THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE i -. » THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L1II—NUMBER 62 ESTABLISHED 1899 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 8, 1930 .County Schools Will Open September 5-6 All But Four Of Faculty Positions Have Been Filled Wliitr School* To Slart The New Term On Wednes day, September 6 In a short meeting held Mon day, the Martin County Board of Education fixed the dates for opening the schools and adopted ^ a holiday schedule for the entire term. All colored schools will open the new term on Tuesday, Sep tember 5, and all white schools will start the new session the fol lowing day, Wednesday, Septem ber 6, it was announced. Two days are on the Thanks giving holiday schedule. Christ mas holidays are to begin at noon on December 20, the schools to reopen on January 2. Easter Mon day is to be observed as a holi day. White teachers are to report to their respective schools on Monday, September 1. A county wide teachers’ meeting is on the calendar for Tuesday, September 5, the office of the county super intendent announced. 0 All faculty positions in the col ored schools were said to have been filled, one report explain ing that there were comparatively few changes in the teacher per sonnel. Only four positions were to be filled in the white schools as of last Saturday, the superinten dent’s office explaining that possi bly one or more of them had been g tilled since that time by the local committees. Last Saturday there was one opening to be filled in of four schools, Farm Life, Williamston, Robersonville and Oak City. Ten days ago there were two places va< ant in Williams ton's elementary faculty, leaving either a fourth or fifth grade position to be filled. Farm Life has an opening in its elementary 1 school. Robersonville was short a high school science teacher, and Oak City was looking for a high school English instructor. Unless good cause is shown, teachers now under contract with the school committees in this county cannot have their resig nations accepted. In several of the white schools there have been changes in the faculty personnel, but despite the numerous resignations officials have found it less difficult to find replacements and fill new posi tions for the coming term than ;it any time since before the war, it was learned. Breaks Into Gulf Service Station * — I 1,in wood (Dummy) Speight was ant'Sted by local officers early yesterday morning for al legedly breaking mto the Gulf Station on Washington ,Street Sunday night. Speight denies the charge, but damaging evidence is being collected in the cast, ac cording to one report. The robber forced his way iblough a broken window into the wash pit anti then prized ^ open a door to the sales room. Manager Opheus Price said that he missed several cartons of cig arettes. Reserve Sugar Cuba Purchased The Agriculture Department has announced that the United % States has arranged to bug Cu ll,i s rutile iescrve atuck of au gur, 600,000 short tons. This will give this country the largest •stock of sugar in its history by more than a naif million tons. The total available for consump tion in 1950 is 8,450,000 tons, as compared with the peak con sumption achieved last year of * 7,500,000 tons. ! ROUND-UP v Law violators had a big: week-end in these parts last week-end, the records show ing that sixteen of them were rounded up and temporarily detained in the county Jail. Apparently imbiding too free ly of the spirits, twelve of the sixteen were booked for pub lic drunkenness, and one each for issuing a bad check, care less and reckless driving, lar ceny and investigation. Two were white and the ages of the group ranged from 18 to 49 years. Entrenched Group Working Against Lobby Committee Investigutor Only Seeking Alt Answer To Simple Question Washington.—Get this straight because it is important: Congress man Frank Buchanan (Dcm„ Pa.), chairman of the House Lobby in vestigating committee, is trying to do just one simple job, and it is this: Find ways to make big lobbyists tell Congress and the American people where they get their money. In other words, reveal who pays for lobbying and the vast and vicious propaganda that goes with it. If Congress and the people know those facts, Buchanan be lieves, they can judge for them selves whether a lobbyist is a "wolf in sheep’s clothing.” A lob byist can't pose as a friend of the people if they know he is paid by their enemies. Is there anything wrong about that idea? Of course not. It's just common sense. But, because Bur chanan sticks to that idea, he is being crucified by false and vici ous propaganda from coast to coast. Several examples of this propa ganda came to light this week. One example was a big “ad” in the Wall Street Journal,” and per haps in other newspapers. The "ad” bears the name of the “National Economic Council,” rich and reactionary lobby-propagan da organization headed by Mcrvin K Hart. This "council1 kept the names of its financial supporters tsecret until they were disclosed by the Buchanan committee. The "ad" is "signed” by some of the rich men whose names were I disclosed. One is Lament du Pont, member of the fabulously wealthy "Chemical Trust” family. The others are mostly business men | whose names are less well known to the public—such as Thomas