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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK -.""" V OLUME XLIX—NUMBER 53 THE ENTERPRISE Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 2, 1916 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY. FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Budget Estimates Calling For Same Central Inen-asp Of Ahoul $29,000 Noted For All Departments According to semi-final esti mates, approximately $303,811 will be required to finance Mar tin County’s government for the 1946-47 fiscal year, the amount being close to $29,000 iri excess of the 1945-46 budget requirements. The increase, however, will be ab sorbed without an increase in the general tux rate which remains at $1.05 per $100 assessed proper ty valuation. In addition to the county-wide rate, several town ships will have special road tux levies, amounting to 45 cents per $100 in Cross Roads, 30 cents in Hamilton and 25 cents in Goose Nest. At least one district, in cluding all of Williamston and parts of Bear Grass and Williams Townships, will have a 20-cent special school tax. Robersonville is voting on a proposed special tux levy for its schools on Satur day of this week, and an election is pending in Jamesville. According to the departmental estimates reviewed by the com missioners in their recent special session, approximately $7,000 ad ditional will be required to meet the general county fund needs. Nearly every activity outside the welfare department, schools and bonded indebtedness is financed from this fund, including such items as salaries, the courts, fuel, lights, etc., repairs, materials and literally hundreds of other items. Considering the increased costs of everything the increase in this de partment is considered quite small. However, at the same time, it is estimated that $81,420 can be raised from sources other than general taxation, that « rate of 7 cents will suffice as compared with a rati1 of 14 and 1-2 cents in effect last fiscal year. Good time's is reflected in the poor fund which tumbled from $8,745 to $5,999, resulting in a one and three quarter-cent drop in the rate itself. But the poor fund reduction was more than offset by an increase in public welfare administration which jumped from $4,770 to $9,200, the increase of $4,430 calling for a 2-ccnt in crease in the rate and almost $1, 000 more from sources other than general taxation. Health fund requirements, While increa: d from $9,850 to $9,910, call for u one-half-cent rate increase. There is a slight diop in the old age assistance fund, and the amount to be ap propriated for aid to dependent children remains unchanged at $3,840. It is estimated that an addi tional $14,000 or thereabouts will be needed to operate the county schools next term, the amount in cluding'an appropriation for re placing the burned school at Ev eretts, one or two other minor buildings and repairs to old ones. The current expense fund needs jumped from $56,692 to $64,340, the increase to care for higher fut 1 costs and general cost in creases. The $9,395 addition to the capital outlay fund fas noces (Continued on page six^^ Hit-Run Driver Taken In County j —i— Charles E. Lytle, 36 year-old Charlotte man, was arrested in this county last week for hit-and run driving, resulting in serious injury to Donald Martin, nine ycais old. Suffering a head in jury and a broken leg, the child who lived with his aunt, Mrs. L. E. Doxcv. in Plymouth, is recov ering. reports reaching here said Lytle, charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run, is being given a hearing in the Washing ton County Recorder's court Tuesday. The child was riding his bicv-le when Lytle allegedly ran off the road and struck the boy. Th > highway patrol was notified and Cpl. Simpson picked up the call and arrested the man within thir ty minutes near Dardens. It was reported that Lytle had “passed out-’. One report stated that the man was so drunk that he did not recall the accident. Lytle main tained that he was not drunk, that he was sleepy, but admitted that he had had a drink earlier that morning. ; Tobacco Markets In Bright Belt To Open On August 19 --<§>..