Give Liberally During United War Fund Drive Now Under Way
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VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 82.
Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 16, 1945
ESTABLISHED 1809
^Towr Is Definitely
<*Out Of TkpCoastal
Plain Ball Circuit
Representatives Of League In
Greenville Meeting; Local
Man Named President
Meeting in Greenville Sunday aft
ernoon, representatives of the vari
ous clubs in the old Coastal Plain
Baseball League almost completed
the reorganization of the circuit and
made tentative plans for resuming
play next spring after remaining idle
since the 1941 season. Williamston
is definitely out of the league, but the
seven remaining clubs are just about
ready to resume activities, it was ■
learned at the meeting.
R. H. Goodmon. president of the 1
circuit, was unanimously re-elected i
at the meeting and Miss Edna Barn- I
hill was named the league's secre- I
tary for a three-year term. Directors |
will be named by the various clubs
■ ■"iu! tu, cen now and Ocuibc;
the officials arc to meet in New I
Bern for *he final reorganization ]
- meeting, it was announced.
Tarboro, Greenville, Kinston,!
Goldsboro, New Bern, Wilson and
Rocky Mount were represented at
the meeting. Mr. J. Eason Liliey,
president, owner and operator of the
Williamston franchise, attended the
meeting and advised the league rep-1
r resentatives that he would not be ]
able to participate in the play next 1
season.
Speaking for the league, Guy
Smith of Greenville expressed deep
regret when Williamston withdrew.
“We enjoyed the sportsmanship of
Mr. Liliey and his people and we will
miss going to Williamston,” Mr.
Smith said.
The league has three bids for
berths in the league, but none was
considered at the meeting Sunday.!
Jacksonville, enjoying a military j
boom, asked for a place in the cir- I
cult, one report declaring that the ;
town had $25,000 already in hand to ■
start the season. Wilmington and
Fayetteville were said to be interest
ed in a berth in the league, and it
was mentioned as a possibility that
Smithfield would consider taking the
eighth position.
The representatives discussed the
possibility of raising the league
standard from “D” to “C”, meaning
that salary schedules would be in
creased from $1,500 and $1,800
monthly exclusive of the manager's j
salary and bonuses for players would
be in order.
It was pointed out that several of
the major ball clubs are interested
in taking over franchises in the
league and maintaining teams, lock
stock and baprell, in the circuit. In
terest, it was indicated, is limited to
the larger towns in the league, but it
is possible that they would consider
operating in the smaller towns if and
when they are advised there are no
openings in the larger places.
Much interest was shown at the
meeting in the game, and keen com
petition in the league is expected
next season.
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Bear Grass Parents
And Teachers Meet
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Meeting in regular session last
Wednesday, parents and teachers in
the Bear Grass School district dis
cussed and formulated plans for
holding a Hallowe’en carnival in the
school.
* The canvass for the lunch room
was reviewed. The drive has not
been completed, hut reports to date
are very encouraging, it was declar
ed.
New officers were elected for the
association as follows: Mrs. Walter
Wynne, president; Mrs. Noah Roger
son, vice president, and Mrs. Dewey
Leggett, secretary-treasurer.
The next meeting of the organiza
tion will be held on the second Tues
day night in November and all pa
trons and other interested citizens
are asked to be present and cooper
ate in advancing the work of the
school.
Chicken Prices Were
Higher Back In 1920
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Raleigh—Although the average re
tail price for live chickens through
out the United States is now ap
proximately 44 cents per pound, this
is still 4.6 cents below the price in
October, 1920, when the price went
to 48.6 cents, figures released by the
State Agriculture Department show.
The present price is also below the
prices paid for live chickens in 1919
and 1920.
In 1929, live chickens sold for 43.7
cents per pound in retails stores—as
compared with 42.4 cents last year
and 41.5 cents in 1943.
