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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bt OVER 3,00f MARTIN COL'NTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES V OLUME LIII—NUMBER 65 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday. August 17. 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Large Damage Suits ‘Filed In Court Here Plaintiffs Asking $37,500 Result Of Accident Injuries Irene Roberson, J. W. Gay, * Frances Lilley ami Estelle Corey Are Plaintiffs Damage suits, asking $37,500 were filed in the Martin County Superior Court this week as a result of injuries received by the plaintiffs in an automobile acci dent at the intersection of High ways 264 and 15-A between Dur ham and Spring Hope last April • ll. The cases are tentatively set for trial during the special No vember term of the court. The four plaintiffs, Mrs, Irene Koberson, Mrs, Frances Lilley, Mrs. Estelle Corey and J. W. (Bill) Gay, charge the defendant, LeRoy Johnson Cosby, a Rich mond man, allege that the de fendant was driving at a high, dangerous and unlawful speed, that he ignored warning signs, * and that his negligence was the cause of the accident Mrs. Roberson, suffering frac tures of the shoulder, several ribs and knee along with severe cuts and bruises, is asking $15,000 damages, She explains in the com plaint that she was in the hospital tal twenty-three days, that disa bility was total until the middle of June, that she is still partial ly disable and that she still suf fers pain as a result of accident injuries. She also points out that $950 has already been paid in hospital and medical bills. Mrs. Lilley, who suffered a crushed leg and bruises and other injuries is asking $15,000 damages She was a patient in tne hospital for twenty-one days and has al ready paid $500 hospital and med ^ ical bills Her leg is still in a cast and is certain to continue there for a long time. Mrs. Corey, asking $5,000 dam ages, explains that she suffered a back injury, concusions and “bruises. She was in the hospital for four days and paid $158.50 in hospital and medical bills. J W Gay, plaintiff in the fourth suit against Cosby, is ask ing $2,500 damages, pointing out in the complaint that he suffered and still suffers from a hip injury. The four plaintiffs were riding as guests of Mrs. Carrie Lee Col train when her car and the Cos bv car crashed at the intersection about 5:00 o’clock m the afternoon of April 11. Mrs. Coltrain and her guests were en route home from a Durham hospital at the time. The victims were removed to a Raleigh hospital where at I least two of them hovered be tween life and death for days. The defendant in the cases has thirty days in which to file an swer. (Continued on page eight) Draft Board Here In First Meeting Holding their first meeting fol lowing the reactivating of the Mai tin County Draft Board, draft officials Tuesday night lined up vtr.\ and made' ready *',o handle the first call for men. Chairman Eugene Rice said that no call has been received,. but that a fairly sizable demand is anticipated on or before Septcm her 1. Attended by the chairman and Member Chas. Gray of Roberson ville, the meeting reviewed class ifications, removing the names of those registrants who had become 26 years of age since thi Jast meeting. Member LeRoy*E%rett of Hamilton was not able o at tend on account of feeble f ;alth. According to reports, the oard, when a call is received, Titans to recruit its men from the' 25 and 24-year-old groups. That means that some of those who answered previous calls and were rejected are likely to be celled again. It was also learned that those men who served less than one year and a day in the armed forces are subject to call under the present regulations. ALMOST v. The Martin General Hospi tal on Liberty Street here is almost ready to receive its first patient, but a definite opening cannot be fixed until a number of doors reach here from the manufacturers in Mississippi. The doors were shipped a week ago, it was learned. Dr. J. T. Llewellyn, a mem ber of the staff, moved from his offices on South Smith wick Street to the clinic in the hospital building this week, and nearly 11 members of the general staff have reported for duty. Asa Tom Griffin, Native of County, Dies In Goldsboro i Fiiimm'uI Iii The Methodist Church There Yesler* day Afternoon Asa Thomas Griffin, native of this county and a prominent citizen of Goldsboro, died at his home there Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock after about five years I of declining health. Although quite feeble, he was able to be up most ofthe time until about ten days ago, having recovered from a serious illness several months ago. He was thought to be getting along fairly well early Tuesday j afternoon when a nephew, Mr. Ira Griffin of this county, visited him for a few minutes. He asked aboqt the fol.Ks and crops back home. A short time later he suf fered a heart attack, death fol lowing almost immediately. Mr. Griffin was born in Grif fins Township, this county, 113 years ago, the son of the late Joseph and Louisa Perry Griffin. He spent his early life on the farm and when a young man taught school for a while in this county. A few years before the turn of the century he moved to I Grifton where he operated a lum j her