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HIM THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XL?NUMBER 88 WUliamston. Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. November 2. 1937. ESTABLISHED II Not Yet Ready To Accept Applications For Tenant Loans Applicants Asked to Wait Until Machinery Is Set Up County Farm Security Adminis tration office* are receiving numer ous applications from tenant farm ers for loans to purchase family siz ed farms under title I of the Bank head-Jones farm tenant act, but county offices are not yet ready to accept formal application; for this type of loan, says D. G. Modlin. county supervisor, in charge of the Rural Rehabilitation program of the FSA in this county. As allotments for tenant land pur chase loans in North Carolina, based on farm population and percentage of tenancy, are set up at $527,000. not more than 150 or 200 families in the state can be brought under the land purchase program this year, said Uodlin. The act authorizes doubling of the allotment next year and further increasing it the third ysar if Congress appropriates funds, but for the present fiscal year laigd purchase funds are sufficient only to establish patterns. Applications for tenant purchase loans should not be made to the county office until machinery has been set up for administering the program and the counties selected where the program will be initiated this year. Not less than five or more than 10 loans will be made in at county selected. The county supervisors have been advised that no county committees will be set up until the State FSA Advisory Committee has recon mended counties where the tenant purchase loans will be made tha year. Meanwhile there are sufficient funds to meet all immediate needs in the county in the way of rehabili tation loans- to qualified farm tam ilies without adequate commercial credit for necessary livestock, feed, seed and farm equipment. Simple service loans to small groups a also available where group purchase of such items as pure bred sires or heavy equipment will economically serve as an aid to improved farm practices. The services of voluntary farm debt adjustment committees are available to all farmers in tha county, Mr. Modlin said. Sweet Potato Crop Short, Reports Sav A short sweet potato crop wa predicted as farmers completed their digging operations in the county this week. That part of the crop started early in the season is of normal pro duction. some farmers reporting more than 300 bushels to the The late crop is returning ly low yields, the average produc tion exceeding hardly 100 bushels to the acre. Some farmers have re ported as few as 25 bushels to the Reliable reports from other coun ties in this section maintain that the production there is running below normal. In other potato-producing states, however, heavy yields are be ing reported. Report IS Contagious Disease Cases In October Cooler weather brought an i creased number of contagious dis ease cases in this county last month, the health officer's report showing six diphtheria, one whooping cough, three chicken pox and five scarlet fever cases. The diphtheria cases were found three among the white and three among the colored population, two in Williamston, and one each Robersonville, Bear Grass, Gooae Nest and Hamilton Townships. The three chicken pox cases were in Williamston, two of them being among the colored population. Of the five white scarlet fever caa four were among the white popula tion in Robersonville, Everetts. Jamesville and Williamston Town ships. The lone whooping cough was in Williamston. ? Peanut Picker Operators Apply For Few Licenses Comparatively few peanut operators have applied for in this county to date, according to J. Sam Getsinger, register at < Leas than 40 operators have procur ed the licenses as required by It is estimated that there are than 100 pickers operating in this county. The licenses are ieaued without eost to the operators, and Minn to procure them subjects the to a fine, it was pointed < 530 Pieces of Property Sold At Sheriffs Sale Yesterday Around 530 pieces of property ?I about the same number sold for past due taxes last year?were plac ed on the auction block by the -nunty tax collector here yesterday noon. Sheriff C. B Roebuck, handl ing the sale, played the role of the auctioneer for thirty minutes. There were only three private bidders and they bought only eleven accounts, the auctioneer declaring the county the purchaser in the other 119 sales The sale attracted little attci iiv iJ and at times the sheriff had no more than one or two in his audience, but he did not slacken the pace until a weak bid was received and then he would stop only long enough to make a notation on a piece of pa per. Bids in the county, the approxi mately 519 accounts will be record ed in special books in the office of the