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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN dOUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COI’NTY FA MU IKS TWII E EACH WEEK VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 52 Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, Juno 28, 1916 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge J. C. Smith Imposes Jail Term In Speeding Cases' I rihunul fi! Session Until Two O'clock Monday Afternoon — Judge J. Calvin Smith held the Martin County ftecorder’i Court in session until 2:00 o’clock last Munday afternoon to clear the docket which carried a few extra cases accumulated during the week the superior tribunal held forth. The proceedings this week were featured by jail sentences imposed in cases in which several defendants were charged with speeding. Twenty-six cases were handled before an unusually large audi ence. Fines amounting to $345 were collected and thirteen road and jail sentences were imposed, several of them calling for six hour delays in the hoosegow. Proceedings: The case charging L. H. Hamm with issuing worthless checks was nol pressed. In the case in which Martha Sheppard was charged with an as sault with a deadly weapon, the court finding that the prosecu tion was “malicious and frivol ous and not required in the pub lic interest,” taxed the prosecut ing witness, Patsy Taylor, * with the court costs. Wallace C. Moore pleaded guil ty of an assault with a deadly weapon and he was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The term was suspended upon the payment of a $40 fine and court costs. Charged with disorderly con duct, Walter “Little Bud” Free man pleaded guilty and was sen tenced to the roads for eight nionths. In a second case. Free man was charged with assaulting Marjorie Perkins at Duk Inn and he was sentenced to the roads for eight months, the sentence to run concurrently with the one impos ed in the first instance. Walter's brother, Louis, was charged with the theft of a pair of pants from a Williarnston store and he was fined $25 and taxed with the cost, lie also drew a 30 day term on the roads, the sen tence to begin October 15. Pleading guilty in the case charging him with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, William B. Hudgins was sentenced to spend six hours in jail, pay a $20 fine and the court cost. The court recommended that no driver's license be issued the defendant for one year. Pattie Davenport, charged with operating a motor vehicle with :! out a driver's license, was fined $10 arid taxed with the cost. Adjudged guilty in the case charging him with speeding, G. M. Banks was fined $10 and re | quired to pay the court costs. Pleading guilty of speeding, Jasper Rollins was sentenced to jail for six hours and required to pay a $10 fine and court costs. Charged with allowing an unli censed driver to operate a motor vehicle, Andrew Hudgins plead ed guilty and was fined $20 and taxed with the cost. He was also directed to spend six hours in jail. (Continued on page six) .. -.% County Crops Are Damaged By Hail Accompanied by high winds, hail struck and damaged crops on several farms in Williams Town ship Wednesday afternoon short ly after 3:00 o’clock. Sweeping cut of the southeast, the wind al most reached tornadic propor tions. Farmer Hubert Roberson declaring that things looked mighty serious around his home for a few minutes. A complete survey of the dam age could not be had, but first estimates indicated that the loss would run up to possibly as high as 80 percent in some cases, that more damage was done by hail during the few minutes Wednes day afternoon than had been done previously altogether in the coun ty. The following farmers reported losses: Bennie Griffin. Wiley La nier, Stuart Tettcrton, Luther Taylor C. S. VanLandingham. Clinton Jones, R. J. Hardison, Hubert Roberson, Grover Godard. Reports reaching here Thurs day stated that considerable dam age was done by wind and hail on Bertie County farms between here and Windsor that afternoon. Eighteen Percent Of Leaf Farmers Exceed Set Quotas - According to a second report filed by committeemen and super visors, approximately eighteen percent or nearly one out of every five Martin County farmers have exceeded their 1SM6 tobacco acre age allotments. So far 408 farms have been checked and reported with 73 of that number showing excess plantings. The percentage figure is not quite as large as it was for the first report made about a week ago, it was explain ed. The state spot checker was in the county last Friday and on Monday of this week, checking and verifying the measurements made by the committeemen and supervisors. It was said that he found a few small