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IHF ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,«M MARTIN COLNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,00« MARTLN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEER ESTABLISHED 1899 VOLUME LI—NUMBER 37 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, May ft, 194S Shaw And Hicks To Address Farm Meet Farm Legislation And Bureau Plans * To Be Discussed - o ■ Ollier Important Prob lems On Agenda At Big Meet Here Friday f ♦ f i k » I In their addresses before the annual meeting of the Martin County Farm Bureau in the Wil liamston High School auditorium on Friday afternoon of this week, Messrs. R. Flake Shaw and Carl Hicks, recognized farm leaders, will discuss some timely and im portant problems. Mr. Shaw, executive vice presi dent of the North Carolina Farm Bureau will discuss: “International problems as they relate to exportation of farm com modities; and “The future outlook of farm programs and what we will suffer if we lose our international mar ket; and “The present program and pre sent pending farm bills (Aiken and Hope Bills) and the effect they will have on the South if enacted into law." Mr. Shaw will also discuss the quota provision and price support of not less than 90 percent on “our commodities.” Commenting on the educational program of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, Mr. Hicks is ex pected to explain a proposal call ing for an intensified work in con nection with plant disease re search and means for financing it. Martin County is being asked to help finance the important pro ject and contributions will be re ceived at the meeting here tomor row. It is hoped by Martin Coun ty Farm Bureau officials that the members will make liberal dona tions to the fund at that time The business program, schedul ed to get under way at 4:30 to morrow afternoon, will be fairly brief and will be adjourned in ample time for the big barbecue. Plans for the joint Fat Stock show and Farm Bureau meeting are completed in detail. The youthful exhibitors have already moved their prize exhibits into the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse here where the show wil be held. Thirty pigs and bushels of corn meal are cooking for the barbe cue which will be served by the ladies of the Cedar Branch Bap tist Church. I I I Several prominent political can didates will be here, but they have been assigned no definite parts in the program, it was pointed out. Over two thousand people are expected here for the annual event, and every detail has been attended to in an effort to make it a successful and enjoyable one. The members are asked to come on time, attend the important meeting in the high school audi torium and meet around the bar becue tables a short time later. --—* Sending Bov To Hoffman School Johnnie Allen Smith. Jr., teen I ago youth who shot up a card game in Parmele and assaulted Gus Pitt with a shot gun the early part of last week, is being made ready to enter the correctional school at Hoffman for an inde finite period. After he has run the gauntlet maintained by the state’s social system, the lad will be turned I over to officers in about a week or ten days for the trip. At a hearing before Juvenile Judge L. B. Wynne a few days ago, the boy had very little to say. His parents said they had never heard of the boy being in trouble before and apparently they were deeply affected by the action of the court. During the meantime an inves tigation of conditions under which teen-agers are allowed to play cards in a puiiir rd.ae.e op, fjon-l days is to be investigated. ! The Smith boy. thinking he was to make the trip to Hoffman on I Tuesday of this week, dressed and| took a seat on the porch where he . fedrlesf fU'K? 7>r Tjr~ *trr J RAINFALL April showers in this sec tion did not measure up to normal last month, but the 2.41 inches of rainfall fell at opportune times for plant ings. Considerable moisture was already in the ground and the showers created al most ideal conditions for early spring plantings. Light showers, falling this week, aided greatly tobacco I transplantings, making it pos sible for most farmers to com plete the task. Planting 1,528,000 Acres To Tobacco In This Country | Flue-Cured Acreage Being i Cut From 1,183,000 To 876,000 Acres A total of 1,528.000 acros of to bacco for 1948 is indicated by re ports recently released. This is a decline of about 18 1-2 percent from last year’s acreage. The 1 greatest cut is being made in flue cured tobacco acreage. Dark ail cured and fire-cured acreages are down while burley and cigar to baccos are little changed from last year If average yields per acre for the several types should equal the 5-year average yields, about 1.850 million pounds would be produced Prospective flue-cured average for 1948 is down more than 300, 000 acres, being 876,000 compar ed with 1,182,000 acres in 1947. If the 5-year average yield per] acre should be realized, produc-. tion of about 920 million pounds of flue-cured tobacco would be expected. The indicated 411,000 acres of burley tobacco is only two per cent below last year’s