THU ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LI—NUMBER 48 Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June /.>. IV I# THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES ESTABLISHED 1899 Lighted Park Set To Open Here On Saturdav Night All-Star Caine and Formal Turning On of Lights On the Program Final details were worked out last night for the program of the Martin County Athletic Associa tion, Inc., which is this week in stalling lights in the Williamston ball park. The formal opening of the park is to be held Saturday night be ginning at 6:30 o'clock when the four teams from the lower end of the county will take batting prac tice in preparation for their game with the four teams of the upper section of the county. From 7:00 to 7:30 the all-stars of the upper half will take batting practice and then will come the formal turning on of the lights at 7:30. Mr. Eason Lilley, a director at large of the association, will pull the switch that controls the lights and for the first time since 1940 Martin County will have a lighted athletic park. Immediately after the turning on of the lights the all-stars will take infield practice and promptly at 8 o’clock President Ray H. Goodmon of the Coastal Plain League will make a few remarks appropriate to the occasion and throw out tiie first ball. The poles were moved to the ball park Monday afternoon un der the direct supervision of Mey er Levin, the holes for them were being prepared Tuesday and at tachments are being applied today so that Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock a drag-line from Washing ton can begin erecting the poles. Present plans call for the poles to be erected by noon Wednesday. In announcing the program it was emphasized that in case of inclement weather the opening program would remain the same except that it would be delayed until Monday evening and all con tests scheduled in the tournament would be pushed back one day. ironing out some oMheir prob lems befoie '■ [r.j'il'1 oVwfi YY:a. terial things, the directors of the association decided to meet an nually on the first Monday night in March f Funeral services are being con ducted from the home of her son this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by Elder W, E. Grimes, assisted by Elder E. C. Stevenson. Interment will be in the Hamilton Cemetery Surviving are four sons, Messrs. LeRoy, Wade and Jesse Everett, all of Hamilton, and Herbert Ev erett of Portsmouth; one daugh ter, Mrs. Katherine E. Harrell of Hamilton; two sisters, Mrs, W. G. Lynch, Sr., and Mrs. Mallory E. Faison, both of Roanoke Rapids; twelve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Former Resident Dies In Hospital Mrs. Lorena Gurganus, 59, for mer resident of Williamston, died last Saturday morning at 9:50 o'clock in a Washington hospital following a long period of declin ing health. She had been confin ed to her bed since April. The daughter of the late Mar tin Jackson of Beaufort County and the late Margaret M Jackson of Washington County, Mrs. Gur ganus was born in Beaufort Coun ty on October 17, »188fi. She mov ed from Williamston to Plymouth about six years ago. She was a member of the Christian Hope Disciple Church near Plymouth. She is survived by her husband, Robert H. Gurganus of Plymouth; five sons, Aubrey Gurganus of Wiiliamston, Sherrill R. Gurganus of Wiiliamston, Edward Ray Gur ganus of Wiiliamston, Bill D. Gur ganus of Plymouth, Bobby Gur ganus of Plymouth; three daugh ters, Mrs. Margaret Atamanchuck of Plymouth, Mrs' Della Roebdck of Plymouth, Mrs. Hazel Brown ing of Durham; one sister, Mrs Pete Price o t Plymouth; orfe brother, Mr. Ed Jackson of Plym outh, and sixteen grandchildren. cd Sunday at 3:30 p m. at the I Christian Hope church by the; Rev. Robert Lee, her pastor of! fimazm*. -A-. B. Nic-Kcns, pastor of Ludford I Memorial Baptist Church of Ply-! mouth and the Rev. W. B. Jlar-| i ington of this county. Interment followed in the family plot in the church cemetery. j Calling Special Fifty-Member Venire In Murder Case Here Plant Lice Attack Tobacco Crop In County This Week -A. Plant lice, causing serious con cern for tobacco farmers in Geor gia, have made their appearance in this county, according to a re port coming today from the office of the farm agent. Inspecting the crop on the Mizelle farm on the Hamilton Highway near Williams ton, Bill Harrison found the lice in numbers. One small hill of to bacco, made up of six very small leaves, had an estimated 1,000 lice on it. According to reports reaching here late Monday, there is an in testation in several parts of the county. Farmer Tom Koberson leported the plant lice in num bers in his tobacco out in Farm Life. Farmer J. D. Wynne said they were in his, the Bear Grass area, and reports indicate that the intestation is fairly heavy in the upper part of the county. Very little is known about the lieo in this area, and reports from Georgia state that the pest is dif lieu It to control or