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9 the enterprise is read B! OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 77 “ - -■-*—«---— Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 2(), 19i(J ESTABLISHED 1899 Draw More Men To Relieve The Jury Shortage One Of Extra Men Drawn Found Serving On The Jury At the Time Finding the jury pool inade quate to carry on its work, the Martin County Superior Court this week called for more men. The action duplicated a call issued at the direction of Judge Leo Carr in the court last week when eighteen extra men were drawn and directed to report for jury duty without delay. After excusing several of the Regular jurors, including one wo man, early Monday morning, Judge W. I. Halstead, presiding over the second of the two-week term, found that he had only an even dozen jurors available. He directed that eighteen additional citizens be called into service. A new list of names, taken from the 1949 tax lists, had been placed in the jury box since the current jury was drawn, and the name of one of the jurors drawn in August for regular duty this term was drawn again. Harry E. Daniel of Oak City simply had little chance to escape jury duty. It was also pointed out that H. A. Sexton of Jamesville, one of the extra jur ors drawn, was a member of the grand jury. Judge Halstead ord ered him excused along with J. L. Knowles of Jamesville and Geo. W. Hodges of Griffins Township. The names of those drawn and directed to report for duty are: Jamesville, D. R. Holliday. Williams ,Paul Harrington. Griffins, John A. Lilley, B. F. Lilley, Jr., and Clifton Ward. Bear Grass, Jasper Rogerson, Worth Mobley and D. A. Lee. Williamsion, Mack W. Bowen. Hamilton, James Lee and Louis Chapman. Goose Nest, R. C. Brown and Virgil Scott. When the jury shortage became acute yesterday, Judge Halstead ordered four talesmen rounded up. When the court called for a jury a few hours later, two more jurors were need and another call was issued. All told fortv two persons have been called for jury duty during the current term in addition to the regular jurymen. Those summoned on the streets here yesterday were, Willie G. Lee, a man who served as a juryman only last June; Noah Roberson, Virgil Wobbleton, Ed ward Earl Lilley, William D. Jones and Luther Hardison. Band’s Half Time Show Is Praised John Keys Hoyt, manager of the J. K. Hoyt department store in in Washington has written The Enterprise a letter highly compli menting the Williamston Green Wave Football Band on its half time show at the recent Washing- i ton-Williamston football game. Mr. Hoyt says. “Since attending the Williams ton-Washington football game in Wi Hi a m last Friday r, ighi,, I # have inijT Vou "ea?K day. I would like to compliment, through your paper, the Williams ton High School Band, for the fine performance that they exhibited during the half. •'I truly feel that it expressed the close and warm feeling that has always existed between the good people of Williamston and Martin County and Washington. I have heard many similar ex pressions and I just want to ex press my personal feelings.” r EARLY OR LATE? Mrs. B. S. Courtney pulled a pretty blossom from a dog wood tree on her lawn just off School Drive yesterday, and the question now, is the the bloom late or early. Ordi narily the dogwood bursts in to bloom in April. One blos som was fully developed while another was about to open, the phenomenon com ing while the leaves were still green and two red berries had fully developed. Rushing Preparations For Marketing Sweet Potatoes Preparations'are being rushed j for opening a recognized sweet! potato market in the county. Or ganizing some time ago the Mar tin County Yam Growers’ Asso ciation, leading farmers with the support of the Martin County Farm Bureau are constructing a 36 by 75-foot receiving house on Washington Street just across from the Williamston Lumber Company. Construction is well advanced and the project is to be completed in about ten days or two weeks, weather permitting. A machine, one of the latest manufactured, for washing, wax ing. grading and packing sweet potatoes is being shipped and the market will be ready for opera tion within a short time. Arrangements are being made to start buying green potatoes on or before October 10 between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. at the storage house. Those interested in selling may contact the purchasing com mittee, W. Mayo Hardison, chair man. During the meantime the fall harvest is coming in for imme diate attention. A demonstra tion of the use of a newly improv ed rotary digger has been schedul ed on the farm of Clyde Revels, a short distance off Highway 17 in Bear Grass Township for next i Monday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Hundreds of interested farmers are expected to attend the demon stration. Martin County farmers, work ing in close cooperation with the promoters of a recognized local market, have materially increased I their sweet potato acreage this year, and the county is rapidly ' paving the way for adding an other important crop to its diver sified program. While a goodly number of far mers tyave shown an interest in and worked for the market and increased production, among the j leaders are Messrs. H. U. Peel, M. M. Levin, W. Mayo