MB ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER IJM MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK HRS THE VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 84 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 18, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge j.t Smith Calls Nine Cases In County’s Courl —»— Tribunal In Session Unti After Lunch Hour Clearing Docket Violating the conditions of i judgment imposed by Judge J Calvin Smith, Alton “Buck” Ray nor, young white man of Ply mouth, was ordered to seive tw< six month sentences on the road: in the Martin County Recorder’: Court last Monday. Raynor wa: convicted last April in the court for drunken driving. He was fin ed $50, taxed with the cost anc sentenced to the roads for a term of six months. The road term was suspended on condition that he violate no law. In July, Raynor was carried into court for alleged driving while his operator’s li cense was revoked and drunken driving. He was fined $100, taxed with the cost and given a second six month sentence on the road*, Apparently willing to give the de fendant another chance or over looking the first suspended sen tence, the court suspended the sec ond road sentence on condition that he violate no law. Last Mon day, he was charged with having violated the terms of the judg ment, and his immediate commit ment was ordered, the court rul ing that the two sentences were to be served concurrently. Following a precedent estab lished in previous cases, the court did not recognize drivers’ license or permits issued in the armed forces, and Johnnie Williams was fined $15 and taxed with the costs. Williams, declaring that he thought it was all right to drive with the service license even though he had no civilian permit, has had adverse luck following his discharge from the service. The young colored man fell off a load of hay several months ago and broke a leg. Joe Thompson and Linwood Bland faced the court on charges of drunken driving and being drunk and disorderly. Both plead ed not guilty and Thompson was adjudged not guilty. Bland, found guilty of simple trespass, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road sentence for one year on condition that he pay the costs, (Continued on page eight) , -,-c Funeral Thursday For Mrs. Bullock Funeral services were conduct ed at the home Thursday after noon at 3:00 o'clock for Mrs. Bes sie Woolard Bullock who died at her home near Bear Grass last Tuesday night at 11:50 o'clock. Mrs. Bullock, 58 years of age, had been in declining health for about five years, and her condition had been critical for almost two weeks. W. A. Brown, of the Re hoboth Pentecostal Church in Bear Grass Township, conducted the last rites, and burial was in the (cry, near the home. Mrs. Bullock, daughter of the late Hardy and Alice Virginia Woolard, was born in Beaufort County and lived all her life near the Martin-Beaufort boundary line. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mark Terry, of West Palm Beach; a brother, Wiley Martin Woolard, of near Williamston, and two grandchildren. - —• ■■ ■ ■ ■ Open Meeting In Church Sunday The third in a series of revival meetings in Williamston will get under way in the Memorial Bap tist Chjurch Sunday morning. Th*> pastor, Dr. Ira D- S. Knight, will conduct the first of the services Sunday and Rev. Paul B. Nickens. > Plymouth minister, will occupy 1 the pulpit beginning Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. i A meeting was closed in the Methodist church here week be fore last, and the Christian church i is ending a two-week meeting Friday night of this week. Unusually large crowds have been attending the services, and the Baptists are extending a cor- ] dial welcome to members of al! ! denominations and other j to war- ' ship with them in their meeting' < next week. i eATnE Rlt ^ENS AS Mf AT-CCNTRGi. IS DROPf>ED inii ""i I BUYERS FOR MAJOR MEAT PACKING FIRMS sit on fence rails at the Kansas City, Kansas, livestock market 1 bidding for the ilrst control-free cattle since price ceilings were lifted by the President. Early bids went ( aa high as $24 for grades which, under OPA control, had been sold for $18. (International Soundphoto) Lower A ttenda nee Figu res Reported In County Schools After holding to an average fig ure of slightly more than 97 per cent during the first month of the current term, attendance tumbled during recent days in the schools of this county, it was learned from the office of the superintendent this week. It was estimated that more than 600 