NEARLY *,000 COPIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
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Williamstoiif Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 4, 1946
ESTABLISHED 1899
Justice Has Busy j
Period Fiiilcrtrnfg
Christmas Holiday!
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"Fifteen lire Hanfflefl I
By J«stiee J. L. H&mell
In Recent Days
Justice John L. Hassell had a busy
period in his court following the
Christmas holiday. He handled fif
teen cases in a few days, two of them
involving parties charged with big
amy. One of the defendants was
married by the Justice of the Peace
just before Christmas and a few days
later Mr. Hassell issued a warrant
against the husband charging him
with bigamy. Most of those carried
before the trial justice were charg
ed with being drunk and down.
Charged with breaking and enter
ing and the larceny of pants and a
shirt from Luther Perkins near Wil
liamston, Ben Nichols was bound
over to the higher courts under a
$200 bond.
Eli Howard, drunk and down, was
fined $1.50 and taxed with $8.50
costs.
Charged with drunkenness, Chas.
Bullock was fined $250 and taxed
with $7.50 costs.
Drunk and down. William Hog
gard was required to pay $8.50 costs.
Henry Little, charged with big
amy, was bound over to the su
perior court under bond in the sum
of $500. Little is reported to have
married a second time in 1942 with
out getting a divorce from his first
wife.
Thurman and Curtis Beach were
placed under $300 bonds in the case
charging them with the larceny of
an automobile.
Charged with an affray, Joe Leg
gett, of RFD. Williamston, and Dew
ey Whitehurst were each required
to pay $6.50 costs.
Henry Wynne, charged with big
amy, was bound over to the higher
courts under bond in the sum of
$500. The defendant married the
first time several years ago, and on
December 22 was married to Annie
Brown. His first wife, not yet di
vorced, swore out the warrant.
Chas. Thomas, William and Fred
Cowen, Ray Phelps and David Cas
telloe, charged with being drunk
and disorderly, were each fined $5
and taxed with $8.50 costs.
R. L. Mobley, drunk and down,
was required to pay $8.50 costs.
Charged with disorderly conduct,
William Baker was sentenced to the
roads for thirty days, the court sus
pending the sentence upon the pay
ment of $9.50 costs.
Dennis Roberson, drunk and down,
was fined $2.50 and taxed with $8.50
costs.
Luther Respass was sentenced to
the roads for thirty days for being
drunk and down. The sentence was
suspended upon the payment of costs
in the sum of $9.50.
Navan Hawkins, charged with an
assault with a deadly weapon, was
bound over to the county court un
der $100 bond.
Solomon and Collissie Lynch,
charged with assaults with deadly
weapons, were required to post $25
cash bonds, for their appearance in
the county court next Monday.
Church Union Will
Meet In the County
The Albemarle Christian Mission- !
ary Union will convene in the Rober
sonville Christian Church tomorrow
morning, January 5, at 10:30. A
very strong program has been ar
ranged with the theme: “Love the
Brotherhood.” Churches from Beau
fort, Chowan, Currituck, Martin,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyr
rell and Washington Counties are ex
pected to have members present for
the day. Special music will be furn
ished by the local church. Dinner
will be served by the host church.
AH disciples are extended a most
"cordial invitation.
Speakers listed on the program in
clude, Rev. John Goff of Williams
ton, Rev. Elmore Turner of Washing
ton. Rev. G. H Haney of Greenville,
Rev. J. W. Lollis, Pantego, Rev. C. C.
Ware o.f Wilson, Mrs. H. H. Settle
of Greenville. Atlantic Christian
College will be represented bv Dr.
H. S. Hilley, president of the Wilson
institution.
Jaycees Met Here
Tuesday Evening
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Meeting in the Lotus Club last
Tuesday evening, members of the
local Junior Chamber of Commerce
were advised that the Prisoner of
War Camp had contributed the
Christmas scene viewed by thous
ands during the holiday season near
the river here to the organization for
use in the future. Regarded as one
of the most exacting pieces of art
ever seen in this section, the set will
be used with slight alterations and
additions under the direction of the
Jaycee" in cooperation with the Wo
mans 'Club, ii was learned. The
presentation was made by Captain
Vincent Veehar, officer in charge.