mill, locating a few years i later in Goldsboro where he I founded the A. T. Griffin Man ufacturing Company, a business 'that developed into one of the largest of its kind in this section (of the country. When a young man he was married to Miss Susan Baiv.ick Jof Grifton. She died a few years ago. In addition to his manufacur ing business, Mr. Griffin was ac tive in the various phases of his adopted town’s community life. He was a member of St. Paul Methodist Church in Goldsboro, a member of the Ruffin Lodge 1 No. 6, Knights of Pythias, a mem ber of the Neuse Lodge, I00F, and a life member of the Golds boro Kiwants Club, and served (Continued on page eight) Many Trucks Are Being Overloaded ' North- Carolina trucks stopped by Inspectors of the Theft Bureau I in July numbered 2,305, with 134 found to be overloaded, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles reported today. One hundred and three North Carolina trucks were over their license limit and 31 were found to be over the road limit. Of the 3,120 trucks stopped, 815 were out-of-state, with 22 over their license limit and seven over the road limit. A total of $41,804.68 was col lected in penalties and additional J license fees on overloaded trucks. Of the amount, $8,668.35 was col lected in additional fees and $6,257.55 in penalties on privately owned trucks. A total of $30, 281.78 in additional fees and $12, 853.55 penalties were collected on commercial vehicles. The Theft Bureau assisted in i the recovery of 48 stolen cars [during July and began investiga tion into the thefts of 34 more. Nineteen Cases In County Court Monday Horning Fines, Imposed During the Short Session, Amount* ed to $275.00 I I I f t t s 1 ? I tt I. | V i i it 3 e e i e D S e e n it s 8 1 I, e d A varied docket featured the proceedings in the Martin County Recorder’s Court during a short session last Monday morning. Out of the mixture. Judge Chas. H. Manning extracted $275 fines and went on to send several of the de fendants to the roads. The session, lasting hardly two hours, was at tended by a small number of spec tators. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Wallace T. Purvis was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of $25 fine and costs. The case in which Ananias Thompson was charged with the larceny of an automobile was nol prossed. Constant Little, pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly wrap- j j on, was fined $25, plus costs. Adjudged guilty over her plea) of innocence, Breda Mae Biggs, ] charged with larceny, was sen-1 tenced to jail for three months and is to be assigned to the coun ty home. George Green was given a six month suspended road term for non-support. He is to pay $12 a week for the support of his chil dren during the next two years. Pleading guilty of drunken driving, Andrew Mobley was fin ed $100, taxed with the cost and, lost his driver's license for a year.: The defendant, calling for a jury trial, waived that right after the jury of nine men reported for duty. The case charging Willie Wil liams with non-support was dis missed. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Wade Morrow Mes ser of Raleigh was charged with speeding. A plea of guilty was en tered in the case. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Charlie Phillips was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. The defendant, the court ordered, is to violate no li quor law during the next five years. Jesse McCoy Taylor of Nash ville was required to pay the court costs for speeding. He pleaded ! guilty William Bowen, charged with assaulting a female pleaded guil ty and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of the costs and guaranteed good behavior. Haywood Rogcfs, 16-year-old colored boy, pleaded guilty of bas tardy and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the pay ment of the costs and on the fur ther condition that he pay $4 a week for the support of his child. Pleading guilty of speeding, (Continued on page eight) Smallest Cotton Crop Since 1878 -4 As of August 1, North Caro lina’s 1950 cotton crop is esti mated at 230,000 bales (500 lbs. gross weight). Such a crop would be the smallest since 1878. There have been only 11 years since cotton estimates were begun in 1806 during which production was less than the forecast for 1950. The estimated 230,000 bales this year compares with 406,000 bales harvested last year and the 10-year average production of 578,000 bales. Based on August I conditions, the average lint yield per acre from the 1950 crop is placed at 190 - 03 pounds below the 10-year average and the smallest yield since 1901. The acreage for harvest in 1950 is estimated at 504,000 acres com pared with the 860,000 acres har vested last year. The estimated acreage for harvest is the small est since 1872. Sweet Potato Harvest In County Getting Underway The first of the current sweet potato crop was harvested in this county a few days ago. oid timers declaring that the harvest is about the earliest for any sea son in years and years. Farmer Herman Williams dug on a commercial scale out in Cross Roads last week, and Farmer N. C. Everett, Jr., harvested about half or three-quarters of an acre the early part of this week on his farm near Gold Point. The early harvest is a rare exception to the general