register of deeds within the next few days. They will be turned over to the county attorney for collection. In accordance with the law, suits to foreclose on the delinquent proper ty are to be brought within two yean, the foreclosure proceeding! requiring from six to eight months In those cases where the taxes are not paid within 32 months from the date of the sheriff"s sale, the county or individuals bidding in the ac counts will receive a deed to the property. Unpaid taxes, in addition to car rying a 4 per cent penalty and the cost of hridi it the sale hy the :itr.:. and So foreclosure allow -ncr bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent annually for two years, and during the remainder of the time, or while the foreclosure suits are in progress, interest is charged at six per cent. Very tea- foreclosure proceedings have been resorted to in this coun ty in recent years, the county attor ney's office stating that nearly all the delinquent accounts are settled just before the last day of grace ex pires. Then, too, the county has been as lenient as possible in all cases NEARING GOAL I V i yesterday mad today, the market is its coal ml aiae million ymats. a sinknn observer said this maniac. Far this sea soa at the year, sales caatiaae avy here. aad : up well. Maeh is beiac offer ' days, sense farmers co te tie sfi moraiac datly before the aoaa boar, tad interna in the market aetirtties roatiaoes at a hich poaat Offirial fir ares are not I this time, bat well ever the Former Local Man Dies In ^ ashington M S Co*, highly respected Beau fort County man and former Wil liamston resident, died at his home m Washington early last Saturday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home of Rev L. B. Jones, Methodist minis ter Burial was in the Oakdale cem etery. Washington. A partner in the Saunders and Cox Lumber company here. Mr. Cox made his home in Williams ton for several months or until his health failed him and he was forced to re tire. He made many friends during his stay here and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. Mr Cox was born and reared in Blount's Creek and was the son of the late Joshua and Ida Cox. He was 52 years old. He had been a resident of Washington for the past 30 years He had large farming in terests in addition to his extensive lumber operations. He is survived by his second wife, who before her marriage was the widow of Lawrence Tate His only child died several years a. A brother. Nathaniel Cox of Blount's Creek, and a grandson. Ed Hodges. Jr . survive Mrs. Joe Cowen Very 111 In Washington Hospital Mrs. Joe Cowen is critically ill in a Washington hospital, reports from r licdmle this morning that si s brighter than she war last night, but that her condition was grave. Mrs Cowen underwent a serious op eration in the hospital yesterday. Williamston Christian Church Holds Services ? The Williamston Christian church a two weeks series of services in their church n Sunday morning. No 7th and continuing through the 21st. Rev. John L Goff. the pa i these services Prep weeks The pasti of the Uiuicli so of the community for Almighty Commissioners Hear Additional Tax Pleas All-Day Meeting Is Held Here Monday By Commissionersj Changes in Tax Accounts j Only Possible Where Errors Are Made Their lax accounts increased, rep-1 resen la lives of the SaJsbury Supply Company, and John Dame! Bigg? Ed Jones and others appeared be fore the Martin County commission-1 ers in regular session here yester day and appealed for lowed assess ed property valuations. The com plainants pointed out values ed against near-by properties, but! the board found it beyond their | power to make changes A fe ihanges were possible where errors | in listings were made, but the board [ has sat in accordance with the law I to hear tax appeals As a board of I equalization and review, the county I commissioners beard numbers of tax complaints several months ago. and I many changes were made at that I time. The list of changes never ap-1 peared publicly, but it is understood I that owners of property were ad vis I ed of any iiimsi tn sin mil val [ nations The. until late afternoon hearing the ap-1 peals and handling routine business ( matters As a result of a ruling by thel board, the careless in this county I will have, to bear their sufferings I alone when they fall victims of au-l tomobile or other accidents Thel hoard utsiructed the welfare de-1 partment not to receive no accident victims for hospitalization unless ac- I cident was unavoidable or the vie-1 tim was absolutely not at fault S. J. Greenhill was sold a ped- J dler s license for *25 Certain lots belonging to H. C. Norman in Parmele were ordered I placed on the books at *150 for the | year IMS, 1N6. and ItST. The property of Dennis Evans in I Cross Roads was ordered foreclosed I under deed of trust Armed with an