Girl Scouts And Brownies
To Meet Here Tomorrow
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Local girl scouts and brownies are
scheduled to hold their first meeting
of the season Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o’clock in Ihe Woman’s Club
hall. Members of the troops are ask
ed to be present and parents are in
vited.
\ Little Brogress Reparted In
According to incomplete reports
received here yesterday, the last an
nual United War Fund Drive is mak
ing only medium progress in this
county to date. The quotas have
been met and passed in some dis
tricts, but complete figures could not
be had in time for publication today,
| Mrs. Roy Taylor and Mayo Hardi
son. chairman of the drive in Poplar
Point, stated yesterday that $110 of
the $175 quota assigned that district
had already been raised.
Chairman Henry S. Johnson of
Hamilton stated that the drive was
just getting underway there, that the
outlook was reasonably encouraging.
Mr. John W. Eubanks was sick and
could not be reached for a report yes
terday, hut Hassell has always met
its challenges. Mrs. E. E. Pittman
could not be reached for a report in
Goose Nest, but the canvass is believ- .
ed far from complete there. Mrs. A. ^
P. Barnhill, chairman for Cross
Roads, stated frankly that the re
sponse there was alien No
other direct reports could be had
from the county, but at least one of
the districts south of Williamston
I was said to have passed its goal, that
j others were making progress.
. Reviewing the available reports,
Chairman Clarence Griffin still is
hopeful that the quota will be reach
ed in this county. Martin citizens
are reminded that the current drive
was launched at the urgent request
of field generals who see and mingle
with the millions of Americans boys
still in the occupation zones, that the
drive has the endorsement of the
President of the United States and
all leading officials in the nation and
states. Although the fund is mainly
devoted to the welfare of American
boys still in the service, every possi
ble remaining dollar is going to aid
j starving and freezing souls in many
j foreign lands.
The war is over, but our people
ar~ reminded that it is not yet time
jto rest on the oars when so much is
!at stake in victory. Don't ask the
solicitors to call back. Encourpge
them with r sizable donation without
delay, and let if be said that Martin
County never faltered or failed in
meeting a h'-ma'.. • ! ” ige in wi..
or peace.
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GOVERNOR’S PLEA
The following telegram ad
dressed to County Chairman W.
C. Griffin of the United War
Fund Drive, was sent by Gover
nor Gregg Cherry yesterday, the
honorary chairman of the drive
in this State appealing for 104
percent support of the drive:
“Gratitude to fighting men for
military victory at great sacrifice
demands that we finish their Job
to insure peace. Realization that
millions throughout world owe
every existence to our generosity
and pride in North Carolina’s
record of success plus in every
previous form of war campaign
effort demands that we strive
for nothing less than one hun
dred percent of allocated war
fund goal in every county. Urge
that you encourage chairmen
and solicitors to double and re
double efforts. Appreciate your
efforts.”
Family Experiences
Many Misfortunes
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Misfortune after misfortune has
j "©ef alien "the family Jf“'Mrs.' J. T.
Bland here during recent days and
weeks. One son suffered a stroke
last Thursday. Another son was run
over by an automobile last Friday.
A third son is undergoing treatment
in a hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. A
son-in-law died a few weeks ago.
Another son-in-law is in a Green
ville hospital for treatment. A sis
ter is five years an invalid. And Mrs.
Bland is not in the best of health,
but is still active.
John Thomas Bland, employed in
the Norfolk area, suffered his sec
ond stroke while working there last
Thursday. The stroke was not very
severe, one report stating that he
had lost the use of his left arm.
After serving nine years in the
armed forces and going through most
of the Mediterranean campaigns,
John D. Bland was run down by an
automobile at the fair grounds last
Friday night. He was painfully but
not seriously hurt. The young man
was wounded several times while
fighting in Italy.
A third son, Hubert, is in a veter
ans' hospital in Virginia for treat
ment, his nerves completely exhaust
ed after nine years in the armed
forces and continuous action for a
long period in the Mediterranean
area.