Hardison, Joe Winslow, Van G. Taylor and J. S. Holliday. | TAG DAY ^ ------ Facing a serious space shortage, the local public li brary will appeal directly to the people on Saturday of this week for aid in relieving the condition. Tag day will be observed, and an earnest plea is being directed to everyone for a liberal support. Lead ers of the project explain that the library cannot continue to function properly under pres ent conditions, that there isn't ample room to care for addi tional new volumes, that un less something is done with out delay, the library will fall!”"" Youngsters in the scout age group, both boys and girls, are being asked to assist in the Tag Uky drive. They are to meet at the drive center— Attorney H. G. Horton’s of fice—Saturday morning at 8:30 o'clock, and the people are urged to recognize the lit tle folks as they spearhead the urgent appeal. Furniture Dealers Flan Essay Contest The local furniture dealers I have made tentative plans to tie I in an essay competition along! with the special promotion for the observance of Home Fashion Week next week. The essay contest will be open to high school students only. It is proposed to award a desk to the entrant submitting the best essay on the subject, “What My Home Means To Me.” Meanwhile the four participat ing furniture stores, B. S. Court ney and Son, McLawhorn Furni ture Company, Woolard Furniture Company and Heilig-Meyers Company, are preparing special window displays, featuring the latest and best furniture fashions an-i artaneinc i<mau^j next week. The highlight of the promotion will be a contest drawing Satur- j day afternoon, October 8, at 5:00 o’clock in the Enterprise office. Valuable prizes will be awarded the winners. Safety Examiner Reports for Duty! Succeeding James Boyce, re signed, J. B. Parvin, district ex aminer for the North Carolina State Highway Safety Division, yesterday gave his first motor vehicle drivers’ tests in this coun ty. He will be stationed in Wil liamston each Wednesday and Thursday from 9 to 5 o’clock and will maintain headquarters in Plymouth. A native of Washington, Mr. Parvin has been with the Safety Division for seven years and was recently transferred to this area from Wilson. Mr. Boyce resigned to accept private employment after serving the State for nine years. Painfully Hurt In I Wreck Last Ni TQ Earl D. Sefrit, 23-year-old Nor folk man, was painfully but be lieved not seriously hurt when the car in which he was riding crashed into the rear end of a truck on the river fill about two miles from the bridge early last evening. Removed to the lo cal hospital by Bennie Weaver, the victim was treated for a deep larceration over the right eye and another under the eye and for shoulder injuries. He remained in the hospital overnight, but his release is expected temporarily. Sefrit was riding on the right side of the rear seat of the 1946 Chevrolet car owned and driven by John Anderson, 8500 Delano Street, Norfolk. Anderson said the bright lights of an approach ing eai blinded him, that he did not see the parked truck until he was right at it. He swered to his left and threw the right side of the car into the rear of the truck, a 1941 two- ton Dodge driv en by John Henry Lilley of 910 N. Haughton Street, Williamston. Anderson and two of his three passengers, Robt. Summerville and Mrs. Faye Spencer, were not hurt. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman E. P. Simmons said that the truck, loaded with wood, ran out of gas, that the driver placed it as far off the road as he could and that an attendant, Charles Shelton, was trying to wave down the Anderson car. The patrolman also said the lights on the truck were burning at the time of the accident. Damage to the car was estimated at $200 and that to the ' truck at $5. 'Payday Soon For County Teachers *» >.({(> H7‘' ” 1 j renting salaries for the first I iiionth of the current term, will be (paid the 109 colored teachers on j Friday of this week and the 130 white teachers next Monday along with salaries for janitors, bus drivers and a few others. The amount is exclusive of salaries going to those in the administra j tive „,ervice. i Some higher than they were last year, the salaries average $264.10 for the 83 white elemen tary and $272.08 for the 94 col ored elementary teachers. The salary distribution follows: 83 white elementary teachers, $21,921.00; white high school teachers, $6,251.00; one white ele mentary principal, $374.00; six white high school principals, $2, 467.00; 94 colored elementary school teachers, $25,575.00; two colored elementary school prin cipals, $692.00; two colored high school principals, $884.00. The thirteen janitors are re ceiving $1,540. The bus drivers are getting $980, and $647.00 will go to the two instructional super visors. Vocational teachers are receiving $5,500.00. Few Cases Cleared From The Docket In Superior Court Tribunal Will Fold Its Tent And Quit Some Time Tomorrow With only a few cases cleared! from its calendar so far, the cur-1 rent term of the Martin County i Superior Court is almost certain to leave a goodly number of ac tions on the calendar at adjourn ment time this week-end. Other than divorces and con- | sent judgments, cases have been ! removed only by a painfully slow process. Considerable time has been devoted