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£ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE ■P—B!-——■ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER ~ “ William start, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 24, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1899 Co im^Kinirehes ^ Bequeathed Cash | By Mrs. Leggett -< ... ■ Will Probated In County f Clerk’s Office Here This Week -* In her last will and testament probated in the Martin County Superior Court clerk’s office this week. Mrs. Ethel Everett Leggett, late of this county, bequeathed $100 to Hamilton's St. Martin's Episcopal Church and $25 to Wil liams Methodist Church, near Pal myra. each year for four years. It was the first time in recent years that a religious institution had been remembered in a will filed in this county. Mrs. Leggett, in her will appar ently prepared during her last ill ness and while a patient in a Tar boro hospital, also made provision for the education of Malcolm Leg gett at State College, and desig nated certain amounts for improv ing the Martin County cemetery and the upkeep of her plot in the Hobgood Cemetery for ten years. Her estate, unofficially valued at $15,000, was divided for the most part among her sisters, nieces and nephews, Mrs. Leggett explaining that although no be hests were made to all members of her family, she loved them equally as well. Mrs. Leggett's stock in the Ev erett Estate, one of the fine old plantations in the county, was left to a sister, Mrs. Blanche E. Harri son. Her stock in General Mot ors was left to another sister. Miss Hattie Margaret Everett, "to buy a new car’’. Insurance was left to her niece and namesake, Miss Ethel Everett Harrison. For improving the Martin Coun ty cemetery. $500 was left, and $250 was designated to be spent on the family plot in the Hobgood Cemetery, and $25 was set aside for its upkeep each year |pr ten years. Mrs. Leggett also set aside $125 for the painting of a portrait of * her late husband, Dr. Virgil Wil son Leggett, the portrait to be giv en to L. W. Leggett, Jr. A note in the will read, "Dr. (Leggett) was too good a person to let his memory pass away and inis is one way of keeping it alive among his family, friends and admirers. Mrs. Leggett expressed the de sire that her mother’s portrait re main in the old home as long as it is occupied by her family, and then it is to go to Elizabeth Whit (ConVnued on page eight) Woman’s Club In Regular Meeting —•— Holding a regular business meeting last Tuesday evening with the president. Mrs. Wheeler Martin, Jr., presiding, the local Woman’s Club heard reports from the various departmental chair men, including, Mrs. A. J Man ning. Jr, and Gardens; Miss Lissie Pearce, f ine Arts; Mi's. Ray Goodmon, litera ture, and Mrs. S. Harcum Grimes. International Relations. Aims and purposes for the new club year were outlined by the chairman, and much interest was expressed in the proposed projects. The president announced that a district meeting would be held in Greenville Friday of next week and members planning to attend were asked to contact Mrs. P. B Cone. The president urged all members to subscribe to the clut magazine, “The North Carolina Clubwoman,” explaining that sub scriptions would be handled either by her or the club secretary. Dr. R. L. Oppelt, professor of education and director of teacher placement bureau, Fast Cat'yiliKt“ritTOiicls“Cui" will address the regular meeting of the local parent-teacher associa tion in the Grammar School auditorium next Monday evening at 8:00 o’cloek. His subject will be, “Education Yesterday, Today and Tomor row.” President Hildreth Mobley is asking all members to at tend and the public is invited. Board Proposes Extensive j Extension Of Town Limits j -• Meeting with the engineers this | week, a committee of the local I town board of commissioners pro- i posed an extr-’sive extension, oft, the incorporated limits. Exact metes and bounds are to be deter mined by actual survey, but judg ing from a map of the newly pro posed city the extended corporate limits will, it is estimated, em brace about three times more ter ritory than is found in the presen'. ' boundaries. While definite courses and j bounds cannot be announced until 1 surveys are made, the proposed ] lines will run roughly, as follows: Beginning at a point on Roan oke River about 1,800 feet above the starting point for the present boundary, the line will run a straight course in a westerly di rection, crossing the Hamilton Highway 2,400 feet beyond the State