pup ils were absent some days, the av erage daily attendant* falling to around 90 percent. Speaking before a meeting of county principals and other school authorities held in Ilobt rsonvilk's Wilson Hotel last Monday even ing, Superintendent J. C. Man ning stated that the 97 percent at tendance record established in the first month of this term was possibly the best in years. Turning to prisoner of war labor for the past two years, farm ers held their children at home by I the hundreds during recent days I to help with the peanut harvest. I The prisoners were moved away j months ago and other labor was j not available in sufficient ruini | bers to handle the task. So far, .sickness and other drawbacks ! have not materially affected the ; attendance record, and school1 I authorities are hopeful that a I marked improvement will follow I once the peanut harvest is com pleted. Very few pupils are be : ing held at home to help with the cotton haivcst, it was learned. Pool attendance was reported in nearly every 'school in the county, including both white and colored. The recent recorcj is in j marked contrast with the figures , released during the first lew days j of the current term when the daily attendance figures ranged j as high as U!) percent or more of | enrollment. District Democratic Rally Here Monday! THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists and pedestrians flirted with death on the highways of this county but miraculously managed to stay out of the accident itco/d.r* death column. One person, a little boy, was painfully hurt in one of two accidents re ported by members of the highway patrol 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. 41st Week Accidents lnj’d Killed Dam'ge 1046 2 1 0 $ 300 1945 5 1 0 450 Comparisons To Date 1946 99 76 3 23,650 1945 53 27 6 10,450 Homecoming At Sued Home Church Sunday -* Home Coming w ill be observed it the Sweet Home Christian Church, Sunday, October 20th. Rie pastor. Rev. Preston E. Cay on, will deliver special sermons , it both the morning and night i services. The Bear Grass trio will stfig at >oth services. The public is in- 1 rited. Closing a series of services here Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Cay- j on will open a meeting in the 1 ■'air View Church of Christ next Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Ser 7cei will fce held at that hour lut:r g the * eek concluding the ; 6115 wing Sunday. Prominent Party Figures Planning To Attend Rally -<> In JiiMii<-i> Of IN'acr Court --V Vv'l'.ik' there has bean ;t marked decrease in activities in Judge J. C. Smith's county court during recent weeks, Justice John L. Hassell continues to have a brisk business in his court here. During • the past few days he handled nine | cases or as many as were docket- . ed in the county court last Mon- < day. ( Handling five cases at one sit- j ting, Justice Hassell reported | fines ni the amount of $35, the ( costs boosting the income of the | local court to $90 since last week- j end. Seven of the nine cases on , the justice’s court docket were . eh a red with final judgments t while two others were sent lo \ higher tribunals for trial. t Proceedings: ( Charged with disorderly con- t duct, Jay Gardner was fined $5 f and required to pay $9.50 costs. \ David H, Smith was fined $10 I j and taxed with $6 costs for oper- t ating a motor vehicle on the g wrong side of the road. , Jesse Gardner, charged with disorderly conduct, was fined $5 and taxed with $0.50 costs. i Charged with simple assault, Edward Davenport was ordered i) pay $5.50 costs. Ade Roberson was fined $5 and axed with $9.50 costs in the ease 1 s ’..or ••• Hi, disordt < !.y cun luet. Charged with disorderly con luet, L. G. Modlin was fined $5 md taxed with $8.50 costs, Troy Lee Ila.ymor, charged with P< ' ding, was bound over to the ■ounty court for trial, Justice la : i II requiring bond in the sum if $50. R B. Spruill was; fined $5 and axed with $0.5(1 costs for disord rly conduct. Charged with operating a mot r vehicle without a driver’s li aise, John B. Clay was bound ver to the county court lor trial loud in the sum of $50 was re uired. \ 1 f f 0 1. k ■ r 1 n a L w la at hi Vnnounce Hours At Youth Center —eii>g planned for October 2tith 1 prize will be given to the giri ith the most attractive costume. ■ ii rumored that or. Cadie Hav k ts da/Lena, the Hyena, will vuut n« center. PrTTTi ijxal Ixr An Accident Here Is Killed In Another —•>— ISavy Man Runs Over Local Lad and Later Loses His Life --9 Chief Commissary Steward Robert B. Johnson, 