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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEE ESTABLISHED 1899 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,900 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER 67 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 22, 1947 Judge Smith Has Fourteen Cases In County Court ——4-!— Tribunal To Observe Next Monday, Tobaeeo Open ing. As A Holiday Calling fourteen cases, Judge J. j C. Smith held the Martin County ! Recorder's Court in session three ! hours before clearing the docket last Monday. Fines were imposed %;j the sum of $315. Comparative ly few spectators were present. Judge Smith announced that the court would observe next Monday, tobacco rnarKet opening, as a holiday that the court would resume its work on Monday, Sep tember 1. Proceedings: The case charging John Powell with larceny and receiving was ^|)ol prossed, but is subject to be reopened. His case coming up to be heard for further judgment, Joseph Oscar Wiggins, charged with non support, was sentenced to the roads for six months. The sen tence was suspended and the de fendant placed on probation for two years. He was directed to pay the court costs and $6 a week beginning August 25 for the bene fit of his child. For the first time in the his tory of the courts of this county the court ordered a bicycle confis cated. Albert Askew, charged with transporting illicit liquor on his bicycle, pleaded guilty and ' was sentenced to the roads for six months. Charged with possessing legal liquor for the purpose of sale and ^..maintaining a public nuisance at .• 'park’’ near Roltracjivllle, An lie was adjudged guilty on both counts and drew a six-month sen tence on the roads. The sentence was suspended upon the payment August 20. He is not to reopen the establishment. Webb declar < ;l (hat he undi hci.-w..to be in court on TuescTuy of last" week and that was the reason he tailed to appear/>.n. Aug . t "■ T’.i excuse was accepted and the $100 cash bond was ordered returned to Harry York. The ease charging Harry Mack Wynne with operating a motor rehicle without a driver’s license, ' Slid Floyd Brown, Jr., with speed ing, were continued until Septem ber 1. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Claud S. Rawls with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Thurman Thomas James was sentenced to jail for a day and fined $40 plus costs. Lonnie Langley, pleading guil ty of assaulting a female, was fin ed $25, taxed with the cost and sentenced to jail for a day. Kelly Williams, charged with disorderly conduct and an assault with a deadly weapon, was sen tenced to the roads for four months. He preaded guilty. Pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, James Os car Melton was sentenced to the roads for twelve months. The court suspended the sentence up on the payment of a $50 fine and costs. The defendant is to stay off the lands of V. L. Roberson (Continued on page eight) COLLECTIONS ) A record in the early pay ment of Martin County taxes ^ was reported this week by Collector M. Luther Peel. Receiving the books only a short time ago, the collector stated yesterday that over $40,000 of the $233,400.95 levy had already been paid, and that accounts were being set tled in fairly large numbers daily. Up until August 21, last year, hardly half that amount of taxes had been col lected, Mr. Peel said. While a goodly portion of the $40,000 was paid by large property owners, about 300 accounts have been settled, it was explained, leaving just about 7,700 accounts on the books. No Record Leaf Poundage Ex^ected For First Sales • — — While a full-day sale is certain, no record poundage of tobacco is expected on the market for the opening sales next Monday. As compared with last season when every available foot of floor space was packed with tobacco, the opening next Monday will reflect a more orderly and sane system of marketing. The crop is unusually late, re ports stating that comparatively few farmers have completed the harvest. In some cases, curing operations will be carried well in to next month. It was said that Farmer Jesse Crisp the early part of this week had not pulled the lugs from a small acreage set to the crop late in Goose Nest Town ship. One or two other farmers just recently pulled their sand lugs. The crop is unusually late in the Hamilton-Oak City area. In | LAST HOLIDAY j W -- .