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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
FORMER CRIDDER
TICKET MARKER
Kenneth Currie Must Keep
Attentive Ear On Chant
OF Auctioneers

WALLACE, Oct. IL. - The big
fellow you see in the Wallace
Tobacco Market sales line who
looks like he ought to be playing
tackle in somebody's football
line is Kenneth Currie.
He is the ticket marker for all
three warehouses here. The title
requires some explanation.
Jots Down Prices
A ticket marker is the gentle
man who follows closely behind
the auctioneer and jots down on
the warehouse tickets the price
that has just been knocked OF
by the auctioneer and the grade
in which the buyer has placed
the pile of tobacco.
Looks simple, hunh? Well, il
isn't. A good ticket marker must
be able to translate the auc-
TONER'S chant as readily as the
buyer. He must know all the
various grades the buyers use.
must do this because he has
to write out from six to 10 tick
cts every minute.
Judge of Tobacco
Currie is widely known not
only as a good ticket marker,
but as a good judge of tobaccos
and for his knowledge of the
warehouse business in general.
has put in time on the Fair
mont and Goldsboro markets in
North Carolina, besides Wallace,
and in Morristown, Tenn. in the
hurley belt and Statesboro, Ca,
in the Georgia belt.
Currie has a variety Of skills,
too. He's a free-hand artist and
a sign painter with professional
accomplishments. He's also a
produce buyer for the Joseph
H. Bryant Produce company.
About that football business:
Currie did play football, for Da-
wilson at end. And he set the
State discuss tossing record
while he was at Davidson.
He's a Wallace native.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

and professional men as you'll
lind anywhere. And these are
all happy to serve our friends,
particularly the farmers who
are making Wallace one Of the
outstanding small towns in
America.
We're particularly proud of
our tobacco market here. I've
been all around the country
where tobacco is sold and I
don't believe there's any mar
ket anywhere that offers thu
service and good prices to
farmers as our Wallace market
does.
Enough To Share
Our warehouses are the fin
est construction of any and the
men behind those warehouses
are among the finest CITIZENS in
the country.
"They and all of us - mer-
chants, bankers, doctors, law
yers, and just plain CITIZENS -
invite everybody to come to
Wallace. We believe we have
enough progress in our spirits
and friendliness in our hearts
to go all around"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
Wallace Price Averages
opAUF2ue-Cu Cured Sales

WALLACE, Oct. 12-With prices for tobacco last week
pushing up to a full days sales average of S5247 per hundred,
highest reported on any flue-cured market anywhere and pros
poets for the coming week as good or even better, Wallace
warehousemen today advised farmers everywhere to bring
their tobaccos on to the Wallace Market now.
The market is now selling at the rate of 1000 baskets per
day with a poundage limit of ESQ per basket.
There will be plenty of room on the Wallace Market to
take care of all farmers.
Farmers are advised that they may speak for floor space
in advance if they wish.
But if they don't have time to do this they may bring their
tobaccos on and be assured floor space at any time on any of
Wallaces four, Well-ighted warehouse floors.
The prices for the past 10 days have been higher here
than anywhere on the flue-cured belts.
They are expected to remain firm and farmers will profit
by selling on the Wallace Market, no matter how far they haul
their tObaccOS to get here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
STAFFS SUPPORT
REGULAR BUYERS
Large Personnel Carries On
Behind-The-Scene Ac-
t~ivities In Wallace

WALLACE, Oct. 12-There is a
hustle of acknowledgements act
ivity, d large personnel, and
hundreds of dollars in weekly
payrolls backing up the leaf buy
ers that represent the various
manufacturers and organizations
of the Wallace Tobacco Market
buying line.
There is much work to do af-
ter the buyers buy the tobacco.
1t must be taken from the ware
house floors, packed in sheets or
hogsheads and then routed to re-
drying plants, warehouses, and
factories in various parts of the
State. And minute records must
be kept of purchases, pounds,
grades, and the many other de-
tails that are set in motion when
a buyer bids off a pile of tobac-
co.
Permanent Staff
Each company buying on the
Wallace market has its own per-
manent staff and dozens of tenn
porary workers.
In Wallace Roger Dillon, Of
Maysville, KY, is bookeeper for
the Reynolds Tobacco Company
and Richard Dunn, Richmond,
KY, is factory foreman. The for
mer also spells Robert Sisk, re-
gular Reynolds buyer, on the
sales line.
American Aides
S. S. Ringo, Lexington. Ky,
is bookkeeper for American Sup
pliers which buy for the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. Robert
Fugate, Louisville, KY, is facto-
ry foreman. Both Fugate and
Ringo assist Grover Settle, Am
erican buyer, on sales.
For Liggett-Myers, Henry
Buddy" Yates, Brookneal, Va,
is bookkeeper, and Merritt STAN
ford, Huntsville, Tenn, is facto-
ry foreman. Yates also makes
his appearance on sales at odd
times, to help out Bill Parker,
regular Liggett buyer
Rivenbark Helps Loftin
Kenneth Rivenbark, Warsaw,
does the bookkeeping for Sam
Loftin, Jenkins buyer, and Bill
lie Stovall, Oxford, is factory
foreman.
E.. T. Bass, Nashville, is I'M
perial's bookkeeper. and Tom
Haywood, Goldsboro, is factory
foreman under Andrew Conner,
regular Imperial buyer.
To help out Johnny Crews, who
buys for Dixie Leaf Tobacco
company, A. o. Brooks, South
Boston, Va, is bookkeeper and
Richard Groom, Magnolia, is
factory manager.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
CHANTERS TOPS
in PROFESSION
Pearson And MCGOWAN
Handle Auctioneering
Or Wallace Market

