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NEARLY 4 000 COPIES OP THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 102 NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO. BOUNTY Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 25, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1899 Eighty-Seven Tires Released By Board Here Last Thursday —»—^ — Tires To Go Off Rationing List First Of January. OPA Announces Meeting in special session here last Thursday afternoon, the Martin County War Price and Ration Board tire panel issued certificates for the purchase of eighty-seven tires—86 for passenger cars and light pick-up trucks and one for a large truck. The lone truck tire went to Leslie W. Hardison. Passenger car tires were issued to the following: J. H. Edwards, E. D. Brown, C. G. Coltrain, Mayo Harrison, James Har rington, J. N. Hopkins, Leslie Lam bert, W. W. Taylor, Dr. R. G. Hicks, Hugh Roberson, J. C. Williams, Dr. J. E. Ward, Kenneth H. Roberson, Mamie E. Roberson, William Little, Perlie Hardison, J. T. Heath, D. A. Ausborn, Clyde Williams, Robert ^ Coltrain, J. D. Lilley, Jr., O. L. Whichard, Augustus Griffin, Will Parker, Randolph Goff, Cleophus Leathers, William Lawrence, J. T. Latham, Lewis Brown, Jimmie B. Bullock, Wiley Lyons, C. S. Grif fin, James Arthur Perkins, Hubert Vergil Lilley, Arthur Mac Woolard, Clarence Edmondson, Tom Sessoms, Charlie Lloyd, Harry Thomas Wig gins, W. G. Perry, Magellan Dug gins, Sam Stevenson, James Staton, Jesse Bell, Herbert E. Lee, Robert 4 E. Gainor, Will R. Little, King Hyman, James M. Bland, Nellie Moore, Manson Council, II. L. Hop kins, Sylvester McNeil, Slade, Rhodes Company and Coy Griffin. The board in this county has about caught up with the applications, it was learned. was learned, and while they did not know it, members of the Board’s tire panel were in their last schedul ed meeting. I The OPA has announced that tires will go off the ration list January 1, leaving nothing hut sugar to be rat ioned, and there is no immediate hope that the sweet stuff will be de clared in free trade any time soon. Tire stocks were frozen on De cember 8, 1941, and rationing began January 5, 1942. Under the program, 57,000,000 new passenger car tires—normally a 20 month replacement supply—kept al most 24,000,000 passenger cars roll ® ing for four war years. OPA said that holders of tire purchase certificates will have eleven days to turn in their certificates to dealers, enabling dealers to supply them before rationing ends. No additional certificates have been issued in this county since last Thursday and no more will be is sued except in emergency cases. OPA tire rationing panels are stand » ing by, however, until January 1 to handle emergency needs of appli cants who cannot wait until then for new tires. Tire production in the current quarter reached 11,000,000 passenger! tires. The Civilian Production Ad ministration and the OPA had agreed that rationing could be lifted when it reached that level. Several million tires will be need I ed for new automobiles during the coming year. Millions more must be available for replacements. CPA will continue to restrict spare tires for new cars, as well as white wall tires and tires for export, to as- j1 sure motorists the maximum num- 1 ber of replacements. The OPA will*continue to control 1 prices. 1 The production increase will make ■ it possible for most motorists to get tires-within a reasonable time, Price * Administrator Chester Bowles said. The end of rationing does nbt mean, 1 however, that there will be an ample ' supply. Bowles reauested continued 1 conservation measures. He asked the dealers to take care 1 of hardship cases and not to sell i <-o_mpiete sets of tires to .motorists who can get along with one or two , during the next few months. He said the decision to end ration- j f ing is in line with OPA’s general | policy to lift controls when the sup- ; ply is sufficient to overcome general j hardship. #-*- j Holiday Proposed For New Year’s Day j * A general holiday is being pro- 1 posed for local business on New ] Year’s day, but no official announce- j ment to that effect has been made. It is likely that in addition to Federal I and State offices, a few business j houses are planning to close. New Year’s Day has not been generally observed as a holiday here in past years. Record Real Estate Transfers -Reported in County This Year Real estale transfers c&isbUshed what is Loifev-sd an all-time record i'or number and value in Martin C( mt^ this year, according to a re view of tne deeds books in the office of the register of de'-ds this week. In addition to showing a record num ber of transfers, the records point to a boom in home construction in sev eral sections of the county, tor more than half of the deeds recorded were for building lots. No accurate record of the money involved in the transfers could be had i immediately, but according to the ac tual listings the properties carried a value of $1,336,000. It is conserva tively estimated that