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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ==~3 VOLUME LII—NUMBER 15 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 22, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1B99 r md Limited Supply Of Potatoes for Seed I I » I Farmers Urged To Place Orders For Seed Immediately —<§>— f Discuss Sweet Potato Mar ket At Farm Bureau Meet ing Friday Evening A limited supply of certified sweet potato seed has been locat ed and will be made available to Martin County farmers on a first come, first-served basis, it was learned at a meeting of the Mar ting Farm Bureau sweet potato committee in the office of the farm agent Monday afternoon. Approximately 500 -bushels of certified Porto Rican sweet potato seed of the Louisiana strain were located during a two-day search conducted by Committee Mem bers Heman U. Peel, Henry Peel and M. M. Levin. The potatoes may be had for $4 a bushel plus trucking charges which will run between 10 and 15 cents a bushel. The Farm Bureau committee made arrangements with the of fice of the farm agent to accept orders. A deposit of $1 will be asked when the order is received and payment of the remainder on delivery the latter part of March or early April. It was pointed out that orders must be placed immediately, a member of the committee explain ing that the dealer would make no definite promises, hut tentatively agreed not to make any commit ment before the latter part of this week. There is a marked shortage of certified seed in this part of the country, reports stating that much of the crop will have to be plant ed from seed not certified. The 500 bushels of seed potatoes inspected by members of the Farm Bureau committee arc in excellent shape and are of the best quality. And the price is the lowest listed. It is estimated that the same type of seed would cost $6 a bushel de livered direct from Louisiana. Farmers interested in producing potatoes and supporting an estab lished market are asked to con tact the office of the county agent without delay and place their ord ers. Flans are still going forward for the establishment of a recognized market in the county. The pro ject will be discussed more in de tail at a meeting of the Martin County Farm Bureau to be held in the courthouse on Friday even ing of this week at 7:30 o’clock. All farmers whether Farm Bureau members or not, are urged to at tend the meeting. Messrs. Joe R. Winslow, H. U. Peel, Mayo Hardison, M. M. Levin, T. B. Brandon and Jesse Sumner attended the meeting held in the agricultural building yesterday afternoon. Unemployment Is Gaining In State i_ne rLmpjoyment Security Com- ! * jfflSfRffW^Tdrlui Carolina is ci< iarging its staff considerably in | order to handle more efficiently! the tremendous increase in job ap- j plications' and ciaihis”i3F*llB?fB? ployment benefits. That the officials of this agency are of the opinion the present wave of unemployment is temp orary is shown by the fact that the additional help is being employed on a month-to-month basis. However, officials of ESC re fuse to predict how long the un employment trend will continue. They only know they are “flooded with claims" for benefits and that their work is approximately 100 percent greater than six months ago. Hnritana Bear (,rans To Stage Big Minatrel The Bear Grass Ruritan Club members are presenting the Black Diamond Minstrel Revue in the school auditorium there Friday evening of this week. The biggest entertainment feature ever offer ed, the show features a two-act, comedy with specialties. \>— j \ ORGANIZATION : V/ An organization for advanc ing the annual Red Cross Fund Drive in the Martin County Chapter was announc ed nintfiy percent complete early today by Garland Wool ard, '/fund drive chairman. “We are to see workers in one mote district today and that will make the organization complete," Mr. W'oolard said, i adding that the workers so far had willingly accepted the ! task. The chairman declared that the response had been very encouraging and he feels cer tain that the $2,700 quota can be raised without much trou ble. No Referendum on Liquor Question Is Believed Likely Delegation Makes Inipres. hive Showing A* Hearing In Raleigh Thursday Despite an impressive showing made by a delegation including three thousand leaders from all parts of North Carolina at a legis lative hearing in Raleigh’s Mem orial Auditorium last Thursday, political observers came right out and declared that there is little likelihood that the present House of