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VOLUME XXXV—NUMBER 87
BOLD ATTEMPT
IS MADE TO ROB
MAN NEAR HERE
Buck Gardner Is Attacked
In Woods Near His
Home In Williams'
A bold attempt at robbery was re
ported .in Williams Township early
last Saturday morning when s negro,
believed to have been Nicodemus Bar
row, attacked Mr. Buck Gardner,
small store owner and farmer in that
district.
Going to the Gardner home about
two hours before daybreak, the man
called Mr. Gardner to the door and
asked to buy a gallon of gasoline.
The store owner returned to his room
and dressed, but when he returned to
the front door he saw no one. Realiz
ing it was about time to start his
daily work, Mr. Gardner told his
family that he was going to feed his
livestock. After completing his work
at the stables, he started with a bas
ket of corn to his hog pasture 100
yards or more from the house. When
he entered a pine thicket, some one
darted front behind a tree and struck
him over the head with a stick, but
the attack did not injure him badly. A
second attack was made, the attacker
breaking the stick over Mr. Gardner's
head. Mr. Gardner offered resistance
and tussled 'with his attacker. When
the farmer-merchant called for help
he frightened the man away, saving
his SSO in cash lie had in his pockets.
A cap, found at the scene of the at
tack was identified as that belonging
to Barrow, and it was reported that
Mr.'Gardner identified the man. Of
ficers started looking for Barrow, but
he was not placed in jail until. Wed
nesday morning when Deputy S. H.
Grimes found him on the courthouse
steps early that morning. Barrow in
surrendering, denied the charge, stat
ting that he knew nothing about the
attack upon the aged man!
Barrow claims that he was drunk
during the holidays for several days,
and that he had wandered in the
woods and spent one or two nights in
a tobacco barn during the time.
An investigation of the attack is
now being made, officers stating yts
terday that no preliminary hearing
had been arranged.
SISTERS MARRIED
OVER 50 YEARS
Parents of S. E. Sprinkle
Are Celebrating Golden
Wedding Anniversary
An all-time marriage record for one
family was reported here yestrtd&y by
Mr. Sidney E. Sprinkle ju»t before he
and hia family left for Tobaccoville,
Forsythe County, to attend the gold
en wedding anniversary of his parents.
The anniversary will be celebrated
Sunday and Mr. Sprinkle's mother will
have present two iisteri and their
husbands, one who has been married
51 year* an danother who has been
married 56 years.
Mr. Sprinkle'* mother is 70 years
old and his father ia 76 year* of age.
This family of girl* are direct de
scendanta of Benton Daub, who was
born in Germany in 1742. Mr. Daub
is said to be the first man to bring a
Methodiat preacher to North Carolina.
Hi* ton, Peter Daub, was the found
er of the Greenaboro College for
Women.
To Plead Cause of Peanut
Growers In Washington
A delegation of Bertie farmers and
business men headed by Messrs. J. H.
Matthews, of Windsor, and N. G.
Bartlett, seceretary of the Eaatern
Carolina Chamber of Commerce, are
making a special appeal to the United
State* Department of Agriculture and
to Congress for relief for the peanut
farmers of this section.
The delegation including a few cit
izen* from this and other counties,
will aalced the department of agricul
ture to rai*e the loan value of peanut*
to a point above the current price or
in the same proportion that it has
raised the loan value on cbtton. This
would be of much value to farmer*
owing aeed loan money. ,
The delegation iftrill also confer with
congreaaional committees in an effort
to get relief for peanut farmer* in
general
The delegation left this section to
day for the nation's capital.
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Weather Too Warm for
Safe Packing of Meat
Weather prevailing during the past
few days and at the present time is
said to be too warm for the packing
of meat without special care. Farm ess
killing their hogs as long as (he wea
ther remains this warm will find it
advisable to use precautionary meas
ures ia packing their meat.
THE ENTERPRISE
[ HOLIDAY MONDAY ]
Since New Year's Day falls on
Sunday, a few business firms will
observe Monday as a holiday, it
was learned here this week. No
window service will be offered by
tht poetoffice and no deliveries
will be made in town or in the
rural section that day. However,
lockbox service will be offered by
fne office and mails will be dis
patched as usual.
The Branch Banking and Trust
Company employees will observe
the day as a holiday. Freight
service over the Atlantic Coast
Line will be suspended that day
and the day folio win. Employees
of the Virginia Electric and Pow
er Company will also enjoy the
day as a holiday.
