THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT'S
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME LII—NUMBER 55
William aton, Martin County, North Carol.ao, Thursday, July I I, IV19
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.CoiHity'Court In
Regular Session
Monday Morning
t inane ial Slump Grips
Court; Non-support (-us
es Show Increase
—
After hovering around $1,000
for several weeks, fines and for
feitures in the Martin County Re
corder's Court last Monday took a
nose-dive to reflect a real financial
slump there but not necessarily
any material decrease in activities
on the crime front. Fines amount
ed to only $85 in the fourteen cases
handled by Judge C. H. Manning
and Solicitor Paul D. Roberson.
For a change there were no
drunken driving cases slated for
trial, but non-support and bastar
dy eases crowded the docket
* which the court was all morning
clearing.
Starting out with a single bas
tardy charge, the court developed
the case and found real inflation.
A witness for the prosecution, the
court was advised, was the moth
er of two illegitimate children. A
witness for the defendant, it was
brought out, w'as the mother of
twins by the defendant, but other
than to establish paternity the
court offered no judgment since
it was proved the father was of
fering “adequate” support for
those two children. And then the
same father was found guilty of
non-support of a third child. Un
able to comply with the financial
terms set up by the judge, the de
fendant was making ready to go
to the roads.
In the case of David M. Woul
ard in which the defendant was
charged with an assault on a fe
male, the court sentenced him to
the roads for six months, suspend
ing the road term upon the pay
ment of a $25 fine, costs and an $8
doctor’s bill. The defendant had
pleaded guilty at a previous ses
sion, and the case hud been con
tinued under prayer ofr judg
ment.
Pleading not guilty of assault
ing a female, George Bonds, ad
judged guilty, was sentenced to
the roads for thirty days. The
oeoCeiit'e Was SXihpe{iUeu'"tlp6h trie ’
payment of a $10 fine and costs I
and is to remain of good behavior
for two months.
Adjudged guilty of bastardy,!
Chester Saunders was sentenced
to the roads for six months, the
court suspending the road sen-,
tence upon the payment of the t
costs, $4 a week for support of the \
illegitimate child and $15 to the1
midwife. The payments are to be
made during a two-year period.
R. B. Spruill, pleading guilty,
of bastardy, was sentenced to the!
roads for six months. The sen-1
tence was suspended upon the
payment of the costs and on con- j
dition that the defendant pay $51
a week for the support of his il-!
legitimate child during the next1
two years.
Archie Brown was fined $25,
and taxed with the costs for op-1
crating a motor vehicle without a!
driver’s license.
Finding no probable cause of'
guilt, the case charging Walter1
Rogers with leaving the scene of ]
an accident was dismissed.
Pleading not guilty of non-sup
port. Ernest Spruill was adjudged!
guilty and was sentenced to the j
tence was suspended upon the1
payment of the costs, $25 now and !
$12,50 per week for two years for)
the support of his wife and five I
children.
The case charging James Ben
with assault was nol pressed, but
the court, learning the defendant!
had without permission left the
county home where he was serv
ing a sentence added two more
months to his time.
Charged with violating the li
quor laws and being publicly
drunk, Oliver Peel was found
guilty on the second count and
was fined $10 and required to pay
the costs.
Melvin Mayo Cordon w'as found
not guilty of violating the liquor
.laws.
William Jones was sentenced to
the roads for a term of six months
for an assault with a deadly
weapon.
In the case charging him with
bastardy, Chester Saunders
pleaded guilty of paternity of two
children begotten on the body of
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t
$60,000.00 Milk Plant Opens Here Next Week
Few Bonds Bought
In Martin County
Commenting on the current sale
i of U. S. government savings
| bonds, Herman A. Bowen, drive
chairman, said yesterday that
I only $19,106.25 had been invested
in the securities by Martin Court
] ty people during recent weeks.
Bowen stated that the county
quota probably would not be
reached because the purchase of
bonds in agricultural counties is
generally low at this particular
season of the year. He predicted
that sales would increase during
the months of September and Oc
tober.
In the state drive a total of $10,
093,577.00 has been sold against a
goal of twelve million. The pres
ent Opportunity Drive will end
on July 16 and Bowen has urged
all issuing agents in the county to
report all bonds sold before that
date.
