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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Convict Camp
Will Soon Be
Ready Here

Construction work has about
been completed at the new convict
camp of the State Highway & Pub
lie Works Commission at Gillburg
four miles east OF Henderson, and
the camp now located on the eastern
outskirts of Henderson will be
transferred there about the middle
of August, according to information
available today.
J. H. Gupton, superintendent OF
the camp, has already moved to the
Gill homeplace on the 1OO-acre
farm bought some months ago.
The camp is being erected by the
State at a. cost of some $4,000, and
will be modern in every sense Of the
word. It will have facilities for ac-
commodating much more than the
normal population of the Vance
county camp, which is from 60 to
rs.
Only Negro prisoners are kept al
this camp. 1t serves mostly Vance
and surrounding counties, though
transfers come in from other locali-
ties from time to time.
Half a dozen or more buildings
have been erected at the new camp
Most Of the construction is of brick
Modern cOnveniences usually fOunC
in late-day prison camps have beer
incorporated in this new plant
which is soon to be turned over tc
the highway department by the
contractor, who is about through
with his work.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Campers For
|Crabtree Area
Are Invited

Adults or young people desiring to
arrange an outing at Camp Sher-
wood Forest in the Crabtree Creek
Recreation Area between Durham
and Raleigh were today invited by
Mrs. w. D. Payne, WPA recreational
director for Vance county, to apply
to her at once. While the camp is
directly serving the Durham and
Raleigh section, it is intended to
serve also an area of SO miles radius
from the site.
Mrs. Payne has been advised that
the cost of the camp is $3.50 per
camper per week, or 81 per camper
per weekend. Only 48 campers can
be accommodated at one time as yet
The adult camp period extends
from l p. m. Saturdays to $50 p.
m. Sundays, and all must leave not
later than the latter hour
Each camper is required to furnish
bed linens and toilet needs; also a
bathing suit, sweater, raincoat, shoes,
flashlight and any musical instru-
ment played.
The adult weekend camping
schedule is as follows: July 80, bust
ness girls; August 5-6, Industrial
girls; August 1918, mothers; August
1920, dads; August 28-September
8, open; September 2, 3, 4, family
camp; September $40, open.
Application blanks and full in
formation may be had from Mrs
Payne by adults or young people
interested in an outing at the camp
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

carolina Methodist Protestant Con
ference at Kansas City, will sneak
along with Mrs. T. p Hesten dis
cusslng Woman's work, and DR.. FREQ
w. Paschall, of Burlington.
All OF the churches are 10 come
together IN the service in the First
Methodlst church in Henderson ir
the evening TO near the sermon bv
Bishop Peele. He was elected. to the
eplscopacy at the Uniting Confer
ence and was assigned to the Rich
mona area, which includes the North
Carolina Conference. Bishop Peele is
a native of North Carolina. AS ?
pastor, he served some of the out
standing churches in both the North
Carolina and Western North Caro-
Ina Conferences, and was presiding
elder OF the Greensboro district at
tne Tune OF his election as a Bishop.
AT that time he was also president
OF the North Carolina Council of
Churches.
The twenty-one churches OF the
seven charges of Methodism in Vance
county report a combined member
ship OF 4,O65, with $3.50 enrolled in
their Sunday schools. Their proper
ey is valued at $4,000, including
church buildings and parsonages. In
1888 they raised a total of S27,935
and contributed $1,737 to their or
phanages.
The various units of the united
church in Vance county are:
Granville charge, Rev. j. P. Pegg,
pastor, membership, 608; churches,
Mt. Carmel, Rehopotn, Union Chapel.
Middleburg charge, Rev. D. A. Pet
ty, pastor, membership, 1872; church.
es, Cokesbury, Drewry, Middleburg,
Shocco Tabernacle.
Tar River charge, Rev. J. A. Mar
tin, pastor, membership, TIC;
churches, Ebenezer, Kittrell, Plank
Chapel, Trinity.
Vance charge, Rev. j. D. Crawford,
pastor, membership, 548; churches,
Flat Rock, Gillburg, Harris Chapel,
New Hope, Spring Valley.
First Methodist church, Hender-
son, Rev. R. E. Brown, pastor; men,
bership, 800.
City Road and White Memorial
churches, Rev. J. K. Worthington,
pastor; membership, 301.
Christ Methodist church, Rev. T..
J. Whitehead, pastor; membership,
$50.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
'ConpanyCT To
Go To Camp
On Saturday

