Advisory Council
Is Installed Here
Members of the*'local Advisory
Council for the Williamston area. 1
recently appointed by Governor
Broughton. were installed here last
Friday night. The program of install
ation was held in the local U. S Em
ployment office, with Dr. W R Cur
tis. State Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission director, in charge
The seven-member council is com
posed of Mrs. Elbert Peel. Hugh Mor
ton. Francis Manning. George H. Har
rison. R. W Bondurant and Herman
Bowen. of Williamston, and J C
Swain, of Plymouth. These members
represent employers, employees and
the public as a whole in this section, j
The council will meet periodically. ;
as conditions may require. C W
Bazemore. manager of the Williams- i
ton office of the Ur S. Employment
Service, is local secretary.
Dr. Curtis outlined duties of the |
vouneil. which like others _over J In
state, will strive to promote coopera
tion among all local groups and agen
cies. to further public understanding
of various governmental services;
and to advise on problems relating to
Employment Security, unemploy
ment. business conditions, and Na
t ion a 1 Defense. All public employ
ment offices weK: taken over by the
U. S. Government on January 1, 1942
The Williamston unit of the Em
ployment Service opened here in
1937, with the present manager set
ting up'the office to cover the coun
ties of Martin. Beaufort. Washing
ton. Hyde and Tyrrell. Over 5.000
placements?>?rn made since
then in these counties. The William
ston office has also taken many
thousands of Unemployment Claims
and paid out approximately $220,000
in weekly benefit checks in these
five counties.
Martin County has about 50 busi
ness firms covered by Unemploy
ment Compensation and about 2.000
covered employees.
The local employment office has
the standard nation-wide Occupa
tional Dictionary system in effect.
Workers who register or apply for
jobs, are listed according to their
work experience and qualifications |
Orders come in from many other
sections of the country Labor for j
Defense projects is recruited. Much |
valuable data and information on lo
cal employment and business condi- |
tiohs is compiled and furnished the
State and Federal Government by
this and other public employment!
offices.
Mr Robert A Wadsworth. field
supervisor of the Eastern Carolina
offices, was present with Dr. Curtis
here Friday night. He spoke of the
'great labor needs elsewhere, of the
fine accomplishments possible to. the
local council, of the hard and impoYt
ant tasks ahead for this service agen
cy. and of the need for utmost local
Support and cooperation in our all
out war effort
Others present included: J K
-PhD*', Richjud Smith. Rev. John Goff.
L. C Tripp County Supt James
Vv\ Study Course
Is Instituted in the
Local Hi<;li School
(Continued from page one)
can Red Cross will be taught. The
Safety course will deal largely with
home and school safety, safety on
the highways, and fire prevention.
An attempt will be- made also to ac
quaint the students with the various
safety-/lessons which the Office of
Civilian Defense is attempting to
teach a nation at war.
According to D. N Mix, principal.
< ach of the juniors and seniors will
complete tin- three short courses by
the end of the school term. .
In addition to the special courses,
the new program includes a definite
period of physical education for
each of the high school classes. Rec
irational activities, games, calisthen
ics. and general marching are pro
vided for in the schedule now in op
eration. with the hour period divid
ed equally between tin- formal
coui ? s and these activities.
Adjustments m the schedule and
.1 slight extension of the school'day
provide'time for the new program.
As a part of a state and nation
wide emphasis <?n Fit?;ilth, physical
examinations will he given juniors
and seniors and a follow-up program
to corn et remedial defects attempt
ed Students m these classes will he
examined by public health authori
ties at an e arly date
Tlie following teachers, with the
assistance <?t all high school faculty
members, are conducting the new
program Health and Nutrition,
Madge (Ilazener; First Aid. Jack
Butler; Physical Education. Sam Ed
wards
A marriage license was issued
this county ve sterday to Leslie David
Colt ram and Lillian Doieas Buchan t
an. both ot Williamston.
Mr and Mrs. Willie- Morton, of
Gree nville-, visited here Sunday.
? ?(..I office staff: Manager C. W.
lazemore. Intel vie-we-rs Mark Ross
did William Cross, and Typist-Clerk
dr> Sylvia S Clary
damiing. I. B Birmingham and the
siioimm.m; si'rkk
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The feverish national shopping
spree continues unabated as
customers stock their pantries,
clothes closets and linen presses
against threatened shortages.
Department store sales for four
weeks average 34 per cent above
a year ago, and other storekeep
ers report distinctly abnormal
demand for about 50 items and
commodities. OPA has been giv
en power to ration all consumers'
goods, but until the machinery
for official limiting of purchases
can be set up it'll be largely a
matter of customers' patriotism,
conscience and good taste that
determine whether the buying
wave is confined to prudent an
ticipation of needs or breaks ov
er into the category of hoarding.
