I * * Audited Paid Circulation 3-017 Total Audited Circulation 3,107 A* of September 15 GOLDSBORO HERALD "Wayne County's Leading Weekly Newspaper" FRIEND ADVERTISER* Demand audited Cucu Ttion. Don't buy " A aed in a bag." Circulation is what You Buy. 3* ran to got It * VOLUME XIII. Numb«r 7. Goldsboro. N. C., Thursday. Iun« 3. 1937. PRICE; 5 Cents Unofficial Vote Tuesday Shows Wayne Against ABC Stores Large Crowds Attend Closing Programs of1 Choral Croups Business Meeting. Pageant And Joint Concert Bring Year To A Cioee MORE THAN 500 TAKE PART IN WORK OF YEAR - I Beautiful Pageant Given On Court House Lawn; Pro gram At High School • A pageant on the court house lawn yesterday afternoon and a program at the high school atidi hrmin last mght. hi might tn a close the season’s activities of the F-ast e.'h Carolina Symphonic Choral • Association Hundreds attendee, the pageant, “The Coronation of Queen ol Spring’’ at the courthouse hut ;> threatening cloud drove them , away before the program was com pleted Many attended the pro gram last night at the high school a Miss Dorothy Ballard, lncsl young lady, was crowned Queen of Spring aftei King Winter had been taken from the Throne. Miss Ballard was chosen from among many girls for the part of queen % Choruses from Snow Hilt. Ayden and Farmville took part in the final exercises here yesterday afternoon and night, and prior to yesterday the other choruses in the < horal Associaton had given concerts in their borne towns Lewis Sidney Bullock, director of music of the Choral Association, was in charge of all the concerts both here and in the other com niun.ties Prior to the pageant yesterday afternoon the directors and mem • hers of the advisory board of the Association had held a business session and )>eard of the work of the year Rev A S Smith chair man was in cnarg* .->< the business Mssidn which heaiu .Cjtwf.. w'rrpt Mrs Margaret Bulloch, bu3incs* manager. During the year Goldsboro ha* met its pledge of $4110 and besides paid off a deficit of S125 from last year: Ayden and Snow Hill units with budgets of £500 each have al most reached their goals: and Farmville with only' adult choral work had about reached its goal of >400 A total of 553 persons have taken part in the work this season, with 400 taking the work through out the year. Awards were made during the day to those who had won them • Goldsboro Child Fatally Injured When Hit By Cot ^ Peter Charles Patrick Struck By Car As He Is On Way Te Scbeel Peter Charles Patrick, five year old son of Mr and Mrs. Talbot Patrick, died in the Goldsboro Hos pital Friday morning of injuries suffered when he was run over by an automobile driven by Roy F. Pate, farmer of the Belfast section, Thursday morning. Eye witness** Stated that Mr. pate was driving slowly, and that the child walked into the path of the car. Officers stated that there would be no in* quest, all testimony pointing to the fact that Mr. Pate was not to blame . , _ . The child is survived by his father, who Is editor and general manager of the Goldsboro News Ar^T his mother: two brothers, Hurfv 7 and Wayne Tyler Patrick. ” o months: his grandfathers. Dr Hugh T. Patrick of Chicago, an * Charles T Miller of a!} aunt. Miss Catherine Patrick of Chicago. now vislUn# .*?.*"■ Mt.& an uncle, Charles W. Miller, A dena, Cal. , Funeral services were conoucico * from the home on South Wilha Sheet Sunday morning hy 'ne,R^ George S Gresham, rectnr of Stephen's Episcopal Church There was a brief children's service in which kindergarten and neighbor ly hood playmates took part Clubs Will Meet In City In 193$ > Goldsboro will be host to the next annual meeting of Home Demonstration Clubs of the Thir teenth District in May 1&38, Miss ' Gertrude Bundy, home demonstra-1 firm agent for Wayne County, re ported Friday, following a meet ing of approximately 330 delegates from Wayne. Nnsh Edgecoinlxe Johnston and Wilson counties .