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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 83 THE ENTERPRISE Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 20, 1949 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Call Twenty-Six Cases In County Recorder’s Court Fines Imposed During The Long Session Monday Amounted to $745 -« Judge Chas. H. Manning and Solicitor Paul D. Roberson handl ed twenty-six cases in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday. The court was in session from 9:30 a. m. until 1:00 p. m. and from 1:30 to 3:00 o’clock p. m. Several defendants drew road terms and fines imposed during the long session amounted to $745, a few defendants going to the higher court for another trial. Dealers in illicit liquors found the sledding tough in the court, and several drivers found it not at all advisable to operate motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses. Professor Sawyer's civics class from Bear Grass was in attend ance upon the session, listening to the proceedings from the jury box. Bad check charges were aired in several cases. W. E. Davis fail ed to answer when called, and judgment was suspended in the case against Augustus Rollins up on the payment of the check and court costs. John E. Walker ap pealed to the higher court when he was sentenced to the roads for sixty days and after the court sus pended the road term on condi tion the defendant pay the check and court costs. Appeal bond was fixed in the sum of $100. Pleading innocent to a drunken driving charge, William Tim Smith was adjudged guilty and was fined $100, taxed with the costs and had his driver’s license revoked for twelve months. Powell Watkins Glidewell was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Maintaining he was innocent, Grady Keith Lamm was found guilty and was sentenced to the roads for sixty days for assaulting a female. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of a i fine and costs. Pleading guilty of an assault, Leo Warren was fined $10 and taxed with the costs. He was also directed to pay $50 to Lester Meeks, prosecuting witness, for doctor's bill and time lost. The case charging Joe Beach with an assault on a female was continued for the defendant’s at torney. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Julius “Pistol" Bell pleaded not guilty, but was found guilty of disorderly con duct and drew a $10 fine and costs of the court. Pleading guilty of drunken driving and operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license, Herman Roberson was sentenced to the roads for six months. Rob erson was driving the car when it turned over and almost killed his uncle, Isaiah Roberson. Charged with failing to give a hand signal, James Erwin Man ning pleaded not guilty and was found not guilty. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license J. T. Gardner was fined $25 and taxed with the costs “*'• v-;,r-fWNBICffi .-»**,-£ rfried $100 and taxed with the costs for speeding. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, George Richardson was fined $100, plus court costs. James Cornelius Baker was fin ed $40 and required to pay the costs for speeding and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. The defendant entered no plea in the case. Willie Bailey, pleading not guil ty, wa sadjudged guilty and drew a three-months sentence on the roads for assault with a deadly (Continued on pa'ge six) -$ Ituck From Philadelphia A fler Skipping Bond ■ • Facing trial in the courts of this county for allegedly violating the liquor lav *!. John Thomas Perry, young Williams Township colored man, ran from under his $100 bond some time ago. He was ar rested in Philadelphia and re turned here late last night by Bondsman G. P. Hall and Deputy Raymond Rawls. Cards for Marketing Peanuts Ready Soon Quarter Million Bags Of Peanuts Grown In County Few Re«l Cards Expected to Reach the Farmers In Martin County The Triple A of Production and Marketing Administration is working full force, preparing pea nut marketing cards for distribu tion to the growers in this county, late reports indicating that the cards will be made available pos sibly sometime next week. The cards will be mailed in most in stances, it was announced. Considerable delay is being ex perienced in clearing those con tracts where farmers planted in excess of their allotments, it was explained. Unofficial reports state that 450 farmers planted in excess of their allotments, that approxi mately ninety percent of them are "hogging down" the surplus to qualify for the white marketing cards. Each contract where there were excess plantings has to be checked, and in those cases where the farmers are planning to mar ket the surplus, the penalty has to be figured for each farmer. In those cases where the grower planted in excess of his allotment, the penalty ranges from one-tenth of a cent to five and three-tenths cents per pound. The penalty is increased in proportion to the ex cess plantings. There are a few farmers who planted peanuts without a contract, and it is un derstood they may market their crop without paying a penalty provided their plantings are with in nine-tenths of an acre. Peanut marketing is expected to be reasonably slow and a bit more complicated