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THE ENTERPRISE Watch The Label On Your Paper. Aa It Carriea The Date Your Subscription Expiree Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,800 Homes Of Martin County Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, November 7, 1941, VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 89 ESTABLISHED 1899 Farm Bureau Group Asks Continuation Of Crop Penalties Eight-Point Program Adopted By Farm Leaders in Tar bo roWednesday Receiving reports that some farm ers were planning to increase their plantings in excess of allotments de spite penalties, farm leaders, acting as a unit of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, met in Tarboro Wednesday afternoon and adopted an eight-point program asking for the continuance of the crop penalty provision and pledging support to the national de fense effort. Presided over by R. Flake Shaw, of Greensboro, executive secretary of the State Farm Bureau, the meet ing went on record in its program as favoring the following: (1) Provision of a penalty on ex cess flue-cured tobacco of 10 cents a pound or 50 per cent or more of the gross selling price whichever penalty is the greater, instead of the present 10 cents a pound. (!) Continuation of the 85 per cent parity loan rate. (3) Provision that the Secretary of Agriculture be asked to assure peanut farmers a price equal to the cost of production, namely 3 1-2 cents a pound. (4) Provision that the Secretary of Agriculture be asked to retain the present acreage allotment for tobac co for 1942. (5) Provision that a committee be appointed to look into the necessity of amending the present law regard ing acreage of tobacco so that re gardless of the annual production of tobacco there will be no suspension of the quota. (8) Asking for a ceiling on all com modities including labor, industry and agriculture that would be quita ble to the best interests of our post war economy, (7) Urge priority on flue iron, tin roofing, tobacco canvass, twine, REA requirements, farm machinery and other materials for all production of agricultural commodities. (8) Asking every farmer in the State to cooperate to the limit of his capacity, and pledge the support of our State organisation to the Secre ary of Agriculture, the AAA and the North Carolina Extension Service in the promotion of this most worthy cause. Shaw started the meeting with the statement that "we want to conserve the gains that we have made in agri culure. We are facing one of the most crucial momenta in agricultural pro gram." B. B. Sugg, of Greenville and Hey wood Foxhall, president of the East ern Carolina Warehouse Association, warned of harder times ahead, and urged that the program of agricul ture at present be maintained to the limit. The group spent most of its time on the question of an increase in pen alties on tobacco overplanting over the penalties of this year. Several speakers warned that unless penal ties were not increased the situation would be bad next year because of the good prices this year and possi ble better prices next year Messrs. J. R. Winslow, Charles Daniel, Willie Ausborn, Frank Bail ey and T. B. Slade represented this county at the meeting. Russians Again Ask Creation Of Second Front Against Nazis Briifht Spots in War Around Moscow Are Reported Early Today Addressing his people and the world on the eve of the 24th anni versary of Russian liberation, Prem ier Joseph Stalin yesterday again asked for the creation of a second front "in its difficult and great struggle against our common enemy ?blood-thirsty Hitlerism." While the leader pleaded for a second front in an effort to relieve the pressure being brought by Ger man, Italian and Rumanian troops against embattled Russia in the East, Stalin was not unmindful of the aid being extended his country. He ex pressed the sincere gratitude of the Russian people for the unusual sub stantial aid offered his country. Explaining that Russia had ex perienced reverses because of a numerical insufficiency of tanks and planes, Stalin declared that the Red Army would yet destroy Hitler's Na zis "to the very last man." Hie Russian leader released some startling figures on German losses, holding to a low point those suffered by Russia. Stalin declared that al ready 4,300,000 of the invaders had been killed, wounded or captured. Russia's losses were listed as 350,000 killed, 378,000 missing and 1,020,000 wounded. He declared that it was unnecessary to add that the German blitzkrieg had failed in Russia. Accompanying the Premier's ad dress, were reports telling of reverses experienced by the German invaders around Moscow and Leningrad. Ger man lines were reported in thoee areas, and It was apparent that Hit ler's time table calling for the cap (Continued on page four) Annual Red Cross Roll Call Gets Underway Next Tuesday The annual Red Cross member-1 ship roll call will get underway in the Martin County Chapter next Tuesday and continue through the month. Roll Call Chairman Harry Biggs announced today. Plans have been completed for handling the membership campaign, Mr. Biggs stated and a favorable re