County's Rationing
Board Commended
For Unselfish Work
(Continued from page one)
charged the LaSalle Motor Sales
Corporation, Boonville. Ind ; its pres
ident. Charles L Hart, and its sec
retary-treasurer. Russell W Baker,
with violation of OP As tire ratiom
ing regulations under Sections 35A
and 37 of the U. S. Criminal Code.
These sections deal with making
false statements to the government
and conspiracy to violate a Federal
law. Conviction carries a penalty of
not more than 10 years' imprison
ment and a maximum fine of $10,
000, or both, for each violation.
Commenting on the cases. Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
stressed the importance of the coun
try's tire reserves and his firm pol
icy to prevent theiit dissipation.
"In time of war. private rights in
many cases must yield to public'
need." Mr. Henderson stated. "The
Norfolk case involved passenger car
and truck tires valued at about $1.
500. but many times more precious
in terms of the transportation they
can furnish to essential military or
civilian vehicles In situations like
this, we cannot afford to wait until
possession of the tires passes and
then act."
"Tlie efficient teamwork between
the Department of Justice and the
Office of Price Administration that
brought this case to court in less than
a month after OPA began investiga
tion and in less than two weeks from
the time it was referred to the Jus
tice Department indicates the ser
iousness with which the government
is going to view such situations. Per
sons who are not inclined to abid<
by rationing regulations should take
notice A nation-wich investigation
of tire dealers by government in
spectors is now in progress
"The regulations are a war time
measure and must be adhered to
strictly. wtTbthcr they pertain to
tires, automobiles, sugar, or any oth
er commodity. 'We art not out to
make 'examples' but to protect the
overwhelming majority of honest cit
izens from the harm that comes
from the illicit activities of a few
unpatriotic persons
"Rationing has been forced Upon |
us by the course of war It is the]
only-method, hy whi.ch a I im-HetHnip
ply can be spread fairly. Thus* w'/
attempt to get more than the if shSTc"
or to profit by scarcity at the ex
pense of their neighbors will bring
prompt punishment upon them
selves"
Martin Lounty liens
Lay Over-Sized / gg>
A chicken belonging to Mrs. W A
Manning is doing its part to raise
food for home consumption Whew
the eggs weTe collected Mrs Man
ning found that one of the chickens
had laid a imubli sizt egg muasunng
nearly eight inches in circumfer
ence
Working To Relieve
(Farm Labor Problem i
R Mayne Albright, director of the
United States Employment Service
for North Carolina, and Wellborn
C Carlton, newly appointed Farm
Placemen! Supervisor for the State,
attended a conference of farm place
ment officials in Regions III and IV.
held in Philadelphia Friday and Sat
urday.
The conference had to do with the
problem -of?supply--farm-labor- ?in
states along the Atlantic Seaboard
particularly, presented by the all-out
war effort which is taking away from
the farms many of the farm laborers
and placing them in war construc
tion and war production activities
The officials considered means of re
cruiting labor and moving it from one
area to another, using trailer homes
for housing the overflow, and then
when the seasonal work has been
completed in a given section, moving
on to another.
This problem has been mentioned
many times in recent months in
North Carolina, in which State it is
expected to b< especially trouble
some In his broadcast last week, as
a part of the round table discussion
of the federalization of Unemploy
ment Compensation agencies. Gov
ernor Broughton brought up the
farm labor problem, asking Federal
Security Administrator Paul V. Mc
Nutt what steps are to be taken to
relievo.' the farm labor shortage.
The Philadelphia conference, call
ed by Fay W. Hunter, Chief, Farm
Placement Service, United States
Employment Service, was held to
help solve this problem.
Population Survey
Completed tor the
Rationing of Sugar
P P
(Continued from page one)
Gold Point, 716. Hamilton. 560.
Jamesville. 420. Jones, 440; Oak City.
1.330. Panned. 812; Poplar Point.
168. Kobcrsonvillc. 900; Salsbury,
412. Smithwick! 112. Williams, Low
er. 490: Whichard-James, 460; Wool
aid. 390; Williamston, 2,886. and
White Oak Springs, 340-^-a total of
13.312
Spreading of Price
Ceilings Continues
Sharpening of curtailments, spread
. mg of'price ceilings, continue apace
| No more crude rubber for girdle
[and garters, corsets and suspender
xNn more 12 gauge shotguns fo
.porting uses . OP A calls for ceil
j nigs on coal. rugs, the new "Victory
I bicycles, guns, flashlights and dry
I cell batteries. freezes fertilize
[prices; extends policing of women'
; history?prices to cover?the?rayon i
j variety Nationwide rationing of |
gasoline and oil appears inevitable]
; si;!{<.-> i.< itig .iiu-i'tefl riohi nw
sugar trade means the weekly ra j
Ition will be lower than first planned |
?I. WILL I AM ST ON IN
H4K,< I II
B CO I I I H
fo4 SMART S*yl*?'
