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THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XL?NUMBER 54 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 6, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1899
Martins Win Three
Of Last Five Games;
Split With Tarboro
L<?a ? ^lav Fast Brand of
Ball To Feature Three
La?t Wins at Home
Winning three of the five
scheduled during the week-end Art
H?u*ers Martins today are holding
third place in the Coastal Plain Lea
Sue. trailing Goldsboro by one game
?nd Snow Hill, the le^ue leader,.
oy threp mntnete T?L ..
Greenvi f ? "* ,""Ty Wade over
Greenville here last Friday after
noon and divided a four-game se
rt^with^ on the foUow -
ten"?n^!y ?roWds ,eatured the at-j
lthida?morn,ng
he aftemoon, but they were not as
8M lu** ^PeCtCd Approximately
800 attended the game here yester
n^rmTing;J"rb0r? claiminS 1.800
present for the contest there.
?,tChing clear)y featured
- * , !:? ,V'ctorv ovrr Greenville here
wf|en he tuTnedlh^T
ck with three hits. McCay
buf A8,"1^ led at bat for the locals
but Artie De.m batted in the lone
run in the e.ghth inning. Ace VU
Sn"!hevd MC?ay featUred afleld
to t?o y eXBCUted Perfect throws
The FridT6" "! ,hird and at home.
The Friday contest was just a plumb
good exhibition of baseball
*?"ney to** charge of the game
Martins^8',Tar.boro and turned the
Martins back with 5 hit, to feature
WUhaLCt?nteSt- R?UinS Pitched for
Williams ton and allowed S hits
a ^?Pr0Xrateiy ,-0()0 fan? -w
Wh^t? J here Sunday -fternoon.
by To ^ Marttns evened the count
?or, t0 8Wh'u intr8Un,k3h,eld ,he ViSi"
the"' '?h 'hhe CirCUit W'ib'iwo'on^n
gameelt,h- R?Ulns flnished the
game. Stevens, with 3 for 4, ond
Deim, with 2 for 3, featured the bat
ng attack for the locals.
Jefferson took charge of the sit
here"1 yeste'rT h0ljday con,e"'
t_ , erday morning, allowing
Tarboroomy^hitsund winning*
ningrnLtHe?^^a^
in Cthe?rk h0"0rS WUh a home run
the hr?,eVen mnin? Stanley led
The M "t* attack with two safeties.
SaflaeldnrP^edag?0dgameof
light wdh' ^ at0* takm? 'be spot
light with a difficult chance success
^uly handled between first and sec
The Martins had an off-day yester
ond 8 rnoon and dropped the sec
7 toT t 0t 'he Senes to Tarboro,
. eonnt for three bases
Saclv d!? tW? hita t0 hia U". and
hjfayaddad a couple, one for two
inT' ke<J ?nly a foot of be
ng a 380-yard homer, to his record
lected D"lm and Labato, col
iected one each. Cassell
member of the local cluh' / ^
four and allowed 7 hits. '
Government To Aid
Peanut Growers In
Time of Low Prices
New Plan Makes Available
Advances When Market
Price Is Low
Plans to spare peanut growers the
necessity of "dumping" their crop
at the beginning of the marketing
season or when prices are off, were
made at a meeting of the peanut
committee of the American Tarm
Bureau Federation in Washington
week before last. Edward O'Neal,
president of the organization, was
present, as was Dr. Myers, head of
the Farm Credit Administration.
The plan outlined provides that
the farm Credit Administration will
advance to cooperatives money
which may be loaned to farmer
members on peanuts to be stored
in a period of low prices. The de
tails of the program are to be
worked out and announced later.
It was stated that it would be im
possible for the government to deal
with the ind'vbt'"' ''"-vrr in this
matter, but that the law makee it
possible for the Farm Credit Ad
ministration to loan money to co
operatives which, with their local
connections, will be able to determ
ine conditions and needs in their
market communities. This plan gives
promise of protecting the growers
from losses which many of them
suffer every year because, being in
need of money, they am their pea
nuts regardless of the current prices
and the prospects.
