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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 3,000 MARTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 64 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 13, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 First Road Fatality | * Reported In County Johnny Jones, 52, Fatally Hnrt On Oak City Street —*— Half-Brother Killed In Last 1 December Accident Near Oak City Martin County's first 1950 highway-street fatality was re ported by Patrolman R. P. Narron yesterday following the death of Johnny Jones, 52-year-old Oak City Negro, in a Tarboro hospi tal Sunday morning at 5:40 ® o'clock. Jones was. fatally hurt when he was struck by an auto mobile on Highway 125 inside the town limits of Oak City last Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock. Suffering compound fractures of both legs just above the ankles, head and internal injuries, the man did not regain consciousness and possibly never knew what struck him. He was removed to 0 the hospital shortly after the ac cident. Belived to have been drinking, Jones was seen wandering down the highway shortly before he was struck. Junior Manning, en route to Oak City from Hamilton, said he had to turn to the left side of the road to avoid strik ing Jones. Completing his errand in Oak City, Manning started the 0 return trip to Hamilton when James Taylor, Jr., young colored man driving Floyd B. Harrell's 1941 Pontiac, drove from under a filling station and started to Hamilton just ahead of Manning Meeting another car, Taylor said he saw nothing in the high way but applied brakes when he felt the car hit something. The car skidded to a stop about|30 or 4(1 feet avvay and Jones fell tiff * the radiator. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman Narron said that Jones was walking in the center of the light traffic lane. Officer Gar land Bunting said he saw Jones m the yard at the Jones home in Oak City an hour or two before the accident and quoted as saying the man was "staggering drunk". The victim was in the county * court about six weeks and was fined $50 for being drunk on the highway, reports stating that he would get intoxicated, walk the streets and highways, waving his hands and defying traffic. The victim's half-brother, Ed Jones, was killed in a vehicle ac cident on Highway 11 near Oak City last December 24. Working with Patrolman Nar ron in the case, Acting Coroner I W. W. Biggs said following his in vestigation that the accident was unavoidable on the part of the death car driver and that no for mal inquest was considered necessary. It was brought out that the ear was traveling hardly more than thirty miles an hour at the time of the aecident, that tile driver was not drinking and iiad his car under control. ' Caught Off Guard By Quiz Program "Slop The Music”, a musical quiz program originating from New York studios, called a local resident Sunday night to partici pate on the program by telephone. Mrs. K*t< Vwrfc, who-was called. and kept on the line by the New * York operator, said that she turn ed the radio on and got the pro gram long enough to hear the announcer say that they were trying to get her on the telephone. Although quite excited at the time she recalls that the announ cer asked her a number of ques tions about her florist business, the location of Williamstpn and her children. When the program announcer £ asked her to identify the song playing on .the air, she was un able to get anything on her radio but "Playoff”, a similar program, she said, adding that she never heard the tune she was to name. She was advised that the musical program was sending her a gift for participating. ROUND-UP Business on the crime front fell off considerably last week-end compared with op eration the week before, but police, town and state officers were fairly busy rounding up eight alleged law violators. righting and drinking were the style for the past week end, the records showing that four were booked for assaults and four for public drunken ness. The list included one white man, and two Negro women. The ages of the group ranged from 18 to 48 years. Last Riles Today In Jamesville for Mrs. Lula Mizelle Well-Known Uonnty Wo* man Died Sunday At Home Of Sinter Mrs. Lula Holliday Mizelle, well known and highly respected Jamesville citizen, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Sexton, 117 Brown Street, Wash ington, N. C., Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. She had been in declining health for some time and went to visit in the home of her sister about a week ago after receiving treatment in a Washington hos pital for several days. The daughter of the late Thom as Jefferson Holliday and Lydia Margaret Godard Holliday, she was born near Jamesville 69 years ago on October 30, 1680, and lived in that community all her life. In early womanhood she was married to Lewis. Mizelle who died last year. No children were born to the union, but she was de voted to her home and tenderly nursed her husband during the years he was an invalid. She was a member of the Christian Church at Jamesville since her childhood. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Sexton of Washington and Mrs. Iloxie Smithwick and a half sister, Grace Holliday, of James ville; and a brother, Wilmer J. Holliday of Jamesville. In the absence of her pastor, the Rev. Mr Traylor of Wash ington is conducting the funeral at the home in Jamesville this af ternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Inter ment will be in the Mizelle fam ily cemetery near Jamesville. RobersonvUle To Gel Half Holiday —<3— The delayed opening of the tobacco markets from Friday of this week until next Monday did not blow an ill wind for the clerks and office workers in Rob ersonviile, an announcement from the Merchants Association there explaining that Wednesday after noon would be observed as a holi day. It'll be ihejjjgt half- holiday on the schedule, however, and everybody is making ready to make the most of it. It was first planned to have the stores and offices remain open this Wednesday afternoon, but the j halt-holiday schedule was order ed maintained when the tobacco market opening was postponed. Two More Baras Burn In County Martin County’s tobacco curing barn loss count was pushed up for the season last Friday when fire destroyed a barn on the Iona James farm in Jarncsvillc Town ship. The byn was insured. Earlier in the week, a barn was burned i.n the J Bynum Rober son farm, not far from Rober son ville. The barn losses are belived to be the largest reported in a single season during recent years. Star! Harvesting Crop Of Poittfe In Marlin County Agent Offers Hints For the Harvesting Of Crop This Season Sweet potato harvest will will start on a limited scale in August, and continue through Oc tober. The unusual thing about sweet potatoes which differs from most other crops is that there is no such thing as maturity. This makes it important to dig sweet potatoes when they have pro duced the highest possible yield of U. S. No. 1 grade, but before a killing frost. This can be de termined only by trial digging. When digging sweet potatoes the farmer should consider his buyer and consumer, w+iieh is eventually the house wife. The average house wife prefers a sweet potato not less than three inches long and not more than ten inches long, with a diameter varying from one and three fourths inches to three and three fourths inches, and not weigh ing more than twenty ounces. The farmer who packcs his po tatoes with this in mind will re ceive the maximum price. Many farmers will find sales for their sweet potatoes in <he local stores. A point to remember here is “eye appeal”. Any product having competition on the mar ket must have “eye appeal”. One way to get this is to w'ash the sweet potatoes just before taking to the store. Today the housewife has lily white hands and red finger nails, and doesn’t care to get her hands dirty in the store handling dirty potatoes. Although washing is desirable prior to placing sweet potatoes in the store, the potatoes to be stored should not be washed. What digging equipment to use is based on being able to uncover the greatest number of potatoes with the least amount of cutting and bruising. Labor saving meth ods should also be considered. The implements that are satisfactory are the 12 inch bottom plow' with a rolling coulter attachment for cutting vines, a middlebustcr with a special vine cutter attached ti the plow beam, and a special rotary attachment for a 12 inch bottom plow has proven very efficient. Regardless of the equipment used, potatoes should be harvested so as to prevent bruising. Sweet potatoes should be handled as carefully as eggs, if the maximum price is to be received. After the potatoes have been piow'ed out, lav them on top ol tire redgts, being careful not ti scratch them. L<-t them stay there at least long enough tor the soil to dry. However, if potatoes are dug in August, they should be put in baskets immediately to prevent sunburn. Practice field grading. Place U. S. No. 1 grade in one set of bas kets, and the lower marketable grades irt another set, putting field-run potatoes in baskets is not a good practice. Fill the baskets so that the po tatoes are slightly arched across the top. When the lid is fasteded, pressure will be exerted on the entire top layer of the potatoes. This will prevent the potatoes from rubbing against each other in transit which causes bruising and skinning. Use new baske-tm hand ones must be used, disin fect them w'hen the storage house is disinfected. As a final reminder, remember that sweet potatoes must be han dled like eggs, if maximum is to be received. -» Arrest Prowler Friday Evening Crazy drunk, George Bonds, lo cal young colored man, lost his way here early last Friday night ana instead of finding his way home near the water plant he wandered down South Haughton and turned down Marshall Ave nue. When he staggered into a yard, police were called. When the police car approached. Bonds was standing in the middle of the street waving for a ride. He was accommodated, the officers es corting him to jail. Tobacco Market Motorcade j Meets With Success Monday Reviving a custom in favor years back, tobacconists and others yesterday ran a motorcade throughout most of the country, reports following the group de claring it was very successful. Without little advance notice and no definite schedule, the mo torcade attracted right much at tention, and "Smike Bones and His Musical Nightmares" furnish