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VOLUME XLVII—N UMBER 70
William ston. Marlin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 5, 1944.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Peace Rumors Heard
Following American
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Belgium Freed and Allies in
Holland; Russians Start
New Offensive
Confusing end delayed reports
coming from the European War
Theater have been interpreted to
mean that a move in the direction
of peace there is in the making. Rec
ognized news agencies have men
tioned certain peace overtures, but
they hastened to point out that they
were rumors and could not be con
firmed.
The first of the more recent peace
rumors came out of Switzerland, a
dispatch stating “that the German
government has been making efforts
to establish contact with Allied rep
resentatives in order to obtain a
compromise peace.” The move tow
ard peace was described as the most
serious to date. The peace proposal
runs counter to the “unconditional
surrender” ultimatum issued by the
Allies, and it is likely that the Ger
mans will have to return and come
again. Following the Switzerland re
port, the Brussels radio was quoted
this morning as saying that Germany
has capitulated to the Allies. The
source of the report could not be
traced, and it was not given much
credence in official quarters. It is
possible that the Brussels radio
meant the Germans had all but sur
rendered in the face of the powerful
Allied push into Belgium over the
week-end.
The position of the Allied armies
in Europe is clothed in secrecy. It is
quite certain that the powerful drive
has been extended into Holland, and
rumors maintain that the Allies, pos
sibly General Patton’s smashing
forces, had driven two miles into
Germany, that they were storming
the Siegfried line.
On the strength of developments
on the Western Front it is hard to
understand how Germany can hold
out much longer. In Southern France
the Allies have moved 65 miles be
yond Lyons, France's third largest
city. The Canadians and British
have the rocket coast under con
trol, the maneuvers there cutting
off thousands of Germans.
On the Italian front, Hitler’s Goth
ic line is wavering, late reports stat
ing that advances, fourteen miles
deep, had been made on a twenty
mile front.
The Russians, after centering their
work in the Balkan areas, have re
newed their activities in the War
saw sector. The initial drive after
the lull there netted 13,000 German
dead, but it was not quite clear
whether the action would mark a re
newal of a general offensive all
along the Eastern Front, a drive to
liberate battle-torn Warsaw or mark
the beginning of a drive toward Ber
lin. Military observers, paying little
attention to peace rumors, are of the
opinion that the “pay-off” in this
war will come as a result of the ac
tion now getting underway on the
Polish Front. It has been argued that
one more big battle is necessary to
the removal of the last barriers to
peace.
In the Pacific, especial attention is
being given to the clearing of a path
for a drive to the Philippines. More
ships have been sunk in recent days
in that area and the Bonin and Vol
cano bases have been blasted by
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County Authorities
In Regular Meeting
With very little business on their
calendar, the Martin County com
missioners yesterday held one of
their shortest sessions in recent
months. The session was adjourn
ed before noon. Commissioners Per
ry, Coltrain, Roberson and Haislip
were present for the meeting.
The commissioners authorized the
county account to make corrections
in tax accounts where errors are
evident.
M. L. Peel was reappointed tax
collector for the new tax year.
A salary of $25 a week was fixed
for Mrs. Richard Smith, applications
clerk, who works in the Martin
County War Price and Rationing
Board office.
The Welfare Department listed its
expenditures for August at $5,687.21.
the county paying $2,864.19 as its
part.
The new 1944-45 tax books were
not turned over to the collector at
the meeting, but a special session
will be held later this month when
the records will be audited and the
new accounts are charged against the
collector.
The new tax books have been com
pleted and the notices are being
made ready for the mails.
Two Suita For Divorce Are
Filed In Superior Court
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Two divorce suits, both based on
two years of separation, were filed
in the Martin County Superior
Court last week. One was started
by Luzetta Knight against Jonah
Knight and the other by Lillie Rog
ers against Octavius Rogers.
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Tobacco Sales Are Well Over
Half Million Pounds To Date
After holding to an unusually low j
level during the first week of thej
marketing season, tobacco sales start
ed jumping in size on the local mar
ket today. Early estimates placed the
poundage for today at close to 275,
000 and the leaf was still moving in
to the warehouses at 11 o’clock this
morning. The market will possibly
end the sales with a small amount
of leaf unsold, but the block will not
be of any great size.
