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f Special Booster Bargain Days In Williamston Thursday, Friday, Saturday THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE fearrft-~ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 76 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 27, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Divorce Mill In High Gear Monday In Superior Court Judge . I. Halstead Is Presiding Over Second Week of Term After accomplishing very little in the first of a two-week term, \ the Martin County Superior Court cranked up its divorce mill, threw it into high gear and ground out ten absolute divorces in short ord er Monday. Several other cases were also cleared from the calen dar before the day was spent. None of the divorce cases was contested when the final show down came. Taking over the court when Judge Leo Carr, after presiding over the first week of the term, | asked to be transferred to Tarboro to hear the contempt cases against 78 cotton mill workers, Judge W. I. Halstead, recently appointed to the bench by Governor W. Kerr Scott, set a pattern for his charges to the jury, and the divorces liter ally rolled out of the mill. Divorces, all based on two-year separation grounds, were granted in the following cases. Lizzie Mae Carr against Leo Carr, Robert Tucker against Grace Tucker, Margaret C. Ruff against Robert Lee Ruff, Annie H. Ewell against Willie Ewell, Addie Uzzell against Altas Thomas Uz zell, Gertha Powell against Lin wood Powell. Edward Lefate Jones against Bertha Irene Jones, C. B. Allen against Vady Mildred Allen, and Orlander Rodgers against Beatrice Rodgers. The case in which Mrs. Vady Mildred Allen was suing C. B. Allen for alimony without di-; vorce, the plaintiff took a volun- j tary non-suit. It was announced Monday morning that the plaintiff would fontest the divorce action brought by her husband, but the records show that later in the day J the voluntary non-suit was taken' and a divorce was granted Allen. | The case in which S. Gluck and I Company was suing American Railway Express Company for j several thousand dollars, an j agreement was reached, the plain- ] tiff accepting $558.50 in settle-1 rnent of its claim. A consent judgment was enter- ' ed in the case of Edward Mat-, thews against Ernest Elton Har-1 ris, the plaintiff to recover $300 damages allegedly resulting in an ! automobile collision. With the divorce slate cleared and judgment entered in a few other cases, the court called the j case of Albert Biggs against L. V. ! Fagan in which the plaintiff ask ed $279 09 damages alleged to have resulted in a wreck on High (Continued on page eight) -o Car fl recked Ity lira In County Saturday Starting from a short circuit in the radio, fire burned out the in terior of Will Ampley’s 1941 Ford! car shortly before midnight last Saturday near Robersonville, Pa trolman B. W. Parker reported yesterday. Answering the call to the car fire, w 11 u ntt^,, firemen saveotm^engme and tires. While at the scene the fire men discovered a fire in a tenant house on Kenneth Roberson’s farm, hardly one hundred yards away, and put it out in a hurry. THRONGS -^ Mo official estimates could be had, but several observers are certain that more people visited Williamston last Fri day afternoon and evening than at any time in recent years. Possibly 10,000 persons invaded the town. It was es timated that between 1,400 and 1,500 attended the foot ball game, that 7,000 were at the circus and several hun dred were at the picture shows. Cars were parked half-mile or more from the circus grounds, and one of the worst traffic jams ever experienced developed when the game and circus “broke” about the same time. Demonstrate Latest Potato Digger In County Monday — • A new device for digging sweet potatoes will be demonstrated in this county next Monday after noon at 3:00 o’clock, Assistant County Farm Agent J. W. Sumner announced this week. Henry Cov ington, sweet potato specialist for the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Raleigh, and a recognized authority on sweet po tato culture, will conduct the de monstration and hundreds of in terested farmers are expected to attend. The demonstration will be held on the Clyde Revels farm in Bear Grass Township, about one mile west of Highway 17 on the road to Bear Grass. Inventors have been working on improvements to the rotary sweet potato digger, and the dem onstration in this county will be one of the first on the schedule this season. The improved