discrepancies, but as a whole, the work in this county was the best he had re viewed up until that time. Coun | TO END DRIVE i v_s The food collection drive made by the local Lions Club under the direction of Chair man H. P. Mobley is schedul ed to end next Tuesday. Any one wishing to make a dona tion is asked to forward it to the chairman by that time. A total of $1,527.52 has been collected to date, the chairman said. Contributions not previously acknowledged: Youth Fellowship Group, of Roberson Chapel Church, $8.55; Dr. M. A. Schooley, $5; Mrs. John W. Gurkin, $2: Mrs. A. D. Harris, $1; Wheeler Martin, $5; W. II. Carstar phen, $5; V. E. & P. Co., $10; and Central Cafe, $25. Planning to X-Ray Hospital Patients In Entire Nation —#— Drive To Get Underway On A Lirfp* Soule Early III September Raleigh.—A nation-wide cam paign to promote the X-raying of all hospital patients and person nel to find unknown cases of tub erculosis and to prevent the spread of tuberculosis within hos pitals will be undertaken, begin ning in September, under the joint auspices of the American Hospital Association, the U. S. Public Health Service and the Na tional Tubcrlosis Association. This announcement was made a few days ago by Dr. Leopold Brahdy of New York. Dr. Brahdy is chairman of the Joint Commit tee on Tuberculosis in Hospital Personnel formed bv The Ameri can Trudeau Society and the American Hospital Association to study the handling of tuberculosis in general hospitals. As the campaign progresses, Dr. Biahdy estimates that chest X ray examinations will become routine procedure for the 20, 000.000 persons who annually en ter hospitals or register for clinic care. He points out that the in cidence of chest disease is from two to there times higher among the sick and disabled than among the general population, and he said that routine X-ray service in hospitals will be an effective method of finding hidden cases c.1 tuberculosis. (Continued on page six) -■■-■■■ Planning To Join Husband In Japan «. Mrs. Paul Millender is making plans to join her husband, §/Sgt. Millender, in Japan within the near future. Mrs. Millender, the former Miss Dolly Myers of Ham ilton, was here yesterday prepar ing affidavits for a passport, but it could not be learned when she would sail for the Orient. Sgt. Millender has been in the armed service for about seventeen years. Following their marriage in December, 1943, and since he has been overseas, Mrs. Millender taught in the schools of this /county. As far as it could be learned Mrs. Millender is the first from this county to apply for transpor tation overseas under the govern ment offer. tv spot checkers will also go be hind the committeem-.’ and sup ervisors. Farmers, planting in excess of their allotted acreages, may ap peal to the county farm agent’s office for another measurement. In making an appeal, the farmer will be asked to deposit a mini mum charge of $3 and 50 cents an acre for each acre in addition to six, If the farmer’s claimed fig ures are found 'to be correct, or if his plantings are below the al lotment his money deposit will be refunded. It has*been pointed out that in those case's where the farmer has planted in excess of his allotment, he will be required to pay a pen alty on the excess even if he chooses to destroy enough of his crop to bring the acreage into line. Two Auto Wrecks In This County Three Victims Hospitalized For Injuries Received In Overturned Car At least four persons were in jured, none of them critically, in two vehicular accidents on Mar tin County highways last Tues day, according to information gained from Cpl. W. T. Simpson of the highway patrol. No great property damage resulted, the of ficer said. The firs* of the accidents hap pened about 8:00 o’clock that morning when Mr. Willard A. Ev erett started to pass a mule and cart driven by John Wilkins, col ored, about five hundred feet east of the railroad crossing in , Parmele. Approaching the ear from the rear, Mr. Everett slowed , down and had started to pass | when another car just behind sounded the horn and started to pass. Mr. Everett pulled back to his right and bumped the back of the cart, doing no damage to the cart and causing no injury to the animal. Wilkins either jumped or fell from the cart and cut a small gash in his head. The victim was removed to the Ward Clinic in Robersonville where several stitches were taken to close the wound. Damage to the Everett car was estimated at $35. Wilkins, driving the same mule and cart, returned to his work later in the day. Three of seven colored persons traveling in a Lincoln sedan from tneir homes in Frostproof, Fla., north to help harvest the Irish po tato crop, were paintfully cut and bruised about their heads and