WALLACE, Oct. 12-The an
Gent and honored democratic in
stitution of auction sales is firm
ly upheld on the Wallace Tobac-
co market by James Pearson
and Lloyd MCGOWAN, the gen.
tlemen who chant out the bids
to the sales line here.
Both men have wide expert
ence in the tobacco business.
Pearson, a native Kentuckian,
has auctioneered for most of the
past 80 years, His rallying cry
to the buyers has been heard
in warehouses in most places
where tobacco is sold.
His experience includes work
in the hurley belt, the Georgia
belt, the Border belt, besides the
Eastern North Carolina belt.
MCGOWAN is a native of Wal
lace and he pitched into auction
eering while working in a ware
house in the hurley belt. He'd
been p%racticing, he says, before
being called on to fill in for the
regular auctioneer, but he ad-
mits he was pretty well frighten-
ed when he was called on. How
ever, he's been chanting to the
buyers ever since, a matter OF
some IA years.
Like Pearson's, McGowan's
experience includes work in the
hurley belt, Georgia, Border and
Eastern North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
LANlER KEEPS TAB
ON BUYERS PRICE
Patrols Rows OF Tobacco
To Insure Farmers
Support Payments

WALLACE, Oct. u When
you're in a Wallace warehouse
during tobacco sales and you
hear somebody yell out: "Who's
tobacco is this?" you've just
heard the cry that Albert B..
Lanier has been singing out this
season.
Lanier is the man who checks
behind sales to see if the buyers
for the private companies have
paid as much or more for to-
baccos as the Sterilization Cor
poration will grant in support
prices.
YeIls for Farmers
If the buyers haven't bid up
enough Lanier will yell for the
farmer and promptly mark out
the buyers price with a red
pencil and write in the support
price for the basket of tobacco.
Lanier wishes he didn't have
to call for a single farmer be-
cause he wishes the buyers
would pay more than the sup
port price. But if they fail in
this he has an eagle eye =
catch the discrepancy and let
the farmer know he has more
| money coming to him.
From Charity Cross Roads
Lanier is from the Charity
Cross Roads section of Duplin
County. His work, which is new
this year, is directly connected
with the Sterilization Corpora
ton, but he is employed by the
Wallace Tobacco Board of
Trade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
BLANCHARD SALES
SMOOTH AND FAST
Efficiency Marks Auction
Line In Big Blanchard
And Farrior House

WALLACE, Oct. 12-Tobacco-
nists who have been on the floor
of Blanchard and Farrior's
warehouse during sales have
been impressed with the
smooth, speedy, and efficient
manner in which the buying line
has gone up and down row aft
er row Of tobacco.
This smooth efficiency, they
say, is due to the quiet but
strong leadership of Oscar c.
Blanchard who heads the line.
who calls out the opening bid
on each pile of tobacco to give
the buyers something to go by.
Leading Warehouseman
Blanchard, one of the leading
warehousemen dealing in tobac-
cos and himself one of Duplin
County's most successful farm
ers, has been in the tobacco
business for 26 years, all OF
them spent in Wallace. He has
been either operator or cooper
ator of warehouses here since
1927.
With w. H. Farrior, Blanch'
ard formed the Blanchard anc
Farrior warehouse firm in 1885
Blanchard is also a member O.
the Board of Directors OF the
Wallace Strawberry Exchange
and he is interested in many
phases of business and agricul
tural activities in Wallace ane
Duplin County.
Solves Problems
Bill Farrior is one OF those
indispensable men necessary t.
the smooth-running of an organ
ization as big as the Blanchard
and Farrior warehouse. He's tt
be found each day all over the
floor of the huge warehouse
keeping difficulties from eve1
arising and promptly solving
them if they do arise. He's alse
vitality interested in agriculture
and in other commercial enter
prises in this area.
New Warehouse
o. c. Blanchard, Jr., son O
the sales leader, and Tyson
Lanier, member Of the Dupll1
County Board of Commits
sioners, are also members O
the Blanchard and Farrior firm
Blanchard and Farrior'!
opened the 1947 season in theil
new warehouse, one of the mos
modern and largest to be founc
on tobacco markets anywhere,
1t has 96, 900 square feet Of flool
space, is well lighted and dry
1t is of concrete block construc-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
TOBACCO CREAM
TO SALE LEADER
Rackley Has Price Rallying
Cry To Spur Buyers AT
New Duplin House

