THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BX
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 53
Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 6. 1930
ESTABLISHED L899
Two Badly Hurt
• In Car Accidents
On July Fourth
Haniel It. Peel Has Bael
Broken: Marsleinler
t'liilii Hurt
Two Martin County people,
Daniel B. Peel, 54, and Johnny
Lewis Marslender, 7, were badly
but believed not gravely injured
in July 4 automobile accidents.
Peel suffered a broken back and
the Marslender lad, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Harvey Mars
lendcr of near Williamston, suf
fered a broken arm, face larcera
tmns and bruises about the body.
Both victims were removed to
a Washington hospital for treat
ment, last reports stating they
were getting along as well a?
^ could be expected.
Peel, mechanic at the Standard
Fertilizer Company, was injured
when the car in which he was
riding turned over on a dirt road
in Pamlico County at 11:30 o’clock
Tuesday morning. Another pass
enger, James Flynn, 65, suffered
a broken neck and his condition
was reported serious yesterday.
According to Mr. Roy Peel, Mar
tin County jailer, the car skidded
• in a curve and turned over
several times.
Joseph M Heath, Windsor man,
was traveling toward Washington
when the Marslender child ran
into the road about five and one
half miles south of Williamston
at S):30 o’clock Tuesday morning.
The little fellow was struck and
Knocked several feet into the air,
landing beside the road. Heath,
• talking with a riding companion
who was on his w'uy to the hospi
tal, said he could not understand
why there were so many highway
accidents A few seconds later the
child was struck by Ids car. Heath
jiicked up the child and the child's
father and carried them to the
hospital. Patrolman M. F. Powers
investigated the accident, explain
ing the car was runmngl about
^ twenty miles an hour when it
lot the child, that it came to a stop
about 7 feet after striking the
victim
The long holiday week-end saw'
possibly the largest volume of
traffic on the highways in this
section than ever before. There
were no tradgic deaths in this
county, but the State recorded
33 highway fatalities and several
other untimely deaths In the na
tion the slaughter toll pushed
near the 600 mark, the highway
fatalities reaching close to the
(Continued on page eight)
In Jayeee Beauty Pageant
Pictured above are the winners in the recent beauty
pageant, sponsored by the Williamsion Jaycees. They
are: front row, left to right, Miss Judy Bulluck, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Bulluck and third place winner;
Miss Nancy Woolford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Woolford and "Miss Sweetie Pie of 1950”; and Miss Myra
Fisher, daughter of Mrs. Magdaline Fisher, the second
place winner in the "Sweetie Pie Contest.” Back row. left
to right, Miss Susie Manning, 2nd place winner; Miss Lena
Price, “Miss Williamston of 1950,” and Miss Jeanette
Thomas, third place winner in the “Miss Williamston"
beauty pageant.
Drainage Is Major Problem In Martin County
Inadequate drainage throughout the county is causing
major concern for farmers and others, but there is a defin
ite move under way now to have something done to relieve
the condition. In the left picture above are shown the clog
ged branch in Keeper’s Branch between Williams and Grif
fins Townships. The next picture shows a newly-cut canal
in Corey’s Lane on the Roberson farm in Griffins Town
ship. The eanal was financed by voluntary assessments
and farmers are well pleased there with the work. Exten
sive projects are being planned in other parts of the coun- 'it
tv, but little consideration has been given so far to the J
major streams in the county. (Photos bv Royal Photogra
phic Center, Williamston.) ”
County Board Of
Commissioners In
Regular Meeting
1 "
KwoiiiiiiciuI Stale Taking
Over Hoad or Street
INear Williunihtoii
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With little business other than
that of a routine nature on their
caJ&KtlM', l&e Martin County
Commissioners were in session
only a short time last Monday.
Department reports were received
and bills were inspected.
