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CHE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 * OVER 3,ON MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bf OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WBBS VOLUME LI -NUMBER 94 WiUiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday. \m ember 25, l,Hlt ESTABLISHED 1899 Parity For First * Time in Six Years Growers Cooperative Hand ling Millions of Pounds WWilrtWf*""* With prices offered for farmers’ stock peanuts by millers and com mercial buyers sagging this seas on to the government support lev el of 90 percent of parity for the first time in six years, peanut growers throughout the Virginia Carolina producing area are being reminded again of the vital im portance to them of the program of government buying and stor age, with strict grading for size and quality under the government ^grade schedules, it was pointed out at a meeting of the directors of the Growers Peanut Coopera tive, Inc., held in Franklin, Va., last week. “For six years previous to this Reason peanuts have moved from the farmers’ fields to the mills at prices above government support prices. With spirited bidding for farmer^’ stock by the buyers at prices above the government min imums, farmers have paid little attention to the schedules of gov ernment grades and prices in the past.” it was noted at the meeting. “But now," the spokesman de clared, “the situation is reversed. Instead of prices higher than sup port prices, millers and commer cial buyers are sticking closely to * the government minimum price schedules. This makes it impor tant that the farmer be familiar with the government schedules of prices and grades, since the price received is dependent on the grade that is determined by the buyer." The government prfee support program is operated through warehouses maintained in all lo cal producing areas by the 'Grow ers Peanut Cooperative, Inc., un der contract with the Commodity Credit Corporation. “The warehouses of the Grow ers Peanut Cooperative, Inc., ♦ commonly known as government warehouses, are not soliciting the f peanut farmers’ business in com petition with millers and commer cial buyers. On the other hand, they are open for the farmers' protection and convenience,” States E. M. Johnson, manager of the cooperative. “If a peanut farmer is not of fered a price by a commercial buyer at or above the government price schedule, according to the size and quality of his peanuts, he can bring them to any one of our warehouses and he i§ assured of a market at the government price for the grade of the peanuts he has to sell,” Johnson explained. "This year the grade and qual HiUtLpmmjte. bust psime, wapnrt ance as a factor in determining the price that the farmer will re ceive, either from a commercial buyer or from the warehouses operated by the Growers Peanut Cooperative, since no buyers are offerings prices above the govern ment schedules and all prices are based on the grades set up by the government,” Johnson pointed out. “If a farmer is in doubt about the grade and price that he should "receive, the advice of our ware housemen is available to him or he may bring his crop directly to the warehouse with the assurance thaUb? gowe-nroent scheduled price, with gilding, done accurately and fairly at the warehouse at time of delivery,” he said. Evidence of the important part that the warehouses operated by the Growers Peanut Cooperative I are playing to maintain a market for peanuts at the government price support schedules is shown in the fact that already this sea son more than 6,500,000 pounds of farmers peanuts, have been de livered directly to the “govern ment” warehouses, according to figures released last week by the headquarters in Franklin. “The cooperative and its ‘gov ernment’ warehouses are not seeking business. Our purpose and function is to guarantee the fann er a market for his crop at the government price schedules. We are organized to protect and serve the peanut grower, and we are most pleased when he does not (Continued on page eight) - - An important meeting will be held in the county court house next Monday evening at 7:3ft o’clock when plans will be discussed for support ing the 100-car Friendship Train to be run in North Car ■» AH interested • persons urgently asked to attend and hear the plan discussed by a representative of the State organization sponsoring the movement. The meeting will be very interesting and will not last very long. Parents-Teachers Hear Address By College President lirpps Tin* County P.-T. A. Council To Support Fed eral Education Aid Plan Addressing a meeting of the Martin County Pa rent-Teacher Council in the high school audi torium here Tuesday evening. Dr. John D. Messick, president of East Carolina Teachers College, stressed the need for federal aid for education and went on to out line the responsibility of parents in rearing their children. The edu cator’s talk was a timely one and was well received by his audience which was held to a faithful few possibly by inclement weather. V. J. Spivey, local P.-T. A pre sident, presided over the meeting and he recognized distinguished guests. Mrs. W. C. Wynne, presi dent of the Martin County Coun cil, recognized leaders in the council and representatives from i the various P.