Appearance
Is Morale
MORAl.K require* that we main
tain our confidence, our calm, our
Irti^t. But we niiir-l do more than
feel the?e lluiljt*. we 111 list look
them.
Our job in no nmall one ? buyinfi
a neanon'n requirement* for all the
family in more than making a icinh.
*e ha\e done it Mieeesftfully for
nearly a quarter of a century: We
hope to~Ee able to continue it.
F O K
Smart Styles
? And ?
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FOR MEN. WOMEN, AND
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WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
New Army Meal Ticket Good News for Restaurant Owners
What may prove a boon to restaurant owners ia the Army'a new
practice of issuing meal ticketa instead of cash to soldiers for the
spend a maximum of 75 cents a meal in restaurants and $1 a meal
in railroad dining care?in many instances more than he would
spend if he were paying cash.
The tickets (one of which is reproduced below) are slightly
larger than a currency note, are white and must be filled out by the
issuing officer. When a restaurant operator receives one in tender
for a meal, be filla in a few blaaki and mailt the ticket to the
finance officer at the poat from which the aoldier traveled. When
the meal tieketa are received by the finance officer, they are given 1
immediate attention and cheekj (or the (nil amount are aent at
once.
Now that the United Statea la at war, more and more of theeo
meal tieketa will be uaed. Reataurant opera ton who wiah to ahare
in the taak of feeding the aoldiera will acquaint themaelvee with ther
new meal tieketa and be prepared to honor them.
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UNITED STATES ARMY MEAL TICKET
(Good for meals oalf)
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Officer, u authorized to furnish ..PVtct. . JO^H D0? %. 3.4QQQQQ and ..XKP. ..... ...
enLsted men of the Army en route from ..... Clover dale .""Alabama ??j2
to .. .GpQrSift With .3.. mpjs. sis cm!ef lot Is tuvljl per aasl risa sened is faiag can J'M ?5 ^ F*l S r S
es railrod trua*. sad sot U> eicted 75c slscffbsre. Approprulioa sq^^^iq^t_lol|io^fFIii^l^lj-?.P_J7-r^^>..A..Q41Q , jy $3 t ?-? ^ ,
T. R. Nos. 3 693791..., issued for transportation.'
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?^'TiBii (itriiiii s fc 1116 u t a
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I c-rtify th?l-.2-... nK?l(?)|*|t|funuiScd by ..United.Nations.jCa?e. fcJC3 R- 15. I t " fr" 8 I
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u ? tout COM of I 2.tl0. P i i Mil i
?H?) m whm t? ?Sm? W mmitrt
ro? w^vS' " C&.55X 0?JS! CI THIS MEAL TICKET SHALL IE USED FOI THE ftOCUKEMENT Of FOOD AND NONALCOHOLIC (EVRACES ONLT
January IS. IM1 (Dm typewriter, Ink, or indelible pencil only to All In thia ticket)
Soldier's MeAl Tieket . . . Take a Cood Look At It. Sir. Restaurant Man
Wants to Enlist?City Says No!
Frederick Donna elli, of Revere, Mass., shown with his wife and four
children, wanted to enlist in the army so badly he wrote President
Roosevelt about it The city's welfare commissioner has fought the
enlistment on grout ds the family would become dependents of the city
if he succeeds. Mrs. Uonnatelli and the draft board have signed waivers.
..f Central Preee)
Fierce Battle For
The Rich Island of
Java Is Now Racing
(Continued from page one)
^ I
Ihe German lines in the Lake I linen j
area ,and the 16th German army of |
learly 100,000 Germans in the Star- j
iy:> > t ftiiin ure facing st;irv;i
lion. Hitler has failed in his at
tempts to fly food and ^enforce
ments to the trapped army.
The Libyan front is temporarily j
jut of the news, hut attacks were
renewed by Na/i planes on the Sue/
Canal last night, the British driving
them off before much damage was
done.
This coihitry lost iUs ninth naval
vessel of World War II last Saturday
when the destroyer, Jacob Jones,
was sent to the bottom by a German
submarine off the Atlantic coast.
More than 100 officers and men lost
their lives, a preliminary report re
leased by the Navy Department slat
ing that there were only six survi
vors One of the torpedoes fired by
the enemy struck the bridge and
killed several men A second torpe
do struck the stern causing the de
stroyer's arsenal to explode1
Donald Nelson, directing an appeal 1
to both management and labttr la*t
night, asked for an increase of 25
per cent in production schedules.