acreage but is 16 percent below that of 1946. Apparently most growers are planning to plant their full quotas. If yields should equal the 5-year average and the pros pective acreage be planted, pro duction of burley tobacco would approximate 450 million pounds. The acreage of Southern Mary land is expected to be about 8 percent below that of 1947. Prospective acreages of flue cure and dark-cured tobaccos are indicated at 74 and 85 percent of the 1947 acreages respectively. The only type to show an increase in these classes of tobaccos is Virginia sun-cured which is ex pected to be above last year. The indicated net change from last year for all cigar tobaccos is slight. A 13 percent increase in acreage of wrappers practi cally offsets a decline of six per cent in binders. Fillers are ex pected to be about unchanged, a slight decline in Pennsylvania balancing the increase shown in Ohio. — ...-» Jno. H. Shelton Dies In Tarboro John Herbert Shelton, father of Mrs. Hoke Roberson of Williams ton. died suddenly while attend ing to business in Tarboro early last Monday afternoon, the victim of a heart attack. He was 61 years old and retired about 1945 after serving as Conetoe postmaster for more than a quarter century. Mr. Shelton had made his home in Conetoe all his life, and was ap parently getting along very well until he was stricken. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home in Conetoe yes terday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and burial was in the Bethel cem etery. Surviving are Mrs. Shelton, the former Miss Carrie Bullock; four daughters, Mrs. Alton Clapp of Greenville, Mrs. Ralph Carson of Bethei. Mrs. Carrie.Ruth White of the home and Mrs. Roberson "of; Williamston; and three sons, John H. Shelton, Jr., of Newport News,1 Chas. Shelton of Bethel and James Shelton of the home, and s>x grandchildren, I Drop In Marriage Licenses Reported In Martin County -o— White Applicants Outnum ber the Colored For First Time in Months ; After holding to a fairly high I figure for several years, the num j her of marriage licenses issued in I this county during last month ! dwindled to the lowest point re j corded for any month in more I than two years. I For the first time in recent | months, white applicants outnum j bored the colored last monfh, but | lead by a margin of only one. Licenses were issued in April by Register J. Sam Getsinger to nine white and eight colored cou ples, as follows: White Robt. A. Haislip, Jr., of Oak City and Frances Nelson of Has sell. j Herman C. Stewart of Bell Cross, N. C., and Lissie F. Clark . of Elizabeth City. Johnnie F. Woolard, Jr., RFD 1, Washington,, and Della Katherine Wynne of Williamston. William C. Ellis, Jr., of Junics ville, and Emma Naomi Chesson of Williamston. Rome Rogerson, Jr., and Pattie Price, both of R 2, Williamston. William Benjamin Harrison, RFD 2, Williamston. and Sadie Mae Roberson, RFD 1. Roberson ville. Samuel Howard Roberson of Williamston and Letty Jean Wil liams, RFD 1, Bethel. Walter R. Hussey of Elizabeth City and Lilly Ann Stillman of Creswell. Clifton Ray Leggett and Evelyn Roberson, both of RFD 1, Robcr sonville. Colored Joe Wilson Jordan and Mary Alice Ballanee, both of Windsor. Milton Baines and Thelma Louise Brown, both of Roberson ville. Lee A. Griffin and Martha James, both of Jamesville. Willie Chesson of Williamston and Alberta Comer of Norfolk. Eli Arnnstead and Olivia Blount, both of Williamston. Elex Dunkins and Lureatha Moore, both of Greenville. Robert Andrews, Jr., and Pearl Hassell, both of Williamston. George Moore and Eva Brown both of Robersonville. W. E. Roberson Died Wednesday • W'm. Edward Robertson, 66, died at his home on the old J. Lass Wynne farm in Cross Roads Township Wednesday morning at 8:00 o’clock after a long period of declining health. His condi tion had been serious for about four weeks. He was born and reared in Washington County, coming to Martin about eighteen years ago and locating on the old Ballard farm in Poplar Point Township where he lived until some over a [year ago when he moved to Cross Roads. He had farmed all his life. I He was married to Miss Gracie May Hall of Washington County, land she survives with three daughters, Mrs. Miles Sitterson of Plymouth, Mrs. Jos. A. Haislip of Hassell and Mrs. Ralph Purvis of near Hassell: two sons, Edward Robertson of the home and Le Roy Robertson of Snow Hill; three sisters, Mrs, W. A. Brown, Mrs. Charles L. Weeks, Mrs. P. E. Whedbee, and one brother, W. W. Robertson, all of Plymouth. He was a member of the Chris tian church at Hassell, and the Rev. Z. Thad Cox, Farmville minister, and Rev. J. M. Perry of Robersonville are conducting the! funeral service this afternoon at j 3:30 o’clock at the home. Burial j will be in Woodlawn Cemetery I here. • Will Reopen luMpeetion Lane Here On May If It A lane for She of! inotoT Vciik'itnFwrH bt> reopened' here on Friday of next week, ac cording to unofficial information received this week. The lane is operating in Robersonvillc this week. CITIZENS OF TOMORROW The Enterprise hikes much pleasure in presenting another in a picture series of this section's "citizens of tomorrow". So far none has figured prominently in public affairs, but as fu ture citizens they have a tiernendous assignment to handle in a muddled world. Certain they'll do a better job than has been done or is being done. The Enterprise presents the youngsters as the one great hope for the future. Top row, left to right, Alice, two daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Coltrain, Williamston; Ben, two and u half, son of Mr and Mrs. B. D. Courtney, Williamston; Helen Ann. two, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. 