NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
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AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OP THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES Of MARTIN COUNT!
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
VOLUME XL\ III—NUMBER 94
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 27, 1945
ESTABLISHED 1899
Peanuts Moving To
Market In Larger
Volume This. Week
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Several Buyers In Eastern
Part Of State Indicted For
Ceiling Violations
With favorable weather prevailing j
during the past few days, peanuts
are beginning to move to the local
market in increasing quantities, but
the volume is hardly a fifth of what
it was at this time of the season, a
year ago. No accurate count could
be had, but it was estimated that be- I
tween five and eight thousand bags
of the goobers were handled by the
market here yesterday. The deliv
eries were about the largest reported
for any day so far this season. Buy- j
ers are of the opinion that peak de
liveries will possibly get under way
within the next few days, but they
will not compare with those handled
a year ago.
Keen competition continues to ex
ist with prices averaging around
$9.40 per hundred pounds. As far as
it couid be learned officially no sales
have gone over 10 cents in recent
days.
The crop is moving directly from
the pickers to the market, reports
declaring that few farmers are stor
ing them for later delivery. It was
also reported that the truckers are
keeping right up with the buyers.
Last year the truckers operated from
one day to more than a week behind
the pickers and buyers.
Unofficial but reliable reports re
ceived here yesterday stated that at
least two buyers in northeastern
North Carolina had been indicted
for allegedly violating the OPA ceil
ing prices. Those buyers who are
abiding by the ceiling prices are
anxiously awaiting developments in
the cases.
During the meantime, a new
wrinkle has been mentioned, but the
rumor could not be traced to its
original source. According to rumor
reaching here, a buyer in a nearby
county was buying and receiving a
certain number of bags and paying
for more. His grades were in keep
ing with the standards and in some
cases possibly below the actual
standard.
Farmers in this county declare that
the crop will hardly run more than
one-third to one-half of normal pro
duction. New low yields were re
ported over the week-end when one
farmer completed picking operations
and harvested five bags from five
acres. While he was harvesting one
bag per acre, he baled eighteen bales
of hay.
Picker operators are withdrawing
from the fields in some sections, re
fusing to make additional contracts.
While the government reports still
maintain that the crop in the nation
is larger than it was last year, the
heavy producing areas have not been
located by the buyers, according to
reports received here. C^ndy manu
facturers, going into some of the
states to the south, admitted over the
week-end that they bought only
eighty-five carloads where they had
been buying as many as 500 carloads.
Other manufacturers as far away as
California, are calling and wiring for
shelled goods, making it appear that
the supply will not meet the demand j
this season.
In a report just received, the Bu- |
reau of Agricultural Economics
shows that during September and |
October about 250 million pounds of
farmers stock peanuts were milled as
compared to about 175 million during
the same two months last year. One
hundred million pounds of edible
shelled peanuts were produced dur
(Continued on page six)
Hamilton Reports
$216.76 For Fund
Hamilton citizens, including the
school children, raised $216.76 for the
United War Fund during the drive
just recently ended. Some liberal
donations were reported, but the
drive was apparently limited in its
scope, leaving the fund $158.24 short
of its goal.
Contributions were reported by
Chairman Henry Johnson, Jr., as fol
lows:
Johnson Mercantile Co., $30; Ernest
Rawls, $6; George Oglesby, $10; Paul
Hyman, $1; H. M. Peel, $5; W. R.
Davenport, $1; Jerry Raynor, $1;
Doris E. Fogle, $1; Wade Everett, $1;
Jim Scott, $5; R. W. Salsbury, $10;
Richard Raynor, $5; R. A. Edmond
son, $$; Tom Pilgreen, $1; William
Scott, $1; W. E. Davis, $1; Charlie
Kincaid, $1; L. F. Stokes, $2.50; Edgar
Davis, $7.50; W. J. Beach, $15; W. C.
House, $20; Frank Haislip, Jr., $7.50;
W. S. Edmondson, $1; Steve Scott,
$5; Catherine Harrell, $1; Mrs. B. B.
Taylor, $2; Slade-Rhodes Co., $15;
D. L. Harrell, $1; J. O. Stokes, $5;
Stanley Ayers, $5, and Hamilton
School, $44.26.
