THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,00# MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES I VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 55 ESTABLISHED 1899 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 13, 1950 Nineteen Cases , In County Court Monday Morning Siiwill Fines Indicate Tight Financial Condition in This Section -» Ninteen cases were handled in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday, but Judge Chas. H. Manning was oniy able to extract a total of $85 in fines. ■ The revenue was the lowest re ported by the court in many months. Very few spectators attended the session. Proceedings: The drunken driving case, pending against Leggett Roebuck. Jr., since last December, was dis missed, subject to be reopened later. • Charged with carrying a con cealed weapon and an assault with a deadly weapon, Ernest Wooten pleaded not guilty. Ad judged guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, the defendant was fined $25, plus costs. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Willie Spencer was sen tenced to the roads for six months. Judgement was suspended upon 0*he payment of the costs and on condition that he’ll not assault his wife for two years. Lewis Daniel Ormond pleaded guilty of bastardy and was sen tenced to the roads for six months. Upon the payment of the court costs and on the further condition that $4 a week is pro vided for the support of his child, die road term was suspended. Facing the court in three cases mi which he was charged with assaults, Walter Jones pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty on all three counts, he was sentenced to the roads for six months in j each of two cases and judgement i was suspended in the third. Th« j road terms, slated to run concur- I rently, were to be suspended upon the payments of the costs. ? Johnnie Jones, pleading guilty #of public drunkenness, was fined $50, plus costs. Joseph Nathan Chance was fined $10 and required to pay the costs for speeding. Judgement was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Johnnie Richard Best with not reporting a motor vehicle accident. Thurston W. C. Davenport, ^barged with non-support was ad judged not guilty. Charged with an assault with ii deadly weapon, Girlene Smith was found not guilty. Frederick McKinley Heath, pleading guilty of operating a ; motor vehicle without a driver’s ! license, was sentenced to ihe ! roads for sixty days It was brought out that Heath had stolen,' a ear in Winston-Salem on July! !l :>nrl was arrested by Williams ton police the following day. He was turned over to Forsyth County authorities who returned him to Winston-Salem Monday. After serving the road term im posed in the Martin court the young man will be tried in the Forsyth Superior Court for lar ceny. - Adjudged guilty of assaulting his wife, Leo Townes was sen tenced to the roads for six months | the court suspending the road term upon th<_ payment of the costs. The defendant is not lo as saulf his wife during the^next two years. Louise Kirkman, pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, was sentenced to jail for five | months. The jail term was sus pended when it was learned that | her husband was in prison for I killing a man and that she was i the mother of seven small child* i ren. Judgement was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Jack Phillips with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, Elmer Rogers was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. Judgement was suspended up on the payment of the costs in the } eases charging Hythe Addi^in lteid, John O. Cherry, Edward Dawson Biggs and John F. Har - shall with speeding. The court was in session until about noon. Next Monday the court is slated to hear two jury cases involving drunken driven charges. ' f Make Plans To Open Draft Board Here Rent Two Rooms In The City Hall AI Williamston To Name Clerk anti Pre pare To Open Offices Here Next Monday Final instructions have not been received, but Eugene Rice, chairman of the Martin County ; Draft Board, is going ahead with ! plans to reopen the draft board : in Williamston within the next i few days, possibly on Monday. [Space on the third floor of the town hall has been spoken for, I and the services of a clerk have been tentatively arranged. Chair man Rice said. It was pointed out, how’ever, that no official an nouncement has been made. Since Board Member L. R. Ev erett of Hamilton is unable to serve at this time on account of illness there is a possibility that someone else will be named to carry on the work. Chairman Rice and Bohrd Member Chas. R. Gray of Robersonville are meet ing today, studying the problems. They are expected to contact Mr. Everett and it is possible that the two will carry on the work alone if Mr. Everett thinks he’ll be able to assume his duties within a reas onable time. If an appointment is declared necessary. Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne is expected to make it. During the meantime, eighteen year-olds are registering in great er numbers than in months. Reg istrations arc being handled tem porarily in the Red Cross office, third floor of Williamston's town hall, between 9:00 a. m. and noon, and between 1:00 and 3:00 p, m. except on Saturdays when the of fice is closed at noon. The regis tration cards are forwarded to the district office in Elizabeth City where they are filed. All the files are to be returned to the respec tive counties, and classification work will be handled without de lay with the fairly certain pros pect that four or more Martin County boys will be inducted into the service within six weeks. The first contingent will be drafted from the 25-year-old group. It is estimated that nearly ten million in age group now eligible to serve are registered, th.t there are about one and one-hail million men in the 1-A classification at this time. Married men with de i pendents and men necessary in farming and industry arc exempt along with those physically un able to serve. During the meantime, more men are volunteering for service in the armed forces than at any other time in recent months, in cluding several from this county. Reports from the war front in Korea are not very encouraging, and while a turn for the better is expected shortly, it is quite likely that enough trouble has been | started to start the draft machin ; cry wheels turning. ' During the period the draft i board was open in this county aft er World Wan II, one lone man I was actually drafted, and he was called shortly before the office i was closed. AGGRAVATED f ■v Rains, falling Tuesday and yesterday aggravated the ' crop conditions in parts of the county, but with an even break in the weather from this point, most farmers are expected to harvest good crops. Some tobacco has flop ped in nearly every part of the county as a result of ex cessive rains during the past week most of the damage be ing centered to the south eastern part of the county. The tobacco harvest is in full swing now, but a few farmers said late yesterday that it was still too wet to get into their fields. Still Working On Compromise Plan For Peanut Crop j Woul*l Allow Growers In This Slut** To Plant 225,* 7(H) Acres Next Yeur Washington. — A compromise amendment favoring Virginia tvpe peanut producing areas was agreed to by representatives of all areas yesterday. It gives the Secretary of Agri | culture authority to increase : acreage to as high as the 1941 al I lotments in areas producing types [ of peanuts expected to be in j short supply. i At the same time the farmers i will be permitted to raise peanuts ' for oil purposes above their al Iutm#ft4*-mt>v»ded the total acre age does not exceed the 1947 acre age. Should there be a short sup ply of a particular type of pea nut grown for oil, the nuts can be diverted into the edible trade at the edible trade price. The amendments were tacked onto the Agriculture Committee's i cotton bill following a long and ! heated fight by congressmen from ! ; North Carolina and Virginia. | The fight was led by Congress-1 men Herbert C. Bonner and Har old Cooley of North Carolina and | Congressmen Watkins Abbitt and I Porter Hardy of Virginia. These are the congressmen i epresenting ‘ the Virginia-type peanut pro^uc- J ing areas which will benefit b» the amendment should the WTl j pass. Congressman Bonner pointed ' out tonight that under the amend ments, North Carolina peanut growers will probably be permit- ! ted to plant some 225.7000 acres I of peanuts in 1951 - thirty or forty thousand acres more than the original 1951 allotment calls for. At the same time, under the oil peanut amendment. Tar Heel growers will be able to increase this to something like 251,000 acres, the 1947 allotment. The amendments were compro mise measures agreed to by the North Carolina and Virginia Rep resentatives after they were balk- , ed in their efforts to institute a ! urogram whereby peanuts would be allocated by types according to demand. Such a program would have given increased acreage to Vir ginia-type growers who have been unable to meet the great demand for fjieir product in re cent years. But it met with op position from over-producing Spanish and Runner-type areas which would have suffered acre age reductions under the plan. If the plan fails, the