— Eastern North Carolina tobacco markets will open the 194(3 season o!T5fohday, August 19. in accord ance with an opening schedule announced by the Tobacco Asso ciation of the United States in session at Raleigh lust week-end. The opening is two days earlier than the one last year, and is not quite a month behind the first sales scheduled in Georgia on July 24. The South Carolina Border markets will open on Thursday, August 1. Rules and regulations for gov erning the sale of tobacco were formulated, and then the asso ciation named a special commit tee, composed of three represen tatives for the growers, three for the warehousemen and three for the buying companies, to handle emergencies, such us congestions. The committee was empowered to change the selling hours, or call a holiday, if necessary Under normal conuAions. the sales will be maintained on a five hour day, five days to the week. The sales are to open at 9:30 a. m. and continue until 3:30 p. m. with an hour for lunch. The association ruled that all .piles must be limited to 250 | pounds, and that not more than 400 piles can be sold in one hour. 'After September 13, the sales on the markets in this belt along with those in South Carolina and on the Border will be limited to 240 piles per hour. The reduction was ordered to help relieve con gestion which is certain to follow in the plant when all the markets are operating. The tobacco boards of trade on the several markets are to employ tabulators who will count and re port the number of baskets of to bacco sold each hour for every sales day. NEW RECORD v* According to reports com ing recently from recognized sources, “We as a nation are setting new records in eating. Our per capita consumption is about 14 percent higher than in pre-war years." Despite reported shortages, the nation is producing about one-tliird more crops and livestock than it did in the 1935-39 period. This year, grains will be 50 percent ahead of pre-war production; truck crops, 45 percent; meat, 40 percent, and dairy pro ducts, 17 percent. Williamston Lions Install Officers At A Recent Meeting llildrctli Mohley Succeeds John llmry Edwards As IVesiiienl -« With Lion Hildreth Mobley tak ing over the president’s chair, tli£ local Lions Club installed new of ficers for the fiscal year begin ning July 1st at the regular din ner meeting of the club, last Thursday evening. Lion Mobley succeeds Lion John H. Edwards, who lias guided the organization during one of its most successful years, one that saw the Activities Award trophy for District 31-C presented to the Williamston Club for the first time. Other officers installed at this meeting were the new Tail Twist er, Lion Marvin Baker, who suc ceeds Gene Rice, the latter hav ing served in a very able capacity ever since the club was formed in 1937. Outgoing Secretary Wheel er Manning, after serving for the last three years, was succeeded in this capacity by Lion Ross Frone berger. In addition to the three new officers already mentioned, other officers for the new year are us follows: 1st vice president, K. D. Worrell; 2nd vice president, Jul ian II Havreii; 3rd vice president. E. M. Tiahey; treasurer (succeed ing himself lor the fourth year), D. V. Clayton; director for one year, C. J. Goodman; directors for (Continued on page six) --1. Farmers Urged To Vote For Control —»■ ■- - Farmers and a few county busi ness men, meeting in the court house last Thursday afternoon were urged to get out and work for tire passage of the tobacco control program which will be submitted to a vote on Friday, July 12. Wayland Jones, of the Triple A office in this State, addressed the group and discussed the need and plans for maintaining quotas for the next three years. During the meantime the North Carolina Farm Bureau, lending its support to the successful passage of the measure, points out in a circular that tobacco averaged 14 cents a pound without quotas in 1939 and 43 cents a pound with quotas in 1945. It also pointed out that indifference on the part of the growers may defeat the program. Mrs. Erali Cobh Died Here Early Friday Morning Funeral Services llehl In I ’rrshy lerian ('liurrli Last Sunday -» Mrs. Erah Cobb, prominent local woman and one of the founders of the Presbyterian church here, died at the home of her son, Dillon Cobb, on Marshall Avenue last Friday morning at 2:30 o’clock following a long period of declining health. She had been unusually feeble during the past two years, but underwent two eye operations, one last Oc tober and the other in February of this year. However, since her last operation she had spent most of her time at home and the past several weeks in bed. The daughter of the late John D. and Eliza Griffin Simpson, she was born in Cross Roads Town ship near Williamston on Feb ruary 11. 