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VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 18 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. Friday, March 4, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899
Commissioners Will
Turn Attention To
Tax Matter Monday
Machinery for Listing Real
and Personal Holdings
to Be Set Up
Meeting in regular wii.ni here
next Monday, the Martin County
CnmmmMOgi will act up machin
ery for handling the listing of real
and personal property holdings
next month. Several applications
for places on the tax-listing board
have been received, but it is like
ly that several changes in the per
sonnel of last year will be effected.
In accordance with the law, the
authorities will name a tax super
visor to handle the work. Since no
revaluation of real estate holdings
will be made this year, that task
is not expected to require a great
? "s?c ? (im
<"al of attention, and it is likely
he ? 1 T
_____ will choose one
of their earn group to handle it- No
applications for the supervisor's
fob has been filed, but any one of
several men acquainted with taxing
problems will serve if asked to do
ro. a county official said yesterday
Following the appointment of a
supervisor, the board will likely
approve tentative appointments be
fore its adjournment Monday after
The tax, listers are then schedul
ed to meet on the third Monday in
this month and determine valua
tions scheduled for personal prop
erty, the law stating there will be
? changes in the real estate list
~s the ptupetly has been dam
or added to, or new property
In addition to its achadulad tax
work, the commissioners will draw
s jury for the two weeks special
tarn of Martin Superior Court con
vening in April for the trial of civil
These two new assignments and
the regular routine schedule of
business are expected to hold the
and possibly make necessary a
gxiil session before the first Mon
day in April
Seed - Feed Loan
Office to Open in
County This Week
Office Located in County
Agricultural
Building
Applications for emergency crop
and feed loans in Martin County
for 1938 will be received at the
? ?wirai ai uie
?J?0111"?! building by Mr. Willie
Watts beginning Friday.
The loans will be made, as in the
pest, only to farmers who cannot
obtain credit from any other
source. The money loaned will be
limited to the fanner's immediate
and actual cash needs for growing
his ltn crops or for the purchase
of feed for livestock, and the
smougt which may be loaned to any
one farmer in 1938 may not exceed
MM
Farmers who can obtain th
funds they need tram an individual
production credit association, bank
or other concern rae not eligible fo
crop and feed loans from the
?limn uie en
"*?cy crop and feed loan sectic
Th- wL CTedit ?dmini*tratioi
The loans will not be made to stan
? ?... nut oe made to stan
dard rehabilitation clients whoa
* ?" are provided for b;
known as the net Ulan ler
ation.
As in the past, farmers who ot
tain emergency crop and feed loan
will give as security a first~Ben o
th# ???? * "
^ a first lien
the crop financed,o r a first lien <
?he livestock to be fed if the mo
ey borrow ed is to be used to pr
feed for lis
loans are made to tenants
ords. or others having at
in the crops financed ?
the liicotoeh to be fed, are requir
ed to waive their claims in favor of
a hen to the govaiuot at the Fua
Credit administration until the loan
is repaid
minbLpmr^ ? w?,
be mailad frem the Re
1 *??*eney Crop and Feet
OOIc* ? Calumbta. South
Smrwy On Farm Lite
Line Delayed
aakas it
to Mart a survey on the
Uh rural siHtiifhalhai proj
ttee next wuak. K. H
?. K. P. district i
Construction Started
On Warehouse Here
j DISCOURAGING j
kin withdraws
A eua far Ihk ijtiic hai
bees rartiallj afhint by the
feet that there hare bees se
Ball Club Officials
Signing Players for
The Coming Season
Manager Hauger Expected
Here Week After Next
to Pick Team
?
With several contracts with play,
ers already executed and a dozen
or more pending. Williamston't
baseball club will be ready to
start spring training about the first
of next month with a big list to
choose its team from, according to
R. H. Goodmon. president of the
organization. Art Hauger, last
year's manager, is returning about
the 15th of this month to study the
list of applicants for places on the
team, and arrangements will be
completed at that time for the
spring training camp.
Before reviewing the list of con.
tracts. President Goodmon pointed
out that prospects were unusually
bright for a better club this year
than was seen last season. "We
have a larger field to piek from,
and already we have the contracts
of several players who have made
splendid records in semi-pro activi
ties during the past year or two,"
Mr. Goodmon added.
