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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 32 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 21, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899
COUNTYCETSALL
TIME PROBATION
OFFICER MAY 1st
Delinquent Children Will
Offer Immediate Task
For New Officer
Martin County has just recently
been assigned an all-time probation
officer, the position being recog
nised as one of unusual importance
in aiding delinquent youth and ad
vancing the welfare of all children.
The officer, whose name has not
been announced, is scheduled to re
port in the county the first of next
month, and no doubt the half dozen
or more delinquent colored children
on the streets of Williamston will be
the officer's first problem.
Assigned to this county as one of
3? in the state by the board of char
ities and welfare, the officer is paid
entirely from Federal funds and
without any cost to the county.
The officer will deal with any
child "(1) Who is delinquent or
who violates any municipal or state
law or ordinance or who is truant,
unruly, wayward or misdirected, or
who is disobedient to parents or be
yond their control, or who is in dan
ger of becoming so; or
"(2) Who is neglected, or who en
gages in any occupation, calling, or
exhibition, or is found in any place
where a child is forbidden by law
to be, and for permitting which an
adult may be punished by law, or
who is in such condition or sur
roundings, or is under such improp
er or insufficient guardianship or
control as to endanger the morals,
health, or general welfare, of such
child; or
"(3) Who is dependent upon pub
lic support or who is destitute, home
less or abandoned, or whose cus
tody is subject to controversy.*'
Other duties will be: Caseworker
for all families in county to whom
Mothers' Aid to Dependent Children
is granted, also for alt children pa
roled from state institutions for de
fective or delinquents;
Assistant to county superintend
ent of public welfare in making in
vestigations of child and foster par
ents in petitions for adoption in su
perior court;
Agent for State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare in visiting and
supervising and reporting homes
licensed to board children and in
relation to any work of board deal
ing with children in county;
Caseworker in county department
of public welfare having responsi
bility for investigation of cases in
, .Y.olving children referred by out
side agencies, both public and pri
vate;
Assistant school attendance offi
cer for rural schools of county;
Asistant to county superintend
ent of public welfare in enforcing
child-labor laws in rural areas of
county, and in promoting whole
some recreation in county;
Caseworker for children handi
capped by physical defects?crip
pled, blind and deaf, and those af
flicted by diseases that may result
in physical handicaps?by locating
such children and by referring them
to the proper county or state health
and educational agencies for neces
sary care, treatment and training
and by assisting these agencies in
contact and plan for children;
Assistant to county superintend
ent of public welfare in safeguard
ing children of illegitimate birth and
in protecting them to the full ex
tent of juvenile court and illegiti
macy laws; and assistant in promot
ing all community projects whose
purpose is protection and develop
ment of children.
Reserves Stand on
Certain Questions
Questioned here last evening at
to his stand on the proposal to re
fund to the several counties money
advanced the highway commission
for the construction of roads yeart
ago, Clyde R. Hoey, candide foi
governor, would not advance at
open opinion, explaining that he
was not very well posted in th?
matter just now. He did say, how
ever, it would be no more thar
right to abide by the findings of the
committee to be named by Gover
nor Ehringhaus, if and when such
a committee is named.
The candidate also reserved a
statement in connection with the
proposed highway patrol radio sys
tem, explaining that the fate of the
system rested in the hands of tech
nicians.
Dolomitic Limestone Is
Best Fertilizer Fillei
Dolomitic limestone makes s bet
ter filler for fertilizer than inert
sand and progressive North Caro
lina farmers are beginning to de
mand that the limestone be used
Union Meeting Is Brought To
Successful Close Here Sunday
The series of union church
services started in the Roanoke
Dixie Warehouse here more than
two weeks ace came to a suc
cessful close last Sunday ni<ht,
the several ministers of the co
opers tine churches stating that
they were very much encour
aged with the results accom
plished by the religious move
ment. Only one addition was
reported during the meeting, but
the ministers are confident a
goodly number will affiliate
with the churches of their
choice within the near future.
Interest in the meeting in
creased nightly during the two
weeks, the largest crowd of the
period attending the last Sun
day evening service. Ministers
of the cooperating churches oc
cupied the pulpit in turn, and
confined their sermon topics to
the Scriptures.
Clyde Hoey Heard by
More Than 500 Here
County Officers Get
Several Liquor Stills,
In Series of Raids
J Free Union Colored Man Is
Caught Transporting
Quantity of Liquor
County Officers C. B. and J. H.