1872. After attending the schools in her home commun ity she attended the old Williams ton Academy and taught in the Everetts Schools several years prior to her marriage to Marion Cobb. Following his death she was married to C. M. Cobb who died some years ago. She made her home in Mildred for a num ber of years and while there she joined the Presbyterian church in Tarboro. Moving to Williamston some over a quarter centiny ago, she helped form the local Pres byterian church and on down through the years as long as her health permitted she was one of its most faithful and devoted members. Mrs. Cobb was employed in the offices of the late Dr. Jos. II. (Continued on page six) -a Mariner’s Medal Awarded Locally Thu War Shipping Administra tion has awarded the Mariner’s iVirdal posthumous!v to Dennis R. Coltrain, Martin County young man who lost his life during the early part of the war, presumably off the North Carolina coast. A merchant seaman, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dawse Coltrain of Willianiston. 11 is. ship was overdue in Philadelphia on Janu ary 18. 1942. The medal was presented to the young man’s mother, and W'as one of three awarded posthumously to North Carolina seamen in recent days. Everetts Office Now Third Class —*— Tile Everett > post office, hold ing a fourth class rating for some time, was advanced to third class as of July 1 by the Post Office De partment, according to informa tion coming through the office of Congressman Herbert Bonner this week. The department at the same time advised that the present postmaster, Mr. Dillon C. Peel, had an excellent record and that he could he advanced to third class postmaster with a non-com petitive examination. Little Immediate Reaction Noticed Shortage* ('nntiiiur Hut Some Relief Predicted Within a Few Days There was little or no immedi ate reaction to the lifting of price controls when the Office of Price Administration Was allowed to die a natural death bv congress last week-end. Meat shortages continue, but dealers expressed the belief that larger supplies would start moving within a few days, pussibly by the middle of next week. There was no marked variation in prices now that they are from under control, but an upward spiral is predicted by many. Uncertainty and confusion fol lowed in the wake of OPA’s death, and no one is offering the slightest idea what action will be taken or what course will be fol lowed. The district OPA office in (lie Martin County agricultural building is marking time, await ing instructions. It is believed by some that price ceilings will be renewed by spec ial demand of the people who are bombarding Washington with telegrams and letters. In a special message. President Truman last Saturday evening voiced fears of economic disaster, but members of Congress and some business men cheered OPA’s di mise as a return to free enterprise. The Administration is calling for a 20 day extension of the con- I trol or until a comprehensive law can be written and enacted, lint the move is facing a filibuster in the senate where some of the sen ators are quoted as saying they would “talk to the end of time if necessary’’ to kei p OPA from coming back to life. Legislative leaders expressed the opinion that a price control holiday would last about three ! weeks. Price increases for some items in short supply were reported in some sections of the country Mon day, and rents were upped as much us 15 percent, one report said. Labor leaders predicted a wave of unrest, demands for wage in crcascs and buyers’ strike if a threat of runaway inflation de (Continued on page six) Farmer Uses Hoe For Many Years Carrying the lead row, Farmer Dawson Lilley stopped long m ough in his potato field a few days ago to relate a few facts about a weeding hue he held in his hands. Its blade worn down to less than two inches, the hoe was purchas ed by Mr. Lilley sixteen years ago and had been reserved for bis use since that time. He has chopped a course many miles long, knock ing out millions ot blades of grass after an expert fashion. And the operation even among potato vines was made to look very easy by the more than seventy-year old farmer who declared he was going to quit when he wore out the hoe. No doubt, 99.44 percent of present-day farmers would have considered the hue useless and abandoned it long ago. On the other hand, only one out of a thousand would have kept*.i hoe sixteen years. Farmer Lilley did r.ut go into detail about the worn hoe blade, and no direct question was asked as to how mueh of that blade was filed away or how mueh was ac tual ly worn away against the good earth. As for the owner of the hoe, no middle-aged man or not even a youngster need challenge him us a chopper, for Mi-. Lilley 1 is a real artist when it conns to handling that as well as other lArm tasks. (_ HOUND-UP ] Officers in this section rounded up and jailed nine persons over the week-end to chalk up one tsf their busiest periods in recent weeks. Seven of the nine were booked for drunkenness, one for an assault with a deadly weapon and one for larceny and receiving. One of the nine was white, and the ages ol