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Advertisen Will Plad Ou Col umns i Latchkey to over MM of Martin GouMy. Watch the Label aa Tear Paper, aa It Carrtea the Data Your Subeertptlaa Expiree VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 71 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 6, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899 County Authorities Order Past Due Tax Accounts Advertised Short Session Is Held By! Commissioners on Monday Holding one ol iU shortest ses sions in many months, the Board of Martin County Commissioners Mon day ordered the 1937 delinquent tax list advertised for sale the first Monday in October, the tax collec tor, in accordance with the order, making immediate arrangements to notify all property owners who have not settled their 1937 tax accounts of the board's action. No statement of county tax collections for the year 1937 is available at this time, the collector stating that a large ma jority of the property owners had paid their taxes and that a few had settled their accounts for 1938 al While the order to advertise the 1937 delinquent accounts was being issued, the editor's office was busily engaged preparing the 1938 tax books which will be turned over to the collector on or about the middle of next week. Having very little business on the day's calendar, the commissioners worked through the lunch hour and adjourned early in the afternoon af ter handling routine matters and re ceiving petitions for opening two roads in the county. A petition, carrying the names of 28 citizens, was placed before the board urging the opening of a road from Keys' colored school house to the Jamesville and Washington highway, a distance of about one and one-half miles. The petitioners, offering good argument in advanc ing their claim, pointed out that the proposed route will connect two roads and shorten the distanc# of travel for a large number of people.) At the present time, a small woods path is being used and in certain periods of the year children have to wade through water to get to school it was pointed out. The board was asked to recom mend an improvement program for a road leading off U. S. No. 64 about three miles from Williamston and running bv Johnnie Savage and the Meador farms, a distance of about seven-tenths of a mile. The sale of the Whitehurst lands under deed of trust owned by the county was ordered, and J. Dillon Padgett was relieved of poll tax on account of physical disability Bicycle Theft Ring Broken Here Today Operating out of Tarboro, a small bicycle theft ring was broken here today with the arrest of Raymond Carney, young Tarboro colored man, and Johnnie B. Williams, Williams Township colored youth. Six of sev en bicycles stolen in Tarboro during Sie past few weeks had been recov ered at noon today, and officers were searching for a seventh one at that time. Carney, stealing the wheels on Tarboro streets, would ride them here and dispose of them at bargain1 prices, reports stating that he sold one for as little as 25 cents. Most of the bicycles were sold to colored boys in the rural sections near here. Dissatisfied with his limited op erations,. Carney is said to have ex panded his business last Saturday and drafted the Williams boys into service, and' thay started bringing down two stolen wheels for sale. Lo cal officers became suspicious, and an investigation was started. Tar boro officers were notified and they effected the arrest of Carney last evening. The Williams boy was ar rested this morning. < Addresses Maple Grove Sunday School Assembly W. R. Roberson, Washington bus iness man, addressed the Maple Grove church school last Sunday' morning. The speaker, delivering an interesting talk, was heard by a large group. The Sunday school there is num bered among the largest In the coun ty a Large Crowds Attending Services At Piney Grove Conducting a series of revival ser vices in the Piney Grove Baptist church. Rev. James H. Smith is preaching to large congregations this week. T\it meeting will continue into Sunday, September 11, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Biggs, of High Point, visited the former's mother, Mrs. Fannie Biggs here Sunday, af ter spending a few days at Nags Head. Farmers Pledge Their Continued Support of Tobacco Control Plan AGGRAVATED Crowded conditions reported In the Jamesville school second trade on opening day last Thurs day are being aggravated. Prin cipal J. T. Uxile explaining that the number of second-graders had increased from S3 to 70 and there's a possibility of a further expansion. Attendance records are being watched closely in all the schools these days, some believ ing they will be entitled to ad ditional teachers while others are fc.irful of losing a teacher. Man Fails In Effort To End His Life In! Parr.iele Last Night ?