■ The last of the half-holi days went by the calendar on Wednesday of this week, but not until business operators and employees had enjoyed the short vacation snatches to the fullest since last June. From now on out only the scheduled holidays will be observed. Funeral Thursday For Mrs. Mobley Funeral services were conduct ed- at ih> CrtiS", Roads •WKWWT J?V ' 3:30 o’clock for Mrs Curtis, R. Mobley who .died there day morning at 5:05 o’clock. In . declining health the greater part wy • . - -V *» a year. Mrs. Mobley had it jeeived special treatment in set , oral hospital during that tin:e ana ! her condition Ji.ad.been <•> iti<-ii 1 for 11 << itTt*'.'-.ii“ *“'V 1-~kEider A.' B. "ay , err and Rev. W. B. Hanington I eondueled tlie last, rites and j burial was in the Biggs Family I Cemetery in Bear Grass Town I ship. The daughter of the late Samuel and Moilie Keel Biggs, Mrs. Mob ley, the former Miss Mattie Biggs, was born near Williamston on September 5. 1909, and spent most of her life in that community. She was married to Mr. Mobley on December 8. 1927. and he sur vives with seven children, Dallas Biggs Mobley. Joyce Ann Mobley, Curtis Randolph Mobley, Ken neth Peel Mobley, Carolyn Jean ette Mobley and one-year-old twins, Ronald and Donald Mob | ley, all of the homo; one sister, j Mrs. Robert Rogerson, and two I brothers, Herman and Russell Biggs, all of near Williamston. Mrs. Mobley was a devoted wife and mother, and lived a life of a f good neighbor and friend to all. other parts of the county, the crop, for the most part, will have been harvested by the latter part of this or early next week. There is no doubt but what the lateness of the crop will result in com pratively light sales during the early part of the season. Another factor expected to hold deliveries to reasonable amounts is the booking plan adopted by Williamston warehouses this sea son. It will be unnecessary for farmers to deliver their tobacco to market a week in advance. They can book their marketings and de liver their tobacco within a day of scheduled sales. Since they will not have to take miller’s turn by placing tobacco on the floor a week in advance, they can ar range for orderly marketing, a plan which is certain to eliminate or lower the possibility of spoil Urge Farmers To Look Into Priee Support Program -» I Market Making Ready To Nave Mon Assist Farmers In liamllinp; Tohaeeo Farm leaders this week urged farmers to acquaint themselves with Die Tobacco Stabilization I Corporation's price support pro gram and be ready to act in those cases where tobacco prices fall below the support level on the I open market, I The h>c|] market is as-: -ling it -*»',«„«'■ If, «••••«»',■*»»■ • I in handling tobacco turned o'cl ‘ jt" 'cfmp.Tdri.iTjSi, | but there are some things the ( grower must do to qualify for aid ! under the support program. If he ! joined the corporation last year • o,i 1. is dull;,' fee., M-sU j twn'.aon- iu but he must | have and show his membership card. If he has lost his card, he may get a duplicate free from the ’ in * v •>,'! j* dig >:o o,,, stal.e | office, dll Fayetteville Street. Raleigh, -complete tst/nc ' and address. It is getting a bit i late for that move, and it is likely that those members who lost their membership cards will pay an other dollar and start over. This membership enables any tobacco grower to participate in the operations of the Stabiliza tion Corporation as long as he ; produces tobacco provided he is within the acreage allotment. In ' order to establish p of that he is a member, he must be able to show his identification card at any time he has tobacco that has sold for less than the loan rate and. desires to place it in the j Stabilization Corporation for the j loan. The grower is reminded that he or his qualified agent must be present to receive the benefits of the stabilization program when the tobacco is sold. Farmers par ticipating in the plan must turn in baskets immediately or before prices offered by the open market are recorded on the books. - Loses His Second I i Barn This Season —®— Leo Gainor. Goose Nest Town ship farmer, lost his second barn i of tobacco by fire this season last Wednesday morning. His first barn, containing just a few hundred slicks of sand lugs, was burned about three weeks 1 ago. A new barn was built and the farmer was curing some of his best tobacco when one of the oil burners flared up while he was adjusting it and fired the dry to bacco. The man hardly had time to get out of the barn ahead of the fire, reports reaching here stated, it could not be learned if , insurance was carried on the pro perty. The barn loss was the eleventh reported in the county this season. A twelfth curing barn destroy ed by fire in the county this seas on burned at 9:30 o'clock Wednes day evening on the Riley Rober son farm in Williams Township. Farmer