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VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 61 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 2, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899
Town Authorities
In Regular Session
Here Last Night
Restrictions for Operation
Of Meat Markets Are
Maintained
e
At their regular session last eve
ning, Williams ton's town commis
sioners continued to enforce re
strictions for the operation of meat
markets here, the discussion indi
cating that the closed market policy
in force for more than thirty years
will not be disturbed before Janu
ary 1, if then. Two applications were
filed by W. N. Whitley, of Windsor,
and McClees Brothers, local grocers,
for permission to open markets out
side the municipal building. During
the discussion it was brought out
that the present market is one of the
most modern in any town this size
in the State.
Action was delayed on the propos
ed adoption of an ordinance requir
ing smoke stacks on all boilers op
erated within 500 feet of a residence
to be extended 30 feet above the
nearest roof. While the board delay
ed action on adopting the proposed
ordinance, it did recommend that
all stacks be equipped with a ten
foot extension.
With the resignation of Fire Chiel
George Harris in their hands, the
commissioners discussed a new op
erating policy for the local fire de
partment, ffo action was taken, the
with the fire department personnel
for next Monday night. It has been
suggested that the town hire a full
time man to head the company,
representatives of the department
explaining that the present members
held jobs and were unable to prop
erly maintain the apparatus and
handle allied duties other than an
swering alarms.
Following the resignation of Geo.
Harris as chief, James Herbert
Ward, assistant chief during the past
year, moved up In
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Series Of Wrecks
In Martin County
One person was fatally injured
and several others hurt ,one serious
ly, in a series of wrecks and acci
dents in this county during last
week-end.
W. A. Bland, aged Cross Roads
Township farmer, was fatally hurt
last Saturday afternoon when a
mule hitched to a cart ran away.
Latham James suffered a bad cut
on his hand when his car went out
of control and ran into a ditch on
the Hamilton road Saturday night.
About four o'clock, Linwood
Bland, young Pitt County man, is
alleged to have gone on a rampage
with his car and did considerable
property damage. Going out of
control, the Bland car tore through
Farmer Joe Overton's hog pasture
fence in Cross Roads Township and
continued across the pasture and
on through the fence on the qther
side Approaching the house the
car tore down a clothes line mow
ed down flowers and tore through
another fence, barely missing a big
oak trees in the yard. The car was
brought to a stop after it crossed the
road and entered a woods a short
distance away. The driver backed
the car out and continued. Sher
iff Roebuck and Patrolman Hunt in
vestigated the wild drive, and
Bland is now facing a charge of
reckless driving. The fenders, run
ning boards and top were badly bat
tered on the car.
Ben Wilson, colored tenant on M.
D. Ayers' farm in Bear Grass, was
badly hurt when his old car went
out of control Sunday evening and
struck a telephone pole near Ever
etts. Suffering a back injury, Wilson
is now receiving treatment in a
Washington hospital. His car was a
wreck.
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Enforcement Officer
Files Report For July
The drive against the illicit li
quor traffic In this county last month
netted five liquor stills, 2,800 gal
lons of beer and three gallons of li
quor, it was disclosed in the regu
lar monthly report filed by Special
Enforcement Officer J. H. Roebuck
this week when the Alcoholic Bev
erages Control board met.
A record number of arrests was
reported for the period, seven alleg
ed violators of the liquor laws hav
ing fallen into the hands of the of
ficer and his assistants during the
period. William Black, John Bonds,
Wade Harrell, Don and W. D. Lew
is, George Smith and Sam Briley
were arrested. The first five men
are facing trial in the federal court
at Washington In October.
Two cars were confiscated, but
they ware turned over to holders ol
mortgages against the machines.
Diphtheria Clinics Are Well
Attended in County Monday
Clinics offering free protection
against diphtheria were well attend
ed in the county yesterday when the
eight-day, county-wide drive against
the disease got underway. Nearly
two hundred children, mostly ba
bies, were given the toxoid at the
found dispensaries held at James
ville, Dardens, Farm Life and Lil
ley's store. Less than half a dozen
reporting for the free protection
were over the six-year age limit, it
was explained.
