, . ? DO YOUR CHRISTMAS T U 17^ O^TtIHa IT |1 ^ Aflll*! QP ** s*?z\,? mo? 1 nG t1 armviiiG n*ii ici pi i&c ? 11 -= ...piiim IE PTTT mrm. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935 NUMBER THIBTT-TWO VOL. TWBNTY-FTVB ? 1 ? ? . ? ? ? r ? ? Join Junior Woman's Club Booster C The Junior Woman's Club Wants A Club House; The Enterprise Wants A Paid Up Sub scription List; You Want Your Home Paper; A Plan That Will Benefit Everybody The Junior Woman's Club's an nouncement of the launching and plans for the continuation of their CLUB HOUSE CAMPAIGN, are be ing made in this issue of THE EN TERPRISE, and though the cam paign has only been underway three days, an increasing interest is being manifested daily by the public, and a contagious enthusiasm is being ex perienced by the members, as they present their plan, which is being met with a ready response from al most every person contacted thus far, according to glowing reports coming into the office. The Junior Club has been called upon to lend its activities in practi cally every civic movement attempt ed here since its organization, and its members have rendered not only ready and valuable assistance but joyful service as well, winjiing a deep respect and a great loyalty from its hosts of friends. * -U Kf. A Junior club bouse wumu less prove to be a great convenience and pleasure to the community as well as the Juniors, for their record up to date has no vestige of selfish ness in it. In a very real sense the Juniors have infused new life into the community's social and civic cir cles, have inspired those, who would oe content with things as they are, to renewed activity in the field of of public endeavor, and have merited the appreciation, which a grateful community has now the opportunity to express in a very concrete way. The benefit plan is outlined in this issue 3S stated above?it is a fifty fifty proposition. The subscription price of "The Enterprise" is the same, $1.50 per year, one half of which will go to the Juniors, what ever amount is turned in. When they have secured a thousand subscriptions they expect to begin their club house, perhaps one room, to which they will build additions from year to year. The Juniors want a club house, The Enterprise wants a full and paid up list of subscribers, you want your Home Town paper?This is a plan that will benefit everybody! Will you endorse it? The growing list of Junior Wom an's Club Boosters will be printed in these columns each week, together with the member who has obtained the greatest number of subscriptions. OUTLINE OF SALETY | PROGRAM I L Distribution during December of 500,000 copies of "Guides to High way Safety" as the basis of instruc tion (1) to all officials and em ployees in city halls, county court houses, and state departments; (2) to members of citizens organizations, business houses, and automobile driv ers, (3) to 150,000 students and teachers in 8ol high schools, as the beginning of a state-wide program of accident prevention and motor vehicle law enforcement. II. Systematic discussion during the first week of January (1) by 150,000 students and teachers in 8ol high schools, (2) by all citizens or ganizations of men and women, (3) by members of all business organiza tions, (4) by city councils, county commissioners, and all groups of public officials and employees. III. Systematic Instruction in [ Schools of Law Enforcing Officers J to be conducted every month in every city and county of the state by Judges and Solicitors of the Supreme Courts, Recorders' Courts, Sheriffs and Chief of Police, analyzing acci dents of the previous month and mapping out programs of prevention for the next month. IV. Copies of "Guides to High way Safety" may be procured from City ffiBi, Local School Authorities, or the- institute of Government, at Chapel Hill, ? N. C. V. The monthly magazine, Popu lar Government, will furnish a clear-, ing house of information each month on s&BMt and highway accidents in North -Carolina and safety programs and campaigns as they develop througheUtthe State. Write to the I nsti tutr od ? Government, Chapel Hill, N. C. p ? OPERETTA THURSDAY, DEC. It The class of Miss Mary K. Jerome will give an operetta in Perkins Hall, Thursday evening, December 19, at 8 .-90 o'clock. The small admittance fee of 10c will he charged, the pro ceeds from the concert going towards the purchase of songvbooks for the school chfldmu V t - ? .. . . v :? 