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VOLUME XL?NUMBER 25 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday. March 26. 1937
ESTABLISHED 1899
W. R. INGRAM ANDl
JOHNNIE CURKI
IN TOBACCO FIRMl
Operating Personnel Local)
Market Made Complete
This Week
Arrangements for operating t
Williams ton Tobacco Market tl?
season were completed this week, j
when Messrs. W R Ingram a
Johnnie Gurkin announced tin?
partnership for operation of tbe|
Planters (Brick) Warehouse. Mem
Ingram and Gurkin. the new (h?
name, purchased the lease held by
George Foxworth. who will not re
turn to the market here this year.
The partnership has been pending
for several days, but was only offic
ially announced yesterday following
the receipt of tha Isnae cadwd.
The 1937 season is the eighth for
Mr. Ingram on the local tobacco
market, he having been assnciated
with the operation of the Fanners
house during all of that time- His
connection with the tobacco business
was made when he was a young
man. Mr. Gurkin enters the busi
ness as a partner this season for the
first time, but he is rated one of the
best tobacco gioweis in the belt and
is recognized as an unusualy able
judge of tobacco
Considerable interest is being cen
tered on the Williams!on Tobacco
Market already for the coming sea
son, and present prospects arc really
encouraging for its successful oper
ation.
Messrs. S. Claude Griffin and Jim
mie Taylor, operators of the Roan
oke-Dixie house, announced their
partnership scene time ago. the part
nership of Messrs. BarnhilL Evans
and Moye following the early part
of this week. The line-up gives Wil
liamston its strongest warehouse op
erating personnel in all its history,
news of the partnerships being re
ceived with interest by fanners for
miles around, as well as by local
people.
Luke Mizelle Died
Wednesday Night at
Home in Bear Grass
Funeral Services Held This
Afternoon In Roberson's
Chapel by Rev. Piephoff
Luke Mizelle. retired fanner an
carpenter, died at his home in Bea
Grass Wednesday night at II o'dod
of cancer. He had been in dec lie
ing health for three years or more
but was able to be up until abou
three months ago.
Mr. Mirelle. a native of thi
county, would have been B yeai
old had he lived until yesterday
When a young man he mimed Ms
Alice Asby, who survives with si
children. Mrs. Sol Mobley. of Robei
sonville; Charlie Mack Mizelle. Mr
Robert Price. Archie Mirelle. Wil
liam Herbert Mizelle and Mrs. Far
nie Myrt Cow in. all of this count;
He also leaves two brothers. A lorn
Mizelle, of Elizabeth City; and Ni
than D. Mizelle. of Wallace. Ma; an
five sisters, Mrs. W. H Gurganus, <
Williamston; Mrs. W H. H. Coope
of Elizabeth City; Mrs. J. D. g
of Hickory Mrs R Hai ilsni. <
Jamesvilic. and Mrs Mack Vann. <
Jackson.
A it. em be.- at the
church at Robcrsoa's Chapel. Mr. Mil
relit- posse <-d a friendly attitude I
toward his lellowman.
Funeral rervices
at Rober ion's Chipel this afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock by Rev. Z. T. Piep
hoff. assisted by Rev. John Whitley
and Elder B S Co * m Burial 1
in the Mobtoy
Grass Township.
Delivering Cheeks
To County Farmers
Delayed who
office at the county a0
necessary to complete
far the 1M7 crop, the
sod conservation checks is
momentum in this nsinlj s
day. Nearly an the feat eh
Certified Potato Seed Being
Tried Out on County Farms
Ax rat L T. Weeks went to Wal
lace yesterday far toe seed and
he la ddiverinx them today.
The six fnamis are said to be
1 next year trees the
craf this year. TV Narth Car
otiaa Cnr
riatiaa <
fee both far the leM ut ha
at a aMiiil coat, aad wet i
by that
Faiiatii, Maya
Robert Ererrtt. I. Fraak Weav
er. J. G. Stales. F. C. Statuses
the S tafefa at eerti
Iimi the hmiaiat
S tattoo.
Farmers Not Growing
Right Type of Cotton
WELMER MODLIN
DIED WEDNESDAY
AT LOCAL HOME
Last Rites Conducted At
His Old Home Yesterday
In Jamesville Township
Wilmer A Modlin. retired farmer
and timberman, died at his home
on Smilhwick Street here Wednes
day afternoon following a long per
iod of declining health. He had suf
fered some time from rheumatism,
a complication of ailments hastening
his death.