Oak City Colored Man
Madly Hurt In Attack
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Lester Brown, colored, was badly
battered about the ''ead in Oak City
last Sunday afternoon when he was
attacked by Jasper Purvis. The cause
of the attack could not be learned
immediately. Using an automobile
crank, Purvis branded the victim in
three places on the head. Purvis left
the vicinity soon after the attack.
Plans Completed for Holding
Triple A Elections In County
holding the annual election of Triple
A committeemen and delegates to the
ounty convention at the various poll- j
ing places in the county on Friday of
this week. Nominations for the vari
ous positions were held last night in
several townships and others will be .
made in other ports of the county I
tonight Tickets will be prepared j
with the names of the nominees on
them and placed before the farmers
on Friday of this week between the
hours of 9 a. m. and 5 o’clock p. m j
For the most part the elections will
be handled at the regular voting pre
cincts in the county. According to in
complete information the votes will
be cast as follows: Jamesville, in the
town house; Williams, in the county
house; Griffins, Stephen Man
ning’s store in the Piney Grove
community; Bear Grass, in the com
iar Point. m the agrirulti'.'^ai biuio
Cross Roads, at Everetts; Hamil
ton, in the town house; Hassell, in the
regular voting place; Goose Nest, Ay
ers’ store in Oak City; Robersonville,
in the Masonic hall in Robersonville;
and Gold Point at Forbes Service sta
tion.
Nearly every Martin County farm
er, including landlord and tenant, is
eligible to participate in the election
on Friday of this week. It has been
pointed out that the Triple A pro
gram will have many important
problems to handle during the com
ing months, and farmers are being
asked and urged to get out in num
bers and select men who can and will
show much interest in the affairs of
the farm. Preliminary reports state
that only small crowds were present
for the nominating conventions held
last evening in several districts.
\ ROUND-UP
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Six persons we:, rounded up
and jailed in the county over the
week-end. A few others were al
lowed bond and in one or two in
stances alleged violators escaped
before officers could make ar
rests. The ages of the group de
tained ranged from 22 to 47
years. Three were charged with
public drunkenness, two with
drunken driving and one was
booked for an assault.
An unusual crime, the killing
and theft of a hog from a farm
er’s field, was traced to the pork
shortage, or possibly it was pure
ly meanness or down-right cus
sedness.
Tires Allotted By
Board Last Friday
Seventy-three tires—sixty for pas
senger cars and pick-up trucks and
thirteen for large trucks—were ra
tioned by the Martin County War
Price and Rationing Board last Fri
day.
Passenger car tires were released
to the following:
Albert P. Coltrain, W. B. Gaylord,
B .S. Courtney, D. M. Roberson,
Woolard Furniture Co., James P.
Keys, Fred M. Taylor, Louis Bullock,
H. G. Harrison, L. H. Gurganus, Geo.
C. Jen'.-.ins, Tommy Lilley, Merlin
Hollis, Roy Godard, Clarence McCot
ter, G. H. Edmondson, Mrs. Garland
Harris, Henry White, Jr., John A.
Manning, Evan Griffin, C. A. James,1
Jesse Matthews, Julius E. Moore,
William Alton White, Bernice Ward,
Nora R. Cherry, Alford Taylor, Paul
H. Peel, Carrie Williams, Martha M.
Rawls, Edgar Ballard, P. R. Tyson, R.
G. Hicks, Janie Fleming, F. F. Pol
lard, R. H. Salsbury, Jack Smith, C.
T. Smith, N. L. Hyman, Annie M.
Hassell, Henry C. Green, C. T. Flana
gan, Mrs. Dora Rawls, Charles
Whichard, Harold Ange, Henry D.
Harrison, Sr., Kafer Hardison, Ernest
Spruill, E. G. Anderson, C. F. Mod
lin, Arthur Johnson, W. V. Ormond,
Frank Margolis, W. K. Ward, P. J.
Modlin.
Truck tires were issued to the fol-!
lowing:
Williamston Package and Manu
facturing Co., Williamston Lumber
Co., Jack Hardison, G. C. James, C.
L. Wilson, Seth Weathersbee, John
A. Manning, John Gurkin.
County Young Man
Praised For Work
Aboard Supply Ship USS Harcourt
In Tokyo Bay—William Beach, Jr.,
seaman, second class, 22, Route 3,
Williamston, N. C., came in for praise
by the commanding officer for the
speedy handling of air freight mov
ing in and out of the Yokosuka Naval
base.
