THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER 59 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday* July 25, /9 17 ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty-One Cases ^ In County Court Monday Morning --Q) Fines. Amounting to $375, Imposed By Judge J. Calvin Smith Judge J. Calvin Smith held the Martin County Recorder's Court in session about three hours be fore clearing a 21-case docket last Monday morning. Attracting only a medium-sized audience, the ^ court imposed fines amounting to $375 and meted out several road sentences. Proceedings: The case charging Cato An drews with allowing a non-licens ed operator to drive a car was dropped from the docket, but is subject to be reopened. Adjudged guilty over his plea . of innocence, Joe Clark was sen ▼ fenced to the roads for sixty days. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $20 fine and costs and $8 to Haywood James for medical treatment rendered James’ daughter. The court also warned the defendant that he is to violate no law during the next year. The case charging Charles M. Crould with operating a motor vehicle while his license was re voked was continued until next Monday. Pleading guilty in the case in which she was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Frances Stancili was fined $15 and taxed with the cost. Hosea James, charged with vio lating the liquor laws, was sen tenced to the roads for six months, the c<*urt suspending the sentence upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. The court also warned the defendant to have no intoxi cating liquors or materials de signed for the manufacture of il licit liquor in his possession dur ing the next two years A and required to pay the costs when arraigned on a disorderly conduct charge. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Charlie Rhodes was sen tenced to the roads for ninety days. The court suspended the road sentence for one year upon the payment of a *25 fine and costs. The defendant is not to be ....publicly drunk during the. period of suspension. Charged with speeding, James Wilson was adjudged guilty on that count and also driving with out a license. He was lined $25 and required to pay the costs. Noah Frazier, pleading guilty of being publicly drunk, was sen tenced to the roads for thirty days ,the court suspending the sentence upon the payment of a $20 fine and the costs. Pleading not guilty in the case charging him with violating the health laws, William Alfred Wig gins was adjudged guilty and judgment was suspended by the court upon the payment of the trial costs. The case charging Jasper Wig gins with violating the health law? was continued until the first Monday in September, the court requiring the payment of the (Continued on page seven) Injured In Auto Accident Tuesday Mrs. Alonza Bland suffered a painful but believed not serious knee injury in an automobile ac cident on a dirt road just off Highway 125 last Tuesday after noon at 4:45 o’clock. Johnnie Blake Harrell of Green ville had driven his 1941 Ford off 4L Highway 125 just this side of Ab bitt's mill and was rounding a curve on the Slaughter House Road when he met and crashed headon into a car driven by Archie Lee Perry who was ac companied by Mrs. Bland and others. Mrs. Bland was treated in a doctor’s office here and is now able to be out, Damage to the Perry cur was estimated at $100 and repairs to W the Har rell car will cost around $50, Patrolman W. E. Saunders, investigating the accident, said. Harrell, charged with operating a motor vehicle on the left side of the road, is scheduled to ap pear Saturday morning for a hearing. Motorists Delay Reporting For New Drivers’ Licenses Motorists whose last names be gin with the letter A or B are slow reporting for the new type drivers' licenses, Safety Examiner James Boyce said yesterday. There have been a few times when the bureau, located in the i county courthouse here, was rush ed. but the examiner has been there several hours without re ceiving an applicant. It is believed that some of the motorists in the designated alpha betical category are delaying the terts possibly because they are afraid they'll lose their driver’s li censes. It has been pointed out that drivers may retain their li censes under most all conditions through December 31, that if they have not procured the new type by that time they'll be subject to court action. In other words there is no good reason why mot orists whose last names begin with the letter A or B should de lay taking the tests. If too many wait until the last minute, the rush will bo so great that the ap plicants-cannot be handled with dispatch and the new type licens ees must be had by the last of next December. After that date appli cants whose names begin with the letter C and so on will be receiv ed by the licensing bureau. Commenting on his work in this county to date. Examiner Boyce said that only three out of 70 ap plicants had failed the tests and two of them had not applied for licenses before. The third one failed because of defective vision, but possibly he’ll be able to I qualify by having his eyes fitted : with glasses. Two examiners are working in | this county at the present time. . One is located in the courthouse each Wednesday and Thursday | from t) a. m. to 5 p. m., and the ■ other is located in Robersonville leach Friday from 9 a. m. to 5:00 I p. m. Little Tobacco Left In Excess of Quotas > y Official returns are not yet in, but the magazine, "Busi ness Week", predicts that “corporate profits for the first half of this year un doubtedly were the highest ever.” In its current issue, the magagzine estimated that the six months’ profits will reach an annual rate of "more than sixteen billion dollars”—al most 25 percent greater than 100 percent above the prev ious peacetime high set in the year 1929. Hog Thief Active Again In County -« For the fourth time in recent . -,vi ‘.'h.i „ ".a \ t .