ed the entertainment. “Smike" was indisposed and could not make the trip, but there were able substitutes. The market's new sales super visor, Paul Page, and A1 Sweatt of the Williamston Boosters serv ed as masters of the ceremonies, [ NO HOLIDAY HERE ] i There'll be no half-holiday here on Wednesday afternoon of this week, it was officially announced late yesterday. “It is true that the tobacco market opening has been de layed, hut when the holiday schedule was fixed some months ago for the year, the ruling was to suspend the half-holiday schedule on the Wednesday before the open ing of the tobacco market,” the executive secretary of the Boosters announced. "To make a change would only be confusing,” it was explained. Football Officials ■ To Have Clinic Here On Monday ! Prow per live Officials atul Couches from Wide Area To Attend Scmdon* One of three to be held ill East ern Carolina this month, a football clinic for high school coaches and prospective officials is to be held | at the Williamston High School I Athletic Park next Monday, be ginning at 9:00 a. m., it was an 1 nouneed this week by Walter Jones head of the Northeastern Official Booking Office, Farm ville. Mr. Jones and L. J. (Hap) Perry, executive secretary of the N. C. H. S. A. A., will have charge of the clinic. Coaches and officials or former football players and college stars who plan to officiate at games in the fall are expected to attend from a dozen or more countie,, in 'his section. The clinics will cover the rules and mechanics of offici ating and inform both the coaches and officials what is legal and what is illegal in the way of of fensive or defensive actions. The first of the clinics is being held in Williamston Monday. The others are at Kinston on August 23 and at Lumberton on August 24. There will be no registration lei or other charge and all coaches and officials are invited to attend. Mr. Jones has asked Coach May nard to provide classroom space as well as a partially marked field and 22 boys are also needed for running of plays so that actual playing conditions can be simulat ed. There will be no rough eon (Continued on Page Eight) making impromptu talks and ap pealing to farmers for patronage this tobacco marketing season. Mr. Page explained that the mar ket would open on Monday, Aug ust 21. that the warehouses would be open on Thursday of this week to receive the first of the cur rent crop. Members of the motorcade, numbering fifteen or more ears at one time or another during yesterday, said they heard very encouraging reports, that the Wil liamston market holds the good will and good confidence of the farmers throughout this section, that all indications point to a great season this year. All Are Doing All Right In Georgia, 1st Sergeant Says INulionul (iiiunl I’nit Will Hctiirn lloiiu* On .Sun day, Vngiist 20 Members of the local National Guard Unit are doing all right down at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Writing for the group, 1st Sgt. Pete Fowden said, “Tell the home folks that their sons, brothers, husbands and fa ' thers are doing fine. Personally ! speaking, it's the finest bunch ol men, not boys anymore—that 1 have ever had the pleasure of be 1 mg with. They, their families, and before we got here they hard be very proud of them. “We have been here only five days, including Sunday, and I j never realized so much could be ’done. The guys have fired the j big guns three of these five days, i an dbeforc we got here they hard ] lv knew the muzzle from the trail. The non-veterans have learned | fast, and the'veterans, the back j bone of the outfit, can't be beat. The officers are doing a swell job and we are all proud of the men. “The gun crew from our battery was the first to score a direct hit i on a towed target. “All the boys haee KP and want , to go out and fire the big guns They will have some fine stories | to tell when we return on the 20th i of August. “Your National Guard Battery, (Continued on page eight) Large Rattlers Killed In County s Cheeking damage done by coons and bears in a lower field on the Corey farm inthe Farm Life section of Griffins Township last Saturday morning. Farmer Eu gene Roberson killed two large | rattle snakes. He knocked out one ! with a pistol and could only wound the other one before emp ting the gun. Bringing up recn lorcemcnts, he completed the kill. Measuring about nine feet, both of the snakes measured about ten inches in diameter. One had fif teen rattles and the other had ten. Mr. Roberson was quoted as saying that both snakes, holding positions just a few feet apart, were coiled and ready to strike " hen iii. . .Vvy^VnTft* Vi7iYi’ W inched the distance. Thousands Of Tax Notices A re Placed In The Mails -m Thousands of tux notices — little pink slips — were placed in the mails over the week-end by the Martin County tax col lector’s office, revealing the a mount of the 1950 county advalor em tax and listing the discounts for early payment The collector explained that 8,280 of the receipts went to in dividual taxpayers, 21 to corpora tions and 25 to those individuals who listed their property holdings a bit late. The muster tax' book had not been totaled today, but the corn- j bined levy for 1950 is expected to approximate $340,000,00, an a mount