W-name petition. I ?fXzens appealed to the board tol have a new road opened from a point near the residence of H. A I Cullipher to the farm of Mrs J. D.I Bowen on the Greenville road. The I road, about three-quarters of a mile I long, will give an outlet to U. S. 64I for a large nurr.brr of citizens, it was I pointed out The board agreed tol urge the State to include it in the | highway 1J linn Mrs. S. Harcum Grimes Near Death In Hospital I Mrs S. Harcum Grants was re-1 ported near death at noon today foLI lowing a major operation in a Rocky I Mount hospital last Friday. Close I friends of Mrs Grimes were notified | just before noon that she was expected to live but a short while. | Later reports stated that her condi Mrs Grimes before her recent | I Miss Martha Andcr r of the late Mr. Mrs Arthur I i Griffin. < highl; | is ill at his I Griffin Thwnship He was Solicitors Named To Make Red Cross Drive in County Membership \ Campaign to Get Underway Thurs day of Next Week Plans for starting the snnnsl Bed Cross membership roll call in the Martin County chapter have been completed, Chairman Harry A Biggs stating that the membership campaign is to get underlay on ritursday of next week. In announc ing the names of the canvassers. Chairman Biggs addresses an urgent appeal to Martin County people for their support m making the drive a success. The chapter's quota has been increased from $100 to $350 this year, and more work on the part of the canvassers will be necessary as well as a greater response on the part of the people if the 1038 call is ?o be meet with success Chairman Biggs asks that mem berships be taken with the respect ive canvassers, that they can be pub licly acknowledged and the com munity be given credit The names of the canvassers and territory assigned them In Williamston. member- of the Junior Woman's Club will head the work. Business section. Mrs. H O. Peel and Miss Edna Barnhill. East Mam Street. Mrs. Frederick W Hoyt. Jr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hatton Gur ganus. Haughton Street. Mrs- Joe Muse and Mrs. Henry S. Manning. Academy Street, Mrs. D. R Davis. Simmons Avenue. Mrs Louis Wil liams. Tobacco warehouse section. Miss Christine Ross: Watts Street. Miss Trulah Ward Page; Smithwick Street. Mrs. C. C. Parker and Mrs. Chas. Peel; West Main Street. Mrs Edwin Trahey. Williams Sired. Mrs Julian Harrell. Tar Heel Apart ments. Mrs. Robt Manning. Biggs and Ray Streets. Mrs J W Watts; Warren Street. Mrs. D V Clayton. Marshall Avenue. Mrs K D Wor rell; West Main Street, Extended. Everdts and Cross Roads Town ship, Mrs Paul Bailey and Professor Mrs. Irving Mar^oHs; grammar and high schools. Miss Ruth Manning and D N Hix C. R. Simpson. Hamilton and sedion. Miss Effie Waldo and Professor B B Casteloe Oak City and community. Profes sor H. M Ainsley and Mr J H. Ay era. Jamesville and district. Professor J. T. Uzzle and Mr. Chas. Davenport Farm Life and Griffins Township, J. T. Gurkin and Professor C. B Martin. Bear Grass. Mr Herman Rogers and Professor T O Hickman. Chairman Biggs is seeking other canvassers to assist in the drive, tie stated this morning County Prisoner Dies In Hospital Death stepped in unexpectedly and kept Martin County from col lecting a debt allegedly due it by H L Staton. 50-year-old Halifax coun ty white man. White was to ha* faced the courts of this county Mon day for violating the bad check law. but he died a victim of pneumonia in a Washington hospital the morn ing before. Staton, removed here a week ago from a Greenville jaiL stated that he was sick, and a doctor, exami ing him 15 minutes later, advised his immediate removal to a hospital Staton. entering the hospital a short time later that afternoon, explained to Sheriff Roebuck that Martm county had treated lum courteously. His son. Robt. Staton. after claim ing the body and removing it to Hal ifax County, expressed his appre ciation to the sheriff for the care ai thoughtful attention his father had received at the direction of Martm County. Stalon's case has not been follow ed from the time he was arrested in Pitt until he was ri.li.aied to Mar tin officers two or three days later. JAIL RECORD j *? ?