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tee enterprise is read Bl OVER 3,900 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEE THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME U—NUMBER 59 Williamslon, Martin County, JSorth Carolina, Tuesday, July 27, 1948 ESTABLISHED 1899 Georgia Markets • Averaged $52.53 First Two Days Price Nearly Ten Cents A * Pound Higher Than the Average Year Ago The Georgia-Florida tobacco ^ market? during the first two days of the current season last week sold 16.654,988 pounds of loose leaf for an average of $52.53, ac cording to official figures releas ed by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. In the cor responding two days a year ago, the markets there sold 15,538,310 ^ for an average df $43.95, the price ^ this year tunning $8.58 per one hundred pounds higher. A strong demand or the flue cured tobacco there offered dur ing the first two days of sales boosted average prices by grades from $3.00 to $13.50 per hundred higher than during the corre sponding period in 1947. Most of the increases were from $8.00 to $11.00 The United States Depart ment of Agriculture reports a gross volume of 16,654,986 pounds was marketed for an average of $52.53 per hundred. The poundage was around one million more than that sold on first sales last season and the average was $8.58 higher. Receipts of the Stabilization Cor poration were estimated at shght ► ly over 6 percent of sales. Comparative price increases with those established on early sales the year before show most leaf grades up $>7.00 and $8.00. ^Cutters advanced $8.00 to $12.00 and most lugs from $8.00 to $11.00 per hundred. A comparatively small volume of primings offered showed improvement from $9 00 to $11.00 and nondescript grades from $8.25 to $11.75. Common to good tobacco brought prices sub stantially above their loan values while the top offerings of lugs and cutters averaged only from $ 1.00! to $4.00 above. The general quality of'the early markeMpgS, Was.jmrpj'jsingly bet,-: larger proportion of lugs as com pared with the year before. The percentage of low quality leaf was less. However, there were slight ly more greenish grades on the markets and considerably less cut ters, especially of lemon color. As a whole tiie tobacco was slightly lower in quality but had suffici ent merit to be termed “good and usable” for cigarette manufacture. Most sales consisted of low to fine J lugs, fair and good leaf, and fair c utters. A total Of 21 markets are oper ating this season, the same as last year. For the first two days of sales individual market averages ranged from a low of $49.47 to a high of $55.43 per hundred. Late reports state that the top had jumped from 63 cents to 65 cents, that tobacco ordinarily booked as trash was selling for forty cents or more. —n Infant Has Narrow Near Post Office T, Feering, Jr., infant son of Cpl. and Mrs. T. Fearing, had a narrow escape as he rested in his carriage in front of the post of fice here just before noon yester day. His carriage, watched by a small attendant, was stopped neai the post office steps when a car driven by Roland Leggett of Windier bounded over the curb, pushed the carriage a short dis . tance and jammed it against a mail box post. The carriage was bent in several inches, but the lit tle fellow apparently was not hurt. Mrs. Fearing, while excited, carefully extricated the baby and carried him in her arms to a doc tor's office around the corner on Smithwick Street where an exam ination revealed that it was not hurt. Leggett explained that his brakes held all right when he stopped for a traffic light a few blocks away just a matter of min utes before the accident. The brakes failed to hold when he started to park in front of the of fice. A formal hearing has been tentatively scheduled for later in the week, it was announced by Chief *W. E. Saunders. CITIZENS OF TOMORROW nftwritfuiH 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 pdblic 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, Johnny, seven, and James, four, sons of Mr. and Mrs A. B. Gurganus, Williamston; Mary, seven and Gary, four, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Willoughby, Williamston; Nancy, six, and Billy, two. daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stalls. Everett; Bottom Row: daughter and son, ages, three and two, of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fisher, Williamston; Nina, five, and Jack, three, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edmondson, Williamston, and Howard, four and Phyllis, three, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. McKnight of Wil liamston. | < SCHEDULE | V--J Just recently installed alter a delay in delivery, the chimes in the local Baptist church will be played each evening at 7:00 o'clock on all seven days in the week. Two records are being used in the week days and a longer pro gram will be ottered Sunday evening. A short program is also being ottered each Sun day morning at 9:00 o'clock. Parson Stewart Simms said that additional records are be ing purchased, that the church planned to offer a spe cial program at Christmas. Find No Trace No trace had been found early this morning of Johnny Wilder, 35-year old colored man, who was last seen near Sweet Water