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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 WEES VOLUME LI—NUMBER 50 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 22, l*) 18 ESTABLISHED 1899 Farmers Spraying % Tobacco Fields To Check Plant Lice —•— I Limited Quantity of Poison Available In Loeal Stores At Present Attacking the tobacco crop in ^ this county in vast numbers, j aphids or plant lice are being] subjected to a strong counter-at tack by numbers of farmers. While a few farmers have con tracted with airplane operators to poison their crops, most of them are using handsprayers with fair ly good results, according to re ports reaching here, g, The lice infestation is fairly general, but the infestation is somewhat spotted in the fields, and those farmers who have ade quately poisoned the lice state they have seen no further signs of infestation. Poisoning by airplane at the present time is being limited to crops in the upper part of the I county, and all contracts have not been carried out there, it was learned. Reports reaching here yester day stated that special spray ma chines had been moved into Pitt County from Georgia, that they were being used with much suc cess. The supply of poison for the control of the lice, vapotone (tet • raethyl pyrosophosphate) is lim ited here at the persent time. A shipment was flown into this state from California the latter part of last week, and apparently the supply is not sufficient to meet the demand. Local dealers stated yesterday that they sold out the first shipment they re I reived, and one firm sent a spec ial messenger to Raleigh yester day for about sixteen gallons. Or ders were accumulating fast yes terday and the supply is not ex pected to last very long. Described as a very deadly poison, vapotone is diluted at the | rate of about one part to 800 parts I of Water The riu re' potent type, # vapotone XX, is mixed at the rate of one part to 1,000 parts of (Continued on page eight) % 4 « 4 f Parole Hearing For Frank Green A public hearing on the appli cation filed with the .state com missioner of paroles, Hathaway Cross, by Frank Green for a pa role is being scheduled in Raleigh.1 It could not be learned just when tlie hearing would be held, one re port stating that it would be held on a Tuesday. 1 *Frank Green, while in a drunk en condition and on a wild ride, ran down and instantly killed Garland Bailey, wd critically in jured four other”persons at the intersection of the JVashington and Bear Grass roads the early I part of last year. In June of last year he w as con- ] victed of manslaughter and was j sentenced to the roads for not less I than five and not more than eight; years. In April of this year that I sentence was reduced to not less than three and not more than five' years. And now it is proposed to turn him out. Members of the wreck victims’ families have been notified the hearing will be held in Raleigh. Some of them explained they could not afford to lose a day's work, and that they really aren’t able to finance the trip. Despite determined opposition, relatives of the wreck victims re ceived meager amounts of money from tne insurance company', but just about all that is gone and now some of the families are on relief. ROUND-UP v . ■ --* ficers rounded up and jailed eight persons in the county last week-end, the list iuclud ■;r,s t«a tar drank ;it driving, three for assaults and one each for assault, investiga tion. public drunkenness and robbery, One in the group was white, and the ages of the eight ranged from 21 to 52 years. CITIZENS OF TOMORROW The Enterprise takes 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 tremendous 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, Griff, six, Janet, eleven. White, four, sons and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W T Ross, Williamston; Jos eph. eight, Hannah, six. Della Peebles, four, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs .1 G. Godard, Williamston; Robert Earl, nine, Nancy, six. Sylvia, three, son and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bland, Williamston; Bottom row, Sue, seven, Margaret, twelve, Patsy, seven, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bunting, Oak City; Edward, twelve, Gerald, seven, Virginia, five sons and daughter of Mr. and Mis. Edward Cox, Williamston; and Mary Lynn, sev en. Vivian, nine, Judy B . five, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. R. Lin wood Pate, Williamston. lU'IMiKT v> Meeting in special session the latter part of this week, ' the Martin County Commis sioners are slated to study the budget figures for the 1!I48 4!i fiscal year. No advance es timate on the rate can be had at this time. It was not definite if the meeting would he called on Thursday or Friday. County Young Man! Gets High Honors -«>—— Wake Forest.