Mrs. Bland s sister, Mrs. Kader
Rogerson, has been an invalid for
five years, hei condition remaining
about the same.
County Veteran Of
Pacific Discharged
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Swannanoa.—Pvt. John Cross of
Oak City, veteran of the Pacific war,
has been given an honorable dis
charge from the Army at Moore Gen
eral Hospital Separation Point here
after 51 months of service.
Cross served with the glider infan
try of the 11th Airborne Division
and saw action in New Guinea, and
the northern . and southern Philip
pines. He wears three campaign
stars on his Asiatic Pacific Ribbon
and has the Combat Infantry Badge
.for meritorious achievement in ac
j tion.
! Before induction he worked in the |
Portsmouth r.avy yards.
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County Young Man Gets
Honorable Army Discharge
| S/Sgt. David M. Griffin, Martin
County- young man, was honorably
discharged from the Army Air
Forces on October 5 under the point
system.
He is returning to his old job as a
heavy equipment operator for the
Virginia Highway Department and
will make his home in Suffolk.
Mrs. J. T. McClaren
Dies At Home Near
Here Early Monday
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Funeral Services Are Being
Held This Afternoon
At 3:00 O’Clock
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Mrs. James Thomas McClaren,
well-known county citizen, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ur
nee Bunting, near Williamston Mon
day morning at 6 o’clock following a
long period of declining health. A
victim of arthritis, Mrs. McClftcn
had been an invalid for about five
years and had been confined to her
bed during most of this year.
Miss Mary Virginia Moore before
her marriage, she was born in Bear
Grass township on January 21, 1886,
the daughter of the late Thomas and
Nancy Cherry Moore. She spent her
early life there and was married to
Mr. McClaren about 46 years ago.
Following her marriage she located
near Everetts and lived there until
about five years ago when she went
to make her home with her daughter,
near here.
She was the last member of her
ira.'r'orb*t^ y and wa",^siA.J.r>.
high esteem by all who knew her.
Mrs. McClaren was a faithful mem
ber of the Christian church at Ever
etts the greater part of a quarter
century, attending its services regu
larly as long as she was able. Her
pastor, Rev. J. M. Perry, of Rober
sonville, assisted by Rev. John L.
Goff, are conducting the last rites
this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at her
late home. Interment will follow in
Woodlawn Cemetery here.
Besides her husband she leaves
five children, Robert MtClaren of
Robersonville, Mrs. Penell Bland of
Roper, Mrs. Simon Beach and Mrs.
Urnee Bunting of Williamston and
Mrs. Raymond Abbitt of Norfolk;
nine grandchildren, Benjamin, Wade,
William and Polly Bunting, all of
Williamston, Virginia Abbitt of Nor
folk, Mrs. Thelbert Whitley and Mrs.
J. R. Jenmins of Robersonville, Rob
ert McClaren, Jr., who is en route
home from overseas, and Jas. Simon
Beach, serving with the armed forces
in the Pacific theater; and two great
grandchildren, James Robert and Vi
vian Janice Jenkins of Robersonville.
A
GI Thankful For
Home-Town Paper
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Writing in to have his subscription
canceled since he is now traveling
toward rhome, Cpl. Julius Gurganus
took time to express his thanks for
The Enterprise. He wrote, in part:
“During the two-year ‘tour’ with
the Fifteenth Air Force I have cer
tainly enjoyed the opportunity of re
ceiving the Enterprise. A few occas
ions when it was not possible for me
to get the paper, it was a distressing
and sad period for this GI, for I cer
tainly did miss it.
“You and your staff are to be com
mended for the wonderful task so
nobly accomplished in getting the
paper to so many Martin County GI’s
all over the world.”
Cpl. Gurganus stated that he ex
pected to reach Williamston some
time about the middle of November.
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County Home Economic*
Teacher* Hold Meeting
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The Martin County Home Econom
ics teachers met last Wednesday in
the Jamesville Home Economics De
partment.