sponse is expected. The following chairmen have been named for the several districts comprising the chap ter: J. F. Jordan, Dardens; Mrs. Ca mille Fleming Turner, Jamesville; Mr. Corey, Corey's Cross Roads; Mrs. Noah Rogerson, Bear Grass; Charles Danieh Williams Township, Mis. Ar thur Roberson, Farm Life; Stephen Manning. Piney Grove, and Mrs. J. j A. Eason. Williamston. Several of the chairmen will be assisted by volun-1 teer workers. In Williamston. mem bers of both the Junior and Senior Women's Clubs are to promote the drive. Mr. Biggs, pointing out the urgent need for a greater support, asks every county citizen to support the Red Cross, to visit the respective chairmen and join the organization. The Martin County chapter has a quota of 1,100 members this year, meaning that the call is more than three times greater than it was a year ago. Urgent appeals are being received from the troubled and war stricken areas over a greater part of the world, not to mention the de nands of the less fortunate and stricken within our own county. Martin County has raised as much us 8,000 dollars for the Red Cross in years gone by, and the authorities are confident the good poeple of the county will respond to the call in the present crisis. DEDICATION In a special Armistice Day program in the hut here next Tuesday evening at I o'clock, the American Legion will dedi cate its debt-free building, it was announced today. The program will incdude two brief addresses and a con cert by the local high school band. A picture of John Wal ton Hassell, after whom the post In this county was name and who was killed in action during the first World War, will be giv en to the organisation. The pub lic Is Invited to attend the exer cises. This Week In Defense Aid to Britain and Russia OPM Materials Director Batt said in a radio speech from Washington he had returned from the aid con ference in Moscow with the thought that the "sensible, sane and selfish" course for the'U. S. "is to deliver the goods?everything we possible can provide?into the hands of people who can use them . . . against the enemy while he is still thousands of miles from our shores ..." The Maritime Commission an nounced delivery of the first of 80 emergency cargo boats being built for the Brtiish. The President sign ed the $5,985,000,000 second lend lease appropriation and created in the Office of Emergency Manage ment a Lend-Lease Administration with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., as administrator. fill? The Labor Department reported its daily price index of 28 basic com- I modities rose 1.3 per cent during the week of October 17 to 24, bringing prices in the index to more than 34 j per cent higher than a year ago. Price Administrator Henderson | announced a comprehensive pro gram to stabilize prices of all prod ucts made of copper, brass, or their I alloys. He also issued a price sched-1 ule on glycerine and bed sheets. Sheet prices will be approximately I IS per cent below current market | levels, Mr. Henderson said. Employment and Wages Secretary of Labor Perkins report ed average hourly earnings of fac tory wage earners were 74.5 cents during August. Wage-Hour Adminis trator Fleming said he favored a pro gram of wage stabilization which would not freeze wages at present, levels, but would first adjust exist ing differences between one plant I and another doing the same work | and make provisions for adjustments j to increases in the cost of living. Labor Disputes The President directed Secretary of War Stimson to take possession of and operate the Bendix, N. J., plant of Air Associates, Inc., after a dis pute developed at the plant over the reinstatement of strikers on the rec ommendation of the Defense Media tion Board. Colonel Roy M Jones, in I charge of 2,100 soldiers who took ov-1 er the plant, said, "emplyees desir ing to return to their jobs will be | given all necessary protection . . ?" The Defense Mediation Board be gan hearings on the labor dispute in volving captive coal mines in the Appalachian area after the United Mine Workers voted to accept the (Continued on page four) Health Department Nurse Resigns Here Mrs. H. Lee Large, Martin Coun ty Board of Health nurse since the middle of August, has resigned the post here to join her husband in Nashville, Tenn. Her successor has not been named, Dr. John W. Wil liams, head of the department, stat ing that no nurses were available, that he did not know when or how the position will be filled. Mrs. Large's resignation is the second in the department in recent months. Much of the work in the de partment has been centered around the nurses in past months, snd it is believed thst the health program will be greatly impaired if the po sition is left vacant for any great length of time. Judge W.H. Coburn Calls Six Cases Iu The County's Court | Don Johnson I'ronffiilrn the Docket at Seaaion of Court Last Monday The last Monday session of the county recorder's court went down into the record little noticed by the public. Less than a dozen w hite spec tators were in the courtroom, and most of the small number of colored spectators were there, more