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PAT BAT WAS BOND DAT mr mm?un mum THE ENTERPRISE ovu ratio? FOR VICTORY UMTED STATES *? BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 71 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 8, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Observation Posts In the County Are Inspected Recently Importance of Work la Again Stressed by Representa tives of Army s Making a rigid inspection of the airplane observation posts in this county last week, Army represen tatives were said to have been great ly pleased with the one at James ville. Not only did they find an effi cient organization of observers, but they found the post headquarters to be in excellent shape, exceeding military requirements. The post operating as a commun ity project since August 1st, has had an ever increasing number of vol unteers to offer their services. At present, observers report for duty once each week; however, it is hoped that before long sufficient volun teers will be available so that it will not be necessary for any observer to serve more often than once a month. Chief Observer Charlie Dav enport and Assistant Chief Observ er O. W. Hamilton continue to man the post single-handed during the day from their business establish ment, and they also contribute their time at regular intervals to watch ing at night. During the first month of com munity operation, the post report ed to the filter center a total of 89 planes, requiring 67 phone calls. Fortunately, none of these calls were more than routine in nature. Had anything unusual developed, how ever, such prompt transmittal of the circumstances to the proper au thorities would have allowed time for any action that might have been deemed necessary. The observers at the Jamesville post are aware of this, and are increasingly conscious of their responsibility. No detailed report could be had, but the inspectors were said to have visited Hamilton about 2 o'clock in the morning. A new post is being opened in Rbbersonville today, and plans for establishing others are being advanc ed. Working a greater part of a 24 hour day, two posts, one manned by Mrs. Claude Jenkins and the other by Mr. and Mrs Marvin Leggett and son, have done a good job, Director Paul Simpson for the county de clares. The Leggett youth out in Oriffins Township possibly has re ported more planes than any other observer in the county. Much has been done to expand and improve the spotter service in the county ,and it was apparent that the representatives of the inter ceptor command were pleased to see the increased interest at all the posts The representatives stressed the importance of the work, and urged a continued cooperation on the part of everyone in the support of the program Number Of Doctors In Martin County Below the Average State More Than Meets Medi cal Quota for the Current Year Draft Period In a recent statement to the press, Dr. Donnell B. Cobb, president of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, assured the civilian population that an adequate medical service would be maintained for the folks back home. Commenting on the situation, Dr Cobb said, "Each new proposal for our Army places it at a higher fig ure. We are now told that an army of nine million men will be neces sary for victory. To medically staff such an army will require one-third of all physicians in the United States. Approximately 48 per cent of these are under 45 years of age. "Besides this tremendous task of providing medical services for the armed forces, it is essential that the civil and industrial population be properly cared for." Reviewing the draft of medical doctors in this State, the doctor said there are 2,734 physicians in North Carolina, that approximately 525 un der 45 years of age have been made available to the armed forces while the 1942 quota for the State was only 412 Dr. Cobb further states that staffs of essential hospitals, teaching in stitutions and health departments have been held intact, that rural communities have not been depriv ed of adequate medical care, and that constant effort has been made to maintain the minimum ratio of one effective doctor to 1,500 people. Accepting the ratio advanced by Dr. Cobb, it is apparent that this county is experiencing a shortage of medical doctors. There are about eight practicing physicians in the county or one for approximately 3, 285 people. The question now is, "Will the demands for doctors in the Army take more doctors from this county?" In addition to the current and po tential case load, the profession in this county has and still is examining recruits for the Army without cost to the government. Authorities of County Order Land Tax Sales RED CROSS Urged to make 39,000 by early October, the Martin County Chapter of the American Red Cross up until noon today