Creek late last Saturday afternoon. While the man could have board ed a car or walked away, no one could assign any reason for such an act, and it is generally believed that he went to the creek to fish and drowned. The small boat he and James Walston used earlier in the after noon was found caught in some bushes or- snags .just below the creek bridge during a search stait ed Sunday morning when he did not return home. No trace of his straw nat or any other signs sup porting the drowning theory could be found. Extensive search es were made, and if he drowned it is thought that the body would have surfaced before today. Wilder and his friend, Walston, went fishing that afternoon, and after setting some trot lines they started home. Wilder had a bicy cye and he told Walston to go ahead and ride it home, that he preferred to w’alk. It was reported that Wilder was seen fishing in the boat, but it could not be learned if he was seen before or after Wilder and Walston had separated. Wilder, e-mployed at White's Tin Shop here for 14 years, was a dependable worker, and it is be lieved that he would have return ed if nothing had happened to him. Lightning Strikes Home In Country --- ■ '3 No one was hurt but consider able damage resulted when, light ning struck the Arthur Roberson home in the Farm Life section of Griffins Township during an elec trical storm last Friday afternoon. ! The bolt fired the radio in the j living room, tore up the electric | stove and wrecked the rneter box and telephone. The tire was put out before it could spread. Members of the family were at home but none happened to l*e near the radio or stove when the j bolt landed. Losing Security Benefits in Area During the second quarter of this year, April through June, al most ten thousand dollars loss in Social Security Payments was dis covered by the Rocky Mount So cial Security office according to a statement made today by Mar shall H Barney, manager. In the fifteen counties serviced by the local offices, 23 retired! workers had failed to file claims lor payment resulting in 68 hun dred dollars lost. Eight survivor^ of workers who had died insured under Social Security lost 28 hun dred dollars by filing late. There were many reasons given b'y;'c.v: VeeM C UTCs:' i ox flic.o. ahr y iL- ; have to file a claim to receive pay ments; some thought that Old age and Survivors Insurance is a form of charity; others thought that the date of filing a claim was immaterial (there is a three month retroactive period); some workers didn't consider themselv es retired but continued to look for work until their resources in cluding savings were entirely us ed up; most just didn’t do any thing about it. Mr. Barney expressed great con cern over these losses of benefits. If people were just curious en ough to write in and ask a ques tion about their status in case of death of a wage-earner, or in case of retirement of a worker over 65, he said, that would give us a clue and we could get a claim started. But when no one lets us know, there is nothing we can do. Mr. Barney praised the news-j papers in his area for their splen did cooperation in publishing re leases designed to let the reading public know what action to take. His office staff makes speeches before schools groups, civic or ganizations, over the radio (50 speeches were made during this same last quarter) in an effoit to cut down on late-filing. He asked for everybody’s cooperation in advising potential claimants for Old Age or Survivor’s Insurance to direct an inquiry to the local office. His office will take over i_._ Minor Car Wreck At Intersection No one was hurt but consider able damage resulted when two cars crashed at the Haughton Main stoplight intersection Sun day night about 8:30 o’clock. Robt. Bailey Odum of Windsor was driving toward the depot on Haughton Street and S. Earl Sim mons of Williamston was travel ing west on Main when they got the signals mixed up and their cars crashed. Investigating the accident, Of ficer Chas. R. Moore stated that approximately $100 damage was done to the Odum car and that damage to the other machine was negligible. . New Draftees To Start Moving To Camps October 1 Countv Draft Board Awaits Formal Appointments By The Governor While machinery for handling! the registration and selective ser- j vice is at a standstill pending of- J ficial appointment of local board members. Selective Service Chief Lewis B. Hershey is making plans to start calling men to the colors on or soon after October 1. The registration is slated to get under way on August 30. During the meantime, Messrs. L. R. Everett of Hamilton, Chas. R. Gray of Robersonville and Eugene Rice of Williamston, are expected to get their official appointments from Governor R. G. Cherry, perfect their organization and be ready to take over possibly not later than the middle of August. Plans for handling the draft have not been announced, but it is probable that the draft first will be pointed directly at the 25-year olds. However, Hershey predict ed that only about 8,000 would be inducted out of a total of 1,200,000 men aged 25. He said deferments in this bracket would be more than liberal. He said industry would not be hit very har<i. The method of selecting draf tees will be either by age groups or by a form