53 *r. - 9B5 Dr. Koch Reads Christmas Carol Large And Appreciative Audience Greets The Reader A large and appreciative audience listened spellbound to the reading of Dickens Christmas Carol by Dr. Frederick H. Koch, director of the Carolina Playmakers, here on Tues day night, in Perkins Hall, the event, designated as extraordinary, being sponsored by the local Daughters of the American Revolution, Major Ben jamin May chapter, of which Mrs. E. Bruce Beasley, of Fountain, is the regent Mayor John B. Lewis, a former University student, introduced the reader. Dr. Koch, who is widely known for his knowledge of histrionics, and his activities in developing dramatics at the University of North Carolina, and who has read the Carol to audi ences in various cities throughout the United States, was warmly re ceived here, and much praise and commendation were given his rendi tion of the immortal story. A quartet, composed of Mrs. M. V. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Holmes and Rev. L. R. Ennis, sang Christmas carols from a balcony of the audi torium, after the reading of each of the staves in the narration. FOUNTAIN NEWS (By MRS. M. D. YELVERTON) PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Russel Williams and son, Hugh, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. L Eagles, parents of Mrs. Wil liams. Miss Aileen Flanagan spent the week end with Miss Carol Yelverton. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Yelverton spent Sunday in Princeton with relatives. RECOVERING FROM OPERATION Little Miss Betsy Fountain is at home recovering nicely from a tonsil operation performed at Pitt Com munity Hospital in Greenville, Tues day. ENTERTAINS AT DINNER Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Eagles enter tained at a three course dinner or Tuesday evening in honor of Dr. Frederick Koch of Chapel Hill. Other guests were Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Beasley. BAPTIST STUDY COURSE Rev. Leslie Newman, pastor of the Bautist church is in Fountain thus week, teaching the book, "Baptists Working- Toward a World Program.'' HONOR ROLL 1st grade ? Marjorie Killebrew, Warren Peele, Clarance Bennet Tug well, Dauhne Yelverton. 2nd grade?Betsy White Fountain, John Bishop Gay, Pauline Pittman, Turaage Trevathan. 3rd grade?Edna Gray Edwards, A. C. Gay, Mary Parker, Audrey Spain, David Wooten. 4th grade?Jean Eagles. I 5th grade?Guy Eagles, Janie Hol land, Lillian Little, Elsie Nichols. 6th grade?Ruth Parker, Marjorie Smith. 7th grade?Mary Emma Jefferson, Louise Wooten, Carol Yelverton. 8th grade?Lina Mae Edwards, Mar gie Gardner, Dwight Johnson, Frank lin Lewis, Jean Merritt Owens, Luther Owens, Paul Parker. 9th grade?Helen Norman, Mary tarolyn Reddick, Nina Estelle Yel verton. 10th grade?Earline Bryant, Edgar Case, Helen Brown Jefferson. 11th grade?Frank Owens. HOGS ON STATE ROADS PROBLEM FOR PATROL Greenville, Dec. 11.?Lieut Lester Jones, head of the eastern division of the State highway patrol, today called attention to a large number of hogs running loose on the high ways and declared something, must be done to curb the practice. Lieutenant Jones said the high way patrol did not wish to prosecute any one for allowing their - hogs to get on the highways, but? added they damaged the roads as well as menaced drivers. He said that a number of instances of swine on the road Has been reported re cently and that unless something was done to keep them off," *some action would have to be taken. ; "They are a great menace ti drivers, especially at night," tlR pgtrol head said. Vli an automobile struck a big hog it Would probabTj f be turned over, cauttlg heavy .dam ages and possibly lcU of life." - WPA Will Spend Over $8,000,000 Total Allocations Com piled; Sewing Rooms Get Largest Single J Grant Raleigh, Dec. 12.?Projects involv ing a total amount of $6,476,028.58 in federal, local and State funds have been approved by the State Works Progress Administration, it was shown yesterday by the first com pilation of its sort made by the WPA. Of the total amount, $1,222,984.20 or 18.88 per cent has been allocated for sewing rooms. That is the largest amount alloted to any one type of project and the largest item for women's work. Other types of projects which will employ women include: clerical, recreation, nutrition, homemaking and nursing projects. Next to sewing rooms, road proj ects have received the largest single appropriation: $989,411.22 or 15.26 per cent of the total. Public build ing ranks third with $736,258.20 or 11.37 per cent of the total. Total amounts and percentages allocated to various types of proj ects are as follows: ~~ * ' ? "A Sewer projects, ?./u per ran, $628,022.03; Public building, 11.37 per cent, $736,258.20; Drainage, 6.08 per cent, $393,043.00; Water supply projects, 2.91 per cent, $188,166.87; Clerical projects, 1.27 per cent, $82,581.84; Comm. sanitation, 1.56 per cent, $100,802.00; Recreation and direction, 1.80 per cent, $116, 597.75; Athletic field imp. and constr., 5.55 per cent, $359,426.85; Beautification, 5.04 per cent, $326, 751.31. Nutrition, .57 per cent, $36,955.70; Packing commodities, .46 per cent, | $30,000.00; Home Making and Nurs ing, .30 per cent, $19,733.85; . Road projects, 15.28 per cent, $989,411.22; Street improvement, 8.43 per cent, $545,970.13; Sewing rooms, 18.88 per cent, $1,222,984.20; Oyster