-T. A. units in the ! county. J. C. Manning, superin tendent of county schools, intro duced the speaker. Deploring greed and avarice, I Dr. Messick frankly told the group that scientists were afraid of the future, and warned that unless the social world learns to \ use what science has devclpped, i there’ll be nothing but chaos. "In the educational world, great institutions are putting money in scientific and industrial undertakings to make money, for getting social values," the speak er declared. "Industry is working to promote faster cars, ships and planes for faster living. Philan thropists have not been ‘sold’ on the value of building a better; world on better human relations,” i Dr. Messick said, explaining that federal aid to education had been defeated under the late President i Roosevelt by the parochial schooli and later under Truman by indus-' triaiists with the aid of the paro- 1 c h i a 1 school. Tbs_#ui r. r.vicnv, ■&- iv I more favorable, the speaker point-I ed out in uiging parents and teachers to bring pressure, if ne cessary, to get federal aid and equalize opportunities for chil dren. The educator pointed a rather dark future for education without federal aid. Buildings are dilapi dated and inadequate. In our own state it is a big job to get adequate I (Continued on page five) Make Plans For j Fat Stock Show; By J. W. Sumner Assistant County Agent The 6th Annual Martin County Fat Stock Show is to be held May 13th. For the first time it will be open to Negro 4-H and FFA mem bers. All the steers have been delivered to make up a show of 35 baby beeves. Two of these went to two Negro 4-H members. Sev eral Negro 4 H and FFA members are expected to enter fat hogs in the show to make it the largest county Junior Swine Show in the state. The desire for better swine in Martin County is shown by the re quest of several farmers for a purebred swine sale in the coun ty- Tentative plans have been made for an all breed sale-early in March. Some of the animals will be furnished by purebred breed ers already in production in this county. The sale list will be com pleted from breeders outside the county. CENERAl k TfBE , I N CLAl !p: (Photo by courtesy Royal Photographic Center) Pictured above are a few of the thousands who crowded around an improvised stand at the corner of Main and Smithwiek Streets to hear Army Secretary Kenneth Royal] of Washington, DC and Goldsboro, deliver a political address as a program feature ot the town s 1 eeent 1 eanut festival. 1 he throngs crowded lor soma distance in eessn o! tin' str ots. Manv, tinding it 11 lesom1 • to stand so long, repailed to st.oies and offices where they seated themSclves and heard hi: addic.-s a. it came m over tile radio. Postal Income Shows Large Increase At Local Office ---- The gradual decline reported by the local post office in its income since the war apparently has been checked, and if the upward trend is maintained throughout this quarter the office will approach a new income figure for 1948. After dropping from $8,021.19 reported for the first quarter of last year to $8,250.00 in the first three months in 1948, stamp sales at the local office pointed upward during the second quarter. The income jumped from $7,742.87 in the second quarter of 1947 to $8, 267.48 in the three-month period ending last June 30. And then the big gain was reported last quar ter when stamp sales jumped from $7,608.05 in the third quar ter of 1947 to $9,040.35, giving the first nine months of 194ii a net gain of $1,286.28 over the income reported for the corresponding period in 1947. All those dollars represent a mighty heap of one . two- and three-cent stamp sales. Postmaster Wiley E. Dunn point ed out. While stamp sales were inereas ing, money order business show d a slight decline in two of the quarters. The total for the first nine morphs was $12,294 12 hr than in the corresponding period of last year, the total dropping from $217,908.71 to $205,614.59 1)1 f*i '*Y . «*«** rum to Improve School Grounds Plans are virtually complete for advancing a beautification program at the local grammar school, V. J. Spivey, P.-T. A. pre sident, announced this week. Volunteers are be.ng asked to report to the school on Thursday and Friday of next week to trans plant shrubs and arrangements are being made to lay drain tile in the big ditch back ot the build ing. More shrubs aie needed, and anyone having a surplus plant is asked to contact Miss Ruth Man ning at the grammar school or Mr. Spivey. The services of addi tional volunteers can be used to an advantage on December 2 and 3, it was explained. The next meeting of the parents and teachers will be held on Mon day, December 13. -o build Parents Meet Monday ISitflit, it: 30 A meeting of the Band Parents Club of the Williamston High School Green Wave Band will be held Monday night immediately after the regular hand rehearsal, it was announced this week. Rehearsals usually start shortly after 7:00 o’clock and the meeting will probably be started about 8:30. Reports on activities and a discussion of winter plans for the UH8i4 BRIEF RESPITE. Itf<yt Two days of fair weather l were welcomed by the peanut growers of the county this i week-end but the promise of the weatherman that more rain would fall this week-end was not such good news as it takes more than a day of lair weather now and then to gel the goobers in shape for pick ing and marketing. About ten