THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bl OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIU—NUMBER 59 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 27, IV50 ESTABLISHED 1899 Liquor Law Charges Feature Court Cases Quart Oi Liquor Costs Defendants More Than $150 (■ouniy Court' In Session § Until I : 00 O’Clock Last Monday Afternoon Approximately one quart of il licit liquor cost three defendants more than $150 in the Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday. Two of the defendants were fined $50 each for possess ing about one pint, and a third was fined the same amount for hift ing less than a pint of the illicit brand in his possession. Still another defendant was fined $100 for having nine pints of legal liquor in his possession. The attor ney general has ruled that it is unlawful to have more than one gallon of legal liquor in one's car and in the case heard last Monday the defendant was charged with exceeding the limit by one pint. The defendant maintained, that hf companions owned part of the liquor, but in accordance with the attorney general's ruling, the ourt found the man guilty .im posing a $100 fine. The court, attracting only a small audience, was in session un til 1:00 o'clock that afternoon. Proceedings: Charged with drunken driving and resisting an officer, Turner ili#es pleaded not guilty of drunk en driving but pleaded guilty of resisting an officer. He was found guilty as charged and was .sen tenced to the roads for six months. He appealed and bond was re quired in the sum of $200. Pleading guilty of speeding 70 miles per hour, Jos. Lanier God ard of RFI) 1, Jamcsville, was lined $15 plus costs. ^Joseph Biggs was found not guilty in the case in which he was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon. Charged with speeding, Roger Clarence Matthews of Sanford was required to pay the court costs. « Ada Perkins, charged with a Iandonrrient, was found not guilty. It was brought out during the long trial, that the defendant was alHud of her husband and that •"while she did not want to leave her seven children, she did so for her own protection. Richard (Bathn) Reed was found not guilty of the larceny of a bicycle. Charged with having .. pint of illicit liquor in his possession, Bil lie Lee Whitehurst pleaded n®t guilty. Adjudged guilty, he was lined $50, plus costs. • Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle w'ithout a driver's license, Sam Wheeler Collier was fined $25 and required to pay the costs. Charged with speeding 75 miles per hour and driving recklessly, Aron Speller, Jr., of Bertie, was fined $50, plus costs. Robert Glenn Scott was fined $50 and taxed with the costs for violating the liquor laws. H Pleading not guilty of disorder ly conduct, Edward Davenport w found guilty of simple asT sault and wras fined $10, plus costs. N. A. Roebuck of Greenville was taxed with the costs for speeding (Continued on page eight) Navy Recruiter * Here Wednesday Cheif Gunner’s Mate, B. F. Parrish, U. S. Navy Recruiting representative for Martin County, will be located in the lobby of the local Post Office on Wednesday mornings of each week for the purpose of interviewing and ac-) > opting qualified applicants for enlistment in thi navy. * In arranging the intinery cov ering Williamston, Cheif Parrish stated that the dependency re quirements for enlistment of men with previous service, has been I lowered; however, no other re quirements, mental or physical, has been lowered, he added. « MOVING if ' j Dr. Wirt. ii. Gray, Jr., is I moving his dental office from South Haughton Street to the new hospital on Liberty Street where ho'U have a dental suite. The hospital has not open ed yet, Dr. Gray explaining that he would take a short vacation before reporting for duty in his new location. Dr. G. G. Himmelwright, who is joining the hospital staff, is also moving some of* his equipment this week from the Tayloe Hospital in Wash ington. Russia Spreading Trade Area Over A Vast Territory Features Single Curreney, A Unified Pricing List, Controlled Transport London. — While Communist soldiers plunge into South Korea, Russian strategists are hastening the construction of a giant ruble ruled trading bloc, stretching j from the Yangtze to the Elbe. It's one of the things proba bly on the agenda of the meeting of top Communist leaders now going on in Berlin—though pure ly military strategy is believed | to be taking first place there. In uneasy peace or spreading war the Soviet’s new economic ! coalition could serve the Krem ; 1 in well. In peace it would be a I club to pummel the commerce of ! the West. In war it would be the i key to industrial mobilization of the sprawling Red empire. The ingredients of the ruble bloc are the pooled economic re sources of Mother Russia and the brood of satellite nations. Run ning the pool is the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon) j in Moscow. The Comecon project has been j under way for months, but in the past few weeks there’s been a distinctly swifter pace. A few days ago, Poland