Godwin and Grady Have
Announced Themselves
For Indge and Solicitor
William I. Godwin of Selma and
Paul D. Grady, Jr., of Kenly threw
their hats into Johnston county's
1946 political ring Tuesday as they
announced their candidacies for judge
and solicitor of Recorder's court, re
spectively, in the Democratic primary
in May.
In announcing for the judgeship,
Solicitor Godwin of Recorder's court
Spiked last week's political rumors
that he would be a candidate for soli
citor of the fourth judicial district,
facing Solicitor W. Jack Hooks of
Kenly, who prevously filed for the of
fice. Larry F. Wood gave the green light
to the race .for judge of Recorder's
court when he announced recently
that he would not be a candidate for
rennomination. Other possible candi
dates for the judgeship include Albert
A. Corbett of Wilson's Mills, Gilbert
Grady of Four Oaks, F. H. Brooks of
Smithfield and Hugh A. Page of
Clayton.
Solicitor Eight Years
Godwin, who was unopposed as soli
citor in 1942, defeated W. O. Rosser,
Jr., Four Oaks attorney, and Don B.
Ward, Smithfield lawyer, for the
county office in 1938. The former
Selma mayor received the second
highest number of votes at the pri
mary polls that year.
The first candidate to enter the
race for solicitor of Recorder's court,
Grady is the son of former State Sen
ator Paul D. Grady.
Grady, who maintains law office
" with his father in Kenly and Smith
field, was graduated from Kenly high
school in 1931, Atlantic Christian Col
lege in 1934 and the law school at the
University of North Carolina in 1937.
Entering the Army in April of
.toAA 1,0 aamrAH as an anti-aircraft
vrinnsr nhnflWt a reunir- ship in the
r'fjUj. ne Inlands andhe1d the rank
Vf corporal 1btr-rie time hi. his honor--able
discharge in January of 1946.
The overseas veteran, who prior to
entering service served as solicitor
pro tem for several monms wmie
Godwin had a leave of absence, is
married to the former Josephine Wil
liams of Nash county. The couple
have two children, ages seven and
nine. ' . . ,
With the entry of liodwin ana
Grady in the county's political cam
mm, linva now filed or an'
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thai rnnrlidacies for five 01
the 17 offices to be voted on at the
polls in the May primary.
TwAJVfan Race
The only two-man race to date
places Sheriff C. L. Denning wno is
ilK. fV iinoYnirnd tprm of the late
Kirby L. Rose', against-G. C. Uzzle of
Wilson's Mills, former deputy snerui,
for the No. 1 county office.
Political circles continue to mention
Delma Hardee of Elevation townsiup
fnnvnK donntv under Sheriff R. U
AV1.
Barber who filed as a candidate for
the office in 1942 but withdrew at tne
last minute, as the person who may
make the sheriff campaign a three
cornered race.
Smithfield businessman Alex D.
Holman has declared that he will seek
one of the two Democratic candidacies
for state representative, and Solicitor
Hooks has filed for renomination at
the primary May 25.
No Public Report
No public report has been made by
G. Ira Ford, county tax collector who,
friends say, is now deciding whether
fnr lprk of Sunerior
court, an office held for a number of
years by H. V. Rose, who naa Deen
unopposed for the position campaign
after campaign.
: Candidates for state and district of
fices must file notices by March 16,
and April 13 is the filing deadline for
candidates for the state senate and
house of representatives and all of
the county offices.
Millard N. West
En Route to States
f Willard N. West, MM 3-C, husband
of Mrs. Mary S. West, of Selma, is
returning to the States aboard the
U.S.S. Sarasota, an attack transport
of the "Magic Carpet" fleet This
ship left Peleiu January 80, and is
scheduled to arrive in San Diego about
February 21. The U.S.S. Sarasota' is
one of the Navy's vast fleet of cargo
and transport ships which maintained
long and often hazardous supply lines
throughout the Atlantic and Pacific
during World War II. .
Farta Machine Cut
Perils '46 Crops
Farm eaulpment output has been
hit so hard that the resulting short
age of tractors and implements may
cut 1946 agricultural production.
Many products will be "outseason
ed" by lack of plows, planters, culti
vators and other equipment needed in
the spring, according to one manu
facturer, who usually makes this
equipment during the winter.
CANDIDATE
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WILLIAM I. GODWIN
Red Cross Township
Chairmen Are Named
Township chairmen for Johnston
county's 1946 Red Cross fund cam
paign, which will be conducted
throughout March to raise a quota of
$16,000, were announced today by
County Chairman Ronald Hocutt, who
disclosed that three Kjwams clubs
would sponsor their township drives,
The Smithfield Kiwanis club will
head the local township s campaign.
for 85.60O; and M. A. rtv&i
dent of the club, will act as chairman?