- i,;,:: klv ami < ■ fectively struck farmers’ hog pens and pastures in tins county, their latest visit centering in Far mer Alfred Taylor’s pasture on the Alvin Roebuck farm between Robersonville and Parmele some time during last Tuesday night. Employing what are certain to be crude methods of butchery, the thieves, making their second visit to the same farm, carried away two hogs weighing about 110 pounds each and left'one ham cut open. Some weeks ago Mr. Taylor missed two hogs from his pasture and he first thought they broke through the fence. Feeding his hogs once each day late in the evening the farmer missed two more Wednesday evening and having heard about the hog snatchers he investigated and found where the last tw'o pigs were ifled. The thieves have been operating between the Connie H. Clark farm east of Everetts and Parmele. Officers have not yet been able to establish a definite lead in any of the cases, but ex tensive investigations have been made in this and surrounding counties Finding the ti rritory along Highway 64 too hot for the safe keeping of their hogs, farmers were reported Thursday to be moving thier swine to pens on neighbors’ farms some distance from the main highway. Home Agents Will Meet Here Friday -* Northeastern North Carolina home demonstration agents will hold a meeting off their district association in the county court house here on Friday of this week. Approximately thirty agents are expected for the sessions which will get underway about 10 30 a, m. Following lurch, the agents will hold an afternoon session. Mrs. Celeste Sawyer, Pasquotank County h&me agent, is to preside over the sessions. Nearly All Farms In Martin County Already Cheeked 1 ii<‘oitipit‘l«> Knporls Point To I .cms Tlimi IVpnly At ri's Over ^IuoIiih -• Stalling out with what was first j reported to be a sizable excess lover the allotted acreages, tobacco farmers in this county in one way j acreage in must cases, according ' to unofficial but reliable reports | heard here this week. The re I ports are not complete but they | were based on 1,475 of the 1,600 ' tobacco farms in the county. It is fairly apparent now that actual plantings have been brought to within about 20 acres of the allotments by those who intentionally or untintentionnllv planted in excess of their quotas. 1 It could not be learned immedi ately but it is fairly certain that the crop, taken as a whole, is con siderably below the total allot ment, the supervisors stating that many farmers fell from a fraction 'of an acre to several acres below their quotas. It was reported about the mid dle of this week that 125 farms 'either have not been measured or the reports are being held by the | supervisors. Aside from tire 125 farms, fifty-two farms have been found to bo in excess of the given j allotments! but in nearly half of those cases, the excess was only i one-tenth of an acre, a few re porting approximately two acres lover and above the quota. Unof ! ficial reports state that some far mers destroyed several acres ahead of the filing of the reports and are now in position to es i cape penalties and participate in , the price equalization program. Up until Wednesday no reports had been filed for 13 farms in Bear Grass, 9 in Cross Roads, 69 in Goose Nest. 5 in Griffins, 11 in Hamilton, one in Poplar Point, 11 in Robersonville, 2 in Williams and 4 in Williamstori Townships. Jamesville was reported com plete. Several farmers with excess acreage plan to harvest it and pay the marketing penalty.' In I other cases the excess planter may call for a recheck by contacting I the county agent's office and , agreeing to pay the added cost. Tobacco acreage notices are to go out to the growers shortly, and those who have excess acreage and who want to make some dis position of it before the market ing season may do one of three things, according to the depart ment. The farmer with excess acreage may pay the penalty in advance, or store the excess to bacco under bond, or furnish proof to the county committee that the excess tobacco is unmer chantable. The office is calling on the sup ervisors, urging them to complete (Continued on page seven) Representative Of Polio Foundation Here Last Tuesday -o Explains IW of Iron Emty To Small Group In The County Courthouse State representative for the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Prevention, Philip Ran dolph of Chapel Hill, speaking to a limited number at the special AMVETS meeting Tuesday night in the court house, praised the local chapter for its efforts to se cure an infant's iron lung for Mar tin County. Mr. Randolph point ed out that these lungs may be used for children up to 5 or (5 years of age, depending on the size of the child. He further em phasized that the lung is used for other purposes such as respiratory diseases and premature children. Adult lungs aren't satisfactory for children because there is too much space inside the lung for