38, was killed and his wife, the former Miss Sal lie Rouse of Griffon, was serious ly injured in an automobile acci dent near Kinstcn last Sunday night. It will be recalled that Johnson was the driver of the car that ran down Douglas Peel, young local boy, on the main street here the 9th of last month. Johnson, apparently unnerved by the accident here, showed much concern over the boy's condition, but nothing more was heard from him after no charges were pre ferred against him. The Peel youth was badly battered and bruised and shocked but he was not critically hurt. Few details of the accident costing the Navy man his life on Highway 11 near Kinston early last Sunday evening have been learned here. Preliminary reports stall'd that Joseph Dawson, SB year-old Kinston man and judge of Lenoir County’s court, ran into the Johnson car. It was charged that Dawson was drunk at the lime, and that he was arrested and jailed by Highway Patrolmen T. W. Fearing and V. L. Spruill. Bond was later fixed in the sum if $2,000 and Dawson’s release A»as effected. During the mean time, a session of the court was postponed, reports reaching here stating Unit the judge explained le was “indisposed.” The recent development in svhich a man lost his life and an ither person suffered a broken jack is the second in which Daw on has figured publicly and pro ninently. About two years ago he was ar ested by the same patrolmen for trunken driving. Carried into he superior court before Judge iViiliam Hyslop Sumner Bur ;wyn, Dawson gained his freedom ind escaped justice on what was lescribed as a technicality. Be ause he was arrested inside Kin ton’s city limits by members of he State Highway Patrol with >ut a Kinston officer being ir, al endance, Dawson v/as said to lave been sent on his wray. If a nedal was pinned on the defend nt at or since that time, it could ml be learned, but one report card here soon after the trial in imated that tiie arresting offic es brought condemnation down pon themselves for arresting a runken driver and daring to estify against the man who two ears later figured in an accident lat cost a man his life and pos ibly maimed another person for (Continued on page eight) -o utend Funeral Here On Tuesday Funeral services were hold at . i 1 1/iisiitet, A]. J. /. Watts, on Ray Street hero last uesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock jr Mrs. Frederick Cress well, the inner Miss Mary Gladys Watts f Williamston, who died sudden ' at her home in Alexandria, Va., ist Sunday morning. The last tes, conducted by Rev. John W. ardy, were altended by a large umber of friends and acquaint ices from two states and the istrict of Columbia. Interment as in the family plot in Wood wn Cemetery. Among those from out of town tending the service were: Mrs. Robert Mitchell of Bel iven, Mrs. W. S. Galloway, Mrs. att Long and Miss Betty Dou jrnage of Greenville, Mrs. J. L >encrr of Portsmouth, Mrs. G.M iberton of Norfolk, Mrs. F- P. i artell of Berkley, Va., Mrs. abcl Turnage of Washington, , essrs. Nelson Snyder and R. L. ' ane of Alexandria, Mr. and Mrs. . H. Weathersby and Mrs. J. W. 1 ithaway of Elizabeth City, Mr. < P. Hornthall of Tarboro, Miss i ma Dibrell of Alexandria, Miss 1 artha Hornthall and Mrs. J. R. > ierett of Plymouth, Mr. and 1 rs. P. If. Heydenreich of Tar- i no, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thoma- i n of Danville, Va., Miss Daphne I illock of Raleigh, Mi. Howell < adswerth of New pern, Mrs. J 1 !*y©nc of Chapel iUh and Mr . :c; swell .i.'i daughter, Mis. j ary Ann He/denreich, 1 Legim m ires St udy ^Plam For County War Memorial \ Holding their regular monthly meeting last Monday night, mem bers of the John Walton Tost o? the American Legion discussed plans for advancing a war mem orial, honoring the men of this county who served in the last war and especially the memory of those who made the supreme sac rifice. “Ours is one of the few coun ties in the State that has not, at least, formulated plans for such a memorial,” Rev. John W. Hardy, commander of the post, said. Continuing, the commander said, “It was felt that the least we of the county could do would be to find the means of perpetuating the iedals for which these young men had fought and died in order , 'hat Democracy and the Freedoms ! | might prevail. Several types of memorials were discussed, and a committee, headed by W. E. Dunn, was appointed to formulate plans for the memorial." The committee will meet in the Legion hut at 7:30 next Monday night to advance plans for a mem orial. Interested