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NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
Aim TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
THE ENTERPRISE
NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 70
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September /, 1915.
ESTABLISHED 1899
First In Series Of
LicfoorCasas Heard
In County's Court
Other Defendant* Rvmtvdetl
Up By Officers During
Past Few Days
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Harvey Perkins, one of a number
of alleged liquor law violators
caught in a drag net laid by State
and county ABC officers during re
cent weeks, appeared before Judge
J. Calvin Smith in the Martin Coun
ty Recorder’s Court yesterday and
asked that his case be called imme
diately. The request was granted,
and Perkins pleaded guilty. He was
fined $100 and taxed with the court
costs, the judge directing the de
fendant to burn up his liquor book
and have no illegal or legal “spirits”
in his possession during the next
twelve months.
Perkins was scheduled to have
been tried along with fifteen or
twenty other defendants in the coui t
next Monday.
After rounding up a number of
alleged violators last Wednesday and
Thursday, officers pulled in several
others over ihi week-end as a re
sult of investigations made some
weeks ago by State ABC enforce
ment officers. At the same time,
County ABC Enforcement Officer
J. H. Roebuck was gathering up the
loose ends and pulled in several al
leged violators as a result of his
own direct operations.
Same Moore and Mercedie Moore,
charged with possessing illicit liquor
for the purpose of sale and equip
ment for the purpose of carrying on
the illegal business, were arrested
last Saturday. Moore's brother, just
recently returned from the army for
a furlough, came up from Dardens
yesterday morning and claimed that
the liquor belonged to him. A war
rant was prepared for him, the ac
tion complicating the case a bit.
Nehemiah Moore stands charged
with possessing one-half gallon of
illicit liquor for sale.
In the State-county ABC round
up, the following cases were booked
since last Friday:
Ed Briley, facing two counts, is
charged with selling a pint of illicit
liquor on May 27 for $4.00. On June
7 he stands charged with selling an
other pint, but he dropped the price
to $3.50.
Gatsy Harrell, facing another
charge, is alleged to have had in her
possession and did sell on August 25
a pint of legal liquor for $5.00.
Clara Bell Moore was booked for
the alleged sale of a pint of illicit li
quor for $4.00.
Henderson Woolard, it is alleged,
sold one-half gallon of illicit liquor
for $15.
”Tne?o!TiT was”.ifSRgWW.'ftftutC
afternoon yesterday, and there is
some doubt if it can handle the
bootleggers’ convention in a single
day next Monday.
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Two Painfully Hurt
In Highway Mishap
Mrs. J. J. Carson and Mrs. W. H. !
Rogerson, both of Bethel, were pain- j
_ fully but believed not seriously hurt
^ in an automobile accident a few
miles north of Oak City last Satur
day night about 9:15 o’clock. Mrs.
Carson was cut over one eye and
suffered a leg injury. Mrs. Rogerson
suffered a knee injury. W. H. Roger
son and Nathan Hyman, colored man
of near Hobgood, other parties in the
accident, were not hurt, according to
reports reaching here.
Hyman, traveling toward Hob
good, ran off the hard surface and
• when he drove back in*' the high
way he crossed the center line and
crashed into the car being driven by
M». Rogerson.
Highway patrolmen, investigating
the accident, estimated that damage
done to the Rogerson car at $300 and
that to the Hyman car at $250.
Hyman was charged with reckless
driving.
f Farmer Specializes In
Country Hams And Apples
It is generally agreed among the
few people privileged to eat one of
Mr. Willie Gurganus’ cured hams
that they are among the best, but
it was not known that he aspired to
honors when it comes to raising ap
ples until last week.
Mr. Willlie brought in any number
of beautiful apples to the Enterprise
office and four of the largest ever
seen locally grew from the same
stem.
PRISONERS
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Applications for prisoners of
war to assist farmers with their
1945 peanut harvest will be re
ceived in the office of the county
farm agent in the agricultural
building nest Monday, Septem
ber 10, it was announced this
week.