legs when the machine went out of control and turned over three times on the Washington high way, about six miles out of Wil liamston, at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Driving between 45 and 50 miles an hour, Jesse Moton started to pass a car traveling in the same direction when the right rear tire ran flat, causing him to lose control. The car swerved to the left, plowed into a field and turned over three times, coming to a stop on its four wheels. The ldjffrcd: Willie C. Green, cut and bruised on the head; Theresa Porter, cut and bruised on one leg; and Johnnie C. Stephens, cut and bruised on the head. Remov ed to a Washington hospital, the injured were treated and dis charged later in the day. Damage to the 1539 model car was estimat ed at about $350 by Cpl. Simpson who was assisted in the investi gations by Patrolman Titus Mar tin of Washington. In Tobacco Outlook Is Not The Best ♦ Reports coining from a goodly number of farmers in various parts of the county declare that the outlook for the current tobac co crop is not the best. Possibly the crop will be right near to an average one, but the growers ex plain that the leaf was damaged by excessive rains about the mid dle and during the third week in June. The leaf harvest, started on a small scale last week, is rapidly gaining momentum and most far mers will be engaged in the task next week. Nation Moves To Relieve Suffering In Foreign Lauds —-®— Twenty-five Agencies Are Spearheading Relief Movement -4 Scanning one of the-metropoli-1 tan papers Sunday following the noon-day meal we had our atten tion drawn to one of the feature pages by the picture of a little war orphan. We had heard re peated calls for help and we de cided to review the various re ports and summarize the work be ing done for the relief of the truly less-fortunate. Every now and then we would turn back to the picture. The little one’s unkempt hair, the over-size and badly worn coat tightened about the body and reaching almost to the top of bad ly worn shoes that were held to gether by strings made it impos sible to tell whether it was a boy or girl. The child’s face, bearing faint resemblance to that of the late little Lindbergh tot, was un usually bright and the eyes, a bit sunken, carried a great deal of meaning. Eric G. Muggeridge, commenting on the little one’s eyes, said: ‘‘I have talked about the eyes of these children now for a year, and it is always the same. They accuse, they plead and they trust you all at once. . . .” All reports could not be had, but the hurried survey revealed that America is moving to relieve the suffering in foreign lands. Possibly what are known us the three leading agencies include: Untied Nations Relief and Rehab ilitation Administration, the one that is receiving nearly $1,5(10 raised in this community during the past few days under the solicitations of the Lions Club; the American Red Cross which is rap idly exhausting its budget of $33, 5000,000 to save every possible life; and the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, an agency formed by 24 groups to enable individuals or groups to send packages containing thirty pounds of food to individuals or groups abroad. In addition to those main agencies, there are quite a few religious organizations taking a part in the great task. These in clude: Committee on Christian Science Wartime Activities, American Friends Service Com mittee, War Rglief Services -Na tional (Roman) Catholic Welfare Conference, Church World Ser vice-, Unitarian Service Commit tee, Brethren Service Committee, National Lutheran Council, Sal vation Army, Inc. Then there are national groups, including: United China Relief, Inc., American Society for Rus sian Relief, American Relief for France, Inc., American Relief for Holland, Greek War Relief Asso ciation, Belgian War Relief Soci ety, American Relief for Czecho slovakia, American Relief for Po land, United Yugoslav Relief Fund of America, American Jew ish Joint Distribution Committee, Ifadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization, United Jewish Ap peal. Then there are at least two special agencies: Foster Parents’ Plan for War Children and U. S. (Continued on page six) -1 Increased Family Cost Of Living —— To buy most of the things which the average family budget in - eludes, you must pay 50 percent more for them than you would have had to pay at the start of tiie war in Europe, according to a re port by the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics on May 24. “Food, clothing and house furnishings costs, which represent 57 percent of the bud get for wage earners and moder ate income workers, in large cities, are now a little over 50 per cent higher than in August, 1939,” the