the actual money involved will approximate two million or more dollars. The ! largest single transfer involved | thousands of acres of swamp land in [Jamesville and Williams Townships. Foreman-Derrickson Company paid approximately $630,234 for the Sim mons-Grandy tract. One or two other transfers ran into half hun dr^^housand dollars, and one busi in'^Vul'amston was sold foi $20,000. By actual count there were 468 land and timber deeds written in the county from last January 1 up until Wednesday of this week. Aside from the big timberland deed, the following transfers, showing the numbers and listed considerations, appear in the county records, by townships: Jamesville, 35 and $31, 837.00; Williams, 9 and $13,015; Grif fins, 19 and $15,567; Bear Grass, 10 and $34,140; Williamston, 183 and $277,699; Cross Roads, 17 and $18,401; Robersonville, 124 and $159,462.50; Poplar Point, 3 and $8,975.00; Hamil ton, 26 and $65,785; Goose Nest, 42 and $81,434. The records show that 155 lots in Williamston and 118 lots in Rober sonville, Parmele and Gold Point changed ownership during the per iod. I TAX COLLECTIONS ' v__v More property owners are pay ing taxes faster in Martin Coun ty this year than in a long, long time, according to a report re leased by Tax Collector M. L. Peel. Cp until last Friday, $144,471 of the $188,479.88 levy had been collected, the collector explain ing that the payments along with discounts and relief orders had reduced the uncollected amount to $42,565.04. On the same date last year, $63,265.53 of the 1944 levy remained uncollected. Those persons owning no property and owing only poll tax are in the slow group when it comes to paying taxes, it was pointed out. Richard D. Hodges Funeral Thursday Richard Donald Hodges, 90, died last Wednesday morning at the home >f his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mamie Leg gett, RFD 3, Williamston, after three years of declining health. Mr. Hodges, a retired farmer, was the son of the late Lewis H. Hodges and wife of Beaufort County, and had made his home with Mrs. Leg gett for the past three years. He was a member of the church at Old Ford for many years. Funeral services were conducted from the Leggett home last Thurs day afternoon by Rev. Dennis War ren Davis, and interment was in the Hodges family cemetery. Surviving are one son, A. E. Hodges of RFD 1, Washington; three daughters, Mrs. R. H. Peel, RFD 1, Williamston, Mrs. J. Walter Bailey of Everetts, and Alice Hodges >f the home; one sister, Mrs. Sallie Hodges of Snow Hill; seven grand •hildren, three great-grandchildren, ind several nieces and nephews. few Martin County Farmers Killing And Packing Meat *—“— Hog killings in Martin County ire increasing in number these days, sut the main season for killing and jacking meat will hardly be reach id before next month. Conflicting reports have been heard is to how much met there is in the bounty for home consumption. It is :ertain that Martin farmers raised ibout the smallest number of hogs or the live markets this year than it any other time in recent years, j >ut it is believed that farmers gen ially are killing and packing more neat for home use this season than hey did a year ago. ; County Boy Injured When Car Turns Flip —«— Thurman Beach, Martin County young man, was injured, possibly seriously, and his brother, Curtis Beach, was painfully but not badly hurt in an automobile wreck near Conetoe last Thursday night. It was first thought that Thurman Beach had suffered a broken back, but a later report indicated that he was injured internally, and added that he had an car cut off. Few details of the accident could be had here immediately, but one report stated the car, driven by Cur tis Beach at the time, turned a flip, leaving nothing about the machine intact except the motor and two front tires. The more seriously injured of the two was removed to a Tarboro hos pital for treatment, and his brother, charged with drunken driving, was placed in the county jail hero late that night. The car, belonging to Jesse Beach, I was said to have been stolen from I in front of the theater in Roberson | vilhe while the owner was attending I the show Thursday night. Service Schedule In Church Of Advent Christmas Evo, December 24th— 11:30 p. m., Holy Communion. Spe cial Christmas music will be ren dered at this service. The people in the community are cordially invited to be with us in this service. Christmas Day, December 25—8:00 a. m., Holy Communion. 11:00 a. m., Holy Communion and sermon. Wednesday, December 26—Feast of St. Stephen. 7:30, Holy Commun ion; 9:30, Holy Communion. Thursday, December 27—Feast of St. John, the Evangelist. 7:30, Holy Communion; 9:30, Holy Communion. Friday, December 28—Feast of the Holy Innocents. 