or less, out of habit. Judge W. H. Coburn, calling half dozen cases, completed his work and adjourned the court long before the noon hour. Solicitor Don E. Johnson, regular appointee, was at the prosecutor's table. Study ing Diesel engineering as a part of | the country's defense program, So licitor Johnson is not expected to at tend many of the court sessions be-1 tween now and next January Attor ney Wheeler Martin was appointed I assistant solicitor by the Martin | County commissioners in their reg ular session last Monday. Proceedings in the court: Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Grant Dunlow was fined $50, taxed with the court costs and had his driver's li cense revoked for one year. The case charging James Johnson I was an assault with a deadly weapon | was continued until next Monday. Oscar Council who went on a ram-1 page and ripped Clarence Swimp son's coat and slashed the man's skin | and hide in a fracas at the Big Ap ple in Robersonville on October 5, pleaded guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to the roads for three months, the court suspending the sentence on condition that the defendant pay Swimpson's doctor's bill which amounted to $25, pay $10 to Swimp son for damage done to the man's coat and pay the court costs. Charged with drunken driving, | careless.and reckless driving and op erating a motor vehicle without a (Continued on page four) Dedicate Local Library Tonight The formal dedication of the Wil liamston Public Library will take place this evening at 8:00 o'clock in the library room, with the use of the mayor's office and the police office. The mayor, John L. Hassell, will ded icate the building and the prayer of dedication will be offered by Rev. Z. T. Piephoff, the minister having served the longest in Williamston. Rev. John L. Goff, chairman of the local board will present the mayor and the guests. Following this brief ceremony the citizens of our com munity will be invited to examine the book exhibits, to register as bor rowers of the library and enjoy the refreshments as a part of our Open House program. The library has just received a large new collection of books which will be circulated to any patron desiring one of the new titles. Beginning Saturday morning from 10:00-12:00 the Story Hour will be held in the library room. The parents of the community are asked to coop erate in this venture and have their children profit by the program. Our local library has made no ap peal to the community for funds with which to operate during the past two years, but now must appeal to the friends of the library to sup port the effort that will be made next Tuesday and Wednesday when a can vass will be made of the town. Had it not been for the splendid coopera tion of the WPA in furnishing a li brary clerk, it would have been most difficult to have operated. With our beautiful library room and present equipment and substantial support from our community the library will be in a position to meet the demands that may be made upon a growing library. This community asset must be underwritten to assure its con tinued service. Vou are requested to observe the posters in the several store windows and also the display in the window of the Economy Auto Supply Company on Main Street, not forgetting the dedication and the Open House tonight. REMEMBRANCES By CHAS. SMALLWOOD Williamston, N. C. DURING 1870's and 80$ Professor Sylvester Hassell. Elder Hassell. as his church people, and many that were not, bespoke him, was a man of rarity. It is worth any one's time to read Josephus Daniels' close-up depiction of him and his life's work, as set forth in Mr Dan iels' book. "The Tar-Heel Editor." During my years at Williamston, he had given up his duties at Wilson Collegiate Institute, and was at the old home of his boyhood where his brother Walter kept house, and giv ing his life to his church and his books. As a boy, my opportunity was limited in knowing him well, but what I did see of him attracted me much. Upon several occasions I was sent to his study on. errands, where I was always pleasantly received and talked to as the errand required. He was always busily occupied. When he started out from his study on missions of his own, its object seemed his only aim He walked hur riedly to and from his mission, bow ing slightly to casuat acquaintances, and best of friends alike, and back to where "his life" awaited him. He took frequent walks for exercise, all leading into the solitude of some un frequented by-way, and at his us ual hurried gait. Shortly after I left Williamston he befriended his com munity by teaching at the Academy, (The same being vacant partly be cause Miss Sue Williams, while not having shifted occupations to "her nnging the Roanoke," but had, through marriage, hurtled herself into a whole hoard of step children) where my brother Bruce studied un der him, and where man and boy learned to like each other. Many a time have I heard Bruce sing praises of Professor Hassell. Mr. Walter Hassell was my man chum of those days. He would talk with and favor me, listening to my own talk.' He had a set of side-whis