The following officers were elect
ed: Mist -vfaud Ketchem, chairman.
Miss Verna Belle Lowery, secretary.
The subject of the meeting was:
i “Beautification of Surroundings.”
What to teach in the first, second and
third year home economics classes
was worked out in a round table dis
cussion by the group.
Delicious refreshments were serv
ed by the hostess, Mrs. Eleanor
Hairre.
Scientists - -Certain
Bomb Secret Long
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Other Countries Can Prod nee
Bomb Without Help
From the U. S.
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Austin, Tex., Oct. 15.—J. H. Rush,
secretary of the Assn, of Oak Ridge
Scientists at Clinton Laboratories, is
visiting old schoolmates and profes
sors at the University of Texas to tell
them his deep conviction that the
secret of the atomic bomb cannot be
kept in the U. S. A.
His argument runs like this:
“We can expect no enduring mon
opoly of the atomic bomb. Other sci
entists can apply the fundamental
principles, perhaps more successfully
than we have. Our work was costly
because it was handicapped by the
necessity for basing major decisions
on largely theoretical predictions.
The question of success now has been
answered, other countries know that
they can produce such bombs with
out any deatiled technical informa
tion from . ... ’
He and his associates, Rush con
tinued, consider a defense against
this bomb impossible. He pointed
out that military defense consists of
interception, and that a 90 per cent
interception is considered good.
“Yet, if interception misses one
bomb, there’s no more interception,”
he said.
Then he noted the possibility that
atomic mines, in ordinary trunks,
could be smuggled into the U. S. A.
and planted under every city, to be
set off by agents or by radio at the
given moment.
“Any time you start an arms race
with atomic power, we all lose,"
Rush insisted. “Our industrial super
iority is no good. What difference
does it make if we have the best
atomic bomb, so long as an enemy
has an atomic bomb. And it doesn't
matter if we have 10,000 atomic
bombs, if an enemy has 100 and the
inclination to use them first.”
The thesis of the Oak Ridge sci
entists, who have had two years long
er to think over the problem than the
rest of us have, is this, according to
Rush:
"We believe that there is only one
way open to us as a Nation. Every
effort must be made immediately to
arrange for the control of this weap
on by a world authority which can
exercise complete and effective con
trol of the production of the essen
tial materials and of their use in
every country.”
The origin of this thesis is a story,
too. Rush says:
"When we’d have time to talk at
Oak Ridge, we’d talk about what to
do with this thing we were inventing.
We argued pro and con, and this is
the conclusion we reached. And we
learned later that at the University
of Chicago and at Los Alamos, N. M.,
the same talks were going on. And
the conclusions reached by the sci
entists on those projects are the same
we reached: That this secret can’t
be kept except by an international
organization.”
Lumber To Continue
Under Price Control
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Raleigh—The lifting of building
controls by the War Production
Board, effective October 15, does not
mean that OPA price controls have
been removed.
“Price controls on lumber and
other building materials are still in
effect and will remain so,” OPA de
clared.
OPA brought out the fact that in
flationary pressures are still strong
in the building materials field and
emphasized that OPA was determin
ed to resist them until supply comes
into balance with demand.
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Brenda Perry, Eight Months
Old, Dies Near Jamesville
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Brenda Perry, eight months old,
died at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Perry, near James
ville, last Sunday morning at 2
o’clock. The little child had been
in ill health for about four months
and had received treatment in sever
al hospitals during that time.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon and interment was
in the family cemetery, near the
| home.
f ROUND-UP
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Fourteen persons, charred
with disturbing the peace of the
land, were arrested and Jailed
here over the week-end in one
of the biggest round-ups in re
cent weeks of alleged law viola
tors. Twelve were booked for
focal police, and all but one were
booked for public drunkenness
or for disorderly conduct.