the group ranged from eighteen on up to sixty-eight years. Tobacco Farmers To Vote On Leaf Quotas July 12th -- T>vo-Thi: r Vrcri «•»! To Assure Passage Of Measure Tobacco growers will be given an opportunity to vote in a refer endum Friday, July 12, to deter mine whether they want quotas on the 1947 crop of flue-cured to bacco. The referendum has been called by the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with the law which provides for quotas in 1947 on flue-cured tobacco. However, quotas will not be in effect for 1947 unless approved bv at least two thirds ol all flue-cured tobac co growers voting in the referen dum. Mr. J, F. Crisp, chairman of the County Agricultural Con servation Committee, said that, “Any person who has an interest in the 1946 crop of flue-cured to bacco as owner, tenant, or share cropper is eligible to vote in the referendum being held July 12.” No person, he added, is entitled to cast more than one vote even though he may be engaged in pro ducing llue-cured tobacco in two or more communities, counties, or States. At the present time, flue cured tobacco growers are producing above world consumption levels to build up depicted stocks in for eign countries. Marketing quotas afford the opportunity to adjust this supply to meet demand. Marketing quotas furnish grow ers with a method of adjusting supply to demand and ean help to provide fair prices to growers for the tobacco they produce. As in the past, Mr. Crisp point ed out, growers will vote on three propositions: (1) do you favor marketing quotas for three years i 1947, 1948, and 1949?; (2) are you opposed to quotas for three years but tavor the quota for one year? or (3) are you opposed to any quotas? If quotas are approved, acreage allotments, will be set and there will be small acreages available for adjusting old allotments and establishing allotments for farms on which no tobacco has been grown during the past five years. Individual farm acreage allot ments for 1947 will not be less than 81) percent of the 1940 allot ment for any farm which has grown up to 75 percent of its al lotted am age in any one of the past three years. Allotments may Ik increasel any time up to March 1, 1947, if tlie supply and demand situation warrants. The legislation authorizing (Continued on page six) Damage Suit Still In State Courts A hearing was held before Clerk of Court W. M. Darden in Plymouth lust week in connection with the $30,000 damage suit in stituted by W. It. Hampton against the North Carolina Pulp Com pany. The hearing attracted a number of lawyers, incuding J. C. 13. Ehringhaus, M. K. While, gen ‘ i al counsel for the Kieckhefer Container Corporation of Mil waukee, Was., W. JJ. Itodman, Carl L. Bailey and Z. V. Norman. Former Governor Ehringhaus and Mr. Bailey represented Mr. Hampton at the hearing, while Mr. White, Mr. Rodman and Mr. Norman appeared for llie pulp company. The hearing was held to examine testimony and allega tions of Mr. Hampton in prepara tion for trial of the case in fed eral and state courts, set for trial later this year. The case has already been through state courts, including the supreme court; and it also has been through district Federal court and the circuit court uf ap pi als, with decisions in favor of first one side and then the other on the issues then presented. The higher courts have remanded the case for trial in superior and dis trict courts. It has never been heard by a jury, and previous rul ings havi been made on motions, points of law and appeals from decisions by lower court judges. The suit originated in 1941, when Mr. Hampton entered claim for $3U,00(J as a result of losses in the operation of his fisheries ovi r a three-year period, due to alleged pollution of Roanoke Riv er by the defendant company. Sportsmen Oppose Game Law Changes Proposed Changes Stir Up Opposition At Meeting Here & More Than One Hiimlrrd Men from Ten CoiiuticM Killer Into l)isnis»<ioii^ -«• Proposing changes in the 1946 game laws, the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development encountered vigor ous and plain-spoken opposition at a district meeting held in the Martin County courthouse Mon day afternoon. The meeting, at tracting delegations from about twelve of the eastern Carolina counties, was just about unani mous in its desire to hold the game rules and regulations as they now are. The meeting also voted unanimously for the con tinuance of lay days for quail. Representatives of the conser vation department proposed that the deer season he reduced from ninety to 47 days and recommend ed that the season open on Oc tober 14 and close November 30, that the bag limit be held to one deer per person each season. The