Company c, 120th Infantry, Ma
tional Guard unit in Henderson, is
to leave tomorrow afternoon for Fort
Mcclellan, Admission, Ala, for its
annual two weeks summer encamp-
ment. The unit was to have trained
at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. c.
but the change was made because OF
the prevalence of infantile paralysis
in South Carolina this season.
The company is commanded by
Captain c. B. Sturges, First Lieuten-
ant G.. M. O'Neil, and Second Lieu
tenant w. 3. Williams. It's personnel
is virtually at full peace-time streng-
tn of three officers and 64 men.
The company will leave here on
two special cars attached to the Sea-
board Air Line passenger train No
3 at $3.50 Saturday afternoon, and
will be due at Admission sometime
Sunday. 1t is understood infantry
units at Warrenton and Oxford will
also join Company c here. At Ham
let special National Guard train is
to be made up for the remainder OF
the trip to Admission, with other in
fantry companies over the State at
tached in special cars there.
A full two weeks training period is
to be had at Fort McClelland, a
camp said to be one Of the best in
the South. The soldiers will return
August IL or 13.
Other military units in Hender-
son, all of the 1O5th Medical Regi-
ment, were at a Jacksonville, Fla,
camp early in July, having been
transferred there from Camp Jack
son at Columbia. That contingent IN
cHded the service company, the
regimental band, and the regimental
headquarters staff, Colonel Hodge A.
Newell, of Henderson, is commander
of the 1O5th Medical Regiment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Methodists OF Vance To
Celebrate Their Union
Bishop w. w. Peele Will Speak in First Metho-
dist Church Sunday Evening; Total Member
<h;p in County Over 1000 Now.

rvcntv-one local churches in
seren pastoral charges OF the de-
,,o,,,nation in Vance county will
n', ,ot next Sunday to celebrate Heth-
III lmlon. conSummated a few
,"nnths ago at the Uniting Confer
ance IN Kansas City. All-day SER
'.;cas IN one locality and other types
- exercises elsewhere will be eli
,,ovnd with a sermon by Bishop w.
W W, peele. in charge of the North
Corolina Conference, at the First
1Tathodist church in the evening.
Two Of the oldest churches in the
oo1n+v will meet for the first time
one Methodist church when Plank
Chanel formerly Methodist Episco-
,aI and Union Chapel, formerly of
m tbe Methodist Protestant denomi-
nation. gather at II o'clock for
',,;on ilr''- services at Plank Chapel. The
'astor ,'l' Of that church, Rev. j. A.
1fartin will speak on the subject,
.'a'he -'l' Apostolic Church" and Rev.
p Pegg, of Union Chapel, will
cnp3k on i lie NCW Oll'S IL A~ "
,,dism" No afternoon services will
be held.
Au-dav services have been arrang-
a Il the Middleburg Community
House for the five churches OF the
ald Methodist Protestant group in
tbo Vance charge, and the five IN
tbe Middleburg charge of the old
Methodist Episcopal. A joint Sun
dav school will be held at 10 o'clock.
Thorn will be classes for all ages,
ond workers from the several groups
viii be in charge of the several
oro,,ns The II O'Clock service will
ba devoted to the interests of Meth
odist lavmen, with ]. A. Turner
snaaking for the Middleburg charge
and c. B. Basket for the Vance
charge.
At Middleburg, Dr. w. K. Green,
Of Duke University, assistant con-
terence lay leader, will speak on
THE Layman as an Evangelist" and
picnic dinner will be served on the
grounds. In the afternoon the pro-
gram will be given over to the Unit
ing Conference and its work. Jasper
B. Hicks, Henderson attorney. who
was a lay delegate from the North
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Rockies Meet
Louisburg