The meeting, presided over by
President Clarence Griffin, received
two members.
Following the business session, the
Jaycees enjoyed on oyster roast.
Biff DavJuJBLfiforder s
Court Here This Week
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y.
Their attendance figures im
proved following a siege of in
fluenza, some Martin County
schools are now besieged by
mumns. And while jaws are
swelling, attendance figures are
shrinking, especially in the
schools at Bear Grass and Ev
eretts. Mumps are also gaining
a hold in the colored school here,
it was learned yesterday.
Several of the schools are re
porting quite a marked shift In
population, and it is now predict
ed that moving will go forward
on an unprecedented scale be
tween now and early Fabruary.
Some families are returning from
war industry centers, and more
tenants are looking for better
landlords and more landlords are
looking for better tenants than
in any other year in years.
Number of Marriage
Licenses In County
Gradually Increases
Twenty-One More Wedding*
In The ('onntv Last Year
Than There Were In ’44
His equilibrium slightly disturbed
during the main war years, Cupid
gradually started gaining his compos
ure in 1945, a review of the marriage
register in the office of the register
of deeds for this county showing that
there were twenty-one more wed
dings in 1945 than there were the
year before. However. Cunid is lag
ging badly in his work if the com
parison is carried back to 1937 when
there were 293 weddings in the coun
ty or to -938 when there were 284
county register of deeds.
The number of licenses issued to
colored couples last year again ex
ceeded the number issued to white
couples, the count being 115 to color
ed and 96 to white couples, a total of
211 for the period. There were only
190 marriage licenses issued in this
county in 1944. 72 to white and 118
to colored couples.
Last month, twenty-two licenses
were issued, 13 to white and nine to
colored couples, as follows:
White
William H. Brown, Omaha, 111., and
U. S. A., Williamston, and Myrtle
Elizabeth Jones, Williamston.
Joe Henry Lawrence and Nancy
Verner Lilley, both of RFD 1, Wil
liamston.
Rex M. Foster, Jr., of Norfolk,
and Maude G. Taylor, of Williams
ton.
John Earl Roberson, of Roberson
ville, and Mary Lucille Shaw, of
Williamston.
Carl W. Copeland, of Roberson
ville, and Marguerite Lilley, of Wil
liamston.
James Leighton Croom and Joyce
Hope Matthews, both of Roberson
ville.
Gordon Purvis, of RFD 1, Bethel,
and Edith Moore House, of Roberson
iville.
Dr. John T. Llewellyn and Marion
Eloise Pender, both of Williamston.
Henry Wvnne and Annie Brown,
both of Oak City.
Clyde Tilmon Modlin, of James
ville, and Peggy Dare Stinnette, of
Williamston.
Waverly B. Livesay, of Dendron,
Va., and Mrs. Ruth P. Everett, of Rob
ersonville.
Henry Fagan Mizelle, of RFD 2,
Williamston, and Minnie R Griffin,
! of RFD 2 Williamston.
Jesse W. Curtis and Mary Lee
Jo.hrtop both of Robersonville.
Colored
Alonzo Langlev and Marie Little,
both of RFD, Robersonville.
James Harr ison Ghee and Virginia
Lee Moore, both of Jamesville.
C. S. Thompson, of Oak City, and
Perciolla Purvis, of Williamston.
Vance Andrews and Dora Bellamy,
both of Robersonville.
Vance Council, of RFD 1, Bethel,
and Elsie Taylor, of Oak City.
Bud Sporter Modica and Annie
Slade, both of Robersonville.
Lewis Edward Land and Mary
Florence Burns, both of Roberson
ville.
Samuel Forrest, of Robersonville,
and Martha Jane Powell, of Oak
City.
Roman Locke and Alberts Close,
both of Oak City.
The first license of the New Year
was issued to Mr. Jas. D. Bowen and
Mrs. Carrie Peaks, of Williamston.
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Firemen Receive First Call
Of !\eu' Year Cast Wednesday
Local volunteer firemen received
their first call of the New Year last
Wednesday morning at 9.55 o’clock
when fire .slight l.y ,damaged the home
■ of Annie Hardison, colored, on
i Branch Railroad Street back of the
municipa' water p’ant.