bureau declared, in a report reviewing the steady climb in re tail costs. Price index for con sumers now is about 130.9 percent of the average for 1935-1939 and is three percent higher than the average for a year ago. Between the middle of March and the mid dle of April food prices increased 1.1 percent, with increased prices in all major groups. Decreasing the size of the loaves of bread, as the famine committee requested, resulted in a rise of 4.8 percent in the average price for a pound of bread. _ _ A # Tobacco Farmers To Vote On Feat Quotas July 12th Approximately 3,500 Elijji* hie In This County To Cast Ballots -* Approximately 3500 Martin County growers are eligible to vote in the referendum on mark eting quotas on flue-cured tobac co to be held Friday, July 12, ac cording to J. F. Crisp, chairman of the County Agricultural Conser vation Committee. The referen dum was called in accordance with the law, which provides for marketing quotas on flue-cured tobacco for the 1S147 crop. How ever, marketing quotas cannot be in effect unless approved by at least two-thirds of the producers in the flue-cured areas voting in the referendum. Marketing quotas furnish grow ers with a method of adjusting supply to demand and can help to provide fair prices to growers for the tobacco they produce. At the present time, flue-cured tobacco growers are producing above world consumption levels to build up depleted stocks in for eign countries. Marketing quotas afford the opportunity to adjust this supply to meet demand. “Any person who has an inter est in the 194(1 crop of flue-cured tobacco as an owner, tenant, or share cropper is entitled to vote in the referendum," Mr. Crisp said. “However, no person is entitled to more than one vote even though he may be engaged in production of flue-cured tobacco in two or more communities, counties, or States.” Mr. Crisp explained that, if marketing quotas are approved, individual acreage allotments will be continued in 1947. Individual acreage allotments for 1947 will not be less than RQ percent of the 194(1 allotment for any farm which has grown up to 75 percent of its allotted acreage in any one of the past three years. This al lotment may be increased any time up to March 1, 1947, by the Secretary ot Agriculture if the supply and demand situation war rants. If quotas are approved, loans at 90 percent of the parity price will be available. Loans or other price supports cannot be made available on the 1947 crop if grow ers disapprove quotas. The Federal government is no longer acting as agent for foreign governments in purchasing tobac co, arid in the future loans can af ford a real protection to growers against drastic price declines or losses. Mr. Crisp said Marlin County’s 1946 crop of l'iue-eured tobacco is indicated at approximately 15,000 acres. Older Youth In Recent Meeting —*— Thu Older Youth club held its regular monthly meeting Monday night at 8:30. This month, for a change, instead of meeting in the Agriculture Building, as has been the custom, the meeting was held at the home of Trulah Bailey on the Bear Grass highway. Sarah Wobbleton presided over the meeting. The roll was called with thirty-three members pres ent, seven of these being new members. Plans were made for a trip to Manteo the second week-end in July. The club plans to visit the historical points around Manteo and Nags Head and to see “The Lost Colony.” Each member vot ed to donate a chicken to help de fray the trip expenses. After the business meeting the group enjoyed a recreational hour lead bv the home agent, assisted by Sarah Wobbleton. Several games were played and everyone was divided up into four groups for a scavenger hunt. Group two lead by Slade Peele Revels prov ed to be the best scavengers and was awarded the prize. After the* recreational hour a social hour was enjoyed by all. The hostesses Trulah Bailey and Peggy Jones served punch, sand wiches, salted nuts and cookies. There will be a called meeting, July 8th, at the home of Gertie McLawhorn and the regular July meeting Will lie With Melba and Slade Revels, July 29. Road Construction Advances In County J \ Plan To Complete Griffins District Road To 117 Soon ■■' ♦ ■— II i fi li w a y Maintenance Forres llamlling; Sever al Road Projeels -®-' It may not be hardly more than a drop in the bucket when com pared with actual needs, but a fairly extensive road construction program is advancing fairly rap idly in this county at the present time. And when the half million dollar Roanoke River bridge pro ject is taken into consideration, Martin County ranks right at the top in highway construction. However, outside the river bridge project and the “Greenville-spon sored" road out of Oak City, no contracts