One was booked for drunken
driving, one for larceny and one
for operating a motor vehicle
without a driver’s license.
Five of the group arrested and
Jailed were white, and the ages
of the fourteen ranged from 17
to 57 years.
I lbbmw Sales Pass Hie 'Nine
ffrftttrfhi Alu$< ha Mai ktihiere
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With well over 100,000 pounds on
the floors today, the local tobacco
market is passing the nine million
pound mark for the current season,
And prices are steadily climbing up
ward here, official reports stating
that the sales averaged right at 47
cents a pound last Friday when 161,
400 pounds were sold on the two
sales.
So far this season the market has
sold 8,919,330 pounds for $3,909,
201.53, a resulting average just short
of $44.00 per hundred.
It is estimated that just about 88
percent of the crop in this territory
has been sold, that the market will
possibly reach and pass by a small
margin the ten million-pound goal.
The peanut harvest just about com
pleted, farmers are now rushing to
finish the marketing of tobacco.
Sales are holding up unusually well,
but the days of the glut are definitely
gone and sales are being held in at
least two houses daily,
Next week the marke^^^^nold ’
sales on Monday for the first time
since the early part of the season.
A return to the five-day selling week
is not expected to materially affect ^
the crowded conditions in redrying i
plants since sales are now consider
ably less than those reported a week
or ten days ago.
Reviewing the price schedule for
sales last week, all types of tobacco
were commanding more money with
some selling well up in the fifties.
The nondescript type and the poorer
quality grades are not selling for as !
much as they did earlier in the sea
son, but they are higher than they
were ten days ago while the better
grades are at the highest peak so far
this season.
A report covering the entire east
ern Carolina belt states that, sales 1
through last Friday totaled 296,245,
650 pounds, that the average price
was $43.29, or juM about 75 cents per
hundred below the .average on the
Williamslon market.
Plans Go Forward For
Freezer - Locker Plan!
Lions Underwrite
Contract To Sell
Space In Project
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J. E. (luiul un<l Eni’ineer Ar<*
Expected Tomorrow To
Study I'oHsilde Site
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Plans for the construction and op
eration of a freezer-locker plant in
this county are now progressing rap
idly after the Lions Club stepped in
last Thursday evening and agreed to
underwrite a contract for the sale of
space in the plant. After underwrit
ing the project, the Lions Club mem
bers have sold approximately fifty
lockers and guaranteed the remain
der.
J. E. Coad of Coad and Associates,
Incorporated, is bringing an engineer
here tomorrow to study a possible
location for the plant, Assistant
County Agent Claude Goodman said
Jh'»anx'.rning. — _
It was explained at a public meet
ing held in the high school building
several weeks ago that the Coad com
pany would consider locating a plant
here when 250 lockers had been
rented. Approximately that number
has been sold or will be sold shortly
according to the contract guarantee
made by the Lions Club last Thurs
day evening.
The company has submitted three
proposals in connection with the con
struction and operation of the plant.
The company will build and operate
the plant outright, or it will sell stock
to interested persons. Under the
third proposal, the company will
build and equip the plant and turn
it over to local interests. It is pos
sible that local people will want
shares in the company plant here,
and stock will be offered at a meet
ing to be held in the agricultural
building tomorrow evening at li
o’clock. Interested parties are invit
ed to attend the meeting.
Unless some unforeseen obstacle is
encountered, the promoters plan to
choose a site at once and work for
the completion of the structure by
early spring. These and other de
tails will be considered while Mr.
Coad and his engineer make a first
hand study during their visit here
tomorrow, Mr. Goodman explained.
Reviewing the applications for
space in the locker, Assistant Agent
Goodman stated that approximately
90 percent of the space sold to date
had been taken by farmers, that it is
believed that the 500-unit plant will
hardly be able to accommodate this
section.