’ Starting from a defective flue, the
1 fire burned a small place in the wall
and smoked one room. Many of the
; household goods were moved out by
neighbors.
To
$655.00 Collected In
Year’s Last Session
Twenty-Five Cases Are Called
By Judge J. C. Smith In
Three Hours
Winding up another calendar year,
the Martin County Recorder’s Court
had a big day last Monday when
Judge J. C. Smith imposed fines
amounting to $655 and meted out sev
eral road sentences. With Attorney
Paul D. Roberson prosecuting the
docket, Judge Smith called twenty
five cases, continued a few, and ad
journed the tribunal within three
hours. A fairly large crowd was
present for the proceedings.
Thomas Purvis, charged with non
support. had his case continued un
der prayer for judgment until the
first Monday in September upon the
payment of $10 a month for the sup
port of his child, Shirley Temple
Purvis.
Guilty of an assault with a deadly
weapon, Joe Hardison was fined $25
and the court costs.
Charged with indecent exposure,
William Midyett was sentenced to
jail for a day and fined $20 and tax
ed with the cost.
The case charging Jodie Peaks with
issuing a worthless check was nol
prossed.
Pleading not guilty, L. D. Mizelle
was adjudged guilty in the case:
charging him with non-support. He
was sentenced to the roads for twelve
months, the court suspending all but
the first five days of the term for
eighteen months upon the payment
of a $25 fine and costs. He was di
rected to pay immediately $50 for the
support of his wife and children and
$15 a month in the future. The de
fendant is to have no intoxicating li
quors in his possession for six
months. i
The case charging Theodore Staton
and Will Jordan with being drunk
and disorderly was nol prossed.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with an assault with a dead
ly weapon and drunken driving,
Leslie Simpson was sentenced to the
roads for nine months. The sentence
was suspended and the defendant
ordered placed on probation for
eighteen months. He was fined $75
and taxed with the cost and his li
cense was revoked for one year. He
is to have no intoxicating liquor in
his possession or be intoxicated in a
pubic place during the period of sus
pension.
Geo. C. Craddock, charged with
drunken driving, pleaded guilty and
was fined $100, taxed with the cost
and had his operator’s license revok
ed for one year.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with drunken driving, Cur
tis Beach was fined $50, taxed with
the cost and had his license revoked
for a year. Facing a similar charge,
his brother, Thurman Beach, also
pleaded guilty and he was fined $50,
taxed with the cost and had his li
cense to operate a motor vehicle re
voked for a year. The cases were un
usual in that both defendants were
charged with driving the same car
while they were intoxicated. The
two are charged with the larceny of
Jesse Beach’s car, nad the case will
be heard in the superior court next
March.
Phillip E. Sullivan, pleading guilty
i of drunken driving, was fined $50,
taxed with the cost and had his li
cense revoked for a year.
Charged with speeding, James T.
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Mrs. Annie Sawyer
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Dies in Jamesville
Mrs. Annie M. Sawyer, native of
Washington County, died at the home
of a son in Jamesville last Friday
morning at 9:30 o’clock. She was 70
years old and had been in declining
health for about two years. Her con
dition had been serious for about
one week.
Mrs. Sawyer, widow of Frank
Sawyer of Plymouth and daughter
of the late Robert and Elizabeth
Barnes McNair of Edgecombe Coun
ty, is survived by three sons, Tom
Sawyer of Plymouth, A. E. Sawyer
of Jamesville with whom she was
making her home at the time of her
death, and Dennis R. Sawyer of Nor
folk; one daughter, Mrs. George T.
Watson of Norfolk, and a brother,
Robert McNair of New York City.
I Funeral services were held in the
Plymouth Christian Church, of
which she was a member, last Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev.
E. B Quick. Interment was in the
Saints Delight Cemetery.
President Appeals To People
In Radio Address %ast Night
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Addressing the nation last night,
President Truman appealed to the
people to prod Congress into action
in solving labor-management dis
putes, employment and housing and
'other national problems.
