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THE ENTERPRISE 1 Abutter* Will Fla4 On Cat H? mi Mwtia Cmmmtj. VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 43 Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina. Friday. May 29. 1936 ESTABLISHED 1898 TAX COLLECTION IN COUNTY BEST IN PERIOD YEARS Nearly 70 Percent of 1935 Levy Has Already Been Collected Martin County tax collections tor the 1933 tax year are nearipg a new record since the depression. Sherifl C. B. Roebuck, tax collector, said yesterday morning. At the present time, the collection percentage is larger than (or any other period in several years. Nearly 70 per cent, or ]}l24,060.86, of the $179,402.78 levy for 1933, has already been collect ed, the sheriff explaining that land sales have totaled more than $55, 338.92, the amount uncollected on the 1935 levy, during the depression. The collector hesitated a bit in reporting the collections for the month of May, but, considering the seasuu he Anally admitted that the income of $3,406.98 for the period was not so terribly bad. Under the old law tax sales were scheduled for next Monday in this and other counties of the State, in cluding municipalities. The last legislature empowered the Martin commissioners and those of the town of Williamston to delay the sales until the first Monday in November leaving it in their discretion to or der the sale any time between the first Monday in June and the first Monday in November. The two boards ordered the sales delayed at their last regular meetings. Anoth er postponement is expected when the officials meet next Monday. No sales have been scheduled by other municipalities in this county so far this year, and it may 2>e that spec ial acts in the next legislature will be necessary to give validity to the tax sales when they are held. Unusual Record Is Made Over 11-Year Period of Student Name of Ben E. Manning On Honor Roll Every Time but Four Finishing his work in the local schools tonight, Benjamin Everett Manning, young son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Manning, completes one of the most unusual records in the history of the school. During eleven long years he was neither absent nor tardy, a record that is rarely equalled. The main feature, however, in his record is his scholastic rating. During every month in the eleven years his name appeared on the honor roll with four exceptions, and it was by a narrow margin he missed attaining the re quired average in his studies on those occasions. Ninth-grade sub jects proved a bit disheartening to him, but after missing by narrow margins the required averages for three months he began again to add to his reeerd, falling below the av erage only once since that time. In accordance with rules of the school, a pupil must average 90 or more on each subject. Establishing a scholastic average' of 93.3 during his four years in the high school, the young man was made valedictorian for his class, and his address was heard by a crowded auditorium last Wednesday evening when the seniors held their class exercises. Young Negro Arrested for Alleged Burglary Attempt Charle* Edward Spruill, young local negro, waa jailed abnut 12 o' clock last night when he was caught attempting to enter a second-story window In the George Reynolds Hotel. No hearing has been ar ranged, but he will likely be car ried before Justice Hassell tomor row or Monday. Said to have been drinking at the time, Spruill, recently employed as a relief worker on a local road project, climbed the Are escape and was staring in the window when officers were called. Officer Alls brook arrested him on the third story Ore scape. Club Women Leave Sunday For Trip To Washington Home demonstration club women will leave hare Sunday morning at 7:20 o'clock from the Central Serv ice station for Washington City to attend the International Club meet ing of Women of the World. The majority of the women going will return through the Valley of Vir ginia taking in Indians Caverns and Natural Bridge. There are It wo man scheduled to make the trip from this oounty and two Record Session of County Court Expected Tuesday After suspending ita actions since the XSth of last month while repairs were made to the court room, the county recorder's court started this week lining up its work for what promises to be a record-breaking session next Tuesday. Work on the court auditorium is nearing com pletion, and a session of the county court is certain to be held next Tuesday, Clerk L. B. Wynne said tihs week. With 41 cases awaiting trial al ready, and with the possibility that a few others will be entered before the session, the court already has a lecord ducket fur consideration. It is expected the court will be in ses sion virtually all day, and that a number of cases will be necessarily continued until the following Tues day. No session has been consid ered for next Wednesday, the court planning to bring its work up to the minute in the regular sessions next Tuesday and the Tuesday follow ing. The docket scheduled for ' next Tuesday has a general mixture of cases, including quite a few charg ing Hninlfpn antrannhili* driving aS saults, larceny, violation of the li quor laws and one for seduction. Making Arrangements For PaymenFofBonus - HOLIDAY -? Saturday, May M, Memorial Day, will be observed as a boll day by the post office, local banks, county liquor stores and the offices of the Virginia Elec tric and ower Company. No de liveries on rural and city routes will be made, but business, in general, will be carried on as usual here. States forces are also expected to observe the day as a holiday. 