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Watch the Label On Yoar Pi par Aa It- Caniea tfaa Date Whan Yoar Subscription Expiree VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER J*/{f GENERAL SALES LEVY 2 PER CENT PASSED IN HOUSE Measure Now Goes Back To The Senate and Fight Is Not Yet Over A general sales tax, calling for a rate of 2 per cent, was passed by the House this week, and the measure now goes to the senate, where some believe it will be increased to 3 per cent. Weary after weeks of debate over money issues, the membership 'dis posed of the revenue bill on its final reading in only a quarter of an hour. The Senate is expected to send the bill to its finance committee today with the probability that the commit ee will work on it over the week-end and report it back for action Monday, Any material amendments will throw the bill back to first reading upon adoption of the report of the commit tee of the whole, and two additional readings on separate days will be re quired. However, there is some senti ment in the Senate for immediate ac tion on the floor. Thus the passage in the House does not mean the end of the battle by any means. The bill is not now expected to pass the Senate until thfc latter part of next week, and as the Senate is expected to Write many chances in to the bill in wnich the House probab ly will not concur, the bill is slated to go to conference. Parliamentary experts hold that the conference report must be adopted on three separate days in the branch in which schedules are increased. That may easily mean both house and sen ate and the requirement that the as sembly remain in session at least six days for adoption of a conference re port. Tis prospect dimmed hopes for quick adjournment. The bill as passed by the house car ries the highest rates ever levied in this state, and the highest sales tax ever adopted by either branch of a North Carolina legislature. But the 2 per cent gertfcral sales tax in the house is not the first general sales tax passed by that body. Last session it accepted, the 1 per cent gen eral sales tax sponsored by Represen tative N. E. Day, of Onslow, only to see it rejected by the Senate. The House also accepted last session the Hinsdale luxury tax, only to see that, too, killed in the Senate. The re sult, as is generally recalled, was the compromise worked out by the con ference committee carrying the 15- cent State ad valorem levy for par tial support of the six-months public school term. In view of widely divergent opin ions as to whether the bill as passed by the house will balance the $83,000,- 000 budget with only a 2 per cent gen eral sales tax, the senate is certain to make extensive changes in the meas- HAIL DAMAGE IN BERTIE COUNTY Tears Covers from Tobacco Beds and Damages Garden Crops Hail falling in Bertie County last Wednesday afternoon, is said to have torn tobacco bed covers to pieces and damaged the plants to a certain extent. About twelve miles the other side of Windsor the small stones are said to have been knee deep in places. The ekact damage , resulting from the storm could not be learned here, but several farmers from the section where the hail fell were here yesterday buy ing new cloth to cover their plants. Some hail fell here tha* afternoon, but no damage resulted. According to reports reaching here from several of the surrounding districts very little rain and no hail fell Wednesday aft ernoon. The mercury dropped following the storm, and yesterday more rain fell here. In several communities the stones destroyed young plants in gardens and fields. Over in Halifax County, near Scotland Neck, the hail is said to have beat holes in automobile tops and caused some damage to garden and field crops. Local Junior 4-H Club In Regular Meeting Tuesday The Williamston Junior 4-H Club held its regular meeting in the school house Tuesday afternoon. Opening exercises included club songs and the club pledge led by the president. The secretary called the roll and each member responded, reporting what work she had done since the last meeting. AH members were re quested to complete the third scoring of the health habits score at this meeting. There were 26 members present at the meeting.