THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK I THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 73 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 15, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 •Superior Court To Open Term Monday --- After pointing out that fav orable farm legislation was not certain, that there was much a strong Farm Bureau could do in the interest of ag riculture, Chas. L. Daniel, president of the Martin Coun ty Farm Bureau, said last night that the organization had already signed 417 mem bers in its current member ship drive, that the member ship in at least one township was larger than it was a year ago. The organization is working for a minimum of 2,000 mem bers and hopes to reach its goal in the course of the next few weeks. The membership canvassers are to meet again on Thursday evening, Sep tember 29, in the courthouse at 8:00 o’clock. Price Average At Highest Peak Of Season Yesterday Through Wednesday, Mar ket Had Sold 5,374,148 Pounds for $46.22 Tobacco price averages reach ed the highest peak of the season on the Williamston market yester day when 239,(134 pounds were sold for $126,343 57, an average for the day of $52.72. The price fig ure was better than $1.25 per hun dred than the average for the previous day when records were broken for the season. While there was some common quality tobacco on the floors and prices ranged as low as a few cents per pound, the high range was found Tuesday. Farmer Sid ney Beacham sold three piles, one for 70, another for 74 and still an other for 76 cents to set a top figure to date. The sales were legitimate in that they were made to one of the regular buy ing companies and not to a ware house for advertising purposes or to an independent buyer for speculation. Up until this morning, the local market had sold 5,374,148 pounds for $2,484,166, an average of $46.22 for the first eighteen selling days. Last year in the first eighteen selling days, the market sold 4, 655,494 pounds for $2,133,129, an average of $45.68. This year the market is leading by nearly three quarters of a million pounds and the price average is higher by 54 cents a hundred than it was a year (Continued on page three) Peanut Field Day Tomorrow ——#— On Friday of this week at 1:00 p. m., there will be a Field Day Meeting held at the Coastal Plain Stai* oJff *ii /-V",, '.ii production. All farmers attend-1 ing the meeting will be able to get the latest information on pea nut digging, handling, grading, stacking and curing. The meeting will give the latest information which will enable farmers to do a much better job digging and handling their pea nuts the correct way, which will mean higher market prices for the farmer.—R. McK. Edwards, Negro county agent. Name Of Loral lloy On the Dean's lAst James A. Leggett, Jr., local young man, was one of ninety students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina to make the Dean’s List during the second ses sion of the summer 'term, it was announced this week by Dean William Wells. To have his name appear on the list, the student must make a minimum of nine quarter hours of work and make grades of B: (90-95) or better. I J. S. Peel Will Placed In Court Records Tuesday •— Hulk of Estate Goes To Widow of Late Martin County Man The last will and testament of Julius S. Peel, late of Williamston, and bearing date of February 25, 1949, was placed in the official public records in this county on Tuesday of this week after it had been filed in the Bertie County re cords. The document was probat ed in Bertie because one of the heirs is the wife of the clerk in this county. No estimate as to the value of the estate was disclosed, but the worth of the property, including real and personal, will approxi mate from $75,000 to more than $100,000, according to unofficial reports. Remembering several old friends, Mr. Peel went on to stipu late in his will that those sending flowers should be refunded and that those traveling from a dis tance to his funeral should be re imbursed their travel expenses. The will, written in long hand, reads, as follows: “Being of sound mind and be lieving the sureness of death, I hereby make this my last will and testament: “I appoint Branch Banking and Trust Company, Wilson, N. C., and my wife, Mary Layman Peel, as executors. “I desire to be buried in my plot at Woodlawn Cemetery, Wil liamston. The cost of the funeral is not to exceed six hundred dol lars, and anyone sending flowers and traveling expenses to be re funded in full. 1 want a marker for about $750 covering my wife and myself, $200 for shrubbery, $200 deposited with the Clerk of court to keep the plot in good shape and $250 improvements at the Yarrell Cemetery, all this spe cifically to be used from $2,000 life insurance I now have as to my estate: “I give all my personal proper ty such as automobile, household furniture, wearing apparel, etc., to my wife, saving and excepting one black onyx ring to J. H. Ev erett, Norfolk, Va., 1 suit of clothes and my watch to Wesley Peel, Williamston, N. C,, and 1 suit of clothes to N. S. Godard, Williamston, N. C. All my dia monds are earmarked and have already been given away to be de livered at my death. “I divide or put all my cash, stocks and bonds, notes, open ac counts into a total of 100 share of value and the same to be sold and my debts paid, and, “7!j shares to my wife Mary Layman Peel, 17 shares to my de voted friends, C. H. and Mary Godwin, 5 shares to my life-long