THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME XLiX—NUMBER 89 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. November 5, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Big Car Plunges Through Detour Bridge Railing itWSFBelieved Seriously Hurt In Last Saturday Night Accident :-<*» Four persons miraculously es caped death last Saturday even ing about 8:45 o’clock when their large Buick sedan plunged through the guard rail on the Roanoke River detour bridge here and1 landed bottom side up in the swamp twelve or fifteeen feet be low. One person, Miss Charlotte McNair of Plymouth was badly hurt, but her injuries are not be lieved serious. George Hill Mc Nair, 6020 Sewell’s Point Road, Norfolk, suffered back injuries and shock and was bruised and (scratched, but he was able to con tinue his trip after receiving first aid treatment in the local hos pital. Miss Rebecca Armstrong and John Shytle, both of Ply mouth, were bruised and scratch ed, but they, too, were able to continue to their homes after re ceiving examinations and treat ment in the hospital here. Miss McNair was later removed to a Rocky Mount hospital, but no direct report on her condition has been received since she went there. Driving the large car in the di rection of Windsor, McNair said he saw all the signs, including the 15-mile speed limit warning. A torch light was burning within ten feet of the spot where the car plunged through the railing, A blinker light was operating fif teen or twenty feet away, and a short distance beyond that was a stop light. McNair, apparently running thirty miles or more an hour, declared that he applied his car brakes after crossing the riv er span, that the machine skidded on the wet boards and tore through the railing. The bridge guard rail in the curve was torn out for a distance of about twelve or fifteen feet and the car went through, landing on its nosq and coming to a stop with all four wheels in the air. The victims were brought up a ladder and removed by car to the hospital. Wrecked beyond repair, the car was lifted out of the swamp early Sunday morning by special sal vage equipment. The accident was the first one on the detour bridge. Patrolmen declare that the detour is one of the best, that every safety precau tion is provided and that it is dif ficult to assign reason for acci dents there. Only two motor vehicle acci dents were reported in the county last week and both of them were right in Robersonville, including a minor one at the stop light. -.. .Q Local Jaycees Hold Meeting —•— Three new members were in ducted into the local chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at'its regular rntchng .YiUktr night, held at the Woman's Club. The new members are Messrs. John C. White, James Collins and Walter Hamilton, and the induc tion ceremony was handled by the chair.man of the membership com mittee, J. Paul Simpson. Among those present at the meeting, as special guests of the club, were those local people who had contributed of their time and talent to help give the recent home talent comedy, Pep Parade. These guests included Mrs. Mary B. Gurganus and Mrs. Sallie Hal berstadt, Misses Angela McLaw horn, Ethel Taylor, Gertrude Mc Lawhorn, Burnell White, Dorothy Leggett, Alice Wynne, Marilyn Fussell and Wilbur Jackson. Jaycee John H. Gurganus read the petition that will be presented to the citizens of the community in regard to changing the present convention election of municipal officers to a primary typp, and members of the organization sign ed it. The club’s Civic Improve ment committee members started its circulation throughout the community immediately. President Clears made several announcements of interest to the club. The attendance prize was won by Jack Manning. Bud Crockett led in the singing and invocation was offered by E. L. Ward, Jr. The ladies of the Methodist church served the din ner. Circulating Petition For Election Change f --3S Names Of Several Hundred Citizens Placed On Paper Few ('lioose Not lo Sijjn llie Petition But No Official Opposition Expressed -alty, and integrity” as its motto. The class officers are: Presi dent, Connor Lee; vice president, Emma House; secretary, Alton Whitehurst, and treasurer, Murry Thompson. Children Improving After Attacks Of Pneumonia -» Stricken suddenly with a throat ailment and pneumonia attacks the early part of last week, the young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dal ton Carraway, of Everetts, Jimmy and Dalton, Jr., are getting along all right at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Pal mer White, here on Beech Street. They were brought here after re ceiving treatment in a Greenville hospital. During the meantime, Mr. and Mrs. White’s son, Wayne, became ill, but his condition is also much improved. Archie Ray Caraway, six month-old brotner of Jimmy and Dalton, Jr., died suddenly on Sun day, October 27. Long-Term Convicts Break Out Of Camp Believed To Have Left Section In A j Stolen Automobile Two Out of Ki^lil Karapet's Found So Far, Prison Officials Say Eight Negro prisoners, their terms ranging from seven to thirty years, sawed their way out of the State Highway Prison Camp near here late last Sunday night, officials staling this morn ing that two had been recaptured, and others would be taken in a matter of hours by a posse. The break, yet unexplained by the two guards on duty at the time, was the largest reported since the camp has been in operation here. George Baldwin was recaptur ed in Edenton late Monday when he dared walk the main street in his prison overalls. Three others are believed to be in that section, and between twenty and thirty armed guards and officers comb ed that area. Baldwin has been returned to the camp here, Charlie Campbell was arrested this morning about 3:00 o'clock as he slept in a home in Plymouth. Campbell continued in the Wash ington County jail early this morning. Several men were reported in the Norfolk area where officers stopped the ear stolen from Jes sup Harrison here. The occupants snatched the keys from the igni tion, jumped and ran. While the investigating officer telephoned to check the car and before he could learn the details of the theft and prison break, the escapees returned, jumped into the ear and drove away. Nothing has been heard from that group since lalt evening. Another one of the men, believ ed to be Horace Platts, was seen near Parmele late last night. The last report heard from him stated i that he boarded a