THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 52 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Hi OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williams ton, Marlin County, North Carolina, Thursday, Jam- 29, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Legal Whiskey Sales * Continue Downward Total 01 $5,329,266 Spent For Liquors! Since July In 1935 -» Sales Lasi Quarter Are Un iter $100,000 For First Time In Six Years Legal liquor sales, maintaining a downward trend for several years, fell below the $100,000 fig ure during the first three months of this year for the first time j since 1944, and are about one third the size of thg sales record ed in the last quarter of 1946 when the total stood at $279, *' 578.90. During the period ending last March 31, sales in the legal stores amounted to $98,260.55, and profits for the period were figured' St $21,764.23. In the first quarter of last year the sales amounted to $134,146.70, and profits amounted to $30, 318 14. It is possible that there is a switch from the legal brands to * the rural brands, the move com ing in the name of economy. According to the quarterly aud it just recently released, the cost of liquors amounted to $71,044.52, leaving a gross profit of $27,216.03. Operating expenses amounted to $5,561.14. A As of March 31, the ABC Board had $19,578.18 in cash on hand, $35,502.30 inventory, and fixed as sets in the amount of $435.85. Lia bilities were listed, accounts pay able, $13,963 82; due towns and county, $12 070.67; reserve for law enforcement, $17,481.84 and (jur }>lus, $12,000.00. The $21,764.23 in prolits were divided us follows: Martin Coun ty. $9,053.15; State of North Caro lina, $8,352.15; reserve for Kw en forcement, $1,341.21; town of Wil liamston, $1,586.19; town of Rob ersonville, $563.57; town of Oak City, $207.46; town of Jamesville, $198 41; town of Kamilton, $176.91; town of Parmele, $142.59; town of Everetts, $89.78; town of Hassell. $52.81. Profits for the first quarter, this year, are compared with those of the first quarter in 1949, as fol lows, by stores: 1949 1950 Williamston $17,394.22 $12,270.80 Rob'rsonville 7,244.64 5,501.18 Dak City 3,880.39 2,750.61 Jamesville 1,864.89 1,241.64 $30,384.14 $21,764.23 A comparison of sales for the ;ii st quarters in 1949 and 1^50 fol lows, by stores: 1949 1950 Winston $ 73,581.95 $52,512.35 < Rb'snville 32,999.95 25,643.35 Oak City 17,685.40 12,861.20 Jamesville 9,879.40 7,243.65 $134,146.70 $98,260.55 A review of sales and profits from the time the stored were opened in July, 1935, follows, by quarters: Quarter Ending Sept., ’35 $ • Dec., ’35 Mar-, ’36 •7une, 36 Sept., ’36 Dec., ’36 Mar., ’37 June, ’37 Sept., ’37 Dec., ’37 Mar., ’38 Sales 22,249 35 37,379.29 25,274.36 21.584.05 27,864.59 44,727.00 29,771.20 31.640.93 30.259.05 56,179.40 33,325.62 Profits 2,743.11 9,887.99 5,100.24 3,425.70 5.619.93 11,661.14 6,563.07 4,484.77 |,854.43 16.224.82 7,694.35 (Contuiued on page eight) ‘Funeral Held For Mrs. Annie York — ' ' j ■ Graveside services wei'e con ducted yesterday afternooi at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. E. R. Shuller, lo cal Methodist minister, for Mrs. Annie Bernard York, 67, who died near here Tuesday morning. Interment was held in Woodlawn OtCnnetary. Mrs. York, widow of John W, York, was a native of Suffolk. } Virginia, but lived in thi.^ county a number of years, including sev eral spent in Oak City Communi i tv. She leaves no immediate rel atives. j TOBACCO LABOR \ v-/ Reports from the North Carolina Employment office here indicate that an adequate supply of labor for handling the tobacco harvest will be available this season. Al ready, many workers have been booked for work in to bacco during the next several weeks. Farmers, needing surplus labor for the tobacco harvest, are advised to contact the employment office, first floor of the Tar Heel Apartment building, and workers will be assigned them. Take li Easy On July Fourth And Be Alive On Filth Nearly Seven Hundred Peo ple Lout Liies Celebrat ing July 4 Lad Year Chicago.