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FAT FAT WAS \\ ^ BOND DAY tm traemt?urt poums THE ENTERPRISE OVttTHCTOP FOR VICTORY UNITED STATES WAS BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 61 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Augittt 4, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week Almost Million Persons Turn To War Production Dur ing Month of June In June, almost a million Ameri cans?men. women, youths?joined the army of production in factories, shipyards, offices and on the farm. In June, the War Production Board ?said, our output of chips and tanks and planes and guns, of ammunition and campaign equipment was almost three times that of last November. These reports are good news and we have need of good news just now when Nazi tanks pitch and lumber through the ripe wheat field of the Ukraine in a drive which threatens the great city of Stalingrad on the Volga, a city which means to the Russians about what Kansas City means to us. The Nazis advance in Russia. The Nazis and their Italian accomplices are held in Egypt but stand only 60 miles from the Great British naval base at Alexandria. In the Far East, Japanese patrols draw steadily clos er to the United Nations' air base on New Guinea which is an outpost for the defense of Australia. In the At lantic, Axis submarines continue to sink our merchant ships None of us. at such a time, would be foolish enough to underestimate the strength and the ferocity and de termination of our enemies And none would deny that the times call for whatever measure of sacrifice may be necessary to defeat these en emies. And yet today the outlook in the long view is more encouraging than ever before. Our enemies may gain victory after victory and yet we are building the instruments of their destruction, we shall over whelm them by sheer weight of wea pons and of manpower in the end That statement about our output of war material In Jline was drawn from a report on war production made to the American people last week by the War Production Board it was a cautious report. WPB chair _n_ n 1 ? ? ? ?? - J"'? v. ?? 1 U tllllll - man, Donald M. Nelson, said "boast ing" about our progress would be "premature" and that there was no excuse for "undue optimism " Ship Production Mounts It is true that the biggest part of our job is still ahead of us and yet it is heartening to realize that we made more war planes in the first six months of this year than during all of 1941 and three and a half times as many anti-aircraft guns That we built more tanks in that period than in the whole of last year and that our output of machine tools and oth er types of machinery which makes the machines of war was 98 per cent above the figure for the first six months of last year Even more encouraging, in view of our losses in the battle of the Atlan tic, is the fact that our production of merchant ships--the ships which must carry our weapons to the fight ing fronts?was 135 per cent great er than for the whole of 1941 Still we have to do better than that. We have not only to maintain production on this scale, we must in crease it to yet greater heights. This means that we must continue to fun nel every available bit of manpow er and womanpower into essential war production work that is not needed for the armed services The number of jobs filled by public em ployment offices in June was dou ble that of two years ago and yet it must go higher if we are to have the production army we need Flowbaek of Scrap Metal Slows Up Most definitely, we must redouble our efforts to get scrap metals back into the furnaces. The Office of Price Administration says that the flow of scrap is not increasing enough and shipments lately have been of poor er quality and both OPA and WPB attacked rumors that there was to be a rise in the Maximum Price for iron and steel scrap. WPB further (Continued on page six) Agent Tells About Scarcity Of Labor ??? By IX)RA SLEEPER County Home Afrnt Scarcity of labor has become a ser ious problem in the country. It has been impossible to get the children together as all of them are working harder than ever in tobacco. The dry weather has interferred very much with the food preservation project carried by many girls at this season. Pour days were spent at White Lake 4-H camp. At the request of Mae Moore, club girl, the home agent as sisted in canning corn, showing this girl the use of the steam pressure cooker. Twenty-one quarts of corn were canned in the afternoon. Miss Mary Ola Lilley. club girl, from Farm Life, reported that her Victory Garden had thus far sup plied the family table with 12 vege tables in spite of dry weather. Miss Lurlen Hyman, of the Oak City 4-H club. who. had signed up for the na tional dress contest was given sug gestions to assist her. Miss Doris Savage and Joyce Quinn, of the Wil liamston 4-H club, will have parts on the Field Day