Two contracts for pitchers have
been completed. Rex pilbeck, left
hander, and a young man named
Fitzgerald, a right hander, have
been signed by Manager Hauger. A
young man named Beckovac has
been booked for a position to the
infield. A contract has also been
completed with Wood row "Breezy"
Beaird, of Oneonta. Ala., for pitch
ing work. Beaird is a good bet, a
reliable scout advises the local
club officials. Joe Barnes, also of
Oneonta. has been booked for work
at third base. Brice McKay returns
from Alabama to continue his work
in the right corner of the lot
Earp comes back to short, and
Steve Lakatos, of Detroit, continues
at second base. Two catchers, Todd
Poynter, of Borger, Texas, and
Charles Wilcox, of Arab, Alabama,
have been contracted for by Presi
dent Goodmon.
"We have possibly a round doz
en other contracts pending, but fi
nal action will not be taken before
Manager Hauger reports waek after
next" the local club official said.
"Skipper" Hauger is leaving his
home in Springfield, Minn., today
for Hot Springs where he will look
over a players' training school for
a few days before continuing here
Republicans Hold
I
Convention Here
M. N. Elliott. Chowan County
fanner, waa named a candidate for
Congress from the Find District by
the Republican party in convention
here this week. Mr. Elliott, substan
tial citizen at that section, will pos
sibly oppose Lindsay Warren, Dem
ocrat, in the November election.
The Congressional district conven
tion brought prominent leaders in
the Republican party here from
twaive at the fourteen counties
comprising the district. It was call
ed by A. S. Mitchell, of Win ton
Clarence Doner, of Elizabeth
City; W. J. Manning, at Bethel; J.
C Meek Ins, at Washington, and
Whsslsr Martin, local man, were
of the State Ex
Mr Martin hav
New Structure To
Have Capacity For
A Full Day s Sale
Nearly Fifty Thousand Feet
of Floor Space in
Building 0
Construction work was started on
Williamston's fourth tobacco ware
house this week, the builders.
Hears. John Gurkin, Sylvester B.
Lilley and Ollie Belch, stating that
although no definite date has been
determined when the building will
be completed it will be ready for
use this coming season.
Work on the foundation for the
structure is well advanced, the out
line of the building clearly indicat
ing that a large plot of land is be
ing covered on Washington street
between the Cotton Club and Sid
Hobley's garage at the intersection
of Washington and Elm streets.
The building, 170 by 272 feet, has
a floor space of 46,240 feet or 2.680
square feet larger than an acre of
ground. About one-third larger
than the Planters Warehouse here,
the structure will hold a good full
day's tobacco sale, and is one of the
largest in this section.
Approximately 60,000 brick are
being used for the foundation alone
and many more thousands will be
used in building the front wall. "Hie
side walls will be of corrugated
iron. Steel structural networks,
placed on two lines of posts through
the house will support the roof.
Five masons have been on the job
there and while they have made
much progress despite unfavorable
weather hardly more than a big
dent in the foundation work is no
ticeable today. "We are putting a
foundation under the house that
will hold peanuts and tobacco
stacked to the roof," Mr. John Gur
kin, part owner and builder, said
this week.
Several hundred thousands feet
of timber have been ordered, and
some of the material has already
been placed on the lot. It is cer
tain that construction work will
continue well into the summer
months. The builders are handling
the project with day labor, and it
is thought that the structure will,
cost approximately $20,000.
Special attention has been given
to the lighting, and the owners
point out that the house will be one
of he most modern in the entire to
bacco belt.
Points Out Cause for
Number of Wrecks
The cause of many school bus ac
cidents in quite a few cases is the
traceable to the poor condition of
the operating equipment and the
negligence on the part of the school
bus drivers themselves to give
proper signals, Mr. D. G. Matthews
pointed out to Professor P. L
Baunigardner, principal of the Cho
wan High School. Mr. Matthews
pointed out that several busses in
Chowan County had been operating
without proper stop signs, and the
attention of the school principal
was called to this condition after
various comment had been offered
following an accident involving one
of Mr. Matthews' Slade-Rhodes and
Company's trucks in Chowan coun
ty week before last.
In his letter to the school man, I
Mr. Matthews said:
"As owner of the truck that
struck a young school boy in Cho
wan county, and noticing your re
marks in our county paper, we have
this to say:
"We have always cautioned our
drivers to be careful in driving any
truck or car belonging to us, to
conform to the law, and observe
traffic rules. Wo,ourselvei, keep
equipment in good shape, good
hrakes and good tires, and we cer
tainly regret this accident. How
ever, we wonder, in order to avoid
future accidents, just how much
this accident is laid at the door of
the party or parties responsible for
operating busses up and down the
highways without any STOP signs,
or stopping without giving any sig
nals whatever? If you drive a car,
you no doubt, realize the position
a driver is in when the bus or car
stops in front without giving any
sign whatever.