—Marian Pen der, news reporter. THE ENTERPRISE Soy Beans May Cash Crop in Th Result of Increasing PROCEEDINGS In'BIG PROCESSING SUPERIOR COURT PLANT TO BE PUT UP AT NORFOLK Court Will Continue Trial Of Civil Cases Here Next Monday Completing its work scheduled on the calendar for the week, the superior court yesterday took a recess until next Monday. Many cases have been settled out of court aftd a few have gone through the regular trial pro cess. One divorce case was heard, the court granting Robt. Simmons, jr. a divorce against Alleane Williams Simmons, colored. A judgment in the sum of $1,411.09 was granted the the . American Agri cultural Chemical Corp%ration against C. G. Gurkin. J The case involving a deed was set tled betwecis J, H. Roberson and Son against Joe L. Matthews, the de fendant pay ing the cost. A judgment was granted Mrs. Mat tie R. Peel against E, H. Roberson and the Massachusetts Bunding and Insurance Company. 'The amount was $350. An appeal was noted. The case of Mrs. Lizzie Gardner against the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company was settled by agree ment. The defendant in the case of Fed eral Land Bank of Columbia against J. 11. Davenport was required to fur nish bond in the sum of $25 as surety against damage in the way of rents or possession. An appeal was noted. A dividing line between the prop erty was establised in the case of W S. Revels against J. A. Griffin. THREE BILLIONS LIFE INSURANCE PAID LAST YEAR Insurance Companies Have Come To Aid of Many During Depression The public lifts heard much of tlie tremendous sums loaned by the He construction Finance Corporation in the interest of economic -stabilization. It is probable that no other peace time activity of the American govern ment has rivaled it in scope. Yet a private endeavor in this couti; try has, in the same period of time, paid out to the people of t)ie nation a sum almost twice as great. That endeavor is life insurance. In 1931 it paid to policyholders and beneficiaries $2,600,000,000 and in 1932 it paid 20 per cent more, $3,1(H),000,000. As John A. Stevenson, vice presi dent of the I'enn Mutual Life Insur ance Company, recently said: "Imag ine how much worse our condition would be if.the life insurance com panies had not been thus magnificently helped during these trying times. The life insurance companies not only withstood the shock, but came to the re&cue of millions of men and women." Between April 17 and 22, life in-, surance is to hold a financial independ ence week. An army of agents will go out to meet the public--not only to sell insurance, but to explain what it has done, is doing and will do. The press and the radio will cooperate. Hundreds of organizations will take a hand in the activities. The average person will have an unparaleled oppor tunity to nain a new and more accur ate of the life insur ance indflCtry. He will be told of the manifold forms of policies that are written —policies designed to meet al most every human need. All of us should lake advantage of I the week and the lessons that will be offered. NO MORE LOANS AFTER APRIL 30 Farmers Must Make Their Applications At Once To Get Money Applications that are enured for seed and feed loan-, too late to reach Washington by the 30th of this month will be refused and returned to the ap plicants, Roy Hearne, field manager for this county, said today. Farmers in this county desiring to borrow money from the government have been urged from time to time to make their applications before it was too late. For an application to reach Washington City before May 1, it must be entered in time for the couilf ty committee to investigate It and then reach Washington before the last day of the month. In other words, if applications are not made immedi ately, it will be impossible for farm ers to get aid from the government. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, April n, 1933 Believe Crop Will Soon Be Recognized As a New Revenue Source The outlook for growing and mar keting soy beans on a large scale is unasually bright for Martin »'County farmers and others in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia, according to information reaching here from Nor folk, where the Allied Mills, Inc., of Chicago, are locating a huge process ing and storage plant for handling soy beans. While Martin County farmers are raising a comparatively small quantity —about 22,000 bushels annually—the plant at Norfolk with its ready market should prompt a marked increase in the crop beginning this year. W. 15. Kruck, representative of the company, was here this week, and it was his opinion that farmers in this county ami section could easily and profitably cultivate soy beans with a ready market at Norfolk. The pres ent price, according to Mr. Kruck, is about 60 cents a bushel with every indication pointing to a greater value later on. Easily grown and cultivate in the soils of this section, the soy bean with a ready market has the promise of be coming a fairly profitable crop to our farmers. The mill is the first to locate in this part of the country, and its es tablishment, to say