WALLACE, Oct. 12-Fine to-
baccos are ice cream and cake
to A. E. (Rack) Rackley, sales
manager of the New Duplln
Warehouse firm.
Leading the sales line, when
he comes to tobaccos he judges
to be in the high price bracket
he'll yell out to the following
buyers: "Pitch in on this, boys.
It's ice cream and cake" Usu-
ally when Rackley cries out this
rallying whoop the buyers pitch
in and pay their top money.
Long Time Judge
Rackley has been judging to-
baccos for q years as a farmer
and warehousemen. He knows
e business from seed to final
price. He was sales manager OF
warehouses in Farmville before
coming to Wallace six years
ago. Since that time ne has
been one of the operators OF the
New Duplin firm.
Rackley lives on his farm just
out from Clinton in Sampson
County and is well known to
farmers and tobacconists all over
Eastern North Carolina.
Trade Beard President
Among his other duties, Rack
ley is also President of the Wal
lace Tobacco Board of Trade.
A. H. Carter, one of Duplin
Counties leading business men.
is one of the partners in the New
Duplin firm. He is connected
with a variety Of mercantile
firms in this area and also
grows thousands of pounds of
tobacco on his own farms. He
is a member of the firm of z.
J. Carter and Sons, one of the
leading business e Adjustments
in Southeastern North Carolina.
Long Experience
Carter is also widely known
through Eastern North Carolina
and he, like, Rackley, has been
in the warehouse business for
nearly a quarter of a century.
John A. Chestnut, who also
lives on his farm just out from
Clinton, is the other partner in
the New Duplin firm.
Chestnut has grown tobacco
ever since he's been old enough
to work and he has been con-
nected with the warehouse bust
ness for most of his adult life.
During the past 20 years he put
in some 10 or II years as a
warehouseman on the Rocky
Mount market. He also spent
several years on the Border
Belt in the warehouse business
before joining forces with Car
ter and Rackley here in Wal
lace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
Farmers: Paste This In Your
Haiti Means Money To You

Here is the schedule of sales and their approximate time
for the coming week starting today in Wallace. Farmers:
Paste it in your hats. And come to Wallace. It'll make money
for you.
MONDAY Today)
New Duplin Warehouses; A. M. to 11:15 A. M.
Hussey's No. 2-1l:15 A. M. to 3 P. M.
TUESDAY
Hussey's No. 10 A. M. to II A. M.
Blanchard and Farrior's-11 A. M. to 3 p. M.
WEDNESDAY
New Duplin-9 A. M. to Ills A. M.
Hussey's No. 2-1115 A. M. to 3 p. M.
THURSDAY
Hussey's No. 10 A. M. to II A. M.
Blanchard and Farrior's-11 A. M. to 3 P. N.
FRIDAY
New Duplin-9 A. M. to Ills A. M.
Hussey's No. 1eAs15 A. N. to 3 /. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
HUSSEY'S LEADERS
'BACC0 VETERANS
Operators Of Big Ware
house Combined 10
Years OF Experience