Chlorine Content In
Tobacco fertilizers
Discussed by Board
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Says Experiment Station R*.;le
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Cent Chlorine Content
The manufacture for sale in North
Carolina of fertilizers having more
than a three percent content of chlo
rine is being questioned by North
Carolina’s State Board of Agricul
ture. At a meeting held in Raleigh
this week, fertilizer manufacturers,
agronomists and farmers discussed
the problem.
A report on the meeting follows:
The conference was called by As
sistant Agriculture Commissioner D.
S. Coltrane to determine what action
the Board of Agriculture should
take in today's meeting regarding
35,000 tons of “Orange” and “Old
Glory” tobacco fertilizers manufac
tured by the Smith-Douglas Com
pany of Norfolk in alleged non-com
pliance with regulations.
Coltrane pointed out that the fer
tilizer contains 3.5 per cent chlorine,
thereby violating the Board of Agri
culture and N. C. Agricultural Ex
periment Station rule which permits
only three per cent chlorine as the
maximum.
In explaining his stand on the
matter, Coltrane said the Norfolk
concern manufactured this fertilizer
without consulting the State Depart
ment of Agriculture or the Experi
ment Station regarding the stand
ards on chlorine.
He declared further that the North
Carolina Tobacco Research Commit
tee had conducted experiments
which showed that while a small
quantity of chlorine was helpful, a
large amount proved injurious to to
bacco, reducing its burning qualities
and producing a heavy, thick, soggy'
leaf which did not lend itself to
proper curing.
Since 3.5 per cent chlorine in to
bacco fertilizer lowers the quality
of the leaf, correction of the 35,000
tons of fertilizer made by Smith
Douglas lies in the province of the
State Board of Agriculture, Coltrane
told the conference, and it was the
consensus of the group that this ac
tion should be followed.
Reading the State Fertilizer Law,
Ralph Douglas, vice president of the
company, quoted a clause which he
said permitted his firm to manu
facture and sell without hindrance
fertilizer having 3.5 per cent chlo
rine content.
Douglas questioned the authority
of the State Board of Agriculture
and the N. C. Agricultural Experi
ment Station to establish the in
gredients or the content of any in
gredient in any fertilizer sold in
North Carolina.
Dr. S. F. Thornton, agronomist
with the Royster Guano Company of
Norfolk, led the representatives of
the fretilizer industry in their dis
agreement with Douglas. He explain
ed that since the farmers are not
expected to know the chemical analy
sis of the fertilizers used by them, it
is up to the manufacturers to follow
the agronomists in supplying the
purchasers with the ingredients
found best for their particular uses.
“The agronomists are paid to pro
tect the farmers and in fairness to
everybody concerned we should com
ply with recommendations,” said
Dr. Thornton. He added that the use
of 3 5 per cent chlorine is “purely
an agronomic and legal problem, but
this disagreement with the authority
of the Board of Agriculture is a mat
ter of far-reaching implications."
He said that his company had al
ready manufactured 70 per cent of
its tobacco fertilizers, some of it
with three per cent chlorine, and
expressed the opinion that one firm
should not be permitted to go to 3.5
per cent while the others are being
held to agronomists’ standards.
Douglas, asserting that the 3.5 per
cent chlorine fertilizers were manu
JMircd in August and September,
declared that he did not learn of the
three per cent maximum until No
vember.
He promised the Agriculture De
partment that no additional quan
tities of this type of fertilizer would
be manufactured this season if his
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THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
While motorists on Martin
County highways were more con
siderate of human life in 1945
than they were in some other
years gone by, they pointed a
full-fledge attack against proper
ty and ran up one of the greatest
accident counts in history. Pos
sibly some of the accidents were
attributable to worn equipment
and war tension. There were
very few accidents during the
last two weeks of this year, but
in 1944 there was only one. So
far in the New Year no high
way-accidents have been report-'
ed:
Fifty-Second Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge
1945 2 0 0 $ 275
1944 100 00
Comparisons To Date
1945 87 47 6 17.475
1944 71 44 6 13,037
Hundred
Stills Are Wrecked
During Past Year
Illicit Operations Handled on
Smaller Scale Than In
Number of Years
Alcoholic beverage control board
enforcement officers last year held il
licit manufacturing operations and
the illicit liquor traffic to a low
minimum in this county, according
to the annual report just released by
ABC Officer J. H. Roebuck. There
were slight increases in some phases
of the illicit business, but opera
tions, as a whole, are believed to be
the smallest in many years. Activi
ties, with very, very few exceptions
were handled on a small scale and
operations were advanced after a
cheap fashion.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that
some dealers, finding the raw sup
ply so limited in this county, turned
to illicit manufacturers in other
counties, that possibly more was im
ported from those sources than was
manufactured at home.