Willard Johnson will be chairman of
the Kiwanans' drive for $2,610
Selma township.
Chairman Dobbin Bailey and Co-
charman Earl Crawford and J. B.
Long will be in charge of the Kenly
Kiwanis campaign for $840 in Beulah
townwship. The Princeton Lions club,
with Chairman Arthur Hinnant and
Co-chairmen S. C. Woodard and Mrs.
W. O. Mason, will aim at 4600 in
Boon Hill.
Negro Division 1
The quota for the Negro division
which will embrace contributions
throughout Johnston county, has
been set at $3,000 for the Red Cross
drive. W. R. Collins, training school
principal, and R. J. Ho't, Four Oaks
Negro school principal, will conduct
the drive and chairman and co-chairman
respectively.
Other chairmen appointed, the
townships and Red Cross ouotas in
clude L. L. Strickland, O'Neals, $400;
C. E. Gaddy, Sr., Micro, $300; Mrs.
Merle Godwin, Pine Level, $60a; Wal
ter Strickland, Banner, $1,500; Bert
Lassiter, Ingrams, $1,100.
G. Willie ' Lee, Pleasant Grove,
$400; C. C. Perry, chairman, and Otis
Freeman, co-chairman, Wilders, $350;
C. H. Aderholdt, Meadow, $700; an. I
Mrs. H. M. Cox, East Bentonville.
and Rufus W. Sanders, West Benton
ville, township quota of $2,00. .
To Be Appointed
Chairmen for Cleveland, Wilson's
Mills and Elevation townships will be
appointed this week, reported County
Chairman Hocutt, Clayton, which has
its own Red Cross chapter, will con
duct a separate drive.
Special gifts to the Red Cross will
be accepted begining March 1, but the
actual canvassing for funds is not
scheduled to get underway until the
second week of next month. Tentative
plans call for a kickoff dinner in
Smithfield for township chairmen.
The Johnston Red Cross drive this
year has a quota of $16,000, 68 per
cent of which will be used to support
the activities of the local chapter
while 42 per cent of the money col
lected in the county goes to the na
tional fund.
PUBLIC SUPPORTS
PRICE CONTROLS
Raleigh, Feb. 19. Indications of
mounting uublic awareness of the
need for price controls is shown by
the volume of "Hold the Line" letters
being received by Chester Bowles,
Theodore S. Johnson, OPA State Di
rector said today.
The current volume of letters urg
ing continuation of the stabilization
program is averaging five times
heavier than in October, 1945, John
son said. Of the letters and telegrams
received, less than 2 per cent are op
posed to price controls, he added.
The nation's ultimate foreign policy
will have a definite and material ef
fect upon the agricultural program'
and its chances of success.
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Grand Jury Charges
Smithfield Mill Worker
With Fowler Murder
The Grand Jury in Superior court
in Smithfield Wednesday of last week
returned a true bill, charging George
Lee Anders, 23-year-old mill worker
of Smithfield, with the murder of
Carl Cecil Fowler, 20, of Selma, who
died in the Johnston county hospital
Tuesday night at 8:15 of an abdomin
al bullet wound.
Anders had been held in jail with'
out bond since early Sunday morning
pending investigation of the shooting
and action by the Grand Jury, which
was in session and promptly acteo
upon the bill of indictment presented
by Solicitor W. Jack Hooks.
Sheriff C. L. Denning, who invest!
gated the shooting, reported that
Fowler, from his bed in the hospital
Sunday afternoon, accuped Anders of
shooting him in a bedroom in tne An
ders' home in the presence of Anders'
wife, whom, Fowler said, the Smith
field man planned to kill also but lost
his nerve.
Fowler was taken to the Smithfield
hospital at 12:15 Sunday morning by
Anders, who told investigating offi
cers that he had found the injured
youth on Highway 70 about eight
miles east of Gurkins tavern. .
Wife Chanees Story
Anders' wife at first corroborated
this story, Sheriff Denning said, but
later under questioning at her home
in the mill village said she had not
seen her husband from 4:30 p. m. un
til midnight Saturday. Officers said
she admitted that she had dated
Fowler while Anders was in the peni
tentiary.
Mrs. Anders, reported the sheriff,
said that her husband had threatened
to kill Fowler and had even asked her
to make a date with the Selma boy
and c-et him off somewhere so Anders
could kill him. Denning said she did
not admit that she had seen Anders
shoot Fowler. " : "
Sheriff Denninsr stated that he ask
ed Mrs. Anders permission during the
questioning at the house between 4
and 6 o'clock Sunday morning , to
search the home for a gun and she
consented.