“The purchase of Savings Bonds
is most important during our pre
sent change in economic condi
tions. The tremendous amount of
savings invested in bonds has as
sisted in maintaining a brake on
inflation .during the pns,t,.. f
years^jNow during a period of
serve v?il) act as a stimulant to
business by adding to the pui
chasing power of the individual,"
Bowen slated.
Bonds may be purchased at the
banks or the post office.
Kenneth Wible of Greensboro,
Deputy Director for the U. S. Sav
ing Bonds Division, was a busi
ness visitor here yesterday
•o
6,335 Hospitals
In The Country
The American Medical Associ
ation reports there were 16,422,
774 admissions to the hospitals
last year—one every > 9 seconds.
The council reported that the
number of hospital beds avail
able is 1,423,523. There are 6,335
hospitals The average length of
a patient's stay dropped from
11.4 days in 1947 to 10.5 days last
year. Hospital births in 1948 num
bered 2,794,281—slightly under
the all-time record high of 2,837,
239 in 1947.
Company Profits
Show An Increase
Reflecting the effect of the ac
| quisition of Standard Wholesale
Phosphate? & Acid Works, Inc.,
and Southern Acid & Sulphur
Company, Inc., on April 1 of this
j year, Mathieson Chemical Cor
, poiation reports net earnings for
the second quarter ended June 30,
1949 of $2,074,266.87 or $1.53 per
share of common stock as compar
ed with $1,065,512.33 or $1.24 per
share for the second quarter of
1948.
In the quarterly report to stock
holders, Thomas S. Nichols, presi
dent, explained that the earnings
of $2.47 per share for the first half
of 1949, compared with $2.16 last
year, are based on the common
stock outstanding on June 30,
1949, of 1,327,722 shares, compar
ed with 828.171 shares last year,
but do not include Standard and
Southern earnings for the first
quarter. Had these earnings been
included, he noted, per share
earnings for the six months
would have been $3.33.
The balance sheet reveals other
• ••If. C of. -the
cent, financial developments. To- J
rta.^fsSTts as oi June 30
888,458.17 as compared with $79,
668,325.26 on December 31, :'J48.
Current assets are reported as
$24,734,058.15 and current liabili
ties.as $7,863,612.39. This-com
pares with current assets of $11,
119,145.28 and current liabilities
of $5,846,890.48 on December 31.
Mr. Nichols advised the stock
holders that the company, in part
nership with the Baltimore Na
tional Bank, had purchased the
24-Story O'Sullivan Building in
Baltimore. The building will be
renamed the Mathieson Building
and the company’s executive of
fices will be moved there from
New York at the end of the year.
Sheriff (.. It. Roebuck
Reported Some Uettcr
Quite ill in a Washington hos
pital for months, Sheriff C. B.
Roebuck was reported somewhat
improved this morning. He was
said to have rested fairly well
yesterday and was able to sit up
:r. bed for about seven minutes
last evening.
laytors Dairy milK plant, one of the most modern in this !
section of the country and costing approximately $60,000, will
be opened here on South Haughton Street sometime next week,
Manager Van Ralph Taylor announcing yesterday that a formal
opening date would be announced within the next few days.
During the meantime, machinery tests are being completed and
the large sales room stocked with all kinds of dairy products.
Pictured at the left are Messrs. Van G. Taylor, silent partner,
and his nephew, Van Ralph Taylor.
Milk Plant Offering
CJ
Diversified Program
V
$60,000.00 Plant
Calls For Added
Raw Milk Supply
-o
Several County FnrmVrs
Contracting To Sell
Milk To Plain
One of this section’s most mod
ern milk plants, costing approxi
mately $60,000, will be placed in
operation here next week by Tay
lors’ Dairy, it was announced to-1
day by Mr. Van Ralph Taylor, '•
manager. Most of the modern j
and latest type machines have
been placed and tested, and only
a few minor details are delaying
the formal opening, the manager
explained. "We hope to be able
to announce a definite formal
opening date within a few days,”
Mr. Taylor said, explaining that
a supply of dairy products would
be placed in the sales room dur
ing the meantime.
