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SELMA,' N. O, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945.
NUMBER 20.
Selma Boy Breaks Leg
In Airborne Rhine Crossing
The 102nd General Hospital, Eng
land. Escaping injury from machine
gun and rifle - fire as he drifted to
earth after parachuting from a plane
over the 'Rhine. Private First Class
Joe F. Edwards. 19, of Selma, N. C
broke his right leg when he hit the
ground. He is now Recovering at this
United States Army general hospital
in England, where he has been award
ed the Purple Heart.
He landed in a field between three
houses from which the Jerries could
cover the entire area with machine
gun and rifle fire. Two British para
troopers came along and helped him
to a barn where a medical officer
splinted his leg. He spent the night
with British wounded and was later
flown to England.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J
F. Edwards of Selma and was em
ployed by the State Highway Depart
ment before entering the army in Oc
tober 1943.
W. Valton Barbour
Killed In Rail Accident
W. Valton Barbour, 29-year-old na
tive of Johnston county, died at 6
o'clock Wednesday morning of last
week in a Rocky Mount hospital af
ter receiving serious injuries Tuesday
afternoon when an ACL motor car
was derailed in Rocky Mount. He was
rail gang foreman for the Atlantic
Coast Line.
As Barbour and his crew were re
turning from work late in the after
noon their car was derailed in the
south yard and Barbour was thrown
from it. ACL officials reported the
car passed over him, crushing hisf
chest and fracturing his skull. He
also suffered a broken hip.
He was the 'son of'T. C. Barbour
and Mrs. Bertha Barbour of Johnston
county and went to Rocky Mount
about three years ago.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon in the Baptist church, Four
Oaks, with the Rev. Wesley Davis,
his pastor, in charge, assisted by Rev,
F. A. Lupton, pastor of Four Oaks
Methodist church. The body lay in
state at the church from 2 until 4
o'clock. '
Pallbearers were Charlie Gibson,
Gilbert Creech, Hubert Massengill,
Bill Massengill, Chester Keen and J.
R. Rogers.
Survivors include his wife, the for
mer Valeria Stevenson, of Johnston
county; a daughter, Linda; his par
ents; and two sisters, Clara Lee Bar
bour and Mrs. James Raynor, of
Johnston county.
Johnston County 4-H
Field Day At Selma
The Johnston County 4-H Club
Council is having its annual Field
Day at the Selma school Saturday,
May 19, beginning at 9:30 a. m., ar-d
continuing until arouna o:uu p. m.
Each club is asked to be repre
sented in the events and compete for
a banner. .
The events will include a potato
race, relay race, a sixty yard dash,
a sack race and a soft ball gme. The
program promises to be a good one.
The King and Queen of Health
will be crowned, and it is planned to
have a short talk by Mr. L. R. War
rick, State 4-H Club Leader.
LOOSE CIGARETTE
SALES BANNED
Raleigh, May 14. Sales of loose
cigarettes of any brand are now pro
hibited by a new OPA ruling, Dis
trict Director Theodore S. Johnson
announced today.
The action also provides that re
tailers who formerly were required
to sell two. packs of economy cigar
ettes per sale may now make single
package sales for a period of six
months, ending November 12, he said.
J. Walton Coley
Receives Promotion
J. Walton Coley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Coley of Selma has been
promoted from Seaman second class
to Seaman first class, at the Naval
Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas.
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More than 1400 families in Taos, a
rural county in New Mexico, are
members of a county health associa-
won, begun about three years ago. I
WOUNDED
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rru iajumis a. UKUUKtK was
seriously wounded in Germany on
April 21, according to information
received by his wife, the former Dor
othy Southard. He was employed with
the Southern Railroad Company in
belma before entering service. He re
ceived his training at Camp Wheeler,
Georgia, and went overseas in Sep
tember, 1944 He is a son of Mrs,
Alice Crocker, Route 2, Selma. Pfc,
Crocker has two brothers overseas.