Last year, the ABC officer and his
assistants poured out 11,425 gallons
of beer mash and 117 gallons of li
quor and wrecked 102 manufactur
ing plants. Materials used in manu
facturing were valued at $4,597.50,
the beer carrying a value of approxi
mately $3,427.50. No definite mar
ket price could be established for the
illicit liquor, but the amount taken
would have sold for around $i,200.
Some of the white lightning was re
ported to have been sold for as much
as $20 a gallon. Cramped so badly
in their efforts to get illicit liquor,
the bootleggers turned and made a
racket out of the ABC store pro
ducts, but quite a few of them were
called into a court convention and
the business involving legal brands
proved costly to them.
In 1944, the officers wrecked 99 il
licit distilleries, poured out 17,640
gallons of beer and 167 gallons of
liquor, carrying a value of approxi
mately $10,000.
Last year 71 persons were arrested
for alleged violations of the liquor
laws. Fifty-eight were convicted
and road sentences totaled 173
months and fines amounted to $1,
450.00. Thirty-eight alleged violat
ors were arrested in 1944. The num
ber of arrests was nearly doubled
last year when undercover agents,
cooperating with county enforce
ment officers, rounded up alleged
liquor law violators in all parts of
the county.
In addition to their troubles caus
ed by alert enforcement officers,
dealers in the illicit trade found it
next to impossible to get equipment
and materials. Gas and oil drums
were used for stills, the enforce
ment officer staling that only one or
two copper kettles were found dur
ing the year. Sugar beer was found
occasionally where the manufactur
ers formed connections with the
black market, but molasses and syrup
were the principal ingredients used
during the past year in carrying on
the business.
With no designated assistant, ABC
Officer J. II. Roebuck was aided
mainly by Jailer and Deputy Roy
Peel.
The officer traveled 14,451 miles
during the year in carrying on the
battle against the illicit liquor busi
ness.
When reviewed by months, the
illicit business dwindled consider
ably during the latter part of the
year. In December, only three stills
were found and only 450 gallons of
beer were poured out.
Former Williamston
| Man Visits Graves
Chaplain-Captain Z. T. Piephoff,
former local minister, has visited
most of the graves of young Martin
County men who made the supreme
sacrifices in World War II arid who
were buried on the Continent, ac
cording to a report he made to his
family during a trans-Atlantic tele
phone conversation Christmas day.
The minister did not reveal whose
graves he had visited, and he added
that he had not yet been to Italy
where several Martin County youths
lie at rest. He is asking for a leave
to go to Italy and he hopes to visit
the cemeteries there before he re
turns home.
Stationed at the present in Liege,
Belgium, the minister said he had
no idea when he would be able to
return home. His family, wife and
son, are making their home with
relatives in Greenwood, S. C., while
he is in foreign service.
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Draft Calls For January Are
About The Normal Sizt
Calls for young Martin County
men to report for pre-induction ex
aminations and final induction have
been received and are of about nor
mal size, it was learned. Several
colored men have been instructec
to report for final induction nex!
Tuesday.
) OLD CLOTHES
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Receiving an appeal from H.
J. Kaiser, national chairman,
the Lions Club here recently
agreed to sponsor the drive for
old clothes for the destitute mil
lions in foreign lands. Bob Tark
enton was named chairman and
he will be aided by a commit
tee and members of the club.
It is understood the club will
sponsor the drive throughout
the county with the exception of
Robersonville where Mr. M. M.
Everett will serve as chairman.