the least, is very encouraging to this section, where oth er crops have become too top heavy to really be profitable. The cultivation of soy beans has been greatly increased during the past few years in this county, but with no ready market the crop !i«is not it trad ed much attention, and its develop ment is not near complete on that ac count. Mr. Kruck stated that the plant would be ready for operation by Oc tober 1 of this year, making available a market to Martin County farmers for their soy beans. "The potentialities of the soy beau industry have only been scratcho I in the United States," Mr. Kruck said. "If the ex|xirt market is taken into consideration, there are not eniugh soy beans produced in the United .States to supply the demand. In Ham burg, Germany, alone, there, is a mar ket for more than 37,000,000 bushels of soy beans year, coming prin cipally from Manchuria and Russia. 'During the last two years, however, I the United States has exported to Germany and England considerable quantities of beans, last year's exports being approximately 2,000,000 bushels, of which about 300,000 were shipped from Norfolk." In the processing of soy beans, the two principal products are soy bean | oil, now an ingredient of many edi ble products, and -soy beau meal, used | principally as food for poultry and ( livestock. From 1,000 tons of soy beans, approximately 130 tons of oij are produced and about 800 tons of meal, the remainder of the poundage being lost in the process. As a food for human beings, the use of soy beans is just coming into prom inence in the United States, although its development as a food has been carried on extensively in Europe for i the past two generations. It is even | recorded as a human food in Chinese j manuscripts dating back to 2838 B. C. | Several organizations in the United States are producing StKh foods as pancake flour, macaroni, soy sausage, malted milk drinks and candy with soy flour as a component ingredient. Because of its starch content, soy flour is recommended in the diet for dialectic persons and epileptic patients. March One oi Driest Months in Many Years The month of March was one of the driest for many years, according to the state crop reporting service. It was free from damaging cold periods. A maximum, of soil preparation was permitted, although in certain areas the soil became too hard for plowing. The temperature was slightly above normal. The growth of small grains has been very good. Foliage on trees is slightly better than normal at this date. While farmers had planted a little corn during March, no other field crops were seeded at this time, except spring small grains and truck crops. Certain clovers and crops planted for late winter starts (like lespedeza, crimson clover, etc.) had a normal planting season earlier than April Ist. Farmers are in a good spirit, consid ering the economic conditions on farms. CONSIDERABLE DAMAEG DONE BY HAIL STORM Tears Holes In Roofs and Ruins Crops In Poplar Point Township Striking parts of Popfar Point and Cross Roads Townships in this coun ty late yesterday afternoon, hail de stroyed much property and laid waste young tobacco, garde n at,id field plants. Mr. Joseph Harrison, telling about the storm said this morning; that hail fell-for almost an hour and that it was almost knee deep in spots. His tobacco beds were ruined and field crops were so badly damaged that replanting will be necessary, he said. At the home of his son, Herman Har rison, near by, the hail is said to have torn holes in roofs and ruined all crops. Damage was also reported on he farms of Joe Powell, Arch Grif fin and Joe Winslow in Kobersonville Township. White the hail Storm Struck only a small area in this county, heavy ruins did considerable damage in sev eral sections. Tobacco plants, poles and canvas were washed away and crops were damaged on the Anderson farm on the McGaskey road, it was reported here today. WEAVER DAIRY HERE ADDS TO ITS EQUIPMENT Modern Plant Increases Its Production To Care for NeeQs of People Here "Strawberry time is cream time at the dairy," Frank Weaver, manager of the Edgewood Dairy, said yester day in announcing an increased pro duction of rich cream and pure milk at the modern plant here. The little red berries, made more luscious by sugar and cream and even milk, are prompting increased operations at the dairy, Mr. Weaver said At the present time, the dairy is milking 23 pure-bred cows, tested and proven free of tuberculosis. The equip ment has been greatly added to dur ing the past few months, and the plant is now one of the most modern in this section, and the operations are unusually interesting. The plant, housed in a