than in the past un der the new grading plan de nded by the Commodity Credit poration. The CCC is said to ve warned that it would sup port no prices unless peanuts are graded. The government has trained a number of graders in this county, but the number is hardly large enough to handle re cord deliveries. However, addi tional graders are to be brought in from Georgia to relieve the pres sure, it was reported. Some de lay is to be expected but as soon as the market gets accustomed to the new system, sales are like ly to be handled fairly rapidly. Martin County has an allotment of about 20,000 acres this year, and it is unofficially estimated that the farmers will market be tween 200,000 and a quarter mil lion bags of the goobers this sea son and receive in the neighbor hood of two or two and one-third million dollars. More attention has been given the harvesting of the crop this year, and since the moisture con tent will be determined, farmers will find it advisable not to picy. their peanuts unless they are dry. Said to have harvested his crop early, Farmer Clarence Matthews vp- Pi'b^^onwllc Township thre&hec^^m^Top last weex to I open the picking season in the county. Rains earlier in the weqk blocked threshing operations, but it will be another week or two be fore the work gets undei way on any appreciable scale. The har vest was about completed in the (Continued on page six) I JUST IN CASE v-—> In the event of rain, plans will be altered for Williams ton’s second annual harvest festival next week, it was ex plained today. While all are “pulling” for a fair day, the committee in charge of the festival events explain that if rain should happen to fall Wednesday, the parade would be postpon ed until the next day, but that Senator Frank Graham would sneak in the warehouse according to schedule, and that the ball would be beld as planned. I NEXT SPRING | vf No official anouncement has been made, but the resur facing of Main and Haughton Streets and the surfacing of two blocks on Smithwick and West Liberty Street will not get under way before early next spring. The contract for the pro jects was let to the Nello L. Teer Company several weeks ago, and it was thought at that time that the contractor would set up an asphalt plant near Windsor and handle a project in Bertie along with the ones here without delay. However, a report from the Division engineer's office in dicates that the work will not be started before spring. Diamond Ring To Be Awarded Queen Of Festival Here Twelve Princesses To Be In Parade; To Choose Queen At the Festival Ball -* A $200 Columbia diamond ring will bo awarded the Queen of Wil liamston’s 1949 Harvest Festival, and handsome gifts will go to the other princesses participating in the big event next Wednesday, Di rector A1 Sweatt announced to day. The parade of the princesses is certain to prove a big feature in the town's second annual harvest festival. Mr Sweatt said in an nouncing the representatives from twelve high schools in eastern North Carolina, as follows: Misses Anne Willoughby, Ahos kie; Lib Cherry, Bear Grass; Jan ice Roberson, Bethel; Sybil Caton, Edenton; Leona Hardison, Farm Life; June Gardner, Jamesville; Gladys Everett, Oak City; Shirley Roberson, Plymouth; Shirley Ste venson, Robersonville; Fay Walk er, Scotland Neck; Reba Tetter ton, Washington, and Rachel Chesson, Williamston. Most of the princesses are seniors in their high schools. The young ladies are to register at the George ReynoJds Hotel be tween 12:30 and 1:00 o’clock Wed nesday afternoon and take their places in individual convertibles for the parade. They will be guests along with their chaper ones at supper, and report to the festival ball where one of their, number will be chosen and crown ed queen of the 1949 Festival. Judges are to come here from towns not represented to handle the difficult task of selecting the winner, and Miss Katie Leggett, queen of the festival last year, will crown the new queen at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday evening during the big harvest ball in the Planters Warehouse. Bob Lee and his 15 collegians, accompanied by Bob Mays, vocal ist, will play for the dance which untiei way at &:0t/^WWW that evening and lasts until 1:00 o'clock the following morning. Mrs. Griffin Is P-TA Secretary Mrs. Joseph W. Griffin was n lected secretary to the Ninth Dis trict Parents-Teachers Associa tion at a district meeting of the organization held in Manteo last Tuesday. Martin County had more repre-1 sentatives at the meeting than any other of the fourteen counties, comprising the ninth district. Del egates from the Williamston P. T. A. were, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. C. Eubanks, Mr. P. O. Holloman, Mrs. Joseph Griffin and Miss Lis sie Pierce. --——*> HALIXOWEEN PARTY The Woman's Club is complet ing plans for a big Halloween Party in the club hall on Friday, October 28, at 7:00 o’clock, it was announced today. Bertie Man Held For The Alleged Forgery of Check —«— Fifteen Other Cases Called By Justices of Peace Here Recently Pleading guilty of forging a check, Paul Thomas of Bertie County was placed under a $1,000 bond by Justice John L. Hassell at a preliminary hearing here a few days ago. Facing a similar charge in his home