—Don’t make your steer ing wheel a wheel of chance - because you bet your life! That advice came from the Na tional Safety Council as the na tion approached the Fourth of July holiday, one of the most dangerous periods of the year. With traffic fatalities on the increase this year - up 9 per cent so far - the Coucil is coordinating a nationwide campaign to hold down the usual upsurge in Inde pendence Day accidental deaths. One hundred and sixty - three national organizations, as well as state antj eity public officials, ate cooperating in the effort. Last Fourth of July almost 700 persons were killed by accidents of all kinds during the three-day holiday. Many more died later as the result of injuries received during the celebration. Traffic accidents ware the chief killer, alone accounting for about 300 deaths. The Council expects more plea sure-seeking motorists to pile in to more cars and roll up more miles on this holiday and the week-end preceding it than ever before in the country's history. For many it will be a four-day vacation. More than 36 million motor vehicles will be on the move. The increasing number of new cars on the road and the sub stantial rise in gasoline consump tion tins year indicate a heavy death toll - unless everone is fully aware of the holiday hazards and makes a real effort to avoid them. “Holidays are hazard days,” said Ned H. Rearborn, president of the Council. "When you take a change on the highway you are gambling - and the stakes are human lives. You can’t afford to lose in this game “Police and those who have au thoritative control over public safety will be especially alert and vigorous in their enforcement of sane rules of public behavior. But (Contuiued on page eight) Thirteen Speeders Booked For Trial In County's Court —*— Dog Round-Up In County Is About Completed; Cases Aired In Court Thirteen speeders on the high ways and streets in this area were cited to the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday. Most of them, holding their speed down around 65 miles per hour, were only required to pay the trial costs of $22.05. A few were fined, and one, facing a dual charge, was fined $65, plus costs. Helman Elian Allen, Raleigh ball player, charged with speed ing and failing to stop for a red light, pleaded guilty and was fin ed $10, plus costs. John Ben Hardison of Farm ville, charged with speeding and violating the liquor laws, was fined $65. Speeding along at 70 miles per hour, Jacob Rosen of Norfolk was fined $15 and required to pay the costs. James Floyd Wilson, Jr., of Bethel was fined $15, plus costs, for running 75 miles an hour. The following were required to pay the trial costs when they ap peared in court on charges of speeding, but not in excess of 65 ; miles an hour: I Jesse Worth Potter of Colonial | Heights, Va., Donald .Burton Bri i ley of Route 2, Bethel, Joseph I Timothy Baldree of Farmville, Sylvester McNeil, Jr., of Route 11, Oak City, Nicholas A. Shahood 'of Brooklyn, Gregory S. Morris >ette of New York City, Lester ; R. Jones of Norfolk, Henry Gray Corey of Route 2, Williamston, Julius J. Williams of Williams ton. ---4, Local Guardsmen To Camp Ang. 6th The local unit of the National Guard, the last unit organized in 150 AAA Gun Battalion, is to go to camp August 8 to 20, according to announcement by the com manding officer who also reports that there is a strong possibility that the enrollment in the unit will be increased substantially ‘ from its present 58 shortly after the first of July. All persons interested in joining the guard are urged to contact the commanding officer, Capt. E. S. Peel, Jr., at his law office, or apply at the unit headquarters so ! that they can get their names on the list of candidates for enroll ment and a lot of detail work will | he behind them when the enlarg ed enrollment becomes possible. An effort is also to be made to have an armory constructed here I The two units organized imme j diately prior to the one in Wil j liamston are already making ar rangements lor armory construc I tion. The building would be so 1 arranged as to take care of public I meetings and provide for various indoor sports, particularly basket j ball. | A new list of sergeants and cor porals was announced this week ■ also. Headed by Master Sergeant j Leslie. T. Fowden, they are: Ser ' >A»VVV^. May being 7,162, and for April 6,926. Warning tickets were issuei in 3,595 cases. Driver’s licenses in speeded numbered 113,463 The Patrol brought in $324, 619.43 in May, including the valu< of stolen property returned ti owners. Of the amount, $175,390. 03 was in fines turned over ti county school funds and $96, (Continued on page eight) THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Even though vacation trav el has been comparatively heavy, only one serious acci dent was reported on ,the highways in this county dur ing the past two weeks. A spe cial warning is being issued to July 4 holiday travelers— drive safely and be alive on the fifth. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in tills year and last and for each year to the present time. 34th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Diun’ge 1950 1 2 0 $ 400 1940 4 I 0 1,050 Comparisons To Dato 1950 70 37 0 $10,150 1049 53 25 2 13,255 Fines Imposed In The Sum of $1,070 In All-Day Neel i,ii|iior Law Violators Ap pear In Court lu Fairly Lari'!