“A remarkable job,” said Lt. Cdr.
H. T. Shelly, USNR, skipper of the
Harcourt, which processes air freight
for ships in Tokyo Bay.
The Harcourt, which served as a
Liberty ship until it was bombed and
beached during the Philippines cam
paign, was refitted and commission
ed last June, arriving in Tokyo Bay
on September 18.
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FARM BUREAU !
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Meeting in the courthouse Fri
day evening of this week at 7
o’clock, Martin County Farm
Bureau members are scheduled
to elect their officers for the new
year. All members are invited
to attend the meeting and par
ticipate in the election. (
The meeting will elect a presi
dent and secretary and treasurer
■mu aaiet- difi-ctors.
Mr. Chas. Daniel has ably serv
ed the county unit of the Farm
Bureau Federation for several
years, and Tom Brandon is the
organization’s present secretary
and treasurer.
No date for holding the annual
i Farm Bureau barbecue has been
set, but ordinarily it is held in
late April each year.
Farm Security Plan
Meets With Success
In County This Year
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Several Clients Pay Off Farm
Mortgages And Others Are
Ahead Of Schedule
Although literally branded at one
time as a fantastic socialistic scheme,
the Farm Security Program continues
to meet with marked success in this
county, according to figures and re
ports just recently released by Jim
Eubanks, supervisor in this area.
Back in 1939, the Farm Security
program was introduced in this coun
ty. Several farmers were given a
new lease on life that year when
small farms were purchased for them
under the tenant purchase plan.
Since that time, 41 farms have been
included in the program. Just re
cently five farmers, S. Harcum Roe
buck, Robersonville Township; Mil
ton E. Bennett, Goose Nest; Mack
Cherry, Hamilton Township, and
Clyde Williams of Williamston Town
ship, cleared the last indebtedness
from their farms, the four reporting
ample surpluses to finance their op
erations for another year without
borrowed money. The farm purchase I
loans in the four cases date back to
1941. Several others, made prior to'
that time, have been paid off in their
entirety, too.
Approximately $146,000 has been
advanced by the program, and today
72 percent of that amount has been
liquidated, clearly indicating that the
borrowers are well ahead of the for
ty-year debt schedule.
In addition to its tenant-purchase
program, the agency advances loans
for rural rehabilitation. Approxi
mately 110,000 was lent by the office
in this county in 1945 and to date over
$101,000 of that amount has been
repaid. It is fairly evident, Mr. Eu
banks explained, that all but one of
the loans will be liquidated on or
aheadof schedule. In the lone case, it
was pointed out that the borrower’s
tobacco was drowned, that water cov
ered all but four of the farmer’s six
teen acres of peanuts.
Commenting on the tenant-pur
chase plans, Mr. Eubanks stated that
twenty-two of the forty-one patrons
had reserved enough funds from
their 1945 earnings to finance their
operations another year without bor
rowed money.
The tenant-purchase program has
been at a standstill for several years,
the agency ruling that prices for farm
lands were too high. It is likely the ■
agency will finance deserving ten-1
ants in the future, but at the present'
time the office is marking time with
its tenant-purchase plan.
Goose Nest Raises
$202.27 For Fund
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With a quota of $475, Goose Nest
Township raised $202.27 for the Unit
ed War Fund this year. Six grades in
the school there reported $103.12 or
more than half the amount raised
during the drive just recently ended.
Mrs. E. E. Pittman, chairman, re
ported the following contributions:
R. A. Haislip, $5; Mrs. Annie Man
ning, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Keel, Mrs.
Richard Baker, John Stalls, K. B.
Etheridge and H. L. Hopkins, $1 each;
Francis Worsley, $2; Mrs. Lester
Keel, $5; Kelly Hardison, $1; D. L.
House, $15; Dr. E. E. Pittman, $3;
j Clarence Hardy, D. E. Edmondson,
Robert Whitley, Mrs. Annie Savage,
Harry Daniel, E. N. Harrell, R. E.
: Turner, Wiley Craft, W. W. Tyson, N.
W. Worsley, W. E. Early, $1 each; J.
H. Ayers, $10; Dick Mallory, $3; J. F.
j Crisp, $5; Pete Edmondson, $2; Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Rawls, $2; Mrs. G. H.