program, scheduled in August. James Harden and Ben jamin Bunting will also have ports. ? Renew Drive For Collection Of Scrap Metal In While Martin County possibly leads in the per capita collection of scrap metals, its people are again being called on to renew their ef forts and literally overrun the junk yards and keep the salvage flowing to the mills and to. the actual scenes of conflict. If the production goal is to be reached in this country. North Carolina will have to collect and ship to the blast furnaces 392, OQQ.QQQ pounds of scrap iron during the netfl six months. On that basis. Martin County is expected to col lect well over four million pounds of scrap iron. As a part of a nation-wide move ment to get billions of pounds of scrap iron to the furnaces, a county wide meeting will be held in the county courthouse on Thursday eve ning of this week promptly at 8:15 o'clock. The general public is cor Idially invited and urged Ip attend the meeting. Governor J. M Brough ; ton will address the meeting by ra Idio, and plans for renewing the drive for salvage materials will be ' discussed. It is quite possible that individuals will be asked to make surveys in their respective com munities and report any scrap ma terial that can be made available In any ease where deliveries have been delayed for one reason or another, the Army may he railed tn partiri pate in the campaign with its trucks. All persons who find it impossi ble to attend the county-wide meet ing are urged to hear the governor over the radio at 8:30 Thursday night. Scrap iron, delivered to recogniz ed dealers, has a fixed price, and the dealers' profits are limited to a very small figure by the govern ment. Operation Of Schools Uncertain In Countv I)KY RECORD The first seven months of 1942 have established a new dry rec ord in this immediate section, the rainfall for the period fall ing ten inches below the aver age for the past decade Last month was the driest July on record, thq two and one-half falling in the 31-day period boosting the total for the first seven months of 1942 to 18.05 inches, the latter figure compar ing with the ten-year average of 28.50 inches. There has been a marked de crease in the rainfall at this point during the past three ?yeaeii. The precipitation in the first seven months of 1939 was 34.87 inches. In 1940 It dropped to 18.40 inches. Last year the rain fall, 21.89 inches, was a little greater for the first seven months. This year it dropped to the low of 18.05 inches. County's Board Of Commissioners In Short Meet Monday' ?? Four-fifths of Current Tax Levy Collected, Report To Itoaril Show* The Martin County commissioners leld another one of those uneventful lessions on their regular meeting iate here yesterday No road pcti 10ns were submitted to the group, >ut a few tax adjustments were el ected and a review of the current ax collections was examined. Rou ine business, including the selec ion of jurors for the next term of dartin County Superior court, re news of reports and current bills, vas handled in record time, the com nissioners adjourning before the unch hour or before lunch, anyway. Commissioners R. L. Perry, of Bear 5rass; J. L. Coltrain, of Williams; R. \. Haislip, of Oak City, and C. A. loberson, of Robersonville, were iresent. Submitting his monthly report. Tax Collector M. Luther Peel stated hat $16L799.97 or about four-fifths if the current tax levy, had been ollected. However, it is understood hat a few less than half of the tax layers or about 3,500 have not paid I heir 1941 accounts. Collections this 'ear are well advanced over those or the corresponding period for 940 taxes. In addition to the in ome from the 1941 tax accounts, the collector reported $3,038.02 had been ollected from 1940 land sales which otaled $7,150.46 last fall. And in iddition to those amounts, $3,171.66 if the 1940 "insolvent" list of $5, 123.80 had been collected. A relief order was granted to W. Leggett for $4.26 taxes listed in irror. A change in the valuation assess ?d against the woodsland of W. R. Purvis in Robersonville Town hip was ordered as follows: ten acres if Staton land reduced in value from 110. to $7 an acre, or a total reduc ion of $420 in the assessed valua ions. A special request by the health lepartment for $250 for the pur chase of certain supplies and ma erials to be used in case of a bomb ng attack in the county was tabled or the present, at least Martin County Young Man Promoted And Trantferred ? Entering the United States Coast Juard about fourteen months ago, William Earl Stinnett, young son of dr. and Mrs. W. T. Stinnett, of Wil iamston, recently completed a spec al training course at the Coast Suard Academy in New London, Ikjnn., and was promoted to the rank >f pharmacist's mate, third class. He ras been transferred to Alameda, lalif., where he is now doing hospi al duty. Number Of Colored Schools Will Start Term