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VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 80 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 7, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899
Native Of County
Dies Thursday At
Home Greenville
Funeral This Afternoon for
S. Justus Everett,
Attorney
Simon Justus Everett, native of
this county and member of a promi
nent family in this section of North
Carolina, died at his home in Green
ville yesterday morning at seven
o'clock of coranary thrombosis. Mr.
Everett, prominent lawyer, had been
ill for some time, spending the last
four months in bed.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the home at 3 o'clock this af
ternoon, with the Rev. Clarence Pa
trick, pastor of the Immanuel Bap
tist Church of Greenville, officiat
ing. Burial will be in Greenwood
Cemetery.
Mr. Everett was born in Hamilton,
March 4, 1878, a son of Simon Jus
tus Everett and Bettie Purvis Ever
ett. He was educated in the private
school of Hamilton an|l received
preparatory training for college in
a private school in Scotland Neck,
where he was taught by the late C.
W. Wilson. He entered the Univer
sity of North Carolina in 1898 and
was graduated in 1902 with the A.B.
and LL. B. degrees. He was licenced
to practice law in August; 1902. He
came to Williamston where he form
ed a partnership with Judge Fran
cis D. Winston, under the name of
Winston and Everett
Mr Everett married Miss Marga
et Whitmore Shields of Scotland
Neck in 1907. To this union were
born four children, S. J. Everett, Jr.,
deceased; Margaret Shields, Eliza
beth E. and R O. Everett II. While
living in Williamston. Mr. Everett
took an active interest in all local,
civic, political and religious affairs.
In 1910, he moved to Greenville.
He was interested in both educa
tional and political activities of Pitt
County. He represented the county
in the Legislature as Senator for
two terms. In this capacity he help
ed to obtain a large appropriation
for the enlargement of East Carolina
Teachers' College. His interest and
love for this institution were only
exceeded by his love for the Im
manuel Baptist church, of which he
was a charter member.
Surviving are his widow and three
children, Mrs. Ralph Howland, of
Charlotte. Elizabeth and R. O Ev
erett, of Greenville, and the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Miss Hattie
Everett, Miss Margaret Everett, Mrs.
Ethel Leggett of Swamp Lawn, Mar
tin County; Mrs. B. D. Harrison of
Palmyra; R. O. Everett, of Durham;
B B Everett, J. A. Everett and W.
R. Everett, of Palmyra
Active pallbearers were Tyson
Dyke, David Denton Elks, Chetser
Elks, Theodore and Sidney Skinner,
Dr. Leon Meadows and Douglass
Butner.
A few weeks prior to his death,
Mr. Everett expressed his desire for
a very simple funeral service. He re
quested that there be no floral tri
vulet, nor honorary pallbearers. He
named the above as active pallbear
ers
Recent Happenings
In Farm Life School
Miss Lora E. Sleeper and Mr. J.
P. Woodard have reorganized the
4-H clubs of the Farm Life school.
All ntembers of i?t pr*i club re
joined, new members will have the
opportunity to join in January. A
great deal of interest is manifested
in this work by the students.
Glee Club
For the first time in its history the
school will have a glee club which
will be under the direction of Miss.
Melba Russ, the music teacher.
First Month
The first month of school ended
on September 28 with an average
daily attendance of 139 out of a
membership of 142 in the elemen
tary school There was not a single
absence in the sixth grade which
has an enrollment of 16, and only
five absences in the fifth which has
an enrollment of 34.
There are 60 students enrolled in
high school.
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ru Derations i/iinic
Dr. Furgurson, the county health
doctor, accompanied by Miss Robar
son, one of the county health nurses,
conducted a tuberculosis test among
the students in the seventh grade
and the high school.
Retains to School
Miss Marguerite Cooke has re
turned to Farm Life to resume her
duties as fifth grade teacher after
a month's absence due to an oper
ation.
Mr. B. E. Hall is moving his fam
ily bock to Grovetown, Ga. taking
Jeannette, in the seventh grade;
Francis in the fifth; and Earl in the
fourth, out of this school.
Sizeable Tax Collections Are
Reported In Martin County
Trying to beat the collector to
the publication date, Martin County
property owners are making a stren
uous effort to pay their 1037 taxes,
according to reports coming from
the office of Sheriff C. B. Roebuck,
collector. That the property owners
are succeeding in their efforts is ev
idenced in county bank deposits in
recent days, the sheriff stating that
as much as $14,000 was collected in
a few hours' time one day this
week. The collection of $5,000 a day
constitutes mediocre business for
the collector.