The nine-room concrete-brick
structure is located on South
Haughton Street, covering 47 by
87 feet with a parking lot and j
drives all around it. Its comple-'
tion climaxes years of study and
about seven months of steady I
work by the manager and his
partner-uncle, Mr. Van G. Tay
lor.
Designed to meet the needs of j
this and surrounding“see’tionsITRCT
4>?5 Of '
diversification for agriculture in I
this county. It was stated yester-1
day that several farmers had al- j
ready contracted with the owners!
tp furnish the plant with milk.!
However, the need calls for a j
goodly number of additional sup-1
pliers, and it is planned, in due)
time, to establish milk routes and
push dairying to its rightful place
in the county. “Until we can get
an ample supply of raw milk
we’ll not be able to manufacture
ice cream, but within a short time
we hope to enter that field and
supply the needs of this section,”
Manager Taylor explained.
Built in accordance with the
latest specifications outlined by
the State and County health de
partments, the plant is equipped
with any number of machines and
has ample space to maintain an
adequate service for this entire
section.
The plant is equipped with a
fully automatic cyclotherm steam
generator which will take care of
the two pasteurizers, homogeniz
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THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
After running two weeks
in a row without reportable
accident, motorists on Martin
County highways got down to
the gruesome business on a
large scale hist week. How
ever, they were fairly consid
erate of life, limb and prop
erty.
The following tabulations |
offer a comparison of the ac- j
cident trend: first, by corres- .
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
26lli Week
Accidents Inj'tl Killed Dam'ge
1114!) 6 2 0 $ 400
1948 1 1 0 700
Comparison* To Date
1949 59 27 2 $13,655
1948 72 36 1 14,800
Railroad Trestle
■Damaged By Fire
Fin, believed to iiave .started
by live coals dropped by a loco
motive engine about 2:00 o’clock
in the afternoon, did considerable
damage to a i 'road trestle near
Sweet Water Creek early Tues
day evening. About twenty feet
B» tire structure.
The fire was first reported at
and
ton's foe department dispatched
a truck there, but the fire could
not be reached.
t armors John I). Li|!ey, Ira
Rogerson anti others saw the fire
and they with railroad workers
cheeked it with buckets.
Two special construction crews
started repairing the damage ear
l.v Wednesday morning and hud I
the trestle ready for use a few |
iiuuis latC'i . No ivttmiijir tin tin* j
amount of damage could be had'
immediately.
Two weeks ago rains washed
)Ut a fill and blocked traffic.
Medium Huin letl In
Section Last Night
Following several days of dry
mil unusually hot weather fairly
leavy rains fell in this section last
evening and early this morning,
rhe weather station on Roanoke
Stiver here reported 1.42 inches
if rain during the 24 hours end
ng this morning at 8:00 o’clock,
rhe rains were said to have help-1
id crops, in general.
Rushing Business
Iff The Court Of
Justice Johnson
l illcrn Ih'friitlnnt* \|tpriir
Before Trial Justice In
Cast Several Days
Business, holding to a fairly
low point for several weeks, was
really rushing in Justice R. T.
Johnson's court during the past
few days when fifteen defendants
were carried before him to an
swer for alleged violation of vari- ;
ous and minor laws. Fines, (
amounting ot $40, were almost
half those imposed in the county
court last Monday. A few drew
unconditional road sentences,
while one or two had their eases j
scheduled for trial in the higher
courts.
John Baker, charged with pub
lic drunkenness, was sentenced to
the roads for thirty days and left
for his assignment Tuesday morn
ing.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of $5.85 costs in the
case charging R. A. Moore with
fishing without a license.
Willie Luther Darden was sen
te-need to the roads for thirty days
for an assault. The court sus-1
pended the road term for six
months upon the payment of a
$10 fine and $8.95 costs.
In the ease charging Lenora
Smallwood, Irma Hart and James
Pearsall with an assault, Pears
all was found not guilty. The I
other two defendants were fined
$5 and taxed with $4.13 costs each,
the Hart woman being required
to pay $!> property damages.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of $5.85 costs in the
ease charging Alice Thomas and
Dallas Wlnlley with disorderly
conduct.
Charged with taking fish ruled
too small, Junior Moore and Wil
liam Maker were each lined $5
and taxed with $5.85 costs.