kers like I had never seen before, i and I hope to some day have a set just like them In fact I comman deered one of Mr Biggs' idle razors, and begun shaving my jaws I did not bother, or think to bother, the other parts of my face where whis kers are supposed to sprout, but only the parts where I longed for the side-burns. But, alas, I must have gotten the roots, for no sprouting of beauty has yet taken place, and the few that did eventually straggle through, I knew would not fulfill my "ambition; and a mustache had to suffice till it went out of style, and off^it was shaven. But I hardly think I would have sacrificed my side-whiskers, had I been able to raise them. I conceived an idea of flying a kite at night, with a Japanese lantern tied to its tail, mentally wondering what folks might think upon seeing a lighted lantern sailing through the air. I described to Mr. Hassell how it might lie done. He said, Get every thing ready, and let's go out in my field tonight and try it. The Hassell field extended clear up to HasseU's Lane, except for the block of houses facing directly on Main Street. There we tried out the lighted kite for some nights, and while we could | not ge the thing to stay afloat sta tionarily, we did make the light fly through the air so long as we could hold out to keep running with the cord, and which seemed quite an achievement to me, Mr Hassell seeming to concur. But it did not have the effect of astounding the public as did Orson Well's broadcast Worlds at War" fifty years later. Of the third Hassell brother, Doc tor Alonzo Hassell, my heart over flows with love, gratitude, and ap-1 preciation. His were the "horse and buggy" days. And to the sick, suf fering, and afflicted, he went through heat or cold, sunshine or rain, hail or snow. Never demanding the dollar, but graciously accepting what might be brought or handed him, be it pig meat, or peanuts, pennies or parsips, corn-fodder or cucumbers; chickens, eggs, or what else the sickly, hard run sufferers might be able to spare, at any time they could. His consideration for suffering hu manity was so great, and his own | (Continued on page seven) Infant Diet At Home Of Hit Parents l\'ear Here I The infant son of Mr and Mrs. Reuben L. Rogers died at the home of his parents near Williamston on Wednesday afternoon. The child was only one week old. Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon and interment was in the Rogers cemetery. HOLIDAY Next Tuesday, November 11th, will be observed as a holiday by the local banks and post office, the V. E. P. Company announc inf It would suspend business at noon that day. No vlllaie or rural deliveries will be effect ed by the post office department. It is the first time in years that the banks have observed Armis tice Day as a holiday. Heretofore, the tobacco market was open, and as a convenience of the mar ket patrons the banks continued their scheduled activities. Planters Warehouse Leased to Ciurkin, Manning & Langley Preliminary plans for operating the Williamston Tobacco Market next season were advanced Wednes day afternoon when Messrs. John Gurkin, John A. Manning and Car lyle Langley leased the Planters To bacco Warehouse for a three-year period. While the new warehouse firm has not announced its operat ing line-up. plans will go forward within the next few weeks for the next marketing season. Mr Langley announced this morning. Several bids were submitted by prospective renters, a member of the rental committee said. He added that the house was rented to the highest bidder. - Holding a meeting Wednesday af ternoon. the directors of the Martin County Warehouse Company, owners of the Planters warehouse, declared a four per cent dividend, subject to the approval of the annual meeting of the stockholders. The proposed dividend is the first offered the stockholders in a long number of years. The house was enlarged and the cost eliminated dividends for several years. During the winter of !935,-3ti. heavy snows crashed in the roof, and the repair bill eliminated dividends until this year. While the company is not completely out of debt, its obligations can easily be handled now. a member of the board of directors cxpluined No date for holding the annual meeting of the warehouse company's board of directors has been fixed. iNo Instructions For Curtailing Electricity Normal Schedule Of Lighting Suggested! Here for the Present ??? Christmas Street Lighting Has Been Definitely Ruled Out, lltiwever ??