Roebuck and Roy Peel played havoc
with the illicit liquor manufacturing
business in two townships last Sat
urday and Sunday
Willis Pearce, colored man, was
arrested and 20 gallons of liquor
and 7 barrels of beer were destroyed
in a raid down Free Union way Sat
urday morning. That afternoon, the
officers destroyed 750 gallons of
beer and wrecked a complete plant
with a 100-gallon capacity copper
kettle in Poplar Point Township.
Sunday morning the officers
trailed a load of beer through the
woods in Free Union, but the driver
of the mule and cart threw it out
as he drove the animal in high gear.
Friends of the manufacturer re
moved the copper still from the
plant while the officers chased the
load of beer, but the remainder of
the plant and 400 gallons of beer
were destroyed A short time later,
the officers raided in the Warren
Neck section, not far from the Plym
outh fisheries, and found a still in
operation. Five men were at the
plant, but they escaped. The still,
a 100-gallon capacity kettle, was
confiscated, along with 4 gallons of
liquor and 3 barrels of beer.
| Colored Man is
Hurt in Accident
Vance Bryant, local colored man,
suffered a fracture of the skull and
internal injuries in an auto-truck
collision on the river fill early last
Saturday evening Bryant was rid
ing in the body of a truck when
Eltsha Moore, Bertie colored man,
crashed into the rear of the truck,
catching Bryant between the two
machines.
Rascoe, who is now facing a
charge of driving a car with im
proper brakes, stated that he start
ed to pass the truck, saw another
car coming and turned back to his
side of the road, crashing into the
truck and Bryant.
The injured man was given first
aid treatment here and was later
entered in the hospital at Windsor
While his condition is considered
critical, he is expected to recover.
Contract Let To
Enlarge Church
A contract for enlarging the local
Memorial Baptist church building
on Church and Smithwick Streets
here was let yesterday to Perry and
Martin, builders, the addition to
cost approximately $4,790 not in
cluding heating and plumbing. The
improvement program will cost a
round $0,500, H. S. Grimes, chair
man of the building committee, said
this morning. Work on the addition
will be started immediately, it was
| stated.
Eight Sunday school rooms will
be added to the rear of the present
building, four of them to be located
in the basement, the addition to be
built forming a "T" shaped struc
ture. >
The enlargment program has been
considered by the church people
for several years, but only yester
day were plans completed for
launching the project.
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| Duplin Farmers Buy 7
Carloads of Drain Tile
Farmers of Duplin County have
purchaaed seven cars of drain tile
cooperatively since last fall.
Makes Able Defense
Of Party's Record
During Past 35 Years
|State Should Have Fair and
and Just Taxing Plan,
Candidate Declares
Making his first public appear
ance in Martin County, the Hon
Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby lawyer, ably
defended the record of the Demo
cratic party in North Carolina dur
ing the past 35 years and outlined
his platform as a gubernatorial can
didate before a crowd of more than
500 people in the local high school
auditorium here last evening His
address, lasting for more than one
hour, was marked by the silver
tongued oratory for which the old
| warhorse has been known in the
Democratic party for the past 35
years throughout the length and
breadth of North Carolina.
Mr. Hoey, one of the widely rec
I ognized leaders in the four-cornered
race for the governorship of this
state, confined his remarks to the is
sues now before the people and re
frained from personal attacks
against any of his opponents. But
the preaching of the old Democratic
principles and a review of the
achievements in this state under the
Democratic party proved quite in
I teresting.
Introduced as the "next governor"
by Mayor John L. llassell, Mr. Hoey
told his hearers that he had spoken
for others so long that it was a bit
difficult now to speak for himself,
and, after outlining the principles
of the party and its activities and
explaining his stand on vital ques
tions, he said he would leave it to
the people who to vote for in the
coming primary
Referring to North Carolina as a
1 leader in agriculture and manu
facture and in all realms that touch
the citizenship of this state, the
Cleveland County man entered into
the issues that are proving foremost
in interest as the four-cornered race
for governor progresses. He ex
plained what the state is doing for
iU schools today. "From ?100,00<)
in 1899, the schools are now receiv
ing 66 cenU out of every tax dollar
Icollefled in North Carolina, the to
tal sum running to >20,000,000 this
I year, and during the depression the
schools of this state were kept
open" he said. A fitting tribute was
paid the teachers by the speaker
who said that the people should be
grateful to them and increase their
salaries to an adequate sum.
Taking the stand that no high
way funds should be diverted, the
gubernatorial candidate stated that
the road system should be expanded
I so as to accommodate the people in
all sections It was his opinion thai
this can be done and at the same
time a further reduction in the price
I of auto tags can be effected Tht
much-publicized surplus in the high
way fund came in for an explana
tion, Mr Hoey stating that approx
imately $8,000,000 of the surplus had
been contracted for the construction
of additional highways and that $3,
000,000 were necessary to repan
damages caused by bad weathei
? during the past winter.
