NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW READING
THE ENTEPRJgE IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK.
THE
NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW TRADING.
THE ENTFVR'SF IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK
VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 6
William*!on, Martin County, North Carolina, Friilay, January 19, 1945
ESTABLISHED IHW
Offirftirs..R%ielecte44»y
County Farm Bureau
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Of Tobacco Acreage
And Crop Insurance
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Officers and Name
Ten Directors at Meet
ing Tuesdav Night
Meeting in the coun-y courthouse
here last Tuesday evening, represen
tatives of the Martin County Farm
Bureau reelected officers, named ten
directors and passed resolutions fav
oring an over-fill crop insurance pro
gram and the measurement of to
bacco acreage this year. The meeting
also expressed confidence in the or
ganization’s state leadership and fav
ored their continuation in office. A
report on the Chicago convention
was offered by Messrs. S. T. Everett,
G. H. Forbes and Chas L. Daniel.
Messrs. Chii. Daniel, president,
and A .£. Ayers,Tiu- pre.-ju- nt, were
re-elected and T. B. Brandon was
elected to succeed L. L. McLendon
who resigned to enter employment
in another county. The ten directors
elected: Carl Griffin, Jamesville: C.
L. Daniel, Williams: Geo. C Griffin.
Griffins; H. U. Peel, Bear Grass; D.
V. Clayton, Williamston; G. H.
Forbes, Cross Roads; Sam T. Ever
ett, Robersonville; Mayo Hardison,
Poplar Point; Goo. Oglesby, Hamil
ton, and Henry Early, Goose Nest.
Discussing the resolution calling
for the measurement of tobacco acre
ages this year, the meeting stated
that much complaint had been di
rected against the “spot" or percent - i
age plan for checking compliance. It
•was explained that in some cases
where the acreages were measured
and the plantings exceeded the allot
ment, the farmer paid the penalty
while others who planted in excess of .
their quotas were not required to
pay any penalty because their lands
were not measured by representa
tives of the Triple A Uniform check
ing will be fair to all, and it is about
the only way to solve the problem, it
was agreed. The meeting, recogniz
ing the labor shortage, urged that the
lands be measured if it is possible
to get the supervisors.
While those present admitted they
knew little about it, the meeting
went on record as favoring an over
all insurance program for farm
crops.
Briefly addressing the meeting in
connection with his trip to the Chi
cago convention, Mr. Sam Everett
(Continued on page six)
Eye Clinic Is Held
Here Wednesday
The Martin County Welfare De
partment, with the cooperation of
the Williamston Lions Club and the
State Commission for the Blind, held
an eye clinic for children, both white
and colored, at the Woman's Club
building here last Wednesday. Dr.
Matthew S. Broun, Opthalmologist
of Roanoke Rapids, was the examin
ing physician. Fifty-four children,
29 white and 25 Negro, attended the
clinic. Glasses were prescribed for 30
of this number. Twenty did not need
glasses but were advised by the doc
tor and nurses to drink more milk
and eat vegetables in order to im
prove their general condition. Four
children's glasses were checked and
found to meet the child’s visionary
needs.
Dr. Broun stressed the importance
of adequate diets for all 54 children
who attended the clinic. He stated
that obviously a large percentage of
them were badly in need of milk,
fresh vegetables and eggs. He be
lieves that if these suggestions are
carried out there will be less eye de
ficiencies among this group of chil
dren. The Welfare Department plans
to discuss this situation with the par
ents of these children and the school
authorities in an effort to provide
them with an improved diet.
Jamesville Youth
Is A Glider Pilot
South Plains Army Air Field, Tex
—Flight Officer Ferdinand C. Stall
ings, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
Stallings, Sr., of Jamesviile, has re
ceived his wings as a glider pilot and
appointment as a flight officer at
the “Home of the Winged Comman
dos’’ at Lubbock, Texas.