"Kindly advise us if you have no
tified the proper parties to have
these signs put on your trucks, as
we are informed by the shop where
repairs are made that several in
Chowan County are being operated
on the highways without these
Building And Loan
Anticipating Large
Stock Sale Boost
Forty-first Series to Open
Here Tomorrow
Morning
With over 250 shares already en
gaged, the 41st stock series of the
Martin County Building and Loan
Association opening here tomorrow
morning promises to be one of the
largest in several years. Officers
feel certain the sale will exceed 500
shares, reports maintaining that
there is considerably more interest
I in the series opening tomorrow than
I was evident during the past sever
al.
Most of the stock, already spoken
for was engaged by prospective
home builders who, in quite a feu
cases,are supplementing stock they
have carried during the past sever
al years that they might now ad
vance a home building program. |
However, there are quite a few who
recognized the valuable saving fea
ture carrying building and loan
stock, and they are speaking for ad
ditional shares. A preliminary sur
vey of the stock applications show
that at least a dozen are investing
in the association for the first time
They are mostly new'comers to the
community, and are now making,
plans to finance homes here of their
own within the next few years.
According to officers of the asso
ciation, a considerable building pro
gram is expected to get underway
here this spring and summer. It is
apparent, however, that the com
pletion of a sizeable building pro
gram will leave rental property
drawing a premium. "We like Wil
liamston. but during the three
weeks we have been here we have
not been able to locate an apart
ment." a newcomer remarked yes
terday.
Since its organization, the Mar
tin County Building and Ixian As
sociation has financed a majority of
the homes built in Williamston, and
its financing activities are increas
ing from year to year. A study of
financing costs shows that the
building and loan way is one of the
best ways for financing building
construction.
China Missionary
Here Next Week
Rev. C. H. Plopper, missionary
to China for the past quarter of a
century who is just home from the'
war-torn country, will speak in
this county next week. His itiner
ary calls for addresses before the
local school, combined missionary
societies of the several Christian
churches in this section and to the
public at large His addresses, cer. \
tain to prove of great interest, are
expected to attract capacity au-1
diences
Special invitations have been ex
tended the missionary groups in the
several Christian churches, urging
them to attend a meeting in the lo
cal Christian church at three o'clock
next Thursday afternoon. That
night, Mr. Plopper will address the
general public in the Christian
"Church. On next Friday, the mis.
sionary will speak in the church at
Robersonville, to the missionary
groups of that church and section
at 3 o'clock and to the general pub
lic at 7:30 that evening.
?
Ten Stills Captured In
County During February
*
Ten liquor stills were wrecked
and 5,850 gallons of beer and 23
gallons of liquor were destroyed by
the enforcement bureau of the Mar
tin County Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board during February,
Special Officer J. H. Roebuck re
vealed in his monthly report filed
this week.
In January, the officers wrecked
twelve liquor plants in the county.
*
|t?. H. IVilson To Manage
Local Equipment Plant
E. H. Wilson, formerly connect
ed with the Raleigh Tractor and
Equipment company, of Raleigh,
North Carolina, for a number ol
years, has been named manager ol
the North Carolina Equipment com
pany's Williamston operation.
Mr. Wilson is thoroughly famil
iar with both the sales and service
of Internation Farm Machinery
and his association with the North
Carolina Equipment company will
greatly increase the efficiency ol
their personnel in Williamston.
? a
James A. Roberson, of Farm Lite,
?as a business visitor in WilUams
ton today.
Whirlwind Campaign Underway
In County and Slate in Support of
The New 1938 Agriculture Bill
Soil Conservation Checks To
Be Delivered in County Soon
The office of the Martin County
agent will start distributing soil
conservation checks the early part
of next week, J. P. Woodard, as
sistant agent, stating today that 266
checks amounting to $9,933 12 had
just been received. Farmers will be
notified when to call for their
checks. Mr. Woodard explaining
that only a few of the checks hadj
been sent from Washington, and
that the distribution work would
likely require several weeks' time.
Farmers are earnestly asked not to
call at the office until they are no
tified their checks have been re
ceived. "The owners will be noti
fied when to call just as soon as
possible after the checks are made
ready," the assistant agent pointed
out.
