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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 66 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 16, 1946 .—■ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEBS ESTABLISHED 1899 Fines Amounting” To $170 Imposed In County Court -- No Session of tlie Court* Will Be Held Next Monday Handling nine cases, Judge J. Calvin Smith imposed fines amounting to $170 in the regular session of the Martin County Re corder’s Court last Monday. The tribunal, in session just about two hours, attracted an unusually large crowd since the tobacco har vest had been virtually complet ed. To avoid a conflict with the opening of the markets, Judge Smith announced that no session of the court would be held next Monday. The court will resume its work on August 26. Proceedings: Grover Clark, charged with careless and reckless driving, was sentenced to the roads for ninety days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and the court costs. The defendant’s license to operate a motor vehicle was revoked for thirty days. Pleading guilty in the case charging hitn with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, William Manson, Jr., was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. The court recommended that no operator's license be issu ed the defendant for one year. Bill Wimibush, charged with as saulting another with a deadly weapon, was adjudged guilty over his plea of innocence and was sen tenced to jail for two days, fined $24 and taxed with the costs. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, William E. Barringer pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and tax ed with the cost. The court rec ommended that no license be is sued the defendant for six months. Albert Williams, young colored man who went on a rampage in v. lien lie got iuJ'TrRfJff Rail 1 111el on, sweet wine and liquor, plead ed not guilty when faced with charges of assault wuth a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct. '1 ■ . w-ds; drunk but maintained that he knew nothing about the charges lodged against him Adjudged guffiy, Williams wj" serve twelve months on the roads. Maintaining his innocence, Wil liam Hoggard, charged with non support, was adjudged guilty. Judge Smith sentenced him to the roads for six months hut sus pended the sentence upon tire guaranteed payment, cf $8 each week to the county welfare de partment for the care and support of his five minor children. The court also ordered that the de (Continued on page eight) Several Injured In Road Accident Mrs. John Cotten Tayloe, the former Miss Bernice Everett of Robersonville, was painfully but not badly huit in an automobile accident near Washington last Tuesday evening. Dr. Tayloe suf fered fractures of two ribs and other injuries. Mrs. Tayloe was cut on the arms and suffered bruises, it was learned. The car caught fire, but Mrs. Tayloe help ed her husband out before he was burned. Parties riding in a second car figuring in the accident were badly but not critically hurt, one receiving a broken hip and burns. ■> WARNING | * County and local officers this week soiOided again the old warning to beware of get rich-quick schemes. They particularly stressed the ne cessity of staying clear of the ftamflammers, those persons who would dare pull the old pocket book gag and walk away with hard-earned cash. Several farmers have been swindled by plain trickery in past years, one losing well over * 1,000 in a single game. Money is expected to flow ever so freely in this section, but it will hardly be plentiful enough for one to take chances with it > Large Number Of Tobacco Ca rds Still To Be Delivered The delivery of several hun dred tobacco marketing cards fo the 1!>46 season is being delayed pending the completion of acre age surveys and the payment of penalties where allotments were exceeded, it was learned today from the Triple A office here. Land measurements have been checked in most of the townships, but the work has progressed slow ly in several districts, including parts of Robersonville, Hamilton and Poplar Point Townships. Un til the acreages are checked, the cards can't he delivered, it was explained. The office stated that work was being rushed as rapidly as possible by the committeemen and that it was possible most cards could be made ready for distribution over the week-end. Of the approximately 2(H) farm ers known .to have planted in ex cess of their allotments, only 34 up until Thursday noon had call cd foi their cards. In those cases where allotments were exceeded, the farmers were advised that they could report to the agent's office after having the respective district committeeman estimate the production, pay the penalty on that basis and receive a white marketing card. It is also possible for the excess planter to call at the office and choose a red mar keting card which provided for the payment of the penalty for excess plantings when the to bacco is sold. The thirty-four farmers plant ing in excess and calling for their cards paid a total penalty of $2. 