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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE - OVER 3,00# MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,009 MARTIN COUNTI FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME L—NUMBER 91 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, November 14, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1899 New Deal Granted Deserted Children ^ County's Court Jurist Frowns Down Upon Drivers Who Speed In . Streets and Roads A new and better deal was granted helpless little children deserted by their fathers when Judge J. Calvin Smith in the.Mar tin County Recorder’s Court last Monday discussed the serious and aggravated problem of non-sup port quite frankly with the de fendants at the bar of justice and ^ dealt sternly One of the defendants, tried a month ago and ordered to act in behalf of his young child, had fail ed to comply with the judgment of the court. He tried to explain that he was waiting to get his peanuts picked and sold before taking over an obligation center ed in a little human life. The de fendant was hard put for an an ^ swer when the judge asked who was sustaining the life of the little tot while he anticipated the pea nut harvest? The answer, “Oh, the little one will get along,” of fered by the defendant was not satisfactory and the judge applied a ringing sentence of nine months . at hard labor on the roads. At the October trial, the defendant was ordered to pay the trial costs, $50 immediately and $20 a month for the support of his child. He paid the costs to the clerk, leaving his helpless offspring upon the mercy of the world. In another non-support case, the defendant tried to explain that he was too busy learning a trade to meet an obligation to his child. The young white man had not lived up to an agreement. He was instructed to pay the trial tosts. $50 immediately and $20 a month for the support of his child. “I 11 give you two days to pay up." Judge Smith said, the yqung, man tailing to hear the judge when he told the sheriff to hold the defendant until settlement was effected. Leaning a bit to s the side of the modern dude, the defendant, his chest thrown out a bit, told the sheriff, “I’ll go along . ...now arid come back in time ' The young man’s feathers wilted just a bit when the sheriff explained that two days were allowed to ar range for the payment either by messenger or by wire, that the de fendant was to remain in his cus tody until the terms were met. It was reported that the defendant had pleaded poverty, but when the time for a final show-down came along, the defendant appeal ed to relatives by wire, and when the help was not sufficient he reached in his own wallet and pulled from among several fairly sizable bills enough money to meet the terms of the judgment and make a payment or two in ad vance. And Judge Smith does not know about the ability of the young man to finance bis obliga tions. Hardly knowing the best pro - cedure of handling such cases, the jurist has been trying {o play fair by meeting the defendants half way, but his action last Monday clearly indicates that he is plan ning on meeting non-supporters with plenty of time—on the roads. A recent drive by the police force against speeding on local streets was approved by Judge Smith Monday when he called for $25 fines and costs in one case after another. Some of the de fendants twisted and squirmed, but the judge held to his order of the day, proving he is ready to help curtail wanton murder on the streets and highways. New Employment i Office Manager; Mr. J. Kelly Gay of Plymouth assumes duties as manager of the Williarnston Employment Securi ty Office on November 15. Mr. Gay comes here from the Kinston Eiupinymem Security Office .where he ha- wo: Red id; die past j year, and bef< re going to Kinston he was employed by the N. C. Pulp Company in Plymouth, i Mr. Howard S.