citizens, other than members of the committee or Legion, are invited to attend and participate in the discussions at that time, the commander said. The meeting this week decided to have a dutch supper Armistice Day at 7:30 that evening in the hut. A good speaker is being booked for the event, and every 1 service man in the county is in vited to attend. Meat Now Moving To Markets In Quantity' Prices Soaring To Record Levels In Stores Of Nation Shortage Greatly Relieved Day Decontrol Went Into Effect -<*> Following a shortage that push ed close to starvation over a period of several weeks, beef started to the nation’s markets in large volume the very day decon trol went into effect. Reports state tnat beef moved out of stor age to the retail shops immediate ly, and cattle receipts in the big slaughtering centers were above normal after holding to the low est point in years. Hog prices gained as much as ten cents in a single day, jumping from about $15.30 to $26 a hun dred on some markets. Cattle prices went to as high as 35 cents in Chicago for best offerings in a hurry, and the market continued firm even though deliveries were heavy. Indications early in the week pointed to full relief within ten days, but locally and in many other centers relief was almost instant. It will be possibly two or three weeks before western beef starts moving into this area, but the native supply plus several carloads from Kentucky will more than take care of the gap. Two carloads of fine beef cattle were shipped here early this week from Kentucky, tnc shipment coming ahead of decontrol. Two other carloads are in transit, and price increases are to be expected. “There are plenty of cattle in the country, and I believe the supply will take care of any tendency toward run - away prices,” D. M. Roberson, owner manager of Slaughter’s House, said yesterday. He explained that there will have to be a period of adjustment, but within a rcason aoie time, prices will bv in his opinion. The hog situation is not so fav orable, according to the stockman. “It will be at least a year before the supply can be built up,” he said, explaining that there were right many hogis in the west, but not enough to go around. He ad vised those persons having any lard at all to stretch it as far as 1 they ran. While retail prices pointed up- 1 ward, reaching record levels in sonic of the larger cities, there was a fairly wide discrepancy Dven from store to store. Prices ranged from 65 to 80 cents for sir- ^ loin steaks in local stores, while n the cities it went as high as 11.25 a pound. In those cases where the price ranged around 65 •cuts, the latest livestock figures J were not involved, meaning that < i marked increase can be expect- s Local hog prices are believed to >ave been about the top for the :ountry. Feeder pigs have been citing for aa muol: a 35 cents, a igurc set mostly by farmers who vere stocking their peanut fields. Pressed hogs, moving to the retail tores were figured at 50 cents a >ound. It is the general opinion hat tire local hog market will .qntmue “tight" .with the possi uiity that -it uhil be relieved Ughtiy wben larxers start ~ov &g H'jgp out oi ».e peiiut fields he early part of the year. t r c I s 1 0 i1 i f 1 l 1 I TOBACCO V-_>| Clearing a fairly large block last Tuesday, the local tobacco market reported fair ly light sales on Wednesday and Thursday with prices holding fairly firm. The floors were cleared fairly early on the two days follow ing the block. Through yesterday the market had sold 9,286,208 pounds for an average right at $51.00 per hundred pounds. Fair large sales are antici pated Friday and on Monday of next week. Over A Hundred Pupils’ Names On First Honor Roll -■ Student Must Got An A On Kuril Subject To Gain Recognition The names of 104 pupils appear on the first honor roll for the current term in the local schools, Principal B. G. Stewart explain ing that the student must earn an “A" rating on each subject to have his name appear in the list. The list is for the first six-week period, ended recently. The names follow, by grades: Second Grade: Paul Barber, Carolyn Beauchemin. Nancy Brit ton, Ann Darden, Emma Jean Sodard, Peggy Godard, Henry Handy, Jimmy Hardison, Ann Harrison, Mary Lou Jennings, Blanche Manning, Allan Modlin, Joseph Murphy, Jane Peele, James Rogers, Gene Silverthorne, Billy Taylor, Floyd Thomas, Billy rhornton, Clayton Weston, Mary Lee White. Third Grade- Joyce Baker, Jane ELtttaiiiil JuJianRafe^Jano Gray, Biggs, Jon Cuirkc^Touy Fagan Jarstarphen, Joseph Clayton, Bi 1 - y Dudley, Sandra