25 ASPIRANTS ARE GETTING TRIALS WITH 3ALL CLUB Defeat New Bern for First Time There Thursday In Exhibition Game Playing and taking an exhibition game, 10 to 5, at New Bern yester-| day afternoon, the Williamston base ball club has started shaping up for what promises to be a very success lul season. Manager D. C. Walker is still looking over his material with care, reports stating he is very well pleased with the - prospects. Definite assignments are still pend ing, but Pilot Walker states he will be ready .when the season formally gets underway at Tarboro next Tuesday afternoon. At the present time there are 25 men on the roster with Earp and Archer bidding for the third base position; Corbitt for short; Male for second; Hautz, Joe Mulhern and a University of Miami man for first; Roye/and Wlters, catcher; House, Gaylord, Black, Bumgardner and Griffin for outfield positions; "Diz zie" Dean, the boy who has pitched two no-hit games in college ball this season, and Brainard, Tate, Wade, Punjals, Jenkins, Armstrong, Gardner and Cherry, pitchers. Cor bitt, graduating at Duke Tuesday, is expected to get to Tarboro in time for the opening game there that afternoon. House will be several days late reporting. Yesterday in the exhibition con test with New Bern, Tate and Pun jals held the Bruins to seven hits. Black featured with a home run for the Martins. This afternoon, Greenville and the Martins are meeting in an ex hibition game here. Tomorrow the Martins go to Snow Hill and play Greenville at Greenville Sunday. (Continued on page four) Careful Driver Has SI Reward Awaiting Him Although Williamston's traffic regulations go unheeded to a, great extent, there is still precau tion exercised now and then to give human life and limb at least a 50-90 chance against injury and possible death. Car with license number 263-M0 pulled to a stop on the Smithwick-Main corner last evening, the driver picking his chance to enter the main thor oughfare without crashing. The identity of the driver could nbl be learned, but by driving his car to the curb in front of Clark's Drug Store, having the number checked and displaying tbts arti cle he will be entitled to a $1 pur chase free. Check your number, and if MS-MO is yours, call for a dollar's worth of merchandise at Clark's. Another traffic law observer will be recognised next week by an Enterprise snooper. Bonds To Be Mailed To Veterans June 15; Method Is Outlined Approximtely 600 Veterans In County To Receive Around $257,774 Bonds valued in excess of a quar ter" million dollars are scheduled to be delivered to World War veterans in this county about the 16th or 17th of next month, according to Post master Pete Fowden. Arrange ments and instructions for deliver ing the bonds were handled this weak when a special representative, from the United States post office visited the several postmasters and explained the distribution plans. The main instruction given by the representatives was that no bonds are to be delivered to any one ex cept the veteran, and his signature must be witnessed In those cases where the veteran is unable to write his name, there must be two witnesses to his mark, it is under stood. Bonds will be delivered in the rural sections by the regular letter carriers, and veterans will aid the delivery service by waiting at their boxes along the route for the carrier. The exact date the bonds are to be delivered will be an nounced later, Mr. Fowden said. A majority of applications for bonds has been filed, it is under stood, many of the veterans show ing up at the post office and veter ans' organization headquarters to get their bids in even before the bonus bill was passed several months ago. Once the bonds are delivered, the owner is at liberty to cash them or holil them as an investment, draw ing 3 per cent interest on them. Those veterans who wish to cash their bonds can return them to their respective post offices and have them fur wauled -tu the paying office at" Raleigh and receive a check within a short time. The banks are privi leged to handle the bonds for the veterans, but all transactions are to be made without charge to the vet eran, it was pointed out. iovit mc avv uAiiriMiciy gau vet erans now living in this county, and it is estimated they wil receive $257, 774.40, qr between $400 and $500 each, on an average. Veterans in the state are slated to receive a round $34, 622,000, according to fig ures released several months ago by a veterans' organization. Postmaster L. T. Fowden yester day issued the following statement: "I have been instructed by the Post Office Department