Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to over 1,600 Homes of Martin County. THE ENTERPRISE Watch the Label on Your Paper, As It Carries the Data Your Subscription I apt ran VOLUME XLII?NUMBER 55 ~ - Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 11, 1939. ESTABUSHED 1899 Start Drive To Extend Highway 64 To The Ocean (lolutnbiu Citizens Now Work ing for I)ir??ct Route from Ocean to Mountains A drive to connect Ihe ocean with j Murphy by a direct hardsurfaced , route is now being formulated by Messrs. Floyd and Earl Cohoon, prominent Columbia business men. According to Victor Meekins, Dare sheriff and Manteo editor. "It is the idea of these men that Route 64, which traverses Columbia, can be made one of the most famous tour ist routes in America. As was advo cated by C. Wallace Tatem some years ago, Route 64 is considered a great route for a park to park high way connecting the Cape Hatteras National Seashore with the Smoky Mountains. The enthusiastic Cohoons who by the .way,* ate not closely re lated. believe they can go even fur ther and by organizing an associa tion whose membership would be confined to the towns and villages traversed by this highway from Col umbia to Murphy, they would not only effectually advertise it on a na tional scale, but would create senti- I ment that would tend to bring about many improvements. They consid er it a disgrace to the State of North Carolina that this road has never been extended beyond Albemarle River and think it is the state's duty to push it on to Roanoke Island and the seashore. "The two Cohons expect to send an invitation to Dare County people and to all other towns east of Raleigh along this route to join them in tak ing initial steps in forming such an organization. They refer to the many historic points ol interest that He in proximity to the route or immed iately on it. "They go far enough to say that east and west should join hands in perpetuating this great road and in sharing its attractions with the na tion to their mutual profit. " 'Why should not," say they, "the people of the "mountain region de light in sending down tourists to the far east in exchange for our visitors who we might direct westward? With each section working in unanimous cooperation we would keep thous ands of people within the state, who now either go north or south. search of attractions that can no wise compare with those we have in North Carolina ' "The Cohoons say that before the summer is over, they will initiate this movement and will have the united backing of their home town to start with." Crops Not Damaged la County By Rain Heavy rains fallaing in the county during the past few days have caus ed no serious damage to crops, a hurried survey of the agricultural situation revealed today. The ground is saturated and ad ditional rainfall just now is subject to cause some damage, farmers ques tioned yesterday and today, said ToMccaJsripfiningrapidlyjnd.it is possible that lale crops wtU take a second growth, but the situation is not at all alarming and present in dications point to bumper crops. The coin ciup uulluiik is the brightest in years in Martin County June, reckoned as a dry month, turned out to be not a?> dry after all. During the period, 5 40 inches of rain fell as compared with 9.71 in ches in June, a year ago. July is fast getting on the wet side, the local weather station reporting 3 35 inches of rain to date, the heviest fall, terday morning. Planning Tour Of Farms In County Martin County farmers are being invited to participate in the annual county farm tour scheduled for Wed nesday of next week. This is the third annual tour planned in the county, and more farmers are expected to participate in the review of farm practices than last year. A schedule of the tour is now in the making, and will be made pub lic within the next two or three days. According to tentative plans, farms in nearly every township in the county will be visited during the one-day tour. Particular attention will be centered on various fertiliz er and variety tests and hog breed ing. Included in the tour will be vis its to two Farm Security Adminis tration farms and two vocational agriculture projects. Power farming will be reviewed, and other interesting projects will be visited. The tour is open to anyone, farm ers especially Singing Clatt In County Church W edneulay Night The Free Will Baptist Orphanage class, of Middlesex, will give a con cert at Rose of Sharon church Wed nesday night, July 12, at eight o'clock. No admission will be charg ed .and the public is invited to at tend. Pulp Mill to Reopen in This County on Monday, July 24 The plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company in the lower part of this county, closed for the past two months by a strike of the parent