Highway property located 1 on Whitley's canal. Making an right ang'e turn there, the . line, as proposed of course, will run to a point in or near the pris on camp or old Greenville road at the intersection of U. S. Highway j 64. From about that point, the line runs a fairly straight course southeasterly to U S. Highway 17 at the old Garrett Hoad or at the Southerner and on to a point ap proximately 1.500 feet below the Standard Fertilizer Company plant or near the firemen's boat. No action on the proposed ex tension of the town limits is ex pected until the actual measure ments are made and the proposal is properly placed before the peo ple. An instrument survey is ex pected shortly. Gives Word Picture Of Buggs Island Dam '/-' STILL MISSING i \-/ Andrew Roberson, 40-year old colored farmer, missing from his home in Cross Roads Township since Tuesday, Oc tober 7, still has not been heard from, according to re ports coming from the sher iff’s office here at noon Thursday. Parties, made up of both white and colored men, are j continuing the search for the I missing man. Searchers are believed to have heard the man deep in the swamus last Sunday morning, and others declared they saw him near his home during the electrical storm last Sunday night, that he ran back into the woods before they could reach him. Purse Snatcher Has Long Record .♦— Stephen McCaden, 38-year-old colored man charged with rape i and more recently with snatching ja pocketbook from Farmer Will ! Roberson at Hamilton, has a long J criminal record, according to a icport coming from the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week. ivicCadrn, m addition to the re cord compiled by the federal bu I reau, admits other minor infrac | tions of the 'aw. He was first ar j rested for drunkenness in Reids ville back m 1941. He was next I booked for drunkenness in Dan 'ville, Virginia. Going back to ! Reidsville he was charged with ! disorderly csnduct. He ran afoul I of'the law next in Washington, D. C. Some months after that he was ! picked up in Buffalo, New York, for alleged violation of the Selec tive Service Training Act. Wan dering into New York city tie was | booked for disorderly conduct. | Moving southward he was detain j ed in Newark, New Jersey, for va I gancy and a short time later he I was up for being drunk and dis orderly, He jumped from New (Jersey to Edenton where he was j taken into custody last July 26 for i investigation. Coming into Mar | tin a short time later, he was charged with raping a colored I woman, and more recently he was I booked for snatching the farmer’s ! purse, containing over $200. M’c j Cuden is now in the Martin Coun ! ty jail, after finally stumbling in ! to big-time crime. -o | Army Deserter On His ft ay Hark To Arizona ■■ ■ ♦ | Absent without leave from the I Army Air Forces, William Osteen, u-i. i u, i*k u i,v-r ft**fTi j.,. , : police vt .'-(ine-.i.i! afternoon and I started the tong ride back to Wil ! Hams Field, Arizona. Osteen, detained here last week on a reckless driving charge, was transferred to the military police 1 by local officers and highway pa ! troimen between here and Tar ; boro. The military police were j starting their return trip an hour and thirty-five minutes alter [reaching Rocky Mount. Deputy Chief Of Engineers Speaks At Site Recently Anticipate* Completion Of Project In About Five More Years Addressing members of the Roanoke River Flood Control Committee and nearly 300 special guests at a meeting held on the Buggs Island dam site near Boy ton, Virginia recently, Brig. Gen. R. C. Crawford, Deputy Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, painted a comprehensive word picture of the big Roanoke River project. Explaining that the nation-wide program for the better utiliza tion of the water resources of the country had its inception jo, 1925 when Congre ss approved the Riv ers and Harbors Act, March 3, of that year, Gen. Crawford said that cost estimates and surveys and in vestigations were started. The general then continued: In April 1026 Dwight F. Davis, the Secretary of War, submitted a report which showed all the navi gable streams upon which power development appeared to be feasi ble and presented an estimate of cost to make the required investi gations. In January 1927, Con gress directed that the Corps of Engineers make the required in vestigations and develop the ne cessary plans. The studies carried out under the provisions of that Act, modernized frorh time to time, have been the basis of essen tially all of the country’s stream development