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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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