On August 13 (9> All While School* Sclicdulrnl To Begin New Term on September 3rd Meeting in regular session here yesterday, members of the Martin County Board of Education recog nized the uncertainty surrounding the operation of the schools this resolution requiring certain certifi cation of teachers before tin y were accepted as members of the various sehoo.l laculties. Briefly stated, the board, confronted now with the task of filling seventeen positions made vacant by resignations, is lowering its teacher requirements and will ap parently consider applications from most any and all sources with cer tain reservations, of course: In addition to tin- teacher short age, tin* school authorities are baf fled with other problems. The labor shortage is almost certain to disrupt the schedule, and only this week the board was advised that tires for busses will be made available only out of the general county allotment. It is an established-fact that the ap plications for tires already before ti'ie board will exhaust the quota for A ugust fcnd possibly for September. It is quite possible that some of the bu.sses will be forced off the road bef ore the coming term is complet ed, and reductions in route mileages are to be expected. An ticipating a serious labor short age at cotton picking time, the board is ord ering eleven colored schools, ur nea. rly all of those in the main cotton-producing areas in the coun ty, to st art the new term on Thurs day, Au,gust 13th. The hoard mem bers reasoned that tin- tobacco crop will have been harvested by that time and that several weeks of school can be held before cotton picking time when classes will be suspended for an indefinite time. The following colored schools are to start the term on Thursday of next week: Rober sonville, Parmele, Gold Point, Ever ptts, Saisbnry, Hamilton, Oak City, Bowers, White Oak Springs, Which ard-James and Jone.s. It is the first time in years that ev#m a few of the schools in this county were schedul ed to start a new term in August. The other colored schools and all the white schools were scheduled by the board to start the new term on Thursday, September 3rd. The sched ule of operation even for these schools is uncertain, a member of the board explaining that classes would be suspended if and when the demand for farm labor effected any marked decrease in the attendance figures. Very little other business was con sidered at the meeting, and the board adjourned before the noon hour. No Report On Last Group of Draftees No official report on the status of all the white draftees answering the July call recently in this county has been received. According to unof ficial information only about half of the number reporting recently for induction has been formally accept ed. Fifteen of the young men were said to have been accepted immedi ately, two of the number waiving their claim to a fourteen-day fur lough The other thirteen are sched uled to return for active service the early part of next week. Two other men were said to have been accept ed later and they will return to camp the day following the depart ure of the thirteen, it is understood. The status of the other men in the draft call has not been definitely de termined, at least not officially. It is understood that some of those men placed in 1-B classifications will be subject to recall within the near future. Mrs. Annie Green Dies Early Monday In Local Hospital Funeral Services at Home in Williams Township This Afternoon ? Mrs. Annie Hopkins Green, high ly respected Williams Township cit izen, died in a local hospital yester day morning at 1:45 o'clock follow ing an illness of more than two months' duration Experiencing de clining health about the middle of last May, Mrs. Green entered the hospital in early June. Her condi tion reflected some improvement and she was able to return home for two ?brief periods during the ensuing weeks. Last Saturday noon she un derwent an operation, a weakened heart failing to stand the extra strain. She lost consciousness .early Sunday afternoon, the end coming peacefully during the night. The daughter of the late J. Will and James Etta Griffin Hopkins, Mrs. Green was born in Williams Township 45 years ago. On Febru ray 12. 