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THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXXVII?NUMBER 16 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 24,1934 ? ESTABLISHED 1898
BAND FROM HERE
WELL- RECEIVED
BY LARGE CROWD
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32 Local Boys Receive Ova
tion at Festival Held
In Raleigh
Entering the Eastern North Caro
lina Band festival in Raleigh's Mem
orial Auditorium last Sunday as the
youngest musical organization, Wil
liamston's high school band was well
received by the approximately 4,000
people, according to reports reaching
home following the concert.
"The band rejected expert train
fng," the News and Observer said In
its account of the concert. The paper
added. "All the Williamston lads toot
ed stray with a right good will and
the commendation they received was
well deserved."
The local band, made up of 32
young boys, is a comparatively new
organization, having had only 14 les
sons under the direction of Mr. S. A.
Braxton, director of several similar |
organizations in Eastern North Caro
lina. There were 10 other bands tak
ing part in the program, and the local
boys made a creditable showing, even
though the other organizations were
ranked with the best in the state.
The names of the band members
going to Raleigh and taking part in
the concert there are, as follows:
Clarinets: Whit Purvis, Howard
Cone, Jack Baker Saunders, Edgar
Gurganus, Ned Cunningham, Ben
Hardison, Vern Hardison, Charles
Whitley, J. L. Mobley.
Trombones: J. D. Bowen, Thad Har
rison, Jim Manning, Billie Biggs,
Paul Cullipher,
Alto Horns: Clayton Moore, Junie
Peel, Bennie Daniels.
Bats Drum: Calvin Shaw.
Bast Horns: Ellis Ramey, May
nard Mobley.
Trumpets: Jerry Clark, Ray Good
mon, Buck Holloman, Ben Hopkins,
Harry Taylor, J>ale Wagner, Ben
Daniels, jr.
-Saxophones: Marvin Rbberson, Mil?
ton James. . ts
Baritone: Eli Gurganus.
Snare drums: Horace Ray, Davis
Harrison.
SCHOOL NEWS
AT FARM LIFE
Play Will Be Presented Fri
day Night; Honor Roll
For Seventh Month
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The Firm Life High School will
present (he play, "And Mary Did," in !
the school auditorium next Friday eve
ning at 8 o'clock. The play promises
plenty of fun and wholesome enter- .
tainment. The public is cordially in- [
vited to attned.
Forty-eight names appear on the
Farm Life honor roll for the seventh
month, as follows: ^ I
First grade: Tillie Cray .Griffin.
Cairo Lilley, Doris Peele, Thelnia
Harditon.
Second grade: Noah Roberson, Jo
sephine Hardison, Nannie M. Kob
erson, Georgia Dean Robersotl, Dor- |
othy Roberson, Hazel Harditon.
Third grade: Dorothy E. Manning,
B. F. Lilley, Alton Faye Peel*. i
Fourth grade: Chloe Hardispn, Lata
Smith wick. Vera Pearl Williams. Earl
Heath, Cartyle Manning.
Fifth grade: Ida Mae Corey, G. W.
Corey, Oscar Wiggins.
Sixth grade: Ola Lee Lilley, Bet-!
tie Louise Lilley, Evan Griffin.
Seventh grade: Ruth Lilley, Sarah
Getsinger, Ruby Griffin.
Eighth grade: John B. Roberson,
Therman Griffin, Mamie Clyde Man
ning, Daniel Taylor Lilley, Annie
Getsinger.
Ninth grade: Albert Wilson Lilley,
Joseph Lilley, Virginia Corey, Jay
Daniel, James Peele.
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Jimmy Brown Leads Off
On AA Team With Hit
a
Martin Connty baseball fans .gener
ally interested in the sport, no mat
ter where or when, will have a par
ticular interest in the game this year
now that one of the connty boys, Jim
my Brown, it advancing into big
league territory.
Yoang Brown, third baseman and
lead-off man in the batting order for
the Rochester, N. V., team, made a
base bit ?si his first visit to the bat
in the Srst game of the International
League season played in Baltimore
last week.
The boy, a basketbaa! star back in
hie high-school days, and a member
of the local semi-pro baseball dub at
one time, urns an active athlete at
State College two terms.
He is the son of Mrs. Dara Brown,
of Jamesville.
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Clothing Representative
At BarnbUra This Week
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Battle Ytarby. representing the
Storrs-Schaffcr Co., in making a re
turn visit to Barn hill Brothers' store
here tomorrow and Thursday, show
ing the latest stylet in men's clothing.