W Phillips, Jr., of the T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company, and Eugene L. Carey, Wall Street lawyer and director of the Butte Copper and Zinc Company. This "ad" charges the Buchan jan committee with "smearing” the supporters of Hart’s "council” anc other big lobby and piopagandc organizations, and with “hound (Continued on Page Seven) Minor Wrecks Ai Street Corner Two minor vehicle wrecks wert reported at the intersection ol Main and Haughton Streets dur ing the week-end. Bruce Whit field, local young man, sufferec a bad cut on one arm, but othei injuries were minor, according ti unofficial reports. No damage es timates could be had immediately A motorcycle, driven by Johr Hadley and with a sidecar ir which Whitfield was riding, anc a car driven by Mrs. Waltei Wynne crashed at the spotlign intersection late Saturday night Two cars, one driven by Misi | Frances Raynor and the other bj | Mrs. Garland Wynne, crashed a ! the intersection at 8:30 o'clock j Sunday night. Report Big Rush Is Now Underway For Canned Goods War In Korea Has Blu'oi Lit! Off Canned Fruit And Vegetable Prices -# San Francisco — War in Ko rea has blown the lid off canned fruit and vegetable prices. They’re advancing all along the line — from heavyweights like corn and peaches to the aristo crats of the pack like asparagus and fruit cocktail. And canners and distributors insist they see1 more boosts eoming. Chain store buyers and big dis tributors are buying up all the tinned goods they can find. Some of this year's packs — asparagus and apricots, for instance — arc already sold out. That’s quite a different story from the past two years when distributors have been buying hand-to-mouth and pack ers’ warehouses have been clog ged. “A few weeks ago we were begging for customers,” says one big packer here. Most canners, especially the larger ones, have already began allocating supplies to their reg ular distributors. “It's hysteria buying," com ments one canner. "Its like every thing else from soap to cigarettes. Everybody is getting all he can because he thinks he can’t get it later. Some of the distributors are afraid the Army will come along and take a big chunk of goods if they arc left in canners warehouses.” (In New York City a spokes man for one big grocery chain blames the canners themselves for some of the "hysteria." He says they've been confiding to | distributors and chain store buy ! ers that Government men have told them off the record Uncle Sam may take anywhere from twice as much to eight times as much of certain canned goods items as before.) Procurement agents for the armed forces won’t predict how deeply they’ll dip into canners’ stocks. But thus far in 1950 they’ve already asked West Coast packers to bid on almost as much tinned goods as they ordered during all 1949. In April, the Quartermaster Procurement Divi sion sought bids on some 915,000 I dozen cans of various fruits and vegetables. A few days ago it raised that total to about 2,000,000 dozen. (Continued on page eight) ->> i New Registration Is Not Necessary Contrary to previous special elections held here, no special registration will be required for the $200,000 water and sewer bond election scheduled here for Wednesday, September 20, ac cording to a ruling released this week. The provisions for the regis tration reads as follows: The Registrar will be furnished with the registration book used at the last regular election held in the Town of Williamston (be ing the regular municipal election held on April 11, 1949) and he will revise the registration book so that it will show an accurate list of the electors previously reg istered in the Town and still re siding therein, without requiring such electors to register anew. The registrar will keep the reg istration book open for the reg istration of new electors on each day (Sundays excepted) for the period beginning Friday, the 1 day of September, 1950, and end ing on Friday, the 8 day of Sep tember, 1950. The book will be kept open on each Saturday dur ing such period from 9 o’clock A. M. until 9 o’clock P. M., and on other days during such period from 9 oclock A. M. until 5 o'clock P. M --■ Lightning Firea Corn lim it In County Thursday Fire, started by lightning, des troyed the corn barn of Farmer Garland Tice in Griffins Town ship last Thursday afternoon. A smalt amount of feed was stored . in the barn along with a few po tatoes and other farm commodi ties. First Martin County Man Wounded In Korean Battle Cp], Bonnie E. Bland, Martin Count' young man, was wounded a short time ago in the Korean War, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Bland of Hassell, were advised by the War Department last Friday morning. It was the first casualty report to be receiv ed in this county since the Korean War broke out on June 24. The telegraphic message stated that the young man was slightly wounded but no date and few other details were revealed. His address will continue unchanged for the present, but it is possible that the victim was removed to a base hospital either on Okinawa or in Japan. Cpl. Bland enlisted in the arm i DELAYED v Work on the second story addition to the local high school is being delayed by shortages in various construc tion materials. The Hardison Construction Company, contractors, have placed tools