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4(tHB ENTERPRISE IS READ BY bVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK arij Mnrthr€aunty^K*lh CnraUmqHlt's:idvy, Septm/lPM 29,-1917 -■ Stimson Explains! ^Why Atomic Boinb| was Used In War; ——» Former Secretary of War Was Man To Make the Recommendation -o (In this concluding article Mr. Stimson gives a blunt resume of j why he advised using the atomic , bomb, urged retention of the Em- J peror and what he thinks of war j in general.—'Ed.) In order to end the war in the Shortest possible time and to avoid the enormous losses of human life which otherwise confronted us. I felt that we must use the Emperor as our instrument to command and compel his people to cease fighting and subject themselves to our authority through him, and that to accomplish this we must give him and his controlling ad visers a compelling feason to ac T|;de to our demands. This reason urthermore must be of such a na ture that his people could under stand his decision. The bomb seemed to me to furnish a unique instrument for that purpose. My chief- purpose was to end the war in victory with the least possible cost in lives of the men in the armies which I had helped to raise. In the light of the alter natives which, on a fair estimate, were open to us I believe that no man, in our position and subject to our responsibilities, holding in his hands a weapon of such pos sibilities for accomplishing this purpose and saving those lives, could have failed to use it and aft erward looked his countrymen in the face. As I read over what I have written. I am aware that much of it. in this year of peace, may have a harsh and unfeeling sound. It would perhaps be possible to say the same things and say them more gently. But I do not think it would be wise. As I look buck over the five years of my service as Secretary of War, I see loo ^ many stern and heartrending de cisions to be willing to pretend (Continued on page five) Big-Time Circus j Here October 10 —t—. | Cole Brothers’ circus, one of the largest traveling in the South this season, will play two perform- I ances here on October 10. advance . agents announced this week. The first large circus to play | here in years, possibly more than j a quarter century, the circus Lav- 1 els by special train, owning its thirty double-length cars. Williamston is the smallest town on its itinerary this season, it was learned, reports stating that the circus‘will come here from Kin ston, move to Greenville and con tinue to Norfolk. It was re 11 ablvjgayjgd that the circus carriesTOOpeople, includ-1 jng top talent. There are eigh- j teen elephants and hundreds of I horses and other animals. Arrangements have been made to raise the big top on the Wil liamston Lumber Company j grounds, but the field will not ac- | commodate the cook tent and I other installations which will be placed just across the road. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Martin County's 1947 high- j way accident figures continue j 1c lead those of a year ago, but the motorists hold about the same contempt for life and far greater respect for limb than they did in the first S 37 weeks of 1946. First re ports on the 37th week acci dent record pointed to a pos sibility of another victim be ing added to the death col yjgnic. „ j ''' .v, ir.g tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to 4' the present time. 37th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam'ge 1947 2 3 0 $ 795 | 1946 4 2 0 200 Comparison? To Date 1947 94 48 3 $21,070 1947 91 71 3 21,290 | Big Damage Suits Pending In Court I HARVEST v -—* The 1947 peanut harvest is rapidly nearing a climax in this county, late reports stat ing that dinging operations are under w/y now iy all parts of the county. , ' Conflicting reports are com ing in, some saying that the yield is low and .others declar ing it to be very high. How ever. most all are agreed that the crop is better than those of the past t>vo years. The quality of the crop is far bet ter in sandy or light soils than it is in the heavy clay type, but the goobers are shedding badly everywhere, it was declared. Favorable weather for the next two or three weeks will materially aid the crop, and if they can be saved, peanuts will help relieve conditions aggravated by falling tobacco prices. Henrv 1). Mizelle Died Wednesday Henry Dawson Mizelle, 50, died at his home in West End near Wil liamston last Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock following an ill ness of only a few days. In de clining health for some time, he was able to continue his work on the Roanoke River bridge project here until last week-end. He was able to be up for a short time last Monday and the following day he suffered a stroke, the end coming gradually. Mr. Mizelle, son of the late John li. and Ella Peel Mizelle, was bom near Williamston on February 15, 1897. He spent his early life on the farm and lived near Williams ton all his life except two years spent on the farm in Edgecombe County. He was a willing- worker and possessed a friendly disposi tion. He was married to Miss Gladys Taylor twenty-seven years ago and she survives with four chil dren, three sons, Elmer Taylor Mizelle of Norfolk, Dallas Mizelle of Williamston and Russell Mi zelle of the home, one daughter, Mis, James E. White of Windsor; a sister, Mrs. Charlie Stalls of near Williamston, a half-sister, Mrs. Herbert Lee of New Bern, a half-brother, John Allen Mizelle ot West End and two grandchil-. dren. Funeral services will be con ducted at the home Friday after noon at 4:00 o’clock by Rev. W. B. Harrington and Elder A B. Ayers. Interment will follow in Wood lawn Cemetery here. MtRor Bus-Auto Wreck Near Here —» No one was hurt and very little damage resulted when an automo bile plowed into the rear of a school bus on Highway 64 at. West End near here last Tuesday after noon. When the bus stopped to dis charge passengers near Hardy’s store, a car, operated with inade quate brakes, struck the rear of the bus. knocking off the rear light on the bus and battering a fender on the car. The car driver was charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes. Cp). T. Fearing of the Highway Patrol made th* investigation. •---— Flans Go Forward For Court Term Plans are going forward for opening- r.t-gt- week J.hc Scpten-. fser .tenm'eTcouxT* postponed here last Monday on account of the illness of Judge Clawson Williams who was slated to preside. It could not be learned if Judge Williams would be able to fill the appointment, but he advised court officials that in case he was un able to handle the assignment he would rppeal to the governor and j ask that another judge be given ! the assignment. 1 I Seven Plaintiffs i Seek Damages In Sum of $60,500.00 _u_' Twenty-two Civil Cases Are On Calendar For Trial In Superior Court Twenty-two civil cases, a third of them damage suits with big fig ures, have been calendared for trial in the Martin County Su perior court here next week. The schedule for the court was upset when Judge Clawson Wil liams was unable to report last Monday. The trial of criminal cases will take first place, follow ed by divorce mill operations and then by the trial of the civil cases. Seven plaintiffs, victims of highway and train accidents, are asking damages in the total sum of $60,500. Not in a long time have there been so many damage suits scheduled for airing in the courts of this county, the number revealing the dangerous trend of travel. Several of the plaintiffs are admittedly maimed for life and spbstantial damages are reas onably expected. Leading the list of damage suits is the one brought by George Har rell Manning, young Jamesville white man. who was nearly killed along with his brother, Tom Brown Manning, in an automobile accident in Jamesville last Oeto ber 20. The defendant, his back broken and suffering other criti cal injuries, was a patient in a hospital for eig,.t weeks, and his brother, suffering similar injuries, was a patient in the hospital for seven and one-half weeks. George Harrell Manning is asking $25,000 and Tom Brown Manning is asking $15,000 of Marvin Wood row Corey, the defendant. The suit is understood to be a friend ly one since insurance was car ried. Mrs. Margie Sullivan, critically injured in an auto-truck accident on the BetKel-Greenville Highway last January 18, is suing Amos Cox, driver, and Vance Harring ton, owner of the truck figuring in the near fatal accident, for $10,000. Riding with her husband, J. B. Sullivan, the plaintiff points out that the defendant’s truck was improperly parked in the high way and without proper warning lights, and says she suffered ex treme serious and numerous la cer-iions and bruises on her face and other parts of her body, con cussion and shock and loss of nearly ail her teeth, and that there was a bone injury to right foot and that her nervous system was greatly upset. In his suit against the