The gloom that hung over Sher
iff Charlie Roebuck's head and pos
sibly caused a few more hairs to
turn gray or fall out completely,
has been pushed aside, and the col
lector now joins Roger Babson and
other economists in saying that bus
iness is not so bad after all.
No complete reports on the col
lections are available just now, the
sheriff explaining that he has been
so everlastingly busy receiving mon
ey and depositing it, that he has not
had time to strike a total. "If col
lections just continue for a day or
two more like they have for the
past few days, the delinquent list
will be smaller than it was a year
ago," the sheriff finally admitted
after being pestered for an opinion
as to which way the collection wind
was blowing.
Personal property owners are re
sponding to the last call, and it is
believed now that the delinquent
list when it appears next week will
be the smallest in many years.
Buck L Gardner
Dies At Home In
Williams District
Funeral Services Are Held
Yesterday Afternoon at
Three O'clock
o
Taken ill about a week ago, Mr.
Buck L. Gardner, well-known Wil
liams Township farmer, died at his
home there Wednesday afternoon at
3 o'clock of pneumonia. He was un
usually active prior to falling ill
for a man of his age. I
The son of the late Thomas and
Pattie Gardner, he was born in this
county on February 24, 1865. Ex
periencing the hardships common
of the reconstruction days, Mr.
Gardner developed at a tender age
s rugged individualism that charac
terized his life until the end. In early
manhood he married Miss Nancy
Louendia Moore who died last Oc
tober. With her as his helpmate, Mr
Gardner settled in the forests of
Williams Township more than half
a century ago, clearing the little
farm where many happy years
were spent by the couple. Few peo
ple have lived a more honorable
life, a life that was, marked Joy its
simplicity and devoid of all pre
tense. He valued an obligation, and j
his word was as good as a bond. Mr
Gardner enjoyed a large friendship
in all walks of life.
A member of the Siloam Metho
dist Church, Mr. Gardner seldom
mentioned religion, but he walked
humbly in the sight of his maker.
Several years ago when his li(p was
threatened by robbers in his home,
the old gentleman said, "1 have
made my peace with God, go ahead
and kill me if you must" By toiling
long and hard and saving little day
by day, Mr. Gardner had accummu
lated a little money, but not much,
to be sure. Robbers, possibly some
ane whom he had befriended, went
to his home one night and demand
ed him to open his little safe, but
seeing Tus invalid wife at His side,
and thinking of her welfare, he told
intruders he was an old man and
did not have long to live, that he
would die before he surrendered his
few savings. In his rugged individ
ualism there was wrapped a soul
that knew the peace of God, and the
little incident though sudden it may
have come about found him ready
to go.
Three Bons, Johnson. Walter and
Herbert Gardner and two daugh
ters, Mrs. J. F. Hardison and Mrs.
J. H. Perry, all of this county sur
vive.
Twenty-seven grandchildren and
and live great-grandchildren sur
vive.
Funeral services were conducted
yesterday afternoon from the late
home by his pastor, Rev. C. T.
Thrift, Methodist minister, of Plym
outh. Interment was In the family
plot on the home farm.
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Mrs. J. G. Staton and Mrs. William
Chase, and son, Bill, spent yesterday
in Norfolk.
LOCKED OUT
The regular monthly meeting
of the Martin County Alcoholic
Beverages Control Board was
locked out here Wednesday eve
ning, and the event was post
poned oat of necessity by Chair
man Bill Spivey. Sharing the
offices of Attorneys Cobnrn
and Cobarn, the board had a
key of its own to the old office
on the second floor of the law
yers' bonding, bat was left eat
in the cold when the attorneys
moved to a new location on the
first floor.
The chairman of the board
has borrowed a key and future
meetings will be held without
trouble
FIRE PREVENTION
Next week will be observed
throughout the nation as fire
prevention week, a period when
every citiien is asked to stop and
consider the vast toll of human
life and property carelessness
takes through fire.
With the fall season here and
winter Just a few weeks away,
all citizens of Williamston and
Martin County are urged to par
ticipate in the movement t<A>
make human lives and property
more secure. Remove the fire
hazard and exercise every pre
caution in handling fire.
Schedule Of Peanut
Prices Is Announced
By Administration
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Plan to Divert Peanuts in
Order to Maintain Prices
Given in Detail
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A program to maintain prices to
peanut grower? by diverting a por
tion of the 1938 crop to oil and by
products was announced?recently
by the Agricultural Adjustment ad
ministration. Under the program,
payments will be made to partici
pating organizations for losses on
sales for diversion.