4-H Club Work
In Johnston County
Approximately 400 4-H club boy3
and girls; of Johnsfon County' listened
to, v. i. iiewis, ana u. Val Turnbull,
4-H club organizers. Jamaica, British
West Indies, discuss 4-H club work
and other activities being carried on
m Jamaica under the British Govern
ment on May 9, 1945, at the four
schools visited by these representa
tives during their one day stay in
Johnston County.
According to J. A. Spaulding, Ne
gro District Agent, Greensboro, who
accompanied these young men to this
county, they have been studying 4-H
club work in detail in Washington, D.
C. and have studied for two weeks at
the State College of Extension Serv
ice, Raleigh, North Carolina.
After their brief period of study,
field trips were planned so that these
individuals might be able to see 4-H
club work in practice. In North Caro
lina they visited Gilford, Harnett,
Wake and Johnston counties;
In leaving the representatives made
this statement "Cooperation on the
part of the principals, teachers.
neighborhood leaders, and farmers
have caused, we believe, the splendid
4-H club set-up in this county".
The schools visited were Johnston
County Training School, Four Oaks,
Short Journey, and Richard B. Har
rison. During the day the Jamaicans
visited two of the four corn demon
stration projects being carried on by
the Agronomy Department of the
North Carolina Extension Service by
Lee Sanders, Four Oaks, and J. W.
Mitchener, Smithfield, N. C.
In 1940 two representatives from
Jamaica studied 4-H club work in
America and as a result of .this study
have organized clubs in their country.
"It is felt that the 4-H club boys
and girls will, because of the discus
sion by .the visitors, work harder with
their projects since they know now of
the hardships others are having in
4-H club work", says L. R. Johnson,
Negro County Agent.
Selma Girl Licensed
Taxi Cab Driver
The regular meeting of the Board
of Aldermen of Statesville was held
Friday night in the Aldermen's room
of the City , hall with Mayor Jones
presiding. ,
Miss Elizabeth Eason was granted
permit to drive a taxicab, Two other
applicants were denied the privilege
of driving cabs. The special privilege
license for Miss Eason was provided
I for in ordinance for incoming fiscal
' year 1945 - 46 and was duly adopted.
Miss Eason is the daughter of
Jessie C. Eason, of Selma, Rt. 1.
The WFA has extended the poultry
set aside order (WFQ 119) to include
Guilford, Randolph, Moore, Lee,
Chatham, Alamance, Orange,- Dur
ham, Granville, and Wake counties in
North Carolina.
Kiwanis International
Has Farm Program
M. L. Standi, president of the
Selma Kiwanis Club, today announced
that an eight-point community agri
cultural program will receive consid
eration of the club. V
The program is similar to that to
be carried out in 2,260 communities
having Kiwanis clubs. The necessity
for and details of the program were
announced May 9 at Richmond, In-
diana by Ben Dean, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, Kiwanis C International
President. :'
"The Kiwanis International offL
cials decided that the appalling losses
from floods and soil depletion, esti
mated at nearly a billion dollars
year, is a symptom of the greatest
agricultural problem confronting
America."
"The first step in carrying out the
program will be to determine what
Kiwanians, as business and profes
sional mencan do to further conser
vation of the soil."
Other phases of the program in
clude:
2. Encourage the application of
modern farm methods, such as diver
sification, crop rotation and proper
land use. ' . .
3. Encourage practices which will
reduce production costs, increase
yields and assure profitable family
farms. . . ---'..
4. Develop in the community a wide
interest and pride in agriculture.
5. Encourage farm youth in their
study of modern, efficient farming
and Soil-rebuilding practices.
6. Assist farmers in obtaining ade
quate markets for their products.
7. Assist returning veterans from
the farm to become reestablished on
farms. -',;' :.' ' : :
8. Develop a spirit of cooperation
among business, industry, finance
and agriculture.
Importance of .the Kiwanis pro
gram was indicated by the hearty en
dorsement given it by President Bejn
Dean at Richmond Wednesday night.