defendants, is asking $5,uu0 damages, pointing out that he suffered cuts end lac orations to his lace and neck, leav ing scars, that bones in his right hand were broken and that there was lasting shock to his nervous system. William Thomas Sullivan, Jr., by his next friend, W. T. Culli pher, is suing the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for $2, 500 alleged damages resulting when a B. S. Courtney furniture truck was hit by the defendant's train at a grade crossing on the old Everetts Road last October 3 Riding with J. Clifton Manning, the plaintiff says he was seriously and permanently injured, point ing out that his face was bruised and lacerated in three places, that (Continued on page eight) I K-t. a. meeting --< Williamston’s Parent Teacher Association will hold it* first meeting of the new te>w 'o'>*"LvVoiteay‘ e^e"n'iVf 8:00 o'clock in the grammar school auditorium, it was an nounced yesterday by Presi dent Hildreth Mobley. Plans will be formulated for an active work program for the year, and all parents and patrons are asked to at tend. Committees are being named and the officers of the organization are anticipating [Holiday Magazine ( * C j Featuring StateJb fib Current Issue —»— Description of North Caro lina Elaborately Illustrat ed In Portfolio North Carolina is featured in I the October issue of Holiday as one of the Nation's outstanding vacation areas. "It’s the richest State in the Old South," says the lead article in the national travel magazine, “yet it remains the pioneers’ pre serve that the early Americans found it.’’ This description of the Tarheel State appears in an elaborately illustrated 26-page portfolio which gives Holiday readers a complete guide to the interests that lie within its borders. This year the State will realize $175. 000.000 from visitors seeking "sun, fun and a wonderful opportunity for laziness,” adds the review. According to the publishers of Holiday, more than five million persons will see the North Caro lina issue, for which Jonathan Daniels, well-known newspaper man, has written a 10,000-word account of his native State. More than 100 photographs, most of them in color, depict many of the State's attractions. The magazine’s tobacco-tan cover, exe cuted by artist Arthur Williams, carries five scenes of the State, the words “North Carolina” and the State seal. The State’s industries have pro vided it with the wealth "which has been the basis of the burgeon ing of North Carolina in compari son with its sister states in the South,” the magazine says. It makes more towels than are pro duce^ anywhere else in the world, it produces more denims, and at High Point more furniture is made than anywhere else in this coun try with the possible exception ol Grand Rapids. Added to this, the magazine continues, it is the leading State ! in the production of peanuts and j American cigarettes and one of I tlu fii^t t .*. o ?. t ah-,---,,' v -.ji/'j—.-in a nil— facture of nylon stockings. In its pictorial review Holiday roams the State to compile a com plete record of the North Caro lina scene. Its four-color repro ductions capture the black-blue gray shades of the Great Smoky mountains. “They are beauty beyond de scription,” observes Daniels, "ac cessible to eighty million people who live within 600 miles of their breath faking scenery." "Established only since 1926. 'the Great Smoky National Park already outdraws the older and more spectacular Yellowstone,” he points out. The Smokies, highest mountains in the East, are traversed by some of the Nation's best highways, says the article, which claims that new and stitt-wwnmpleted the Blue Ridge Parkway is “the most beautiful in Eastern Ameri ca." Also in the color parade are scenes of the bathing at Atlantic Beach, fishermen surf casting at Hatteras, the bus that runs from Hatteras to Manteo, Main Street in Rocky Mount, the City Hall at (Continued on page five) Accepts Call To West End Church Rev. J. Thud Ashley, Durham native, recently accepted a call as pastor of the West End Baptist Church here and reported to his new station Thursday of this week, The minister will make his home with the W, R. Banks tem porarily, it was learned. Rev. Mr. Ashley is a graduate of Wake Forest College and re jcently completed his ministerial ’studies at Texas Seminary. He will conduct his first service in the ■‘WWeMrwmtrr.r Mnjw mg at 11:00 o’clock and a large congregation is expected to wel come him at that time. According to