Greystone Rockies will clash with
Louisburg in a Tri-County league
game at Greystone Saturday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
I. J. Byrd is slated to do the hur-
ling for the Rockies. Several weeks
ago, Byrd turned in three hit per-
formance as the Rockies turned back
Pilot
Charlie "Dunk" Poole, dependable
receiver, will be behind the plate for
the Rockies.
An appeal has been voiced by the
management of the Greystone team
to fans to attend the game, and to
bring along their friends. Yes, they
say, even bring along the mother
in-law, she'll enjoy the contest.
Sunday, at the same hour, $3.50 p.
M, the Rockies will meet Ca-Vel.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Have Fine Luck Fishing.

Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Loughlin, Jr.,
have re. rned from Ocean View, Va,
where they have been fishing. They
reported fine luck, and brought back
plenty of fish to show for their eff
forts. They estimate about $50 pounds
of croakers and spots were landed
by them, some of the croakers being
of top size
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

Five times more space for tobacco
insect and disease control work will
be provided for research men with
the completion of the new labora-
tory building (shown above) at the
TOBACCO Experiment Station at Ok
ford, Commissioner of Agriculture
w. Kerr Scott announced today. The
three-story brick structure will con-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

tain 81 rooms and laboratories, hous
ing both state and federal employees
and is scheduled to be completed by
October L. Funds for the erection
of the building were furnished by
the federal government, largely thro-
ugh the efforts of former Congress-
man William B. Umstead, of Dur
ham," Scott said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
SAM BILLER DIES
AT MILWAUKEE HOME

Sam Biller, father of J. r. Biller,
of Burlington, and until recently a
merchant of Henderson, died a few
days ago in Milwaukee, Wis, his
home, according to word today
from Mrs. Biller in Burlington. No
details were given, other than Mr..
Biller was in Milwaukee for the
funeral and burial
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
Gus ZollicOffer
Wins Camp Medal

Gus Zollicoffer, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Zollicoffer, won the medal
presented at the Junior Water Regat-
ia Sunday at Chimney Rock Camp
for Boys, at Lake Lure, where he is
spending two months this summer.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

Before the MayOr-Ikey Clifton
Rem pleaded guilty in city court to-
day before Mayor Henry T. Powell
to a charge of speeding, and prayer
for judgement was continued upon
payment of the costs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
AROUND TOWN

Deed RecOrded-In a realty deed
recorded with the Vance Registry
Thursday, the Continental Plant Co.,
of Kittrell, sold Ollie Allen a lot in
Kittrell for $40 and considerations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

A growing interest in commercial
beef cattle production is being
olluWn III Southeastern counties OF
the State, according to Sam L. Will
Jams, assistant reef cattle sneci"list
of the State college Extension Ser
vice
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
|ReYNlfsz'
CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE.

CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE.
First Half Play-off.
Gro-Swift 9, Bankers 2.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham 7, Rocky Mount 5.
Portsmouth 10, Norfolk l.
Asheville 7, Richmond 2.
Charlotte 10, Winston-Salem l.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
: Chicago IL, Boston 7.
Detroit 8, Washington l.
Only games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 60, Boston 1-8 (2n
game IL innings). a.
Chicago 3, Brooklyn 1.
Philadelphia 9, Pittsburgh 8.
st. Louis 9, New York 4. a@
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland at Washington.
Detroit at Philadelphia. M
Chicago at New York.
st. Louis at Boston.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham at Rocky Mount.
Norfolk at Portsmouth.
Richmond at Asheville.
Charlotte at WinstOn-Salem.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28
[%da8Gd1ns.
CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE

Bankers VS. Christians.
Rose VS. PHrOl.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-28