7:30, Holy Com munion; 9:30, Holy Communion. -« l\o Edition of Enterprise To Be Issued December 28 -®> The Enterprise is closing the year 1945 with this issue. It has been a most hectic year in the life of the I paper, but there is some measure of relief in knowing that its shortcom ings and errors were accepted in good spirits by its patrons. After enjoying a few days' holiday, the force will return to work on Mon day, December 31. There’ll be no edi tion on Friday, December 28. Results of Recent Hybrid Corn Tests Reviewed by Agent Approximately 1,000 Acres Are Planted In County Last Season Using hybrid seed, quite a few Martin County farmers materially increased their corn yields last seas on, the farm agent stating that in one case where an exacting test was made the yield was almost doubled. It is conservatively estimated that Martin County farmers planted 1,000 acres to hybrid corn during the 1945 seas on, but accurate and complete records were kept in only a few instances. A general comparison was possibly made in every case, but only Marvin Jones of Jamesville, Minton Beach of Oak City, and Hackney High also of Oak City, completed recognized tests, it was reported by Assistant Agent C. J. Goodman recently. Testing two varieties of the hybrid seed, the T-23 and T-15, Farmer Jones produced 75 bushels per arre with the T-23 type and 60.5 bushels per acre with the T-15. Those yields compared with 60 bushels produced per acre with local or the regular type of seed. Mr. Jones planted the hybrid seed in rows 3.5 feet wide while the local type of seed were planted in 4-foot rows. He used 350 pounds of 5-7-5 fertilizer for each type and top dressed each plot with 300 pounds of nitrate of soda. There were four cultivations and the farm er devoted 18 hours to each test. Horse or tractor hours totaled fifteen making a total man and horse cost of $17. Tlie first type of h; brid corn • as valued at 95.25 comnared with $76.85 for the T-15 and $76.20 for the local or home type. Using Variety T-23 and a local type of seed, Farmer Beach used 450 I pounds of 4-12-4 fertilizer for each plot and 500 pounds of nitrate of soda for the hybrid variety and 300 pounds of soda for the home type. Cultiva tion methods and costs were similar to those made by the Jamesville far mer, but Mr. Beach produced 96 bushels with the hybrid seed and only 50 bushels with the home grown seed. The hybrid corn was valued at $121.92 and the home va riety was worth $63.50. Farmer High used 400 pounds of 4-12-4, 300 pounds of 4-8-8 fertilizer and 400 pounds of nitrate of soda to produce 71.6 bushels of T-23 hybrid corn. He used 400 pounds of a 4-12-4 fertilizer and 300 pounds of soda to produce 48 bushels of the home va riety. Three other tests were started in the county but could not be complet ed. Farmer C. Abram Roberson found it necessary to plow up his hy brid corn when the plot was raided by cut worms. Farmer Melvin Har rell of Oak City did not get a stand, and Farmer Bill Holliday of James ville had to abandon his test when he was called into the armed forces. It is predicted that the hybrid corn acreage will be further increased in (Continued on page six) NEARLY ALL GONE | Between 85 and 90 percent of the peanut crop In this county has been harvested and market ed, according to reliable esti mates offered by peanut men last week-end. Delayed by un favorable weather conditions, a few farmers resumed their har vest work the latter part of last week, and it is now possible for them to complete the work shortly, weather conditions re maining favorable. A larger percentage of the crop still Is in the fields in ad joining counties, it was learned. Reviews Work Contracts For Prisoners Of War In County During in? past twelve months, German prisoners of war worked 78,418 man hours and harvest’d 97, 860 stacks of peanuts on farms in this county, according to information gained from the office of the farm agent a few days ago. From the first of last December until the first of this month, prison ers of war were available for farm work during a total of 191 days. No prisoners were available in the months of April and May for farm work, but they were shifted from industry to the farms in October and November when they put in 7,721 man days harvesting peanuts main ly The 614 farmers using prisoner of war labor paid the government $22, 987.09 for general farm work and $11,743 20 for the use of the prisoners in stacking the 97,860 stacks of pea nuts. In other words, prisoner of war laboi, including that used iv. stacking peanuts, cost the farmers uf this county a total of $34,730.29 dur ing the past twelve months. In ad dition to the peanut harvest, the pris oners of war worked 78,418 man hours handling general farm work. According to the report, 315 farm ers used the prisoners to harvest peanuts, 83 list'd them to harvest corn, ten used them to cut tobacco wood and four used them to prepare tobacco beds. Twenty-one farmers cleared new land with the prisoners, and ditching was done for 24 farm ers. Twenty-four used the prisoners to harvest hay, 27 to shrub and 13 to harvest sweet potatoes. During the tobacco harvest, 83 farmers used the Germans to prime tobacco. No report on the industrial labor contracts was available, but they will run well into the hundreds of thous ands of