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Sgt. Johnnie It. Harrell
Given Honorable Discharge
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Alter serving five years in the
armed forces, Sgt Johnnie B. Har
rell, former Martin County young
man, is being discharged from the
Army Air Forces under the point sys
tem at Seymour-Johnson Field,
Goldsboro today.
' Harrell served two years with the
Sixth Air Force in the Canal Zone,
and was recently promoted to the
rank of sergeant. He plans to make
his home in Beaufort County with
Oscar Stalls.
In fant Diet In Hospital
Last Saturday Evening
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Funeral services were conducted
jat the home in Williams fownship
I yesterday afternoon for the two-day
I old infant of Clarence and Irene
Gardnei Hopkins, who died in a
Washington hospital last Saturday
evening at 8 o’clock. Interment was
in the family cemetery near the
home.
Two brothers, Jimmy and Jerry
Hopkins, and a sister, Barbara Jones
Hopkins, survive.
RKQIIKST
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Many Martin County boys are
parking up anti sailing from all
corners of the globe for home.
Quite a few of them—over 1,000
at one time—were Enterprise
subscribers. Army and Navy
postal clerks notify the paper of
address changes, but the notices
are ordinarily received months
late. Overseas subscribers can
greatly aid the publishers in
maintaining a correct mailing
list by advising any change in
address. Relatives can greatly
help relieve the situation by ad
vising the paper that their sons,
brothers, or husbands are return
ing home.
Quite a few of the boys are
notifying the publishers to can
cel their subscriptions, some
adding a note of appreciation.
County Bov On Wny
Homo From Pacific
Aboard the HNS Monterey off Pan
lima,- William H. Gurganus 31, CM
2/e, is returning from the Pacific
War aboard tliis fast Light Carrier.
He is traveling aboard the Mon
terey as a passenger. The ship, which
has been in the Pacific front lines
since the Gilberts invasion in Nov
ember, 19411, was attacking the Tokyo
area on August 15, the day the war
ended.
It spent the succeeding days pa
trolling airfields on the Jap Home
land to make sure that terms of the
Armistice were being met and, inci
dentally, to parachute supplies to
prisoner of war camps. On Septem
ber (i, it put briefly into Tokyo Bay
to take aboard Marines and Sailors
from among'its crew who had gone
ashore as part of the occupation
forces.
Thereafter, it stopped briefly at
Okinawa and Pearl Harbor, taking
aboard passengers in both ports. It
will pass through the Panama Canal
within the next few days, along with
a sizeable fleet of battleships, cruis
ers, destroyers and other carriers.
The Monterey, as a veteran of Pa
eific fast Carrier Task Force will
take part in Navy Day exerises Oc
tober 27 in New York City.
Veteran Victim Of
Hit-and-Run Driver
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John D. Bland, veteran of nine
years in the armed forces, was pain
fully but apparently not seriously
hurt when he was run down by a
hit-and-run driver near the fair
grounds on Highway 04 last Friday
night about 10:30 o’clock. After re
ceiving treatment in the local hos
pital, he was removed to his home
where he continues in bed. One re- i
port stated he was scratched and
slightly bruised on one leg and hurt I
about the head.
j Bland was walking along the high
way with five other persons, but no
.detailed account of the attack could
I be had from any of them, according ,
I to Cpl. W. S. Hunt who investigated
it.
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Loftifinjt And Lumber Firms
A eed Additional Workers
With approximately foity firms
engaged in logging ana lumbering
1 operations ip this county there is a
marked and urgent need for more
■ workers, including those of all skills.
r Workers, interested in employment
in the industry, are asked to report
to the United States Employment of
i fice, third floor of the town hall in
Williamston for further information.
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|A~ Brief Historical
"“Review of ( mi rod
States Ninth Army
Q»iit<* a Few Martin County
Hoys Followed Simpson
Through Thick of Fisslit
Because a good number of Martin
Countv young men made the danger
ous journey with Lt. Gen. William
It. Simpson, the brief historical re
view of the U. S. Ninth Army as re
leased by (lie Public Relations Of
fice, Fort Bragg, is offered, as fol
lows:
1 he Ninth U. S. Army, which
fought in Brittany, on the Siegfried
I ine and across northern Germany
to within (15 miles of Berlin, has been
ordered demobilized effective Octo
ber 10.