WALLACE, Oct. 12-The COM
bined years Of experience OF
,he head men of Hussey's two
warehouses in the Wallace mar
ket would add up to an amazing
total. something like ITO years
for the three operators.
WI. (Bill) Hussey is one OF
the best known tobacconists in
the flue-cured and hurley belts.
He has been in the business for
all Of 40 years, starting when he
was a mere boy as a ticket
marker on the old Warsaw mar
ket.
For IS years Hussey was auc-
tioneer and sales manager at
warehouses in Wilson, during
which time he also saw service
IN the Georgia market.
In Wallace Nine Years
He has been operator of ware
houses in Wallace for the past
nine years and his untiring eff
forts to get the most money for
every pile of tobacco is widely
recognized by the farmers who
deal with him year in and year
nu.
A native of Duplin County
Hussey has still found time to
make contacts far and wide and
he is manager Of the Louisville
Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse
company, Louisville, KY, during
the hurley season.
Bryant Is Farmer
Joseph H. Bryant, partner in
Hussey's No. l and 2, is also
widely known throughout the
State and Tennessee, as well as
along the entire Atlantic Coast.
He lists farming as his main
occupation-he's one of Dup
Inns leading tobacco growers
but he has been in the ware
house business since 1928. He's
operated warehouses in Tennes-
see, Clarkton, and Goldsboro be-
sides here.
He is also vice-president of
the Wallace Strawberry Elk
change and head of the Joseph
h. Bryant Produce Co. With O.
c. Blanchard, operator of Blan-
chard and Farrior's warehouse
here, Bryant organized the Gin
ton Produce Exchange and he
and Blanchard operated it for
fve years. Bryant also is one
Of the main factors in the Fai-
son Produce Market.
Duplin Commissioner
George D. Bennett, the other
partner in the Hussey Ware
house firm, is chairman of the
Duplin County Board of Com
~mlSsioners, of which he has been
member for the past II years.
he lives in Warsaw but he has
See HUSSEY'S On Page 6
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
Plenty Floor Space
On Wallace Market

WALLACE, Oct. 12-The COM
bined floor area of Wallace's
five warehouses is 315, 900 square
feet.
This is enouth room to take
care of 3,425, 900 pounds Of to-
bacco at one time, or roughly
seven times the amount permit
ted to be sold on any one day
under existing marketing reguia-
tions. The market now is al
lowed to sell 100000 pounds per
Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
Maybe Methusalah
Could Take On job
In Wallace Locale

WALLACE, Oct. II. - No
body's going to work that long to
prove it, but if one man set out to
harvest, cure and sell all the
tobacco that's grown nearer the
Wallace market than any other
market it would take him 1882
years to do the job.
That's figuring on $4,000 acres
in this Wallace area, covering
all of Duplin and Fender coun-
ties and parts of Brunswick, On
slow, Sampson, and New Han
over Counties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
Averages Last Week
Observation-Disclosures
1,589,326 Pounds Sold During Period F0I
$48.76 Per Hundred; One Full Days Sales
Brought $52.47 Per Hundred 80
By JOHN SKIES

ALLAC Oct. 12-The high, price averages that
have been spiraing upward on the Wallace Tobacco Market
for the past 10 sale days and drawing farmers with their
tobacco from a wide area are expected to push the volume
of sales for the 1947 season to an al-time high for the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

Hr
The word came here tonight
the eve of Wallace's 35th day
Of the current season that far
mers, from many miles around,
after hearing of the past weeks
high price marks, r planning to
sell the rest of their crop in Wal
lace.
Seasons High Mark
Last week the market here set
what is reported as a record for
high price average for an entire
week of sales for markets where
ever flue-cured tobacco is sold,
regardless of belt.
That price average was $48.76
per cent hundred for 1,589,326
pounds of tobacco. These sales
include all offerings on the Wal
lace Market-common tobaccos,
wet tobaccos, damaged tobaccos.
Everything.
On one day last week - Mon
day - the market set a price
average that was the highest
for any one day anywhere this
season. A total of 322,816 pounds
were sold for an average of $52.-
AZ per hundred.
Choosing Wallace Now
With the blocks that have En-
listed throughout the Eastern
North Carolina belt most of the
1947 season now fairly well
cleared up, farmers everywhere
are shopping around to find the
one market that offers them the
best chance of getting the top
dollar. Hundreds of them have
picked Wallace as that n mar
ket and hundreds of others will
bring their tobaccos here as soon
as they r ready to sell.
With hundreds of new custo-
mers coming to Wallace to take
advantage of these high 1947
prices, the Wallace Market is al
most certain to topple all ex-
isting records for total num-
Der of pounds sold during any
one season.
Through the past Friday Wal
lace had sold 10,459, 952 net
pounds. Net pounds means
pounds of producers tobacco
sold and does not include ware
house resale or spectators tobac-
cos. The gross number of pounds
sold places the figure above the
1000, 900 pound mark.
$4,000, 900 Pound Goal
Last year Wallace sold some
thing over Il, O00, 900 pounds. The
exact record is not available be-
cause many papers were Destroy
ed in the fire which burned two
warehouses. .
The highest number of pounds
ever sold here in any one season
was between $4,000, 900 and II,
900, 900.
This year, with the continued
flow to the market because of the
good prices, the market is ex-
pected to sell up to 10000 600
pounds.
Wallace's four warehouses sales
leaders, A. E. (Rack) Rackley,
Oscar c. Blanchard, and w. l..
(Bill) Hussey joined tonight In
inviting farmers to bring there
tobaccos on to the market here.
In cases where tobacco is not
yet ready for sale, these ware
housemen, recognized as top men
in the profession, asked farmers
to plan to sell their tobaccos
here when they r ready.
G.. AV7ED CEC NJ Doe
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24

