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Young Man Writes About Down Where The Americas Meet John Ward, Jr., Working For Construction Firm on Big Government Project Holding to this side of the Atlantic for the most part and for the present at least, young Martin County men are scattered in all corners of the country with a few holding posts in the far north and the far south. John A. Ward, Jr., employed by the world's largest construction com pany, writes interesting of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he is plugging on a defense project, as follows: I really do appreciate and enjoy the Enterprise so muclf. It's the lit tle things that happen around the 4ole' home town that count so much. I work across the Bay of Pueblo Viejo from San Juan at a little town named Sabana. Here they are con structing an Army terminal for the U. S. Government. Sabana is about two miles from Catano, a small town of about 2500 population. Here one can get a fer ry over to .San Juan for a nickel. San Juan is a business center with most of its people living in Santruce, which is just across the river from the city. A person can get most any thing he desires here at a little higher price than in the States. The place as a whole is quite beau tiful. The island is very tropical and the climate is agreeable. It is plenty^ hot all year 'round, and it rains some every day, but it's winter time, you know, ; ???. ?r? Although Uncle Sam has tried hard to do something for these peo ple. there are still plenty of them who can't read or write. There are plenty of poor people here just as there are in other^plaees. I mean by poor, that those who live in the slums who don't try to better themselves. I'm sure the situation here in Puerto Rico is much better than that in Cuba. The people here do seem to have a place to sleep at night where many of them have to sleep in the parks in Cuba. There are three other fellows from North Carolina on this job, one from Kinston, one from Beaufort, and one from Wake Forest. The rest of the Americans are from South Georgia, Florida and Texas. Here they hire five or six Puerto Ricans as helpers where in the States they would only hire one man. That's the difference between the United States- and Puerto Rico. The people just ^iott't like to work or they just~| don't work at all. That's why the good 'ole' U.S.A. has gotten where she is now. All her people have got ten together and worked hard to get what they wanted. Here they just don't seem to care. And there is something else, too. Don't think that the South Carolin ians and Chinese eat all this rice you hear about, 'cause they don'.t These Puerto Ricans have rice and beans for~i-very meal and that uon? sists of most of the meal. Here you ! find not only white rice, but brown | rice, yellow rice, red rice, pink rice, i green rice, blue rice, rice cooked with chicken along with rice soup, rice bread, and rice cakes. Man, if you don't like rice down here, you're . 'sho out'erluck. The WPA projects down here are ' just as slow as those in the States, i In fact they might be a shade slower. On second thought I know they are in the afternoons. / Let me say as many others have said before me, "There ain't no place like home, especially if you're from eastern North Carolina." Recovering from an operati rapidly in the Brown hospital he Mrs. Bennie Lilley will return to 1 home in Jamesville Thursday. Mr. Ira Hardison returned to home in the Farm Life commun Sunday after undergoing an opei tion in the local hospital. Be Thankful-Be Merry-Be Happy-Because You Lire in America Keep the Star Hope and Freedom Shining in America BUY U. S. DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS t Order 10 Percent Cut On Vacuum Cleaners Latest production cut ordered by OPM ? 10 per cent, on Vacuum cleaners? reflects a general policy of being guided by the ratio of "workers per ton of material need ed" in regulating the flow of stra tegic materials to non-defense in dustries. It was explained that the unit reduction ordered was relative i ly low compared to other industries because that industry employs about 050 workers for evefy thousand~tons of steel used in a year's time. In the refrigerator industry, on the other hand, the ratio is only 100 workers per 1,000 tons; and in washing ma chines it's 140 . . Hep. Dough top (North Carolina), chairman of House ways and means committee, is said to be leading those legislators "de termined to block any action on Treasury suggestions for new taxes" until it's seen what can be done about trimming a billion and a half, or more, of non-defense appropriations from the budget coming up in Jan uary. Continue Service* In The Local Holine** Church The revival underway in the local Pentecostal Holiness church during the past severa.1 weeks is being con tinued this evening after a brief re cess yestefday, it was announced. The public is invited. TaxesPAYABLE AT PAR During December INTEREST RATE OF ONE PER CENT PER MONTH WILL BEGIN SOON. Save Money PAY YOUR TAXES NOW! The TOWN OF WILLIAMSTON JJAJ.L OF FAMF - liy Jack Sords G.c?, E>/AMS, vffeevj ama-tel*?,' rlAMW? AIOa)?? Wl1M v JeeoMe-rravers, j?w/v/ M'OeRMOtT, Alii* SMiTrt Ahp Wiuue AwoeRSoN <o 6?jFtWA'S WAu. OF