had made 500 surgical dressings for the United States Army. Ten volunteers have reported for du ty since the project was started yesterday morning, Miss Nell Harrison, director, stating that many more workers must lend their assistance if the quota is met and met on time. The room, located over the Western Auto Store on Main Street, is ope neach day from Street, is open each day from 9:30 to 12:30 and Tor 2:00 to 5:00 and each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening from 8:00 to 10 o'clock. More volunteers are urgently requested to aid in the work. Stalingrad Holding Despite Increased Nazi Assault Power American Flying Forlretuws | Stepping (Jp Aetivitieo Over Continent Despite increased German assault power, the important Russian city of Stalingrad still holds out, but its de fenses have been dented and badly battered. To the southwest of the great industrial center, the attack ers have been checked, but in the northwest the Germans, numbering possibly three-quarters of a million men and supported by 1,500 dive bombers, are slowly advancing. Re ports declare that the masses of men and equipment being loosed on the city are the greatest ever hurled at any one objective in all military his tory. The defenders, aided by a ci vilian army which includes aged men.^women and little children, are exacting a terrible toll of life among the invaders. Reports declare that the slaughter there is much greater than it was at Verun in the last war On the other flank, southwest of Stalingrad, all German attacks were repulsed, the midnight communique said. German tanks, charging Rus sian artillery batteries, were shatter ed or turned back by gunners firing | from open positions, it added Overwhelming Axis forces also j were storming the area of Novoros- | sisk, strategic Black Sea naval base They drove an armored wedge into the Soviet line at one point, the high command said, and the threat of the city appeared grave. (The Germans said Sunday that Novorossisk had fallen.) The late communique said the long German finger stretching down the Rostov-Baku Railway to the edge of the Grozny oil fields had been checked. It said a sudden assault by Soviet troops drove the Germans from one inhabited locality on the Mozdok front, while German head quarters was smashed. The outlook in Russia is serious for the civilian population as winter approaches. Cold weather may aid the fighting defenders, but already in some areas the civilians are living off bread alone. Representatives of the United States, traveling in Rus sia recently, stated that the Russian people, smearing the bread with lard from this country, fell down on their knees and expressed their apprecia tion for the aid they had received. | "Let no day pass but what every hu man effort is made to get supplies to I those deserving people," the repre-1 sentative was quoted as saying. While the big war rages with Rus sia as its center, American flying I fortresses are stepping up their drive I against Nazi-occupjed territory in the continent. The success of the Fortresses in fighting their way through swarms of the best fighters Germany can muster to hammer home attacks on railway yards at Utrecht and ship (Continued on page six) Sanitarian Quits Post In County| Walter Lackey, Martin County Health Department aanitarian for about a year, resigned last week and is now associated with a district de partment with headquarters in Win-| ton. It is understood that the new | job carries a small increase in sal ary, but since Mr. Lackey is expect ed to be called into the service with in a short time it was hardly like ly that he made the change just for the salary consideration. It is pos sible that he wanted to line up a job | for the post-war period. No successor has been named, and it is understood that there are no applicants in sight. As many as nine teen openings are said to exist in the v a r i o us sanitar ydepartments throughout the State. Mr. Chat. A. Leonard, formerly connected with the department in this county, is now associated with the one in Bertie County. |Will Not Issue Any Permit For Sale of Beer in Fairground! ? M. L. Peel Reappointed Coun ty Tax Collector for An other Tax Year ? After discussing a varied calen dar. the Martin County Commission ers in their regular session here yes terday ordered that all lands upon which 1941 taxes had not been paid be advertised the first Monday in I October for sale at auction on the first Monday in November. The sale !date is the latest allnweH hy l;iu' and any oti^er action would not have been possible. Commenting on the list of unpaid taxes. Collector M. L. Peel staged tli.it 1n- believed the de linquent list in the county this year would be the smallest in many years, that possibly there would be hardly more than 300 names in the unpaid group at advertising time in early October No