Representatives will allow the electorate to vote on the liquor question in a referendum within the next two years. Declaring the efforts of the dry leaders were all in vain, one col umnist, Eula Nixon Greenwood, had the following to say about the question: “The dry forces swept into Ral eigh last week from throughout the State, virtually filled cavern ou- Memorial Auditorium here, and made one of their best presen tations in years. County after county is going bone-dry, legally, and other counties are planning beer and wine elections. The peo ple seem to be getting pretty warm about their inability to ob tain a Statewide referendum on alcohol. "Well, they might as well forget Raleigh and go ahead with their county-to-county plan. Unless all signs fail, the Legislature is going to do exactly nothing to dry up the ABC counties and cities dur ing this session. If the Allied Church League folks knew as much about the present voting machinery of the House as they do about the evils of alcohol, they would not be wasting their gaso line, their breath, and their time in Raleigh cavortings. “But the vote is coming one of these and the Legislature was impressed w>th the biggest hearing held this session. “The Legislature, which has looked on while Governor Kerr IkdiJj^bf'en doing new things. puU^^an eyebrow-raiser of ffl* own last Friday. Scott had said he would talk to a joint session of the General Assembly on the li quor referendum “if invited”. The invitation was presented to the House. Prior to Friday, these “in vitations” had been merely a mat ter of form and always received a unanimously favorable vote. But there was a chorus of negative voices in the Scott liquor referen-1 dum invitation. Oldtimers here cannot recall when this has hap pened before. So, Governor Scott breaks yet another record.” Hold Funeral For Infant Daughter Funeral services were conduct ed at the graveside in Wcodlawn Cemetery here yesterday after noon at 3:00 o’clock for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Haislip. Rev. John Goff conduct ed the service. The child died in a Washington hospital early yesterday morning. ! General Assembly Labors And Brings jFortli Tiny Mouse . -o-L 1 House Kills Inspection Law As First Tangible Act In Six Weeks After laboring for six weeks the I lower house of the North Carolina j General Assembly last week j brought forth a tiny mouse in the j form of a voice vote against the motor vehicle inspection law. While the particular law was dealt a severe if not a killing blow, it is yet to face action in the upper chamber, and until action is taken there the law continues in effect. Reports from Raleigh state that while many of the legislators ad mit privately the law is a good one they turned and voted to kill it. While the present trend points to eventual death of the inspection law, there is still some talk that the present law will be retained in altered form. Other legislative activities cov ered by Greenwood's Raleigh Round-up: A subcommittee of the two Fi nance Committees has been ap pointed to look into the matter of putting a tax on cooperatives sim ilar to that collected from corpora tions. The Department of Tax Re search has made a thorough study of cooperatives—as instructed to do—during the past two years. Its opinion is that a tax on coopera tives would not yield over $50,000 per year in revenue to the State. However, it is apparent that co operatives do not want any new form of taxation whatever. Wil lard L. Dowell, executive vice president and secretary of the N. C. Merchants Association and a constant thorn in the flesh of the co-ops, pointed out in a private hearing before the sub-committee last week that his organization has no fight-whatever with marketing cooperatives or with any coopera tive which is not selling merchan dise in competition with regular merchants. The merchants mere ly want those cooperatives which sell the same type of merchandise the merchants sell to pay the same taxes they are paying. They want that and nothing more. If the cooperative leaders were smart, they would submit to—in fact, request—that a tax be plac ed on them. It would not cost them over $50,000. This would be an excellent public relations1 move. It would to a great extent remove the shroud of suspicion which now lies over the coopera tives. If this is not done, the con troversy will continue through this Legislature and into succeed ing Legislatures. Larry Moore of Wilson and Grady Rankin of Gastonia, chair man of the House and Senate Fi nance