* Sexton, the I present office manager, is resign-1 ing to enter newspaper work in i Western North Carolina. Mr. Sexton has made many friends during his stay here and they re gret to learn he is leaving. | Large Civil Calendar Prepared For Court "N i ! | RAINFALL I s— ..../ 7 Continual and reasonably I heavy rains fell on six of the first eleven days in this month, the 1.79 inches falling last Tuesday seriously aggra vating the adverse weather conditions surrounding the harvest of the peanut crop in this section. Farmers today stated that they hardly expected to re turn to the peanut harvest be fore next week even with favorable weather prevailing during the meantime. So far this month 3.86 inches of rain have fallen here. The river is eight inches above flood stage and an additional rise, possibly eight or ten inches, is expect ed the early part of next week. Need Is Urgent For Farm Bureau The next 12 months will be “the most critical period in the history of American agriculture, because 'farm legislation and policy to be established will determine,the fu ture of North Carolina for the coming decade,” Joe R. Williams, Sales Supervisor of the Winston I Salem Tobacco Board of Trade, I declared today. “Farmers of the slate would do well to adopt as their guide the slogan of one of the nation's larg er insurance companies, ‘The Fu ture Is for Those That Prepare for it,' ” Williams said in appealing "Tor general support of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Member ship Campaign. “The North Carolina Farm Bu reau has, in my opinion, the out standing leadership of the nation,” he added, “but we have weakened jits influence by an inadequate | membership North Carolina | needs 100,000 Farm Bureau mem i bers and they are needed now if j we are to maintain the gains we ! have made since 1932. The only ! way we can get this membership i is for farm and business leaders of the State to leave their work and go out and canvass every farm to live up to the responsi jbility we owe ourselves and our j communities. I “Farm Bureau gives us a medi um through which we can insure the future of Agriculture. Let's not sell ourselves short at a time when we need most to come through. Until we have repaid our full debt to Farm Bureau for the agricultural gains it has made possible, we cannot with good grace sit around and complain about falling farm prices. If we don't get 100,000 members, the , day is near at hand when we will ' wish that, we.-h.ari,.” m |Detain Stranger In County’s Jail j Recognized as a suspicious char | actor. Odell Hendrick. 24. was ar rest in Everetts late Tuesday aft ernoon by Deputy Buck Holloman and placed in the county jail where he is being held pending an investigation. Walking the railroad from the direction of Robersonville early , Tuesday morning, the colored ! man took refuge in a deserted ' house in Everetts. He was seen j by residents who thought little ol j his presence until he ran back into the house as if he were try ing to hide. Questioned by the officer, Hen drick said he was three days out of Portsmouth and was tryirjg to get to his home in Kings Moun tain. The officers..decided to in vestigate hia cel..' when me man 1 admitted he Was traveling the ) wrong way to reach his home. j When arrested the man had two j cents, his social security card and a bar of soap in. his pocket, but the officer said he was fairly cer tain that no soap had been used by the man in a month. The stay | in jail apparently was welcomed) by the man. Sixty-Five Cases Slated For Trial ! Next Two Weeks Thirteen Plaintiffs Seeking Divorees; Several Ask ing Wreck Damages Sixty-five civil cases, including thirteen bids for divorces, have been placed on the calendar for trial during the special two-week term of the Martin County Sup erior Court opening here next Monday. Several plaintiffs are asking damages as a result of highway accidents, and a local doctor is being sued for $15,000 the plaintiff charging him with negligence. Judge Paul Edmondson, of Goldsboro, is scheduled to pre side. The visit will be the first here in an official capacity for Judge Edmondson who was re cently appointed to the bench by Governor R. G. Cherry. A brief review of the civil cases, exclusive of the divorce actions, follows: In the case of R. B. Speller, ad ministrator, against Dr. Edward j L. Early, the plaintiff says that his wife, Mary Speller, was under the defendant's care from November 3 to 9, 1946. and alleges that de fendant “negligently failed to at ! tend Mary' Speller when neces sary . . . neglected his patient . . . j and negligently failed to act in 1 accordance with approved meth ods in general use in relieving her suffering . . . and delayed her hospitalization.” The patient died on December 7, 1946. and the plaintiff is asking damages in the sum of $15,(ICO. The defendant says he was em | ployed, paid $50 and went to the 1 Speller home, examined the pa j tient and found he was not need ed at that lime. He claims that j he left instructions with the mid-1 1 wife to call him He further states ! that he went back at 9 a. m. on | November 4 and delivered plain tiff's intestate at 12:30 p. m. that ! day, and that he attended her un ! til she was taken from under his j care. V. G. Taylor