ranking with the largest ever levied in any one year in the county. Even before all the notices cleared the mails, property own ers started moving into the col lector’s office to pay up and take advantage of the special discount. The Town of Williamston is making ready to place its tax no tices in the mails, and a tax paying good time is in prospect for all. Taxpayers were listed in num bers by townships, as follows: Jamesville, 896; Williams, 330; Griffins, 42-1, Bear Grass, 4if2; Williamston, 2,333, Cross Hoads, I 474; Robersonvllle, 1,556; Popular j Point, 214, Hamilton, 690; Goose, Nest, 810; corporations, 21; late listers, 25. i Seeing Eye Dog ! I Is Brought Here By Mrs. Miller Miwlor Trained Vlitli |)nft In New Jersey During j I’list Several Weeks The first seeing eye dog seen jin this section was brought here I last week by Mrs. Laura Miller, representative of the North Caro lina State Blind Commission who handled work for the commission in this and Bertie County. Mrs. Miller recently completed a training period of several weeks with the dog at Morristown, New Jersey, and is gradually adjust ing the animal to.its duties. The Seeing Eye organization re leased the following information: The helpful and kindly-inten tioned public is a greater hazard to Seeing Eye dogs than the traf I fie of Times Square in New York, according to the reactions receiv ed from its graduates by the Morristown, New Jersey, School, which educates dogs as guides for blind people. The public, even though realizing that the dog is capably and efficiently taught, in terferes constantly with its ef ficiency by attempting to lead blind graduates of the School a cross streets, intersections and even around obstruction on the sidewalk. “While the intention of the pub lic is to be kindly and helpful," Henry A. Colgate, President of The Seeing Eye, Inc., said, “the result produced is similar to that which would occur if you grabbed the arm of a man who is driving an automobile rapidly in heavy traffic. Seeing Eye dogs are com petent to guide blind people who have been educated to use them, in all kinds of traffic, wherever they would go. However, Seeing Eye dogs cannot be expected to watch for speeding automobiles and at the same time to cope with the interference of some person who may have taken their mas ter's arms and be pushing or pull ing in an opposite direction, or who may be shouting words or warnings. “The public shows also a per fectly natural, but a very harm ful tendency to pet Seeing Eve clogs who are busily engaged in guiding their masters among pe destrains on the sidewalk. While Seeing Eye dogs normally ignore pedestrians, they cannot help but be distracted when affectionate pats or caresses are offered by many strangers. The public can I be most helpful by allowing a I Seeing Eye dog and its blind ! master to meet and solve the j piubietiis of traffic as they have ! been taught at Morristown, New I Jersey. 11 the public could tin derstand that these two do not need help and do not seek it, even if such help were not def initely harmful, the problem these blind people face in relation to their own handicap would lie more easily solved." Over sixteen hundred Seeing Eye dogs have been issued to blind persons in 411 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The clogs learn their jobs through an intensive three months’ course at The See ing Eye School in Morristown, New Jersey, After the dog has been thoroughly educated, a se lected blind person spends one (Continued on page eight) Making Changes In Clinic Dales l’omting out that the treatment of vcncrul diseases has been shortened, County Health Officer John W. Williams announced this week that clinics will be held only once each month in Ouk City and Hamilton, at Oak City. It is not necessary to meet the patients once a week as we have been doing in the two towns,” the health officer said. Clinics for per-natals and babies will be held at Oak City each third Thursday and at Hamilton on the third Tuesday between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 p. m. All patients who have been treated can meet the health of ficer and nurse on those days for' blood tests. Habies will be given their immunization '‘shots” for whooping cough and dipthena on those dates. Tobacco Markets To Open On August 21 I V. ELECTRIFIED j j Running after a fashion for more than forty years with occasional attention and repairs, Williamston's town clock went modernistic last week when specialists replac ed worn parts and electrified it. The hands and striker were synchronized, and now its the same time on all four sides with the striker going into op eration right on the hour. Delaying action on the pro ject at their meeting last Tuesday, the commissioners reconsidered and ordered the $785 joh handled after mak ing investigations. Work on the town hall was started in 1907 and the clock was installed in 1909. Draw Jurors For Next Session Of Superior Court JidIj!