Reporting on the first day activi
ties at the stations, Dr. E. W. Fur
gurson, of the county health depart
ment, stated that 85 children re
ported at Jamesville, 41 at Dardens
46 at Farm Life and 19 at Lilley's
store in Griffins Township. Ram
started falling at Farm Life and
Lilley's Store and possibly kept a
few children at home.
Stations are open today at Oak
City, Hamilton and Hassell. Wed
nesday. the clinics will operate at
Everetts, 7 to 10 t. m.; Gold Point,
10:30 a. m. to 12 noon. Thursday,
Williamston high school, 7 to 10 a.
m.; Williamston colored school, 10:30
to noon. On Friday of this week the
health forces will locate at Rober
sonville grammar school, 7 to 10 a.
m.; colored school, 10:30 a. m. to
noon, and Parmele, 2 to 4 p. m. Next
Tuesday, the campaign will be
brought to a close in Bear Grass and
Cross Roads. 7 to 10 a. m. and 10:30
a. m. to 12 noon, respectively.
Prices Advancing On
Georgia Leaf Markets!
Report Average Of
27 Cents A Pound
For First Two Days
Drive to Remove Marketing
Restriction Gains
Momentum
Tobacco prices ranged upward as
Georgia leaf markets brought to a
close the first few days of the 1938
marketing season, official reports
stating that the average for the early
period would possibly exceed 27
cents a pound.
Along with the recognized fair
prices came protests directed against
marketing allotments, certain groups
in Georgia rejecting the quotas and
renewing agitation for removal of
all marketing restrictions.
A mass meeting of Candler Coun
ty growers at Metter endorsed the
county tobacco committee's action
in holding up all allotment cards "to
be re-worked on a more equitable
basis."
R. G. Daniel, owner of the Metter
Advertiser, said the quotas were re
jected because "they varied too
widely between individual grow
ers, ranging from 300 pounds to
more than 1,000 pounds per acre."
The growers passed a resolution ask
ing for an allotment of 800 pounds
an acre for all growers.
Senator Walter F. George and
Governor E. D. Rivers, in separate
communications, asked Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace to lift the mar
ket restrictions.
The preliminary report from 41
of 56 warehouses to the State De
partment of Agriculture showed $3,
181,000 paid for 11,840,000 pounds
of tobacco.
This compares with the complete
two-day report of 1937, when $3,
248,275 02 was paid for 12,875,254
pounds, an average of 25.23.
Figures from the 15 unreported
warehouses were expected to swell ^
the new total beyond last year's
figures, and unofficial advices from
the markets indicated that the state
average would be raised. Official
figures will not be issued before to
morrow.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 1.?Protests
and court attacks harried govern
ment tobacco officials today, but
l growers of the bright leaf variety
already had collected approximately
$4,000,000 from the first two days of
auctions in South Georgia and
Northern Florida.
Three Cases Diphtheria
Reported In The County
Three cases of diphtheria were
reported in the county this week
just ai public health forces launch
ed a county-wide campaign against
the disease. Three small colored
children, two of them four years
old, fell victim of the disease in
Hamilton township.
In a relentless drive against ty
phoid, Martin County health au
thorities within the last quarter at
a century have virtually eliminated
the fever, and it is the goal of tha
health forces to reduce diphtheria
cases to a minimum. Several diph
theria deaths are reported each year
in the county, and the number of
cases runs comparatively high.
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Art Hauger Resigns As
Manager Baseball Club
*
Art Hauger, popular manager of
the Martins for the greater part of
two seasons, tendered his resigna
tion today, effective at once. No
statement accompanied the resigna
tion which was accepted by the di
Cnarl'e Wry succeeds Hauger, it
was unofficially learned.