was given a big new ruble credit which will mean heavy purchases from Russia for the next eight years. That deal followed a rapid-fire series of new commercial agree ments signed by East Germany's ' "people’s democratic” govern-1 ment with the puppet "people’s 1 democratic” governments of Hun ! gary. Poland and Czechoslovakia. East Germany will be dickering with Red China this month, too. And the Czechs have just signed up for raw materials from Mao Tze-tung's Communist Chinese government. But there's more to the ruble bloc than trade pacts. When this super -Schuman Plan of the East gets into fuii swing, practically all the industrial, agri cultural and mining output of Russia and the satellites will be pooled and used for domestic con sumption or export in accord ance with Comecon plans. With Red China in the fold, vast quan tise.; of raw materials will be available for the industrial com plex of Russia-plus-eastern-Eu rope. The Orient, in turn, would be an outlet for the finished pro ducts of the western end of the Ruble Empire. The pool, it’s believed here, will be used in the first place to lure away from the West as much badly-needed machinery and in dustrial equipment as possible— at the lowest possible cost. The combine could wage a trade war, for example, with below-cost dumping of commodities being used to break another country’s prices. Some trade experts think the recent appearance of Czechoslo vak shoes in United States Mar kets—at half the cost of similar American types- is a sub-cost op eration that may be just a taste of what’s to come. This sort of economic penetration was used during the 1930's in Russia's frantic attempts to gel foreign exchange for machinery it des perately lacked. (Continued on page eight) Work Progressing On New Terminal For Oil Company Drag Line Draining Lot and Clearing Site For Dork Ami 140-Foot Pier Delayed for several months pending the completion of project plans, work got under way yes terday on a new terminal for the Texas Oil Company here be tween Highway 17 and Roanoke River. No completion date has been released, but Superintend ent P. D. Chamblee, Jr. and V. P. Loftis, Jr., representing the V. P.1 Loftis Contracting firm, said that all equipment is available and that the project would be pushed to completion as early as possi ble. Contracts held by the Loftis company represent a proposed ex penditure of almost $90,000, in-! eluding the construction costs of an office, garage building, load ing platform, a 440-foot pier, a, dock, and the erection of five large storage tanks. Separate con tracts will be let for the piping and fittings, Mr. Chamblee ex plaining that several miles of pipe would be necessary to hook up all the tanks. The Texas Company recently bought the Harrison Oil Company bulk station and that will be in cluded in the new terminal which will have an estimated storage capacity of 1,291,500 gallons. In addition to the Harrison plant’s seven tanks, the Texas Company • is erecting five new tanks, the , largest to hold 342,000 gallons or well over a third more than the capacity of the largest tank now ; standing. The contractors yesterday pla- [ ced in operation a drag line to drain the lower part of the prop erty and clear a right-of-way for j the pier from the plant to the i new dock. The same machine will , be used by the Loftis Company in driving piling in the river and for the dock. Crushed stone will be placed | in the drives and the property will be flood lighted, Mr. Chamb (Continued on Page Eight) Hear Two Cases In J. P. Courts There’s been comparatively little business in the local justice of peace courts during recent days. The records show that only two cases have been heard so far this week, Justice J. S. Ayers hand ling one and Justice R. T. John son handling the other. Delores Yarrcll, charged with being drunk on the highway, was fined $5 and taxed with the cost in Justice Ayers’ court. Charged with be,ng drunk and disorderly, Clarence Roberson was fined $15 and taxed with $6.85 costs by Justice R. T. Johnson. Tobacco Marketing Cards To Be ReadyBy August 14 The 1950 tobacco marketing cards will be mailed direct''' to the approximately 1,000 growers in this county not later than Au gust 14, it was announced by the Production-Marketing Adminis tration office this week. Possibly the cards can be made ready for distribution by August 10. Those farmers planting in ex cess of their allotments and who did not act to destroy the surplus will receive red marketing cards, but not directly. There are cer tain conditions that first must be met. Any producer having excess to bacco will be issued a red market ing card, but before a red or ex cess marketing card may be is sued, an estimate of the yield per EARLY HARVEST ) f Equalling if not setting a new harvest record, Farmer Harmon Rogers last Tucsda> cut his tobacco stalks on his farm in Griffins Township. Few farmers have ever com pleted their tobacco harvest and cut down the stalks on or before July 25 in this coun ty. The farmer is said to have harvested a good crop of to bacco. Firemen