THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bl OVER 3,000 MARTIN CGCNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3.000 MARTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 63 W illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina., Thursday, A up list 10, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 >Williamston Tobacco Market Operators Ready For Opening Town Officials In Two-Hour Session On Tuesday Night t Near Library Report And An Appeal To Control I Traffic During Fires In ii regular session lasting i more than two hours Tuesday night, Williamston's town board discussed numerous topics in ad dition to handling routine mat ters. All members of the board were present except Commission er K. D Worrell who was away on business. • A representative of the Tower Clock Service suomitted a bid to electrify the town clock. Certain that something should be done to relieve the aged time-piece, the commissioners were reminded of the cash shortage and the $785 bid was held in abeyance. The representative explained that he had examined the clock and that many of the parts were badly worn. * Petitions were received, re questing the installation of street lights on West Main near the un derpass and on Union Street and j Plymouth Avenue near the G i and it plant. Pointing out the plight of the local public library, Mrs. J. C Cooke, member of the committee, reviewed the history of the insti I lotion and pleaded for an addi tional appropriation. The library is to be allowed $984 this fiscal year, and it is understood that the 10x12 building owned and re cently vacated bv tne Civil Aero nautics Administration just back of thi' present library room will 1 be made available to the library Representing the local fire de partment, Henry Griffin, a mem ber of a special committee, point I #'d out that much trouble is ex ! pencilled by the volunteer fire men in answering calls. Out ■ member of the department, thi representative said, was forced to wont for thirty-one cars ti rleai out of the way before hi ,-ould proceed to a lire recently Others, most of them acting oui if eurosity, follow closely behkic the fire trucks, creating an adder ganger and delaying the volun „ leer firemen who could not reach the fire station in time to catch the truck and have to travel ir their own vehicles, Mr. Griffir explained. The board is instruct ing the police department to en force those lavs governing traffii during a fire call, and the ehn-i is to meet with the firemen anc discuss plans in an effort to re lieve a bad condition. Salary schedules for town em f ployees were discussed, but n< action was taken other than ti increase the pay of the keepers of the cemetery. The salary o! one was increased from $30 ti $35 a week and the other’s pay was upped from $25 to $30 a week Policemen who now are receiving from $40 to $00 a week plus uni forms, will have their salary schedule reviewed between now and the next regular meeting. • Treasurer Marion Cobb report ed that the sewer tax in July amounted to $023.15, and that thi income from parking meters a mounted to $489.50. Since thi meters were installed on Augus 4, 1948, $7,088.59 has been paid ti the manufacturers, leaving a bal anee due of $3,668.56. (Continued on page six) * | MOTORCADE v A motorcade, made up of local tobacconists and others and headed by Market Sales Supervisor Paul Page and Al Sweatt of the Williamston Boosters, will tour most of the towns in the county next Monday, leaving here about 9:30 o’clock. Hamilton will be I the first stop, the motorcade completing its run late that afternoon in Jamesville. Members of the local hand, including "Smirk Bones” and his outfit will furnish the en tertainment. The stops will be brief and anyone is invited to make the tour, it was an nounced. I Pioneer In Hybrid Seed Corn Production Enforcement Officers Were i Busy During Month of.July ABC officers wore busy during the past month, but in the early part of August mey have found ! little sign of activity on the illi cit liquor front. The courts acted recently to help put a crimp in the illicit business when heavy j fines were imposed upon viola I tors. ! In his July report, recently fil ed with the Martin County ABC Board, Officer J. H. Roebuck said there were two persons ar rested and charged with violating the liquor laws The two, plus ! five other arrested earlier, were ■ convicted in the courts. Road sen tences added up to 27 months and the fines amounted to $425. — SELLING SCHEDULE _—--/ Rules and regulations, gov erning the sale of tobacco this year, are little changed from those in effect in 1949, warehousemen explain. Sales will be maintained five and one-hall' hours Mon day through Friday, three hours in the morning and two and one-half hours in the af ternoon. Sales will be limited to 40b piles per hour and the maximum per weight is 300 pounds. Local warehouses will re ceive the first new crop to bacco Wednesday, August 10, for sale on Friday, August 18. ! County Youths Report ior Basic Henry Shelton Hardison and Edward Warren Griffin, young men of Route 1, Jamesville, left lecently for San Diego, California and are now taking their basic traihing for the U. S. Navy. While undergoing basic train ing each man will be given the opportunity to qualify for any of the BO