present plans, Rev. Ashley will divide his time between the West End church and work in the Roanoke Baptist As sociation. In use for some months, the new church has now been completed jin its entirety and its continued rapid growth is certain. Club Meeting is Largely Attended —*—,»— With one of its largest after-d ance records, the VVUhamston Woman’s Club opened the fall season with a splendid meeting under the presidency of Mrs. Wheeler Martin, Jr,, in Die club room last Tuesday evening. For ty-nine of the old members were ! present and thirteen new mem ber;;. Mesdames G. P. Hall, Sam uel Zcmon, Dampey Simmons, Bill Abbitt, John Miller, senior and junior, John Wier, Gene Kim ball, Marvin Britton, B. G. Stew art. Clinton House, D. L. Reynolds ■ and Miss Frances Thomas, were (added to the roll. Members of the | local school faculty were special guests, Mrs. E. R. Froneberger introducing the elementary teach ers and Miss Mary Whitley pre senting the high school group to the meeting. Mrs, Henry Griffin, first vice president, presented Mrs. Martin, the newly elected president, who graciously accepted the chair and presided. Tentative plans were made for entertaining the district meeting here on Wednesday, October 1. The sessions are to be held in the Methodist Church and the local unit will serve lunch in the club hall. Mrs. Martin asked the co operation of all the members in entertaining the visitors. Mrs. A. J. Manning was named chairman of the American Home land Garden committee, succeed ing Mrs. M. M. Levin. • Following the business session a social hour was enjoyed, the en tertainment committee serving light refreshments. -♦— Asks Support 01 The Farm Bureau The North Carolina Farm Bu reau’s simultaneous campaign for 100,000 members should h^tve the support of everyone, “for only through organization can agricul ture hope to survive and contri bute its share to the prosperity of v'S'r -ifX-ft tv- -.md' -NrH-rov,. - -*iT 4riv'i, - iel, Marlin County Farm Bureau president, said today. "Farm bureau Membership Committeemen are hard at work enlisting new members to boost the rolls from 62,057 to 100,000 by November 15,’’ Daniel said. “How ever, this is a task of such im portance that we can’t be content to let just a few do the work. This campaign means much to the fu ture of agriculture in North Caro lina. If we farmers are to be rep resented properly before our State and National Legislative bodies, we should see to it that the Farm Bureau can point to a member ship so large that there will be no doubt how North Carolina farm ers stand on important issues.” I The di ive, headed by A. C. Ed wards, Hookerton, North Caro has attracted wide interest, Dan iel said. District and county meet ings of the past two weeks, he added, have shown that the farm ers are concerned about the fu ture. "It is up to the county commit teemen and other members of the Farm Bureau to put the campaign over,” Daniel said. "It is up to men and women alike to see to it that we express ourselves freely through a sound agricultural or ganization and that we express ourselves 1(10,000 strong.” -o Hurricane Moves Into Mexico Gulf ——®—— After tearing a streak across lower Florida, the hurricane, play ing off the Atlantic Coast for sev eral days, is wearing itself out in the Gulf of Mexico. Complete reports on the dam age done in Florida are not yet available. However, two persons ;wi,y XiTviyffKT.- m-. [and seventeen others were report ed missing. Considerable losses were reported by property own ers, including orange grove farm ers. Weather conditions have been unsettled in this section since late Tuesday, but the condition was said to have been the result of cool air moving out of Canada and making ready to usher in the fall j season this week-end. j Conditions on Labor Front Are Little Changed Locally | No new developments on the j : labor front have been reported | here following a complete work J stoppage at the Skinner Tobacco | Company, a limited interruption 1 at the WUliamston Lumber Com pany mill and a near if not com ■ pletfc strike failure at the plant of the Standard Fertilizer Company last Monday morning All plants ; are operating on a partial if not a | regular schedule. The Skinner , Company plant resumed opera tions without much delay when an agreement was entered into to bargain. The Williamston Lumber Com pany, in an advertisement today, stated it was ready and willing to have an election conducted among its employees under