EMERGENCY LOANS
Sine* opening hen March ?
the local office of the emergency
about one-half aa many loana aa
were made laat aaaaon, it waa
learned yeaterday from Field In
spector Roy Hearne. No definite
amount could be learned, but it Ja
estimated that the loana so far will
total approximately 125,000.
Mr. Hearne said yeaterday that
he expected nearly all the appli
cation will be in by the latter part
of this week or not later than next
Monday or Tuesday.
SCOUT TROOP TO
RE ^REORGANIZED
Preliminary Steps Taken at
Meeting Held Friday
Evening
Preliminary steps for the reorgani
zation of a Boy Scout troop here war*
taken at a meeting held in the court
house last Friday evening, with the
Messrs. Wheeler Martin and D. N.
Hix in charge.
Forty-two young boys, several from
the country, ranging in age from 12
to 17 years, were present and ex
pressed a keen interest in the move
ment, it was said.
The organization of a troop will be
effected just as soon as prospective
members meet the >equirements,
Principal Hix stating yesterday that
it was hoped to get the organization
functioning within the next two or
three weeks.
The young boys will meet again in
the courthouse Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock, when plans for organiz
ing the troop will be discussed. Ad
ditional meetings will he held Thurs
day of next week, and the week fol
lowing at the same hour. All boy}
over 12 years of age interested ... f
Scouting are invited to attend the
meetings.
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SCHOOL NEWS
AT HAMILTON
Unfavorable Weathr Inter-'
feres With Pre-School
Clinic Friday
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Unfavorable weather last Friday is
believed to have interfered with the
pre-school clinic at Hamilton, only 8
out of a possible 28 children reporting
for physical examinations that after
noon, Principal Edmondson said yes
terday. Nearly all the eight children
lived in the town, the others, living
in the rural section*, being held away
by rain and bad roads.
The names of 28 pupils appear on
ll.c honor roll released yesterday by
Principal Edmondson for the seventh
month, as follows:
First grade: Haael Robcrson, Fran
ces Moore, Edward Donaldson, El
inor Pippen, Mary Lee Gurganus, Wil
liatn Davenport, Rachel Gray Wynne,
Leman Bullock, Pearl Reason, and
Charlie Mae Scott.
Second grade: David A. Boyd, Pat
Davenport, jr.. Tow Davenport, Dal
las Lynch, H, M. Peele, Curtis Roe
buck, Jane Poole, Jay Stokes, Emma
Lou Taylor, and Mildred Thomas. J
Third grade: Clifton Roebuck. Delia
Harris, Ruby D. Whitley, and Vir
ginia Stevenson.
Fourth grade: Melba Everett.
Fifth grade: Don Matthews, jr. '
Sixth grade: Mary Ward Slade and
Perlie Mae Roberson. j
Says Rat Dish Conductive |
To Longevity of His Life
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Dan Purrington (colored), who Uvea
down near (he river hill on a street
adjacent to Main, sayi he wai 12 yeara
old when freedom came and haa al
ways enjoyed good health. He ia
very fond of rata aa a food, aaya he
haa eaten thonaanda, large wharf rate
which have recently taken up their
abode here being eepecially delicioua. I
Recipe: Skin, musk, parboil with aalt
and pepper, batter and fry.
The recent war on rata (poieon) haa
interfered with Dan'a aonrce of food
aupply.
If any one thinka Dan ia a myth,
watch the garbage barrela on the
atreeta for a few daya and he will aee
him.
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Silver Tea At Home of
Mrs. Coburn Thursday
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The Ladiea' Aid Society of the Lo
cal Chriatian Church will hold a ail
ver tea at the home of Mra. Robert L.
Coburn in New Town Thuraday after
noon from 4 to 6:30 o'clock. The pub
lic ia cordially invited to ^ttcnd.
Gates Farmers Place
Order for Leapedeta
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ing to be made by Gatea County land
ownera aince the new farm agent waa
established there waa to place a co
il to pu
operative order for leaped era iced.
SUPERIOR COURT,
RESUMES WORK
HERE ON MONDAY
Entering Second Week,
Number Cases Disposed
Of by Judge Moore
Entering upon its second week here
yesterday, the Martin County Super- _
ior Court began clearing the docket (
of civil cases, the tribunal presided
over by Special Judge Clayton Moore
handing down a number of judgments j
A divorce was granted James Henry ,
Speight against Delia Speight, the (
nrnr?*'?- in imiiA *
j." wv^v*IIIK3 VI lllg USBfU nplttt TWO
years of separation.