Receiving approximately $180,000
last year under the soil conserva
tion program. Martin farmers will
hardly receive more than half that
amount this year. With the control
feature eliminated, the soil con
serving program did not appeal to
the farmers throughout the coun
try, and they forfeited the benefit
payments by increased plantings to
soil-depleting crops.
Many who planted their entire
base acreages to soil-depleting crops
will receive no benefit payments,!
and others will receive very little.!
However, there are quite a few who|
cooperated with the program to a
marked extent, and their payments.
will run into several hundred dol
lars.
Airplane Club Plans
To Open Field Here
Laiitlinv Field Has
been Prepared on
M. I). \\ ilson Farm
Two Locally Owned Planes
Included in New
Equipment
Recently formed by a dozen coun
ty citizens, the Williatnston Aerial
Club is planning a big formal open
ing of lis airport on the M. I). Wil
son farm, near the Standard Fer
tilizer plant, here Sunday, Henry
A. Johnson, president of the or
ganization, announced today.
Work on the $urport has just been
completed and a new $2,(M)0 plane
w ill be delivered to the club some
time today, Mr. Johnson said. Tom
Crawford, the first local boy to
earn a private pilot's license, is
bringing his plane to the local air
port, giving the organization two
flying units. Other airports are like
ly to participate in the opening of
the field by sending planes here
Sunday, but their appearance on
the program is not definite. And
then unfavorable weather may de
lay the program, but plans are go
ing forward for the event .
The new plane has a twin seat
and is well suited for training work
It is controlled by a regular steer
ing wheel, has brakes and is of
modern construction, coming direct
here from the factory in Ohio.
Tennyson Ayers, young Bear
Grass Township boy, recently earn
ed his pilot's license and he with
Tom Crawford will instruct the
other ten members of the club in
the ways of flying. "I may not ever
learn to fly, but 1 am going to try,"
Mr. Jesse Keel, prominent farmer
of Everetts and recent addition to
the club membership, was quoted
as saying this week.
beginning next week or the week
following, the club plans to build
a hanger on its 19-acre field to ac
commodate two planes, "and then
we will have one of the best air
ports east of Raleigh," a member
of the club said today.
The new organIzalion tr compos
ed by the following: Henry A. John
son, president; Shcp Johnson, vice
president; Williford Sparrow, sec
retary; Maurice Peel, treasurer;
Tom Crawford, instructor, and Ten
nyson and Fred Ayers, W. M. Peel,
Jesse Keel, Linwood Roebuck, and
two others whose names were not
revealed. 'They don't want their
wives to know they are flying
high," another member of the club
explained.
Firemen Get Call To Home
On Main Street Tuesday
Slight damage resulted when (ire,
starting from a chimney spark,
burned a small hole in the roof of
Lizzie Ashley's home on East Main
street last Tuesday afternoon. Vol
unteer firemen, called to the home,
had the fire under control within u
few minutes after the alarm was
sounded.
The call was the second answer
ed by the local volunteers in two
days, a first call coming exactly at
the same hour from the Furney
Howard borne on Monday.
\ POULTRY CAR
A third cooperative poultry
shipment will be made from this
county next week, Agent T. B.
Brandon announced today. It is
not definite but the car next
week will possibly be the last
one operated in the county this
season.
Mr. Brandon announces that
definite arrangements had
been made for all day loadings
in each of the four towns where
the car will make stops.
The schedule: Jamesville,
Wednesday, March 9; W'illiams
ton, Thursday, March 10; Hob
ersonville, Friday, March It and
Oak City, Saturday. March 12.
Marriage Licenses
Issued To Twenty
(louples Last Month
Issuance in County for Last|
Month Is About
Average
Twenty marriage licenses were
issued in this county last month l>y
Register of lteeds J. Sam Getsing
ii, the issuance being about an av
I age for February during the past
ten years. Nine of the licenses were
issued to white and eleven to col
ored couples, as follows:
White
Henry Ralph Peel, of Martin
County, and Mary Gladys Hopkins,
of Washington County.
Millard J llulliday -mwt Mary
Arbell Gardner, both of this coun
ty. I
Gaston Rogers, of Martin County,
I and Mary Louise Brown, of Halifax
I County.
Roger Wilson and Amy M. Jolin
I son, of New Bern.
Cedrlc B. Burrougs and Lucile
Downs, both ot this county.