The son of the late Alfred and
Fannie Snell Modlin. he was born
near Cedar Branch church 52 years
ago. where he spent most of his life.
His timber business carried him into
several counties for periods of a few
yean, but for the past nine yean
he made his home here.
When a young man he was mar
ried to Miss Pattie Boyd, who died
a number of years ago. Four sons.
Willie. Galer. Kader, and Frank
Modlin. and one daughter. Miss Lo
retta Modlin. survive that union
His srrnnd marriage was to Miss
Zula Waters, who survives with four
children, Pattie, Wilma Gray, Doris
and Fannie Mae Modlin, all of Wil
Uamston.
Mr. Modlin was a member of the
Poplar Chapel Christian church for
a number of yean and was active
until his health began to fail him.
Funeral services were conducted
yesterday afternoon at the old home
place in Jamesville Township by
Rev. J. M Perry, burial following
in the family cemetery on the home
farm there.
Three brothers, Frank Modlin, of
Jamesville; Haywood Modlin. of
Gardens: and Sylvester Modlin, of
Pinetown: and two sisters, Mrs. Lena
Waters and Mrs. Mamie Long, both
of Jamesville. also survive.
Seed Loans Advanced To
Ninety Martin Farmers
Approximately 90 feed and seed
loans have been advanced to fann
ers in this county so far, it was
learned from the county emergency
loan office here today. The loans
average around $130 each, making a
total of nearly $12,000 advanced to
faiiiini in this county so far, it was
learned from the county emergency
loan office here today. The loans
average around $130 each, making
a total of nearly $12,000 advanced
to Martin farmers by the agency to
date.
Several of the applications for the
loans have been approved and the
applicants have received their mon
ey. it is understood
No date for closing the office has
been mentioned, but it is thought
that the loans will not be available
probably after next week or the
following.
Young Girl Dies Near Here
Last Wednesday Afternoon
Mary O. Gray, 7-year-old daugh
ter of Reuben and Km ma Rogers
Gray, died at the home of her par
ruts near the Mobley Mill in Wil
liamston Township. Wednesday aft
ernoon of pneumonia. Hie young
girl had been ill for only a short
terday afternoon by Rev. Z. T. Piep
hoff. Presbyterian minister, and bur
ial was in the Ay en cemetery in
Cross Roads Township.
Roland Crawford, who
in an Asheville hospital
with his mother, Mrs.
?*"* ii,i. j ?, - juisitinnin*
Uiwioro, DOore conunuini
W. Vs.
by Mrs. Craw
Carolina Mills Want
Longer Staple Than
Is Usually Produced
Extensive Use of Certified
Seed Uurged by Weeks,
Assistant Agent
Br L T. WEEKS
Assistant Caul; Agent
A majority of the North Carolina
farmers are not growing the type of
cotton that is used most by North
Carolina mills The farmers could
sell all of the lint cotton that is
grown right here at home if they
would produce the type of cotton
that the milla wanC_
North Carolina mills use about
three tunes as much as is produced
in the state, and yet a large portion
of our cotton is sold outside the
state. Why is this done" This prac
tice is necessary because the staple
of our cotton is too short. There is
little demand for t 8 inch staple,
which is about the average for many
farms in our state. The greatest de
mand in staple lengths range from
15-16 inch to 1 1-6 inch staple. There
is always a premium price paid for
extra staple on any market Nat
urally, with the average staple
length that we have, we ship our
cotton to mills that manufacture
products that can be made from the
shorter staples, and in North Caro
lina most of the mills manufacture
a good grade product that demands
the best lint cotton t.iat can be had.
We are very fortunate to have the
type of soils in our state that will
produce the varieties that will give
a staple of the desired length. It is
a very simple matter to plant the
varieties that will give us the long
er staple.