Prices for the most part are hold
ing firm and 47-cent piles are possi
bly more numerous today than they
have been at any time so far this
season.
Last Friday, the market sold ap
proximately 154,000 pounds, the
largest sale of the season up until
today. The price average still holds
to a figure between 42 and 43 cents
a pound, and farmers are still grati
fied with their sales.
With few exceptions the harvest
season is being completed in the
county this week, and it is quite like
ly that the laborious task will be
completed in its entirety next week.
Those farmers who have completed
the harvest and curing, are now busy
preparing the loaf for the market,
and it is generally believed that the
volume of sales will steadily climb
from day to day.
A report on the first week sales
in the belt states that the poundage
offered for sale during the period
was the smallest in many years.
There were 1G,156,716 pounds sold in
the belt the first week for an average
of $42.03. Last year, when the open
ing week consisted of only four sales
days, 28.892,000 pounds were sold at
an average of $38.66.
A government report states that
dealers and manufacturers now hold
365.310.000 pounds of bright flue
cured leaf an hand as compared with
435.310.000 pounds in storage a year
ago.
MEETINGS
Preparatory to the opening of
the public schools in this coun
ty on Monday, September 18th,
education authorities are plan
ning a series of pre-school meet
ings, including a county-wide
gathering of teachers here on
Thursday, September 14. Inci
dentally, the teachers’ pay will
start as of that date and checks
will be issued for the first
month two weeks after that date,
it was said.
Thursday afternoon of this
week, representatives from sev
eral schools in the county will
meet here to formulate plans for
the county-wide meeting to be
held on the 14th. The principals
will hold their meeting on Wed
nesday, September 13.
Nine Marriages Are
Reported In County
During Past Month
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Ihkiiuiicc Ih Smallest for Any
August Since Depression
Year of 1932
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Nine marriage licenses were issued
in this county last rnonth, the num
her of recorded marriages in that
period being the smallest for any
August since the depression year of
1932 when seven licenses were is
sued. For the second consecutive
month, only one marriage license
was issued to white applicants. Not
since July, 1931, had the number of
white marriages recorded in this
county reached such an inconse
quential low figure.
In a few instances, Marlin Coun
ty parties married outside the coun
ty last month, but even then Cupid
has made little progress under ex
isting war conditions in recent
weeks. In the year before the out
break of war in 1941, there were
226 recorded marriages in the coun
ty. Each year the number has dwin
dled, and it is now fairly apparent
that a new record low will be reach
ed this year. So far this year only
118 marriage licenses have been is
sued "in this county.
Licenses were sold last month to
the one white and eight colored cou
ples, as follows:
White
Irving Bennett and Pattie Modlin,
both of Williamston.
Colored
William C. Jenkins and Pattie
Broadie, both of Hassell.
James Earl Purvis and Willet Wil
son, both of Robersonville.
William Henry Bryant and Rosa
Clark, both of Palmyra.
Luther Spruill and Ruth Reddick
Page, botli of Williamston.
William Reddick, RED 2, William
ston, and Elnora Jones, of Williams
ton.
M. C. Lawrence, of Oak City, and
Ella Purvis, RED, Williamston.
Earma Staton, of Oak City, and
Beatrice Williams ,of Hamilton.
(Continued on page six)
County Board Buys
Home In Jainesville
The Martin County Board of Edu
cation recently purchased the Hardi
son home and all its furnishings for
$6,200 in Jamesville. The property
is to be used as a teacherage for the
school there.
Arrangements are being made tc
open and maintain the home during
the corning school term, it was an
nounced.
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Farmer Ralph Taylor
Lo»es Tobacco Barr
Farmer Ralph Taylor lost a ban
packed with tobacco on his nea:
here last week. It was about the 22m
barn destroyed by fire in the count;
this season.
Ten Thousand More
Surgical Dressings
Need To Be Folded
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Kepeat Call For Volunteers
To Help Complete Task
As Soon as Possible
Starting out several weeks ago
with 50,400 surgical dressings to be
prepared for use by the armed forces
the local Red Cross room with the
help of willing volunteers at James
villo, Bear Grass and Hamilton has
reduced that number to about ten
thousand, according to a check made
after the project was closed last
night until this afternoon.
Approximately fifty persons found
time to visit the room since last
Thursday afternoon, but it is strik
ingly apparent that the room is not
receiving the support it should get.