The graduating officers have un
dergone one of the most intensive
courses in the Army Air Force
Training Command, which is train
ing thousands of men in the largest
educational program in history.
These “Winged Commandos” have
just completed their course of train
ing in Uncle Sam’s giant cargo and
troop carrying gliders at SPAAF, the
school for invasion.
StalLngs graduated from Jarr.es
ville High School and also attended
Campbell Junior College at Buies
Creek, and North Carolina State
College
The unnal drive ft>. the in
fantile paralysis fund is making
splendid progress in this county,
according to a preliminary re
port released yesterday after
noon by L. B. Wynne, chairman
of the drive.
Sending out approximately 100
appeals by direct mall on Wed
nesday, six were received a few
hours later, the early contribu
tions amounting to $55.00. None
was for less than $5 and ranged
up to $25. Two grade rooms in
the local schools, the first and
only ones to report up until yes
terday afternoon, raised $43.70,
one reporting $21.30, and the oth
er about $19.40.
The March of Dimes is real
ly on and is expected to reach a
new record by early next week.
Appeals for support of the
drive have been well received
by the school people iu the coun
ty, and it is sincerely believed
the drive will reach and pass
the $2,282 go*l in the county.
Eighty-Four Tires
Allotted By Board
—$—
Thi' Martin County War Price and
Rationing Board last Friday evening
issued certificates for the purchase
of eighty-four tires—78 for cars and
six for small trucks.
Tire rationing has just about been
moved from the OPA to the dealers,
reports stating that certificates are
plentiful and that tires are scarce.
Possibly several hundred certificates
are outstanding, the holders finding
it next to impossible to supply the
demand. Assigned quotas far larger
than the actual supply of tires, ra
tion boards seldom find it necessary
to deny an applicant, and then the
dealers have to follow a policy of
first come, first served.
Certificates for Grade I tires were
issued to the following:
Ervin Woolard, Leo Harrell, Mer
lin Hollis, J. D. Price, J. D. Wynne,
J T. Phelps, W. H. Vanderford, C.
D Pittman, Tommie L. Harrell, L.
H. Gurganus, John A. Ward, Z S.
Cowin, James H. Gray, Z. D. Cox,
Jesse W. Martin, Rosa Elizabeth
Williams, Nora Cherry, Standard
Fertilizer Co., King Tobacco Co., H.
A. Bowen, Herbert Bunting, Simon
Rogers, Henry Hollis, H. F. Wil
liams, William Archie Mobley, Na
than Thompson, W. E .Holliday, Da
vid Gurganus, Walter Williams, J.
R Rogers, J. C. Eubanks, C B Roe
buck, Johnnie Bland, Bernard Moore,
W. C. Jones, J. D. Britton, Ernest
Beach, K. B Etheridge, J. C. Coun
cil, Prince Ayers, D. E. Bunting, H.
A Sexton, S. H. Grimes, Claude An
drews, John H Roberson, George A.
Peel, W. K. Roebuck, Robert H,
Cowan, Lewis Arthur Shaw, H. G.
Godard, Ruby Williams, T. H. Lynch,
Julian L. Mizelle, Nathaniel Coltrain,
Dennis Moore, Thurman Williams,
Cleo Daniel, Daniel Mobley, Sam
Moore, Perlie Moore, L. H. Lilley,
Clyde Barber, C. B. Burroughs.
Certificates for small truck tires
were issued to the following: R
Sears, G and H Builders Supply,
Harrison Oil Co.
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Conservation Checks
Received In County
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The first soil conservation pay
ments, earned by those farmers em
ploying soil building practices last
year, have been paid in this county.
So far 299 checks, totaling $8,198.50
and representing 267 applications,
have been delivered to Martin far
mers, it was learned from the office
of the county agent this week.
Approximately 800 applications
for payments have been filed by far
mers and forwarded to the State Tri
ple A office where about 530 are
now pending. It is estimated that
farmers in this county are eligible
to file approximately 1,500 applica
tions for the payments.
