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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,900 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 68 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 23, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Board Petitioned To Take Hobgood School Students ——*— County Willing To Cooper ate With Sehooi In Car ing For Pupils Meeting with sehooi authorities in thus county last Tuesday, rep resentatives of the State Board of Education directed an appeal ask ing the Oak City School to help take care of a number of pupils thrown out of school when the building in Hobgood was destroy ed by fire some months ago. Tire petitioners were assured that this county would cooperate in every way possible to help care for the pupils. Investigating the possibility of turning about fifteen elementary pupils to the Oak City Sehooi, Re presentative Dark was told that a larger bus would be needed for the route serving the regular pup ils and the added fifteen. The in vestigator will continue his work and it is very likely that a new and larger bus will be made avail able. A few years ago. Halifax Coun ty school leaders came into this county and annexed a part of the Oak City district. It was pointed out that the approximately fifteen pupils the Oak City School is be ing asked to receive actually live in this county. Tlie disposition of the Hobgood High School has been debated for some weeks, the State Board fin ally assigning if to Scotland Neck. An unofficial report heard here the day after Representative Dark appeared in the interest of the fifteen elementary pupils stated that most of the high school pupils in the Hobgood district wanted to attend school in Oak City, that quite a few of the pa trons were planning to petition State Controller Reed, urging him to assign the high school pupils to Oak City for the coming term. School officials in this county stated that they would be giad to 9 ate in every way possible in the ■ interest of their education, but that final action rested with the controller. Several patrons were here Wednesday from Hobgood talking over the proposed change in the 1 'high school assfgrwjtfpl, and they I were referred to the controller. j Badly Hurt In Fall This Week -«. Mrs. Thomas Bailey was badly but believed not critically hurt last Wednesday afternoon when she fell down the second story stairs in a packhouse on the Bailey farm near Bear Grass. Brought here for first aid treat ment, Mrs. Bailey suffered a broken collar bone and a leg in jury. She was later removed to the local hospital for treatment. Mr. Bailey has been ill for a year or more. -— Leaves This W eek To Join Husband In Japan Mrs. Paul Millinder, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Myers, of Hamilton, left Tuesday by plane to join her husband who is serving with the armed forces in Japan. Mrs. Millinder left for Norfolk and from there she went to Chi cago. Sgt. Millinder, from Wilson, has been in service for thirteen years and has been in Japan since April. j LIQUOR SALES v Hampered by stock short ages, liquor sales have held to a fairly low figure, com paratively speaking, in the county ABC stores during the past few days. On tobacco opening day, sales in the Wil liamston store amounted to hardly $2,000, an amount about $3,000 short of a record. Something approaching a record was established by the ‘store here last Saturday when the clerks passed out the spirits having an assessed value of $1,200 the first hour after opening for business. The average was just about $20 a minute. Sales for the day totaled $3,680. & Accumulated Docket Faces Judge in the County Court Declaring a hoi day on account 'of (he market opening this week, Judge J. C. Smith will face a large docket when he convenes the re gular session of the Martin Coun ty Recorder’s court next Monday morning. Up until noon Wednes iday, thirty-five cases had been placed on the docket and several others were in the making at the time, Clerk L. B. Wynne said. Quite a few were in a fighting mood during the past ten days, a review of the docket shows. Twelve persons are booked for assaults with deadly weapons and three others are charged with as saulting females. Less than one tenth of the 35, or three, to be exact, are charged with drunken driving. Two stand charged with being drunk and disorderly, and two others are booked for disord erly conduct. Stili another two arc facing the court for alleged non-support. Four are alleged to have violated the health laws, in cluding two cases of a type rela tively new to the court. In these cases, def indants are charged with slaughtering animals within the town limits in violation of certain health law sections. One each is charged with reck less driving, cruelty to animals, operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes, bastardy, forni cation and adultery, and operat ing a motor vehicle while driver's license was revoked. The docket is one of the largest to face Judge Smith in the coun ty court in recent months, and it is likely that most of next Mon day will be spent handling the cases. Tobacco Sales Pass Million Pound Mark \ KKGISl RATION 1 v) Members of the senior class for the term 1946-47 are ask ed to report to the principal's office at the Williamston High School Monday morn ing, August 26, between 9 and 12 o'clock. Each senior