SELMA, N. C THURSDAY APRIL 13, 1944
NUMBER 16
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I Cress Drive
be good Hews to ev
i Seima and Johnston
9 learn that the Red
ive in Sehna has gone
e ouota assiamed to it.
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i was asked to raise
.00 for the Red Cross
and the latest figures
were given out YVed-
-ay afternoon showed that
aa had raised $3,128.00.
re by exceedin g its quota
?ore than $300.00.
workers fei this drive
highly ?nimendeJM
vnnrlprfi.ik ' ' ioh Hifttfr'l
- u "ne in raising this large
i tfr-Miey, a-j everyone
" r. a ? 'button to '
voi f iu: j- s- iould feel
' ff tkfi. r" -. to
id a parti.-
- f'Jch a woihiertiuTjN,!
I Chdjtcrstern
.r Installs OfHcers
Die Order of Eastern Star, Chap
f 29 met last Thursday night, for
istallation of officers, with Mrs. J.
f . Hughes presiding - in her usual
gracious manner, j; '
New officers Installed were:
Mrs. Hunter Price Worthy Matron
W, S. Earp .... Worthy Patron
Mrs. Ed Creech Amo. Matron
W. D. Pef kins Asso. Patron
Mrs. Joe O'Neal Secretary
Mrs, Lather Etheredge. Treasurer
ris. Raleigh Griffin ...1; Conductress
Mrs. G. A. Earp Asst. Conductress
MrsHerbert White .:.-..;.: Chaplain
Mm Ors Stout .. . Marshall
Mrs. Raymond Peedin ........ Organist
Mrs, Ila Adams ..;..... ., Warden
5 Rays of Central Star:
Mrs. Paul Harris .a...
Mrs.W. D. Perkins
Hra. W. L. Norton
Ada
Ruth
Esther
Mrs, Nannie Woodard Martha
Mrs, Leon Brown Electa
Installing officers were o;
Mrsi Miriam Longest, District Depu
ty Grand Matron : ;
T.Irs? 'Dora" Thurston, Grand Marshall
DellalHly, Grand Chaplain ,:
Mrs. Carrie Smith, Conductress. c
All installing officers were from
Tlocky Junt '
; At , the close of the installation
exercises, the Chapter was favored by
two val selections by the talented
young rMiger, Miss Mary Louise Jef
freys, accompanied by Mrs. Leon
Woodruff. - s .
rd Services Held
cr AccHcat Victisi
"ifield, April "10. Funeral
i for Edward L Davis, 29, who
'!y injured Saturday evening
.iick by a car as he was re
to his borne near Smithfield,
lucted Tuesday at 4 p. m. at
on Church in Wake County
v. I.. V.. Godwin of Smith
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Lieut. Killed When
Army Plane Crashes
Occurred Near Princeton Thurs
day moraine When Fighter
Plane Went Into Nose Dive.
: Second Lieutenant Howard C. Wei
ler, 22, was instantly killed about 10
o'clock last Thursday morning when
the fighter plane he was piloting
went into a nose dive and crashed
about three miles north of Prince
ton. The accident occurred near the
home of the Rev. Walter Williams,
Free Will Baptist minister, the plane
exploding as it tore a large hole in
the ground in an open field.
Eye witnesses said the plane ap
parently went into a nose dive and
the pilot was not able to right it on
its downward sweep, r
The public relations office at Sey
mour Johnson Field from which the
plane took off, reported that an in
vestigation would be made in an ef
fort to determine the cause of the
accident.
Group Considers Matter
County Hospital Needs
A group of citizens gathered in
Smithfield Friday night to give con
sideration to the best solution to the
improvement of service by the John
ston County Hospital. The meeting
had been called by the hospital board
of directors to help clear up matters
relative to recent developments at
the hospital after it had been charged
that the hospital was not in position 1
to give adequate service to emer- i
gency cases due to lack of proper fa
cilities.
R. P. Holding presided at the meet
ing and made quite a lengthy talk
on the founding and growth of the
hospital in which he reviewed some
of the struggles through which the
institution had passed, stating that
it had principally been operated as
a private institution although -the
county did own a small proportion of
the stock.
A full and free discussion was had
as to the best way to improve the fa
cilities of the hospital for taking
care, of charity and emergency cases.
There was considerable sentiment
in favor of making it a government
owned institution and that ample'
funds and facilities be provided for
taking care of charity and emergen
cy cases. ' ..