* Am all-Uaw rmmmlj jail In krj rwwj was npnlsi "kj fC. I hi the i <* tW pans * ?? Woman Defendant in Liquor Case Second Time in a Week The warning issued by Judge H O Peel in the county court on lion day of last week when he handled O liquor cases failed to carry much weight with Patsy Taylor, a defen dant in the round up by private de tectives. Enjoying her freedom un der a suspended judgment, the Tay lor woman was caught with seven teen pints of liquor in her Hamil ton home last Saturday night by Special Enforcement Officer T. H Roebuck Said to be a notorious bootlegger in Hamilton, the woman had little to offer in her defense when she fared Judge Peel for the second tune within a week. The course of the law followed in obtaining evidence could not be questioned, and she pleaded guilty The mother of a small baby and about to become a mother of another, the woman re ceived the sympathy of the court She broke down and wept, but the judge ordered a $50 fine and pay merit of thr colli A three-months jail sentence is to begin at the direc tion of the judge Viola Forrest, colored woman, was rounded up by special enforcement officers the same night She was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail The Forrest woman, escaping the first round up. had a small quantity of liquor in a coffee pot and when the officer entered her home she dashed it into a water bucket Of fi errs made certain it was liquor the woman was handbng so carelessly, and the evidence was ruled against her. Judge l*eeL stating from the bench that he did not approve of the meth od followed by the detectives in obtaining ev idence altogether, w arn ed bootleggers in open court Mon day that they could expect road sentences when brought before him for violations upon the evidence of | county officers Peanut Market ing Gets Underway on Big Scale Lar^e Deliveries Are Being Made to Buyers This Week Prices Are Ranging Up to Three and Half Cents For Jumbos ? The peanut market opened this week with increased sales reported by all buyers at this point. Last the market was f\uwt hut?a. sudden spurt was reported yester day when deliveries got underway on a large scale. Prices are ranging from three and one-quarter for ctr. tain types to three and one-half cents a pound for Jumbos No arrangements have been com pleted for receiving peanuts in this county for the North Carolina Pea nut Stabilization Corporation, but applications are pending and a warehouse will in all probability be opened in Williamston within a short while Apparently farmers, making early deliveries, consider the open market slightly stronger than the price offered by the stabilization corporation The peanut stabilization cooperative is not interested in pur chases as much as it is in holding the price up and as King as a farmer can getT more Tor his crop on the open market lie is not expected to patronize the organization. Realizing that the price is stabiliz ed at 3 1-4 cents, many farmers are planning to store their crop and wait until later to market their crop They figure they have nothing to lose and possibly much to gain by waiting. Peanut pickers are operating long schedules in the county this week, reports direct from the fields maintaining that the yield is con siderably below normal, but that the quality is above the average A year ago today, prices on the lo cal market ranged from 3 1-2 cents a pound for good bunch and 3 3-4 cents for fancy Jumbos The market M that time was dull. Insurance Exchange In Its Monthly Meeting An interesting meeting of the Martin County Insurance Exchange. J E Pope, president, was held in the offices of the H C Norman agency in Robersonville last eve ning. Current problems having to do with the insurance building were placed before the meeting, the president explaining that the inter est of the insurance-buying public had been advanced as a result of the meetings and the discussions held therein. The meeting last evening was well attended. Mr. Pope said frank Newman Dies At Home of His Sister Here Frank Newman. 48 years old, died at the home of his sister. Mrs. ios S Hard tson, on Simmons Av here last evening at ? o'clock had long been in feeble health and was confined to the bed during the are being con. darted from the Cedar Branch Rap o'clock by Rev. W. B. Harrington Interment will follow in the ilknk meter y there The duraard. a native of Jaa nrnship. is mrvivod by Mrs J. S. Hardtson and Mrs INTERVIEW / Skabm of the Martin fnu t> Board nf Health will nnUrr paiiiiblc next week, application for the position of health officer lar thcs roontr. Mr. J. E. Pope, chairman of the board, mid to das. II h understood that sev eral applications are on file at the present time. A senna doctor, one of the applicants, is expected here for an interxien with the hoard, it jm.JanrtLJ>t innnr ??? a native North Qarohnian. is ^ ill Explain Ww State Sml law In This (lomitv Soon Will Meet in Agricultural Building. November 10 at 10 o'clock ? ?P ???:?:???: r?