The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-17
TO ORGANIZE TRUCKERS
IN ALL SOUTHERN STATES
Great Southern Produce Organization Along
Lines of California Growers Association
To Be Launched in North Carolina

L I y III II Z II I lluSh SAON u .
from several Eastern North Car
Dina counties will hold a con-
ference in GoldSboro, \. c. Fri
dav. May "a, to discuss the de-
-ails OF a proposed truckers as
,ociation which aims first to or
ranize the growers OF major
truck crops in Eastern North
Carolina into one great market
ing organization, to eventually
connect up all the early truck
producing states in the South.
with each state as a unit IN one
30 Southern or Southeastern
association.
m organization of such magnitude
- been the dream of progressive
keys. bankers and marketing eN-
-r~ for years. but no one has seemed
,...rc 70 take the initiative until re-
..-rv. y. F. Eure. of Beaufort, y.
. is behind the call for the GoldSboro
Conference.
Mr. Eure'S idea is to follow closely
r'1rS and methods of the Tri-State
~.,acro Association and the Cotton
association. What it is proposed to
T., in rhe organization Of growers Of
.- " truck in North Carolina has been
.~s ON hundred million dollar scale
ug -he fruit and vegetable growers
. CALIFORNIA;.
The movement has not been hera.ded
. IL, press because it was deemed in
.,:.rr 70 launch any sort Of public
-r ~r-l public opinion had been sound
r,.-. Mr.. lure has been in confer
... his week with representatives
~ Craven. OrSlow and Pamlico
....frS and enthusiasm for the move
,- will be aroused in those counties
sneakers from state and federal de-
.-w.9-S of agricultural marketing.
The need of an organization Of truck
..~a~> from Virginia to Florida IN
.-Iv obvious TO every grower Of early
,.,. and early sweet potatoes II the
--.-.h.rI City territory. The growers
he several states. working each Tor
,rseIveS and independently of one
. -her conflict with each other every
,..,nD. several states often dumping
..r produce on the market at one
-...a and playing havoc with prices.
,-aiu, in the stampede to beat the
,..pr fellow TO market. thousands OF
barrels of immature and improperly
graded potatoes are shipped to market
r;.h the result that prices drop and
5.yprs become chary of those sections
srnm which the undesirable stun orig
rares. The man or the organization
rlar can bring order out of the chaos
of marketing the early produce OF the
Sruth Atlantic States will create
frmer market for the produce Of these
states and put millions of dollars an
rvallv into the pockets of the growers
|, has been done in Florida. it has been
lone in California. it is being done IN !
smaller WAY By the Eastern Shore OF |
V:.cinia Produce Exchange, and IN a |
--.U smaller way by the Carolina Po-
a.o Exchange at Elizabeth City. y.
Howard Smith. manager Of the Caro-
liza Potato Exchange. says that the or
ganization of a truck or produce aSSo-
i.-:ou as that contemplated by the
E.rr.boro conference is both practlc- |
Bile and desirable if the ability to put
over can be commanded.
\ tentative plan for the North Car
,'.a Truckers Association contem-
mates a state headquarters at Colds
5oro. with the Eastern division OF the
>-a-e divided into five districts say
Wilmington. GoldSboro. New Bern,
Washington and Elizabeth City. start
rg with the local associations as lndl-
yi,jrgl units and tying these units IN
close cooperation. Having organized
his state the organization of the other
states would be effected and all brought
u.,ther into one great marketing aSSo-
fa-fon controlled by all the states con-
-o.ned. Until such a time as the other
states are organized the North Caro-
lima association would undertake a
.-,re marketing system of its own.