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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 3 f Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 10, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899
DOCKET B ACK TO
NORMAL SIZE IN
COURT TUESDAY
Six Cases Tried by Judge
Peel in Recorder's Court
This Week
The county recorder's court, after
land ling dockets of record-breaking
lire, returned to about normal last
ruesday, Judge Peel disposing of six
:ases. Several substantial fines were
imposed, and one long road sentence
was meted out. The session, the
Irst for the court in the new year,
lasted until about 3 o'clock in the
ifternoon.
Charged with drunken automobile
Iriving, Herman Rogerson was fined
(SO and taxed with the cost. His li
:ense to operate a car was revoked
lor one year.
A four-months road sentence was
luspended upon the payment of the
x>st in the case charging John H.
Sllison with operating a disorderly
itore.
Lacy Warren was fined $40 and
axed with the cost for the alleged
>peration of a car while intoxicated,
lis license to operate a car was re
voked for a period of one year.
The case charging Handy Ore with
iperating with improper lights was
10I prossed.
Charlie Jones, charged with drunk
?n automobile driving, was fined $75
ind taxed with the cost and had his
icense revoked for one year.
Alexander Smallwood pleaded
(uilty of breaking into the Wil
iamston Hardware Company a week
igo and was sentenced to the roads
or 18 months.
basketball Schedule
For School Teams Is
Outlined by Coach
Boys Win, Girls Lose, in
Season's Opener Here
Wednesday
Opening the season with a double
leader with Plymouth's teams last
Vedrresday evening, the local high
ichool girls' and boys' basketball
earns continue to wade into then
lifTicult schedule for the season to
light against Washington at Wash
ngton. In the first games, the local
>oys won, 48 to 18, and the local
lirls lost, 34 to 13.
Season's prospects for the teams
lave been described as only fair,
>ut Coach Peters allows his players
vill present competition all along
he line. On the boys' squad. Clay
on Moore, Tom Barnhill, Arthur
Jurganus. Walt Cooke, A G. Wynne,
'Doc'1 Cone, "Monk" Critcher, and
'unie Peel all look good. The girls'
earn has its hopes, too, and includes
he following players: Louise Cooke,
lessie Mae Holloman. Marie Hardi
?n. Prances Humble, Ella Mae
Hishoe, Rachel, Keel, Evelyn Lilley
ind Burnice Ward.
With the exception of the Kinston
fames on the 28th of January and
February 26, when only the boys
?lay, the following schedule shows
iouble-headers:
January 10, Washington, there.
January 14, Columbia, there
January 18, Elizabeth City, here
January 17, Bear Grass, here
January 21, Tarboro, there
January 24, Robersonville, here.
January 28, Kinston, here.
January 31, Farm Life, here.
February 4, JamesviUe, here.
February 7, Greenville, here.
February 11, Elizabeth City, there
February 14, Tarboro, here.
February 18, Washington, here
February 21, Greenville, there.
February 25, Robersonville, there.
February 26, Kinston, here.
The season will be closed on Feb
?tiary 27 and 28 and March 2, when
ill high schools are scheduled to par
ticipate in a county tournament,
Coach Peters said.
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Rev. J. M. Petty To Preach
At Oak City Next Sunday
Rev. J. M. Perry will preach at
3ak City next Sunday afternoon at
! o'clock. He will preach on one of
the startling miracles of the New
Testament, his subject being, "Back
from the Shadows.!* The town and
?urrounding communities should
turn out and fill the Christian
church. The visiting minister held
the first revival and organized the
Christian church there some 13 or
more years ago.
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Announce Services at
Baptist Church Here
Bible school, 8:48 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 o'clock.
B. T. V., 8:30 p. m.
Evening worship, 7:30 o'clock.
Continue Distributing AAA
Checks To County Farmers
A real scare was experienced in
this county Tuesday, when orders
were received from Raleigh direct
ing the county's agent's office to hold
all parity, rental and adjustment
checks issued under authority of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration. Plans had just been com
pleted for distributing about 1,000
cotton parity checks, representing a
cash outlay of approximately $10,
000. And then there were a number
of other checks still due.
The seriousness of the situation
was brought home to some farmers
when they learned that the banks
were hesitating in handling the
checks. \
Later advices from the State agri
cultural authorities directed the dis
tribution of the checks, and unoffic
ial reports indicate that efforts
would be made to pay all AAA ben
efits falling due on and prior to the
sixth of this month. Mr. T. B. Slade,
assistant in cotton control, continues
at work and is mailing the notifica
tion cards this week, and checks
should be in the hands of the own
ers within the next few days.
