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VOLUME XLIY?NUMBER 18 If illianiMton, Martin County, I\orth Carolina, Tueiday.
"""" ?? "?? F'51 AHI.IMIt.i)
Board Of Education
In Regular Session
Yesterday Morning
Delegation Propones Con
nt rite I ion of Tfaclifragc
At Robernonville
Meeting in regular session here
yesterday morning, the Martin
County Board of Education cleared
its work schedule and adjourned in
a comparatively short time. Very
little business was placed before the
meeting, but two delegations were
received.
Headed by Committeemen Wil
liam Gray, Mayo Little and Princi
pal L. W Anderson, a delegation
from Robersonville appeared before
the board and asked support for the
construction of a teacherage there.
Only preliminary details were dis
cussed, and while no official or fi
nal action was taken it was reported
that the board was impressed with
the plans and that all possible aid
will be extended The board instruct
ed the superintendent of county
schools to prepare plans for the
building and outline the costs. It was
pointed out bV the delegation that
the project will be self-liquidating
to a large extent, and that possibly
it could be handled in cooperation
with the Works Progress Adminis
tration program. It is proposed to
locate the building just across the
street from the grammar grade
school building. Its size and type of
construction have not yet been de
termined, but it will be built of
brick or concrete blocks and will be
"a large building," according to in
formation coming from the office of
the county superintendent of schools.
A delegation interested in graving
the new Parmele colored school
named after W. C. Chance, appear
ed before the l^oard and asked that
the Chance name be adopted. The
delegation was composed -of three
teachers including Chance's wife.
A petition, asking that the school
be named for W. C Chance, colored
principal there, was received by the
board months ago. but no action was
taken at that time. Yesterday, the
matter was again tabled
C. C. Fleming, well-known James
ville man. is out of politics. Busily en
gaged in several business ventures,
Mr. Fleming found it inconvenient
to attend the board meetings and !
yesterday he resigned as a member ,
of the Jamesville school committee.'
C. C. Martin was named as his sue-'
cessor to serve during the remainder j
of the term which expires in a month
or two.
Five Men To Enter
Army from Martin
County March 13th
Two More County Yotuip Men
Volunteer For Serviee
Tliin Week
Five Martin County young men
will leave March 13th for service in
Uncle Sam's Army at Fort Bragg,
the draft board receiving its quota
Monday. Only three men were call
ed to answer for service on March
13, but two replacements will accom
pany them to the Fort to fill the
places made vacant when two men
from the county's February quota
were rejected.
The regular draft list continues
subject to attack, but volunteers
have made selections from the list
unnece?ry to date. Yesterday, two
young men, Woodrow Wynne, of
Robersonville, and Joseph Gurganua,
of Williamston R.F.D. No. 3, volun
teered their services, making it un
necessary for the draft board to call
men from its draft list for replace
ments. As it stands now, two men
will have to be drafted to fill the
March 13 quota.
It could not be definitely learned,
but there is a possibility that- theJ
county will be assigned a second quo
ta during the latter part of the cur- I
rent month. The large list?forty or
more?of colored volunteers has been
pointed out to the draft authorities,
and it is possible that large numbers
of men will be called from that list.
According to an unofficial State
report, 941 men were called to fill
the March 13 quota, and that 1,050
more will be called between March
21 and 28th. This county has not yet
received its quota for the latter part
of the month, and no quota for col
ored men in the first call has been
icceived at this time.
Cart Crath In Warehoute
Dillrict Lati Evening
No one was hurt and no great
damage resulted when two cars
crashed at the Haughton and Wash
ington Street intersection here last
evening about 0 o'clock. Mrs W. R.
Ranks was driving out Washington
Street and Jesse Scott, of Oak City,
was driving into town when the
cars crashed in front of the Farmers
Warehouse.
Young Scott, accompanied by his
father, F. S. Scott and little son,
Fernando, and Mrs. Emma Page, and
little daughter, Reba, had been to
Plymouth and was driving the party
to Tbrboro to see Mrs. Scott who is
in a hospital there.
County's Former Service Men
Asked to Register Next Week
Working to be prepared to meet , throughout the other states.
' any emergency that may arise, the has not been definitely stated
National Convention of the Amen- but it is generally believed that thi
can Legion is calling for the regis- former service men will, in possi
tration of all former service men. ble emergencies, be asked to serv?