Gardner, Jrady Godard, John Clinton House, Phyllis Jones, Jane Man ling, Sandra Margolis, Bobby Parham, Billy Partin, Rodney Pit nan, Vivian Pate, Jeannette Ray lor, Annette Rogers, Billy Simp on, Iverson Skinner, Kline Smitli viek, James Herbert Ward, Jr., ind Faye White. Fourth Grade: Mary Elizabeth (Continued on page eight) ■-* Painfully Burned In Accident Here - ..... ■* Mrs. J. D Harrison was pain ully burned at her home here arly last Monday morning when he spdlcd some kerosene on her lothes and caught fire a short ime later when she struck a latch to start a fire in the stove, hit- of her arms and a sizable ilaco on her back were burned. Mr. Harrison, hearing her :ream, grabbed a blanket, threw . around her and pushed her own in smothering the fire. Had ■ not been for his quick action it i believed she would have been PAliy burned. ed to the local hospital ahtetUtely for treatment, Mr. X'.vic yi* re;t.ag very well hun&J Afternoon. t ! ( t I t t \ l C r i I i l c r t t .s n \ i b c I: o d d u ii si ii N A n v P £ <*, P' Pew Registrants In Mari in County Saved From Draft No More Wen To !><• Called Until Early Part Of Next Year -<% An estimated two dozen and possibly more Martin County men got a stay of induction this week when the Army declared a draft holiday until the early part of next year. Three white men were scheduled to report from this county this week for final induc tion and nine colored men were to report on the 31st. It is estimat ed that about a dozen more men would have been slated for com pulsory service during November and December had the holiday not been called. Il was explained that the holiday applvs to calls for both pre-induction and filial in duction. Only seven while men have re ported for final induction since last June, a draft holiday in July and August saving others from immediate call into the service. No colored men have left the county for final induction since before the l it si holiday. The three white men scheduled to leave tins week missed the draft by only two days. The recent action promised to figure in Congressional debate if the War Department should ask a further extension of the Selec tive Service Act beyond next March 31, its present expiration date. Foes of the draft argued vain ly when tin' issue was up last spring that with the Army in the process of reducing from 1.551).000 lo 1,070,000 this fiscal year, volun teers alone would meet the need tor replacements. One argument m the oilier side was that the draft law was necessary to spur mbs i.ents. The War Department's action ivill halt the draft machinery en tirely for the rest of the year; the Navy has received no men by in iuction since last May. The War Department said in an innouncement that its action was lased on Secretary Patterson’s ‘expressed intention to keep the \rmy a volunteer one insofar as lossible and to induct men only vlien induction absolutely was re (uired to enable the Army to ful ill its commitments.” Accordingly, Maj. Gen. W. S. 5aul, War Department Director of Yrsnnnel and Administration, lot if led llershey that "September ■nlistrrlents in the regular Army, s well as inductions through ieieelive Scivice, haw aXcGeded he expectations of the War De triment,'’ and added: "There is further evidence that ho trend of enlistments will enn inuc to exceed the numbers .hich hitherto had been antici iated the last quarter of this cal ndar year.” The holiday means that physi al examinations will have to be epeated for some registrants. o Principals Meet In RoImtsoiiyilie -9 Meeting in tin: Wilson Hotel, lobersonville, he.I Monday cven ig, Mai tin County : ehnol offic iIs, including the principals, dis ussed routine matters and heard eports on various school activi ics. It was pointed out that at uidancc ligiin • averaged :>7 pot ent of enrollment in all the ■huuls, a.i a whole, for the first lonth. The meeting ruled that all men ■sellers in the county were eligi Ic for membership in tho piin |ials' club, and a special invita on is bring extended them. Miss Li.-sie F'lerce, supervisor [ the white elementary schools, iinouneed that special reading rmonstration. were being sehed led, that the first would be held 1 the Williamston and Oak City ■bools next w eek. The club will hold its next iceting in Oak City on Monday, ovember 11. -o---. \nnounee Revival In The Rehoboth Church Rev J Floyd Williams, local .mister, w ill open a sene*, of re seal services in the Rehoboth entecs-tal Hskn?_ Church near r4r Qra.s ne^t Monday night, cto’ser m', at- 7.SO o'clock. Xh» iblic is in sited.