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THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XL?NUMBER 41 Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina, Friday. May 21.1937 ITHTAFlI IflllMh I? Martins Split With Bears; Win First ofj 4 Games With Ayden Deim and Earp Continue To Be Big Guns at Bat; Two Homers Yesterday Facing a strong bear market here last Wednesday afternoon, the Mar ?tins tasted defeat fur tlie second time this season, the New Bern Bruins winning by a 5-2 count. A win over the Bears on their own grounds the day before and a victory over the Ayden Aces yesterday, however, continued Art Hauger's boys in the leading position, out in front by a margin of 1 1-2 games. Artie Deim, third sacker, did the hitting and Charlie Stevens did th: running to feature the 4-2 win in 10 innings with New Bern over in the -Craven Capital last Tuesday. Strunk, holding the Bears to a mere 4 hits, pitched a good game, and Flythe, New Bern hurler, worked well, allowing but 6 hits. Deim ac counted for 50 per cent of those, and the Martins took advantage of the stickwork and Bear errors and made 4 of the knocks count for runs. It was 2-2 in the tenth, and in that frame the Martins figured it was about time to run for home, and they put the game on ice. Wednesday was just a off-day on the local lot, the Bears, headed by old Skipper Doc Smith, came here to win and they did by a 5-2 count. Pitcher Larry Wade did not hit his stride and was relieved by Rollins in the fifth after the Bruins had an nexed 4 runs. Rollins held the visi tors to 3 hits during the 5 frames he worked The Arkansas youth, with a near-perfect record on the mound, favored that record with his first hit, a two-bagger, off Hamons. New Bern pitcher. Hamons was right that day, and the Rollins hit carried added significance. The Martins started a four-game series with Ayden yesterday after noon and came from behind to reg ister a 6-5 win on the Aces' own grounds. Gardner started for the Martins on the mound, but yielded to Wade in the third inning, after Harriaon singled, Joyner doubled, and Johnson homered to push the run count to 5. Wade redeemed himself and held the Aces to a brace of hits during the 6 2-3 innings he worked. Earp, with 3 hits, and Deim and Lakotas with a home run each, one right after the other, fea tured with the stick, the Martins touching Dunn for 14 hits. Ville pique and Stanley featured afield. Tarboro forged ahead of Golds boro and is holding second place in I the Coastal Plain loop. Many Applying for Teaching Positionsl o 1 More than a dozen applications have been received for positions made vacant by the resignation of six teachers, Principal T. O. Hick man said this week. Nine of the po sitions have/ been filled so far. the school man added Names of teachers resigning are: Miss Elizabeth Gurley, first grade teacher, of Fremont: Miss Inez Las siter, teacher?of the second grade, from Crfndor; Miss Louise Paschal, seventh grade teacher, of Reidsville; S. L. Thomas, high school teacher, of Porkton; Miss Kathleen Gilliam, high school teacher, of Statesvittc; and Miss Jessie Faye Green, music teacher, of Aulander. Anderson Elected To Succeed Leake Professor L. W. Anderson, prin cipal of the local schools during the the position of principal in the Rob ersonvilie schools, the district board there announcing his election fol lowing a meeting held the early part of this week. Mr. Anderson suc ceeds Professor R. I. Leake, who re signed recently following 13 years as principal of the school there. Mr Anderson, heading the local schools during the lesve of absence granted Professor D. N. Hix for a year, made many friends here and was recognized as an able school man. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson will make their home in Robersonville aftr a visit with relatives in Rich Holiness Revival To Be Closed Sunday Night Revs. J. G. Crocker and J. W. Wel lons are bringing a several weeks meeting to a close in the Pentecost al Holiness church here Sunday eve ning. Success has marked the meet ings so far, and large crowds have heard the messages. Hope To Secure Commercial Department at Local School Realizing a great need (or a com mercial department in the local schools, members and officers of the Williams ton Parent-Teacher Asso ciation are planning to appeal to the county authorities for a small ap propriation at a meeting to be held the first Monday in June, it was learned here yesterday; Many young people in the town and others in the district are said to be anxious to take the instruc tion offered by a commercial de partment. In a meeting held this week, the \ LITTLE MEDICINE I v / J. J. Roberson, prominent elt isen of Griffins Township, this county, has an unusual health record. Stricken with typhoid fever twice during a single year when he was 14 years old. Mr. Roberson came out of that ill ness and has not taken a dose of medicine since, and he is now nearing three score and ten years of age. Asked if he hadn't taken just one dose of medicine, Mr. Rob erson explained that he had tak en a few drops of spirits of tur