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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 <Juiiitii|»lrtx Lived Only A Fen Minnies; Mother Is Recovering All Ri$;lit Viola Rogers Brown, 21-year old colored woman, gave birth to quintuplets at her home here on South Sycamore early yesterday morning. Born prematurely, the three boys, and two girls lived on ly a few minutes. Four years ago the mother, then seventeen years old, gave birth to quadruplets. They, too, were born prematurely and lived only a few minutes. An other child, Donnie Brown, was born nineteen months ago and is doing well. The mother wes re ported this morning to be getting along all right. The first of the quints was de livered at 12:40 o’clock yesterday morning and the job was com pleted one hour and ten minutes later. One of the three boys and the two girls weighed a pound each; a second boy weighed one and one-half pounds and a third boy weighed one and one-eight pounds, according to Miss Caro line Stalls, nurse in attendance. Premature by about three or three and one-half months, the babies did not have a chance to live. The attending doctor was quoted as saying that had birth been delayed a few more weeks the babies would have undoubtely lived. The father, Alonza Brown, is 23 years old and is employed by the William,stun Lumber Com pany. As far as the records show, it is the first time quintuplets have] been born in Martin County. News of the multiple births spread rapidly here and before noon national press associations were asking for more of the de tails. The birth of the quadruplets (Continued on page eight) Take Auto Thief Here Late Sunday -—<t— Acting a bit suspicious, Fred McKinley Heath, 17-year-old col ored boy, was stopped by Officers Verblc Jones and Willie Modlin here lati Sunday night. Heath was immediately booked for oper ating an automobile—a 1950 Ford without a driver’s license A* a hearing before Justice R. T. John son, Heath could not answer all the questions and an investigation was started. Highway patrol radio traced the ear to Kbrnersville, near Winston Salem where a garage had been robbed. However, up until that time the owner did not know his ear had been stolen. Tried in the county court Monday, Heath was sentenced to the roads for sixty days for operating a ear without a license and was turned over to Forsyth County officers to go on trial there in September for lar ceny. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . With the year a little over half gone, motorists traveling Martin County highways and streets are well ahead in the wrecking business. However, they have been fortunately conservative in the killing business. 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. 27th Week Accidents InJ’d Killed Uam’ge 1050 3 1 (I $ 625 I 1949 6 2 0 400 Comparisons To Date 1950 Ti 311 0 $16,775 1949 59 27 2 13,650 Permanent Pastures Mean Cheaper Production Costs By S. A. Tuten Asst. County Agent The use of good permanent pastures as a means of more eco nomical livestock production, is rapidly becoming an accepted practice among farmers in Martin County. Their value has been demonstrated by farmers who have already established and are successfully maintaining ade quate grazing for their livestock. Good pastures can be used to an advantage by commercial pro ducers or by farmers who pro i duee only meat and milk for home use. The most valuable pastures con tain one clover and one or more varieties of pasture grasses. Ladino Clover which is a giant type of common white clover ap pears to be the most popular clover. It is a rapid growing perennial that spreads by creep ing. It has fewer seed-heads and has larger stalks and leaflets than common white clover. It apparently has the ability to re cover faster following a dry spell! than other legumes commonly grown. Ladino grows best in moist fertile soil, and will thrive on some soils which are not suit able. Grasses which have been' .successfully seeded with Ladino 1 are either orchard grass or tall fescue. Orchard grass has given good results on tertue well drain ed soils. Tall fescue seems to do better on poorly drained soils. Correct fertilization is very im portant. Generally one or two tons of lime are required on un limed soils. A soil test should be taken to determine the amount of lime needed. Soil sample boxes and directions for taking samples are prepared by the State Soil Testing Labratory and are distrib uted through County Agents' and other Agricultural workers. Lime should be worked into the soil six months before seeding; however, later applications are better than no lime until after seeding. Fertilizer at the rate of GOO to 1000 pounds of 2-12-12 is requir ed at seeding time. Annual appli cations of 400 to 000 pounds of [0-10-20, 0-9-27 or 0-14-14 are re commended for successful main tenance. 1 The recommended rate of seed ing is 10 to 12 pounds of Orchard grass with 2 to 3 pounds of Ladino Clover or 8 to 12 pounds of Tall Fescue with 2 to 3 pounds of La dino Clover. County Boys Report Big Scout Jamboree 47,000 Boys Were Ai Valley Forge For Great Event Seven Marlin County Hoy Seoul* Ketnrneil Home I-awl Week-eml Itv Jimmy Wallace Martin County’s eight represen tatives to the National Hoy Seout Jamboree arrived at Rocky Mount on Friday nigh* after ten days of camping which will stand out in their memories foi a long time. Participating in the Second Na tional Jamboree held at Valley Forge, site of Washington's bitter winter encampment in 1777, the local youths, along with 47,000 of the nation’s youngsters, took part in a variety of activities rarely j seen. President Truman spoke on] June 30. On that night, the boys, | along with 50,000 visitors, were! treated to a pageant depicting the cruel winter of 1777. On Sunday night, 50,000 boys, I standing on a sloping hillside and facing a stage 150 yards long at the bottom of a valley, each light-, ed a candle simultaneously, sud denly illuminating the darkness as! il by magic. This ceremony was | symbolic of keeping the torch ofj religious freedom and liberty j burning. Two nights later, in this same vast natural arena, sur rounded by flood lights, loud speakers, 500 flags and four Boy Scout bands, General Dwight Eis enhower spoke to the assemblage of 125,000. After his speech there followed a 35-minute display of fireworks, far surpassing anything ever seen by most of the boys. And then there was the last night at the arena with more col or, more pageantry, more thrilling at the columns of boys, stretched out as far as the eye could see, marching in, four abreast, singing, counting, shouting. There were the top brass of the USA, the visit ing dignitaries, the troop from Nova Scotia, complete with kilts, the group from India, Austria, Japan and thirty-five other coun I tries. But m addition to these genera! activities there were such things as cooking by patrols (groups of right) throughout the Jamboree. 