—Zeno H. Rose of. Rohersonville. i member of the1 1-1 vent {li'llliijm OI[' i.1 '.V Si-Moni ii},lK< 1 lit Wake Forest, won a number of honors while attending this insti tution. The highest honor won by Rose was fitst place in the recent state- : wide will-drafting contest con- : ducted by tin American Trust Company. Rose received a prize of $150 for winning this contest in competition with law school stud ents from the University ot North Carolina, Duke University and Wake Forest College. Rose also had the highest weighted scholastic average in the graduating law school class. Ilis name is to he inscribed on large bronze cup donated by the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. Editors of the United States Law Week awarded a year’s sub scription to Law Week, prominent legal magazine, to Rose for hav ing the highest scholastic average during his final school year. For excellence m law school subjects of Taxation, Corpora tions, Equity, and Evidence, Rose has already received several American Jurisprudence volumes in these particular courses. During the war Rose served ap proximately three and a half years in the Army Air Force, 20 months of which were spent in Europe. Rose plans to take the State Bar Examination at Raleigh in Aug ust. He plans to practice law this fall in Martin County. High School Band In Concert Sunday -o A concert is to be given by the Wiliiamston High School band next Sunday afternoon, it w'as an nounced yo.it- iuo.i or Di. i < fV;, Jaek Butler, as pait of the sum mer band work program. Details of the concert will be fessor Butler said, adding that the place of the concert would be de termined by the weather. In the event ot bau wcothc it will he in the high school auditorium. 11 the weather pe. in its it will be cn the school grounds. Plans foi the concert are tenta tive and circumstances may not tive, Prof. Butler said hut unless something unforeseen develops it will be held Sunday afternoon. Republicans Meet Ifi Philadelphia Opening their presidential nom inating convention in Philadel phia at 10 o'clock in Philadelphia Monday morning, the country's Republicans are expected to start Wednesday or Thursday ballot ing for a standard-bearer. Dur ing the meantime, the Republi cans are dodging around and ex plaining away their record chalk ed up in the second session of the eightieth Congress brought to a I hectic lose early Sunday morn ing. No first ballot nomination is ex pected. The Old Guard has about worn out its main candidates, in eluding Governor Thomas E IX ■ ■ ;■ <it Me’.'.' York, Senator Ho bert A. Taft of Ohio, Former Gov ernor Harold E. Stassen of Minne sota, Governor Earl Warren ol California, and General Douglas MacArthur, who have been through the primary campaigns Varulenburg and Joe Martin speaker of the House, are recog nized as the “dark horses”. Dewey and Taft are conceded fairly prominent positions with Stassen rating a third spot. v\ hat about the Vice Presidun tial candidate? That race is wide open. Nobody is openly and ex clusively a candidate lor second place on the ticket, and the win ning Presidential nominee will have a big say in who is chosen. What about the platform? No major controversies are expected on foreign affairs—although the Republican Party is split on the issue of isolationism vs. interna tionalism—because the leading candidates have, in general, sup ported the major points of the bi partisan foreign policy of the Tru man administration and Vanden berg. One issue involves the housing plank upon which the Senate and House have split. A strong civil rights plank is ex pected. What is the convention city mood? For the first time since 1928, the Republicans genuinely are confident their nominee will win—whoever he is. Is there real basis for their con fidence? The answer to that will be forthcoming in November, j -u Workers' Review In Martin County Martin County had a total labor P.v.v. .. ? P..r/!."..is■ ,W6„ ,J^lhe last quarter of 1947, this eounty had 1,377 workers engaged in covered employment, and had 539 workers ploymont. In this county. 6.3 per cent of the total labor force was engaged in manufacturing cm pit/, iitent, and 39.1 p< icent was in employment 'covered by the Em ployment Security Law. In 1947, this county had an es timated total nun-agricultural em ployment of 3,279 workers, and 42 percent of the non-agricultural employment was covered by the Employment Security Law. Two Hurt In Car Accident Early Sunday Morning | Man Hoiik* from Now York H(b|)ilaliznl for Rad Cut On Head ! Two persons were hurt, one 'dangerously, in a series of high ! way accidents reported on Martin County highways Sunday and early Monday. Property damage was estimated at less than $350 by Patrolman J. T. Rowe who made the investigations. The first in the series was re ported at 12:30 o'clock Sunday j morning when W. McKinley Mai - liner, young colored man home from New York, ran his 1934 Ford station wagon into a ditch while driving south on the Poplar Chap el Road in Jamesville Township. The driver, said to have been thrown partly through the wind shield, was cut badly on the side of the head and possibly .suffered a skull fracture. He was removed to a Washington hospital in a Biggs ambulance, late reports stat ing that he is expected to recover. The driver’s father, Augustus Marriner, was hurt in his left side, possibly suffering several cjacked or broken ribs. Damage to the car was estimated at hardly more | than $15 by Patrolman Rowe who investigated the accident with Cpl. T. W. Fearing. Driving north on Highway 17 at 11:30 o’clock Sunday night, Hubert Davis Smith, 19, started to pass Francis Carroll Keel who was also traveling into Williamston and who had just started to make a left turn at Skewarkey