In summing up the progress madi
in education and road building dur
ing the past few years, the candi
date stated that North Carolina wai
the only state in the union that sup
ported its schools and maintained
an extensive road system withou
land taxes. He further pointed ou
that when the state took over thi
roads and the schools, Martin Coun
ty was able to reduce its taxes fron
$348,207 in 1930 to $213,281 in 1935
Attention was given the othei
phases of government as it affecti
the less fortunate in corrections
schools, training schools and clinics
His main topic was sounded whet
he touched on taxation, the speak
er declaring that the state shouU
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COBURNTOMAKEI
RACE FOR STATE
SENATOR AGAIN
I Starts Active Campaign In |
Several Counties Of the
District This Week
In filing his formal candidacy for
State Senator from this district. At
torney R. L. Coburn last Saturday
briefly reviewed his record in the
General Assembly last term. Prob
ably his greatest efforts were ad
vanced in the interest of the?pro
posal to have the State Highway
Commission refund about $41)0.000
to Martin County and similar sums
to about 48 other counties in the
state for money advanced the com
mission in promoting its early road
building program. Mr Coburn ex
plains that a bill was passed au
thorizing the governor to appoint a
committee to study the claims and
report to him and the next legisla
ture when the findings will be in
vestigated.
During the 1935 term, the Sena
tor was a member of the appropria
tions committee,, and was active in
securing greater appropriations for
schools and charitable and correc
tional institutions. Mr Coburn al
so introduced a bill to amend the
sterilization laws, which was cal
culated to increase sterilization of
people mentally disease^ and as a
result more people have been ster
ilized during the past year than at
all other times combined. The sen
ator points out that this is proving
one of the most effective ways to
curb crime and the birth of feeble
minded children.
As for the sales tax. Mr. Coburn
opposed it, principally because no
provision was made to exempt foods
arid other necessities of life. The
sales tax was created in 1933 as an
emergency measure, and should
have been so considered in 1935,
that instead of reducing the sales
tax in proportion to the emergency,
it was increased and made more op
pressive.
Mr. Coburn is opposed in the com
ing primary by Mr Rodman and
Mr. Attmore, of Beaufort County.
Home Is Practically
Destroyed by Blaze
Here Monday Noon
Owned by Mr. and Mrs. C.
R. Mobley, Home Is
Damaged $3,000
Fire thought, to" have started by a
falling spark from a chimney wreck
ed the home of Mr. and Mrs Charles
R Mobley on Haughton Street here
yesterday just before noon. Dam
age to the home is estimated at ap
proximately $3,000, while the loss
to furniture and furnishings will
hardly exceed $300. Virtually all
contents were removed from the
home, but a settee, two or three
druggets and other articles were
damaged by Are when sparks fell
on them after they had been car
ried from the house and placed in
the yard of a neighbor. A second
call was made to the volunteer fire
company to return and check the
fire that damaged the furniture.
When discovered, the fire was
burning over a greater portion of
the roof, and by the time the call
was entered and the Are company
reached the scene the dry shingles
and heart timbers were burning
rapidly. Three hose lines were con
nected to the Are truck, and water
was turned on the Are for more
than half an hour before it was
brought under control While the
Are was conflned mainly to the roof
and gables, considerable damage was
done to the walls and other stand
ing timbers. It has been some time
since the local Are company had a
piore difficult residence Are to bat
tle.
During the height of the Mobley
Are, sparks Ared the Swain home
across the street, but it was soon
checked and very little damage re
sulted.
Mr. and Mrs. Mobley and fam
ily moved to the home recently va
cated on Hassell Street by Mr. and
Mrs. Pat Hoggard. Plans for re
pairing or remodeling their home
have not been considered at this
time.
I Sandy Ridge Defeats
Everetts Team 15 To 11
Behind the seven hit pitching of
Ben Hardison, Sandy Ridge turned
back Everett* at Everett* last Sun
day afternoon, 15 to 11, In their Arst
clash of baseball bats this season
Wesley Hardison caught for the
boys across the creek. Forbes al
lowed the visitors 18 hit*.
Daniels for Sandy Ridge and Cher
I ry for Everetts led at bat with three
hits each.