destroy. One report itates that very little dam age is done to the growing plant, that the trouble comes at curing time. A small honey-looking sub stance is left on the leaf, causing it to cure out black in the curing barn. The lice are said to multiply ra pidly, that one mating creates five to fifty offspring. No actual tests have been made in this section, but the farmer is being advised to spray his crop with tetraethyl pyrophosphate | either in a dust or liquid form. Aged Woman Died Saturday Morning In Poplar Point Funeral Held in tin- Spring Green Cliureli for Mrs. N ieie II. Kdinnmlsoit Mrs. Vicie Howell Edmondson, highly respected resident of Pop lar Point Township, died at her home there last Saturday morning at 0:30 o'clock. She had been in declining health for some time, and her condition had been seri ous for about three weeks. She was born in Nash County 82 years ago on July 5, 1800, the daughter of the late Zeph Howell of Wayne County and the late Sal lie Thomas Howell of Poplar Point. She lived all her life in , a.. /. C, : ‘^ : ing the past thirty years in the Poplar Point section. Mrs. Edmondson was a faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Spring Green for a long number of years. Surviving are four son, John Edmondson, with whom she made her home, Kannie, Richard and Zana Edmondson, all ol Poplar Point; four daughters, Mrs. Sallie Warren of Washington County, Mrs. Hettie Hollis and Mrs Lola Mobley, both of RED 3 Williams 1 ton, and Mrs. Katie Hollis oi Oak City; one brothei, John Howell of Greenville, and several grand children. In early womanhood she was married to John Edmondson who died a number of years ago. Funeral services were conduct ed in the church at Spring Green flunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by Elder W. E. Grimes and inter ment was in the church cemetery. ‘Falla (hit' In Miihllr Of llie Komi In (.oiinly Harvey Moorcing, 28-year-old colored man, got a little too much to drink sometime during Sunday night and "passed out" in the mid dle of a dirt road near Gold Point. Drawn into a knot, the man was thought to be dead by a pass erby, and Patrolman B. W. Park er was called to make an investi gatiori. It was fii'st thought that he had been run down, but an examination revealed his drunk en condition. I KOUMMJI* 1 v---_> Even though llii‘ sta««• is be ing set lor a show down in court for law violators at the time, officers continued to round up the wayward last week-end, a report stating that seven persons were ar rested and detained in the <*on!?l?unT!fTT-^Wr7W'ff^"n!?off*BK ed for assaults, two for public drunkenness, one lor break ing and entering, one for op . ettt-Jng :r .VMtitUC. _ out a driver's license and ope was detained when his bonds man withdrew. Three of tin seven were white and the ages of tiie group ranged from 23 to 47 years. SMALL VOl i: | --— — ■» Comparatively few citizens are participating: in the $100, 000 bond election here today. By mid-morning less than fif ty votes had been cast, and it was fairly certain at that time that no sizable vote would be recorded before the polls close at (i:30 this evening. The election was ordered to finance a $100,000 improve ment program for the town's water system which is de scribed as dangerously inade quate. The polls are being held open in the City llall. Mrs. ,|. K. Moore l*ies in Hospital « 4*m- ..... «. («!«• 7. died in ■ a local hospital last Sunday even mg at 11:50 o'clock following a long period of declining health She | had sulfered three strokes of pai ! alysis, the first about two years ago. She had partially recovered from that and a second one and was getting along very well until ! the last of April when she suffer ed another Her condition had been ciitical since that time and she was removed to the hospital two weeks ago for treatment. Lit tie hope was held for her recov | cry, however she remained eonsci ous up until about twelve hours ! before the end. The daughter of the late J. L. Ingram and wife, Mary Wilker son Ingram, she was born in Hem bridge, Georgia, on August 31, ; 1881, and spent her early life there. Following her marriage to Mr Moore they located in this ! county, living in the Bear Grass, Jamesville and Williamston sec turns. While here Mr. Moore op | crated the Red Front grocery on Washington Street. They located m Plymouth for a while, but hud made their home near Jamesville for the- past several years Funeral services are being con ducted this afternoon from the Cedar Branch Baptist Church and burial will be in the Martin com ctory near her late home. Rev. W. B. Harrington is conducting the last rites. Surviving are Mr. Moore and two sisters, Mrs. H. G. Farnell of Bainbridge, Georgia, and Mrs. Co rone Salts of Texas. Raiding in Goose Nest Town ■■ hip e,.i ly la d Sunday morning J\lse Uliicer Joe II. Roeouek and Deputies Roy Pee! and Buck Hol loman lound and wrecked uetude liquor distillery. The plant watj /umr>t>‘ •' JS’.t'-b .it «-«U!»ww.e... parity oil drum