Old timers say that, generally
speaking, hoarding is not as rife
now as during World War I . . .
they're confident that pressure
of public opinion and disapprov
al by "the neighbors" is holding
in check any tendency for cus
tomers to stock up outlandishly,
at the expense of fellow-consum
ers.
World Awaits Next
Ste|> By Japanese
In The Far Pacific
(Continued from page one)
<?Ik ervi i ? Yesterday, Jap planes
were hovering over Bangka Island,
about 220 miles, from Batavia.
"'Bangka, noted for its rich tin de
posits. is off the Sumatra coast and
would serve as an intermediate step
ping stone for a direct Japanese on
slaught against Java, seat of the Un
ited Nations command.
"From unconfirmed sources," the
Dutch communique said, "it has
been concluded that Pontianak has
been occupied by the Japanese."
The Dutch announced last week
the vital installations and equipment
at Pantianak had been destroyed af
ter Japanese troops landed at Pem
angkut, 85 miles to the north, and
began pushing south along the coast
al road.
Possession of Pontianak gave the
Japanese an important base to raid
allied shipping in the Java Sea be
tween Batavia and Singapore to the
northwest. . - ?
Presumably the eastern arm of a
Japanese thrust toward Java still
was held up in the Balik Papan area
on Macassar Strait, where combin
ed Dutch Americn action exacted a
heavy toll of Japanese ships last
week.
But the situation at Amboina Is
land. site of a big Dutch naval base
between Celebes and New Guinea off
the Australian north mainland, ap
parently was critical. Today's com
munique said no further word had
been received from either Amboina,
or the defenders fighting in the Ken
dari region of Eastern Celebes.
The Tokyo radio, which announc
ed the seizure of Pontianak yester
on Amboina were approaching the
big military airdrome there after a
landing effected Saturday.
The Dutch said guerrilla warfare
on the Minahassa Peninsula in
northeastern Celebes was continuing
and reported scattered Japanese at
tacks from the air.
United States planes are figuring
to a gieatei caU'iU lf\ the Far East,
late reports stating that American
fliers had shot down two more Jap
transports and damaged a third.
In Russia, the German generals are
calling for help, their last appeals
clearly indicating that unless help is
forthcoming a large Russian break
through can be expected. They are
asking for twenty fresh divisions.
SO KIT Hitter has transferred iwo, di
visions to Russia, one from Poland
and one from Greece. The Yugoslavs
are at it again, one report stating
that the guerrilla bands had killed
a number of Germans and wrecked
vital German war plants.
With the aid of Goering. Mussolini
was brought back into the public
print today when the two met. Some
thing big is expected out of Rome
The Eighth Week
Of The War
1
(Continued from page one)
Senate a record naval appropriation
bill of $18 billion in cash and an ad
ditional $4 billion in contract author
izations to build the Navy to unpre
cedented strength. The Senate Ap
propriations Committee, at the re
quest of President Roosevelt, added
another $6 billion to the bill to
strengthen the naval air arm. The
Marine Corps announced regulations
for enlistment of 6,000 men 30 to 50
/or guard duty at naval shore sta
tions. The Corps revised require
ments to permit only college juniors
and seniors and qualified enlisted
men to enroll in its reserve officers'
candidate class. The Navy waived
minimum age requirement of 25
years for loaders, leading men and
quartermen in Navy yards and plants
under Navy jurisdiction The Navy
is recruiting skilled construction
workers for work at naval bases out
side continental United States.
Production
The Army Ordnance Department
estimated it has been spending $21
million a day for the past five weeks
for 1.200 various types of items in
cluding ammunition, small arms, ar
tillery, tanks, etc The Army an
nounced its new 105 mm. howitzer
is no win mass production. War Pro
duction Chairman Nelson told a
meeting in New York C'ty the job
facing businessmen is to rush war
contracts through to completion
"without stopping to count the cost."
The War Production Board an
nounced a simplified production re
quirements plan to speed conversion
of small manufacturers doing less
than $100,000 business a year. The
Board also set up a special section to
collect information on all vacant in
dustrial buildings so the Army and
Navy procurement branches can
award contracts in such a way as to
utilize these buildings.
Conversion of Automobile Industry
Ernest Kanzler, WPB official in
charge of converting the automobile
industry to war production, said the
industry up to January 16 had orders
for $8 billion worth of guns, tanks,
planes and other war material. He
said the industry's present employ
ment of 500,000 workers may be
doubled when peak war production
is reached late this year. He said lack
of machine tools is the present bot
tleneck in the conversion effort but
labor supply may be the next big
problem.
Aliens
Attorney General Biddle ordered
all German, Japanese and Italian na
tionals to leave specified vital areas
in San Francisco and Los Angeles by
February 24. Mr. Biddle said 27 ad
ditional prohibited areas recom
mended by the War Department
would be published later.