A voluntary non-suit was reported
-itr the ease of Lewis Drown, admin
istrator, against G> W, Peed. Brown
was suing for $5,000, the case grow
ing out of the accidental killing of his
son, Robert Brown, jr., four-year-old j
colored boy, on the Everetts road the |
7th of last August.
J. A. Taylor was given a $35 judg-,
ment against Will Hall.
Judgment in the sum of $85.75 was
given Slade, Rhodes and Company
against Arter Sherrod.
The court ordered certain lands sold
for a division ip the case of Roberson
against Roberson.
FISHING SLOWS
UP ON RIVER
Better Types of Fish Scarce
This Week; Fishery To
Start Tomorrow
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Fishing on the Roanoke yesterday
and today was said to be very unsuc
cessful, reports stating that the her
ring were running in much smaller
numbers and the better types of fish
continued scarce. Prices arc said to
have advanced overnight following the
smaller catches reported yesterday.
Seine fishing continues at a stand
still, Mr."?. (.V I leiiiinK. uwiieuw^ttrri
seines at Jamesville and Camp Point,
stating this morning that he hoped
at Cam|
to start operations at Camp Point to
morrow. The high waters were still
over the plant at Jamesville this morn
ing, the operator saying that he did
not khow when he could start opera
tions there.
Experienced fishermen state that
the herring are not all gone, that a
second run can be expected before
the season comes to a close, next
month.
The water in the Roanoke continues
out of its banks; and is about on a
standstill, a slight fall being reported
heje today. A rise was predicted last
week, but so far it has not been no
ticed at this ypoint.
CORN-HOG DRIVE
IS ON IN COUNTY
Several Large Producers of
Swine Have Already
Signed Contracts
While hog raising on a commercial
scale is considered of very little im
portance in tl^is county, several large
scale farmers have signed the corn
hog contracts, County Agent T. B.
Brandon said yesterday. Any farm
ers Avho fiave not signed and who care
to participate in the program bene
fits axe asked to prepare their con
tracts at the office of the agent be
fore the first of next month. No con
tracts will be prepared after that time,
it was said.
Under the terms of the contract,
the signer must agree to cut his corn
crop 20 per cent and his hog crop 25
per cent. Particulars of the contract
will be explained in detail to those
desiring to participate in the reduc
tion movement.
Discuss Best Breed of
Chickens tor Beginner
The beet breed of chicken, for any
beginner- in the poultry business i,
determined by what the person want,
with the bird,. If egg production it
to be the major business, then the leg
horn or tome other of the Mediter
ranean breed, thould be choeen. If
the bird, are to be told a, broiler, in
addition to producing egg,, the red,
or rock, would be conaiderrd. Each
breed ha, it* purpose and fit, into
the poultry produding industry. *o
any beginning thould set up definite
objective, and stick to them.
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Legion Auxiliary Holds
Meeting Last Saturday
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman', Auxiliary of American Le
gion Pott No. 163 wa, held Saturday
afternoon, April 21, in the home of
Mr*. J Sam Getainger in WiHiamston.
Mr,. H. L. Swain, president, pre
aided. After the general routine of
business, Mrt Vernon A. Ward gave
a splendid talk on national defense.
After the doting ceremony, Mr,.
Getainger, aaaiated by Mrt. J. A. Ward,
served a sweet course.
EXPECT LOWER
COTTON QUOTA
IN THIS COUNTY
Enactment of Bankhead
Bill May Delay Final
Allotments
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The enactment of the Bankhead bill
controlling cotton production in this
country is expected to delay the final
acreage allotments to the various
states, counties, and the individual
farmers. Under the provisions of the
bill, production will be limited to 10,
000,000 bales, the allotment for North
Carolina being SOB,000 hairs.
According to unofficial information
received here, the quota for Martin
County will be rcriirod along with the
quotas for other counties and states.
Just what the quota will be, it could
not be learned. Definite information
?is expected shortly, however.
Contracts recently signed by Mar
tin farmers call for a reduction of a
bout 38 per cent below the figures?
claimed by the farmers themselves.
Last year the Martin farmers claimed
they had a few over 7,000 bales, while j
the ginning reports showed only 6,050 ,
bales. In 1928 the farmers guessed i
they had around 6,000 bales, or just j
about twice as much as the ginning
reports actually showed.
President Roosevelt signed the cot
ton control bill last Saturday, stating
the purpose of the bill was to place
the cotton-growing industry on a
sound financial and economic basis.