church. Smith’s car, a 1937 Ford sedan, had its right side battered badly, Patrolman Rowe estimating the damage at about $90. The Keel car, a 1947 Oldsmobile owned by Mrs. L L. Keel, of Oak City, had its left side battered, the patrol man estimating that repairs would cost approximately $120. Keel was said to have given a signal for a left turn, and Smith was quoted as saying that he just fail i‘d"to":itc it ill i'l'ne. No one was huri. Joe Walter Williams, 21-year old colored man did approximate ly $100 damage when he ran a dirt dump truck into a ditch of the old Bear Grass-Williamston dirt road Monday morning. Williams was not hurt but Patrolman Rowe booked him for drunken driving. A man, whose name could not be learned immediately, was said to have lost his life when he fail ed to turn the sharp curve in Windsor with his large transport truck loaded with potatoes about ' daybreak Sunday morning. Editors Prepare Special Article -—» . —. Mr A. H. Hermann, head of the Public Relations Department, Vir ginia Electric and Power Com pany, with headquarters in Rich mond, is here making a two-day visit with the personnel of the lo cal office and Vice-President Ray Goodmon. Mr. Hermann is also editor of the Vepcovian and has been asso ciated with the company for ap proximately 40 years. His assist ant, Mr W. T. Coghill, accompani ed Mr. Hermann on his official visit here. The visitors are preparing a spe cial article on this section for pub lieation in the company’s journal. Large Crowds On Hand For Return 0‘Ni<rlit Baseball c -o All-Slurs From Lower Kml of Foiiuty W in. .'5 lo 0, Salimlay INiglit Throngs of baseball fans flock ed to the Williamston High School park Saturday night to witness the program formally turning on and dedicating the new lights and to watch a thrilling all-star game that climaxed the evening's fes tivities. After Eason Lilley, owner of tire lights which were removed from (lie park before the recent war, turned on the new lights at 7:30, Rev. John W. Hardy dedicat ed the new facilities to the build ing of goodwill, a sense of fair play and good sportsmanship and tlie Rev. Stewart B. Simms led the assemblage in singing “America.” Officers and directors of the Martin County Athletic Associa tion, Inc , owners of the new lighting equipment were called by Lynn Taylor and assembled in front of tlie grandstand for their pictures to lie taken. D. V. Clay - ton, Williamston banker and treasurer ef tlie association, voic ed the thanks of tlie group for tlie cooperation and liberal support of the communities of the county as communities and as individ uals. To get the ball game under way Raymond 11. Goodmon, president of the Coastal Plain League, was calk'd to tlie mound and President Leroy Everett of the Martin Coun tv Athletic Association, Inc., was placed behind the plate. After a professional wind-up. President Goodmon delivered the ball and President Everett caught it and returned it to the mound Bleachers borrowed from State College for use during the season did not arrive in time for use Sat urday night and a number of per sons were turned away for lack of a place to sit while loans who nua 'in' aiiyUriC Hah to -at eit the ground down the first and thud base foul lines. The bleachers came in during the game Saturday night and were erected Saturday night and Sun day morning by the Jaycees and some volunteers and hired help so that a bleacher seating capacity of about nine hundred is now available, 100 of the scats being reserved foi any colored fans who would like to see the night games. Total seating capacity of the park, including grandstand is now about 1400. Thirty-six of the forty players available for the all-star game ; were used during tlie contest, i nineteen by the upper end of the county and seventeen by the low er end boys who won the game 3 to 0 by scoring two runs in the ! top of the first and one in the top I of the second. Simon Perry, Jr., member ol the regular team of the Wil liamston Martins, was the first man to go to tlie plate under lights here since September, 1940. lie was walked by Bobby Fleming, young Hassells rnoundsmun, and promptly stole second. He moved to third after Johnny Mack Stalls was safe on an error and Hay wood Wynne reached first in a fielder's choice that clipped Stalls at second. Morris'Stalls, another Martin drove a long fly to left and (Continued on page six) Small Vote Is Predicted In County and State Saturday The small vote cast in the gub ernatorial contest in the first pri mary the 29th of last month will appear large when compared with the expected vo^e in the second primary on Saturday of this week. Unless something strikes rather more than 2,250 votes are likely to be cast in the second guberna torial round between 6..»0 o’clock a. m. and H:H0 o’clock p m on Sal urday of this week. The contest between Ciias. M. Johnson and Kerr Scott for the governorship has been seldom mentioned in this county since the May 29 primary. It is quite noticeable that quite a lew of the leaders of the Johnson forces who were fairly active in this county during the campaign prior to the first piimary are tak ing very little interest in the ap proaching show-down. Martin County cast only 2,149 votes in the first primary. State political dopesteis arc predicting will be