of lottery, Hershev said. This will be decided this week. He explained why he favored the age group plan, calling men aged 25 first: Because 100,000 of the 25-vear-olds become 26 every month and are not eligible for the draft. Draft machinery is being quick ly whipped into shape for action in October. Hershey announced today that 20 state directors al (Continued on page eight) Bogus $2(1 Bill I: Fftm»l !i>(’wBik A bogus $20 bill was passed by a party yet unknown to the unsus pecting victim in this county last Friday. Officers are working on the case, but no definite lead had been established in the case early today, according to a report com ing from the sheriff's office. Arthur Harrison received the bill, giving $19.95 change to the man who had bought a soft drink in Harrison’s place of business in Bear Grass. Accepting the bill as a valid $20 currency medium, Harrison did not learn it was worthless until he offered it in payment for goods delivered to his store later. The bill is believed to be one of thousands printed by a New Jer sey counterfeit ring. Many of them have been circulated in this State during recent weeks, and it is possible that others were passed by the same group and are still in circulation. The bill picked up in Bear Grass is a fairly good du plicate of the valid Jackson $20 bill, but it is of series B. It can be detected by careful inspection or when compared with the real bill. Members of the distribution ring were arrested in Greenville last week-end, and the counter feiters in New Jersey have been arrested, tried and convicted. It is fairly certain, however, that more of the spurious bills arc still in cir culation in this section. o Local Engineer Gets Promotion J. C. Parkin, resident engineer for the State Highway and Public Works Commission with head quar'srs in Williamston for the past several years, has been pro moted to district engineer V.'ith headquarters in Ahoskie. He is succeeding George H. Mack who is being transferred to District No. 1 which embraces those counties I nearer the coast. Mr. Parkin, his promotion becoming effective on August 1, plans to locate in Ahos kie as soon as he can get living , quarters. He will be in charge of maintenance in Bertie, Hertford, Martin and Northampton Coun j ties. Owner Claims His Stolen'Auto Here: Friday Afternoon Jewelry anti TrinkoU Willi A $1,500 Valiir, Kr porlnl Slolru Ben Fried, native Hungarian] who was naturalized a citizen of this country some years ago, came here last Friday afternoon \o claim nis DeSoto sedan stolen from him in Norfolk between midnight Saturday, July 17, and the following morning. A retired jewelry store operator. Fried had been "peddling” jewelry and trinkets throughout the country, and was making a toyr of Vir ginia when his cat and more than $1,500 worth of jewelry were stol en in Granby Street near the At lantic Hotel Very little damage was done to the car other than a broken glass where the thieves gained an en trance. A wheel and tire were stolen along with jewelry valued at about $1,500. Among the stol en goods were( several Illinois watches and a cut diamond. The ear was abandoned on East Church Street here the early part of last week bv a young man and woman. It was pulled into the police station by Officers Haislip and Rawls, and Chief Saunders after a search in three states by police and state highway radio lo» cated the owner in Norfolk Thurs day. Fried, coining here Friday by bus, said he had been waiting in Norfolk for word from his car since it was stolen. He explained to police Friday night that some of the goods stol en from his recently had been stolen previously and recovered in Mobile, Alabama, where he .wrecked his car. Removed from his wrecked car at the time of the accident last January, he was in the hospital when thieves looted his car. The thieves were caught and most of the stolen goods were recovered there. Last Thursday iust before he was advised that his car had been i<<.o-.f' • Fr1el .. id. he h.-'l. jest mg it again. It was fairly appar ent that since the car and part of his jewelry were recovered he did not worry so much about iiis other loss. Expressing his appreciation to local officers for making extra effort to locate him and report the recovery of the car, Fried said, "in some places they would have said nothing until an inquiry reached them.” Arrest Boys On Conduct Charge -•— *'4»- - —-. Jesse Earl Wynne, 211, Edward Mobley, 20, and William R. Price, 211, were arrested and temporarily detained in the county' jail Sun day for allegedly ordering gaso line put in then ear and driving away from the station in Hassell without paying for it. The operator reported the inci dent to the patrol radio and Pa trolman R. P. Narron picked up the trio a short time later and booked them for trial in the coun ty court Wynne was said to have told of ficers that he deserted an Army Air Force ground crew at Chanute Field, Illinois, three and one-half years ago. The case was report ed to army authorities, but no im mediate action was taken. KOI MM r "I don’t retail that our of fice ever had a busier period than it did last week-end,” Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said yesterday in reviewing activi ties on the crime front. Eleven persons were jailed Saturday and