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
New York at Chicago.
Boston at st. Louis.
Evening star., 1939-04-04

more than Offset the entire cost OF
running the corps.
So 1t is that the c. c. c. attacks a
dual problem existing in this
Nation today: First. the problem Of
unemployment, particularly among
younger men, and, second, the prob
lem of conserving our natural re-
sources. Both problems are Of great
importance but I think that 1t Is
not only my own, but also typically
American attitude, to regard the
training of 1000 900 young. men as
Of even greater importance than the
material benefits to our resources.
And these young men, while helping
themselves and earning their own
living, have contributed close to
$500, ,000,0 900 Of their earnings to
assist in supporting their dependent
families.
Regarding the c. c. c. from another
angle, I feel that it is a splendid
democratic institution which teaches
our young men practical and work.
able lessons in democracy. In view
of world political developments
during the past few years. I feel
that an organization Of the type
Of the c. C. c., which does Demon
strate the usefulness of our demo.
cratic processes as opposed to those
found in the dictator countries. Is
an extremely valuable institution
for this country to preserve and
make permanent.
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900, 900. Entirely aside from any So

000, 900. Entirely aside from any So
cial accomplishments which this
large expenditure has produced, I
believe that the increased value of
our resources due to Civilian Con-
servation Corps labors will more
than Offset the cost of the operation.
Then there is another dollars and
cents consideration which should
be mentioned. Nearly any one will
admit the social desirability Of turn
ing out men who are better equipped
to take care of themselves and their
dependents. This worthwhile OBJ
jective Is accomplished by the Civil
ian Conservation Corps. From a
very cold dollars and cents stand
point such an accomplishment would
seem to be a good investment. This
follows because the Civilian Con-
servation Corps enrollee who goes
into private industry and supports
himself (and contributes to the sup
port OF others) automatically be-
comes source from which national
wealth is created rather than an
object upon which tax dollars are
expended. If the Civilian Conser-
vation Corps has been able to in
crease the employability Of its en-
rollees even slightly. which will give
to them a foundation for slightly
increased earnings in private indus
try. 1t may well be that the increased
national wealth to be derived from
this over q period of years will far
Evening star., 1939-04-04

Of damage has been averted by en-
rollees living In the camps In forest
areas because these enrollees could
quickly get to and fight forest fires.
During the past six years more than
5000 900 man-days have been spent
on forest fire-f1ghting duty and on
fire prevention and presuppression
work.
We have constructed well over A.
1000 check dams to control the
ravages of erosion and planted close
to 200, 900 900 quick-growing types of
trees on agricultural lands to reduce
erosion.
Recreation opportunities in parks
over the country have been greatly
improved and expanded.
For the first time in a great num-
ber of years our valuable wild life
resources seem to be showing an
increase instead Of a decrease due
to the efforts of the c. c. c.
At the present time work lies
before the c. c. c. which, very con-
servatively estimated, will take IS
to so years in the doing with a
group of men as large as the pres
ent organization. Specifically, the
tasks involved are as follows:
Protective, cultural and improve
ment work on more than 176, 900 900
acres of national forest land, H.
100000 acres of State forest land
and 300,000,000 acres Of private
forest land. In the erosion control
program about 350,000,0 900 acres re-
quire some type Of conservation
treatment to prevent our rich, pro-
ductive soil from being destroyed
forever. About 100000 acres Of
our best agricultural land are in
need of drainage rehabilitation and
there are 9,500,000 acres in 238 wild
fowl and game refugees upon which
work must be done. On various
parks, reclamation districts, grazing
districts, Indian lands and certain
other special types of lands an ad-
ditional $4,000 900 acres of land are
in need of some sort of conservation
treatment.
This makes a total of close to
1852 100000 acres on which there is
very real need for conservation
work of the types heretofore sue
cessfully prosecuted by the C. c. c.
Estimate Held Conservative.
Although I have said IS to so
years of work lie ahead, a consider
able group of the best informed
conservation men in the country
say that this estimate is very con.
servative and emphasize the lmpor-
tant fact that conservation is a
never ending process.
The total cost of the Civil Con-
servation Corps operation during
the past six wears has been $2180.-
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enrollees leadership and technical
direction of high quality. Expert
enced reserve officers-men of fine
character - are in charge of the
camps to provide good leadership
for the enrollees, better camp mo-
rale, better standards and better
living conditions. Carefully trained
and experienced work superintend-
ents. technicians and foremen are
employed to supervise worthwhile
and carefully planned work pro-
grams and to insure a reasonable
work output and the better Job
training of enrollees.
Able Camp Leaders.
Seasoned and able camp educa-
tional advisers are employed to in
sure that camp educational pro-
grams are practical, in addition to
being we'll organized. We have been
fortunate in attracting good camp
officials but we want and shall con-
tinually seek better ones.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
has also felt a great responsibility
for the bodily and spiritual needs
of the enrollees. A physician is n
attendance at every camp every
day. AS one example of public
health work I may state that the
venereal disease rate in the c. c. C.
is about one-half the rate expert
enced by the Regular Army-and
the Army rate has been dropping
rapidly during the past few years.
Improved immunization or treat
ments for spotted fever. meningitis,
pneumonia, and malaria have also
been especially worked out for in
itial use with the C. C. c. Some of
these developments appear to hold
great promise.
I think that one very important.
though difficult to measure. aspect
of the C. c. c. has been the stress
we have regularly placed on reli-
gious guidance. We have employed
full-time chAplains of all denomi-
nations to furnish this guidance
hundreds Of others have been given
part-time employment, and thou
sands Of priests, ministers and
rabbis have donated their fine SER
ices to make available adequate
religious training for the young
men in the camps.
I say in all reverence that only
the Almighty can measure the effect
of the splendid work which these
spiritual leaders have been able to
accomplish with young men whose
need for practical, spiritual aid has
been very great.
The beginning of the Civil Con-
servation marked the first time this
nation ever really got around to
doing something practical and sue
cessful about its complex conserva-
ton problems. Prior to the Civilian
Conservation Corps, many men had
struggled to make us aware that we
could not long continue to break
natures laws without paying a
penalty.
Early conservationists were gen.
orally regarded as species of rather
harmless cranks. AS time went along
there was more and more talk about
conservation and citizens began to
Evening star., 1939-04-04