cast in the 100 counties on Saturday of this week. However, then- is ..onic doubt if.as many as 800,000 volt.. will hi 1 a-I on Satur day of this week. Very few con tests are being carried into a sec ond primary. There is none in this county and only one congrcs siorial race going into a second and final round. The absence of local contests is certain to influ ence the sue of the vote this week Plan To Place Order For Parking Meters Extensive Repairs Vre Necessary To| Town Water Tank1 -— Bonn! Ins|i<-<ls Fivo Typos Of I'iirkin^ Mrlers At Meetings Examining at least five types in special meetings held last Thurs day evening and this morning, Williamston's town commissioners are expected to place an order for parking meters within a short time. The various types of me chanisms and contract terms are being studied, one representative of the board declaring it was a problem to decide on any parti cular meter. At the meeting last Thursday evening, the commissioners offic ially cancelled a tentative contract for the installation of a 300,000 | gallon capacity elevated water tank in accordance with the wish es expressed by the people in the special bond election the Tuesday before. Very little comment was I made, but the mayor advanced the 'opinion that a dangerous decision had been made. "It is true that the board in ordering the election has cleared itself of any blame, but that is not the thing about it The best interests of the town, in cluding an adequate water supply and available service for all Un people m the town, are to be con sidered. While we are fairly cer j tain that if the people really knew I the facts they would favor the | program, we hardly think it our I duty to provide another election uist now,” representatives of the | board said. | Advised that the tentative con j tract was being cancelled and that | no other plans are being made to tie Vvii.te: ... .-.u lii. Na,n i mV-ndor.t K. K Manning ot the water department said that he had hoped plans for installing a new tank would go through. Dis (ussing the present system, the superintendent explained that new tie rods are badly needed in the tank, that the roof should be icplaced and that tin- tank is leak ing m several places. It is esti mated that repairs to the tank will cost approximately $2,500. Following the water system dis eussion, the commissioners heard salesmen of three parking meter manufacturers. Two of the meter types are manually operated, one manufactured by the Mieo Park ing Meter Company of Cincinnati and the other by the Miller Meter Company of Chicago. The Mieo machine was quoted at $54 per unit plus a $4.50 installation. The Miller meter, in use in' several surrounding towns, was quoted at $75 per unit, but for every 100 meters purchased, the company allows a bonus of fifteen, bringing the price nearer into line with the other manually operated machine. A new type of meter was de monstrated at the Thursday even mg meeting. Representatives of the American LaFrance Fire En gine Company displayed and ex plained something new in the meter field. They have what is called a dual meter, or one that will serve two parking places with the same mechanism. In other words, the meter will serve two parking places at the cost of one $75 meter and eliminate one hull the “fence posts” on the streets, it is mechanically oper ated. The meters demonstrated today are of the mechanical type. At the meeting last week it was pointed out that about the same contract holds for installation and maintenance. The companies lagree to install the meters and take a certain pe centage of the freight charges and the purchase < osf ai o paid. If, at the end of 1 line i‘of!f.h<- ;i wb:.1: rg'o.vr ,i!.n-. satisfactory, the selling company will remove the meters and re pair the sidewalks without charge to the town. It ini.1, also pointed out that only three fairly luige towns in North I Carolina are now without meters j (Continued on page eight) srurmsin r 1 I v. “What in thi‘ world lias happened down in Martin?" State Prison authorities asked when Sheri IT C. K. Roebuck and Captain Sessoins backed up to the entrance with a truckload of prisoners late last Thursday afternoon. “We've had large deliveries from Mecklenburg and some of the other larger counties, but never have we had such a delivery from Martin," the prison official declared after a surprised fashion. The sher iff explained that it was a elean-up climaxed by a regu lar term of the superior court. Ten prisoners were left sup posedly to serve a combined term of about 100 years. Miss ( lark Earns Honors \t ECTC —*— Ellen Joyce Clark of Everetts, member of next year's senior class a) East Carolina Teachers College, has recently received special re cognition for her work at the col lege. Miss Clark has been appointed as one of three delegates to repre sent East Carolina at an emer gency conference on the teacher shortage in North Carolina held at Meredith College, Raleigh last Thursday. At commencement exercises on June 7 Miss Clark was announced as the winner of one of the five major awards presented to stud cuts at that time. She received the Alexander B Andrews sehol arship, which is given annually to a student with an excellent scho lastic record. | In her college work. Miss Clark r -i m ’■ " ■> 1 • m ; ; oo.: ■■: : | iion and plans to Oceanr a teach j er wiicn she has completed her ! work at East Carolina. During ! 