ma chine, recognized as a long step ahead of the old conventional method of digging potatoes with a two-horse turning plow, lightens the work, saves labor and cuts fewer potatoes, according to ad vance reports. In addition to the demonstra tion, Mr. Covington will gladly answer any question pertaining to sweet potato production and mar | keting. He appeared in the coun ty a few weeks ago and discussed the timely topic at a meeting held in Bear Grass. The public is invited and all sweet potato farmers are urged to witness the demonstration on the Revels farm next Monday after ! noon at 3:00 o’clock. f LOOK FOR OWNER ] v' Instead of looking for stol en tobacco. Sheriff M. YV. Hol loman and Deputy J. H. Roe buck are looking for the own er to claim about 300 pounds of tobacco believed to have been stolen. Seventeen sticks of grad ed tobacco were found by Farmer Daniel Knox in a va cant tenant house on his farm on the Butler's Bridge-Has sell Road last Saturday. He reported the find to the of ficers and they are looking for the owner who may re cover the tobacco by contact ing the sheriff's office and describing it. Circus Attended By Large Crowds Dailey Brothers' circus, the sec ond railroad “big top” to come here in years, was attended by large crowds at both perform ances last Friday afternoon and evening. Although in competi tion with a high school football game that evening, the circus played to approximately 4,000 and possibly more people that even ing. The show, while hardly measur uring up to expectations, was en joyed by the little tots and those who had never seen a circus. Joe David Thrower, Sr., and Dick Smith saw it once or possibly twice, and Arthur Revels, taking in his first circus, laughed at some of the acts until tears rolled down his face. Old circus fans, including Wiley Burroughs Rogerson and Irving Smith of Robersonville, greeted the show in fairly large numbers at Roberson’s siding just west of the town at 6:30 that morning. Mr. Thrower, after keeping things straight all day, helped load up and turned the show over to the the train crew shortly before 1:00 o’clock Saturday morning. The 25-car train pulled out of the sta tion about 1:30 for Selma. A record crowd moved away from the high school football field 'Ju-t ■ mrjji''"' to. meet tl.e circus crowd at the Washington and Haughton intersections, and a traffic tie-up resulted. Cars were blocked for half a mile, but after a few minor incidents the traffic snarl was unraveled and the streets were soon cleared. --- Happenings in Oak City School The senior class of Oak City High School elected its class of ficers for 1949-50 recently. They are as follows: President, Gladys Everett; vice president, Margaret Bryant; secretary, Lorene Ogles by; treasurer, Irvin Manning. On September 19 the annual staff was elected. They are as fol lows: Editor-inchief, Stella Mizell; associate editor, Mary Elizabeth Harrell; business manager, Lor ette Oglesby; production manag er, Dorothy Smith; art edit<?r, Reatha Edmonds; literary editor, Kay Everett; sports editor, Elmer Davenport; advertising manager, Billy Worsley.—Lorene Oglesby. Crop Conditions At Quick Glance In North Carolina Bright anil Dark Spots Are Found In Kstiniatrs Of September I -* Crop conditions are offered at a glance by the North Carolina Farm Report, as follows: The flue-cured tobacco crop is now estimated at 747 million pounds, or an increase of about eight million pounds over the 1948 harvest. The State is just about ready to harvest a record corn crop of 71, 247.000 bushels, a gain of about 3 2 percent over 1948 production. Until recent rains, the peanut crop prospects were fairly bright. Acreage has been reduced from 295.000 last year to 242,000 acres this year, and the crop is now es timated to yield 266,200,000 pounds. The crop in the nation is estimated at a billion and 338 mil lion pounds. There has been a drop of 30,000 : bales in the estimated yield of i cotton in this State, and in this county the outlook is gloomy. The nation is estimated to yield 14, 943.000 bales as compared with 14.805.000 bales last year. Egg production was up four percent in August. There were 6, 472,900 layers on Carolina farms at that time. The hens produced 777 million eggs in the State dur (Continued on page eight) L C. Strickland Is Reported Missing Nothing has been heard so far from Lemon C\ Strickland, 40 year-old man missing from his home near Hassell since Tuesday of last week. He is believed to be the victim of amnesia. Leaving his home