President Dean told more than 300
Richmond Kiwanians an their guests'
ma.1 manners 01 me umiea states naa
done a prodigious job of producing
Al i M ? ll T T ' 1 ni 1 . Lij
food for the war effort. In doing so,
however, he added, they had taken
from the soil vital elements which
would take years to replenish. '
Funeral Held For
Mrs. James C. Standi
Funeral services for Mrs. James
Stancil, 67, who died suddenly at
her home in Smithfield around 8:30
o'clock on the night of May 9th. were
conducted from the home Monday af
ternoon at 5 o'clock by her pastor,
the Rev. C. L. Gillespie of the Smith
field Baptist church. Burial took
place in the Riverside Cemetery. The
funeral services had been delayed
pending the arrival of Dr. James
Stancil from Colon, Panama, where
he is a surgeon in a government hos
pital. Other children present for the
funeral were Mrs. N. L. Perkins fi
Smithfield, John L. Stancil, Rich
mond, Va., Charlie Bill Stancil, Den
ver. Col., and Cpl. Moses Stancil of
Victoria, Kansas. One other son, NorT
wood Stancil, who is somewhere m
China or Japan, could not be reached.
Survivors, other than those named
above, are two sisters, Mrs. Katie
Stalhngs of Selma, and Mrs. J. H.
Rose of Benson; one brother. Robert
Creech, of Benson; three grandchil
dren, Lt. N. L. Perkins, Jr., Sgt. Ed
win R. Perkins and Mrs. Bob Cole.
Mrs. Stancil was the widow of the
late J. C. Stancil, who was Smith
field's postmaster for several years.
She was a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. L. U. Creech of Benson.
'ittman Children Home
During Past Week End
Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Pittman of
Selma, Route 1, had as their guests
last week end all of their children
for the first time in several years.
iney weres y. r.umn
1-C, U. S. N., who has served for the
past two and a half years in ine
South Pacific; M. C. Pittman, A.R M.
1-C. U. S. JN.; Edwin ntiman, . i-v,,
V. S. N.; Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Stal
lings, , Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Braswell,
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Pittman, and Mrs.
J. O. Pittman.
A very good time was enjoyed by
all.-
Brownout Is Lifted
States J. V. Chamblee
The "brownout" has been lifted in
Selma, states J. V. Chamblee, Selma's
superintendent of the city's water
and light department. The lighting of
windows, and street signs may now
be resumed.
Hancock To Support
Prices For Flue-Cured
1 Washington. The Commodity Cre
dit Corporation will support prices of
flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina
fyom the beginning to the end of the
marketing season, CCC - President
Frank Hancock has assured represen
tatives of growers from four states,
Hancock also indicated that he fa
vored over-allocation of the estimated
crop to assure as much competition
as' possible on the auction market.
The growers are seeking either re
moval or modification of the alloca
tion system, arguing that it causes
buyers to withdraw from the market
when they have purchased their
quota, thereby causing prices to drop.
E. Y. Floyd of Raleigh, chiarman
of the group from North Carolina, de
clared that he had been told by buy-
tera that tha ronann fop fluctuations
ffn the market was the allocation sys
tem, and urged adoption of 110 per
cent allocation of the crop.
Earlier, the growers had met with
Office of Price Administration offi
cials and asked for a "two-cent tol
erance" in the price ceiling on the
leaf in order to assure growers the
Ceiling price or their crops. The tol
erance would in effect be a price in
crease, since under the present ceil
ing the OPA expects growers to. got
an average price below the ceiling.
Former Governor J. M. Broughton,
who is general counsel for the Bright
Belt Tobacco Warehousemen s Asso
ciation, stated that OPA has promis
ed to take the plea for a "tolerance"
under consideration.
Broughton also asked Hancock to
adopt a policy of buying to support
prices before they drop instead of
trying to bring prices back up after
they have dropped.
C. E. Gage of the War ood Ad
ministration said that if removal of
the allocation system will prevent
prices from fluctuating, the WFA
"certainly will consider it and prob
ably adopt it."
F,d Dodd, chief of the Triple A, said
thafi it will be difficult to keep prices
atj, tobacco. . at ceiling levels through
support Duying Decause nue-curj to-
bacco is not graded.