The road program was briefly
discussed, the board recommend
ing that the State Highway and
Public Works Commission take
over and maintain that street near
Williamston in West End. The
thoroughfare, just a few blocks
long, runs from Highway ti4 to
a point near the old fair grounds
grandstand and thence to the
i Slaughter House or McCaskey
Road.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Liquor Dealers Ilad
Day In CourtMondav
Seven Defendants*
Fined $1,175 For:
Whiskey Dealings
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Lawyer* Volunteer rl'« Pro-*
Mcciitc Docket In All- I
#niw Of Solicitor
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Alleged liquor law violators
had a regular Held day in the
Martin County Recorder's Court
last Monday when seven of them
bowed before the bar of justice
and were fined $1,175. The day in
court climaxed a series of raids
conducted by police and county
officers.
Sixteen cases were handled at
the Monday session, including a
trial by six man jury. In the ab
sence of Solicitor Paul D. Rober
son, Attorney’s 11 (1. Horton, K.
S. Peel and Clarence Griffin
prosecuted the docket, the three i
coming out with a perfect score.
Total fines imposed by Judge
Chus. H. Manning amounted to
$l,2li0.
Procedings:
Adjudged guilty of drunken
driving, Aaron Council of RFD I,
Bethel, was fined $200, plus costs.
He gave notice of appeal and bond
was required in the sum of $250.
He was found guilty by a six man
jury.
Charged with an assault with
a deadly weapon, Victoria James
was found guilty of simple as
sault and judgement was sus
pended upon the payment of the
costs.
William Hobart Hailes of RFD i
1, New Bern, was" taxed with the
costs for speeding. I
Pleading not guilty of speeding
50 miles an hour inside the town
limits, Floyd Spruill of RFD 3,
Williamston, was adjudged guil
ty and was taxed with the costs.
Pleading guilty of violating the
liquor laws, LeRoy Smith was
sentenced to the roads for six
months, the court suspending the
road term upon the payment of
a $100 fine and the costs. He is
not to be convicted of a liquor
law violation within five years.
(Continued on page eight)
FIRST BLOSSOM
i >
Finding several earlier in
the week, Mrs. Zeno Hcddard
exhibited the first cotton
blossom of the season here
yesterday from the Beddard
farm in Popular Point.
The cotton crop, like all
others, is looking fine in the
county, but farmers declare
there is a heavy weevil infes
tation.
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OPKNIN<; DAlIvS
j
The local tobacco market
along with others in the
Bright Belt will open the 1950
season on Friday, August 18,
it was announced following a
recent meeting ol the Board
of Governors of the Bright
Belt Warehouse Association
held in Raleigh.
(ieorgia will open the sea
son on Monday, July 24, and
the Border Belt opens on
Tuesday, August 1. •
The opening here this year
is placed one day ahead of the
first sales in l!)4!l.
Farmers in this county arc
now harvesting a good quaG
Ity crop and that with a fa
vorable price outlook is cause
lor optimism in this area.
Oak City Justice
Hears Two Cases
Justice J. 1J. Whitfield 'mum
two defendants over to the coun
ty court for trial following pre
liminary hearings in Oak ('its
last evening
Elbert Jones, charged with tin
possession of half gallon of illieil
liquor, arranged bond in the sun
ol $250. He was arrested bv
Officer Garland Bunting
Johnnie Jones, charged with
public drunkenness and abusing
the arresting officer, Potrnlmau
It. P. Narron, was placed undci
bond in tin. sdiVi 'iii .fiTju.
Faculty Changes
Are Announced
In Local Schools
IVarhrr lim-up Is MhmiI
(lonipirh' for IVmi,
i*riii<*i|»iiI Says
I
Several changes in the local
: school faculty were anmmiieeil
last week-end by Principal H G
Stewart Several places, made
vaeany by resignations, have been
filled, the principal explaining
that apparently the teacher line
up is all set for the 1950-51 term
with the exception of an agn
culture teacher
Miss Anne Royster ol 1 lender
son is succeeding Mrs Beecher
Patterson as public school music
'tfsicher Mrs I’atterson recently
resigned to go with the Char
lottesville, Va , public schools as
j musig director. Miss Royster was
graduated in public school music
| at Woman’s College of the Uni
versify of North Carolina, Greens
boro, a short time ago.