last Tuesday morning, Strickland went to a Williamston garage to have his car repaired. He said that he would return and get it in about | two hours. Nothing has been 'heard from him since that time. A tci.aiuT»r» Vh'c'Saisbury farm, Strickland had met all his obliga tions, had more crop to sell and had about $100 in cash on his per son when he disappeared. Strickland weighs about 140 pounds, is five feet and ten inches tall and has brown hair and gray eyes. Half of the forefinger on his right hand has been cut off. HOME FASHIONS »— - -* Local furniture dealers announced today that “Home Fashion Week” would be ob served in Williamston next week with a program of pro motion similar to that being held in Raleigh and other cities of the state this week. Prizes will be given and an essay contest conducted, it was said, The program was postponed a week here so as not to conflict with the Boost er Day program of sales pro motion. Details will be an nounced to the public Thurs day of this week. Judgment Delayed i In Big Civil Case By Jurist Friday -- Jtitigc Says He’ll Entertain Motion To Set $6,000 Verdict Aside Following a one and one-half daytrial, the $15,000 damage suit brought by Grover Peel, adminis trator of Chloe Peel, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company was left pending in the Martin County Superior Court late last Friday afternoon when Judge Leo Carr, presiding, an nounced he would entertain a mo tion to have the verdict set aside. Defense counsel with one of the attorneys called away before the jury reached its verdict made no immediate move to set the verdict calling for $6,000 damage, aside. It was intimated, however, that at least three motions would be of fered, and Judge Carr said that the motions would be entertained at the convenience of the court at any place inside or outside the the district, possibly before the next term of the tribunal is held I in the county. I It is fairly certain that the de | fense will ask that the verdict j be set aside as being contrary to the weight of the evidence, or be cause the amount allowed is cx jcessive, or, lastly, because of er ror in the proceedings. The $15,000 damage suit had its I origin last November when Chloe Peel, two-year-old colored child, was struck and fatally injured by the defendant’s train near Dar dens. Her father away at work at the time and “deserted" by the mother, the child was in the care of a 9-year-old sister. The two girls, following a little path, started across the railroad ahead of the train. The older girl made it across, but the 2-year-old was caught in the middle, struck and knocked a few feet to the side. It was brought out by plaintiff’s evidence that the engineer sound ed the engine whistle, applied the emergency brakes and brought the train to a stop within eight or j ten feet after the child was hit. No evidence w'as offered by the defense and after argument and the judge’s charge Friday after noon, the jury took the case and rendered its verdict within a fair ly short time. Band Parents Club Elects New Prexy Meeting in the auditorium of the elementary school immediate ly following the close of the regu lar session of the Parents-Teach ers Association, the Williamston High School Bund Parents Club last night named Ft. L. Welch as I its president for the coming year | and approved a reduction in dues from $2.00 to $1.00 per family. I D. C. McLawhoi ii was named as vice president and Mrs. J. D. Page I was re-elected as secretary-treas j urer. The new officers were nom inated by a committee under the chairmanship of Walter Martin i and were approved unanimously, j Professor Jack Butler reported j that the Green Wave Band has ao ! cepted an invitation to pi -y oim j and is considering an invitation to | appear at ECTC in Greenville or, October 28. He asked and receiv ed permission to charter a bus for I the football band to travel to Ahoskie on November 11 fbr the football game between the In dians and the Green Wave. He said that was the only out of town game the band would attend. Three graduates of the 1948-49 band have moved into places on college musical units it was re ported last night. Julian Mason is now a drummer with the Univer sity of North Carolina band, Sally Bet Hardison is with the Duke University concert band and Edna Rae Thomas has joined Lucy Rob ertson as a majorette at ECTC. Retiring President John Henry Edwards was given a vote of thanks for his services during the past year and the group voiced bs deep appreciation of