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eiL. SELMA, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946. NUMBER 10
Superior Court (Clerk
IFiles f or Menoifiiiiialion
(The Smithfield Herald)
When H. V. 'Rose of Smithfield.
clerk of Superior court since 1926,
filed as a candidate for renomination
at the Democratic primary May" 25.
the political spotlight in Johnston
county focus8ed on a man who has
not officially-entered the campaign
this vear. ' .
this year.
That man is G. Ira Ford of
Smithfield, county tax collector whom
friends and political circles report,
has been toying with the idea of
running for clerk of Superior court
and will probably make public his
decision in the near future.
- If Ford, who holds an appointive
job as county tax collector, should
decide to enter the race for the office,
it will be the first time that Clerk
Rose has had any opposition during
19 years in the same public office,
Rose's official entry into the 194(5
political picture brings the total
number of candidates to 12 who have
filed or announced their intentions of
seeking eight of the 17 offices to be
decided by Johnston voters at the
polls this year.
Hoi man Files
Alex D. Holman, Smithfield busi
nessman and World War II veteran
who previously announced his candi
dacy for the state legislature, filed
this week and paid his fees to L. L,
Levinson of Benson, chairman of the
county board of elections,
In one of the two contests assured
to date, Holman faces Representative
G. A. Martin of ' Smithfield and Carl
Worley of Selma. who have an
nounced but not filed as candidates
for renomination to the lower house
of the General Assembly.
The sheriffs campaign has develop
ed into a three-cornered race with
Sheriff C. L. -Denning of Smithfield,
who is completing the unexpired term
of the late Kirby L. Rose, and G. C.
TIszlo of Wilson's Mills and . Delma
Hardee of; Elevation township, both
former deputies, running for the
county's No. 1 office.
Other Candidacies
Others who have filed or announced
as candidates and are unopposed so
far are Harold D. Cooley of Nashville,
: Durward Creech of
Smithfield. coroner; William I. God
win of Selma for judge of Recorder's
' court; Paul D. Grady, Jr., or leniy
for solicitor of Recorder's court, and
W. Jack Hooks of Kenly, solicitor of
the fourth judicial district.
The other eight offices to be voted
on and the holders who have not
officially announced their intentions
include state senator, Lawrence H.
Wallace of Smithfield; register of
deeds, W. G. Massey of Clayton;
auditor, J. Marvin Johnpon-of Smith
psi j .
Treasurer, Narvin Creech oi
Smithfield; county commissioners,
R. P. Holding of Smitnneia, j. u.
Wooten of Boon Hill and Jesse Austin
nf rinwtnn. and surveyor. C. ts. rwg-
hum of Selma. Judge Larry F. Wood
nf Recorder's court has announced
that he will not seek renomination,
. , . . .
ANDERS FACES LIFE
PRISON TERM; STATE
ACCEPTING PLEA
ueorge Lee Anders, 23-year-old
tomitniield mill worker, has offered to
plead guilty to being an accessory be-
iore ine lact in the first degree mur
der of Carl Cecil Fowler, 20-year-old
beima resident who died in the John
ston county hospital February 12 of
an abdominal bullet wound.
Solicitor W. J. Hooks said the state
had agreed to accept the plea, which
automatically carries with it a sen
tence of life imprisonment.
Evidence was scheduled to be heard
m the case at the Tuesday afternoon
session of Superior court. Judge John
Burney is presiding.
Sheriff C. L. Denning reported that
Fowler shortly fefore he died accused
Anders of shooting him in a bedroom
of the Anders' home in the presence
of Anders' wife. According to the
Fowler statement to the sheriff, An
ders also planned to kill his wife but
lost his nerve.
Mrs. Anders, who admitted to offi
cers that she had dated Fowler while
Anders was serving- a term in the
penitentiary, denied witnessing the
shooting.
The March mixed court term open
ed Monday. Judgments entered in
clude the following:
Bill Kelly, 25, Selma Negro, assault
on female, wife. 18 months on roads.