FAMf (Mick VJA5 ,frtt flRST "fo VliN fME cl S AmA<tOR. AND | CP6N in TAfc < -yeAK , Treasury Needing Extra Tax Revenue Though the Treasury now has out lined a six-point program to save $1 billion in non-defense expendi tures, it still needs that "early 1942" tax bill calling for $4 or $5 billion additional revenue. Devising a pro gram that will skim off "excess pur chasing power" without gouging too deeply the millions who have not en-. joyed any income rise out of the de fense program is the problem Among suggested schemes for "mopping up" excess buying power while net ting new revenue is this one credit ed to Vice President Walluce: That persons who purchase articles of a luxury or semi-luxury nature be re quired to buy a pro-rated quantity of defense savings stamps at the same time Theory is that this would curb infaltionary ? buying by mak ing the actual cash outlay higher, and at the same time the purchaser would be laying aside money that would come in handy in post-emer gency days . . . The 15 per cent "sup er" income tax will probably be scaled down to 5 per cent but will, as proposed, be on the "deduction at source" basis. ? Silage University of Tennessee experi ments with feeding silage to chick ens have yielded good results, both in increased egg production and the rate of growth. Herbs Dealers in medicinal herbs such as ginseng and golden seal are adding dandelion roots to their list this fall, paying around 25 cents a pound for them. Stresses l\eed For Food For Defense Addressing the bi-weekly forum of the Martin County Farm Bureau, T. B. Slade, assistant county agent, last Friday night ftroKM-d the need for supporting the food for freedom program. lie uwged the Farm Bureau to get behind the movement calling for increased acreages for peanuts and soybeans, and increased produc tion in eggs, milk and meat. "We are not planning to offer milk for sale, but we can possibly supply our own needs and enable the producers in 1 other sections to increase the deliv ery of canned milk to the war-strick ! en areas," Mr. Slade said. The meeting was also urged to I support the cotton program in the i referendum to be held in the coun ty on Saturday, December 13. Sfcver 1 al other farm problems were discuss ed during the meeting, j The organization is within 11 of its 1,000 membership goal, and the 1 committee is still working to reach that figure. Pullet* Return Owner A Lartfe Profit In October I The 450 White Leghorn pullets owned by M. M. L< ggett, of Beaufort 1 County, returned their owner a net ; profit of $150 during October or an j average of 33 cents per bird. Decline A total of 10,420,000 persons were employed in agricultural work No vember 1, a much more than season al decline of 1,112,000 workers from the number on October 1. Long Affo a Rebel State Was Or ganised in North Carolina Within the boundary of North' Carolina a rebel government was or ganized long ago. It was not started as a military power to wage war. The movement was political and admis- j sion to the Confederated states as a ] fourteenth member was its aim. When North Carolina's territory! beyond the mountains formed the | rebel government, the name "Frank lin" was adopted. Application was j made to Congress for admission. The story of North Carolina's west ern lands began with the original charter signed by the King of Eng land. In 1663. when King Charles granted Carolina to the eight Lords Proprietors, little was known of the interior of the American continent. The western boundary was specified | as the "South Seas" Time was the only interpreter of I the meaning of the phrase. "South | Seas." As the years passed and the Carolina frontier moved westward, the boundary in that direction was finally determined. Thus the "South Seas" of King Charles' land grant became the Indian's mysterious riv er. the Mississippi. Traders and hunters pioneered the trail followed at a later date by set tlors, Dun to 1 Boone told stories of a beautiful land of opportunity beyond the Alleghany mountains. Many set tlers had pushed into this "land of j nppoi Utility" by the time of t\yt> Revolutionary War. Some of these frontiersmen played prominent parts I m the winning of the battle of Kings I Mountain. | Pioneer settlers moved into the Watauga valley and leased land from the Indians. Far from the seat of gov ernment, the Watauga settlement was not protected by North Caro lina In December. 1784, a conven tion was held, and a constitution Mtnilar to that of North Carolina was pro|H>sed. The land was named for Benjamin Franklin, and a petition was sent to Congress asking admit tance. The fledgling State of Franklin was recognized by Congress as no more than a rebel territory belong ing to North Carolina. In the mean time the counties beyond the moun tains were established as a new mil itary and judicial districts The Wa tauga settlers could not establish in dependence of North Carolina; and the Franklin movement collapsed. Soon, North Carolina ceded that ter ritory to Congress, and it was or ganized and admitted as the State of Tennessee. Lick Farm Gardens Is (lost Iy To County Farm people of Martin County rob their poeketbnpJt$, as well as their health, when'ttiey full to grow a~ garden, says