It has been pointed out that the reg- ?? home-guard units, on fire depart
istration is important from a home j nientt. as special police, or in im
defense standpoint, and all Martin portant defense jobs. Registrants
County men who served in the first he classified as to trade or voca
World War are asked to register at t,on
1 the legion hut next Monday night The emergency duty which may
at 7:30 o'clock. The Legion Post in be requested as an outgrowth of the
this county is conducting the regis- questionnaire will be purely volun |
tration and volunteers will assist the tary in character and without re
imen in filling in the answers to the muneration unless otherwise provld
questions. Similar registrations have ed for by agencies of government re
; already been effected in most of the sponsible for requesting such sen -
counties in North Carolina and ice or undertaking
Town Offers $50,000
Bonds on Open Markel
THREE IN AN IIOUK
Thrrf was plenty of action
on the part of Williamston's vol
unteer fire department early
yesterday afternoon. For the
first time since the company was
organized, three calls were re
ceived within an hour.
Receiving a call to a grass (ire
just off Pine and North liaugh
ton Streets at 1:30 o'clock, the
firement detoured on its return
trip to the station to put out a
grass fire on Pearl Street. About
half an hour later, the firemen
were called to the home of Geo.
Purvis, colored, on West War
ren Street, where a spark fired
the roof. Very little damage was
reported, but with a strong
March wind blowing, the fires
created a real menace.
Balkan Powder Ke<r
Warmed By Recent
German Movements
J. u I >? Development,. Dinitp
pro\e<l l>> Kimhiu; Turkey
Make* Ki'Uily fur Action
The European war, marked by the 1
absence of any great battles, is rap
idly approaching a grave turn with
the powder keg in the Balkans just
about right for an explosion that will
jar the world. German mechanized
units, leading an unopposed invasion
of Bulgaria, have now progressi'd to
a |xunt hardly more than 100 miles
from the Dardanelles. The move
j ment. disapproved by Russia, is al
ready getting a positive answer from |
Turkey, and Russia is said to be mov
, ing closer to the side of England.
While it is possible that England
is moving into another trap similar
to Dunkirk, all indications point to
serious action in the Balkan terri
tory. Greece, outnumbered by a sin
gle foe, is still defying reported de
mands coming from Germany-Jor a I
negotiated peace. Observers say that |
Greece has no hope, that she will be
forced ino submission by the Ger
I man hordes, but it is significant that
| the little nation continues to fight
Mussolini and defy Hitler Possibly,
British forces are moving in for a
lhand when the Balkan powder keg
is blown to pieces. In an official
statement yesterday, Turkey advis
! ed her people that the war was mov
ing ever closer to them, intimating
that action is expected within a short
time if Hitler continues to pursue
his present policies.
Russia's latest stand in the war is
bringing some encouragement to
the embattled Greeks and the bur
dened British. Even if Russia takes
no overt action, her latest stand is
almost certain to encourage Turkey
in her announced plans of resistance
j to Germany's continued domination
in the Balkans.
Renewed activity in the air war
fare was reported yesterday and last
night when German raiders appear
ed over London and several towns
in the midlands and when RAF
fighters returned to the Channel in
vasion ports
In the air raids last night, Cardiff, '
England was badly wrecked and the |
loss of life was feared great.
(Continued on page six)
?
C. D. Pittman Slightly
Hurt In Auto Accident
*?
C. D. Pittman, local merchant, re
ceived a slight cut on his nose, in
an auto-truck crash on Main Street
here last Sunday evening about 7
o'clock. Pittman was driving down
the street when-* truck, owned by J
D. Harrison and driven by a man
named Edmondson, entered the street
from a filling station near the bus
terminal. Very little damage was
done to the car.
The accident was one of three mi
nor ones reported on the highways
and streets of the county during the
week-end. I
Town Commission
Orders Repairs On
R i ver Warehouse
lioartl Nuiiiea Omnium*"' '?'??
Work For Completion
Of NY V Projert
Meeting in regular session last eve
mug. the local town commissioner*
were advised that the town will of
fer $5(1,(KM) of its bonds on the open
market at a sale next Tuesday to
finance water and sewer line exten
sions. add to the present water sup
ply and improve several streets Mo
saic of the bonds interrupted for (
one cause or another in the past, is
certain next week, the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation having al
ready agreed to buy most of them at
a rate of 4 per cent. It is believed
that a bid equally as low if not low
er can be had on the open market.