pentine on a few occasions when he felt a bit duU. Workers Urged To Apply for Security Account Numbers Hope To Have Wage Rec ords Set Up by First of June, Official Says The Social Security Board today urged all eligible workers who have not yet applied for social security account numbers to do so promptly to expedite the setting up by June 30 of wage records for their partici pation in the federal old-age bene flas program under the social secur ity act. For more than six months the Post Office Department has cooper ated in this program of obtaining applications for social security ac count numbers from workers in the fields of commerce and industry. The department's machinery now is operating so smoothly throughout the country that on the average only two days elapse from the time a worker files his application until he receives his account number, Mr. Wade pointed out. "Obtaining a social security ac count number is an important step in providing protection against the earner who may at a future time be entitled to Federal benefits," Le Roy Hodges, director of The Federat old-age benefits bureau of the board says. "Workers in covered employments who have not applied for account numbers," Mr. Hodges warned, "may be creating difficulties in determin ing the proper amount of old-age benefits to which they will be en titled. Employers will make peri odic reports to the Bureau of Inter nal Revenue of wages paid to each of their employees. Account num bers assigned will appear on these returns. A record of the wages so reported will be kept bv the board for use whenever a claim based on the employee's wages is filed. "Employers on June 30 must be prepared to file their first periodic report on wages earned by their em ployees since January 1, 1937, when this part of the social program got under way. Thereafter, these in formational returns will be filed quarterly. In order properly to make the return, an employer must have the social security account num bars of all his employees which should have been previously report ed to him by each worker Mr. Hodges directed attention to a Treasury regulation requiring em ployers of one or more employees in all those occupations covered by this part of the Social Security Act to file an application for an account number. The bureau director emphasized that employer-employee participa tion in old-age benefits is not de pendent on the number of persona "Even if an employer," Mr. Hodgea pointed out. "has only one worker engaged In a covered occupation, that worker is required to apply for a social security account number. This includes employees in small establishments, such as restaurants, drug and grocery stores, beauty par lors, as well as employees of doc tors, lawyers, and similar profes sional people. "See your postmaster at once if you have not yet filed your applica tion for a Social security account district school committee favored the creation of a commercial depart ment here and will give its endorse ment at the first Monday meeting, it was said. The board also considered appli cations for positions in the local faculty for the 1937-38 term, but no contracts were definitely closed. Principal Hix announced. Another meeting of the committee will hard ly be held before the early part of next month for the consideration of applications for positions in the white schools. Summer Slump Hits Recorder's Court; 6 Cases Tried Monday Scotland Neck Man Waives Hearing on Charge of Manslaughter The Martin County Recorder's Court felt the summer slump last Monday, when only six cases were on docket for trial. Work for the court has decreased so much that Judge H. O. Peel announced Monday that no session will be held next week. The judge will be out of town, and the next session of the tribunal will be held on May 31. For-the most part, the docket last Monday was of little consequence, and the session lasted only a short while. Leroy "Tom" Pitt was fined $50, taxed with the cost and had his driver's license revoked for a period of one year in the case charging him with drunken driving. A three month road sentence imposed upon him was suspended. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, George Cotanch was found guilty of an assault, the cout suspending sentence upon payment of a $25 fine and costs of the case. D, D. Hill, facing chages of as sault in two cases, was found not guilty in one and guilty in the other. He was fined $25 and taxed with the cost. Maurice Whidbee, Scotland Neck garage employee, waived prelimi nary hearing in the case charging him with manslaughter, and bond was required in the sum of $500 for his appearance in June for trial in the superior court. Whidbee ran over and fatally injured Mariah Small, colored woman, near Ham ilton, Sunday night a week ago Jeremiah Peel, charged with vio lating the liquor laws, was fined $25 and taxed with the cost, the court tence. Price Increase on Market for Swine A price increase of $1.50 a hun dred pounds started hog shipments by train, truck and trailer this week to markets. The 11 1-2 cents a pound for "tops" ore proving very attractive