Delayed By Truck Chasers Almost blocked by thoughtless motorists when answering fire calls, Williumston’s volunteer fire men this week selected a commit tee to go before the town commis sioners and discuss the problem Fire Chief G. P. Hall and the com pany’s secretary, Julian Harrell, were named to appear before the town authorities and point out the problem in the hope that it can be solved. During a recent call, several linemen were literally blocked by persons chasing the fire-fighting apparatus. Another was forced to the curb. Two members of the company withdrew when they saw they were hopelessly hem med in by those who were in the chase just for the fun of it. In recent months when a second truck was directed to a fire, the driver found the way blocked by cars belonging to spectators. While there is a law against fol lowing fire trucks within a certain distance .the firemen explain that the main trouble conies when fire men, unable to reach the fire sta tion in time to catch the truck,] find the route blocked to them by others. It is this problem that the committee will discuss with the) commissioners at the- next regular meeting of the town board. Here and total yield m ist be ob tained. All tobacco produced on any farm planting In excess of the allotment must be accounted for. It a producer operates more than one farm and has excess to bacco on any of the farms he op erates, an estimate must be ob tained of the production for each farm, it was explained. Community committeemen arc to be contracted and they will in- | spect the crop along with the | cured tobacco and make prelimi- | nary estimates. The penalty on excess tobacco this year is nineteen cents per pound. In addition to the penalty, the excess producer is not eligible to price support other than on the poundage planted in excess of his allotment. Brown's Hospital Observes Its Uth Anniversary Here Kvrnl (llimaxcil By Delici ous Picnic Supper On Pin* Hospital Lawn Planned and handled by friends, a fitting program, climaxed bv a delicious picnic supper, marked j the observance of the Brown i Community Hospital s eleventh ; anniversary here last evening. The | several timely talks were just I long enough to set the stage for the sumptuous meal that follow | ed. Rain delayed the event for a short while, but the group, nuin ! boring approximately 75, gather ed on the porch and front lawn I of the hospital on West Main Street lor the impromptu pro gram. | Acting as master of ceremonies, I Mr W. Dave Daniel called on Mayor Robert Co wen for a brief talk. Explaining that the group of friends had gathered to com memorate the eleventh anniver sary of the hospital, the mayor briefly reviewed the place the (Continued-on page eight) Major Whichard Home from Orient Major and Mrs. W. K Whichard and sons, Kenny and Bobby, who left Japan a week before the war in Korea broke out, arrived in the states Thursday and are visit ing Major Whichard’s father, Mr 1, R. Whichard, in Stokes, for a short time. Back in the states after two years of overseas service Major Whichard, who spent 18 months in China and (j months in Japan, ex pects to be stationed in Washing ton, D. C. 1949 and 1950 Properly Valuations In Marlin County Listed below aie the assessed property valuations exclusive of corporation listings for 1949 and 1950 in Martin County, showing gains and losses, by townships, for white and colored owners. Corporation listings in this county last year were slightly in excess of $2,000,000, and it is likely those listings yet to be certified by a State commission will be about the same for 1950, The total property valuation as assessed for pub!) one and three-quarter million dollars, or c taxation will go on the hooks this year light .it twenty about the highest figure oft record. White Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston Cross Roads Robersonville Poplar Point Hamilton Goose Nest 1949 Real Eat. 1,091,039 322,918 544,155 556,158 2,768,045 544,886 1,809,798 308,501 809,660 982,840 1959 Real Est. 1,116,055 328,863 556,015 573,082 2,930,080 550,378 1,847,266 311,985 824,267 984,216 Gain 25,016 5,945 11,860 16,924 162,035 5,492 37,468 3,484 14,607 1,376 1949 I'ers'n’l 2,342,470 145,869 400,289 341,733 2,026,845 267.471 1,323,707 163,917 402,724 472,811 TOTALS Colored Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston Cross Roads Robersonville Poplar Point Hamilton Goose Nest 136,242 42,575 15.666 27,949 297,842 36,503 209,545 6.237 103,785 199,230 137,862 42,840 14,926 26,608 311,652 37,729 220,965 6,237 106,798 200,686 1,620 265 *740 *1,341 13,810 1,226 11,420 0 3,013 1,456 69,060 15,385 23,225 29,397 142,539 22,629 142,781 12,944 101,599 115,223 TOTALS 1,075,574 1.106,303 30,729 Grand Ta^al 19,113,574 11,128,519 314,936 ‘Denotes loss instead of gain 674,782 8,562,638 1950 Pcrs’n'l 2,289,684 139,950 385,249 341,857 2,134,152 254,587 1,292,686 163,871 390,248 464,097 9,738,000 10,022,207 284,207 7,887,856 7,856,361 69,025 14,909 23,116 27,587 142,646 19,950 148,951 11,632 97,369 106.447 661,632 8,518,013 Gain *52,786 *5,939 *15,040 124 107,307 * 12,884 *31,021 *46 *12,476 *8,714 ‘31,475 *35 *476 *109 *1,810 107 *2,679 6,170 *1,312 *4,230 *8,776 *13,150 *44,625 lot. Gain *27,770 6 *3,180 17,048 269,342 *7,392 6,447 3,438 2,131 *7,338 262,732 1,585 *211 *849 *3,151 13,917 *1.453 17.590 *1,312 *1,217 270,311 *7,320',. 