program ever since. Shortly thereafter the Corps of Engineers began its investigation of the Roanoke River watershed. The engineers of the Corps inves tigated all the potential reservoir sites that could be utilized for ironing out the widely fluctuating flows of the Roanoke River and its tributaries. In June 1935, the Chief of Engineers forwarded his report to Congress. This report, usually referred to as the “303 re port," indicated that 17 dams could be constructed in the Roan oke River Basin which would be economical for the development of water power, and which also could be utilized for increasing the low water flows downstream for navigation and decreasing the high water flows for flood control. No appropriation of funds was made by Congress at that time to carry out the findings of the re port. Shortly alter the disastrous flood of August 1940 in the Roun I oka River Basin, which caused I about five million dollars damage, jof"fengmct rs review tnc '.50k Re port,” and bring it up to data, in I accordance with this directive the i Corps prepared a review report ! recommending adoption of a conn ! prehensive plan for the ultimate construction of a system of reser voires to develop the water re sources of the Roanoke River Bas in. The recommended plan com bined the 17 reservoirs of the (Continued on page six) Auto Demolished In Bad Accident Wednesday Night .•' — New Dod^e Knocked About ISO Feet Bv Track On Hamilton Highway No one was badly hurt but con siderable property damage result ed when a lumber truck sideswip ed one car and plowed into Bill Harrison’s new Dodge in front of Jenkins's filling station-store on the Hamilton Highway, near here, early Wednesday night. Knocked down the highway about 150 feet the new Dodge with only 666 miles on its speedometer was jammed into a ditch bank and demolished. A few parts can be salvaged, but the car was said to have been damaged beyond repair. Parking his car on the left side of the highway in front of the filling station and several feet off the hardsurface, Harrison was sit ting under the wheel facing to ward Williamston when George Mobley, driving a 1939 Ford in the direction of Williamston, started to make a left turn into the sta tion of Chimney Corner drive. Charlie Lee Haddock, following the Mobley car, apparently start ed to pass just as Mobley made ready to turn to the left. Pulling the truck heavily loaded with lumber, to the left, Craddock side swiped the Mobley car, damaging its side, before plowing into the rear of the Harrison Dodge. Its left fender and part of the radia tor buried in the right rear of the Dodge, the truck carried the new ear down across the highway 15(1 feet and crowded it into the bank, making an accordion out of it al most. Mr. Harrison, passenger on the wild ride, suffered severe shock and a cracked vertebrae However, he was ublc to leave the hospital for his home here a short time later. He plans to leave foi Raleigh Friday for special treat ment. Cpl. T. Fearing and Patrolman B. W. Parker, patrolling the high way at the time, reached the scene of the accident before the dust vivirsTcf; Tivcv TiaiV: oi to the hospital. Mobley was de tained for alleged drunken driv ing and Craddock, 42-year-ole: white man of Chocowinity, wai charged with speeding and reck less driving. Patrolman W. E. Saunders len' a hand and with two wreckers the officers cleared the highway in about an hour. No official damage estimate; could be had, but the loss will rur possibly between $1,500 and $2, 000. The lumber truck operatec by Craddock was owned by Con solidated Industries of Washing ton. Jamesvillc Youlli Has Prize Winnei Although battling keen compe tition, Thomas Gardner, James vilie Future Farmers of Americ; club member, exhibited a prize winning Hereford bull at tin State fair in Raleigh last week Judged one of the best bulls in the club group, the animal won for hi; owner a $100 cash award. The young farmer, his father Mr. Leo Gardner, and his adviser Professor V. B. Hairr, were guest; at a luncheon given by the Sears Roebuck Foundation in the Si Walter Hotel last Friday night Young Gardner was given the bul by the Foundation last November -o-— Jamesvillc Team In Missouri City Walking aw'ay with top honor; in a state- wide contest held at Ra leigh a few months ago, thret Jamesvillc FFA members, Wil ham Perry, Perlie Modlin, Jr . 