The best grades of the better va
rieties thai will produce the long
staples do not cost but little more
than the lower grades of the same
varieties, and for the extra cost one
is paid many times for his addition
al cost of the seed, and gets a very
high interest rate on his extra in
vestment in the form of premiums
for the difference in the length of
the staple Most any cotton buyer,
whether it be a buyer for a coop
erative marketing association or a
buyer buying for speculative pur
poses, is willing to pay an additional
price for lint cotton having an inch
staple or better. In most cases buy
ers will pay as much as 1-4 of a
cent per pound for any cotton rang
ing 1-inch staple or better. Also
Omm batter grades of the better va
rieties yiid much more lint per acre
than the unimproved varieties of
cotton. Now. taking these factors
into consideration, it can easily be
see nthe extra amount of profits that
can be obtained from a $1 or $2 extra
investment per bushel at seed at
planting time
Blue Mold Ap|>ears
In County Plants
Blue mold, reported to have ex
acted considerable damage in Geor
gia and South Carolina and along
the border, is believed to have made
its appearance in this section already
according to ip^irert reports heard
here yesterday The plant bed of
Farmer Joshu L Cohrain over in
Williams Township was said to have
been wiped out a few days ago. the
reports stating tha: the plans, rang
ing up to the sue of half a dollar,
were killed by blue mold.
General reports from over the
REPORTS FOREST
FIRES IN COUNTY
LAST TUESDAY
Wardens Check Fire That
Started In 2,000-Acre
Tract In Griffins
Starting from what was believed
to be carelessness on the part of
ie one. fires broke out in several
forests of this county last Tuesday.
County Fire Warden H. D llardi
son explaining that the resulting
linns were held to a minimum when
the state and county cooperative fire
wardens went into action Three
fires were reported in the county
that day. two in Griffins Township
and one near Oak City.
Fire Towerman Dick Chesson. at
the Hassell station, spotted the fire
near Oak City and had it under con-,
port on the fire there has not been
filed in the county warden's office
here, but it is not believed that any
great damage resulted
Five hundred acres were burned
over in Griffins Township bdore
Warden llarvin Leggett and Tower
man Thomas Manning and others
were able to bring it under control.
The fire that threatened to sweep
over 2.000 acres and exact a tremen
dous damage started in the old J
A W tract in the Dymond City sec
tion. Quick action on the part of
Warden Leggett is credited with
checking the fire and confining the
damage to about 25 acres Several
hundred thousand feet of sawed tim
ber probably would have been de
stroyed had the fire not been check
ed. it was stated.
County and district forest war
dens appeal to everyone to guard
against the spread of woods fires,
and urge every precaution in burn
ing brush tie Ids. ditch bank, and
new ground.
| The CCC forces returned this
week to complete the old Dymond j
City fire control program, authon I
ties stating that a road would pos
sibly be cut through to I'inelown
through the old Dymond City site
Several fire lanes will be cut as orig
inally planned, and. in the mean
time. foresters will guard closely the
thousands of unbroken acres of tim
ber lands there
ENFORCEMENT
OFFICER N AMED
BY ABC BOARD
Joe H. Roebuck To Head
Work In County First
Of Next Month
} Jce tt Roebuck, deputy sheriff and
: captain of raiding forces that havy
wrecked hundreds of liquor plants
in this county m the past number of
years, was appointed by the Martin
County Alcoholic Beverages Control
Board on Wednesday of this week
to head the enforcement of liquor
laws in this county. Mr Roebuck
enters upon his new assignment the
first of May.
The enforcement work will be
handled on a cooperative basis with
[the sheriff's office, the two combin
ing their services in conducting the
raids and in the general enforce
ment at all laws. The entire enforce
ment program will be headed by
the man appointed by the ABC
Board, and the program calls for
action against sellers as well as man
ufacturers of bootleg liquor, public
drunkenness, drunken automobile
driving and allied infractions of the
liquor lawk H was pointed out by
V. J. Spivey. chairman of the board
in this county.
Mr. Roebuck has not announced
his p'?~ for attack on violators of
the liquor Isws, but he is expected
to form working agreements with
all local and county officers and car
ry the drive into every section of the
county.
Under the 1937 liquor laws, county
control boards are privileged to
spend as much as 10 per cent of the
profits far enforcement at the liquor
laws. Baaed on last year's sale, the
enforcement fund will be around
32J500, but the board does not neces
sarily have to spend that amount.