* this year’s annual meeting in Smith/ield Thursday. Mrs Frank Andrews of Belfast, president of the Wayne County Federation of Home Demonstration Ciubs. ex tended the invitation. l Earliest (?) Watermelon J»u Crawford, farmer of the PYovIdenr* wrllon, brought fre»h watermelon wed to the Herald offir* yesterday Was it thr earliest melon of the season Or van it the talc'd? The Herald rants IU vote for the latest for the melon was grown Jn Robert Crawford's rollon pabli last ym and was sold to Charlie Cldilsm, laeal d.y rleonrr, where it was kept for S months and ’(• days until It was ml testerday. Robert Crawford is the father of Jesse. Jesse said the mrlon was not good to eat. for one rrason thr rats had gnau rd a hole in it. Hr took the seed Home with him and plans to plant Utem to sec tf he can grow a melon that will beat the record of this pa rent melon Amateur nadio Club Meets On Sunday In City Rrprr^r ntativfx Expected From Varitai Sections •( SUlt and From Virjfiivta The North Carolina Floatiri Club. made up o£ arr.atf-i.ir radio j operators of the state, will me t. here Sunday as the guests of the | Goldsboro Amateur Radio Associa tion. Registrations will be held at 12 30 and dinner will be served at M rs Colev’s Dinire Room At 5 SI in the afternoon the Club will held' a bua mess session in the Carolina Thea tre. Representatives ore expected from various section of North Car- - olina. from Virginia arid probably from South Carolina. Members of the local association are Clement Murray, president; Marvin Sherard. vice president: Franklin Spencer, secretary; Dan Trueblood, .and Henry Simmons. To Toil Of Heart In 4-H Club Work Fundamental to the success of the ether three H's in 4-H Club work is the heart H, declares Miss Frances MacGregor, assistant club leader with headquarters at State College. Jn a radio talk on the Carolina Farm Features program Saturday, June 5. Miss MacGregor, until re cently home agent in Cleveland County, will explain the import ance of the heart H In club work. Hera rue of the success which she has enjoyed in working with 4-H members. Miss MacGregor is well qualified to discuss all phases of cluh work. While in Cleveland County she became well-known for her unusual ability in the organli ing and developing of these clubs. Also to be heard during the week will be C. J. Maupln. extension pouttryman at State College, who will bring to the radio audience Friday. June 4. another in a series of talks devoted to the upbuilding of the poultry industry In North Carolina. Exum And Sasser Trial Continued; The trial of Milford Exum ar.d Ear! Sasser, white men, confessed murderers of Jim Williams, elderly I'espected colored man at his home near Fremont in March, has been postponed until the August term of Wayne Superior Court. The trial was scheduled for (he term ending Friday, hul Snlicitor C. C. Canady said that there was not sufficient time remaining this week to lake up Ihe case. When evidence was presented Ire fore the grand jury last week and a true b.ll tound, officers said that it was one of the most grue some crimes committed in Wayne county in recent years. Visitor To Preach Hood Swamp Sun. ltev Murav C Johnson, (;eld sec etniy of North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends will preach at Hood Swamo Friends church Sun day morning at It o’clock, accord ing to announcement ot Pastor Fl bei! D Nowlin. This will be Mr Johnsons first official visit to this meeting and the public is invited to hear this gitleri preacher, Goldsboro Symphonic Chorus }' it ft row Mr<. T.