'i'.v"!1 • p^T'JTTT’r’n ” | ti<uwl .liop-ttv-'k •ivA&'.r'b if jKansa; City, Missouri, this week iTHey were accompanied by then adviser, Professor V. B. Hairr Winning the state contest. th< team was given a free trip to the American Royal Livestock Show and were special guests of the Kansas City Chamber of Com merce at a large banquet held ii j the municipal auditorium then Wednesday evemng of this week Several Cases In Justices' Courts Here This Week — + Financier. Offering Aid To Defendant. Faces Bad Check Charge • Several cases were heard dur ing the past few days by Justices John L. Hassell and Robert Cow cn in their courts here James Willis Lloyd, charged with public drunkenness, was fin ed $5 and taxed with the costs. Unable to raise the amount or get anyone to guarantee its payment. Lloyd was assigned to the local street forces to settle the debt. William Henry Fippen, publicly drunk, was fined $5 and required I to pay the costs. Moses Staton, facing the court on two counts of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was fined $10 in each case and required to pay $13 costs. Staton, cited to court on the first count, failed to appear, and Justice Cowen upped the fines. Appearing in Justice Hassell’s court for allegedly allowing a fe male dog to run at large, Geo. T. Purvis was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspend ing the sentence upon the pay ment of $6.50 costs and on the further condition that he dispose of the dog. ' Jasper Cemmons, charged with failing to stop at a street intersec tion. was fined $l(J and taxed with $6 costs. Fined for operating a motor ve hide with improper equipmenl in Justice Hassell’s court Iasi week, a defendant appealed to s friend to finance the fine anc court costs. A check was offeree and accepted in good faith. Thi: week the check bounced back anc the court issued a warrant, charg ing the defendant’s friend wit! issuing a worthless check. A dat< for the- hearing in the case has no been set. -——.o ■... ■ — . .. Bridge Opening Is I)**’ y d Here The opening of the new Roa noke Reiver bridge draw span i being delayed by high water, ae cording to reports coming fron the construction project Thurs day. Electricians have been un able to pull a power cable unde the river and up through the bot tom of the pivot pier on aecoun of high water which is dogged 1; holding to flood stage. Reports state that the wate will have to fall possibly threi feet or more before the task cat be handled. After that work i completed it will require a weel or ten days to make the prope connections. The river droppei about two inches last Monday but has been on a stand sinci that time, holding to a point sev eral inches above flood stage. Plans to go ahead and open th< j'! power were abandonecl^wbcn i was learned that about thirt; . minutes are required to open am close the span. i Representatives of the con ; tractors have refrained from evei mentioning a date for opening th bridge to traffic. Work On Streets Is Delayed Hen ! —°— Work, scheduled to have beei started Thursday on local streets was delayed when the eontracto was unable to complete anothe project on time. The contractors, having ahead; graded some of the streets, is ex ; pected to start work either 01 Friday of this week or the earl; part of next week. The street improvement proj ret calls foi the resurfacing o ,-tr diacu, jfajg - j self, Warren and Ray Streets, . j block on Smithwick Street, am ■ j all of Warren "Street. New sur . j facing is called for fin a smal ■ part of Church Street, one bloei on School Drive and about on bock on Halifax Street and on block on Park Street. Only a few days will be re i quired to complete the improve ment project once work is start , 'ed. t Start Threshing, Peanuts In County On Wednesday — ■ ■■ A—— Farmers in the Hamilton area started threshing the peanut crop Wednesday afternoon, prelimin ary reports reaching here stating j that the yield is running between 'eighteen and twenty hafts per ' acre. Qua'.ty was said to be good. | No official price offer has been I made for any of the crop as far as it could be learned, but ten and one-half cents per pound was mentioned, according to reports reaching here. Farmers Henry Johnson, Dan Roebuck and Jcsscc Everett start ed threshing operations on their farms in the Hamilton area this week, and if favorable weather maintains, the work will get un der way on a fairly large scale next week. Peanut buyers this week ap pealed to the growers to make certain that the goobers are thor oughly dry before threshing. Digging one of their best crops in several years, farmers were frilly optimistic over the peanut outlook until rair.s started falling on October 6 and continued to fall dail y. through