-* Not certain that the order of the Office of Production Management calling for a curtailment in power and light consumption in several southern states is applicable to Vir ginia Electric and Power Company territory, customers of the VEP in this section are planning to continue normal lighting schedules until di rect instructions, if any. are issued by the authorities through the oper ating company. The State of Virginia has not been directed to curtail its power for di version, and it is the general opin ion that this territory served by the Virginia company will be grouped with that in Virginia and not with that where curtailment programs have been ordered Utilities Commis sioner Stanley Winborne states that there is some doubt if Martin and the several other counties served by the Virginia Electric and Power Company are to be included in the program calling for curtailment Municipalities, operating their own power plants, are not being asked to curtail consumption, according to an official report heard here yes terday Little or nothing can be gain t'd by curtailing consumption if the surplus cannot be diverted to points where more power is needed. Unof- ! ficial reports state that the VEP Company is already turning over ap- 1 proximately twenty million kilowatt hours to the Carolina Power and j Light Company for defense use, that I the power pool being maintained in | this State is furnishing as much | power as the present lines will car ry Expressing a willingness to coop erate with the OPM in every way possible, VEP officials yesterday stated that until definite instructions are received ordering curtailment they saw no valid reason why light and power users in this immediate section should not continue their' (Continued on page four) Openings For More Industrial Workers v ? Workers who arc interested in jobs in various industrial and defense plants and also those who wish to be considered for various training courses in the future should regis ter or renew their applications with their nearest employment office without delay. At present there arc many open ings for both young and middle aged men who have had certain specified mechanical training in such work as automobile mechanics, assembly work, sheet metal, electrical, plumb ing, ship carpentry, welding and oth er occupations. There is no cost and no obligation to any person for fil ing application with the State Em ployment Office nearest his home, special files of potential workers are being built up at this time. Many young, middle aged and even old men will be hired In the enaulng months 011 the basis of past mechan ical or skilled experience. Others will be considered for training courses to be set up wherever the number and need justifies. A large aircraft cor poration in the east will call for many more workers from this and adjoining states soon Many of these have never seen an airplane factory but have had enough mechanical ex perience to qualify at good starting wages A man with reasonable qual ifications has everything to gain and nothing to lose by filing application and keeping in contact with the lo cal employment office. The Wiiliam ston office in the Town Hall is open every day and also gives extension service on established days at Wash ington, Belhaven, Swan Quarter, Columbia, and Plymouth, for work ers in adjoining counties. COLLECTOR'S SALE A comparatively small number of real estate tracts will be plac ed on the auction block in front of the county courthouse door here next Monday at noon. All that real estate upon which 1940 taxes have not been paid will be offered for sale bv Mrs. Louise U. James, tax collector for the town of Williamston. The unpaid tax list is the smallest in years. If the unpaid accounts are not paid within eighteen months, final action will be tak en to transfer ownership of ti tles. Civilian Defense Week Proclaimed Bv The President * Wur I* Not Only Out* of Arm ed Force* lint of Civilian* A* Well In proclaiming Armistice Day as 1 the start of Civilian Defense Week, j President Roosevelt has focused at tention upon the fact that the new war is hot only a war of soldiers, but of civilians as well The heroes of "total war" may nev- j er don a uniform, may never enter j a trench, may never fire a gun. j Baek yards have become front lines. Cellars have become dugouts. The spectacle abroad will bring! particularly sober thoughts to the veterans Of the A U K. who will doni ; inate the celebration of Armistice ! Day. But it is to the people of the oc- I cupied countries of Europe that this ! year's Armistice Day must bring the ; most poignant memories. They are ! the people of France, of Denmark, of j Belgium, of Holland, of Poland, of Czechoslovakia, of Norway. It is in the hearts of the people of these erstwhile democratic countries that Armistice Day must evoke the most bitter reminiscences Great Britain finds herself this Armistice Day in the death-struggle j for survival All but forgotten are the mistakes of Munich and Berch tesgaden. Forgotten too are the mis takes of the first war years?the mis takes of apathy and of negligence which in the beginning rendered in effertive the attempts at protection of the civilian population in London, Coventry, Birmingham and Dover Civilian defense in Britain no long er is academic, Civilian defense to-j the populace of Britain today is one of the realities. There is a place for everyone in the gigantic program of civilian defense throughout Eng land, and the world has watched with awe and admiration the work of its air raid wafdeiuC its fire watchers, its rescue and bomb squads, its decontamination squads and all the myriad other services in to which the civil populace of the "tight little isle" has rallied with such magnificent valor But in Paris and Antwerp, in Prague and