Reduction Should
"Begin At Home**
Tax reduction, like charity, should
"begin at home," Mrs. Melville
Mueklestone, president ol the Na
tional Consumers Tax Commission,
recently told the Philadelphia Fed
eration of Women's Clubs. Stressing
the vital need for more economical
and more efficient municipal gov
ernment?the NCTC theme for 1940
i she urged appointment of joint
citizens-officials committees to work
for better service, lowered costs. One
specific improvement suggested is
elimination of long-term bond issues,
this practice has been found to result
in present-day taxpayers still being
assessed for improvements made as
far back as the Civil War, the com
mission reports.
Greek Business Run
On 'American Style"
Athens ? American influence,
through American schools, libraries,
and cultural organizations, has long
been manifest in the Eastern Medi
terranean area. The English language
is widely-spoken. Or better, perhaps,
to say the American language.
The result Is a deep admiration
and respect for the United States
There are American restaurants,
shops, bookstores, newsstands, bar
ber shops, dry cleaning establish
ments (quick service 'n' everything) ?
beauty parlors, motion picture thea
tres, advertising methods.
The movies, for example, run con
tmuously. a smart restaurant a
page flicks your shoes with a dust
{ r as you go in. You have variations
i of the quick lunch counter.
AVOID TAX
PENALTY
JANUARY
IS THE
Last Month
THA I TOWN TAXES M U BE PAID AT PAR.
Beginning Feb. 2
A PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO ALL TAX
ACCOUNTS DUE THE TOWN.
Pay Your Taxes Now and
Save the Penalty
?TOWN OF ~
WILLIAMSTON
Announcement!
WE HAVE PURCHASED
A BRAND NEW
PACKARD
HEARSE
And
Willi thin new equipment we feel
that we can belter nerve the people nf ?
thin community. Our nervier in modern
and systematic an well an nympatlielie.
DAY PHONE 155
NIGHT PHONE 197 W
Free Ambulance Service To And
From Broicn Community Hospital
B. S.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Survey of Children
With Defective
Vision Underway
All School Children in North
Caredina Will Be
Examined
A survey of all school children to
determine those who have defective
vision is to begin immediately on a
state-wide basis, according to an in
terview today with Judge Sam M
Cathey, of Asheville, chairman of the
North Carolina Commission for the
Blind. The survey is being conducted
with the reoperation of the State De
partment of Public Instruction
Judge Cathey stated that other
states have made Similar surveys
but that this is the first of its type
in-North-Carolina. It is to be eon
ducted-in both the high schools and
grammar schools. The teachers are
[to do the testing. Detailed instruc
tions, tevlmg eharts, and materials
are being furnished by the commis
sum. In some count i.w thi? fmintv ?
| Health Department will supervise
the work.
The results of the survey will
make possible the servicing on a
planned basis of those children with
seriously defective vision. Judge Ca
they said. He estimated that there
are 99,000 school children in North
Carolina Who have seriously defect
ive sight and that, according to the
president's recent study, the parents
of approximately 311.000 of these
children are unable 'to provide eye
care and glasses. The chairman said
that these figures are based on ac
curate surveys of the schools in oth
er states. and that he feels that the
surveys in North Carolina will show
an even higher figure because so lit
tie has been done in the field of vis
ual defects among school children.
In emphasizing th importance of
proper eye. care for school children.
Judge Cathey said that approximate
ly 80 per cent of the impressions |
which come to us come through the
nd that our whole system of
learning is based on visual processes.
The source of much grade repeaters
and disciplinary problems in the
school is often found, Judge Cathey
said, in poor vision
However, the chairman of the com
mission gave assurance that the
.schools and?interested civic groups
arc going to hdp the commission for
the blind do something about thus
urgent problem in North Carolina.
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, has
hearted ly endorsed the plan as
bringing to North Carolina school
children a much needed siiiin . The
make a record in triplicate of all
rhildri'n h:ivi? 70-40 visjon or less
in either eye. The original copy will
be sent to the commission, one copy
will be kept in the school files and
a copy sent to the County Health De
partment. The commission will then
work out will the interested groups
plans for proper eye care for those
children.
It Was pointed out by the chairman
of the commission that most of tin
problems with children in schools
arise from physical difficulties and
that eve defects are high OH the list
of physical problems. In the set of
instructions to the teachers in 'the
schools, the commission lists twen
ty-one symptoms of eye difficulties
and these symptoms will be reported
Aided by civic and service clubs
and health and welfare departments,
the commission has already conduct
ed many eye clinics. Judge Cathew
stated that during the past year the
commission has examined 5,675 per
sons of which S^244 indigent per
sons were refracted and 235 operat
ed. A number were given treatment
and adarge number are still pending (
for operation. The chairman of the
commission stated that a state-wide j
survey is now essential to give an I
accurate indication of the condition
of the school children's eyes in North
Carolina. Judge Cathey stated that a
large part of the eye defects present
in school children can be corrected
if found and treated at an early age.