Priorities and Allocations
The Senate passed and sent to the
House a second War Powers Bill ex
tending the?Government's lequisi
tioning power and carrying crimi
nal penalties for violations of the
priorities system. The WPB cut radio
production by 40 per cent, prohibit
ed use of aluminum except on war
contracts, and restricted consump
tion of nickel, brass and copper for
advertising and decorative purposes
to 50 per cent of last year. The board
also announced it will withhold a
percentage of canned goods in 1942
to insure ample supplies of certain
foods for the armed forces
War Production Chairman Nelson I
placed full authority in the Office I
of Price Administration to ration all
goods and commodities sold on the
retail market and for goods to satis
fy personal needs. Price Administra-'
tor Henderson said initial sugar sales
under the rationing plan to be in
augurated next month probably will
bo restricted to 12 ounces a week for
each individual. The Department of
Justice announced the Antitrust Di
vision is investigating the practice
of requiring customers to purchase
designated amounts of groceries in
order to obtain limited amounts of |
sugar.
i
Pick-up Trucks Not
Eligible For Tires,
County Board Rules
(Continued from page one)
ing out to become serious for some.
A widow and her small child were
traveling through here a few days
ago when one of her car tires blew
out. Although employed by the gov
ernment in an important position. I
she will hardly be able to establish
a classification and purchase a tire. |
One of her tires blew out. and the I
spare was not guaranteed by the
station operator to last'her until she |
got home. While some i
their jobs because they can't get I
tires, thousands are riding here and |
there after an helter-skelter fash
ion.
Observers, hearing questions from |
The British are still fa
in Libya, and the Japs have permcat-1
ed Burma defenses.
No official report has been releas-1
ed, but it is thought that at least 20
German subs have been sunk along |
the Atlantic coast in recent weeks.
The tabulation below offers an un
official account of ship losses in the |
Pacific:
Jap Allied I
Type ol ship SunVTtH Sunk Hit]
Battleships 2 4 4
Aircraft Carrier 1
Cruisers 3 10
Destroyers 12 4 5
Submarines 10 1 2
Transports 47 24
Supply Ships 5 2
Tankers 2 1
Auxjliary Vessel 3 4 1
Totals 84 50 11 I*
Asking Citizens Of
The County To Give
Thousands Of Books
(Continued from page one)
be accepted, the sponsors of the cam
paign trust that the people will use
discretion in making their gift con
tributions. Obscene literature is not
desired any where and especially
should it be eliminated in the armed
services where young men are facing
serious situations. The following list
suggests the type of books wanted,
the donors remembering to make
technical and scientific book contri
butions of fairly recent publication:
Applied psychology, current af
fairs, military publications, crime
and the F.B.I., police systems and
fingerprinting, English grammars,
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trig
nometry, calculus and table logar
ithms, up-to-date technical books,
accounting, shorthand, business and
salesmanship, lettering and mechan
ical drawing, photograph, cartoons,
well-illustrated books of all types,
books about music, sports, novel and
playwriting, poetry and individual
plays, geography, travel (of last ten
years), biography (especially the
shorter, more popular type), history
(ptrticularly Europe and North and
South America since 1900); Fiction
?adventure, aviation stories, histor
ical novels, humor, mystery, sports,
western.
To Make Loans For
Food For Freedom
No farmer should fail to take part
in the Martin County "Food for
Freedom" program because of inabil
ity to finance his operations, accord
ing to Hugh G. Horton, County De
fense* Board Chairman.
"Farm owners and farm tenants
who have difficulty in getting loans
to operate their farms to the best ad
vantage should talk over the?r prob
lems with James C. Eubanks, County
Supervisor for the Farm Security
Administration," the defense chair
man said. Mr. Eubanks' office is lo
cated in the county courthouse.
Loans repayable in convenient in
stallments are advanced by the FSA
for the purchase of such items as
seed, fertilizer, livestock and farm
ing implements, also for improving
pastures, enlarging or improving
barns and shelters, building brooder
and laying houses and any reason
able expansion of equipment which
can be supported by sound farm ,
plans. The FSA supervisor will ad
vise borrowers requesting assistance
in making out their farm plans; and
all farmers, of course, are welcome
for technical advice at the county
extension agent's office.
To provide a living at home and
surplus food for market is now a
IVJIIIIIIUU guul fur every farm in Am
erica. Through the various agencies
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, State Extension Service and
some who would enlarge the ration
ing program to take care of thos
who are about to lose their jobs oi
account of the rubber shortage, poin
out that it is quite possible that som
of those now favored by the ration
ing plan may have their classifica
tions wiped out.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Motorists on Martin County
highways are figuring in more
accidents and have already
boosted the property losses to a
point 20 times greater than they
were for the corresponding per
iod in 1941. However, they are
thoughtful of human life, or they
haven't gotten around to the
gruesome business yet. A year
ago, the first life lost on the
highways of the county in 1941
was snuffed out.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
4th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge
1942 2 0 0 $ 400
1941 211 00
Comparison To Date
1942 9 4 0 $1930
1941 6 3 1 95
Dr. Walker Occupies
His Ntnc Offices Here
Dr. E. T. Walker, located in the
Saunders office building since he
located here, moved this week to his
new offices just across the street on
Smithwick. While the new office
apartment building is not completed
in its entirety, the lower floor was
made ready for occupancy just a
few days ago. Just as soon as the
contractors complete their work, the
modern butldmg will be formally
opened.
