Press release by Bill Humphries, Public Relations Committee, Kiwanis Club, Raleigh, dated Feb. 3, 1951, from the F.H. Jeter papers in Special Collections, D.H. Hill Library, N.C. State University
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 2 – Frank H. Jeter, agricultural editor of North Carolina State College and former chairman of the Agriculture Committee of Kiwanis International, was endorsed unanimously today by the Raleigh Kiwanis Club for Governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis District for 1952.
Under a rotational plan, the next governor is to come from Eastern North Carolina. The election will be held at the district convention in Raleigh next October.
Jeter, the first announced candidate for the office, is widely known in both North and South Carolina as an agricultural writer and speaker, civic and religious leader, and active Kiwanian for more than 25 years.
A native of Santuck, Union County, S.C., he attended Clemson College, where he received a B.S. in agriculture in 1911, ranking third in his class. His alma mater signally honored him in 1948 by awarding him an honorary Doctor of Science degree—the first to be awarded to any agricultural editor in the United States.
Jeter has gained national prominence for his work as agricultural editor of N.C. State College for more than 35 years. His byline is familiar to readers of every newspaper in North Carolina and every important farm magazine from coast to coast. His daily farm news broadcasts over 50,000-watt station WPTF, Raleigh, are heard by a large audience, and he has appeared on programs for farm, civic, and business groups in every county in the state.
Following a term as president of the Raleigh Kiwanis Club in 1925, Jeter was elected lieutenant governor of the Fifth Division, Carolinas District, in 1926, and was appointed chairman of the Agriculture Committee of Kiwanis International for 1927-28.
Among numerous other honors, he served as president of the American Association of Agricultural Editors, 1919-1920, and chairman of the editorial section, Southern Agricultural Workers, 1937-39. He has been director of the N.C. State College News Service since 1920, chairman of the Board of Student Publications since 1932, and has taught in professional schools for agricultural extension workers at both Cornell University and the University of Arkansas.
In 1946 the North Carolina Farm Bureau presented him with a “certificate for meritorious service to agriculture,” and in 1949 the American Association of Agricultural College Editors cited him for “distinguished journalistic service to farm people for more than a quarter of a century.”
Active in religious affairs, Jeter is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, has served as president of the church’s Vanguard Bible Class, and has been a trustee of Presbyterian Junior College, Maxton, N.C., since 1943.
He is a member of the Torch Club; Carolina Country Club; Alpha Zeta National Honorary Agricultural Fraternity; Phi Kappa Phi National Scholarship Society; Epsilon Sigma Phi Agricultural Extension Fraternity; Blue Key leadership organization; Alpha Gamma Rho Social Fraternity; and other organizations.
Owner of a 376-acre farm in Union County, S.C., Jeter is married to the former Irene Ann Albert and they have three children—Frank Jr., a member of the editorial staff of the Greensboro Daily News; Vernon, a medical student at Duke University, Durham; and Mrs. Bill Black of Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Jeter reside at 304 Forest Road in Raleigh.
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