The Wilmington morning star. [volume], October 13, 1947, Image 14

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NEW WAREHOUSES
■ — -... —. 1 " '
PACE WALLACE’S
BUILDING
THE ONLY MARKET—That’s what John Sikes, Wallace Sales
Supervisor, thinks of the Wallace Market. He says the town and
market warrant every superlative he’s ever been able to beat out
of a typewriter about it. But, for more details, see below.
.Wallace’s Super Press
Agent Has Many Whims
Bv PHIL WRIGHT
Kews State Editor
I'm inditing these lines in this
special Wallace Edition to tell
vou something about John Sikes,
Vallace Sales Supervisor, under
whose whip-lash I slaved long
and laboriously as a reporter
and learned that Sikes would
never be satisfied with less than
the best.
Sikes would probably tutt-tutt
any implication that this section
required any special effort on
his part because, for some or.ery
quirk in his left-handed brain,
he likes to leave the impression
he never gets around to any |
special effort of any kind. But
with the exception of this piece,
its heading and the caption
above, this former Managing
Editor of the Morning Star
wrote every line, every heading,
and every caption in these six
pages, plus staging the photog
raphy and helping the advertis
ing department with the ads. He
even read the proofs to catch in
advertent errors. Therefore, he’s
to blame for anything that has
gone wrong.
Beats All Markets
During the past three months
Sikes has been the pullmotor—
he calls it “the enthusiastic
drum beater for the best one
sale tobacco market in exist
ence’’—for the Wallace Tobacco
Market which, according to
Sikes, “beats all markets in the
world for conscientious interest
i*i the farmer and the prices he
receives for his tobaccos”.
Today Sikes’s sparsely-settled
pate—bald head to you—is show
ing bare signs of his efforts.
i Into every one of the lines
| in these pages he has boosted
his warehousemen friends, Bill
Hussey, Rack Rackley, and Os
car Blanchard, so glowingly I
personally feel I know these
men and take pride in their
leadership of the Wallace mar
ket. I can also feel the growth
of Wallace as a tobacco mar
ket, as a progressive farmer’s
center, and as a down-right good
place to be in.
What? No Summers
But, just in case you don’t
know a few items about him
permit me to draw from my
memory. He admits having been
through from 30 to 40 Winters
but he refuses to discuss the
Summers. In this comparatively
brie* span he has been editor,
sub-editor, reporter, and what
not on top newspapers in New
York. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
Memphis, not to mention a raft
of smaller places. He didn’t like
the big towns because he says
“if you holler across the street
to somebody you’re not only not
heard but the cops think you’re
nuts, which you probably are”.
This human dynamo has also
owned his own newspaper, sev
eral times. (He quit all that be
cause he says “ I couldn’t get
myself on the payroll because
there wasn’t any payroll.”)
Dreams Up Bridge
But. just to give you an idea
of one of his many big dreams,
he once sat in his newspaper
office in Edenton and looked out
over the nearby nine-mile ex
panse of the Albemarle Sound.
At one point of the Sound it is
only three miles wide. Sikes
Z. J. Carter & Son
Wallace, N. C.
Bring Year Tobacco To
WALLACE, N. C.
And Buy Your
Building Supplies
Furniture & Farm Supplies
From
Urn* Store
When In Wallace Selling Your Tobacco
VISIT OUR DRUG STORE
For Everything In
Drugs and Sundries
Soda Fountain
MAKE OUR STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS
Wallace Drug Co.
Your REX ALL Store
Prescriptions Our Specialty
Million Dollar
Expansion Nears
$750,000 Already Expend
ed In “Fastest Growing
Town In State”
WALLACE, Oct. 12.—The
Town of Wallace itself is
matching strides with the
Wallace Tobacco Market in
rapid though sound expansion
and progress.
Southeastern North Carolina
farmers, selling their millions
of pounds of tobacco here this
season, might well be excused
for rubbing their eyes at the
huge volume of building that has
gone on in this bustling town
during the past year.