*wi» Bollic Mil' J«ir:«5 loork. M:sj Ft'el Lile-. Mias Nellie Farfoui M.i. W. E K.vette, Mt»» Gertrud* Moor* Mrs A .! Sfiiiln. president Second ro'A: Mi'? Vrjlnta Moure. Mrs A C Hid’"; Mi,; Ri;th SUn>y. Mki Mildred Rjv. l ues M>s-> F, i Kanmn M:!3 Krft; ■ Kaliftan. M!iS ! Atibio Kannau Third i'. Niii B J Smith ! Mcia Tht'lm Mcv.b'irn M.;s Kevon Tint;-. Mr J C Smith Fourth rjw VI- C Moran Thoims. Mr M L Pa.ker Mr »*a;k F.irv.?;U Mr.. Thoma* Mr. V A Hyatt, i M: David Bl.ind M» A W ^tif fin, Mr L L Hallman Mr Tom Ri Mn.'in Mi I. H Hail- Members •ir>t m picture Mrs Williams Spic er M< s Ku*h Pate. Mr. J H Wu-. liams. M* Lvnlon -Scott Rev. A J * SrnUi Mr* hci L Freund vice president Mr* Vance Weill. Mi:r j C. Pitt*, accompanist Goldsboro Still Holds 2nd Plac e in the Local League Bugs Dslealed Ayden Yeiter day S !o 0 Today'* Gxr.a At WLiliomsion LOCALS HAVE PLAYED MORE .HAN WILLIAMSTON The Serial Today And Friday Will Toll Ted# Between Two Leaders Today and tomorow’s baseball games will determine whether Wil'.iamstun or Goldsboro will be on top Friday in the standings of the Coastal Plain League Williams ton is 15 point; ahead of Goldsboro at the present time: however the locals have played 24 iarr.es to 22 played by Williamston. Today the Bugs travel to Wil liamston to cross bats v/ith the league leaders and on Friday Wil I isms ton comes here Should Goldsboro win both of the two tames the team will land on tile lop: but should Williamston and the local split the standing will re main the same Should Williamston take both the Martins' lead would be increased slightly, of course. In yesterday's game Goldsboro defeated Ayden 6 to D. The Biggr got 9 hits and Ayden 4. while' neither of the teams made an er ror Elliot did the pitching for Goldsboro. Ayden used two pitch ers, Harwood and Bernard Greenville defeated Saow Hill 15 to 9: Tarboro defeated New Bern 7 to 3; and Williamston won out over Kinston 11 to 9 Games for the coming week are as follows: Today. Goldsboro at WiMiamstoo Friday, Williamston at Golds boro Saturday. Goldsboro at Snow Hill. Sunday. Snow Hill at Goldsboro. Tuesday. Tarboro at Goldsboro. Wednesday. Goldsboro at Tar boro. League Standing Three White Men Get Long Terms I Three white men. C. C. Guriev. Wallace Rigsbee and J P John son were found guilty in Wayne Superior Court Thursday after noon of breaking and entering with | intent to rob Judge V. C Harris : sentenced them to long tor ms in the state prison Gurley w»» g ven f v.* to ton years. ;»«d Pigahe; and Johnson four »> eight yea.*. The three were jiiii to have broken into the Colds bt.ix) Cafe and to have removed the safe to the rear door to carry it away tn a tar when they wye dts oovered and arrested. Williamston Gold shot'0 Tarboro New Born Snow Hill - \yt1en - • ■Greenville Kinston ----- Team W. L. Pet. .13 7 .682 ...l« 8 667 11 8 .636 12 12 .500 12 12 500 0 11 ,3i»l 9 13 ,375 il 17 .281 Choral Director Lewis Sidney Bullock, who for two years has done outstanding work i*i training singers of Eastern Carolina Symphonic Choral Asso ciation, finished the season s work here yesterday by presenting a pageant on the court house lawn and giving a concert at the high school, using units °* the Choral Association from Goldsboro Ay den. Partnville and Snow Hill Counties To Spend More Than Million On Social Security Raleigh. June 3.—-The 1(w coun ties of North Carolina will spend during the year beginning July 1 the sum of approximately 1.301,000 as their contribution to the Old Age Assistance «nd Ald to De pendent Children fea.ures of the SUte's Social Security program, according to estimates compiled by the statistical division of the^Jgrth Carolina Board of and Public Welfare, which will admin ister the new statute. Of that large sum about 5801,000 will he for assistance to the indig «cd and $300,000 for aid to de neodent children. The State will allot $100,000 of it** 51.000.000 ap P'-an- a*iou for old age assistance tn the counties as an equalization fund. Poultrymen Make Profit On Flocks Four poultry breeders of Wnyne countv made an average of $25.01 ouch nr. their flocks last month nc i corri.