official action was taken at the meeting, but the commissioners dis cussed the advisability of stepping up the time of sale for next year. It was pointed out that by waiting so late to advertise and sell the delin quent tax list, the county is unable to turn the next tax books over to the regular collector on time. The low requires the collector to settle for all collections of old taxes be fore he receives the new books. It is possible that the board will meet within the next few days and name a temporary, collector to receive the new 1942 books and pusn the current collections. The new taxes are pay able now and arrangements have been made to receive payments. By advertising and selling the delin quent list earlier in the year, the authorities could have turned the tax books over to the collector as soon as they were made ready. Official action was taken "hi very few matters at the regular meeting, the authorities discussing at length the tax situation and spending much time studying requests for tax relief orders. Tax Collector M. L. Peel was re appointed for another year, and the following tax relief orders were granted: O. L. Roberson, Cross Roads, paid $3 06 taxes in Williamston Township. Wright Clark. Williamston, paid $2 in Bear Grass Township. Charlie Freeman, Williamston, was found to be too old to pay poll taxes. Fred Simmons, charged with $2 poll tax, had moved out of the coun ty Gus Latham, listed for poll taxes in Williamston, moved out of the county five years ago. John Walker Vinson, charged with $16.05 taxes, moved to China some time ago. Ace Villepique and Jep Grant, each charged with $2 poll taxes, had been gone several years. The following were relieved of $2 tax charges, listed in error, Wm. T Bland, J. D Moore, J. R. Moore, Ol lie Moore and Nymphus Manning, all of Williamston. Mack Baker, charged with $2 poll tax, was found to be too old to be on the list. And so was Tom D. Tay lor, of Robersonville. The 68-cent account of J. A. Tay lor, Robersonville, was listed in er ror, and J. A. Philpot, Williamston, was relieved of the payment of $2 taxes when it was shown that the account had been paid. On motion of Commissioner Joshua L. Coltrain, the board ordered that no license for the sale of beer in the fair grounds be issued this year. # Timely Pamphlets On War Aim! Peace ??? The Office of War Information to day issued the first of jt series of pamphlets?"Toward New Horizons ?The World Beyond the War" ? containing statements and speeches which define or illuminate the de veloping policy of the United Na | tions. Speeches of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Under Secretary'of State Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, and Milo Perkins, Execu | live Director of the Board of Eco nomic Warfare, are combined in the first pamphlet. "Selection of these speeches were made," said Elmer Davis, director I of the Office of War Information, "because of the light they throw upon the development of American thinking on the subject of the post war world from their various points of view." "In relation to their varied fields of responsibility," Mr Davis added, "these American leaders chart out the problem and suggest lines of at tack upon it. "They are not, however, speeches which will be of interest only to scholars and historians. Individual citizens as well will find in these speeches clarification of their per sonal relation to the winning of the war and to the peace which will fol low," War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week ??? Production of Bicyclt'# Drops From 150,000 to About 10,000 Per Month As the machinery of war produc tion moves at a steadier pace, with fewer starts and stops and les grinding of gears, plans that were only paper a short while ago become realized facts. One question long un der discussion was how to combine the productive resources of plants manufacturing similar, competitive articles so that a limited supply of these articles still would be avail able after most of the plants had turned to making war goods The British have had a system of pooling industrial resources for some time. America's first real test of the new method of operating "surviving' plants comes in the bicycle field. Last year's output of these machines averaged about 15(1,000 per month This year the figure has been stead ily reduced until it is now set at no more than 10,000 bicycles per month, with Anny. Navy Maritime Commis sion, War Shipping Administration and Lend-Leasc having first call on those produced. Ten of the dozen bi cycle plants already have been con verted strictly to war manufactures. The two remaining plants will con tinue to make bicycles hut only the Victory Model, a light machine that uses a scant amount of critical ma terials. The two makes will be alike, distinguished merely by the letter W or "H ' before the serial num ber. I.ack of Fuel Oil Creates New Problem War needs are like ten pins, a "strike" from one direction setting in motion a whole series of effects in like or even unlike fields. The drain on our fuel oil supply, for in stance, has affected the demand for artificial gas to such an extent as to require restrictions of gas supplied to new industrial and domestic con sumers The natural gas fields of the midcontinent are feeling the pull. At the same time, however, drilling of new wells in Kansas anil Oklahoma ?except by direct permission has been halted in order to save mater ials, compel wells opened but not producing to connect with pipe lutes. (Continued on (luge six) Schools Maintain in"; hnrollmcnt Figures P Complete it-ports could not be had, but it was the general belief in the office of the superintendent today that the enrollment figures reported by the white schools in this county last Thursday are being maintained without much variation. Two or three of the schools reported that several pupils had dropped out al ready, hut that their places had been filled by new pupils. A fairly normal attendance was reported in most of the colored schools, but it is now likely that "sev eral of those starting the term last month will close within the next few days while the little tots are held at home to helpJfcith the cotton picking arid other farm duties. All positions in the white school faculties had not been filled late yesterday, but final appointments were reported pending at that time. Recruiting Party Is At Post Office Chief J. C Bartel, of the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, New Bern, is receiving applications for both the regular Navy and Naval Reserve? at the local post office this week. He will be here through tomorrow. Men registered under Selective Service may enlist up to ancftincluding the day prior to the day they are to go to Fort Bragg Lt. Wray, also of the recruiting service, will interview men for the Sea-Bees, the Naval Reserve Con struction Corps, in New Bern on Friday of this week. All North Carolinians should en list in North Carolina. North Caro lina has been commended for her fine showing in Naval Enlistments, and the Navy Recruiters are working hard to keep North Carolina right up at the top of the list. When a North Carolinian enlists in Norfolk the State of Virginia gets credit for his enlistment. All men in this ter ritory should go to the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Post Office Build ing, New Bern. INCREASE The all-time record for Satur day liquor sale* established by the liquor store here week be fore last, fell before the sales re ported for last Saturday when the receipts Jumped from around (1,300 to S1.557.7S. The store here has reported larger sales la a single day dur ing holiday seasons, but the sales on September 5th were the larg est ever reported for a single Saturday, H was explained \ Local Tobacco Market Has Its Most Successful Sales 01 The Season As Prices Gain Monday Veteran Of First World's War Again AnswersCountry'sCall Mayo Peel, one of the first if not the first Martin County veteran of World War I to be called again in the defense of his country, reported for service at an induction center yesterday morning. He is also one of the oldest draftees to report for duty from this county. It could not be learned immediately whether he was finally accepted by the Army examining board for service. ?Mr Peel, a farmer of Cross Roads, Township and well-known citizen, j was said to have had little comment j to 'offer in connection with his sec ond call to the nation's colors He was not complaining, an observer ex plained. Twenty-four years ago the fifth of last month. Mr. Peel was induct ed into the service of his country. In less than six weeks he was serving over&eas with Co. B, 57th Pion In fantry and later with the 55th Pion Infantry, Company D. He served ov erseas about six months, returned to this country in March, 1919, and re ceived an honorable discharge from the Army on April 2. that year. He later married, his wife dying some years a;<> H< has two children, but no claims ?