Welfare Board To Consider
Applications Recently Made
Meeting in the county courthouse
Thursday morning, the Martin
County Board of Public Welfare will
consider the first group of applica
tions filed by the needy aged, de
pendent children and blind persons
for assistance. Action by the board
this week and at other meetings to
follow shortly is expected to advance
an idea, more or less definite, as to
what the old-age assistance program
is going to cost this county. While
the recommendations of those in
ry considerable weight, allowances
are to be determined by the board.
Fields surveys are underway to
day in those homes where the self
claimed needy filed applications.
Up to today, the county office had
handled *75 applications, and a num
ber of those were rejected on cer
tain principles outlined in the law.
It is quite apparent that most of
those eligible for assistance under
the program will come from the
county's indigent list. However,
many of those applying for aid have
never received any direct aid from
the county, and they have a right to
present their claims.
OPENING DATES
Eastern North Carolina tobac
day, August IS, It was announced
following a meeting of the To
bacco Association of the United
States at Old Point Comfort, Vs.
last Friday. The opening is al
most a week ahead of the open
ing date a year ago.
First auction sales will be held
in Georgia June 10. the buyers
moving northward for the open
ing in South Carolina on August
10 and then here on August 26.
Senators Draft New
Measure for Aiding
1937 Farm Program
Control Provisions Depend
Upon Two-thirds Vote
Of Producers
A measure, called a "thoroughly
democratic" method of improving,
and stabilizing agriculture is being
drafted in Congress by two senators
this week.
Senator Pope, of Idaho, and Mc
Gill of Kansas, said their legislation,
which is a revision of the pending
"agriculture adjustment act of
1937," wil be introduced at once.
They added they expected the ad
ministration to back it.
The pending AAA act of 1937 pro
vides. among other things, for an
??ever-normal granary" and crop con
trol would be "democratized A
referendum of producers would be
held before any control measures
are undertaken.
The new measure also deletes a
flexible tariff provision of the older
measure?a provision to which Sec
retary Wallace and Hull objected.
The Pope-McGill legislation de
Clares that one of iU aims is to as
sure farmers A j;parity" Jncome-^
That is, an income wnicn would have
the same purchasing power attauv
ed in the pre-war years 1909 to 1914.
The measure also would establish
an "ever-normal granary" by pro
viding for storage of surpluses in
years of heavy yields and for the
marketing of such surpluses in lean
years. ,
Certain provisions of the existing
soil conservation act, under whic
| farmers are paid for such practices
as shifting land from commercial
production to soil building growths,
would be continued under the new
act
The older AAA biU, which was
drafted by the American Farm Bu
reau federation and on which Con
gress has not acted, proposed a
quota system of crop control in case
excessive production threatened.
The new measure, however, will
require a two-thirds vote of pro
ducers of affected commodities be
fore control measures could be tak
en.
Pope is unwilling to predict that
Congress will pass the legislation at
this session, but advocated commit
tee hearings with the idea of put
ting it into effect next year.
"A 200 000,000-bushel wheat fur
plus is in prospect this yew and
another such surplus would beat
prices down to a serious degree,
he said.
Local Town Commissioners
To Hold Meeting Tonight
Williamston's board of town com
missioners will hold its regular
monthly session at 8 o'clock this eve
ning, Mayor Hesse 11 stating today
Lhat no special businen had beep
placed on the calendar for consid
" The" session, scheduled to have
been held last evening, was post
poned as yesterday was a general
holiday
Mr and Mrs. W. T. Palmer and
daughters, of Elizabeth City. Mrs.
Mlng_Ship^^^u?hteT,rt.nd
jMlM Virguui ??? _
I spent the holidays here with Mrs.
I Jordan Ward.
Activities of Forest
Protection Service
Reviewed iii Report
Warden Henry D. Hardison
Points Out Benefits
Of Program
"I am reasnnahly murtil 'het
large acreage of valuable land has
been saved from the fires because of
the service, and the public is read
ily realizing the resulting benefits,"
Henry D. Hardison, county forest
tire warden, said in his annual re- ,
port this week to the county com
missioners. covering the activities of
the forest protection service in this
county during the past fiscal year.