Chevrolet, I bearing license No. (112,188, and traveled in the direction of Greenville about 5:00, o’clock this morning. After he was seen near Parmele a posse tracked him with I dogs tor several miles hut lost his track whim lie reentered the high way between Parmele and Bethel. One report stated that three men, believed to be escapees, were fired upon in the Edenton area where the main hunt con tinues today. Reporting the prison break, Superintendent J. E. Elbridgc stated that the men sawed out a bar in a side window and escaped through a hole measuring twelve by about nine inches between II o’clock and midnight. Henry Cop pedge, 57 year-old guard was sta tioned inside the building and he was quoted as saying that he heard no unusual noise. The pris oners used a hack saw blade and a bar of soap to cut an opening. , Coppi' tye an old guard wh W! experience in guarding prisoners at the old Caledon1 ■ camp during many of the past fifteen years, was given his release by District Superintendent Jas. Thompson of Roanoke Rapids, early Monday morning or a short time after the break was discovered when the men checked short at the H:30 breakfast. W 11 Perry, recently employed as an outside building guaref, did not discover Hie break even though he passed the win dow eve y half hour during the (Continued on page six) Peanuts Enter Bullish Market Although heavy rains last Sat urday interrupted the peanut har vest, the goober market was de scribed here yesterday as being bullish. However, sales lor the day were fairly light. Unofficial reports state that ap proximately 3,000 bugs moved in the Hamilton and Oak City a ac tionals of this county last week mainly to one company at a price ranging from ten to ten and three quarter cents a pound. Weather permitting, the crop is expected to start moving to mar kets in this county in large vol ume within the next week or tea days. MARKET I v. With an estimated 70.000 pounds on the floor yester day, the local tobacco market reported little or no change in prices for the day. Observ ers were of the opinion they were certainly no stronger than those paid last Friday when the market handled 110,914 pounds for an aver age of $48.43 per hundred pounds. The sales yesterday were the smallest for any Monday since the market opened in August, and entire communi ties have seen the last of the crop move, farmers said to day. To date, the market here has sold 10,017,012 pounds for an average of $50.93 per hun dred pounds. District Office Of OPA Suspends Activities Here ... —.»> Any Falun' |{usiu«‘ss W ill lt«> llaii left ley amputated a few inches above the knee last Satur day morning, Mi Claudius Rob erson was reported Monday to be getting along very well. In the operating room nearly three hours, he was said to have stood the ordeal all right and asked for a radio to hear the football game that afternoon. \ blood clot forin I ed in the lowei leg. making the amputation necessary. County Board In Regular Session Monday Morning -- lav Collector Settles 191*6 Vrroiint; Insolvent List Amounts to $4,028 Meeting in regular session Mon day morning, the Martin County Commissioners did not discuss carnivals, but confined their at tention matters to complete the work schedule before lunch time. The high cost of food finally broke into jail and $1 per day will be allowed for each prisoner’s board. Tax Collector M L. Peel sub mitted his 1945 county tax ac count, and it was accepted by the commissioners. According to Mr. Peel, he started out in the fall of 1945 with $189,388.52 on the books. Since that time he collect ed $182,394.90 in 1945 taxes. Dis counts amounted to $1.682 45 and relief orders were granted in the sum of $152.74. Land sales repre sented $702.06. Collections pend ing amount te $420.15, leaving an insolvent list of $4,028.64 on per sonal property holdings. The ac count was only $7.52 out of bal ance. The collector stated also that of the $206,118.84 levy for 1946, all but $98,033.47 had bt en collected already. Tax relief orders were allowed the following: Hoyt Cowan, $2 listed in error in Bear Grass Township for the year 1945. and J. Wesley Chesson, i $2 in Williamslon Township be | cause he was in the Army. Relief j in the same amount was allowed Chesson lor 1946. I Albemarle l umber Company, ' $25 listed in error in Williams : Township in 1546. i W. P. Hadley, $9.15 listed in cr I ror in Bear Grass Township for I 1946. Katie Brown, 94 cents listed in error in Williamslon Township for 1946. The personal bond offered in the sum of $500 by J. Paul Holli day, Jamesville Township con stable. was accepted over the sig nature of tin' officer’s father. Making his monthly report, Treasurer Dick Smith stated that the county had $202,713.07 on de posit, $118,461.36 in government bond and $66,491.56 in sinking and capital reserve funds, a total of $387,835.10. Jurymen were drawn for the regular one-week term of sup erior court convening in Decem ber. Bomb (bikini By Radar For Navy A radar-guided glider bomb which was used successfully in combat dining the war will be come an important, permanent part of the peacetime Navy. Hav ing perfected the “Bat'' as a full fledged service weapon, the Navy has launched a program to train I llet aircraft personnel the tech ' ; t i ' 1 ' * i ' * * ■ •. t* * V-\ | weapon. I The Bat was operated entirely j by specially trained Bureau of I Ordnance teams in the war, and its use is being taught to pilots and aircrewmen at the Naval Avi ' ation Ordnance Test Station, Chincoteague, Va Two Privateer patrol bomber squadrons are be ing organized for service use of the missile. Used against Japanese combat ant and meichant shipping dur ing the lust year of World War II, the Bat proved to be the lust suc cessful fully automatic guided ni issile. A lovv-angk-of-flight, self-con trolled airborne missile, the Bat is eapable of carrying a 1.000-pound bomb load, and has a range of 10 miles. The bomb is mounted in a glider type airframe and is equip ped with a gyroscopic stabilizing .unit and a servo system. The air frame was a radar transmitter and receiver to provide direction al correction The servo system moves the control surfaces of the air stabilizer. Suspended under a wing or be low the fuselage of an airplane, flu Bat is about 12 feet, long and lias a 10-foot wing span. Its speed is comparable to that of high speed aircraft, and its range is great enough to allow the mother plane to operate well out of the enemy's longest iange antisux* craft fire.