The town proposes to spend $55,ODD
of the $50.0(10 on water and sewer
line extensions and a deep well, and
the remainder for surfacing streets.
Plans are being made for recciv
mg bids in about ten days after the
bond sale. Town Engineer Henry
Rivers stating that actual work on
the projects should get underway
in early April
Rendered useless by the flood wa_
ters last August, the river wharf
here will be repaired, the (own of
ficials last night instructing the town
forces to handle the job It is esti
mated that the repair work will
cost approximately $700 No boat
schedule has been in effect since the
warehouse was washed off its foun
dation, but the operators of the Nor
folk, Baltimore and Carolina lane
state they will resume and maintain
regular schedules just as sik.ii as the
warehouse is fixed. The boat line
agrees to pay $400 rent annually.
In an effort to save funds already
invested, the commissioners named
a special committee, Luther Peel, V.
IF Godwin and L. I' Lindsley, to
work for the completion of the Ne
grt. recreational center, a National
Youth Administration project. 1 he
town plans to invest an additional
amount of money in the building
that now stands hardly half com
plete just back of the local ceme
tery.
The Bosey Clary property on the
corner of Warren and Watts Streets
was sold to W. E. Dunn for $750. the
purchaser agreeing to maintain the
home for Mrs. R A Glenn her life
time. ,
An order was passed calling for
curbing a few feet on East Church
Street and Courtney drive at the
giannual?scliuub ttlF hoard also
agreeing to have a block on North
Smithwick Street curbed near the
high school.
Pay increases, ranging from one
to two dollars and a half, were grant
ed members of the street and water
departments and to members of the
night police force, the salaries for
the night officers now being fixed
at $25 a week
?%
Building And Loan
Opens Stock Series
4
Opening its 48th slock series here
last Saturday, the Martin County
Building and l>oan Association re
ported a very successful sale, offi
cers of the organization stating to
day that while no new record would
be established, indications point to
a large subscription during the next
few weeks The ijjjhes will be open
for the subscription of stock during
the next two months or more.
While a few are buying stock with
the idea of financing home construc
tion, many of the stockholders are
buying shares as an investment. The
association offers one of the best in
vestments to be had today, and its
saving and investment plans are
available to persons of limited In
comes.
Thirty-Nine 1 ears
Ago As Recorded
In The Enterprise
JULY 19, 1991.
Farmers, sell your tobacco at the I
Carolina.
Stan ha> ride Wednesday night
W here were the Kil ls"
Tarboro team won three straights'
from Wilmington this week [
Next Thursday week the Ruber
eonville tobacco market opens Re
member the Guessing Contest, and
send us 25 cents for three months
subscription with your guess
About 2 o'clock yesterday after- I
noon one of the piston rods on the
engine at Martin and Riggs furni
ture factory broke and caused the
factory to shut down.
I' s GtHilogical Surveyors wen
III low,, lost week and put ;1 p|?te on
the Court House giving elevation of
Willianistou above sea level it is
til feet.
Farmer arc busy curing tobacco
Rev J O. Guthrie, of Raleigh, is
in town.
Joe Hoard, of Hobgood, was here '
Monday
W j Hodges went to Tillery on
Monday evening.
Norwood Hodges returned to
Hocky Mount Thursday morning
Dr. J E Smithwick, of Jamesville
is attending to Dr. Harrells prac
tice.
Prut Sylvester Hassell left for
Nags Head Wednesday on Steamer
Plymouth.
Miss.4? Lula and Kiln Staton have
gone to Nags Head to spend a week
or more
The excursion to Nags Head on !
the 27th will be a grand success.
Dr. W H Harrell and family left
Wednesday morning on the steam
<r Plymouth for Nags Head where
they will spend several weeks.
Wets Are Having
Their Say Today
In The Assembly
Defeat For Kill Likely When
It Iteuelies 111<- Finance
Coimiiiiiee
After listening to the Drys lasl j
Thursday afternoon, the Wets arc
going intu action before I he House
committer on propositions and griev
ances this aftenioon with Wilming
ton s mayor and clowning candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination last
year espousing I he Wet cause. Just
as the Drys were apparently .unuble
lo muster a telling support for their
hearing last Thursday, the Wets, be
lieving the Stale's haphazard sys
tem- ill "controlling" liquor is safe
for another two years, at least, are
not making a strenuous fight this
afternoon However, they are tak
ing no ehanees ,and they are bom
basting the Drys m retaliation for
the blows received lasl Thursday
While llic faels do not support any
stall contention, Ihe Wets are still
talking Alaiut how Ihe houllcggcis
and blind tigers will carry the State
<lry Admittedly wet and with its
share Of boot loggers, manufacturers
and others who deal directly or in
directly with the illicit business,
Martin County has always voted
wet However, the people, disgust
ed with the present system and with
the State digging deep into profits
lor the maintenance of just anoth
er commission in Raleigh, would like
ly give the Drys an increased support
should the legislature call a refer
end urn.
