North Carolina Newspapers

PAT PAT WAS BOND DAT mr mmm?un mum THE ENTERPRISE FOR VICTORY UNHID STATU Ml BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 52 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuetday, June 30, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Explains Why Large Numbers of Men Are Sent Back By Army Eighty Out of Ninety Men Are Said To Have Been Re jected Recently Unable to understand why so many men have been and are still being rejected by the Army, the gen eral public will read with interest the explanation offered this week by the Selective Service. Just be fore the explanation was offered, it was learned Dial uut of ninety colored men passing through here last week for the Army induction centers 80 were rejected and sent back home. The explanation: The current high rate of rejections of selectees at the induction station is disturbing to the public mind. This is understandable since the pub lic is so vitally interested in every phase of Selective Service. There is a satisfactory explanation for it and the public is entitled to that explan ation. Prior to January 1, 1942, com plete physical examinations were given the selectees by local board examining physicians. After a few months of experience, these physi cians were passing men who very closely met the Army's require ments. Rejections at the induction station at that time were almost en tirely of men with borderline con ditions, men who had contracted dis eases between the time of their lo cal examinations and the time of their delivery for induction, and men rejected as a result of the chest X rays which were never a part of the local examination. Under the regulations now in force, the local examining physicians do not make a comprehensive ex amination. In fact, they make only a casual, "screening" examination and are guided by a list of defects, one part of which sets forth non remediable physical conditions which manifestly disqualify the selectee for all military service, and the sec ond part of which sets forth those npn-remedlable physical conditions which manifestly disqualify for gen eral military service, but qualify for limited service. The local examining physician has no alternative but to follow this list specifically. With these limitations, the examining physician can reject little more than the obviously unfit. Another reason for the large num ber of rejections is that local boards no longer have the authority to dis qualify registrants who are below (Continued on page six) * Tire Rationing Is Completed for June By Board Yesterday Ministers Favored with Last Allotments for New Car Tires and Tubes ? The Martin County Tire Ration ing Board exhausted its June quo tas down to the last old recapped tire and innertube Monday and eag erly awaited the announcement of the county's July allotment, which, according to unofficial reports will be slightly larger than the one for June. It was pointed out, however, that a larger allotment does not mean that there will be tires and tubes for everybody. On the contrary, it is likely that classifications will be ex amined even more closely than in the past. In exhausting the June allotment, Board Members J. A. Everett, H. L. Roebuck and C. C. Martin favored the ministerial group, alloting two new tires to Rev. John Hardy, Epis copal minister of Williamston; two tubes to Rev. Daniel C. Boone, of Robersonville, and three tubes to Rev. Andrew Ernest Purvis, of RFD 1, Bethel. Four car tire tubes were also allotted to Farmer W. B. Can non, of RFD 1, Hobgood. The last recapped tires for cars to be allotted from the June quota went to the following: Frank Leathers, RFD 1, Hobgood, tire and tube for ministerial work. Foy Rogerson, Robersonville, two tires and two tubes for farm work. Rogerson explained to the board that two tires and tubes and a wheel * were stolen off his car last Friday night. "They went right into my yard and defied a big German po lice dog and a ferocious bull and got the tires," the farmer explained. J. B. Mallory, Palmyra RFD 1, a tire for farm work. Wood row Tyson, Oak City, foui tires for maintaining farm machin ery and tractors. The only obsolete tire and tube al lotted went to H. G. Norman, Rober sonville, for farm work. > The following applications wert rejected: William Samuel Faulk, Williams ton ice dealer, four truck tires anc four tubes. It was explained in th< application that deliveries were U consumers only. John H. Rohereon, RFD 3, Wil liamston, one trailer tire. The appli cation, based on a farm classifies tion, pointed out that one tire w? (Continued on page six) Tire Rationing Board to Make Change In Its Meeting Dates Finding that their free contribu tions to the defense effort are