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[* the enterprise is read bt OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WERE VOLUME LI—NUMBER 62 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, August .3, 19 Hi ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge J. C. Smith , Had Twenty Cases In County’s Court •> i --O Fine* Ami Costs Amount to Over Thousand Hollars Last Monday Judge J. Calvin Smith handled twenty cases before adjourning the regular session of the Martin County Recorder's Court at 12:30 o'clock last Monday afternoon. Fineg and costs amounted to more than $1,000, the fines alone amounting to $845, including $245 imposed on speedsters. A fairly large crowd was present for the proceedings, but one or two de fendants pleaded guilty in absen tia, choosing that plan to save a long drive back to the county for trial Proceedings: Louis Felton Freeman, charged with non-support, failed to answer when called, and papers were ord ered issued for his arrest. Charged with drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Wil liam Howard Cherry was fined $200 on the drunken driving charge and $25 on the no driver’s license count. A twelve-month road sentence was suspended. He appealed to the higher court and bond was required in the sum of $300. Pleading not guilty, Clinton Spi vey was adjudged guilty and was i • fined $100 plus costs. The court recommended that his license to operate a motor vehicle be revok ed for one year. Charged with failing to report an accident, George Daniels plead ed not guilty. He was adjudged guilty and judgment was suspend 4 ed upon the payment of the costs. An appeal to the higher court wa.< noted and bond in the sum of $75 was required. Augusta Roberson, pleading guilty of violating the health laws, was sentenced to jail for sixty days, the court suspending the term upon the payment of the costs and on the furtner condition that the defendant certain health requirements. h red Williams, charged with op erating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, pleaded not guil ty. Adjudged guilty he was sen tenced to the roads for ninety days. It was one of the few cases in which a defendant was sentenc ed in the court to the. roads for operating a motor vehicle without a license. Adjudged guilty over his own plea of innocence, Herbert Reeves was fined $100 and taxed with the costs for drunken driving. The court recommended that his li cense to operate a motor vehicle be revoked for twelve months. L it Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Zaek Taft was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Charged with drunken driving and having illicit liquor in his pos session, James Elbert Peel plead ed not guilty. He was found not guilty of drunken driving. Ad judged guilty of having a small quantity of illicit liquor in his pos session, he was fined $100 and re quired to pay the court costs. Harry Wilson was fined $50 and taxed with the costs for assaulting a female. He pleaded not guilty. Sallie Mae Brown, pleading not guilty, was found guilty and drew ten days in jail for an assault. I Mention Speight For Commissioner J. A. Speight, prominent Bertie County man, is being favorably menticned for the post of highway commissioner in this district to succeed Merrill Evans, Ahoskie man, who is retiring at the end of his current term. Speight, former member of the Bertie County Board of Commis sioners, attended school with W. Kerr Scott and successfully man aged Scott's campaign in Bertie. The retiring First District mem ber of the commission has done a very good job during the past sev eral years. lie has shown more interest in Martin County roads than any other commission mem bers. He has traveled the roads, listened to the petitions, studied the road situation with the com-1 missioners and shown much in terest in his work. 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, t it 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, Donald, one vear, son og Mr. and Mrs. James Hyman Clark, Williamston; Donald, seventeen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. White, Williamston; Craig, sixteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Ripley, Williamston; Bottom row, Ollie Muriel, one year, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Berkley Nicholson, Williamston; Linda Lou, eight months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mobley, Williamston; and Sam, seven months, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Manning. Williamston. RAINFALL Following an unusually dry June, the rains began to tall in July but even then precipi tation was considerably lower last month than in any July since 1944. Last month 4.08 inches of rain fell here, Bridge Keeper Hugh Spruill reports. In each July for the past three years over eight inches of rain fell here. During the first four days of the current month, 1.04 inches of rain fell at this point. Army Worms On Second Rampage ■ >! **- v appearance several weeks ago, army worms are again on a ram page in this section. Any