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ELECTION
(totting their names on the
books before the registration
period ended last Saturday eve
ning, 161 citiiens will partici
pate in the special bond elec
tion here next Tuesday, August
?. The ellfihle voting list was
swelled the last day the regis
tration books were open, but
even then the last-minute rush
failed to bring the total up to
what may be described as a
representative figure. ,
The vote next Tuesday will
be against the registration to
tal, meaning that if ji person
who registered fails to visit the
polls in the town hall and vote
his or her vote will automatical
ly count against the election.
to carry or defeat the plan.
Start Church And
Cemetery Survey
A survey of cemeteries and,
churches in this county gets under
way this week with Vernon B. Hope
well out in search of records run
ning back nearly two hundred
years.
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Mr. Hopewell is seeking the names
and owners of cemeteries, the num
ber of marked and unmarked graves1
and general conditions. The survey
is expected to revealmuch data of
historical interest and value, and the
general public is asked to assist Mr.
Hopewell in the task.
The church survey will deal with
a number of religious bodies, mem
berships, buildings, clergymen and
general information ordinarily car
ried in the minutes.
Methodist Sunday School
Picnic Held Tomorrow
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The Williamston Methodist Sun
day School picnic will be held at
Colerain Wednesday afternoon, Au
gust 3rd.
All who can go will assemble at
the church as soon after one p. m.
as possible. Those who can take
more than their family will please
come by the church and pick up
some who will not have ways to go.
Each family will take a picnic bas
ket.
Nineteen Marriage
Licenses Issued In
County Last Month
Number Weddings Among
White Population Is
Decreasing
Nineteen marriage licenses ? six
to white and thirteen to colored cou
ples?were issued in the office of
the Martin County Register of
Deeds last month, the issuance fall
ing two below that for the same
month last year. , j
The number of licenses issued to
colored couples has shown fairly
steady increase since last January
while the number of licenses issued
to white couples has decreased since
that time. In July of last year thir
teen licenses were issued to white
and eight to colored couples, as com-1
pared with six and thirteen last
month.
Licenses were issued last month
as follows:
White
Carrol Lee Griffin and Nine E
Bland, both of this county.
Leslie James Griffin and Verna
Louise Smithwick, both of Martin
County.
Roy Manning and Marcia Lee
Beacham, both of this county.
Elmer Thomas Hobbs and Norma
Mae Brttt, both of Ahogkte.
Sidney Phelps and Toby Downs,
both of this county.
George D. Leggett and Josephine
Mtzelie, both of Bertie
Colored
John 11. Ellison and Evelyn White
Tiurst, both of jamesvuie.
John Ellis and Rose Ella Speller,
both of this county.
Haywood Peel and Lucy May Dog
gert, both of Martin County.
Arthur Davis and Apsa Clark,
both of this county.
Bennie Clark and Clara Spruill,.
both of Roper.
Thaddeus Bazemore and Lizzie
Bertie.
William Smith and Pearl Thomas,
both of Williamston.
Samuel Williams and Mary Mi
zelle, of Pasquotank County.
Booker T. Jordan and Maggie Gil
liam, both of Bertie County.
Fernando Little and Sudie" Wool
ard, both of this county.
James Purvis and Ollie Mae Jones,
both of Murtm County.
George Hudgins and Emma Jane
James, both of this county.
W. R Rascoe and Pauline Rascoe,
both of Gatesville.
Former Local Minister
Dies At Home In Florida
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Rev. Clarence Henry Jordan, rec
tor of the Church of the Advent for
a short time about 1920, died at his
home in Tarpon Springs, Florida,
last week. Mr. Jordan was born in
Madison 71 years ago, and after his
ministry here he moved to Weldon.
He was educated at Davidson Col
lege.
He was married September 21,
1897, to Miss Ella Zerline Lynet. of
Savannah, Ga. He held numerous
parishes and diocesan posts in this
State and others, the last being at
Tarpon Springs, Fla., where he went
from Weldon.
He retired two years ago after
serving the ministry for 35 years.
Surviving are his wife; three daugh
ters, Mrs. J. A. Gibson, of Palatka,
Fla.; Mrs. A. H. Grey, of Buenos
Aires; Mrs. E. O. Horger, Jr, of
Greenville, S. C., and a son, D. C.