well screened house with cement floors, includes a modern cream separator, electric bottle washing ma chines, cooling system, steaming room for bottles and milk utensils, and auto matic bottle liUers. The manager stated that every bot tle and utensil is thoroughly washed by the electric washing machine and then placed in a tightly constructed steam room, where they are steamed to a high temperature and then dried by steam heat. Operationsv are started daily at the plant about daylight, when fire is put under the boiler. The steaming is completed and the plant made ready for the milk about an hour later. I lie supply of milk for the morning deliv ery is poured in a cooler, and after flowing over silver pipes automatically cooled by a force pump, it is turned into the automatic bottle filler, capped and then loaded on the delivery truck. The remaining milk is poured into the separator and the cream bottled. The dairy has how a large acreage in pasture, but in adition to t hat* more than 1,000 pounds of other feeds are used daily to enable the cows to give the best milk, Mr. Weaver said. Be tween tickings, employees of the dairy are kept busy cultivating hay and the Other feed crops for the large number of cows. Starting as a dairy of small propor tions, the Kdgewood plant has devel oped into a good-sized undertaking, and one that is abreast of the times. HONOR MEMORY OF A. R. DUNNING Memoral Service Will Be Held in Courthouse Next Tuesday A memorial service, honoring the memory of the late A. R. Dunning, attorney, will be held in the courthouse here next Tuesday evening at 8 o'- clock, it was announced yesterday by Judge Clayton Moore, who will pre side. Kev. C, H. Dickey, Messrs. J. L. Hassell, R. J. Peel, VV. C. Manning, and members of 1 the county liar will take an active part in the service that will last about one hour. Mr, Dunning was a member of the Martin County Bar Association for a number of years, and was a leader in the law profession in this section of the state during that time. The serv ice is very timely, with the superior court in session, and a large crowd is expected to attend. The public is cordially invited to be present. WARREN COUNTY BOY WINNER OF CONTEST HERE Five Young Tar Heel Far *mers Spoke Here Last Wednesday Afternoon George Thome, vocational agricul tural student in the Aurelian Springs I School, Warren County, won over j four other entrants in a public speak- j ing contest held in the high school | building here Wednesday afternoon. \ The contest, arranged for vocational | agriculture students throughout north- j eastern North Carolina, was a pre-j linunary to a state fee ting to be held j in Raleigh the latter part of June. Other entrants in the preliminary i contest here were Virgil Sutton, of | Perquimans High School, Hertford,] who spoke 011 the "Farmer's Tax Bur- I den and Relief." Carl Uinphlet, rep resentative from Gates County, spoke J on "The Machine Age " Hilton Ches- I son, of tile Creswell High School, I Washington County, spoke on "The j l.ive-at-Home Program," and Wood row Rhent, of the Contentnea High School, Lenoir County, spoke on 'Why Educate for Life on the Farm?" George Thome, winner of the con test, w ill represent the northeastern i district in the State event to be held in Raleigh. The winner of he State contest .in Raleigh will participate in the. South ern Regional Contest, ami the winner -there will compete in the finals to be held ti Kansas .City. The successful speaker there will receive several val uable prizes, each one of substantial size offered by Senator tapper. The expenses of the con tests are borne by the organizations iii the states, while the national event is supported by funds from the Fu ture Farmers of America organization. The judges, Miss Bessie Willis, a member of the high school faculty here, Principal William K. Watson, and Rev. I 11. Dickey, said the speeches were unusually good. SCHOOL NEWS AT OAK CITY Juniors and Seniors Enjoy Banquet In School There Thursday Evening Junior-Senior Banquet Members of the junior lass will en tertain the members of the senior class with a banquet in the home eco nomics room of the local school on Thursday evening. The decorations will give a com bination +d-colors' lending charm to an Indian village scene. On each table there will be a small wigwam with a little Indian standing by its side. the fortune of each person will be tied and placed in ea It wigwam. Red and white carnations with a profusion of fern anil dogwood, will lend to the appearance of the outdoor scene. Toasts to the seniors will be given by Ethel Whitehurst, president of the junior class. Response will be given by Stella Davenport, president