Board Makes Plans for
Care of County Needy
FURTHER DELAY I
'
Closed since the 20th of last
month, the white schools in this
county are scheduled to reopen
next Monday, the 13th, after two
delays had been ordered on ac
count of the bad condition of the
roads and unfavorable weather.
The Christmas holidays were
scheduled to end last Monday,
but the opening date was post
poned until yesterday, but the
condition of the roads, going
from bad to worse caused the
authorities to schedule the open
ing for next Monday
Much moving has been report
ed and much more will follow
Just as soon as the condition of
the roads improve, and as a re
sult much confusion on several
of the truck routes is expected.
13-Year-Old Girl
Dies Suddenly
Eula Mae Wobbletoo, 13 years old,!
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Wobbleton, died suddenly in a Wash
ington hospital Wednesday night at
11 o'clock. Diabetes was the -cause
of her death, it was stated. Taken
suddenly ill Wednesday afternoon,
the young girl was carried to the
hospital early that evening, death
following a few hours later.
She was unusually smart, and the
bad state of her health was not
known until a few hours before her
passing. She attended the local
schools, and leaves, besides her par
ents, several brothers and sisters.
Funeral services were conducted
yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the Penteco^il Holiness church
by Rev. Tom Harris Interment was
in the Nicholson burial grolind, near
here.
Take Deer From River
Believed Shot by Sheriff
Apparently his fellow hunters die
Sheriff Roebuck an injustice by cut
ting o" his shirt-tail a few days ag<
when he shot and failed to brint
down a deer on the spot. Word wai
received here from down below tha
a dead deer, weighing around 301
pounds, was taken from the rivei
at its mouth. The deer had beet
killed, the report stated, and it ii
believed the officer in this count;
killed him.
Baptist Ministers To
Meet Here Monda
The Eastern Association of Ba^p
tist ministers will meet in the Bat
tist church here next Monday morr
ing at 10 o'clock, it was announce
yesterday by Dr. J. L. Peacock, c
Tarboro, president of the organiza
tion. Two session wil be held dui
ir.g the day, and a goodly number c
ministers from all over Eastern Cat
olina are expected to attend, it wa
stated.
Cleaning Tobacco Seed
At County Agent's Office\
Arangements lor cleaning tobacco
seed have been completed in this
county, and the first were run
through the cleaner yesterday.
Last year approximately 1251
pounds of the seed were cleaned in
this county, or enough to sow about |
475,000 square yards of ground.
Sale of Town Auto Tags
Increases During Week I
As next Wednesday, the last day
for displaying town automobile tags,
draws near, the sale of the plates
continues to increase. Reports from
the town office indicate that well
over half of the tags have already
been sold.
Commissioners and
Welfare Authorities
Vi orking Together
Temporary Office Is Set Up
In Commissioners' Room
At Courthouse
Plans for handling the relief sit
uation in this county were formulat
ed jointly by the county commis
sioners and the county welfare au
thorities this week, when a coopera
tive system with the state was
agreed upon To carry on the work,
the commissioners appropriated ap
proximately $400, the welfare author
ities to handle the distribution tasks
for the most part. Ararngements for
handling the work are going forward
rapidly In a temporary office estab
lished in the county commissioners*
room in the county courthouse.
Mrs. Winifred Wiggins, formerly
connected with the Federal Emer
gency Relief Administration here,
wil head the new work and she will
be assisted by Miss Selma Ayers,
who was also connected with the
Federal lelief agency until it sus
pended activities last month.
The ne.w,arrangement for handling
the relief work is of a temporary na
ture only, the county, in most cases,
continuing its direct relief to many
of its 105 dependents. During the
next several months, the welfare
workers will survey the needs of ap
plicants and handle the work under
the direction of the county welfare
board and commissioners, it was
stated.
In addition to the $400 appropria
tion, the welfare group will receive
within the next 10 days bed clothing
and wearing apparel from the
Works Progress division for distri
bution among the needy.
The exact course the relief activi
ties will follow are not yet definitely
determined, but an official explained
today that the system now being in
stituted had the great promise of
success of any ever attempted in
the county.
Some of those who have been re
ceiving aid from the county will be
dropped * from the indigent list as
they are represented on WPA pay
rolls, it was stated. Others who are
really in need are expected to apply
to the welfare office in the county
courthouse.