bad ly interrupting their farm toork, Martin County tire rationing board members announced yesterday that they would be forced to change their meeting dates, that beginning this week they will meet on Thursdays instead of Monday. In making the change, the board members will not skip next Thursday, but will con tribute just that much more of their free time to the rationing cause. Ve lnt'le upeialuis wliu aie able lu w tablish classifications are urged to note the change for their own con venience. The general public, in terested in placing applications for surplus sugar for canning are urged to file their claims or requests on other days besides Thursday. It is asking too much of the board to file applications for sugar and crowd the room on regular meeting days Ap plications for surplus sugar are re ceivable any week day between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. beginning next Tues day. At the present time the rationing office is held open from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m , but the slight change has been ordered to effect a trans portation pool for the office work ers. Institutional and industrial sugar users have until Saturday of this week to file applications for their sugar requirements. Today Is iho lasi day iul" retailers, including filling stations handling groceries, to file their price ceiling lists with the board. On Thursday, Friday and Satur day of next week, the board will be wrapped up, literally speaking, with the gas registration and it is like ly that little or any other business will be handled by the board at that time. Draft Registration Is Off To A Slow Start SPECIAL SCHOOL Tom McMillan, special Civil ian Defense instructor, will con duct a school in the county court house Wednesday evening, July 1st, at 8:30 o'clock for-air raid wardens and auxiliary firemen. Ail civilian defense workers in addition to the two {roups men tioned are urged to attend and the general public is invited to the meetinc, Defense Coordina tor W. I. Skinner for Martin County announced. The meeting will deal with timely topics In connection with the defense effort. Man Is Critically Stabbed On Street Here On Saturday S. L. Woolard, Army Desert er, Arrested for Attack ing C. W. Moore Clarence Wallace Moore, young county colored man, is in a Wash ington hospital, hanging on to life with a thread as a result of a knife attack made upon him by Samuel L. Woolard, colored, on the street near the depot here last Saturday evening about 8:30 o'clock. The at tack was said to have climaxed an argument the two men had earlier in the day, police admitting that it was next to impossible to unravel the evidence and gain a true pic ture of what happened and how. Stabbed in the chest and right near the heart, Moore was picked up and carried to the doctor in an uncon scious condition by Officer J. H. Allsbrooks Death was expected mo mentarily, but Dr. E. T. Walker gave the victipi first aid and a few min utes later he started talking. Said to have been drinking, ,Moore was either drunk or delirious when he declared James Gilmore attacked him. Officers picked up a clew im mediately from witnesses who said Woolard did the stabbing, that they saw him wiping the blood from his long-bladed swing knife. Woolard was arrested near here Sunday eve ning by Officers C. B. Roebuck, John Roebuck, W. E. Saunders and Con stable Chas. Moore No preliminary hearing has been scheduled in the case. Moore, said to have been drinking and cursing on the streets earlier that evening, was carried before Mayor John L. Hassell by Consta ble Moore. He was released a few minutes later ln the custody of his wife who was to return him here for (Continued on page six) ? Consumers Look To Home Markets The value of local marketa is fast being established as the war expand! to claim the output of the large packers and producers. Retail deal' ers explain that the big packers have already started rationing their meal deliveries, that a large percentage of their products are going to thi Army and Navy and Marines. Rationing in this case does no mean that there will be a market shortage of meats, but it does mear that civilian consumers will havi to look to their home markets an< packers for much of their food, i not all of it. Anticipating the increased de mands, Roberson's Slaughter Housi here has been urging farmers to in crease their stock and make deliv eries as rapidly as poasble Late re ports from the business firm stat that purchases are running ahead o those a year ago, that prices for to; hogs last weak-end were strong a f 13.80. No More Than Three Hundred Registered o In County At Noon' Slight Change- Are Announc ed in Clarification of Kegiatranta The fifth draft