1916, she was married to Mr. [XL S. Green and continued to live in the neighborhood of her birth. She was a devoted wife and mother and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her. She was a faithful member of the Riddick's Grove Baptist Church for a number ?of years, attending the services there without fail as long as she was able to do so. Besides her husband she leaves two children. Mrs. Woodrow Jones, of Williamston, and Jack Green, of 11... hnnm Sim :ikn 1i?:iw?k [ ters, Mrs. E. W. Davis, of Norfolk. Miss Eloise Hopkins, of Williams ton, and Miss Minnie Hopkins, of Akron, Ohio, and five brothers, Joe and Clarence Hopkins, of Williams ton, and Harry, Herbert and Dolma Hopkins, of Norfolk. Funeral services are being con ducted from ihe homc~tfris aftrmtmn at 5 o'clock by her pastor,? Rev W B. Harrington. Burial will follow in a ..MM, In, v, tho 111 111 11 IVanut Prices Are At Highest Point During the past few days peanut buyers in North Carolina and Vir ginia have been active in purchasing the few remaining lots of unsold far mers goods at prices higher than those prevailing a week ago, accord ing to the U. S. and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture in the Weekly Market News Service Re view. At present best Jumbos now bring 7.65 cents and occasionally 7 3-4 cents per pound delivered at the mills in contrast to around 7 1 -2 cents last week The market for shelled goods also strengthened (luring the week. * Hog prices worked lower during the week in Chicago but fed steers and yearlings and native and west ern spring lambs closed higher. On the Carolina and Virginia swine out lets top hogs were unchanged at $14 in Fayetteville and Florence; 10 cents off at $13.90 in Clinton, Lumbcrton and Rocky Mount and 20 cents lower in Windsor and down a quarter at $14 in Richmond. The season's first Tar Heel new crop Porto Rican and golden variety sweet potatoes featured this week's fruit and vegetable trade. Opening prices in New York stood at $4.50 to $5 per bushel in contrast to initial sales of $2 to $2.50 last year. Value of Carolina peaches; watermelons and peppers decreased but okra prices were up slightly. Only a few peanut mills are op erating at the present time, and the demand for shelled goods is far in excess of milling capacity. ?? Filen Aft/plication For Service In The Army Rev. Z. T Piephoff, local Presby terian minister, has filed an appli cation for a place in the United States Army. If he is accepted, he will go into the service as a chap lain. KVKN DOZEN l-ocal police and county of ficers. too. were kept running a I moit continuously in this im mediate community last Satur day and Saturday night. Nine of the twelve were charged with public drunkenness, a tenth one was booked and later freed on a larceny and receiving charge, another was Jailed for an alleg ed assault and a twelfth one was placed in the "cooler" for baa tardy. Those arrested were, John Bunting. Bunn Godard, Winford Cain Weslie Baker, J. C Whit ford, Claude Whitaker, all white and charged with being drunk; Robert Brown. Willie Smith, Sam Roberson. Alton Jones, J. T. Brilev, all colored. Brown was charged with larceny and receiv ing, and Briley with an aasault. The others were charged with public drunkenness. A twelfth person. James Dixon, white, was booked for bastardy. Several Factors Aggravating AI ready Acute Tire Situation Regardless of a great deal of talk and confusing promises for relief, the tire situation, already acute in this county, is being aggravated by a series of new factors. And the sit uation is gradually becoming worse despite a slightly larger allotment for the current month. Eight new automobile tires have been allotted for distribution in the county this month as compared with seven for July. The new or recapped tires has been increased from 29 to 35. and twenty-six new tubes as against 19 for July have been made available during the current month in the county. No second-grade tires were allotted for August, meaning that the number of new tires is un changed and that only six extra re caps are available to care for grow ing needs. The truck tire allotment was in creased from 37 in July to 50 for this month. Recaps for truck tires were jumped from 43 to 67 and the number of tubes was increased from 41 to 63. But, in reality, the truck tire allotment is not as encouraging as it would seem to be on the sur face. The rationing board was ad vised that it is expected to care for the needs of the 34 school busses go ing into operation the early part of next month. The need for tires for school busses could not be learned immediately, but with the added load in that quarter and with the hot weather exacting a greater toll of tires, the situation is really worse than it was in July. Four trucks, op erated by a single farm, went out of ?per.?ti4?n this Week when a lire on each one gave way. Call More Countv Men w For Serviee In Army Croup Leaving Soon Largest To Be Sent' From Martin County | l'oK*il)ly Two More Men VI ill lie Added To Induction l.i*l Jit IjimI Minute "Uncle Sam" is dinging deep into the Martin County draft list to aug ment his fighting manpower, a re port coming from the draft board today stating that one of the largest groups of men called so far during itw War will bo leaving | "soon" for service. Numbers and dates were not officially announced, j hut it w;is reliably learned that tin- j list of white draftees is llie IJiJ'gPKl and that the men are to answer the August call. They will be followed later m the month by an even great