friend, Eloise Bennett; 2 shares to my very good friend, Anna Craw ford; 1 shore to Mrs. Katherine P. Everett, Norfolk, Va. “My real estate all goes to my loving wife for her life time, she to get all rents and all insurance should there be a fire. “The same to be kept fully in sured and taxes paid by the par ses below to wh- m I leave in fee Wftpie death oi lily my cousin Pattie Harris Singleton, two-fifths share, my cousin, Sallie Harris Jones, two-fifths share; vvuiuiiiutu un inree; ! BROOM SALE v-J Definite plans are being formulated for the sale of brooms here on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week by members of the local Lions Club, according to a statement by the Committee Chairman Chas. Brady here yesterday. The brooms are made exclusively by blind citizens of Greensboro in the Guilford Industries, a factory using nothing but blind labor. The brooms are purchased outright by the local Lions Club and resold. The profit realized from the sale of the brooms will be used by the club here to assist them in the help they are rendering the blind citizens of this county. v Ask For Bids On Surfacing Of Highway 171 In County The State Highway and Public Works Commission is -ailing for bids on the surfacing of approxi-1 matelv seven miles on Route 171 from the Beaufort Martin line to-j ward Jamesville. The proposed j contract provides for a fill across the Hardison Mill Pond. Detailed plans of the project have not been officially released, j but the State highway forces are said to be planning to complete the surfacing of the route from a point, several miles out of Jamesville, to the intersection of the Holly Springs-Farm Life Road. That part of the project was tentatively scheduled before late fall. The new project, as unofficially outlined, does not call for a direct routo across the mill pond and it will not be necessary to move any of the homes in the immediate area, according to information reaching here. Bids on the project, along with those on about 200 miles of other roads in the State, will be opened | on September 27 and canvassed by the full Highway commission on the 29th. After the project in Griffins and ' the one between Hamilton and Palmyra are cleared from the cal endar, work is tentatively sched uled on the $200 million rural road program. The 268 miles now proposed for construction are estimated to cost about two and one-half million dollars. ( STARTS MINISTRY v___ The Kev. Thomas L. Hast ings will begin his ministry here as rector of the Church of the Advent Sunday morn ing at the 11:00 o'clock hour. The minister and his family come to Williamston from Louisville, Ky., where he has been rector of St. George's Episcopal Church for the past several years. The service schedule calls for Church school at 9:45 a. m. and Holy Communion and sermon at 11:00 a. m. Jamesville Making Arrangements Foi Community Event “Live at Home” To B< Theme Of Fair On Fri day, Oetoher I I ——o Extensive plans are well ud vanced for holding Jamesville': first community fair on Friday October 14, a representative of thi Ruritan Club, the sponsoring or ganization, announced today. Governor Kerr Scott has beet invited to take part in the one-da.i program, and his address wil mark his first official appearance in this county since he became governor. The Elizabeth City ant Williamston High School Band: >T.av>* been c »?«*•••»» to participate and enjoy the pro gram, and other entertainmen features are being arranged, the club representative said. The sponsors are planning a big fid dlers’ “convention” or barn dance that evening, but plans for the evening program are only tenta tive, it was explained. There’ll be no carnival oi gambling, the club has ruled, the representative adding, “But we are working to make it a big and representative live-at-home af fair.” Approximately $150 is be ing of fered in prizes for the best ex hibits, inculding all kinds of farm produce, home furnishings and supplies, poultry and livestock. Most of the exhibits will be hous ed in the gymnasium along with commercial displays while special pens wiil be built on the school yard for the livestock. A pre mium iist has been prepared and is being distributed by the club and through th< schools. Reports reaching here declare that the people of the community (Continued on page three ! Green Wave Band To March Friday In (dosing Drive 'lie'll School Musicians Kx poct To l{cacli Main Si. About I I :0() A. M. The youngsters and the older folks who bring them can come up town tomorrow morning just before II o'clock to see the Wil liamston High School Green Wave , Band in action for the first time this school year as the young mu sicians parade and play in their annual tag day program, The day is also the big day for the instru ment fund drive for the solicitors will be turning in their reports to Chairman Hildreth Mobley that I day and the counting will begin. Professor Jack Butler announc 1 ed today that the band members | will start, dressing and leave the 'school building about 10:30 which j should put them up to Main Street | about ll:4.r) Just what the band , will do when it gets up the street j will largely depend on the weath er and other circumstances but it 'is certain that the youngsters will distribute tags bearing the picture of a saxophone and the wording, "Help Us Buy an Instrument.” i Reports from Chairman Mobley jand Co-chairman Julian Harrell ' indicate that the drive is pro ceeding according to plan with r contributions running