Charged with disorderly con
duct, Lucille Roberson was sen
tenced to jail for thirty days. The
court suspended the jail term
j upon the payment of $(i.85 costs
I and guaranteed good behavior
lor twelve months.
In the case in which George
Owens and John Henry Jones
were charged with fighting in
the streets, Owens was found not
guilty and Jones, adjudged guilty,
was lined $10 and required to pay
$5.85 costs.
The case charging James Pour
sail with operating a motor ve
hide without a driver's license,
was sent to the county court for
trial.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of costs and damages
in the case charging Andrew Pur
vis with damaging personal pro
perty.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of the cost in the
case charging Richard Vines with
an assault.
Charged with being drunk and
disorderly, L. L. Britt was fined
$5 and taxed with the cost at a
hearing late Tuesday night.
Select Delegates
To Special Camp
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(’> >v«nt v Krn'f ♦ W;.«.rck‘.&
arinoiiri7TT*fiiat Vocational Agri i
sion leaders are now selecting i
FFA and J 11 bo.vs to attend the
annual Forestry Training Camp
held by the Dept. of Conservation
and Development on August 15-20,
at. Singletary Lake. Fifty boys
who have carried on outstanding I
forestry projects on their farms!
will be chosen for this honor. The j
Seaboard Railroad will also sendj
JO boys from other Southern
Siat.
The camp, sponsored each year]
by the members mills of the Sou
thern Pulpwood Conservation As
sociation, will again have a staff
of trained foresters to teach the
boys the basic principles of farm
forestry management, said County
Forest Warden Leggett. Timber
marking and i stimating, tree iden
tification, pacing, and log bucking
are some of the things boys will
learn And on the last day of the
camp, contests will be held and
valuable prizes will be awarded j
the winners. County Warden Leg-!
gett added that the boys will have!
Plenty of time for swimming, vol-j
icy ball, softball,
Urge Large Vote In
Referendum July 23
I__
|i THE BOXSCOKE
The N. Department of
Motor Vehicles reported al
most 100 killed and nearly
I 5,000 injured in highway ac
cidents on Slate highways
from last January 1 through
last Monday. The bloodshed
boxscorc reads in detail:
Killed July !) through July
11. 6;
Injured July 9 through
July 11, 1 lti;
Killed through July 11 this
year, 391;
Killed through July 11 in
1918, 332;
Injured through July 11,
this year, 1,119;
Injured through July 11 in
1918, 3,621.
Funeral In Piney
Grove Churc h for
Jas. Manning
(Young County Man Killnl
In Action In ticruiany
On April 1 I, 19-15
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Funeral services for Pvt. James
W. Manning will be conducted in
the Piney Grove Baptist Church
I Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
by the pastor, Rev. W. B. liar
rington, assisted by Elder 1’. E.
Getsinger. Burial will be in the
Tice Community Cemetery in
Griffins Township where a detail
I from the John Walton Hassell
Post of the American Legion will
I be in charge of the last rites.
The young man was killed in
| action in Germany during the
[ push across the Rhine on April
11, 1945, less than a month before
the end of the European War. He
entered the service August 22,
1944, at Fort Bragg and trained
just a few months at Camp Jack
son*" "ani f Cutup 'Craft" itt "South
Carolina before leaving for Ft.
Meade, Maryland, in February,
1945, as a replacement m the
First Army.
The son of William Dave and
Arbell Jones Maiming, he was
born in Griffins Township on
September II 1920, and pent
most id his hie there on the farm.
He attended the Farm Life School
and was a member of the Piney
Grove Baptist Church. He was
popular among the large family
circle and held in high esteem by
all who knew him.
He was married to Miss Mil
dred Leggett and she survives
with a daughter, Patsy Manning,
his parents; nine brothers, Ervin,
Thurman, Darrell, Buck, Jae.y and
Dalmar Gray Manning, all of the
home community, David Brown
Manning of Washington, D. C.,
Leslie Manning of Plymouth; a
half brother, Julius Manning; and
lour sisters, Mrs. R. J. Holloman
of Raleigh, Mrs. Urban Lilley of
Williamston, Miss Thelma Clyde
Manning of Louisburg, and Miss
Betty Manning of the home.