Conservative Figure
Since the 1946 tobacco season
there have been spent at least
three quarters of a million dol
lars for new commercial con
struction in this place. These
figures are probably on the con
servative side.
Befitting its place in the Wal
lace commerce, the tobacco mar
ket leads in the construction.
Two completely new warehouses
have been constructed to replace
two that were burned to the
ground here in the midst of the
1946 season. These are Hussey’s
No. 1 and Blanchard and Far
rior’s. A third warehouse, the
New Duplin, has about doubled
its floor space with new con
struction during the past year.
Modern Warehouses
Cost figures om these new
buildings are upward of a quar
ter of a million, probably more.
Hussey’s and Blanchard' and Far
rior’s, the former of sheet alumi
num construction and the latter
of concrete block, are two of the
most modern and largest houses
to be found anywhere.
To go on down the list, prob
ably inadvertently missing some,
there are the Johnson Cotton
company’s big new place; the
Blanchard Pontiac company; a
block of buldings put up by
John Sheffield and housing the
Gowan Drug company; the Wal
lace Hardware and Implement
company’s new plant built by
Mr. and Mrs. John Farrior; the
Leading Motors, Inc., a building
put up by Dr. C. M. Miller; the
Jessup Motor company's place;
the building, constructed by D.
L. Wells, and Joseph H. Bryant,
which houses the new Danca
Theatre, the Bell Electric com
pany and the Wallace Dry Clean
ing plant.
New Tourist Lodge
Keep right on the list: The
Wallace Wholesale company,
Stout’s Frozen Food Locker com
pany, the C. and B. Supermar
ket, and the Wallace Pickle com
pany.
Carl Lanier is rapidly com
pleting one of the most modern
didnit have anything to write
about that day so he decided it
would be nice to have a bridge
over the water. So he sat down
and wrote about it. In less than
three years the State Highway
Department built the bridge.
(“There’s a little of the opium
smoker in all of us,” Sikes* ex
plains when asked about the
bridge.)
Sikes is as full of varied acti
vities as a Christmas turkey is
full of gobble. He’s written three
books. (I’m sorry to report that
none has been published yet.
Thi last two he wrote in a year
he took off from a tour of duty
as Managing Editor of the Star.
They’re now in the hands of
a literary agent. The first he
uncharacteristically has no hopes
for because he says “it was writ
ten way back when I thought
the world was round instead of
sharp-cornered and saw-tooth
edged.”
Always Speaking
He has been an after-dinner
speaker. (He says he didn’t like
that because his talks not only
took the appetites of his audi
ence but, he says, “I couldn’t
eat after one of them myself”.)
He has written, produced and
directed plays and shows, the
last of which was the revue,
“O, Fireman, Save My Daugh
ter!” which drew popular ap
proval when it was staged at
| Wrightsville Beach last Spring.
Down On The Farm
The guy has even farmed. He
regrets that this wasn't tobacco
farming. It was cattle and cot
ton farming in Arkansas. (“I had
to quit,” he explains, ‘‘because
the cattle gave stew beef in
stead of sirloins and the boll
weevils not only ate up my cot
ton but my shirt as well.” La
ter he spent a short period
chicken farming, but, he says,
he was so petered out at the
end of a day of honest work
“I couldn’t stay out of bed long
enough to put the chickens to
roost”.)
He’s been in the fish business,
having organized the N. C. Fish
eries, Inc., at Morehead City.
He’s had a hand—or mouth,
I should say—in radio and now
has three shows in work that
have cooked up beyond the
idea stage.
Sikes insists his idea of Heav
en on Earth would be to settle
permanently in Wallace. He
likes Wallace because, quoths
he, “there ought to be a good
opening for a young man in a
town where men have enough
faith in the future to build ware
houses big enough to hold three
and a half million pounds of to
bacco at one time when, under
present rules, they’re not allow
ed to sell but 500,000 pounds on
any one day—and where folks
build so many buildings so fast j
you can’t keep up with them
from one edition to the next”.
