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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,000 MARTEN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LI—NUMBER 38 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May I /, ll> III ESTABLISHED 1899 , Speaks In Behalf Of Research Fund Friday Afternoon •/ • Carl Hicks, Tobacco Stabili zation Corporation Head, Pleads For Funds Stressing the importance of raising funds to supplement re search work in plant diseases and telling how much a planned pro gram could save farmers, Carl Hicks, head of the Flue-Cured To bacco Stabilization Corporation, at the Farm Bureau meeting last Friday plea led for support of the program. He pointed out that plant diseases are costing farmers millions of dollars each year, that the farmers can help themselves by helping finance the program. Martin County is being asked to raise $1,050 as its part in financ ing the program. A free will of fering was taken at the barbecue last Friday evening and $97.54 was raised. Plans will be made later to carry the appeal to all farmers. Mr. Hicks’ appeal follows: “For several years now, the Farm Bureau in North Carolina has worked diligently to promote and enlarge the experimental work in the conquering of dis eases in tobacco, potatoes and other crops farmers grow in this State. The expanded facilities of our Tobacco Experiment Station, and its branches, the foundation work in peanuts just getting un der way are all the result of our organized efforts along with other groups. "So it is but natural that we would respond to the call from our great State College and join hands with them to intensify and enlarge their efforts to conquer many of the plant diseases that are now costing growers in such crops as peanuts, cotton, tobacco, Irish and sweet potatoes several million dollars annually. We in the tobacco belt where we have seen such remarkable results from the discovery of a type of tobacco] that is resistant to Granville Wilt know how v. 11 a successful cx periment can pay off. This one accomplishment has resulted in re-creating new values for farm ers who had in some instances abandoned their lands. "Unforunately plant diseases like diseases attacking we human beings continue to recur in dif ferent forms and attach in differ ent ways. So we must treat plant diseases like diseases affecting us. We must be on the alert and have trained specialists to tackle these diseases when they first appear or we will soon awake and find the diseases have overcome us. It is calculated that a fund of $35,000.00 or about a minimum of 50c per member will provide a fund the North Carolina Agricul tural Foundation can invest and use the proceeds to supplement the salary of some of the best trained specialists in the field of Plant Pathology to work entirely upon plant diseases affecting principally row crops. “This Agricultural Foundation was created by the leadership of our farm people for the sole pur pose, as I understand it, to pro vide funds for supplementing the i standard scale of salaries for spec ialists, who can not be hired at the present state schedule. The state salary schedule necessarily, deals across the hoard in setting up sal aries in each classification. Of necessity with no measuring rod to determine who may be entitled to a higher salary because of ex tra ability or increased efficiency. In order to get men and women of (Continued on page eight) -o Car Turns Over, Driver Uninjured Willis R. Sawyer, 510 N. Market Street, Washington, escaped unin jured when a pick-up truck own ed by the Maola Ice Cream Com pany, went out of control and turned over with him about three miles from Williamston on High wav J.7..las! Tuesday evening. Sawyer said that the wheels locked, that the car swerved to the left, ran into a ditch and did an end flip. The investigating of ficer, Patrolman J. T. Rowe, esti mated the property damage at $250. CANDIDATES FOR STATE SENATE The Enterprise today pre sents the first pictures of can didates for political offices in the county, district and State, strating with those for the State Senate from this, the Second Senatrial District. Pictured above are Messrs. O. L. Wil Hams (left) Hyde County at torney of Swan Quarter; John torney of Washington (cen ter); and Sam M. Campen, prominen^ business man-far iner of Alliance, Pamlico Coun ty (right). The three men arc running for the two seats al lotted the seven counties in this district Swine Raisers Forge Ahead at Stock Show CAMPAIGN -j i Meeting in the county ag ricultural building Monday afternoon, the CSDA Council formulated plans for a coun ty-wide campaign against rats. The council is preparing 4,00(1 appeals to he directed to the people of the county, urg ing them to participate in the • eantpaign which is to he ad vanced on Wednesday, May 19. Special poisons will be made available the early part of next week, and it is hoped that every farmer will buy at least $1 