the small child's body to ade quately fill it. the speaker said. An infant's lung carries all the equipment and safety devices and with proper care should last a life time. It is simple to operate and should not be feared, the speaker added. It was further stated that when such a lung was needed nothing could take its place. Mr. Ran dolph explained to his listeners that his office knows where every lung in the state is located and when a call for one comes, the nearest one to the need is sent. Often times states exchange the lungs and all transportation costs .a.p-aist-bythe i,\rfnr,.v yrsing the lung. "The positive assurance that one is available means a lot," Mr. Randolph declared. With a lung Martin County people would have that assurance. ,’T. ' ! I., cated in Durham and anotht r ordi ,ias been placed for one in Raleigh. Martin County could have the third. Mr. Randolph suggested that the lung be stored in a place such as the fire or police department where someone is on duty at till times It must be kept where it will not be tampered with. The speaker warned against (lirsL ,->o called non iung displays with victims in them. The Ameri can Medical Association has ap proved very few makes of lungs, lungs. He also said the approved man ufacturers would send a repre sentative to explain the use and display the lung. In closing, Mr. Randolph said that the greatest service could be rendered by allowing the lung to be loaned out. He cited an ex (Continued on page eight) Two Barely Miss Electrocution —«— Two persons, Leland Coburn of Robeisonvilie, and King Council, colored farmer of near Oak City, miraculously escaped death by electrocution recently when they came in contact with high tension power lines. Mr. Coburn, super intendent of Robersonville’s light and water departments, was mov ing a pole when he came in indi rect contact with a high-powered electric line. He fell and broke the contact, saving his life by a narrow margin. Council, driving a two-horse wagon under a low-hanging 11, UOO-volt REA line on the Barrett farm just outside of Oak City last Monday morning, was badly burned on one arm and on his chest. Council says he doesn’t re call coining in direct contact with the wire, that he was knocked ten or twelve feet from the wagon and rendered unconscious for an indefinite period? The victim, go ing into the woods for a load of pine straw, had crossed under the low-swinging power line several times. The lines were energized only a short time ago and it was his first trip since the juice was turned on. One report stated that a guy wire had been slackened by the heavy rains, causing the main lines to fall within a few feet of the ground. Treated in a Tarboro hospital, Council was said later to be recov ering. it Warning Against Rebuilding Basic German Industry Conflicting Krports Plague Situation Existing In European Nations -» — A proposal by the United States to rebuild German industry on a large scale either to restore its economy or as a buffer state against Russia is being warned against by several countries. During the meantime conflict ing reports on the foreign situa tion continue to come from the high places. Secretary of State George Marshall speaking to a group of Congressmen in Wash ington a few days ago left the im pression that the situation was grave. But Senator Elbert Thom as (Democrat of Utah), just back from Europe, told Americans not to be “discouraged" about ‘ Rus sia. and drew a parallel between present animosity toward the USSR and the "concert’’ of hos tility once directed against the re volution-born U. S. A. He said the U. S. A. was now using the "proper approach", out declared: "You can't force Russia any more than Russia can force us. If it is going to be a matter of force and propaganda, we both lose." Thomas, a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, attended the International Labor Organization conference at Gen eva. In a radio interview over station WEAM, he predicted “things will come out of Russia all right" when the Soyi/g people get "true education." He said we should realize "how new the Russian revolution is” and remember lot example the spirit of the world toward the young U. S. A. 25 years alter our own revolution. ^ £ A fff 4 11 ’ organized against us, against democracy, and against popular sovereignty, flunk of these things, and you are not going to be dis couraged." Thomas pointed out that Rus sia's educational problems are en tirely different than ours. An elementary textbook written for all pupils, be noted, would have to be in 135 different language In connection with the proposal to rebuild Germany, a report was released in Washington this week, as follows: Poland, which refused to take part in the Paris talks on the Mar shall plan, is attempting to per suade the participating powers in dividually that no stable peace can be expected if German in dustry is revived. Poland’s ambassador1 here, Josef Wtniewicz, said in an interview that Poland's diplomatic corps is approaching various governments to protest any plan which would either (1 i give priority to German needs over World War II allies, or (2) give Germany the chance to become again the industrial giant of Europe. The Ambassador said that Po land has found it difficult to in crease- its sales in the American market. For that reason it applied for credits to buy American cot-! (Continued on page six) -g,---_ Toliawo Harvest Well Under