#? Vernon Whitehurst, Shot Through Shoulder, In Serious Conditon ? Vernon Whitehurst, young son of Mrs. J. L. Whitehurst, is in a criti cal condition in a Greenville hospi tal following an attempt at suicide at his home in Parmele last evening about eight o'clock No late reports have been received, but the 22-year old boy's condition was reported cri tical shortly after he fired a load of shot into his left shoulder. Going to the store of W. C. White hurst in Parmele just before eight o'clock, young Whitehurst said that he was tired of living, that life held no bright outlook for him and he was going home and kill himself. While at the store he bought three gun shells and a packages of cigar ettes Little attention was given the remarks, but a few minutes later a gun shot was heard and the boy was found critically injured. He had attempted to fire the load into?hir heart, but the aim was high and all the shot tore into the left shoulder. He had removed one of his shoes and pushed the trigger with one of his toes. Reports reaching here today indi cated that the boys had been drink ing, that he was desponded and de clared he was tired of living After receiving first aid treat ment, Whitehurst was removed to a Greenville hospital. Building and Loan Opens Stock Series Opening the 42nd stock series last Saturday, the Martin County Build ing and Loan Association today re ported more than 200 shares sold and applications for nearly 300 addition al shares. Wheeler Martin, secre tary of the organization, explained that the sale was certain to pass the SOO-share mark within the next two or three weeks. Most of those buying stock in the current series are planning a con sistent saving program, but quite a few are buying stock in anticipation of financing building plans, it was pointed out. Quite a few new shareholders are being added to the im, reports atat ing that a resident of New York has purchased a number of shares in the current series. Father Of Mrs. Barnhill Dies In Clinton Monday Funeral services for Mr. De Wooding Wood, father of Mrs. Le man Barnhill, of Williamston, were held in ijCrange last Tuesday af ternoon following a long period of declining health. He was 79 years old. Mr. Wood, who had visited here on many occasions, left a few days before to visit his daughter, Mrs. Guy Dawson, at Clinton. Taken ill while there, his condition suddenly became critical and he died on Mon day. ? Mr. Wood was a prominent citizen of Lenoir County, taking an active interest in education and the affairs of his county. Besides Mrs. Wood, ha is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Fred S. Isler, Mrs. J. P. Walters and Mrs. R. M. Adams, of La Grange; Mrs. Guy Dawson, of Clinton and Mrs. Leman Barnhill, of Williams ton; and two sons, W. C. Wood and D. Styron Wood, both of La Grange; also a large number of grandchil dren and other close relabves. The Rev. C. A. Jarman, of Wil son, assisted by the Rev. Perry Case, of Grifton, conducted the ser vices. Burial was in Fairview Cem etery in La Grange. Mass Meetings Are Held in Number of Counties Saturday Psychological Wave of Dis ' satisfaction Fades in Meetings The psychological wave of dissat isfaction sweeping over eastern North Carolina faded almost in its entirety when thousands of tobacco farmers gathered in huge mass meetings last Saturday afternooiTTh eight county courthouses and pledg ed a continued support for the fed eral crop program In the meetings farmers expressed dissatisfaction with current tobacco prices, but when the proposition of control or no control was presented in the form of a question, they answered al most unanimously in favor of con-1 trol for next year. Over in Greenville where much | opposition was centered on the size I of the quotas, only two out of an es timated 2,000 people viced opposi tin to the control program. "Throw them out," the crowd roared when the identity of the opponents was determined In most of the~efgHl meetings, far mers packed the courthouses to ov erflowing, some standing in win dows and aisles. Some expressed with emphasis that the manufactur ers were trying to contribute to the downfall of control, that there is little excuse for tobacco prices to drop from the high point paid in Georgia to the current low level. Soil conservation leaders at the meeting in Greenville urged against the transfer of surplus marketing cards to those failing to conform to the control program requirements. The transfer is legal, however. A review of the activities in the meeting shows that only six out of | an estimated 1,000 in Wilson voted 1 against further crop control. H. D. Godfrey of the N. C. State College Extension Bureau, said that the moment control is abandoned, the state would lose its place as the third most prosperous state in the Union. Asked why tobacco prices had dropped, he answered that no poundage allotments laid been made when the Georgia and border mar kets opened. When a howl went up from plant ers. be said, -the buyer told them selves, "if they're going to do away with control there's no use paying high prices this year." The farmers resolved that "we will vote and work for control in tha referendum of 1939 if a referendum should be declared necessary and called." Dissatisfied farmers were instruct ed to seek adjustment through the county review committees. Planters were called upon to refrain from "unjust, thoughtless and uninform ed criticism," of the program. This year, the farmers said, "we can better afford to pay five