planting, 1.92 per cent, $123,992.00; Reo3. cont. of surveys, .93 per cent, $60, 449.00; Airports, 5.69 per cent, $368, 459.48; Miscellaneous, 2.26 per cent, $143,423.15. LOAD GUNS WITH SALT FOR HUNTERS OF HOLLY Edenton, Dec. 12.?It's rock salt and cussin' season in the swamp, country. Every year about this time the farmers of the Showan River and East Swamp lands gather about the stoves in neighborhood shopping centers and "by gad" about the way folks strip then- lands of holly and mistletoe for the Virginia and Northern trade. This year they decided to do something about it It's all more or less quiet, but Sheriff J. A. Bunch and County Farm Agent N. K. Rowell says sales of coarse salt suitable for shotgun loading are shy-rocketing. New Cotton Program To Be More Flexible The new 1936-39 cotton program, to be administered through cotton adjustment associations in each coun ty, will be more flexible than the old program, according to Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. The associations, composed of grow ers, will be in a position to adapt the the program to local conditions and the requirements of individual grow ers, he said. The associations will be organized in the next few weeks. All contract ing cotton growers will be eligible for membership. Under the new contracts, growers may adjust their 1936 crops by an amount equal to 30 to 45 per cent of their base acreage, and receive adjustment payments accordingly. The rate of the payments will be 5 cents a pound on the acreage pro duction of the land retired'from cot ton cultivation. The entire amount of the payment each year will be made at one time. Payments to landlords and tenants will be divided thus: 37Vi per cent to the person- furnishing the land, 1214 per cent to the person furnish ing workstock and equipment, and the remaining 50 per cent distribut ed in the same proportion that the cotton or its proceeds is divided. A grower may terminate his con tract at the end of any contract year i- during the 1986-39 period, i"* Landlords signing contracts will be I required to keep on their farms the i same number of tenants they had in i 1935, / I i Acreage withdrawn from cotton c cultivation- may be used for soil-im ; proveraent or erosion-preventing ! crops, pasture, fallow, forest trees, food and feed crops for home con > sumption, or any other purpose the i Secretary of Agriculture may pre s scribe. r The new four-year contracts will ? be offered the growers shortly, Dean Scaub said* - - : ? . V". : '? ?' ?' ? ? Tim Four Beasts Of Deaiet Seven To Be Discussed Sunday Night At New Tabernacle. ? y Fanners Credit Asse'n Te Meet In Greenville Jan. 11 All Members Requested To Be Present; Other Interested Farmers In vited; Officers To Be Elected An invitation Is extended to all farmers of this county to attend the annual meeting of the Greenville Production Credit Association at i Greenville on January 11th in the Court House, it is announced by J. < C. Galloway, secretary of the associa- 1 tion. i The Greenville association serves Pitt and Greene counties and this i year made loans to farmers in these j counties totaling $223,515.00. Every farmer who borrowed money through the association is a stockholder and is expected to attend this annual j meeting of stockholders which is held ] for the purpose of hearing a complete < report on the year's work of the or- j ganization, the election of officers i and the transaction of such other business as may come before the body, i "We will be delighted to have all < farmers who are not stockholders also j attend the meeting," Mr. Galloway ] said, "in order that they might learn i of the credit service which is offered 1 to the farmers of this section by the i association. By means of production | credit associations farmery have been ] able to reduce the cost* of making ] and collecting loans and by keeping i the system on a sound basis they can 1 obtain funds at costs as low as those < available to any other industry. ] "Interest on loans made by the as- ] sociation is payable when loans are due and the borrower pays 3 per cent ] interest only for the time he actually has the money. Each borrower is j required to take out Class B stock < in the association in an amount < equivalent to 5 per cent of the loan j when he gets his Initial loan and ' may obtain new loans without pur- s chasing additional stock. 1 "Thousands of farmers all over the i country are now stockholders in production credit associations and are thoroughly sold on the idea of i cooperative credit. We are anxious j that every farmer in this section i shall at least have the opportunity ] of knowing of the credit service that ( we offer and we cordially invite all to our annual meeting." 