559.70, or an average of $75.57 each. The penalty is figured at 10 cents a pound. All white marketing cards have been distributed where there were no excess plantings and where the lands have been check ed. Purchase Crawford House For Teachers i IMPROVED vJ Where they have not been drowned nr abandoned to the grass, peanuts are showing marked improvement, reports from various sections of the county declaring that the vines had doubled in size dur ing the past three weeks. With favorable weather con ditions prevailing during the remainder of the season, a fairly large yield and good quality are to be expected. Checking on his crop this week, Farmer Willie Lassiter said that he counted approxi mately eighty small goobers on one vine. _____ Firemen Consider Community Center In their regular meeting last Monday evening, local volunteer firfjpt*.. vox; d, unanimoaAf te> consider a community building project in cooperation with the several civic organizations and other interested parties. A com mittee was named to discuss with representatives from the civic or ganizations prospective plans for advancing such a program. The firemen, it was pointed out, have between $1,000 and $1,500 in then treasury and at their recent meet ing they indicated they were will ing to work hard and boost the amount in support of a worth while community undertaking. The group voted to spend be tween $350 and $500 on enlarging the firemen's house boat on the river for suppers and impromptu “Til?lungs. A "Tor was pfffffias'ed for $100 on the Hamilton Road for possible use in later years. All next week the firemen are sponsoring the Raftery’s and R. and S. Shows on the lot next to the Williamston Lumber Com pany. The proceeds will be plac ed. in the fund for possible use in supporting the community build ing project. --e Mrs. Wm. Powell Passes In County —«— Mrs. Ma.tha 1. Powell, widow of Wm. D. Powell, highly respect ed citizen of Gold Point, died at her home last Thursday at 2 p. m. Mrs. Powell, daughter of the iate Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry Whitfield, was 70 years old. A member of the Gold Point Chris tion Church she was held in high esteem and was regarded as one of the finest wemen of the com munity in which she was born and reared. Funeral services were held last Friday at the home with Rev. J. M. Perry of the Robersonville Christian Church off eiating. In terment was in the Kobeisonvilla cemetery. Surviving are two sons, C. L. and W. R. F*owell; one daughter, Mrs. R. C. Crawford, all of Gold Point; one sister, Mrs. Sue Bunt ing of Oak City, * -^-. Many Requests for Extra Apartments Have Been Filed - • «•> County Itoanl Agrees To Pav $15,04)0;' |)j*triet To Pay $5,000 After extended investigations and years of waiting in the hope ihe problem would solve itself, Williamston’s school district com mittee this week took definite action to provide housing for the local principal and teachers. Meeting for a second time with members i’oi'*uu^foi^‘*9ffimn,itce Wednes day morning definitely agreed to purchase the K. B. Crawford pro perty owned by S. A. Mobley on ■North Smithwick Street for $20, MMMMMK.4* •' . .■■■—■ \ The county, in accordance with an agreement reached at a joint jrraeVmg of the two groups some weeks ago, will accept three fourths or $15,000 of the cost and the local district will pay the re mainder or $5,000. Final action, calling for the purchase of the five apartment building, was taken only after other arrangements for housing the teachers had failed, and after the ownei had agreed to equip the building with adequate heating equipment. The purchase of the property will add considerably to the grammar school play ground area just as soon as a fence can be moved, it was pointed out. Hardly before the transaction had been completed numerous re quests for surplus i ooms or apart ments''were filed with the com mittee. The applications will be considered in the order they are received, but none of the property will be rented until principal teacher requirements are defin itely and adequately met, it was stressed ir. an announcement re leased soon after the deal v.as made public. Reporting for work this week, Principal B. G. Stewart plans to move his family here just as soon as workers can install steam pipes in his apartment, possibly next Monday. -* Paralysis Victim Reported Better —»— Little John Wade Coltrain, fall ing victim of infantile paralysis the latter part of July, was found to be showing some improvement Wednesday when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Coltrain, visited in the polio hospital at Gastonia in the polio hospital at Gastonia. The lad has use of one leg, but the other is not doing so well and it is believed that his back is af fected. At first, he could not look at his feet hut he has more use of his head now, it was reported. Mr. and Mrs. Coltrain, making the trip in one day, were accom panied by their sons, Maurice and Eldon, and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Coltrain. Mrs. John Hardy New Chairman of Red Cross Unit —*— Small Group In Mooting Held In Courthouse Last Wednesday Night -—. Mrs. John \V. Hardy was nam ed chairman of the Martin Coun ty Chapter, American Red Cross, in a meeting held in the county courthouse here Wednesday even ing. Her husband, the Rev. Mr. Hardy, was also nominated for the post, but the lady won out. James C. Manning, serving as chairman of the organization for the past five years, was elected vice chairman and Herman A. Bowen was continued as treasur er. Mrs. Edna Laughinghouse