cents a pound or even a penalty of 50 per cent on small percentage excess poundage than lose five cents a pnnnH fir more on nnr entire crop by a slump in prices whirh has al ready begun." At Kinston five hundred tobacco growers met, pledged support of Federal control of crop acreage and resolved to vote for control next year if a referendum should be or dered by the Secretary of Agricul ture. Resolutions were adopted ex pressing the view that current to", prices were due to buyers' belief that control was doomed and an enormous crop would be pr^uced (Continued on page six) Circus Comes Friday For Two Performances ? Followers of the "big top" will see some of the world's best acts when they attend Downie Brothers' cir cus at the fair grounds here on Fri day of this week. Unofficial but re liable reports state that the show has annexed several features from the big Ringling Brothers and Bar num and Bailey circus. The management of the show through a special arrangement with The Enterprise is reducing admis sion prices to all kiddies in this sec tion. A coupon appears in this paper and each child clipping the coupon and presenting it to the ticket agent at the show grounds gains admission for fifteen cents. Big Civil Docket Awaits Attention Of Superior Court Seventy-one Cases Placed | On Calendar for Trial In September Convening the two weeks term of Martin County Superior Court or. September 19, Judge Walter J. Bone, of Nashville, will find a crowded civil calendar awaiting his attention Two days of the term have been set aside for the trial of criminal ac tions, the first of the civil cases to be called on Wednesday morning, September 21. No startling rases appear on the civil calendar, and other than the litigants and witnesses the civil proceedings are not expected to at tract the attention of but very few people. The calendar carries the following | Wednesday, Sept. 21: Fertilizer Co. v Simpson; Hyman v. Williams; Fertilizer Co. versus Aycock; Harri son Bros, against Price; Harrison Bros. vs. Griffin. Harrison Bros, vs Peel; Everett v. Matthews; Gilliam | v. Speller; Oil Company versus Rob inson; Sitterson vs Grimes and Roe buck Thursday. Sept. 22: Fertilizer Co. | v. Jordan; Williams vs. Edwards; Walters v. Smithwick; Chemical Co. against Whitfield, Fertilizer Co. vs. Carter: Credit Co. c. Watts; Gray versus Griffin; Alexander v. Grif fin; Purvis versus Griffin. Friday, Sept. 23: Harrison v. Rog | ers; Davis vs. Ruffin; VanNortwick vs. Jones; Strawbridge v. Cherry. I Monday, Sept. 26: Leggett v. Mo tor Co.; Dawson vs Everett; James, Adm. vs. Bishop; Staton against Johnson; Frank v. Ebron; Cooke vs. Ebron; Gurganus versus Barber; Lil ley v. Hut el al; Grimes vs. Close; Mobley against Mason; Fertilizer Co. v. Aycock; Fertilizer Co. ver sus Anderson; Fertilizer Co. against Briley; Fertilizer Co. v. Evans. Tuesday, Sept. 27: Fertilizer Co. v. Gladstone; Fertilizer Co. vs Cox; Fertilizer Co. versus White; Fertil izer Co. v. Gallowuy; Fertilizer Co. v. Baker. Fertilizer Co vs Glad stone; Fertilizer Co. against Morris; Wynn v. Wynn; Fertilizer Co. ver-, sus Ellis; Fertilizer Co. v. Brown;] Martin vs. Cowen; Peel vs. Bailey;; Harrison Bros v. Hopkins; Fertiliz er Co. v. Moore; Credit Co. versus! Parker. Wednesday, Sept. 28: Dixon ver sus Fass; Jones v. Morgan et al; Fer tilizer Co. v. Worslcy; Harrison Bros. v. Perry; Roberson against Holliday; Bowen v. Hassell; Col train v. Frances; Moore vs. Cherry;! Chesson v. Cherry; Leggett versus] Brown. Thursday, Sept. 29: Jones v. Mc Kirby; Jones v. McKirby; Spencer I vs. Spencer; Strawbridge against | Cherry; Ida Moore, adm. v. Wilson; Harrell vs. Daniel; Matthews ugainst1 Bell; Smithwick v. Smithwick ? Arguing Cases In Supreme Tribunal Attorneys B A. Criteher, R. L. Coburn and E S. Peel are in Ral eigh today arguing cases before the! State Supreme Court. In one of the ease, Sam Briley vs. Roberson, Attorney Coburn is ask ing for a new trial. Briley, when the rase was called twice in the Martin Superior Court, maintained that he gave what-hc-thought was-a- rootle, gage on his farm, that three years after giving the paper to Roberson he learned it was a deed, that he was ordered to vacate the property. He also points out that during the three years he bought materials from the defendant and does not de ny an account charged against him by the defendant. The plaintiff took a voluntary non-suit when the case was "first called," and later Judge Clawson Williams non-suited the case, the plaintiff appealing to the high court. In the second case, Everett against Salsbury, the defense is appealing from a judgment in the superior court. Everett was awarded a judg ment in the sum of about >800 for damages alleged to have resulted when the defense cut timber on cer tain lands of disputed ownership. An appeal was noted by the defense. ? Tobacco Stolen From Martin County Farmer -e Approximately 500 pounds of good quality tobacco were stolen from Robert Coltrain, Bear Grass Town ship farmer, last Sunday night. The tobacco was graded and ready for market. The theft, the first reported in the county this season, is believed to have taken place while services were