Jordan, of New Orleans.
Names of Douglass Fairbanks, Jr. and Other
"Celebrities" in Unemployment Office File
Marching like a parade
through the flies of the State
Employment Office at Wllllams
ton are records of unusual peo
ple with outstanding records
and unusual achievement, rep
resenting the Ave counties serv
ed by this office. Almost every
occupation and type of person Is
A visitor, looking through the
flies at random, would find, for
example, among recent regis
trations a civil engineer, native
of the British West Indies,
working on public construction
Jobs in Beaufort County; or for
example, a master cabinet mak
er now living in lower Beaufort
County who is a native of the
Philippine Islands. A veteran of
the World War of the Pantego
section is also, it was disclosed,
an expert laundry machine op
erator with a record of service
in Philadelphia and other places.
Tucked away in Beaufort Coun
ter cook, a fifty-year-old color
ed man who was once chief In
structor in cooking in a World
War training camp, U. 8. Army,
and haa been chef at Washing
ton, D. C. hotels and other large
cities.
Two sisters in one of Hie low
er counties recently registered
who had held the nunc jobs, side
by side, for 36 years continuous
ly, seldom missing a day In all
that time. In Washington N. C.,
for example, the employment
service recently registered a
stenographer with speed of ov
er 166 words per minute and
who had worked in the U. 8.
Treasury in the National Cap
ital, and is now available for a
Job. In the Roper section, for
example, there is a nurse who
has held, among other respon
sible Jobs, superintendeney of a
state Institution In a Northern
state for a number of years.
From the lower end of Hyde
County a waitress comes up to
vise fat New York, Long
and other places. From the
Southern tip of Beaufort Conn
tjr comes a young lady trying
to get N.Y.A. work who should
be In the movies?possessing
"everything" except a job. Not
long ago the manager of the
Willi am sion office registered ov
er tl young colored people in
the Creswell and Columbia sec
tion, and each one was a high
school graduate. They were
seeking mostly N.Y.A. work.
. Many of these people can be
placed in jobs, while others'
applications remain in the active
file and are worked on until an
opening can be found for refer
ral. Needless to say, well quali
fied applicants are usualty plac
ed more quickly than unskilled
and untrained applicants.
Unusual names also spring up
from time to time. The William
ston office has actually regis
tered in the recent past, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., Easter Flowers,
Car Fair Green, Sweetie B.
1PIm - - -a- . -- earn
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Mown victon* Ring, Ring cram
uel Smith and George Washing
Assembly To Consider PWA
State Grant at Special Session
Going into special session next
Monday morning at U o'clock, the
North Carolina legislature will con-!
sider authorizing supplementary
funds for improvements to State in
stitutions in cooperation with the
Public Works Administration.
Advised by wire yesterday of the
special session, Representative H. G.
Horton and Senator R L. Coburn
stated that they believed the busi
ness before the lawmakers would be
limited to the one question, that
the session should not last over eight
days. However, there is a possibility
that the legislature will be asked to
pass a measure simplifying the pro
cedure under which municipalities
and counties may apply for PWA
The legislature will be asked to
allocate state funds to match pro-|
posed PWA improvements and ex
pansions at state institutions. Treas
urer Charles M. Johnson said the
assembly could authorize a bond is- '
sue of as much as $8,345,000, which
would be sufficient for an $11,000,-,
000 improvement program
The amount of the bond issue 1
which the governor will recommend
to the law-makers will be determin-1 1
ed by the advisory budget commis
sion which is meeting Wednesday
and Thursday.
The governor's proclamation came '
as no surprise and administration
supporters quickly took steps to see 1
that the "must" measure or meas- 1
ures were passed expeditiously. It
was understood that a resolution '
limiting debate to PWA business 1
ii i.mlrf bn introduced?in both the -
house and the senate, a few moments
after they are called to order.
Board Reviews County
Home Operating Plan
UNUSUAL
An unusual story and one
sounding like another 'happen
in* over around Kinston, came
out ot Griffins Township a day
or two ago.