Other places of business here
will continue operations as usual,
it is understood.
COUNTY COURT
CALLED EIGHT
CASES TUESDAY
Court Collects $120.00 In
Fines; Enough To Run
Court A Month
Judge H. O. Peel and Solicitor W.
H. Coburn had a comparatively small
after-Christmas docket in the county
recorder's court, here last Tuesday.
Only eight were called, out of
which the court extracted $l2O in
fines or almost enough to run the
court a month.
Ernest Slade was found guilty of
an assault on a female and was fined
$lO and with the costs,
Judgment was suspended upon the
condition that the defendant pay the
costs in the case charging M. (J.
Wynn with violating the liquor laws.
C. K. WinecofT was fined $lO and
taxed with the costs in the case charg
ing him with reckless driving,
Noah Sheppa'rd was found not guilty
in the case charging hitu with lar
ceny and receiving.
A $75 fine was imposed and the de
fendant was required to pay the costs
in the case charging 1.. P. Hayes with
operating an automobile while intoxi
cated.
The case charging Verna Wells with
vagrancy was continued one week.
Guy Powell was fined $25 and taxed
with the costs in the case charging
him with an assault.
Leon Porter, charged with reckless
driving, was found not guilty.
Expect Additional Rise
In Roanoke River Here
- According to information received
here yesterday, the Koanoke is expect
ed to rea«}h a 40-foot flood stage at
Weldon tomorrow, A report stated
that a second rise was under way at
Clarks ville, Va., and that the stream
would go out of the hanks here the
latter part of this week or the early
part of next. The rise, reaching Wel
don tomorrow, will hardly he noticed
here untl after the middle of next
week.
/Hugh Spruill, keeper of the water
gauge here, was notified of the ex
pected rise of the Koanoke at this
point yesterday, and warning is given
owners, who have stock in the Roan
oke swamps.
Run Down by Auto, Boy
Suffers a Broken Ankle
Claude Ambrose, young white boy,
suffered a crushed ankle when he
stepped from behind a freight truck
into the path of a Ford car on Haugh
ton Street here early Wednesday aft
ernoon. Doctors, treating the 'boy,
found the bone* badly split but still
in place. They believe no permanent
injury will result.
Ambrose was struck when he
stepped from behind the truck, (topped
near the middle of the street, into the
path of a car driven by John Hqx,
colored man of the Woodard section
of Bertie County. While the location
of the truck at the time contributed
to the accident, the boy assumed all
responsibility for the accident.
Ten Cents a Dey Will Pay
Entire Educational Costs
' Out of every 1,000 adult Americans
that you pass on the street, 23 are
college graduates and 125 have finish
ed high school.
These were among figures present
ed today by the Federal office of edu
cation.
Other observations included:
The chancel of a boy or girl going
to high school, which were only 1 in
25 in 1890, are now 1 in 2.
The chances of a boy or girl going
going to college, which were only 1
in 25 in 1890, are now 1 in 6.
Ten cents per day paid by every
person of voting age in the United
States would pay the entire bill for
public education. ,
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Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, December 30,1932
HOLIDAYS PASS
QUIETLY HERE;
FEW ACCIDENTS
Charlotte Doctor Suffers a
Broken Leg in Accident
Near Here Tuesday
The Christmas season Lrt this section
was marked for its quietness, reports
coming from nearly every section "pf
the county inilicating that the day
wafc peaceably observed, and that the
real spirit of the holiday was mo|j evi
dent than in years.
Only two or three minor wrecks
were reported in this section during
the period, and no one was seriously
hurt by firearms or firecrackers, as far
as it could be learned. James Smith
wick, of Jamesville, was said to have
suffered a bad cut on his leg when an
automobile belonging to George Mar
tin turned over on Highway No. 90.
A Virginia car plowed through the
guard railing on the river fill, but no
one was injured. Dr. Mizelle and a
Matthews Imy, both of Windsor, were
painfully but not seriously hurt in an
automobile accident between here and
Windsor Tuesday night.
Two or three fights of little conse
quence were reported, but 110 great
bodily damage resulted. Only six ar
rests were made during the entire
holiday season, and all but one were
the result of supposedly minor of
fenses. (ius Knight and Bartholomew
Bennett were 'arrested on assault
charges. Richmond Faulk was placed
in jail for being drunk, and Asa Toai
Lanier was arrested 00 a bastardy
Charge. Verna Wells was taken into
custody on a vagrancy charge. The
more serious charge was that of se
cret assault with a deadly weapon,
preferred against Nicodemus Harrow,
colored man, of Williams Township.