At a meeting in the agricultur
al building this week, officials
and county agents will work out
allotments for the various coun
ties in this section. Until then the
number of prisoners to be made
available cannot be learned. It is
thought, however, that the num
ber will be limited.
Glutted Leaf Markets Await
Resumption Of 'Todacco Sales'
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TotiHf "o i nii^n ii
med with tobacco during the long
holiday week-end. are sw'aiting the
resumption of sales tomorrow with
little assurance that the glut report
ed in the factories has been cleared
to any appreciable extent. In ac
cordance with the sales card sched
ule, no sales were held yesterday,
and in further accordance with an
order issued by the Bright Belt
Warehouse Association following a
meeting in Raleigh last Saturday, no
sales were held on any of the mar
kets today. A four-day selling week
has been ordered for the next several
weeks, but there is some doubt if the
lopping off of Monday from the sales
week will solve the marketing prob
lem.
Before sales were concluded last
wreek, farmers wrere delivering to
bacco in large quantities, waiting pa
'tarforf
fives to clear the floors s
put on their offerings. It is conser
vatively estimated that well over
one million pounds of the leaf are on
local warehouse floors today, that
it will take remainder of the week to
clear the present block. The block
has backfired to many packhouses
where the farmers reasoned that it
would be better to keep their tobac
co ungraded for a while. However,
grading is being continued possibly
in a majority of cases, and it is like
ly that the present glut will be con
tinued for several weeks.
Despite >he heavy deliveries and
overflowing houses and factories,
prices continued to hold firm on the
local market. Last Friday, 281,620
pounds were sold for an average of
$44.15. Total sales through that day
were reported at 2.101.798 pounds.
Town Authorities
Discuss Numerous
Topics Last Night
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Serious Housing Shortage Is
Seen In Appeal For Rooms
In Town Hall
Meeting with barely a quorum
last evening, the local town commis
sioners discussed a varied list of
topics ranging from the housing
shortage to street lighting and a
postwar improvement program.
The seriousness of the housing
shortage here was bared when an
applicant, explaining that he was to
be moved into the streets today,
asked that he and his wife be allow
ed to occupy two rooms on the third
floor of the town hall. Arrangements
were ordered made to relieve the
family’s plight temporarily, at least.
Appearing before the board, build
ers of the Dixie Peanut Company
sought the cooperation of the town
in providing within reason adequate
fire protection for the new properties
on Washington Street.
A license was denied a fortune
teller to set up business on Lindsley’s
Washington Street property. Plead
ing through Rocky Mount and local
attorneys, the applicant declared
that $100 rent had already been paid.
; The commissioners called for bids
for rebuilding and modernizing the
town’s 17-year-old fire truck.
Laws governing the control of
building and repairing buildings in
the fire district were reviewed, the
i board expressing the opinion that
■‘HiJ’.TMihc-iJg ' i.'1"!'. >01, and
where any action would increase the
fire hazard and cause insurance rates
to increase.
Mrs. J. G. Staton proposed in a let
ter a number of needed improve
ments for the postwar period. Among
them was the need for a traffic
j light at the corner of Main and
;Ilaughton Streets. It was also point
ed out that there was too much
j noise in town, the writer mentioning
| the ice plant engine exhaust and ex
plaining that big trucks interrupted
conversations.
“Too many drinking cups are be
ing thrown on the streets,” she add
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Five Divorce Cases
Started In August
Five divorce cases, all based on
two years of separation were filed
in the Martin County Superior Court
during the month of August. Pos- |
sibly more divorce cases are pending
trial in the court in this county than
at any other time.
Divorces were filed as follows:
Cora Barnes against Ernest
Barnes.
Ruth May Nichols against Octavius
Nichols.
James L Martin against Emma R.
Martin.
William Henry Dempsey against
Janie Dempsey.