I. P. Wutson, Ex tension horticulturist of N. C. State College. To prove his point, the ugri eultural leader presents the follow ing facts and figures: The 1940 census showed that 2, 159 farms in this county had a gar den. hut 247 farms in the county did not have a garden The value of all the farm gurdens in the county, as i stimated to the census-takers by the farm people themselves, total ed $92,952 That Is an average value per garden of $43. By multiplying the average value per garden by the number of farms without a garden, it can be seen that the loss to the county due to the failure of every farm family to have a garden totaled $10,621 Watson reported that the State to tals show that $1,668,940 was lost by North Carolina farm people because ofca lack of gardens. The census re port shows that 247,127 of the 278, 276 farms in the State had a garden, leaving 31,149 without a garden. The total value of all gardens in the State was $14,773,625, or an average value of $60 per garden. Little Dare County on the coast rrported the highest value per gar den, $153, but there are only 55 farms in the county. Forty-six of them had a garden. The extension horticulturist says that the vegetable* which ctyi be NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign ed trustee by S. J. D. Ange on the 13th day of January, 1827, and of record in the public registry of Mar tin County in Book Y-2 at page 108, said deed of trust having been giv en for the purpose of securing a cer tain note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of the said note, and the stipulations contained in the said deed of trust not having been com plied with, and at the request of the owner of the said note, the under signed trustee will, on Friday, the 26th day of December, 1941, at twelve o'clock, in front of the court house door in the town of Williams ton, offer for sale to the highest bid der for cash the following described real estate, to wit: Beginning at a post on the Jordan Thick Road, a corner of what is known us lot No. 4 in the division of the Ashley Davis tract of land, thence N. 57 E. 100 poles to the back line, thence N. 41 W. 134 poles, thence S 53 W to the main road, thence with the road to the first station, containing 86 acres, more or less. Saving and excepting 4 1-2 acres deeded to J. N. Cooper by S. J. D. Ange by deed of record In Book O-l at page 230. This the 24th day of Nov., 1941. ELBERT S. PEEL, v Trustee. Peel 4 Manning, Attys. d2-4t Statluna latfke/o j/rito X/h><%dsb Deletes 'Dust Bowf Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart, Tex., Texan, is looking foe the per son who coined the term, "Dust Bowl," for the Southern Great Plains. He wants to take him on a tour of the area which, this year, la brimming with a--reeortf-erop. Law also otters $25' for a new term best describing present conditions. Abnormal The current year has brought ah normal weather conditions in all sec tions of the country, especially as regards rain, reports th?- lT S W< a ther Bureau. grown in a halt aciV garden would cosTTFuT" farm housewife $225 il j bought at retail prices. One tenth of Ian acre would produce an abun dance of vegetables for one person A family of five, therefore would j need half an acre for garden crops. Martins Look ^ eak In Losing To A.C.C. ? ?? In a very ragged and rough ex hibition. fhe Williamston Martins lost a 41-33 decision to Atlantic Christian College's cage team here last night in the second game of a twin bill The A. C. C. "B" team de feated Bear Grass High 32-20 in the opener For the A. C. C. "B" team, Joe Holliday*. former Jamesville high school star, was high scorer with nine points. R. Garganus led the Bear Grass quint with six. The Bees led at half-time 17-9. In the nightcap, the sparkling play of one Pappy Diem was all that kept the visiting team from widen ing the margin to-: even more than the final 41-33 The Mart ins are far from being in shape physically, their passing was terrible, their shooting was spotty, and their defense was haphazard. Diem, with eight points, was tops m the local attack, while Boaird fol lowed with seven. Wallace, Corey and Ga.v lord counted four points each while Jack Manning was good fot throe. and'Bic for two. For A C C I ?'>. iter tossed in four tecn point to take scoring honors. ~ [ movers Hitler s l(H I Peace Policy Taking an old newspaper of 1934 from around some stove bolts a few davs ago. Tommy Bland, local man. stopped to glance at a headline, 1 WHtk'T'Wiifit As he read? Hitler , declaration for peace. Bland was listening to a radio report tell ing of the massacre of Russians by the Germans. 'That guy was only '?ill mg?peace?while?doing?every thing humanly possible for war." Bland reasoned. The. lojlowing is what Bland read a's spoken by Hitler in 1934 "Nine ty five percent of the members of "Uf national administration have had .personal experience with the horrors of war. and know that it is not air adventure-but' a ghastly ca tastrophe It is the disciplined con viction of I lie Nazi movement that war can benefit nobody, but can only bring general ruin." See Us For_ DYNAMITE CAPS PUSH ) ? i \iti> sivmis ? IU W 111 It KM MS ? HOC SClt\PlltS ? 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