To be perfectly frank, it is dis
heartening to those who make every
effort to visit the room as often as
possible to see the same old crowds,
their heads hanging high, moving to
the amusement centers and never
finding time to darken the bandage
room door to help in a work that is
designed to help relieve suffering
humanity.
The little group at the bandage
room last night prepared 1,000 ban
dages. It is possible for an increased
number of volunteers to move in and
complete the task this week. Quite
a few local people are doing their
part in the war effort in other ways,
but there are others who could well
afford to volunteer and help com
plete the surgical dressings project.
Nine volunteers reported at the
bandage room opened in Hamilton
yesterday. No report has been re
ceived on the progress there, but
Mrs. J. B. Taylor who went there
yesterday to help start the work is
confident that the task will be han
dled rapidly. Jamesville and Bear
Grass are still working on their quo
tas, and it is now hoped that the
project will be completed by the
middle of the month.
The names of those reporting to
the room here since last Thursday
afternoon follow:
Thursday night: Mesdames M. M.
Levin, B. S. Courtney, Call Wynne,
Dolmas Barnhill and J. H. Edwards
and Misses Evelyn Wynne and Ethel
Guest.
Friday afternoon: Mesdames J. D.
Page, Harcum Grimes, Travis Kitch
in, Dean Speight, Luther Peel, Jack
Hardison, and Frank Weaver.
(Continued on page six)
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County Young Man
Writes from France
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Writing to his mother, Mrs, Lew
enda Mobley, RFD 3, Williamston,
Pvt. LeRoy Mobley who is now in
France, said in part:
“Today is Sunday and it is a very
beautiful day here. 1 went to church
this mWe have service in a
tent and sat on the ground. I enjoy
ed it very much. There are many
boys attending church here every
Sunday.
“I haven’t received any mail since
1 have been over here. Maybe I will
get some next week. The people ov
er here are very nice to us even if we
'can’t understand them When we go
through a town they wave to us like
a bunch of kids. JThere isn’t much
left of their homes and towns. We
have very warm days but the nights
1 are cool.”
Tobacco Barn Fire Is
Checked By Hard Work
More than twenty tobacco barns
have been destroyed by fire in the
county this season, and another one
i was nearly lost by fire last week.
Farmer Lucian Hardison and neigh
i bors saved a bain on his farm last
• week after much of the tobacco and
I one gable in the barn had burned,
r “We saved it hv hard work,” Mr.
Hardison explained.
MARTIN COUNTY
In WORM) WAR I
(Reviewed from old Enterprise
files twenty-seven years ago)
May 24, 1918.
Never in the history of Martin
County has there been such a scene
as that enacted here yesterday, when
a magnificently planned and execut
ed Red Cross parade formed on the
nigh school campus, and led by Asa
J. Manning mounted on a horse and
carrying a large United States flag,
marched up Mam Street to Kim,
thence to Haughton and up to Sim
mons Avenue, down Smithwick to
the Main again and ending at the
Brick Warehouse.
Private Ronald Campbell, an Am
erican who has just returned from
France, and who was sent here by
the Red Cross to address the mass
meeting, seated in a cai with several
citizens, followed and immediately
behind came the Macclesfield band
in full dress: ik xt came in order the
Home Guards, High School girls,
Junior Red Cross of the High School
here, Martin County chapter’s float
exhibiting Red Cross work room,
Hamilton Auxiliary’s float with sol
diers and nurses, Oak City float with
Red Cross workers.
At 8:30 p. m., the Brick Ware
house was packed to the doors to lis
ten to Private Ronald Campbell, who
was presented to the audience by W.
R. Burrell; the audience sang “Am
erica," and then every eye was on
the speaker, who talked interesting
ly of his experience in the war. He
went over to France to drive an am
bulance before the U. S. went in. He
had with him German gas masks, ri
fle, pistols, machine gun, bayonets,
which he had taken from the enemy
and exhibited steroptican slides. Ap
peals were made to increase the
fund, and dozens responded. Dr.
Higgs announced that $7,500 had
been given, and the apportionment
was only $1,500.
May 31, 1918.
Charles S. Biggs has enlisted in
the Marines this week. Robert S.
