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IBB ENTERPRISE IS BEAD BE ©VEB 3,Mt MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEB THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3.000 MARTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEB VOLUME LI—NUMBER 69 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 31, 1948 ESTABLISHED 1899 Offering Special Prize On Tobacco Market Program Awards Go To Best Guess ers of Pounds and Aver ages of Loral Market Although the Williamston To bacco market has been a promis ing and progressive one for many years, a new campaign Was launched last week to promote sales here when L. P. Taylor, local merchant, canvassed the town soliciting aid from merchants and tobacconists in organizing “The Williamston Boosters.” Through his efforts the mer chants fell readily in line with his idea of promoting Williamston’s market and contributed generous ly of their time and money to back the organization. Electing their officers, they placed Frank Margolis as president, and work ing with him are Vice President K. P. Lindsley, Treasurer Leman Barnhill and Secretary and Pro tion Director L P. Taylor. Serv ing on the Board of Directors with the officers are such capable men as Messrs. Urbin Rogers, Ernest Mears, Cortez Green, Jim Cook and Paul Simpson. Adopting the slogan, “Williamston On The March” and the motto, “Williams ton Will,” they immediately be gan making plans for an extensive advertising campaign. The “Boosters” club was organ ized for a three-lold purpose and by the combined efforts of the merchants and tobacconists, the club hopes to insure higher prices for the farmers’ tobacco and other crops, to adveitise the town, thereby bringing more people to Williamston and more business to our merchants and to create a bund of friendship through friend ly dealings between the farmers and our merchants and profes sional men. A complete schedule of adver tising by newspaper and radio was completed down to the last detail last week. Advertisements boosting Williamston and its mar ket appear in the local paper every week. A radio program is broadcast from 11:00 to 11:30 a. in. and from 3:00 to 3:30 p. m. daily except Saturday and Sunday from the warehouse district here. This program comes over WRRF, a Washington station and WCPS, a Tarboro station, simultaneously. The program which is a survey of the sales and activities in the warehouses, gives the prices the farmer is receiving for his tobacco and the daily and weekly high dollar averages. L. P. Taylor, originator of the organization, is the announcer. At a meeting of the Williams ton Boosters” Friday night, details of the advertising schedule were outlined and plans were complet ed for a merchant’s prize cam paign which started Monday. Two thousand numbered circulars have been printed, and one circular will be attached to each tobacco sales slip. Cooperating merchants will give away prizes each week to the holders of the lucky numbers ap pearing on the circular. Winning numbers will be announced over the radio each day. Beginning this week the local (Continued on page aiz) I SETTLING THINGS J Any idea that the Martin County League race would end with the close of the season began to fade last week and was completely gone Monday morning when the scores were counted and the standings figured. So to settle things, here’s the brew for this week, on the stove to date: Wednesday night at ‘ 8:00, Bear Grass and Robersonville In a game that will decide if the Bears are definitely and finally in first place. Thursday night, Hassell and Oak City in a game that de cides whether there will be play-offs for fourth place. If Oak City wins, the Roosters will be tied with Williamston. Friday night, Robersonville meets Everetts in a double header that will decide second and possibly third place. There’s plenty brewing. A CITIZENS OF TOMORROW The Enterprise takes much pleasure in presenting another in a picture series of this section’s “citizens of tomonow". So far none has figured piominently in public affairs, t it as fu ture citizens they have a tremendous assignment to huidlc 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, Dianne, seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cherry, Williamston; Lucian, seven, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Peel, Williamston; Betsy, eight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Keel, Everetts; Bottom