Broughton told him that manpower
for grading is not available this year
even if grading of the leaf were pos
sible, v
Mrs. Peedin's Father
Dies At Her Home Here
The Rev. George H. Jernigan, 85..
one of Dunn's oldest and most
respected citizens died Thursday
morning at the homo of his daughter
Mrs. Callie Peedin, in Selma, follow
ing a long illness
Funeral services will be conducted
Friday at 3:30 o'clock from Stony
Run Free Will Baptist Church neir
Dunn by the Reverend Leila Silt 3
Garner, pastor of Bethesda Friends
Church, and Doctor George Cuttrell,
minister of the Christian Church of
Dunn. Interment willbe in the Stony
Run cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Callie Peedin of Selma and Mrs.
Darius Thomas of Dunn; three sons,
F. W. of Dunn. I. W. of Spring Hope,
and H. T. of Elm City; one brother,
R. F. .Temisran of Dunn; two sisters,
Mrs. Lizzie Monds and Mrs. Van"ie
Johnson of Dunn; and 19 grandchil
dren and 14 grjat grandchildren.
Selma Girls In Annual
Concert At Meredith
Miss Jean Davis is a member of the
Meredith College Glee Club, which
presented its annual glee concert in
the college auditorium this week.
Miss Davis is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. O. Davis of Selma.
Miss Anne Hood Hughes of Selma
G, Club . -.-.-j lt. -nnllni
glee concert in the college auditorium
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Mig8 fa the dauKhter of
Mrg j T Hughes of Selma.
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JOIinStOn lOUnty S t
Bond Quota Is $500,000
Johnston county's "E" Bond quota
for the Seventh War Loan drive is
the largest of the war, states R. P.
Holding, County Chairman of War
Finance. The quota is $500,000.
. Mr. Holding referred to this quota
as the great challenge of the war to
buyers of "E" Bonds.
The overall quota for this drive.
which officially opened Monday and
win run unni juiy i, is wo,uu,
! siderably below the overall quotas of
recent war oan campaigns.
Buy War Bonds Today!
lev Lions Club In Process
Of Organization For Selma
To the People
of this Community
You have a D-Day this week.
You won't die, lose limbs, sight
or mental faculties in battle.
Your assignment is to buy extra
war Bonds.
There have
been many
D - D a y s in
this war. D
Day on the
Normandy
beaches, D
Day on Tar
awa. D-Day
on Guadalca
nal, D-Day on
Iwo Jima. D-
Day on Okinawa.
What is it like for your sons
brothers, husbands, 'friends fac
ing a D-Day in the battle zones?
It's prayer and nervousness,
nightmarish tension and thoughts
of home.
what's it like for you facing
another home front D-Day? You
are the only person who can an
swer this question. No matter
what the final story is in this
community, you will not have
met your responsibility unless
you have bought more bonds
than ever before in a war loan.
The opening of the mighty 7th
War Loan is an opportunity to re
dedicate yourself to the task of
nailing down the victory.
THE EDITOR
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PVT. GORDON LEE JOHNSON,
son of Mrs. Annie Johnson, Selma,
Rt. 1, who entered the army on Sep
tember 28, 1944, took his training at
Camp Blanding, Fla., and Fort Bragg.
He left for overseas the latter part of
March, 1945, and is now somewhere
in France.
Superior Court Clerk
Addresses Kiwanis Club
' The guest speaker at the Selma
Kiwanis club last week was H. V.
Rose, clerk of Superior Court. He
was introduced by Program Chairman
B. A. Henry.
The spirit of Kiwanis could be
clearly detected in every sentence of
the speaker's address as he built the
frame work of his talk around "Serv
ice to others". Reviewing some of his
observations in dealing with men and
women from every walk of life, Mr.
Rose said the best post war remedy
for this world is unselfish service to
others. '"
The invocation was given by Rev.
Howard Newman who delivered a
prayer of thanksgiving for our suc
cesses in the war with Germany.