The county marriagb liaise bu
reau was unusually busy during the
period, the register of deeds issuing
about a doien licenses to Martin Coun
ty people.
A S2OO robbery in Hassell and the
burning of a home there were the two
most unusual happenings during the
season.
V. E. P. Employees Enjoy
Christmas Tree and Dinner
A unique celebration for employees
of the Virginia Electric and Power
Company was arranged here' last Fri
day night when they exchanged ap
propriate Christmas gifts around a
beautifully decorated tree in the com
pany's office here. Mr. M. S. Moore
was tendered a comb and brush, but
he declares the bristles are too hard
for his head.
Following the exchange of gifts, the
employees repaired to the woman'*
club, where a turkey dinner, was
served. »
Tax League Group Are
■ Holding Meeting Today
A discussion of the tax problems has
been scheduled in the courthouse here
this afternoon, when means will be
considered through which it will be
possible to list all property on the tax
books at its ttue value, according to
information coming ffom those prom
j inent in Martin County's Tax League.
Ways and means for delaying fore
closure proceedings against 1931 taxes
will also be discussed, it was stated.
Several Martin citizens attended a
I tax meeting in Kinstonthis week, but
far as it could be learned no defi
nite action resulted.
Farmers Storing Many
V Peanuts In Warehouse
Firmly believjng that the price of
peanuts will be higher within the next
few weeks, many Martin County far
mers are storing their crop and await
ing developments. A report from the
proprietors of the Williamston Stor
age warehouse this week stated that
more than 12,000 bags had been stor
ed there and several thousand more
bags are being held in various other
houses owned by individuals here.
While there has been a tendency on
the part of some who were badly
cramped financially to sell their crop,
present indications point to an order
ly marketing of peanuts this season.
Retires After 32 Years in
The Grocery Business
Mr. W. J. Hodges, after 32 years in
the grocery business here, retired last
Saturday night. During his long stay
in business, Mr. Hodges served a large
trade in this town and community.
Many of his customers who have vis
ited him often in his place of business
wii) miss him. \
Return of $1.55 a Bird Is
Secured in Calwell County
Poultry in nine demonstration
flocks on which recorders were kept
in Caldwell County this season paid
a net return above feed cost of $1.55
a bird.
MRS. COLTRAIN
DIES AT HOME
IN FARM LIFE
Funeral Held at the Maple
Grove Church There
Yesterday Afternoon
Mrs. Lela G. Coltrain, wife of Mr.
C. C. Coltrain, died at her home in
the Farm' Life section of Griffins
Township early Wednesday morning
following a long illness of Brights
Disease. Blood poisoning was given
as the ultimate cause of her death.
She had not taken nourishment during
the four weeks preceding her death.
i Mrs. Coltrain, the daughter of B.
Mc. Manning and wife, was born in
Griffins Township 46 years ago, liv
ing in that community alt her life.
When a young woman she was mar
ried to Mr. Coltrain, who, with seven
..children, survives." The children are
Mrs. J. G. Corey, C. B. and Albert
Coltrain, of Williamston; Garland,
Justice, Carol, and Lela Mae Col
train. Her father also survives.
Mrs. Coltrain, one of ten children,
was the first to die She leaves three
brothers. Messrs. J. 0., J. A. and El
bert N. Manning, all of Williamston;
ami six sisters, Mrs. X. R. Roberson,
of Tarboro; Mrs. J. R. .Browning, of
New Betn; Mrs. N. T. Daniels, Mrs.
N. K. Daniel, Mrs. Herbert Lilley, and
Mrs. Marvin l.eggett, all of Griffins
Township.
Although an invalid for several
years, she was always patient in her
suffering and looked upon lite as a
true Christian, She had been a mem
ber of the Christian church for about
IJO years, and as long as she was
she was a faithful attendant upon its
service* and its work. Humble in her
daily walk of life, she was.a recog
nised friend of all.
| I'uneral services were, conducted in
the Maple Grove Christian church yes
terday 'afternoon by her pastor, Rev.
JjD. \\ . Arnold ami Daniel Hardison.