different schools of (the Navy. The two men, who enlisted at the local recruiting station in July, are the sons of Henry Aubrey Hardison and James Thomas Grif fin of Jamesville. Seven liquor .stills, about half of them made of copper, were wrecked last month, the officers pouring out 3,900 gallons of sug ar mush and confiscating about six gallons of raw liquor. Business in the illicit field last month was about average for a July. Fairly quiet there for some months, illicit manufacturing in the Free Union section of Jarnes ville Township was found early this' month to still have a toe hold there ABC Officer J H Roebuck, assisted by Deputy Hoy Peel, wrecked a 50 gallon copper still and poured out 100 gallons of sugar mash there the latter part of last week. Fee System Nets $3,198.10 In July The fee system turned into the county treasury last month a to tal of $3,190.10, the greater part of the amount coming from the recorder’s court in the form of fines and costs. The court reported $1,615.00 in fines and $943.65 in costs. In ad dition to the fines and costs, the court clerk reported $150.49 in miscellaneous fees. Register of Deeds J. Sam Get singer reported $397.40 raised from the issuance of marriage licenses, certificates and the re cording of various types of papers. The sheriff’s office reported $56.56 in fees paid for serving papers and handling other papers. f LAST ON SCHEDULE v__ The last half-holiday on the schedule was observed yes terday afternoon, managers of stores and other business houses having agreed to re turn to a full-time schedule on the Wednesday before the opening of the markets. The half-holidays have been greatly enjoyed and beneficial to clerks and other employes and to the mana gers, too, but the poor fish bore the brunt of the holiday schedule. . Thos. W. Holliday Tried A Number ol Crop Experiments I'tiiil #1.00 I'll' I'oiiikI For First Soy Itrsui Sml I'lantnl In 1922 While centering his attention on the production o£ hybrid corn both for seed and consumption, Fann er Thomas W. Holliday of the Jamesvilie section has tried a number of crop experiments, ail looking toward a better agricul ture. Some, hr' admit , dirt not pay oft while ethers did, and in the adjoining picture Mr. Holli day offers proof that he hit the "jack pot” with his hybrid corn. (Incidentally, Mr Holliday dis played at the Jamesvilie Com munity Fan last year one of the best-looking hams one ever had the opportunity to gaze upon.) Telling his story about experi mental work, Mr. Holliday tells the following story: "Beginning in and since 1922 1 have produced several varieties of plants new to this section. Some of them proved successful, such as Toktu and Otootan soy beans which at that time cost $4 per po*e Illicit liquor dealers held the spotlight m the county court lust Monday when an even dozen cas es were handled and fines, a i mounting to $425, were imposed I In Judge Chas II Manning. The court, m session until noon, at traded very few spectators. Proceedings: Charged with an assault, Joe Hill pleaded guilty of simple as sault, the plea was accepted and judgement was suspended upon the payment of costs. | Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Minnie V. Gainer , was sentenced to Woman’s Pri son m Haleigh for six months. The prison term was suspended upon the payment of a $50 fine and no liquor law during the next cost. The defendant is to voilatc five years. Judgement was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the ease in which Walter Clyde Helms was charged with speeding The defendant pleaded guilty. Adjudged guilty over his plea of innocence Elbert Jones, charg ed with violating the liquor law's, was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $100 fine and costs, and the dc . fondant is to violate no liquor law during the next five years. Hoy Hoberson, charged with an 1 assault witli a deadly weapon, pleaded no* guilty. Adjudged j guilty, he was fined $25, plus ] costs. , Arthur Lee Fairer, pleading gmlly of speeding, w;\,s required i to pay the court costs, j Charged with violating the li i (Continued from Page Three) Funeral Friday For Infant Son j Funeral services will be held I at the graveside in the Manning Cemetery in Griffins Township Friday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock for the'infant son of CpI and Mrs David A. Windisch. The child, | one day old, died in Bossier City, I,a., Monday. Its maternal grand i mother, accompanying the body | and is due to reach Itocky Mount ; tomorrow afternoon .it J 00 i o'clock Mrs Windisch is the former Misa Shirley Browning, daughter of Mrs. Carrie Browning Hughey of Kaleigh and the late Henry Browning. She made her home in I this county for a short time, lo I eating later in Haleigh. od at $28,000. Part of that loss was offset, by insurance, but the net loss will hold to more than $20,000. The ruins came and the tremendous loss followed. It has been conservatively estimated that excessive rains damaged the crop to the tune of a cool million dollars and possibly more. Then disease principally black shank, struck and added another 10 percent loss to the crop, one farmer reporting that the disease had cost him $4,000. It is fairly certain that most farmers in this county will plant the disease re sistant types next year. Despite