As announced on Sept. 14, 1938,
regional associations of producers
are authorized to pay the following
prices for farmers' stock peanuts
grown in 1938;
Virginia:
U. S. No. 1, Class A, $70 per ton;
> Class B $66 per ton; Class C $61 per
ton; No. 2, Class A $67 per ton;
Class B $63 per ton; Class C $58 per
ton. No. 3, Class A $65 per ton; Class
B $61 per ton, Class C $56 per ton.
Southeastern Spanish: U. S. No. 1,
$65 per ton; No. 2, $61 per ton; No.
3, $56 per ton.
Runners: U. S. No. 1 $57 per ton;
No. 2, $53 per ton; No. 3, $48 per ton
Southwestern Spanish: U. S. No.
1, $63 per ton; No. 2, $59 per ton;
| No. 3, $54 per ton.
The associations will buy farmers'
stock peanuts, grown in 1938, direct
ly from producers at these prices
All prices are for peanuts delivered
to the associations' warehouses es
(Continued on page six)
Number Hazards
Stalk Fishing In
Carolina Streams
Congressional Group Hears
Troubles at Meeting
In Belhaven
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Holding a hearing in Belhaven
this week, members of the Con
gressional committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries learned that
commercial fishing in Carolina wa
ters is on the wane and that unless
something is done there'll not be
a single herring or shad to go on
the table along with Martin County
corn bread.
Nearly 300 fishermen, mostly
from along the shores of the five
Carolina sounds, were before the
committee to tell their woeful tales
and plead for help?any kind from
any source.
There was a varied opinion ex
pressed at the meeting, first one
and then another advancing rea
sons for the disappearance of com
mercial fish from the streams in
eastern North Carolina Spawn
eating eels and carp, most of the
fishermen agreed, are causing the
greatest damage to profitable fish
ing. But these were only two of the
reasons advanced in an effort to ex
plain the absence of shad and oth
er fish that have a fairly high mar
ket value. Some said the pollution
from the pulp mill in the lower part
of this county was taking a heavy
toll. Others said that the digging of
inland waterways was damaging
the industry. Still others said that
the fish could not get through the
inlets, but very little was said about
the heavy fishing schedule main
tained in nearly every foot of wa
ter from the Atlantic to the rapids
in the streams miles removed.
Congressman C. Otho Bland, of
Newport News, who has represent
ed Virginia's first district for 20
years ,and who is chairman of the
' house committee on merchant mar
ine and fisheries, presided over the
inquiry that brought more deep
sound fishermen to Belhaven than
have ever been seen in one lot in
North Carolina before. Present and
participating?in the hearing?was
Congressman Lindsay Warren and
Conservationer R. Bruce Etheridge,
with a committee from the depart
ment of which he is head.
Something bad is the matter with
it Mr. Bland admitted that much
when he set out with the meeting
He admitted, too, that he brought
no remedy with him, but rather that
lie, at the behest of Congress, had
come seeking a remedy. Shad fish
ing. for instance, had declined from
an annual catch of 47,000,000 to less
than 8,000,000. He, and the Congress,
wanted to know what was the mat
ter. He didn't need to assure the
fishermen that he was concerned,
because a lot of people in his home
district are faced with the same sort
of botheration as the five sounds
arc confronted with.
Everybody from the Congression
al committee to the smallest eel-pot
fishermen agreed that something is
badly the matter with all sorts of
fishing, whether it is for shad or
trout or blue fish or oysters. There
arc just not any fish to be had in
the Five Sounds any more, and oys
ters are beginning to be a thing of
(Continued on page six)
Prices Continue To Hold Up
On the Local Tobacco Market
Prices continue to hpld firm as
the Williamston tobacco market
brings to a close its most successful
week of the season today The price
average will approximate 28 or 29
cents for the entire sale today, Su
pervisor Henry Johnson said this
morning.
Starting the week off last Monday
with a boom, the local market has
maintained a record for the five
days, some stating that the average
sagged a little on one or two days,
but the trend was upward today
and the selling and buying forces
are going strong
Selling nearly a million pounds
this week, the market has handled
right at five million pounds so far
this season. Observers, while realiz
ing that the crop is being marketed
rapidly, predic^ the sales for the
season here will pass the six-million
mark
Commenting on the marketing ac
tivities today, one farmer stated that
he received his best sale of the sea
son. There were no exceedingly high
prices seen on the tickets today,
but the range was on the high side.
Most farmers said tobacco was sell
ing "good", one out of the group
questioned stating that the leaf was
selling fair.
The local market is receiving a
continued loyal support from its
patrons, and additional customers
are coming here daily.
Dark Time in the Old
Town Being Planned
SURPRISE
- Tht Williamston Tobacco
Board of Trade has a $25 sur
prise for some tobacco farmer.