. Interment followed m the Manning
burial ground, near the home
GOOD BUSINESS
REPORTED HERE
Merchants Offer Favorable
Trade Reports During
Holiday Season Here
While business in this section es
tablished no record during the Christ
mas season, * a very favorable trade
balance was reported generally. Busi
uess Infuses are said to have expressed
thcmsel.vcs as being very well pleased
with the activities during the period,
and tin* demands of shoppers were
adequately met by local merchants.
'l'he postoffice reported a slightly
smaller -number of packages handled
(luring the period, but receipts com
pared very, favorably with those of a
year ago for the same period, Post
master Jesse T. Price said thi* week.
—Package deliveries were "nearly 'IOO
percent completed here before Christ
mas day, it was said. However, fifty
or more arriving after Christmas day
were nut delivered until operations
were resumed last Tuesday morning,
"We haven't had hardly more than
an average business since 1929," the
postmaster said, but ibis year was as
B°od if not a little bettre than any
one since that time," he continued.
Baptist Minister Starts His
Eighth Year in Church Here
Sunday will marke the beginning
of the eighth year of the present rela
tionship of the pastor and people of
the Memorial Baptist church. The
day falling on the first of the New'
Year does, the service wil ltake
notice of both the anniversary and the
New Year.
Out of deference to the holidays,
there will be no preaching service at
night, only the 11 o'clock morning
worship, to which th* full member
ship is invited. At this particular time
te pastor and his family wish to* ac
knowledge with gratefulness the splen
did courtesies they have been shown
in these several years by the people
not only of the church, but by the
community in general. And they ex
tend to all the people good wishes for
1933.
f ACTION ]
Ellen Oreen, negress of Wil
liama Township, had a busy Ma
son during Christmas, even though
•very one else was enjoying a hol
iday. Monday night ah* whipped
her mother. The following day
(he swore out a warrant charging
A. T. Lanier with bastardy, and
had him Jailed. On her way home
from court Tuasday, she stopped
near Sweet Water Creek and was
marriad to Tom Hardiaon in the
middle of the road, the is only
If yews old.
Nearly Hundred People Are
Given Aid During Christmas
Christmas waa made merry for
many poor families in this section
when relief and welfare workers
exerted every effort to provide
them with needed articles a«d lit
tle gifts. No elaborate distribu
tions were made, but presents were
given to nearly-100 families by tha
Woman's Club Welfare Depart
ment, Mrs. L. B. Harrison, chair
man, reported this week. Many
individual gifts were reported dur
ing the period, and a splendid j
SCHOOLS ARE TO
REOPEN MONDAY
Farm Life and Bear Grass
Schools Reopened In the
County Yesterday
Several thousand Martin County
school children will return to their
studies in the various plants of in
struction next Monday, according ta
an official edict issued by the office of
the Martin County Board of Educa
tion here this week.
When the schools closed Friday,
December 16, for the Christmas holi
days, no reopening date had been de
termined. The announcement was de
layed pending the condition of the
roads, it was said at that time. Weath
er coditions and the roads are now
said to be favorable tor the return of
(the-children next Monday.
Starting the IW2-33 term later than
the other etghUmonths schools, the
Farm Life and Bear Grass plants start
ed operation yesterday.
ROBBERS ENTER
HASSELL STORE
House Burned There Early
Saturday; Origins Of
Blaze Unknown
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Breaking into the Salsbury Supply
Company storr in Hassell early, last
Saturday morning, robbers earned a
way goods and various other articles
valued at about S2OO. The robbers
used an augur and bored a circle of
holes to make one main one large
enough for a man of average size to
go through.
About the time the robbery was
committed, fire started in the bouse
owned by L. B. Fleming and occupied
by the Howell family there. Accord
ing to some reports, the robbers are
believed to have fired the home to
shadow their work. Members of the
Howell family were unable to assign
a cause for the conflagration, stating
that they were nearly trapped in the
blaze before they discovered it. The
home was nearly a mile from the
! store, and when the residents of the
town rushed there it is believed the
robbers loaded thejr loot and. made
their escape unnbticcd.
Officers arc working on the case, but
no arrests have been made. Accord
ing to unofficial reports, the robbery
was not handled by a group.
12 PERMITS TO
MARRY ISSUED
Marriage License Bureau
Has Busy Time During
Christmas Season
Twelve marriage licenses, nearly as
many as were recorded during the en
tire month of December last year, were
issued in the office of the register of
deeds here during the Christmas holi
days. Nine of them wait to white and
three to colored co'tiples. Martin
County people figured in all of them
except one. .