The drive gets under way on
January 9 and continues through
the 31. Our people are asked to
support the drive in the name of
suffering humanity. Collection
plans will be announced short
ly bv Chairman Tarkenton.
Clinics For Horses
And Mules Will Be
Held in the County
First of Examinations Slated
For January 8; Continue
Through February 20
Scheduled by the farm agent’s of
fice, a series of clinics for the exam
ination and treatment of horses and
mules will be held in the county by
Drs. Osteen and Hicks, beginning
next Tuesday, January 8. The
clinics, arranged as conveniently as
possible for every farmer in the
county, will continue through Feb
ruary 20, C, J. Goodman, assistant
county agent, announced this week.
It has been pointed out that many
work animals are in poor condition
because of improper feeding, worms
and other parasites, poor teeth, lack
of exercise and bad feet. To correct
as many defects as possible, the
clinics will offer free examination
by licensed veterinarians, treatment
for bots and roundworms, floating
teeth, advice on feeding and manage
ment, and blacksmith service where
possible. A nominal charge will be
made for special service, it was ex
plained.
Dates and places for the clinics fob
low:
January 8, Jordan’s store, Dardens,
10 a. m. to 12, noon; January 10,
Angetown store, 10 a. m. to 12, noon;
January 15, Clarence Wallace’s store
near Jamesville, 10 a. m. to 12, noon;
January 17, Manning and Gurkin's
Store, Farm Life, 10 a. m. to 12,
noon; January 19, No. 90 Service Sta
tion in Williams Township, 11 a. m.
to 1 p. m.; January 21, John A.
Griffin’s filling station, 10 a. m. to
1 p. m.; January 22, J. Paul Lilley’s
store on Washington highway, 10 a.
m. to 12, noon; January 24, Rogers'
store, IJear Grass, 10 a. m. to 12,
noon; January 25, Cross Roads filling
station, 10 a. m. to 12, noon; January
28, barn opposite Barnhill filling
station, Everetts, 10 a. m. to 12, noon;
January 29, A. E. (Buck) James’
farm on Robersonville-Sl.okes High
way, 10 a. m. to 12, noon; January
30, Dr. Hicks’ office in Robersonville,
10 a. m. to 12, nbon; January 31,
Parmele filling station on highway,
10 a. m. to 12, noon; Fabruary 4, Gold
Point, 10 a. m. to 12, noon; February
(i, Hassell, 10 a, m. to 12, noon; Feb
ruary 8, Oak City, back of drug
store, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.; February
11, Smith Brothers’ store, Hamilton
Palmyra Road, 10 a. m. to 12, noon;
February 1,3, Hamilton, Johnson’s
store, 10 a. m. to 12, noon; February
15, T. B. Slade farm, Pine Thicket,
10 a. m. to 12, noon; February 18,
Van G. Taylor’s farm, Williamston
Humilt&u Highway, 10 a. m. to 1 p.
m.; February 19, W. G. Peele Mary
Cherry farm, near Abbitt’s mill, 11
a. m. to 1 p m ; February 20, Dr.
Osteen's office, Williamston, 10 a
m. to 1 p. m.
More than five out of every six
head of farm workstock need some
form of treatment to put them in
condition to do the heavy work this
year, it has been pointed out. More
than 87 counties in this State are
planning clinics for this month and
I next to correct some of the refects
[and make ready for the spring plow
ing
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Lii/uor Salon About Normal
After Hationiufi In Lifted
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After setting an all-time high rec
lord here during the holiday season,
liquor sales in the local ABC store
are back to about normal, Manager
Garland Whitley said yesterday.
There was a fairly noticeable rush
Wednesday following New Year's
day holiday, but sales yesterday and
I early today were not very large even
! though the "wet goods” were re
moved from the ration list two dajgs
, pi c v iofSiy.
| A report from the Robersonville
store stated that by early afternoon
on Christmas eve, every bottle of
wine, rum, liquor and all the other
concoctions had been sold, that the
doors were closed when there was
nothing left on the shelves except a
small quantity of fly spray.