Alice Roebuck against Jasper Roe
buck.
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Office Switching
To Peacetime job
Since all war manpower controls
have been removed, the United
States Employment Service will de
vote more time to the developing of
job opportunities and in placing
workers on peace time jobs, giving
special attention to returning veter
ans.
The Williamston Office of the
United States Employment Service is
prepared to offer full employment
service to all employers and workers
in the Williamston Office area which
includes Martin and Bertie Counties.
Mrs. Alvis R. Jordan, manager of
the Williamston office, expressed ap
preciation for the fine spirit of co
operation shown by the employers,
workers and gencnl public during
the war emergency period and in
vites the employers, workers and
general public tc make full use of
the facilities offered by the service
in the reconversion and peace time
program.
TRAFFIC INCREASE
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“We saw more traffic on the
highways in this county last Sun
day night than at any other time
during the ten years we have
been here,” Cpl. W. S. Hunt of
the highway patrol, said yester
day morning.
It was pointed out that the
volume of traffic was heavy on
the town streets, main highways
and even on the secondary roads.
•‘Mott of the traffic was moving
within the 35-mile speed limit,”
the officer said.
Increase Noted In
Marriage Licenses
Issued Last Month
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Issuance Is LarfiCKl For Any
August In More Ilian
Fifteen Years
After fluctuating during most of
:he war period, the number of mar
riage licenses reflected a marked
trend upward last month to set a
lew record for August, certainly a
lew record for the past fifteen-year
period. In August last year, only ten
licenses were issued in this county,
me to white and nine to colored
:ouples The issuance last month
was the third largest reported in the
rounty so far this year, indicating
that there is a definite trend from
wui actirURi’j.'atic issues.
Licenses last month were issued,
five to white and fourteen to color
ed couples, by Register of Deeds Sam
Getsinger, as follows:
White
Samuel D. Jenkins and Marjorie
James, both of Robersonville.
Robert L. Delenbaugh, of Peoria,
111., USN, and Sybil M. Roberson, of
Jamesville.
Coy Joseph Smithwick and Ruby
Partin Windham, both of Windsor.
Mack G. Roberson, USN, of Wil
liamston RFD 2, and Helen L. House,
of Robersonville.
Charles J. Black, U. S. Merchant
Marine and Washington, N. C., and
Juanita Scott Walker, of Washing
ton, N. C
Colored
Wallace T. Purvis and Agnes
Smith, both of Robersonville.
Henry E. Gray and Margaret
Wright, both of Oak City.
Charles David Fuller and Chris
tine Edwards, both of Williamston.
William Rogers and Bernice
Brown, both of RFD 1, Hobgood.
Shade Benton and Goldie Hyman,
both of Everetts.
Jonah Oscar Clemmons, Jr., and
Mary Clark, both of Williamston.
David Wallace, Jr., of Everetts, and
Mary Iola Rogers of RFD 3, Wil
liamston.
Melvin Higgs and Marie Armston,
both of RFD 1, Hobgood.
Louis Bond and Josie Harrell, both
of Williamston.
Jimmie A. Keel, of Robersonville,
and Bettie May Durrham, of RFD,
Robersonville.
James Russell Bigggs and Verna
Mae Lee, both of Williamston.
Dallas Whitley and Emma Wil
liams, both of RFD 3, Williamston.
Joseph James and Lucy Lee, both
of Wiiliamston.
James Leathers, Jr., and Sarah
Lucy Green, both of Oak City.
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County Farmer Has
Bad Luck Recently
Janies Leathers, colored farmer
living in Goose Nest Township near
the Edgecombe boundary, has ex
perienced ill luck and severe revers
es during the past two or three
weeks.
I the farmer tost his wife about
i three weeks ago. The following
; week, some one broke into hi' s— oke
; house and carried away every pound
' of his meat. Early last week his
packhouse, containing just about all
the tobacco harvested from three
and one-iialf acres, was destroyed by
fire.