row, Jane, nine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. B. Barnhill, II, Williamston; Billy Britton,, eight, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Thomas, Williamston; Sylvia, eleven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Rawls, Jamesville. f INSPECTION LANE | v_✓ A scramble approaching the mad stage developed here early today when own ers moved into the inspection lane to have their vehicles in spected ahead of the deadline this afternoon. Several cars were placed in line twenty-four hours in ad vance of the opening of the lane, and several owners slept in'their vehicles. It was estimated at 9:00 o'clock that between two and three hundred vehicles were In the line. The cars were parked and jammed for blocks and travel was block ed on parts of Hatton, Biggs and Harrell Streets. The line will handle around 300 vehicles today. Those owners who do not meet the deadline are subject to get ci tations, either to appear in the courts or have their vehicles inspected within a certain time. One or two owners trav eled almost 100 miles to get into the line, but turned back when they realized they were crowded out by the early “birds.” The lane here will be open through next Monday, the in spectors working Labor Day, if necessary. Badlv Hurt When Struck By Truck *— Lubina Slade. 5-vear-old daugh ter of Emma Corey, of Route 3, Williamston, was critically injur ed about 5:00 o'clock last Thurs day afternoon when she was hit by a truck drive ru by William Brown, 107 White Street, Wil liamston, and owned by R. A. Criteher and Brother. Picked up by the driver and others in the truck, the victim was carried to the local hospital where it was found she suffered a skull frac ture and lacerations of the neck and bruises on the body. The lit tle girl regained consciousness during the night and reports from the hospital today indicated she has a chance to recover if no com plications set in. Brown, accompanied by Harry Lee Speller, George Stewart and | Andrew Stilley. was driving the i 1946 model Ford log truck on the old Ballard Bridge Road toward N. C. Highway 125 in Poplar Point Township when the child ran out of the yard of her home and into the road. Brown applied brakes and swerved to the left, traveling possibly 60 feet before the mach ine struck the child. She was dragged about 25 feet before the vehicle was stopped. The child’s mother and others were working across the road from the home, and the child, planning to join them, dashed into the road, apparently without look ing for vehicles. Witnesses said that Brown could hardly have avoided striking the child Pa trolman J. T. Rowe, investigating the accident, filed no charges against the driver. Charlie C. Sexton Dies In Hospital Here Last Sunday Funeral At Home Near Jamesville Monday Aft* ernoon at 1 o'clock Charlie C. Sexton, well-known county citizen and farmer of Jamesville Township, died in the hospital here Sunday morning at 4 30 o’clock. He had been in de clining health for about ten years, undergoing operations and treat ment in several hospitals at inter vals during that period. His con dition had been serious for about ten weeks and critical since last Friday when he was returned to the hospital. The son of the late Robert G. and Bettie Mobley Sexton, he was born in Jamesville Township 55 years ago on M^rch 11, 1893. He engaged in farming, spending all his life ip, the community of his birth. He was a good neighbor, a thoughtful father and husband and friend. In 1912 he was married to Miss Lyda Gardner and she survives with four children, two daughters, Mrs. Elmo Lilley and Mrs. Archie Coltrain, both of Griffins Town shop; two sons, Chas. C. Sexton, Jr., of Norfolk, and Robert Lloyd Sexton of the home; one brother Milton Sexton, postmast er of Zebulon; four half-brothers, Will and George Sexton, both of Plymouth and Clarence and Her bert Sexton of Jamesville; and two half-sisters Mrs. Roseoe Stall ings and Mrs. G. M. Anderson, both of Jamesville; and five grandchildren. Mr. Sexton was a member of the Cedar Branch Baptist Church for about twenty years and his pastor, Rev. W. B. Harrington, conducted the last rites at the home Monday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock. Interment was in the Sexton family cemetery near the | home. -O' Pigs Succumb In Terrific Heat While this section sweltered