Twelve marriage nearly as
Licenses were issued during {he
period to the following:
Clyde Elton Bunch and Mildred Mae
Hoggard.
William Whitley and Daisy Ed
mondson.
William Alton Daniel and Johnnie
Frances Edmondson.
Albert Russell Bunting and Katie
Mae Farmer,.both of Wilson County.
Earl Harris and Ella Hurst.
Ollie Moore and Eunice Weaver.
Vernon B. Hopewell and Margie
Cherry.
Hugh B. Wyatt and Lyda Cooke.
Edrfar Norman Harrell and Hazel
Mary Brown.
Jamesville Man Challenges
Hog Raising Championship
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Butchering a two-year-old Poland-
China hog last week that weighed 704
pounds dressed, Joe Gray Modlin,
Jamesville Township farmer, is chal
lening the hog-raising championship
in the section thi> year. Mr. Modlin
also killed five 13-months-old pigs
| weighing a total of 1,613 pound*.
work was carried on in behalf of
the unfortunate.
Last week farmers killing hogs
in various parts of the county de
livered to the case workers at the
courthouse fresh meats, and the
hungry pleaded for the tasty food.
Case Worker J. R. Manning stat
ed this week that any other such
donations would be gladly receiv
ed at his office in the courthouse
and be diatributed to the hungry
worthy of aid just at this time.
PIGS AND COWS
CONTINUING TO
GROW IN FAVOR
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Cardwell Says Farm Needs
Feed Before It Needs
Live Stock
By GUY A. CARDWELL
... Seising an increase in popularity,
BFRjamin Franklin is said to have re
ferred to his growing importance in
the esteem of*TSti—tWtghbor» in these
words:
"Now that I have a pig and a cow,
every one bids me good morrow."
It was true in Franklin's time, and
it is likewise true today that the own
ers of livestock are more important
.individuals in the estimation of their
neighbors than are those farmers who
are not possessed of livestock.
The late Thomas VV. Bickett, like
1' rauklin, was possessed of imagina
tion and vision. Being troubled about
the condition of North Carolina farm
er* on a certain occasion during his
administration as governor, he ex
pressed his belief in live at-home farm
ing in the following forceful manner:
"If 1 were I zar of North Carolina
instead of the Governor, I would is
sue an edict declaring that from and
after five years from date any man
who imported into North Carolina any
corn or meal, wheat or flour, beef»or
bacon, should be forthwith hanged
and without benefit of clergy. Of
course, in the. beginning 1 should be
denounced-' as an infamous tyrant, but
after the law had been in effect for
ten years the richest state in the union
would build a moiiumeut to me as the
financial redeemer of my people."
Our preset distinguished governor,
the Hon'. O. Max Gardner , has done
much to encourage not only North
Carolina farmers but also those of
neighboring states to declare their in
dependence of the smokehouses, gran
aries, creameries, and hay fields of the
North and West. But thousands of
farmers still remain |g be converted to
a live-at-home program, and shown
how they can change from an unprofit
able to a prosperous-method of farm
iilg.
I have often said the proper
placement of livestock on southern
farms would result in lessening the
cost of urodustiud- of the usual crops
by giving larger yields on smaller
acreages, and, in addition, would pro
vide milk, cream, calves, hogs, lambs,
wool, poultry, eggs, and occasionally
a milk cow or beef animal for sale.
In the early eighties naval stores
furnished a considerable part of the
wealth of this section. With the pass
ing of this industry, the people were
left impoverished and the railroad
without ample tonnage.
The men of vision then in charge
of the destinies of the Atlantic Coast
Line system decided that this section
was adapted to the growing of straw
berries and a variety of vegetables. In
the late eighties and early nineties,
specialists were employed by the rail
road to promote the growing of truck
crops and to show farmers how to
grow and market these cFops.
In more recent years it has been
realized that the farmer who depends
solely upon the old money crops is a
goner, and that his business can only
be established on a firm foundation by
adding food and feed crops to his plan
of work, and further by carrying on
the place a reasonable number of live
stock. While this system has the ef
fect of keeping all hands busy for 12
months in the year it also spreads in
come over the entire year and makes
cotton, tobacco, and peanuts actually
what they should be—cash or money
crops.
WOMAN'S CLUB TO HOLD
DANCE HERE, TONIGHT
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The Methodist Woman's Mission
ary„society will hold its regular meet
ling with Mrs. W. T. Hunter at her
home in New Town Monday after
noon at 3:30 o'clock. All members
are asked to attend.