rule. Most farmers will not harvest their crops until about the middle of October. Farmer Everett transplanted his crop unusually early and it was explained that he started digging when the potatoes came nearer meeting the market grades. There were some grading below the standard and a few that ex ceeded the acceptable size, but, in the main, the potatoes harvest ed met the No. 1 standard re quirements. Commenting on the harvest, J. W. Sumner, sweet potato special ist for this and Pitt and Edge combe Counties, said that the quality of the crop was good, I that Mr. Everett harvested at the rate of approximately 300 bushels per acre. Comparatively ] few potatoes are being offered I on the green market at this time ■ and a definite price trend is hard 1 to determine. One report stated that the price was averaging close to $3 a bushel. Martin County farmers, like i many others in this and other areas, have increased their sweet potato acreage this year, but weather conditions during the next few weeks can alter the yield. KE(UKl) D An all-time record rain fall for any one month in the past twenty years was re corded at this point during July. The rainfall last month, recorded at 11.90 inches, was just about one-quarter of an inch greater than the 11.05 inches reported in August, 1931. In July, 1935, the weath er station here recorded 11.11 ,i inches. In only three months since 1930 has the rainfall ex ceeded ten inches. Rain fell on fifteen of the 31 days in July, but so far this month only one-half inch has been recorded here. Some sections of the coun ty reportedly had far more rain than was recorded here. Through July this year 32.02 Inches of rain fell here compared with 33.71 inches I recorded In the first seven months of 1949. Officers Wrecked Stills In County Martin County ABC Officer J. H. Roebuck, assisted by Deputy 1 Roy Peel, wrecked three illicit | ditillerics in the county last week, and climaxed the enforcement | work Saturday night when with the aid of Williamston police raided a house for illicit liquor. I On August 11, the officers wreck led a 100-gallon copper still and [three 200-gallon fermenters, I pouring out 000 gallons of sugar I mash in Bear Grass Township, t A set of oil burners was confi scated. In Cross Roads last Thursday, the officers claimed a 50-gallon copper kettle and wrecked eight 50-gallon and one 300 gallon fer menters. They poured out 500 gallons of sugar mash and confi scated an oil burner. Working in the vicinity of Brown’s Springs in Williamston Township, the two officers last Friday tore down a plant equip ped with a 50-gallon oil drum. They poured out 250 gallons of sugar mash. Saturday night, the officers raided on Williamston’s Griffin Street and confiscated one-half gallon of raw liquor in the home of Hannah Woolard. | Heturns Home Eolloirinff Eye O per uit onStu u fduy --$■> Little Miss Dorothy Jean Tice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wood row Tice, returned to her home here yesterday following an eye operation in a Durham hospital last Saturday. The little girl injured her eye a few months ago, and when it was found that the sight had dis appeared doctors removed it 'to save the sight in the other eye. She is reported to be getting along very well, and plans to have a glass eye fitted in about two months. Rational (iuard Unit Expected Home Sunday After turning in a splendid per formance, the local unit of the National Guard is expected home from Camp Stewart, Georgia, Sunday. One report said the young men are scheduled to reach here about noon that day. I Farmers Urged To Exercise Care In Hauling Tobacco One Accident Clan Wipe Out Profits of a Year Or Kven A Lifetime Raleigh. A highway accident can wipe nut. a farmer's profit for the entire year, the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles pointed out this week, as seasonal move ments of tobacco began in Eastern North Carolina. Reminding farmers that they and members of their families are involved in approximately one fourth of the State’s highway ac cidents, the Department added that seasonal movements of crops State, bring about additional high way hazards and generally ac count for an upward trend in ac cidents m the heavily traveled areas of the State. The Highway Patrol reported that schedules for patrolmen in areas involved in seasonal move ments will be re-vamped in or der that patrolmen may be on the heavier-traveled routes on an around-the-clock basis. The department reminded far mers that the statues set forth strict provisions in connection with operations of trailers and semi-trailers used in seasonal movements. Trailers must be firm ly attached to towing vehicles in (Continued on Page Eight) County Teachers To Gel Physicals Free X-rays and physical check ups will again be made available for all Martin County teachers I between now and the opening of the term on September 5 and (i Health Officer John W. Williams announced this wet k. Teachers are being asked ft make appointments with the health office “so that ample time can be taken for careful work,' the health officer said. flood certain travel arteries of the THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . After threatening off and un for almost thirty-two weeks, death finally scored on the highways in this coun ty last week-end. it was the first mark-up of the year. Next week, judging from past records is a dangerous period, the record showing that six accidents took place, costing one life and boosting the total for the first 33 weeks m 1949 to four. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks ia this year and last and for each year to the present time. 32iul Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Uam'tt 1950 5 1 1 $ (100 1949 1 0 0 500 Comparisons To Date 1950 HH 41 1 $ 19,1175 1949 71 27 3 15,190 Insurance Rales Sliced Again By Commission Chiei . — IMcnn* A Saving to Properly Owners In the .Sum Of Nearly *1.000.000 Reductions in the rates for Ex tended Coverage, ranging from 10 percent to 30 percent and repre senting total savings to North Carolina policyholders of $779,467 were announced a few days ago by Waldo C. Check. Commissioner of Insurance. The term "Extend ed Coverage" is applied to the en dorsement insuring against the perils of windstorm, hail, explos ion, riot, riot attending a strike, civil commotion, aircraft and ve hicles, when the endorsement is attached to and forming a part of u policy. Reductions by classes are ap proximately as follows: Habita tiona! (apartment houses, board ing houses, dwellings, fraternity and sorority houses, nurses' homes and sisters' homes), 30 percent for inland territory, 25 percent for seacoast territory; Schools (art galleries, asylums, camps, clubs, cottages and libraries), inland ter ritory 25 percent, seacoast terri tory 25 percent; churches, inland territory 25 percent, seacoast ter ritory 25 percent; mcrcantilcs, in land territory 25 percent, seacoast territory 25 percent; all other classes, inland territory 10 per cent, seacoast territory 10 percent. The seacoast territory is the area bordering the coast, contain-' ing the following counties: Curri- i | tuck, Camden, Pasquotank, Per-; quintans, Chowan, Washington,! Tyrrell, Dare, Beaufort, Hyde,1 Craven, Pamlico, Jones, Onslow,1 Carteret, Pender, New Brunswick.1 and New Hanover. The inland1 territory includes all other coun ties. Extended Coverage is a form of underwriting originating in the State of North Carolina in 1936 shortly after the occurence of a tornado which struck the city of > Greensboro. Prior to that time only windstorm and hail coverage were provided by the companies and only those who had bought ; separate windstorm coverage or separate tornado coverage were covered for losses sustained by the | Greensboro tornado. Realizing the need for coverage for all pol icy-holders, the agents and com panies proceeded to provide a coverage for sale to all owners of fire policies. I Experience used for driving at the above reductions was North Carolina experience from 1936 I through 1946. Consideration was 1 given to tin' national experience I only to the extent oi providing a ! reasonable cushion for catastrophe j hazard. 'Ibis was done so that a disastrous tornado at any future time would not subject North Carolina to a severe rate increase. The above is a result of a public hearing held on July 20, 1950, on a filing made by the North Caro lina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau to revise Extended Coverage rates in North Carolina. No existing policies of insur ance can be cancelled and rewrit (Continucd on page eight) | Few Cases Heard | By Justice Here Only one justice of the peace reported any activities in the min or courts here during the past few days, and most of them were sent on up to the higher courts for final disposition. Facing Justice Chas It Mobley yesterday, Hilly Gene Tettertun was sentenced to the roads for being drunk and disorderly. The sentence was the maximum for the justice to impose. Charged with disorderly con duct and an attempted assault with a deadly weapon, Ananias Lyons was sent to the county mint for trial under *200 bond. Geo. Perry, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was required to furnish $150 bond for his appearance in the county court trial. ! Bond m the sum of S200 was required in the case in which H. B. Spruill was charged with disorderly conduct and intimidat ing a state witness. Tobacco Rolling To Local-Market Today Record Offerings Certain For First Sale Next Nonday Mrs. Frame’s l,ill«=y I’larrs First Tobacco Oil Floor Here This Year Tobacco Town, idle for many months, came to life in a big way here early this morning when to bacco literally started pouring in to the several warehouses. It has been a long time since farmers appeared more anxious to get the marketing task started. While there was a big rush on from the start, it was orderly Every ware houseman was on the job and workers were added rapidly to help relieve the rush. The first tobacco placed on the floors here shortly before (i:U0 o'clock this morning belonged to Mrs. Frances Lillev of Griffins Township. Mrs. Lilley, who still sports a leg cast as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident last April, is- offering 042 pounds of the golden leaf lot sale. Farmers, while a bit disappoint ed in the quality and weight., were in a jovial mood as they unload ed the first of the 1950 crop. Mar vin Jones, from down Jamesvilk. way, shook his head when a big pile of the leaf did not weigh 200 pounds, but he came back with a big smile with the express ed hope that the price will off