Judge Cathey emphasized that it
and-'EniW
when the tests are given theii cliil- ?
drcn, making sure they learn the re
suits of the tests. He said that the
commission expected all tests to be
completed by the first of March.
Improvement
Improvement in conditions af*
footing the domestic demand for
farm products has been pronounced
since August, according to the U.
.S. Bureau of Agnmlluijl Kcnnnm*
Lower Cost
The increasing use of home-iwa
feeds and the wider use of produc
tion records as a guide to breeding
are tending to lower the cost of milk
production in the United States.
NOTICE OF SAI.E
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
Deed of Trust dated" October 27,
1937. signed by S. A Martin and re
corded in the Public Registry of
Martin County in Book P-3, at page
389 and to secure certain notes of
even fotc therewith qnfl
in said Deed of Tru
tains in said Deed of Trust not hav
ing been complied with and at the
request of the holder of .said notes,
the undersigned Trustee will on the
29th day of January, 1940, at 12:00
o'clock Noon in front of the Court
House Door in the Town of William
ston. N. C-, offer for sale to the high
est bidder, for cash, the following
described real property:
That certain tract or parcel of land
lying in Bear'Grass Township, Mar
tin County and in Washington
Township, Beaufort County, bound
ed on the North by J. W. Harris, on
the F.ast H. L. Britton, on the South
by H. L. Britton, and on the West by
Lewis Taylor, and being the same
land willed to S. A. Martin by Emily
FASHION PREVIEW
The bathing suit of 1940. ac
cording to the stylists, will be a
double dazzlcr; that is, it will
shine like a sun reflector and
I will look wot even at its driest.
(Good news for the I-don't-care
to Ret wet kind.) This suit is of
blazing sapphire blue.
M'-irtin dnted N<iv<'m|wr 1 Ht >1. 11121 .
recorded in Book 6, at Page 55, of
the Martin County Public Registry.
This the 28th day of December,
m ?1
GARLAND WHITLEY,
j2 4t Trustee.
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
Under and hy virtue of the power
and authority conferred upon the
undersigned by that certain deed of
trust made by K. II Jefferson and
Wife. Amanda-R Jefferson, dated
April 14. 1939. and recorded, in the
office of the Register of Deeds of
Martin County, North Carolina, in
Hook T-3, page 638. on account of
default itt the payment of the same,
the undersigned will expose for sale
at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash iti t.ht^-County. Court
House door, in Williamston, at 12
o'clock noon, on the thud Monday,
in February, the same being Febru*
ary 19. 1949, the following described
real estate, situate, lying and being
in the County of Martin, in the State
of North Carolina, to-wit:
AH that ce rtain tract or purge 1 of
land lying and being in Goose Nest i
Township. Martin County and State
and Palmyra public road about three i
miles North from the Town of Oak ;
City and hounded on the North hy I
the said Hamilton and Palmyra Pub- 1
lie Road; on the East by the lands of I
Carrie Norfleet and on the South
and West hy the lands of Carrie Nor
flect; S. p. Green, Lemon James and
the Red Marsh Branch, containing
384.5 acres, more or less, as shown
by a map of same made by T. Jones
Taylor. Surveyor, which said map
is now on file with the Atlantic Jolht
Stock Land Bank ofTlaTe igh and To
ing the same and identical land d?
W. It.
I'.\ oivt! ;i 1111 V.V I f i ? til 1 l)i ? A Mint i.- Tinn{
Stork I.mikI Bank of Hnleu?h, dated
June 1. 1!>25. and of record in the
public y of Martin County in
Book X ii, pane IOV. Reference ho
ihjt made to said map and said mort
na^e for a nioiv perfect" description
nl the '
: nrli refey?me made a part of this
description
This tho 12th dav of January. A.
1). 1 !? lit'.
J V HACK I .Kit,
Trustee.
Jlackler & Allen. Attys.