Edmondson, $1; Mrs. Nannie Moye,
$1; Mrs. Woodrow Tyson, $1; Mrs. W.
B. Bennett, $1; Ruppert Rawls, $1; J.
K Hogilp W, $1 ■ Melvii Harreli 50o;
i Joe Moye, $i; a. W. Casper, $1; Ilack
|ney High, $1; W. V. Daniel, $1; J. C.
Ross, $1; Mrs. Melviq. Crisp, $1; Clif
ford Mobley, $1; G. H. Edmondson,
$1; Mrs. Minnie Hyman, $1; Mrs. E.
D. Edmondson, 25c; a Friend, 25c;
and the school: fifth grade, $1.85;
sixth grade, $4.18; eighth grade,
$29.75; ninth grade, $30.85; tenth
grade, $17.10; eleventh grade, $19.39,
and Helen Smith, $1,
Three Auto Wrecks
Reported In County
Over The Week-Rnd
No One Badly Hurt But Prop
erty Loss Runs Well Over
$1,000 In Two Days
No one was badly hurt, but prop
erty damage exceeded $1,000 in a
series of automobile accidents report
ed on Martin County highways dur
ing the week-end. Charges were
preferred in at least one case, it was
learned.
Mrs. Nathanial Coltrain, operating
a 1941 Chevrolet, was driving toward
Williamston just north of the Old
Mill Inn on Highway 17 shortly be
fore 6 o’clock when her car was
struck from the rear by Lonnie B. \
Griffin who was driving a 1941 Ply
mouth. The Griffin car turned over
and he was painfully cut on the left
thigh just above the knee. Local
members of the highway patrol were t
out of the county on an assignment
in Durham and Sgt. C. R. Williams
investigated the wreck. Griffin,
charged with reckless driving, wrs
placed under bond and will
ried into the courts next weekT Sgt.
Williams estimated that the damage
to the Griffin car will approximate
$400 and that approximately $100
will be required to repair the Col
train car. Griffin, whose address is
listed as RFD 3, Washington, said
there was no rear light on the Col
train car which was said to have been
traveling about 25 miles an hour
when he plowed into it. Sgt. Wil
liams said that there were lights on
the car and that they were not dam
aged in the wreck.
About 8:30 o’clock that night a 1938
Ford driven by Walter Raleigh Higgs
and a 1941 Chevrolet taxi owned by
W. R. Banks and driven by Lloyd
Howard Vick sideswiped each other
on the Williamston-Hamilton High
way near Butler’s bridge. No one
was hurt, but damage to the two ma
chines was estimated at $500 by Pa
trolman W. E. Saunders who inves
tigated the accident.
About the same hour on Sunday
night, two cars sideswiped each
other on the same highway in the
vicinity of the Roy Taylor farm. Lt.
George Joseph Collins, of New York
and stationed at Cherry Point with
the Marine Corps, was driving his
1941 Packard toward Williamston
when Joe Price, driving a 1937 Chev
rolet toward Hamilton, plowed into
the side of his car, tearing off fend
ers and wheels. Damage to the cars
was estimated at $300 by Patrolman
Saunders. Price claimed that he
was blinded by the lights of the ap
proaching car. Collins was driving
alone and was reported to have driv
en pai tly off the hard surface when
his car was hit. ' Price was accom
panied by his girl friend, but none
of the parties in the accident was
hurt, Patrolman Saunders said.
Urges Large Vote
In AAA Election
Agriculture Commissioner Kerr
Scott urges North Carolina farmers
to go to their community centers and
vote in the annual election of AAA
committeemen on November 30.
Scott recently estimated that
around 350,000 State farmers are eli
gible to vote in the coming elections.
Urging a full representative vote
in each of the 1,733 triple-A com
munities throughout the State, Scott
deplored stay-at-home tendencies
among some farmers, and he appeal
ed for a full turn-out for this year’s
elections.
A total of 8,905 community com
mitteemen and 100 delegates to coun
ty conventions are to be elected. Two
alternate committeemen will also be
chosen for each community. The
delegates will elect three member
county committeemen to administer
production and marketing activities
in each county.
“Many serious problems lie ahead
for agriculture,” Scott asserted, “and
it is most important that these men
have the support of every eligible
farmer in the community.”
