRIED BEFORE MAGISTRATE Three cases were tried in Mag istrate J. C. McCullen’a court this week, and were as follows: G. Aldine iPrice, no tail lights, $5 and coats. - - T Johnnie Rouse, driving drunk, bound to county court under $100 bond. r- ■ Carl Powell, no tail lights, and no muffler, $5 and costs. FLUE-CURED PROGR’M FOR 1944 EXPLAINED TO WAYNE FARMERS Letters Issued by County Committee to All Farmers All' farmers in Wayne county who are raisins flue-cured tobac co this year under the supervision of the AAA 'will receive letters this week explaining the 1944 pro gram, it was revealed yesterday by V. B. Herring, chairman of the Wayne AAA committee. Purpose | of the letters, he explained, is to assure a clear understanding at the time of the program, which will be in effect this year. Special attention is called to four points of the letter, and were outlined by Mr. Herring as fol lows: (1) That the marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Ad justment Act providing tor a pen alty on excess tobacco will be in effect with respect to the 1944 crop of flue-cured tobacco. (2) That the acreage of tobacco on each farm will be reported in about the same manner as it was in 1943. (3) That each county committee will be required to have a tho rough spot-check made on the acreage on a certain percent of the farms by a committeemen or a representative of the committee, and (4) That the county committee 'will examine after marketing sea son the record of tobacco sales from each farm and will investi gate of have an investigation made in the case of any farm for which the record of sales shows abnormal production for the acre age harvested. BESSIE DUDLEY Funeral services for Bessie Dud ley, 52, who died Monday at the home of her sister, Mrs.' IBettie iD. Keen, Route 3, Mount Olive, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the home by the Rev. John Lang ston of Grantham Township. In terment was in the family ceme-~ tery near the home. Surviving are two brothers, Willie and Sammy Dudley, and her sister, Mrs. Keen, all of Route 3, Mount Olive. SMITH CHAPEL Church school—II a. m. Worship service (sermon by the pastor—12:00 noon. Evening worship (sermon by Rev. J. A. iRussell)—8:30 p. m. Special dedication service of the new church furniture following the sermon. Shaw Smiths U||Show Is Praised By Wo/fied Lads VETERANS WORKING i IN ESSENTIAL JOBS I Some Apply While Still in Hospital Returning war veterans, anxi ous to get the job over and fami liar with the needs of the armed forces, are losing no time getting into jobs in essential activities, even though many of them have specific disabilities. In March, 1345 World War II veterans applied for jobs at the 45 local offices of the U. S. Em ployment Service of the War Manpower Commission, 994 com pleted their applications, 805 were placed by these offices in essential activities and help was rendered in the placement of 291 others by these offices, Dr. J. S. Dorton, State Manpower Director, reports. In addition, 235 veterans of oth er wars, largely World War I, ap plied for jobs, 139 completed the applications, the local ■ offices placed 178 in jobs and assisted in placing 75 others. Veterans of all wars completed applications for jobs in 1133 cases in March, out of the 1580 who ap plied, and the local USES offices placed 992 in jobs and assisted in placing 336, or a total of 1331. Placing more in jobs than com pleted applications in March is explained by Dr. Dorton as includ ing veterans left from the appli cations of the previous month. These placements, Dr. Dorton explains, are in non-agricultural jobs, and do not include the num bers who 'Went directly to farms. Nor does it include those who went back to their former jobs, held open by former employers. The March report shows that 193 applications for work were taken by the veterans’ employ ment representatives while the ap , plicants were .still in hospitals" in 1 the State., Of thesb, 129 were vet erans of World ‘War- II and 64 veterans of World War I. In every local USES’ office in the State is located one or more veterans’ employment representa tives, many of them veterans themselves, who are trained to handle the problems presented in finding jobs for veterans. One of these trained men is to be found, either full or part time, in the hospitals in North Carolina from which veterans are released and take applications for all who ere seeking jobs. EDUCATION ON WHEELS WEtJSN Johnny hat thrilled to tht last lines of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn and when Jans has lived through exciting experi ences of Anna of Green Gables, all they need to do to get mors liters* turs