Wilmington, N. C jlfi 4t
sai.i: or vai i abij:
i'AlLU PROPERTY
U'itdc r and by virtue of the ;i
thnrity conferred upon us id a Deed
of Trust o\<cuti d by Ja per Itoehuek
;in.I v. ill . A IH i? lb >i? 1 'iii k, mi fffl M
day. of D.rci nilu'i . 14)37% and-record
i ii m Hook T 3, page 315, w will on
Saturday, tho 10th clay of February,
J040. at 12 o'cloi k noon, at tho court
house door in Martin County. Wil
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Crcomulslon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the se.it of the
trouble to loosen germ laden phlogm,
Increase secretion and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw. tender, Inflam
ed bronchial .. nthcous in* rnbrari' \
No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Croomulsion wit!? the
understanding that you are to like;
the way It quickly allays the COHflfh
or you arc trr hnvo your money p.ipitr~
CREOMULSION
(wCauijhi.Cheit Coldt.-BuwMB
hams ton, N C. sell r.v public auc
tion for cash to the highest bidder
the following land. t'?-wit
eel of land containing 122 1-2 acres,
more or less, situate, lying.and b?--T
mg on the Hamilton Road1 about
seven miles E. of the town of Wil
hamston. Hamilton Township. Mar
tin County. N. C- having such shape,
metes, courses and distances as will i
more fully appear by reference to a
map made by J R Mobley. Survey
or. on the loth day of May. 1923. and
adjoining the lands of William Grif
fin on the West; the lands of Riley
Spruili on the Ea?t; the lands of L.
Wynne on tin South and lhp Uftcl^
f Greeley Slade on the West and
nwri1 particularly described as fol
low: Beginning on the Hamilton
Road at Greeley Slade's corner;
tfu nce down said road S 05 Hi* K 55 I
liolt 1 B SI* R ai uutTFT^ Ml 1-2* K'
TT p .TTs Ti. poTIarif or Mam Nrmth.-|
Riley Spruili's corner, theme duWn i
Uilev Spniiir,- line or branch S 53*
W la poles. S 70* W lti pedes. S 74*
W 32 pole: S 7if* W lti poles S 5t>*
W 2n noles: S lit i 2* W - S
W 14 poles; S 21* E 20 poles; S 27
1-2* E 20 poles: S 2 1-2* 12 poles to
Conoho Creelt; thence up Conoho
CiBEk X Id? W 14 poles;* X7 1-**
W 18 poles^S 83* W 14 poles; N 63
12* W 12 poles; S 58* W 7 poles: N
45* W 11 poles; N 27 1-2* W 11 poles;
S 51 1-2* W 8 poles to a gum, Gree
ley Slade's corner; thence along
Greeley Slade's line N 5* W 00 poles;
N 42* E 20 poles; N 24* E 140 poles
to the beginning, and being the same
land conveyed to the said C. H.
Daw. s by B A Critcher by deed
dated No*' 21, 1914, and on record in
Martin County Public Registry in
Hook G-l. page 208
?Tins land is sold subject to 111 un
paid taxes.
This sale is made by reason of the
f niure . f Jasper Roebuck and wife.
Alice Roebuck, to pay off and dis
rhargi the indebtedness secured by
ant dnrri nfTnm -
\ deposit ef 10 per cent will be rc
V 'id from the purchaser at the
I mi tin 2nd day of January, 1940
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE CORP.,
' ' -i "? N (' j 16-4t
Poultry Truck
?vcry TUESDAY
\ r jamesville rrmrr; <> i.. nnWeTis:
AT II MUUSON'S Mil,I, _ _ II 10 12 in.
\T IIK \K CRASS I I.. .'I p. III.
Every FRIDAY
AT OAK OTA 9 to 11 a, m.
AT HAMILTON ___ I I :.{(? a. III. in I2:.'?0 p. m.
AT GOLI) POINT I In 2 p. in.
AT WILLIAMSTON ... <> to I I a. ....
AT KVERETTS 11:.'(() u. in. t<> 12(30 p. in.
AT HOHKKSOM I I LK ___1 I to H p. in.
Colore. I llriiK, Leghorn llcnM, Stnp.. UoohIith
>*K PAY TOP MAKKKT PRICES
Pitt Poultry Co.
GREENVILLE, N. C.
SCHENLEY DISTILLERS
CORP., NEW YORK, N. Y.
FERTILIZER
I Oil MMK
PLAN I BEDS
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b'lTlilizrr ISrwIs. ^
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BIG
Auction Sale
\\ ?? llu\e Srwrnl Miilfs \iul Horses, And A
Oiianlity Of I'ariniii^i Implements We
\\ ill Sell \l Auction
Saturday, January 27
\T I 1:00 A. M.
At Our Stables In
OAK CITY, N. C.
C.ome /lu</ llrinn Your t'rirndt?
ll'? Your Opportunity.
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