The new tax law is now before
Congress, and the new tax program
among other things will double the
income tax and gasoline tax bills, up 1
liquor taxes, add one and one-hall I
cents to each package?of cigarettes i
and tack on a 15 per cent increase on
chewing gum, but no sales tax is
mentioned.
County Authorities
Hold An Uneventful
And Brief Meeting
r
(Continued from page one)
roundup to be under the direction of
the sheriff
Kiting his monthly report. Special
Tax Collector M Luther Peel stated
Ihut $148.849 73 of the $206.066 85
levy for 1941 had been collected. It
! has been rumored that the sale of
delinquent tax accounts may be ad
vanced in the county this year The
collector also stated that $2,293.06
tout hei-n rnlli Tl.wt fruni ll?. 1 Q4fl lanH
sales, leaving $4,546 92 uncollected.
Tlie "insolvent" list amounting to
$5,808.17 when the special collector
received the 1940 books has been re
duced to $3,714 20.
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()utline Tentative
Plans For First Aid
Courses In County
(Continued from page one)
planes overhead, the ack-ack tear
ing at its roots with each violent
bark, when the ack-ack- fragment*
are falling down like rain, then thi
people's army is at work. That's th<
job cut out for our volunteer*."
Still on Luzon
Attending the Gay N?-pa festival in
the Philippines a few days before
the Japanese invasion is Mrs. Douk
las MacArthur, wife of the com
mander in chief of the Philippine
forces. At last report, Mrs. Mac
Arthur was still with her husband
and their son on l.uzoitTT
Gardeners To Get'
Free Soil Tests
Raleigh?Prospective planters of
"victory gardens" in North Carolina
can save bqth time and money by
availing themselves of the free soils
li sting services of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture
That is the opinion of Dr. I. E.
Miles, director of the Department's
soils testing division, who said today
that "in order to produce a success
ful garden for food it is essential
that the gardener know the kind and
amount of plant food necessary for
economical production."
He explained that in the soils lab
oratory "soils are tested for fertiliz
er needs, degree of acidity and from
the samples and information secur
ed from the gardener himself, the
general adaptability of the soil can
be determined."
"The samples of soil must be col
lected very carefully," Dr. Miles em
phasized. "A tablespoonful of topsoil
(from top five inches) should be col
lected from 10 to 15 places over the
garden and all of it put in one box
and labeled 'topsoil.' A subsoil sam
ple (from 12 to 15 inches deep)
should be collected at two or three
places (about a half cupful from each
I place) over the garden and all put
I in one container and labeled 'sub
Isoil). Then a questionnaire (which
I will be furnished on request) should
be filled out for the area represent
ed by the samples. If possible, all
n{ the quest ions ihniilrf he answered
and certainly anything peculiar or
unusual about the soil should be in
dicated.
"The soil sample containers are
also available and free of charge.
Those interested in having their soils
tested should request the question
naires and soil sample containers
from their county agents, agricultur
al teachers, or other agricultural
leaders, or the Soil Testing Division
of the North Carolina Department
of Agriculture, Raleigh. Farmers who
plan to have their soils tested, should
use the containers designed for such
purpose and collect the samples ac
cording to directions shown on the
reverse side of the questionnaire
furnished."
?
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parkin, ol
Whiteville, are now making theil
home here.
County Farms Lack
Home-^rown Foods
The place of the farm in this war
is the production of "Food for Vic
tory." Dean I. O. Schaub, of State
College, and other leaders of the N.
C. Agricultural Extension Service,
including our own county farm
agent, says that farmers of this coun
ty generally are deficient in home
production of such essential food
products as garden vegetables, milk,
pork, poultry and eggs
From the last Federal census
comes proof that a large number of
farms in Martin County are with
out gardens, cows, hogs and chick
ens. The 1940 census shows that there
are 2406 farms in tiie county.
The census report also reveals that
247 farms were without gardens,
1581 farms did not keep a cow, 475
farms had no hogs, and 311 were
without a single chicken.
"This is the first war-time task of
farm people," Dean Schaub declared,
"to see that every farm has a gar
den. at least one cow, and sproe hogs
and chickens. These are all vital to
the health and welfare of rural peo
ple. Our farm families must be well
fed before they can expect to feed
the rest of the Nation, and our Allies
in the fight for freedom."
The 1940 census listed 278,276
farms in North Carolina. Eighty-nine
per cent of them, or 247,127, had gar
dens, leaving 31,149 without gardens.