for roads in this county have been let to construction firms. According to unofficial infor mation received here this week, plans are being made to finish the survey of a project in Griffins Township, running from John A. Griffin’s filling station via a point near Smithwicks Creek, N. T. Tice's and on to Highway 117 in the Farm Life section. The route, about six miles long, will be stak ed just as soon as engineers are available, Chief J. C. Parkins of the division engineer forces, slat ing this week that the only man available for the task was a vic tim of appendicitis this week. It is thought that the project will be built under contract. Work on the river bridge pro ject is progressing “according to plan,” a late report stating that the contractors, Bowers Construc tion Co., had prepared about three-fourths of the foundations for widening the concrete struc ture, that dirt for the temporary roadway or detour route was being hauled. It will be some weeks yet before the present bridge is blocked, one report stat ed. The road from Oak City con necting with N. C. No. 11 at a point near Hassell is nearing com pletion. The Suber Construction Company of South Carolina has about completed the seven-inch rock foundation for the road and the top will be placed on it pos sibly within the next thirty days, meaning that the $50,000 project will be opened about the middle of the summer. In addition to the contract pro jects, highway maintenance forces are handling several projects in the county, surfacing a spot here and a spot there with crushed rock and asphalt. These projects include a small stretch on High way 117 out of Jamesville, about four miles of road from Holly Springs in the direction of Farm Lift, the project running to the old Jordan Green farm. A mile or two on the old Greenville Road to a point beyond the state prison camp is being sui faced, and the yiain stret in Hamilton is also re ceiving attention with the possi bility that the surfacing will be extended a slioH distance out on what is known as the River Road. -«-— Homecoming At Holiness Church —* The Pentecostal Holiness Church of Williamston is plan ning to have a homecoming day the fifth Sunday in June, mostly for the purpose of raising money to lift the balance of the debt on 1he new parsonage, it was an nounced this weeks. The conference superintendent, Rev. W. Eddie Morris, will be here to dedicate the new parson age. “We are giving a special and urgent invitation to all our ex pastors and former church mem bers that have moved away to be with us on that day,” officials of the church said yesterday. “We are expecting a big day singing, testifying and preaching. Special singers and quartets are also in vited. “Everyone that can possibly leave your church that day, come and bring a well filled basket and help us enjoy the great feast we are expecting June 30, 1946.” THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . For the first time in six weeks and the third time so far this year, motorists trav eled the highways of this county last week without a reported accident. However, the motorists are back up to their old tricks, reports stat ing that two accidents had al ready been reported in this, the 26th, week. Several holi days could follow in the gruesome highway business, leaving the record this year far ahead of the figures for the corresponding period in 1945. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. Twenty-Fifth Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge 1946 0 0 0 $ 00 1945 1 0 0 100 Comparisons To I>ate 1946 67 56 3 17,670 1945 29 13 3 7,000 Call Seven Cases In Justice Court In Past Few Days Srvrral An* Fined For Pub lic Drunkenness Ami Simple Assaults -Ip A general flare-up in alleged law violations was reported in the county recently. In addition to twenty-six criminal cases handled in the county recorder’s court, Justice John L. Hassell heard sev en in his court during the past few days. Alleged assaults led the count, the trial justice impos ing fines in several cases. Proceedings: N. S. Nichols, charged with sim ple assault, was required to pay $5.50 costs. In the case charging him with a simple assault, Willie Augustus Williams, was fined $2.50 and tax ed with $5.50 costs. Charged with disorderly con duct, H. B. Jornigan was fined $10 and required to pay $6.50 costs. In a second case, Jcrnigan was charged with a simple assault and on that count lie was lined $10 and taxed with $6.50 costs. Drunk and down, Howard Cherry was fined $2.50 and re quired to pay $9.50 costs. John Henry White, charged with being drunk and down, wa sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the sentence upon guaranteed be havior for six months and the payment of the costs