the di rection of the National Labor Re lations Board to determine if a majority of the workers are in favor of a union there; Unopposed by pickets, workers arc continuing to report to their posts at the Standard Fertilizer Company while a smalt but full seasonal crew is carrying on op erations without interruption. No date, as far as it could be learned, has been set for negotiat ing a contract between the union (District 50. UMWA. AF of Li and the W. I Skinner Tobacco Com pany Operations there arc being maintained full blast. i Other plants here have not been struck, but the union is claiming a majority of signers in otic or two of them. Activities at the Williamston Package Manufacturing Company continued at an absolute stand still as the work stoppage enters its sixth week with no immediate prospects for a settlement. It was unofficially learned that some of the men had inquired about the possibility of resuming activities there. So Car no threats have been made and the labor front contin ues quite peaceful. Police have warned against any bodily threats or disturbances. Gradual Price Drop On Tobacco Market -— | Sales Pass Four Million Mark On Market Thursday Three \n«l One-Half Hour Selling lYrioil in Effect In Hell Next Monday ♦. Aggravated by several factors, tobacco prices followed a gradual but noticable downward trend on the markets this week, and farm ers expressed the opinion that un | less the order is soon reversed the current crop is going to fall be llow the government’s guarantee j-of-mnetypnci nt ot parity.. , Farmers this week admitted i that the quality of the offerings was inferior, that the poor quality types were being offered in fairly large quantities. Naturally the price trend would be downward However, they pointed out that prices for the better grades were not as strong as they were earliei in the season, and there was some j doubt if the government grading system was Holding up to the lev ! cl in cftect the first veek the mar kets were open in this belt. Weather conditions have no! been very favorable either for the marketing of the crop, and the twe i factors along with others such as la large crop and heavy offerings are depressing the markets. Prices held to the lowest level of the season this week, averag ing down in the thirties for tin first time, and pulling down the average for the season on the local market to $41.10. Despite the price trend, sales continue heavy on all markets in the belt, according to reports reaching here. Through Wednes day of this week the Williamstor market had sold 4,082,758 pounds The Thursday and Friday sales will push the total for the season to almost four and three-quartei million pounds. Bookings are fairly heavy foi next week, but selling time will be cut back to three and one-hall 1 hours beginning next Monday J Sales will be limited to 1,400 piles each day instead of 2,000 allowed under the current selling rcgula (Continued from page five) i ~~~ * 2 * MEETING v_i Meeting in special session with Engineer Henry Rivers, the local board of town com runge improvement program, including extension ot water and sewer lines. “If we arc to continue to grow we must plan for the future," Commis sioner K. I). Worrell* said in proposing that a study be made. No other business has been scheduled for consideration at the special meeting Mon day night at 8 o’clock. ' QUESTIONNAIRES Asked to report on their peanut plantings for the past several years, Martin Coun ty farmers are slow in return ing the questionnaires to the office of the county agent. It was pointed out that it will be to the marked advantage of the farmer to fill in the questionnaire mailed him a short time ago and get it back to th*» office on or before the last of this month. Any farmer who planted peanuts in 1942 without an allotment and did not receive a questionnaire should along with others who failed to re ceive one of the question naires, report to the county agent's office immediately. Hears Four Cases In Mayor’s Court Mayor Robert Cowen heard four eases in his court last Tues day evening when one ol the de fendants faced him for the second time and did not come out so well. James Clark, arrested on a public drunkenness charge the 30th of lust month, was back in the court on a similar charge this iMMi )n the test count, judg ment was suspended, upon pay ment of the cost, but in the second ease Mayor Cowen fined him $10 and taxed him with $7.50 costs. Held in jail over the week-end