mill in Dclair, N. J., will reopen on Mon day, July 24, according to an official announcement released yesterday afternoon by Manager Cox. Opera tions at the plant in this county will be advanced independently of the mill in New Jersey, an unofficial re port stating that the output will be shipped to Richwood, West Virginia, for manufacture. The reopening of the plant will place more than 300 people back to work in the county, it was estimated. Unable to effect a settlement of a strike at the New Jersey plant, ap proximately 700 workers continue idle there. While proposed plans to increase the capacity of the plant in this coun ty have been abandoned, it is un derstood that the company is going forward with a program to refine its output and bleach a portion of the raw pulp that is ordinarily shipped to other mills for finishing. It is not likely that full-capacity production will be maintained by the mill upon its reopening two weeks from now, but alt its employ ees will be put back to work in the mill or in making preparations for refining the raw pulp. An official statement on the com pany's plans for future developments and operations is expected from the home office tomorrow or Thursday, it was learned here today. FEW CALLS Calls received by the local volunteer fire department have been few and far between this season. Yesterday morning at 8:35, the department had a call from a Marshall Avenue home, but just as the apparatus was be ing moved out of the station, a second call was received advis ing the fire was out. The call yesterday was the first received by the department since May 15. So far this year, the town has one of the best fire loss records in several years. Martin Native Ls Killed In Wreck In Hertford County Fnm-rul for Mrs. Sum Hunting Held Here Sunday Afternoon Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mrs, Jodie Barnhill on Main Street here last Sunday af ternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. James H Smith for Mrs. Sam Bunting, vic tim of a truck-wagon crash near Ahoskie, Hertford County, early last Saturday morning Interment was in the Barnhill family cemetery, near Evcretts. Riding in a single horse wagon with Mr. and Mrs. Berry Thomas and holding her fourteen-months-old daughter in her arms, Mrs. Bunting was thrown from the wagon when it was struck from the rear by a large transfer truck She suffered a bruken back and a fractured arm, reports stating that she was killed instantly. Her daughter, Anna Lane, was removed to a Suffolk hospital for treatment of a severe head in jury However, the child's condition was not considered serious by hos pital attaches. Suffering a compound leg fracture, Mrs. Thomas, also a na tive of this county, was reported in a serious condition in the hospital where attending doctors state that she will likely lose her leg Thomas, driver of the wagon, was painfully bruised but not seriously hurt, and John Lassiter, Jr., driver of the transfer, truck, and Tendie LasSiter, passenger in the truck, were not hurt. At a coroner's inquest held that morning, the truck driver was ordered held under bond in the sum of $1,000. Lassiter, a young resident of Conway. N. C.. maintain! the w? gon was on the wrong side of the road. Thomas said that he was on his side of the road when he heard the truck. That was all he could remem ber. ???? ; ? Mrs Bunting, 32 years old, was the daughter of the late James and Roxie Lane Bunting, of this county. Fol lowing her marriage to Mr. Bunting, she had made her home in Hertford County. Besides her husband, she leaves four children and several bro thets-and ?toter?. : Hamilton Plans Sanitary Drivel Meeting with representatives of the Martin County Board of Health last week-end, Hamilton town au thorities discussed and mapped plans for improved sanitation, reports stat ing that the town authorities show ed a marked interest in and pledged the health forces a 100 per cent sup port in promoting an improved J health program for the town and | community. The town commissioners are di recting an appeal to the citizenship I there for a strong coviperation in ad- | ^vancing the movement. The plans advanced at the meeting call for the installation of a number of sanitary privies, elimination of breeding places for mosquitoes and tt generul clean-up program.? The proposed program represents | a sizeable undertaking, but with the I people already showing a marked in terest, the movement is virtually certain of success, a member of the county health department said to day. Delay Opening Of Local Post Office Scheduled to move to its new | building on East Main Street the lat ter part of this week, the local post office will likely continue in its pres ent quarters next to the Tar Heel building until about the first of Au gust, Postmaster