to evidence, and the attorneys have argued to the jury for hours in nearly every case up until today with Judge W. I. Halstead following with de tailed charges. Up until noon to day, the court had not got around to fixing a time for adjournment, | but it is likely that all will be j ready to throw up and quit sorne ' time tomorrow. Proceedings not previously re ported : Willie C. Howell got an abso lute divorce from Lucinda Has sell on the grounds of two years’ separation. It was the eleventh divorce granted this week. In the boundary line case of D. L. Howell against Leander Smith, the court appointed J. C. Cates to survey the disputed line and submit a map at a later term. After pending in the courts for seven or eight years, the case of Minnie Hardee and husband, Zeno Hardee, Mary (Polly) Wor thington, Lillian Loekamy and husband, Richard Loekamy, Ger aldine Taylor and husband, Frank Taylor, Dolly Rue Onello and husband, Frank Onello, Russell Worthington, Joy her next friend, Mary Worthington, and Bernice Worthington against Melva John son, finally found its way to the judgment book According to the record, the judgment shows that Louis H. Worthington, father of L. Herman Worthington, Minnie Hardee, Perlie Sugg and Melva Johnson, pooled his several tracts of land and that Herman, Minnie and Perlie received his or her share. It also shows that Melva Johnson was ruled the sole owner of 73.5 acres of land in dispute on the Robcrsonville-Uear Grass Road. The case of W. II. Harrison against Consolidated Industries was called for trial early Tuesday morning and at 5:12 o’clock yes terday afternoon the jury return ed its verdict, allowing the plain tiff $1,000 damages. The plaintiff was asking $1,210 damages alleg ed to have resulted when the de fendant’s log truck went out of control and tore into the Harrison car on the Hamilton Road near Williamston in 1947. Evidence in the case was completed fairly early yesterday morning, and the attorneys argued until 3:00 o’ clock, taking time out to catch their breath and snatch a bite to eat at lunch time. Judge Halstead addressed the jury for an hour and twenty-five minutes, and the jury deliberated about 45 minutes. The defense, while admitting that its truck , grasjied jnto tbe_ Jfar iii ii< rr ,^»4stn-i- i that it responsible for the accident, ex plaining that it was due to the negligence and carelessness of a co-defendant, George Mobley who allegedly turned to the left just as the truck started to pass. Harrison, holding an insurance policy with the fifty dollar de ductible clause, had been paid by his company for all the dam age except $50. His company was suing to recover from Con solidated Industries. The plain tiffs, it was learned, had insur ance on their truck, but lost it when they removed the body and added a fifth wheel to haul logs and lumber. While the jury was deliberating the issues in the Harrison-Indus tries case, the court called an other jury and heard the plead ing in the case of Jodie Haislip and Nina Haislip against John A. Griffin. The plaintiffs allege that they were injured as a re sult of an automobile accident three miles east of Roborsonvilie last February 21. Jodie Haislip is asking $400 property damages, (Continued on page eight). Few Cases Heard In Justice Courts In Past Few Days Five Cases Are Placed Oil County Court Docket For Trial Monday Even though one of the crowds ever to appear here was > . I i i on hand last week-end, few law violations were reported, and only nine cases bobbed up in the justice of the peace courts for trial; or preliminary hearing. None of the cases was serious, but five of them were booked for trial in the Martin County Recorder’s Court next Monday. Justice R. T. Johnson handled the following cases during the past few days:' Charged with failing to stop at a road intersection, J. C. Chaun cey was taxed with $5 85 costs. William Hopkins, charged with disorderly conduct, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. The court suspended the jail term for twelve months upon the payment of $7.85 costs. Charged with the larceny of an automobile battery from Hollis’ garage, Henry Bullock was bound over to the county court. Unable to arrange bond in the sum of $200, he was returned to jail. J. C. Baker was booked for trial m the county court for allegedly speeding and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, using profane lan guage, resisting arrest and as saulting an officer while in the performance of his duties, Eugene Rawls was bound over to the county court. Bond was furnish ! i'd in the sum of $800. Kirby F. Wainwright, charged I with speeding and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s I license, posted a cash bond for his appearance in the county court for trial next Monday. Publicly drunk, Elmer White ! hurst was sentenced to the roads I for thirty days, the court sus pending the road term for twelve months upon the payment of he costs. Justice (’has R. Mobley handled the following cases: Jim Pierce, charge with assault ing a female, was bound over to the county court. Bond was re quired in the sum of $300. Thi defendant is said to have threat ened his -wife’s life with a shot gun. Charged with fighting on the highway, Ella May Northington and her husband, "Peg" were sen tenced to jail for thirty days, tin' trial justice suspending the jail term upon the payment of $8.50 costs. Continues Very III In Rocky Mount Ihtsfnlul Moses Wheeler, local young man, continues seriously ill in a Rocky Mount hospital where he he been receiving treatment for a week foi virus pneumonia. Last reports state that he has not re gained consciousness. Mis* i.run fon! (loiitiiiurs III In liosiiilol Ih'w ^fl^ss Estelle Crawford, a patient in the local hospital for months, was quite si-k yesterday arid last night, but was reported some bet ter this morning. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . After a rather hectic period of recklessness, maiming, kill ing and damaging, motorists on Martin County highways slowed down a bit and sup ported only one minor entry in the accident record for the 38th week. 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. 38th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Uain’re 11149 1 0 0 $ 75 1948 3 2 0 325 Comparisons To Date 1949 88 34 5 $19,355 1948 93 50 2 20,100 t 4 Wil l Hold Important Siveet Potato Meeting On Monday - 41..- ■■ Following a sweet potato dig ging demonstration on the Clyde Revels farm in Bear Grass Town ship next Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock, an important meet ing of Martin County sweet po tato growers and others interest ed in the crop will be held in the county courthouse at 8:00 o’clock that evening, it was announced today_bv Assistant County Farm Agent Jesse W. Sumner. Henry Covington, recognized specialist and an experienced hand in sweet potato production and marketing, will address the meeting, and farmers and other citizens interested in the future of agriculture in this county arc urged to attend. Mr. Covington, representing the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in Raleigh, is in a position to lead a practical discussion of the sweet potato as a cash crop in Martin County, and his knowledge of the problems and suggestions he can offer are certain to prove profitable. In addition to Mr. Covington’s part on the program, the inside story and future plans of opera tion of the Martin County Yam Growers' Association will be ex plained by an officer of the or ganization. All farmers, interest ed in supplementing their cash in come during the slack seasons, are urged to attend and other cit izens are invited to be present at the meeting which will last only a short time and be directed to the point. Legal Whiskey Sales Continue Downward Total of $4,956,948 Spent For Liquors Since July In 1985 Salt‘d Last Quarter Smallest For Any Peruul In Four Years Legal liquor sales, while about five times greater than they were when the ABC stores were opened fourteen years ago, continue downward in this county. The gross income for the second quar ter was $102,906.10, the figure be ing the smallest one reported by the ABC Board for any quarter since June, 1945, when sales were only $100 under the recent sales total. There has been a fairly 'steady downward trend in legal | liquors sales in the county for I several years, but even now the i sales are running about twenty percent ahead of those reported in , 1944. While sales were dropping from $1211,290.41) in the second quarter ol last year to $102,906.10 in April, May and June of this year, profits dropped from $27,000.14 a year ago to $22,375.63 in the cor j responding three months, this year. Taking in $102,906.10 during the period, the county system turned and paid out $74,829.52, or nearly 73 percent of the total income, to the liquor manufacturers in other states. Operating expenses took i $5.776.12, or 5.60 percent of the (total, leaving $22,375.63, or 21.76 percent, net profit. | The ABC Board now has $63, I (Continued on page eight) Important Peanut Meeting: Friday A very important meeting and line of vital interest to all the *' ' 11 a ml > a ill be !■' Id in the Williaifis'ton High School j building tomorrow (Friday) aft ernoon at 2 o’clock when the 1!)4!) peanut marketing procedure, grading and sales will be discuss ed, it was announced by the of flee of the Triple A in this coun ty yesterday afternoon. Possibly as a result of the vari ations found ingrading the l'J41i crop, some rather radical ehunges are to be expected in the grad ing system this year. The meet ing, it was announced, will dis cuss peanut marketing quota reg ulations, price support program, the grading of peanuts which will be offered for government price support, and reports and records to be submitted by buyers. All peanut buyers, sheik i s, growers and pickers should attend, it was explained. It was also pointed out that all peanuts purchased by designated buyers of the Commodity Credit Corporation are to be graded by inspectors of the Federal-State Inspection Service prior to pur chase. Mr. Potter of the State office is to be in charge of the meeting. I High Averages Prevailing On Loral Market While tlie poundage dropped to the lowest daily figures of the season this week, high prices con tinued to hold firm on the local tobacco market. Daily averages for the (18,5114 pounds Tuesday and the 88,716 pounds sold yes terday were right at $55 per hun | died, and individual averages went right on up into the seven ties. There'll be some more days when the market will be rushed, 1 no doubt, but, folks, the tobacco