is suing Wilbur ! Smith for the possession of a | house. I Jack Dixon is suing J. K. Roger-1 j son for the possession of a house, | D. M. Roberson is suing the A. | C. L. Railroad Company to re I cover the price of 52 hogs lost in shipment from Illinois to Wii liamston in 1943. The amount in volved is $747.76. In his case against H. C. Nor man, R. H. Weaver is asking the ! court to dec'are a deed given in 1945 .for certain land be null and void. Boundary line dispute are in volved in the cases of H. H. Cow en against C. E. Jenkins, W. L. Manning against N. P. Roberson, Edward L. Owens against J. H. Davenport, Elizabeth Pierce against Ben Biggs, Annie Mae Lilley, guardian, against F. W. Holliday. E. R. Turner, in his case against P. L. Salsbury, is suing for a deed to certain land. Martha L. Salsbury is suing E. L. Turner for $750 rent allegedly due for the year 1946. L. P. Lindsley is suing to recov er $575.60 allegedly due on an ac count with J R. Everett. The Standard’ Fertilizer Com pany is in court to recover $300.87 on a note given by J. E. Nooney, Jr. C. E. Smith is asking $246.02 al legedly due him by an agreement with C. D. Pittman, defendant. Standard Fertilizer Company is suing W. S. Cowan and others for $792.59 with interest from October 1, 1946, and other relief. W. L. Hollis is asking $650 of Joe M AHsbroek for breach of! Cjprr *..... -/ In the cast- of Edward L. E'afiy against Wiiiiam it. Moran, the plaintiff is asking $1,300 alleged ly due on a note. Wesley Da\^is and others ir. their suit against R. S. Critcher are asking to be declared owners of a lot upon w-hich the defendant built a tenant house. (Continued on page eight) . Traffic • Safety Show Schedule Designed to promote traffic safety. Officer Ernest Pressley’s traffic safetv show will play a five -day schedule in the schools of I this county next welk. Sponsor [ ed by the sheriff’s department and (the county newspapers, the show 1 is being brought to the county by ' the N. C. State Automobile Asso i ciation as a part of an extensive | program to curtail accidents. The | program has gained wide acclaim | throughout the State and has been I filmed by the movie industry. The show is produced without cost to the general public or the schools. | The first showing will be held in the Williamston Higli School auditorium at 9:00 o'clock next Monday morning for the elemen tary grade. The show is schedul ed there since the grammar school auditorium has been condemned. A second showing will be held in the high school here two hours later for th" advanced grades. Monday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock the show will appear in the color ed high school auditorium. On Tuesday, November 18, the show will be in Robersonville and Parmele. in the elementary school at 9 and in the high school at 11 and at Parmele that afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Wednesday, November 19, the show goes to the Hamilton school at 9 o'clock and to Oak City that afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. The Everetts school will be vis ited Thursday, November 20, at 9:00 o'clock a. m., the show going to Bear Grass that afternoon at 2:00. Tile show will make its last | stands in the county on Friday, November 21, at Jamesville ut 9:00 a. m. and at Farm Life at 11:30 a. m. Officer Pressley wants all the boys and girls to be present for the show. He is promising them a good time. - . - - jjamesville Boys Hurt In Accident ■*-& Injured in an automobile acci dent near Plymouth last Satur day night. James Godard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Godard of Jamesville, was removed to a Richmond hospital in a Biggs am bulance late Tuesday for treat ment. Believed to have suffered a severe back injury, possibly a fracture, the young man was treated in the hospital oitil he could be moved to Memorial Hos pital, Richmond. Few details of the accident could be learned here, but one re port stated that Elmer Modlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gray Modlin, of Jamesville, suffered a broken leg. He was treated in a Plym outh doctor’s office and is now at his home. Several others were bruised and scratched, but their injuries w'ere not considered seri ous. -o MODERNIZE EQUIPMENT Tin Cam dial Stores just recent ly completed the installation of new and strictly modern equip ment in its local market, making it one of the most up-to-date in this section. Mrs. W. R. Fowden Passes In Hospital Here On Thursday Funeral Arrangement* Be ing Delayed Pending Arrival of GrandMiui --Ab Mrs. William