the support the town gave its recent drive to raise funds for instruments. Rehearsal hours were listed by Professoi Butler as from 7:30 to 9:00 on Monday nights and 7:30 to 9:30 on Thursday nights. ( SOCIAL SECURITY V v__ A representative of the field office of the Social Se curity Administration will be in the offices of the Employ ment Security Commission, Tar Heel Building, Williams ton, each fourth Wednesday at 11:00 o’clock to receive claims for old age and surviv ors’ insurance. The represen tative, it is pointed out, does not handle claims for old-age pensions. He will also correct records of earnings under the Social Security Act and issue Social Security account num bers. I State Law Holds Youngsters Late! State school regulations are re sponsible for the holding of the first and second grade pupils in the grammar school until after ! 3:00 p. m. instead of the former ' 2:00 and 2:30 deadline. Principal B. G. Stewart told the members of the Williamston Parent-Teachers Association assembled in the audi torium of the Elementary School last night for their first meeting of the fall. He said he had releas ed the youngsters early since tak ing over his duties here as he had in other schools before but that state school authorities had called his attention to state regulations which set up a minimum of six hours per school day. The annual fee per member for the assoeiation was raised to 50c from the previous 25c in order to provide more funds for operation of the local, unit after deduction of state and national dues. The action, taken by the executive committee prior to the meeting, was proposed to the group last night subject to a vote at the next regular meeting on October 24. Following the opening prelim inaries, Mrs. Urbin Rogers, vice president. was ashed by President .1. G. Eubanks to bring up the mat ter ol earlier release of the first two grades and in turn Mr, Stew-1 art explained the reason for the change. Mrs. Abernathy’s room was found to be the winner of the attendance prize of $1.00 and is to hold the pennant for the month. Breaking up the assembly in the newly decorated and attractive auditorium the parents joined the teachers of the various grades up through the fifth in a visit to the classrooms where the teachers ex plained anti illustrated in detail "the methods of teaching and what other activitic s were enjoyed din - ing the school day. The parents, generally, enjoyed this phase of the prograjH very much. Parents having no children in the gram mar school toured the rooms with the parents who did and took an interest in the proceedings. Refreshments were served in the lunchroom in the basement under the supervision of Miss j Margaret Mc Daniel, home eco I nomies teacher. _*__ Homecoming At Hassell Church Next Sunday, Get. 2, i.s annual hoipoeominji tiny at *lie Hassell i Hi: i:0 .,,n Chinch. AM the i,|.j members and friends are invited. The morning program will begin with Sunday school at 10:00, the worship service at 11:00. There is to be special music and dinner on the church lawn. A large crowd i.s expected. The pastor, Rev. Olin Fox i.s anxious that those who come tiy to be on time for the morning worship at 11:00. “It will be a wonderful day of fellowship,” he declares. IlAKCAIiNS ^-/ Real bargains and very limcly ones, too, will reign in the merchandising field here on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week when nearly every business firm in town will support the fail booster days. It i.s no little trade event— it’s colossal. Attention is di rected to a part of the bar gains listed in the advertise ments appearing in this pa per. Court Ends Trial Of Criminal Case Thursday Morning Jutlp'r Mukr* I)ollar-A-Yeai Man Out of Dofi'iiilaul llrrliiTl Thompson -* After clearing fourteen case from the criminal docket, the sup orior court for some reason or an other switched to the civil calcn dar, leaving seven criminal case; to be carried over to the Decem ber term. Only one civil case was called, Grover Peel, administra tor of Chloe Peel, two-year-oli colored child who was killed by i freight train last November against the A. C. L. Railroac Company, before Judge Leo Car recessed the court late Friday af ternoon. At that time Judge Car said that Judge W. I. Halsteat who was recently appointed to tin bench, would take over on Mon day of this week while he (Judgi Carr) moved to Tarboro to hear ; case in which 78 mill worker were to report and show causi why they should not be held ii contempt of court. During the