Chairman Spivey explained TV
coat of the new enforcement pro
gram win * "**?? the S per cent al
ike !?? law
Haseball Aggregation To
Report Week After Next
Wdliamston's 1937
I baseball squad, headed by Manager
I Art Hauger. will start moving in
Club President
Hauger left
trip
SPECIAL PROGRAMS OF
EASTER SER VICES FOR
WILLIAMSTON SUNDAY
Hoey Appointrnents To State
Offices Ana ited With Interest
The general public
with much interest the a
Governor Clyde R Hoejr is to i
shortly at the direction of the leg
islature recently adjourned. Prob
ably the most interest is centered
around the appointments to bo made
to the highway commission. So far
no names have been mentioned offic
tally, but nearly every section of the
Siate has-a candidate for a place on_
the highway commission- Martin
County is not advancing a candidate,
as far as it is known, but at the
same time they are interested in get
ting able men on the ?
There are numerous
to be made, including three
bers lo a state liquor commission,
an agency that ts considered by
many to be of no great promise The
governor is also to appoint a direc
tor of old age assistance to direct
the administration of the old-age
pwkii law Before July 1 he is to
appoint two judges to the supreme
court and an additional superior
taut judge There are al>o lesser
appointments to be made as j te
sult of legislation enacted by the
re*ent assembly
The reorganized highway commis
sion will be divided into 10 districts
mitii a nuinbcr from each of the
districts and a chairman to be se
lected at large
Standard F ertilizer Co.
Adding To Plant Here
Land Plaster Mill Is
Being Built: Ready
o
About First of May
Gypsum Rock Will Be Sent
By Water Direct From
Nova Scotia Fields
Hie Standard Fertilizer
is installing a land plaster mill
its plant on Roanoke River here, the
mill to be ready for Operation about
the first of May. Mr C. G. Crockett
manager, said today
Nine-foot pits for the elevators
and crushers have been completed,
and alterations to the building itself
are nearing complet?m Repcesen
tatives of the machinery manufact
urers will start installing the crush
ers and conveyors within the next
few days, it was learned
With a capacity of about If# torn
every 10 hours, the mill is one of
the few. if not the only one. in the
United States outside of Norfolk. It
is of modern manufacture and grinds
locks of 5-inch diameter to a dus"
about as fine as face powder
The highest grade ?f |
will he
from the Nova Scotia fields to the
plants here. The same equipment"
for unloading and storing fertilizer
will be used in handling the gypsum
but from the big bins the material
is dumped into the special crusher
mill The crushing and I
orations will be handled
cously, and the bagged product i
ready for shipment in
The Standard plant is urm
busiest season since it
lished here, shipments ,
big quantities by rad
Special forces are handling the kacsd
ilar'cr mill installation.
the regular plant activities as
ion the land plaster unit gomg on at
the same lime, the large plant of
ihe company is as busy as an over
crowded beehive.
Let (Contract for
New Store Here
A contract for the constractm oi
a new store here for the VanDyk -
Furniture Company was let th??
week to J. L Cannon. C. trtilie
contractor T> e const-~xi. . cost
was not nuclei
Ti e one-story ructure wiH oe lo
cated on the site between the Gear
anty Bank & Trust Cmfocy and
the Atlantic Hotel, the
cccupy the entire lot with
c <-ptn>n of two feet next to tl
Construction work will be started
by the contractor the early port of
next week, it was leant
from Mr Garland Wooferd
pony's local manacer.
Riddick's Grove Services
Sunday. 3 O'Clock P. M.
Services will be held as the
dick's Grove Baptist church Sn
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Rev. W, B.
today The semee is the Int i
uled in the church ? torn
the pestoc <
by
I TOBACCO PLANTS
the ilwrUnr of lubirru
pluh down in Cicorgia b al
rradt reaching serious propor
lnwi h fldfffd in upolti
rrviumx km this ?rrk. It was
rcfcahljr learned that plans am
selling tor as much as Sit a
and the demand ran
Ike irpstli did wot indicate
ke sue of plantings that * on Id
there, hat it is quite
it on It a shortage in
plants will keep the farmers
there front planting a record
acreage to the crop this Tear
HOPE TO ENROLL
COUNTY WOMEN
IN CANCER DRIVE
County-wide Campaign To
Get Underway Early
Part Next Week
The national campaign for the
control of cancer will be brought to
Co-yt n-ith ap
insistent plea for enrollment in the
Woman's Field Army of the Amen
can Society for lite Control of Can
cer Headed by Mrs Hay II Good
moo as captain, and Mrs K P Cun
n.Tigham as assistant captain, the
campaign is to be carried into all
iwtioo of the county
Conducted on a nation-wide scale,
the campaign has for its object the
education of the public for cancer
control, to disseminate knowledge
ooMrrninf the symptoms, diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of cancer,
to investigate the conditions under
which. cancer is found and to com
pile statistics in regard thereto."