which was used for u kettle and three filthy fer menters. The officers poured out 150 gallons of nasty sugar beer and confiscated one-half gallon of! white liquor. I Will Try Fonville For First Degree Murder Tomorrow -m I’iradji Not (iuiilv \\ hen VrraisfiH^il In (ioiirt iVlomlu) Moriiint' cum Preliminaty plans were pleted curly Monday morning for trying Abram (Buddy Rowe) Fonvillc, young eolorcd man. tor first degree murder in the su perior court here tomorrow The prisoner, charged with shuotmg and killing Louis Riddick, also colored, in Wilhamston early in the morning of May it of this year, was arraigned in the court before Judge R. Hunt Parker while the packed courtroom maintained a silence that a dropping pin could have broken. When asked how he pleaded, Fonville, through his attorney, 11 G. Horton, entered a plea of not guilty, declaring he would be tried before God and country. Judge Parker immediately or derod the calling of a special 50 member venire from which a jury is to be chosen when the case is called for trial Wednesday morn ing at 9:110 o clock. Defense at torney and the prosecution sug gested that no one be drawn for jury service in the ease from Wilhamston Township, and the counsel agreed to excuse one or two jurors on account ol advanc ed age or employment. Little Miss S!in!c\ Jane Daniel of Oak City was called from the audience to draw the venire which includes several women, and at least one colored citizen, but mostly while male citizens. The name of R. K Peel was drawn iirst but it was placed back in the No. 1 box when it wa : W i 111 j ton. 1 he names ox ws i ,. > ■ ■ I Mahler, C. 11. Godwin, Jr., Mrs. David Modlin, A. J. Manning and ' a few other Wilhamston citizens j were also drawn but were return ! ed to the box in accordance with ! the agreement. With Hoard of Commi ■ loner , Clerk J. Sam Get anger presiding at the box in open court, Little Miss Daniel drew the following nanu s: Pei I le Rogcrson of Hear G: a J. L Mizeiie of Goose Nest, B W. Williams of Cross Road Ku ! Ins Lynch of Goose Nest, Vernon H. Hardison of Griffins, K K Turner of Goose Nest, Leamon Keel of Bear Grass, Joe T Phelps of Bear Grass, Lcstei Bailey ol Bear Grass, Grady K. Smith of Rubersonville, L D Hardison of Williams, B. T Wynne of Cross Roads, John C. Gui garni of Bear Glass. S. K. Mantling of Griffins, Chas. A. Pate ol Williams, W. Howard Vanderford of Roberson vilie. Aubrey 11. Gurganus of Griffins, A. C. Brown of James ville, Clyde Ward of Bear Gra s, Adrian Hardison ol William , li ving Roberson ol Williams, Ed ward Mizelle of Jamesville, J K Copeland, Jr. of Goose Nest, El belt A. Heath of Williams, C. A Askew of Jamesville, B F Lille.v, Jr. of Griffins, Z. I). Cox of Goo i Nest, Clan lire Revels of Gnf (Continued on page eight) ■o Firemen Called To Pine Street Home Local firemen wi re called out shortly before 2:00 o’clock last threatened the home of Mrs. Clyde Silverthorne on Pine Street. Very little damage was done by the fire and water, hut the furniture, nun - J ed out to just about the last piece j whrnthefiiTinuiriuchedthi^wJ was battered a bit. The origin of the fire could not be determined, but it is hi Iievod i that someone, possibly a thought I«f» .ekiizhAso&pe&.A l^fe|an. “ 'f'TT'TtTVoYP 'Vue tc ' bow, he w , treated in a local doctors office and last reports stated he was getting along very well. The boy, according to witness* 1 was standing beside the high : way waiting for a ear traveling | south to pass. As soon as that ear ! went by he dashed into the high way and into the path of a car driven by John Archie Hodges, white man of RFD 2, Williamston. I 1 lodges, traveling north, said that he was running about 45 miles when he saw the child, that he slowed down and was running hardly la miles an hour when he truck th< victim. Hodges, all four wheels skidding, ran off the t ight side of the road in an effort to mi , the child. Witnesses verified Hodges* story. Mrs. Evelyn Hunt stating that he was not speeding at the time of the accident. No charges were lodged against the driver by Patrolmen J. T Rowe and B. W. Parker who made the investiga tion. w ! ■ Tonrl Working On Two (lases Today With the Fonville murder case i t for trial tomorrow and most of the other criminal eases already cleared from the docket, the cur rent teim of me Martin County Superior Court today is working on the Percy Brown murder case and the one charging Frank Crews ana Henry Williams with assault ing Haywood Cherry, factory night watchman. Several hours before court was opened this morning, colored citi zens started filing into the court house to hear the Percy Brown ease. Brown shot and killed Wil liam ( Lus * Midgette here on May 1-1, claiming that it was a case of Midgctte was William Brown who, in allege--, was after him,” I, of the paper tresp iiiiltv ( OUIU t TIO\ •?V ^'fC.T.TSVTR'” • county court last week, this stated that Mayo Beacham lunged with non support. , oung man was charged with issing and was found