Sunday.. night. Damage, caused by the rains, will run into fairly big figures, some farmers declaring they have lost a large portion of their crop, that just about all their hay has been damaged if not ruined. Those farmers who did not com plete the harvest before the rains set in, declared this week that they had abandoned their crops to the hogs. It is fairly certain that | all peanuts not yet harvested on 'heavy soils are lost. Even in those cases were the goobers were plow ed up and had not been separated from the dirt farmers declare they are beyond economical har vest. Tobacco Sales Near Eleven Million Mark Current Sales Are | Far Ahead Of The I Poundage for ’46 • ln«livi«inul Sales Thin Week Reach Highest Peak of Season So Far -# ■ Making possibly one of the 1 strongest bids it has ever made for tobacco, the Williamston market t this week is nearing the eleven , million pound mark, reports de claring that if sales hold up through next Monday that figure will be reached and passed. At the same time the market will have sold by that time a few thousand pounds more than were ,»».W At the close of the 42nd marketing day on Wednesday of this week, the market here had sold just ; about three-quarters of a million pounds more than were sold dur 1 ing the first 42 days of the 1946 " season. Closing tor the season on Nov- | ember 13 last year, the local mar ' ket sold 10,874,674 pounds, mean 1 1 ing that from October 22, 1946, until the close, it sold 1,124,582 pounds. If the market maintains its sales in the same proportion ' during the remainder of the seas 1 son, it will approach and possibly > pass the twelve million-pound ; mark Guesses on poundage are highly problematical since no l complete reports are to be had ■ from the field. A majority of the - farmers have completed the mar keting of their crop in this sec tion, and it is possible that a - larger percentage of the crop has ■ moved out of the hands .-aMka t growers this year than was the ' case at the corresponding time, a I year ago. However, it is an es tablished fact that current sales • will exceed those of last year, and 1 that possibly the market will set a - new high poundage record. Sales through Thursday of this week stood right at ten and one half million pounds, bringing right at $42.00 per hundred. Some of the highest individual \ sales of the season were reported on the market here this week l when farmers like Sidney Beach am of Bear Grass sold some choice tobacco for $68.00 per hundred pounds. Current prices are equally as good as they have been at any time this season with many grades showing gains ranging from $2 to $7 per hundred. Averages fluc tuate, however, from day to day according to the type of the offer f ings. On Wednesday of this week, Trtwr aver agfc't? SS*vf f il t ISCTRTOiTlof the entire sale.. However, the day J before there was much damaged lea! or, the floor and quite a few I farmers offered their scrap and odds and ends, holding the aver 1 age to around $42.00 per hundred. While there was no marked price decrease, the market appear ed a littla shaky Thursday morn ing after it was learned that Eng land was considering banning fur (Contiuued on page eight) RAINY TIME s -* After asserting himself 14 days in a row, J. Pluv ius petered out for a while, at least, last Sunday evening. However, it required a rol licking electrical storm to jar him off his watery throne. Starting on October 6 fol lowing about ten days of ideal weather, rain fell every day through last Sunday. All told, the rain did not amount to much—8.7« Inches — but it fell in such a fashion as to mess up farm operations and damage the peanut crop. Weather conditions so far since last Sunday have been ideal, but a bit warm for the season of the year. Industrial Gains Now Leveling Ofi The high peak of idustriai de velopment and expansion in Nortl Carolina that was reached in 194' is now in the ‘‘leveling off” period reports Philip Schwartz, indus trial analyst of the division o commerce and industry. Depart ment of Conservation and Devel opment. According to Schwartz, new in dustries listed in 1946 reached th record number of 432, while ii the succeeding six months, Janu ary-June, 1947, only 74 new am proposed industries were listed The physiological divisions revea practically the same percentage in 1947 as Ihe preceding year, th Mountain Region having 10 per ■■^^Ak^niont Plateau 63, am the Coastal Plain 15, as compare* with the 1946 percentages of IE 70, and 15 in the same order. Indications are that the 74 nev and proposed industries in 194 are small or rural manufacturin, plants employing up to 25 work ers each, representing approxi mately 61 percent of the total. The report reveals that the lead ing expanding industry is textil mill products, having establishes or proposed to establish 23 plant in the six month period in 1941 Others in order are food and kin dred products; tobacco manufac tures furniture and fixtures; pap er and allied products; stone, cla; and glass products. The approxi mate new investment totals $4. 