His packhouse was insured for
I $200 and his tobacco for $1,200.
Downward Trend In
Scho o 1 Enrollment
Cheeked In County
Attendance In County’s Ten
Whits Schools 16 Short
Of Three Thousand
-s
The downward trend in enroll
ment figures experienced in Martin
County’s ten white schools apparent
ly has been checked, according to vir
tually complete reports coming
through the office of the county sup
erintendent Monday. The latest re
port from the officials shows that
2,984 pupils enrolled in the ten white
schools last Thursday for the new
term, 2,479 in the elementary and
505 in the high schools. At least six t
of the ten schools reported slight in
creases in their opening-day enroll
ment figures, while losses in the
others were very small. The school
family shows a gain of 44 over the
opening-day count, a year ago, and
is now just 16 short of 3,000.
Enrollment figures are being
boosted in several of the schools as
the term progresses, and it is be
lieved that the trend upward will
be fairly steady and reasonably s'17.
able during the next few weeks.
No comparison of the enrollment
figures for the two years by depart
ments is to be had since some of
the schools last year counted the
eighth grade as a high school unit
and others recognized it as a part of
the elementary department.
A review of the 1945-46 term en
rollment, showing the opening-day
figures by elementary and high
school grades with totals for this
year and last, follows:
Jamesville
Farm Life
W’mston
R’ville
Gold Point
Oak City
Rear Grass
Everetts
Hamilton
Hassell
Ele. II. S.
349 60
Totals
1945 1944
409 427
152
665
342
43
244
240
221
155
68
32
125
152
98
38
184
790
494
43
342
278
221
155
68
191
769
477
42
350
275
212
143
66
2479 505 2984 2940
Commenting on the operations dur
ing the first few days of the term,
Superintendent J. C. Manning and
Miss Lissie Pearce, supervisor of ele
mentary schools, stated that while
they were hardly normal, the open
ing was very successful. A few
teacher positions remain unfilled,
but all classes were met either by
substitute teachers or by teachers ac
cepting double assignments.
The book shortage in some of the
grades is causing some trouble, and
complete relief is not to be expected
hardly before late November or
cgr'y-giftswsfenr,. Old texts will be us
ed until the new ones are received,
the school officials explaining that
the printers simply could not meet
the demand before that time.
For the present, all but the Wil
liamston school are maintaining an
abbreviated schedule, opening at 8:30
a. m. and closing at 1:30 p. m. In Wil
liamston, full schedules are being
maintained, and other schools are ex..
pected to adopt it shortly.
The last, of the teacher positions
was filled in the local school yes
terday when Miss Ruth Newton of
Oxford joined the high school facul
ty. A graduate of Woman’s College
of the University of North Carolina,
Miss Newton taught in the Granville
County Schools for several years.
She will teach one of the eighth
grade sections and will be at home
with Mrs. H. L. Swain.
Applications for positions in other
schools are being received and facul
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Intangible Taxes Amount
To Over $6,000 Last Year
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Intangible taxes, assessed and col
lected by the North Carolina State
Department of Revenue, and turned
into the Martin County treasury
amounted to $6,018.56 for the year
ending last June 30. In the previous
year, the intangible tax received bjT<
the county amounted to $4,292.07.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
With the lifting of gas ration
ing and even before the speed
limit was raised, the scene of
destruction and Ki'ling and
maiming was apparently shifted
from the battlefield to American
highways. Two persons were
killed and two others were in
jured on the highways in this
county over the week-end.
Highway deaths Labor Day were
double those a year ago.
While the accident count trails
that for the first 35 weeks of
1944, the record so far this year
shows a trend that is more dead
ly and costly.
The following tabula* ins of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for eacn year to the present time.