county, the defend ant was returned to Windsor where he'll face trial and then be returned to this county. Said to have forged the signature of W. A. Mizelle, the man passed a $350 check on a local bank. Thomas is alleged to have used the same sig nature in cashing a $200 check in Windsor. The case will be heard in the superior court. Other eases handled by Justice Hassell: Charged with public drunken ness and beating a taxi fare, Joe Roberson was sentenced to jail for thirty days, the court suspending the jail term upon the payment of $2.50 taxi farp and $9.50 costs. John H. Williams was fined $5 and taxed with $9.50 costs for be ing drunk and an affray. Publicly drunk, Lemuel Outtcr bridge was required to pay $8.50 costs. Jesse Lawrence Brown, charg ed with being drunk and fighting, was fined $10 and required to pay $9.50 costs. Peter Pierce was required' to pay $9.50 costs for being publicly drunk. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of $5.50 costs in the case charging Willie Spencer witli disorderly conduct. Charged with disorderly con duct, George Davenport, Jr., was sentenced to jail for thirty days, Justice Hassell suspending the jail term upon the defendant’s guar anteed good behavior for one year and the payment of $5.50 costs. Justice R, T. Johnson handled the following cases in his court: The case charging Grover Dix on with assaulting a female, was sent to the county court for trial. Charged with being drunk and assaulting a female and threaten ing bodily harm, Nymphus James was required to post bond in the sum of $300 for his appearance in the county court for trial. Aaron Peel was fined $5 and taxed with $5.85 costs for violat ing the hunting laws. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper equipment, Leon Rawls was fined $10 and taxed with $5.85 costs. Warren Chesson, Layton Tay lor, Claude Britt and Lee Lacy, charged with gambling, were (Continued on page six) Farm Life Club To Get Charter Preliminary organization plans completed with the aid of the Bear Grass club, the Farm Life Community will get a Ruritan club charter at a meeting to be heid next Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Farm Life School eafeteria. Nora Let, officer ,>f the national uiriaiffiBWWJ^viu present the charter and other dignitaries from the State organization and other clubs are expected to attend and take part in the program. The proposed club has a poten tial roster of thirty-five members and an invitation is extended others to become charter mem bers. Prospects are good for an active club in the community and the people are looking forward to charter night and the work of the club. Ruritans in Bear Grass, one of three Ruritan clubs now active in this county, have worked with leaders in the Farm Life section to get the new club started. --o Local Man Critically III In The llo*pitnl Entering a Rocky Mount hospi - • — tal last Monday for treatment and an operation, Mr. W. H. Williams, local citizen, continues critically ill. While his condition was re ported slightly improved this morhing, he was said to be too weak to undergo an operation. Plans Completed- For -Second Annual Harvest Festival Here Next Tuesday And Wednesday Scouts To Hold Camporee Here During the Week-end Approximately one hundred or more boy scouts representing troops in Williamston, Plymouth, Bear Grass, Jamesville, Roberson ville, Hamilton, Hassell and pos sibly Windsor wil set up camp here Friday for their Fall Cam poree. Registration has been schedul ed from 3:00 to 5:00 on Friday af ternoon and all boys will register with Dr. Jim Edens and his staff. Immediately afterwards, camp will be set up in the vacant lot behind the band building on the high school grounds with "Little Bear” in charge. Supper will be from 6:00 to 7:00, followed by a thirty-minute inspection. All scouts wilt attend the local foot ball game Friday night. The following schedule has been set for Saturday: 6:30, re ville and personal clean up; 7:00, breakfast and clean up; 8:00, knot tying; 9:00 first aid; 10:00, passing requirements; 11:00, competitive races and contests; 114:00, dinner; 1:30, visiting and resting; 2:30, compass instructions; 3:00, com pass course event; 4:00, passing requirements; 5:00, supper; (5:30, formal inspection; 7:30, free time; 8:00, camp fire; 9:45, call to quar ters; and, 10:00, taps. The pub lic is invited to the camp fire which will be held from 8:00 to 9:30 o’clock. Sunday morning after personal clean up, breakfast and camp clean up, there will be a patrol leader’s pow wow and an inspec tion. The boys will attend the churches of their choice. Lunch will be from 12:30 to 1:30, and camp will break up immediately afterwards. Awards will be be stowed from 2:30 to 3:00 o'clock. During the camporee a trading post will be operated on the grounds by two boys from each of the local troops. Judges will be Messrs. V. B. Hairr, A. M. Fussell, Carroll Jones, Horace Ray and Jimmie Wallace.—Reported. LAST SALKS j f Williamston's tobacco mar ket will hold its last sales ol' the current season tomorrow, the curtain marking the close of a successful but no record season. Nmall sales have been held each day this week with prices holding fairly firm. Through yesterday the market had sold 8,860,276 pounds for $4,348,030, an av erage of $40.0!) per hundred pounds. Quite a few markets are closing this week in this belt. Safety Is Theme P.