of the senior class. A toast to the faculty will be given by Edward Hy man with response by Mr. Amsley ThtJtUiiiit class wiil.i(ivw.elllume song; Louts Ktheridgc will give a negro sermon discourse. The menu includes a three-course dinner which will be served by Katie Mae Bennett, Martha Daniel John son, Elizabeth Moye and Dixie High, Ella I'itt Johnson, Helen Johnson. The guest list includes members of the high school faculty, Mr. and Mrs J. ('. Manning and Mr. and Mrs. 11. M. Ailisley. Grade Averages The averages for the senior class were determined last week and Avril Woodley and hessie I'iland each re ceived the same averages. After drawing numbers the Salutatory ad dress will be given by Avril Woydley and the valedictory address will be given by Chessie I'iland. 110 In High School The number of students enrolled jn the high school this year total 111). Only eight of the number have stop ped school. The 102 students in high school have read library books during the first seven months of the term. There will be a large per centage of this number to receive reading report certificates. There were no books lost or misplaced. Thin in itself is a good record for the school. —-Myrtis Zetterower. Preachers Engage in Raffle For Assignments to Pulpits Gardner, Mass.—Ministers of 18 churches in Gardner and vicinity struck on a novel'' scheme to promote the spirit of cooperation between the churches. They drew from a hat their assignments to preach a Sunday ser mon. None was allowed his own church, and no one except the preach er himself knew to what church he was assigned. It created a spirit of suspense among te parishioners. Town Convention Is To Be Held Tonight ( CUT OFF WATER II i While employees are repairing j a large valve on one of the main water lines from midnight until I about 4 o'clock tomorrow mrning, I Williamston will be a dry town. ! Jesse Harrell. superintendent \pt 1 the water system, said this morn | ing that there is no way of repittf- ~ j ing the valve with water in the I lines, and that i: the service would j have to be cut off for about three I or four hours. Reconnections can 1 be made within a very short time I should a serious emergency arise, however. While there is no apparent dan ger, owners of electric water heat ers might find it advisable to cut j off their heating units during that time. 'UNEMPLOYED IN COUNTY CAN GET FORESTRY JOBS Thirty Young Men Between Ages of 18 and 25 Years Eligible for Jobs # Thirty Martin County young men. will have an opportunity to enter the civilian conservation corps organized by tlit- United States Government to give employment to -50,000 unem ployed throughout the country, ac cording tu infotniation received here this week Complete details of the 'project have not been released, but j I ht*y are being discuss.ed in Washing it' ui for the northeastern, district To i day, j Relief agencies will—begin recruiting j the i,500 men .allotted this state th" j early part of next week when appli [cations for the jobs will" be received |by the various Vomity relief directors Jat tluii officer. Between now and I that tithe details will be completed ami placed in the hands of the county re lief directors It will be impossible to receive applications until the de tails are arranged. Iteis understood lb.it only applica tions from single men between the | ages of IK and 25 years will be coll sidered. Just bow many applications j will be received in this county is a I matter of speculation just at this time, | some believing Hie applications will outnumber by fat 'the allowed quota i Others believed not more than 10 or 115 young men will apply lor jobs in I the reforestation program advanced by ' President Roosevelt, j J. Raleigh Manning, relief director in Ibis county, is attending the meet ling in Washington today, ami he will be in a position to receive applica tions the early part of next week, it lis understood. j According to information reaching i here, the young men'entering the con I servation corps will be trained for 'forestry work, the prevention of soil i ttj»i»-uv~ *tul—oUwo similar—anlivUnix- NATION GOES OFF GOLD STANDARD • ♦ Some Form of Inflation Is Now Being Considered By Administration The United States went off the gold standard this week, the desert inn of the precious metal as a basis of value being reckoned as one of the major j happenings in the Roosevelt adminis-j tration. According to opinions of fi-j naucial leaders, the revaluation of, gold downward and silver upward and | a form of inflation, as complicated as the system appears to be, can be ex pelled to bring better days, J list ulial is happening ami what it is all about cannot be determined just, at this time, such, men as Sena tors Robinson, .Harrison and Wagner professing ignorance of what was transpiring. The whole thing. is said to especially favor the South and West, and will, it is beleived, advance argicultural prices beyond all points ever hoped for in the proposed farm relief bill. The things now aimed at are: 1,,T0 cause the issuance of new federal money in denominations of $5 to SIO,OOO, on the "basis of a'revised gold reserve, to paper. 