The checks do not include any par
ity payments since prices for farm
crops are supposed to have reached
and in some instances passed the
parity figures. The payments are
based solely on soil building prac
tices employed. Last year Martin
farmers received over $100,000 in soil
building and parity payments. This
year, they vail receive approximate
ly $25,000 for their soil building prac
tices.
Those farmers who have not filed
applications are asked to do so.
-.
Capture Small Plant And
Six Barrel* Of Math
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Raiding in the Free Union section
of JamesviUe Township a few days
ago, Officers J. H. Roebuck and Roy
Peel wrecked a small liquor plant
the third to go down in the 1945 drive
to date. Approximately 300 gallont
of poor-grade mash were poured
out and the old gas drum used foi
ja still was wrecked.
pmsJTy l)w of Lime,
Urged This Year
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In an all-day meeting in the coun
ty courthouse last Wednesday, Tri
ple A committeemen, including those
from the county and the several com
munities, discussed a proposed farm
plan for the current year. No goals
were fixed and the program allows
the farmer free reign except for to
bacco plantings. Soil building prac
tices will be urged on a greater scale
than ever before, however, it was
learned.
Briefly stated, the program is to
center around the theme, “Lookini?
Ahead," while it will make every ef
fort to maintain the record produc
tion figures established last year in
this county and throughout the na
tion. The program will be carried to
every farmer in the county by hi1
community committeemen during
the early part of February, either
on the second and third or on the
>iAMU and tenth of ',ext month.
The program anticipates a mark
ed reduction in cotton acreage in
the county, some estimates pointing
to a drop in reduction greater than
the 1,000 bale decrease reported last
year from the year before. Since no
increase is apparently needed in pea
nut acreage, it is likely that land
taken out of cotton production will
be planted to extra tobacco, general
feed crops, sweet potatoes and some
will add to their peanut acreages
While the county is assigned no ov
er-all production goal, the State, as
a whole, is being asked to increase
its plantings, as follows: oats from
365.000 acres to 400,000; hay from 1,
281.000 to 1,400,000 acres, soybeans
from 190,000 to 220.000 acres, sweet
potatoes from 80,000 to 90,000 acres,
flue-cured tobacco from 663.000 to
697.000 acres. Even the greater to
bacco acreage will still be within the
established allotment. Marked in
creases are being asked in the num
ber of beef cattle, sheep, chickens,
broilers and turkeys and eggs.
Just how much the farmers of
Martin County can accomplish in
the proposed program will be tenta
tively determined when they chart
their plans with the committeemen
next month.
Next to the production of vital
food and feed crops, soil building
practices ore expected to receive the
most attention in the county’s 194b
farm program. The big production
figures in recent periods have been
impressive, but it is admitted that
those figures were attained only by
superhuman efforts and by draw
ing heavily upon the soil. High pro
duction figures, while important now
in meeting food and feed require
ments, will be important in the post
war period. In other words, high
acreage yields will be necessary if
production costs are met and profits
are to be realized.
In this county the soil building pro
gram is expected to center around
the use of lime in large quantities
and in the seeding of new and im
provement of old permanent pas
tures. Hundreds of samples of farm
land were tested last year, and it
was found that in nearly every case,
liberal quantities of lime were need
ed. Martin County, it is estimated,
can well use over 100,000 tons of lime
this year. Under the soil-building
program, farmers may participate in
the particular soil building practice
up to his maximum soil-building pay
ment. The government will pay $3.40
and he will pay at the rate of 95 cents
a ton for lime. Contracts have been
made to have the lime delivered di
rect to the farms, but delivery dates
will have to be agreed upon. "This
is one feature of the program that
farmers in this county should give
serious consideration in mapping
their 1945 farm plans,” A. P. Has
sell, district Triple A representative,
pointed out. The government will al
so participate up to $6 per acre in
(Continued on page six)
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Youth Recuperating
In Station Hospital
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The 303rd Station Hospital, Eng
land—Wounded in the left arm and
shoulder by shrapnel as he fought
with his infantry unit in the Hurt
gen Forest in Germany, Sgt. Tyree
B. Tyson, 19, of Oak City, N. C., is
now recuperating at this United
States Army station hospital in Eng
land. He has been awarded the Pur
ple Heart.