worth and help the campaign. Williamston is fanancing a campaign out of its treasury, while those persons outside of town are beings asked to fi nance it at the small cost. Javeees Install New Officers At Meeting Friday J. VI. Broiiylilon A<Mre*heil Banquet Briefly In Ro man's Chili liail Here The third annual Ladies and Installation Night banquet and dance of the local Junior Cham ber of Commerce was held here lust Friday evening. The dinner was held at the Woman's Club, with approximately 150 persons attending and enjoying a delici ous meal served by the ladies of the Cross Roads Christian church. Following the meal, retiring president Wheeler Manning re cognized the toastmaster of the evening, Edgar Gurganus. Jay cee Gurganus introduced the in vited local, guests, which included the president of the Woman's Club, Mrs. Wheeler Martin, Jr., President and Mrs. Gene Kimball of the Kiwants Club and Presi dent and Mrs. K. D. Worrell of the Lions Club. The ranking of ficers of several out of town Jay cee organizations introduced their representatives, after which May or Bob Cowen welcomed the group. Bill Redding, eastern vice presi dent of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce, installed all the new officers except the in coming president. The Wilson Jaycee stressed the need of co operation and work on the part of the officers and directors and urged the wives and girl friends to be patient in allowing their Jaycees to attend the meetings and undertakings of the club. National Director Billy Harri son of Rocky Mu-lilt ii...tailed the: new president of the local unit, Jaycee Exum L. Ward, Jr., assist ed by Mrs. Ward, the latter plac ing tile president’s button in the lapel of the new president. Mr. (Continued uu page eightjT^ Countv Fat Stock Show Sale Income Exceeded $6,000.00 -o Grand Champion Steer Is Sold for 50 Couth, and Best Hof: For BO Holding a secondary position ever since the first Martin County fat stock show wus established by Former Assistant County Agent McLendon live years ago, youth ful swine raisers—both 4-H club members arid Future Farmers of America—moved in tins year to get the acclaim. And they did an excellent job. Judge1 Jack Kelly declaring that the show held in the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse last Friday was the best in the State. The youthful rattle raisers de serted or withdrew from the show in numbers, the entries dropping from forty-three last year to eight this year. But those eight proved that good beef can be produced right here at home. Apparently 1 swine production fits more neatly j end more economically into the farm picture in this county. How ever, farm leaders still declare ' that cattle raising cun be advanc j ed on a small scale, at least, in this county. Possibly some of the wrinkles will have to be ironed out before cattle raising is under taken on any appreciable scale in these parts. Although the beef cattle entries were limited, the show was very successful. ' Between an estimat ed 1,000 and 1,500 persons visited the show, and the gross income ranged above the average report ed in many sections. All told the show sales amount ed to $0,182 52—$2,456.82 for the eight beef calves and $3,725.90 for the 65 hogs. The beef sales aver aged $40.24 and the hog sales av eraged right at $2^.78. Mary Jane Rogers, exhibiting the reserve champion last year, pulled up to first place this year and sold her Hereford for 50 cents a pound to Colonial Stores. Bill Bailey of the Everetts Club fell back to second place after show ing the grand champion last year, hut he sold his Hereford for 40 cents a pound to Ward’s Market in Williamston. John C. Gurganus of the Hamilton Club, took third place with his 774-pound Here ford which he sold to Colonial Stores for 36 cents a pound. Miss Lynette Haislip of Oak City was fourth with a choice 814-pound Hereford which was sold to Col onial Stores for 37 cents a pound. Johnnie Price of the Williamston Club had a small Hereford but he sold him to Roberson’s Cafe for 40 cents a pound. Mayhue Bo'Icy of Bear Grass Svjld the largest entry -a 915-pound Hereford—to Col onial Stores for 38 cents a pound. William Purvis of Everetts sold his 718-pound Hereford for 40 | cents a pound to Roberson's (Continued on page sue) Claudius Hardison Died Suddenly At Home on Saturday - Funeral At I'iney Grove for World War I Veteran Monday Afternoon Claudius Hardison, farmer and veteran of World War I, died sud denly at his home in the Smith wicks’ Creek section of Griffins Township lqst Saturday ninht at 11:30 o’clock. He had been in de clining health for two or three years, but was thought to bo get ting along very well Saturday when he attended religious serv ices and talked with friends. He suffered a stroke • that evening about 9:00 o’clock, death follow ing within a little over two hours The son of the late Stanley and Louisa Corey Hardison, he was born in Griffins Township and liv