er number of colored selectees. Working with a 40 per cent mar gin to spare, the draft board came up short in filling the current quo ta, but it is possible that two men will be added to the induction list at the last minute late today. It was learned that a goodly number of men had been rejected on account of physical disabilities, and the num ber of last-minute appeals for occu pational reasons had exhausted the list of available men before the quo ta could be filled in its entirety. The large number of rejections and the unexpectedly kirge number of occu pational appeals forced the draft board to dig into the third registra tion for about twenty men. They are the first to answer a draft call from the third registration. The names of the men scheduled to answer the current call at an "early" date follow: Eugene Betha Ange, of Jamesville. John !latton Gurganus, of Wil liamston. Benjamin Barber, RFD 2, William ston. K John Ben Hardison, RFD 1. Wil liamston. Henry Joe Peel, RFD 2, Williams ton. Heber John Coltrain, RFD, 1, Wil liamston. Edmond Davis Harrison, RFD 2, Williamston. Lester Franklin Bailey, RFD 2, Williamston. William Albert Harrison, Rober sorvvllle. Donie Harold Folsom, Oak City. Geo. Wallace Cowan, RFD 1, Rob ersonville. Willie Whitfield, RF Dl, Hobgood. Howard Edwin Whitehurst, Par mele. Ira Marvin Coltrain, RFD 1. Wil liamston, and Norfolk. Grady Hoyle Davenport, Dardens. Clyde Hugh Hines, Williamston. Dennis Mayo Harrison, RFD 2, Williamston, and Norfolk (Continued on page six) 1 Fire Destroys Farm Buildings Sunday Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed several barns and outhouses On the farm of Mrs. Buck Bailey in Bear Grass Township early last Sun day morning The several work ani mals were loose in the lot and were not burned, but tobacco frortSpSeven and one-half acres^was burned and there wasn't a penny of insurance on the leaf and according to reports reaching here very little insurance was carried on the buildings. Starting in the two-story stock barn, the fire was discovered about three o'clock. Neighbors, rushing there, could possibly have confined the fire to the one building had as much as a barrel of water been available. The dry weather had about dried up the water supply, and the volunteer fire fighters had to stand almost idle while the fire moved from the stockhouse to -a two-story packhouse, then to a one story barn and then to the chicken coop INCRKASK Business in the second week increased over that reported in the first at the airplane observa tion post here, Chief Observer W. II. Carstarphen announcing that 28 planes were reported up until yesterday morning. There are 142 volunteers now, but a great advantage. The names of those volunteering recently are: Mrs. Audrey \V. Carter, Mrs. Velma Coburn, Mrs. J. V. Cham pion. Mrs. David Modlin, Mrs. A. J. Manning, Jr., Mrs. Albert Coltrain, Mrs. II. (J. Horton, Misses Ruth Manning, Gloria Koberson, Virgil- Ward, Helen Lindsley, Mary O'Neal Pope and Marjorie Fleming, and Clyde ? Griffin, V D. Gfidtfill Sra HI I lie Walters, Jim l^eggett. Jr., J. I). Mason, Asa Crawford, John llenry Fdwards, K. S. Peel, Gil bert Woolard, C. I). I'ittman, I). V. Clayton and M. S. Moore, Jr. Sixteen Marriages In County During The Month Of July INiimlM'r Coihiderahly Above The Average For I'tint Four Yearn Sixteen marriage licenses were is sued in this county last month, the number ranging considerably above the average for the past four years but slightly below the average for the past ten. Seven of the sixteen licenses were issued to white couples as follows: White Joel Lafayette Gibson, Jr., and Carrie Godard Jones, both of Wil liamston. William Bruce Whitehurst and Geraldine I lull is, both of RFD 2. Wil liamston. William Albert Biggs and Lela Elizabeth Harris, both of Koberson - ville. W Bareil Daniel, of Williamston, and Mrs'. Carolyn Blount Stalls, of Bethel. John Robert Coltrain, Jr., of RFD 1, Williainsioii, and Elizabeth "HnHr day, of Jamesville. James Clyde Holland, of Newport News, and Dimple Lucille Brady, of Elizabeth City McClellan Roberson, of Spring Hope, and Bessie Ruth Smith, of Robersonville. Colored Linwood Whitley and Hazel Spruill, both of Williamston. Lee Cain Williams and Bessie Sim mons, both of Williamston. Marcellus House, Jr., and Sarah Battle, both of "Robersonville. Simon Robert Howell and Shir ley Reid, both of Williamston. Robert Lloyd, of Washington City, and Lui-line Council, of Roberson ville. Rhodon Purvis and Thelma Biggs, both of Williamston. Noah Wiggins and Ozia Wright, both of Williamston. Lee Wiggins and Beatrice Purvis, both of Williamston. Milton Slade and Vivian Williams, both of Williamston. Former County Man lit To Re Chaplain In Army Hev J. Leon Malonc.