Biggs, who lias been at Camp Mc
Clellan, Anniston, Ala., has left there
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Name Principal For
Bear Grass School
D. F. Giles, experienced school
man and well known in education
circles in North Carolina, has form
ally accepted the principalship of
the Bear Grass school, it was an
nounced last week-end. Mr, Giles, a
graduate of the University of North
Carolina, was in the county last
week-end making ready to move into
the teacherage at Bear Grass. Mrs.
Giles, also well known in education
and civic circles in the State, will
teach the fifth grade.
Retiring from the school room
some years ago, Mr. Giles, recogniz
ing the need for teachers, returned
to the profession and taught in
Chadbourn last year, During his
long service in the field of education,
Mr. Giles was superintendent of
schools in Wake County and later
in Morganton and still later he was
connected with the State Board of
Education.
The election of Mr. Giles to the
faculty leaves five positions to be
filled. Applications for most of the
five positions are being considered,
it was learned. The following elec
tions were recently reported: Miss
Lucy Mat Crofton, second grade;
Mrs. Grace Ayers, third; Mrs. Cox,
fourth grade; Mis. D. F. Giles, fifth
grade, and Mr. Giles, principal and
high school teacher.
CORRECTION
Reporting the capture of a liquor
still near Williamston last week, it
was stated through error that Jesse
Council was arrested at the plant. It
was William Council, Williamston
man, who was found at the plant.
The Enterprise gladly corrects the
r>>' take.
| THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Motorists on Martin County
highways and streets traveled
through the first week of the
marketing season virtually un
scathed. The record was possi
bly best for a first week in the
marketing season in recent
years. Sales were light and ap
parently the “week of wrecks”
was postponed. Then, too, there
aren’t any new cars and few
seconds moving into the high
ways now.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
35th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge
1944 1 0 0 $ 200
1943 210 50
Comparison To Date
. j 1944 45 23 1
1943 31 15 5
8050
4825
Land in This County Leased This
’Wvrk TwSi,mtdui.di'Qil CiMipany
And Others For Oil Prospeeting
Town Commissioners Vote To
Purchase A New Fire Truck
With very little business on their
calendar, the local town commis
sioners in a short session last evening
discussed the need for new fire-fight
ing equipment and voted to buy a
new truck. Tentative specifications
were studied, but details will be
handled with a special factory rep
resentative, possibly within the next
few days.
On a motion offered by Commis
sioner V. D. Godwin and seconded
by Commissioner L. P. Lindsley, the
board voted to purchase a Model 75
Mack Truck. Costing $7,H2G, the new
machine has a pumping capacity of
750 gallons per minute and is pow
ered by a 165-horsepower motor. The
cost is for the truck completely
equipped with the exception of hose
and nozzles, meaning that the com
pk'U' job including hose will call* for
an expenditure of approximately
$10,000. Priorities will have to be
obtained before the order can be
accepted by the company, but it is
believed delivery can be effected in
about 120 days.
The commissioners were first in
favor of purchasing a 500-gallon
pumper costing $5,000 equipped ex
cept for hose, but a majority voted
in favor of the larger machine.
The old truck now in operation
was purchased in 1928, or about six
teen years ago, and cost $11,500 with
out hose and minor equipment. The
volunteer firemen have managed to
answer most calls with it, but on sev
eral occasions it had to be pulled in
for repairs, and at various times it
has been out of commission for short
periods.
Respected Farmer
Dies at Home Near
Here Last Friday
Funeral Serviees Art* Held
Sunday Afternoon For
Mr. J. S. Meeks
John Sam Meeks, respected citi
zen and industrious farmer, died at
his home near Williamston on the
old Everetts Hoad last Friday after
noon at 4:30 o’clock following a long
period of declining health. He suffer
ed a light stroke six years ago and
a second one about two years ago. Hi'
partially recovered from both strokes
and was able to attend to a few mi
nor duties around the home and
farm. On August 25 lie was attend
ing to a few minor duties near the
house and fell, the victim of a third
stroke from which he never rallied.
The son of the late Marion and
Nancy Moon* Meeks, he was born
near Robersonville on November 4,
1859. He spent his early life in that
section and on the farm. He lived
and farmed in the Hamilton section
one year and following his mar
riage to Miss Martha Bowen nearly
sixty years ago he located near Wil
liamston where he continued to
farm, proving himself a good neigh
bor and one who held the respect of
his fellowman. Mr. Meeks was a
member of the Primitive Baptist
Church for nearly half a century,
his life reflecting the teachings of
the late Elder Sylvester Hassell. He
was faithful to the church, attend
ing services regularly and seldom
missing a chance to worship some
where every Sunday as long as he
was able.