Committees, said last week their groups are waiitng for Gov ernor Scott to send forth bills to increase taxes with which to car ry out his “go forward” program. On Friday afternoon, Governor Scott said it is up to the legisla- j tors to draw up the tax bills. How- ! ettac...tb.ey_fflyl *bls vyay ahnut it;, The Advisory Budget filed a j balanced budget with the General j Assembly calling for a 20 percent increase in salaries for all person ^g^iecJuding school teachers This is ail the mere se which canj be had from funds on hand and revenue expected to come into the State Treasury within the next two years Any fur the" increases will have to come from new tax es. Since not one member of the Legislature was elected on a nlat (Continued on page eight) --—$ To Receive Buh For Car In Post Office Proposals will be received at the I office of the postmaster, Williams-1 ton, until March 1, 1949, for the hire of a motor vehicle without driver on an hourly basis for use in collecting, delivering and re laying mail during the quarter ending June 30, 1949. The owner of the vehicle will be required to keep it in satisfac tory condition at all times and to bear all necessary expense in con nection with the operation and maintewnce of same. Blank on which to submit pro posals will be furnished cn appli cation to the postmaster. Epileptic Bound As Hog In Home, No Room In Aslyum While North Carolina's pre mium legislature feuds and fusses in Raleigh, subjects fit for treat ment in the asylums are still be ing bound as hogs in Martin Coun ty, according to reports reaching here last week-end. And those legislators who were going to do something about the shameful j condition./surrounding the care or lack of care forAhe mentally ill have come forth with the insult ing proposition to allow the coun ties $2 a day for the keep of the mentally ill. Those legislators who were going to Raleigh and set the place on fire have now been home several week-ends for more matches and up until this minute they have not kindled a small fire. Disgusting! The unfortunate soul in this county is subject to epileptic at tacks. When he has those attacks, and he has them frequently, he would be bound and tied as one would tie a hog. That manner of treatment was provided until his i old daddy died two or three weeks I ago. His mother tried to continue I the treatment, barbaric as it was, ' but she fell victim of a stroke. No i word has been received from the I application for admittance to a State institution. There was talk about relieving the condition by occupying Camp I Sutton near Monroe, That died ! aborning and the pressure was ■ never relieved. Now, the good ! legislators are talking about using Camp Butner to relieve the pres sure. There's too everlastingly1 much talk and not enough action. ! More than one person has vowed | lie’ll work with all his power and ! ! might against any and all candi dates for re-election another year 'unless something is done to help wipe the shame and disgrace from the face of the great State of North Carolina. Urge Growers To Promote Cigaret Quality Tobacco -- Bright Color and Uniform Leaf Will Compete Bet ter In Foreign Marts The Tobacco Associates Report for January has pointed out that flue-cured growers should give more attention to the production of cigarette quality tobacco “if we are to capitalize on advantages we now have in taste and aroma and to meet the domestic and foreign demand for U. S. tobacco that will make good uniform cigarettes.” “Farmers have a much larger stage in the production of cigar ette quality (tobacco) than is gen erally realized,” the report con tinued. “Talks with representatives of domestic manufacturers and the foreign trade reveal that they want a tobacco that carries these properties: (1) low nicotine con tent; (2) high sugar content; (3) light bpdy; (4) bright color; (5) porous and fluffy texture, and (6) a clean and merchantable pro duct.” J. B. Hutson, Tobacco Associ ates President, in a statement from Paris, France—one of his stops during a just-completed sur vey of the European tobacco situ ation—outlined estimates by the Organization for European Eco nomic Co-operation of dollar re quirements under the European Recovery Program for the year beginning July 1, 1949, and ending June 30, 1950. “Tobacco consumption for 1949 50 is estimated at 107 percent of that of the current 1948-49 year,” Hutson reported. “From the dol lar areas tobacco requirements are estimated at $190,000,000 for 1949 50 as compared with $115,000,000 for 1948-49. From