to Martin farmers, and they are making sizeable shipments almost daily now The local market, handled by D. M. Roberson, has shipped some over iuu train carloads to northern mar kets so far this season, and there were sizeable shipments made by truck. Purchasing feeder pigs last fall, Man in farmeis have probably raised more hogs this year for market than ever before Profits are said to have compared favorably with receipts from tobacco and other cash crops. Two Additional Deputies Tor Pulp Mill Are Named Dewey Leggett, of Bear Grass, and Edgar Brown, of Jamesville. were appointed deputy sheriffs by Sheriff C. B. Roebuck for service at the plant of the Kieckhefer Contain er Company in the lower part of this county. Henry Gay lord, former Martin citizen, was named as a dep uty there earlier this week Paid by the Kieckhefer company, the three deputies will confine their activities principally within the ifkill area. They are to work In * hour shifts. Miss Eva Peel Resigns As Robersonville Teacher Miss Eva Peel, teacher in the Rob ersonville High School for 18 years, resigned as a member of the faculty there and returned to her home here this week. Miss Peel has not made any definite plana for the future, she said today, but is considering offers made by several schools. Transplanting Work Is Reported Half Finished in County Some Farmers in Grimes land Area Plow Up Corn To Plant Tobacco Tobacco transplanting was report ed well over half completed in this section today, the reports coming from all sections of the county indi cating that the work would be vir tually complete possibly before the latter part of next week. In the meantime the drive for spare plants continues, some local farmers going as far as the Whiteville and Lum berton areas for plants. Present indications now are that the planned acreage will be trans planted in roost sections of the belt, while in others the crop will be slightly decrcaaed, -the trend"bemg largely determine by conditions and quantities of plants available. Some farmers in the Grimesland area in Beaufort County are said to be plowing up regular stands of corn and transplanting tobacco, doing so in the belief that the crop will be short elsewhere and that they will profit in a large way. The general belief is that there will be no to bacco acreage decrease, that there will possibly be an increase. Of course, there will be a forced acre age curtailment in some sections, but any loss there will be more than offset in other sections, it is believ ed In the Leggetts section of Edge combe County some farmers, un able to get plants or refusing to pay high prices for them, have planted cotton on lands prepared for tobac co, reliable information received to day stated. Very little of the crop that has been set in this immediate section needs resetting, farmers, as a gen eral rule, Reporting regular and growing stands. Everetts Committee Completes Selection Next Term Faculty All Members Last Term Faculty Applying Are Reappointed Reappointing all members of the faculty applying for positions, the Everetts local advisory school com mittee announced its teaching per sonnel complete following a meet ing held last Wednesday evening. The elections are subject to be re fused, however. Misses Mary Bell Edmondson, of Williamston, and Mary Barden Crof tun, uf Robersonville, were named fill the positions made vacant by the resignations of Mrs. D. N. Hix, of Williamston, and Miss Mary Webb Askew, of Windsor. Miss Edmond son was elected to teach the first and second grades. She is graduat ing from East Carolina Teachers Col lege, Greenville, this term. Miss Crofton was elected to teach the sixth grade. Principal H. B. Russell, of Tar boro, was again elected as principal. Names of other teachers returning and their assigned grades are: Miss Martha Baldree, of Ayden, first grade: Miss Olive Stokes, of Baltle boro, second grade. Miss Alice Mal lard, of Teacheys. thirH grade; Mia? Sybil Brown, of Wilson, fourth grade; Miss Beatrice Wynne, of Ev eretts, fifth grade. Messrs. Andrew Clark, Herbert Roebuck and George Taylor are the members of the advisory committee there. Orphans Will Sing ?At Cedar Grove The Middlesex Orphanage Sing ing Class will give a program in the Cedar Grove Free Will Baptist church Thursday night of next week at 8 o'clock, it was announced to day by the church clerk. A cordial invitation is extended the general public to be present and support the worthy cause The Mid dlesex orphanage has carried on a splendid work in the care of or phaned children, and it is deserving of liberal support. JamesvWe Youth Makes Good Record at A. C. C. Eugene Ange, young so nof Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ange, of Jamesville. is making a splendid scholastic and athletic record at A. C. Colelge, Wil son, during his first year there. The young man, in addition to his schol astic work, is a member of the bas ketball and baseball squads, and has received his first-year monogram. Martin County Man Fatally Hurt in Fall At Kieckhefer Robert L. Whitehurst, Jr.,| Dies in Rocky Mount Hospital Tuesday Robert