In a detailed report, the warden
reviewed the activities of the serv
ice, There are nearly 200,000 acres
of timberland under protection, Mr.
Hardison stating that Ores burned
over only 1,321 acres during the
past year. The resulting damage |
was estimated at $2,405.
In addition to the approximately
$800 appropriated by the Martin
County commissioners, the State and
Federal governments have dune
much to further the program. The
government built one of the fire tow
ers at a cost of approximately $2,
000, cleared miles of truck and foot
trails and did considerable mapping.
The government forces spent 10,000
man days in the forests of the coun
ty, the labor cost, figured at $1 a day,
running well over $10,000.
"This work was made possible on
ly because the county joined in the
cooperative Are control program of
the state and federal governments.
We are now permitted to call in CCC
boys and this alone is a great pro
tection," Mr. Hardison said. The
CCC boys were called into this
county twice during the year to fight
fires, one in the old Dymond City
area and once in Jamesville Town
ship.
Forty-three fires were handled by
the wardens, most of them being
confined to plots of only a few acres.
Seven of the fires burned over areas
slightly more than 100 acres each.
Mrs Caroline Rogers
Died Early Monday
Mrs. Caroline Rogers, highly re
spected citizen of Bear Grass Town
ship and one of that section's oldest
residents, died at the home of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. J. J. Rogers,
yesterday morning following an ill
ness of only a few weeks. She was
89 years old, and lived in this coun
ty all her life, holding the esteem
of all who knew her and possessing
a large circle of friendship. Despite
her advanced age, she was fairly
active until her recent illness.
Mrs .Rogers was a faithful mem
ber of the Primitive Baptist church
for many years.
Two sons, Messrs. Alonza Rogers
and Tom Rogers, and two daugh
ters, Mrs. James Henry Ward
and Mrs. Harriett Harris, of Bear
Grass Township, survive.
Funeral services are being con
ducted this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock
from the late home. Burial will be
in the family cemetery In Bear Grass
Township. Elder A. B. Ayers is con
ducting the last rites.
Conservation Payments
Total $172j645 in County
Forty checks, totaling t3.389.96,
were received in the county this
week for participants in the soil con
servation program, Miss Mary Car
starphen, secretary, stating that ap
proximately 21 checks representing
7 applications were still due farmers
in this county.
To date, 2,443 farmers in this
county have received a total of $172,
845.68 benefits under the soil con
semilOd program. These figures'
are baaed on 1,08$ contracts or ap
plications.
County Board Holds
Meeting Today With
Lot of Work Ahead
Work Early Today Centers
Around Adjustments In
Property Values i
Enjoying a holiday with almost
everyone else Monday, the Martin
County Commissioners started their
regular monthly session here this
morning, the authorities facing an
intricate schedule of work and the
probability of having to hold anoth
er meeting shortly to clear their
calendar.
The program today calls for a
continuation of adjustments in prop
I erty vfllimtions, tho study -of- bud^6t
figures for the current year, the re
ceiving of petitions for roads and the
handling of a ci uwded routine work
calendar. Adjustments in property
valuations are about completed, how
ever, and the commissioners are ex
pected to give much time to the pro
posed budget for financing welfare
activities and assistance to depend
ent children, the aged and the blind.
Griffins Township Htir.ens ?*v
pected to appeal to the commission
ers for the improvement of a road
in their district, leading from J. R.
Corey's via Lilley's store to U. S.
Highway 17 at the Old Mill Inn.
Appeals for aid were heard from
the less fortunate hardly before
Chairman J. E. Pope could call the
meeting to order. The appeals were
directed to the welfare department.
Messrs. C. C. Fleming, of James
ville; R. L. Perry, of Bear Grass; J.
E. Pope, wiuiamston; C. A. Rober
son, Robersonville; and R A. Hai
slip, Hassell, are present for the
meeting.
Health Board To
Hold Meet Soon
The Martin County Board of
Health will consider applications for
the position of full-time health of
ficer for this county at a meeting of
the group to be held within the
next few days, possibly the latter
part of this or early next week, it
was learned today.