representative admitted that re cent surveys show no scarcity of deer in the Roanoke River area. The quail season, if the depart ment proposal is accepted, will open on December 2 and close January 15. A bag limit of eight quail a day would be allowed with no season limit. It was point ed out that only a shorter season could solve the problem. The department would allow wild turkey to be taken between December 2 and December 21, and the bag limit would be limited to one per person during the season. “We must have drastic regula tions if we are to save the wild turkey,” the department spokes man said, adding that he believed it advisable to maintain a closed season in siime sections. Dates for hunting rabbit would be fixed from November 20 to January 15 with a bag limit of ten per day. The department proposed to open the squirrel season fifteen days later on October 14 and close it on January 15. The bear seas on, it is proposed, is to open on OctolwT 1 and close January 1 Representing a Martin County delegation and submitting a pe tition favoring no changes in the present regulations, Hugh G. Hor ton said he could see no reason for reducing the deer and squir rel season. Carl Bailey, Washington Coun ty delegation spokesman, address ed the meeting at length and de clared, "We know what we have and what we haven't, and we don’t like for others to come here and tell us what to do.” He sub mitted five petitions, carrying 561 names, favoring no changes in the present regulations. Bailey charg ed that hunters in the west were trying to dictate the regulations for the east, lie expressed the opinion that better enforcement of the present laws would help solve the problem. It. M. Harris of Pamlico, L. H. Johnson of Beaufort, William Haekelt, also of Beaufort, W. II. Woolard of Pitt, P. M. Peel of Ber tie, Fred Latham of Beaufort, G. W. Bland of Perquimans and others addressed the meeting and pleaded with the board’s game committee not to change the pres ent regulations. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said that to shorten the season would cause an increase in game law viola (Continued on page six) SHORT SESSION k In one of their shortest ses sions in recent months, the Martin County commission ers Monday awarded a con tract to F. B. Birmingham for repairing and painting the courthouse. The contract was let in the sum of $1,978.85, and calls for extensive re pairs, including some to the brick work, windows, roof and the painting of the build ing. Very little business other than that of a routine nature was placed before the meet ing. !--—---\ LONG HOLIDAY r ; | Thursday, July 4, will he I observed as a general holiday throughout this section. Lo cally, it will follow the usual half holiday observed by business houses each Wednes day, making a longer holiday for clerks and others. In a few instances, business will close for the fourth and remain closed until next Monday. The Enterprise is contemplating such a sched ule, but will issue its two edi tions before closing. Two Mon Arrested At Liquor Plant In County Friday -(ft, .. Several Stills Are Vt reeked By OffieerH Ouriii" Heeeul Days -»-' Two mi'ii, Charlie Lyons and James Leathers, were arrested at a liquor still in Goose Nest Town ship near the Edgecombe bound ary last Friday, the arrests cli maxing a series of raids carried on against the illicit business by Officers J. II, Roebuck and Roy Peel during recent days. A third man at the plant escaped, but he was recognized and a warrant was issued. The man, Cleopheus Leathers, is a brother to James Leathers, Assisted by Constable Edmond Early, Officers Roebuck and Peel were on their way to the still ! when they met Lyons leaving I with two gallons of white liquor Ion his back. Lyons was unable | to warn the others. The officers ! wrecked the 5(1 gallon capacity oil drum which the operators used for a still and poured out one hundred gallons of beer. Six gal lons of liquor were confiscated. Week before last Officers Roe buck and Peel captured a 100 gal oll capacity copper kettle in Bear Grass Township and poured out four barrels of beer. At a second plant in that st ction, the raiders found and wrecked a JO gallon capacity oil drum and poured out one barrel of beer. On Thursday of last week a partial distillery was torn down in the same township, the officers (Continued on page six) Tax Hates Range From 4()e to $2.20 —>—#—■ County-wide tax rates in North Carolina ranged from a low of -to eon's on the $100 valuation in New Hanover to $2 110 in Pamlico County lust year according to in formation revealed in a study of these tax rates made by the North Carolina Citizens Association and its magazine WK THE PEOPLE. Comparing the tax