days of fair cool weather would make a lot o! difference in the peanut pros pects at this time, most ob servers agree. Hamilton Ollier Robbed Sunday Forcing the latch on the hack) door, robbers entered the office of Dr. J. D. Hemmingway in llainil-' ton some lime during last week end, possibly Sunday morning. A quantity of narcotics was stolen, but a complete inventory report could not be learned here. The robbery was not discovered until about noon Tuesday when the doctor went to fill a pros rip tion and found the narcotics gone. Officers v.ere called immediately but they have been unable to is tubiisb a lead in the case so far. REPORTED IMPROVING Reports this morning from a j Washington hospital said that Mr. Van Taylor, who entered the hos- j pital for treatment last Sunday, j '^4^, i Seriously (lilt In l\oad Wident -- Arthur Vail, a northern tourist enroute to Florida, sustained a serious eut on his taco and almost $2,000 in damage was done to two automobiles and a house trailer in a highway accident just over the Martin County line in Beau fort Thursday. Driving his 10-10 Hoick with a house trailer attached, Vail was going south and just entering Beaufort County when a motorist from Virginia en route to Beau fort, N started to pass him in a 1!M2 Oldsmobile. Coming onto the narrower part of the road lie fore she could get around the ear and trailer, the driver of the Olds cut hack on the road too sharply and struck the trailer, which went • 'titad control tur.lfri tiJe -out (, | landing in the ditch with the car pointing back north. The Oldsmobile went on into tln^voorls 150 feet before coming to a stop. No one was seriously hurt except Mr, Vail who was ear led to a Washington hospital to have a five inch gash on ITis face closed up. The cut was all the way to the bone. Damage to the Olds was csti mateo at $200 that to the Buiek at StiOO and the trailer, possibly vorth over u v,. total THERECORD SPEAKS . . . Figures on highway acci dents in this county continue to climb, tiie record this year holding only one advantage ' over the recording of the first 47 weeks ol last year. Only two pci sons have lost their lives in motor vehicle accidents tin - year as compar ed witli tin ec lost in the first 47 wci ks of 1947. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by cones ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 47th Week Accidents In.j’d Killed Dain'gc 1948 3 4 0 $ 1,000 1947 4 ] 0 000 Comparisons To Date -9411 130 74 2 $31,135 Liquor Business Dealt Hard Blow In Martin County -« <H'l'icurs < apliii r Lai-^r Still Vml Pour Out Srvrnty I wo (>aIloilo I i<|nor Following up several success ful raids in the county last week, ABC .Officer Joe II Roebuck and lus assistant, Deputy Roy Peel dealt the illicit liquor business an other telling blow on Tuesday ot this week when they raided in Bear Grass Township. They either established a new record or approached the old re cord when they found and de troyed seventy-two gallons of white liquor. Going into the district where 'k illicit activities ItmWw! ..con held to a low minimum lor some time, the officers picked up the trail about lii.'ld o’clock that morning. A short time later they found the plant which was equipped with a 100-gallon capacity copper still, two worms, three 500-gallon beer vats, one 100-gallon vat, one 50 (Conlmued on page five) Court In Recess Until Next Thi' Martin County S«jv. :•>*»*• 1 ourt alter granting live divorce. I'.V11 othei r i -TiVifH® the calendar recessed ‘shortly be fore noon Wednesday until next Monday morning In the ease of Standard Kcrtili/- j er Company against W. S. Cowan,. Jr., J. C. Vaughan and C M. Bar- ! her, the plaintiff was given uj judgment. C M Barber, an inter-' pleader in the ease, claimed the residue of the amount and was1 given a judgment in the sum of $422.60. When the jury found in favor of Barber against Vaughan, Judge W II. S Burgwyn, presid ing ovei the term, intimated he wa.uld set the . i . ilr 1 .. i ’e a -■ hie ing contrary to the weight of the evidenei He look no .,ueh action and the judgment was entered in tin record Widnisday. In the case of Edward L. Early against Win. R Moran, two wit ! nesses offered testimony and the plaintiff took a voluntary non suit. Early was suing for posses sion of certain beer parlor equip-! tfem"gg’Qtra«frHy 4)< ci1 Drunk In the County Drink Almost Two VI11 flo n B.oTfte£ In Twelve Months i*ro|M>rliouuU‘ Iiuoiiu- Go inj! to Towns Much Less Than It Was Year A*»o -— The treasuries of the county and the eight towns therein are receiving this week $22,740.15 in beer taxes, according to unofficial figures announced a few days ago. A major portion of the $22,740.15 or $15,948.12, goes to the county treasury, leaving only $0,798.03 for the eight towns, as follows: Williamston $3,491.00; Rober sonville, $1,238.70; Oak City, $450.70; Hamilton, $445.18; James ville, $439.31, Parmele. $367.12; Everetts, $233.30, and Hassell, $132 06. The tax income is traceable to sales made during the twelve month period ending last Septem ber 30. It is distributed on a per capita basis, presumably at the rate of about 85 cents per person. Town authorities declared this week that it was hard for them to figure the distribution. They pointed out that the town receiv ed $2,045.09 as its share of the tax levied in the months of July, August and September