realize that there were some pretty
definite limits to our natural re-
sources. But prior to the inaugu-
ration of the Civilian Conservation
Corps. conservation OF resources was
allied with the weather in that there
was plenty of talk about both and
not much done about either.
Over a long period of years a
large but unknown number OF men
had thoughtlessly and wastefully
ripped our forests from the face OF
the earth and had denuded vast
areas of protective vegetation only
to move on and repeat the cycle OF
destruction. Such actions over a
long period of years needed more
than just talk and more than just
good plans to repair the damage.
Man power, enthusiastic man power,
and plenty of 1t was needed-and
that is what the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps furnished.
Jobs Needed Doing.
If disaster can ever be said to
produce a blessing, I think the Ci-
william Conservation Corps may
qualify as such blessing because
this organization, born of a depres-
sion, took men who needed jobs des-
perately and put them to work at
jobs which desperately needed do
ing. During the past six years an
average of approximately 300, 1000
men-largely young men-who were
unwanted elsewhere, have launched
this Nation on program OF good
resources management which pays
immediate and future dividends to
every citizen through the labors OF
these young men. A good start has
been made toward correcting gigan-
tic losses which have been going on
for $50 years.
I say now, as have said before
and as I will say again-that the
Civilian Conservation Corps should
be a permanent part of our Ameri-
can Government. Never, prior to
the Civilian Conservation Corps, did
we give real attention to the pres
ervation and increase of our nat
ural resources.
The beginning of the Civilian
Conservation Corps changed this
picture and many valuable jobs
began to be done which were calcu-
lated to restore and preserve re-
sources. Moreover, it might we'll
happen that if the Civilian Conser-
vation Corps were discontinued, we
would again lapse into a partial
coma with regard to these resources
That we cannot afford to do
because the prime, basic wealth
of this Nation is In great part repre-
sented by the very resources the
Civilian Conservation Corps is con-
serving and increasing. Our treas
ures of forests, agricultural lands,
grazing areas, minerals, waters and