Drawing the weekly $25 priie
day before yesterday, the hoard
of trade officials could not read
the name on the ticket, so they
are asking the holder of ticket
No. 213 to call for the money,
the last name appearing on the
ticket stub is believed to be that
of a Mr. Taylor.
If the holder does not present
the ticket by next Wednesday,
there will be two drawings each
for $25, it was explained.
Calls Eleven Cases
In The Recorders
Court Last Monday
Judge Peel Presided Over
First Session in
Two Weeks
i
Idle during the past two weeks
while the superior court was clear
ing its docket, the Martin County
Recorder's court last Monday found
a comparatively small number of
cases on its schedule for trial. Sev
eral cases were continued from
previous terms, and considering the
season of the year and the fact that
fair week came during the period,
the docket before Judge H. O. Feel
and Solicitor Coburn was unusual
ly small. The court was in session
only a short time, and the cases
were recognized as minor ones.
The proceedings:
The case charging Charlie Clark
with larceny and receiving and car
rying a concealed weapon was nol
prossed.
George Walker, charged with an
assault with"a deadly weapon, fail
ed to answer when called and the
court issued papers for his arrest.
Oliver D. Moots pleaded guilty in
the case charging him with careless
and reckless driving and the court
(Continued on page six)
Tobacco Price Trend Upward Under the
Agricultural Administration's Program
The table of tobacco price comparisons before control and since offers
food for thought, a county farmer explaining the other day that while the pro
gram may not be perfect, conditions under control are far better than they were
a few short years ago when there was no program.
mo ppnr.PAM }
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YEARS
ACRES
MILLIONS OF
LBS. GROWN
Millions
Lbs. Used
Value In
Million?
PRICE PER
POUNDS
N. C.
U. 8.
N. C.
0. S.
Total
N. C.
N. C. U. S.
1928
712,400
1,119,900
493
739
708
$ 93
18.9c 17.3c
1929
729,300
1,085,700
485
750
735
89
18.5c 18.0c
1930
768,000
1,144,200
581
865
774
75
12.9c 12.0c
1931
688,500
462,500
979,500
476
670
597
42
8.8c 8.4c
1932
617,500
289
374
565
35
12.1c 11.6c
WITH PROGRAM
1933
667,800
920,600
530
733
646
$ 86
16.1c
15.3c
1934
486,500
684,200
412
557
567
118
28.6c
27.3c
1935
612,500
874,000
573
811
693
116
20.3c
20.0c
1936
591,000
864,500
452
683
671
102
22.5c
22.1c
1937
662,000
973,300
587
855
784
141
24.0c
23.0c
*1938
625,000
934,000
522
784
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*?FORECAST AUGUST, 1938. N. C. Agriculture Service, Raleigh, N. C.
The figures above are authentic and are offered without bias or com
ment. Every county farmer will do well to study them carefully and draw his own
conclusions.
'Blackout* Planned
For All Towns In
County Next Vi eek
Date and Hours Will Be
Announced; Coopera
tion Asked
There'll be a dark time in all
Martin County during :> vthort
1 period next week when the United
States Army air games get under
way on a large scale in eastern North
Carolina. Plans for a "blackout" arel
| nearing completion, and the genet
al public has already showed a|
marked willingness to cooperate in
advancing those plans, it was learn
, ed today from Captain Burnett who
was sent here from Fort Bragg to
j assist in the big peace-time maneu
vers of the army air force
During a certain period one night
next week, the defense is expecting
a concerted auack by the 'Vncvny",
and the public is being asked to lend
its cTrrrnerntrrrrr ill repulsing tbc
friendly attack. Arrangements have
been made to turn out all street
lights. Store owners are asked to
turn off their neon signs and dark
en their windows as much as possi
ble. Home owners are asked to low
er their window shades, and motor
ists are urged to park their cars and
turn off their lights. "The defense
is asking that the towns be made as
dark as possible without interrupt
ing urgent business," a representa
tive of the Army explained.
Observers will notify Fort Bragg
of the "enemy's" approach ,and the
Army post will then notify town of
ficials when to call for a "blackout".
Upon receipt of instructions from
the Army post, Mayor J. L. Hassell
will call for a "blackout" by a sig
nal from Ute?fire- department:?Thtr
date for the "blackout" and the ap
proximate time will be announced
later. The towns will be asked to re
main under cover of darkness for
only a short time.