1947-1948 she served as president | of both the Association of Child hood Education and the Future Teachers of America, both active organizations on the campus here. She has participated also in the j work of a number of other cam i pus organizations at the college During 1947-1948 she was assoei ate business manager of the “Toco Echo,” student newspaper; a member of the student legislature, branch of the student government association; and president of the Christian Student Association, i Next year she has been elected to j offices in the Association for Childhood Education, the Future Teachers of America, and the Christian Student Association, and will be a member of the stud ent budget committee. Miss Clark is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Clark of Ever 1 etts. _. Few Civil Cases Are Compromised No amounts wore listed, but judgments were recorded in the superior court last week, showing that several damage suits had been removed irorn the civil cal endar by agreement. Cases compromised included those of J. A. Powell against W. T. Cannon and others, and Mrs. Mar gie Sullivan and J. B. Sullivan against Amos Cox and Vance Harrington. The latter suit was I similar to one brought last year ' against Frank Green and the in surance company to recover dam i ages for Mrs. Garland Bailey [ whose husband w as killed in a I truck-car wreck at the intersec tion ol' the Washington and Bear Grass roads. It was difficult to One repot I said that the plaintiff; received only a nominal settle |- • c'i'Trt, JVC .Irtvvrgt pe , -Bn hospital and doctors’ bills. There is no record that C'ox was ever tiied for any negligence. In this county a determined effort is being made to parole Frank Green, the man who ran down and killed and injured several persons. Congress Quits Sunday Morning For Convention II.Ml lime To Legislate For The I*ri\ ilege. Rut None For Plain People Tin' second session of the Eightieth Congress was adjourned in it hr; muddle Sunday morning at ti l t o'clock and the “hard working solons" packed up and , wont to Philadelphia for the big Republican convention spree. The Congress found it necessary to work more than forty hours traight before the pleas advanc ed in the name of the plain peo ple were silenced. Senator How ard McGrath, Democratic Nation al Chairman, stating, "The ‘privi lege' Congress has taken care of its special interest friends, and frankly told the plain people that it has no time left to legislate for them,” The lull effect of the hodge podgo laws passed by the Con gr<: s is hardly discernible, but ag riculture will most certainly feel adverse effects. A compromised farm bill, still offers the parity provision, but it. is being scaled downward right at the very time when industrial profits continue upward. A peace-time draft was passed to keep tlv.' peace. It will “select” men from 19 to 25 years for 21 month >' service, the first to be called after ninety days. | A brief review of the work handled by the Congress in its 24 weeks, continues: Foreign Aid Legislation was passed authorizing the spending of more than $(>,000,000,000 for foreign aid during the 12 months en ling \pril 3. 1949. The total in cluded $5,300,000,000 for the Euro pean Recovery Program, with other stuns for China, Greece, Turkey arid the United Nations Children’s Fund. Tax Reduction A bill, enacted over President Truman's veto, cut pers inal me nu' taxes $4,800,000, l pop a <•. It ■ - i ,.f;, .active to Gian" "t; ' frmi "*■■■ a-.nrari-vrrirr holding rates went into effect May 1. Air Force -The Air Force was given funds and contracting auth (Continued on page eight) (Fin iiu» Potatoes Free To Farmers Instead of piling and destroy ing surplus irish potatoes as they did last year, government agencies are offering the surplus to farmers free and freight-paid with the understanding that the potatoes will be fed to livestock. Farmers in this county who are into ex ted in getting irish potatoes free for livestock feeding are di rected to contact the office of the county agent without delay. The freight is paid on the pota toes and there is no charge what ever for the potatoes. The only obligation the farmer is required to accept is that he'll unload the potatoes regardless of the condi tion the potatoes are in when they are delivered No cars are ship ped with less than 300 bags, but several farmers can order togeth er where an entire carload is not needed Several carloads have already been ordered in this county, but as far as it could be learned no deliveries have been made as yet. Farmers in other counties have already received a few carloads. Finding the markets glutted, marketing specialists are asking • lie growers to slow down their digging operations for a few days or until hi- market is relieved. | CRIMES i V— Placing an order just a short time ago, the local Bap iTSl , 111111 i u its mmiiu J Ci tenia> that the chimes had been shipped, that posibly . u iiuk! reai h here and he installed tor use next Sunday, The pastor, Rev. S. B. Simms pointed out that the installation is not certain, but that the company represeuta lives were of the opinion that the chimes would be ready for use by that time