R. Fowden, one of Williamston's oldest and most bo loved citizens, died in the local hospital Thursday afternoon at 12:40 o’clock. ■ Mrs. Fowden, in her nineties, fell and broke her hip at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. B. Clark, Sr., on Academy Street here last Sunday morning. Complications developed and there was little hope for her recovery. The former Miss Hannah Rebec ca Thurston, she came to this county from her native home in Kent, England, in early woman hood. Following her marriage in New York she and Mr. Fowden loeated in Edenton where they lived several years before moving to Williamston about 1884. Mrs. Fowden. a noble soul cm I bodying the finest of ideals, had been in declining heath for some time, but she was unusually active for one of her advanced age. Funeral arrangements arc being delayed pending the arrival of a grandson, Albert L. Clark, from Alabama. Surviving besides her daughter, are eleven grandchildren and sev jeral great grandchildren. j Hand Allowed Defendant In Manslaughter Case Walter Harper, Williamston col ored man charged with man slaughter in Halifax County, was released in $2,500 bond on Wed nesday of this week after habeas corpus proceedings were institut ed by his local attorneys. Bond was originally set at $10,000 by a justice of the peace in a special hearing held in Halifax earlier this month. Harper was driving in South Weldon on the night of November 1 when he struck and fatally in jured Jackie Ray Etheridge, nine year-old white boy. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . It is a well established fact that motorists on Martin County highways are more considerate of life and limb this year than they were last, but they’re piling up the ve hicles in greater numbers and establishing a .new property loss record. A reminder is timely to the effect that more people lost their lives on the highways in this county in the last two months of 1946 than in the other ten months. 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. 45th Week Accidents Inj'd Killed fiam'ge 1947 4 0 0 $ 675 1946 311 700 Comparisons To Date 1947 121 56 3 $26,635 1946 108 82 4 25,990 Opening of New Draw Span Expected Within Few Days —. *> According to late information coming from the Roanoke- River bridge project here, the new draw span will be opened to traffic within a few days, possibly next Monday. “We are waiting on the electricians to finish wiring the intricate mechanism, and just as soon as they give the word we'll open the span to traffic,” Super intendent Dickson said yesterday. F. D. Cline, Raleigh contractor, is surfacing the entire bridge with cold asphalt and he plans to com plete that work early next week. The fust of. the as.pb.ait wa« laid yesterday. Even after the draw bridge is opened to traffic, the contractors will have much work to do before the job is completed. That work cannot be started until the new bridge'is opened and the tern-j porary structure is removed. Sev- ] ei al spans are to be built where the temporary bridge connects the ^ main structure, and the tempor ary fill is to be moved and placed on the highway at this end of the ' regular bridge. I Superintendent Dickson said he! hoped to complete the project in its entirety, that is, move away the temporary bridge, widen the fill at this end of the bridge, pave it and pack up within a month after the new draw span is opened to traffic. Electricians are working to have the main motors hooked up and ’cady fo: opera lion within the next day or two. but they would not suggest a definite day when the task could be completed. Opening of the new span, a! ready two or three months over due, has been delayed by weather conditions, high water and ma teria! shortages, but the big event is now not far off, according to representatives of the contrac tors. Local Tobacco Market To Close Season On Tuesday Establishing an all-time pound age record, Williamston's growing tobacco market, is scheduled to close the season at the end of sales next Tuesday, November IS, a re presentative of the tobacco board of trade announced Wednesday. The action was taken following an extensive survey which show ed that just about all the tobacco in this section of the belt has been marketed, ft was also found that just about all the growers who have a barn or two left will be ready to market the remainder of their crop on or before next Tuesday. A brief review of the records shows that sales this year are well over a million pounds larger than those recorded for the 1946 seas on, and three-quarters of a mil lion pounds