Miss Harriet Tucker of Ahoskie
has been elected librarian for the
high school, a new position. Miss
Tucker taught in tin Bauruiburg
'.schools for three sears and war,
I full time librarian at Roanoke
Rapids last ycai She is a graduate
< > f Wniiiiin’k (’ »J j • m * < > 11 f 1 h i • [ T j i i
' versily of North Carolina, Greens
1 boro
Miss Lillian Joyner of Green
villc is succeeding Mrs I) W
| Brady who resigned as second
grade tcachci A graduate of East,
Carolina Teachers College, Green
: vilie, Miss Joyner taught in the
Hopewell, Va., schools two years
land in Winterville last year.
Mrs. W II. Abernathy, who
I pitched in to help relieve 1h<
situation dut ing the t< achei ..
' (Ckmttnued on page eight)
Explosion Damages Mixer
At Fertilizer Plan/ Here
I wo men were burned ,om
badly, when fire broke mil n
• he elevator shaft of the insecti
cide mixing plant at the Stand
ard Fertilizer plant on Knanoki
River here yesterday afternooi
at 2:00 o’clock. An explosion
following the fire, shook tin
building an<i threw workmen
eight or ten feet
Gaston Carr, of I’nrmele. was
severely burned about the arm;
and hands, and Smith Roberson
escaped with minor burns. Others
were slightly injured Carr, a
patient in the local hospital, war
reported to be getting along fair
ly well this morning
The plant was mixing sulphur
dust for peanuts at the time. Ap
proximately 1,200 pounds were in
the mixer, but only 150 pounds
had been dumped into the eleva
tor hopper. Carr said he had just
(implied ii bag of sulphur and
! was pulling mil the bag when
smoke pound out of the hopper
and thi explosion followed
"That’s all I remember," he said,
adding that no one was smoking
around the machine.
The explosion ripped open the
: elevator shaft and knocked off
the ventilators on top of the
three-story building. The auto
I malic sprinkler system was in op
juration in less than half a nine
| ute after the explosion sent the
heat and smoke to the top oi the
building. The company's f.rc de
partment went into action with
two lines of water hose and a
general fire alarm was sounded,
the town's volunteer firemen
turning out with both fire trucks.
No estimate of the damage
could be had immediately, but
the plant will be out of operation
1 several days.
Blow Dealt Whiskey
Business In Counlv
Fourteen Plants
Wrecked During
The Past Month
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Several l.aifje Slills Taken
Diiriuu l.aller fail
Of I asi Week
Rlai'ing up for some unexplain
ed reason, the illicit liquor busi
ness was dealt a telling blow
during the past month bv ABC
officer J II Roebuck and depu
ties
Fourteen stills were wrecked
and four persons were arrested
for alleged violation of the liquor
laws during the period Two have
aired,y been tried and convicted
Hoad sentences amounted to 21
| months and fines total $.'100 The
olticers poured out 0,(150 gallons
of sugar mash and twenty-two
gallons of white liquor.
Sizable .tills were taken during
the last lew days ol the month
On Tuesday of last week, Officers
Roebuck, Hoy Reel and Raymond
Rawls invaded that section in
I (inifins Township not far from
llatts Cross Roads and wrecked a
large plant It was equipped with
| a 000 gallon doubler, large cool
| ers, live 200 gallon fermenters.
The raiders poured out approx
imately 1,000 gallons of sugar
mash and confiscated 45 gallons
of fuel oil and all kinds of equip
ment used m the manufacture of
Ibe white lightning.
On June 2(1, the officers found
a Hat gallon copper kettle at a
plant near (ioid Romt m Holier
son villi* Township and wrecked
two J00 gallon capacity fermen
I ers.