Several applications for the posi
tion have been received, it is under
stood.
Members of the county board of
health when questioned were unable
to say today when the full-time
service would be made available. It
is possible that the offices will be
opened the first of next month if
experience requirements of the suc
cessful applicant meets approval of
the State Health authorities. Pend
ing Ilia appointment of a full-time
health officer, the county health au
thorities have taken no action in lo
cating the offices for the work.
Mrs. Bennett Representing
Hospital Saving Association
Mrs. Eloise Bennett has just been
appointed local representative for
the Hospital Saving Association of
North Carolina, Inc., Chapel Hill,
it was announced yesterday by Miss
Tarca Tolar, the organization's field
supervisor, who will be in the coun
ty for two weeks training Mrs. Ben
net in the new work.
The Hospital Saving Association is
a civic non-profit organization ren
dering a social service to the peo
ple of this State. It was organized
through the North Carolina Hospi
tal Association and Medical Society
with a $25,000 grant from the Duke
Endowment. It offers many bene
fits at a nominal cost, and the asso
ciation is growing rapidly.
Miss Tolar, the eastern field sup
ervisor, was formerly a member of
the Farm Life school faculty in this
county.
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Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Rea
Dies In Roanoke Rapids
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Rea, of Roan
oke Rapids, announce the birth of
a son, Robert Edward, on Sunday,
July 4th, and the death of the child
on Monday, July 5th. Mrs. Rhea is
the former Miss Hazel Brown, of
Williamston.
Revised Farm Tenacy
Measure Gets Approval
The house agriculture committee
in Waahington last week approved a
revised farm tenancy bill authoriz
ing an appropriation of $10,000,000
for liberal loans to tenants and share
croppers in 1938.
A previously approved measure,
which met opposition in the rules
committee, would have authorized
$50,000,000.
Mlsees Edith and Kate Stalling!
spent some time at Rea's Beech dur
ing the holidays.
Sanitation Projects
Of WPA Regarded as
Of Most Importance
Build More Than 100 Privies
In County Since First
Of This Year
Of all the many worth-while proj
ects fostered by the Works Progress
Administration, possibly none has
had such a far-reaching effect as has
the community sanitation projects lo
cated all over the entire state. This
program is not merely confining it
self to the construction of sanitary
privies, but at the same time it is,
by means of suggestion, educating
the people of the state to the use
fulness of sanitary surroundings.
Since January 1, 1937. the Works
Progress Administration has furnish
rri free of charge lahpr has oon
structed, in this county, over 118
sanitary privies. The only cost to
the property owners has been the
materials necessary in order that the
privies might be built of the type
approved by the State Board of
Health, which is sponsoring this
movement toward a more healthful
state.
At present excellent privies are
being built over the county at ma
terial costs of from $10 to $18. In
view of the fact that the privies con
strueted by this project are planned
to give service for from five to eight
years without resetting, the advan
tage to the public is very obvious.
Four laborers, seven carpenters,
and one foreman now comprise the
active personnel of the Martin Coun
Uy privy project. However, behind
the scenes of this work are the pub
lic-minded officials and engineers of
the Works Progress Administration
and also the sanitary inspectors of
the State Board of Health.
Plans are, if they are finally ap
proved by the WPA, to solicit the
aid of the county board of commis
sioners and the boards of the several
towns of the county so that the proj
ect may be worked 22 days per
month rather than the present max
imum of 18 days per month. This
assistance would amount to the lo
cal units of the government contrib
uting toward the wages of the proj
ect employees after theif normal
periods of work under the WPA has
expired. Every man on the project
would be on those days employed
by the local units rather than by the
WPA. However, the supervision
would still be furnished by the
WPA.
In view of the forthcoming Public
Health Service for the county and
the clean-up campaign now in prog
ress in Williamston, the program is
a most timely one. Considering the
many benefits that may be derived
from such a program, the county
iinrl towns mig'1' ?" tlie
sponsorship of such a project.