registration in Martin County is progressing slow ly according to incomplete reports received here at noon today. Up un til that time no more than three tiundied men between the ages of 18 and 20 years, inclusive, had reg istered Only seventy men had reg istered Jtl the? liamston. the other registration cen ters in the county reporting little activity during the morning hours It is estimated that between 600 and 650 young men are within the reg istration age limit in the county but the preliminary reports indicate that the total will fall below that figure Registrations will be in order un til 9 p. m. this evening in this coun ty. Any young man in the registra tion age group who fails for one rea son or another to register today should report to the county draft "board in Wllllanraton Immediately. Those young men who are under 20 years of age and who are regis tering today will not be subject to call to military service immediately, and possibly not before some time in 1943 However, upon attaining the age of 20 years, they will be given serial and order numbers according to birthdays rather than by a na tional drawing. For instance, the man who was^born on January 1, 1922, will be given the first order number in the fifth registration, and so on down the line until all 20 year-olds are made subject to draft call. A few minor changes in the rules and regulations governing the class ification of all registrants were of ficially announced this week by R H. Goodmon, chairman of the draft board in this county. The changes, it was pointed out, will make no ma terial difference in the practices fol lowed by the board in this county, and in other counties where the 1-A group has been exhausted no ma terial change is expected. The only change ordered will follow the rec ognition of those marriages con sumated between September, 1939, and December 7, 1941. Those men who married between those dates were single in the eyes of the se lective service. Under th new rul ing marriage status for those men who married between those dates will be recognized, but those men who married on or after last Decem ber 7th are still single as far as the selective service act is concerned, it was definitely pointed out in the new regulations. The new rules, generally in ef fect in this county all the while, call for the classification of men in 1-A in the following order: First, all single men; second, all single men with dependents; third, all married men without children; and, fourth, all married men with children It was pointed out that the new ruling does not assure any man draft im munity, that it is possible, but hard ly likely, all men will be called in to the service before this war is end ed. More County Men Sign lip For Armed Service Volunteering their services a short time ago, three more Martin County men, Dr. J. T. Llewellyn and Hubert Cook, both local men, and P C Blount, Jr., of Jamesville, have beer instructed to report for service in July. The medicine man will entei the Army at the direction of recruit ing headquarters in Richmond the latter part of July, and Messrs Blount and Cook will report in Bal timore on the 13th for service in th< Coast Guard. War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week Price Ceiling for Nearly All Articles and Many Services The price ceiling covers all of Main Street now. It stands above the cash register in the shoeshine shop as well as at the butcher's; it has been extended until it shields the man who wants a clock repair ed or his hat blocked quite as much as it dues tin lujliiimi at tin1 niinei grocery or drug store. Under this ceiling are the highest prices which may be set by laundries and furni ture repairmen, the most that may be charged by auto parking lots and dry cleaners, locksmiths and gun smiths and morticians. All these additions to the price control structure?the whole great list would fill innumerable pages? fall into the category of what are called "consumer services." They are controlled as of July 1 by a new Office of Price Administration Reg ulation which transfers all such services connected with commodi ties from the General Maximum Price Regulations and sets them up under a special system in recogni tion of the fact that they constitute special problems. Roof Extended Widely The extension to the roof which shelters us from the high cost of liv ing is a sizable one. The number of establishments of one sort or anoth ler which are affected has been es timated at pretty ?close to 1,000,000 while the total amount spent by the buying public for the wide range of services covered amounts to more than $5,000,000,000 a year. For the most part the services controlled are services sold at retail, and hence the order