Lemuel Cox, 39, Negro, charged
with non-support of bastard child,
Jury ruled defendant is not father of
child born last July 3 to Betty Lou
Sturdivant,
Amethia Carroll, 81, Negro, posses
sion of a gallon of non-tax paid whis-
Two years in jail, suspended on
ky.
conditions of probation and payment
of $50 fine ana.' cosm... . .-,,,, .
Willie Coley : Holt, charged with
larceny of pears valued at $6, proper
ty of D. P. Richardson. State took
nol pros at close of state's evidence,
A Friend In Need
Is A Friend Indeed
By RONALD HOCUTT
SELMA HEN
SHOWS OFF
Out in the country from Sel
ma there is a hen, nobody knows
for sure which hen. But at the
same time her ancestors most
likely became crossed with an
ostrich. Possibly she has heard
of the current egg shortage,
who knows?
At any rate her master, Mr.'
D. M. Morris came into The
Johnstonian-Sun office last Fri
day and presented us with a
hen egg 3 1-2 inches long. 5 3-4
inches in circumference and
weighing 3 1-2 ounces.
We were curious to know how
many yolks it contained. So to
make sure we spilled nothing on
the floor we bursted the egg in
a wash pan. There were two
nicely formed yolks.
We are satisfied this Rhode
Island Red chicken is not affil
iated with CIO or AFL either.
No respectable union hen would
do two days work in one day.
When asked which fowl laid the
atomic egg, Mr. Morris replied:
'I don't know; wish I did."
Mr. Morris, we thank you for
bringing us the makings for
two egg sandwiches.
WE TILLI 10U
THE WILSON DAILY TIMES
(Editorial)
Congratulations and welcome to the
newspaper family of North Caro
linaMr. and Mrs. J. R. Honrine.
purchasers of the Johnstonian-Sun,
who are known by - their friends
throughout the state as Jack and
Opal,
Knowing how to operate linotype
machines,' and put a paper together,
jandwith ; riincU with , but j .FiniSgt, Kirby Rosa, MMC John Jeffreys,
MEMORIAL BOOK
FUND NOW $1,218
The Johnston County Library Mem
orial Book Fund, which has as its aim
the honoring with a book placed in
the library of every Johnston coun
ty service man and woman, now to
tals $1,218.21, states Miss Virginia
Williamson, treasurer of the fund.
Donations from Smithfield citizens
total $782.83; from citizens of rural
areas outside of towns $234.63; from
Kenly citizens $67.50; Benson $50;
Princeton $10: Wilson's Mills S3: and
Micro $2; Selma $69.75.
The canvass has not been complet
ed as outlined during the fall but the
following groups have reported dona
tions from Smithfield: Business and
Professional Women's club $427.50
Junior Woman's club, $57.50; Wo
man's club $67.50; War Mothers
$89.50; U. D. C. $47; P. T. A. $26.15;
bmithfield school $34.68: Countv li
brary staff $33.
Among the donors in the county
are these organizations: County
Council of Home Demonstration
clubs, Atkinson Memorial library, A.
B. We3ley class of Kenly Methodist
S. S., W. S. C. S. of Kenly Methodist
church and the Kenly S. S. "
Service men to be honored by dona
tions not hitherto published include:
Stephen Bill Stallings, Selma, Route
1; Kermit Stallings, Selma Route 1:
George T. Whitley, Jr., Julian and
Charles Phillips. Sgt. George Pope;
Pfc. Ramond J. Todd. Jr., Pfc. James
V. Proctor and S. Sgt. J. E. Parrish
of Wilson's Mills; Elmer Wellons, Jr.,
Joe Honeycutt, Cpl. J. Henry Hamil
ton, Capt. T. G. Upchurch, Kenneth
Baker, Lt. Francis Nordan, Pfc. Rich
ard R. Holt, Pvt. Walter A. Holt, Wil
ham Norwood Royall, Lt. Thos,
Hood, of Smithfield; Howard B. Ben
ton of Benson; Edwin Scott Undi
wood.