non-dollar areas requirements are estimated at the equivalent of $49,000,000 as com pared with $89,000,000 for the cur rent >»h»T; maKaig a luCcil or 000,000 for the corning year, as compared with $204,000,000 for 1948-49. “As has been pointed out pre f. of Ame>ican to bacco in Europe will be low on July 1, 1949, because more tobac co is being used than is being im ported this year.” In urging the production of more cigarette quality tobacco, Tobacco Associates emphasized that dealers advise growers to aim (Continued on page eight) ■\ V ROUND-UP For the second time in a row there was little activity on the crime front in this county last week-end. Only five persons were arrested and detained in the county jail, three for being publicly drunk, one for drunken driv ing and one for non-support. Two of the five were white and the ages of the group ranged from 29 to 38 years. Officers were called to in vestigate a shooting in Dar dens, but no arrests were made when it was learned the shooting was accidental. j ALMOST v Williamston's squatty new four-room school house is al most ready for occupancy, but a definite moving: date has not been mentioned. Tentatively scheduled for early last fall, occupancy was delayed for one reason or an other month after month and then the radiators went astray between Buffalo and here, again delaying the opening of the building. The radiators reached here last week and workmen immediately started the installation job $10,000 Barn Fire Near Here Friday Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the large two-story puck house and stables belonging to James Aaron Hassell, colored far mer, near here on the old Wil liamston-Bear Grass road early last Friday night. The loss was estimated at $10,000 or $12,000 with less than $1,000 insurance in force. Members of the family had al ready retired for the night, but one of them happened to glance out the window and see the re flection of the fire light. At that time the fire was burning at a corner, but by the time Hassell and others of the family could get to the barn the fire had spread to j every corner, blocking ail at I tempts to save the two $400 mules, $400 worth of fertilizer, 200 bar rels of corn, 300 bales of hay, and a complete set of farming imple ments, including plows, peanut digger and various tools. It is possible that the building j was fired, but not certain, Hassell I would not comment on that score. Last Payday For Legislators Near Those members of the General Assembly who have been receiv | mg theit pay at the end of each ‘day’s session will find themselves (hi payroll a Saturday. North Carolina legislators are' j paid $000 for the term, as provid | c-d by the State Constitution.1' However, many of them are being I forced this year to take advantage of an enabling act which permits any member who wishes to draw $10.00 at the end of the day’s work. The Legislature will end its 00 days on March 5. Thus, tech nically, the so Ion s will receive no pay after that. day. The Constitu tion provides that members of the Legislature will receive the $000 and whether they stay in session for two days or two years makes not the slightest difference. Some of the members, and this is particularly true in the Senate, wait until adjournment of the ses sion before receiving their pay. Enters Durham Hospital Last ff'eek for Treatment Suffering severe headaches for several days, Mr. Bill Spivey left last week-end for Duke Hospital! after his condition became sggra-1 vated Thursday night, I 'SeveraUHwl Th Series Of Wrecks In Past Few Dim Suffering Broken Leg. Vie. lim Removed to Hospital For Treatment Saturday Several persons were injured one of them badly, in a series of automobile accidents on county highways and town streets over the week-end, according to infor mation coming from members of the State Highway Patrol. His right leg broken and suffer ing bruises and shock, Tom Mob ley, 69-year-old white man of Robersonville Township, was re moved to a Greenville hospital for treatment. Last reports stated he was responding to treatment. Mobley, a cripple, was walking along Robersonville’s main street near the town limits on N. C. Highway 903 about 7:30 Saturday evening and reportedly stepped into the streets and in front of a car driven by a young colored man. Officers, investigating the accident were quoted as saying that the accident was unavoidable on the part of the driver. The second in the series of ac cidents was reported at the big pine on the newly surfaced Smith wiek's Creek and Griffins