BRING ON THE BARBECUE—Bill Farrior and Oscar Blanchard, operators of Blanchard and
Farrior’s Warehouse shown left and right at the head of the table, feed ® the^table BMv
between sales on the Wallace Tobacco Market, Picking out some of those at the table, Billy
Parker, Liggett buyer, rests his arms on the table. On the same side in the regular order, is
Buddy Yates, Liggett bookkeeper, and Guy Forrest, Export buyer. Next to Farrior with lus back
to the camera is Jim Pearson, auctioneer. The gentleman in the coat taking a bite of hot corn
bread is Pete Walker, circuit rider for the J. P. Taylor Tobacco Co. At the extreme left, back to
camera, is Jimmy Hendrick, government grader, who was there just for the food. Standing, get
ting ready to serve, is Garland Kennedy, owner of Kennedy s Barbecue Place, who keeps the buy
ers contented with some of the best pit-cooked barbecue in North Carolma._
MORRISON HEADS
HUSSEY’S STAFF
Chief Bookkeeper Leads
Large Personnel In Big
Warehouse Group
WALLACE, Oct. 12 — Hugh
Morrison, Wallace, is top man
on the staff that pays off and
keeps the records for the two
Hussey warehouses on the Wal
lace market.
In addition to his duties as
chief bookkeeper for the Hussey
organization, Morrison is con
nected with the Wallace pro
duce market and is. himself, a
produce buyer during the se
son.
Teachey Pays Off
Herman Teachey, who lists
both Rose Hill and Wallace as
home, has the pleasing task of
writing checks to pay-off farm
ers who’ve completed their
sales. Teachey also dabbles in
the produce market and keeps
up his tobacco connections in
the burley belt when he's not
busy here.
There is a long list of staffers
—floor men, bill clerks, and so
on—connected with the Hussey
firms. These include Graham
Wells, Wallace, weighmaster
and bill clerk; John Zibelm,
Wallace, weigher; and C. F.
Johnson, Harrell’s Store, floor
manager.
Others on Staff
Others on the Hussey staff
are A. B. Herring, Watha; L.
G. Teachey, Rose Hill; James
Albertson. Beulaville; George
Rouse, Rose Hill; L. G. Teach
ey, Rose Hill; J. E. Sloan, Chin
quapin; James Herring, Har
rell’s Store; Harold James,
Wallace; H. P. Ennis, Teachey;
Billy Taylor, Warsaw; Clayton
Brown, Beaulville; G. D. Sho
lar, Chinquapin; M. Carr, Jr.,
Wallace; W. B. Kisner, Magno
lia; Dave Campbell, Wallace:
Joe Robinson, Rose Hill; and
Alex Southerland, Rose Hill.
HUSSEY’S
Continued From Page One
varied interests throughout Dup
lin. He is listed as a farmer and
is a leading tobacco grower.
Bennett has been in the tobac
co business for 36 years, since
he was 14 years old. He has
been sales manager in Kinston,
Farmville and Wilson and he
has been associated with Bill
Hussey for the past nine years
as operator of warehouses in
Wallace.
BARON ROTHSCHILD DIES
PARIS, Oct. 12— (/P) —Baron
Henri De Rothschild, 75, finan
cier, doctor and playwright, died
in Berne, Switzerland, today, the
French News agency reported.
Aggregate special taxes on
motor vehicles in the United
States reached a new high of
$2,507,000,000 in 1946.
tourist lodges in the State at a
cost of something like $75,000.
Dr. C. M. Miller has started
work on a new two-story build
ing at the corner of North Rail
road and Main Streets. This
structure will be 45 by 80 feet
of face brick with a modernistic
glass and stucco front. When
completed, Roger Ackerman will
move the Rogers 5 and 10 cent
store into the building. Acker
man will then operate as one of
the chain of 2,600 Ben Franklin
stores.