dollars, it is estimated. Striking Christmas Scene at POW Camp -a*—. - One of tho most striking Christ mas scenes ever designed in this im mediate section was prepared by German prisoners of war at the local POW camp this week at the sugges tion of Captain Vincent Veehar and under the direction of Sgt. Kaufman. Depicting the visit of the Wise Men to Christ’s birthplace in a Bethlehem inn stable, the scene was artistically executed in minute de tail and brings to attention the work of able artists among the prisoner of war personnel. The lighting is also very effective, and the scene is receiving wide ac claim from many travelers, in I eluding local people and tourists from distant states. It is indeed apparent that the ar tists and others who constructed the scene had a marked interest in the project. Very few out-door decorations are evident locally this year, but the holiday spirit is well advanced in home and office interiors, including an attractively arranged tree in the offices of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company on Smith wick Street. County Having Few Holiday Marriages —*— With the war over and many boys returning from the services, the Martin County marriage license bu reau anticipated a marked increase in business during the pre-holiday season. A report from the bureau last Friday afternoon stated that ac tivities there were hardly of normal size, that only four license had been issued during the previous seven days, and all of those went to white couples, as follows: John Earl Roberson, of Roberson ville, and Mary Lucille Shaw, of Williamston; Carl W. Copeland, of Robersonville, and Marguerite Lil ley, of RED 1, Williamston; James Leighton Croom and Joyce Hope Matthews, both of Robersonville; and Gordon Purvis, of RFD I, Bethel, and Edith Moore House, of Rober sonville. - Successful Sale of Seal Bangles Reported Locally Handling the sale of Christmas Seal bangles on the local streets last Thursday, Girl Scouts were very successful. Approximately $50 worth were sold, it was reported. The sales boost the total to over $1,000 for the seal fund in the county. GREETINGS v_ Appreciative of the patronage and friendship they have enjoy ed during 1945, eounty mer chants and other business oper ators are extending cordial greetings to the people of this section through the little mcs sages appearing elsewhere in this edition. Without these greetings, the Christmas season even with the return of peace, would some how or other appear a bit emp ty. Read the little messages *and know that the local merchants and other business men are in terested in your welfare and hope for you a joyous season i this Christmas time. Comparatively Few Are Cashing Bonds According to reliable reports com paratively few owners in this coun ty are cashing in their war bonds. An increase in the number sur rendering their bonds was expected during the holiday period, but the increase has been negligible, it was learned. Most of those cashing in their bonds bought them under the pay roll deduction plan, and quite a few servicemen are calling for the cash. Some rather serious charges have been heard against bond purehas ing, but they have been quite limit ed in number. “As long as we buy bonds, the more the government will spend,” one potential customer charged in offering an excuse not to buy. Another man, apparently wnr lied because his son was drafted, not only decided not to buy more bonds, but cashed in those he had. But it is already fairly evident in some cases that it is advisable to hold on to every bond possible and be pre pared for any emergency. Tourists iioing South lu Evpr-lurrrnsiuf( 1\uni hors -9 Where there was only a trickle during the war years, southbound automobile traffic is now increasing fairly rapidly. According to unof ficial estimates, more than 150 north ern tourists are passing through here daily, possibly to escape the frigid weather up North or to spend the holidays with relatives farther! wuth. Strange as it mav seem, quite a few ! tourists, including those in house | trailers, are returning north, re ports stating that Florida is so badly crowded that there isn’t even room ! ,o squat there. k arcs arcs arcs arcs arcs arcs arcs a <£ ristmas means more than mailing presents and opening packages. Today, as never before in ail history, it mean.' giving something of ourselves to others. For that is the spirit of the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate. This year more families in Martin County have given the supreme gift—the offering of sons for their country. Stars on more than half hundred service flags in our county have turned to gold, each beckotoing us to pick up the torch and hold it high that noble ideals and the good things in life may live on and on. Each week for nearly four years, The Enterprise recorded the noble and un selfish deeds of those who served, fought and died that we may be free to enjoy Christmas seasons down through the years. The families of these heroes know the true meaning of Christmas. \ For they, also, have given a Son. j Many of us eannot match such records of high sacrifice, lint wc { can make (food will and kindness, charity and understanding not ] empty words hut heart-warming realities in our dealings willi { others. We can help the hoys returning to this community from .j the war huild a brave new future. We can cheer the lonely homes j of servicemen still far away. We can work fervently to maintain \ peace on earth, and speed justice and common brotherhood for 5 all men in all nations throughout the earth. j j In thus giving of ourselves we will all be far richer. And we will j add inner meaning and strength to the age-old hut ever-new greet- j ing which The Enterprise and every member of its force extend to \ you and yours a— j |Jas. S. Whitehurst j "Reviews RecordtTf ! Carrier Shangri-La £ —- " - Marlin County Young Man W a« On Famous Ship Dur i ing Pacific Campaign -« (In the previous installment, Sea t man Jas. Whitehurst, Martin Coun t ty boy, reviewed the early days of > the carrier, "USS Shangri-La”.—ed.) Outward Itouiul to Pearl Harbor 5 This trip had added interest over , the shakedown, for in addition to . the ship’s company and the air i group there were special passengers ! aboard, including several prominent > figures in the theatrical world and I publishing profession who were ob serving standard warship procedure ■ in order to acquire atmosphere for I possible dramatic productions and editorial analyses of life aboard an aircraft carrier. As we sailed into the Caribbean and on twoard the Panama Canal, | the old familiar routine was carried > out. more or less as a continuation of the shake-down routine.»A11 flight operations, drills and exercises were aimed at one goal. . .to acquire per fection of skill and hardening of en durance for the task that lay ahead. We climaxed this training as we neared the approaches of the Pana ma Canal by staging a mock assault against zone installations.. .an at tack that was so successful that only one group of eleven dive bombers was intercepted by Army aircraft protecting the area. Then we turned <mir thoughts and interest toward squeezing through the canal. That was an eight-hour job that day as we inched through the locks. At times il seemed as if there just wouldn't be enough room, hut the tugging locomotives and the skill of experienced pilots nursed us through without a mishap other than scraping olT a little paint in a few spots. All this time, the prime question that continually was running thru our minds was. . .after Panama, where? San Diego seemed the logical place for jumping olT into the for ward area. Yet, what of Hunter’s Point? For days there had been talk of further yard availability on the West Coast for installation of ad ditional 40-mm. quads. Foreboding truths, distorted and exaggerated by scuttlebutt, had been reaching us about the battle in the Pacific and the now suicide weapon the Japanese had been using. Undoubtedly, in view of damage sustained by active units in the combat zone, the Shan gri La must he urgently needed for replacement. . guns or no guns. A brief dispatch squelched the shipboard prophets who had held out for Hunter’s Point. Instead of re ceiving West Coast yard availability we proceeded to San Diego for a short period of rigid military inspec tion and additional battle problems until shortly after noon on February 8, when we pointed out bow west ward toward Pearl Harbor, carrying a surplus load of planes and pas sengers as replacements for the for jward area. Before we had left the San Diego area, however, we had witnessed one ■ <>f the most tragic accidents that had 'occurred to our group to date. On our shakedown and during subse quent operations we had suffered several operational accidents in which five pilots or aircrewmen had lost their lives, but in most cases the men had been rescued. But on Feb ruary 3, as our air group launched an attack against San Clemente Is land, one SB2C dive bomber without flaps att( mpted a landing. Failing to engage tlie anesling gear cables, the plane crashed headlong into the bar rins The forceful impact nosed the big plane over in a burst of flame, ripped off its tail assembly and left the seriously injured pilot, Ensign Glen Even, pinned in the cockpit. Fire parlies made short work of the flame . but it was a slow and pain ful job to cut the pilot free. The radio gunner, Frank Hiker, ARM2C, had been (lung to the- deck several feet ahead of the wreckage and (Continued on page six) Holiday Parties Are Enjoyed by Children There has been much evidence of the holiday spirit in shopping tours and in other places, but it was the little children who brought out the real meaning of Christmas at their j little parties at school and in the various churches, the Jaycees push ing the season’s joy to a new high point last Friday evening when I they had as their guests a large number of underpriveleged children at a party in the Woman’s Club. •t i»<» a •»i>ii w;\i
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