Lieutenant General William H.
Simpson, tall Texan who command
ed the Ninth, has been given com
mand of the Second Army, headquar
ters at Memph.i ■
1 he Ninth Army was being rede
ployed to the Paeiife when the war
in mat area ended
The order, received from the War
Department, actually means disband
ment <>l the Ninth Army's headquar
ters, present at Fort Bragg. Head
quarters personnel who have enough
points are being discharged as quick
ly as possible. Others will go to the
Second Army with General Simpson
or be transferred elsewhere.
In a paper sense, the order means
demobilization of one of the great
American field armies of World War
11.
The Ninth Army fought in five
countries France. Luxembourg, Bel
gium, Holland and Germany. At one
time it operated .concurrently in all
1 five. It co-operated with the First
11- S. Army in encirclement of the
Rhur. in which 325,000 enemy troops
were trapped and captured. Its
bridgehead across the Kibe was being
developed to continue the attack to
Berlin when orders were received
to stand fast along the Elbe.
Major combat activity of the Ninth
ended when contact was made with
the Russian Army near Zerbat,
southwest of Berlin, on April 30.
This contact was made by Troop C,
125th Cavalry Squadron of the 113th
Cavalry Group, under command of
the 83rd Division of the XIX corps,
'the Russian unit met was the 1st
Battalion, 340th Regiment, 121st Di
vision of the XXVII Corps. The war
in Europe ended officially on Mav 9,
The Ninth Army captured 736,437
prisoners of war. It occupied some
sq. miinilBl O i mu.* •
from the Rhineland to the Elbe.
It liberated some 500,000 Allied
prisoners of war and more than 1,
250,000 Allied displaced persons—
men and women forced into Ger
many to work.
Its engineers built more than 300
bridges, including a notable railroad
In idge across the Rhine at Wesel.
Ninth Army anti-aircraft artillery
shot down 500 German planes.
I luring the i apid advance into Ger
many, the Ninth Army captured vital
intelligence targets and many indus
trial targets which had been manu
facturing ammunition, guns, tanks
and other war material. Targets tak
en included the Krupp Works in Es
sen and the largest known plants for
producing synthetic rubber and fuel.
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Visiting Minister
Opens Meeting Here
Or. II Glenn Haney of Greenville
conducted the first in a series of ser
vices in the local Christian church
last Sunday evening when he preach
ed on the subject, “The Christian
Citadel.” The visiting minister was
heard by a large crowd. Last even
ing, he chose for his subject, “The
Great Confession.”
Other topics for his sermons dur
ing the remainder of this week fol
low :
Tuesday, “Harden Not Your
Hearts;" Wednesday, “A Man’s Re
ligion;” Thursday, “What Is Sin and
Who Is a Sinner?”; Friday, “God’s
Attitude Toward a Prodigal World.”
Services are held each evening at
B oclock and the public is invited.
In his first service, the minister,
m inviting members of all congrega
tions to hear him, said: “I am not in
favor of a further division of re
ligion. It is time to blend what we
already have.” He ably applied his
subject, and declared that the influ
ence of one’s life was much more far
1 caching than the owner suspected.
Conductinc Revival At
Rose Of Sharon Church
Rev. J. D. Vevivelson is conducting
| a revival meeting in the Rose of
! Sharon Church in Bear Grass Town
; ship this week. The public is cor
, diaily invited to attend the services
each evening.
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Practice Teuehers Here In
Economies Department
Miss Charlotte Elliott of Edenton '
and Miss Mary Alice Cohoon of Col
umbia, are doing practice teaching in
home economics in the Williamston
I High School this term.