The attendance prize, given by
Raleigh Griffin, went to Wilbur D.
Perkins.
W. L. Norton was a special guest
of the club.
Hailstorm Strikes
Pine Level Section
News trickling into Selma from thei
Pine Level section this morning tells
of a hailstorm striking Pine Level
and vicinity around 7 o'clock Wed
nesday evening. Walt Godwin, who
was in Pine Level at the time, says
hailstones fell in great numbers as
large as his thumb. He said the hail
was accompanied by a heavy wind.
We have no news as to the extent of
the storm or how much damage was
. to croDs
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Johnson. Jr.
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Wilson, Jr. of Wilson's Mills spent
the week end at White Lake.
Mr. J. Barnett Napier, Internation
al Commissioner, has been in Selma
since Sunday interviewing some of
our leading citizens regarding a unit
of Lionism. Mr. Napier reports good
progress and has called a meeting for
Friday May 18th at 7 P. M.
LION OBJECTIVES
To create and foster a spirit of
"generous consideration" among the
people of the world through a study
of the problems of international rela
tionships from the standpoint of bus
iness and professional ethics.
To promote the theory and prac
tice of the principles of good govern
ment and good citizenship.
To take an active interest in the
civic, commercial, social and moral
welfare of the community.
: To unite the members in the bonds
of friendship, good fellowship and
mutual understanding.
To provide a forum for the full and
free discussion of all matters of pub
lic interest, partisan politics and sec
tarian religion alone excepted.
To encourage efficiency and pro
mote high ethical standards in busi
ness and professions; provided that
no club shall hold out as one of ita
objects financial benefits to its mem
bers. LION CODE OF ETHICS
To show my faith in the worthiness
of my vocation by industrious appli
cation to the end that I may merit a
reputation for quality of service.
To seek success and to demand all
fair remuneration or profit as my
just due, but to accept no profit or
success at the price of my Own self '
respect lost because of unfair advan- '
tage taken or because of questiona
ble acts on my part.
To remember that in building up
my business it ..is not necessary to f
tear down another's: to be loyal to
my cliervts 'or-jcustomers and jtroe tor-':'
myself. '. : ;
Whenever a doubt arispj as to the -
right or ethics of my position br ac
tion towards my fellow men, to re
solve such doubt against myself.
To hold friendship as an end and
not a means. To hold that true friend
ship exists not on account of the ser
vice performed bv one to another, but
that true friendship demands nothing
but accepts service in the spirit m
which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obliga
tions as a citizen to my nation, my
state and my community, and to give
to them my unswerving loyalty in
word, act and deed. To give them
freely of my time. labor and means.
To aid my fellow men by giving my
sympathy to those in distress, my aid
to the weak, and my substance to the
needy.
To be careful with my criticisms
and liberal with my praise to build up
and not destroy.
Harry Blackley Returns
After Reported Missing
Pfc. Harry Blackley, after having
spent several months in a German
prison, arrived at his home in Selma
this week. Harry had been reported
by the War Department as missing
in action and for several months his
relatives here heard nothing from
him.
"When I entered the prison I
weighed around 150 pounds," said
Harry, "and four months later, when
the Seventh Army liberated us I
weighed less than 100 pounds," he
said. "They tried to starve us to
death, in fact, a large number did die
from starvation," Pvt. Blackley sta-
ted. ;
"After our liberation we were tak
en to France, where we got plenty to
eat. It was in a little town in France
while listening one afternoon to a,
broadcast that I heard the news of
President Roosevelt's death. I had
already lost so much weight and waa
sa wpak the news of the, president's
death was such a shock that I could
scarcely stand on my feet." he told
us.
Harry's many friends are happy to
have him with them again. He has
been granted a 60-day furlough. .
Pvt. Melvin R. Creech
Home From Nazi Prison
Pvt. Melvin R. Creech, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Will Creech of Selma, Route
1, who spent several months in a Ger
man prison camp, is spending a 60
day furlough at home. He was report
ed as missing in December but it waa
later learned that he was a prisoner.