in the 100-degree heat wave gripping the area over the week-end no long list of casualties was report ed, as far as it could be learned here. Activities were slowed down a bit, but nothing was stop ped. A few persons succumbed temporarily to the heat but were able to return to their work after a short time. A Griffins Township farmer turned twelve nice pigs into a soy bean-corn field last Saturday and twelve died before night, the vet erinarian declaring that the heat killed them. Some relief from the heat at tack came about Sunday midnight when a freak wind was felt. Yes terday, the mercury held to fairly high levels but this morning the hurricane disturbance off the North Carolina coast afforded more relief here. Over One Hundred Register Monday In Martin County ■■■;■ t - - Kentucky Young Man First To Register; 64 Percent of Registrants Colored One hundred and twenty-eight young men registered in this county Monday under the provis ions of the 1948 Draft Act, the number including forty - one World War II veterans, thirty-six non-veteran married men, forty one single non-veterans, eight 18 year-olds and two whose registra tions cards will be forwarded to other draft boards. The registration was handled by volunteers, headed by Rev. John W. Hardy under the direc tion of Draft Board Chairman Eu gene Rice, in the American Legipn Hut on Watts Street in' Williams ton. Scheduled to remain open through September 18, the regis tration center is handling all reg istrations for the entire county. Young men are slated to regtster according to age groups. Although the center handled a few regis trations besides those for the young men born in 1922 after August 30, the designated group was given preference. Young men are urged to observe the following registration schedule: Men born in 1923 are registering today and tomorrow, Men born in 1924 are to register September 2 and 3, Men born in 1925 are to register on September 4 and 7, Men born in 192(1 are to register on September 8 and 9, Men born in 1927 are to register on September 10 and 11, Men born in 1928 are to register on September 13 and 14, Men born in 1929 are 'to regis ter on September 15 and 16, Men born in 1930, before Sep tember 19, are to register on Sep tember 17 and 18. Men becoming 18 years of age on and after September 19 are to register within five days after their birthday. The first man to register in this county Monday was Raymond Tye Faulkner, 531 Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville, Ky. Employed by the W. 1. Skinner Company, he is a World War II veteran. Eighty-four of those registering in this county the first day were (colored, or just about 64 percent of the total. Shoots Intruder Here Last Niidit • o —— • Prowlers, disturbing his rest over a period of weeks, were sub jected to pistol tire at the hands of David Archer at the Archer home on the railroad here early last night. As far as it could be learned, neither of the two shots fired from a .38 caliber pistol hit the target, but Archer declared that he tried to shoot to kill. Archer who works for the A. C. L. Railroad Company and who lives in one of the section houses, told officers that someone had been prowling around his home for weeks. Last night the prowl er went to his porch and tried to break in. Archer said he rushed to the door and opened fire at about thirty yards from his tar get. Rod Rogers, colored man, was questioned by officers. Robbers Strike In Robersonville Striking between 4 and 5:00 o’clock yesterday morning, rob bers made an extensive haul at the stole of A. O. Roberson and Company in Robersonville. First reports indicated that goods valu ed at about $2,000 or more were hauled away in an old model car. Local and county officers are working on the case, but no de velopments have been reported. The robbers forced an entrance at the front door with a bar and filled suitcases with expensive merchandise. High-priced guns were taken from a show window. Nathan Roberson, merchant go ing to his place of business, frightened the robbers and they left before they could load all the stolen goods in their car and be fore police could be reached. FI im Hammer Gets Road Sentence In The Countv Court •—— Patrolmen Trail CTi'.