960,000 for tiiis period, and th contemplated number of nev workers, 2,731. ■ ■ <m . Minor Auto Accident On Hirer Bridge Her A a'I all Eumuiulaon, 2u. ami lie Kale, troth4of-4-FurtWitraKrtU,4 wer uninjured when their auto lot through a barricade on the Roan oke River bridge here at 4:0 o’eloek this morning. Very littl damage was done to the car. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman W. E. Saunders and Iocs police detained the two men, Ed mondson for alleged drunke driving and Kale for publi drunkenness. Judge J. C. Smith Has Sixteen Cases In County’s Court Fines Ami Rom! Forfeiture Amount To $100 Last Monthly Morning . Holding a compa: atively short | session of the county recorder’s court last Monday. Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor Paul D. Rob erson called sixteen cases and cleared the calendar by noon. Fines and forfeitures, including a $100 cash bond, amounted tc $400. Proceedings: Charged with operating a mot or vehicle with improper lights, Li’Roy Rogers was adjudged not guilty. Charles Felton Keel, charged with reckless driving, was found guilty of failing to give proper hand signal while operating a motor vehicle. The court suspend ed judgment upon the payment of | the trial costs. Charlie Rhodes pleaded guilty of assaulting a female and pray er for judgment was continued until next Monday. In the case in which R. B. Spruill was charged with larceny and receiving, the court after hearing the evidence directed a verdict of not guilty and ordered a watch returned to Noah Frazier. The case charging Walter Lee Hall with larceny and receiving was nol pressed with leave. In a second case in which Hall I was charged with adultery along with Lota Hall, the woman for feited a $100 cash bond posted by James Wynne. The case against Hall was nol pressed with leave. Charged with assaulting a fe male, Isaac Perkins pleaded guil ty and was sentenced to the roads for fifteen months, the sentence was suspended upon the immedi j ate payment of $50 and $8 each week for the support of his two children. Pleading not guilty of assault ing a female. Oliver Rogers was adjudged guilty and was fined $25 plus the costs. The ease in which Oliver Rogers with fornication and adultery was continued until the first Monday in January. George Hardison of Jamesville, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty and was sentenced -1 to the roads for twelve months, i the court suspending the sentence i upon the payment of a $100 fine and the costs. His license to oper . ate a motor vehicle was revoked f for two years. In the courts last . April 14 for being drunk and dis . orderly and assault, Hardison was sentenced to the roads for twelve . months. The sentence was sus . pended upon the payment of a $25 x fine and on the further condition . that he was not to be intoxicated 1 during a two-year suspension perior or to operate a motor ve ] hide for six months. The old sen s tence was not invoked according » to court records. Adjudged guilty of speeding I George wi|i-L-j~''ioJ 1 $25 and taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of drunken driving, L. C. Swain was fined , $1U0, taxed with the cost and had j his driver's license revoked for i one year. John M. Leggett, charged with . operating a motor vehicle with out a driver's license, pleaded . guilty and was fined $25 and tax , ed with the costs. 1 (Continued on page eight) THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists or. the county’s . highways continued to pile r ’em up last week, running the accident count to an all-time high. However, the motorists continue to show greater re . spect for life and limb than vht-v cad erverr-aso:. 1 The following tabulations offer a comparison ox uie ac cident, trend: first;, by l'uires ponding weeks in this year J and last and for each year to e the present time. 42nd Week Accidents luj'd Killed Daiu'ge 1 1947 5 2 0 $ 1,000 1946 120 850 i Comparisons To Date c 1947 110 53 3 $23,090 J 1946 100 78 3 . 24.500
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