fiana cohorts. have, won nine of
their 10 games, losing only to
Tuskegee, 10 to 6. They defeated
Fort Benning, 53 to 0; Southern,
Fl to 6; Texas State college, 26
to 6; Florida Normal, 81 to O;
Bishop, 20 to 6; Philander Smith,
Al to O; Tilliston, Al to 7, and
Prairie View, 10 to 0.
The Wherefore State Tigers have
lost onl yto Tennessee State, IA
to z. Wilberforce played in the
first college bowl game here in
1910, the Steel bowl. predecessor
to the Vulcan bowl.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24
AS | See It
Bv A. D. Braithwaite

There have been many hate
sheets published in America. These
periodicals have had as their main
stock-in-trade the peddling of a
cial and religious antagonisms on
the gutter level. They forego the
suave demeanor Of the main por-
ton of the American press which
promulgates it's hates through
yelled indirection. Instead of writ
ing slick editorials and slanted
news articles, these hate rags gar
ishly print their bilge with no
holds barred. Such a periodical is
the notorious Social Justice by
the infamous Father Coughlin.
And such a periodical is the Day
ton Independent published right
here in Dayton, by a small lnde-
pendent printer.
To be sure the local paper falls
far short of the literary level of
even the sheet that emanates from
the Royal Oaks Shrine, which is
pretty low. Aside from the SPLEEN
etc drivel splattered all over it's
pages, the most noticeable thing
about the paper are its grammat-
ical and literal deficiencies. They
stand out like a sore thumb to
use a much abused phrase. But
the thousand or so subscribers the
publisher claims are reached are
most duly impressed by the ex-
quisitely glorified HATE that
rings out in almost every word.
Of course, Negroes and Jews and
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24

Roosevelt and everything liberal
fall under the axe, and Of course,
there is nothing original in the
viscious material presented.
Here are a couple of choice
samples. In taking the Negro stu
dents at the University of Day.
ton to task for squawking be-
cause they were denied admission
to a local bowling alley while white
members of their class were adj
mitted, the paper criticized the
University for admitting Negroes
in the first place. Why, they have
their own school at Wilberforce,
let them go there where they will
not infect white students with
their dark skins. Then the paper
berated the Negro students, i'm
plying the old canard: give a Ne
gro an inch and he wants a mile.
Why, they we're admitted to the
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24
CRAMBLING, FORCE
FOR VOLCAN BOWL

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. "a. GAN
P)-The once defeated Gramb-
ling Tigers of Louisiana have ac-
copied an invitation to play the.
Wherefore College of Education
eleven in the 7th annual Vulcan
Bowl game at lockwood field here
Thursday afternoon, January 1, c..
w. Askey, VB secretary-treasurer
announced.
Coach Eddie Robinson's Louis
tional Bankers conspiracy to bomb
all the capitols in the world, etc.,
ety., ad infinitum.
Liberals are often inclined to
give too much publicit Y to these
hate-mongers, at the same time
alying too little stress on the real
source of most of the major prob
lens.
However, it is important that
they be exposed so hat the peo-
pie will know just who the bench
men of reaction are, and what
methods they r using to keep
reaction alive. And it is impor-
tant that the people be Informed
so they will be better able to make
democracy work here in America.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24

University, now them smart Mig
gers think they can run it.
A few weeks back when it was
announced that Wallace would ap-
pear, the paper ran some nasty
stuff. 1t said, when Wallace ap-
pears at the Biltmore all the N.
A. A. C. P. Negroes will be sit
ting up in the front rows. Snide1y
it advised it's readers that if they
desired tickets they could obtain
them at the N. A. A.. C. P. office,
although they could have laso
been obtained at the Biltmore.
And although the Progressive Citi-
ems of America, not the N. A. A..
C. P, were sponsoring Wallace.
All the lies and epithets sug-
costing the inferiority of the Ne
gro ace appear on it's pages. And,
naturally, the Jews come in for
their share. The Jewish %Interna-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-24

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