set the weight loss. Little Miss Patsy Manning whose father did not return from World Wai 11. was all smiles as I she aided her step-father, Archie Griffin, unload their tobacco. On ly seven years old, Miss Patsy w as doing a good job and seemed to be enjoying it. Market observers rated the ear ly offerings as being of poor to medium quality with the weight falling far below average One could tell that there hail been excessive rains, giving much id the tobacco a sleepy appearance. However, there's some good to baeco on the floors and despite the over-all medium quality, ob servers look for a better than a 50-cent average for the first sales next Monday Tobacco moved to the market here early today from at least six counties m trucks, new and | old mode! cars with trailers at ; tached to most of them. (Continued on Page Seven) f WARiNINd i V Local police along with the sheriff’s office in this county again issued a strong warn ing against the ole flim-flam game. Martin County people have been fleeced out of several thousand dollars by slick op erators of the ole game, and tobacco marketing time is al most certain to attract the players. Anyone accosted by the players is asked to con tact the police or sheriff’s of fice without delay. Farmers Turning To Ladino Clover As Pasture F eed Ortiiiu Larp«“ Wre 11*4* Will Be IMuiiUhI To C.r4»p In This Comity By D. W. Brady, Assistant County Agent Pasture seeding time is about here again. Ladino clover, equiva lent in feeding value per acre for livestock to one acre of 90 bushels of corn per acre, will not be overlooked this fall It is be lieved that this fall will break all records to planting this won derful legume; Ladino clover is the livestock farmer's dream Not long ago 1 heard a farmer say if he had Ladino clover he never would have gone out of the dairy business. Those who had land not m a cultivated crop and plan to put in pasture this fall should start now. A bush and bog harrow to cut under the weeds and start this vegatation to decaying would be a good start. After this has decayed for 2 or three weeks it should be limed and disked into the soil well The number of times this land will need harrowing with the bush and bog and disk ing will depend on the growth of weeds and other vegetation The soil should be well pulverized however. If soil samples have not been taken to determine the proper amounts of lime, a usually | safe amout to use is 1 1/2 tons of 'delomitic lime per acre on land I that hasn't been previously limed and of soil type suited to pasture ! After these operations have been done, fertilizing and seeding will ; be next. | Farmers who plan to put in pasture this fall but have row crops on the land will naturally be somewhat delayed. The next best thing is to get the crop oil as soon as possible and get the pasture limed, fertilized and seeded as soon thereafter as pos sible. Itecommendcd seeding dates are from Sept, lath to October 15th. Of course a few days be fore or after these dates is us ually all right. Another article will follow later on recommended amounts of clo ver and grass seeds per acre and the procedure of seeding to get the best stands and maintenance of the pasture Remember Ladino clover is very palatable to hogs and everyone who raises hogs should have some Ladino clover for them to graze This is the best and cheapest livestock feed. Sweet Potatoes Below Average August I conditions indicate a sweetpotato crop tj percent larger than the 1949 production but Hi percent below the ’39-4(1 average. The l!)f>0 crop is guw estimated at (i,210,000 bushels compared with 5,070,000 bushels in 1949 and a ten year average of 7,403,000 bushels The currently estimated acre age of 54,000 acres compares with 52,000 acres in 1949 and a ten year average of 70,000 acres. The per acre yield is estimated at 115 bushels, 2 percent above the 1949 yield ol 113 bushels per acre and 7 percent above the 1939-4U average of 107 bushels. | Peanui Prospects Below Average -»- -... The August 1 outlook is toi a peanut erop of almost 248 million pounds in North Carolina. This estimate is about two pereent above production in 1941), but 22 percent below the 1939-48 aver age. 'Reports received from fanners about August 1 indicate that a yield of 1,040 pounds per acre is expec A yield of 1,030 pounds was realized last year The 10 -year average is 1,138 pounds per acre. The below average yield is pro ape etc unit s 1 a' — .a. - —■ w .Lg 1 heavy and frequent rains through out the commercial areas during recent weeks. Also, grass in the fields has been quite a problem and, as a result of intensive plow ing and chopping, a great many young shoots were destroyed dur ing the pegging stage. Although allotments in the state for edible type peanuts are below last year, it is estimated that ac reage for picking and threshing will be slightly higher. Growers have indicated that they will har vest 238,00 acres this year as com pared with 238,000 last year and | the 10-year average of 280,000 acres. A considerable quantity of peanuts for oil purposes was planted this year A erop ot 1.7 billion pounds for picking and threshing is in pros pect for the nation which is 13 percent below last year’s pro duction and 15 percent below the 10-year average.
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