2. To use the new paper money (treasury notes) to buy in all matur ing federal bonds, the other federal obligations. i. To adjust downward or upward, the gold content of the dollar. 4. To create a new federal agency possibly to be known as the dollar stabilization board, having authority to regulate and stabilize, as far as pos sible, the dollar's purchasing power, Advertiser* Will Fnd Oar Col am* • Latchkey to Over Sixteen Hundred Martin County Home* ESTABLISHED 1898 MAYOR AND FIVE MEMBERS BOARD TO BE SELECTED Three Candidates Out for Mayorship; No Race Yet Jr6r Commissioners • • \\ ith four candidates reported in the race for mayor and rumored con tests for places on the board of town conimmissioners, the municipal nom inating convention in the city tiall here tonight al 8 o'clock promises to be very interesting. A mayor and five commissioners are to be nominat ed to serve two years beginning the first Monday in June. \ hollowing the announcement made by Mr. K 1„ Cobtirn, present mayor, stating thai lie would not "be a Can didate to _succeed himself, a marked interest in that office developed. Mr, John t\. Pope, at present a member of th county board of commissioners, is in the race, and Justice of the Peace J. U Hassell is announcing his can didacy today. Mi, W. T Meadows announced bis candidacy for the office some time ago. Mr. Will Parker is said to be considering entering the race, but last.,night he said he was planning to run as an independent and would not go into the convention. No candidates other than the present board members have announced their intentions >i running for a place on the board, but it is rumored that a new set will lie offered tor considera tion by the .voters, at the convention toftight. The names of Rev. Z. T. I'liphotf, Messrs. \\ (• Pfcel and Her man Howen have been mentioned for commissioners by others. -1 here has liven -some discussion as ten whether two of the candidates would be eligible loi the office should their candtjfaTres, nicer with success. Moth are eligible; but Mr. J. K. Pope would automatically retire as 'a mem ber of the board of county commis sioners, it is understood. Justice of the ' Peace J. I. Hassell could, under the town charter, it is understood, continue as justice of the peace and a t as mayor also Holding a Last Tonsil Clinic in Everetts Today I lie last of the tonsil ami adenoid clinics arranged in this county is be ing held in Kveretts today where ap proximately thirty children are sche duled to undergo operations at the hand of Dr. I J Sawyer. Seven of tin- number re eiving benefit of the Clinic are troiii the Partucle School district l.ast'night all preparations were re ported complete for the pioper care and handling of the children, i Clinics have been held at Oak City, Hear (iiass, Jamesville,. Williainston, ami Robei soiiville, Caring tor children -if«'W y part >M the >. oinity. Federal Agent and Family Making Their Home Here Mr. and Mrs. I'." G. Greer, formerly. Jot l.eaksville, are HOW at home with I Mrs. Krah Cobb in New Town. Mr, ' Greer is connected with the Federal i Prohibition enforcement forces in this ise tion He has been here for sev eral weeks but was not joined bv his | wife until this week,' Prices In Effect on Curb Market Here Saturday The curb market had spring onions, ' radishes and asparagus on sale here I last SaUirda> More are expected to. I morrow and at reasonable prices. I he price list; , Eggs, 10 cents a dozen; radishes, 3 bunches for 5 cents; cabbage, J cents pound; meal, 1 1-2 cents per pound; onions, 2 bunches 5 cents; asparagus, 12 cents a bunch; carrots, 5 cents a bunch. "Where tuwn and country meet at f the curb market." • Paint Demonstration Here Next Monday and Tuesday The Bl'S Company is holding a paint demonstration in the Culpep per Hardware Company store here next Monday and Tuesday when free cans of paint will be given away. Paint demonstrations will be arrang- 6 ed by an expert who will gladly ans wer any and all questions in connec tion with adaptable cdlors and beat paints to use. No obligation reits persons a can of free paint awaits them at the store next Monday and Tuesday.
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