losses, farmers are still optimistic and look forward to the market, opening on the lllth. r~-1 | possum: dixay_J The possibility of a delay in opening the tobacco mar kets in this belt loomed today when it was pointed out that the (ieorgia markets were running behind, and that many of the buyers could not complete their work there and get to this belt in time for the scheduled opening on Friday, August 18. It is now likely that the opening will be posponed un til Monday, August 21 or pos sibly Tuesday, August 22, or even later. "In any eventuality, we’ll do the very best we can, working to protect our custo mers’ tobacco,” local ware men said. Final action is anticipated at a meeting in Kalcigli Sat y unlay night of this week. Fatally Hurt In Logging Accident Willie Purvis, 32 yeai-old col ored man, was fatally injured in a logging accident in Pitt County near Stokes yesterday morning about 11:30 o’clock. He died in a hospital here about three hours later at 2:00 o’clock His left 1 shoulder was crushed and his arm : and a rib were broken, one re port stating that blood from a damaged artery apparently ap plied pressure on his heart and re sulted in death Given first aid in the local hospital, he was to have been transferred to a bone specialist at Duke, but his condi tion grow worse rapidly and he died before he could be moved. Purvis, who resided on Wash ington Street near Council’s ga rage, had just accepted employ ment with Karl Whitaker, logging ! contractor, last Monday. A limb was torn from a falling tree and lodged in another. Purvis and other workers were making icady to cut down the tree in which the limb had lodged. All were warned to be careful and when the limb started to fall the other men moved back to safety. The limb, measuring about six inches in diameter, struck the man on the shoulder, and he was removed im mediately to the hospital here, re mauling conscious until just a few minutes before he died. He was born in Bear Grass Township and lived in this coun ty all his life except about four years spent in the armed forces. He returned here lust Friday af ter a stay ot several months in New York. He was married to Laura Webb of near Rubersonville and she survives with a small son, Willie Earl Purvis, and sev eral brothers and sisters, and his mother Bessie Purvis Brown. Funeral arrangements were not completed immediately. Paul Page Is To Supervise Sales And Handle Radio IYIohI of llir 01,1 Hnvrrs Vit Kelli riling To I In* I.oeal Market This Season Williamston's Tobacco Mark,■■I, headed by eight experienced to baeconists, is .ill set for a big open inn on Friday, August I it. The four big houses will be opened to receive tobaeeo Wednesday for sale on the opening. With Urbin and J Russell Rog ers, Carlyle Langley and Johnny Gurkin at the Roanoke Dixie and Planters houses, and Elmo Lilley, Leman Barnhill, Jimmy It. Taylor and S. Claude Griffin at the Far mers and Carolina houses, the. market is squarely in line for the best season in all its history. All the proprietors were at the helm last t ear and the year before, and the farmers recognize them as able friends who are in a position to sell tobaeeo at an advantage. The proprietors have made eve ry arrangement possible to make the season the most successful for then patrons in all the market's history. Paul Page Tennessee man who has had considerable expert cnee in the tobaeeo business and as a public radio announcer, has been named to supervise the sales and the radio program originating on the floors of the warehouses. Mr. Page is reporting for duty this week. Most of the old buyers will re turn to the market here this sea son, but they'll just have time to clear out of Georgia and report here for the opening The buyers are slated to leave Georgia next Wednesday and reach here late Thursday for sales the next morn mg- »n.n Don Case is succeeding A 11. Ayers, Jr. as buyer for Liggett Meyers. While the market re grets losing Mr. Ayers, d is for tunate in having Mr Case re place him. Mr Case is planning to bring his family here for the season. Mack Lamb for the American, | Chas. Sawyer for the Export, Norwood Thomas for Taylor, Dix ie Moore for Reynolds, Arthur Beale for Washington, Jesse James for Skinner, are returning to the market and there will be several independent buyers. While the | Imperial will be represented, the name of the buyer could not be learned immediately. Harold Hutcheson of Boydton, Virginia, is returning as auction 1 cor for the Farmers - Carolina ! houses. This will be his third year j here, and he is well known to the farmers throughout this section. Al Wadford, also from Vorginiu, conies here for his iirst year with the local market. He autioneered on markets in Virginia and Ton ! nesscc before going to Durham | where he was located for several I years. He will he with tin Roa nuke-Dixie and Planters houses. (Continued from Page Six) f POSTAL DUIKt: I'OKY 1 V_* The lueul |H>st office is working on a rur.i1 patrons' directory and those patrons are being asked to cooperate in making it accurate and complete. The rural irre delivery car riers are leaving special forms in each box, and the head of the family is being asked to fill in the desired information. A complete list wilt make possible better mail service in the rural areas, it was ex plained.