The State is taking about two and
one-half million dollars annually
from the 26 wet counties in the form
of tuxes This is a hig item even in
the State's budget, and should the
committee on propositions and griev
ances approve the McGowan bill
culling for a referendum, the pro
Posal is almost certain to meet de
feat at the bands of the finance com
In i I lee.
Commissioners C. D. Carstarphen
and C Abram Kobcrson and V J
Spivey are in Raleigh today repre
senting the county Alcoholic Bever
ages Control Board at the hearing
The Legislature is entering its last
mad rush of the session, reports stat
ing that the law-makers will quit not
(Continued on page six)
Rev, (.ha*. E, Wi Ilium*
P rear hen Here Wednenlay
The Rev. Charles E Williams, rec
tor of Christ Church, New Bern,
will speak at the Lenten Service at
the Church of the Advent on Wed- J
nesday night. The hour of service has
been changed from 7:30 to fl o'clock.
The Rev Mr. Williams is one of
the outstanding ministers of the Di
ocese of East Carolina His greatest
work was the founding of Galilee
Mission on the shores of Lake Phelps
near Creswell. This work has grown
from a Sunday afternoon prayer
meeting in one of the farm houses
to its present status as one of the
most important mission stations of
the Diocese.? The plantations on
which the mission people live are
under the supervision of the Farm
Security Administration.
We hope that as many people as
possible will attend services on Wed
nesday night.
Important Farm Meeting Will
lie Held in County Saturday
An important (arm meeting will Then, too, Goodman explained,
be held in the Martin County Agri- who qualify for cotton stamp#
. ... I ? ..... I .v.. f I
cultural building on Saturday morn
ing of this week when the double
may also receive a payment for pro
barr.U'it 1H41 supplementary AAA 'm<l nmsrivinj; sup
progiam will be discussed and ex- plies A payment of $ 1 5(1 per farm
plained. Farmers, business men, garden is already allowed by the
county officials and others interest* ; AAA hi North Carolina Now an
ed in agriculture and national do- tra $il may be earned bv growing
fenso are invited and urged to be , additional garden produce, storing
present for the meeting which will food products, or planting small
get underway at 9 o'clock that morn- fruits to add to the family food sup
ing. ply However, to earn this special
The new program, according to payment, growers must temperate in
John YV Goodman, assistant director "u' tH,lt??n stamp plan
of the N. C. State College Extension "Because of the importance of
Service, will enable growers to take this program to the cotton farmers
cotton land out of production for of North Carolina." Goodman said.
which they will receive Federal "we hope that-every .grower affet
lamps evchaiigeabte _iu j-utoii-store# |ed will make a special eitoit to at- [
Ve - I
for cotton goods manufactured in tend the meeting so as to get full d?
this country tails of this new plan '
Commissioners I )elay
Action on Tax Values
Uneventful Session
Held By The County
Authorities Monday
!\o Move Muile To F*tul?li*li
I Yrmniir tit (.rami
For tfir ('.oniiI>
Certain they will .face many un
pleasantries when they meet as a
hoard of equalization and review
the third Monday in this month, the
Martin County commissioners for ;
the most part limited discussions '
and final action to merely routine
matters at an uneventful session
here yesterday Spending a greater
part of the day drawing jurymen
for the April term of Superior court,
approving current hills and handling
a couple of road petitions, the com
missioners adjourned at 4:!H) o'clock
with the understanding that they
would meet as a hoard of equaliza
tion and review two weeks later.
A preliminary comparison of tax
values was placed before the hoard,
and while they admitted that the
work of the several hoards of as
sessors was not in absolute harmony,
no definite action was taken to
equalize the listings Tax Supervis
or S II Grimes was instructed to
complete a study of all the proper
ty listings handled by the assessors
and report to the board of equaliza
tion and review at its meeting on
April 17 The hoard first considered
calling all of the assessors into a j
meeting and assigning them the task ;
of equalizing the values, hut the I
motion was dropped. It is likely that
the assessors, the tax supervisor and
the commissioners will consider the
problem as a group, or at least each i
will he consulted before the assess
ments are altered. It was also learn
ed that the hoards of assessors will :
lie heard before values within any!
given township are changed.