RthPiv toW he that -I tnmMSM.
knew where the mm wasveXpIairl'd
the sheriff, "and for, her to gefc it She
pulled a pocketbook from under , a
mattress in a bedroom and took the
gun, wrapped in an apron, out of the
pocketbook." i
Anders first denied tnat ne naa
r j., "I J 1. j
erun. reported -Denning, inen. iu irc
had one but had not touched it for a
week. Later he identified the gun as
his, declared the sheriff.
Uennin? caned
Dennino- was called to the hospital
shortlv after one o'clock bunday
mnminir to investigate the shooting.
When he arrived there, Fowler was on
t.h oneratinsr table and Anders and
his wife were present and said they
had found the Selma boy on the nign-
The sheriff . who was assisted in the
investigation by Policemen Bill Jonn
son and Charlie Allen, took Anders
and V. A. Futch of Selma. who was
Twlonanil inside of two hours, into
custody and placed them in the coun
tw fail.
Futch said, the officers stated, that
he was at Slaughters filling station
near Selma and saw Anders with a
gun force Fowler outside the station.
Later, Futch was reported to have
said, he heard that the Selma youtn
was shot and in the hospital and that
he went there.
Corroborated Story
Billy Shirley of Selma, who ex
plained that he was with Futch at the
filling station, corroborated the story,
and Futch was released from jail.
Sheriff Denning said he asked
Futch to draw a diagram of the gun
he saw in Anders' hand and that
Futch's drawing coincided with the
gun the officer took from Mr. An
ders. - ":
Dr. V. A. Davidian, surgeon in
charge of the Johnston county htfspi
tal, removed the bullet from Fowler's
abdomen, but the Selma youth who
wa recently discharged from-? the
Navy, was fatally wounded and died
Tuesday night. i
Funeral Services '
Funeral services were held Thurs
day at 2:30 p. m. at the home in Sel
ma by the Rev. Henry Liles of Selma,
assisted bv the Rev. E. H. Babb of
Wake Forest. Burial was in the John
ston Union Free Will Baptist church
cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, MrJ and
Mrs. Troy Fowler, of Selma; ; three
brothers, Julius, Joseph and ' Troy
Fowler, Jr., and five sisters. Rose Lee,
Grade, Hersey Algia and Linda Lou
Fowler, all of the home.
Selma Kiwanians On
District Committees
President John Jeffreys announces
that Orrin Tuttle has been named to
the district committee on boys and
girls work, while J. V. Chamblee was
placed on that for sponsored youth
organizations. Both appointments
were made by Governor Jasper Hicks,
of the Carolinas Kiwanis District
The governor's home club is Hender
son. ' '
BUY U. S. SAVINGS BONDS
iCIWANIS CLUB SEEKING TO PUT
VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN SELMA
SCHOOL; MASS MEETING SOON
1N GERMANY
Pfc. William F. Black, son
of Mrs. Gladys W. Black, of
Selma, is stationed at Furth,
Germany. He is assigned to
the 184th Ordnance Depot
Co. Be received his training
at Camp Blanding, Fla. and
has been in service since the
29th of June, 1945.
SAMSTALLINGS
NEW LEADER OF
SCOUT DISTRICT
Smithfield's Sam H. Stallines.
leader in the scout movement for
Lcum)?erj of years- and - he fathe of
ipie scums, una unn eiecwsi
chairman of the Johnston district of
the Tuscarora boy scout council. He
succeeds D. S. Ball of Selma. .
The election of officers took place
Friday night at the Rose-Glenn ban
quet hall at a district dinner meeting
attended : by more than 40 Johnston
eounty scouters.
Other Officers
Unanimously adopting a nominat
ing committee's report presented by
Chairman E. F, Boyett, the group
elected the following officers in addi
tion to Chairman Stallings:
Vice president of Tuscarora council
for Johnston district, E. A. Johnson,
Benson; vice chairman of Johnston
district, Solon Cotton, Wilson's Mills;
district : commissioner, D. S. Ball;
chairman of court of honor, I. W.
Medlin; vice chairman of court of
honor, the Rev. H. K. King, Smith
field."' -
Chairman of advancement, E. 'L.
Woodall, Smithfield; chairman of
leadership and training, O. A. Tuttle,
Selma; chairman of camping activi
ties, Rudolph Howell, Selma; inter
racial chairman, Paul Keller. Clayton;
chairman of organization and exten
sion, Newitt Willianls, Smithfield.