Reports have not been received of
ficially from tl^e tobaccf) contracts
sent in from this county, but instruc
tions and findings are expected to
reach here any day now.
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PLUM WILLIAMS
IN TOILS OF LAW
Well Known Colored Man
Arrested With Three
Plum Williams, probably the best
natured colored man in -file county, is
now in the toils of the law, county
officers having raided his home on |
the Washington road last Saturday
afternoon and found several gallons
of liquor. Said to have been measur
ing out a pint or two for a prospect
ive customer when the officers ar
rived, Plum was caught short. When
{he sheriff and his deputy, armed with
a search warrant, entered the home,
Williams was locking the bedroom
door.
"What were you doing in there?"
the officers asked.
"Making my bed for tonight," Wil
liams replied.
"And why trc you Locking the
door," he was asked.
"To keep the children out," was
the feply.
When the officers explained they j
had a search warrant, Williams is
said to have dropped to his knees, j
clapped his hands, and laughingly ^
said, "Boss; don't, please don't joke
me like that."
Plum is scheduled to appear in the
county recorder's court here next
Tuesday for trial.
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Proposed Tax Does Not
Alarm Local Bachelors
"Several ilatea consider putting tax
on bachelors" reads a headline in the
State papers.
While North Carolina is not consid
ering such a tax, it might be well said
that more than a tax would be neces
sary to drive a few of Williamston's
old bachelors into matrimony. There's
William G. Peel, the insurance man,
who, apparently, would not allow a
little thing like a tax to trouble him.
And then there're S. H. Grimes, Dode
Haasell, Jack Biggs, "Sallie" Gurkin,
,C. D. Carstarphen, Herman Bowen,
and several others who would prob
ably hold such a,l?x in contempt, but
would pay it in the long run.
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Record Book Prepared
For Contract Signers
Growers who have signed reduction
contracts are not necessarily required
to keep records on their crops, but a
simplified record book has been pro
pared for the convenience of all grow
ers who have signed the adjustment
contracts. This will aid the grower j
in keeping a record of his acreage,
his production and sales, and will help
him in filling out the specif forms <
and reports necessary in making out
his contract according to the require-1
ments of the Agricultural Adjustment'
Administration. It always pays a]
farmer to fceep records of his busi
ness.
Plant Pine Seedlings
As Reforestation Project
One thousand short leaf pine seed
lings were planted on ? section at
poor washed mountain land in Chero
kee Coanty recently as a field demon
stration in reforestation work, reports
the farm agent
CWA Spent Total of
In County in Recent Months
FILING FEES FOR
OFFICERS FIXED
Deduct Amount Paid for
Office Help; 1-2 of 1 Per
Cent of Balance
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According to information received
a dav or two ago bv Mr. Sylvester
Peel, chairman of the Martin County
Board of Elections, from the State
Board of Flirtinns candidates for
county offices will be required to pay
1-2 of 1 per cent of the salary the re
spective offices pay, less any amount
paid for clerical assistance.
While the definite amounts will like
ly be determined by the county board
of elections, it is understood that the
filing fee for the clerk of the superior
court will be $10.80; sheriff, $17; reg
ister- of deeds, $10.80; treasurer, $4.50;
judge of recorder's court, $4.50; and
all other office candidates, $1.
The exact amounts of the filing fees
can not be easily determined as a rul
ing from the attorney general points
out that the candidate shall pay one
half of 1 per cent of the salary deter
mined by law. Officers in this coun
ty have accepted voluntary salary re
ductions, and after next December the
size of the salaries will be left to the
discretion of the county commission
ers, it is understood.
Several candidates have already
filed with the elections board chair
man, the amount of the chqcks being
made subject to change, it is under
stood.
FILING MANY
LEGAL PAPERS
Register Of- Deeds' -Office
At Height of Its Busy
* Season
The register of deeds' office in this
county is entering upon its busiest
season of the year, the employees han
dling from 25 to 65 papers daily, it
was learned this week. While busi
ness is brisk year in and year out as
a rule, the activities become more
numerous about this time when hun
dreds of crop liens, deeds, mortgages,
and other papers are to be filed and
later on cancelled.
The office is now recording 156
crop liens given by farmers in the
county, borrowing from the emergency
seed loan fund. Several hundred
crop production loan papers have al
ready been recorded, and more are
being filed almost daily, it was said.
Register J. Sam Getsinger works
well into the night almost every day,
and is now employing additional help
at his own expense that the work may
be kept up to the minute.