Farmer Sherrod Corey went
to his mule barn the other
moraine and~found an electric
light burning, a light that no hu
man hands had turned on. Ob*
serving a recently-purchased
Missouri mule, Mr. Corey caught
the animal pulling the light
switch card with its mouth.
Lice Threatening
County Corn Crop
Lice invading the fields of this
county are said to be exacting a
heavy damage toll to the corn crop.
That the invasion is likely to prove
serious is borne out in a report re
leased last week-end by Farmer Cal
vin Ayers of Bear Grass Township
where the pest is apparently center
ing its activities.
After inspecting a fifteen-acre
field, Mr. Ayers said that he did not
expect to harvest in excess of five
barrels of corn to the acre, that late
corn is ruined almost in its entire
ty. Early corn that had filled out
before the invasion is fairly good, it
was explained.
If the invasion is general over the
county, the farmers have not yet de
tected it, but a large number of far
mers in Bear Grass and surrounding
communities are reporting damage
by lice.
Early Hunting Reported
In Jamesville Township
Opening the season a bit early in
the Jamesville section last week,
Melvin Biggs, young colored man.
was fined $25 and t^xed with the
costs in Justice J. L. Hassell's court,
here yesterday morning. Biggs,
charged with killing a wild turkey
out of season, hunting within 500
yards of high water and without li
cense, pleaded guilty to all three
charges.
Biggs was arrested by County
Game Warden W. O Abbitt.
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Complaints Directed
At Narrow Roads In
Rural Communities
Regular Session of County
Commissioners Monday
Uneventful One
*
An uneventful business schedule
marked the regular session of the
Martin County Board of Commis
sioners here yesterday, the authori
ties spending most of the day handl-j
ing routine duties and briefly re
viewing the Hyman case.
?The 1937-38 county-wide tax late
was formally adopted at $1.41 the
$100 assessed property valuation
aTid the poll lax was held at the
regular figure, the $2 maximum.
A petition, carrying the names of
44 Griffins Township citizens, urg
ed the board to request the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion to take over and maintain a
two-mile stretch of road in that dis
trict. The road begins at the Perry
place on the old Manning-James
.yjlle-Washing ton road, runs weet
wardly via the R. W Perry place
and J. W. Griffin homeplace to the
Jamesville and Washington road
No. 171
The board was also asked to pass
a resolution urging the highway
commission to widen the road from
Sweet Home church in Bear Grass1
Township to the old Bear Grass
Corey's Cross Roads road, a dis
tance of almost two miles.
Several complaints were heard
from various parts of the county, di
recting the attention of the commis
sioners to the narrow roads in the
outlying district. "The road forces
jiave raked up what looks more like
potato ridges than roads," one com
plaint read. The authorities are con
sidering appealing to the highway
commission and urge that more con
vict labor be used on the narrow
loads in the outlying districts.
The group manifesting an inter
est in the Hyman case last week did
not appear before the board, but the
issue was reviewed and today there
is every assurance that the county
home will not be closed to the poor
or that the less fortunate will be
"thrown out."
The rase came into the spotlight
last Wednesday evening when an
inmate left the institution and find
ing no other place to go he spent the
night in the county jail. A group of
county citizens, learning about the
case, planned to go before the com
iinsMuni'is fui a statement of poli
cies for operating the home for the
aged and infirm, but they did not
appear and" the commissioners and
welfare authorities reviewed the
case voluntarily.
Some time ago a movement was
-started to move out as many inmates
as possible from county homes all
over the State and place them on
nld-age pension lists, the welfare
authorities explaining that it would
be much cheaper and in nearly ev
ery case just as pleasant for the
aged to vacate the institution and
bvnn private homes. In the ci
that attracted attention last week,
the inmate was offered $20 a month,
the county to pay one-fourth, the
State a fourth, and the federal gov
ernment one-half. The inmate had
been asked to find him a home, and
when advised that he had left the
home, welfare authorities were un
der the impression that he had lo
cated a place and moved himself. A
claim for the $20 monthly allowance
was entered the following morning
Martin County Man
Ls Killed In Unusual
Accident Saturday
W. A. Bland, Aged Farmer,
Is Fatally Hurt When
Mule Runs Away
William A. Bland, aged Martin
County farmer, was fatally injured
last Saturday afternoon when a
mule hitched to a cart ran away
with him about two miles from his
home in Cross Roads Township.