Alleged Rapist Held
Under A $1,000 Bond
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Billy White, Jr., young Goose Nest
Township colored man, was returned
to the county jail last Friday night
in default of $1,000 bond after he had
been given a hearing before Justice
J. B. Whitfield in Oak City on a rape
charge. Russell Sheri od, a second
defendant in the case who was sen
tenced to the roads for another law
violation alleged to have taken place
following the other crime, was re
turned to the roads and will be con
tinued there until trial time on the
10th of next montn. Two others, Les
ter Jones and Baby Ray Hill, are
wanted in the nme cause, but they
i have not been arrested.
At the hearing, it was alleged by
the victim, a young colored woman,
that she was held and criminally at
tacked by each of the four men at a
tobacco barn near Oak City a few
weeks ago.
White ran away but returned home
after someone in New York had stol
en his clothes and he was left almost
penniless.
‘Easy’ Divorces Ruled
Nimocks
Few Cases Disposed
Of On First Day Of
The Superior Court
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Four Divorces Granted After
Issues Are Aired; Several
Gases Are Continued
“Easy” divorces were ruled out by
Judge Q. K. Nimocks when he open
ed the second week of a scheduled
two-weeks’ term of the Martin Coun
ty Superior Court here yesterday.
And as a result only four divorces
were granted during the day. Mis
trials were ordered in several when
the evidence was not absolutely con
vincing or the charges were not sup
ported by the bare facts.
Called off on account of a shortage
of judges last week, the court Motv
day spent rigid much time trying •0
reconcile the calendar for the two
weeks, and as it turned out, most of
the cases scheduled for the first day
of the term last week were tried on
the first day of the second week.
However, all those cases scheduled
for Tuesday of last week were con
tinued along with a few others.
A juror was withdrawn and a mis
trial resulted in the divorce case
brought by Alice Roebuck against
Jasper Roebuck. According to the
evidence offered, the plaintiff and
defendant separated in 1941, but the
Plaintiff went back to the defendant
after he had promised to do better.
The promise, according to further
evidence, was broken and the two
separated a second time. That was
more than six months ago, but the
charge of adultery upon which separ
ation is being claimed by the plain
tiff, allegedly took place within the
past six months. The matter of time
element apparently is to be consid
ered, and while the case may possibly
be called again this term, a divorce
will hardly be granted unless the
evidence conforms to the strict let
ter of the law. Similar action was
taken in the divorce case brought by
Ruth Nichols against Hen Octavious
Nichols.
A mistrial was also ordered in the
divorce action brought by J. E. Miz
elle against Dorothy Mary Mizelle.
The plaintiff apparently thought he
had been separated from his wifi- for 1
two years or more, but one of the j
majn witnesses in the case was abso
lutely certain about the time element,
and Judge Nimocks ruled it out for
the time being, at least.
Charging adultery, W. E. Williams
was granted a divorce in his case
against Lue Villie Williams.
Based on two years separation, di
vorces were granted in the following
cases:
C. S. Thompson against Catherine
Thompson, Gary Bunting against
Reba Pridgen Bunting, and Joe Little
against Elizabeth R. Little.
The purported marriage of Dessie
Mayo Kirkland and R. Cornelius
Kirkland was declared null and void
whi n it was proved to the court that
the defendant had been adjudged
guilty of bigamy.
In the case of Lester Harrell
against Hackney High, the plaintiff
was given possession of a house in
Oak City.
A final judgment was entered in
the case of Standard Fertilizer Com
pany against Edwin Gill, State Com
missioner of Revenue for North Caro
lina. The plaintiff had paid tax on
certain material bought outside the
State before the use tax was formal
ly established. The courts, including
the Stale Supreme tribunal, found
thta the plaintiff was entitled to re
cover $1,203.41 from the defendant
(Continued on page six)
Steals To Relieve
His Meat Shortage
Apparently troubled by a meat
shortage in his home, some thief in
vaded Farmer Bill Abbitt’s hog pas
ture late last Friday night and killed
a choice porker.
Missing the hog the next morning,
the farmer called officers and they
started a search. Apparently carried
on the back of the thief, the hog drip
ped blood along the hardsurface
highway into Poplar Point and then
off the hard surface down a dirt road
across Ballard's Bridge and into a
community on beyond.