. Dr. V. A. Davidian, in explaining
why the hospital turned away the
two wounded : soldiers a few weeks
ago, stating, that no blood plazma
was immediately available and that
quicker aid could be had by taking
them to the nearest base hospital. He
explained that the hospital had suf
fered some heavy losses in handling
charity cases, an4 voiced the belief
that it would best serve emergency
cases by having at its disposal some-
kind of a public fund for this pur-!
pose, as. it could not absorb all such
expenses on its own.
B. A. Henry Puts On
flA If murani Pmnvom 1
AJWWU luiviMiw 6" ,ton and Dixon Wallace. Smithfield to-
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Program Chairman B. A. Henry
put on a good program at the local
KiwaniB club on last Thursday even
ing, in the form of a Spelling Match.
Mrs. D. M. Clemmons, the Kiwanis
Sponsor, and M. L. Stancil were ask
ed to choose sides, which they did by
dividing the group as they were sta
tioned on either side of the table.
David Ball was then appointed by
Kiwanisn Henry to give out the
words from Webstre's old Blue Back
Speller. Quite a lively contest went
on for some time as different ones
dropped out of the race until it fin
ally narrowed down to Mrs. Clem
mons, and Matt Wall on the opposite
side of the table. Matt soon hit a
snag, however, and Mrs. Clemmons
emerged as the champion speller of
the evening, and was awarded a prize,
which she then sold to her husband
for a certain amount of cash.
President Sam Stallings of the
Smithfield club acted as presiding
officer during the meeting, while
President Rudolph Howell, who ex
changed places with him, was pre
siding over the Smithfield club.
The attendance for the evening
reached almost one hundred per cent
An -effort is being made to make
April a Red Letter month in attend
ance and it is hoped that every Ki
wanian will be present tonight (this
Thursday) at 7 o'clock.
Yar Production Beard
Allows Rca Imported
asHfngton, April 10 The War
uction Board has decided to per-
t mlimited importtion of bevn
three years or more old, a
i official Mid todiy;: ;
County TB Association
At the open meeting Friday after
noon of the Johnston County Tuber
cular Association, held once a year,
officers were elected for the coming
year. Q. A. Tuttle of Selma, was
chosen lis president; Mrs. Parlia
Hudson of Benson, vice-president;
W, T. Wooard, Jr., of Selma, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Sam Cooper, ex
ecutive secretary; and Elton Mitch'.'
ner, treasurer.
The following township directors
were named: Clayton, Hugh Page;
Boon Hill, Mrs. J. B. Wooten; Smith
field, B. H. Houston; Selma, David S.
Ball; Beulah, H. M. Grizzard; Wild
ers, Mrs. Percy Flowers; O'Neals,
Dr. R. E. Earp; Cleveland, Mrs. Al
fred Taylor; Wilson's Mills, HE,
Mitchiner; Elevation, Mrs. Chester
Barbour; Banner, Mrs. C W. San
ders; Ingrams, Mrs. Tryon George;
Bentonville, C. E. Denning; Meadow,
C. H. Aderholt; Pine Level, Mrs. Ru
dolph Oliver; Micro, C. A. Fitzger
ald. I Directors at large are: Dr.. B. A
'Hocutt of Clayton; Dr. B. L. Wood-
jard of Kenly; Dr. E. N. Booker of
HSelma; Dr, M. V. Jackson of Prince
ton; Mrs. Norman Johnson of Mead
ow; H. B. Marrow and R. P. Holding.
The treasurer's report showed that
$2,005 is in the treasury including
$1,664 raised through the sale of
Christmas seals.
The committee named in January
to confer with the county board of
commissioners relative to putting a
trained nurse in charge of the county
tuberculosis hospital, reported that
the whole county TB situation is be
ing surveyed and . the work of the
committee is not yet complete. It was
i v vi cuiaifc vino vviiiiiuucci csiiu
President Tuttle will name the new
members at an early date.
Prominent Smithfield
Woman Died Sunday
Mr. Jennie M. Wallace, 71, widow
of lJateJt.LJir.M
resident of Smithfield, died SunavTffo,rl ?t too ?o enherrRa. But
morning about 8:30 o'clock at the
ho'me of her daughter, Mrs. Clifton
Beasley, with whom she lived, fol
lowing a lingering illness.' She had
been confined to her bed for two
months or more.
Funeral services were held on Mon
day afternoon at the Beasley home,
after which interment followed in
Riverside cemetery. The Rev. B. H.
Houston, pastor of the Methodist
church, of which Mrs. Wallace was a
member, conducted the services. He
was assisted by the Rev. Chas. L.
Gillespie, pastor of the Baptist
shurch.
. Pallbearers were J. V. Ogburn, Dr.
W; J. Massey, Jr., Rayford Oliver,
A. G. Glenn, C.-M. Johnson and W. J.
Huntley.