17,579 11 Tobacco Prices Holding Firm On Georgia Markets Nearly Ten Million I'onmls Sold for Average Of S5 1,117 F irst flay Tobacco prices, striking out last Monday at about $5 per hun dred pounds above the 1949 open ing-day figures, are continuing to hold firm with some grades showing added strength as the sales progress. Official figures show that 9,514, r bo pounds were sold on the Georgia markets on opening day for an average of $51,117, a figure $4.73 above the first-day price last year. Pound age on the opening this year was 1,177,370 pounds under the of ferings on opening day last year. Reports here direct from local tobacconists on the markets indi cate that money is flowing freely in the tobacco towns there, and everybody is happy about the prices. It was stated that the sale prices, in some cases are ranging as high as $17.50 above the gov ernment guarantee. Good lemon leaf is selling for $57, or $4 higher than last year's receipts and $ti above the government guarantee. Choice lemon lugs sold on open ing day for $(14, up $5 over last year and $3 higher than the sup port price. Best thin non-dcscript sold for $33.15, up $13.25 and $17.50 above the government ad vance. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, since price gains were general Low to good leaf offerings were $4.00 to $7.00 higher, low to good cut ters $3.00 to $5.00, and fair to choice lugs $3.00 to $(100. The sharpest increase was a gain of $13.25 foi best thin nondescript. Several markets estimated morn ing sales averaging from $52.00 to $50.00 per hundred The general quality of the to bacco, as a whole, showed im provement. Offerings were thin ner-bodied and of better color than on early sales last season. Proportions of cutter and lug grades increased and less leaf was marketed. Lugs and cutters are the more desirable offerings for cigarette manufacture. Most bas kets auctioned contained low to fine lugs, low and fair cutters, and fair leaf Estimated receipts of the Flue cured Tobacco Cooperative Sta bilization Corporation, under the Government loan program, rang ed from 2 percent to 11 percent on several representative markets. Most low and medium quality grades brought average prices well above their loan values but better grades of lugs and cutters were only $1 00 to $2.00 above. On opening day last year, the Sta bilization Corporation received 17.4 percent of the marketings. Last season first sales were held on Tuesday, July 2(1. Gross sales totaled 10,692,056 pounds for an average price of $46.64 per hundred Individual market aver ages ranged from $40.95 to $50 15 per hundred. -. —.. . Sylvester Ange Dies In County Sylvt'sli'i II. Ange, Well-Known Janesville Township farmer, died at his home there Tuesday after noon after several years of de clining health. He wus a son of the late Nelson and Mary Bland Ange and lived and farmed in Jamcsville Town ship all his life until declining aeallh forced his retirement. In early manhood he was mai - ded to Miss Mamie Ange of lamesviJle. She survives with one laughter, Mrs. Clyde Waters of Jly mouth; four sons, Carlton, J1 ifford, LeRoy and Russell Ange >1 Plymouth; three sisters, Mrs. lobert Modln. of Beaufort, Mrs. ohnnie Griffin and Mrs. Tommie Jadgett of Jamesville; and five mothers, Johnnie Nelson Ange of imithfiold, George, Jesse Romae nd Raleigh Ange of Jamesville. Mr. Ange was a devoted nitm er of the Free Will Baptist j Ihurch. Funeral services were inducted al the home yesterday fternooii at 5;00 o'clock by the lev. Frank Butler of Washing jn Interment was in the Ange emetery. Opening Draf t Boar< 1 Office Next Tuesday 9> CAR POOI. i r Offering no explanation, railroad officials yesterday called for the pooling of all flat and box cars in this sec tion at Rocky Mount. Those cars already assigned may be loaded, hut no cars of the type mentioned arc to be placed for shippers until the order is altered or rescinded. Several shippers called for cars here yesterday, but it was explained that none would be available under the orders received a short time before. Except for coal ears, refrig erator cars and a few other types, local rail tracks are vir tually empty here today. The situation apparently has eased a bit even though the order has not been re scinded. Three cars have been allotted shippers here. Jaycees Here In Regular Meeting Edgar Gurganus, President of 1 Williamston Jaycees, at the meet ing last Friday evening at the Woman's Club, welcomed the girls who participated in the re cent beauty contest as dinner guests. President Gurganus, on be half of the Jaycees, expressed the i thanks and appreciation to the 1 girls m their wholehearted desire to help make the beauty pageant a success. Among those present were Misses Barbara MargolisJ Barbara Grimes, Jeanette Thom as, Doris Andrews, Susie Man j ning, Norma Fagan, and Helen : Davenport Jayccc Frank Weaver outlined I for the club details for the Will iamston Elimination Tennis Tour nament. Those interested in en tering this tennis tournament may contact either Jaycees Wilbur Jackson, Junie Peel or Frank Weaver. Entries must tie in by August 3. The tournament is scheduled to begin August 25. The Alice Dunning Circle of the Williamston Christian Church served a very delicious dinner. Ilury Infant In Moblay ('.amalery !