Thirty-fifth Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’gc
1945 3 2 2 $ 600
1944 100 200
Comparisons To Date
1945 43 20 5 9350
1944 45 23 1 8050
Two Killed on County
Roads Over Week-end
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Drivers Of Death
Cars Face Charges
In Superior Court
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Lin<lslry White. ('olorcil. ami
J. T. Matthews Victims
Of Auto Accidpiils
Two persons were killed and sev
eral others were hurt in a series of
highway accidents reported in this
county over the week-end, the lift
ing of gasoline rations apparently
shifting the scene of killing, maim
ing and destruction from tl*; battle
fields of Europe and the Pacific to
the highways and streets of America.
Lindsley White, colored man, was
fatally injured on Williamston’s East
Main Street last Friday morning at
12:35 o’clock, and Jeff T. Matthews,
70-year-old white man of the Oak
City section, was instantly killed
when he was run down by a hit-and
run driver on the outskirts of Oak
City Sunday evening shortly after
8 o'clock. Two other persons were
hurt in an accident a few miles north
of Oak City Saturday night, but their
injuries were described as not seri
ous.
Lindsley White, former employee
of Saunders and Cox and more re
cently operator of a Negro club on
Washington Street, was riding a hi
cycle on East Main Street when he
started to make a turn and was
struck by a car driven by Sanford
Gilliam, Bertie County colored man.
One report stated that the victim
was knocked quite a few feet down
the highway. Gilliam picked the man
up and carried him to a local doc
tor’s office where he was treated
and returned to his home, reports
stating that White was able to walk
into and out of the doctor's office
and into his home. Ilis condition be
came serious later that morning and
he died while en route to a hospital
about 9:30 o’clock.
Investigating the accident. Officer
Charlie Moore of the local police
force, stated that the car was being
driven with improper brakes, and
Gilliam was formally charged with
reckless driving and operating a
I motor vehicle with improper brakes.
Given a preliminary hearing before
Justice J. L. Hassell here Friday
evening, Gilliam was ordered held in
| bond in the sum of $1,000.
Jeff T. Matthews, observing his
70th birthday Sunday, was instantly
'killed when he was struck by a car
‘near OulT’L'ily 'that’ evening abiiuT
8:15 o'clock. He suffered a skull
fracture, both legs were nearly torn
I off and several other bones in his
body were broken. The driven, later
identified as William E. James, 25
year-old colored man of 1018 Penn
Street, Camden, N. J., did not stop
but admitted striking an object
when he was arrested at the home
of Fannie Hyman, a cousin, near
Hobgood ,less than two hours after
(■the accident was reported.
In a sworn statement made to Cpl
W. E. Hunt and Sheriff C. B. Roe
buck late Sunday night, James said
that he, traveling alone, left Tarboro
to go to Hobgood, that he hit “some
heavy object hard, but did not know
what it was at the time, and for that
reason, did not stop. My right wind
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Drunks Have Time
On Short Bus Ride
Two drunks, Robert Blanzo and
Emma Mae Clemmons, of Washing
ton, had a big time on a short bus
ride last Sunday.
Ditching their car near the Beau
fort-Martin boundary on Highway
17, the two were picked up by Rufus
Cherry on a Norfolk-Southern pas
senger bus. The man and woman had
been on the vehicle only a short time
when they threatened to whip the
other passengers and take over and
run the bus. When he reached Mace
donia, Driver Cherry stopped and
turned the two over to Cpl. W. S.
Hunt of the highway patrol.
Placed in the county jail to sober
up, Blanzo and his friend were book
ed for trial in the county court for
public drunkenness.
Man Treated Here
For Wreck Injury
His face badly cut and bis tongue
almost torn in two, Elijah Cherry,
Bertie County man, was brought to
a local doctor’s office early last Sat
urday morning for treatment. Thir
ty-six stitches were required to put
the tongue back together' and to close
the gashes on his face.