was re-elected secretary and home service director. Very little business was placed before the meeting other than the election of officers for the new year. Mrs. Laughinghouse. serv ing as secretary and home service director of the chapter for the past several months, reviewed the work of the Red Cross and ex plained that the case work had been greatly reduced during re cent months. In July only seven ty-five cases were hapdled, she said. Most of those cases were centered around World War 11 veterans who were interested in various aspects of the GI Bill of (Continued on page eight) -«. Druggists Hold District Meeting -•— representing most of the counties in t hi*'section of the State, per Meeting in the Woman’s Club hall here last Tuesday, druggists, escnUng ii sleet i fected an organization of the Tenth District, North Carolina Pharmaceutical Associatio Mr. John Hood of Kinston was elected president, W. B. Gurley of Wind sor, vice president and John liea51o*CY^ Approximately 21 c/1 the 41 druggists in the twenty one counties in the district at tended the meeting and partici pated in the program. the North Carolina Pharmaceuti cal Association of Chapel Hill; '■h c Al,' \ U'a'Om ■-■|,<.retavv of UictT of Chapel Hill, and Mr. E. C. Dan iel, president of the North Caro lina Pharmaceutical Association of Zebulon, addressed the after noon and evening sessions. Their discussion topics were centered around drug store problems, in cluding pharmacy laws and regu lat ions. Following dinner served in the club, educational films were shown during the evening pro gram. Mother of County Man Fatally Hurt •/ —♦— Mrs. Mary Ann Mokes, mother of J. O. Stokes of Hamilton and a sister of Henry Bryant Hardee of Robersonville, was fatally injured in an automobile accident near Ayden last Saturday afternoon. Mi s. Stokes, 80 years old, died in an ambulance while en route to a Greenville hospital. The car in which Mrs. Stokes was riding with her son, G. Lee Stokes, his wife and son, of Rich mond, was in collision with an other machine. Mr. Stokes, his wife and son were not badly hurt. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Red Banks Primitive Baptist. Church near Greenville Tuesday afternoon by Elder J. B Roberts of Farmville. Burial was in the family cemetery. Mrs. Stokes, widow of Elder Geo. W. Stokes, Primitive Bap tist minister, lived in Pitt County all her life. Besides her relatives in this county she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. S. C. Carrowan of Goldsboro ond Mrs. I). T. Jones of near New Bern; four sons, W N. Stokes of Charlotte, J. B. and W. H. Stokes, both of near Green ville, and G. Lee Stokes of Rich mond; four sisters, Mrs. Jethro Mills, Mrs. En.roa Gladson, Mrs. Gilbert Bibb and Mrs. Addie Ed wards, all of near Greenville; two brothers, Oscar and Ed Stanley Hardee, both of near Greenville; 40 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Lions Here Favor Reorganization of Parents-Teaehers —»— Plp<l(je Cooperation and Of fer Candidate For The Presidency -« One of the main items of busi ness at the regular dinner meet ing of the local Lions Club held last Thursday was a discussion of the need for a strong Parent Teachers Association in the local school district. It was pointed out that the need is now more urgent than ever, and with several members ex pressing their views, it was decid ed that the Lions Club would go on record as willing to support one hundred percent the reor ganization of a PTA. The club is also prepared to offer a candi date for the presidency of the PTA, who will have the support of the Lions. However, it is to be understood that the Lions are not endeavoring to undertake to pro mote this project alone, and they will expect and solicit cooperation from the other civic groups and various individuals in the com munity. It is hoped that with ail the groups working together, a strong organization can be per fected. Lion Claude J. Goodman, an experienced school man, was nominated as a potential leader. Mr. Hugh G. Horton, chairman of the Board of Review for scout ing in this county, was a guest, and he made several awards, in cluding a charter award to Troop No. 29, which is sponsored by the Lions Club. He also awarded committee certificates to Ben D. Courtney, Canoll Jones, J. H. Harrell, D. C. McLawhorn and Claude J. Goodman. Mr. Horton lauded the good work being done by the Lions-sponsored troop, un der the leadership of Carroll Jones and E. I. Ward, Jr. Tickets for the new Ford car to be given away next month by the Lions at their Harvest Festival were distributed, and are now on i.vrffP: u to apply on the Scout Hut Fund. The meeting was held at Chim ney Corner Inn. -o fr, e-Cascrisr'" Mayor^Gjurt Justice John L. Hassell handled five cases in his court during the past few davs, imposing fines ranging from $5 to $10. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes, Elijah Dixon was fined $10 and required to pay $(i costs. Zeb Biggs was fined $5. and taxed with $9.50 costs in the case charging him with disorderly con duct. In the case charging him with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes, Booker T. W. Purvis was fined $10 and requir ed to pay $6 costs. Charged with disorderly con duct, Charlie Hooker was fined $5 phi.