about as ) expected in most instances al i though there has been a drop in donations here and there. Atten tion was again called to the need ' of the band for the additional in struments it is seeking in order . that it may round out its program. The investment in the instru ments is of a permanent nature in that they will remain for use in the band for years to come with rental fees helping to maintain ’ them in good order. ■ The fund this year is over $200 • under the amount donated for the ■ uniforms in the first drive and I $100 less than was sought last i year as the band's share in a com bined drive. It takes money to operate and maintain the band ■ but it is money on which the town ■ has been drawing dividends in satisfaction and publicity from the ;; unit's activities. :.L rt!,, ’ ___ dividuals who had not been listed as possible donors came forward ■ to give something to the band out of their pride in the work of the youngsters and a sincere desire to help them along. The band was very proud of these voluntary gifts and the spirit in which they were given. -o-. Officials Discuss Couple Projects —<*_— Officials of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad*Company discussed two proposed projects with mem bers of the board of commission ers here this week, but no action was taken. No meeting was cull ed but the company superintend ent talked with the authorities in dividually. It has been proposed to open a crossing across the Railroad on Slade Street, and to relieve the hazard at the railroad underpass on West Main Street. The repre sentative was said to have strong ly opposed both projects. I Killed In Road Accident Early Wednesday Night (ins Bryant Loses Life When Car Hit* Parked Truck in Hamilton —.* . Gus Bryant, 44-year-old tenant farmer on the Keel farm near OaK City, was killed in an automobile truck accident within the town limits of Hamilton on the Oak City Highway last evening a few minutes before 7:00 o’clock. Er nest Wilson Bunting, Jr., of Oak City, driver of the car in which Bryant was riding, suffered shock and was placed in the care of a doctor soon after the accident. R, S. Edmondson and Russell Sher rod, passengers in the Bunting car, suffered bruises and shock, it was stated by Patrolman R. P. Narron who investigated the ac cident. Driving into Hamilton, Bunting apparently lost control of his 1949 Ford and ran off the highway, crashing into the rear end of a pick-up truck parked several feet off the hardsurface. Bryant, bumming a ride to Hamilton where he planned to attend the show, was riding in the rear seat to the right with Sherrod who was also bumming his way from Oak City to Hamilton. Most of the right side of the car was ripped away and Bryant was caught, the blow tearing open his head and breaking several of his limbs. He lived just a few minutes after the crash. The pick-up truck, belonging to Ben Roberson of near Oak City, was unattended at the time. The light truck was turned around and knocked into a ditch in front oi the Sam Short home. Patrolman Narron said this morning that the investigation had not been completed. Some thing was said about a coroner's (Continued on page three) I wo Minor Road No one was hurt and very little damage resulted in two minor road accidents reported in the county this week. James Carlton Jones, Jr., young Raleigh white man, lost control of his car on Highway 04 just west of Ever etts early last Monday evening and plowed into a collat'd patch, causing about $200 damage to his car, according to a report coining from Patrolman J. T. Rowe who made the investigation, Jones, driving east, ran off the concrete and when he steered the machine back it went into a spin, turned almost around and headed for the collat'd patch. Yesterday afternoon about 1:00 o'clock, Walter Rogers was chiv ing tt truck loaded with logs across a small bridge about two miles south of Bear Grass when Elbert Rawls of Norfolk came around a curve and plowed into the truck with a 1930 Model A. No one was hurt. Patrolman M. E. Powers, charging Rawls with drunken driving, estimated the damage to the truck at $50 and th-.t to the car at about $20> W*»'J - __ MiBIMn., THE RECORD~ SPEAKS . . . Except for deaths and num ber injured, accident figures growing out of highway wrecks in this county are run ning a close race with those of last year. There have been four fewer highway accidents so far this year than there were in the first 36 weeks of hist, and the property loss this year is only about $1,000 below the $19,750 reported a year ago. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 36th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1949 1 2 0 $ 500 1948 220 500 Comparisons To Date 1949 84 34 4 $18,010 1948 83 47 19,750 Two-Day Session Of The County's Court PAVING ^-j The town's paving program is well advanced and prob ably will be completed in about two more weeks. Curb and gutter has already been laid on Smithwick and Liber ty Streets, East Franklin and forms are being laid on School Drive and East Grace Streets, leaving West Frank lin in the program to be handled last. No official information can be had, but contractors are setting up an asphalt plant in Windsor and the streets will be surfaced from there. Just when the surfacing work, in- ! eluding the resurfacing of Main, part of Haughton and Washington Streets is to be handled, could not be learned. Twelve Cases In Justices’ Courts In Past Few Days jChus. R. Mobley, New Jus lire of Peaee, Hears