No arrest has been made in the
case, but officers are still investigat
ing the case.
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Finder* Nearly (Ait Off In
Fight At Beer Joint Here
Ivory Clark, local colored man,
nearly lost several fingers on one
in fYJrjje "Brown*?, raf^> rr
Washington Street here early last
Saturday night when he was attack
ed by J. T Perry, another colored
man, who has given local law en
forcement officers much trouble in
recent weeks Using a pocket knife,
Perry made an effective strike or.
Clark’s fingers, officers stated.
Perry did not tarry long and was
last seen speeding in the direction of
home well ahead of officers.
ASK DELAY
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According to reports received
here, representatives of indus
trial plants in this section went
before Labor Department of
ficials in the capital Monday ask
ing that the closing of the pris
oner of war camp here be post
poned for several weeks and pos
sibly longer. No report could be
had from the meeting immedi
ately.
It was pointed out that the
supply of available labor con
tinues inadequate to keep indus
trial plants running, that some
of them will be forced to close
if the prisoners of war are with
drawn.
The rumor that the camp
would not be closed until Decem
ber 8 because Camp ttutncr could
not absorb the prisoners appar
M !>»»■< foundation.
Early Mailing Of
Parcels Is Urged
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The necessity for early mailing of
Christmas greetings and gift parcels
is most imperative this year due to
the shortage of trained postal cm
ployees throughout the service.
Mailings for distant States should bo
deposited well in advance of Decem
ber 10, and greeting cards for local
delivery should be mailed not later
than December 15, to assure delivery
before Christmas day.
Because of the many advantages
that will result patrons are urged to
send their holiday greetings at the
first class rate of postage. When so
sent the greetings may be sealed and
contain written messages not other
wise permitted, therefore having a
personal appeal which is, of course,
more highly appreciated by the re
cipients; such greetings are dispatch
ed and delivered first, given direct
ory service, and, if necessary, for
warded without additional charge;
also, if undeliverable, they are re
turned without charge provided the
senders' return card is shown on the
envelope.
On the other hand, printed Christ
mas greetings mailed in unsealed en
velopes at the third class rate (I 1-2
cents) which cannot be delivered as
addressed, because of the removal of
the addressee oi for some other reas
on, must often be destroyed as waste,
thereby causing disappointment.
Greetings mailed at third-class rate
(1 1-2 cents) are not entitled to free
•forwarding privileges accorded to
those mailed in sealed envelopi s at
the first-class rate and, consequent
ly, the senders in many cases never
know that the greetings were not re
ceived by the addressees. This would
not occur if the greetings were mail
ed sealed at. the first class rale.
Planning Christmas
Party For Children
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The local Junior Chamber of Com
merce will conduct a toy drive Sun
day at 2:00. The jaycees are planning
a Christmas party for the underprivi
leged children and the toys will be
used for this occasion. All toys
whether in good shape or not are
needed. The jaycees, with the help
of the Girl Scouts, will renew these
toys. Be sure to look around and see
if you have some toys that your chil
dren have outgrown or discarded and
get them out so they will be collected
by the jaycees Sunday afternoon at
2:00. Anyone living out of the city
limits having old toys they would
like to contribute to Inis worthwhile
cause please bring them in to the
welfare department. The jaycees are
being assisted in ties project by Miss
Mary Taylor of the welfare depart
ment. There are about 50 children
that will attend this party.
Those persons who have toys they
can spare are asked to call No. 35
and leave their names and addresses.
Direct solicitations will follow next
Sunday, it was explained.
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FIRK CAULS
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Fire calls came thick and fast
for local firemen last Saturday
and Sunday. Saturday morning
at 9:45 o’clock the volunteers
were called to the home of Mrs.
Bettie Harrell on Williams
Street. Sunday morning at 11:15
o’clock, they were called to Miles
Rogers’ home on Sycamore
Street, and just as the task was
handled there, the firemen were
called to a tenant house occupied
by Henry "Red” Johnson on the
old Staton farm a short distance
out on the Washington Highway.
All three of the fires started
when sparks fell on shingle roofs,
and the damage was slight in
each case. A neighbor was re
ported to have fallen from the
Johnson roof, but was not badly
hurt.
It was the second time in about
ten years that the local fire de
partment received a call while
out on a mission.
Fifty-Six Percent
Of **E Bond Quota
Subscribed To Date
Small Community Of Mussel!