Town ship Road about 10:00 o’clock last Saturday night. Driving from Farm Life, Richard Eugene Rog ers, said he emerged from a fog bank, that he was right on the big pine before he saw it. Running about 35 or 40 miles an hour, the 19-year-old University of North Carolina student home for the week-end, said he applied brakes and skidded about 25 feet into the tree, throwing his companion, Miss Mary Dean Hardison, into the dash board and windshield. Breaking the windshield with her head, Miss Hardison was painfully but not badly cut about the face and suffered bruises and shock. Mr. Rogers was not hurt. ,Miss Hardison was treated in the local hospital and was able to return to her work with an electric firm here yesterday morning. The investigation was made by Patrolmen Simmons, Rowe and Powers, and damage to the 1948 sedan was estimated at $200. Driving his 1947 convertible Chevrolet from Oak City toward Bethel on N. C. Highway 11 about 6:45 Sunday evening, Ernest Pur vis lost control and the machine turned over twice on a curve about six miles out of Oak City near Council’s station. It was re ported that the victim was unable to walk from the scene of the ac cident, but following treatment in tlu1 Ward clinic at Robersonville he recovered quickly from shock and appeared to be all right. Mak ing the investigation, Patrolmen D. E. Perry of Bethel and R. P. Narron of Oak City estimated the damage to the car at $300. Boy Accidentally Shot At Dardens ...X 5. v «.-arfk o phcus Rogers was painfully but not critically hurt when he was accidentally shot by Roosevelt James, 26-year-old colored man, jlkJtyrdcns late Sunday aft-: > Making an investigation, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck learned the shoot ing was accidental and no arrest was made. James anti the Rogers boy were trying to get a bullet out of a cheap pistol when the weapon ac cidentally fired. The bullet struck the boy in front and followed a rib partly around his body. The bullet was removed from the boy’s side by a Plymouth doctor and (he victim was able to return home. The two were messing with the pistol in the little store of the Rogers boy’s father. /era ttrokvn Ih/t In I1 all h riday Morning Mrs. Sam Li I le v suffered a broken hip and other injuries, possibly a fractured shoulder, in a fall on a porch at her home in Griffins Township last Friday morning. She was removed to a Washington hospital in a Biggs ambulance soon after first aid treatment was administered. Late reports stated she was getting along as well as could bo expeet ed, Open $100,000 Feed Mill Here This Week | SPECIAL DAYS-WEEKS v According to the IT. S. De partment of Commerce’s ref erence service, we arc now in I the middle of Brotherhood Week, but with all the wrang ling in Washington and Ral I ekfh, and other places, loo, it i would appear to be a week j without brotherhood. Today, some few are observing Cieorge Washington’s birth day, stressing the holiday fea | ture. There's little activity of a special nature scheduled for the remainder of the week, but a big one is in thi offing with Red Cross Sunday sched uled for the first day. Many Entries In Fat Hog Show Already Listed J Animals Do Mot Have To Be Purebred Stork To Qual ify for Prizes, ami Sales .Nearly a dozen adult farmers in Martin County have listed about half a hundred hogs for entry in the fat hog show to be held here May 13 along with the 4 II fat stock show, Assistant County Agent D. \V. Brady announced last week-end. Mr. Brady pointed out that any fat hog which meets weight speci fications can be entered in the show and sold during the sale Vbwt follows the show whether it is a purebred, mixed breed or cross breed. He said that some farm ers had gotten the idea that they could not enter their hogs in the show and offer them at the sale , unless they were of purebred I stock. There is no rule concern ing breeding. The weight groups for this show will be from 180 to 340 pounds j and from 240 to 270 pounds. These weight limitations must be adher red to but hogs may be grouped and shown as follows in both weight groups: as an individual, as a pen of 3 hogs, as a pen of 5 hogs and as a pen of 10 hogs. Prizes totaling $338.00 will be offered and D. M. Roberson with whom plans for the show were worked out, has announced that he will be allowed to pay at least $1.00 per hundred pounds above market price for all the hogs qual ifying for the show and sale. Mr. Roberson would handle the hogs through Roberson’s Slaughter House in Williamston, of which he is