which amounted to $8.50. Charged with breach of the peace, Fred Everett was placed under maximum bond in the sum of $1,000 following a hearing in the case Wednesday morning. The bond was not raised immediately, and the defendant's attorney, Jack Edwards, of Greenville, started habeas Corpus proceed ings. The case will be carried be fore a superior court judge, it was learned, A date for the hear ing was not announced, one re port stating that the evidence would be offered before a judge in Kinston Friday. -* Church Program Committee Meets -e The Program Committee of the Albemarle Union met with Rev. John L. G«ff, president, on Thurs day evening. Plans for the com ing meeting to be held in the First Christian Church of Ply mouth were made. Those attend ing were: Mr. Delberi Sawyer, Columbia; Rev. E. B. Quick, Ply mouth; Rev. J. M. Perry, Rober sonville; Rev. M. Elmore Turner, Rev. F. A. I.illey, Mrs. R. N. Rop er. and Mr. E. Leon Roebuck, Washington. A release of the pro gram will be made later. Unification Move Expected Soon For The \rmed Forces Sunmiiiry of Prrsiilpiil's Messajjp On Merger Plan KpIpummI -i- - Pope Field, Fort Bragg, June 28. —“I anticipate that before wc ad joun Cotigu - will take action on the President's proposal for legislation to unify the nation’s Aimed Forces,1’ Congressman J. Bayard Clark, representative of the Seventh district, stated just before he returned to Washing ton from a brief visit to his home at Fayetteville. In an effort to establish a def inite military policy on the vital issue of establishing a unified force for our national defense, President Truman in a recent let ter to Congress reported favor ably on the efforts of the Secre tary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to reach a compromise on their differences of opinion on the Army Navy merger. “They have reached an agree ment on eight important elements of unification,” the President’s letter to Congress stated, “and with reference to the four upon which there \vas not full agree men* their differences are not ir reconcilable.” A summary of all twelve ele ments listed in the President’s message follows: 1. “There should be one Depart ment of National Defense. It should be under the control of a civilian who would be a member of the cabinet. Each of the ser vices would be headed by a civ ilian with the title of ‘Secretary’.” 2. "There should be three co ordinate services — the Army, Navy and Aii Forets The three services should be on a purity and should operate in a common pur pose toward overall efficiency of the national defense under the control and supervision of the Secretary ot National Defense.” 3. The Air Force shall have the responsibility for the develop ment. procurement, maintenance and operation of the military air resources of the United States with the exception of ship, carrier and water-based aircraft essential to naval operations, and aircraft of the United States Marine Corps. Responsibility for the lat ter mentioned aircraft is vested in the Navy. 4. “There shall be maintained as a constituent part of the naval service a balanced fleet Marine Fence including its supporting air component.” 5. There should be a Council of National D< tense to integrate our foreign and military policies and enable the military services and other Government agencies to co operate more effectively. Its membership should include the Secretary of State, the civilian heads of the military services, the Secretary of National Defense arid the Chairman of the Nation al Security Resources Board. (i. A National Security Resourc es Board should be established “to keep up to date policies and programs for the maximum use of the nation’s resources in sup pori of our national security.” 7. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are charged “to formulate strategic (Continued on page six) Youngsters Plan Camp Leach Stay —$— Several local boys and girls are leaving this week-end for a two w< i ks sla;. at Camp Leach on the Pamlico. Those planning to attend the camp are, Patricia Taylor, William Manning, Jr., Harry James, Jr., and Bobby Goff of wuiiamsion. 1y win oe suc ceeded by Lie Handy, John Dunn and Billy Glover who will attend the midget camp there. Camp Leach was opened earlier this month under the supervision of John II. Bonner, Jr., business manager. More than one hundred boys and girls had signed to at tend the camp weeks ago, it was learned. Rev. John W. Hardy, local min ister, is director of the camp for the juniors and he will be assist ed by Mrs. Hafldy, Miss Marjorie Gray Dunn. Miss Elizabeth Park er, Jack Mobley and Stuart Critcher. On the faculty for the period will be the Rev. Roscoe Houser, Greenville; and Rev. Ar thur J. Mackie of Belhaven.