"‘Sergeant Tyree has shown good
progress,” said his ward surgeon,
Capt. Paul L. Lane of Chicago, 111.,
“and at our rehabilitation center he
will be helped to get back into phys
ical trim."
"We were getting ready to move
out in the attack and my company
was waiting for another one to pull
ahead of us,” Sgt. Tyson recalled.
"The Germans seemed to be firing
shells all over the forest. One of the
big ones landed near me and a couple
of fragments hit me.”
An employee at Barrett's Drug
Store in civil life, Sgt. Tyson has
served over a year in the Army. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Ty
son, live in Oak City.
CARRYING FUll RACK and wearing
■ helmet, this ten-year-old Chinese
Youngster prepares to board a plane
•t the North Airstrip. Myitkyina,
Burma, with members of his divi
sion. He is one of a large number
of boys in China's huge army Sig
nal Corps photo. (international)
Judge Calvin Smith
Calls Eight Cases in
The County’s Court
Very Small Crowd Present
To Hear Court's Routine
Proceedings
Following one of its biggest ses
sions last week, the Martin County
Recorder’s Court went to the other
extreme last Monday when Judge
J. C. Smith called only eight cases
and continued one or two of them.
The court, with Solicitor Paul D.
Roberson prosecuting the docket,
was in session hardly an hour. A
very small crowd was present for
the proceedings which attract
ed very little attention.
Eight or ten cases were continued
last week and two or three new
ones have already been added to the
docket since Monday of this week,
and it is apparent now that a fairly
long session of the court will be held
next Monday.
Proceedings:
The case charging S. A Mobley
with violating the fire laws in VVil
liamston was continued until the
first Monday in January of next year
or until Tokio burns, according to
one interpretation of the judgment.
The ease charging Fate Gurganus
with drunken driving was continued
until January 20.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him witti non-support, James
Henry Norfleet was sentenced to the
roads for nine months. The road
term was suspended upon the pay
ment of $60 and costs and with the
understanding that $15 is to be paid
each month during the next twelve
months for the support of his three
children. The money is to be dis
bursed at the direction of the county
welfare department.
In the case charging William Fai
son with assaulting a female, the
defendant pleaded guilty. Judgment
was suspended upon the payment of
the court costs.
The case charging Mariah Peter
son with aiding and abetting in dis
orderly conduct, was nol prossed.
George Thomas Roberson, charg
ed with operating a motor vehicle
without a driver’s license, was fined
$15 and taxed with the cost. He en
tered a plea of guilty in the case.
Pleading guilty of operating a mo
tor vehicle without a driver’s li
cense, John Henry Saunders was
(Continued on page six)
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
After coasting through the
first week of the current year,
motorists on Martin County
highways broke into the accident
column. The facts represent mi
nor accidents, to be sure, but
they are of sufficient meaning to
serve as a warning against what
may happen and what did hap
pen last year.
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.
2nd Week Comparison
Accidents InJ’d Killed Dam’ge
1945 2 1 0 $ 15U
1944 0 0 0 000
Comparison To Date
1945 2 1 0 $ 150
1944 .. 1 0 1 600
Reel
Into Germany; Other
fronts A*v CrackiiMfc
•oTrwunl; T.liina (.oast
Uombartl«Mi
Death do;1 ling blows are being ad
ministered to Germany on both the
Eastern and Western Fronts today as
the Russians drive into Silesia and
East Prussia while late reports indi
cate sections ot ttie Western Line are
cracking before ncv. attacks by the
British in Holland and the Ameri
an Thiru Army in the Louxembourg
area.