underway in the Macedonia church, a short distance away. Tobacco Sales Continue To Hold Gain Reported During Friday of Last Week on the Local Market Will Receive Bids for New Post Office Here Next Week Bids for the construction of a new postoffice building here will be received by the government oa or before Thursday of next week. Post master Leslie T. Fowden was advis ed by the Acting Assistant Director of Procurement through Congress man Lindsay C Warren today. "With the exception of the deter mination of the rate of wage for this project by the Department of Labor. Which Information has been promised within the next day or two, the drawings and specifications are now complete and ready for the market," the director advised Mr. Fowden. Action on the project was taken following recent telephone call to the department from Congressman Warren, and local postal authorities are confident construction work willl get underway within the next i month or six weeks. The deed for the lot is scheduled for definite transfer tomorrow morning. A chock representing the purchase price, is ready for delivery to Frederick W. Hoyt, owner o( the Main Street site where the $78,000 building will be located. Considerable delay in advancing the project has been experienced be cause of a strict title guarantee re quirement "by the government. Own ership to the lot-was-traccd back 108 years and there was little ground to dispute the claim, but the govern-j ment insisted that the property be identified as a part of the original layout of the town. All details have| been handled in advancing a valid deed and Mr. Hoyt is expected to make immediate plans to clear the property Town Officials Fix T ax Rate at $2.60 for 1938 Budget (lulls For A Total 01' $63,614.00 For Current Year Commissioners Handle Var ied Program of Business Last Evening A tax rate of $2 80 was tentative ly adopted by the local town com missioners in regular session here last night for the current fiscal year, the levy to raise approximate ly $44,200. Final adoption awaits public inspection and approval by the local government commission in Raleigh. Starting the new year with a cash balance of $10,000, the town treas ury anticipates the need of $85,614 to maintain its several departments and meet bond-interest require ments Despite an increase of $14, 62<1 in bond principal requirements, the authorities are holding the l*ate at the same figure in effect last year. The $2.60 rate, figured on tf $1,700,000 assessed property valua tion, it is estimated, will raise ap proximately $28,000. Other sources of revenue including that from col lection of prior years' taxes, privi leges. licenses. paving assessments. profits from the A. B. C. store, wa ter and rents will increase the rev enue to $65,614 The budget sets aside for general administration, $6,165 this year com pared with $6,669 90 last year; for the fire department, $1,360 compar ed with $1,450.34 last year; for the police department, $6,655, compered with $6,586.80 in 1937; for the street department, $6,460, compared with $6,392.29; for debt service, $38,920, compared with $25,174 49 a year ago, and for the water department, $6,054, compared with $5,916.33 TrT 1937. The budget was forwarded to the Local Government Commission in ( Raleigh today, and its final adoption is expected shortly at a special meeting of the tSdard. The business calendar last eve ning touched on a varied program, one that had to do with the issuance Of $72,000 Improvements bonds, wa ter supply, the fire department and a new cemetery. Preliminary plans were made to have the bonds offered for sale im mediately, and Attorney Coburn is (Continued on page lix) Annual Fall Meeting to Be Held at Roberson's Chapel On Friday night of this week, the members of the Roberson's Chapel Presbyterian church will begin their annual fall meeting. The meeting this year is to be conducted by the Rev. R. K. Davenport, of Greens boro, who is the regular evangelist for the Synod of North Carolina. Services will be held each night at eight p. m Friday, the 9th through Sunday the 18th. On Sunday, the 18th, the members of the church will have a home coming and roll call. The Christian people of this com munity are invited to partake of this spiritual feast with the membership. SPECIAL OFFER Beginning this month, the publishers will send The Enter prise twice weekly tu young girls and boys in the various universities and colleges for the reduced sum of $1.00. The spec ial offer will be withdrawn the last of this month. Boys and girls attending col lege look upon The Enterprise as a letter from home twice each week. Enter a subscription for (Hem today. Peanut Cooperative To Function Again P Preliminary plans to have the North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Cooperative function again were made in Eden ion last Friday when the association was_ re-organized with Mr. R. C Holland again as president. B. I). Stevenson, of Pen dleton. was renamed vire president and I). B. Fearing, of Windsor, con tinues as secretary-treasurer. Martin County was represented by several hundred proxies, few farm ers attending the meeting in per son from