Way —«— Alter getting off to a slow and .scattered start, the 11)47 tobacco harvest is well under way in this county at the present time. Re ports state that nearly every grower in the county has or will have harvested at least one burn by early next week. With .some few exceptions, the reports on the curings are encouraging. "We took out some mighty sorry tobac co early in the week.” one farm er said. Another said that the quality of the leaf was possibly better on his farm than it was lust year. No great difficulty is being ex perienced in getting labor for the harvest this year. Some farmers are finding it necessary to haul their workers, but more people are looking for work this year than last. No uniform wage scale has been reported, but wages are averaging light at $6 a day for! primers and about $3 per day for j bench workers. , • Prices Average $4 On Georgia Markets WW -$ Best Quality Leaf Sells Good, Poor Quality Is Cheap Georgia Has Larger and lletter Quality (!rop This Year Than In 1946 Conflicting reports on prices and reactions of farmers came out of Georgia where the 1947 sale of leaf tobacco got underway. The reports were based on estimates and early Thursday afternoon it was impossible to determine any definite price trend, but observers were of the opinion that the aver age' would hold close to 43 cents a pound if late sales maintained the trend set earlier in the day. One report indicated that the av erage during the early sales would range between 45 and 47 cents a pound for the belt, but a down ward trend was reported on most markets even before the first hour of sales had been completed. Just before noon large numbers of farmers were said to be turning their tobacco in to the Stabiliza tion Corporation and were glad to accept the agency's support prices. The first row of tobacco sold at Valdosta ,the belt's largest mar ket, sold mostly in the 47-56-eent range as compared with an open ing-day average of 4(1 cents last year. Prices were said to have dropped following the first hour vil .'•iiir.'s, ai'»u iaiUK-i.h vWVf turit mg to the Stabilization Corpora tion. At Quitman the first 50,1)00 pounds averaged l ight at 45 cents and farmers were said to be "pleased” there. of around 43 cents for its first sales. Nashville, reporting its quality slightly inferior to that of a year ago, had an average of 43 cents. Adel, with prices ranging from 511 to til cents for the better qual ity grades, claimed the market was stronger than a year ago. Statesboro leporled a 43-eeiit price average compared v\ 11h 4ti ,, you, ago, .old la> mi . iveit .,,,jd to be holding then tobacco off the market. It is fairly apparent from the first rush reports that the open ing did not measure up to every one’s expectations, that many far mers rejected the prices and turned to the Stabilization Cor poration, A report from Jim Gray, Ilober sonvi 1 If tobacconist, says that the quality at Moultrie was good, price range 4 lo 56 average around 4ti cents. He added that the weather was hot. Georgia is reported to have a larger and better quality crop this season that it had a year ago, the crop reporting services esti mating the production as of July 1 at 142.200,000 pounds. Last year the bell down there pro duced about 130,000,000 and re ceived $43.20 per hundred pounds (Continued from Page Seven) Aged Couple Move Out Ahead of Fire —«— Mr and Mrs William A. Moore, aged couple, moved out just ahead of a fire that destroyed their home and about all their earthly belongings near Jamesville at 12:10 o’clock last Tuesday morn ing, according to reports reaching here. Living alone, the couple were sleeping in a front room, the fire, starting in the kitchen, burning its way toward them rapidly when Edgar Hi own and others traveling the highway saw il and called the Moores. “We had a little money, very little, and it burned along with just about everything we had,” Mr. Moore said. Seventy-two years of age and in declining health, Mr Moore is not able to work very much and neighbors and other friends start ed raising a relief fund for him and his wife. The house, a one-story, five room structure, belonged to the Flemings in Jamesville, and it could not be learned if the prop erty was insured. I r n. DELEGATION y A special delegation—Alls. P. B. Cone, Mrs. S. II. Grimes, Attorneys Kdgar Gurganus and Chas. Manning of Wil liumston and Mr. Philip Keel of Robersonville — appeared before State Health Depart ment authorities in Kaleigh Thursday morning in the in terest of a mass tuberculosis survey in Martin County. The members of the delegation addressed their appeal to Dr. T. F. Vestal, director of tuberculosis control in North Carolina. No report on the special ap peal could be had here imme diately. Prominent Countv Physician Passes in Robersonville lum-nil Eridnv Afternoon Al Home There For l)r. It. Nelson Dr. I! J Nelson, prominent physician and well-known citizen of this section of the State, died at his home in Robersonville at !) 