The great industrial section in
German Silesia is reeling and rock
ing today as the Russian drive, one
of the greatest in military history,
gains momentum despite gigantic at
tempts by the Germans to check it.
Late news from the active battle
fronts in the East is running well be
hind the fast moving Red Army, but
the force and seriousness of the drive
are admitted in reports coming out
of Berlin. The Nazi military has
thro ve what were described as "as
tronomical forces" into the fight, but
the Red Armies continue their lunge
forward. Silesia, one of the richest
industrial areas in Europe and where
Hitler’s big guns and tanks have
been turned out in vast numbers, is
believed to be in immediate dan
ger. Farther to the north, gains have
been chalked up in a powerful drive
by the Red Armies into East Prus
sia.
Berlin reports that Krakow has
been evacuated, opening the way for
the drive into East Prussia. The Rus
sian White Army has overrun more
than 1,000 localities and is driving to
Lodz.
In Silesia where the Red Armies
are now less than 250 miles from
Berlin, the home army of over-age
and physically poor recruits have
l>cen placed under a baptism of fire.
On the Western Front, the British
Second Army, backed by American
heavy artillery, advanced two and
one-half miles on a 28-mile front
toward the Rhine.
Simultaneously, the U. R. Third
Army opened a new assault in north
ern Luxembourg, broke across the
Sure River on u seven mile front and
'dunged on two miles into the moun
tainous defenses on which the enemy
must rely to hold his shrunken posi
tions in Belgium.
With some infantry wearing white
camouflage suits such as those worn
ni the Russian front, Lt. Gen. Geo.
■v Patton’s Doughboys fought into
iekirch, 17 miles northeast of Lux
mbourg City, and Bettendorf, three
miles east. while other forces seized
.trategic heights beyond.
Late reports declare that the Ger
man defenses in the two areas are
racking, and it was rununed that j
iiimc of the seasoned German troops
witli equipment had been transfer
red m an effort to cheek the Russian
teamroller in the East.
American casualties along the
Western Front now stand at 74,788
for the month of December, boosting
the total since D-Day to 822,912. Am
erican casualties in all theaters dur
ing the war up to January 7 were
placed at 580,495. Included in the
Belgian bulge casualties were an es
timated 10,000 killed.
In the Philippines, the Americans
are pushing their march toward Ma
nila in the face of stiffening oppo
sition in some sectors. Following
closely their setback on Luzon, the
Japs are greatly disturbed by the re
peated attacks on the China Coast
from Hainan north to Shanghai. The
Japs believe the attacks are a pre
hide lo a major land offensive on
the Asiatic continent.
Down in Burma Chinese troops
are closing in on Wanting, last en
emy stronghold on the Ledo-Burma
Road route.
In Italy the Germans have scored
minor successes during the past few
days, but the line there is little
changed with the Allies holding an
estimated 27 enemy divisions away
from other fronts.
(Continued on page six)
Widows Eligible For
World War Pensions
—%—
Widows and minor children of de
ceased World War I veterans are now
eligible for pensions under the terms
of an act recently passed by Con
gress, according to information re
leased by Herbert C. Bonner, First
District Congressman. The law pro
vides a monthly payment of $35 for
the widow, plus $10 for the first
child and $5 for each additional
child; no widow but one child, $18;
no widow but two children, $27
(equally divided) and so on
Congressman Bonner stated that
he would be glad to furnish eligible
v. idows or guardians the proper
forms on which to make pension ap
plications. When the applications are
prepared they may be returned to
Mr. Bonner and he will file the claim
—sec that it is properly considered
by the Veterans Administration and
lend such other aid as he can.
The congressman pointed out that
the pensions are not retroactive, and
those widows in need or entitled to
the pensions should file their appli
cations at their earliest convenience.
