To Discuss Relief
For Flood Victims
Measures designed to aid farmers
who lost their crops and experienc
ed other damage in the recent floods
will be discussed by officials repre
senting several agencies at a meet
ing being held in Jackson this after
noon Dean I. O Schaub of the Ex
tension Service, Raleigh, is slated
to lead the discussions, according to
information reaching here today
Representatives of the Farm Se
curity Administration, welfare de
partments. Works Progress Admin
istration Red Cross, health departT i
mentt. boards of county commission
ers and others, including representa
tive farmers, were called to the meet
ing
The discussion will center around
the plight of those farmers in the
flood areas of Halifax Northamp
ton. Bertie and Martin Counties
Local Employment
Office Activities
tiewals of previous applicants have
taken a sharp increase in the past
six weeks at the Williamston local
office of the N C- State Employ
ment Service For example, in the
month of July. 1940. the Williamston I
office took a total uf 819 new appli-J
cations and renewals throughout tht i
five counties of its service area.
Unemployment claims have also
increased sharply in tht Williams
ton office area. Five hundred and
eleven new initial claims were tak
en in July, and approximately 1.750
continued claims in that month To
tals vary from month t<> month For
tht past few months the local of
fice has been disbursing from $5
000 t< $7,000 monthh in unemploy
ment benefits.
This office has taken over 11,000
continued weekly claims so far in
1940 It has placed approximately
400 applicants in jobs in this area for
the first half of 1940 Placements
are up considerably in -percentage
compared to the same period a year
age- Regular weekly, semi-monthly
and monthly extension service is
rendered to various points over the
five counties that this office serves
-Martin. Beaufort. Washington,
Hyde and Tyrrell
Revival Will Begin
\t Holly Springs
Rev. S J Starnes. pastor, an
nounces that.tiie annual revival sex
vices will begin at Holly Springs
Methodist Church near Williamston
next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'cloclj.
This decision was reached one month
ago. but announcement was with
held until the condition of the crops
in this section could be determined"
It is thought by the members now
that next week will be a good time
for the meeting.
Services will begin Sunday after
noon and run each night at 7 30
through the following week The
public, irrespective <?f church affilia
tion. is invited to attend the services
A special period will be set aside for
song services each night The pastor
will do the preaching, and earnest
ly requests the full cooperation of
the entire community
Warren Seeking \
Review Of Flood
The House Committee on Flood
Control today passed Representa
tive Lindsay Warren's resolution
asking for a review of the previous
Hood, Tcontj;g,l report on Roanoke
River in both Virginia and Noith
Carolina. In 1934 Mr Warren se
cured a survey of the Roanoke Riv
er with the view of flood control,'
navigation and power development.
A very exhaustive report was filed
by the Army engineers and on ac
count of the high cost of the un
provement no further consideration
was given it.
Under the resolution passed to
day Colonel George W. Gillette, U.
S. District Engineer, Wilmington, N
C., will some time in the future call
one or more hearings to which all in
terested parties will be invited to
appear in order to ascertain if any
phase of the report may be modified
to aid future flood situations. Mr
Warren stressed the fact that peo
ple along the river should not get
their hopes up, but stated that he
was confident that Colonel Gillette
would make an exhaustive investi
gation. He urged interested parties
to get up full and complete data for
presentation when the meetings are
held.
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Feu- Firm* To Observe
Im!>or Day 4* Holiday
The Branch Banking and Trust
Company and the Guaranty Bank
and Trust Company will close next
Monday, September 2, to observe
Labor Day.
The banks were scheduled to close
last year on Labor Day but as the
tobacco markets had already opened
in Eastern Carolina they were com
pelled to pass up the holiday.
The postoffice, liquor store and
recorder's court will observe the
day as a holiday, but other business
houses will remain open
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Announce Revival At The
Vernon Metbodi*! Church
Beginning next Wednesday. Sep
tember 4, Rev. D. C. Boone, the pas
lor, will conduct a aerie sof nightly
revival services in the Vernon Meth
odist Church, near Willamaton Th?
meeting will continue through the
following week, the minister said, in
extending a cordial welcome to the
public to attend the services.
Drunken Drivers
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Drinking drivers were responsible
for 48 street and highway fatalities
in North Carolina the first six months
of this year according to a sum
mary just completed by the High
way Safety Division.
Ronald Hocutt, director of the di
vision said the accident records for
the first half of 1940 show that 50
drunken or drinking drivers were
involved in 42 fatal accidents in
which 48 persons wi'ir killed
?"The drinking driver is not the
most numerous type of offender <>n
our highways." commented Hocutt.