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METHODIST MISSIONARY
SOCIBTY MEETS MONDAY
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The Woman's club will hold a dance
in the club hall here tonight, begin
ning at 9 o'clock, if was announced to
day by Mrs. J. W. Watts, jr., mem
ber in charge.
Advertisers Wffl Pad Oar I
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Hundred Martin Comfy Hi
ESTABLISHE
SEEK TO HA
PEANUTS ADE
TO RELIEF PI
Domestic Allotment
Would Greatly AW
Growers It is Thou
1 I he Enterprise is in receipt
munication from
H. Kerr and LindsayC/wiM
which the solons voice their i^|
' t> make some effort to aid in H
nut industry. Their statement!
ing the peanut situation folloH
"We have been greatly ml
in the possibility of some : fH
Federal legislation for the. baH
the peanut growers. The marlclW
for this commodity has for three years
been much below the cost of produc
j ti°n, and it is about the only agricul
[ tural commodity which now has no
price.
The Department of Agriculture has
j instructed its field agents to encour
! age the peanut farmers to store their
1V32 crop and hold for a better market
and has advised them that curtailment
of future crops is imperative. This is
the only remedy that the Department
of Agriculture has suggested.
The DonTestic Allotment Flan now
pending in Congress undertakes to in
crease the price of four basic agricul
tural products, viz: Cotton, wheat, to
bacco and hog products. This bill .
proposes to pay the producers of these
commodities an increase above the
I market price—47 cents per bushel for
wheat, 5 Cents per wound for cotton, —r
2 -cents per pound for tobacco, and 2
cents per pound for hug products. This
is predicated upon a contract with the
tanner that he will cut his produc
; lion and thus let the surplus of these *
I commodities be naturally absorbed.
I ' bis increased price is by a tax
collected from the processor of each
I commodity, and uf course the proces
sor passes it on to the final consumer. «
Only those who contract to reduce
their crops will receive the benefit of
j this tax. Ihe advocates of this meas
i ure insist that all agricultural com
modities will rise to a profit level if
this bill can become law. .We are
I following same closely, but will await
to see its final form be/ore We take a
definite position on same.
We have endeavored to get peanuts
j inserted into the Domestic Allotment
| Plan. It is contended by'those who
oppose this that should it be done
■4 then the bill wi 11 be open for every
other commodity and that it would
defeat the purpose of the act. It is ex
j tremely doubtful if peanuts or any
| othe{_ commodity except those named
J w ill be included, but we will make a
fight for same when the measure
comes up for .consideration. ......
"Those peanuts upon which the gov
ernment has a lien fur money ad
vanced to produce same, the Depart
ment of Agriculture is willing to ne
gotiate with the owners in respect to
J a sale or storage thereof. We have,
together' with Congressmen Drewry
| and liankfurdr-taftetr~np~~ftß matter
i of relief for these growers to the end
i that they may adjust the matter of
their debt and then be at liberty to dis-*
pose 'Of or handle the unincumbered
part of their crop. The department
has agreed that the grower may have
the option of storing and holding these
indefinitely, the costs of storage being
I released, or the grower may negoti
ate loans at the Regional Agricultural
j Credit Corporation for seventy-five per
cent of their market value, to be used
j by the grower under the distress pol
| icy of the department or in the liqui
| dation of all or some part of the debt
1 to the government, this to be deter
mined in each individual case by the
J field agent.
| "We have been informed by Mr.
Don C. McVay, chief of the crop pro
ducing loan office, that he will rec
ommend to the Department of Agri
culture, and that he thinks it will be
approved, that each peanut grower
who is indebted to the government be
allowed to collateralize his debt with
peanuts at the price of 1.26 cents per
' pound, the same ratio price allowed
1 cotton growers, and allow the re
! mainder of crop to be released and
used by the gTower.
"This is the situation in respect to
the peanut growers. We make this
statement in order that large sections
of our districts may fully understand
that we have been greatly interested
in their problms, and are ready to aid
and cooperate in any proper way that
we can."
County Native Died In
Pitt County Recently
•
Miss Permelia Stokes, a native of
this county, died at her home in Green
ville last week of penumonia. She
ivas ill for about two weeks. Miss
Stokes had lived to a ripe old a®e and
was one of the oldest members in the
Blackjack Free Will Baptist church.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. D. A. Windham and interment
followed in the Campbell grave yard,
near Simpsons, in Pitt County. -