C. S. VanLandingham w'as curing 700 sticks of fine tobacco and runing high heat when some thing went wrong with the wood curing system and fired the barn. The loss was partially covered by insurance. All Is Quiet On Labor Front Here Outwardly, all is quiet on the labor front here as the work stop page at the plant of the Williams ton Package Manufacturing Com pany continues well into its sec ond week. If there are any de velopments under the surface they have been, more or less, closely guarded. As far as it could be learned no | direct move to resume foil-scale operations at the package plant , has been made. The plant is still open to workers and a few are reporting for work. Others are said to be a bit weary of the work stoppage and declare they are ready to return to their jobs. Sev eral workers at the plant before the work stoppage declared this week they were afraid to return to work. Officers are investigat ing threats made against those who want to return to their jobs. The manager of the plant is out of town this week and could not be reached for a statement. After spending the week-end out of town, organizers returned Monday for an over-night stay. Stimson Explains Why Atomic Bomb Was Used In War Former Seeretarv of War Was Man To Make the Reeoiimiemtatioii (An Interim Committee *on the i problems of atomic energy having | been decided upon, Mr. Stimson now discusses the work of that committee.—Ed.) The next stop in our prepara tions was the appointment of the committee referred to in para graph (9) above. This committee, which was known as the Interim Committee, was charged with the function of advising the President on the various questions raised by our apparently imminent success in developing an atomic weapon. I was its chairman, but the prin cipal labor of guiding its extend ed deliberations fell to George L. Harrison, who acted as chairman in my absence. It will be useful to consider the work of the com mittee in some detail. Its mem bers were the following, in addi tion to Mr. Harrison and myself: James F. Byrnesf then a private citizen) as personal representa tive of the President. Ralph A. Bard, Undersecretary of the Navy. William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State. Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director, Office of Scientific Research and Development, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Wash ington. Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chief of the Office of Field Service in the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of v* .. ... ,. | IJi: James B. v.'onanf, Chairman ■ if. !. Committee, and president of Har vard University. The discussions of the Commit tee ranged over the whole field military, and scientific aspects. That part of its work which par ticularly concerns us here relates to its recommendations for the use of atomic energy against Jap fan, but it shuiUd be borne mfnmd ! *hat these r tcommendations we'-o I not made in a vacuum. The Com mittee’s work included the draft ing of the statements which were published immediately after the first bombs were dropped, the drafting of the statements which were published immediately after i the first bombs were dropped, the drafting of a bill for the domestic control of atomic energy, and rec ommendations looking toward the international control of atomic energy. The Interim Committee was assisted in its work by a Sci entific Panel whose members were the following: Dr. A. H. Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Dr. E. O. Lawrence, and Dr. J. R. Op penheimer. All four were nuclear physicists of the first rank; all four had held positions of great importance in the atomic project from its inception. At a meeting with the Interim Committee and the Scientific Panel on May 31, 1945, I urged all those present to feel free to express themselves on any phase of the subject, scien tific or political. Both General Marshall and I at this meeting ex pressed the view that atomic en ergy could not be considered sim ply in terms of military weapons but must also be considered in terms of a new relationship of man to the universe. On June 1, after its discussions with the Scientific Panel, the In terim Committee unanimously adopted the following recom mendations: . (1) The bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible. (2) It should be used on a dual target—that is, a military installa tion surrounded by or adjacent to houses and other buildings most susceptible to damage, and (3) It should be used without prior warning (of the nature of the weapon). One member of the