1 he body is scheduled to reach
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in- m stall- at tin- Biggs Funeral
"t v, . -1—r ' w n ii ii 11
service in the Piney Grove church
at 2:30 o’clock.
Selin In lr IlniK+wr
p
On Bus Franchise
filing an application for u fran
chise to operate passenger busses
in Williamston and within half
nnii railius outside, Mr. John S.
Gurganus will appear before the
Nortli Carolina Utilities Commis
sion in Raleigh on Wednesday,1
July 27, it was announced today. I
He will be represented at the
hearing by his attorney, Robert
Cowen.
The franchise applicant pro
poses to maintain bus service
Horn the bus station on the main
street here to and from the fol
lowing points: Donaldson’s Store
m North ilaughton Street,
Hardy’s Station in West End;
Sunny Side Inn on the Washing
on Road, and Green’s Station
tear the river on East Main
i
Street.
ji'IVjf Meeting Is
Held in County's
Courthouse Here
Farmers, Business Men ami
Olliers In Work For
\ ote Jilly 23nl
j While it is fairly certain that
| farmers will favor quotas in th.;
July 23 tobacco referendum,
farm leaders, in a meeting in the
I Martin County courthouse Tues
day evening, declared that a large
vote is vitally necessary if au
thorities and politicians in Wash
ington are to be impressed.
The meeting, presided over by
Triple A Chairman George C.
; Griffin, alt, acted nearly one hun
dred farmers, business men and
1 others who heard J. L. Ktflton.
field representative' of the Triple
A and independent leaders ex
plain the program.
Stressing the importance of a
large and favorable vote for the
July 23 referendum, Mr. Kclton
said that with quotas there'll be
; acreage control and guaranteed
price support while without
quotas farmers will be at liberty
to plant all the tobacco they de
sire to plant but without priet
support. Explaining that then
is more opposition to the present
program than one might think,
the representative declared that
few things could be more im
portant to the tobacco grower
than participation in the referen
dum on Saturday of next week.
Helton explained that the polls
j will be open from 7:00 a. m. un
til ti:0U p. m., that everyone hav
i ing an actual interst in a tobac
i co crop lias a right to vote re
gardless of age. He also explain
ed that support prices will con
tinue in el feet this year regard
I less of the outcome of the ren r
j endurn vote.
.ageaKing ror Tobacco Associ
ates, John I. Eagles, former as
sistant Martin County farm agent
I and representative of the State
Farm Bureau, said it was most
important that a large vote be
cast in tin July 23 referendum.
llui present program is faring
Opposition right here in North
Carolina and also m Washington,
lie declared, and a large vote will
help support those who are work
ing to retain the program as it is.
Referring briefly to the pro
posed Brannon plan, one ol sev
eral now under consideration,
Eagles said it will possibly take
so much money to finance it that
tin' plan will die under its own
weight and eventually kill all
farm programs.
Urging support for the Tobacco
Associates, the field man said that
the organization had had much
to do with opening markets for
Hue-cured tobacco, that TO mil
lion pounds of tobacco are mov
ing to Western Gormnay as a re
sult of the work of Tobacco As
sociates. Quoting L. T. Weeks,
president of the Hue-Cured To
bacco Cooperative Stabilization
Corporation, Eagles said that the
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>»*•''' iiiikAi" ■Vji'ii'11 ’ hgjy?m
on the various markets during
the past three years had been
sold down to 100 million pounds
ol the 1947 and 1948 crops.
According to Eagles the son
port price for tobacco this year
will likely be pegged at 12 and a
traction con’s as compared with
44 and a fraction cents last sea
son.
farmers will have an opportun
ity to vote- on tin 10-eent-per
acre assessment for the support
ol lobaeeo Associates at the ref
erendum on July 23. The elec
tion, while being held at the same
polling places and at the same
time along with the tobacco quota
referendum, will be conducted by
personnel other than the Triple
A group, it was explained at the
meeting.
Following an appeal for a large
vote and strong support of to
bacco quotas and Tobacco As
sociates by Chas. L. Daniel, presi
dent ill the Martin County Farm
Bureau, those present pledged
their efforts in getting out the
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