Chas. Sullivan, U.S.N., Lt. Geo.
Strickland. Cpl. Johnny T. Colones,
Sgt. Cab Caloway, Capt. T. L, Moore
Blanche Moore, Cpl. James A. Rose,
Tom Starling, Cpl. Alton G. Standi
Selma Will
School Tax
Tueday,
Ap
Hold
Election
ril 16th
Paved Roads Petitions
Are Presented to Board
School Bus Danger
Increases With Spring
TO THE PUBLIC:
Experience shows that with the
coming of beautiful spring weather
the dangers of school dus transporta
tion increases. The Dad weamer we
have had was bad on the buses but
nma lint much danger to the
children. However, for. a number ot
years each spring when the roads
have dried out and been scraped
.mnntfc t.TiA number of school bus ac-
OT'iortto Ksb ureatlv increased. This
seems to be true because the speed of
the school buses is increased unaer
these conditions and at the same ume
there seems to always come over the
drivers with the arrival of spring a
relaxation of the close attention to
the road and dangers.
For this reason, I am asking every
body in Johnston County to please
help prevent school bus accident by
reporting any violation of safety
rules which they observe on any bus
anywhere in the County. Report these
to the principal of the school, to.
which the bus runs, to this office, or
to any law enforcing officer to tne
County.
We believe that we have as good
bus drivers as any County but our
experience leads me to make this
caution at this time.
H. B. MARROW, Supt.
The American Red Cross is the
American People and your contribu
tions will help combat disasters, the
problem of community' health, and ex
pand its efforts in the conservation of
our human resources. We never Know
when the unpredictable horror of dis
aster, such as, Tornado, Fire, Floods,
or threatening epidemics may strike
our community; but, we do know that
the Red Cross stands ready to bring
relief and rehabilitation.
One thing to which the American
Red Cross is eternally committed is to
always be prepared, whether it be for
services to the Armed Forces, or for
the tragedy of disaster that might
take place in our county. In the days
ahead, the nature of the job in some
respects will change, but the quality
of service should not fall, and the
needs whatever they are must not be
overlooked. I appeal to eveiy individ
ual in Johnston County to join hands
and keen onen the channels of under-,
standing and service which the Red
Cross has established. Let us move'
forward to the goal we so earnestly
desire and solicit.
Bv reaching our quota for the coun
ty will show that our hearts hold true
to the cause or Kindness, numan
sympathy, and human understanding.
thought and two hearts that beat as
one. they have grown up together and
cast their, fortunes all in one piece,
the publication of the Johnstonian
Sun. Best wishes to them. We know
that they will succeed and make one
of the best weekly papers in the
state out of it,
Their announcement in the Sun, by
way of introduction, is a clever and
happy piece of work. They close it
by saying that they hope Selma wul
like them. They are sure they will
like Selma.
THE STATE MAGAZINE
Regards and best of luck.
. Carl Goerch
THE SMITHFIELD HERALD
Write-up on front page of their
Friday edition.
SELMA AS A WHOLE
Page ad in last week's edition of
The Johnstonian-Sun by Town of
Selma, Chamber of Commerce, Ki-
wanis Club and the Lions Club.
He makes- his living by the pen
may mean that he raises pigs.
This Edition is Dedicated
: To : ', ,-
ML STANCH
The Paper's Former Editor
Now Deceased
Series of Sermons On
The Book of Revelations
There will be a special series of
fiv sermons on the Book of Revela
tion preached at the Selma Presby
terian Church during March, April,
and Mav.
The five sermons will be preached
at the 7:30 services on the following
Sundays: March 10, March Z4, April
14. Am-il 28. and May 12. The mes
sages are designed to interpret the
entire Book of Revelation. Special
music has been planned for each serv
ice.
You are cordially invited to join
with us in our study of this book.