* Numbers With forty cases on its docket, the Martin County Recorder's Court worked just about all day Monday before catching up the work that had accumulated while the superior tribunal was in ses | sion the week before. Liquor violators were in the 1 court in fairly large numbers. Fines, not to mention the hun dreds of dollars in costs, amount ed to $1,070, a record for recent months. Proceedings: Charged with violating the liquor laws, Lester Dawson plead ed guilty and was fined $50, plus costs. Pleading guilty of non-support, John Willis Mobley was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term ' on condition that he pay the costs ■ and $3 a week for support of his * wife and child. lie is to reappear I at the end of ninety days for ; futher judgement. 1 Judgement was suspended upon i the payment of the cost in the i case charging George Washing - ton Joyner with assaulting a fe male. t Adjudged guilty of bastardy, 1 Robert Lee Richardson was sen ■ tenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended on ) condition that he pay the costl and $3 a week for the support ot t his child during the next two i years. Pleading not guilty, Charlie ■ Ellison, charged with an assualt ; with a deadly weapon, was found guilty and was taxed $25, plus t costs. Dennis Jones, pleaded guilty, I was sentenced to the roads for ' three months for trespassing. Thu . road term was suspended upon the payment of a $25 fine. ■ Charged with assualting a fe [ male, Matthew Crowell was l'ouinf [ not guilty. Hayrmir.il itymun, pleading noi : guilty of bastardy, was found guilty, llo was sentenced to the • roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon • the payment of the costs and $11 l a week for the support of his child James Perkins was found not • guilty m the case charging him with assaulting a female. • Jesse Clark, pleading not guilty I of non-support, was found guilty I Hnd drew ‘•iv month* on ih11 roads, the court suspending the road ; term upon the payment of the • costs and $5 a week for two years. Probable cause appearing in the case charging him with breaking I and entering and larceny, Harvey , Mooring was bound over to the I superior court under bond in the ■ sum of $200. : i Henry Bullock, adjudged guil ) ty over Ins own plea of innocence, - was sentenced to the roads for i six months, the court suspending . thi road term upon the payment of costs fjc-d $5 a week for two years. ’ Charged with carrying a con . coaled weapon, Hattie Davenport pleaded not guilty. She was ad judged guilty and the fine was ! $50, plus costs. ’ | Pleading not guilty of careless driving, Jasper D. Hemmingway was adjudged guilty of operating a motor vehicle on the wrong side of the road and was fined $10, plus costs. I Charged with drunken driven land resisting arrest, William | Richard Williams was found 'guilty only of being publicly drunk and resisting arrest. He was fined $50 and required to pay the costs. Worris Roosevelt Black pleaded guilty of careless and reckless I driving and was fined $115, plus , costs. Pleading not guilty of drunken driving, James David Li I ley was adjudged guilty and was senten ced to the roads for three months. The road term was to be suspend ed upon the payment of a $200 (Continued on Page Eight) Justices Oi Peace Heard Few Cases In Recent Days One l)t'f<‘iiilanl Fined $65 In Fonihination Case Cast Monday Among the few cases heard in the local justice of peace courts during the past few days were several charging violation of the law "requiring immunization of dogs against rabies. Reports state that while hundreds of citations were issued, comparatively few cases actually reached the courts. Most of the owners either dis posed of their dogs or had them vaccinated. Charged with not complying with the dog vaccination taw, David Stancill, Herman Lilley, and Eddie Hardison were sen tenced to jail by Justice Chas. R. Mobley for ten days. The jail terms were suspended upon the payment of the costs and on con dition that they dispose of or have their dogs vaccinated. It was pointed out that Hardison had had his dag vaccinated, but not until a warrant was issued. Llyod Price, charged with vio lating the dog vaccination law, proved in court that he had com plied with the Law, that he forgot to report to the inspector and the case against him was dismissed. Although hundreds of citations were issued, directing owners to have their dogs vaccinated or killed, very few warrants have been served in the county. Charged with simple assault, Carroll and Ed G. Price were said to have engaged in a dangerous practice when they threw young boys who could not swim into an ole swimming hole near Jamesville. Warned against the practice, they were taxed with the costs by Justice Mobley. Frank Simmons was taxed with the cost by Justice Mobley on a simple assault charge. In Justice R T. Johnson's court, T M McDaniel, charged with failing to stop at a stop sign, was taxed with $5.85 costs. Charged with being drunk and disorderly, Dallas and Lavernc Godard, Alexander Walker and Margaret Sauers were each fined $10, plus $8.85 costs by Justice Johnson. County Native Dies In Bertie Mrs. Ercel Raynor Roebuck, 43, died suddenly at her home near Roxobel Monday afternoon of a heart attack. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Primitive Baptist Church ut Spring Green yester day afternoon at 3:00 o'clock by the pastors, Elder W E. Grimes and Elder E. C. Stevenson. Inter ment was in the church cemetary. Mrs. Roebuck was born and spent her eadly life in this county, marrying JVIr. Leamon Roebuck and moving to Bertie County twenty years or more ago. Surviving besides her husband are nine children, Mrs. C. B. Ayers of Williamston, Mrs. Fred Joyner O’Neal, Janice, and Alice, Billy, Arthur, Steve, and John William, all of the home; one sister, Mrs. Henry Keel of Rob ersonville; four brothers, Daw son of New Bern, Alton of Ply - mouth, F. P. and Milton Raynor of Williamston and her mother, Mrs Mamie Raynor of Williams ton. Youth Loses Life In Munieipal Pool Here HOLIDAY Patrons of local business firms are again reminded that there'll be a general holiday in the ole town next Tuesday, ) July 4, for the observance of Independence Day. The clos ing Tuesday will not alter the half-day holiday schedule in effect each Wednesday after noon. Since the Fourth falls on publication day. The Enter prise will not have an issue that day. and the office will be closed all day Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Making Progress On Road Project In Martin County Brown Paving; Company Is Pushing; Paving In Oak City-Kvrrrlls Link Contracting officials reported excellent progress yesterday in the construction of a new road way from Everetts to Hamilton 1 Palmyra, a $1(>5,000 project which will give Martin county residents another paved link for travel, school bus use, and mail delivery. About 25 men are now employ er! on the job, which was started in late April. Lowest of six bidders at $1(15, 142.70, the Brown Paving com pany of Lexington, a member of the Carolinas branch, Associated General Contractors of America, holds the contract award. Other bids received ranged upward to.yjorg than $190,000. Under contract, the Brown company is bonded to complete | the grading, asphalt surfacing, j drainage within 170 working days. The new stretch',a will cover 104 miles, utilizing sections of N. C. Highway 125 as connect ing links. From Everetts the road | will run to N. C 125, anti into (Gold Point; thence northwest to Oak City; and, from a point on N. C. 125 just north of Oak City into Hamilton-Palmyra State Highway officials super ^ vising the project are Resident i Engineer R. J. Peele, Jr. and In spector R. J West, both of Wi 11 - . iamston; and Division Engineer W. N Spruill of Ahoskie. County Boys Join Armed Services i Of the sixty-seven young men j enlisting for service in the armed 1 forces at the Raleigh recruiting | station during the past few days, i five were from Martin County. Ricardo C. Carson of Williams | ton enlisted for service in the I regular army Volunteering for service in the Air Force were, Vennie L. Moore, James H. Corey and William E. Corey, all of Will iarnston, and James F. Haislip of Jamcsville Recruiting officers in Raleigh j | reported activity in then depart-j inent had been stimulated by the ^ news from Korea. They were handling more inquiries than at any time in several years. Harvesting of Tobacco Gets Under Way on La rge Sca le Breaking diiwn under a lint sun fur several days, Inbami is ripening rapidly in the fields in this county and the harvest is getting under way on a large scale with all-out activities sched uled for next week. Farmer William Ilogerson started the harvest on the 17th of this month.. A few followed last week, and the work was re ported underway in nearly every section of the county this week, scattered Reports from the first cures but the activities were fairly are very encouraging, several farmers declaring the quality is good and that there is weight. ' Black shank is becoming serious for many farmers in nearly every part of the county. Losing a portion of his crop by disease, Farmer Clarence Wallace said earlier in the week he planned to transplant about one-quarter acre, more as an experiment than anything else. Heavy rains followed by a re lentless suii have caused some tobacco to flop in some areas, but the crop, as a whole, is rated among the best seen in this sec tion in recent years. Other crops are looking good, too, and farmers,, for the most part, are fairly optimistic over the prospects. Funeral Today In Local Church For Samuel E. Jones -<$ INo liujuesl •«arv bv \