Leslie T. Fowden | said yesterday. "A delay in the shipment of sev eral steel window frames and doors, including the front, will make it im- | possible for the contractors to com plete the structure and turn it over j to the government before the first of J the month,' Mr. Fowden said No plans have been announced for | the formal opening of the new build ing as far as it could be learned here | tnriiy Building details are being cleared from the schedule daily, workmen yesterday raising the 42-foot flag pole. It has been rumored that Post master Pete will raise Old Glory to the breeze on the pole each morning at sunrise just as soon as he and tviiT i force move to the new building. Medical Society Meets Thursday The second district medical socie ty, composed of the counties of Beau-1 fort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt and | Washington, will hold, its nual meeting at Atlantic Beach on Thursday of this week, it was an nounced today by Dr F. P. Brooks, secretary. of Greenville The afternoon has been set aside | for water sports. Following the eve ning meal, scientific papers will be read by Dr. Otis H. Johnson, of Morehead City, and Dr. N. P. Battle, of Rocky Mount. Dr. Brooks said in announcing the meeting, that a large attendance was [ expected upon the evening session. Highway Accident Record Automobile drivers in Martin County placed their names on the safety honor roll during the week ending July 9 for the first time in recent months, incomplete reports showing that travel moved in and through the county without an accident of any kind. While the splendid record of the past week does not prove that Martin Coun ty drivers attained perfection when it comes to thoughtful and care ful operation of their motor vehicles, there are grounds for believ ing that the large number of accidents and the heavy life toll dur ing recent weeks are having their weight in awakening the motor ists from the apparent lethargy surrounding the operation of their cars. The property damage resulting in automobile accidents, is run ning far ahead of that for the same period a year ago, and the high way death toll to date is greater than it was for all last year With these cold facts staring motorists in the face, there is every reason in the world for them to stop and think more about the rules of the road. A comparison of accident records for the past week and for the first months of the year follows: Property Accidents Injured Killed Damage Last Week's Record 0 0 0 ? 000.00 Prior Record 24 22 7 $0,800 00 TOTALS .......... 24 22 7 $8,800.00 Review Of Forest Fire Serv ice In the bounty Last Year Sixty Firo Cause Damage Ks timnted at More 'Dian 7,000.00 Reviewing the activities of the State-County forest fire service in this county for the past year, Dis trict Forester P. W. Tillman point ed out in a recent report that a dam age estimated at $7,008.00 resulted to the forests in this county as a re sult of sixty fires during the period. Scattered all over the county, the sixty fires burned over 4,403 acres, it was estimated. The report furth er shows that 926 acres of merchant ible timber were partially or whol ly damaged. Forester Tillman pointed out that there were 166,500 acres of forest land in the county, that the fires damaged 2.6 per cent of the acreage, averaging 73.39 acres per fire. Most of the fires were caused by brush burning and by careless smokers, the report pointing out that eight parties were prosecuted in the courts for alleged violation of the forest fire laws. Judgment was apparently suspended in all the cases, the report showing that only court costs were collected. The costs were negligible, averaging less than $5 foi each of the eight cases. Supres lion coats collected following thir teen fires amounted to $70.27. While the service had the general cooperation of landowners and far mers, only $42 10 worth of labor was volunteered free in fighting the fires. The report gives the county war den, S. J. Tetterton, resigned, cred it for working 2,500 hours, and shows that he traveled 10.267 miles during the period in promoting the service and in handling fires. The warden interviewed 220 persons and person ally participated in fighting twenty seven of the sixty fires. He also in spected saw mills, visited the schools and posted signs warning against forest fires. During ttl?