"but he certainly is the most danger
ous. The person who has taken any
alcoholic beverages into his system.
| even one drink of liquor, is a highly
potential menace to every other per
son using the highway on which he
drives. Alcohol sometimes stimulates
those who drink it. causing them to
become exhilerated and a little more
reckless than usual. Then again it
ToFErnmr??lias j depressing effect
and produce? drowsiness still again
'liquor often mnfuses and" befuddles
the mind and impairs the vision And
it always affects the driver's reac
tion time, hampering the coordina
tion between mind and muscle that
is so essential in safe driving ."
Safety Director Hocutt strongly
advii.es ail iridtviduals who Tto any!
drinking to get someone else- to do
then driving for them.
"Drinking and driving justs*- don't i
mix." he declared
lleti (ros* iff/train fur
Aid For Floo<1 Wr///vm
The local Red Cross is making an
appeal to the citizens of this section
for old clothes and money for the
flood refugees Although many of
the families have been returned to
their homes, the men have been un- |
employed for seVeral days and any i
donations or old clothes will be ap- |
preciated.
The following donations have been
r eceived
Snnthwick's Creek Baptist church,
$400. Macedonia Christian church.
$10 40. and Mrs. Anna Glasgow of j
Jainesville. $2 00.
M iturionary Urou/t IF ill
Meet With Minn W hitley
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the Episcopal Church will meet
Monday afternoon at four o'clock
with Miss Marina Whitley.
Gardening Becomes
Y ear-Bound Project
No longer is gardening considered
exclusively a summer enterprise H.
R Niswonger, horticulturist of the
N C. State College Extension Serv
ice. points out that it is possible to
have fresh vegetables from the
home garden on a year-round basis
in North Carolina
'During September and October,
then are many vegetables which
may tie planted." Niswonger says
' These include winter spinach of
the Longstanding and Bloomsdale
varieties. Siberian kale. Southern
Giant Curled mustard. Purple Top
Gloze turnips, and Seven Top turnip
gn-eri: ' > .
' Beets and car rots planted the first
of September in Eastern Carolina
should mature before* freezing wea
ther. Cabbage plants of tin* Charles
ton Wakefield variety usually will
produce heads about Christmas time
in the Fast if planted around Sep
tember 1, This variety of cabbage
w+41 stand a lot of cold wrather."
The horticulturist also recommends
green onions as a winter delicacy
from the home garden. "Put out sets
of the Silver Skin variety, and for
green onions for next whiter find'
spring set out the multiplying var
iety. After thinning out plants to be*
used for green onions, the remain
ing plants will develop into mature
onions," he says.
Niswonger recommends that
strawberry plants be fertilized in
Eastern North Carolina is early Sep
tember and in the mountain and
northern Piedmont area during late
September or early October. "For all
regions apply eight to ten pounds of
a 5-8(3 fertilizer per 100 feet of row
Put one-third of the fertilizer on
each side of the row and the other
third on top Develop a thin mat
ted row of plants with the plant bed
18 inches wide, and the runner plants
spaced a hoe-width apart. After the
18-inch row is filled with the spaced
plants, remove all surplus runner
plants around October 1 to 16." the
extension specialist said
Dr. John Williams
Discusses Malaria
(Causes And Cures
(Continued from pace one)
behind them, then it is strictly up to
the citizen as an individual to cure
his own case of malaria, as outlined
above. This will work two ways, the
patient benefits by getting well and
the community by having one less
carrier in it.
About "shots" to prevent Ty
phoid. There are throe to take, one
week apart. It is only supposed to
prevent typhoid, not malaria fever.
It is not even supposed to prevent
diarrheg or dysentery That is why
doctors ask you to boil the water you
give the babies and even adults, if
you are not sure it is safe even af
ter you have taken the shots of ty
phoid.
The medicine given by mouth to
prevent typhoid fever is In the ex
perimental stage If your doctor pre
scribes it, take it, but the health de
partmen tad viae* the shots every 3
years and more often If exposure is
known. If flood water affected your
household or wate rsupply. take it
this year. If you have worked in it,
take it. If flood water did not eon
oerri you physically and you have
had the "shots" In the last three years
forget the flood.
We give shots in Williamston at
the health department every Satur
day morning. At Robersonville ev
ery Wednesday murning. At Hamil
ton and Oak City every Saturday
morning. At Jamesville every Wed
nesday morning.
We are not making anyone take
eithe rquinine for malaria or the
"shots" (or typhoid but we are ad
vising it and carrying the "shots" as
close to those affected by flood wa
ter as possible.
COAST GUARDSMEN LAUNCH BOAT
Coast (.uardsmni from the Oregon Inlet Station are seen launching their boat for any emergency call
that mat have come during the record Roanoke River flood here last week. The boat was launched in the
Standard I ertilizer Company yard.