Found along the road side about 4:30
2'clock, Mr Bland died at his home
near the Cross Roads Christian
Church about two hours later with
out fully regaining consciousness.
No one saw the accident, but it is
believed the mule became frighten
ed and the man was thrown between
the hnriy and wheel nf the rart His
head was bruised and several of his
ribs were said to have been broken.
"I am badly hurt," Mr. Bland was
quoted as saying when neighbors '
found him. lie was hardly semi-con
scious and could offer no explana
tion as to how the accident happen
ed.
It could not be learnfed how long
he had been hurt when he was
found about 4:30 o'clock. Attend
ants at a filling station near the
Cross Roads church saw the mule
returning home without the owner,
and thinking Mr Bland had met
With some misfortune they started
looking for him. He was known to
have left earlier that day to visit in
the Bear (Trass section, and the
searchers, following that course,
found him two miles away lying be
side the road. He was carried to his
home where he died shortly after
six o'clock.
Mr. Bland was born in Cross
Roads Township 72 years ago, and
lived and farmed there all his life.
Mrs. Bland who was a Miss Austin
before her marriage, died several
years ago. He is survived by four
children, W. S. Bland, of Roberson
ville; Mrs. Allen Warren, of Oak
City; John D. and J. H. Bland, both
of Cross Roads.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by
Rev. Garland Bland in the church
at Cross Roads. Burial was in the
Austin Cemetery, about three miles
away.
Draw Jury List for
September Court
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Names of jurors drawn by the
commissioners this week for the
September court are, as follows:
First Week
Jamesville Township: Ralph Dav
enport. .
Griffins Township: Donald Grif
lin, Chester D. Revels, I. Marvin
Coltrain, James 11. Hodges, Ben C.
Peel, J. Edwin Manning, Urbin Lil
ley and W. H. Hardison.
Bear Grass Township: Hoyt Cow
en and Hymen G. Harrison.
Williamston Township: B. S.
Courtney, John H. Muelle, Frank
Weathersby, J. S. Cullipher, John
A, Manning, w. u. Peele, J. w. Gur
ganus, Henry D. Harrison, Jessup
Harrison, R. H. Smith, W. Harrell
Everett.
Cross Roads Township: J. S.
Wynne, G. D. Ross and Pete Wynne.
Robersonville Township: H. T.
Righsmith, Jasper Johnson, W. E.
Everett, W. P. Harris and A. T. Per
lins.
Poplar Point Township: W. M.
Hardison.
Hamilton Township: Lewis Eth
eridge, J. L. Pritchard, W Herman
Everett
Goose Nest Township: W. D. Hy
man and L. L. HarrelL
Second Week
Jamesville Township: D. D. Co
nurn.
Griffins Township: H. Ralph Peel
and R. Sherrod Corey.
Bear Grass Township- Rohert S.
Coltrain, Edgar Rogers, Walter Men
lenhall.
Williamston Township: D, W.
Sardner, J. C. Anderson, W. H.
Bowen, J D Thrower and O. S. Co
win.
Cross Roads: Township: Charlie
Keel.
Robersonville Township: Walter
Roberson, J. C. Taylor.
Poplar Point Township: W. R.
White.
Hamilton Township: Henry Thom
as and W. E. Davis.
Goose Nest; G. H. Manning.
ay telegraph with the State office,
rhursday evening, the welfare of
Tice learned that the inmate could
not get Into the private home and
he was carried back to the county
institution.
"The case, just like many others,
is proving a problem, and we want
id handle it to the very beet ad
vantage for the Inmate and as cheap
ly as possible to the oounty," wel
fare authorities explained.