that World War veterans' adjusted certificates will, be paid .by adjusted service bonds in denominations of $50 each. Any amount in excess of $50 and not exceeding $100 will be paid with U. S. Treasury Checks fpr any dif ference along with the bonds. "In case there is any delay as to the arrival of these registered let ters, veterans need not worry, as this delay will probably be caused by some technical delay in the de partment." | ? , Baptist Church To Have Home Coming Sunday Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 o'clock. B. T. U., 7 p. m. Evening worships .7:45 o'clock To keep you from forgetting, we innounce again that this fifth Sun lay, May 81, is Home Coming Day it our church. The petriots of Old Jerusalem never failed to go back borne at least once a year. Your teal and devotion should be express id by your presence Sunday. Back to the church, back to Christ, then forward In His I RESETTLEMENT WORK SUMMED UPAT MEETING More Than 100 Families On Resettlement Rolls In Martin County Extensive operations carried ?on by the Federal Government's Rural Resettlement Administration were revealed at a district meeting held in Wilson this week, when the work was reviewed by Federal and State authorities of the organization. There are at present around 7.500 families in North Carolina on the roll of the resettlement program, and, according to Homer B. Mask, regional director, there are at leas'. 17,500 other families in the state that should be included. Their work centering principally with the tenant farmer, the resettle ment administration fonea have gg. complished marked results over the nation in the comparatively short time the organization has been func tioning Thousands of families have been returned to the land, and oth ers who, for one reason or another, 'lost out" are being rehabilitated. The vast operations of the admin istration can better be understood by a review of the activities in this county. At the present time there are 103 families in this county on the resettlement rolls, according to a report by David G Modlin, farm supervisor, and Miss Minnie B. Lee, home supervisor for this county, who attended the district meeting in Wilson. Extended credit in the amount of $44,788.68 in the early spring, the 103 families in this coun ty are now cultivating 3,786 acres of land. Picked up by the resettle ment forces, the 103 farmers had virtually nothing to farm on or farm 'with, and 165 mules had to be pur chased. In keeping with the reha bilitation program, the families pur chased 85 milk cows and 191 brood sows. Chickens on the farms now number 3.290. Mr. Mask told'the resettlement supervisors that the object of the re habilitation work was to teach the younger generation of tenant farm ers of the South to carry on after their fathers had gone toward the betterment of southern, tenant farm |ing He told of the bad condition oi the tenant farmer in this section and declared that it was as much a crime to abuse land as it was for a man to abuse a mule. "We have now reached the point in the reha bilitation program," he said, "where we have to start to teach the tenant farmer how to carry on with what we have provided him with. "I have seen some pitiful sights in my travels about this section, and it is our mission to see that those sights are obliterated and that the tenant farmer is taught to do in the future what he should have been taught to do in the past. It may take years to do this, but it will be done, I am sure, in the end." -Atlantic Beach Has Formal Opening Sunday May 31st Atlantic Beach, operated by new management of Aubrey E Shackell. will formally open Sunday what has the promise of being one of It* best seasons. The opening Sunday will be preceded by a dance Satur day night, the management an nounced. Considerable improvements have been made to the resort, fast grow ing to be one of the major ones on the Atlantic coast, and record-size crowds are expected there all dur ing the season. The big pert devel opment at Morehead City will be an added attraction to North Caro linians. TownjCommissioners To Meet Monday Evening 9 ? ? Williamston's town comitlinionen will meet in regular session next Monday night at 8 o'clock. Mayor J. L. Hassell stating today that no business other than routine matters had been scheduled for considers tion at that time. Majority County Schools Are Completing Terms This Week With the Robersonville, Oak City, Hassell and Hamilton, the Martin County schools are completing the 1935-36 term this week. Exercises are being held to day at Farm Life and Williamston. Tlie^ftoals programs were held at Jamesville Tuesday night and at Bear Grass and Everetts yesterday. Oak City, Hassell and Hamilton close next Tuesday, and the final curtain of the term falls at Rober sonville next Thursday night. Considering the interruption | caused by , bad weather and road I conditions during January and teb ruary, all the principals report a very successful term. Local school conpswttees are plan ning meetings during the next few days to consider faculty appoint ments for the coming term, unoffic ial reports