>l dependency were ad for a second cull to the defense of the country. Large numbers of veterans of the World. War I living in this country have rogisiired for possible military service, but it is understood that comparatively few of them are eligi ble for active service under the pres ent selective service laws. Commissioners Meet In Regular Session Here Last Evening Final INnn* for Kiilnr^in^ the Loral Leiiietery Aiinomir nl; Tux Salen Ordered Meeting in regular session here last evening-, the town commission-' ms heard a review of the final plans for enlarging the local cemetery and liscusscd preliminary arrangements for placing an all-time keeper then' ^pp'roxlma'tel-y two acres are being i aided on J.ho northwestern edge of the cemetery. Mayor Hasselt ex plaining that the ownrrs were paid $2,000 for the new property and that Lhe owners are to either move or tear down the hiuldings not later than the first of next month Plan* for enlarging the cemetery have been pending for several years, tint not until a short time ago were titles to the property exchanged. The com nissioners will have the new prop erty surveyed and marked off into lots and drives. The improvement I program can hardly lie completed until an iron fence is made avail able, but the authorities plan to em ploy an all-time keeper and place aim in a house On the edge or near the cemetery. Suspending operations a few days ago, the municipal swimming pool pad a very successful season, the j commissioners were told. The reve nue amounted ot $1,10!) this year as compared with $490 last season Most >f the income was reported in June and July, the receipts dropping to $105 during August when rains fell pearly every other day and the mer cury dropped to unseasonable lev els. In accordance with the law, the hoard ordered the delinquent tax list advertised the second Monday in October for sale on the first Mon day in November. The delinquent fist is already the smallest it has been in a number of years. The need for an extra member of the night police force was discuss L'd, but action was postponed until j later meeting. ? (lard Addresses It has come to the attention of the Rocky Mount field office of the So cial Security board that many per sons who have social security ac count numbers have changed their names through marriage or for oth er reasons and have never notified the Social Security Board ,it was stated today by Marshall H Barney, manager of the Rocky Mount field office of the Social Security board. "It is advisable to notify the board of any corrections that should be made in data on application blanks, such as date of birth, mother's and father's name, etc., and of all changes in name." Residents of Martin County who wish to make such changes may se cure suitable forms or blanks from the Social Security Board office, in Rocky Mount Mr Barney added that those applying for a change in name should bring their account number cards If the card has been lost, a duplicate may be requested at the same time. A record of the number should be kept until a new account number card bearing the corrected name is received by the wage earner from the central office of the board. The employer should also be inform ed of the change so that the name re ported by him will be the same as that shown on the corrected account number card. The reporting of such corrections and changes is necessary in order that the Social Security board may maintain accurate records at all times, Mr. Barney said. He added that it would not be necessary to re port any changes in address. KVIINKVI.I. J Mi'if rain fell here last month Y than in any month since August, 1940, hut even the 6.24 inches of rain recorded in the period hard Iv more than dented the dry season Hut had gripped this sec tion for nearly two years. On the surface, the dry season has been lairlv well eliminated, but tarniers state that in some com munities water in the wells is about as long as they have ever seen. I.ast month, the weather sta tion on Koanoke Kivcr here rec orded sixteen rains, all of them being small except three- and the largest in that group was only 1.84 Inches. Lar^e Number 01 Colored Draftees Rejected by Army * I'n-liniinur) Itr-porlx Show Hint Only 2 I Out of <?."? Vk err lli-lniiml ?. Accord ifvg to uooffieila reports reaching Iicjv this week, a large per I rentage of the colored draftees leav ing this county the latter part of Au gust was rejected. As far as it could he learned here today only twenty four out of the sixty-five colored men reporting at the induction cen ter the early part of last week were accepted. No detailed explanation for the large number of apparent re jections could be bad, but it is be lieved that low literacy standards will figure prominently in most of the cases. Headed by Samuel Williams, for mer Williamston undertaker, the fol lowing men were accepted Frank White, Leu Best, Lonnie Woolard, Samuel. Watts, James Whitley, Dav id Moses, Klliott Jordan, Leonard Walston, Wallace Moore, Charlie Williams, James Kufl'in, James O Spruill, John T. Williams, Sully Jenkins, Mil (J. Lynch, Ananias Da vis, Robert L Patterson, John F Greene, Shepard Purvis, Solomon R (?' eene, I .