Finance chairman, the Rev. Howard
F. Newman, Kenly; chairman of
health and safety, Dr. Will Lassiter,
Selma; chairman of rural scouting,
Thurman Boyette, Glendale; chairman
of cubbing, J. A. Temple, Selma.
Dr. Rose is Speaker
Bringing an inspirational address,
Dr. D. J. Rose of Goldsboro, president
of Tuscarora council, declared, "Our
mission as scouters and workers with
boys is the construction of character
that will hold reverence for the things
precious in this life and in the life to
come.
"It is so much easier to build a boy
than it is to mend a man," President
Rose asserted.
During a 5-year period the per cap
ita investment of Johnstonians for
purposes of war amounted to $1,267,
the speaker stated, adding that John
ston county's annual per capita ex
penditure was $144.09 for whisky,
$46.08 for education, $24.08 for reli
gious activities and just one cent for
boy scouts.
Dr. Rose was introduced by Tus
carora's Scout Executive Robert L.
Wolff.
Williams Reports
Newitt Wiilliams,. who served as
district chairman of organization and
extension during the past year, re
ported that the Johnston district has
203 white scouts in 10 troops, with 57
scouters; one senior scout patrol
with five scouts; 35 cubs in two
towns with 14 cubbers; 85 Negro
scouts in three communities, with 31
scouters.
Gean and John Marshall Sasser of
Smithfield provided special music for
the dinner program by playing two
piano duets.
The United States, Canada, British
Isles and the Middle East are the only
areas in the world where food produc
tion in 1945 was relatively favorable.
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The Selma Kiwanis club has something really cooking under a,
slow fire for the Selma school district. When it gets thoroughly
done, then it will be served at a mass meeting in the near future.
A meeting of the steering committee is called for tonight im
mediately following the regular Thursday evening gathering of
V. F. W. TO RECEIVE
CHARTER HERE NEXT
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
V. F. W. Post 5955 of Selma will
officially receive its charter on Wed
nesday, February 27, at 7:30 p. m.
This meeting will be held at the Sel
ma American Legion hut. The charter
will be presented to the new post by
an officer in the State Department of
V. F. W. At present this installing of
ficer has not been designated.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars is
an organization of veterans who have
served in the Armed Forces outside
the continental United States. Only
men who have foreign service are eli
gible and such men are urged .to at
tend "Charter Night" and otfer appli
rntfnii fnr nipmhfirshin.
All veterans, joining the selma
Dost within the next 90 days will be
charter members and their names wan
be inscribed on the official charter.
The first V. F. W. post was or
ganized in 1899 by Veterans of the
SDanish American War. When the
veterans of that war returned home
they discovered they spoke a language
of their own so together they pledged
themselves to an organization for one
cause "to honor the dead, by helping
the living". Through the efforts of
that first group of men the Veterans
of Foreien Wars has become one oi
the strongest veterans organizations
of today. '
At Dresent, membership ot the V.
F::W.- is .nearing e- one mHflqiroarki
and this number grows daily as more
overseas service men return to civil
ian life. In Post 5955 of Selma, the
membership is past the half -hundred
mark and is expected to be tripled by
the end of the charter drive.
Commander Wilbur D. Perkins
stated in an unofficial meeting of the
V. F. W. that there are approximate-
lv one thousand men in this section
of Johnston County who are eligible
for membership in this post and
quoting Commander Perkins, "It is
mv hone to see every toreign service
veteran become a charter memDer.
Funeral Held For
Selma Woman's Brother
Funeral services for J. A. Farmer,
who died at Ahoskie, Saturday morn
ing, February 16th, were held at the
Farmer cemetery near Mt. Olive Sun
day at 2:30 by the Rev. J. W. Lamb
ert, pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist
church.
Mr. Farmer seemed to be in his
usual health on retiring Friday night
at the Garrett Hotel, He was found
dead in bed Saturday morning, ap
parently having died several hours
previous.
Surviving are his wile, tne iormer
Roddie Herring; four daughters,
Elijabeth, Helen, Metta Mae, and
Fannie: three sons. George, Peorlie,
Jack and Marvin; one sister, Mrs. E.
Sasser, of Selma; and one, of other,
M. E. Farmer, of Salisbury. .
SELMA RED CROSS
QUOTA IS $2,610
Williard Johnson will be chairman
for the Kiwanians drive for $2,610
in Selma township when the annual
Red Cross drive gets under way the
second week in March. Working with
the chairman will be Roy Smith.
Hayden Wiggs and Frank Hood.
Selma's quota last year was $3,000.