stating that some school* will effect several changes^in the teaching personnel while in others few or no changes are likely to be considered The Williamston board will likely meet during early next week to con sider appointments fur the local far ulty. Baseball Is Relegating Polities To Back Seat McDonald Believed To Be Holding His Lead in This County Managers of Three Candi dates Advancing Some Strong Claims Politics, even the hot race for the governorship, is fast being pushed into the background of general con versation in these parts by baseball, and unles the first wave of sports fever subsides between now and to morrow week the size of the vote in the county is going to be affected; for, believe it or not, some of the ardent fans will forget there is a primary scheduled that day. With the baseball season at hand, a virtual end to political campaign ing has been noted in this communi ty, and it is a good thing that the major candidates completed their speaking tours here before the base ball bug started stinging its victims for they would have gained little | recognition in competition with the -nationVmain sport. Politics continues in a muddle as j the primary nears, supporters claim ing victory for their respective can didates and failing to believe each other. Flying reports claim Graham is gaining, Hoey is gaining and Mc Donald is gaining. That poor fel low McRae, the fourth candidate in | the field but apparently not in the race, must have had a world of I strength at one time for Hoey's, Gra ham's and McDonald's gain had to come from -some one. Some of these straw polls credited Mr. McRae with one vote at one time, and according to some managers the other three candidates each got one-third of it to account for those extensive gains A climax to the situation was reached one evening this week when several ball fans said they wished they could trade all four gubernatorial candidaees for one good first basement, the fans ex plalnlng Ihe Slalc could run'with-" out a governor, but the club could not get along without a first base man?a good Qne. # More reports indicate that Gra ham is virtually assured at least two precincts, Gold Point and Rob ersonville, in this county, with pos sibly McDonald carrying two-thirds of those left and Hoey gathering enough here and there to run sec ond in the county as a whole. The voters will settle the matter, par tially, at least, June 6, and even though there are not but two or three local contests, the activities that day are expected to prove quite interesting. The Enterprise plans to post the returns Saturday eve ning and a general invitation is ex tended the public to look in on it. P. P. Peel Starts Fire and Smoke Sale^Here Saturday P. P. Peel will place on sale Sat urday his large stock of goods at greatly reduced prices. The mer chandise, wrecked by fire and smoke two weeks ago, was not materially damaged, but the owner is running the sale on every item. I FIRST MONDAY V * Martin County's commission ers will receive the tax lists from the 10 township list-takers as their only official business scheduled so far for their regu lar meeting here next Monday. J. Sam Getsinger, ex-officio clerk to the board, said today. However, numerous matters fall lng into the routine category, were certain to find a place on the business calendar In addi tion to the inspection of current bills. No meeting of the Martin County Board of Education is scheduled for next Monday, ac cording to information coming from the superintendent's office this morning. CHILD WELFARE NEEDS IN COUNTY ARE SUMMARIZED County People Interested In Child Welfare, Miss Owens Declares ? By MISS MARGARET OWENS (Martin County Child Welfare Worker) To the casual observer one would never get the impression that Mar tin County presented many child welfare problems. But to the in dividual who delves more deeply into the home life, school life, church life and other interrelation ships of the children and their fam ilies, one gets an entirely different picture. This analysis is made aft er a survey of the county, of a tour to learn the physical outline; to learn the various industries that characterize the communities; of the types of people who inhabit the communities; of the social, moral, and economic make-up of the town ship that fuiin the county. The pic ture has been drawn from observa tion; direct contact with child wel fare problem cases; interviews with principals and teachers in the schools, interviews with doctors who serve the different sections of the county, interviews with the public health nurse holding clinics in the schools, contact wi^h the parent teachers associations, interviews with minister and other interested citizens. Taking the county as a whole, especially the rural sections there is a rich field for a child welfare program. Thefe has been a great deal of voluntary work done along this .. line by interested citizens Many adjustments for underprivil eged children have been made. How work treatment in order that the adjustments may be permanent and more satisfactory. In my survey I | have found the school attendance ! problem to be a very grave one. There has been contact with chil dren 11, 12, 13 and 14 years of age who have not advanced higher than (Continued on back page) Tobacco Damage Serious serious conditions surround - Inc the crop situstiou in Uda Me Uon and in other arena were a| fravated this week as the loaf ?Melon of dry weather can tin. ned unbroken, many farmer* statlnf that the outlook is the darkest they had ever Men at this time of year. Activities on most farms are at a standstill, many farmers takiac their trou bles alone with ?shln? poles to ?rook haaka, as thoy realise Ht tie constructive work eon be ac ?pUahed ot home. Vthilo it to not yet too late to tobacco plant*, the Is too far (one to assure host results and much of the to ho ceo transplanted now will food the worms next August in a blf way. The crop has been materially rod need, the extent of the decrease resting with weather eonditiona daring the next few days. Four years ago, a few farm en transplanted to bacco u late aa July 4, but the crop waa not at all aueeaaalul. * Plants are very scarce, and It Is cenerally believed that the transplanting activities are near tnf an end In this section. Reports from ports of Georgia South Carolina and the eastern section of this state aay the con ditions there are about the same as they are hare, all potatlai to a small tebaeeo crop this sea FINALS PROGRAM WILL BE HELD AT SCHOOL TONIGHT Thirty-two Boys and Girls Arc Candidates For Diplomas ? The 1935-36 school term will be brought to a close tonight in the Williamston High School auditorium with 'the awarding of diplomas and certificates to the 32 members of the graduating class and the presenta tion of cups to the outstanding high school?students. Foriy-eight stu dents will receive grammar grade certificates signifying the comple tion of the requirements of the ele mentary school. / A feature of the program will be the commencement address which will be delivered by A. A. F. Sea-* wall, attorney general of the State of North Carolina, who will be in troduced by Judge Clayton, Moore. The present graduating class, the largest in the history of the local high school, is composed of 20 girls and 12 boys. Ben Manning, with a scholastic average of 93.3, is vale dictorian and Marie Griffin, with an average of 91.6, is salutatorian. Diplomas will be awarded to the following: Edna Lucille Ballard, Thelma Todd Burroughs. Loyce Wynne Cul tipher, Anna Bolton Cowen, Mary Frances Cox, Ella Wynne Critcher, Margaret Marie Griffin, Robert Franklin Gurganus, Allie Gertrude I Harrison, Jessie Mae Holloman, Ev elyn Christine Jenkins, Evelyn Christine Lilley, Marjorie Lindsley, Benjamin Everette Manning, James Louis Mobley, Clayton Moore, jr., John Pope, jr., Minnie Kathleen Price, Christine Beatrice Rngerson, Oswald Douglas Stalls, Mamie Clyde Taylor, Jean Dent Watts, Minnie Lorene Weaver, Carrie Lee Wil liams, James' Leirfuel Ross Williams. Certificates will be presented to: Charles Lee Daniel; Hannah Vic Ev erett, Charles Milton James, Har old Brinkley Lilley, Clayton Leroy Revels, Selma Ventrice Swanson. Bills for Dredging River Are Asked Bids for dredging the Roanoke River at points between the mouth and Hamilton have been asked by the Federal government according to unofficial information received here yesterday. Engineers repre senting private dredging companies were here this week surveying the proposed project, and it is under stood the bids will be opened with in the. next 30 days. The improvement program calls I for widening the government cut at Shad Island, several miles below here, from 50 to 100 feet. The cut is several hundred feet long. Dredg ing will likely be contracted at Luke's and Slade's eddies and Black Gut shoals, all between here ami Hamilton. The river will also be deepened at the old steamboat wharf in Hamilton. ? t Poppy Sale Nets in County The poppy sale conducted in this county last Saturday by the John Walton Hassell Legion Post Auxil iary was described as vefy success ful. Nearly all the 700 poppies al lotted the auxiliary were sold, net-, ting approximately $70. The pop pies, prepared by disabled veterans, were sold in all sections of the coun ty. Colored School Here Has Very Successful Closing Williamston's colored school clos ing a few days ago was recognized as one of the most successful ever held and one that, in many respects, rated above those of most all other schools, including white ones. One comment on the commencement pro gram was that the faculty and pu pils take the event with all serious ness, and near perfection results. The closing event may or may not reflect the progress made during the school term, but it does unquestion ably show that there has been and ?till is a marked advancement In Negro education in the school. ? Heads Woman's Group for McDonald In This County Miss Velma Harrison, teacher In the local schools, was named Mar. tin County chairman of the State Committee for McDonald this week by Mrs. Margaret Wood Smethurst, secretary of the organization spon soring the man's candidacy for gov
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