is one which will be reflected?and happily ?in almost every family budget. It will, for instance, be reflected in what the average family pays for repairs to all sorts of things And repair services, with new goods be (Continued on page six) - Memorial Service For Jackson Youth An impressive memorial service was held in the Jamesvillc Christ ian Church last Sunday evening at 6 o'clock for Austin Randolph Jack son, one of five Martin County youths who have sacrificed their lives in the service of their country since and including Pearl Harbor During the musical prelude, mem Ders of tne family, including the young man's mother. Mrs. Ora Jack son Burnett, were seated, followed by the several speakers. The Star Spangled Banner was played as the processional, and as the colors were advanced the congregation stood at attention. Preceded by the cross bearer, the choir entered singing, "Onward Christian Soldiers." The doxology was followed by a call to worship and invocation. The choir sang, "Sometime We'll Understand." While the pianist played, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," and as the ban ner with gold star was being raised by Mrs. Grace Brewer, Herbert Gardner, Jr., read, "Austin Ran dolph Jackson, Born December 15, 1922. Died in the service of his coun try February 14, 1942, at Pearl Har bor." Ella Ange then plucked petals from white rose and placed them in a white box Fitting tributes were paid to the memory of the youth in brief mes sage by the following Rev J M Perry, Robersonville minister; E, H. Ange, Sunday school superinten dent; Elbert S. Peel, for the county; Eugene Taylor, family ties, Ghur man Ange, friendship, and Rev. R A. Phillips, pastor. The choir sang spec ial numbers including, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" and "Lead On, O King Eternal." Mrs C. Dav enport sang a solo, and as the au dience stood in silence for the dead, tops- were sounded by Frank Weav er "The Star Spangled Banner" was used as the recessional following the benediction. The colors were retir ed, followed in order by the speak ers, cross, choir, and family. The service was largely attended, friends and acquaintances in the community and from over the coun ty filling the church to pay tribute to the memory of the youth whose body lies at rest at Pearl Harbor where it will remain for the dura tion. BUS LINE The first rnns on the new WII-. liamston-Roenoke Rapids bus line were made this momini. Inaugurating the new service on the last day before a govern ment order "freeses" all bus routes, the Ricks Transfer Com pany, operators of Greenville, did not have sufficient time to complete a permanent schedule. The company's first bus left here this morning at 6:50 and returned at 10:54. The next out bound bus left at 1.-05 p. m. and will return late this evening. It is understood the schedule Is subject to change. Several pas sengers made the trip on the Ini tial run. County Tax Rate For The New Fiseal Year Tentatively Set At $1.30 By County Board Monday Scrap Rubber Collection Has Been Extended Until July 10 Falling far short of ovs tivc expectation, the drive for scrap rubber underway during the past two weeks has'been extended anoth er ten days by Presidential proclam ation and is to end on the night of Friday. July 10th Through last Sat urday. only 219.000 tons had been collected in all the nation, authori ties declaring that the amount will fall far short in relieving the short age for actual war needs. Hoarding by some junk dealers has been sug gested, and the campaign apparent ly has not gained the support from the people, as a whole. In some sections, rubber mats have been snatched from doorways and automobiles, but in other sections U>. u.illfiiHm laJK has Lit'i111 ignui-l ed. Rubber mats have been removed I from the White House arid placed in the rubber pool, the act clearly in dicating the seriousness of the rub ber shortage. Complete reports from the drive in this county are not yet available, but the best estimates point to a col lection of between 65,000 and 75,000 pounds. The Sinclair station in Wil liamston, reporting more than 20, 000 pounds on its pile in the mam street, is understood to be leading the collection campaign in this county. No report could be had from the Standard company, but the Tex aco dealers m the county are said to have accumulated between 35.000 and 45,000 pounds. Supplemental Gas Cards Are Issued In Large Numbers Sneaking Idea That <,)nit?