Rev. H. B. Porter To
Preach Here Sunday
Rev. H. B. Porter, District Superin
tendent of the Raleigh District of
the Methodist Church will preach at
the Methodist Church at the Sunday
night service at 7:30. Afterward he
will conduct the first Quarterly Con
ference. All are cordially invited,
Shortages have made the whole
world kin, is the contention of a
Johnstonian-Sun reader.
BEST OF ALL
"I hope you have a good business
here, sir." Charles D. Fowler, f ost
office special delivery boy.
THREE INJURED IN
WRECK LAST WEEK
While traveling on the Wendell
Raleigh highway last Thursday night
the car driven by Raleigh Griffin
cashier of the local Branch Banking
ft Trust Co., ran off onto a soft
shoulder. In attempting to bring the
car back onto the pavement Mr. Grif
fin lost control of the car and it is re
ported that it overturned three times,
completely demolishing it.
The accident occurred about five
miles from Raleigh. Two other per
sons were riding with Mr. Griffin,
Postmaster Frank M. Hood and W. T.
Wood ard, Jr. They were on their way
to the basketball tournament in
Raleigh All three were taken to the
Mary Elizabeth hospital in Raleigh
where W. T. Woodard was released
shortly afterwards when it was
found he was suffering no injuries
other than bruises. Postmaster Hood
was released last Sunday, having suf
fered cuts about the head which re
quired several stiches. Raleigh Grif
fin returned home last night (Wednes
day), having sustained more serious
Injuries and loss of a quantity of
blood. His worst injury was a deep
cut on his leg. He is not yet able To
return to work.
S-Sgt. Harold Smith, T-3 George M,
Willetts, Sgt. L. T. Pridgen, Sgt.
Robert Ivey Creech, Major W. H,
Lassiter, Lt. Donnell Narron, Yates
Perry, Phm. 2-c Joseph Mi O'Neal
Jr., of Selma; Lt. Francis Nordan,
Capt. Sefton Stevens, James E. Over
by, Cadet Thos. S. Creech and Lt.
Ralph Stevens,
KENLY MAN GETS
TWO ROAD TERMS
DANIEL WILSON RETURNS
Daniel H. Wilson. Jr.. is home fol
lowing his discharge from Treasure
island, California.. February 6. He
plans to take business administration
at the University of North Carolina,
thereby taking advantage of the GI
bill of rights.
North Carolina farmers are seeking
to have Congress consider labor costs
in setting parity prices for all crops.
Vine Edgerton, 40-year-old laborer
of Kenly, was found guilty in two
cases on a light docket in Recorder's
court in Smithfield Wednesday and
sentenced by Judge Larry F. Wood to
serve a total of 60 days on the roads,
Found guilty on charges of being
publicly drunk and disorderly and
also publicly drunk, Edgerton receiv
ed two 30-day road sentences to run
consecutively. He began serving his
term February 27,
William Edwards, 17-year-old Ken
ly laborer was pronounced guilty of
assault with a deadly weapon. Prayer
for judgment was continued on the
condition that he pay $10 fine and
costs.
A 30-day road sentence was sus
pended in the case of Herbert Hocutt,
17-year-old Negro laborer, who was
found guilty of drunk and disorderly
conduct. The defendant was ordered
to pay costs and not violate any crirrf
inal law for two years.
World Day of Prayer
WiH Be Observed
' Friday, March 8, will be observed
in more than fifty countries as a Day
of Prayer. Special services will be
held in Selma at the Presbyterian
Church from 3:30 to 4:00, Friday,
March 8. Everyone is invited to come
and join with Christians all over the
world in observance of this occasion.
In a world that is so delicately at
peace, Christians need to join in
fellowship of prayer the world
around.
Observance of the World Day of
Prayer started in 1887,. and each year
the movement has grown until the
World Day of Prayer has become
universal.