L. Whitehurst, jr., young MS1-11" County man w?? faulty hurt in a fall at the Kieckhefer pulp mill, near Plymouth, late last Tuesday afternoon, tie died in a Rocky Mt. hospital a few hours later without regaining consciousness Preparing forms toy a concrete wall, young Whitehurst slipped and fell about 12 feet, his head striking first on a concrete foundation. His death was the fire reported at the huge pulp plant since construction work started several months ago Another employee was reported crit ieaHy- hurt there Wednesday in a | fall of about 18 feet. His skull was| fractured and his condition, accord ing to information received here, is| critical. At least five other em ployees of the James Stewart Con struction Company, of New York City, have been hurt while working on the plant Whitehurst, son of Mr and Mrs R. L. Whitehurst. of Bear Grass Township, had been working at the plant about three weeks. He was held in high esteem, and had many friends in this county. About two years ago he married Miss Myrtle Lee, who survives. No children were born to the union. Two sisters, Irma Gray and Mary Frances Whitehurst. and three brothers. James Staton, Elbert and C. B Whitehurst. all 01 this county, also survive Funeral services were conducted at the late home yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock by Elders B. S Cowin and A. B. Ayers. Interment was in the family cemetery. Landplaster Mill Here Civen Trial! One of the few, if not the only landplaster mill in the country out side of Norfolk started operations here this week. Recently installed by the Standard Fertilizer Com pany on Roanoke River here, tht mill was given its first test this week and is now operating smoothly aftei a few minor adjustments were made Crushing the famous Nova Scotia landplaster rodk, the company has made preparations to meet the needs of peanut growers in the entire pea nut territory. Shipments to all sec tions in the area are to get under way within a short time. Hundreds of tons of the landplas ter rock .i^e being shipped direct b> water from Nova Scotia to the plant here. Soil Conservation Checks Received Additional soil conservation checks were received in the county this week, representing approximately $10,000 cash and increasing the to tal amount of money received un der the program to $166.362 82 Based on 1.067 applications or indi vidual farms, the payments have been made to 2.340 farmers in the county, each receiving on an aver age $71 10. or $155.92 for wh l?rm There are approximately 80 checks due farmers in the county at this time, representing an unpaid cash amount of around $8,000 The coun ty agent's office is expecting the checks daily. Miss Mary Carstar phen, secretary, said First estimates were that the pay ments would amount to $150,000. but it is almost certain that the soil benefits will reach $175,000 in the county Demonstration Club Members Plan Tour Plans are going forward for a home demonstration club members' tour to the western part of the state the 10th of next month. Miss Lora E. Sleeper, home agent, stating that reservations were being made by a number of club women The trip will be available to any other wo men who care to go, provided there is space and a $2 deposit is made immediately. The trip will last three days and i? In WW ill 80 Named To Institute ot Government Committee Elbert S. Peel, local attorney, was made a member of the North Caro lina Institute of Government advis ory committee at a meeting of the Institute held in Chapel Hill ] day. He represents the attorneys of ] North Carolina on the i 300 Believed Eligible For Old-Age Benefits HEALTH MEETING \ of Health wMiM to be held next Tol di>. ha> been post potted natal Tfcwrvday. May I", it was ?????rrd this morning when it wax learned that a representative of the Slate Hoard of Health ran Id not be present until the Utter date. While the ccweral public will be represented by peli tions carrying the names of a 1 Urge number of citizens and rep rtntinlalitta uf rtrir orranlza tions. anyone who wishes to at tend is invited to be present It is understood that the new health service can be osade available about July I. provid ed. of course, the authorities fa vor the establishment of the de pa rtasent. Sectional Warfare Among Bootlegger* Is Belie veil Brewing Special Officer Raids Three Places Saturday Night Without Results Sectional warfare in the allege:! bootlegging business is believed brewing as Special Officer J. II Roe buck continues his campaign to free the cotmtr of ittOTt liquor activities Unofficial but reliable reports main tain that the alleged bootleggei,. w ho are said lo be selling both ABC and RFD whiskies in and around Rolyersonville have been talking a bout each other in the past few days Investigating reports. Officer J. H. Roebuck raided three places of bus iness near the Robersonville High School last Saturday night, hut the officer found the territory quite dry The reports alleged thai liquor was being sold here and Uiere. and 1' there is any trouble il will be be- j cause on neighbor thinks anolhei neighbor put lite law wise, and vice versa