Many physicians have reported to
the American Society for the Con
trol of Cancer, the organization lead
ing the way in educating the public
on cancer control, the following.
"We are prepared to diagnose and
treat cancer, but the patients come
to us too late. Often they have
shown the cancer danger signals for
months or even years, and yet they
seek help only when they are in
curable. Can't you teach them to
wcognixe these signals and come to
us when they first appear"*"
Briefly stated, the task accepted
by the Society for Cancer Control
and which it is advancing through
the Women's Field Army is to teach
people to recognize the early symp
toms of cancer and to control the
Membership fees are $1. the funds
raised going into a state and nation
al fund for the preparation of lit
erature and research work. Martin
County's quota has been placed at
tit. and those heading the campaign
locally are appealing to the pubis,
u iei,d its support to the worthy
Local Banks To Observe
Easter Monday as Holiday
Easter Monday mill be obeervet
? a holiday by local U>
Aim of the V. E P. Company ck?
as for the afternoon. All
the
\ntinpate Renewed
Interest in Activities
Of Christian People
? 1 ?? ?
First of Special Programs
In Church of Advent
This Evening
Special Easter programs are ex
pected to attract unusually large
crowds to Williams ton churches this
?wuk end. leligiuiis I wads having led
arangements for celebrating the
greatest event on the Christian re
ligion calendar. Cordial invitations
are extended all people in all walks
of life to attend the services, and
local church leaders as well as those
throughout the world, are anticipat
. :ng a new awakening in religious
activities, and it is quite evident that
? the real meaning of the particular
religious period will not be second
: ary in the order of events.
Special preparations for the Eas
ier-time programs have been under
way for weeks in some of the local
churches, and a response of propor
tions is expected from all the public
who has centered its schedule of ac
tivities around the main Easter re
. 2'gious events.
The first of the strictly Easter
period services will be held in the
Church of the Advent this evening
Tat g o'clock.'the service to bd in the
- form of a sacred cantata.
? A sun rise service at 6 o'clock will
' feature the Sunday program in the
local Christian church. There'll be
; no other preaching services there
that day. but the members of the
. <>ngregafi<?n will worship with
tother denominations The Sunday
school will convene at the regular
hour.
Holy Communion will be observed
Sunday morning at 7:30 o'clock in
the Church of the Advent, the rec
tor, Rev. E F. Moseley, announc
ing that Easter anthems and hymns
will be sung at the service. No
other preaching service will be held
in the church that day as the min
) ^ter will fill appointments in St.
Martin's, Hamilton.
Special Easter music has been
planned at the 11 o'clock liour in the
Methodist church, t'.i paste*. Rev.
K R Grant, aanouncif g there would
(be no evening service there as he
preaches at Holly Springs that eve
ning at 7.30 o'clock.
FaP'cr niihir and the ordinance of
Baptism are special features for the
Sunday morning service in the Bap
Ifc-t church. Rev das. H. Smith an
nounced . No evening service will
be held there, but all men of the
( Lurch are urged to attend a special
rmeeting in Bethel that afternoon at
2 00 o'clock
"Chousing as his text, "God is not
the God of the dead, but of the lir
iog." Krv 7. T Piephoff will have
for his subject at the Sunday morn
ing service in the Presbyterian
church, "He Is Here."
Other churches here and in the
county are looking forward io a
concerted religious worship with
large congregations participating.
iNew Development
Under Way Here
A real estate development is get
;ing underway on Martin Heights
: just to the end of East Main Street
here this meek. Civil Engineer John
Wells. of Rocky Mount, is making
a surve yof the property and will
lay out streets and lots there. A
name for the development has not
teen determined. Mr Wheeler Mar
tin. owner, said, but the name "Edge
wood" has been suggested.
Mr and Mrs Jimmie Taylor
; bought a lot there this week and
will start construction on a two
. story brick home there lmmediate
] ly. Several other prospective home
I builders are considering the pur
chase of lots in the development
there, it is understood
Officers of County Wreck
Liquor Plants Wednesday
The Sheriffs Roebuck wreckad
three si arable liquor plants in the
Free Union section of Jameoville
Township Wednesday, but the own
ers apparently anticipated the ridt
and removed the kettles to a I
place tar distant from the i
liquor i
ef