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FINALS SPEAKER
DEAN AT STATE
Dr. B. F. Brown Will Make
h Commencement Address
Here on May 11
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I)r. B.?F. Brown, dean of the school
of science and business, State College,
Raleigh, will deliver the commence
ment address in the local high school
on the evening of May 11, it was an
nounced yesterday by Principal D. N.
Hix.
Doctor Brown is an able speaker,
and his address will be one of the
high spoU in the commencement pro
gram here this year.
The next feature on the finals pro
gram will be held in the high school
building Friday night of this week at
8 o'clock, when the first, second, third,
fourth and fifth grade children appear
in the operetta,. "Little Red Riding
Hood." Large crowds are expected
to be present for the operetta as well
as for the other number on the clos
ing program.
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250 Unemployed Apply
For Jobs on Road Work
?Nearly 250 unemployed men tn Tfits
county have applied for work on the
two proposed road projects in the up
per part of the county, Mr. J. W.
Hines, head of the national reemploy
ment bureau here, said this week. Jobs
will be available for not more than
14J of the men, Mr. Hines said, as
there will be only 286 openings, and
half of those will be filled, by men
from Edgecombe and Pitt Counties,
where part of the road work Is locat
Just when work will be started on
the projects could not be learned to
day, but Mr. Hines was advised by
the authoritiea to have the men in
readincas to atari activities immedi
ately. The wage acale is not definite
ly known.
I CLEAN-UP WEEK
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Designating next week ax clean
I up week, town authorities and
| civic bodies are asking all prop
I erty owners and other citixens to
[ take an inventory of needed i*?
i provements now and make plans
to support the movement all next
The movement is not a compul
sory one, but its successes based
conditions. The least one can do
is clean up his own premises and
help clean public property.
BISHOP WILL BE
HERE THIS WEEK
Supper at Woman's Club
Friday To Honor Visit
Of Dignitary
The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst,
l Bishop of East Carolina, will be in
YVilliamston this week-end, April 27
2V, this being the time set for his an
nual visit. Bishop Darst is very pop
| ular in his diocese and his visits are
looked forward to by not only the
members of the Episcopal church but
by h$$< friends in other communions as
well.
On Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock,
the members of the Church of the
Advent will have a supper at'the Wo
man's Club, at which the Bishop will
be the guest of honor. Every mem
ber of the church family is urged to
be present at this supper.
On Sunday morning" the Bishop will
confirm several persons, and will
preach at the Church of the Advent.
Sunday afternoon he will preach at
the Holy Trinity M iwrft##. wisi.
-Grass, and Sunday night he VH1
preach at St. Martin's, Hamilton.
Any persons desirous of being con
firmed, who have not yet met the rec
tor for instruction, are requested to
see him at once.
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ORGANIZE FOR
BASEBALL HERE
R. H. Goodmon Is Elected
President, Bill Spivey
Manager
The organization of a local baseball
club was effected here last Friday
night when officers and a manager
were selected.
vRr H. Goodmon will head the club
as president, with V. J. "Bill" Epivcy
as manager. Wilbur Andcrton was
elected secretary-treasurer. Messrs.
Clayton Moore, L. T. Fowdeq, W.
E. Dunn, T. S. Critcher, Harry Biggs,
and George Harrison were named 4i-|
While the leagut- is being organized,
the local club is going ahead with the
perfection of its team and will be
ready to start play shortly, it is undcr
| stood.
A second meeting will be held lo
ally next Friday ?veningt it was an
nounced today.
A league meeting will be held in
Windsor Thursday night, when a line
up of clubs will be discussed and oth
er matters handled.
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Memorial Service for
1 Dead at Baptist Church
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Sunday evening the congregation of
the Memorial Baptist church held a
memorial service in memory of those
of tfie church who have died during
the eight years the present pastor has
been on the held.
This was a unique servi.ee, and the
church was beautifully dec$rat^d with
gorgeous flowers?artistically and
tastefully arranged. According to
present pians, this will _fr/,onir a year
ly service in the calendar of the local
church.
The dead from this church during
the eight-year period are as follows:
W. T. Meadows, jr., Mrs. R. S.
Critcher, Mr. Louis C. Bennett, Mr.
and Mrs. Lafayette Cross, Mrs.
ThCinrga""? MnrMKr.n, Mr w
B.. Had ley, Mrs. J. H. Britt. Mrs. J.
C. Gurkin, Mrs. L. B. Wynn, Mr. J.
Walter Anderson, Mr. John Daniel
Rogerson, Mrs. Mary Manning, Mrs.