ed there all his life, successfully engaging in farming. He was in the armed forces with Company E, 322nd Infantry from Septem ber 20, 1917, until he was honor ably discharged April 3, 1919, serving overseas from May 20, 1918, until March 28, 1919. , Mr. Hardison was a member of the Piney Grove Baptist Church, serving as a deacon there for nine years. He had taught a class in the Sunday School since it was organized, and was a leader in his community, holding the respect of all who knew him. In early manhood he was mar ried to Miss Addie Perry. Sur viving are Mrs. Hardison; four children; Miss Josephine Hat di son, and three sons, Stancil, Earl and Franklin; two brothers, James A., and Me. D. Hardison; and two sisters, Mrs. W. N. Grif fin and Miss Louisa Hardison, all of this county. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Piney Grove Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. W. B. Harrington. Interment was in the Tice Community Cemetery in Griffins Township. Truck- Auto In Minor Accident No one was hurt but damage estimated at $225 resulted when a 1940 Buiek driven by James Perry, colored of Washington, and a truck, driven by Robert Purvis and owned by Roberson’s Slaugh ter House, crashed at Park Avenue (the old fair grounds midway) at 0:15 o’clock last Sat urday morning. Traveling toward Williamston, the truck started to make a left turn just as Perry started to pass. Pu*vis said he gave a left-turn signal and Perry stated he did not see it. Investigating the accident, Patrolman J. T. Rowe said that each accepted his own damage and no charges were preferred. Baptist Servians Ira Being Well Attended j The special services now under way in the local Baptist Church are being well attended. The pas tor is conducting the services and Mr John Holmes of Itjdcigh is I leading the song programs. Arrests Made In Cherry Robbery Case Late Friday Frank Crews Admits Attack Anil Involves Henry Williams Frank Crews, 30-year-old color ed man and an ex-convict, and Henry Williams, 28. were arrested late last Friday night and formal- 1 ly charged with brutally attack-' ing and robbing Haywood Cherry, i night watchman at the Marvil i Package Company plant near J Roanoke River here a week ear lier. Crews, originally from South j Carolina and who was sentenced to prison in Washington County j for an assault, first denied the charge but admitted it when of ficers tore down his alibi. He then involved Williams who do mod having any connection with the brutal crime. A $550 reward, offered byr friends of the attack victim, de veloped a lead m the case late Friday evening and Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and Chief W. E. Saund ers picked Crews up in the home of Mary Bell Whitehurst Hill on Griffin Street a short time later at 11:30 o’clock. Crews declared that he was engaged in a gamb ling "skinning” game back of Brown's barbershop on the night the watchman was attacked and nearly killed. The officers, hav ing gained possession of the watchman’s gun from John Grif fin in Everetts, cheeked Crews' story and learned that he had not been to Brown’s shop at the stat ed time. Incidentally the offic ers were at Brown’s shop hardly four hours ahead of Abram (Bud dy Rowe) Fonville who went there and killed Lewis Riddick. When Ins alibi had been chs credited and he was shown the j gun, Crews admitted the attack i and told about it in detail. Crews, I working around the county home, said he and Williams, an employe at the basket factory, planned the l robbery a day or two before hand, that Williams was to hide under the building so lie could watch the watchman and give a signal for the attack. Crews admitted hitting Cherry over the head, and the weapon, a large stick, was re j covered. Crews said that after he struck the watchman, Williams came out and said, “You’ve killed him. You’d better go," explaining that he moved off along side the rail road and traveled the path later followed bv blood hounds. Crews said he grabbed the gun and left Williams there. Williams, listened to Crews tell the story, offering at no time to interrupt him but denying the charge when Crews had finished the story. Those persons, pledging the $550 reward, are advancing the cash which will be paid over to the informer when the case is cleared in the court. The name of the informer was not revealed. Officers declared that they had exhausted every possible lead in the case when the reward was an nounced in The Enterprise last week and the informer recalled having seen a pistol similar to the i one described as belonging to the watchman. Car-Truck Wreck At Intersection Considerable damage w.is done | but no one was hurt in a recent truck-car cfash at Skewatkey on Highway 17. Charles Dixon, driving a lumb er truck owned by the W. R. Tay lor Company of Robersonville, started to make a left turn into the lane just as William Bell of Warren, Rhode Island, started to j pass. I Patrolman