four-day crimina sessions last week the four handled seven jury cases. Twi defendants were found not guilt; of drunken driving, and two de fendants in another case wer freed of rape charges. Eight de fendants were found guilty of lar cony or breaking and enterin; and larceny. One case was dis missed, and no true bill was foum in another by the grand jury. The court made a clollur-a-yea man out of Herbert Edwun Thompson, colored man. Thump son is alleged to have broken int the room of Oscar Frazer in rooming hall and stole a dollai Found guilty by the jury, he wa sentenced to the roads for a year. Sentenced to serve eight month on the roads for allegedly steal ing several cases of gun shells David Mayo and Wheeler Bone; got a break when the court plat ed them on probation for twi years. The action was promptei by the prosecution. The two mei are to pay the costs of court am about $M for missing gun shell.1 the total cost approximating $70. Former Resident Of County Die; Mrs. Thurston F. Davenpor Sr., died at her home in Rock Mount last Saturday morning t 9:25 o’eloek after a long period < doelining health. Her conditio had been critical, however, f< only a short time. She was born in Mildred, Edge combe County, (ill years ago an following her marriage she mad her home in Scotland Neck for while before locating in Rock Mount. The family lived in Hair ilton about six years, returning t Rocky Mount about sixteen yeai ago. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home Sunday afternoo at 2:30 o'clock, and burial was i Scotland Neck. i Surviving besides her husban are five sons, Ashley G., Hernia K . George T arid William iV k/uvenport, all ot Rocky Mono and T. F. DavenpoVt, Jr., of Wi liamston; four daughters, Mr j Clinton Shearin, Mrs. Earl Turr | age and Mrs. Allison Davis, all < Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Henr Williams of Roxboro; two sister Mrs. Mae Stuncil! of Wintervill land Mrs. Susie Alligood of Was) ■ ingtori; and a brother, Robei j Knight of Tarboro. ___o___ Minor Accident In This Counts j No one was hurt but a 1937 For eoaeli was wrecked beyond repa; last Friday morning a few bur died feet this side of the Pi County boundary on Highway (v Isaac G. Whitley of the Gol Point section started to slow th vehicle down when he saw sever;, children beside the road. The tire skidded on the wet pavement an the ear tore into a telephone puli Patrolman B. W. Parker, makin the investigation, said the damag was about $75. j Tobacco Sales Near Eight Million Mark r— | FOURTH 1ST GRADE v ; ■ No announcement has been released, but according: to a sixth-grade lad, questioned as he carried a large turn of books from the grammar to the high school last week, they are creating the fourth 1st grade in the local schools.” The lad explained that he and 1 ; his chums literally were be ' [ ing kicked out to make room • | for the additional grade. A I j space shortage is certain to j develop in the high school. Just how many beginners there are in the first grade ' could not be learned. A teach er for the new grade was con tacted, but she was unable to accept the position and an II other teacher has not been 51 named. L i Diphtheria Lases ! In Martin County ' —• By J. W. Williams Martin County Health Officer Not-with-standing diphtheria is r easily prevented, easily cured . with an anti-toxin and it is law 1 that the child be immunized Li against this disease before ho is one year old, Martin County has had two eases in the Harrington family in Robersonville, one ease in the Jenkins family in Gold Point, one ease in tnc Bullock family in Ilassell, one case in the Lynch family in Oak City, jne case in the Brown family in Ham ilton, one ease in the Randolph family in Hamilton, and one case in the Lawrence family in Hassell, None of whom has had the pro tected treatment that is required, and all among the colored race. The one case in the Bullock fam ily died without the preventive or the curative dose of the anti toxin. It has been the practice of this office, when we vaccinated a child to give two doses of diph theria toxoid one month apart. When we give the first dose we give the parent a card showing that the child has been pr itected and when. These cards are sup posed to be kept to lie presented when the child enters school and we keep our copy in the office. If this procedure was carried out 100'I we would not have any of this disease in our county. It is a disgrace for a county to have it and a crime for a child to die of it so this