will have the opportunity of dis cussing his high school credits with Mr. Stewart, who will advise with them concerning credits needed for graduation and college entrance. Senior will be asked regis ter for the fall term at this time. j White Cane Sales | Start Next W/eek Plans are shaping up for the first annual sals of While Canes for the benefit of the blind and visually handicapped in the coun ty to begin ne^t Monday and con tinue through August 29th. This sale is being sponsored by the local Lions Club, with the com mittee on Blind and Sight Cornier■ ■’ Li it'' ’ t he The committee has received 960 of the white can lapel buttons which they hope to sell for an av erage of 20 cents apiece. Each member of the clu-b is ex pected to sell at least three dol lars worth of canes, with two thirds of this amount going to the N. C. State Association for the Blind and the remaining third be ing retained by the local club for use among the blind in this coun ty. In addition to the selling of the canes, each member of the local club is expected to buy a year’s membership in the State Association at a minimum of one dollar. The club members, their wives and some of their children are ex pected to t=Vr- yv3,rt Mvjfc^^'hite cane sales in an effort to meet the goal. The need is great and the money derived will go to a very worthwhile cause, it was pointed out. There are approximately 7.000 blind and visually handi capped persons in this state. —-* Nation s Airpower Greatest In World —•— The Aircraft Yearbook, pub lished a few days ago, shows that when World War II ended the United States had more bombers of every type and more first-class fighters than all the rest of the world combined. In addition to the more than 80,000 first class warplanes that the United States had on V-J Day, the book points out that this country had new and advanced types of bombers and fighters ready for combat and vast production facilities for pro ducing them ready to go at high speed. During the war the army and navy air forces flew more than 2,646,000 sorties, according to the editor of the book. They drop ped more than 2,000,000 tons of bombs on enemy targets and de stroyed nearly 30,000 enemy , planes in the European war and ' 25.000 in the war against Japan. p * Prices On Better Types Holding Up But Others Low —<$— Larger Sales Anticipated Early Part Of The Coming Week Although prices fluctuated to some extent, especially for the in ferior grades, sales on the local market passed the million-pound mark Thursday. No official re port could be had late in the aft ernoon fut the Thursday sale, hut over 200,000 pounds were sold to carry the total for the first four selling days to over one million pounds. The high average based on srrt’STarwt.EiL.s^KSf a tained throughout the day, an of ficial report showing that 320,402 pounds were sold for $173,869.71, or an average of $54.25 per 100 pounds. Last Tuesday, 281,950 pounds were sold for an average of $53.02. Observers were of the' for most of the inferior grades were hardly as W* er in the week. One report, however, explained that possibly more inferior quali ty tobacco was offered Wednes day ar>d Thursday than was on the floors the first two days of the season. It was fairly apparent, at the same time, that the poor qual ity grades were not in as great demand Thursday as they were earlier in the week, and some farmers said that the price for those types was down from one to several cents. However, prices for the better quality grades were holding up well and quite a few farmers Thursday averaged sixty cents or more. One report stated that the buyers did not seem to be anxious for tobacco Thursday as they had been earlier in the week. For the first time this season, farmers rejected some sales Thursday. The number of turned tags was small, but it was appar ent that quite a few farmers were not altogether satisfied with their sales. They declared that tobac co was selling lower in this belt than it did in Georgia and that the Border markets apparently had had a better season up to date than was the case in this belt. The unsteady trend in prices was reported fairly general throughout the belt. The Federal State Marketing News Service re ported decreases of one to seven cents a pound in prices paid for teveral types and slight gains for Dther types. Average prices paid Wednesday for a few grades follows: Leaf—Good lemon $64, down M; fair lemon $64, up $1; low or ange $51, up $1; common orange 142, up $2. Cutters—Fair lemon $66, up $1; ow lemon $65, up $1; low orange >65, up $1. Lugs—Good lemon $65, up $1; air lemon $52, down $4; low lem >n $3), down $4; good orange $59, lown $1; fair orange $47, up $1; ow orange $26, down $4. Primings—Good lemon $01, up 11; fair lemon $46, down $3; low (Continued on page eight) To Restore Meat Control Prices On September 9 -—•-— ininu'iliatc Increase In The Price Of Flour Allowed —— Price control on a number of food items, including meats, is be resurrected, but before new life is breathed into the thing all kinds of predictions are bobbing up right along with sky-high prices. Controls on flour are being re instated immediately but not un til after the price is boosted seven cents a hundred pounds. Announcing the return of price control on meats and other items, Price Administrator Paul Porter declared that vigorous action would be taken against black marketeers. “Ther° is no substantial basis for reports that we are going back to widespread black markets,’" he told a news conference. ’’I hope packers will devote a substantial part of their energy to make re control work—at least as much energy as they devoted to trying to get rid of controls.” Industry spokesmen and other foes of meat controls already are predicting the possible return of black markets and scarcities. A statement by the United States Chamber of Commerce de clared that "the order unques tionably will reduce the meat sup ply” because grains, left uncon trolled, will “drain” into “produc tion not under control.’ At the same time, the CIO re leased a statement from its presi dent, Philip Murray, contending that “recontrolling of meats means very little when livestock and poultry feed products are left free of controls.” Murray an nounced that the CIO will urge the new decontrol board to “rein state ceilings on all items which it failed to control.” Porter announced that flour price ceilings will be raised seven cents per JOO pounds Friday to reflect a higher parity price on' for restoring retail ceilings on sal ad and cooking oils, and Septem ber 3 for reimposing ceilings at all levels on soy beans, flaxseed and by-product feed grains. Porter renewed his previous statements that the new meat price ceilings will lie "at or near” ! the levels of those which died creases on some meats probably will be necessary to meet parity price requirements, and empha sized: “I have been carefu! to fay ihat the new ceilings will be at or near June 30> levels.” The ceilings will be restored on a staggered plan which will put them into effect on livestock Au gust 29, at the packing house Sep tember 1, at wholesale levels Sep tember 5, and in the retail butch er shop September 9. Porter explained that the OPA and the Agriculture Department decided upon the staggered time schedule in order to “clean out over-ceiling meat” which dealers have on hand. Pledging vigoytMis-cfforts to en force the ceilings, Porter said: "We will have twice as many investigators on meat as we ever had before. We will hit a level of 2,500 investigators in Septem ber—easily double the previous number.” Biead ceilings, increased re cently by one cent per loaf, will be cut by the same amount as soon as restrictions on the mill ing of flour have been lifted by the Agriculture Department, Porter said. He had ho informa tion on when these restrictions may be removed. Asked whether OPA plans to remove ceilings on flour, Porter said controls will remain in effect as long as the curb on milling of wheat does. As for tne board’s order that dairy products and most grains remain uncontrolled, Porter com mented: “I would have to be less than candid if I did not express disap pointment that the board was un able t-o find a basis for recontrol of dairy products “However, the board had no al ternative, since it did not find that prices on these products had risen unreasonably.” Porter was asked whether OPA plans to keep a sharp eye on dairy (Continued on page eight) ! Faculty Complete For Bear Grass —»— Drawing heavily from talent in the community, the Bear Grass school this week announced its faculty complete for the term opening on Thursday of next week. The faculty is one of the first in the county to be announc ed complete. Returning to the school, Prin cipal Chas. Hough stated that present indications point to a suc cessful term. The school men is expecting an increase in enroll ment and a greater attendance record than last year. Two teachers, Mrs. Mildred Ay ers Bagley and Mrs. Dorothy Meeks, have resigned. The posi tions made vacant by their resig nations in the third and fourth grades have been filled and a new teacher has been added to the high school faculty. Names of the faculty members and their assigned grades: First, Mrs. J. C. Manning. Second, Mrs. Lucy Ayers. Third, Mrs. Clyde Manning who succeeds Mrs. Meeks. Fourth, Mrs. Guy Leggett who substituted there last term. Fifth, Mrs. Clarice Cherry, who substituted In the school for a month or more1 last term. Sixth, Mrs. Noah Rogerson. Seventh, Mrs Ethlyn Hines. Eighth, Mrs. Mildred Ward Lee. High school, Miss Naomi Brown who is entering the profession following training in a Georgia college and East Carolina Teach ers College, Greeny e, and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hough. -<*,— School Principals In Meeting Here Meeting in the office of the county superintendent here last Tuesday, principals of the several high schools completed plans for opening the new term next Thurs day morning at 9:00 o’clock. While all the faculty positions have not been filled in one or two schools, the teacher problem has been solved to a large extent and cessful term. Busses will be delivered next Tuesday to drivers for the Farm Life, Jamesville, Boar Grass, Ev eretts and Robersonville Schools, and to the drivers for Williams ton, Hamilton, Hassell. Oak City and Parnj^^cfl Wednesday, the 2Kth. . S’ dOSi tnei: teachers next Wednesday; Otiier than the teachers, most of the school employes art' now at work completing arrangements For opening the term next Thurs day. Murine Corp Convoys Travel Through Here -« Starting about two weeks or more ago one Marine Corps con voy after another has moved through here almost every day since that time. Moving south and limited to a comparatively few vehicles, mostly jeeps, as many as three or four convoys moved through here in a single day. —-1 To Enter Special School Tor Blind -1$,.... An operation having failed to restore his sight, Jim Manning, son of Mr. Ben R. Manning of Griffins Township, plans to enter a special school for the blind in Greenville shortly. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . For the first time in nearly two months motorists last week traveled the Martin County highways without a reportable accident. In the 33rd week of 1945 there were four accidents, but even with the comparison advantage of the week, the record for 1946 is alarmingly large. 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-third Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1946 0 0 Q $ 000 1945 400 175 Comparisons To Date 1946 82 68 3 20,450 1945 39 1,7 3 8,750 Judge Wynne Rules Killing “Justifiable” In Williams District Slade Corey, 35, Fatally Shot By John Williams, 12 —♦ — On Wild Rampage, Corey Dangerously Attacked Lad's Father -® Drinking freely of liquor, high powered wine and beer, Slade Corey, 35-year-old Negro tenant farmer of Griffins Township, went on a wild rampage that cost him his life in Williams Township about 5:30 o’clock last Monday afternoon. Ignoring an officer's warning and defying three rela tives, Corey was bent on destruc tion and murder before he was finally subdued at the end of a gun barrel in the hands of John Henry Williams, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Willie.ms, of Williams Township. The attack, resulting in Corey’s immediate death, was ruled “justifiable homicide” by Juven ile Judge L. Bruce Wynne at a hearing held in the courthouse Tuesday morning shortly after 10 o’clock. All charges were dis missed, the action meeting with unanimous approval of those ac quainted with the facts in the case. Selling a small load of tobacco on the Williamston market Mon day morning, Corey, a tenant on Marvin Leggett's farm in Griffins Township, drew $157.50 as his share. The settlement was made at nopn, and the landlord at that time suggested that Corey apply at least a part of the money on personal debts Meeting with old friends a short time later, Corey financed finch tw, later shared a quart of high-pow ered wine with a friend, the t\go I consuming the quart hack of Duk ; Inn on Washington Street. He followed that with two bottles of beer, and possibly more About 3:00 o’clock, he was seen dancihg on the porch of the beer joint and a little Jater he was m wwwjagii Officers warned Corey to leave for home and he agreed to go home with Lem Griffin, Eugene and Jim Corey, cousins. The four started home with Jim driving and Corey riding in the front seat with him. Griffin was just behind Corey. When they reach ed the creek, Corey placed his head between his knees and start ed crying like a baby, Griffin said at the hearing. “He insisted on getting out, and I placed by arms around his neck. Slade opened the door and when he placed one foot outside and almost pulled me out, I told Jim to stop. Slade ran down the road about 100 yards and stopped. We finally got him back into the car and before we ■bad gene- very far, he had another one of his spells We continued on however, driving by the Holly Springs Road because we thought it was closed while they were pouring tar on it. We turned off at Hardison’s service station and traveled down the Wilt/, Siding Road to the Dat. Moore farm, about, one and one-half miles from the Jamesville Highway. We had to stop there, for Slade had gone completely mad. “Slade went to the front door of the Moore home, snatched open the screen and kicked the door open. He then ran around the house and into the woods. Circ ling back, he ripped a strand of barbed wire from a fence, went into the chicken coop. Coming out of there lit? ripped boards from the stables and turned the mules out. "We went into a huddle. It was suggested that we should knock him in the head, but decid ed to call for the sheriff and let him do it. We drove about two hundred yards down the highway and thinking he might kill the people when they returned home, we stopped and discussed our plight with Eli Bell. About that lime, Slade came into the high way. I went to meet him and when I got within a few feet of (Continued on page eight) \ TRANSIENTS 1 v/ One of the largest move ments of transient workers ever knowti in this section is now believed about over for this year, according to unoffi cial reports coming from the employment services. It was conservatively esti mated that 15.0(H) transient workers—workers following the irish potato harvest from Florida to Maryland—moved through here during the past season. It was also estimated that another 5,000 of the workers moved northward on other highway routes. Traveling in all types of ve hicles, mostly large trucks, the workers have just about cleared this point on the re turn trip. Continuous rains interr upt ed the harvest, and many of the transients hardly made enough to feed themselves ajid pay transportation fees, one report said. Jaycees Plan Their Projects For Fall —<*,— The local Junior Chamber of Commerce held its regular semi monthly dinner meeting last Fri day evening at the “Switch.” The meeting was presided over by President Ernest Mears, and in- j vocation was offered by Tom Crockett. Following the dinner, the guests 1 were introduced and