Following the death of his first
wife about 25 years ago, he was mar
ried to Mrs. Maggie Bullock Keel
who survives. Hi- leaves no chil
dren by either marriage, but he is
survived by a brother, Mr. Jim
Meeks, of Robersonville; three step
children, Wm. Ashley Keel of Scot
land Neck; Mrs. Jasper Smith, of
Portsmouth, and Mrs. Donald Mc
Diarmid, of Ashland, Kentucky; eight
(Continued on page six)
Lieut. S. W. Manning
Gets Coveted Award
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An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta
tion, England- 1st Lieutenant Simon
W. Manning, of Williamston, N. C.,
24-year-old pilot of the Eighth Air
Force B-17 Flying Fortress “The
Eagle’s Wrath,” has been awarded
the Distinguished Flying Cross for
“exli aordinaiy achievement.” while
participating in the massive air as
sault against military and industrial
targets in Nazi-held territory.
The son of Mrs. S. W. Manning
of Williamston, the flyer has prev
iously been awarded the Air Medal
with four Oak Leaf Clusters. He
wife, Mrs. Anne Manning, is alsc
a resident of Williamston.
A former self-employed service
station operator, Lt. Manning enlist
ed in the AAF in August, 1941. He
received his pilot’s training at Fori
Sumner, New Mexico, and was
awarded his wings and commissior
iti August, 1943.
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Arthur Perry Added To
The Loral Police Foret
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Appointed by Chief of Police Chas
R. Mobley just recently, Arthu
Perry, former local man who return
ed home a short time ago following ■
long residence in Brooklyn, enterer
upon his new duties as a member o
the local police force last night. Hi
is the third member of the nigh
force.
ADI JED TEACHERS
Four additional teachers were
added to several of the county
seliool faculties a few days ago
when the State Board of Fduca
tion liberalized its allotments
and materially boosted the num
ber for the State, as a whole.
fine teacher over the 1943-44
schedules was allowed each of
the schools at Jamesville, Farm
Fife, Kobersonville and William
ston, boosting the total number
in the white schools to eighty
nine, exclusive of departmental
teachers.
The task now facing education
authorities is to find the teach
ers.
Firemen ("ailed To
Stable Fire Sunday
Believed to have been of incen
diary origin, fire threatened the sta
bles and pack barn of Dr. J. S.
Rhodes just off Grace Street here
last Sunday night at 11 o’clock. The
fire was discovered soon after it
was started and firemen brought it
under control before much damage
was done.
It is thought that prowlers start
ed the fire. A match, partly spent,
was found at the door of the stall
where the fire started, and the main
door to the barn had been unfasten
ed. Two mules, barred in their stalls,
had been released and they attracted
attention when they entered the doc
tor’s flower garden.
The fire, starting in a hay rack,
burned through the loft floor, but
several barns of tobacco and a quan
tity of feed were not damaged.
Shortly before 11 o’clock yester
day morning, tin.- volunteer firemen
were called to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Harrell on Williams
Street. Starting from a defective
flue, the fire caused minor damage
to the kitchen roof.
Twelve hours later the firemen
were called to a trash fire back of
Rose’s store. No damage was done
but much smoke filtered into an
open second-story window. The
alarm was sounded shortly before 11
o'clock last night when smoke was
seen pouring from the second floor
windows. The trash fire was burn
ing just back of the building and a
draft through the second floor of the
building carried the smoke into the
street.
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Autos Damaged In
Main Street Wreck
No one was badly hurt but dam
age estimated at $2(10 resulted when
two cars figured in a head-on colli
sion on West Main Street about 9
o’clock iast Sunday night.
Haywood Woodrow Gardner, driv
ing George Gardner’s Ford, was go
ing west and Boot Wilson of near
Hassell was driving east on the street
when the cars crashed. George
Gardner, passenger in the Ford, was
slightly cut on the nose. Kader
Rawls, Letha Gardner and B. Moore,
other passengers in the Gardner cat ,
were not hurt. Wilson was accom
panied by Maggie Page, Selma and
Velma Page and Clarice Hope.
A hearing was scheduled before
, Justice J. L. Hassell.