~"year, the district war dens and other men in the organiza tion traveled 3,243 miles and work ed 5,146 hours in promoting the ser vice and combatting fires. At their recent meeting, the coun ty commissioners appropriated $1, 000 as the county's part in promoting the forest protection program dur ing the current fiscal year under the local direction of Warden Marvin Leggett, of Griffins Township. Farmers To Hold Field Day Events Al Test Station ? TIioiikuihIm KxpcrU'd To Hr Present At Wenonu Thursday Sponsored by the State Depart ment of Agriculture, the annual field day will be held at the Blackland Test Farm in Washington County at Wenona on Thursday of this week. Presided over by former Senator R L. Coburn, of Williamston, the field day program iii~>xppcted la .attract thousands of farmers from several" counties including a goodly number from Martin. The program carries a number oT prominent state speakers including Senator W. B. Rodman, of Washing ton; Commissioner of Agriculture Kerr Stott; Prof. R. H. Ryffner, of the animal industry division, N. C. State College; D. S7Coltrane, assist ant to the commissioner of agricul ture; Dr R. E. Collins of the N. C. State College Agronomy Division. Interesting features to which spec ial attention will be directed are: Percheron horses, quality of meat studies?beef cattle,- improvements in native cattle by use of pure-bred sire, value of native reeds as a pas ture for beef cattle, gleaning studies with beef cattle, cost of raising pigs to weaning age, cost of carrying breeding herd of hogs, peanut meal as a supplement to corn for fatten ing hogs, improvement of the family cow, the farm flock of sheep, fertili zer and crop rotation studies, lime tests, manganese and copper sulphate -studies, pasture grass-iexUiuear test, seed corn selections, soybean varie ty test, hybrid corn test, effects of sharing on summering lambs. In addition to the men's program, the ladies have mapped a program of their own. Several contests are included in the program, and interesting demon strations have been scheduled. Spot Sitet For Intpection By Ho?pital Committeemen A special committee, named by legislative act to select a site tor a tuberculosis sanatorium in eastern North Carolina, will be a sked to in spect an even dozen farms in this community, it was learned today. Meeting in Raleigh yesterday, the committee, headed by O. M Mull, is inspecting possible sites in other counties today. It could not be learn ed just when the group is planning on visiting this county "They will probably be in here late today or early tomorrow," Mr. G. H. Harrison said this morning. Postal Receipts at the Local OfficeShowFairlyLargeGain After experiencing a small loss in the first quarter of this year as com pared with the first quarter in 1938, the local post office came forward with a gain last quarter to establish a new record for the six months per iod. Stamp sales for the first quarter of this year dropped to $4,643.85 from $4,723.61 in the first quarter of last year. During the months of April, May and June of this year, the stamp income amounted to $5,295.02 against j $5,005.31 for the second quarter in 1938, a gam df $289.71, After deduct ing the small loss experienced in the first quarter of this year, the local office showed a gam .if $208 75 fur the first six months of this year ov er the first six months of last year Money order business last quarter was slightly under that for the same quarter a year ago, but the volume of mail, carrying the frank, about held its own to make the postoffice a busy place Stamp sales for the past two fis cal years by quarters are, as follow s: Quarter 1937 3* 1938-39 First $ 4,807.10 $ 4,889 37 Second 6,043 43 6,102.47 Third "},724 61 4,643.65 Fourth 5.005 31 5,295.02 Totals $20,580 45 $20,930.51 Farm Security Makes J Record in This County Eleven Farms Are Purchased Under Security Farm Plan I'mgriini I- Moving Forward Rapidly in the County, Modlin Says Created by the present National Adnnnistration to convert tenants into independent farm owners and opei a tors, the Farm Security Ad ministration is meeting with a mark ed success in this county David Modlin, head of the local district, said this week. "Martin County led the entire region of five Southern States in the purchase of farms for tenants," Modlin explained. It has been a slow process, no doubt, but the rapid trend from land owner to tenant has apparently been check ed and the pendulum is swinging in the other direction. Not all of the eleven purchases have been consumated, but the plans are complete with the exception of a few legal technicalities that must be handled before the actual trans fer of ownership can be effected. Martin County tenants have shown a marked interest in the rehabilita tion program, more than 150 having upplied for farms under the special program last year. No definite al lotment has been assigned this coun ty for the new fiscal year, but the Farm Security Administration re cently-received an increased appro priation at the hands of Congress and it is possible that the farm purchase movement will gain momentum this year throughout the country. In ad dition to around 150 applications brought over from last year, the office of