■Direct 6mmlT“SchCiWs '
J\}&aid aiLLLsc of
Property listing while hardly
half complete. Is progressing
fairly rapidly in most of the
townships in the county, most of
the reports coming through Sup
ervisor M. L. Peel before he left
for Arkansas yesterday to see
his son in the service, stating that
the listing was well ahead of that
, t the same lime last year.
The reports indicated that val
ues were holding up unusually
well in most if not all the dis
tricts, Very few inventories have
been listed, but in three cases
reported here sizable gains have
been recorded. In one instance,
values were double those a year
ago. There are only eight more
days for listing property, and
late listings will he made sub
ject to penalties.
David ii. Whitfield
Passes At His Home
David Henry Whitfield, well
known building contractor, died at
Ills home in Robersonvillo Wednes
day night at 10:25 o'clock following
an illness of only a few hours. He
was working on a house roof that
afternoon and went down about 4:30
o'clock, suffering a cerebral hem
orrhage a minute or two later. He
was removed to his home, regaining
consciousness for a short time only.
He had been unusually active and
in good health until he was fatully
stricken.
Mr. Whitfield was born in Pitt
County on January 29, 187(1, the son
of the late George W. and Susan
James Whitehurst He spent his early
life on the farm and located some
over thirty years ago in Roberson
ville where he operated a coal and
wood yard for a number of years,
later going into the building trades.
About thirty years ago he was
married to Miss Maggie Salsbury of
(lie Spring Green section. She died
several months later and on Septem
ber 15, 1918, he was married to Miss
Fannie James of Pitt County. Mr
Whitfield was an able craftsman in
his profession and he was a promi
nent and faithful member of the
Primitive Baptist Church at Flat
Swamp for about eighteen or twen
ty years. His pastor, Elder W E
Grimes, assisted by Elders B. S.
Cowin and A B Ayers, will conduct
the last rites in the Robersonville
Primitive Baptist Church Saturday
afternoon at 3 30 o'clock and inter
ment will follow in the Roberson
ville Cemetery.
Besides his wife he leaves one son,
CpI. David H. Whitfield, now sta
tioned at Dayton, Ohio; five sisters,
Mrs. G. N. Warren of Stokes, Mrs.
Elector Cherry of Wilson, Mrs. Bes
sie Mallory of Everetts, Mrs. Ruth
Jones and Mis. !.Elian Berry both of
Norfolk; three brothers, Messrs. Geo.
S. Whitfield of Mackeys, and P. W.
and F. L. Whitfield, both of Wilson.
Youth’s Condition
Not So Favorable
A late report iust received by his
mother, Mrs. Maniza Taylor Whit
aker, stated that Tfr. Lewis T Tay
lor is not getting along so well in an
Army hospital somewhere in Eng
land, following two operations per
formed on his heart. About a month
ago the young man wrote his mother
and explained that he had under
gone the second operation for the
removal of a bullet or shrapnel from
ins heart, that he was able to be up
and walk around and that he was
getting along very well. At that time
he expected to be leaving for home
pertty soon.
In the late message, the War De
partment said that the young man’s
recovery “was not proceeding satis
factorily.”
The Adjutant General went on to
say in his letter to Mis. Whitaker,
“It may be comforting to know that
some of this country’s finest doctors
are assigned to the many excellent
hospitals maintained at our overseas
bases, and that your son is receiving
the very best of medical care.”
Young Taylor was critically
wounded in action in France last
June 11.
The young man’s case is one of the
most unusual of the war. He surviv
ed a heart wound and two oper
ations on his heart.
Justice John L. Hassell
Hears Two Cases In Court
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Business continues to hold to a de
pression level in Justice J. L. Has
sell's court here. During the past
several days, the trial justice has
heard only two cases. Henry Price,
charged with simple assault, was
! sentenced to the roads fox thirty
days. The sentence was suspended
upon the payment of $7.45 costs.