1. Harris, Williamston; Bottom row, G no, four, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Hardison, Williamston; Mary Eliza beth, four, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Beach, Roberson ville; and Alien 21 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Moore, Williamston. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Martin County motorists did right well in respecting life, limb and property during their travels on the highways last week. Only one minor accident was reported during the period. 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. 18th Week Accidents In.j'd Killed Dam’ge 1948 1 0 0 $ 100 1947 220 75 Comparisons To Date 1948 50 20 1 $ 9,460 1947 44 25 3 9,350 Costly Rural Fire •> Late Last Night Fire of undetermined origin destroyed three outbuildings and threatened the dwelling of Mi-, and Mrs. N. T. Tice in Griffins Township shortly after 11:00 o’clock last night. No official re port could be had immediately but according to some estimates the loss amounted to approxi mately seven or eight thousand dollars with only a small amount of insurance in force. Mr. Tice, an invalid, saw the fire through his bedroom window as it burned in the front part of the packhouse. Mi s. Tice tried to call neighbors but they did not hear the phone. A young grand son was dispatched to the home of one of the Tice boys while she went to the lot and turned out the work stock. Garland Tice was said to have blistered his face badly when he went to a shed and backed out a tractor. Other than the tractor and team very little was saved, large quantities of corn, hay, seed and fertilizer burning. The local fire department re ceived a call at 11:35 o’clock but the equipment reached there too late to render any effective aid. Neighbors and other friends reached the scene in large nutn bers and they saved the dwelling which was badly blistered by the heat. One report stated that the dwelling caught fire but lyas sav ed by concerted effort. Committee Re-Elects School Teachers Here Meeting this week, the Wil liamston School Committee re elected all teachers in the district. It was learned, however, that Miss Mary Ellen Sawyer, science teacher, was resigning to enter an other profession. llreaks Ilia Collar Hour While Playing Yesterday! Jack Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. j R. L. Welch, suffered a broken: collar bone while playing on the | high school grounds here yester-, day. Local Band Faces A Busy Schedule A busy schedule has been set up for tin1 Williamston High School Band next week. It would have been more strenuous but for the turning down of at least two invitations. First on the program is a visit to Elizabeth City Tuesday even ing. First planned as an informal meeting in Elizabeth City which was to show the Green Wave band Elizabeth City’s appreciation for the entertainment provided its band when it visited Wil liamston recently, the invitation was later changed to call for a parade and drill on the main street in the Pasquotank capital. The Elizabeth City band is giv ing a concert at ii o'clock Tuesday night following a dinner in the school cafeteria for the two bands and visitors. A hundred places are being reserved for the Wil liamston group. The second event of the week will come on Friday, when the lo cal band goes to Rocky Mount to take part in the big Gallopade in that city. This is an event which has intrigued the local bandsters for some time. Much of their re cent practice has been directed to ward getting ready for the Rocky Mount trip. The Williamston unit made a very good showing the last time it went to Rocky Mount and Professor Butler is anxious that his reorganized group do as well. The schedule calls for the band to leave here at 3:45 Tuesday aft ernoon for the trip to Elizabeth City. The program calls for eats at fi o’clock and the parade and drill about 7:00 o’clock and the concert about H o’clock. The visit is made at the special request of Miles Clark, sponsor of the Eliza beth City band who said he want ed his home folks to see the Wil liamston unit in action. Director Bennett also telephoned to con cur in the invitation of Mi. Clark. The unit will leave for Rocky Mount Friday moi ning at 9 o'clock in order to be set for the parade starting at 11 00. In this event the local band will be one of several units from all parts of the state. Professor Jack Butler who is directing the local band, says that the youngsters have been work ing hard arid he knows th>t any fault to be found with their per formances will not be due to lack of interest and effort. !