following acreage reduction is certain, Vir ginia, 17,000; North Carolina, 27, 000; Tennessee, 500; South Car olina, 2,000. ff reck Victim Helurns To Hit Home Yetterdmy i Suffering a broken back in an I autmobile accident in Pamlico! County the early part of last j week, Mr. Daniel Peel, mechanic ] for the Standard Fertilizer Com- ' pany, returned to his home here on Warren Street from a Wash ington hospital yesterday aft ernoon. He will continue in a cast for some time. Draw Jurymen (or The County Court Twelve citizens were drawn t.iis week for jury duty in the Martin County Recorder's Court next Monday when the ease charging Chas. Curtis and G. Thomas Rob bcrson with drunken driving are scheduled for trial. Names of those drawn for jury duty are: • Jamesville, Ben C. Peel, Cla rence Revets; Bear Grass, Arthur Peel and Kneezer Harrison; Will iamston, Randolph D. Rogers, V. J. Spivey, J. Herman Biggs and A. C. Summerlin; Robersonville, Ashley D. Wynne and H. V. Jen kins; Popular Point, S. E. Taylor; Hamilton, A. W. Boyd. Market And Cafe Ratings Listed For Past Month I Twenty Meat Markets And Eleven Cafes Get Hiph Itut in<:s -4, Twenty meat markets and elev en eafes got high sanitary ratings for a recent period, according to a report released this week by County Sanitarian'W. B. Gaylord. Jr. Only one eating place had a C rating, the report shows. The ratings, as released by Sani tarian Gaylord, follow: Meat Markets Grade A: Page, Robersonville, 96.5; McClees, Williamston, 95.5; Peele’s, Williainston, 95.0; Ward, Williamston, 94.5; Colonial, Wil liamston, 93.5; H. D. Roberson, Ro bersonville, 93 5; Ange, Williams ton, 93; B & B, Hamilton, 93; Wil liams, R. E., Robersonville, 93; Mobley, Robersonville, 92.5; Tiny, Williamston, 92; Hardy, D. L„ Wil liamston, 91.5; Hardison, James ville, 91.5; Rodgers, B. A., Rober sonville, 91.5; Moore Grocery, Williamston, 91; Robertson, Wil liamston, 90; Sunny Side, Wil liamston, 90.5; Williams Commun I ity, Williamston, 90.5; Jones Com j munity, Williamston, 90; West End, Williamston, 90. Grade B: Elmwood, Williams ton, 89.5; Ayers, Oak City, 89; K. Bunting, Oak City, 89; Donaldson, Williamston, 89; D. Moore, Wil liamston, 89; Mizelle, Williamston, 89; Bin's, Williamston, 88; Gold Point, Robersonville, 88; Hardy, H. S., Everetts, 88; Sexton James ville, 88; Wynn, Everetts, 88; Ed mondson, Hassell, 87.5; Bunting, | Oak City, 87; W. A. Roberson, Wil liamston, 87; Red Front, Williams ton, 87; Slade Rhodes, Hamilton, 87; Daniels, Oak City, 86; Brown Bros., Jamesville, 85; Edmondson and Cherry, Hamilton, 85; Hamil ton, Hamilton, 85; Forbes, Rober sonville RFD 2, 84; Rodgers, Wil liamston, 84; Terry Bros., Wil liamston RFD 2, 84; Bryan, Rob ersonville, 83.5; Smith, Williams ton, 83.5; Brown, Williamston, 83; Andrews, E. T„ Robersonville, 83; Rogers, Win., Williamston, 82; Reddick, Williamston, 82; J. M. Ward, Williamston, 82; Green Front, Williartiston, 81. Cafes Grade A; Wier’s Coffee Shop, Williamston, 95.5; Central Cafe, Williamston, 95; East Side, Wil liamston, 94; Griffin, Williamston, 94; G & C, Williamston, 92; Wil son Hotel and Dining Room, Rob ersonville, 91; The Southerner, Williamston, 90.5; Crystal Grill, Williamston, 90; Geo. Harris, Wil liamston, 90; Roberson, Williams ton, 90; Cherry. Robersonville. 90 ! (Continued on page eight) Pass Bill For Study Of Fish Thi' House of Representatives tliis week passed a bill authoriz ing an investigation of shad and herring disappearances in Albe marle and Pamlico Sounds in this State. It was the bill introduced by Congressman Herbert C. Bonner in an effort to alleviate alarm ing decreases in annual catches of commercial fish in northeast ern North Carolina. (The North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and De velopment reported that catches of shad and herring had dropped around 80 percent during the past decade.) As it passed the House the bill will fhelude more than the inves tigations in North Carolina, how ever. It will direct studies of the same situation in both game and commercial fishing areas all a long the Atlantic Coast. Particular eifiphasis will be placed on the declines in croaker catches in Chesapeake Bay and the disappearances of weakfish around the New Jersey Coast. Should the bill receive the favor of the Senate and the President, the studies will be undertaken by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. After the study 1 J is made, the Wildlife Service will | then reyommend to the various States measures to halt the de clines and increase the abun dance of the fish. Quintuplets Born To Couple Here Early Yesterday Morning Quadruplets Born To Viola R. Brown Some Years Ago