-T. A. Program "How Safe Is M.v Child?’’ is the question to be answered by a group of guest speakers in brief talks at the meeting of the Wil liamston Parents-Teachers Asso ciation to be held Monday night in the Grammar School building, at 7:30 o’clock. Corporal T. Fearing of the State Highway Patrol is to appear on the program along with a guest whom he did not identify. W. H Carstarphen will discuss home safety as a representative of the Red Cross and the matter of safe ty legislation will be taken up by Attorney R. L. Coburn. The program is being sponsored by the safety and legislation com mittees of the organization and is to be in the form of a symposium. No lengthy speeches are planned briefly the points covered by their section of the symposium. The meeting will be the second of the school year for the associa tion, the last meeting having been well attended. A meeting of the Band Parents Club will be held immediately following the P.-T. A. session. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Die In Arkansas -» Advised his father, Charles Ross, 80, was critically ill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Mr. W. Harvey Ross left soon after receiving the message about midnight last night. He had been gone only a short time when relatives here were advised that the elder Mr Ross had died. Within a short time another message was receiv ed here, stating that Mr. Ross's mother had suffered a heart at tack and died. Funeral arrangements could not be learned here immediately. Dozen Clowns To Feature Festival Parade Wednesday (Howii (iliairuinii Hire Say* Itariiiini Might Scout His downs • A group of clowns—twelve as a unit and one as an independent— will work just prior to and dur ing Williamston’s harvest festival parade next Wednesday after noon, Doctor Gene Rice, chair man of the funny-man commit tee, announced this morning. J. Lawrence Peel, the mainstay m the fun-making business last year, will operate as an inde pendent, and the names of the group members are being kept se cret until the big day. Chairman Rice stated that a de tailed program of stunts had been worked out for his clowns, and Mr. Peel is not revealing his plans, which, he says, will sur prise ’em. An old model car is to be used by the twelve-man group for transportation, and the fun makers are scheduled to go into action about 1:00 o’clock or an hour before the parade starts. They will have the run of the streets before the parade, but will find their own openings when the march gets under way. The chairman says the show will equal anything Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Brothers, combined, can offer, and its pos sible that Barnum will send spe cial representatives here to “scout” the clowns. Sale Is Planned The Martin County Purebred Swine Breeders Association will hold its fall auction sale Friday of next week, October 27, at 1:30 o'clock p. m. at the old Williams ton fair grounds. There will be twenty-four fine boars and gilts of the spotted Poland Chine and Du roe breeds. Several of these animals are from production reg istry litters. Those members plac ing hogs on sale are Julian Fagan, Jamesville; Geo. Ayers and son, Oak City; Jack Williams of Bear Grass, and Gene Hyman of RFD 1, Palmyra; Earl Warren of Par nude; Bobby LiUey, Jamesville; Bennie Ray Hopkins, RFD 1, Wil liamston; James Rogerson, Bear Grass; R. S. Hardison, Farm Life, and Wilbur Gardner, RFD 1, Wil liamston. The hogs will be in their pens by 11:00 a m that morning. Everyone is invited to look the hogs over before the sale.—J. W. Sumner, assistant county agent. Eight Bands And Twenty Floats In Parade Wednesday ■ ■ 1 ■ '■ IJnilcri States* Senator Will Speak That Afternoon, Ball That Night Plans were announced virtually complete this morning by Direc tor A1 Sweatt for holding Wil liamston’s second annual harvest festival, and all indications point to a tremendous event, beginning with a street dance Tuesday eve ning at 8:00 o'clock and winding up with the harvest festival ball Wednesday night. The high lights on the program include an address by United States Senator Frank P Graham; a parade, lasting thirty to forty five minutes, and the harvest ball where the harvest cpieen will be crowned and awarded a $1100 Col umbia diamond ring. “With favorable weather, we are certain to stage the biggest event ever seen in Williamston,” a spokesman for the Williamston Boosters, Inc., said this morning. The festival will be officially opened with a dance on Washing ton Street Tuesday evening, Oc tober 25, at 8:30 o’clock. Two bands — Otho Willard’s string band, and Frank Saunders Weav er’s band will play for the danc ers, the dance committee chair man, Wheeler Manning, announc ed. Everybody is Ihvited to take part in either the square or round dances, or both. The dances are to continue until midnight. Senator Graham is seheduled to reach here Wednesday in time for a luncheon to be given in his hon or at the Woman's Club at 12:00 o'clock. County and town offic ials, including the mayors of Jamesville, Everetts, Roberson ville, Parmele, Hassell, Oak City and Hamilton are being extended a special invitation