\eu‘ Roslal Carrier //ere Main1 Hr si RoiiiiiI Today City delivery service is being extended to several hundred pa 1 ''ons here this afternoon h.v the post office, Carrier Jack Mobley taking over the third route. The approximately 1,000 stops, including homes and business houses, have been rearranged j with each carrier handling about I j:fo si.fijs. The other two routes are being served by Clyde D. An derson and Jos Gurganus. Post master W. E. Dunn stated that there were opening.. for substitute j employes in the local office. I Judge Smith Has Twenty-t wo Cases In County Court Finos ami Forfeitures Lust Monday Amount To Almost $700 Judge J. Calvijn Smith handled twenty-two eases in a compara tively short session last Monday in the Martin County Recorder’s Court and imposed several road sentences. Fines and forfeitures amounted to $(>89.10, the costs boosting the total income for the day to well over $1,000 for the session. Proceedings: Charged with drunken driving Eddie Golphin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for four months, the court suspend ing the road term upon the pay ment of a $100 fine and costs. The court recommended that the de fendant's driver's license be re voked for one year. Entering a plea of nolo con tendrc in the ease in which he was charged with larceny and re ceiving, Hezekiah Bell was sen tenced to the roads for six months. The sentence was sus pended upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs and on the fur ther condition that the defendant violates no criminal law for one year. The case charging Charlie Ben Roberson with non-support was continued under prayer for judg ment until the first Monday in July upon the payment of $50 a month for the support of his wife. Charged with drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Her bert Bunting pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, he was sentenced to the roads for one year, the court sus pending the road term upon the payment of a $50 fine and the costs and on the further condi tion that the defendant operates no motor vehicle foi two years, Pleading not guilty, Lee Rollins was adjudged guiity of assaulting his wife and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs and on the further condition that the defendant remains away from his wife for one year. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license and failing to dim lights, Joe Ed ward Purvis pleaded guiity of failing to dim his vehicle lights. The plea was accepted by Solici tor Paul D. Roberson and the court fined the defendant $10, plus the costs. Herbert Danson was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for speeding. Judgments absoluted on $50 bond was allowed in the case charging Floyd Edward Miller with speeding. Robert Joseph Greely and Pi is ! cilia Elizabeth Dunham, charged with speeding, forfeited their $47.05 bonds. The case charging Oliver Rog ers with assaulting a female was nol prossed, but is subject to be carried into court again. Pleading guilty of being drunk and disorderly, George Wynne (colored) was sentenced to the roads for four months, the court suspending the term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. He is to remain sober for one year. (Continued on page six) ——-~if 1 — Infant Ls Found Dead In County Jackie Reason, three and one half months old, was found dead in bed by her mother at their home on the Hull Gray farm near Jamesville about ,ri:00 o’clock Tuesday morning, death resulting from accidental suffocation. It is believed that the child had been dead several hours when the mother, sleeping with her, discov ered the lifeless body. She was the daughter of Sam Reason and wife.tthe former Miss l' iifvi?1 Efc-11 Ha.islip of Oa Rujr.'d ’ ton section of this county. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday afternoon and burial was in the Reason cemeU ", near Hamilton. ) Plan Drive Against Rats In Williamston i kw ki:(;isi i:i< Incomplete reports indicate that very few people regis tered last Saturday for the primary election to he held on Saturday. May 2!>. One of the local precincts added one name to the list, Registrar S. II. tiriines stating that several others reported to the regis tration center but were un able to qualify. The registration hooks will remain open through Satur day of next week. Those per sons who have voted in the precinct where they now live do not have to register again, hut newcomers and those at taining the age of 21 years by next November 2 must regis ter to participate in the pri mary the latter part of this month. W. 0. Willoughby Dies \t His Home Early Wednesday *—» Funeral Scrv ice I- Briny (loinlm-letl al Ut^iilrurr On llanyliton Street William Ola Willoughby, rotir ed farmer, died at his home on North Haughton Street near the city limits here at 12: If) o’clock yesterday morning. Ilf had been in declining health following a stroke suffered about six years ago. On Monday of tins week he suffered a second stroke and lus condition was recognized ns criti cal. Mr. Willoughby was born in Fayetteville. N. C., 56 years ago on March 4, 1892. When lie was quite