County Men Begin
Serving Sentences
In the State Prison
Martin ami Herman Man
ning Slated To Serve Two
Years in Operation Case
Herman Manning and Joe Martin,
Martin County men, entered State’s
Prison, Raleigh, Wednesday after
noon to start serving two-year sen
tences imposed upon them in SeDtem
j her, 1944, for a crime they alleged
ly committed in June, 1944.
Charged with aiding and abetting
| in an operation resulting in the death
of Beulah Brown, young white wo
man, the two men were brought into
court in June, 1944, and the case was
(continued until the following Sep
tember with the defendants under
j bond in the sum of $500 each.
At the September, 1944, term. Mar
gin entered a plea of guiltv, and
Martin was found guilty. Judge Leo
Carr sentenced the two men to the
roads for terms of two years. An
appeal was noted by each of the men
and the case went to the State Su
preme Court for review. No error
was found in the trial, but nothing
was heard from the high court until
last June. Judge Q. K. Nimocks,
presiding over that term of court,
sentenced the men to serve two years
in State's Prison, but ordered execu
tion of sentence delayed until the
first day of the following September.
No other official records are to be
found, but attorneys had the sen
tence delayed until the December
term to carry a plea for parole to
the governor's office.
The plea for parole was advanced
when the principal in the case, a
Goldsboro doctor, was found not guil
ty in the Wayne Superior Court. It
was reported at the time the doctor
was placed on trial that at least one
of the principal witnesses in the case
was not called. The parole plea was
frowned upon in Raleigh, and the de
fendants reported to the superior
court last December when Judge
John J. Burney allowed the defend
ants until the first of this month to
start serving their sentences after
they explained they wanted to finish
harvesting their peanut crops.
Reporting to the sheriff’s office
Tuesday, the men were advised that
it was too late to make the trip that
day, and they were instructed to be
ready to leave Wednesday morning
at 9 o'clock. Deputy J. H. Roebuck,
assigned the task of making the trip,
waited until almost 10 o’clock for
Mailing and finally started off with
out him. Manning came in a short
time later, and friend took him and
overlook the deputy in Roberson
villc.
Home Agents Report
For Duty in County
Entering upon their new duties us
| home agent and assistant home agent
in this county. Misses Elizabeth Park
er of Sunburv and Garnette Crocker
of Seaboard, tins week are being ac
quainted with Hie club schedules and
other work by Mrs. Margarcttc R.
Pearce, resigned.
Miss Parker, a graduate in home
economics, Elon College, is making
her home witli Mr. and Mrs. P. H.
Brown on Academy Street, and the
assistant agent, Miss Crocker, is at
home with Mi s. Nannie Saunders on
Church Street. .She is a recent grad
uate of East Carolina Teachers’ Col
lege, Greenville.
Mrs. Ppjrce, completing her work
as assistant agent, leaves tomorrow
for her new home in Raleigh.
Miss Parker is an honor graduate,
making “Who’s Who In American
Colleges and Universities." She
comes to this county highly recom
mended by Miss Ona Patterson of
Gates County and by Mrs. Eugenia
VanLandingham of Edgecombe. She
has hud practical experience in the
work at Suffolk and in the high
school ht-‘ge.
Miss Crocker did her practice
teaching in Greenville High School,
and was employed at the Ports
mouth Naval Base for some time.
She has been highly recommended
for her new work by E. L. Norton,
Northampton County farm agent,
and by Pauline Smith, district agent.
Commenting on Mrs. Pearce’s
resignation, Miss Smith said that
she had done a valuable work dur
ing her stay in the county. “She was
a hard worker and made many
friends,” Miss Smith added.
Returns To County
Jail For Thievery
i
...
Released from the county jail the
14th of last month under bond for
allegedly breaking into and stealing
clothes from the laundry here, Chas.
Fuller, young colored man, is back
in jail, his liberty hardly extending
through the holidays.
Arrested and jailed about three
months gao, Fuller was unable to
raise bond and his attorney was sick
when the case was cai'ed tn superior^,
court last month. Honct was arrang
ed a few days later, and on Monday
of this week he stole clothes, four
coats, from workmen in a local ga
rage. He was arrested and jailed by
local officers Tuesday, and there isn’t
much of a chance for him to arrange
bond, meaning he will likely remain
in jail until the March term of court.