\rar I lari' Funeral services are being eon ducted this afternoon in the J (> Ange home for Hilton Ear! Crad- | dock, six-month-old ..on of Mr and Mrs Donnie II. Craddock who; died at Ins home in Plymouth last Tuesday night after a two- j day illness Interment will be in the Mobley Cemetery near Will iamston. Surviving besides lus parents are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Walter H. Craddock of Jamesville, and Mr. and Mrs J. B Harris of Plymouth THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists on M.irlm County highways and streets aided, m some cases, by pedestrians, are holding this year a fairly wide margin over the number of accidents reported in the corresponding period in 1949. j Fortunately, there have been no fatalities so far this year. I The thirtieth week is a dang- i erous one, according to past records which show that there were five accidents and one death in the particular week in 1949, and three accidents and several injured in the cor ; responding weeks of 1948 and 1947. 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. 29th Week Accidents lnj’d Killed Uam’ge 1950 2 10$ 400 ' 1 1949 1 0 0 75 Comparisons To Sate 1950 78 39 0 $18,525 1 1949 83 27 2 14,080 1 Local Young Man Called To Report F or Army Service Failure To Kr^ii-ler Said To Mean Vuloinalie Ser\ iee Induction Martin County's draft board will open for business on or be fore next Tuesday, Chairman Eu gene Rice announced this morn ing. Old draft boat'd records have not been returned here ns vet from the district office in Eliza beth City, but they are expected shortly. During the meantime, plans are being made to reopen the office here. Registrations, now handled during limited hours bv the Martin County Chap ter of the Red Cross, will go for ward m the draft board office beginning not later than next Tuesday between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 12:00 o’clock noon, and from 1 00 o'clock p. m un til 5:00 o’clock p. in. each day ex eept Saturday. It has been pointed out that those youths who fail to register are subject to induction without consideration. During the last draft period one man was sent from this county because he wait a delinquent. Draft board riffi • ends are again warning all youths to register for draft upon reach ing their eighteenth birthday. No official record is available, but it is believed there is a goodly num ' her of youths in the county who are delinquent in registration It is highly probable that bulb records will be examined and where delinquents arc found, steps will be taken leading to immediate induction. No draft call lias been rei elved in this county so far, but a Will iamston young man, Jimmy Mit eliell, Tuesday received instruc tions to report for induction, lie was in Chicago when he became 18 and he registered there, fall ing to have Ins file transferred to Ins home county. The instructions, received Tuesday, advised him to report for induction in Chicago yesterday morning. Contacting county draft board officials, the young man was given a transfer after telephone calls were made to Raleigh and Chicago. While lie was able to delay his induction with the Chicago draft board, it is fairly certain that he is now first in line to answer the call when it reaches this county Commenting on the slow reg (Continued on page eight) Native Oi County Dies In Hospital Funeral sei vices wen1 ronduel nl at -I o'clock last Sunday after noon at the First 1’resbyteriay Church m Greenville by the Rev. 1. W. Topping, pastor, for Roy A. Coburn, 55, who died in a Green villi hospital at II 15 nVInek Fi i ■ day morning alter an illness of four days Burial was m the Greenwood Cemetery, Mi. Coburn was born anil real ■ .•d in Martin County neai Huber aiiiviUe and had been employed n the mercantile business in Rob .■rsonville, Williamston and Bethel lefore moving to Greenville an 5110. He had been connected with he Blount Harvey Company con inuously since that time. Hi was married to Mrs. Vashtt Juke of Greenville in 1910. He icrved in the U. S. Army in World Var 1, and was a member of the ’itt County Post of the American region, the Greenville Kiwanis dub and the First Presbyterian liurcli of Greenville. He was an drier and a former deacon of the hurch. Surviving tire his wife, three tep daughters, Margaret Lee, levee and Anne Duke, all of the iome; four sisters, Mrs. Edward dullard and Mrs. J. D. Ntmo of fichmond, Mrs. W M Grimm r of lucky Mount and Mrs William •’orties of near Greenville.

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