A general invitation is being ex
tended all property owners to ap
pear before tin- commissioners when
they meet as a board of equaliza
tion and review and appeal from the
assessments fixed by the assessors.
Certain days will be assigned for
property owners from announced
townships to appear before the
board.
It is apparent that the property
owners will not be notified of any
i hanges made in their property val
ue: , and that it is advisable for each
property owner to visit tin- county
courthouse between now arid-March
17 and learn for himself the values
placed on his property. The books
will be open to the public during
that time, and anv one wishing ti
make a complaint or take exceptions
to the values placed on his property
should make plans to do so while
the commissioners are sitting as a
board of equalization and review
Much trouble will be experienced if
the property owner waits until he
gets his tax notice next fall to en
(Continued on page six)
ABC Officers Active
During Past Month
Alcoholic Beverage Control offi
cers chalked up a new record in
their drive against the illicit liquor
business last month when they
wrecked twenty-six manufacturing
plants and destroyed large quanti
ties of beer. Exclusive of Sundays,
the officers wrecked on un average
slightly more than one plant each
clay during the period.
Four persons, charged with violuf
ing the liquor laws in one form or
another, were arrested and four per
sons were convicted in the courts.
More than 10,000 gallons of beer
were poured out, and one gallon of
illicit liquor was confiscated.
More stills have been taken in a
single month, but the number of
stills wrecked last month was a rec
ord for February.
MOKI CIIM kS
The value of Incle Sam's soil
eonservation program is being
demonstrated after an impress
ive fashion with the distribution
of more program checks this
week. The office of the county
agent received 140 checks
amounting to $(?.403.X0 am! rep
resenting Mt? applications the
early, part of this week.
To date, 1,034 checks amount
iug to $49,023.02 and represent
ing 037 applications, have heen
received in this county for dis
trihution among those .Martin
County farmers who eoo|>erated
in the 1910 conservation pro
gram.
LitlleCrcecc Breaks
"KyiI Spell" On The
Democratic World
Coiilriliiilion lt\ (ircccc lln*
Krrn of UnloM \ ti I III*
To Democracy
In the Inn I upace of ,i few wirk .
the little (? i?M?k nation has broken!
an evil spell that had long crowded
tin* mind of the democratic world
A fatalistic belief, produced by a
year of unparalleled disaster and
spread hy unending propaganda that
inure and more setback# must in
evitably befall the cause of human
freedom, had gripped the world.
This hypnotism of gloom had be
come as dangerous as the wishful
thinking in the pre war years We
ran thank the people and soldiers ol
Greece for ridding oiu minds of a
foul superstition
The contribution of Greece has
heen of lasting value, materially j
and spiritually to all those who are
resolved that the Axis shall, not in
herit the earth The Greek resist
atice has given the British invaluable
time to seize and consolidate Greek
naval and air bases, especially the
gicat base at Siida Bay in Crete
Buttshnaval und air dominance of
the eastern Mediterranean is now j
complete Moreover. British air
bases on Greek soil have enabled the
British Royal Air Force to raid Italy, j
especially Taranto, where a large
part of the Italian fleet was destroy
ed
The moral effects of the Greek
fight are even more important. The
spectacle of the Greek Army defeat
ing the Axis lias strengthened the
moral resistance of the Balkan peo
ples and of the enslaved populations
of Kurope, of France and Spain It
has made Mussolini look contempti
ble B has exposed the weakness of
the military machine of Italy and
opened the, way for the British of
fensive against the Italian African
empire.
It is to the glory of Modern Greece
to have given to all free men a new
proof of the worth of courage. In
the darkest hour of modern civiliza
tion, Greece has provided the ray
of hope which means tin- difference
between victory and defeat for all
of us, who believe in the democra
tic way of life Had Greece yielded
and had she gone down under the
onslaught of the aggressors, it is
Questionable whether the morale of
embattled Democracy could have
survived.
C.urrvrlion In Darilrn'*
hollar Itay -iilvarlitemenl
In running the dollar days ad
vertisement of Darden's Department ]
Store, The Kntrepri.se failed to spec
ify the number of yards, LL Sheet
inn, offered for $1.00.