j is just about gone in this area. Some observers say that not many over nine million pounds will be sold before the season is spent, possibly sometime next month. The market is holding its old customers almost to a man, and adding new customers just about every day. Heavy deliveries to the border markets plus a little bit carried to Georgia, are making them selves felt on the markets in this section, but it is still believed that total sales for the season will exceed the 0,185,910 pounds sold last year when the average was $48.44. So far this year, 7, 604,898 pounds have been sold I for an average of $48.32. I ----- jBeiiuie A. Selby Dies Wednesday I Bennie A. Selby, father of Mis. Lee Reynolds and grandfather of Talmadge and Ben Selby of Wil liamston, died at his home near Bayview last night at 10:45 o’clock ■ following years of declining health and three years of serious illness. Mr. Selby, a native of Hyde County, had lived in Bath township 'of Beaufort County Hv would ;. fill yea>s old next month. Funeral services will be held from the late home tomorrow af ternoon at 2:30 o’clock with the Rev. A. C. D. Noe and the Rev. Ralph Tyre, both of Bath, officiat ing. Interment will be in the Bayview Cemetery. Company Settles Case For $6,000.00 | Tin; widow und her seven chil dren were reported yesterday to have rccci'-ed approximately $6, 000.00 in full payment for the life | of their husband and father, Ben jamin C. Rogers, who was fatally injured in a motorbike-truck acci dent just outside the town on N. C Highway 125 August 18. Un official but reliable reports stated that the settlement was effected by a representative of an insur ance company, but no record has been entered as yet. The amount falls around $-1,000 short of the minimum insurance carried by the truck owners. Veterans Review Summer Activities I n Rohersonville Fifty-four Members of The ('.lass V<M'om|>li*he<i Farm Work (Robersonville Weekly Herald) The 54 Veterans enrolled in the Farmer Training Program accom plished much during the summer months, as well as attended sev eral organized farm demonstra tions and field trips. THe Veterans have a total of 271 acres of hybrid corn. This is an average of 5 acres per veteran. This being a favorable year for corn, the yield is expected to be very satisfactory, with a few reaching the 100 bushel goal. During the past summer months the veterans have learned ihat be ing a diversified farmer pays off. We have a few veterans that did nut enjoy a successful farm year (so far as their No. 1 crop tobacco was concerned) but will have other sources of income. We have two veterans who have 104 tur keys they will be ready to market by Thanksgiving. Some have sup plemented their basic crops with potatoes and practically all with hogs—-with one veteran having registered hogs for sale. Hog production is expected to increase since 171 lbs. of ladino clover along with the necessary pasture mixture has been sown or will be in the next few weeks. This means approximately 85 acres of permanent pasture which is essential to a well balanced farm plan. It is needless to say the veterans have learned that it pays to know tobacco diseases. We have veter ans who this past year had as much as a 40 percent loss of their tobcco crop due to diseases (black shank or Granville wilt). To cope with this they have resorted to a resistant variety. They have ap proximately (11 acres planted to Oxford 1 this year. During the summer they have attended several farm demonstra tions and also the experiment sta tion along with their Vo-Ag teacher and instructors. In June the veterans visited the Lower Coastal Plain Tobacco Experiment Station which was very timely and interesting. They saw the many different varieties being grown on the same plot having the same weather conditions. The purpose of this visit was to show the best disease resistant varieties and its productivity. They have visited the individual trainee at his farm and have ob served the farm situations and management which created a great deal of interest and ex changing ideas. Last week the entire class had first hand instruc tion on preparing seed bed, fer tilization, liming and sowing a j permanent pasture on the farm of Donnie Mobley near Everetts. The demonstration was carried out by the county agent and his assist ants along with Mr. Dobson of the Extension Service of Raleigh. The blacksmith shop which was ! constructed by the veterans this ! year and sometimes termed by | them (a memorial to veterans classes) will be in use this fall by . ails and iugh | school boys. Since the veterans class is well along in its third year and some fellows are dropping out, they have learned to be successful far mers who know the value of a well rounded farm program and some knowledge of record keep ing.—Reported. \ V MEETING A joint meeting of the Mar tin County Farm Bureau membership canvassers amt chairmen of the Friendship Train committees in the sev eral townships will be held in the county courthouse this evening at 7:30 o’clock. The organization for the Friendship Train is about complete, according to Coun ty Chairman W. Mayo Hardi son. The Bureau membership drive is progressing, and very favorable reports are antici pated at the meetiug this eve ning.
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