Warsaw, in Copenhagen and in Oslo, there is no civilian de fense. There is instead the goose-step (Continued on page four) Tragedy Hits Tw ice In Halifax Family Advised of the death of her hus band, Hugh House, on the ill-fated destroyer, Reuben James, on Tues day, Mrs. Gertrude Walston House, saw her sister, Blanche, an eleven year-old schawl girl, run down and killed the following morning near Palmyra The school child was walking to board a school bus when a drunken driver, William Jones, 33-year-old Greensboro man, struck ahd fatally injured hef with his car. Jones was arrested after he had tried to escape in a nearby swamp. The driver was said to have passed on the right side while the school bus was standing ftUl. Martin County Farm J Bureau Members for The Year 1941-1942 Mt-ml>?'rslii|> Coinniitti'r Still \t W ork To Kt-ai'li 1000 VI nil be r Goal Gaining support from farmers, all types of businesses and professional men. tin- Martin County Farm Bur eau is now regarded as one of the strongest farm organizations ever ef fected in the county. It is recogniz ed as one of the strongest in North Carolina, and according to reports the organization has earned nntion wide publicity for the county. He ports state that Martin County has been declared by national farm lead ers in the organization as being one of the best counties 111 the South and one of the best balanced in the entire country. The membership committee, re porting 950 members already signed, is working to reach its goal of 1,000 by Fiida> night of next week. A h u of ?members follows, by t?m iistnpi Jamesville Township Carl Griffin, C N Martin. W B. Gay lord. H A Sexton. C G. Gur km. J W Long. Simon Barber.' J. H I)iekersojtL_Marv444?Jonoti,??Br~ Ham Julian Fugan. Davenport Hamilton. F 11 Ange. VV L. Brown. C. C. Fleming. I' M Holllday, Ar thui Modim. W C Wallace. Mrs. Ma ble Lallcv Mrs B F Lilley, H. C. Sexton. F C Stalling*. Atlcn Griffin. W M Davis. C C Martin. G F. Mar tin. U S. Hasset I. G M Anderson, C C. Sexton. W M Mi/elle, H S Hardison Williams Township C. I. Daniel, L I) Hardison, W. D Gurganus, J L Hardison, H J Har ilison. Clyde Williams. Paul Hai ring ton, G F God arc! S. J Tetterton, Vernon Giiffm, O S. Green, A W Hardison. Joe L. Coltrain, Clyde Kobe? sun. I, J Hardison, N S. Cher Griffius Township Geo C Griffin. R. H Peele, Geo. F. fVele. Hubert I"! Peele, Howard Coltrain, Ira r Hardison, O B K?>b ei si m, W B Harrington. S B. Lilley, W F Manning, L) S Coltrain, J Heber Peel, Saunflels Revels, S. J Lilley, J Leiuy Gnftin, Flbert Tice, Roland Griffin. A T Tice, L H Hub erson. Coy Gi if I in. B F Lilley, Gar land C Tice. W D Manning, B. H Manning, Jordan G. Peel. Abrum Hoberson, Hoy Godard, Julius Dan iel, John A Revels, Leslie J Grif fin. C W Gurkm. William Gus Wool ard, Herbert Lilley, John A. Lilley, Miles K Lilley, Raleigh Lilley. Mrs. Lam a M Hadltv D C.'?GlilkliiS, J J-SManning, L)avul T Giiftin, W. T. Ho net so n, Lester J Griffin. N. T 1'ice. William Peel. J C. Gurkin, A. T Gurkin. J. H. P. Griffin, Nathan F Hoheison. T C Griffin John A Ward. John F. Griffin. Flhert W. Griffin. W B Wynn, S F Manning. N H. Peel. Sylvester Godard. James M Peel, VV. A Manning, Asa J Har dison. James IW1 Ira?E?Gllffm, Aubrey Gurganus. W J Lilley, M. D Hardison, Hoy S. Hardison, Claud ius Hardison, Chas. Poet, A. Q Rob tContinued on page fojtf) l.iiniinl Number Of Men \re Drawn For December Jury Duty Mi'IiiImti of ScpicinlM'r (.rami Jury W ill lt?'lIIrn For Furllit'r Dutv For the first time in the history of the county only eighteen men were drawn for jury duty in a regular term of the Martin Superior Court. The members of the September grand jury will return fur further duty at the December term At their regular November meeting the Mar tin commissioners drew the names of eighteen men for duty?as petit jurymen Next February, the com missioner* will draw 27 men, eighteen for petit jury service and nine for service as members of the grand jury. The nine men drawn for grand jury duty w ill succeed the nine whu will httVO completed six months of service as members of the county's permanent grand jury. They will serve- h-n one year, beginning next March ?> Notices will be mailed to the 18 grundjurymen, reminding them that they are to continue their services at the December term convening the second Monday in that month. Judge Henry Stevens, making his first appearance on the bench in this county lust September, will return for the one-week term in December. Only one case has been definitely scheduled for trial at the December term, and that one charges murder. Names of jurymen drawn to serve on the petit jury at the December term follow, by townships: Jamesville Township: G E Mar tin and H. C Lassiter. Griffins Township: N Felton Dan iel and Nat G. Ellis Bear Grass Township: E C Har rison, John W. Green, Archie Mizelle and J B. Whitaker. Williams ton Township: J. F. Weav er and A. P. Coltrain. Cross Roads Tbwnship: Mack L. James. Robersonville Township: J. R? Winslow, L. A. Croom, J. D. Page and J. R- Daniel. Poplar Point Township: K. A. Id mondson. Hamilton Township: G. W. Col train and W. A. Fleming.