** Suiter Hone SIuIimI To Preside Over Tin* Two-Week Term Fifty Martin County men and women were drawn for jury duty j during the two-week term of su jperior court by the board of com missioners in a recent session. Thirty of the group are to report the first week, beginning on Sep tember If), and nine of that num ber will be drawn for a year’s duty on grand jury. The remain ing twenty of the fifty are to re port for duty during the second week when mostly civil eases will be called. Judge Walter J Hone, resident I judge of Nashville, is to preside | as a result of an exchange with Judge John Jay Burney of Wil mington who was first assigned the court. I lie jury list includes the names | of white men and women and col ored male and female citizens First Week ' Jamcsville Township: II L. Da vs, J. K. Overtoil. 0. I) Co burn, C. A. Askew and Edgar D Brown 1 Williams Township: Melburn J Hardison, Mrs. Annie Roebuck 'and Ben Liliey. Clv• ffi>i -. Township James B I Harrington, Archie T Coltrain, Fenner I, Hardison and Rufus A. Coltrain. Bear Grass Township: Jack Roberson and J. S. Hodges. Willianuston Township: James K. Bullock, C. I’. Culliphcr, John E Heel, I... It Donaldson, C 1). Car starphen, Gaston L. Savage, Os ear Tice and S. II Grimes. Robersonvillc Township: N C. Everett, Jesse E. Bullock and .rving Coburn. Hamilton Township; Whit C. I’urvis, I’. C. Edmonson, Sr , and Ben R. Brown. Goose Nesl Township. Haywood Fields and IV F. Lee. Second Week Jamcsville Township: M II Ange, Mrs. Leo R. Gardner, E O Hopewell, W I! Gaylord and Wil lie Mayo Gardner. Griffins Township: R. Roy God (Continued on page eight) -~~ -4 County Youths At Recent FFA Meet Martin County was well rep resented at the State meeting of Future Farmers of Anieriea in Raleigh last week. One young man took second honors and a valuable prize in the State-wide publie speaking contest and two others were awarded Carolina Farmer Degrees. Kip Etheridge, winning second place in the speaking contest, re ceived $90 cash awards. The young man is a leader in the Oak City FFA Chapter. His brother, David Etheridge, also of Oak City, was awarded the Carolina Farmer Degree along with Al fonso Perry, member of the | lainesville FFA Chapter. | Farmers Asked by Warehousemen To Delay Deliveries !liau^«‘ In Opening Dali* To Assure Full Corps Of Buyers Here Advised that buyers and other market personnel could not fin ish the marketing task in Flori da-Georgia in time for the sched uled opening on Friday of this 'week, eastern North Carolina to bacco markets reluctantly agreed to delay the opening until next Monday. The action was taken ! following a long and heated meeting held by the Board of Governors of the Bright Belt j Warehouse Association held in Raleigh lust. Saturday night. Following the announced delay m the opening local warehouse men directed a plea to farmers I asking them to wait until Thurs day of this week to deliver tobac co to the market. "If we thought it (advantageous to the farmer to do iso, we would open our houses [earlier, but we sincerely believe i tobacco packed down in the far mer's barn will keep better than ton the warehouse floors if it is placed there too long before the sales," local warehousemen ex plained. Heavy deliveries are ex peeted by the week-nd. 1 During the meantime some lo | bacco is moving from this arei to the border, but a vast majority of the farmers are waiting for th t !opening here before starting the marketing task. The mix-up in the opening dates is getting to be an annual affair, and the skullduggery bus iness was aired in the Raleigh meeting. II is apparent that the Bonier market operators have their eyes on the crop in this belt. This year the crop down that way was not as far advanced as it. was in this section, making it more feasible to open the markets here ahead of those on the border If any long delay in the opening had been proposed, some operators in this belt were getting ready to suggest that the border markets be closed until adjustments could be made, Reports from Florida-Georgia declare that nine of the market:! there have already suspended op erations, that last week ninety percent of the crop there had been : sold and that - *bi wefvk e*-in take care of me remainder ot the ciup To help salve over the wound created in this belt the meeting m Raleigh agreed to add an extra hour In the selling time during the first five days beginning next Monday. Despite the little candy sucker bait, representatives from this belt at the meeting declared [ that facts do not justify delaying openings in eastern North Caro lina, and five of the six delegates j opposed the delay. Representa ! lives of the OKI Belt also opposed ! the delay, but it was settled by postponing the opening by three days. Local Minister j ~ Answering Cali The liev James I Lowery is j leaving the Presbyterian ehurch here to answer a ealt received j from the Armstrong™ Memorial Church m South Norfolk, the con gregation was advised at a meet ing following the last Sunday morning service. He will enter up on his duties in early October, it was learned. The church here, showing a steady progress under his leader ship during the past 'wo and one half years, asked him to recon sider and withdraw his resigna tion, but Mr. Lowry, it was said, planned to go ahead and make the change. The resignation was received with much regret not only by his congregations but also by the people of the town and county. The minister and Mrs. Lowry, who are now on vacation, have made many friends during their stay here.
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