larger than those for the 1945 season. But despite the increased sales, tobacco revenue this year will fall three-quarters: of a million dollars below the 1946 ! income, it is conservatively esfi- j mated The price average thisj year is trailing that of a year ago ! by about. n pound, ac-! cording to preliminary reports. Through Wednesday, the local market had sold from the 1947 crop 11,979.284 pounds for an average right at $42 per hundred. Thee were 59,764 pounds sold on ] Wednesday, the sale including about the largest proportion of inferior grades of any recorded during the entire season. While the genera leverage for the day was on the low side, good tobaccos were selling well above sixty cents with the demand for those types holding up unusually well. Over $1,000 In Fines In The County Court Judge J. C. Smith Calls Forty Cases In Court Monday —♦ — Jurist Takes A Firm Stand Against All Types Of Law Violations Tlu> Martin County Recorder’s Court equalled and possibly es tablished a new record last Mon day when it imposed fines amounting to $1,075, and meted out several road sentences. Call I ing forty cases during the session lasting until late in the afternoon, Judge J. C. Smith, according to the minute docket, took a firm stand against all types of law vio lations coming before him for at tention. The docket was prosecut ed by. Solicitor Paul p. Roberson. The power of the court to re voke u motor vehicle operator’s license was questioned at length in the court On September 8 of this year George Eddie Wooten, Kinston taxi driver, was tried in this county for speeding, lie was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court suspending the sentence upon the payment of a $25 fine and the costs and on the further condition, and the argu ment centers around this point, that the defendant does not oper ate a motor vehicle for four months. A few days after that, judgment was pronounced, Woot en was charged with operating a motor vehicle, and in the court last Monday Judge Smith invoked the road sentence. Attorney Jesse Jones of Kinston maintained that the court did not have a right to revoke a driver's license. But the September 8 judgment directed the defendant to operate ::o motor t v'chi'chr ini' four months. It's a mighty fine point of law, but the defense counsel appealed wlfbn the court announced that the sus pended sentence would be invok ed. Appeal bond was fixed at $200. The cases charging Jesse Lee Parker and Charlie Mack Jenkins with assaults on females were not pressed or dismissed. Charged with the larceny of corn from Farmer Verble Jones at Gold Point, Tom Sessoms was sentenced to the roads for five months. Charged with careless and reck j less driving, Bennie F. Wallace was found not guilty. The case charging Hattie Marie Andrews with an assault on a fe male was continued until January 5, 1948. A continuance was granted un Iti 1 December 1 in the case charg ing Guy Whitfield with disposing of mortgaged property. Charged with bcin" drunk and disorderly, Russell Perry pleaded guilty of public drunkenness and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road sentence upon the pay ment of a $15 fine and costs and on the further condition that he is not intoxicated during the next six months. Pleading guilty of drunken ! (Continued on page eight) I READY TOGO 1 t Plans were completed this week by the Peanut Stabiliza tion Cooperative to start re ceiving peanuts in Williams ton. H. L. Barnhill and S. C. driffln are opening' the New Carolina Warehouse for the storage ot peanuts for the government agency, it was announced yesterday. There has been very little activity on the market here so far, but with favorable weather the crop is expected to start moving in volume within a short time. Working To Meet Farm Bureau Goal —•— A last-minute drive is being j advanced by farmers and other in terested citizens to meet the Farm Bureau membership goal in this county by Friday night of this week. Reports yesterday stated that farmers were carrying the membership appeal directly to farmers' homes in several sections of the county, and business and professional men were being call ed upon for added support of the organization. "With agriculture facing a sit uation similar to that faced by it after World War I and again in 1929, we are forced to look to a strong organization to battle for our just rights,” President Chas. L. Daniel said as the final drive for members was launched this week. "The tobacco stabilization cor poration, an agency that has paid j thousands upon thousands of dol lars to the