committee, Mr. Bard, later chang ed his view and dissented from recommendation (3). In reaching these conclusions, the Interim Committee carefully considered such alternatives as a detailed advance warning or a de monstration in some uninhabited area. Both of these suggestions were discarded as impractical. They were not regarded as likely to be effective in compelling a surrender of Japan, and both of (Continued on page eight) Announce Faculty Complete For The Mew School Term -g . - Thirty-one Teachers Sign ed for Elementary Ami High School Here All faculty positions have been filled, including two new posts, and the local schools are just about ready to open the 1947-48 term on Thursday of next week. Principal B. G. Stewart announc ed yesterday. Twenty-one members of the 1946-47 faculty are returning, Principal Stewart said. Eight of the new teachers are filling old positions, while two others are filling new positions, health and physical education and public school music. While she is listed as a new teacher, Miss Grace Tal ton is returning merely after a leave of absence. The cnildren and community welcome the re turn of the old teachers and look forward to meeting the new ones. The lust of the teacher positions was filled just a few days ago when Mr. George Harris of Sea board contracted to teach social sciences. He is a graduate of the University, Chapel Hill, and taught one year following his graduation. After farming a while he entered the armed forces and following his discharge from the service, he studied at the Univer sity, completing special courses this summer. Names of the teachers, their home addresses and assigned grades are, as follows: j B. G. Stewart, Williamston, principal; Miss Ida Roberts, Shaw .. •’f'.rrrT rr I .Tu Vi «riwrW7l“ WWW [.(jt.RJ.'h.'icg.JsVi,! 1 i. Eng>j ■ ■’ -MMI j Krerieii; Mis , Mary Ellen Suwyci, Jumesville, science, George Har iris, Seaboard, social science; Mrs. Evelyn Manning, Williamston, I English and Fiench; Miss Peggy .'iOpkiiih, «if. Cm* , umumTuctl subjects; Miss Arina B. Privott, Edenton, mathematics; Stuart Maynard, Dunn, health and physi cal education: Ja<'k Butler, W11 - [iumisUiii, band; 'Misses' Lamina j J ia k , i. Greenville, Mis& Ada Mur - ris, Edenton, and Miss Grace Tal ton, Clayton, first grade; Mrs. Mary B. Curstarphen, Williams ton, and Miss Estelle Crawford, Williamston, second grade; Mrs. Elise Kimball, Mrs. Rosalie Frone berger, Williamston, and Miss Ruth Manning, Williamston, third grade; Miss Josephine Everett, Rebel sonville, Miss Frances Jen kins, Rebel son vilie. and Mrs. F. L. Fussell, Williamston, fourth grade; Miss Dora Bailey, Everetts, Miss Mamie Modlin, Lewiston, and Mrs, Velma H, Coburn, Wil liamston, fifth grade; Miss Erma Benson, Benson, and Miss Miriam Regerson, Aulander, sixth grade; Miss Mildred Byrum, Edenton, Mrs. Mary L. Hassell, Williams ton and Washington, I). C., sev enth grade; Mrs. George Corey, Williamston, and Miss Mary G. Whitley, Murfreesboro, eighth grade; Mrs. Beecher Patterson, Scotland Neck, public school music. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists on Martin Coun ty highways last week had the most accidents in any seven-day period in several years. Fortunately, no ode was killed and no one was critically hurt, but the wreck ing activities of the week put this year’s record in company with the figures recorded in the corresponding period lust year. The tobacco markets are opening and traffic is expect ed to increase, meaning that travel will be more dangerous and the need for greater pre caution necessary. 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. 33rd Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1947 8 4 0 $ 1,310 1946 000 000 Comparisons To Date 1947 01 37 3 $18,045 1946 82 08 3 20,450 Strong Corps Leaf Buyers For Market Finishing Touches Made For Opening Here Next Monday This Belt Has 450 Million Pouiuls, According To Estimates Announcing the market person nel complete, Sales Supervisor John A. Manning today declared that one of the strongest corps of buyers ever assembled will be on the Williamston Tobacco Market this season, that the market, with out a doubt, has the best and srongest selling and buying or ganizations it has ever had, and that the organizations are ably supported by capable depart mental heads and others. While the market is losing two good buyers, it is gaining two good ones, the others returning here having proved in past years that they can be depended upon as market builders and friends of the farmers. While subject to change, the buyer list, home ad dresses and companies represent ed. follow: John Fuller, Lexington, Ky., is returning for Liggett-Myers, and I he will be assisted by A. B. Ay ers, Jr., county young man. Gene Avery, Winston-Salem, will be back for R. J. Reynolds. Mack Lamb, Kinston, is retim ing for the American. Timbo Jcffress, Rocky Mount, will return for the Imperial. L ; -W .