to attend the luncheon along with other special guests. The dozen princesses are to re gister between 12:30 and 1:00 o'clock at the George Reynolds Hotel where they and their chap erones will be the guests of the Boosters. They will be assigned individual cars in the parade and will be guests at dinner late that afternoon before going to the liar vest festival ball that evening. Under the direction of Chair men Blue Manning and Jack But I Icr. the big parade will be formed ■ on the north side of town in time to start moving promptly at 2:00 o’clock. Senator Graham and other dignitaries will head the pa rade led by m -mbers of the State Highway Patrol. Eight brass bands, including high school bands from Ahoskio, Edenton. i I arboro, Plymouth, Washington, Williamston's white and colored units, and the J J. Clemmons band from Ropei. will be spotted aVoiig wun TflT twelve princesses, twenty decorat ed floats, ten giant balloons, in cluding tin 80-foot long sea sei pent. T here 11 be a dozen clowns operating as a group and M'\ “Hawk" Peel woi king on his own as the lone eagle. The parade, forming on Hassell and Academy Streets and Sim mons Avenue, will move into Church oil Hassell, down Church to Watts and on to Main, thence (Continued on page six) si:i:n loans v The Commodity Credit Cor poration announced this week that it would enter the cotton seed market with price sup ports up to $46.50 per ton. Few details could be learn ed about making: cotton seed eligible for government loans, but it was stated that storage centers would be opened as soon as possible to receive de liveries. Coagresg Adopts Compromise Farm Bill On Wednesday J ■ ■ ♦ Knocks Out Proposed Aik en Program ami Leaves Things Little Changed After wrangling for weeks, law makers in Washington this week knocked out the proposed Aiken farm program and came out with a compromise measure, leaving the farm picture little changed from the present system, accord ing to preliminary reports com ing out of Washington this morn ing. The program as adopted retains, for the most part, the 90 percent parity price support for all basic crops through next year with the possibility that the support will be increased for some crops where the labor cost is to be considered in determining parity. Tobacco is certain of a prefer red rating, and peanuts and other basic crops are to be favored through 1950. The new program or the compromise version adopt ed this week provides for a slid ing parity for peanuts and some other basic crops after 1950, but it has been pointed out that the farm program can and likely will be discussed further in the -next Congress. Briefly stated, the Democratic Congress “chunked” out the Re publican farm program as propos ed by Senator Aiken of Vermont. The Aiken measure, passed by the I last Republican Congress, wiped out the 90 percent parity program, and substituted a sliding parity formula, the support price to range from around 90 percent to just a fraction of parity. In other words, the Aiken bill offered lit tle price support when there was a crop surplus and prices were ■low. When production was low, the Aiken bill would offer a high er support price. That program would offer little or nothing when the farmer needed support most, and when he did not need support prices, the law would make it available. Two separate — but not equal— parity formulas will be in use un til 1954 under the bill. One is the present formula. The other is one developed by the Senate, which takes into account the cost of hir ed hands and the relationship be tween the price of crops and man ufactured articles in the recent i past. The measure instructs the Agri culture Department, in figuring parity for the basic crops for the next fours years to employ the formula which will be most ad vantageous to the farmer. In 1954 i the Senate formula is to become the only guide. The compromise ended a five day deadlock between Senate and House agents on how long the government should support farm prices at their wartime peak—90 percent of parity. The House voted to continue the present 90 percent for at least one more year. The Senate voted to keep some at 90 percent for one ye«r and then provide a flexible range from '75 tv, i>9 percent. The compromise took parts ot both plans but would postpone the ma jor impact of the Senate seheme -rt-yntil 1954. Pari*y is figured as the price a farmer should get in order to en joy purchasing power equal to what he had in a base period, us ually 1909-14. Government pur chases to guarantee 90 percent of parity often keep the housewife's market-basket prices higher than they would be otherwise. Under present law, the govern ment is required to support the price of wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobacco, peanuts, pork, eggs, chickens, wool, milk and butter fat at 90 percent of parity. The compromise would, for the lirst time since the war, give the (Continued on page six) Local Finn Surrendering Main Street Store Lease -vfN> Preparatory to transferring its lease on the main street store, the Pittman Clothing firm is offering a $30,000 stock of merchandise at drastically reduced prices. Start ing today, the special sale is to run only a short time, and the owners declare that ail the stock must go.