rates of last year with the previous tax levy ing period, the report shows that 18 counties in the State lowered their rates In m 2 cents in Rowan to 40 cents per hundred in Tyr rell. County Commissioners found it necessary to raise tax rates in 16 counties. These in creases ranged from 2 cents in Scotland to 30 cents in Harnett. In the other 06 counties the rates remained the same. Ship Carload Of Wool Last Week —#— Farmers in several eastern Car olina counties delivered 16,333 pounds of wool to the cooperative pool maintained for one day here last Thursday. There were 151 lots and the first cash payment amounted to $5,393.18, the office of the farm agent announcing that a second payment would be made later. Only one grower, Mr. D. M. Roberson, in this county deliver ed wool to the pool. Mr. Rober son sold 29 hags and received ap proximately $300, it was learned. H. L. Meacharp and H. M. Stanl ey of the extension service, Ral eigh, graded the woo! which was shipped out Friday to Boston. Release Reports On Atomic Bomb Tests This Week ; l)imin£<‘ Not V* Hail Vs Some Mail Kx period In Itikini Kxperitneut* Off Bikini Atoll, Jul) 1.—The fourth atom bomb of history ex ploded with a fla.-h 10 times brighter than toe light of the s'.in over a 73-ship “guinea pig’’ fleet today, capsizing one destroyer, sinking two transports, and dam aging 10 other ships, A broadcast from the flagship of Joint Task Force One some three hours after the bomb sent a column of fire and smoke 50, 000 ft et into the air quoted a spokesman for Vice Adm. W. H. B. Blandy that the German cruis er Prince Eupen and the subma rine Skate had been heavily dam aged. the Japanese battleship Na gato and the old American bat ' leship Nevada lightl> damaged, and two transports sunk. Evidently this was in addition to the damage Blandy himself reported a little more than an hour after the explosion. He told of the Amt rican destroyer Lam son being capsized and of “moder ately small'’ fire aboards the an cient aircraft carrier Saratoga, the carrier Independence, the Japanese cruiser Sakawa, one transport and a concrete oil barge. But Admiral Blandy and his i spokesman indicated that the damage had not been as heavy as I expected. Blandy warned, how ,i ver, against a hasty judge of re i suits. The latest broadcast from the flagship Mt. McKinley said the heavy damage to the Prince Eug eti caused surprise since it had been anchored on the other edge of the tethered fleet. But the damage to the old battleship Ne vada, bulls eve for the superfort ress which dropped the bomb, was said to lie "light.” “From what we could see aboard the Mt. McKinley, (his flagship, 10 miles from the blast) and on the basis of preliminary reports now corning into an intel ligence eenti r here the bomb de veloped possibly about the same efficiency as the Nagasaki type bomb a bomb like that exploded over Nagasaki ” (The bomb dropped on Nagasa ki killed 35,000 to 40,000 persons and injured 40,000.) “It is safe to say at this time that this able day operation has been highly successful from the point of view ni an operation and a test,” Blandy continued. "We expect to learn facts of great value.” •The bomb, he added, had been dropped with "very good accur acy.” The performance of his task force “could nut have been bet ter.” Scientific parties were apprais ing the radio activity present, and “damage control and fire fighting parlies are standing by to receive word that it is safe1 to enter the target area to combat damage which followed the blast.” "I hope tin- public will adopt the same attitude as we do in joint task force one—not be too hasty in judging results. There’s much more to learn,” Blandy said. The gigantic explosion, mush (Continued on page six) Uninvited Guest In Home Sunday ~ —■»—— Wandering aimlessly around in the Abi.'itt Mil! community and in a drunken condition, Floyd Tay >Jor, 3? year-old colored man, en tered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dock Whitaker some time during last Saturday night, pulled off his clothes and went to bed. Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker did not hear the man and did not know anyone was in their home until Sunday morning when Mr. 'Whit aker saw the stranger’s clothes lying in the middle of the floor. Going to the bed room he found Taylor wrapped head and foot and snoring. Angered by the presence ot the uninvited guest, Mr. Whitaker started for his gun, but changed his mind and called for Sheriff Roebuck who found Taylor still sleeping. Before waking up his man, the sheriff placed handcuffs on him. Taylor was booked for disorderly conduct, drunkenness and tres passing.
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