for public drunkenness, Virgie Elizabeth Tyner was carried into court, Judge Cowen suspending judgment upon the payment of $8.50 costs. Eli Howard was charged with public drunkenness, and was re quired to pay $0.50 costs. Howard explained that it was the second time for him in seven years, and pledged good behavior from now on out. William Stokes, burdened with family troubles, was in court again Tuesday evening when Judge Cowen suspended judgment upon the payment of the cost. The action was taken after Stokes said he planned to leave home and re main sober. Prayer Meetings . ..Been .Postponed The series of cottage prayer meetings that had been planned by the Ministerial Association to begin on September 22nd have been advanced to the middle of October. This change was brought about by the inability of the vari ous churches to secure ministers lo hold tire meetings as scheduled. Time and place of the services will be announced at a lutei date. Veteran Trainees Inspect Projects In Martin County -9 World War II V eterans Are I'lantiiii' 200 Acres To Hybrid Corn '-«. Thirty Jamesvtiln veteran {arm trainees with their instructors, Ralph Davenport and Leonard Ho 11 id a,\. under the supervision of the teacher of agriculture, made a farm tour on Tuesday afternoon. A test plot of fourteen different kinds of hygrid corn conducted by Bobby Lilley of Dardens was vis ited by the trainees. Here a study was made of the different hybrids as to the yield, condition of the grain, weevil damage, con dition of the stalk, etc. Trainee Bob Davenport’s hybrid corn was visited next. Here the trainees observed a comparison between the hybrid corn and a variety corn. The hybrid is estimated to produce 100 bushels to the acre. Trainee John Coltrain and T. W. Holliday’s hybrid seed fields were visited next. They are growing N. C. 27 and T 11 seed corn to be marketed for next year. After observing how hybrid seed are grown the tour continued to trainee 1, C. Moore’s. Here the group examined another excellent mated Moore's corn to produce as muted Moore’s cor nto produce as much as 100 bushels per acre. Members of the class are seeing some good results of the hybrid corn they planted this year. Mem bers of the class planted approxi i mutely 200 acres of hybrid corn I this year and plant to about dou I ble that acreage next year. In ad dition to their many other im ; provements the trainees seeded approximately thirty acres of per manent pasture last spring. Members of the class making the tour were: Garland Barber, Simon Barber, Elwood Blown, Bob Davenport, Murry Davis, Seth Davis, Hosca Fagan. Paul llolii day, Jim Brown Holliday, Mayo Moore, L. C. Moore, Alva Rober son, Dennis Mizelle, John Cooper, John Coltrain, Elbert Barber, El mer Harris. Wilbei i Gardner, Gor don C. Price, Robert Perry, Clif j ion Ward, Gilbert Ward, Thomas Tice, Garland Tice, Hugh B. G r if - ! fin, Noah Roberson, Thurman Mobley, Charles Gurkin, William Peele, and Jesse R. Griffin. Others making the tour were H. 1*’. McKnight and Albert Pleasants of the Soil Conservation Service and J. W Sumner and D. W. Brady of tile Extension Service.— I Reported. Planning To Turn Bridge Next Week -o Delayed when one crew of riv j eters got into a heated fight, work | on the Roanoke River Bridge here • is now.ju^ogross.ing very rapidly, j late reports indicating that the heavy steel span will be turned into position sometime next week, possibly the early part. Most of the guard rail has been poured on the widened concrete bridge, and it shouldn’t be too long before traffic is moving over the new' span. The riveters are now scheduled, unofficially, to complete their work the latter part of this or early next week. The welders have about one or two days’ more work. Electrici ans are making splendid progress in their work. REPORTS r v Although she expressed the 1 hope that she would be excus ed, Mrs. Bruce Koebuek of j Kobersonville reported for jury duty at the regularly scheduled term of superior court last Monday , The first woman citizen in this county to be called for I .. KBffWtog- •Hfi'.-Ror buck had no valid excuse to offer the clerk of court, but it is quite likely that the judge will excuse her when court is convened next Mon day morning. Mrs. John VVier, the other woman citizen drawn for jury duty, presented the clerk with a doctor's certificate and she was excused on that count by the clerk a short time ago.
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