.MOVING AHEAD OF FLOOD WATERS
Hastily narking a few of his earthly belongings. the tlood victim is moving out just as thr Roanoke sent
its watrrs tlowing into his home. More than fifty homes were flooded in the eastern area of Williamston by
the time the river reached a crest of 20.1 feet at I o'clock Thursday morning. August 22.
Duke Signs Up as Bahamas Governor
Inducted as governor of tbe Bahamas, the uniformed Duke of Windsor signs the official registry in the
presence of the Duchess and notables, including Chief Justice 0. B. Daly (left), who swore in the Duke
at Nassau.
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Britain. Mass attacks on the south and southeast coast (see bomb bursts) are regarded as a feint, since land
ing of a force sufficient to march on Ix>ndon would be almost impossible on that rocky coast. From the
North Sea porta in Nasi-held Holland and Belgium, however, the road to Britain's Midlands offers flat
territory much more accessible to an invading force. From there the Nasis, once entrenched, could march
on London, perhaps split the island in two.
Project Is Delayed
By Uncertain Plans
First Several Days
(Continued from page one)
see how an all-powerful highway
commission will piddle along when
there is so much to be done," an ob
server high in political ranks, said
yesterday following a personal in
spection of the repair work
As far as it could be learned late
yesterday no definite instructions
for handling the repair work had
been handed down from the commis
sion's throne in Raleigh, and it is
possible that the permanent future
of the route is being weighed in the
balance. Later reports state that
Engineer Young has been placed in
charge of the repair project and
that a plan of procedure had been
formulated following a personal vis
it to the fill by Chief Engineer W.
Vance Baise on Wednesday,
A member of the commission in
another district has suggested that
the road would be closed to traffic
for six months. No direct public
statement has been issued from the
commissioner in this-district. High
way lettings in "certain" parts of
the district are proceeding without
interruption, according to publish
ed reports.
Following an inspection of the
damaged road last Monday, district
highway engineers were quoted as
saying that every effort would be
made to restore traffic as soon as it
was humanly possible to do so. The
people who are directly or indirect
ly dependent upon the route, were
assured that extra forces would be
assigned to the task, that day and
night shifts would rush the work to
a hurried completion, and that per
manent repairs would be considered
later.
Six days after the waters had-left
the fill, the North Carolina State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission was dragging along with the
task, not certain at that time what
action to take even after a tempor
ary fashion. Reduced almost to the
status of the cave man, convicts are
hundicapped in their efforts. Only
hand shovels and sledge hammers
are being used on the project, and a
pitifully small number of trucks are
now in operation. The vehicles are
not dashing to and fro as they did
when the commission made a belated
start to try to save the dam
Engineers are flocking to the brok
en and washed fill. They have strug
gled in water neck deep making an
other survey of a route that has been
surveyed time and again and in
spected by the low and the high.
Up until noon yesterday less than
100 yards of the damaged fill had
been repaired after a make-shift
fashion. It was reported at that time
that trucks, after completing repairs
on secondary or less-important roads
were being transferred to the job
here.
Measures in cubje feet were net
available, but it was apparent Mon
day that the receding waters were
washing away dirt faster than the
rfleagre highway crews were putting
new dirt on the fill. A week ago last
Monday, highway forces were drop
ping on an average of slightly more
than two loads of dirt a minute in
an effort to save the fill. Yesterday,
the average hardly exceeded one
every four minutes. During the
greater part of four days, trucks
ranged six to seven miles from the
dumping ground for dirt. After a
search of more than three days, high
way officials lessened the hauling
distance considerably and dirt is now
being moved from a hillside on the
Hamilton Road just outside the
northern limits of the town.
Poultry Offer* Solution To
Beaufort Income Problem
Because they feel poultry offers
u solution to at least a part of the
income problem on Beaufort Coun
ty farms, many famtttes are under
taking this enterprise, says Farm
Agent W. L. McGahey.
Seventy-eight fatal highway ac
cidents in the state the first half of
this year occurred on Sundays.
Preparations Go
Forward For The
New School Term
(Continued from pace one)
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Monday afternoon, 2 to 5 o'clock,
eighth and ninth grade students.
Tuesday morning. 8:30 to 12
o'clock, tenth and eleventh grade
students.
Tuesday afternoon, 2 to 5 o'clock,
post-graduate and commercial stu
dents.
Short Session Of
Recorders Court
Held Last Monday
(Continued from page one)
Albert Crandell pleaded guilty in
the case charging him with drunk
en driving, the court continuing the
case under prayer for judgment un
til October 14.
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