Mrs. Wallace was the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon
Massey of Smithfield,
Surviving are one daughter. Mrs.
Clifton Beasley; and three sons, Hol-
uacconisis ana ousiness teaaers; ana
Lawrence H. Wallace, Smithfield at
torney, tobacconist and Johnston
county representative in the state
legislature. She also leaves eight
grandchildren.
Out of town people attending the
funeral included: Mrs. A. G. Johnson,
Dunn; Mrs. Laura Sanders and Mrs.
Alfred Wall of Wendell, Route 1; Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Beasley, Miss Mary
I Sanders, Mrs. Ellis WaddeU, Mrs. M.
u. Mann, Mrs. Agnes Hicks ot Kal
eigh; Mrs. John H. Rouse, Sr., John
H. Rouse, Jr., and Henry Rouse of
La Grange; L. A. Culbreth, Miss
Kathleen Culbreth and Mrs. Clyde
McClellan of Falcon; Mrs. John Mas
sey of Clayton; and D. D. Massey of
Durham. ,
Kenly Service Club
Elects New Officers
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Kenly Citizens Service Club hold
on last Friday night the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, J. G. Boyette; vice
president, Herbert Grizzard, Jr.; secretary-treasurer,
Julius Corbett
Durwood Creech of Smithfield,
lieu tenant-governor of the 4th Caro
linas Kiwanis District, made the
principal address of the evening. Gov
ernor Creech invited the club to be
come a member of Kiwanis Interna
tional, pointing out the advantages of
Kiwanis, etc A committee, composed
of the officer of the club, J. D.
Bailey, Jack Hooks and Dr. B. L.
Woodard was appointed to consider
the advisability, of uniting with Ki
wanis. Gov. Creech was accompanied
by Ed Batten, also of Smithfield.
Two new members were welcomed
Into the club, J. H. Barnes and Prof.
E. E. Crawford. Pan! D. Grady, Jr,
ar.i Noble Crumpter, who recently
' ' 1 the armed forces were remem-
i Prominent Citizen Dies
In Kinston Sunday Night
COW MOTHERS PIGS
Charlie Albert Creech, Jr.,
of Selma, Route 1, owns a cow
also a sow and six pigs. He got
the shock of his life when he
discovered his cow dividing
her milk with the pigs. He
first noticed she would lie
down for the pigs to nurse
and as the pigs became more
attached to the cow they
would stand up on their hind
feet to nurse the cow, so he
finally had to separate the
cow from the pigs because the
pigs followed the cow instead
of the sow. He hopes there
will soon be a little calf to
take the place of her 6 adopt
ed children. ;
Selma Boy Writes
From South Pacific
The Johnstonian-Sun is in receipt
of a nice letter from Carl W. Parrish,
who is in the U. S. Navy, written
from somewhere in the South Pacific.
dated March 14, 1944, as follows:
I want you to know I appreciate
you sending me the Johnstonian-Sun.
It really helps me out when I'm lonely
and blue, It is impossible for me to
meet my friends so by the paper I
can see how they are making out. I
wish you would give all my pals"my
regards and that I hope to soon see
them, of course that's what we all
want out here.
"I see in the paper where lots of
my old friends have died and I would '
never have known it if it hadn't been
for the paper so III thank you once
again. .- :
I guess' the old town is just about
the same from the way mother tells
me, except for a few rations of
course, that s to be expected. We
I
can say this is a beautiful place, nice
tall palm tree?, etc., but I'd lot s
rather be home.
"Oh! I met Morgan White and a
boy from Smithfield out here, in
fact Morgan use to come around at
nights and we would have some nice
cold cocoa together. (I got it from
officer's mess) that's just in case you
would like to know, ha - ha. It . sure
did please me to find someone from
home, it's almost like seeing your
brother.
"I wish you would tell all my
friends' around home to drop me a
line or two for it gets awful lone
some out in this neck of the woods
and even a letter would cheer me up.
So if you would do me that favor I
sure would appreciate it very much.
This is my address:
Carl W. Parrish, Ptr. 3-C C-l
'Fleet P. O. 35th Naval Const. Bafl.
San Francisco, Calif.
"HI always be glad to bear from
anyone that cares enough to spare
the time to even write and say hello."
The "Rat Man" To
Be In Selma Today
: Mayor B. A. Henry tells us that
the "Rat Man" is coming to Selma
today (Thursday, the 13th) to con
tact the business men of the town
relative to putting on a rat extermi
nation campaign in the town.
It is hoped that everybody in Selma
will give their hearty cooperation in
this effort to rid the town of these
pests. Even if it does cost a little
something to have these rats exter
minated by use1 of the gas method,
when we consider the trouble and ex
pense rats are to us, the gas method
is only a very small item compared
to the damage rats do.