County Board of Elections Sets
Up Organization by Precincts To
Conduct Primary on June 6th
R.A. Ha is lip Is First Man To
Announce for County Office
Mr. R. A. Hilslip. well known
l>r|e-)ttlt farmer of Goose Nest
Township, cracked the county
political ice this week when he
announced his candidacy for
commissioner from the Goose
Nest Hamilton district. While
Messrs. Hugh G. Horton has an
nounced for the house of rep
resentatives and R. L. Coburn
for the state senate, Mr. Haislip
is the first man to announce for
a strictly county office. Several
others are understood to have
Hied with the county board of
elections but they have not pub
licly announced their candi -
dacies so far.
Mr. Haislip, about 51 years
old. is well known in his dis
trict. where he has been active
ly encaged in farming for a
number of years, and is well
known over the county gener
ally.
Pre-School Clinics in
County Are Planned
Announce Schedule
Beginning Monday
At Jamesville School
Mrs. Sloan, State Nurse To
Handle Work Assisted
By County Doctors
Beginning next Monday morning,
a series of pre-schoOl clinics will be
conducted in each of the high
schools in the county, with Miss
Sloan, state health nurse, in charge,
it was announced by the office of
the board of education. All chil
dren planning to enter school next
fall are urged to attend the clinic in
their respective districts. Examina
tions will be made free, and it i?
possible that certain defects discov
ered can be corrected before school
gets under way in the fall.
Parent-teacher associations and
medical doctors and dentists are ex
pected to cooperate in the worth
while movement. Last year nearly
200 children were examined in the
clinics, and a large majority of the
children were found to have some
physical defect. Once the defects
were discovered, the parents had
them corrected in most cases. The
children reporting for physical ex
aminations last spring were divid
ed among the schools as follows:
Jamesville, 26; Farm Life, 22; Wil
liamston, 54; Bear Grass, 17; Ever
etts, 15; Robersonville, 22; Oak City
21; and Hamilton, 14.
Clinics in the white schools next
week will be held as follows:
Jamesville, Monday April 27, at
9:30 a. m.; Farm Life that after
noon at 1:30.
Williamston, all day Tuesday,
April 28.
Bear Grass, Wednesday, April 29,
at 9:30; and that afternoon at Ev
eretts.
Robersonville, all day Thursday,
April 30. Gold Point children are
supposed to report at Robersonville
that day for examinations.
Oak City, Friday, May 1, at 9:30,
and at Hamilton that afternoon.
Hassell children are to report at
Hamilton for examinations that aft
ernoon.
Parents are urged to carry or send
their children to these clinics that
any existing physical defects may
be discovered and corrected before
schools start in the fall.
Age Limits for First
Year School Pupils
E. Lloyd GrifTin, executive secre
tary of the state school commission,
said last week children entering
North Carolina schools next fall for
the first time must he six years of
age on or before October 1.
GrifTin said the birthday limit was
moved up to November IS by the
commission last year and later was
advanced to January 15 The re
sult was crowded conditions in many
schools in the first grades, and it
was found some children, just
5 1-2 years old, werdunable to make
progress shown by the older group
Many inquiries are coming in daily
as to the ruling, he stated
As a result of the ruling, it is es
timated that more than 100 children
in this county will be unable to en
ter the first grade next fall, but who
would have been eligible to start
school had the age date remained
fixed on January IS, following the
opening of the term.
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Superior Court Now
In Final Week; Two
Cases Disposed of
Cases of Spruill and Clem
mons Against Tobacco
Firm Being Tried
Entering its second and last week
>f a two weeks term, the Martin
bounty Superior court cleared two
cases from the docket yesterday,
and started work on a third, reports
from the court shortly before noon
indicating that the action would not
reach the jury before late after
noon. Evidence was completed in
the case before the court recessed
for lunch.
In the case of A. J. Wynne against
R. C. Jones, the plaintiff was award
ed a judgment in the sum of $260
A divorce was granted Freeman
A Finch against Marguerite Finch,
the action being based on statu
lory grounds
After clearing those cases from
the docket, the court started work
on the cases of Abe Spruill and
Roscoe Clemmons against the Ex
port Tobacco Company. The two
men claim they were injured when
their car was struck by an Export
truck at Beaver Dam bridge on the
Everetts Road last fall Spruill is
asking $1,500 and Clemmons $2,500.
Lawyers in the case are expected
to take much time in addressing
the jury, and by the time Judge
Moore completes his charge to the
jury, it will be late afternoon.
Plan To Start Seine
Fishing This Week
*
Seine fishing operations will gei
underway at Jamesville this week,
probably on Thursday according to
reports reaching here today. High
water that has covered the flsh bat
tery for weeks is receding slowly
and probably will be low enough
to permit operations Thursday and
certainly by Friday.