-irli'l lu lu Another Comity Sun day Afternoon After meeting with very little success, a flimflanuner ran his course across Martin County Sun day afternoon, landed in the coun ty jail that night and drew twelve months on the roads in Judge J. C. Smith's court Monday. Advancing larceny by trick, William H. Sherman of Newport News and Weldon, stopped at Junior Wynne’s store at Batts’ Cross Koads in Beaufort County and ordered a package of cigar ettes, He tendered a $20 bill in payment, and when the changing process became complicated, Wynne donated the cigarettes, it was reported. Accompanied by Ernest Davis, 37, Joseph D. Woodson, 21, Ben nie Harris, 23, Sherman, 21 year old colored- man, ; topped next at Oliver Coltrain's station near Ma cedonia. Sherman called for a can of sardines and offered $20 in payment. The merchant did not have the change and he sent for it. About that time one of the ae complices came in and called for a 10-cent item and offered a $10 bill in payment. He complicated the change system and when the men hurried away, they carried the items and an extra $10. They stopped next at Paul Lilley’s sta tion where they were chased ; away. During the meantime, Mr. Col train realized his mistake and he gave chase, calling in the highway patrol. Patrolman M. F. Powers I picked up the trail, but the flim flammers traveled little-used j roads as much as possible and j went into Scotland Neck via the ! old River Road and Palmyra The | quartet was overtaken at Scot land Neck and returned to the i county jail. Given a hearing Monday morn ! ing before Justice R. T. Johnson they were bound over to the coun (Continued on page six) Local Schools Open Tomorrow With all teacher positions filled I except one and with a substitute i in sight for that place, the local | schools are ready for the opening tomorrow. Pupils fire to report and enroll at 1:30 o’clock, those ini ! the first six grades going to the' (elementary building and those in grades seven through twelve re porting to the high school build ! ing, Principal B. G. Stewart an 1 nounced. ( Teachers from all over the ; county are meeting here today, and tomorrow morning the indi | viduul groups will meet prepara tory to the enrollment of the pupils at 1:30 o’clock in the after noon. Mis. A. R. White has been draft ed for one of the seventh grade positions, leaving only one open ing to be filled. Principal Stewart announces that supplementary fees in the elementary school are, $1 for grades 1 and 2, $1.10 for grades 3, 4 and J>, and $1.20 for grades 0, 7 and 8. In the high school, the book rental fee will be $3.00. ! Those taking typing are asked to pay a $!) fee, half of which may be 1 paid Wednesday and the other half at the beginning of the sec 1 ond .. - Following the registration Wed | nesday afternoon, the pupils will 1 report Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock for books and lesson as signments. The lunch rooms will not he opened until Monday of next I week. ---- Receiving Trealinenl l/i Uullimore Ihm/tilttl Mr. Van G. Taylor, prominent county citizen-fanner, entered the \ University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore last week-end for treatment. He was said to have - been quite ill when he entered j the hospital but his condition is I understood to be improving and he is expected to be able to return home in about three weeks. i Coastland Residents Seek Shelter Here From Storm Traveling in a large motor freight truck and one or two pri vate cars, twenty-five or more coastfand residents moved into town this morning aoout 3:00 o'clock seeking shelter from the hurricane tentatively predicted to strike along the North Carolina coast some time this morning. There wcrejnen, women and chil dren. mostly children. Included in the group was a 78-year-old woman, a semi-invalid who had not been out of her home in five years. Given a place of prefer ence on a cot in the big transport truck, the victim remained cheer ful during the long trip and this morning declared she was feeling fine. The evacuees, deserting their homes along the Dare County coast, were temporarily located at the high school. The local chapter of the Red Cross, l*eadcd by Mrs. John W. Hardy, chairman, and Mrs. Edna Laughing house Hon duran!, home service director, moved to aid the group, but once assured that the course of the storm had changed to a north, northeasterly direction, the e vacuees soon started the return trip. They expressed relief when they were assured that the course of the storm had changed and that their property would