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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,
<prospects are that Granville wilt,
i.’.. which cost farmers well over $1,
000,000 last ydar, is now making
its last stand.
Included in the direct financial
•loss which occurred in 1943 is the
waste of labor and farm suuplies.
- however, as Moss pointed out in
his report, losses in real estate
values are even greater. Hence,
the development of more effective
control measures for Granville
wilt “forecasts a considerable in
crease in the efficiency of tobacco
production for many North Caro -
lina farmers.”
But the more promising pros
pect for impiediate results is in
the use of wilt resistant varieties.
. The better strains, according to
Moss, maty be planted on badly in
fested soils with the assurance
that a crop of tobacco may be ex
pected. However, a “good work
^ able rotation should be followed
as there are other diseases which"
might eventually destroy the to
bacco cron even on good tobacco
r*
&
land.”
It is the opinion of Moss that
resistance to more than one die-'
ease may eventually be combined
in one variety, but at the present
time research work has not been
tarried far enough to guarantee
the success of this project.
Granville wilt has been -epoT-t
ed at one time or another in vir
tually all the tobacco-producing
uhties of this .State. In some
»s, both Granville wilt and the
ack shank have been found in
the same field—“cases like this
present a complicated problem but
iwe think it is not ii>.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.
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