Drs. Rhodes and Llewellyn are
moving from the Staton building on
Baltimore Street to the offices va
cated by Dr. Walker. They plan to
move within the next two weeks.
?
Dr. And Mrs. McAllister
Leaving Fur Richmond
Dr. and Mrs. R. G. McAllister and
little son are leaving today for Rich
mond where the doctor will continue
the general practice of medicine.
Both Dr. and Mrs. McAllister dur
ing their stay here have made many
friends who regret to see them
leave.
Edgecombe Farmers Support
Scrap Iron Collection Drive
Farmers and 4-H Club members
of Edgecombe County have pledged
their full support to the scrap iron
and steel collection campaign, re
ports Assistant Farm Agent C. M.
Jackson
Experiment Stations, adequate serv
ices are available to enable every
farmer to take part in the Food for
Freedom program.
Where farm machinery or pure
bred sires cannot be purchased eco
nomically by individuals, farmers
may club together and supply their
needs cooperatively, through FSA
day. also said that Japanese troops
"Community Service" loans, it was
pointed out.
Farm boys and girls desiring to do
their bit also may borrow from FSA
to start 4-H and Future Farmers
projects. The money is available to
sons and daughters of FSA borrow
ers to buy cows, sows, sheep and oth
er animals or to finance "Victory"
garden or truck plots.
Opening In CCC Camp,
For Colored youth*
Openings for a fairly large num
ber of colored youtha in this coun
ty were announced today by the Ci
vUian Conservation Corps. Several
boys have already signed up and oth
ers who care to enter the CCC serv
ice may contact the welfare office
in the courthouse and make ready to
Dle keXt Tuesda>' {?r New Hol
land where they will be quartered
Wants
FOR QUICK QUALITY DRY
? o fPlng service? bring your clothes
o Pittman s. One day service on any
garment. Suits, coats and dresses 55
cents, cash and carry. 85c delivered.
Pittman s Cleaners. f3-tf
SODA SHOP FOR SALE: IF INTER
ested, see me at once. John H. Gur
ganul_______ f3-2t
SOW LOST OR STRAYED: COLOR
red and weighs approximately 200
pounds. J. Edwin Corey, care Sit
terson Farm, Williamston.
WANTED? TWO TENANT FAM
farmCS'iWhlte ?,r colored- to work on .
farm. Jarven Leggett, Gold Point. '
f3-4t
HOG STRAYED . . . NOW IN MY
possession. Owner may have same
if he pays the cost of this ad and the
au J* ?eep,n? hog J E Moore, c-o
Williamston R.F.D.
TWO YOUNG MULES FOR SALE.
See Charley Moore. WnTiamstoh.
' f3-2t
WANTED! LIBERAL ALLOWANCE
made for good used suits in trade
on ,new ones. 500 suits to select from.
This Offer good on made-to-measure
siuts also Pittman's. j30-2t
APARTMENT FOR RENT: LOCAT^
ed on second floor. Desirable lo
cation. See or call George Harris.
Williamston Hardware Co. j27-2t
FOR SALE: LARGE ASSORTMENT
used suits in good condition. All
colors and styles. $4.95 to $10.00
Plttmans- *30-21
for SALE: HOUSE ANdToT IN
good condition and in good loca
CORN WANTED ? WE ALWAYS
pay top market price. Hardy's Es
so Service Station, Highway 84, near
air grounds. Williamston. f3-4t
SPECIAL NOTICE! WHY~ NOT
economize by bringing your clean
ing here. Suits, coats and dresses
cleaned for 55c cash and carry 65c
delivered. All work guaranteed. One
day service. Pittman's. Phone 168.
.. _ j30-2t
JAY BEE HAMMER MILLS GRIST
Mills, Feed Mixers at no advance
in price, new or used, liberal terms
See or write E. B. Harrison, Box *79
Bennettsville, S. C. j20-f3
BABY CHICKS?N. C. AND STATE
approved from day olds to three
weeks old, of^xtra fine quality, from
as good blood lines as there is in the
anf?' ee'',,US before you buy phone
603-J, Sullivan Hatchery. Washine
to"' N' C- _ j27-8t
WE PAY CASH FOR CORN. WIL^
liamston Hardware Co. dl2-tf
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