last year, while in all of the next twelve months the town is getting only $3,491.00 Using tin- state beer tax income as a base, it is found that 1.819,680 bottles of beer were drunk in this county in the twelve months end ing last September 30, a per capita consumption nght at 70 bottles for the period It is estimated that the consumers paid nearly otie half million dollars or $454,920, for the beverage. It is estimated that three fourths of the beverage consumed during the twelve months was sold in the towns. The towns of Bear Grass and Gold Point did not share in thd beer tax pie, one report explain ing there was no recognized treas urer in the two centers. The beer carries a crown tax of two and one-half cents, but the State ot North Carolina treasury gets one and one-quarter cents, s leaving a like amount to be divid ed among the county and the vari ous towns. -o I r t j fish m;<;i lations Fishing- regulations for the 194!) season will be set b.y the N. C. Wildlife Commission at an annual meeting scheduled for December 1 in the House of Representatives Hall, ac cording to county game pro tectors. The meeting begins at !) a. m. and will be open to the public with all interested sportsmen invited to attend and express their views of next year's fishing regula tions. Simms Cites Need For Thankfulness At Union Service Presbyterian ('luircli Filled By Members of All The Fliurehes Thursday Contrasting the great blessings 1 of the present day with the lesser ones for which the pilgrims were so deeply and sincerely thankful at the first Thanksgiving, Rev. Stewart B. Simms, pastor of the Memorial Baptist Church, pointed to the need for a genuine spirit of Thanksgiving to God among the people of America today, in ad dressing an overflow audience at the Community Thanksgiving ser vice in the Presbyterian church Thursday morning. "If the little band of less than 100 pilgrims who had spent three long months crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a ship no larger than the life-boats on the Queen Mary, who had seen half their number I die within six months, and who had experienced the hardships and trials attendant upon this pi oneer life in an undeveloped wild erness could, at the end of their first harvest, pause in reverent Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his goodness, mercy, and love, how much more should we, the fortunate and blessed people of this generation, living in this God-blessed land, turn our heart.-, (Continued on page six) George Brooks Stabbing Victim George Brooks, 25, colored lai mer of the Piney Woods or Free ' s 1'1 r, I, ■ : , [ fatally sta-hheel 8:.'to o'clock ; Wednesday night in the home he occupied with Ins 65-year-old I father, county officers reported j today. SherifI C B. Roebuck and deputies are investigating but no arrests have yet been made. The stabbing was reported by j the father, Dave Brooks, who | walked two miles to report that someone had stabbed his son. His | accounts of the crime have not been too coherent and he is said 'to have been drinking, but the nl a motive for the crime is one of the baffling angles as the dig'.1 man is said t.n-^ye had no trouble with anyone, to have lived house with no oftc but Vi'e father. Officers were notified about midnight Wednesday and found that friends had gone to the home to investigate the old man's report but that the old man had not re turned with them, Instead he had asked permission to spend the night with friends. The body was found on the floor with no signs nl blood anywhere except in the room and there were no signs of a struggle. The victim had re moved his boots and overalls but still wore an extra pair of pants. He had been stubbed once through the heart with a pocket knife. The father told friends at first that the boy had been stabbed in side the home by some unidenti fied pcson Later be said the boy had been killed and thrown from an automobile at the home. The victim will be buried tnis afternoon or Saturday and offic ers expect to make an arrest in the case -hurt | y thereafter. Nine Cases Heard ' iiy Justices' Here Strictly on the disorderly and <11 unk side, nine eases were hand led by Justices Hassell and John son the early part of this week. One road term of thirty days was meted out while another for 12 months was suspended and one defendant drew a day in jail plus costs. Justice John L. Hassell handled the following eases: Charged with disorderly con dvwt. James E. Midgett was fined $5 and taxed with the costs. Elbert \/hitehurst was senteoc '" ,!> the roans tui thirty days fay being j ublielv drunk The road trim . ... t;t tided for twelve months upon pledged good be* havior and the payment of $U.50 costs. John Henry White was sen tenced to the roads for thirty days for public drunkenness. Charged with public drunken ness, James Willis Lloyd was fin ed $5 and taxed with $8.50 costs. Publicly drunk, Gene Andrews was lined $5 and required to pay $10.50 costs. Chas. B. Taylor, public drunk, was fined $5 and taxed with .ffl.SQ costs. Justice 1! T Johnson handled three cases, as follows; Roosevelt Bonds, assault and larceny of a pint of \yine off " person, was taxed with $5.85 en*« Charged with simple Roosevelt Barnes was taxed $5.85 costs. Drunk and disorderly, Johnson was held in jail a taxed with $8.85
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