Sanitary conditions throughout
the county at Urge are utterly de
plorable. Laborers and carpente
of the projects are daily toleratir
the most repulsive of filth in ord<
that the county may have betti
standards of health. That one fat
together with the fact that work r
lief is being provided by the proje
makes it doubly worth while.
" The employees of the Mart
County project of community san
tation arc perhaps the best, whe
taken as a group, of any that is i
vailable in the country. Because i
that, the project is probably tl
mots efficient of any of the type i
Eastern North Carolina. Teamwoi
on the project is excellent, and eac
man evidently is striving for a moi
and better organized work group.
H. B. Jones Dies
After Operation
Henry B. Jones, father of Mrs.
George A. Stewart, until recently of
Williamston, died in an Elizabeth
City hospital yesterday afternoon at
5:30 o'clock, following an operation
performed the day before. He was
58 years old and made his home in
Buxton.
Funeral services are being con
ducted this afternoon at 5 o'clock,
and burial will follow in the Epis
copal church yard in Edenton, the
old home of the family.
Betides his daughter, he leaves
one son, Meredith Jones, of the U. S.
Navy, and hit widow, who was 1
Ethel Webb before her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Courtney are
among those from here attending the
last rites today.
Many Local People To
Attend Exhibition Game
Between thirty-live and forty peo
ple are leaving this section today
for Washington City where they
plan to see the all-star exhibition
baseball game tomorrow. Among
the group were a number of far
mers.
Double Holiday Very
Quiet in This County
RAINFALL
June was a dry period for this
immediate section. the weather
station on Roanoke River report
lng 1.62 inches of rain, as com
pared with 7.45 inches for the
same month last year. Some com
muni ties in this area have had
considerably more rain than
that, while others have not had
as much as was reported locally.
Nearly an inch of rain has fall
en here since the hrst of the
???1h '
1) urine the Rrst six months of
last year the weather station re
ported 27.24 Inches of rain, edm
pared with 23.M inches record
ed locally during the llrst six
months of this year.
County Agriculture
Conservation Group
Reorganized Friday
J. F. Crisp Elected Head of
Agricultural Conservation
Association for 1937
The reorganization of the Martin
County Agricultural Conservation
Association was completed at a meet
ing held in the county agricultural
building last Friday afternoon, when
J. F. Crisp, of Oak City, was made
president; L. A. Clark, of Everetts,
vice president. F C. Stallings, of
Jumesville, member; and J. R. Win
slow, of Robersonville, alternate, on
the county committee.
Messrs. Sidney Beacham, J. C.
Ross, George C. Griffin, D R Ed
mondson, P. M. Holliday, J. R. Win
slow, W. L. Ausbon, C. L. Daniel,
Fred Taylor, and H. S. Everett con
stitute the board of directors, and
they named the committee.
The personnel of the several com
munity committees includes:
Bear Grass: Sidney Beacham, W
M. Harrison, J. D. Wynn and H. U.
Peel.
Cross Roads: W. L. Ausbon, Gas
ton James and H. D. Peel.
Goose Nest: J. C. Ross, Wilson
Outterbi idge, H. A. Early, and L. H.
ilux.
Griffins: George C. Griffin, W. B
Harrington, J. C. Gurkin and S. E.
Manning.
Hamilton: D. R Edmondson. C. L.
Nelson, J. H. Lillard, and George A.
Qglatby.
Jamesville: P. M. Holliday, C. C.
Martin and J. L. Knowles.
Robersonville: J- R. Winslow, S.
T Everett, J. R. Daniel, and R. S.
Everett.
Williams: C. L. Daniel, R. J. Ilar
dison, W. J. Gardner, Joshua L. Col
train.
Williamston-Poplar Point: Fred
Taylor, John R. Peel, Walter Halber
btadt, and W. L. Taylor.
The county committee at the meet
ing last Friday approved a list of
supervisors. Forms for handling the
compliance details are expected to
reach here on Saturday of this week
and the work is likely to get under
way the early part of next week.
Completes Curing
Barn New Tobacco
Harvesting the primings from a
few acres of tobacco transplanted
early in the spring. Farmer Alonza
Allen, of Cross Roads, finished cur
ing his first barn of the leaf last
Friday evening. Hie farmer re
ported fair quality, and stated that
he had good prospects for an excel
lent crop.