young he moved to this county with his parents, and lived in various sections of the county nil til he located here several years ago. Declining health forced his letirement from the farm, but de spite his infirmities he continued fairly active in and around the home until he was fatally strick en this week. He was a son of the late W. II. and Mattie Forbes Willoughby of Pitt County. When a young man he was married to Miss Vesta Bailey and she survives with five children; three daughters, Mrs. Johnnie Cherry, Mrs. Lester Jones and Miss Mattii Willoughby, all of Williamston: and two sons, Louis B., and ,1. D. Willoughby, both of Williamston. Also surviving are a brother, James T. Willoughby of Hobgood; and three sisters, Mrs. II. B. Smith of Robot sonville, Mrs. Leonard Allen of Arlington, Va,, and Miss Lula Pearl Wil loughby of Hobgood; and four grandchildren He was a member of the Pres byterian church, joining at Rob erson’s Chapel some years ago. Rev. James I. Lowry, local Pres byterian minister, and Rev. Jas. M Perry, Robersonville minister, are conducting the last rites at the home this afternoon at 8:00 o'clock. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery here. Soldiers Body On Way Back Home The body of Sgt. Edward S. Brown who made the supreme! sacrifice for Ins county in North Burma on June 25, 194-4, is en route to this country for burial in his native soil near Jamesville, his mother, Mrs. Dare S. Brown, was notified this week. Jt could not be learned imme diately on what ship the body is making its last journey home | from the Asiatic Theater or when it would dock presumably on Ha West Coast. It is expected the; body, handled through the distri bution center in Charlotte, will j teach Jamesville in about one] •' >v. The young man's body is one of i 2,024 being returned to this eoun-1 ty on the U. S. Connolly, and is ! One " 54 being brought to North Carolina. * Board Discussed V arious Problems \t Regular Meet -<s— .. l'os*ihilil\ I’resHiU Itself For Kxl«‘tuliiifg Smith wirk Street to \ venue Meeting in regular session Tues day evening, Williamston’s town commissioners discussed a varied program of problems for more than two hours, taking immediate action on some and delaying ac tion on others, pending a more complete study of the details. W. B Gaylord, county sani tarian representing the health de partment, discussed an anti-rat campaign with the commission ers, outlining two suggested pro grams. The sanitarian explained that a county-wide drive against rats is taking shape, that exten sive plans are being formulated to reduce the rapidly increasing rat population. It was suggested that Williamston promote a six month program which would cost $B()0 for materials, plus the sal ary of one man. It would cost possibly $1,500 or $1,000. The other program will cost about $240. but it will be handled al most over night. Accepting the $240 short program, the commis sioners explained that the six month program will be studied and possibly be included in the new budget as a necessity. Dur ing the meantime, the town will cooperate every way possible in advancing the county-wide drive against rats. The rats are here in numbers and are threatening the health of the community, to say nothing of the damage resulting to property. It was told at the meeting Tues day night that one plant put out poison bait one night and picked up a cotton basketful of rats the next morning The rodents are burrowing into pit privies right on the main street where sewer connections can be made the sanitarian said, lie added, that the rat population has reached that point where they are actually destroying one an other. Turning to other matters, the board considered giving away the municipal swimming pool for its own keep. Last year the pool took in about $1,100 and cost about $2, 100. exclusive of water and other items. The town is offering it to the Recreational Committee, agreeing to furnish water and chemicals free. "You take and operate it and keep the profits,” the board suggested to John L. Goff, recreational committee chairman. Planning to build on Halifax Street, several lots from the Chas. Herriott home, Julius Warren asked for water. Water is to be made available within a short time. Two caution lights, one for Pine and Uaughton and the other for Houghton and Washington Streets were ordered purchased and in (Continued on page sue) Offer Big Reward o In Robbery Case Alter spending considerable time and exhausting every possi ble lead, local police today are hopeful the $$84.lit) reward will help break the Gaywood Cherry attack-! obber case here. The reward was made up by friends of Mr. Cherry upon the circulation of a petition in his be half by Mr. John Gurganus over the week. The contributions range as high as $200, and it is possible that others will boost the total. Cherry, night watchman at the Marvil Package Company near Roanoke River here, was brutally assaulted and robbed while mak ing a regular inspection of the property last Friday night. The victim responding to treatment in the local hospital, and there attar
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