num ber of lawns have been gleaned, the worms giving the plots a burned-over appearance. Gardener T. P. Wood says the worms have about destroyed all his flowers. He explained that he used a five percent DDT spray, that the worms seemed to have fattened on the poison. He got some results by mixing paris green with the DDT, but “when one worm died, two others moved in to take its place,” he said. The gardener is now experimenting with an arsenate of lead poison on what few flowers he has left. Farmer Bill Abbitt reports the worms are marching through one of his best fields of corn. Reports declare that they are eating the stalk in two close to the ground, and that they are threatening the entire crop which he conserva tively estimated to produce over 100 bushels per acre. Payroll Increase For Citv Workers j According to the Department of Commerce, the monthly payrolls of city governments throughout the country rose $31,000,000 be tween October, 1946, and October 1947, t" an all-time high of $230, 000,000 last fall. The rise, of 15 percent in the twelve-month per iod continues a trend in payrolls for city employes that has con tinue uoward since January, 1944, according to the department’s Bu reau of the Census. The Census Bureau report includes 995 cities, which have a population of more than 10.000. City employes last October, when the peak payroll was leach ed, totaled about 1.202,000, an in crease of about 4 percent, compar ed with the 15 percent payroll rise. The New York City payroll of $5)2.048,000 a month was second only to that of the federal govern ment. Average earnings for each employe, according to the Census Bureau, rose in the twelve month period from $178 a month to $197. Four Cars Figure In Wreck On The Main Street Here Itiy; Furniture Store Win dow And Parking Meter l eveled • Nn one was injured but con siderable damage resulted when a new model Lincoln went out of control on the main street here at noon today. No immediate re port on the damage could be had, but in a preliminary survey, Chief of Police W E. Saunders said that it would run well into the hun dreds of dollars. A large show window in the Woolard Furni ture Store was smashed and the window foundation was badtv r — -•' ~ -~H| . mil — ■ catterea, Tnass was scattered all over the bedroom furniture on display in the window, but little or no damage was done other than to the building, it was said. ’ Turning into Main out of Wash ington Street, Mrs. C. F. Merten, 1800 Everglade, Miami Beach, was driving down the street when the big Lincoln struck the rear of Clarence Stallings’ DeSoto, send ing it rolling across the side walk and into the big show win- i dow. The Lincoln next struck the back of Asa Hardison's Ford which tore down a parking meter, leveling the standard with the sidewalk. If it had not been for the meter standard, possibly the Ford would have crashed into the window on the other side of the furniture store entrance. W. R. (Doc) Banks’ Chevrolet was next in line, and the Lincoln came to a stop after knocking the Chevy partly around and up on the curb. All of the cars were battered, but apparently the damage was limited except for that done to the Lincoln whicn was towed away by a wrecker to a local garage. (Continued on page eight) Ma jorettes To Co To Nas;s Head Majorettes of the WiSlimnston High School Green Wave Band are scheduled to go to Nags Head this coming week to train with the majorettes of the Elizabeth City High School Band under the direction of Miss Sarah Page Jackson who is graduating this year as chief majorette of the Elizabeth City band. Miss Jackson has won wide ac claim as a majorette and has been awarded a scholarship at the Uni versity of Alabama which has "a million dollar band.” About eight or ten local girls are expected to take the trip. The first regular band rehearsal following the summer vacation period is scheduled to be held in the high school auditorium Thurs day evening, August 12. Plans for band work this fall will probably j be taken up at this time. Mrs. Vannie Jones Died Yesterday at Home of Son Here Funeral Service Will Be Coinlucle«l Friday Afternoon Mrs. Vannie Perry Jones, wid ow of Joseph F. Jones, died at the home of her son, Harry Jones, on West Main Street here yesterday afternoon at 4:45 o’clock. Suffer ing a heart attack about two years ago she had been in declining health since that time, her condi tion becoming serious about sev en weeks ago. The daughter of the late Noah Thomas and Louisa Eason Walker Perry, she was born in Beaufort County near Washington on June 27, 1872. and spent her early child hood tnere. She moved to this county with her parents about 1879 and located in Griffins Town ship until her marriage to Mr. Jones. After a stay of several years in Williams Township, the family located on the Hamilton Road near here where she lived until after the death of her hus band in 1926. Since that time she made her home in Williamston. Mrs. Jones joined the church at Macedonia aboui sixty years ago, but moved her membership to the Pentecostal Holiness Church here a few >A'ars ago. Surviving are five sons, Oscar Jones of Williams Township, J. D. and Harry Jones, both of Wil liamston, Claude Jones of Lin ville, Tennessee, and Proctor Jones of Chester, Pa.; five broth ers, Jim Perry of Palmyra, Albert T. and Arthur Perry of Williams •on, W. H. (Dick) Perry of Dar dens and Pcrlie Perry of Ala bama; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Tet terton of Dardens and Williams ton; eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted ,n the Pentecostal Holiness church on North Haughton Street here Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by her pastor, Rev. N. J. W’ard, assisted by Rev. H. M. Stewart B. Simms, local Baptist minister. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery here. Mrs. G. W. Smith Died Early Today Mrs. Fannie Willoughby Smith, 0'5, died at her home in the Dar dens Community of Jamesville Township at 2:30 o’clock this morning following an illness of about one year. Her condition had been serious for three weeks. The daughter of the late James E. and Amelia White Willoughby, she was born in Washington County on December 21, 1(182, and moved to this county forty-four years ago. Mrs. Smith was a member of the Corinth Free Will Baptist Church, and served the Ladies' Aid there as a treasurer lor a number of years or until de clining health forced her retire ment. She was held in high es teem in her native and adopted communities. Surviving are her husband, G. W. (Jake) Smith; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Coleson of Norfolk and Mrs. Annie Pierce of Ahoskie; one brother, J. L. Willoughby of Wil lard, N. C., and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be con ducted at the home Friday after noon at 3:30 o’clock by Rev. W. B. Harrington, Baptist minister of this county, and Rev. P. B Nick ens, pastor of tile Plymouth bap tist Church. Interment will be in j the Smith family cemetery near I the home. J Big Increase In Personal Income The Commerce department re ported in Washington last week that personal incomes are run ning about $18,000,000,000 a year ahead of 1947. The department said figures for the first five months of 1948 showed that per - sona) incomes reached an annual r ate of $207,600,900,000. This cdm pared with an annual rate > of $189,700,000,000 during the first five months of 1947. The final total on personal incomes for 1947 was $195,200,000,000. i Jury Members Are Drawn At Recent Meeting Of Board -4 List For September Court Inclmlo St'MTal Women And (lolorrd (lili/ciiti Forty-five persons, including six white women and two colored citizens, were drawn for jury ser vice during the two-week term of the Martin County Superior Court in September by the board of commissioners at their regular session this month. The court opens the term on Monday, September 20. Judge Walter Bone of Nashville, after an absence of about five years, re turns to the county to preside over the term. Cases of both a crim inal and civil nature, are to be heard during the term. Nine members of the present grand jury will retire at that time, and they will be replaced with n.r.e from among the group drawn fur the first week of the term. Names of the citizens drawn for jury service follow: First Week Jamcsvillc: Mrs. L. C. Brown. Williams: T. M. Hopkins and Er nest Jones. Griffins: Miles R. Lille.v, S. D. Roberson, Ira F. Griffin, J. Eason Lille.v and Jos. H Lillcy. Bear Grass: R. W. Sullivan, Dal ton Rogerson, William Sheppard, Robert A. Bailey and Leonard C. Bennett. Williamston: Grover Nicholson, J. H. Forbes, Jessup Harrison, Ir ving M. Margolis, Ernest C. Jones, C. A. James. Cross Roads: Mrs. C. B. Rid dick. Robersonville: Claude Keel, Thurman Roberson, G. E. Coburn. Poplar Point: W. E. Rawls and S. E. Taylor. Hamilton: R. II Everett. Goose Nest: J. 11, Rawls, Jr. Second Week Jamcsvillc: Octavius Barber and Eh D. Rogers. Ai thui Peel. Williamston: W. C. Bunch, Charlie 11, Wood, Jr., Mis. H. L. Barnhill, W. Edward Cox, C. J. Goodman and Mrs. David Modlin. Cross Roads: A. C. Kirby. Robersonville: Mrs. Irving Smith. Poplar Point: Mrs. Raymond Harrison. Hamilton: Dillon Leggett. Goose Nest: E. V. Smith, Joe Bunting, Wiley Craft, M D. Crisp, 'Unusual Timings Arv I omul In llomr llrm Remodeling and modernizing the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Harris on North Watts Street here workmen this week uncov ered some unusual timbers and threw light on primitive but ef fective construction. Supporting one side of the home is a 10 by llj sill, thirty-seven feet iong. Hewn by hand the sill is in almost perfect condition. It was moftised perfectly and is neatly joined to the standing timbers by wooden pegs. No exact records are available, but part of the home once con nec-ted with the J. E. King home on Main Street and was believed to have been first occupied by the Thomas Watts tavern in the early 1820's. THE RECORD SPEAKS’;'. . Accidents in the first HI weeks of 1948 continue to hold an edge over the record for the corresponding period in 1947. However, last week was comparatively safe, the one I accident comparing with five a year ago. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident t.cnd: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 31st Week Accidents Inj’U Killed Dam'ge 1948 1 0 0 $ 200 1947 5 1 0 1,260 Comparisons To Date 1948 80 41 2 $16,825 1947 71 32 3 15,785 Pass Parking Meter Ordinanee Tuesday Town Will Spray Garbage Cans As Sanitary Measure Over-lime I’urkiiifg ('alls for Trip To l*oli(T Station. Mf-iiioniiin Monday Rules and regulations for the operation of newly installed park ing meters here were embodied in an ordinance passed by the town commissioner Tuesday even ing, the action demonstrating the willingness of the board to work for a solution to the parking pro blem without being unduly “hard" on violators. The parking meters are to be placed in official use next Mon day, August 9, at 8:00 o’clock a. m. and will operate each week day from that hour until (i:00 p, m. There’ll be free parking on Sundays and legal holidays. To enforce the ordinance, the commissioners ruled that the first violation will necessitate the ve hicle operator to report to the po lice station and pay there for the time actually used. There'll be no fine for the first offense, but sec ond and subsequent violations call for $1 lines. Every possible cour tesy will be extended to all, es penally to visitors, the board ex pressly recommended in issuing instructions to Chief of Police W. E. Saunders who will be in charge of the enforcement of the ordi nance. While the nuisance value of the meters is recognized, the board, alter much study and supported by a petition favoring the installa tion by a margin of 07 to 9, act ed in the hope that the congested parking problem found in the business districts could be reliev ed. The operation of the meters is a short time, he drops a penny in the penny slot, turns the crank and he has twelve to fourteen minutes of time. A second penny will grant an additional twelve minutes, and so on until ten pen nies or two nickels dropped into the slots will give two hours of parking time. Continuing plans to enlarge Woodlawn Cemetery, Mayor Robt. Cowen named Commissioners N. C Green and K. D. Worrell on a committee to work with the town attorney. The board proposes to purchase several acres of the Hal berstadt land on the northwest side of the present cemetery. As a sanitary measure, the town will equip its trucks with tanks and DDT and spray garbage cans when collections are made. Traffic lights on Main Street will be cut out each night at mid night, the board ordering the ac tion when nearby residents ex plained that the heavy trucks stopping and starting in the late hours of the night made sleep im possible. A street light at the corner of Warren and Jainesville Streets was ordered installed. A request for 200 feet of sewer on Railroad Street, connecting the S. A. Mobley storage warehouse with the town system was receiv ed. Officers were instructed to in vestigate the promiscuous firing of rifles in various sections within tin town limits. A license was issued to J, E. Harrison, Jr, to sell beer in the flatiron building on Washington Street A party whose identity was not revealed asked the board if the alley bf tween Margolis Brothers and E and W Grocery could be purchased. Not knowing who owned the property, the board took no action. Mrs. i.riffin ft really I in firoved In llos/iitul Quite ill for several weeks, Mrs, S. Claude Griffin was reported much improved in a Richmond hospital this morning, and is ex pected to be able to return to her home here within a comparatively short time. Mr. Griffin and daugh ter, Mr-. Dillon Cobb, are visiting her today. I i mkktim; I Meeting in the eourlhouse next Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock community and county Triple A committee men will discuss plans for handling reports on the cur rent soil conservation pre program and make arrange ments for distributing 1048 tobacco marketing cards. The card distribution is be ing tentatively scheduled for Thursday of next week, but official instruction and plans will be announced shortly. | Speedsters Have Another Day In Court This Week —*— Sixly-lwo YViirs (Mil, Wo man llils "Ian I p In HO Milrs \ii Hour The speedsters had another day | in court this week, Judge J. C. ! Smith leaving a firm impression on some of them as to the mean ing ol' the law. Others were more fortunate and either eseaped alto i gethor or got off with minimum fines. The feature ease in the group was one in which a (12 year-old woman was charged with hittin* ’em up at eighty miles an hour. “Why 1 never drive my Chrysler over seventy miles an hour," she was quoted as saying. Driving alone, the defendant was on route to Myrtle Beach for a vacation. Another defendant, a young wo man law. student, almost made a scene when she was detained by a member of the patrol. She curs Clerk L B Wynne explained that the language was out of order. Maintaining that she was not ex I eeeding the limit, the defendant wanted a warrant, charging tin' arresting patrolman