farmers of the county this .year, war net givea-to-ua W" I got it through organization. And unless we support the Farm Bu reau and support it willingly and liberally we stand to lose many times the smal membership fee in the organization,” Mr. Daniel add ed. The membership drive early in the week wr>s about BOO short of j the 2,320 goal. Time is late, but j f)ot too late to measure up to | what is expected of this farming i section. I ~ Injured In Fall From Large Truck —■ *—— Tilmon Coltrain, local man and operator of a fleet of transport trucks, was believed to have been badly hurt in a fall from a load of tobacco in Robersonville shortly before noon Wednesday. He was brought to the local hospital for examination and treatment, first reports stating that he had pos sibly suffered a cracked vertebra about the middle of his back. Reports from the hospital stated he reeled very well Wednesday night and was feeling better Thursday. Coltrain was adjusting a canvas on some hogsheads of tobacco when his foot slipped and he fell, his back striking a reserve gas tank near the back ot the cab. Announce Results Of Hybrid Corn Tests In County Average \ ield I* Nearly A Hundred Bushels In Three I )em on st raIi on * By J. W. Sumner Assistant County Agent A new while corn hybrid, Dixie 17, topped the yield in three corn hybrid demonstrations conducted ir. Martin County by J. W. Sum ner, assistant county agent, on the farms of Grover Liliey, RFD 1, Jamesville, V. U. Bunting, RFD 2, Williamston, and Archie Rober son, Hassell. The average for the three demonstrations for Dixie 17 was 94.8 bushels per acre. An open polinated variety of white and yellow was used with the hybrids. The demonstration yields per acre were as follows: Dixie 17 94.8. N. C. T-ll 84 3. N. C. T-20 818. N. C. 27 72.8. Funks 714 71.9, N. C. 26 71.1, Woods S 210 7U.4. U. S. 620 69.4. N. C. 1032 67.9. N. C. T-23 67.5. Woods V-50 62.3, Tenn. 10 61.8, Lathams Dou ble 57.9, Local Yellow 53.7. U. S. 13 46.1. The following recommendations were given for these demonstra tions: Rows 3.5 ft. apart, 16-18 inches in the drill, 600 lbs. of fer tilizer and 600 lbs. of nitrate of soda. One should not let these yields be misleading in selecting a hy brid to plant for next year. Such things as strength of stalk and weevil resistance. Those hybrids looking best in this line were the Dixie 17. N. C. 27. N. C. 26. T-ll and T-20. Some of the weakest hybrids as to weevil resistance and stalk strength were the Woods V-50, U. S. 13, U. S. 620 and Woods S-210. U. S. 13 was put in the demonstration to demon strate that all hybrids were not adaptable to this county This de finitely proved to be unadap*able and unsatisfactory. The Dixie 17. a white hybrid, outyielded the Lathams double, a white open polinated variety, 36.9 bushels per acre. Corn at $2 00 per bushel, a farmer could have inci'e.', .cd hr., inceinw $73.80' per acre by only using the Dixie 17 hybrid seed at a cost of about $1.25 for the seed. Five Cases Heard By Justices Here —«— Five cases involving disorderly conduct or public drunkenness or both were heard in justice of the peace courts here this week. In Justice John L. Hassell’s court, James E. Walker, charged with disorderly conduct, was fin ed $5 and required to pay $11).50 costs. Oscar Henry Frazer was sen tenced to the roads for 30 days when he was adjudged guilty in the justice’s court of disorderly conduct. Charged with disorderly con duct, Milton Green was. .gen to need to the mads for 30 days, Judge Hassell suspending the road term upon the payment of $5.50 costs. Two defendants, M. C. Law rence and James Willis Lloyd, were charged with being publicly drunk and each was required to pay $8.50 costs by Mayor Robert Cowen. Local and county officers round ed up the largest number of al leged law violators last week-end in many weeks, but most of the the offenders were booked for trial in Judge J. Calvin Smith's county court either on Monday or the early part of next month. No sessions will be held by the re corder’s court until after the two week term of Superior court. N. C. E. A. Group Met On Saturday i !.<• various i s; t. ;i I i t leva oi ibu local county N. C. E. A. unit met in the WithuUiSiOji School building Saturday morning ana worked out the county program for the present year. This pre gram wili be submitted to the membership at a meeting to be held in December for its approv al, rejection or amendment. Supt. J. C Manning and N. C. E. A. President C- B. Martin addressed the joint committee session.
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