(ionic lido I teat ( 1 las . on the
JOtli, the officers took a 100 gallon
submarine type still and arrested
llald.v Rogers who was “massing
in" for another run. In the county
court on Monday, July I), Rogers
j was sentenced to the roads foi
1 nine months The road sentence
(Continued on page eight)
l{< M MNI)-|!|'
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\ dozen persons were
rounded up and temporarily
detained in (he county jail
last week-end by local, coun
ty and state officers. Nine
were charged with public
drunkenness, two with dis
orderly conduct and one with
operating a motor vehicle
without a driver’s license.
Two of the twelve were
white and the ages of the
group ranged from 17 lo 50
years.
Approximately :»(>« workers
arc being assigned by Hit*
employment office here each
1 day for work in the tobacco
harvest, Manager Kelly («ay
said. While the demand for
loopers and primers is a bit
difficult to meet, other types
of labor are plentiful, (lay
said.
The wage scale is running
about the same as it was last
year or about S3 for shelter
hands and $5 for primers
with a few top primers re
ceiving $<> a day.
Employment re presen ta
lives are at the office on
Main Street here each morn
ing at 5:30 o'clock to cheek
out workers. Itniucsls will be
given every consideration,
the manager said.
The service proved highly
satisfactory last year.
Jas. Robi, Everett
Died In Hospital
Here Late Monday
i' lllimil ( .immIih <<‘<1 In I In’
< .Iniitli of 5 In* V!\ out
\l :,‘50 ^
Jamc- Robert E\ oretl .veil
known local man ami ! < -11 r>-■ I Ul
mer, died in 1.1 ie hospital here at
10:213 o'clock Monday night after
a long period of de< lining health.
Suffering with a heart condition,
he had been confined to hi. home
the greater part of the time dur
ing the past live \ ear-. Ills con
dition became worse the early
part of last week and he was re
moved to the hospital where lit
tle hope was held for his recov
ery.
He was born in 1’opular Point
Township, neai William ton, 56
years ago on Oetof. Hi, 11.193,
the son of the late Jami Arnold
and Roland Ora Taylor Alter
finishing the local schools he at
tended the Warrenlon High
School and State College in Ral
eigh, later studying in a Norfolk
business college.
In early manhood ho was mar
ried to Hannah Victoria Fowden
who died on Oetobei 26, 1922.
Two daughters, Mrs Horace A.
Ra\ and Mrs J O Manning Jr.,
both of Williamston, and a son,
James Robert Everett, oi Will
iarnstcin survives that union. Also
surviving are two brothers, Wm.
Harrell Everett of Williamston,
and Jus II Everett of Norfolk;
and a sister. Mrs B C Swam, of
Norfolk; a grand -.on, Horace A.
Ray, ,11 , a vs i :il inn i and
nephews
Mr Kvcrelt located in William
slon m 192-1, hut continued his
farming interests until ill health
forced his reliremenl lie also
operated a contract hauling busi
ness for a numbei ol years before
■ etiring
A member o| the Church ol fin;
Advent lieii loi a long number
of years, he was possessed of a
kind arid generous heart and was
most thoughtful ol othc lb- was
well known m this a ction ol the
State, but in reconl sear.-, lie lost
during his declining years touch
with the public except a few close
friends who visited in his home.
Funeral services were conduct
cd m the Church of the Advent
yesterdav afternoon at 3:30
o’clock by tile rector. Rev
Thomas Hastings, and internient
was in Ihc I'amilj plot in Wood
lawn Ccmeli-i > here.
Among Iho.c from out of town
at lending the funeral were, Me.
Warren Everett, Miss Elizabeth
Wan i n and Rev Sidney Mat
(Continued on page eight)
Beauty Rings Tlu*
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Pictured above is Miss Lena Price, "Miss Williamston
of liJ.il)," ringing the replica of the old Liberty Bell while
it was here week before last in the interest of the Savings
Bond drive. Miss Price represented the town at the Jay*
tees’ State Beauty Pageant held in Wrightsville Beach
earlier this week.