^? ? : ; i-JB Fanners of Martin county have been invited to meet at Williamston in the Agricultural Building at 10, o'clock on November to to hear rep resentatives of the N C Department of Agriculture explain the benefits I of the nem State Seed Law and how | growers can help prevent poor qual ity seed dumping in the State. Coun ty Agent L B Brandon announced today "The value of using seed of known origin"" will be the theme of the meeting and plans are to show a motion picture illustrating the ne cessity off using pure seed "Simi lar meetings will be held in 26 oth er counties between now and No vember 13. and growers interested in better farming practices will find these meetings of vital importance." the county agent said. Speakers on the program to be held in this county, will be D S Coltrane a<sistant to Commissioner of Agriculture Ker r Scott In addition to explaining the new law and brief talks on the preven tion of seed dumping in North Car olina. the services offered the farm ers by the department of agricul ture's seed laboratory free of charge will be outlined Under the present law. any farm er may send seed to the department at Raleigh and obtain correct in formation as to purity and germina Una without cost "The program for the Department of Agriculture calls for the climina tion of impure seed in North Caro hna. insofar as possible and the in dividual complaints of the seed pur chasers and seed growers will be aired aft the meeting and the co-op eration of all farmers will be asked looking toward the betterment of agriculture in North Carolina.** D. S Coltrane. a* islant to Commissioner of Agriculture W Kerr Scott said Mrs. Pat Crawford Hurt In Fall Last Evening Kn Pal Crawford suffered a panful injury when she stumbled and fell on the side walk in front at the hone at Mm Anna Crawford at smith wick Street early last eve aiat Her Ml aye struck soma oh icrt and was badly bruised, it ? Aerial Survey Of County Farms Just Recently Finished ??? .. Are Ninety Individual Maps Giving Minute Details of This Section Aerial maps of county lands, i at the direction of agricultural au horities. mere delivered to the of fice of Agent T B Brandon week It a Ukeiy the agent's w ill use the map* in checking < pliance on about 1M farms not yet surveyed by supervisors. Starting at a point near Srohh wtcks Creek, the aerial photograph ers I lew a northerly course to just take in the plant of the Standard Fertiliser Company's plant on the Roanoke River at Williamstiw The (lights, nine of them, were moved so many degrees on each trip to in clude the entire county west of the starting point All the land in Wil liams ton. Bear Grass. Cross Roads. RubersonviUe. Hamilton Poplar Point and Goose Nest Townships is included in the survey, and much in Williams and Griffins Township. Jsinesv tile Township was mined in its entirety There are ninety individual maps, showing every field, path, ditch ank. I:act of timber and the streets in several towns. Surveys, made on location, were checked in just a few minutes from the maps The office of the agent will now make maps of individual farms, and in checking compliance in the future all the supervisor will have to do is designate what crops are grown in certain fields. An accurate system has been advanced to make the land measurements directly from the map These measurements are said to be more accurate than those made by an engineer Starting in this county the 15th of last August, the aerial nhotog laphers made a few pictures. They continued their work the followrii^ day. but unfavorable weather coo. d it ions delayed their activities un til September Jo and the work was completed the following day The pictures were made from a distance of 140)00 feet Explosion Damages (louiitv Pulp Plant ??I Several people were hurt, one badly. when a steam condenser ex ploded in the plant id the North Carolina Pulp Company in the low er pail of this county early last Sat urday evening Escaping steam and water are said to have burned very badlv a young man named Clfiy. Flying bricks are said to haw struck another man Few details of the explosion could be obtained here, but it was abated that a leak developed in a steam line and that the explosion followed as mem attempted to repair the break. No official account ?! the explosion has been released by the company. No great property damage resulted, it ? understood, and operations are being continued at the plant Operations were started at the plant '?nly last Wednesday, and it is thought that possibly some of the machinery had not been properly adjusted Occupants Are Unhurt In Two Auto Accidents Nu one was hurt and little < resulted to property in two automo bile accidents reported in the county during last week end A young couple from Oak City escaped without a scratch when their car plunged into Conoho Creek at Butler's Bridge, near Hamilton, some time during last Friday night. The Oak City car was entering the highway when the lights on another car parked near the bridge Will turned on. causing the driver of the first machine to drive mto the creek. The gir! got her feet wet. it was reported Much difficulty was experienced by wrecking inai in salvaging the car The cars of Carl Phillips. Mary land man. and Rayi crashed at the Haughti tersection here Sunday < :o great damage nachines Phillips >een driving rapadly when he en tered the Mam Street a Runs Into Police Car, Man Jailed Last Might