Wheeler Beach, charged with being
drunk and disorderly, was fined
$1.50 and required to pay $8 50 costa.
IMiafliiMiiii
o rjnrnmate rixira
Curricular Activity
Effective Next Week
Unilv Sessions To Open F.aeb
Morning a* 0:30; dose
About Usual Time
Taking action to prevent an acute
fuel shortage in the schools, the Mar
tin County Board of Education, in a
special session here Wednesday
morning, advanced a fairly definite
conservation program. Scnedu'ed to
go into effect next Monday, the con
servation program calls for a short
er school day and the elimination of
all extra-curricular activities where
fuel is used. The action designed to
conserve a rapidly dwindling fuel
supply is not a mere suggestion, au
thor ities pointing out that it was ad
vanced in the form of a necessary or
der and its enforcement is to be ex
pected.
It was pointed out that no sch,.ols
are likely to be closed on account of
| fuel shortage, that the action is be
| mg taken to offset a ten per cent re
duction in the fuel allotment this
term and to make ready for a still
more drastic reduction next term.
By opening the schools at 9 30
each morning and closing them about
or possibly ' • fore the usual hour, it
will be possible to save from three
quarters to a ton of coal in the coun
ty school system each day, authori
ties estimated. Play and lunch per
iods will possihly be shortened to
j offset the delayed opening each
| morning while extra activities will
be eliminated in their entirety.
Discussing the fuel situation, the
county superintendent explained
that maximum orders allowed by
the Solid Fuels Administration were
placed last summer and early fall,
that the orders had been filled. Stor
age space in the various school base
ments was filled to capacity, and or
dinarily the supply would last
through the term if replenished with
a few tons during the month of Feb
ruary. Orders were placed for more
coal to be delivered next month as
usual, hut the school authorities de
clare that additional shipments are
not to be expected. In those cases
where the supply is nearly exhaust
ed, it will be replenished from the
larger stocks in other schools.
(Continued on page'six)
Critical Need For
Ship Yard Workers
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In line with the current national
movement to get 4 F’s into war work,
Mr M F. Vaughan, Civil Service
labor recruiter for the Norfolk Navy
Yard, said here today at the U. S.
Employment Service office that the
Norfolk Navy Yard, which is locat
ed at Portsmouth, is urgently in need
of more than thirty types of skilled
and unskilled labor.
He urged men classified as 4-F who
are looking for war work to contact
him at the employment office in
the City Hall building. Excellent
wages are paid at the Navy Yard,
housing is available and the govern
ment pays transportation to Ports
mouth.
In rushing "must" naval construc
tion to completion electricians, ma
chinists, sheetmetal workers, welders
and other types of skilled tradesmen
are needed, and laborers ar. i helpers
are wanted badly.
'We must work now as we have
never worked before, to supply the
necessary ships to transport troops,
guns, food and ammunition and the
Norfolk Navy Yard offers every man
an opportunity to do his part in the
wai
He cautioned men already in es
sential work, however, not to apply.
For the next several weeks, Mr.
Vaughan will he in the local U. S.
! Employment Service office each
Wednesday and Thursday. On other
j .lays he will be in the Washington
nffice.
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Local Young Man
Slightly Wounded
—<*—
Pvt Wilson B. Partin, local young
man, was slightly wounded in action
on the Western Front in Belgium
last December 30, his wife, the for
mer Miss Mary Walston of Scotland
Neck, was advised here yesterday.
The message, coming from the War
Department, offered no details.
Pvt. Partin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. A. Partin, RFD 2, Tarboro, enter
ed the service from Williamston last
March and had been overseas since
last October. He has two children,
Master Billy, a first grader in the
' local schools, and little Mi*s Penny.
Mr. Partin moved his family here in
July, 1943, and was local represen
tative for the Royal Baking Com
pany until he entered the service.
Mrs. Partin and children are mak
ing their home here on Williams
Street for the duration.
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