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 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.