Sunday, three for assaults, two for drunk enness, one for drunken driv ing, four for disorderly con duct and one for larceny and receiving. Eight of the elev en were colored, and the ages of the group ranged from 20 to 20 years. In addition to the crime ac tivities, the officer said that an investigation was made in an effort to find a missing man. Limited Quarantine Suggested for Polio Report No Cases Of Polio In The Countv To Date •/ Keqnesl Children 16 Years And I'uder To Heinain Away From Crowds While no eases of poliomyelitis] have been reported in this county | so far this year, the Martin Coun- | ty Health Department yesterday j called for a limited quarantine of a voluntary nature as a precau tionary measure against the dis ease. The action was taken after County Health Officer John W. Williams attended a conference with health authorities and spe cialists in Raleigh during the week-end. “All children sixteen years of age or under are requested not to congregate, to remain away from schools, churches, picnics, theat ers, swimming pools and other public centers or events," the health officer said, and continued, “No vis'tors from affected areas of the State are welcome to Martin County, and if children do conic, they are asked to remain in quar antine for three weeks. , Martin County citizens are requested not to visit affected areas. “It is suggested that no opera tions, especially about the nose and throat be performed at pres ent unless in emergencies. Par ents arc urged to keep their chil dren in the best physical condi tion possible, especially their nu trition at a high peak. Children should not over play to exhaus tion or over chill. “If a change js noted in disposi tion, or if there are signs of fever, sorethroat, muscular soreness, the child should be put to bed and a doctor called. Following such a i condition the child should be kept j C.W'..i \veivi.V... .v vu*’ i.f.Tbi • O . *vva. ness noted. "The two most important steps the doctor will take is to get re sistance up and bowels open at ] once. Not so much water should | be given to quench thirst, but quantities of fruit juices should be I given. "Should a child fall ill and the i ailment is infantile paralysis of bulbar (abse of brain) or of the | respiratory type, the victim should be moved to a hospital i when it can be handled. Other wise, the victim is better off at' home during the acute period when fever is present. The vie-1 tun can stand the shock better at home than the shock of transpor tation of more than sixty miles. Hospitals arc badly crowded now. “Dry hot packs are indicated in some cases, hut they can cause damage. The use of sulfa drugs is not advisable. “The health department will gladly assist in any way it can but consultation is invited if doctor (Continued on page eight) Change Schedule | Swimming Pool! —•—— Pat milage of the Municipal! Swimming Pool having been greatly curtailed because of the j fi ar ol poliomyelitis in this sec-! I tion. Coach Stuait Maynard who is handling the local recreation program this year, lias announced that the pool will not be open to thd public during morning hours for the rest of the summer. Until further notice the pool is to be open in the afternoon from 2 to 4 and at night from 7 to 9 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sat uida.y and Sunday. The pool will be open on Wednesday and Fri day mornings from 10 to 12 for the classes being conducted for non-swimmers only. It appears likely that the baby pool which is maintained for the '. ry young will be closed after this week since its patronage lias dwindled away to alm'ost nothing. The swimming pool was cleaned out yesterday and filled with fresh water to give the swimmers a fresh start this afternoon. PROMISES I AW V ---1 Contacted by quite a lew people, A. Corev, Jamesville man recently nominated by Martin County voters lor a seat in the State House of Re presentatives, stated that ac tion would be taken in the next session >f the legislature to make the use of profane language and disorderly con duct unlawful any place in the county. “We’ll either amend the present law, under which Martin County is now exempt, or pass a new one, of fering iron-dad protection to all citizens against abuse," Mr. Corey said. In the courts recently, de fendants, charged with the use of profane language, were adjudged not guilty when it was pointed out that there was no law against such con duct except in incorporated towns where ordinances made the questionable practice il legal, and in and around public properties. Vifiim ()t Severe Electric* Shock Mi s. Henry Griffin was critical ly hurt about 2:00 o’clock last Sat urciav afternoon when she came rn contact with a “grounded'1 floor lamp on the back porch of the Griffin home on Grace Street. AI though she is stall suffering from the severe shock, her condition i ; much improved and she is expect ed to be out soon, the attending physician said yesterday. The porch concrete floor had just been washed and it is possible that some water fell into the i switch controlling an indirect ! light at the base of the iron lamp, through her body possibly two or three minutes before the nurse in the home and neighbors could reach her and break the circuit. I Hushing to Mrs. Griffin, the nurse i grabbed her