this territory. The meeting named a committee to go to Washington this week to make arrangements for a diversion program, unofficial reports indicat ing that the cooperative representa tives will likely find its difficult to negotate a stabilizator! price equal to the three and ont'-quarter cents mantained by the government last season Included in the federal farm pro gram under a special base, the pea nut crop continues to increase, esti mates indicating that the crop in thiu section of the Blatc is fnun five to ten per cent greater than it was a year ago. With this situation con fronting them, members of the spec ial committee going to Washington this week are certain to face a diffi cult task Efforts will-be made to maintain the three and one-quarter cent stabilization figure and an in crease will bo asked, but the gener well to get a three-cent guarantee. Local Man Gets Postal Service Appointment Arthur White, local man who has been connected with the local posbj office for several years, has been appointed carrjer on the number three rural free delivery route out of the Williamston office. Mr. White succeeds Mr. Luther Peel who has been a substitute carrier following Mr. John Edmondson'i retirement. The appointment becomes effective September 19 Mr White's successor has not been named. Farmer In Griffins Township Gets Auto A. E. Manning, Griffins Township farmer, held the It&ky number and received the new automobile giv. en away here last night by the local baeeball club The car was delivered to the owner today. Interior Quality of Offerings Is Holding Priee Average Down ? Grade for Grade, Williams ton Is Ranking at The Top ? While tobacco is still cheap, the price advance reported on the Wil liamston market last Friday is be ing maintained today with averages considerably ahead of those last year for a number of grades. ?Sales on the market today 7 Is ~ estimated will bring the total for the season up to approximately one and one-half million pounds, Super visor Henry Johnson pointing out that the poundage is ahead of the offerings reported for the same selling period last season. I.arge quantities of tips and infer ior quality tobaccos are being of fered for sale, and those classes of tobacco are selling much higher than they did last season. "We sold tobacco last year for three cents, and today we are getting nine cents for the same grades," two tobacco far mers selling on the local market, -said this morning. The better grades are selling for about the same price they sold for last week. However, the Imperial Company was said to be showing added power itrtTS"buy ing today, and the Reynolds com pany was reported to have added grades on its buying list There were very few of the better-type grades on the floors today, however Prices, ranging around 27 cents were fre quently seen and quite a few piles were commanding above 30 cents, some going as high as 35 cents. But, it is agreed that the better type to baccos are not bringing the prices they did a year ago. OTfe rings today are for the most part, on the sorry side, and surpris ing as it may seem, very few farm ers are complaining. JNone are rejoic ing, and few are complaining about the prices, Sales Supervisor Henry Johnson said, adding that grade for grade, tobacco is selling just as high, if not a little higher, on the Williamston market as it is any where in the belt. The market will clear its floors by early mid-afternoon, but larger sales are anticipated during the remain der of the week. Youths Leave For Various Schools Thirty-five local young girls and boys have left or will leave within the next few days for colleges and schools in several states Included in the list are: J. D. Bowen, Ben Manning and John Pope, Jr., Duke University, Durham Burrfti Critch?rt Jr., John Fleming Thigpen and Carlyle Hall, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill. Herbert Whitley and J. L. Mobley, State Collet, Raleigh. ' Miss Alta Criteher, Meredith Col legu. llalellfll.? Miss Blanche Harrison, Converse College, Spartanburg. S C. Marvin Roberson, RCA Radio School, New York Billie Biggs, Fishburne School, Waynesboro, Va. Ned Cunningham and Jimjnie Watts, Riverside Military Academy. Gainesville, Ga. ?Ray Ooudmun. Ji ; Augusta Mill tary Academy, Fort Defiance, Va. George Lee Roberson, S. W. Man ning and Pete Egan, Campbell Col lege, Buies Creek. Miss Evelyn Lilley. Elon College, Elon. , Kimbo Saunders, Howard Cone, Billie Griffin, Billie Clark, Charlee Daniel, Milton James, Whit Purvis and Tom Crockett, University of ' North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jack Baker Saunders, Virginia j Episcopal school, Lynchburg, Va. Misses Mary Helen Boy kin and Addle Lee Meador, East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville. Harry Taylor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Charles Manning, Thad Harrison, Edgar Giirganus and Walter Cooke, Wake Forest College, Wake Forest Jim Rhodes, Jr., Medical Collage I of Virginia, Richmond. Reg Manning, Florida Military 1 College, St. Petersburg, Fla. I Clifton Malone, Louisburg College Louisburg. . "?_
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