First Cases Here Recently Chas. Ft. Mobley, recently ap pointed a justice of the peace by Governor Kerr Scott, handled his first cases a few days ago, but a report on the proceedings of his j court could not be had immediate- I ly. Justice John L. Hassell handled j two cases in his court, as follows: j Agnes Coffield, charged with disorderly conduct, and Leola Williams, charged with simple as sault, were each required to pay $5.50 costs. Justice R. T. Johnson handled ten cases in his court, as follows: ' Walter Freeman, drunk and dis orderly, was fined $10 and taxed with $5.05 costs. Charged with shooting across the highway, John Rogers was fined $10 and required to pay $5.85 costs. James Perkins was bound over to the county court for trial when probable cause of guilt was found in the case charging him with as saulting a female. Howard Lee, charged with op erating a motor vehicle with im proper equipment, was fined $5 and taxed with $5.85 costs. Joseph David Anthony, allow ing a minor to operate a motor vehicle and Wilton Eugene Bow en, speeding, were bound over to the county court for trial. Publicly drunk, William Tay lor was sentenced to jail for ten flays to be worked in and around the county courthouse. Robert Green, charged with dis orderly conduct, was sentenced to jail for thirty days, the court sus pending the term for twelve months upon a promise of good behavior and the payment of a $10 fine and $8.85 costs. James Stokes, charged with dis- i orderly conduct, was fined $10 and taxed with $7.t>.-> cost., TTaspeV Perry was tmed $5* pTus' $5.85 costs, for being Facing Second Larceny Charge (Robcrsonvillc Weekly Herald) | Robert Linwoud Hassell, alias Pete Hassell, was picked up Sun day morning by the local police after an attempt was made to en ter the Big Apple Cafe Saturday night and after entering the old Park Building and stealing $14 00 in cash. He is also charged with assault on a female. The colored man has been plac ed under $1100.00 bond on the charges of breaking and attempt ing to enter the Big Apple and is being Field in jail without bond on the charges of breaking and enter ing the old Park building, larceny of $14 00 and assault on a female. Hassell, at the time of his ar rest, was under $300.00 bond to appear in Recorder’s court on the charges of breaking and entering Page Grocery Store in Rubers jn villu several weeks ago. Thirty Cases Are Cleared From the Docket First Day — Court Imposes Fines In Sum of '$1,060; Con fiscates Machines Postponed last Monday when several of the practicing attorneys were busy in the Pitt County Sup erior Court, the Martin County Recorder’s Court bumped into an unexpectedly big docket yester day and failing to clear the docket went into an extra session this morning. Last reports indicated the court was in a slow drag with much time being devoted to a trial by jury. At the close of the first day, the court had handled about thirty cases. Fines, imposed and col lected, amounted to more than $1,000. The use of slot machines of the pin ball and one-armed bandit type was definitely ruled out when Judge Chas H. Manning imposed substantial fines on the owners and those who had them in their possession. The ma chines were ordered confiscated and all money found in them is to be turned into the school fund. , Proceedings: Charged with issuing worthless checks, W. E. Davifc and L. H. Hamm failed to answer when called and the cases were con tinued. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging William StanciU with non-support. The case charging Columbus Davis with drunken driving ;jnd speeding was nol pressed. It was reported that the man who led patrolmen on a wild chase in Pop lar Point-Gold Point area a few months ago, had been placed in an institution. Charged with speeding, James 11 Oliver was fined $15, plus costs. Going before a jury in the case charging him with drunken driv ing, C. C. Coltrain, young man, was found guilty and fined $100, plus costs. Clarence Hardy, Rus sell Holliday, Francis Worsley, Paul Dixon, Howard Hardison and Floyd Ward sat on the jury, and returned its verdict after debat ing the issues about an hour. Arthur Staton was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for oper ating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Donald Coatly Parker of Ral eigh was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding in a truck. Charged with assaulting a fe male, James Perkins was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, Woodard Edmundson and John Riley Gray were each fined $24 and taxed with the costs. Publicly drunk, Lucy Capitola Bullock was fined $10 and taxed with the costs. Charged with violating the li quor laws, S. W. Rogersun and C. (Continued on page three) INO CHAIRMAN v; J Some difficulty is being en countered in perfecting an or ganization for handling the Christian Rural Overseas Pro gram in this county, accord ing to a report coming from a meeting held in the court house this week. Several per sons, including ministers and others, have volunteered to assist the relief plan in behalf of the needy in troubled lands across the seas, but so far no one bas volunteered to chair man the drive in the county. Last year this county sent a solid carload of food and feed overseas. It is planned to complete the organization at a meeting to be held in the courthouse next Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock, and everyone inter ested in the humanitarian ef fort is invited to attend. 1