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Revival In Announced For
Siloain Methodist Church
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i Rev. R. N. Fitts of Stonewall will
1 conduct a series of revival services
t in the Si loam Methodist Church he
i ginning next Monday night, Septem
1 ber 11, it was announced. The pub
lic is invited.
Exploration Rights
Leased At Rate Of
Ten Cents An Aere
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II. H. Comm anil Will Perkins
Are First To Have Their
Leases Heeorileil
Several hundred acres of swamp
land belonging to H. H. Cowen and
Will Perkins and thousands of oth
er acres controlled by the State have
been leased to oil companies or pros
pecting individuals, it was learned
this week from the office of regis
ter of deeds where three leases were
filed for record"ig yesterday. It is
understood that other leases are
pending in this county, but those
covering the Cowen and Perkins
lands and propertly owned or con
trolled by the State were the first
to be recorded in this county.
Exploration rights were based on
a flat rental of ten cents an acre, the
leasers to share one-eighth of the
proceeds, if any, gained from the
sale of oil from the lands.
The terms of the leases, one fill'd
by the Standard Oil Company and
the other by A. J. Kellog, of Dal
las, Texas, are similar. The Kellog
lease, covering 226 acres of the Cow
en land and 500 acres of the Per
kins land located about three miles
northwest of Williamston, calls for
drilling within one year on those
lands or on lands pooled by the
leasee. The Standard Oil lease al
lows eighteen months and further
stipulates that the leasee is to sink
a week at least 5,000 feet, if neces
sary, before abandoning the project.
The leases are to run ten years, but
if no test wells are sunk within the
stipulated time, the leases must lie
renewed at the end of the first year
in the case of the Kellog lease.
The Standard Oil Company, it is
understood, has procured leases on
thousands of acres of State-owned or
controlled river and lake bottoms.
Most of the other leases cover ex
ploration rights on swamplands
northwest of Williamston. The big
leases cover lands to the southeast
of Williamston are confined in an
area bordered on the south by Wash
ington and running east to the At
lantic Ocean, including several coun
ties.
It could not be learned here who
Kellog was representing. It is pos
sible that he is representing a com
pany of his own or that he is an
agent for other oil firms.
Several representatives have con
tacted landowners in this section,
seeking leases, but only three agree
ments have been filed so far in this
county for recording in the office of
the register of deeds.
The prospect of finding oil in east
ern North Carolina has occasioned
much talk in some sections, but lit
tle public attention has been given
it in this county.
It is quite likely that other land
owners will grant the prospectors
leases in the county during the next
fi'W weeks.
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Hoard Allots Sixty
Tires Last Friday
Sixty tiros, fifty-three for pas
senger cars and seven for small
trucks, were allotted by the Martin
County War Price and Rationing
Hoard last Friday night. No tires for
large trucks were allotted.
Grade I tires were issued to the
following:
Raleigh Lilley, C. H. Ange, Russell
Williams, Thurman Williams, Velma
Hailey, Mrs. Dora C. Rawls, W. R.
Griffin, Henry Modlin, Vernon
Phelps, G. C. Jones, J. J. Whitley,
Cortez Green, Willis Williams, King
Tobacco Company, 1,. X. Roberson,
Mrs. John Henry Roberson, Jr., S.
T. Wynne, John Chance, Wheeler
Rogerson, Dr. John Williams, L. H.
Rawls, S. L. Ellis, J. Carl Griffin, R.
L. Coburn, Archie T. Coltrain, Mar
cellus House, J. V. Andrews, R. B.
Jones, Cecil G. Leggett, John Biggs,
C. M. Anderson, N. W. Worsley, P.
M. Holliday, Lemuel McCoy Roe
buck, L. A. Weaver, A. L. Harrison,
Clyde Brown, Jeannie Gardner, J.
D. Leggett.
Small truck tires were released to
the following:
Pete Mendenhall, H. G. Harrison,
Leslie J. Griffin, H R. Worsley, A.
B. Ores and J. L. Coltrain.
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PackhouHP And Tobacco
Burn In Oak City Fire
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Nan Council, colored farmer, lost
his packhouse and three barns of
tobacco at his home in Oak City last
Wednesday. The fire started in the
hay loft, but its origin could not be
determined. No insurance was car
ried on the property, according to
reports reaching here,
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