With a rivalry edged with I bitterness existing in certain sec lions, and with the law gradually tightening the rope around the w hole business, it appears more and more each day as if Ihe liquor man ufacturing and its illegal sale will be reduced to a minor scale in this county. by Deputy Bill Haislip. destroyed two liquor plants. One in William -aton and one in BCwr Grass Steam stills were used at both plants, and they were cold. The officers saw a young boy leaving one of the plants with a gallon and a half of liquor He saw the officers, dropped the liquor and. in Officer Joe Roebuck parlance, "He turned Ihe fan on and escaped. Approximately 1.600 gallons of beer were poured out at the two plants Regular Services Sunday At Riddicks Grove Church Rev W. B. Harrington will preach at Riddicks Grove church in Wil liams Township Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, it was announced to day ()rtho|>edic Clinic In Tarboro Monday I ne regular orthopedic clinic, sponsored by the Tarboro Rotary Club, will be held in the Presby terian Sunday school rooms there next Monday Unfortunate cripples arc urged to attend, the treatment being open to those in this county. Alt a Critcher Officer of Meredith Athletic Group Mias Alia Critcher. daughter of Attorney and Mrs. B A Critcher. has baaa named ? dBwr la fbe Meredith College Athletic Associa tion. the young girl to manage golf at the Raleigh school next term. Former Slave Dies at County Home Today Luke Purvis, former slave and an inmate in the county home, died there this morning at the age of M years. He had been in the home for four years. Burial will be to morrow near his old borne in Ham Preliminary Check Indicates 160 Now On Indigent List Rules and Regulations and Eligibility Requirements To Be Announced Soon Kighty people over 65 years of age. 72 dependent children and 8 blind persons in this county are al most certain of participation in the benefits under the Social Security Act, a check of the less fortunate cases shows. There are poanbiy others who will also qualify, but. according to Miss Mary Taylor, the county welfare department head., there are only 145 persons now re ceiving cash benefits of $2 and $3 a month from county funds. On July 1 many more are expect eded to sign the declaration of de pendence. and some believe the eli gible list will jump to around 300 A study of the relief load in the county discloses some unfortunate cases that will not qualify for any benefits offered by the social se curity program There are invalids who will not be able to share, in the benefits because they are not yet fi >ears of age There are a number of children who are afflicted and wi.ll not qualify, it was pointed out. ~ Ttyese less fortunate Will continue as charges of the county Rules and regulations and eligi bility requirements -will be made public within the near future. ?It?ts?estimated thai 5*\000 indi gent persons in the state will be ? ligible to receive the monthly pay ments after July 1. the program to cost approximately S3.000.000 annu ally The estimates show that 23, 000 persons over 65 years of a^e. 22,000 dependent children and 1.450 needy blind will possibly be includ ed m the list soon after tire law be comes effective No Action Yet Taken in Naming Colored Principal No action had been taken today in connection with filling the posi tion of principal in the local col ored schools, a member of the dis trict committee explaining that an investigation was being made of the charges brought by a strong opposi tion. Considerable interest is being centered around the election of a man to fill the position, the opposi tion apparently taring little who w elected just so long as there is a change made. " No immediate action in the is expected Tap Dancing Class To Have Recital Monday Miss Mary Davis Hartdson will f present her pupils in a dance re cital in the high school auditorium here next Monday evening at 8 o' clock The recital is the first of its kind ever held here, and is expect ed to attract a large attendance. There are 18 members of the < and an unusual and very interest ing program has been planned The recital sponsored by the William ston Lions Club, is being given un der the direction of Miss Hardison and her sister, Miss Katbcrine Har dison Large Shipments of Truck Products Are Being Made Large shipments of straw bellies. May peas and cabbage, handled by a caravan of between 75 and 190 motor trucks, are moving to the northern markets through here al most daily. Coming in from the Wallace and Mount Olive areas, strawberries are going through here to markets in Philadelphia. New York and Boston Most of the i travel through here beta night and 5 o'clock in the I a Preaching Mission Begins A t Hamilton Sunday Might Beginning Sunday night ami Unuing through the night a< 30. there will be a preaching sion at St. Martin's Epsa church at Hamilton. On thr the nights of next week Her. Henry, rector of Calvary Tarboro, will preach; and on lay night. Rev. J Will lams ton jfaptin punch. Rev. E. T. JOT of the church, will
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