Local members of the highway pa
trol, investigating the accident, stat
ed that Caldwell Cooper was driving
a Ford truck toward Williamsten
from Windsor when Cherry rammed
him from the rear, knocking the
truck into the woods and setting fire
to the car. The accident happened
about half way between the two
towns.
| FIRST TRIP
Local volunteer firemen ans
wered their first call with the
town’s new S8.000 Mack fire
truck last Saturday morning
when fire damaged an automo
bile belonging to a Pitt Couaty
man. The car was being driven
on Last Main Street here when it
caught fire and the alarm was
sounded.
Wires on the car were burned
but very little damage resulted,
Fire Chief G. P. Ilall said.
Occupation Forces
Preparing To Push
Into City Of Tokyo
Coii#r<'*H 11M ff14MI Over Size
Anal Mainlenanee Of
, Armed Foreen
Taking over four airfields and fan
ning out over 750 square miles of ter
ritory, American occupation forces
are making ready to move into To
kyo today. During the meantime,
other occupation forces are taking
charge along stretches of the Japan
ese coastline, and the final surrender
of isolated areas is being effected to
day.
The formal surrender was effected
last Sunday, (Saturday night, our
time) on the USS Missouri in Tokyo i
Bay, but there are stories maintain |
ing that some of the Japanese still
do not acknowledge defeat.
The Japanese Radio still is carry
ing on a war against the Allies, spew
ing out anti-American and anti-So
viet propaganda.
One broadcast last week-end
charged that two U. S. sailors had
raped the 35-year-old wife and 17
year-old daughter of a Yokosuka
chauifeur "at the point of a revolv
er,'’ and that two other sailors raped
a maid at another Yokosuka house
committing "the outrageous acts un
dor pretext of a search for arms.”
Another broadcast said the Jap
anese government had formally re
quested that Allied occupation fore
is “use more care in dropping sup
plies” and said that "not a few per
jsons were killed or injured” by para
chuted supplies. In great detail the
'broadcast listed eight incidents and
casualtii. including 17 deaths and 37
injuries.
In an attack on the Soviets, the
broadcast asked Gen. MacArthur to
I inform Soviet authorities immedi
lately to suspend “their unlawful acts
detaining local government officials
(in Korea) . . . and promptly release
those officials already interned by
the Red Army.”
Whether these broadcasts had
been censored by occupation forces
was not known, but they certainly
followed the propaganda lines Tokyo
laid down throughout the war,
Fear by the Japanese of the neeu
pation is gradually dwindling, and
some of those questioned were sur
prised to learn that they were not
to be killed or mistreated.
The economic picture for Japan
this winter is a bleak one, and star
vation is being predicted, reports
from Allied Headquarters admitting
frankly that little could be done to
relieve the situation.
At, the same time, conditions are
disheartening in Germany and lib
erated countr ies in Europe, .and in
ternal disorders are being predicted.
Possibly that’s why the militarists
are demanding that the armed power
be maintained on a large scale. Crit
ics of the plan declare that officers,
stepping into big pay from mediocre
jobs in civilian life, want to continue
in the service without the loss of
their present ranks. Mon- will be
heard about that feature when more
of the enlisted men and non-coms
get out and return home.
While the task of re-establishing
peace and peace-time economies
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Funeral Today For
Victim Of Accident
Funeral services are being con
ducted at the home of his son, Jesse
Matthews, near Oak City, thin after
noon for Jeff T. Matthews, 70-year
old white man, who was killed when
struck by a hit-and-run car in that
community early last Sunday night.
Interment will follow in the Rober
sonville cemetery.
After spending most of his life in
Robersonville Township, Mr. Mat
tnews movwiki the Oak City section
about fourteen years ago. He was
married to Miss Alice Gorham who
died about two years ago. He farmed
all his life.
He is survived by five children,
Mrs. Carlton Edmondson, Mrs. Roy
!Edmondson. and James Mat
thews of Oak^fcity and Mrs. Rosa
Dragon of Baltimore; three brothers,
George and Frank Matthews of Rob
ersonvilie, and Will Matthews of
Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Mollie Perry
Jof Scotland Neck.