^TRin of Mr. and Mrs Ellis T. Malone, of this county, has volunteered for service in the Army Following a visit with relatives near here, the young Epis copal minister who has been locat ed at South port, left yesterday for Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he study at Harvard lor three d months before entering upon his new duties. Mrs. Malone is returning to Ten nessee where she will continue her education preparatory to a teaching it assignment. p Russia Stiffening Its Defenses Along The Eastern Front a Munition Along Lower Don Is Still Critical. I .ate Report* Declure Although the Russians arc stiffen ng their defenses on the lower caches of the Eastern Front, the jravity of the situation for the Sov ets is again being stressed. On the X>n River from Voronezh to Ros oV. the (jerman drive, ataea oy re erves, has apparently bogged down. >ut the invaders are apparently ad vancing their greatest effort around Cuschevka. about fifty miles to the outh of Rostov, where the lines are waving back and forth. Apparently realizing that the sit latioh in Russia is critical ana that i secynd front is needed in the west o help relieve the pressure, the Ger nans are said to be giving much at ention to their defenses in the coast - it countries. Hut the matter of a sec ind front is having to wait. Appar ently some observers see the fall d the Caucasus to the Germans, giv ng rise to the question what Russia nil do when sire ha* lost all of her European territory. Some say it is wssible that Russia will be forced o sue for a separate peace, but oth ers maintain that Russia will fight o the bitter end It is fairly certain low that Hitler will gain no great idvantagc in materials and oil be ?ause the Russians will confront him villi a scorched earth policy. How ?ver. the German gains will be great f the materials and oils are made iseless to the Russians The Russians know very well they liers are w riting to soldiers explain ng that the time has come when hey can no longer give up another out of their native land. Writing just recently a Russian .oldier poet said, "Comrades, listen o your heart beating, listen to your uart asking If your have repaid iei nirins for the torture* of Rostov, or the ruins of Kiev, and for the ears of our wives and mothers and ?luldren. Comrades, we must so fight hat when thjs war is over .ana our ;ons ask those of us who are left, 'Fu ller, where were you in the Great War?' we call say to them w ith pride. We held the Germans 011 the Don'." While the opening of a second fronjt nav be months removed, there are tinny indications that a large-scale or offensive will be launched against he heart of Germany soon. The extreme, continuing gravity if the Russian position was pointed ip by Pravda, Communist Party lewspaper, which declared "The lunger 111 the south is more acute." rhe Germans were throwing hordes .f fresh reserves of machines and nen 6,400 were killed overnight, he Russian communique said?with huracteristic disregard for death, rhe drive into the Caucasus was Hit er's supreme gamble to knock Rus ui from the war and seize the oil ie desperately needs. A report early this afternoon indi ated that the Germans had pierced tussiun defenses and hud traveled o the Kuban River, more than 100 uiles southeast of Rostov, and were iow in proximity of Russia's lesser i) fields. In further preparation of an in asion attempt, Hitler is said to have nthdrawn three million persons mm the coastal areas or nearly ev ryone lie thinks would offer aid to he Allies Reports from New Guinea tell of .lap drive toward Port Moresby miliar to the drive in Malaya. Near y 20,000 Japs have been landed with 11 about forty miles of the port and re inching forward. They are meet ng ii-iiii some resistance from?ill?? ir. News from other fronts is meager, ?he Indian situation continues criti al, but American airmen are said to live done an effective work there in (Continued on page six) border Markets Open Thursday ??? Based on encouraging reports uming out of Georgia and Florida, ibacco farmers along the North and iouth Carolina border are anticipat ig "good" prices when the sixteen uction markets open the 1942 sea on on Thursday of this week. The leorgia markets reported an up ward trend in prices last week, the verage climbing as high as 35 cents pound the last day of the period. Tar Heel farmers on the border elt estimate their 1942 production t 59,160,000 pounds, 16 per cent bove 1941 on an acreage of 58,000, ine per cent above last season. Producers' sales on the North Car lina border markets last season ta llied 56.8t0.371 pounds which rought $17,302,362, or an average of 25.90 per hundred pounds compar d with a 1941 state average of 29.83. Opening sales, covering the first 0 days of operation; averaged 26.93 a hundred pounds on tha bor er beltiMt season. Farmers an all 5 flue-cured tobacco markets Eire eason to expect good prices for heir 1942 crop in view of increased arm labor costs, higher coats at liv ag and demands of leaf thai will ossibly exceed supplies.