-. $8.50 costs. Lawrence D. Teel was fined $10 anti taxed with $6 costs for oper ating a motor vehicle with im proper brakes. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Two accidents last week boosted the total on Martin County highways during the first 32 weeks of this year to 82, resulting in 68 injured, three killed and a property damage of $20,450 for the period. The tobacco marketing rush is now under way, and great er care is absolutely neces sary if safety is to have a place on the highways. 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. Thirty-Second Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1946 2 1 0 $ 800 1945 120 300 Comparisons To Date 1946 82 68 3 20,450 1945 35 17 3 8,600 Note—Two persons were killed on the highways dur j ing the early part of the mar keting season last year. Tobacco Moving To Market In Quantity First And Second Sales Scheduled For This Market —«— Medium (Quality Tobacco Im Predominant For The First Sales -• Elated over price reports from the border markets, farmers in this area joined together to create a big rush Thursday for the open ing of the lteal tobacco market next Monday. Not in. years has there been such a marked rush to get tobacco on the market. Far mers’ trucks and trailers at one time early Thursday were lined up from the warehouse doors to Jack Daniels’ filling station at the Jamesville and Washington Road intersection. The patrons waited their turns, patiently while two sets of scales were being us ed to capacity in each of the two houses where sales are scheduled for next Monday. As many as twenty trucks moved across the scales after assembly line fashion, anti a long time before noon, the first sale house was filled and to bacco was pouring into the other houses for sale next Tuesday. No such rush can be maintained, ob servers declared, but unusually hearvy sales are in prospect for quite a few d'ays. Market observers, appraising the rush, in its early stages, ex pressed concern over a possible glut in the redrying plants and factories and a resulting reduc tion in the selling schedule. How evei, no alteration in the sched ule is anticipated within the first two or three weeks. The local market litis yeai is trying out a new selling schedule. It is planned to hold first and sec ond sales each day. Approximate ly i.000 piles wilt be soid im tiie first sale during the early morn ing hours and then the buyers will transfer to the second sale where approximately the same , .IV! ' ’ i-C.Uh While hew To" the market, trie new selling plan is expectedJxL.w.ork to the advanta^e'Tr"?^:^^ Viousemen and particula* ly to the advantage of patrons because it will be possible to determine ahead of time about when the tobacco can be sold. A preliminary inspection of the early deliveries to the market hei e revealed that while there is sorre good tobacco on the floors, the quality., as a whole, is only medium. There are numerous piles of the scalded type, and there are few piles of the real fancy type. The crop is weighing compara tively light, but despite that drawback the market is almost certain to have around three quarters of a million pounds on its floors by opening time next (Continued on page eight) Electrocuted At Plant In County —*— David Brown, 36 years old, was accidentally killed by electrocu tion at the plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company in the lower part of this county last Tuesday, boosting the number of ersons who accidentally lost their lives there to a goodly figure Mr. Biown was ari electrician in the plant. Few details of the accident could be learned here immediate ly Mr. Brown was a son of the late Henry H. and Kitty Stocks Brown and lived in Plymouth most of his life. He was a member of the Plymouth Episcopal Church, its treasurer and teacher in the church school. Funeral services were conducted Thursday after noon in the church and interment was in the churchyard. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Helen Fentress Brown; two sons, David G* Jr., and Gene; and a daughter, Kitty; four brothers, J. S. and P. W. Brown of Plymouth, Carly of Norfolk, and L. P. Brown of New York; three sisters, Mrs. W. H. Paramore of Whiteville, Mrs. A. V. Rose of New York City, and Mrs. Annie Thrailkill of California, several nieces and ne phews. DECREASE | sJ The Enterprise, after trav eling at one time to more than une thousand Martin County service men in all parts of the world, is rapidly drawing in its belt, the circu lation department pointed; out this week. However, not all the county boys have served their enlistments the circula tion department spokesman explaining that the paper is still traveling to fifty Martin County boys overseas, mostly in Germany and Japan. Quite a few of the young men who received the paper while in service switched to the subscription list as civil ians just as soon as they re turned home. FCX Will Hold Annual Meeting -« The annual meeting for the stockholders and patrons of the Martin FCX Service, Wiiliamston, will be held Thursday, August 22, at 5:00 p. m., at the Wiiliamston High School, W M. Hardison, chairman of the Martin FCX Ad ivisory Board announced here to , day. j In announcing the event, it was . pointed out by the local chairman j that the annual county meetings had1 not been held during the war and that tile Advisory Board members urged all stockholders [ annd patrons of tire local FCX Service to attend their first post 1 war meet mg. | M. G. Mann, general manager of the Farmers Cooperative Ex |change, also urged the stockhold ers and patrons to attend the meeting, saying: “There has nev er bij'en. a time in history that j the farmers needed to cooperate as they do today. With labor and j industry already organized, fann ers must work together as never ,' hcX'.laVw* r. —1 h ’ 1 '■ ■ .. ,i<v ' flirt. i gains they have made in recent years.” . 