Those farms which did have gar
IcLeiis va.lued .th.em at-atutal of $14,
773,625, or an average per garden
of $60. Figured at the same average
jvolui . the 31.140 funiM mtliuul gai ;
dens "lost" $1,869,000 by their fail- I
ure to grow vegetables and small I
fruits
The State census showed that 65 |
per cent,"or 179,816, of the farms kept j
cows; 69 per cent, or 191,672, had J
hogs, and 88 per cent, oi 245.122
kept some chickens.
Wants
SEED PEANUTS FOR SALE?190
bags. W A. Vanderford. Gold
Point. f27-3t
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
As far as the official reports
show, motorists traveled a full
week on Martin County high
ways without an accident. One
or two accidents were reported
near the county line, including
one on the Roanoke River bridge,
but the record was clear as far
as this county was concerned.
Patrolman Saunders explained.
To go a full week without an
accident, motorists have really
accomplished something, and the
feat clearly shows that it is not
possible to limit the number if
not eliminate entirely so much
wrecking, maiming and killing
on the highways.
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.
..&tb AJieek Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'rt
1942 0 0 0 $ 000
1941 3. 1 0 ? 30
Comparison To Date
1942 15 8 0 $2935
1941 19 10 2 900
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A BET
tor cleaning job? Send your
clothes to Pittman's. We look after
your buttons, sew up the rips and
clean the cuffs. Cash and carry 55
cents. Delivery 05. Pittman's Clean
ers. Phone 139.
FOR RENT ? SIX ROOM HOUSE,
I It'll i?tnir ground;* Avuihiblc
atfre March 15. Telephone 383-WX
Mrs K. A White. m3-2t
GARDEN SEED: PACKAGES AND
bulk Also package flower seed
and lawn grass seed. Now is time to
plant. Leave us your order for cab
bage plants J C. Loggett. Washing
ton Strei t. m3-0t
WANTED ? WE NEED 50 GOOD
used suits. Liberal allowance on
your old suits in trade on new ones
at Pittman's. 500 new suits to sjelect
from. Pittman's
LOST: IRISH SETTER ANSWERS
to the name "Timmey." My name
<m goiiwr. Reward. John 1). Biggs
?OR SALE: ttmw?AiHm
market and grocery store on Main
street. Robersonville. Better known
is "Liberty Market." Now owned
ind operated by Mrs Frances Bry
in. This includes stock and very lat
st style refrigerator fixtures. See
V!rs. Frances Bryan. Robersonville,
\\ C. f27-4t
FOR SALE?2000 BUSHELS PORTO
Rico Sweet Potato slips, baskets
well filled. 75c per bushel. Same
quantity without baskets 65c. Cash.
See John R. Peel. f27-2t
FOR QUICK, QUALITY DRY
cleaning service, bring your clothes
to Pittman's. One day service on any
garment. Suits, coats and dresses, 55
cents, cash and carry. 65c delivered.
Pittman's Cleaners. f3-tf
FOR SALE 1939 OLDSMOBILE 4
dooi sedan, 20.000 miles with 5
good tires and heater. Well taken
care of. Peel and Manning, attys.
f27-tf
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER FOR
sale. Good as new. Will sell reason
able May hi' seen at Enterprise. Geo.
Jenkins. m3-2t
BABY CARRIAGE FOR SALE ?
Good condition. Price reasonable.
George Jenkins. Williamston, R.F.D.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and
sympathy during the illness and
death of our infant son. The thought
ful acts and kind deeds were appre
( iated. We also appreciate the love
ly floral contributions.
Irene and Leon Earl Griffin.
NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE
North Carolina. Martin County. In
Superior Court.
John Daniel Biggs vs. Major Latham
By virtue of an execution directed
to the undersigned from the Super
ior Court of Martin County in the
above entitled action, and by virtue
>f an ordei of the Clerk of Superior
Court of Martin County of even
date herewith, directing the under
signed to re-sell the property here
inafter described by reason of a
raise in the bid in a former sale, I
will on Monday. April 6. 1942, at
twelve o'clock Noon, at the Court
house Door of said County, sell to
the high? st bidder for cash to satis
fy said execution, all of the right, ti
tle and interest which the said Major
Latham, deceased, had in the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit:
Eleven (11) acres of land adjoin
ing the S R. Mobley Farm on the old
Williamston-Greenville Road in Wil
liamston Township, Martin County,
and being the same lands deeded to
Major Latham by J L. Bailey and
wife by d<? d of record in Book KKK,
at page 557 of the Martin County
Public Registry and being known as
the Major Latham Home Place.
This tiie 28th dav of Feb.. 1942.
C B ROEBUCK.
m3-4t Sheriff.
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ot d.scasc, put ( iick-L-Tabs in
tiie pout: y fountain. *
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