THE ENTERPRISE Advertiser? Will rill On Crt umn? a Latchkey to Orer MM HMM af Martin Ceanty VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 42 Williamstoa, Martin County. North Carolina. Tuesday. May 26.1936 ESTABLISHED 1899 BOARDING HOME FOR CHILDREN IS NEED OF COUNT* Home for Three Children Needed Now, Welfare Worker Explains One of the gravest problems con fronting the Child Welfare Division of the Martin County Welfare De partment is that of a licensed board ing home for children. This home is needed for children needing tem porary care during a period of in vestigation and pe?Ung arrange menu for their future It is needed for children who are too old to adapt institutional life or who are not eligible for admission to insti tutions or for placement in foster homes because of physical defect They need helpful guidance and care over a long period of time. The funds for boarding these chil dren are drawn from the Mothers Aid Fund of the state. The board ing home must be licensed by the state in order to have advantage of, this plan. It must meet certain standards just as do all child-caring I institutions and mother's aid fam ilies in the state. The minimum requiremenU which such a home must meet to qualify for a license are as follows: 1. The home must be located pref erably in the country, small town, or on the outskirts of a larger town. No child shall be boarded in a home in congested section of a city or town. 1. The home must conform to all sanitary laws. S. Moral standards in the home must be such that there is an as surance that the best conduct u taught. 4. It U desirable that the home have both a father and mother in it so as to give the child a normal atmosphere. The parents must be of suitable age and temperament 5. There must be assurance that adequate and proper diet wibi be furnished the individual child. Sleeping quarters and space lor both indoor and outdoor play must be safe and adequate. 8. The home must be accessible for regular attendance in school and church. , . _ 7. No home which conducts room ing or boarding houses or care for adults shall be licensed for care of children. . 8. There should not be more than four children boarded in the same home at the same time, unless sis ters and brother*. 9 The child and foster parents shall be visited by the probation of. fleer at least once every six weeks. Because institutions are so crowd ed and the waiting bits are long it is necessary to make some other pUnlTchlldren who do not have homes, who have suffered the loss of parents, and relatives are not able to care for them. The w?r** can place their application with the institution and wait for an accept ance. Meanwhile, some temporary arrangement must be made for him Miss Owens says that in some eoun MISS . . t__L.L ties such children are placed tan porarily in the county home. She is anxious to have a licensed board ing home in this county, however, to avoid placing children tn the county home. It will prove a more normal and wholesome plan for them. This gives the child a chance to begin life over in a new environ ment of a real home and happy, hu man relationships where they have ,n opportunity otherwise denied them of a normal development to adulthood. There are three chil dren. two boys and a girl, who need attention now until inrtitqtonal ere or adoption may be obtained. Is Held for Court On Serious Charge Harold Lee, charged with attempt ed assault and a tempted rape, was bound over to the next term ot Martin County Superior Court for trial without the privilege of bond at a hearing held before Justice J. L Hassell here last Saturday after noon. Lee, Norfolk man who was working est a composition floor, in the courthouse here preceding his arrest last Wednesday night, plead ed not guilty through his attorney, B. A Critcher, but little or no evi dence was offered by the defense to substantiate the ptaa. The several little girb who wore the near vic tims of the man were not called to ?Bar aviisaee at the has ring, the attorney stating that he lestkmiug until the case reached the higher courts. Lee. alleged to have been friend ly with several small children while to Greenville, where he will the June tarn of Martin County Superior Court convening It. Graduating Exercises Friday Night Here; Seawell Speaker rommrnrcmmt exercise; in tlir local school got,Underway last Sun day morning, when Rev. R. R. Grant, pastor of the local Methodist church, preached the annual sermon in the high school auditorium to a large congregation, the members of the senior class attending in a body. The next event on the finals pro gram will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, when the seniors hold their class day exercises, featuring the valedictory address by Ben Man ning, top-ranking scholar, and salu tatory address by Miss Mar To )fl I)cr Cent Earnest Efforts To Cope With Adverse Weather Proving Almost Futile With dry weather continuing in full farce, the farming situation in this county, particularly as it affects the tobacco crop, has definitely reached a serious point, numerous farmers questioned over the week end said. While a decrease in the or no exceptions, the extent of the decrease lias not been determined with any degree of certainty. Esti mates indicate the crop will he re duced by not less than 25 per cent, and in some sections the growers are now hoping they can get as much as 50 per cent of a crop. A very small number of farmers have completed their fust trans plantings, but thosp finished with that work can be counted on one's fingers. It is estimated that hardly ' 80 per cent of the crop has been transplanted in the county, and in most cases not.half of the young plants arc living in the fields. The transplanting season, or the best part of it, is spent, but farmers con tinue the work, and they are likely * to continue well into June. New methods have been followed by a. few farmers in* this county in an effort to combat the dry weather, reports state. Farmers ^"ard. of Hear Grass Township, and Mallard"; of the Oak City s action, are said to have dropped wet sawdust on the plants immediately aflj-r tiansplant ing, and those growers report t nusu ally good stands. Despi? > the dry weather. Farmer J. L. TUillirliy, ol. Macedonia section, used no water in transplanting his crop, but placed a man behind the transplanter to press the dirt around the roots of the plants with his feet. He is said to have a better stand than his neighbors. "We will hardly have half a crop,*' Farmer Dawse Griffin, of the Smith wick's Creek section said, explain ing that he had not touched several acres the fir,st time, and that of the. plants he had placed in the field, the dry weather was baking them and the worms were aggravating the situation that was already serious to start with. Martin farmers have not aban doned hope of transplanting a great or part of their tobacco acreage* hut unless rain falls shortly tlicy will find it profitable to abandon their efforts. Already it is admitted the poundage will hp rnnsid"r;'^iy l^g? than it was last year, regardless of the nerooge, the farmers explaining that a latcfcrop weighs light invar iably. Judging from past experi ence, many farmers believe the quality of late crops will he infer ior, another feature that is consid ered disheartening in the tobacco outlook for this section this com ing fall. Other farm crops are barely hold ing their own in the long dry sea son. Excellent stands of corn re ported two ot three weeks ago have been destroyed by worms, the farm ers replanting it in its entirety in some cases, Farmer Lester Peel, of the Cross Roads section, said. But condition, as they affect farm crops other than tobacco, are not- regard ed as alarming just at this time. Unofficial reports fr6m Georgia state that the crop there is wilting mightily. And the prospects are not bright for a large crop, giving rise to the belief that the crop will bo considerably reduced throughout the several belts. A? Finals Program at School in Everetts Commencement at the Everetts school begins Wednesday night, May 27th, when the seventh grade will present their class exercise, entitled "The Fortune .Tree." The Rev. R. N. Fitts, of Roberson _villc, will deliver the commence ment address on Thursday morn ing, May 28th, at 11 o'clock. Fol lowing the graduation exercises, a picnic luhch will be spread in the grove at Mrs. Ida Clark's home. A ball game, beginning at 2:S0, will end the day's program. Friends and patrons of the school are cor dially invited to attend aU the ex erciaee. -