Is In Third Place; Drive Is
$ 107,000 Below Goal
With an eye looking to the future
and ever mindful of the cost to be in
curred in getting our fighting men
home from overseas and taking care
of those wounded in action, Martin
County citizens pushed the “E” Vic
tory Bond Drive more than half way
toward the goal during the past week
when they invested $31,521.2a in the
gilt edge United States securities.
“But the task is not complete,'’ Chair
man D. V. Clayton hurried to explain
as he tabulated the figures for the
fifth weekly report for publication.
To date, the people of this county
have invested $135,227.50 in “E”
bonds during the current drive, leav
ing $107,772.50 to be sold before the
goal is reached. And the- drive is
scheduled to close on Saturday of
next week, meaning that the citizens
will have to invest more than $50,000
this v..v i, nod a .ike amount next
week if the challenge is to be met.
It has been pointed out, Herman
Bowen, War Bond chairman for the
county said this week, that there are
so many calls and for so much. Those
who set the goals for the nation and
subdivisions point out that the need
was never greater, not even in war,
and that the people of the nation
were never in a better position to
meet the need. In other words our
ability to meet every single call, be
it for bonds or gracious free will
gifts, is far greater than the amounts
asked for in all calls combined. There
are some few, it should be pointed
out, who have actually sacrificed in
tin' name of suffering humanity and
in behalf of those who carried the
fight to the enemy on foreign fields.
Reviewing the progress of the
drive, Chairman Clayton pointed first
to the little community of Hassell.
Willi a quota of $5,000 — and the
quota is in keeping with those assign
ed in other districts the citizens of
that community up until Monday
noon had more than trebled the
amount. In addition to selling $18,
862.50 m "E" bonds, the good people
of that community met and passed its
United War Fund goal. Hats off to
those citizens, both white and color
ed.
Jamesville has almost doubled its
quota. Cross Roads went over the
top yesterday with a thousand dol
lars to spare. To date, four districts
Jamesville, Griffins, Cross Roads
and Hassell are over the top. Little
or no change was reported in the
bond picture for Grit fins, Hear Grass,
I’oplar Point and Goose Nest since
the last figures were offered.
For the dark spots in the picture
one turns first to Goose Nest where
just a little over three percent of the
quota lias been raised. Poplar Point
is just about 10 percent along the
way, but one report states that sales
are going forward rapidly. Williams
ton is less than a third complete, and
little is being done to improve the
situation. Several have been asked
to make a personal canvass, but the
drive is bogging down. Hamilton is
about 75 percent short and Williams
is some over half way in its drive,
and Robersonville is just about 60
pei cent complete. Hear Grass is about
75 percent short of its goal.
They are the cold facts and figures,
and some of them won’t make the
best of reading for the approximate
ly 800 Martin County servicemen in
ill parts of the world who will scan
them just about Christmas time.
The bond chairmen are anxious to
complete the drive as soon as possi
ble, and knowing that every district
can successfully meet the challenge,
they are asking all the people to get
busy and handle the task to perfec
tion after the fashion employed by
Hassell and others.
A review of the “E" bond sales, by
districts, to date:
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Bear Grass
Williamston
Cross Roads
Robersonville
Poplar Point
Hamilton
Hassell
Goose Nest
Quota
i 7,300
4,700
12,250
8,500
103,000
7,300
73,000
4,850
9,800
5,000
7,300
Kales
13,125.00
2,493.75
14.306.25
2.062.50
29.196.25
8,381.25
43.237.50
750.00
2.587.50
18.862.50
225.00
$243,000 $135,706.25
Eye Clinic Held In
County Last Week
—*—
The Martin County Welfare De
partment, in cooperation with the
County Health Department, The
State Commission for the Blind and
the local Lion’s Club, held its annual
i ye clinic for indigent school children
last Wednesday in the Woman’s Club
building at Williamston. Dr. Mat
thew Broun, Ophthalmologist, from
Roanoke Rapids, was the examining
Twenty seven white children and
eighteen colored children attended
the clkiic. Of this number twenty
seven Were found to be in need oi
glasses, two needed glass eyes, and
sixteen were eliminated as not being
in need of medical attention or glass
„>*yhc next eye clinic for this county
’will be held during October or No
vember of 1946.