1 The officers of the Greenville as- ] sociation are: Dr. Paul Fitgerald, ] president; G. L. Mewborn, vice presi- 1 dent; and J. C. Galloway, secreatry- < treasurer. Directors are: Dr. Paul ] Fitzgerald, G. L. Mewborn, Jno, R, t Carrol, J. P. Davenport and N. F. | Palmer. Walter G, Sheppard is i Greene County representative, ?* ? r $3,000,000 Paid To N. C. Farmers J The Agricultural Adjustment Ad- * ministration poured almost $3,000,000 ] into the pockets of North Carolina farmers during the months of July, August and September Rental and benefit payments to farmers cooperating in the crop ad- j justment programs accounted for $2,578,086.79 of the total, said Dean ] I. O. Schaub, of State College. The largest sum went to tobacco growers, who received $1,443,792.83. ! Cotton growers got $997,218.76, corn hog producers $128,642.57, and wheat ' growers $8,432.63, In addition, option growers who ' placed surplus tax-exemption certifi^, cates in the national pool received $1,361.73 from the sale of these cer tificates to other growers. The $337,904.53 in administrative expenses went largely to pay com mitteemen, farmers who helped ad- 1 minister the programs locally, Dean Schaub pointed out The rental and benefit payments J are still flowing to the farmers, he added, but the amount for October '' and November have not been tabulat ed to date, Benefit payments on all crops in Pitt county for July, August and September were $153,019.99. ROBBER GETS FOOLED BY NEWSPAPER SAFE j Gets Nothing Bat Two Old Coins in Raid Upon Monroe Journal < Monroe, Dec. 12.?The Monroe Journal claims it has the best joke i of the year?someone broke Into the newspaper's safe, "The only money in the safe," said the editor, "were a 25-cent piece and a fancy half dollar, both kept as 1 curious. The intruder took both. "There never is any money in the Journal safe and the front windows are never locked. But if anybody else wants to try jimmying the safe, we want him to bring his own pinch bar, and not go monkeying with the editorial shears. He might break the points." - Want Scrap Act Pat Into Effect Pitt Farmers Call On Maxwell to Prosecute Violators of Tobacco Law Greenville, Dec. 11.?A resolution calling upon A. J. Maxwell, State Revenue Commissioner, to prose cute people known to have violated the 1935 scrap tobacco law was signed by more than 100 prominent Pitt County farmers in a meeting over which E. F. Arnold, county farm agent, presided here last night. The meeting was called for the purpose of discussing President Roosevelt's long-time farm pro gram. The farmers, however, de parted from the prime subject long enough to adopt the resolution call ing upon the Revenue Commissioner to enforce the scrap tobacco act The resolution follows: "The revenue act in connection with the sale of scrap tobacco pass ed by the last General Assembly is being openly and arrogantly vio lated. Your revenue agent, Mr. Her ring, in Greenville, has proof in his possession of this fact. There fore, we, the undersigned tobacco growers of Pitt County, do hereby petition you to Instruct Mr. Her ring to immediately prosecute each md every individual known to him to be violating this law, in behalf if the general welfare of the peo ple of Pitt County and Eastern North Carolina." This resolution was sent to Mr. Maxwell today. Other resolutions passed by the farmers included one thanking the ?ounty commissioners for providing juarters for the farm agent's of fices through the purchase of the rucker Building. The resolution isked that the entire first floor of :he building be turned over to AAA ivork in the county. Townships' Committee. A committee, one man from each ownship, was named to study the farming situation in the county and report back to a general meeting Friday night in the county agent's )ffice. The committee by townships fol ows: Ayden, F. M. Kilpatriek; Beaver Dam, Q. M. McLawhom; Belvoir, W. R, Tyson; Bethel, J. V. Taylor; Carolina, A. L. Woolard; Hhicord, R, L, Little Falkland, G. S. Pittman; Farmville, G. E. Treva ;han; Greenville, J. H. Blount; Pac ;olus; J. P. Davenport; Swift Creek, \lton Gordon; Winterville, R. L. Worthington, and Farmville, John T. Thome. In addition to the members by :ownshlps, Mr. Arnold, named the following to represent Pitt County is a whole; J. E. Winslow, W. H. ' Dail, Jr., Roy T. Cox, and John ?. Carroll. The Administration's farming pro gram was the subject of much favor-! ible discussion. In answer to a question placed before the farmers jy Dr. Mark T. Frizzelle as to what vould be the tobacco acreage in 1936 f no contracts existed, many leading farmers of the county replied, the acreage would go back to that of 1929, when there was no control, and ill expressed themselves as being strong in favor of the AAA pro gram, j EASON-MOORE Miss Nan Mae Moore became the jride of Mr. Cecil Lynn Eason, in a home ceremony, performed Saturday morning at nine o'clock. The vows were spoken before Rev. H. M. Wil son, pastor of the Presbyterian :hurch, and in the presence of mem bers of the immediate