Is stroll down to the corner. ■ take a street ear, return their books and select others as they ride back home. This is the system which has proven such a profitable and popular Innovation In the city of Mmoatoa, Alberta. Thousands of books are thus circulated weekly among the young, sad sometimes older, (oik la Edmonton. __ Because It is the “Jumping of" centre (or the Alaskan Highway, the population has - loomed since pre-war years, much ot It due to an Inllua ot United States soldiers, workmen and their families. » To meet the growing demand for books, educational authorities hare hit upon this hovel method ot dis tribution. Above is shown n group of youngsters inside the ambulating library exchanging books and, be lew, another group boarding the “educated street car.VjgjggggMl mMount Olive Boy ll^mong Those for Jljf Whom Shaw Perform’d ' There has been no way found yet to stop a young man, deter mined to serve his country, even if he is classified as unfit for mil itary duty. And oftentimes, as in the case of Colin Shaw Smith, son of Mrs. C. S. Smith, of Mount Olive, there seems to be a definite intervention by Providence 'when such young men are rejected by the armed forces, and in their de termination to serve they are of greater benefit in their new -posi tions than they -would have been as mere soldiers or sailors. .Proof of this contention was forwarded to The Tribune this week in the form of a letter from another Mount Olive youth, Bay ■ Barwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barwick, who is with a naval . shore patrol unit, stationed in Jacksonville, Fla., and who is now in the hospital there. Barwick’s letter, which follows, is self-explanatory: “Dear S'irs: . “While reading in our little town paper a while back, I read about things happening to -boys in - the service. Well, I think some thing happened to me the other day which has happened to no one I else, as follows: “On April 10, 1944, I was shot through the hand, -while in the line of duty. I rushed to this navy hospital, and was given two or three transfusions from the Red Cross. Boy, you know that is what saved my life. So it has come around now that they’re going to give me an honorable discharge some time in May. Next Saturday I am getting the medal of honor from the U. S. Navy, of which I am very proud. 'But on with the story: ‘’Thursday, April 20, there wa* . a U. S'. O. camp show coming around to the wards of the hospi tal. There were lots of entertain ment, and who should be with them, but Colin Shaw Smith. We 'Went to Fort Bragg together (for induction physicals), but he did not pass, and he said he was go ing to get in something like the U. S. 0., and he did. Why, he made some of the boys in our ward, who ■ had lost their legs ’and arms, laugh and forget all about their | troubles. After the act he came and talked to me for almost two hours. I 'have never seen anyone I had rather see than Colin Shaw. He might not be in uniform, but he is doing just as great a job as | a lot of boys in uniform. It might not be anything to you who don’t know what it means to be without a hand almost (because mine has no feeling in it), to see some one from your home town going I around doing what he can for bays who cannot get around any -more, but the boys asked me to write this letter for the people of our town to let them know that Shaw is a service man if wie ever saw one. “You can print this or tear it up, it doesn’t matter much, -but it has made me feel good to write it to you. You will have to excuse the wrriting because I am now learning to write left-handed, and I am not learning as fast, as I should.” Colin Shaw is well-known throughout North Carolina as a magician and master of ceremon ies by virtue of his abilities, and his job before joining the. U.S.O., was secretary of the Y.M.C.A., at Davidson college. State's 4-H Cooks To Help In War Effort By Preparing Food Right Equally important in the 1944 war time program of increased " food production is the proper preparation for a well-balanced diet. Thousands of , rural girls will learn how to plan, prepare and serve nutritious meals and there by contribute to the "Food Fights for Freedom” program through enrolling in the National 4-H Food Preparation Activity. Recognition of meritorious res- -v. ords, provided by Servel home eco nomics department, comprise sil- - A ver medals for county winners, a trip to the National 4-H Club % Congress in Chicago next ©ecem ber for the state’s champion, and a $200 college scholarship for each V? of six national winners. * ^ This is the tenth year of ' the ^ activity, which is conducted by the extension amice. • _**^r**r - •.