Episcopal Services for
Sunday Are Announced
? Church of the Advent
*?Rev E. F. Moseley, rector.
First Sunday after Epiphany:
Church school, 9:45 a. m
Morning prayer and sermon, 11
a. m.
Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30
p. m.
Every member is urged to bring
his Epiphyiy offering for the Bish
op's memorial fund.
Holy Trinity Mission
Sunday school at 2:30 p. m.
Name Sylvester Peel
County's Arbitrator
In Boundary Dispute
?
Preliminary Steps for Set
tlement Taken by Board
At Meeting Tuesday
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Preliminary steps to settle the
boundary line dispute between this
county and Beaufort were taken by
the county commissioners in con
tinued session here last Tuesday,
when Mr Sylvester Peel, surveyor,
was appointed to represent this coun
ty as an arbitrator to act with an
appointee of Beaufort County to
establish a true line
Remembering the stand the board
of this county took some time back,
any agreement that will shift the
line so as to include more Martin
territory in Beaufort County will
hardly prove acceptable to the Mar
tin authorities, it is believed. At
any rate, the authorities of the two
counties are apparently making a
fair attempt to settle the matter.
The commissioners at their ses-1
sion Tuesday morning added the fol
lowing to its direct relief list: Sandy |
Revander, of Jamesville, $3; H. E.
Ellison, also colored of Jamesville.
$3; Ira Edmondson, from $3 to $5;
George T. Purvis, colored, of Wil
liamston, $3; Lottie Bell Jenkins, of
Parmele. amount increased from $3
to $5; Mrs. Laura Jenkins, of Ham
ilton, $8 and Mrs. John Page, of I
Jamesville, $5 a month for three |
months.
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Roanoke River Sets New
New Record for Rising
?
The old Roanoke, rising more than
18 inches during the last 24 hours
to establish a new record for that
length of time, was still expanding
here this afternoon, dooding docks
and thousands of acres of lowlands
in this section. Reports from the
weather station here this morning
indicated the stream would rise from
12 to 14 inches more before reaching
acre st some time Sunday or Sunday
night. The highest wuter in about
five years is expected at this point,
Mi Hugh Spruill said.
C to 8 inches more before reaching |
a crest late Saturday or early Sun
day.
The large lumber mill of Saunders
and Cox on the Roanoke will sus
pend operations probably late this
afternoon on account of the high
waters. The plant will be idle about
a week or 10 days, Mr. Saunders said
this morning.
Weather Delays Start of
School Building Program
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Unfavorable weather and bad
roads continue to delay work on
Martin County's {100,000 school
building program, the superintend
ent of the Goode Construction Com
pany stating that work would be
started just as soon as the weather
permitted. It is now planned to
start preparing the building founda
tions at Jamesville, Farm Life, Wil
liumston, and Oak City early next |
week, weather permitting
Messrs I. L. Parker and Floyd |
White, of the State Employment Bu
reau, with headquarters in Eden-1
ton, were here last night assigning |
to the several school building proj
ects.
East Carolina Firemen
To Meet Here Tuesday
The Eastern Carolina Firemen's
association will hold its quarterly
meeting here next Tuesday evening
a*. 7:30 o'clock in the Woman's Club
rooms, the local department com
pleting arrangements this week to
entertain the approximately 100 vis
itors expected at that time. Other
than the regular business session and
dinner, no program has been an
nounced, Mr. H. D. Harrison, chief
of the local company, explaining
that the meeting would be well en
tertained, however.
Questions and Answers on AAA Decision
Question*, almost numberless in
quantity, have been asked o( em
ployees in the office of the county
agent here since the United States
Supreme Court ruled the Agricul
tural Act unconstitutional. And
while, out of necesisty, the answer
was "We don't know" in most cases,
it is quite certain that agriculture
is headed for a return to the old or
der unless something is done. Some
of the most often asked questions
and their answers are:
Q. Is there any restraint at the
present time on crop production?
A. No The farmer is at liberty
to plant as much tobacco, cotton, and
peanuts, or any other crop, for that
matter, he wishes to plant.
Q. Will the cotton parity checks
be paid?
A Yes. Checks are being distrib
uted to about 1,000 growers in the
county at this time, and it is hoped
that those for the few remaining con
tract signers will be available at
some time in the near future.
Q. How about the ether parity or
benefit payments, and will they be
paid?