10 o’clock Thursday morning He had been in deelinine^^sdH' fot several years and his eond tion had been critical for some time. He was HU years of age. A native of Hitt County, l)r. Nelson first located in this coun ty at Everetts soon attci earning his doctor of medicine degree, la the late ninctic. to maintain ;;; ,t about the longest unbroken pi ac | tioe of any doctor ever to locate in this county On account of hi ; j advanced age he virtually retir ed from active service in 1937. l)i Nelson w as a member of the j Missionary Baptist Church in Robet tnville fot many yeat and I was active in its support, taking a i leading part in the con ti iction I of the new church there no so j many years ago. / j He was married to Miss Maggie Taylor and she survives with one son. Robert 11 Nelson. Funeral services will be con ducted .it the home Friday after noon at 3:30 o’clock bv his pastor, Rev. J. R. Evcett, Re\ Sidney ! Boone, Methodist minislei , and Rev. J. M. Perry of the Roberson ville Christian Church. Dr. Nel son was a member of the Masonic lodge and Masons will have charge ! of the graveside rites. Char»;«' Man ^ illi Bertie Robbery -s James Willie I.loyd, local color cd man, was arrested here early Tuesday evening in connection with the robbery of Joyner's till ing station just beyond the river fill earlier in the day Repoits state that someone entered the station and stulc about $35 in c ish and a pistol. Returned to Windsor by Bertie officers, Lloyd was given a pre liminary hearing. Unable to raise bond in the sum of $501). he was placed in the Bertie jail. Ben Ed wards, local colored boy. was temporarily detained as a \\ itnc.ss. -o Few Cases Heard In Mayors Court —«,— Mayor Robert Cowon heard a few cases in his court during the past few days, and bound one or two defendants over to the higher courts for trial. Herbert Purvis, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was required to pay $7.50 costs, the fee including the cost of spending one night, in jail. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of $6.50 costs each in the ease charging Stewart Brown and Ann Purvis with an affray. Waddell Roberts, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was required to pay $6.50 costs. 4 Proclaims Quotas For Marketing of Peanuts In 1948 -- Chill CalU For Decrease of Nearl\ Million Veres Next Season -•- I Secretary of Agriculture Clin | ton Anderson just recently pro I claimed a marketing quota of 760.000 tons of peanuts for 1948. I meaning that nearly one million I acres of peanuts will have to be dropped from the total next year if support prices are to be made available after this year. The question now is; Who's going to reduce, growers in the old pro ducing belts or those in the new areas? Action by the secretary calling for quotas was taken as required by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to proclaim marketing quotas unless the supply of pea nuts tor edible products and ve getable oils is below domestic re 1 quirements and probable exports. The AA Act also requires that a i referendum be held not later than , December 15, 1947, in which the 1 producers of peanuts may vote fur or against marketing quotas. A twu-thirds vote in favor of quotas would put marketing quotas and acreage allotments into effect for tin' next three years. Also a price support on 1948 crup peanuts at 90 percent of par ity as of July 15. the beginning of the marketing year, is contingent 1 upon the growers’ approval of the quotas proclaimed by the Secre i tiiry ol Agriculture. Penalties ; would l>c use .. .| against mar .y. i-Mi I ed quotas. f The 760,000 tons of 1948-crop ’ peanuts, pioclaimed as a market ing quota, is based upon the ac tual disapcaraitec of cleaned and , shelled peanuts during the last m w—M’S***** disanpi aran ' t rom ; 1947 and I 948 crop. Disappearance c* cleaned and -helled peanut- in 1942 46 averag ed 678,000 ton , of farmers' stock j peanuts. About 100,000 tons of .this aveiage included wartime purcha es of peanuts and peanut products by the United States aunt a .-er\ ,ee plus exports. | Since tins military demand no ; i1'! itif' ■ t’ \ J ! < JIlil i Xpt/i L't ili i like I !y to be -mall, the disappearance I rom the 1948 crop may be only about 579,000 ton.-', or about the same as the disappearance from the 1946 crop. In addition, it i t xpected that about 141.000 ton will be requir ed for st ed, feed, and home use on farms which produce peanuts; also that a reasonable allowance for damaged peanuts is 40,000 ton The three items (disappear ance of shelled nuts, plus the re quirements for seed, feed and home use, plu damaged peanuts) add up to the 760,000 ton market ing quota for 1948. With a determined normal yield of 654 pounds per acre during the five yeai , 1942 46, the 76U.0U0 tons (Continued on page eight) liooin \\ai !ah!r L)« nil-i admittance fur some time, two of this county’s men tally ill were accepted by the Slate Hospital in Raleigh on Wednesday of this week. Plans were made earlier m the week to take one of the subjects, and then on Tuesday county au thorities were advised by the hospital that the second one could be accepted the following day. Members of the families, tired out after maintaining 24-hour watches for days, were greatly relieved when they were advised that the two young women could be received lot treatment. Deputy Murraly Holloman, ac companied by members of the family, delivered one of the young women to the hospital a short time after members of the family had delivered the eth er young woman there. Unofficial reports reaching here indicate Hint the institution is terribly crowded, pathetically un derstaffed, that one registered nurse with a few assistants han dles possibly 200 patients. It has been known for a long time that salaries offered there are shame fully low. t / *

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