—g to a rsoort made yesterday by Assistant County Agent A S Knots ic. Tli- four flocks riooiled layed a l ila! of .$.«.» ?«> for the month or seer aw of Jt»«l e«g* per her. for the <27 h.rit included m the i ;>ins The bicodcrs .eb-rt.iig were Ralph Price .T Norman Price Mu. Walter Hollowed and Mr». 1. E. i Warrick jbocai rresoywriun Church Calls A New Pastor To Work Here Or. I.nh II Smtl nf ValdoHa, Orir(i.i. Ii F\pfiml Those mho signed work sheets lust year do nol hare to *1(1) I again this year: but an) farmer who did not vigil last rear should oigii now if hr dtsirrr to participate In the program. Those interested should rot let the dale pass without sign in*. Mrs. Rex Ccok Dies Following A Brief Illness r lire i al Srr. Ires Were Held from 'the Home On Sunday After* noon Mrs Rex Coo*. 4li d.ed at her n iron on William Street at noon '•'nda.v following an illness of twr eckj Funeral services were held Sunday Interment was in Willow Dale cemetery. She is ilirviied by tier husband and three children Kenneth Conk, a student at the University of North Carolina, arid Nell and Jane Cook: two sisters. Mies Anr.e Over man and Mrs T H Wuori nf Golds boro. and one brother Fred Over man of Warsaw Funeral services were conducted fr m the home Sunday afternoon by Ttev W C Ball pastor of St Paul Methodist Church l-H Club Council To Meet Tuesday A 4-H Club Council meeting will he held here Tuesday night at f> o'clock in the Legion rrom s' the Community Building, according to announcement of Assistant County Agent A S Knowles Programs for the future work will be planned and business V, 11 be discussed Along with this announcement Mr Knowles said some of the 4-H 'lubs are planning for weiner -oasts during the next few days. Ml Olive will hold program T.eetin* and weincr roast at Dud cy Beach on Friday afternoon of, his week at 4.SO and on Saturday ; i/ternoon at 5:30 the Seven j springs Ciub will hold a meeting ind weiner roast at the Cliffs. Tabulation Of Control Ballot The unofficial tabulation cf vi)t« j n the twenty percincta of Wayne :ounty in the Alcoholic Beverage Control election held Tuesday is as lollows: Precinct For Con .. 350 . 480 174 .. 145 SOI jotdsboro. Ward 1 joldsboro, Ward 2 Goldsboro, Ward 3 Goldsboro, Ward 4 Goldsboro. Ward 5 Indian Springs -. 21 White Mall . 5« Buek Swamp . 4# Aycock Milll . « Mt. Olive .32# Dudley _ 20 Eureka .-. 35 Fremont ..- 204 Pikeville _ 63 Fork . »7 'lew Hope - 02 Providence _ 20 Belfast . 7f food Swamp _ 34 "rantham _ 57 Totals Ag ft Con I 142 290 102 83 270 il 43 230 77 344 29 V 15f 10P 179 99 243 39 307 2059 3040 Potato Growers Try Raise Prices At a largely attended meeting tr> M' Olive Monday night the pota to growers of this county agreed to trv to hold off the market all po tatoes except number I s in an ef fort to raise the pree on the pre sent flooded market. AH growers are urged to sell only their best potatoes now and hold their others so that the market can be controll ed. said County Agent C. S Mint* who attended the meeting. INVITATIONS ISSUED The following invitation hai Keen issued from the home of thi bride's parents in LaGlange. 