Has Barbecue Supper
On Tuesday evening, February
26th the members of Little River
Council No. 457 Jr. O. U. A. M. en
joyed a very delicious barbecue sup
per at the Council Hall. J. L. Boyette
and J. S. Cockrel prepared the sup
per, and at 6 o'clock, the members,
with a few visitors, gathered for the
feast which consisted of old time bar
becue, slaw, combread and coffee.
After the supper, the regular meet-J
1 1 1 ... M . 1
ing wm neia wun itev. u. & Jjreecn.
councilor, presiding. Short talks were
made Dy some of the members and
everyone present seemed to enjoy the
occasion immensely. All departed
feeling very much enthused.
Nine road petitions includinar two
calling for paved highways were ap
proved Monday by the county, board
of commissioners and ordered sent to
the state highway department for
final action.
A petition signed by 379 property
owners and heads of families and
asking that the Zebulon-Smithfield
road be paved received the board's en
dorsement. The request was present
ed by H. B. Marrow, county school
superintendent who declared that it
was one of the chief routes used by
Johnston county school buses.
The petitioners requested that the
state "hard surface at the earliest
possible moment the remaining un
paved link in the Oxford-Smithfield
highway which lies in Johnston coun
ty from a point in the Johnston-Wake
county lines through Earpsboro,
thence by Rep Moore's service station
and across Buffalo Creek to Tom
Scott's home, thence to Jones' service
station on the Selma-Archer Lodge
road, and thence to Smithfield by the
Old Depot road."
Citizens from Zebulon as well a;
property owners living along the
route were in the delegation that
appeared before the commissioners.
Pine Level-Micro Road
C. A. Fitzerald and W. B. Oliver
led another delegation seeking a pav
ed road from Pine Level to Micro and
extending to Highway 42. The com
missioners gave . its endorsement to
their ' petition. : :, Ci ' '. fa. V'.:."
"The ' bbafdalso eirflreqweets
for the improvement or construction
of these roads: :
Roads beginning at Brack Hocutt's
farm and running soutneny 10 Jim
Oliver's farm on the Selma-Zebulon
road. Distance, 1 1-2 miles.
Elevation townshin path running
from Rehobeth church southwesterly
to McGee's Cross Roads on Highway
50." " ' ' V' -i
Banner township road running
from Y. W. Wood homeplace to &ir
will nrT.nmh homeDlace. Distance, 2
miles. . .
Rnml from old Raleieh-Wilmington
road at Robert Barbour's and lead-
inir bv Wilber Barbour's and Walter
Moore's and going near W. L. Las-
siter's Dond. connecting again wun
old Raleigh-Wilmington road.
Beulah Township Koad
Ronlnh townshin road starting on
OIH Tram road 1 1-2 miles from Ken-
ley and running through lands of u.
A. White, H. L. Atkinson. E. A. Sim
mons, Elmer Holland and J. H. Atkin
son to the Kenly-Buckhorn road at
Elmer Holland's.
Road running from Highway iv
to and bv the late K. l. ugDurns
home in Pleasant Grove and running
to a point near Carlie Adams store in
Panther Branch township in Wake
county. Distance, 3 miles in doih
Wake and Johnston. .
Beulah township road beeinning ai
tfco nlH Rmi ah-Buckhorn roaa iou
vnwls fmm cross roads at Glendale
in direction of Holly Springs church
and running by the farms oi ionme
T o mm Tstii Pittman and R. S. At
kinson, connecting with another road
now maintained by the state near the
old home place of A. B. Atkinson.
Distance. 1 8-4 miles.
Citizens of the Selma school dla
tnct will vote Tuesday, April 16, in a,
special election sponsored by the
town's Chamber of Commerce, Ameri
can Legion and Kiwanis and Lions
clubs on the issue of levying a tax
supplement to raise the educational
standards of the community.
The special election was authorized
by the county board of commissioners
Monday after the. board of education
had approved petitions submitted bv
the school district and signed by the
number of persons required by law.
bpeciai Registration
Special registration for the elec
tion will be held every day except
Sundays and holidays for three weeks
beginning Monday, March 18, and
ending Saturday, April 6. Registra
tion books will be open from 9 to 6
o'clock daily.