Commissioners Hear
Pteas-For Highways
D J
At Meeting Monday _
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iYrmiJ Orantr*fl !,<*pion T<»
Hold ‘•Agricultural”
Fair This FaiI
While considerable attention is be
ing given claims and counter claims
for super highways, several groups
of citizens appealed to the county
commissioners in regular session
here yesterday for passageway to
and from their homes. Several citi
zens in Williams Township, explain
ing that the road would serve 14
families and 3? school children, ask
ed for an outlet via the home of
William Lanier, Clinton Jones, O. V.
Lanier, Wiley Lanier and Ben Bar
ber to the Will Griffin Road be in
cluded in the State Highway System.
The road is about 4 1-2 miles long.
Another group of citizens asked
the commissioners to recommend
that the road leading off Highway
(14 and known as a part of the old
Jamesville Road via Siloam church
be taken over by the State Highway
oody.
A request was also made for the
commission to take over the road
leading to the residence of Willis
Williams in Poplar Point Township.
The commissioners granted the
American Legion a permit to hold an
‘‘agricultural" fair in the county this
fall. No date for the event was men
tioned, but it will be held possibly
some time in October.
M. Luther Peel, Martin County tax
collector since the office was creat
ed several years ago, was reappoint
ed, his term to run for the next
twelve months.
A telephone was ordered installed
in Oak City for an office of the de
puty sheriff.
Tax relief orders} for the 1945 tax
year were issued to the following:
C. C. Jones, taxes onl$250 worth
of property in Williams Township,
the claimant explaining that the
house had burned.
Albemarle Lumber Company, $21
on property listed by error in Wil
liams Township.
Jesse Keel, $3.15 on property list
ed in error in Robersonville Town
ship.
I). F. Harrell, $3.26 on property
listed in error in Goose Nest Town
ship.
Raleigh Gurganus, $2. poll tax,
listed in error in Robersonville
Township.
Local lioy Has Many
Close Calls In Army
After lie was wounded many
months ago, Lt. Billy Biggs, local
young man, experienced numerous
close calls but went through them
without a scratch, according to re
ports reaching here a few days ago.
The young man was in a lank when
it was blown up, but he came out
without a scratch, A short time later
a shell bursted hardly five feet away
and blew him about ten feet in the
air. He crawled away without a
scratch. He was in a house when it
was shelled twice, and he walked
out without a scratch. There were
other narrow escapes, but despite the
wounds and close calls, the young
man declares he is in as good shape
as he was when he left. “Others can’t
say that, and many won’t be going
back,” the young man was quoted as
saying.
Lt. Biggs explained that possibly
hi' would not be able to get home
until after the first of the year. "But
that's all right, since I know they are
sending us back as rapidly as possi
ble,” he said. The officer is stationed
near Paris, and is visiting the city
ovi r the week-ends.
Ctm^ress To Consider
Fertilizer Voliey Hill
-«
Reconvening this week, the Ameri
can Congress, among other things, is
expected to consider national fertiliz
er policy hills. The ultimate aim of
the proposed measures is to establish
three regional farm fertilizer coop
eratives, one to serve the eastern sea
board and the remaining ones other
parts of the country.
The cooperatives would purchase
government-built plants, and help
restore the fertility of American
soils.
DRAFT REGISTRATION
Reports reaching the Martin
County Draft Board during the
past few days maintain that a
few young men, both white and
colored, had failed to register
for the draft upon reaching their
eighteenth birthday.
A stern warning is being is*
| sued those youths, (he draft of
ficials explaining that the selec
tive service law is still in effect
even if the war is over. "We will
give the registration delinquents
a few more days to comply with
the law, and if they fail to regis
ter during that time, the reports
will be turned over to the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation for
immediate action,” a representa
tive of the draft board said.