with backing into the highway. “I study lav\ myself and 1 know it is unlawful to back into the highway to turn around,” she told the clerk of court when she was can ied before the eleik to have bond arranged. Melvin D. Bennett of Williams ton and Wilson was fined $25 and taxed with the cost for speeding. David Weinblatt of Asbury Park, N. J., pleaded guilty of speeding and was fined $25, plus costs. William Henderson Miller of Tarboro, was fined $15 and requit ed to pay the costs when lie plead ed guilty of speeding. Speeding along at 75 miles an hour, William Konehuck, lfl-12 K 82nd Street, Cleveland, Ohio, was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. Sum F. Broughton, service sta tion operator of 1030 Park Av enue, Rock Hill, South Carolina was fined $15 and taxed with the cost foV speeding. Supported by a battery of wit nesses, Charlie Bonner of Wash ington was found not guilty of speeding when tie carried Ins case to a six man jury. Mary 11. Turk Johnson of Ta/.e well, Va., was fined $100 plus the costs when she was found guilty of driving eighty miles an hour. .Roihe . (js v Sli-il ; ol .Brevard., was fined $la and she was requir ed to pay the court costs for speeding. Washington Man Drowns In River —— J B. Howe, 22-year-old Wash ington man, was drowned and his fishing companions, Alvin Peel and Bill Nelson, also of Washing-! ton, barely escaped with their lives when then boat capsized in Pamlico River, tw > and one-half miles below Washington this morning around 5:00 o’clock Pew details of the drowning could be learned here, one report received shortly before noon stat-j ing that Rowe's body had not been recovered at that time. I Prires ()n Border Markets Continue At A High Figure l.ur.'l loliiM'i'oiii*!* Believe \' er;ijae Mere Will Be V* llijrli Encouraging reports continue to conic in from the Border tobacco markets as the first week of sales draws to a close. Price averages, ranging from $54 on some markets to $57 on others, are recognized as the highest on record. Local to bacconists. observing the' sales on opening day, expressing the belief that price averages here will com pare with those on the Border, quality considered. Reporting on the first two rows of tobacco sold on one market last Tuesday morning, Carlyle Lang ley and Leman Barnhill predicted an avnage of $56, adding that the price range was from 35 to 67 cents. Continuing their observa tions that day, the two tobaccon ists said that the price range wid ened, that they saw some tobacco sell for as low as two and three cents a pound It is fairly appar ent that the price range varies more widely this year than in years past, that the man with good tobacco has a bright future while the future lor the owner of poor quality tobacco is not so encour aging. Prices received this week on the border ranged from $1 to $15 per hundred pounds above opening day figures last year. The United States and North Carolina Departments of Agricul ture report most gains were from $4.00 t i $6.00. The greater in creases were for low lemon (greenish) cutters, up $ 10 00, fair green lugs, up $10.50, and low le mon and orange lugs, up $11.00 and $15.00 respectively. The smallest advance displayed was lor poorest thin nondescript which increased only $1.00 Extreme prices ranged 1mm $2.00 for poor est thin nondescript, which carries no support price, to $70.00 for fine ■r fir rail I if ■ I IIIWII ■ piWilii Real top was $00 00 Deliveries to the Stabilization Corporation were reported to be small. Very lew rejections lor resale were ob served. The general quality of the offer ings was better this year than on opening day in 1947. There were more good and choice qualities and less low, lair and nondescript. Bulk of sales consisted chiefly of lair to fine lugs and fair cutters. Lugs made up around two-thirds ol tiie marketings The percentage of leaf and primings was very small. Volume ol sales was heavy on mo; I markets some were report ed blocked. Heavy saies are ex pected to continue for some time. Opening day sales last year total ed 4,054,641 pounds for an average of $4(1.68 per hundred. The gen eral average was from $54.00 to $67,00 a hundred on opening day this year. Curing Barn Lost Near Here Today A tile tobacco curing barn was destroyed by fire on W. G. Peel's M.n v C berry larm near Williams ton shortly before 8:00 o'clock. Origin ol the lire could not be de tei mined, the barn was equipped wi,h a coal stoker and poultry wire was used to keep leaves ironi tailin'; on the flues My UWUHPSPii&.m rfl Darn burned, leaving the other side lit tle damage, if any. Wilhamston firemen were called there, but. they could do very little. It was the tenth curing barn to have been lost in the county so far this season. Farmer Russell Turner having lost one in Goose Nest Township on Thursday of Rare Bilde Edition Rou-dil Its London Uail} press reports from Lon don state tiiat a London booksell er recently paid 15,400 pounds (about $61,600) for a five hundred yeai old copy of the Bible. It is a vellum copy primed in Latin in Wauiz, Germany, in 1402.