Another One Started
Another building has just been
started on the site of one of the
tobacco warehouses that was
burned last year. This is being
built by David W. Rouse and
Frank Blanchard. It v/ill be a
one-story building 20 by 100 feet
Flave Stroud, Wallace, is con
tractor.
Not to be outdone by all this
building, Harry Lee Oswald
publisher of the up and coming
Wallace Enterprise, a progressive
newspaper worthy of so progres
sive a town, has just moved his
ousiness into a modern plant
There are probably others ’ in
process of construction or in the
blue print stage.
the time 1948 comes around
Wallace may be able to look
back over 1947 as the one year
it: expanded by $1
00,000 worth of eoHuaaercial
construction.
WEED MART MUST
DEPEND ON WOMEN
TO DO CALCULATING
WALLACE, Oct. 12—A tobacco
market, like everything else,
must have the women folks
around to operate properly.
The Wallace market has its
distaff side too.
Womanning these intricate
calculating machines that click
out the amount of money
a farmer is to receive for so
much tobacco are the following:
Miss Margaret Williams, Wal
lace; Miss Helen Gorman, Wil
mington; and Mrs. J. W. Powell,
Wallace.
Looking after the interests of
the farmers by checking up on
sales and the like for govern
ment agencies are Mrs. Ros
coe Brinkley and Mrs. Sterling
Marriner. Mrs. Edward Sloan
Wells helps keep the Stabiliza
tion Corporation details ironed
out smoothly.
HOT FOOT
Laboratory tests show that
black shoes are much warmer,
especially when worn in sunlight.
When the thermometer reads 115
degrees inside a pair of black
shoes, it only hits 99 degrees \i hen
placed inside white shoes.
Spittle bugs are newly discov
ered carrier’s of Pierce's di
sease in grapes, says Dr. Henry
Severin, University of California
College of Agriculture virus
specialist.
AVERAGES
Continued From Page One
“The Wallace market is bring
ing the highest price to be found
anywhere tobacco is sold,” these
warehousemen said tonight. “We
believe all farmers will profit
by bringing their tobacco here.
This week the good grades will be
in strong demand and will bring
good prices.
“We have the floor space and
we are prepared to take care
of all farmers just as soon as they
bring their tobaccos here
“We eordially mvite farmers
to come now, or when they are
ready to sell. We guarantee cour
teous service and fast, profitable
handling of your tobaccos
“If you wish to book space
we will be glad L have you call
us at either the New Duplin,
which has sales Monday, Wednes
day and Friday; Blanchard and
Farrior’s which has sale Tuesday
and Thursday or Hussey’s which
has sales each day. We will take
care of everybody.
“If you do not care to book
space just bring on your tobacco
anyway. We’ll take care of you.”
The signs tonight were for
another big week here. Two
or three more such weeks will
swell Wallace’s total for the year
to the 15,000,00-pound goal for
the season.
Lemon trees in Southern Cali
fornia develop three growth rings
each year.
WALLACE ICE & COAL CO.
WALLACE, N. C. Ph<nt 2641
ICE For any occasion,
Our Meal Curing Storage Is
Now Open. Let ITg Cure
Your Meat.
ORDER YOUR
RED ASH COM
FROM US
We Deliver Anywhere
BRING YOUR TOBACCO
To
WALLACE
FOR THE HIGHEST PRICES
ENJOY THE BEST
CHICKEN AND PORK
BARBECUE IN
NORTH CAROLINA
AT
KENNEDY'S
BARBECUE CAFE
Across from Blanchard & Farrior’s Warehouse
THE CITY OF.
WALLACE
NORTH CAROLINA
Extends a cordial invitation to the Farmers
and their families of Eastern North Carolina
to come to Wallace and use the facilities of
fered by our business houses, tobacco ware
houses, banks, transportation systems, etc.
In Wallace you will always find a whole
hearted welcome and most anything else
that may be needed by the average family.
YES SIR! YOU ARE
*
WELCOME IN WALLACE