the administration in this county has received twenty addition - al ones within recent weeks. Other applications will be considered, and any tenant in the county who wishes to start out on his own is invited to file hiuk application in Modiin'i of fice at the county courthouse. In promoting the farm purchase plan, it is planned to handle the ap plications and place the new owners in a position to start farming for the 1940 season Those wishing to par flcipate in the program and who have not already done so are direct ed to get their applications in im mediately. The greatest trouble in advancing the program in this county is the limited number of farms for sale More tenants could have been placed on farms of their own had there been more farms for sale in the county last year. Reporting on the activities carried on those farms recently purchased through the Farm Security Adminis tration, D. G. Modlin states that he is more than pleased with the pro gress made to date. "Proof has been advanced by everyone of those far mers that the Farm Security Plan is sound, that it offers one solid and sure approach to the farm tenant problem," he added. ATTENTION Delayed for some unannounc ed reason, a representative of the La Cooperative des Tahacs I.au rrntiens, of Joliette, Quebec, will be here about the first or the middle of next week to sign up farmers to fo to Canada and cure tobacco late this summer, it was learned last week-end. It is expected that C. D. Groves, a former buyer on the Williams ton market, will come here to sign the curers. Nearly 1U0 Martin County farmers have shown an interest In the curiae Jobs and it is high ly probable that a goodly num ber will be signed for the task when the representative of the cooperative tobacco firm comes here. 83 Young People In Church Meeting At DardensSunday Cooperation of Every Clinri-li In Murtin County Is I rgcil A group of 83 young people repre senting various churches of the county assembled in the Dardens Christian church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock for the regular interde nominational league meeting with Mary E. Keel, president, presiding The meeting was opened with a short song service. Miss Naomi Brown, of the Bear Grass Holiness church, led a very interesting and inspiring devotiona 1 which was fol lowed with prayer by Garland C. Bland. The topic of the program, "Youth Action in Personal Religious Living" was introduced and those participating on this program wen-, Miss Sally Gray Gurkin, Miss Amah da Wynne, Miss Annie Mae Bailey and Miss Carrie Dell Terry. Some very msoirthe talks were mnde bv each speaker. Rev Jack Vinson, <>t the Bear Grass Presbyterian church, bass solo. Miss Josephine Gurganus, secre tary, called the roll of all the churches in the county and those having delegates present were Dar Christian church, Bear Grass Holi ness Church, Roberson Chapel Pres byterian church, Sweet Home Chris tian Church. Hardens Methodist, Rosen Sharon Free Will Baptist Church, Jamesville Christian church, Williamston Methodist church, Dar dens Christian church, Williamston Baptist church and Bear Grass Pros byterian church. This was one of the largest and finest meetings of the interdenominational league since its organization in January, 1939, and every young person went back \ (Continued on page four) LastRound Up of Dons Draws To A Close in Martin County The enforcement of that Slate law requiring the vaccination of dogs againsyabics is nearing 100 per cent effective this week as officers con tinue plans to carry alleged viola tors into the courts on Saturday, July 15. Armed with criminal warrants, of ficers invaded four townships last week and left little doubt in the minds of twenty-two dog owners that the law would be enforced in this county. Ten of the warrants were is sued in error, and in those cases the defendants will be dismissed by the courts, no doubt. Twelve other de fendants have been ordered to ap pear before Justice J. L. Hassell for trial on Saturday of this week. Ad ditional warrants are now being is sued in Roberaonville, Goose Nest and Hamilton Townships and it is likely that two dozen or more per sons will be called upon to explain why they have not had their dotts vaccinated in accordance with the dictates of the law. In several cases where warrants were issued last week, it was ex plained that the name of the rightful owner of a dog was not given when the dog was vaccinated, that a mem ber of the family unintentionally claimed ownership. In thoses cases the name of the owner found on the tax books did nut correspond with the name of the one having the dog vaccinated In'most of the cases where war rants were issued, the owners had killed their dugs but failed to report their action. An aged reliefer, sought under the dog