<ion E. I 'in via, Hi bei Ba ker- and Til ack ftascoe. Samuel Wil liams, advised that he could return home hut could not stay hut four teen days, elected to start serving his "Uncle" right then and did not both er to accompany the others hack. Reports reaching here by the grapevine route indicate that the draftees leaving this county are not spending much time at the induction center, except in a very few cases They are being sent to various sec tions of the country, quite a few go ing to Mississippi and Florida * Farm Bureau Starts Membership Drive Plans for the annual Farm Bur eau membership drive in this coun ty were formulated at a meeting of the officers and other interested far mers and citizens in the agricultural building here last Friday evening. Reporting 1,000 members in the last campaign, the organization is out to get 1,200 members for the year, 1942-43 Al the meeting it was pointed out that the need for a strong farm or ganization was greater now than ev er before, and the small group pres ent pledged its efforts in maintain ing a strong membership in this county fbr the coming year. The membership Solicitors are working without remuneration, but the canvasser who signs up fifty members or more will be given a hat, and it was also planned to pay part of the expenses of the four most suc cessful solicitors. The progress of the membership drive will be re viewed st a supper meeting to be held at a date to be announced. More Than Quarter Million Pounds Are Sold During the Dav Prices for Medium Tips and VII I |?-Sialk Tobacco Said To Br Mucli Higher Selling more than a quarter mil j 1 i<?n pounds, the local tobacco mar 1 ket yesterday had its most success - | lul sale of the season. Prices for the I of the other up-stalk tobacco were | much stronger, farmers themselves declaring that the sales yesterday | were even better than they were on opening day with the possible ex black types However, the market top remained virtually unchanged 0 with prices seldom going above 47 and 48 cents a pound. Many tips were offered for sale yesterday, and the quality of the break was possibly some better than it had been for several days. A to bacconist with nearly forty years "of experience in the business, said yesterday that in all that time he had never seen as much inferior quality offered for sale in a single day. But even then the few scat tered piles of good quality tobacco commanded the very top prices, and when farmers considered the qual ity of their offerings they expressed satisfaction with , the sales. To date the market has sold slight ly in excess of two million pounds. Even sales have been maintained for the most part, the supervisor, C. Ur bin Rogers, stating this morning that the block carried over from yester day had been cleared und that pos sibly the regular selling schedule would be in effect tomorrow. Held down by the excessive offer ings of poor quality leaf, the price average, while in the thirties, is not up to the price celling, but grade for grade, the prices on the local market are reported just as high as they are any where. If the price ceiling has had any material effect on the markets, it has hardly been noticed. However, it is possible that the prices for the better grades would have advanced but such a procedure would, in the opinion of many, have been at the expense of the prices for the med ium and inferior types. Just what effect tin* plan for proposed stabili /.ation of farm prices will have on the market, no one seems to know. Already there have been many com (Continued on page six) Number Weddings Sets An All-Time Record for August ? MarriageH I.ant Month Were Two Greater Than, for Any on Keeonl Traceuble to a combination of reasons rather than to any single one, the number of marriages in this county last month was the largest on record. Totaling sixteen .the is suance of marriage licenses was two greater than for any other August on record. Eleven licenses were issued by Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger to white couples and five went to colored couples. The issuance follows: White William Staton Peele and Frances Coltrain, both of Williamston. Joseph Oscar Wiggins, of RFD 1, Jamesville, and Nellie Faye Lilley, f RFI) 1, Williamston. Harry Jordan Smith and Nina Louise Bennett, both of Williamston. Robert Elwood Brown and Mary Louise Carson, both of Jamesville. Williarr) Francis Fowler, of Rocky Mount, and Edith Wilson Sumner, of RobeVsonville. Joseph A. Peele and Louise Fay Coltrain, both of Williamston. David Louis*- Callaway and Fair nie Idell Modlin, both of Jamesville. John Ben Hardison, of Williams ton, and Eleanor Gray Cherry, of Everetts. Macon D. Barber, of Jamesville, and Elaine Earl Jackson, of William ston. Alton Earl Allcox, of Norfolk, and Effie Harrison, of Robersonville. James Ernest Wood and Etta Lee Taylor, both of Williamston. Colored Linwood Turner and Magdalene Slade, both of Robersonville. Ivory Barnes and Hattie Hart on, both of Plymouth. Jasper Mayo, Elmira, N. Y., and Magdalene Highsmith, of Roberson ville. Roscoe Taylor, of Edgecombe County, and Olivia Worsley, of Mar tin County. ^ Joseph Harmon, RFD Windsor, and Annie Gland Ambrose, of Au landar.