A. As far as it can be learned now,
every effort is being made by the
administration to pay off all contract
obligations falling due prior to Janu
ary 6.
Q. Ii it possible for the farmer to
divert a part or all hia peanut crop
by selling to the oil mills?
A. Information reaching the office
in this county clearly Indicates that
the diversion method has been dis
continued, and farmers are advised
not to make deliveries until they
more direct Information from the
mills.
Q. What is going to become of the
farmer?
A. With all apologies for apparent
arbuptneas, it looks as If he la "go
ing to hell in a handbag" unless
something is done.
Williamston Will Get Highway
Patrol Radio Station; Is One of
Five Comprising State System
Number Seeking Loans from
Resettlement Administration
More than 75 applications have
been filed in this county for loans
from the resettlement or rural re
habilitation administration, accord
ing to information gained this week
More than half, or about 40, of the
applications have already been ap
proved by the committees in the
county and forwarded to Washing
ton, it was said.
Mr. David Modlin is handling the
applications in this county, and farm
ers who are unable to get credit
elsewhere and who are unable to fi
nance their farming activities this
year, are advised to present their
problems to the resettlement admin
istration representatives at once for
consideration.
Apparently the resettlement loans
will take the place of the old seed
and feed loan fund, and those farm
ers who wait too late to make ap
plications might find it difficult to
participate in the particular financ
ing program, it is believed
Begin To Feel Effects.
Of Farm Act Decision
Farm Crops Being
Sold by Producers
j
Rapidly as Possible
Peanuts Moving in Larger
Quantities, Despite Bad
Road Conditions
Before the AAA could be buried
following its murder last Monday,
marked effects began to creep to the
surface in the economic structure of
this section as a result of the ruling,
according to reports coming directly
from farmers.
One man explained yesterday that
lit was already finding the credit
situation tightening on him, that un
less some hope was created he ex
pected much difficulty in financing
his farming operations this year.
Peanuts started moving to the lo
cal market in a larger volume de
spite bad roads. The price, however,
rontinued around the 3-cent mark
Activities on the market started in
creasing because the growers are
fearful of a crash, one farmer ex
plained.
Although the main crop marketing
season is nearly spent in this section,
a selling wave is said to be evident
on those farms where any products
are found, it was learned.
Assuming that no action will be
taken in the farmer's behalf, reports
on possible spring plantings vary,
but under the surface there is a
rumbling of increased acreages to
every one of the basic crops, espec
ially tobacco. Some farmers declare
they will effect a greater reduction
in their tobacco acreage this year
than that called for ip their eon
tracts. Other reports indicate there
will be new barns constructed, and
all liberty taken of the free produc
tion range.
"Unless some remedy is advanced,
I am going to plant all my tobacco
land in sweet potatoes,'' one farmer
said Cases of that kind were found
to be few and far between in the
course of conversations with hun
dreds of farmers here during the
past three days. The old and un
founded theory that quantity pro
duction will offset low prices is al
ready creeping back into its own.
The real effects of the court ruling
are yet to be seen, and while they
might be better, present indications
dc not point that way Farmers gen
erally are hopeful that something
will be done to save the situation.
Lack of fuel wood in 12 eastern
North Carolina counties has caused
a serious situation which is receiv
ing the attention of extension work
ers, farmers, bankers and others.
BAD ROADS
Reports from over the coun
ty maintain that the condition
of the roads is worse now than
at any time during the past Ave
years, many of the routes being
impassable. Traffic has been
considerably decreased in the
outlying districts during the past
day or two, and those who used
the routes had to be pulled
over certain sections, it was stat
ed.
Rural letter carriers working
out of the local office have been
running from three to four hours
late. They describe the condi
tion of the roads as terrible.
Miss Helen Johnson
Reported Improving
? Miss Helen Johnson, young daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson, whoj
I was critically hurt in an automobile- j
truck wreck near Hobgood last Sun
day afternoon, is improving slowly
in a Tarboro hospital, according to
'reports reaching here late yesterday j
Miss Council, a second victim of the .
same accident, and who suffered a
broken thigh, is also said to be re
covering fairly rapidly in a Rocky
Mount hospital.
Mr. C. B. Savage, Oak City man,
who was seriously injured in a
wreck near Hobgood the Saturday
before Christmas, is also improving
rapidly at this time.
Mr Henry Johnson, kicked by a
horse last week, is also reported im
proving at his home in Hamilton.
Still Using Alphabet?