These maneuvers of the Army Air
Corps are the first ever planned on
a large scale in the country. Hun
dreds of planes, including the lar
gest in use, will come in from the
coast during the next week to make
the friendly attack. Very little is
the plans being made in this and
other counties and at Fort Bragg br
ing entirely for the defense. The
planes will enter the State between
j South Carolina and Virginia lines,
I and it is presumed their goal will
I be Fort Bragg where extensive de
fense plans are being formulated. It
is likely thai the defense will bring
into use the latest anti-aircraft guns
and search lights known in the
world, ?' W
"It's a big undertaking," Captain
Burnett said today, adding that Ar
my officials were well pleased with
the cooperation they were receiving
from the people of Eastern Caro
lina. Captain Burnett, a companion
of Mr. Charles Mobley in the World
War, also pointed out that he was
receiving a splendid cooperation in
advancing the defense plans in this
county, and assured the people that
their interest and aid are appreciat
ed.
TRANSFER CASE
The caw charting Roy Bow
era, young white man with
criminally assaulting a young
Martin County white girl, was
transferred to Pitt County this
afternoon, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck
stating after an investigation
that the alleged dartardly crime
took place in Pitt County just
across the boundary.
Tobacco Laws Are
Running Gauntlet
In Three Courts
Judge Harris Postpones
Case in This State
Two Weeks
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The concerted drive against to
bacco control and other practices
designed to help the tobacco far
mer has the program on the spot in
three courts of the country, unoffi
cial reports stating that the legality
of the penalty will be finally tested
in the United States Supreme Court.
At the present time, neither side
has gained a point that will in any
way plot the future course for the
tobacco farmer
Georgia farmers or their lawyer
friends have appealed to a three
judge court in Valdosta, Ga, to de
clare the penalty feature of the
control law invalid. The appeal was
made several days ago, but as far
as it could be learned here, no de
cision has been handed down by the
court there Reports maintain that
the losing side will carry the case
to the highest court in the land.
A hearing in the case restraining
North Carolina warehousemen from
collecting the penalty tax has again
been postponed by Judge W. C. Har
ris in this State
Tlie hearing now is set for Tues
day, October 25, in Wake Superior
Court It had been continued last
week to October 11, but counsel for
defendant warehousemen said they
could not prepare their case by that
date. W. A. Lucas, of Wilson, who
u iipiesenliug the Warehouse men,
is busy with his duties as chairman
of the State Elections Board.
Some 30(1 new farmer-plaintiffs
have joined in the action, lawyers
said, making nearly 1,000 contest
ing the right of the government to
collect the tax on excess sales. Judge
Harris issued an order last week di
recting warehousemen to impound
all tax penalties until further ac
tion in the case.
The tobacco inspection act, gen
erally known as the Flannagan grad
ing act, is about to receive its final
test of constitutionality which has
dragged along for two years without
a definite conclusion
The highest court took under
consideration and is expected to
grant, an application for a writ of
centiorari' filed in behalf of owners
of four warehouses in Oxford ask
ing the Supreme Court to review the
action of the Fourth Circuit Court
of appeals in- dissolving an injunc
tion against enforcement of the act
which was granted by Judge Isaac
M Meekins of the Eastern North
Carolina district,
Despite the litigation, the act has
become increasingly popular and
there has been a steady increase in
the number of markets where the
act is in force, which requires the
affirmative vote of two-thirds of all
tobacco growers patronizing the
market Oxford warehousemen di
vided on the question, two of the
six declining to join the other four
seeking an injunction against en
forcemcnt of the act.
Youths Leave For
Camps Tomorrow
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Twelve Martin County youths
leave tomorrow for Washington
where tliey will Iji1 examined?fur
entrance in the Civilian Conserva
tion Corps service There are ten
openings in the service for youths
from this county. Their destinations
have not been \ftn no u need Several
months ago, u number of Martin
youths were received into the ser
vice and were stationed in camps
in -California. Onm5f"them, "Boog"
Williams returned a few days ago
at the end of six months, the youth
slating that.ha did not like the atti
tude of Californians and wanted to
come home. 7
Names of the boys leaving tomor
are:
White Joseph L. Taylor, William
ston; View Vester Nicholson, Wil
liamston; Thurman Mobley, James
ville; Asa Moore, Jamesville; Wood
row Jenkins. Williamaton; Jennls
Price, Jamesville; Walter Crisp, Jr.,
llassell; Leman Strickland, Oak
City.
Colored: Samuel Slade, Williams
ton; Willie Roy Brooks, Dardens;
Charlie B Hardison, Williamaton;
Joseph B. Edwards, Williamston.
Waives Right Of Hearing
In Justice Court Case
Charged with being drunk and
disorderly and assault upon a fe
male, Dawse Griffin waived his
right to a preliminary hearing in
Justice J. L. Hassell's court here
Wednesday. The case goes to the
county court with the defendant un
der a $100 bond.