M. F. Powers, mak 1 ing 'he investigation, estimated ; the damage to Bell’s Buick at $275 I PAvTi* I Alnani lonvillc, resorting to tragic methods in settling up claims he held against i others, started a pay-up cam paign here last week-end. Re ports declared that quite a few debtors contacted their creditors, paving up in some instances and promising pay ment in others. Kills One and Gravely Wounds w Another Over Gambling Debt Democrats To Hold County Meeting, Saturday At Noon Mooting in biennial session in the courthouse Saturday, May 15, at 12:00 o'clock, noon, Martin1 County democrats will perfect their organization and discuss any business placed before the con vention, No record attendance is anticipated by the committee chairman, E. S Peel, but he is asking as many party members as possible to attend the meeting. A chairman of the executive committee is to be named along with a co-chairman, secretary treasurer and various committees. The important business will be to name delegates to the State con vention which is to be held in Raleigh next week. Heretofore, the county's delegates have been sent to Raleigh without definite instructions. While it isn't likely they'll be instructed this time, it is possible that the convention Saturday will discuss presidential candidates and voice*) preference. It is the consensus of opinion that the Democrats in this county do not favor Truman’s nomination. As far as it could be learned, only one precinct meeting was held in the counU last Saturday. Good and true Democrats, includ ing several figuring prominently in the current political cam paigns, met in Robersonville and handled the business at hand. Paul D. Roberson was named chairman and J. H. Gray. Sr. was made secretary-treasures. In the other precincts where no meetings were held Saturday it ■is expected that organizations will be prelected just before the county meeting Saturday in the courthouse. Over Two Thousand Attend Bureau Meet Secretary Speaks To Farmers And Visitors Friday -—.— Can't lave Bv Proposed Farm Bill, Shaw Telia Annual Meeting The Martin County Farm Bu rrau hold its annual mooting and j barbecue at the high school in, Wdliamston last Friday afternoon i , the event, recognized as one of the largest events of its kind to be held in the State, attracting over two thousand farmers, friends and special visitors. Started late and interrupted to got the program to fit into a radio broadcast, the meeting heard several nationally known farm leaders and brief talks by Congressman Herbert Bonner and J. M Broughton, candidate for the United States Senate. Rev. W. B Harrington read the Scripture of the talents and offer ed a brief prayer to open the meeting, and Mr. Chas. Daniel, president, briefly addressed the group. "We can’t sit down and lose1 what we have gained,” he told the members, urging them to' sustain the organization and march forward together. Following a short talk on the. need for supplementing a pro gram for research in plant ills- \ eases by Mr. Carl Hicks, president I | of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Sta-j bilization Corporation, President Daniel introduced W. W. (Cap) Eagles, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. Mr. Eagles said it was always a pleas ure to come to Martin County “where things are done right.” He also declared that Martin County has always been found at the front. "It is hard to get any one program to fit all of agriculture, but Farm Bureau comes nearer doing it than any other,” the state president said, adding, "When we had no organization, we did not have any idea what price out crops would brings. Now, with a program, we have some idea,” the official explaining that the i program guarantees 1)0 percent of parity. He went on to predict that the outlook for peanuts is I good, that they are expected to sell for over 10 cents this fall. The top winners in the stock show were briefly interviewed at the meeting by C. J. Goodman, chairman, who reader brief his tory of the show. In his opening remarks R. Flaki Shaw, executive secretary ol the f aun Buieuu, said that lie had learned to know the people of Marlin County and that he had learned to respect them and the way they do things. "I am grate i ful to Martin County for it: work (Continued on page eight) 1 r KOI INI)-l!P s. j Local, county and state of ficers rounded-up and jailed ten persons in the county hoosegow over the week-end, the violators running a good ly part of the way through the crime scale with the wal lowing drunks holding the lead by a count of four. One each was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, robbery, aiding and abetting in robbery, assault, murder and drunken driving. One man was charged with two crimes. All the defendants arc col ored, their ages ranging from l!l to 50 years. Lions In Regular ‘eiiiiir Thursday At their regular monthly rnert j mg held last Thursday evening, I the members of the board of di ' rectors of the local Lions Club dis cussed several items, taking final ' action on some, the club to decide I others. It was moved, seconded ’and voted that the Lions-owned I grandstand at the local high school athletic park be turned over to the High School Athletic association after the club's initial investment, and maintenance costs have been paid and in addi tion, a sinking fund of $500.00 has been aecummulated. Permission was given to the committee to re pair till' grandstand for the cur rent season. The directors voted to decline sponsorship of a donkey baseball game on May 12th. A review of the attendance records of the club members was held and the secre i tary was instructed to drop any member in arrears. Several in ' voices were approved for pay ' ment by the group. A discussion pertaining to the number of nomi nees to be nominated by the Noin ! mating Committee for each posi tion to be held during the next fiscal year was held, the directors voting to allow the committee to 1 nominate as many candidates as the group feels#necessary. j. The directors voted five dollars expense money to each Lion and Lioness that will attend the State Lions Convention being held in Greensboro on June 20-22. The group voted to defer the matter of aid to the ease worker for the blind to the next meeting, pending further information. The group chdotsod - the suggested name of “Cherry Civic Center” for the proposed scout hut t„ bo erected sometime in the future. President '.VorreH presided over the meeting, which was held at (Continued on page eight) Lew is Riddick Is Fatid I v Shot Here Saturday Morning Mti'iiin Komille Wrested A Few Minutes After Duel Vttuek I I 1 Willie James Melton, colored, was seriously wounded and Lewis Riddick, also colored, was instant ly killed by Abram Fonville. also colored, here between 3:00 and 4:00 o'ciix-k last Saturday morn ing, poliiT explaining that the man took the drastic action in an effort to collect gambling debts created a few days before. A .45 calibre bullet piercing his stom ; eh, Melton underwent an opera tion in a Washington hospital Sat urday and was reported still alive early today, doctors giving him a chance to recover. A second bul let glazed the man’s arm and one or two other shots went wild. Struck twice, Riddick died al most instantly, police saying that the victim, plugged through the heart, scrambled off the bed where he had been sleeping w'ith two other men and fell dead on the floor a few feet away. One of the bullets struck the man in the hip and plowed upward through the stomach and lodging in the chest. The second bullet went through the hip. Little has been learned about the origin of the gambling debt, police saving that differences reached a' climax about 3:00 o’clock Saturday morning when Fonville went to Ernest Stallings’ home, corner of Broad and Hyman Streets near Woodlawn cemetery, where a social event was in pro gress. Taking a stand at the front door, Fonville was quoted as say ing to Melton, "You owe me $6 and 1 want it." Melton explained that he had only $2, that he would pay the remainder as soon as pos sible. The terms of the proposed settlement were apparently not acceptable, and Fonville express ed Ins terms with gun fire. The first shot tiyik effect and literally froze the victim and witnesses to their tracks, but recovering from the shock seconds later the wit nesses departed, leaving the vic tim and his attacker. One report declared that exits were gained through a door while others went through the window, taking cur tains, shade, sash and glass with them. Fonville is believed to have gone to his rooming house in the Ormond Hall nqt far away, picked up u few clothes and moved about one half mile across town on foot. | lie knocked on the back door of a bedroom in the rear of Guilford Urown’s barbershop on Washing Ion Street, two doors from the Red Front grocery. Rome one fumed him in, and Fonville took a stand at the foot of the bed j where Riddick and two others were sleeping with Riddick in the middle. "I've killed one . . . Nigger to night, and I’ll kill another. I want the $11 you owe me,” Fonville was quoted as saying. Riddick 'explained that he did not have j the money, and Fonville brought his .45 calibre pistol into action, (Continued on page eight) Escape Injury In Automobile Wreck Two Oak City High School girls and two young men escaped with minor bruises when a 1941 Ford ! owned and driven by Virgis Scott, 22, went out of control and turn ed over on a dirt road between I Hassell and Oak City late last Wednesday night. Few details of I the acident eould be learned here, l Patrolman R. P. Nat ron static ! that he had no^completed his in* | restitution. ; The car, moving in the directie ! of OiiK city was said to irav turned ovei twice on a curv • driver was quoted as I he was not drtvir ! twenty-five miles age to the machine at jSiiit).
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