welcomed. J Among the guests were Buck j A.vers of Everetts, Charlie Brown of Greensboro and Williamston and Charh-s^ ■ .Greenville Jayceesr^^^^®^^^ Included in the business of the evening was a discussion of sev eral community projects that are urgently needed. In compliance with an appeal from the promot- j ers of the Tobacco Festival to be | held in Reids^^^jjext month, 1 | the Jaycees send a 1 1 queen to represent Williamston in | I there. It was decided to send a runner-up in the local contest, Miss Angela McLawhorn. Reports on the recent quurtei ly state directors' meeting were made by Ernest Mears and Wheeler Manning, while Clarence Griffin reported on the proposed swimming instruction course pro ject. Due to the short time re maining this summer, this project was postponed until next year. Mon* Controls Put On Credits -—«-— Now York.—The Federal Re serve Board*moved last week to take a little ease out ot the easy supply of money. Or, to he more exact, out of easy credit. It reim posed its controls on installment credits in the $1,500 to $2,000 range, and shortened tin repay rrient time on other types This action obviously is an anti-infla tionary move, designed to curtaf? buying puwt t. By lifting to $2,000 the transactions under its control, the board thus reached out to take charge of many automobile purchases. The Board still allows such loans to be repaid m fifteen months time. But on other types it shortened the repayment period. Money borrowed for such purposes as rents, taxes or vaca tions must now be paid back in twelve months instead of fifteen. Meanwhile, cash buying con tinues heavy. Mail order sales for the first half of l!)4(i show a big gain over the same period last year. Largest relative gain was recorded for stores handling auto motive parts and accessories. Hardware store owners and building material dealers also re port bigger sales volume. -o LOST COLONY SPECIAL Special busses, operating out of Charlotte and Winston-Salemu have moved several thousand per sons through here to and from the Lost Colony performances. Sixteen Cases In Justice Of Peace Court This Week Crime I:n r* ii!<r t'ollonv the 0|M iiini> of Tobacco Markets -<j> A marked1 increase in crime ac tivities accompanied the opening of the tobacco marketing season, in this section, according to a re port coming from Justice Jonn L. Hassell’s court this week. Pos sibly the increase was also partly the result of a fairly large ship ment of liquors into the area for distribution last week-end. Cases handled by Justice Has sell during the past few days: Charged with disorderly con duct, Matthew Griffin was fined $5 and taxed with $8.50 costs. Joseph Eberhart, drunk on highway, was fined $2.50 and re quired to pay $7.50 costs. Publicly drunk. Archie Mobley was fined $2 50 and taxed with $7.50 rusts. In the case charging F. L Ben son w ith disorderly conduct, the defendant was required to pay $8.50 costs. Charged with improper parking and no lights tin his vehicle, Jesse Bland was fined $10 and required to pay $9.25 costs. In the case charging him with disorderly conduct, Joe Roberson was fined $5 and taxed with $7.50 costs. Ih link and down, Chas. Thomas was fined $5 and required to pay $8.50 costs. Thurman Williams was fined $5 and taxed with $9.50 costs for dis orderly conduct. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Mildred Daniel was bound over to the county court. Bond was required in the sum of $200. Charged with failing to stop at a street intersection, Clove Dan iel was required to pay $7.50 costs. Marshal Croul, charged A’lth disorderly conduct, was fined $5 and required to pay $7.50 costs. James Ruffin was required to p iv^a case chaTfTng Min w un a simple assault. Andrew Lyons, Jr., was fined $15 and taxed with $7.50 costs in the case charging him with dis orderly conduct. Reamon Sherrod, charged with disorderly conduct, fenced to the roads for thirU^days, the [•ouit -uspendmg the term upon B. Moore was fined $5 and re quired to pay $7.50 costs for dis orderly conduct. Charged with drunken driving, 1 lay wood Johnson was bound •ver to the county court for trial icxt Monday. Bond in the sum d $100 was required. Marriage Licenses Are Issued In The County Four marriage licenses were is sued recently in this county by Registei J, Sam Gitsingc-r tu tho following: f.ai'l ylor, RFD 1, Roberson vi 1 It*, an, Nellie M. Roberson, of RFD, Williamston. John Russell Rogers and Daisy 1 * Whitley, both of Williamston. Jesse Taylor and Christine Tay lor, both of RFD 1, Robersonville. John William Purvis, Jr., of Rocky Mount, and Mary Ward Slade, of Hamilton. OPENS SODA SHOP Mr. J. ( laude Leggett opened hi.s soda shop here for business, Tuesday. Located in the old Williamston Cafe building, the shop is modern in every particu lar, including a large fountain and snack bar. TAX NOTICES Approximately 7,500 tax notices were placed in the mails this week for distribu tion among Martin County taxpayers, and Tax Collector M. Luther Peel is already busy rounding up a total levy of approximately $212,000. The amount includes special school taxes in three districts and special road taxes In three other districts. The return of servicemen from the war since the first of last year has increased the number of taxpayers hy about 700 in the county, but the total is still about 400 short of the. average reported prior to the war.