Aside from the destruction wharf
rats do, they ore said to be infected
with lice that will give a person
typhus fever should you be bitten by
them; and typhus fever is one of th
worst maladies known to the medical
profession. '
Clayton Visited By
Heavy Hail Storm
The town of Clayton was visited by
one of the most destructive hail
storms in its history early Tuesday
evening when hailstones came down
with such force that hardly a home
or business house In the town es
caped without broken windows and
damaged roofs. Practically all of the
windows were broken in the Clayton
Cotton Mill.
Hailstones are reliably reported to
have been as large as hen eggs and
to have fallen in great volume over
the town, bat the stem seems to have
reached its peak right over Clayton
as reports from adjacent territory
say the storm was not so bad as Clay
tow report . . '
Mrs. J. B. Person Succumbs
In Kingston Hospital Following
Long Illness Died Sunday
Night Funeral Held Tues
day Afternoon In Kinston and
Burial Took Place in Selma
Cemetery At 5 O'clock.
Mrs. Hattie Moseley Person, 67,
widow of the late Dr. James B. Per
son of Selma, died in a Kinston hos
pital Sunday night after a long ill
ness. Funeral services were held from
the home of her sister, Orie Moseley,
on East Blount Street in Kinston at
3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the
burial taking place in the city ceme
tery M Selma at 5 o'clock.
A daughter of the late. William
Octave and Launa Mewborn Moseley
of Lenoir County, Mrs. Person resid
ed in Selma for 35 years and was an
active member of the Wilson's Mills
Christian Church. She was a semi
invalid for several years, and last
November suffered a stroke and was
a patient at Rex Hospital in Raleigh
until a month ago.
Surviving are a son, James B. Per
son; two brothers, L. 0. end J. Woo
ten Moseley of Kinston; three sisters,
Orie Moseley and Mrs. Launa Faulk
ner of Kinston, and Mrs. L. S. Giliam-
of Statesville, and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Trustees of ECTC Vote
To Retire Meadows
At a meeting of the trustees of
Eastern Carolina Teachers College
held Tuesday, the board voted 10 to
1 to grant President Leon R. Mead
ows's request that he be retired on
August 31st.
The motion was made by F. C.
Harding. Voting against it was Ar
thur Corey of Greenville. Mrs. W. B,, c
Murphy of Snow HiH was the-absenlV
trustee.
The matter of selecting a successor
to Meadows did not come up in the
executive session but Chairman Clyds
Erwin said a sub-committee probably
would be appointed at the May
meeting.
A motion to grant . Meadows a
leave of absence with pay was de
feated 8 to 3. Voting for it were
Corey, J. H. Waldrop, of Greenville,
and J. B. Andrews of Raleigh.
Meadows has been with the col
lege for thirty-four years and for the
past ten has served as president. He
recently was exonerated by the board,
8 to 4, of a state auditor's report al
leging he had not satisfactorily ac
counted for college and student
funds totalling more than $18,000.
Erwin said today's meeting was
"very pleasant."
Meadows, a week after his exoner
ation, asked Governor Broughton
that he be' relieved at the end of the
present school year.
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Fire Destroys Colored
Residence Near Oil Mill
The home of Joe Williams, colored,
who lives near the Southern Cotton
Oil Company here, was completely
destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon,
including all household goods. It was
a three-room structure. Origin of the
fire is not known.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
"T By H. H. LT'SBBHSH
Last Sunday afternoon between
1:30 and 2:30 while the writer of th
Maindrag and Mr. E. M. GORDY, the
manager of the Brick Hotel, were
eating a fine Easter dinner with Mr.
GORDY'S daughter, MRS. HUNTER
PRICE, a thief entered our room at
the Brick Hotel and packed his suit
case full of our wardrobe, leaving us
only the clothes we had on at the
time the articles taken were
three suits, almost new, four extra
pairs of pants, a new pair of shoes
we had bought the day before, two
suits of silk pajamas, several shirts,
neckties, underwear, a genuine lea
ther hand bag with zipper fastener
but for the suit we happened to
have on at the time of the robbery we
would now be in bed or going around
in a barrel and right here we wnt
to thank LEON RICKS, the manager
of Ricks' Hotel, and RAILROAD DE
TECTIVE R. BRITT, for their kind
nessesthese gentlemen took us to
Wilson, arriving there soon after the
suspect had taken his departure for
another town - just before leaving
the hotel the rogue took charge of a
small radio In the lobby this he
packed in our grip he carried two
large Mackvsuitcasest these he had
checked, bat did not check the smaller
be