Rains later in the week made the
crop turn green, and Mr Allen said
it would be probably some time be
fore he harvested the second barn
from his 6.7 acres. Mr Allen is a
bout the second farmer in the county
to complete the curing of a barn of
tobacco this season. Farmer K. B.
Etheridge harvested one in the Has
sell lection at Hamilton Township
on Saturday, June X, and he is
thought to be the first to start the
Young Son of Mr. and Mrs.
Moses Wheeler Dies Here
James H. Wheeler, S months old,
died at the home of his parents, Mr
and Mrs. Moses Wheeler, here Sun
day. Services were held yesterday
afternoon at 1 o'clock, and burial
was in the local cemetery. He was
the only child and had been ill witn
malaria for only a few days.
Traffic Is Heavy on
Roads But No Major
Accidents Reported
Cars Crash on Lower Main
Street Here Monday;
No One IIuil
Quietness marked the observance
of the double Fourth of July holi
day here and in the county, no teri
5 accidents. untimely deaths, or
disorders being reported by county
and local officers. Several arrests
were made during the period, but
each of the defendants was booked
for minor infractions of the peace.
Business activities with one or
two exceptions were stilled and joy
riding came into its own on a large
scale. Busses were operated with
capacity loads and extra rolling
stock was placed on the runs through
here by the bus-line operators. Au
tomobiles passed over the Roanoke
bridge at the rate of 120 an hour
from mid-morning until late last
night, the parade of cars indicating
that North Carolina was headed for
Virginia and Virginia was coming
home to North Carolina, the trend
of reversed traffic going into effect
late in the day.
The only accident reported in this
vicinity took place early Monday
morning when a car sideswiped an
other and crashed into the fence just
this side of the river bridge. No
one was hurt, but considerable dam
age was done to one of the cars.
Several colored men, traveling in a _
hurry from Philadelphia to see New
Bern relatives for the first time in
about 20 years, tried to round the
curve with their new Dodge sedan
running about 60 miles an hour. .Wil
lie Johnson, Washington negro who
was meeting the speeding outfit,
parked his car just as near the fence
as he could, but the speeding car
bore down on him, knocking off one
side of the body and tearing down
a wheel.
Early reports from over the na
tion placed the double holiday deaths
at more than 400, the beaches and
highways claiming the most lives.
No single major accident was re
ported. Traffic accidents established
u new record and cost the lives of
at least 228 people, or 20 more than
were reported in the corresponding
period a year ago. Nearly 100 peo
ple were drowned and at least 70
e thers met violent deaths in other
ways over the United States.
i
J. B. Hutson Speaker
At Farmers* Rally in
Greenville Friday
More Than 3.000 Farmers
Express Themselves In
Favor Crop Control
Holding an annual picnic in Green
ville last Friday, more than 3,000
farmers and Farm Bureau members
passed a resolution calling for the
immediate enactment of the 1937 soil
conservation bill, with the ever
normal granary feature.
When asked if they favored a con
trol provision, the farmers stood in
a body and not a single vote was
cast against control, it was learned.
Addressing the meeting. J. B. Hut
son said. "The present system of
control through conservation, valu
able as it is, might not meet the sit
uation which would arise in connec
tion with some crops if we had an
other siege such as that of 1936.
"Nor will our present plan meet
the situation caused by a series of
years when growing conditions are
unusually good It will eliminate
tlte fluctuations which arise from
heavy surpluses only to a certain ex
tent. Many feel that something more
is needed if all is to be done that
can be done to mitigate the fluctua
tion in production, prices and in
come."
Only Two Contagious
Disease Cases Reported
June was a healthy month in Mar
7in lounty. as tar aa conlsgtmis <u?-~
eases were concerned, according to
a report from the county health of
fice this week. Only two cases of
contagious
One whooping cough i
ville Township and
se in Williamston
health officer's report lor the |
A case of
reported in Gold Nat
but that will appear tat
for July.