and was badly shock ed. She then moved around and | pulled the plug from a wall sock J et. Mrs. A. J. Manning, rushing ! there from her home two doors away in answer to a cry for help, leached Mrs, Griffin just in time to keep her from falling to the floor. Rendered unconscious, Mi < Griffin stopped breathing for an interval, and Tom Brandon, next 1 door neighbor, applied artificial ! respiration and revived her A I doctor was called and after re (reiving first aid treatment she re ! gained consciousness later in the | afternoon. Native Of County Drowns Saturday —— Mike C. Ward, a native of the Parmole section and a resident of Williamston for two or three years, was drowned in a millpond near Richmond last Saturday night. The young man, . >n ol Mi and M,s. Hutchin Ward of Green ville, was tn a boat and jumped out for a swim and did not come up His body was recovered a short time late, and sent to Greenville where funeral se; vires .were held this morning at 11 j o’clock, interment following in ! Greenville’s Greenwood Ccme j tery. laving in the home on Smith wick Street just hack of the Sin dair filling station, the victim is remembered as a good-natured, white haired little lad of just a few years. He moved to Green ville when he was a lad. Twenty four years old, he served as a ra dioman on a submarine in the re cent war, and attended school in Richmond since his discharge in 194(i, later accepting u job m Fredericksburg, Va. Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, L. Eugene Ward of Washington, and W. Hutchin Ward of Greenville; a sister Mrs. I Chas. A Rumley of Greenv ille, I and several cousins'of Williams | ton. Childs Suspicion Leads To Arrest Of Thief Sunday Viringlon Bring Held For 1 rial In Default Of Slllll Bond Tlii suspicion and alertness of little Miss Pat Hardison, eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Hardison, led to the ar rest of James Arrington, young Plymouth colored man who oper ated as a thief in this county last week-end. Becoming suspicious of the man when he operated his old model ear up and down the road in front of their home near Hardison’s Crossing in Williams | Township hist Wednesday, the i young girl took down the car li cense number and turned it over to officers when her father's out board motor and Clinton Jones's cow were stolen last Saturday. The ear was listed in the name of Janies Minor, hut officers learn; ed that the machine had been sold to Arrington. In addition to the herns" number, the girl offered the officers a good description of the ear. Deputy Murray Hollo man went into Washington Coun ty Sunday but Arrington could not be found at the time. Later in the afternoon Sheriff Reid and Plymouth police picked up Ar rington. He first denied the thefts, but after questioning he admitted the theft of the motor, told where he had sold it and aid ed the recovery from a man nam ed Wynne who had paid $70 for the motor. Turned over to Martin officers, Arrington denied the theft of Jones' cow but when Ned Wil liams identified Arrington as the man he saw loading the cow on a truck, the cow theft was admit ted Arrington said lie sold the eow to a butcher for $40. Lust re port., state that Junes had not re covered the lynount paid for his cow. Arrington, veteran attending a night school for trainees, went to the Haraison home the middle of last week. He saw the children .. -.-cv■ ov ,:« .v H, m'fiHSg; ~ ' ' I IV 1 I V .1 < 11 : i < ■> I i I i. •, ; l i\ - ed directly to the shed where the j boat motor could be seen from .he in.at. When he reached the back yard, Mrs. Hardison asked him what he wanted, and he ex plained that he wanted to see the mhter her husband hud for sale. Told that the motor wrus not for sale, Arrington left. Last Satur day night the motor was stolen. During the meantime, Arring ton went to Jones' premises back of No. HO station, threw a chain around the .young cow's head, fas tened it to the rear of his car and !'tonally drugged tier several miles to the old Daniel homeplace on the Holly Springs Farm Life road. Arrington tied the cofv there, came to town and got Jer ry Williams uncj his truck. They loaded the animal on the truck about (1:30 o'clock that morning (Continutd on page eight) \!ok>n\<*lr- Vuto Cl ash Near Here No one was badly hurt but Wil li.on Frederick Brown, 18, of 167 1 -11 W. South Street, Raleigh, sui te red severe shock when his mot* orcycle crashed with a 1938 Chev rolet driven by Herbert Reaves, of Willianu.ton, at the road inter -ection on Highway 64 near Hardy's store, one mile west of here at 2:5a o'clock Sunday morn ing. .* - " " Brown was riding into town when Reaves 39-year-old colored man, driving west, started to make a left turn into the dirt road. The motorcycle plowed into the i ight side of the car, throwing Brown into the air. He landed on his back on the concrete. Remov ed to the hospital in an ambu lance, Brown was examined and when it was learned no bones were broken and that he had suf fered only from -.nook, he left the hospital later in the day. Investigating the fiecidenl, Pa Uohiiori M. F. Powers said he- esti mated the damage to the motor cycle at $200 and that to the car at $150. Reaves, booked for al leged arunken driving, is to face Judge J..C Smith in the ooyfttwl court next Monday.