families and a few intimate friends* The bride wore a modish traveling costume of dark red wool crepe with black accessories. Mrs. Eason is the second daughter, talented and attractive, of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moore, and a descendant of prominent and pioneer families of the community. She completed the high school course here, later attend ing Meredith College, Raleigh, and a commercial school in that city. She is at present employed in the office of the Greenville Tobacco Co., Green ville. Mr. Eason, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Eason, is manager oT the parts division of the B. and W. Chevrolet Company here* Following the ceremopy the young couple left by motor for a tour of northern cities. > ? Up to the present time, cotton farmers of Hoke County have pur chased gin certificates amounting to 118,000 pounds from growers of Montgomery County. A ' ft 11*?;*,*' V ? *.?; rcjj? f V?.Hv V.> ' . ? Local Market Closes With New Record In Poundage Leaf Season Ends Here Today; Offerings Through Wednesday Total 28,323,616, Lbs., Bring Farmers $6,157, 757.55, Average $21.74 With nearly a million and a half pounds recorded as sold, over the figure estimated about mid-summer, the Farmville tobacco market will close the 1936 season today, Friday, with a total reaching near the 28 and a half million mark. Sales figures for the first three days of this week are 104,350 pounds, receipts $15,558.87, average $14.91, which brought the season's totals to 28,323,616 pounds, money paid to farmers $6,1-57,757.55, average $21.74. The poundage increase has been fifty per cent over last season. Of ferings for the past two or three weeks have been poor in quality and prices low, resulting in a daily tum ble in the season's average, the highest peak of the weekly figures being reached at the end of the 11th week, when 25,280,954 pounds were sold for an average of $22.10 per hnudredweight. The highest daily average was recorded on October 14, when 632,854 pounds brought an average of $28.72. Season's totals for the 1933 sea son were 22,587,047, receipts $8, 723,887, average $16.54, for 1934, poundage 19,029,480, receipts $5, 741,645.62, average $30.17. MRS. KATE HARRIS HEATH Mrs. Kate Harris Heath, 86, widow of James Heath, died at the home of her son, Blaney Heath, Tuesday morn ing, following a stroke suffered sev eral weeks before. Mrs. Heath had lived in Pitt county up until a few years ago, when she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Vandiford, in Greene coun ty Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C. B. Mashburn, pastor of the Christian church, at the home of Blaney Heath, at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon and interment was in For est Hill cemetery. Active pall bearers were her grand sons and floral bearers were grand daughters. Surviving are her children: Five daughters and three sons, as follows: Mrs. J. B. Vandiford, Greene county. Mrs. Charles McLawhorn, Aydan; Mrs. O. P. Pollard, Greenville; Mrs. Johnnie Wooten and Mrs, Ida May, Farmville; B. T. and Kinsey Heath, Farmville; Eddie Heath, Stantons burg; one sister, Mrs. Laura Jackson, Grifton; 44 grandchildren; 22..great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild. MAURY NEWS (By MISS MATTIE LEE SUGG) PERSONALS Miss Elizabeth Sugg spent the week end with friends in Roberson ville. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Moye and two daughters spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Moye in Williamston. Mrs. Herbert Sugg and daughters, Elva and Mattie Lee, were Goldsboro shoppers last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. M. H. Tucker and Mrs. Hardy Albritton and daughter, Esther Lou were in ^armville last Saturday aft ernoon. Misses Miriam Mullins, Adele Cobb, Rose Pipkin and Mrs. Pauline Hardy were Goldsboro shoppers on Saturday. Mrs. L. A Moye and daughter, Ruby Evans and Miss Hazel Ruth Turnage were shoppers in Kinuton, Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Pauline Hardy of Wilson spent the week end with several of the teachers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hardy. Misses Dixie Barrett, Florence Collier, Jewell Jackson and Miss Singletary werje shoppers in Rocky Mount last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Frizzelle and son, Brooks, and Misses Eloise Camp and Katie Lee Johnson were Kinston shoppers, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Albriton and daughter, Esther Lou, and Miss Mar tha Moaeley attended''the show in Kinston Sunday afternoon. Mrs. J. Paul Frizzelle, Mrs. George McGee of Snow Hill and Miss Mattie Lee Sugg spent last Friday in Green ville and Kinston. SERVICES SUNDAY AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. Jack R. Rountree will hold Morning Prayer services and preach | in the Episcopal church, Sunday 'morning, at 11:00 o'clock.