1 he food was excellent and was (Continued on Page Eight) KAINFAU, \ v. j Starting in earnest a week ago today, rains have literally flooded this scetion every day for a week with the promise of scattered showers today and tomorrow'. Starting out last Thursday with 2.1!) inches of rain, the season during the past seven days emptied almost seven inches of rain in this imme diate area. Iteports declare that the f^ll has been twice | that amount in those sections to the south and southeast during the same period. A break in the rainy season is hardly expected before the week-end. Consumer Income Higher This Year Consumer incomes in the Unit- j ed States are higher than last year j according to a recent report from the Commerce Department. In [ April of this year the annual rate j increased to $212,1100,000,000 which did not include $245,000,000 in GI life-insurance-refund pay ments. Personal incomes were in creased by these payments, hut they do not count, in the total an nual rates because payments are almost completed by now. The annual rate in April repre sented a gain of $600,000,000 over the annual rate for March, anel this is the second month the in come has increased. In 1049, con Isumer incomes totaled $209,000, j 000,000. Tin gain from March to April “reflected an expansion in payrolls that was largely offset by declines in proprietors’ income and transfer payments.” 'The rise stemmed primarily from increas ed activity in the durable goods and manufacturing industries," the Department said. "Higher em ployment and a longer work week in factories ptnducing transpor tation equipment, machinery, and other fabricated metal products were mainly responsible for the advance of total wages in durable goods manufacturing.” “The net income of farm opera tors for the first four months of 1950 was about one-fifth less than in the same period of last year,” the Commerce Department re ported. Issue Twenty-four Marriage Licenses In Martin County 1-vii.uuc Larfi«‘sl For \nv June During *ii«* F*a*t Three Years After holding to a fairly low figure for months, the issuance of marriage licenses climbed con siderably during the past month. Register of Deeds J Sam Get singer issued twenty four licenses during tf\e month. The issuance was the largest for any June in three years, trailing the count in June, 1937, by nine. Licenses were issued last month, fifteen to white and nine to colored couples, as fol' iws: White Frank C. Bennett of Williams ton and Cloey Rosetta Renfrew of Selma. E. D Rogers of Jamesville and Frances Hardison of Williamston. Dillon Thomas Rogerson and Elsie Mae Taylor, both of Will iamstun. Lynn Alberti Young of Nor folk and Vernelle Gardner of Jamesville. Dewey Lee Edwards of Will iamston and Ethel Lane Speller, RFD 4, Windsor Paul Hartwell Williams of Eve retts and Rachel Ruth Holliday of Jamesville. Jimmie W Stalls, RFD I, Rob ersonville, and Virginia Stalls, RFD 2. Robersonvillc. Titus Stuart Criteher and Katie Leggett, both of Williamston. James D. White and France:! P. Drake, both of Greenville. William Gray ,Jr , of Williams ton, and Peggy Joyce Hopkins o! Oak City. Marlie Linard Choplin nt Youngsville and lassie Delene Manning of Williamston Edgar James Harvey and lla/.el Jones Long, both of Roxboro. Thomas Francis Oder, Jr., of Windsor, and Essie Mae Griffin, RFD, Robersonvillc Francis Darrell Taylor of Eve retts and Frances Elizabeth Grif fin of Williamston. Franklin McCoy Peede of Alios kie and Nanev Sherrill Robert son of Williamston Colored Henderson Moore and Savan nah Mae Janies, both of James ville. Willie A Jones id Oceana, Va , and Hattie L Latham of William ston. Lafayette Bunch and Madeline Anthony, both of Williamston Richard Reeves and Hattie B Rogers, both of Williamston. William Smith Roberson and Hattie Clemmons, both of Will iamston. William Lawrence, RFD 3, Continued on page eight) Few Cases Heard In J. P. Courts Half dozen cases weri' heard lit local .justice of the peace courts during the past fi ve (lavs, several of them going on up for trial ill the higher courts. Charged with the theft of a watermelon, Ben Biggs and Grov er Jones were bound over to the, county court for trial, Justice Mobley requiring bond in the sum of $,r><l each. According to the evidence offered at the prelimin ary hearing, Jones bought a dollar watermelon from D. L. Roberson, and paid for it Biggs picked up an 85-cent melon, explaining to the court that he told Jones to pay for it. Jones went to the sell er and got change for a dollar, and then the two got into their car and drove away. In Justice James S Ayers’ court, five cases were booked for trial. Walter Corey was charged with violating the traffic laws. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the costs. Drunk and disorderly, Colum bus Berry was fined $5 and taxed with the cost, William Spruill was fined $10, plus costs, for being drunk and disorderly. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Julius Latham was bound over to the county court in $200 bond. George Green, charged with as saulting a female, was booked for trial in the county court under bond in the sum of $200.