and equipment on the lot and some of the lumber has been delivered, hut brick and cement are not yet available, it was explain ed. Father Oi County Nan Dies At 95 Alfred Glass, father of Mr Clyde Glass of Jamesvillc, died late last Wednesday evening in a Greensboro hospital where lie had been a patient for three weeks Mr. Glass was born in Ala mance County 95 years ago and located in Guilford County in 1901. He was a member of the Hickory Grove Methodist Church Funeral services were conduct ed Thursday in the Hanes Chapel and interment was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Greensboro. Surviving are five sons, M E Glass of Koute 1, Jamestown, with whom he made his home, Clyde Glass of Jamesville, Eu gene Glass of Farmington, N. H , Ross Glass of New Fields, N. H„ and Parker Glass, of A venal; two daughters, Mrs. George M. Hold en and Mrs. O. E. Hassell, both of Greensboro; one sister, Miss Nancy Glass of Greensboro; Hi grandchildren, and several great grandchildren Home After Three Years In Germany AItfr a long .stay in Germany Sgt. Jimmy Williams, accompani ed by his wife and child, is spend ing a 30-da.y furlough here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B Williams. They left one of then children with relatives in Vienna, Mrs. Williams’ home. The sergeant has two brothers in service in Germany now, Sgt Lyman (Boog) Williams, and Pfc Reginald (Tom) Williams. cd forces prior to the outbreak of World War II, and saw consid erable action in the European theater, part time as a paratroop er. Comparatively few members of the American armed forces had been killed during the early part of the war in Korea, but quite a few were wounded or reported missing, according to official in formation released by the War De pa rtment. According to latest official re ports, there have been 2,t>(>8 American casualties in the Ko rean war, including 1U8 killed. Other reports, coming from un official sources, say that 6t>0 have been killed, 2,975 wounded and 3,000 missing Nan Being Held In $2,500 Bond Walter Wilkins, charged with attempting to break into the 1) M Roberson home here on West Main Street the night of July 29. is being held in the county jail District Solicitor George Foun tain completed a preliminary in vestigation here last Thursday but his findings were not disclos ed. Unable to arrange bond, Wil kins is likely to face a burglarly charge when his case is called in the Martin County Superior Court on September It! Attorney Clarence W Griffin has been employed by the private prosecution and he assisted Solici tor Fountain in making the pre liminary investigation here last week. Flames Scattered By Water In Barn Over-heating, poor construc tion, falling leaves and possibly combustion have started fires m tobacco barns, but water almost started one in Farmer Archie Coltrain’s barn out. in Griffins last week-end. A big rain fell and the watet flowed into the barn, scattering oil and flames about the barn The farmer, battling the elements and a tough situation, found the trouble before the scattered flames fired the structure. He cut off supply and dipped oil and water out of the barn. ] RKACHKS SI‘(>1 Their schedule altered a few hours at the last minute, members of the local National (iuard unit left here last Sat urday afternoon for Camp Stewart, Georgia. Traveling by special bus, the group din ed at the "Switch” and con tinued to Itocky Mount where they hoarded a pullman for j the (Georgia camp. Indirect reports say they reached there all right. The guardsmen will he in camp about fifteen ! days. Record 'Tobacco Barn Fire Loss In County This Year Martin County tanners have re ported what is believed to be ; record tobacco barn fire loss thi. scason, and quite a few growers have not yet completed the har vest. Through last Saturday, fif teen barns had been destroyer by fire in this county us comparer, with about a dozen last season Among the late losses wen those1 reported by Mis. Mania Griffin on Thursday in Griffin; Township, Elwood Brown n Jamesville and C. I’. Culhpher or the Ballard farm in Populai Point, both last Saturday. A1 three of the burns were equippec with oil curers A sixteenth barn was burner Monday afternoon. It w'as locator near White’s filling station on tin Roebuck farm on Higvvay I2f 'and belonged to the V. G. Tayioi estate. Williamston’s fire depart ment was called and helped keef the fire from spreading to riearbj buildings. | No official .survey of the lo.s.se: has been made, but n was report | ed that about three-fourths of the | harps were insured, but that tiu insurance would lull fai slior : in offsetting the losses. It was re j ported that several of the des troyed barns were equipped will I a certain type of curer, but tin type was not disclosed Preliminary reports state tine eleven of the barns were equip ped with oil burners, and twi each with wood burning furnaeei and coal stokers. According to several farmers the fires in some of tin barn: started with apparently a gas de vcloped, causing an explosioi when high heat was being main tamed. It is estimated that most of thi barns carried a value of abou1 $1,000, including equipment, bu exclusive of the tobacco. As many as 000 sticks of tobacco were los in some of the barns. County Board In A Short Meeting Monday Morning < omplaiiitn Kerenc