> u Few July Fourth Trip* Arr in tin- Curd* ? Supplemental gas rationing cards arc still going like hot cakes in this county, causing one to wonder just what is going to happen when the lid is clamped down when the new rationing system goes into effect on Wednesday, July 22nd There is no cause to doubt it and no one doubts it, but more people are being hauled to doctors ill Martin County than around the battlefields of the war. and more hired help is being haul ed this year than ever before. Then there is the fourth of July holiday just a few days off. and while representatives would not say so there is a sneaking idea floating around indicating that there are quite a few holiday trips in the ca rds. Supplemental cards were issued t(? the following during the past week: J F Flanagan, RFD 1, Hobgood, A minus four units. C 17 Keel, RFD 1, Robersohville, one B-2 minus two units. Wesley Alston Gurganus, James ville, A minus five units Anna S Harrison, Williamston, A minus five units. C. T Flanagan, RFD 1, Hobgood, A minus five units. W C Wmdley, Williamston, A minus four units. J. C Williams, Oak City, A minus two units. A H Hardison, RFD 1, Jamesville, A minus three units. R. J Sydenstricker, Plymouth and Hamilton, one B-l. Evan Cherry, RF Dl, Roberson ville, A minus three units. Wheeler Staton, RF Dl, Oak City, A minus two units J H Biggs, RFD 2, Williamston, A minus five units. Wm Lee Dickens, Whitakers, A minus four units. Claudie Clark, RFD 1, Roberson ville, A minus four units. Bithel Braddy, RFD 1, Bethel, A minus six units. R H. Edmondson, RFD 1, Rober sonville, A minus four units. W G. Peele, Williamston, two B-3's and an A minus one unit. J M Jamison, Williamston, A mi nus six units. William R Gaynor, Rocky Mount, A minus three units. C .C. Fleming, Jamesville, B-l minus seven units. Annie Hopkins, .Tamesvillpy A mi. nus three units. 11. R Short, RPD 1, Oak City, A minus three-units. Edgar H llarrell, RFD 1, Oak City, A minus one unit W. E. Terry, RFD 1, Robersonville, A minus two units. J. G. Forbes, RFD 1, Robersonville, A minus three units Wm. 11 Davis, RFD 1, Jamesville, A minus two units. Lester Bailey, RFD 2, Williamston, A minus three units. R. A. Haislip, RFD 1, Oak City, one B-2 minus three units J. V Andrews, RFD 2. Roberson ville, A minus, one unit. ^ w B Cannon, RFD 1, Hobgood, A (Continued on page six) ?. E$caiM-? Injury In Car Accident I.ant Saturday Buddy Rogers, young county white man, escaped injury when he lost control of his car and the ma chine crashed into a culvert on the Washington Road near h'ere last Sat urday night about 9 o'clock. Investi gating the accident. Corporal Thompson of the Highway Patrol, said that damage to the car would hardly exceed $50 Rogers was detained on a drunk en driving charge. KARl.Y EDITION In an effort to effect delivery without delay. The Knterprise will be published a day ahead of its schedule the latter part of this week. No rural deliveries will be made 011 Saturday, and to get the paper into the hands of readers without delay, the publishers plan to go to press with it Thursday evening for delivery in the rural areas Fri day. Public announcements and other items for publication in the last edition of the week are urged to get their copy in im meriiately, ?I ? According to present plans, the paper force will join the o(V er business housy^ jn th?* nh servance of the July Fourth holiday next Monday, meaning that no edition will be issued next Tuesday. I'nable to get new machines, several of the old ones will be yanked out and rework ed during the brief breathing spell. Axis Arc Offering P Serious Threat To Imperials in Ejivpt Fall ot Suez Will !Not Mean W ar Is Lost, Hut It Will Prolong War After mopping up tin- British Im perial forces in Libya and capturing vast supplies of armaments includ ing American tanks, Marshal Rom mel's German forces are plaguing Egypt and are offering u direct threat to Alexandria and the Suez Canal. The current outlook in that area is absolutely dark, hut the fall of Suez does not mean by a jug full that Hitler has won the war. The capture will not mean much to Hit ler, hut the loss will mean a great deal to the British. In an effort to stay the serious threat, American fliers and fresh New Zealand troops are swarming into the threatened zone and making ready to join the British forces in a last-ditch stand. Withdrawing from Matruh with out making the stand, the defenders are said to have taken up new. and more advantageous positions and are already attacking the funnel-shap ed spearhead of Rommel's forces. The German general has a problem on his hands all right, and it is ag gravated by long supply lines. His success in Egypt is not at all certain, and the British Eighth Army now (Continued on page six) # Arrest Two Men At Liquor Still Sunday Jodie Peaks and Elmer Swain, young county white men, were ar rested at a liquor still in Williams ton Township last Sunday morning when many of their fellowmen were reporting for religious worship