is to give fair warning, that unless the parents of this county do not protect their children against whooping cough, and diphtheria before they are one year old, we are going to take legal steps. It is all free. The curative dose of antitoxin costs 50c and the de partment will gladly furnish it to physician if patient can not pay, September, October and Novem ber arc tile diphtheria months and utuh i 13 y< ars the ages between 10 months and J years. Destroy Large [ StiJI In County A large liquor distillery, equip t peel with a 200-gallon-eapacity .still of the submarine type, was destroyed in Griffins Township along the Martin-Beaufort boun dary a lew days ago. Heading the raid, Martin ABC Officer J. H. I Roebuck, aided by Deputy Roy Reel and ABC officers from Beau 1 fort and Pitt Counties, said that r the plant was the largest wrecked . in this county in recent months. t There were six 300-gallon and I four 50-gallon fermenters, a 50 I gallon doubler and a 100-gallon ,, cooler. The officers poured out 1 1,950 gallons of beer and forty s gallons of white liquor. The still I was fired with oil burners, the of , ficers stating they found a small ij quantity of fuel oil, a number of u .iug-s and other equipment at the plant. Prices Continue At High Figure On Local Market —«—■ Av«*rag«* Here Last Week Is $2.50 Above Average For the Bell Tobacco sales on the local mar ket today are pushing on toward the eight million-pound mark with prices holding well up in the high figures. A new record for the season was reached last Friday when 302,293 pounds were sold for an official average of $55.46, the figure top ping by a few cents the $55.17 av erage chalked up on the previous Monday. Yesterday the market | sold 224,604 pounds for $122,416, an average of $54.50 for everyt thing offered. Last week the market sold 1, 170,696 pounds for $632,850.00, and the $54.06 average was $2.49 per hundred pounds higher than the average reported for the belt. Through yesterday the market had sold 7,447,398 pounds for $3, 590,765, the $48.22 average lead ing that for the entire belt by more than $1.50 per hundred. An agriculture department re port, covering all the markets in the belt, follows: Eastern North Carolina flue cured tobacco continued to be marketed at a rapid rate during the fifth week of sales. Average prices by grades held firm to higher than quotations of the pre vious week. General quality of offerings was the best of the seas on reports the Federal-State Mar ket News Service. The weekly general average moved to $51.57 per hundred as gross sales totaled 47,089,143 pounds. This was $2.72 above that established week before last and the highest of the season. How ever, volume was about 4 million pounds lighter. Gross sales for the season amounted to 270,433,949 pounds averaging $46.63. Based on the September I crop estimate of 384,400,000 pounds and allow ing for resales, silghtly over 60 percent of the crop has been sold in twenty-five sales days. In some | sections the crop is more than 75 j percent sold. | A large number of grades mov i ed this week at average prices from $1.00 to $4.00 above the pre vious week. The largest percent of increases fell in leaf grades arid | lower qualities of other groups, j Better grades held steady. Al though the practical top remains at $65.00 per hundred, a few indi vidual baskets of fine and choice j cutters and wrappers brought I from $70.00 to $93.00 per hundred. More fair to choice grades of smoking leaf, cutters, and lugs were sold this week. The propor tion of leaf and nondescript was I the smallest since the first week I of flu' season. Most sales consist ! ed of common to good leaf, fair I and good smoking leaf and lugs, j. and tair cutters, d he amount of tobacco in „n unsoumFm^ffunag^ j ed condition increased noticeably on some floors. i Receipts of the Flue-cured Sta j bilization Corporation, under the Government loan program, were under 3 percent of gross sales or (Continued on page eight) ROUND-UP v/ An even dozen alleged law violators were temporarily detained in the county jail last week-end by local, state and county officers. Five were booked for public drunken ness, two for speeding and operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, and one each for non-support, drunken driving, larceny, in vestigation and a twelfth for being absent from the army without leave. Six of the twelve were white and the ages of the group ranged from 1!) to 58 years.
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