This amount was exceeded by several
hundred dollars. Present indications
are that there is a possibility of
Selma going way over the top this
year. .
It has been announced that special
gifts for the Red Cross will be accept
ed, beginning March 1, but the actual
canvassing for funds iis not scheduled
to begin until the second week in the
new month.
The Johnston Red Cross drive this
year has a quota of $16,000, 58 per
cent of which will be used to support
the activities of the local chapter
while 42 per cent of the money col
lected in the county goesto the na
tional fund.
Holiday Friday For
Employment Office
The personnel of the U. S. Employ
ment Service in Smithfietd will have
a holiday on Friday, Feb. 22nd. How
ever, a claims-taker will be on duty
in the employment office on that date
for the purpose of taking unemployed
and self-employed claims.
me juwanis ciuo. u u. Davis.
chairman of this committee haa
working in close co-operation
with him D. S. Ball, R. H. Grif,
fin, Leon Brown and Prof. O. A.
Tuttle.
The steering committee is
steering straight for vocational
training in our school. Topping
the list is a commercial course
in bookkeeping, short hand and.
typing. Next on the list is music,
both instrumental and vocal.
Then there is a course on agri-.
culture which would teach scien
tific and up-to-date farming.
At the proposed mass meet
ing vocational training will be
thoroughly discussed, its cost,
its execution and benefits. The
meeting will be open to both
pros and cons.
This broad program was the theme
at the regular meeting of the Kiwanis
club last Thursday night. Opening
with the Kiwanis sontr. the invocation
was then offered by-Kiwahian Wade
Baker, Baptist minister. Noting the
purpose of .the gathering and the very
fine attendance. President John Jef
freys next announced committee
composed of Kiwanians Willard John
son. Rov Smith, Hayden Wiggs an J
Frank Hood to handle the Red Cross
work this year. At this stge of the
game John presented Kiwanian Leon
Brown, chairman 6f the club's agri
culture committee, who had charge of
the evening's program, Leon, - who
plans his programs well, lost no time
m gettiirg-Mrfiwgrainunderway and
immediately ; introduced Kiwanian U.
A. Tuttle, superintendent of town
schools, as speaker. Discussing voca
tional guidance in the public schools,
Mr. Tuttle said that a practical defi
nition of education "is that thing
which helos a person to do better,
that which he is going to do anyway".
Pointing out the fact that the state
operates, but does not maintain, the
public schools, he indicated that the
long-term retirement of bonded in
debtedness for plant rather than any
official desire; accounted for the lack
of a program of vocational guidance
in our schools today. As of January
first, however, the final series of
bonds for our present building were
retired; and the plant now fully be
longs to the community. Accordingly,
the way is now open for these courses
- which the students urgently need -provided
we are willing to pay for
them. "Just this week", said the pro
fessor, "a young man left our school
to follow his main interest - that of
farming." "Books did not fill his
needs, and we have no farm courses
to offer."
Continuing his discourse Mr. Tuttle
said said .that the philosophy of the
state's oneration is that we are in
debted to every child in the state, and
therefore, the wealth of the entire
state should be behind them. This ap
peared to strike a responsive chord
among his hearers.: ;
"If we fail to provide their needs,"
said the school head, "we are derelict
in our duty."
Annearincr next was Mr. N. E.
Meekins. of the state department of
education, who outlined something of
the first needs in setting up a pro
gram of teaching in the schools. In
cidentally, ' the state official com
mended and endorsed Mr. Tattle's
stand on the subject. Mr. Meekins
said that an advisory committee, con
sisting of town and rural residents
should first be formed to assist the
agriculture teachers. A survey should
then be made to determine the loca
tion of our farms and to find out just
what the program of each farmer
mnrernwt m. "Am von. Mr. Farm
er." simply trying to out-guess the
market, or do you have and know a
farm program," asked the speaker.
Touching on the shopwork phase of
teaching program, Mr. Meekins said
that this shop was open to farmers
generally and not merely to the stud
ents. Many items of farm machinery
are repaired there, and instruction in
this work is given to adults as well
as to students. The shop also doubles
as a meetingplace for farm people,
said the speaker. A modern building
such as those now in use in the
teaching of agriculture in the schools
requires about S2,000 worth of equip
ment in addition to the cost of con
struction, he continued. In promising
hs assistance at any time, Mr. Meek
ins also mentioned that this program
ia approved by the Veterans Admin
istration for use n its self -proprietorship
program.
Chairman Brown, at the conclu- "
sion of Mr. Meekins' address, called
for a brief openfprum type discus
sion and a number of citizens present
expressed themselves. Dr. R. E. Earp,
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