law. explained that he did not have enough money to buy gun shells to kill his two dogs. A Jamesville merchant furnished two shells, and the'old codger complied with the law by tha skin of hit teeth. Indications Point To Billion Pound Crop Of Tobacco l-'.Hiiinatr of Crop Reporting lloonl I* Saiil To Br Conservative The federal crop reporting board in a report Released yesterday pre I dicta a tobacco crop in excess of one J billion pounds this season, the esti mate being regarded by many as be ing very conservative. The more liberal guessers are of the opinion that the crop now in production will approximate a billion and one quar ter pounds, the latter guess depend ing upon weather conditions to a j great extent. A preliminary survey of crop con ditions in the eastern North Carolina l>elt during the past few days indi cates that a considerable poundage : will be lost in harvesting, one au thority pointing out that much of the crop was Hi I ring up in the ? fields and that following the recent i a ins the stage is set for rapid ripen ing The crop reporting service report reads, in part, as follows: With all belts showing a marked increase, the largest step up in pro duction coming from the old tobac co-producing areas of North Carolina the board reported 1.103.000 acres I planted to flue-cured tobacco and an 1 mdleuted production of 1,022,905,000 pounds. The record-breaking crop, which is the first produced without produc tion control since passage of the AAA act in 1933. is the result of not only increased planting, but an es timated larger yield per acre. In 1938 the 912.100 acres planted to flue cured yielded an average of 861 pounds. The estimated acreage yield fot the 1939 nop IS plttOed al 927 pounds as compared to the 1928-37 average of 760 pounds. The crop reporting board estimat ed a total tobacco crop, including all classes, of 1,654.222.000 pounds as compared to the 1938 crop of 1,378, 534,000 pounds. . The 1939 flue cured crop is ex pected to exceed consumption by around a quurter of a billion pounds. The present indicated consumption is between 740 and 750 million pounds. The quotas fixed by Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace which failed t<? receive the necessary two thirds support of growers in the ref reiulum last fall called for a crop of 754.000.000,000 pounds This would have lined production with consump tion as is the purpose of the AAA program. The April 1 report on tobacco stocks showed 909,718.000 pounds of flue-cured tobacco on hand. This is more than a year's supply at present consumption levels. Another factor which clouded the flue-cured tobacco picture today was a report from the office of foreign agricultural relations in London stating that American exporters of tobacco mav expect fo find market - prospects in European countries for flue-cured "somewhat less Javor able" than during the last two sea sons. This was attributed to the lar ger stocks now on hand in Europe. The Eastern North Carolina belt will continue most to the increase in 1939 flue-cured production, accord nig to tin* crop reputing, hoard re port which places the indicated yield at 366,000,01)0 pounds. This compares p, prodiwiion |n this belt of 251, 980,000 pounds last year and the 1928-37 average of 262,540,000 pounds. In 1938 the growers in the eastern belt planted 293.000 acres and this year increased their acre to 3611000 arr"* Last year thu average yield in the belt was 860 pounds and the indicated yield this year 1,000 pounds. year increased their planting from 87,000 to 104.000 acres, their indicat (Continued on page four) (roltl Point Church Opens Hihlc School Beginning Wednesday morning at 9 a. m the second Daily Vacation Bi ble school will get underway in the Gold Point school. The first school was held last summer and was at tended by a small but interested gmup of the tlilltltt'll (11 tilt torn-" niunity. All children five years old and alKive are urged to attend the school. The school will be in session each morning except Saturday and Sun day from 9 a m. through 11:30 p. m. Tile school will run through the 21st of July and a commencement pro gram vrtll be given on^ the1 - Fourth Sunday ' The school will be under the direc tion of Rev. Z. T Piephoff, who will be assisted by Rev. Jack W. Vinson, Jr., and Miss Louise Paschall. Nightly Prayer Servicet Being Held In Church Hare ? * Started three weeks ago, the series of nightly prayer services in the lo cal Holiness church continue to hold a marked interest, B. D. Wynn, an officer in the church, said today. "We are praying for a revival not only in our own little church but in all churches," Mr. Wynn added. The public is cordially invited to meet in the chuhch for thirty minutes of prayer each evening.

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