* ■ 11 arohi Faulk Biporl ■■ N. B. Thomas, Wilson, is con tinuing here for J. P. Taylor Co. Chick Holmes, Jr., is succeeding Arthur Beal for the Washington ^' — —. ■ Howard Cone, local young man, is representing The Fields Tobac co Co. Fred Taylor, Williamston, will i>i vii the. market fot W. 1 SI (in ner. -•■■■ .— • Several otltei iiuicpcndc.it com panies will also be represented, and the Stabilization Corporation will be represented by tlrbin and Rossel Rogers and Elbert Tice. The personnel for the market is complete to the last man with ca pable and experienced men in every department. At the Carolina and Farmers houses the proprietors will run the sales and personally super vise alloperations. Francis Mix is returning as auctioneer. Noah Peel will be in the office again, and Ben Roberson and Dewey Perry are returning as floor man agers. Jule James will assist in running the sales, and Elbert Tice will be in there serving as inter mediary for the farmer with the Stabilization Corporation. At the Roanoke-Dixie and Planters Warehouses, Johnny Gurkin, Carlyle Langley and Ed ward Corey will run the sales while the Rogers brothers, the other two proprietors, will super vise other operations, including thi‘ purchases of the Stabilization Corporation, Lionel Garner, of Kinston, is the auctioneer. Earl Daniel will be in the office, and Frank Haislip and Justus Coltrain are the floor managers. Church Perkins of Stokes, for several years on the Rocky Mount market, and Roy T. Griffin, local man, will carry the book and clip, giving the market a well-rounded and efficient operating force. Colored Schools Open September 1 — -<&■■■ — Unable to complete last-minute arrangements, education officials this week found it necessary to delay the scheduled opening of all colored schools in the county until Monday, September 1. The colored school principals are meeting next Monday and a conference of principals and all teachers will be held here on Fri day of next week, it was an nounced. The principals will meet with their teachers on Sat urday, August 30, to complete plans for the opening the fol lowing Monday, it was announced by the office of board of educa tion. BUSY WEEK-END Making up postponed con tests will result in a busy week-end for at least four clubs in the Martin County League. Bear Grass and Everetts are playing a doubleheader at Bear Grass Sunday after noon, the first game getting underway at 2 p. m. Robersonvil'.e and Oak City are to make up a game Sat urday night and meet again in a regular game Sunday afternoon. Williamston plays at Has sell and Cross Roads at Ham ilton in single games Sunday afternoon. Williamston ends the season Sunday afternoon, August 31, with a game against Oak City in the Martins' nark. Seven Acres Of Tobacco Burns Kiri' destroyed a packhousc and all tlu- contents, including the greater part of seven acres of to bacco and far mimplments, on the Ur nee Bunting farm, a subdivision of the Staton farm near here, Wednesday evening shortly after 7:00 o’clock. Grading tobacco m the pack l. • My II,, ... ft t 1. ,1 . .. ;tuok a shown . lie went on to tin' house, a few steps away and ate his supper. Coming out on his porch after supper lie saw fire rTe’eakiiig through the top of his pack barn. The fire spread so rapidly that he was only able to save a dozen or fifteen, sticks of . 'fcibao-.i.■ • • - | He M3 mnovi ’ ■ ' 1 1 tile barn tiial afternoon add plac ed it in the packhouse, neighbors declaring that the quality of the leaf was unusually good. There are a few tips in the field and with the exception of those and the few sticks saved from the fire, the entire crop was burned. The loss, estimated at about $5. U00 was partially offset by $3,1100 insurance, one thousand dollars of which went into effect at noon Wednesday. Local volunteer firemen an swered a call there, but there was very little water available and the fire was too far advanced for them to save the barn. Summer Session Ends With Picnic The reorganized Williamston Higli Sehool Band under the di rection of Professor Jack Butler, will end its summer practice ses sion with a picnic for band mem bers and their parents and friends Friday night at the high school grounds at fj o’clock. Immediately following the pic nic the young musicians and theii parents and friends will repair to the auditorium