The Enterprise gladly makes this I
correction and wishes to advise dol
lar day shoppers that 14 yards, best;
grade LL sheeting, may be purrhas- i
ed at Darden's store for only $1.00. I
(ontrol PI an For
Peanuts Is Given
\|>j?ro\al l>\ House
V I lot IIICIll- \llll<>IIIK-?')l It ?*
ccntl* ill ( oiiiiIi Will Not
Itr t liuo?!t-<l
Till N.ltlliTI.il Hull . Ill KipHM.ll
latives by a voice vote approved the
Paiv lull providing for a peanut con
trol program': and AAA benefits to
producers The measure now goes
to the Senate for consideration, re
ports stating that the proposal will
get a favorable vote there.
Following the passage of the bill
by the House, it was learned that
allotments made available to \lar
l m County erowt iixc-tlie eurrent?
Avar will n?'t be ..affected by the
proposed I aw. and that m the pro
posed three war program acreage
will not he tvdueod more than five
per eeiit m anv one your below the
11M1 allotment
Passage game after two hours of
debate in which little opposition was
expressed to the peanut legislation,
but in which Republicans availed
themselves of an opportunity for an
assault 011 tho entire production con
trol philosophy of the New Deal
No effort was made on the floor
to amend the* bill as reported trorn
the House agriculture committee de
spite the fact that a determined fight
previously had been made to amend
the acreage allotment provisions of
the measure to permit an upward re
visions of North Carolina's peanut
acreage allotment.
Injection of this issue into the de
bate wvoid have.jeopardized the en
tity-'. bittr - TarHeel legislators con
tended in endorsing the benefits
-xrfTTFh the measure is design to
bring to North Carolina peanut
grow ri s even with present" propos
ed allotment
Representative John 11 Kerr
pointed out to the House that the
peanut divetwon program has in
i ieastd the income of growers near
ly $200000.000 during the past five
yeai at a ? >? t to-'the government
that is "almost- negligible" in com
pal ison Hut expel ts agl'ee that this
program can no longer meet the
.needs of the peanut producer, he
st l essed
Repiv . ntat ivt Harold I). Cooley,
North Carolina member of the House
Agriculture Committee, joined Kerr
in urging favorable action on the
measure
While I regret that apparent in
e(|ualit les in acreage allotments
could not I'l leliloved. I flunk this
(Continued on page six )
Keviscd IMit ion 01
Book On Birds Will
Be Printed Shortly
Orilrrn Will lit- Taki-ii l>y llin
Shilr Mom-hoi for l.iinileil
Ximilirr of V iiloior-.
(ionig ..ul <?l pi int' iiiiic years
ago and now commanding a high
price, the book, "Birds of North Car
olina," is being revised for a second
printing, within the near future at
the direction of the North Carolina
Bird Club and other individuals and
organizations interested 111 bird life
Planning to have a limited number
<>! copies printed, the promoters,
working on a non-profit basis, are
? eking pre publication subscriptions
which may he entered at the State
Museum Raleig+i
Citizens and school people have
found more and more place for bird
studies in our cultural and educa
tional activities. More and more
there have been requests for authen
tic and usable material on our na
tive birds. These come to the State
Museum and other State institutions.
It is clear htat a revised copy of the
hud hook is tin?vt ry best answer to?
these requests.
The original authors, Messrs. Pear
son, Brimley and Brim ley, were gen
erous enough to proffer their serv
ices, free, for a new and revised edi
tion Most of tin* original color and '
black and white plates are available
for a new edition The State Depart
ment of Agriculture agrees to un
derwrite the printing on a non-prof
it basis The budget commission
would like to be shown that there is
a reasonable sales prospect for 3000
copies before approving the expen
diture
The active North Carolina Bird
Club then comes into the picture.
They secured estimates of printing
and other coats Based on these, they
feel that tentative pre-publication
subscriptions can be .set at $2 25 per
copy The program is to keep the
cost low and make the book avail
able for a wide distribution. 'Hie
Bird Club, with other associated and
interested groups and individuals,
ui e now engaged in getting such pre
publication subscriptions to show the
necessary demand.
Tills book, with serviceable cloth
binding, will have approximately 400
pages, some 300 black and white Il
lustrations, and 24 or more full page
color illustrations. Hie text will
have accurate and up-to-date infor
mation. descriptions and i cf rfo,
about 385 species of birds found in
North Carolina.