escape the full force of the hurricane. Sev eral of the group had “ridden" out storms in the past, and they did not choose to go through an other with their little ones, they said. While the course of the storm has changed, weather prognosti cators admit that it is difficult to chart its path, but it was fairly certain shortly before noon that the focal point would maintain it self off the North Carolina coast, that only gale winds would be felt. Tobacco Sales Pass Two Million Pounds Price Average Is About Six Cents Above Last Year l ips anil IniVrior (Jiialit i<‘> (lousliliilr l,arfjr Pari Of Ihiilv Poundage Tobacco sales on the local mar ket passed the tvvo-million-pound mark early today with the price average for the first eight days holding between 48 and 49 cents a pound. During the first eight days of the current marketing season the market sold nearly half mil lion pounds more than it did in > the corresponding days last year when the price averaged a little tetter than 42 cents a pound. The market had its largest sale of the season last Friday when !'312,302 pounds were sold for $139, 044, or an average of $44,71. The average was the lowest of the sea son. While tobacco prices appar ently are not as high as they were on opening day, the 19th, the aver age decline is traceable mainly to the large offering of tips and in ferior quality tobaccos. The following report released by the United States Department | of Agriculture, gives an over-all picture of the belt: During th(' second week of East ern North Carolina flue-cured to bacco sales, prices by grades were steady to higher in most cases than the first two days of the seas on. However, the United States and North Carolina Departments of Agriculture report a heavy in flux of tips and lower quality primings to the markets cau.ed a considerable increase in inferior offerings. This resulted in an av erage of only $47.77 per hundred for the 35,132,041 gioss pounds marketed the week ending August 27. The average was $3.03 below that established the previous week. For the first seven days of the season gross sales reached 50,615 035 averaging $40.09. In spite of the light volume sold early in the week, season sales were running heavier than the comparable period last season with the general average $5.31 higher. ( ompurative prices^with.. the, first two days show increases ranging from 25e to $5.00 per hun dred. Most were $1.00 to $2.00. The gains were principally for lugs, primings, and lower leaf grades. Better quality leaf and low orange cutters were slightly weaker with losses generally at $1.00. The proportion of lugs sold de creased about one-half from last week. More leaf, primings, and nondescript appeared. More of ferings were of green and red col or as many tips were marketed. Common to good leaf, fair to fine lugs, low and fair primings, and nondescript made up the bulk of sales. Deliveries to the Flue-cured Stabilization Corporation this (Continued on page six) wi:i,Ti\(; -r-> Meeting in the courthouse Wednesday evening of this week at 8:00 o'clock, a special committee will outline plans for handling the annual Farm Bureau Membership Drive in this county. The meeting is being called by President ( has. L. Daniel. The county is being asked to sign up 2,300 members for the new year. The organiza tion had 2,116 members in this county in 1047-48. Henry (>. Criffin Died Friday At Jamesville Home —*— I'l'oininriil County iVlor rliaiil llatl Itccii in Fajl int; lirallli 10 Yrars Henry Gray Griffin prominent county business man, died at his home in Jamesville last Friday af ternoon at 3:1(0 o’clock following a long period of declining health. He had been a semi-invalid for about live years and his condition was recognized as^'ritical for four weeks before the end. The son of the late William Jor dan Griffin and wife, Sarah June Coltrain Griffin, he was born in the Fairview Community of Wil liams Township 71 years ago on November 5, 187(1 After spend ing his early life on the farm there he moved to Jamesville where he was engaged in the tim bering business for a few years. About 1908 he built a store on Jameville’s Main Street, marking the beginning of a long mercantile business career, one that was marked for its untiring service and accommodation to the general public. His store operated for forty years by Mi. Griffin with the aid of his brother, Chas. J. Griffin, until the latter’s death a few years ago, was headquarters for business interests in that com munity for many years. Although much of the community’s business houses followed the highway, two blocks away, Mr. Griffin never deserted the main street, main taining his establishment and sewing his customers until the enu. He was married to Miss Lillian Moore Davenport on August 23, 191-1, and she survives with a daughter, Mrs. Edgar Brown of Jamesville; a sister, Mrs. George E Roberson of Griffins Township; two brothers, Adolphus Griffin of Paetolus, and W. W. Griffin of Williams Township. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home in Jamesville Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock by Rev. John L. Goff, pastor of the Williamston Christian Church, assisted by Rev. B E. Bingham, Metftodist minister uf Roper, and (Continued on page six) Teachers Named For The Schools In Martin County One Hundred aiul Tnenty Are Included In Nine While Schools All but four uf the 120 faculty positions in the nine county white schools have been filled and sub stitutes will be recruited for the four places for the opening tomor row, it was announced by the of fice of superintendent of school of schools yesterday. Names of the faculty members, assigned duties and subjects, and home addiesses are as follows: Williamston school: Burton G. Stewart, principal, Williamston; Anna Belle Privott, mathematics, Edenton; Rex M. Best, Jr., English and French, Stantonsburg; Betty Sue Tilley, English and literature, j Fuquay Springs; Carlyle L. Cox, history, Robersonville; Helen J. Sumner, science, Williamston: Ida : O. Roberts, home economics, Wil liamston; Peggy Hopkins, com mercial, Oak City; Stuart Mayn ard, physical education, Williams ton; Jack F. Butler, band, Wil liamston; Beecher M. Patterson, physics, science, mathematics, Scotland Neck; Mary G. Whitley, 8th grade, Murfreesboro; Anne J. Corey, 8th grade, Williamston; 7th grade, to be filled; Mildred By rum, 7th grade, Edenton; Mary D. Shuller, 7th grade, Williamston; Erma A. Benson, 8th grade, Benson; Marion Rogerson, 8th grade, Aulander; Martha White hurst, 8th, Williamston; Velma H. Coburn, 5th, Williamston; Dora O’Neil Bailey, 5th, Everetts; 5th grade, to be filled; Frances Jenk ins, 4th grade. Robersonville; Mar garet E. Harrison, 4th grade, Wil liamston; Alma J. Fussell, 4th grade, Williamston; Ruth Man-% ning, 3rd grade, Williamston; Elise D. Kintal!, 3rd Williams ton, Rosalie I. Fromj#cfger, 2nd and 3rd grades, Williamston; Mary B Carstarphen, 2nd grade, Williamston; Estelle Crawford, 2nd grade, Williamston; Lamina Baker, 1st grade, Williamston; Grace Talton, 1st, Clayton; Mir iam P. Saunders, 1st, Williamston. Robersonville School: C. B. Martin, principal, Robersonville; James Wallace, mathematics, Jamesville; Kelly Abeyounis, his tory, Bethel; George S. McRorie, English, Robersonville; Adrian Brown, science, Manteo; Jessie E. Richardson, library, Kinston; Bea trice S. Mullen, English and French, Robersonville; James E. Mullen, agriculture, Roberson ville; Queenie McGowan Warren, Home economics, Robersonville; Ellen E. Riddick, commercial, Hobbsville; Sophia Webb Critch er, physics, science, mathematics, ] Williamston; Irene J. Roberson, 8th grade, Robersonville; Ruth E. Hollowed, 8th, Hertford; Marvin M. Everett, 7th grade, Roberson ville; Evelyn B. Cherry, 7th grade, Stokes; Annie P. Roberson, 5th and 6th grades, Robersonville; Doris E. Roebuck, 5th grade, Roberson ville; Hdda L. Surnrell, 6th grade, Ayden; Millie J. Roebuck, 4th grade, Robersonville; Alida S. Ty ler, 3rd and 4th grades, Roberson ville; Reba Carson Winstead, 3rd grade, Whitakers; Louise Dixon, 2nd grade, Elm City; Carrie R, Martin, 1st and 2nd grades, Rob ersonville; Minnie Cochran, 1st grade, Robersonville. Everetts School; J. Ebor Man ning, 7th grade, Everetts; Mar jorie 13. James, 6th grade, Ever (Continued on pagte six) KOl)NI)-UP The drunks tried but failed In take over last week-end, but officers had to round up and temporarily detain at least eight before checking the drive. Four other per sons, charged with flim-flam ming, were also detained. Of ficers stated that they en countered opuositiou in hand ling some of the drunks, but in the county court yesterday the violators were throwu for a loss of $50 each in at least two cases. Two of the 13 persons ar rested were white and the ages of the group 31 to 55 years.