Lula Anderson, Mrs. Lint Martin,
Mrs. Asa T. Crawford, r. B. F. God
win, Mr. W. A. Burroughs, Mrs. John
T)ani'el Rogerson, Mr. James A. Ev
erett, Mr. James E. Harrell, Mr. Har
ry Meador, Mr*. J. H. Roebuck, Mr.
J. H. Britt, Mr. A. R. Dunning, Mr.
Joe Taylor, Mrs. Herbert D. Peel,
Mr. Asa Tom Crawford, Mr. Joe Greg
ory, and Dr. P. B. Cone. w
William A. GrhflfH, Commissionei
of Agriculture, of Raleigh, was a visi
tor in town this morning. While here
he was the guest of Mr. J. G. Staton,
a member of the state board. *
COST OF VARIOUS
TYPES OF WORK
IS SUMMARIZED
Largest Amount, $19,889.12,
Spent on Improvements
To Hi
|hways
Despite the fact that they could not
be carried on indefinitely, CWA activ
far ui";" 'T coh
ccraed, have proved an important fac
tor in the life of the county, a sum
mary of the achievements of the lo
cal program which was compiled in
the welfare office this week reveals.
Surely, the office handling the work
in the county was criticized, justly so
in probably a few cases, but unjustly
in the main. Their duties were prob
ably the most numerous of any in the
entire county, and they dealt with the
illiterate, the maimed, the blind, and
the ne'er-do-wells. Considering their
tasks, the Martin County relief office
and its every employee did an excep
tionally good job in handling a pro
gram on such a vast scale. Probably
the most severe criticism is to be di
rected against those who asked re
lief, for it was they, in many cases,
who sought the most and offered the
least in the way of honest-to-goodness
labor and cooperation. That the di
rect benefits are no greater than they
are traceable, it is believed, to a care
free group, as a whole, which sought
everything and offered to do no more
than drajv breath and pay.
Some of the projects, to be sure,
could have well been left off, but the
program designed by the authorities
in Washington was to put men to
work, to take them off a direct dole
id prevent a eomplcte eollapse of the
Kh.i1 relief situation. And when the
accomplishments are compared with
what might have happened,, it can be
said that every dollar 6f the more
than $68,000 was well spent in the
county.
The matter of employment was on
ly one of the many constructive
phases attached, it is pointed out, al
though from November ,25, 1933, to
the last-of March, when the activities
were terminated, approximately 778
persons in Martin County were given
employment in the CWA. The larg
est number working at any one time
was 598.
"While most of the unemployed were
found around the towns, the CWA
extended its activities to all sections
Tfic~county, centering several of its
| major programs on road improvement
and drainage projects. And then
there was the great sanitary undertak
ing?the building of 2,400 sanitary
privies. The project fell far short of
its goal, , but regardless of the incom
pleteness of the sanitary program, the
lutlejipuses dot the landscape from
one end of the county to the other,
and, no doubt, conditions have been
vastly improved. It was a costly un
dertaking, but the results in that proj
ect were no more costly than in some
others. There were 352 privies con
structed,?the?labor?alone
r
1 in
$23.35 for each unit, or just about
twice the amount spent for lumber
and materials. The labor on the proj
ect amounted to $8,222.35, and the
materials were figured at $4,521 50.
The largest amount, $19,889.12, waa
spent, on highway improvements, or
rather widening the roads and piling
the mud in the middle. This week
the roads were rated worse than at
any other time of the year, but the
CWA is not responsible as heavy rains
fallen recently.
A few ditches were cleaned and a
few more dug, the CWA spending
$16,644.55 on drainage.
i
Repairs lo schools, including paint
ing, cost $7,735. A sizeable amount
of the sum went to the Bear Grass
school addition.
Williamston's unfinished barn gym
nasium cost $4,343.66. Judging from
the amount spent there and the prog
ress made, both the unemployed and
the aged wrre located on that project,
with a few exceptions, of course.
Street work in the several towns
cost $3,751.65. The CWA sunk $3,
319.12 in the local baseball diamond
and field, and the plot now misses a
level by some inches.
The reemployment office, including
the salaries of the officer, disbursing
agent, safety supervisor, business cen
sus takers, price enumerator, and en
gineering, cost $2,326.65.
School secretaries, librarians, and
census takers received a total of $1,
029.50. It cost $582.30 to provide aid
in the school lunch rooms. Clerical
help in the county offices coat $17830.
An assistant at the county hone re
ceived $46.50, and an assistant to the
county home agent was paid $42. A
tewing project cost $163.20, making a
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