The fishery at Camp Point, oper
ated by C. C. Fleming, will prob
ably go into action tomorrow. Those
at Plymouth are said to have start
ed operations yesterday.
Reports from the weather station
here this morning were not con
sidered very favorable for the
fishermen. The stream, receding
about 10 inches Sunday and Mon
day, did not fall hut about 4 inches
during the last 24 hours, and con
tinues about six inches over the
banks at this point today.
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Fire Company Called To
Peanut Plant Here Today
After a stubborn buttle with the
C. R. Mobley residence Are just
before noon yesterday, local fire
man had a real scare thrown into
them at 12:35 this afternoon when
a call was received from the big
factory of the Columbian Peanut
Company on Washington Road A
hurried report was made, and the
fire, just getting a good start on one
corner of the building, was soon
checked,
Said to have started from a spark
out of the smoke stack of the Farm
ville-Woodward Lumber Company
plant, the fire burned a small place
on the corner of the second atory
of the tall building.
Registration Books
To Be Open Three
Saturdays; Start (Hh
Only Five Changes Made in
Personnel of Election
Officials in County
Machinery for holding primaries
and elections in this county during
the next two years, beginning with
the primary on June 6. next, was
set up by the county board of elec
tions at a meeting held in the court
house last Saturday, the authorities
making comparatively few changes
in the election personnel
The board, composed of Messrs.
Sylvester Peel, of Grilfins Township
Albert T Pery, of Wilhamston; and
Joe H Winslow. of Kobcrsonville:
named Mr. Peel its chairman and
Mr Winslow secretary Clerk of
Court L. B. Wynne administered
the oaths of office
Registration books were ordered
opened on May 9, the county elec
tion authorities ruling that the regis
trars should lemain at the places of
registration during that day and the
following two Saturdays for the
registration of voters and to have
the books open for challenge of any
registrations on the next Saturday
or one week before the primary.
The board decided to instruct the
registrars to close ,the books to late
registrations except in those cases
provided by law. Registrars are ex
pected to handle the. registrations
themselves, and not permit mem
bers of their families to enter new
names. Election officials will re
ceive $3 a day tins year, the wages
having been increased from $2 to
$3 The board also ruled to pay
registrars and judges of election
serving in the last July election an
additional $1 for each day they
served at the rate of $2 a day. A
law was passed earlier that year
increasing the pay of election offic
ials from $2 to $3 a day, but only
in a few cases was the increase al
lowed at that time.
In accordance with instructions
by the board, a complete revision
of the registration books in James
ville precinct will be made.
The voting place in Poplar Point
precinct was changed from a tobac
co barn shelter at the old Brooks
ville schoolhouse to Alphonso Roe
buck's tilling station The polls will
he opened at the same place in the
other 11 precincts.
The most difficult job the board
experienced during its Saturday
meeting was finding a sufficient
number of republicans to serve as
judges of election* The task was
impossible in some districts, and in
those cases the board tried to ap
point a democrat that would be ac
ceptable to both sides. The names
of the election officials appointed
are as follows, with the name of the
registrar first, that of the democrat
judge of elections second, and that
of the republican judge of elections
third, with certain exceptions as to
the party affiliations of the third
man:
Jamesville Luther llardison, R.
L. Stallings and Charles Davenport.
Williams L D. Hardison, R. J.
llardison and Chas. L. Daniel.
Griffins: S. Oscar Peel, W T. Rob
erson and Marion Hodges.
Bear Grass: J Rossell Rogers, W.
M Harrison and W A. Brown.
Wilhamston: M Luther Peel, J.
Haywood Rogers and Chas. Cowen.
Cross Roads J. S. Ayers, J. B.
Barnhtll and Willie Ausborn.
Poplar Point: W Slade White,
Luther (I: Leggett and Herman Har
rison.
Robersonville: Eli Rodgers, C.
Abram Roberson and L. N. Vick.
Gold Point: Harry Roberson, J. L.
Croom and H. L. Keel
Hamilton: John A. Davenport, S.
T Matthews and W A. Beach.
Goose Nest: John W. Hines, J. C.
H. Johnson and Ernest Bunting.
Hassell. C. L Nelson, Elmer R.
Edmondson and George Ayers.
Messrs. Marion Hodges, J. Ros
sell Rogers, W M Harrison, W. A.
Beach and Ernest Bunting are new
appointees Chairman Peel was
empowered to fill any vacancies
that might occur.
Report Good Results with
Tobacco Alter Lespedeta
Person tobacco growers report
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excellent results with tobacco fol
lowing lespedexa and are adopting
thia practice aa a new method of re
building worn-out tobacco land.