where a concert is to be given and a short business session will be held. During the business session plans will be completed for the fall program, including the setting of a date for holding the Uniform Fund Drive and the methods of conducting the campaign. More than half a hundred youngsters are trying for places in the first band of the high school and are being given in struction by Professor Butler. He has expressed great faith in the prospects for a good band here and is anxious to secure addition al uniforms to properly outfit the youngsters for parades and con certs as they work up to the point where they can make a creditable showing for the sellout and town. Some uniforms are on hand but estimates are that about $100U will be needed to purchase the re mainder of the needed uniforms and a few extra dollars for vari ous and sundry needed items will come iu mighty handy. Ready To Market Second Largest Crop On Record Buying ami Selling Organi* /.alions Strongest In Market's History Auctioning of tobacco moves into the third flue-cured type this year when the fifteen markets in the Eastern North Carolina flue cured belt begin sales Monday, August 25. According to the U. S. Crop Reporting Board, indica tions as of August 1 pointed to the second largest crop on record in the area, with production expect ed to full slightly under last year’s all time high. The Board forecast an output of 450,870,000 pounds, or only around 3 1-3 million pounds less than the 1946 crop. Total flue-cured production was placed at 1.295.865.000 pounds, which would be approximately 4 percent below last year's harvest. The United States and North Car olina Departments of Agriculture report that producers’ sales in the Eastern North Carolina belt the prior year totaled 433.756,724 pounds at an average of $52.68 per hundred This year's crop was produced under rather unusual growing conditions. Cool and dry weather prevailed during the normal planting season in May and de layed transplanting two to three weeks. A great amount of reset ting was necessary resulting in a large percentage of fields contain ing plants with great variation in age and size. Weather conditions in July were very favorable to growing and this brought about much, improvement to the crop. It »r>ne«rs that lie crop will be I'. (lira v\ hut ■, s. a'r wet0 1 The belt is scheduled to open with a 4-hour sales any. but when the Middle Belt opens on Scptem bei 15, will revert to 3 1-2 hours. The selling rate will be 400 bas kets pi r hour for each set of buy ers and the maximum weight of each basket will be 250 pounds. At the request of the Flue-cured , X?feacc ! Market in g C . e i ,tn(\ I - Flight Belt Tobacco . hen •••.•men’s Association', U. S. Department of Agriculture In spectors will count the number of baskets of tobacco sold each day. The number of baskets to be sold I is determined by the Marketing Committee. Commodity Credit Corporation loans will be attainable this year through the Flue-cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation. Loans will be made available at tobacco warehouses to all Flue-cured To bacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation members who arc co operating under the marketing quota program. The grade price loan rates for flue-cured tobacco average 4(J cents per pound, which is 90 percent of the June 15th parity price. Fur untied tobacco the loan rate for each grade is 4 cents per pound below the rate for tied tobacco of the same grade. Receipts by the Stabiliza tion Corporation last year in East ern North Carolina amounted to only slightly over three million pounds, or less than 1 percent of gross sales in the belt. Last year 99 sales floors operat ed on the Eastern North Carolina markets. During this season, the number of floors is expected to top the lilt) mark, one of which is reported to be North Carolina’s first flue-cured area cooperative auction warehouse owned and op erated by growers themselves. | petition ) \/ A petition advanced in an effort to relieve the local parking congestion is receiv ing strong support, the police department announced yes terday. Seventy-live firms and individuals have signed, agreeing to park their cars in the backlots or leave them at home, it was explained. All hut six business firms had been contacted up until late Wednesday afternoon, and no one had refused to sign and cooperate with the movement launched by town officials. The uetition asks local busi ness operators and their em ployees to leave the parking space for visiotrs between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 0:00 p. m. each week day.