Raymond W. Jones and Nancy
| Cooper, both of Plymouth.
t^blored
Primus Cherry and Geneva Jolin
I son, both of Martin County.
William Morris and Mary E. Ma
1 dre, both of Colerain.
! James Hardison and Dclzora Per
l kins, both of this county.
Broadte Speller and Hattie Gil
ham, both of Bertie County.
John T. Bryant and Clara Mae
Perkins, both of Pitt County.
Abraham Spivey, of Aulander, and
Lillian Bridgett, of Windsor.
J William Broadie and Annie V.
Rivers, both of this county.
Willie D. Brown and Eva White,
both of Williamston*
S. L. Spruill and Lou Verna
Cromwell, both of Martin County.
William Livingston and Isabell
Brown, both of this county.
Town Commissioners Hold
Regular Meeting Monday
The appointment of a tax-list tak
er for the town constitutes the only
special business on the calendar for
consideration by the local commis
sioners in their regular meeting
here next Monday evening at 7:30
o'clock. Mayor John L. Hassell an
nounced today.
Appeals Are Heard
In Every Nook and
Corner of Section
Community Meetings At
tract Large Crowds:
Meet Tonight
With the referenda just about a
week away, agricultural leaders
throughout the county and State
are conducting a whirlwind cam
paign in support of the new 1938
farm bill. The campaign is not ov
erlooking the smallest nook and
corner, and the proponents are car
rying the battle into the camp of
the opposition. The bill supporters
are on the offense in a big way, and
just how successful they are in
tearing down the defense cannot be
determined until the count is made
late on Saturday of next week.
Secretary Henry Wallace is pre
dicting the passage of the bill, but
agricultural leaders in this county
and in nearly everyone of the 80
tobacco-growing counties are taking
notKing for granted and continue
one of the most concerted drives
ever known outside the field of
politics. And few political cam
paigns have attracted more inter
ested crowds than those reported
at Bear Grass Wednesday evening
and at Oak City last night.
Contrary to some reports main
taining that farmers were dis
gruntled over their allotments, that
they wanted their good old individ
ualism freedom unimpaired by law
or order, the first community meet
ing in Bear Grass Wednesday eve
ning showed that the farmers there
were willing to reduce their crops,
that they were more interested in
the passage of the bill than they
were in a detailed explanation of
all the provisions written into the
new control law.
Well over 100 farmers were pres
ent for the meeting in Bear Grass.
Agents T. B. Brandon and J. P.
Woodard and Mr. T. B. Slade,, of
the county department, stating that
they enjoyed the program there.
Oak City
More than 150 farmers were pres
ent for the meeting in Oak City
last evening, the growers showing a
marked interest in the new bill and
its provisions. A support, possibly
as high as 00 per cent, is predicted
there for the bill. Farmers in Goose
Nest will vote in the old hotel lob
by in Oak City, March 12. L. H.
Hux, chairman, H. A. Early and L.
H. Haw Is have, been named poll
holders.
The schedule for other commun
ity meetings:
Robersonville, Monday, March 7.
Cross Koads, Farm Life and
Jamesyille on Tuesday, March 9.
The agriculture forces will be di
vided that evening so that all three
meetings can be held at the same
time.
On Wednesday. March 9. farmcra
of Williamston, Poplar Point and
Williams Townships will meet in
the agricultural building for a joint
meeting. It was pointed out that
there were no places to hold meet
ings in Poplar Point and Williams
Townships.
On the same evening, a meeting
will be held in llassell.
All these meetings will be held at .
7:30 o'clock p. m. and in school
buildings with one exception, the
agent's office pointing out that
meetings in Williamston will bt
held in the courthouse and agricul
tural building. x \
Tonight a big mass meeting has
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a
Double Feature Basketball
Schedule On Monday Night
?
Thrills and spills are certain next
Monday night when the school
teachers meet the high school girls
and the Kiwanians meet the Lions
in a double feature basketball
event in the local gymnasium. The
lirst event 01^ the card gets under
way promptly at 7:30 with the girls
playing the teachers. Youth tri
umphed over age in a similar event
two or three weeks ago.
Suffering a stinging defeat at
the hands of the Kiwanians not ao
long ago, the Lions, led by L Mar
golis, are anxious for revenge, and
it is learned from reliable i
that the Lions are holding
practices in preparation for the re
turn bout Harcum Crimea is '
ing the Kiwanis gang.
will be used tor