operator. The Grand Champion hog will be the individual hog placing first and a prize of $3.00 will be given for this animal. The Reserve Champion will be the individual I hog that places second and a prize ot $3.00 wflT bo awardecTthis win ner. An entrance fee of $1.00 pet hog will be charged each pcson en ^eringjvigs which will be used for prize money. In the event of only one entry in a class the eligibili ty of placement for prize will be left to the discretion of the judge. A screen test by competent auth orities will determine the eligi bility of all animals for entry in the show. The reason for this is ] to keep any animals from entering ! (Continued on page eight) — Debate Medical Insurance Flan Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American' Medical Association, Senator H. | Alexander Smith of New Jersey, Federal Security Administrator; Oscar Ewing and Walter Reuther, president of the United Automo bile Workers, will debate the na tional compulsory health insur-1 ante plan on "America's Town Meeting of the Air” over the American Broadcasting Network tonight at 8:30 o'clock. The topic is a timely one and, no . doubt, will interest everyone. Preliminary Test Made At $100,000 Plant Last Week j _ —♦— Business Owned Ami Oper atedb y W. O. Abbitl ami W. W. Onr^ami* Nearly two years in Jhe build ing, the $100,000 Martin Feed Mill was placed in operation by the owners, W. O. Abbitt and William W. Gurganus this week just out of Williamston in West End. Pre liminary tests were made a few days ago and final arrangements were completed for scheduled ac tivities yesterday. House in a three-story 40 by 100 foot building, the plant is one of the most modern in the country and has an eight-hour capacity of approximately 100 tons, Mr. Ab bitt said. Especially designed to fit into this section's agricultural picture, the plant is certain to figure in an expanded activity on the farm front in Martin and surrounding counties. It promises to be a main cog in the expansion of dairying activities in the section and will help support hog production and poultry raising on a larger scale. In addition to manufacturing premium formula feeds for any needs, the plant will do custom mixing. Mr. Abbitt explained that the mill will grind the farm er's corn, peanut hay, soy beans, oats, corn, wheat or rye according to what the farmer wants. "If the farmer wants a ton of peanut hay ground into feed and mixed with molasses to make it palatable, we can do it for a nominal cost,” the senior member of the firm said. He added that a farmer may de liver, say 1,300 pounds of corn in the shuck, and have it mixed with proper concentrates to make a ton of premium feed at a nominal charge plus the actual cost of the ingredients furnished by the mill. It was also explained that the plant is prepared to handle any farm feed items and convert it in to any type of finished product desired by the farmer for feed purposes. "We can crack the far mer’s corn into scratch feed or we can mix it with concentrates to make broiler mash, starter mash, grower mash, laying mash, breed er mash.” Entering the regular market with the Martin Brand, the mill will offer premium feeds prepar ed in strict accordance with for mulas prepared by Barker's lab oratories in Philadelphia and those of Borden in New York and approved by the State Depart ment of Agriculture. Starting operations this week, the plant had in storage over 6,000 bushels of corn and luge quanti ties of oats, wheat, rye, concen trates, including special vitamins The mill wiil_s:iy^L its feeds in special sacks of print cloth or in regular bags, or if the farmer when having custom mix ing done may furnish his own i’.v. sdditi •no! $7.50 per ton on his feed. Modern in every detail, the plant, in addition to grinding and mixing feeds, cleans the feed be fote it is ground, storing the re fuse in bags inside the building. (Continued on page eight) Store To Honor Its Personnel Colonial Stores, Inc., will honor the entire personnel of twenty nine of its 367 stores in five states this week, celebrating uie close of its $20,000 Best Performance Con test,” it was announced by the company management here yes terday. One of the twenty-four dinners planned by the firm will be held in the George Reynolds Hotel here tomorrow evening and will at tract district officials, all local personnel and special guests. The work of the personnel will jc recognized in a message from Scott W. Allen, of Atlanta, presi lent. a
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