In their respective churches. With about 200 gallons of molasses beer on hand; Swain was firing the crude still with all his might when Officers Joe Roebuck, Bill Haislip and Roy Peel closed in on him. The plant, an old gas drum equipped with a wooden cap and pump pipe for connections, had turned out about two and one-half gallons ol rum when the officers halted the operations. While thry were at the plant, Peaks, carrying a gallon jug in each hand, walked into the traj and was arrested. Peaks admitted ownership and was fined $100 in the county coun yesterday. Despite ownership con fession, Swain was fined $75. Th< two men were advised to pay thi fines and $49.80 court costs or gc to the roads for six months. Tentative Rate Five Cents Under Figure For Year 1941-1942 Over - VII Hinlget Estimate* Slightly Greater Than For Previous Year Martin County's 1942-43 county wide tax rate was tentatively fixed at $1.30 per $100 assessed property valuation by the board of commis sioners in special session here yes terday Budgeting from early morn ing until late in the afternoon, the commissioners juggled the-figures back and forth, cutting off a little here and adding a little there, try ing to pull down the general level by at least five cents or more. Ad journment found little change in the over-all budget figures but a five cent reduction in the rate was assur ed While some savings were effected in several departments, it is quite evident that the rate decrease is based on an estimated $800,000 gain m the 1942 property listings. The outlook for revenue from other sources than general taxation is not very bright, and that along with an increase of $7,000 in bonded indebt edness falling due this year,, a slight addition for an all-time tax collect or, civilian defense expenses such as office rent for the rationing .board, mileage and similar items had a marked bearing on-the rate reduc tion limitation. It is estimated that $246,517 will be required to finance the county operatiohs, including all- agencies and debts. Broken down into depart rnents, the budget provides for an xpcnditure of $55,015 under the general fund heading This item has I6een greatly decreased, the authori ties estimating that an 8-cent rate will finance the activities in that quarter as compared with an eleven and one-half cent rate for the 1941 42 fiscal year. The authorities ap propriated $36,845 for the poor fund, the action calling for a rate of 23 1-2 cents as compared with a 23-cent rate for the 1941-42 fiscal year. The appropriation for hospitalization was increased from $3,500 to $5,000 and there was a slight increase in salar ies. ? ? ;? The health fund remains unchang ed at $7,790 00 and calls for a six cent rate as compared with a rate of 6 1-2 cents County debt service, the main thorn in the budget, calls for an even $56,000 and a 41 -cent rate. To (Continued on page six) $ Middle Man (-aught Tight In New Gas Rationing Program r O * Pleasure (!ar* ami KHtablinh nl (llatmification* Hold Advantage # The new gasoline rationing pro gram is certain to curtail consump tion arid save precious rubber and in many ways it is far superior to the current plan, but there are ap parent inequalities that are likely to cause trouble or at least create dis satisfaction X The perplexing system has not been explained in detail, but it is ap parent that the little business man whof is dependent upon travel is going to be squeezed out of the pic ture under the new program. Soon er or later, the experts say, millions ot cars will be forced off the high ways when the tires wear out, but the small operator apparently is go ing to stop after he has driven about 570 miles after July 22 when the new system goes into effect. Under the new plan, the pleasure car operator received a basic "A" ra tion book, good for 48 units or 192 gallons of gas. That amount is to last for one year, but must be used in designated periods or on a basis of about four gallons or more a week He may uae the entire card up at once, but he gets no more. He is privileged to ride where he wants to and use his car for whatever pur pose he so desires as long as it is within the law. The business man who depends on his car for a livelihood will be is ued an "A" card and in some in stances he may qualify for a supple mental or "B" card. He is immed iately penalized, the regulations stating that st> many units will be deducted from the "A" card. "Hie remainder on the "A" card plus the allowance on the "B" card will al low him to travel a maximum of 570 miles a month. A traveling sales man or any Other car operator who cannot connect his work directly to the war effort will have to park his car when he has driven that oaany (Continued on pa?? tlx)