11 miles east of Goldsboro Mr and Mrs Adolph h Cliay re quest the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Mary Baugham. to Hilton C.lenn Hdl on Tuesday, the fifteenth of June at high noon. First Baptist Church. l.aGrange North Caro lina. First Report Had Indicated Control Forces Were Ahea^K Eaxly Reports Showed Buck Swamp 48 for, 120 Again**, Instead 220 UNOFFICIAL LEAD IS ONLY 81 VOTES Ballots Will Be Canvassed To day At 11 O’clock And Of ficial Figures Given Although firs! unofficial repsrt ‘ * the ABC baloUre in Warn* '•aunty Tuesday shoved that tho*e ■ O' ir’K control had won by 19 * j'et. a later cprrecflor in the re r tr' t: Buck Sv snp township snowed that those opposing control had v by 8! voles ihe earlier re port rot having inc’rdgd 100 vote* fiinn that precinct The i e\ ised unofficial totals for tie county show 2 939 voting for ABC stores and 3.040 voting against them, n-.ak.rg a total ballot of 5. 999 for the county a comparative ly light vote. The ballot will be officially can tassed th's morning at 11 o'clock in the grand jury room of the court house. according 1o announcem*ni by Scott B. Berkeley, chairman of the county board of elections The tabulation in another urtiii of The Herald indicates all of the precincts in Gold: voted heavily for control only four of the 15 precincts side of the city of Goldsboro voted for the stores. One precinct tied. Dudley The v'-te in Buck Swamp was correcf v counted it is understood, but in ".ransnutt rig the vote to those kecp-r.il count of the ballot ing here a mistake of HXi wsf made in the number voting aga;nst eon an colAjW M ; outSP^^ The earlier report said that 48 voted for control and 123 against, "hen ft ahmild hove been CR against.' I bis correction shifted apparent results from 19 majority for rhe control fun-os to 81 for tha opposing forces All interested parties seemed to have accepted the figures Tuesday night giving the control forces » •cad of 18 votes, until papers reached Pikeville Wednesday morning, whereupon Mack Lancas ter called Col. John D. Langston. • leader of those opposing ABC stores, and told him that a m stake had been made in the Buck Swamp vote Col Langston. S F Teague and L’ M. Gillikin rushed to Buck Swamp and conferred with those present at the counting of the bal lots. officials and others, and learn ed that the opposing vole should have been 220 instead of 120 Whatever the official canvass cf the voting today may reveal it is now apparert that the vote was close Jim Smith Dies At His Patetown Home Mr. Jin Smith. 75. died at hla home near Patetown this county, at 5:30 Sunday afternoon to 11 owing a seven week* illness of plurisy. Funeral services were conduct*! from the Patetown Church of God at two o'clock Monday afternoon by Dr. J. G. Houck orT Rocky Mount. Interment was in the Pate town cemetery. Surviving are his wife. Ura Mary Smith; two daughters. Mrs Albert Thomas of Goldsboro Route Two and Mrs A. Lee Futrell. Ptke ville Route One; and eleven grand* children. Strip Cropping Helps In Soil Conservation Farmers in the Huntersville area of the Soil Conservation Service report that they are finding It much easier to establish rotations where strip-cropping is practiced, according to John C. Shiver, assis tant soil conservationist Such crops as small grains, sor ghums. legumes, and crosses ara readily adaptable to h«« strip readily adaptable to the strip saticns with clean-cultivated crop*. Strips can be used to establish tot race lines, making it possible to build tcraces at a more convenient time Width of the strips is dependent upon the slope of the land and re quirements of the individual far mer. Shiver said. On gentle slopes it is considered good practice to lay off the strips 20 to 30 feet wide and on sleep slopes 40 to 50 feet wide. RETURNS HOME Mrs Clara Block who has been s isiting at the home of her son. M. L Block and family has reutrned to Balt,more. Mrs Block was as charmed as ever with the goodness | and kindness of the people of [ Goldsboro