'f?-ror 'thr -mce .tie being Fa. sell, local warehouse manager, and Robert A. Ponton, director of FCX Membership Relations from the Raleigh office. Preceding the usual business meeting which will feature a talk and report of operations for the year by Mann, there will be an I hour of entertainment, contests, and games with handsome prizes for the participants. The Martin FCX advisory board members are: W. M. Har dison, L. J. Hardison, J. K. Grif fin, Carl Griffin, and G. A. Ogles by. -* County Young Man Over In Germany —«— Stationed in Germany for some months, Wade Mobley, Martin County young man, stated in a recent letter that he met another county boy, Pfc. Dowell Forbes, a short time ago and enjoyed a long chat with him. “We entered the service to gether and it was our first meet ing since we were home last Nov ember,” Mobley said. Forbes is with the military government and Mobley is with the Third Field Battalion. Sgt. Mobley said he was still receiving the Enterprise and add ed, “It surely makes me feel bet ter.” -* Bus Drivers To Meet Wednesday —_«— Meeting in the high school building here next Wednesday morning at 9:00 o’clock, Martin County school bus drivers and their substitutes will receive in structions and take examinations, it was announced this week by the office of the county super intendent. Mrs. Futtrell, of tne North Car olina Highway Safety Division and members of the North Caro lina Highway Patrol, will head the one-day school. Hydrophobia Said More Prevalent In The Cold Months —«— No ('ure For !)i»euae Bui It ('an Be Prevented By Inoculation (The- following is one in a series of articles prepared by the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association and sponsored by civic organiza tions.—ed.) Since dogs run about in the open more in the summer than in the winter and, consequently, there are apt to be more dog bites in the warm months, people gen erally suppose that rabies is most common in summer. Actually, the disease is more prevalent in cold weather. How ever, rabies may occur at any time of year and a word about the disease now may be helpful, par ticularly since dog bites are more common in the summer and dog bites cause people to think ol rabies. Rabies, or hydrophobia, is an infectious disease communicated to man by the bite of certain ani mals, most frequently the dog, which have been infected with the virus causing the disease. It develops when the virus, travel ing along man’s nervous system, reaches the brain. Every human being who is bit ten by a dog does not, of course, get rabies. There is danger only if the dog is "mad” and even then the disease will not develop if the proper preventive measures are taken. Since no method has been found to cure rabies, it is of the I utmost importance to prevent it— , and to remember that it can be I prevented even after a bite by a "mad'’ dog. Inoculation with a serum first used by Louis Pasteur, or a modi fication of this scum, creates im munity to the disease and is rec ommended if there is any doubt as to whether the dog which in flicted the bite was rabid. If there is the slightest question about the condition of a dog which titis human being, tall a doctor or the health department immediately. Meanwhile, wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water * uCiT' l O catch the dog, which should then be turned over to the health of 1.-1 IMP ’ ht‘67i-h aflf&t well k*ep the anc ] mal under observation until it | can be determined whether or not I the nog was mad. Rabies de velops within a short time in i dogs. If the dog was not mad, . there is m danger that rabies will 1 develop in 'he human being, j The doctor may advise inocu (Continued on page eight) Divorce Suits Filed In Court —<*.— Three divorce suits were filed in the Martin County Superior Court this week, boosting the number of such actions now pend ing in the courts to an unusually large figure, according to infor mation gained from the clerk yesterday. All three of the divorce actions started tihs week are based on two years’ separation and all were filed by colored parties, as follows: Willie Combs against Mary El len Combs, W. D. Bell against Jennie Bell, and Sarah Ebron against Buck Ebron. | ORDER ^ Ail order for a carload of Martin County peanuts was received last week by the Dixie Peanut Company here from a firm in Honolulu, Hawaii. The shipment is to be made just as soon as the new crop starts moving, it was learned. W. C. YVindley, one of the company owners, stated that possibly the firm, dealers in coffee and other items, had seen one of the company's ad vertisements in a trade jour nal. Large shipments of Martin County peanuts move each season to candy manufactur ers in the Mid-west and to the West Coast, but the recent order reflects quite a trade expansion.