With Embellishments
The high court may have knocked
out a letter or two in its sweeping
decision last Monday, but the alpha ;
bet is still going strong. In the I
|course of hundreds of associations
with individuals about the streets]
during the past three and one-half]
days, the letters SOB have been!
used about as often as the three A's
were used in the midstof their re
gime. Some of them were qualified,
and some even had handles on them,
but the powers that said it was |
against the law of the land to help
the farmer while millions are paid
in subsiddies to combines have cer
tainly been catching a scathing at
tack, even though it was verbal.
President's Birthday Ball
To Be Held Here by Club
The President's Birthday Ball,
scheduled in towns and cities over
the country, will be sponsored at this
point by the Williamston Woman's
Club, it was announced today. Jones'
orchestra has been booked to furnish
the music and the dance will be held
in the school gymnasium on Janu
ary 20, it was stated.
Proceeds will go into a national
fund to be yised in combatting infan
tile paralysis.
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Sanitary Grocery Quint
Defeats Rocky Mount Y
The Sanitary Grocery quint regis
tered a fait and decisive victory ov
er the Rocky Mount Y team here last
Tuesday evening, the locals taking
the big end of a 40 to 28 score. Cher
ry, forwarding for the grocer boys,
was good with his shots and could
hardly miss from any aopt of the
court.
Building To Bo Put
On County Projiertv
Next to Prison Camp
Bids To Be Opened January
30: Require Two Months
For Completion
One of th eitve police radio broad
casting stations, ordered by the last
legislature, will be located on coun
ty property adjoining the State
Highway prison camp, near here,
within the next six or eight weeks,
according to information received
here this week. The other four sta
tions are to be located at Elizabeth
town, Raleigh, Salisbury, and Ashe
vilie, it was staled. The location of
the station here followed extensive
experiments conducted by radio ex
perts here the early part of last No
vember. Just how many men the
local station will employ could not
be learned, reports stating that the
service would be continuous.
Although specifications for the sta
tions probably will not be complet
ed before Saturday, the compilation
of data collected by radio experts is
complete enough to make certain
that five stations Will sulfice and that
their best location to cover the state
will be in the vicinity of the five
places named
Director of Purchase A. S. Brower
said that bids for the construction of
thi five transmitters will be adver
tised for January 13 and opened on
January 30 Captain Charles Farm
er. of the State Highway Patrol, es
timated that it would require two
months from the time the contracts
are awarded to put the stations in
order.
To Buy Receivers
In addition to the five stations, the
State will ask bids on about 200 re
ceiving sets The law requires, that
one be put in the of!ice of each of
the 100 sheriffs of the state and each
district office, car and motorcycle
of the patrol will have them.
The last. legislature, which enact
ed the police radio law, estimated
that the cost of the radio equipment
to the state would be about $65,000.
but Mr Brower believes it will ex
cted that amount.
The five stations located as
planned will give almost complete
coverage of the state both day and
night, although there will be some
"dead spots." especially in the moun
tain sections. The terrain in the far
west, however, is such that even
with the construction of six stations
100 per cent coverage probably could
not be achieved for both stationary
and portable receivers.
To begin with there will be no
wire connection between the broad
casting stations, but it is planned to
have each broadcasting station,
which will be equipped with receiv
ing sets that can catch the broadcasts
from other stations and relay any
information of importance to their
sections.
The state police radio system was
one of the three major acts to pro
mote highway safety and the en
forcement of highway laws passed
by the last legislature. The patrol
was more than doubled in size, the
state automobile driver's law was
passed and the radio system created.
The radio, however, is intended
to do more than provide better en
forcement of the highway laws, The
law specifically stated that each sher
iff's office be equipped with a re
ceiving set, and it was assumed that
police stations also would take ad
vantage of the opportunity.
For instance, in the case of a hold
up, a riot, the formation of a mob
or the commission of some crime and
the escape of the criminals, police
uculd be called to the scene of the
crime from all directions, or sta
tioned at points where the escaping
criminals might be expected to pass.
Program of Services at
Local Christian Church
e
The pastor will preach at 11 o'
clock on the theme: "The New and
Untried Road," and at/T:30 p. m., on
"The Long Night Ton." These mes
sages will be greatly appreciated, as
we face the New Year with courage
and hope. All 'members should be
present qr this first p* caching Sun
day of. 1936 Think it over.
Bible school at 9:43. Every mem
ber of the family, newcomers, and
those who have just failed to line up
For the Bible school, should make
that one of the new resolutions.