M. R. Wall has been appointed reg
istrar, and C. P. Kirby and J. Q. A.
Jeffreys named judges for the elec
tion. Registrar Wall will be at the
town hall in Selma each Saturday
during the period to register voters.
The election Will be held Tuesday,
April 16, at the Selma town hall, and
hours of voting are from 6:30 a. m.
to 6:30 p. m. Saturday, April 13, has
been designated as Challenge Day. A
majority of the citizens registering
must vote in favor of the supplement
if it is to become law.
School Neds
The election will seek to provide
the means of raising money for an
agricultural teacher and music and
commercial department, urgent needs
of the schools.
A group of farmers at a Kiwanit
meeting recently were told that agri
retttturaV teachers- woald hot t availi-' "
able for the next three years, but the
necessary shop and equipment for an
agricultural course, costing approxi
mately $15,000, should be provided in
advance.
The group at the meeting was in
formed that a tax supplement of 18
or 20 cents on $100 valuation would
provide for the program in the white,
schools, but the quoted amount' did
not Cover the necessary funds for the
Negro' school.
The Negro school's use of its share
of supplementary funds would be de
termined later. ' .
. Tax Issue
Selma school district citizens wil)
vote on the issue of levying a special
tax of not more than 30 cents on $100
valuation, which would provide siffi
cient funds to raise the educational
standard in both white and Negro
schools of the district.
Good News: Dairy
Pay to Be Continued
New Feature For
Your Favorite Paper
The Johnstonian-Sun this week car
ries a time table giving the departing
hour of all the passenger trains and
busses ' leaving Selma. This feature
will appear each week.
The schedule will be found on one
of the other pages of this week s edi
tion under the headine "Travel This
schedule will no doubt be appreciated
by the traveling public, the telephone
operators, who connect the public
with the various ticket' offices and the
ticket sellers themselves who have to
answer these queries.
STILL CAPTURED
Dell Holder and Joe Wheeler,
Smithfield township Negroes, were
failed on charees of violating the pro
hibition laws Thursday morning after
being captured, arresting officers re-
norted. firinir a whiskey still two
miles west of Smithfield on the Wil
son's Mills road. One man escaped.
The 50-gallon copper still and six bar
rels of mash were destroyed by Depu
ties G. R. Britt and Joe Turner
Barnes.
It is a general belief that in the
race to master the atomic bomb, the
game will end in a dead heat.
G. Tom Scott, Johnston County
farmer and head of the state Produc
tion and Marketing Administration,
has announced that the federal dairy
production payment program, previ
ously announced through March, 1946,
will be continued through June 30.
Rates for the April-June period will
be the same as those for the corres
ponding period last year when North
Carolina dairymen received payments
totalling $932,000. State payments
since 1943 total $6,500,000.
This action, means that 1946 April
payment rates for milk will range
from 60 cents to 90 cents per hundred
pounds, depending on the area, and
for the butterfat in all areas, 17
cents per pound.
For May and June the payments
will be 25 cents to 55 cents per hun
dred pounds for milk and 10 cents per
pound for butterfat The lower pay
ments during May and June are made
in accordance with the accepted prac
tice of decreased producer payments
during the flush season of milk pro
duction. The payments will be subject to
termination or revision in the event of
any general increases in price ceilings
for milk and its products. Scott said
that it is the government's policy to
make every effort to sidestep price
increases by making terminaton of
subsidies subject to changes in the
cost of living.
Through the dairy production plan, '
payments are more to farmers on the
milk and butterfat they produce and
sell. Intended to offset increased dairy
production costs, the program has op
erated since October, 1943.
HONEST APPRECIATION
"I like you all's school," is the com
ment Frederick Honrine made Mon
day afternoon after his first day in
the Selma schools. "I have met lota
of peoples," he concluded. This form
er New Bernian is in the third grade.
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