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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bf OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE! / "HE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Hi OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTl FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 69 William a ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 31, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Tobacco Prices Set ‘A New High Record Prices Soaring To! 85 Cents A Pound' On Local Market! “^— ^Average Right At $58.001 IVr Hundred Establish ed Here Yesterduy Tobacco price records, estab- ' lished in 1919 and at the close of World War II, toppled yesterday when the local market sold 265, 254 pounds for an official average of $57.78. The previous high rec- i ^rd was entered in the books on | "ctober 11, 1946, when approxi mately 230,000 pounds were sold ! here for an average of $56.73. The old records show that the quality of the tobacco offered for sale in 1946 was far superior to that of fered for sale yesterday. There’s no telling what the price average will climb to when the better grades of tobacco are offered in larger quantity. 0 A taste of what to expect was | had yesterday when Farmer Per lie Rogers of Bear Grass sold i 1,024 pounds for an average of $77.48 The sales were recorded as follows: 124 pounds at 68, 60 at 85 cents, 154, 134 and 154 pounds at 79 cents, and 158 and 240! pounds at 78 cents per pound. As far as it can be learned from the ! records, the individual sale ranks 1 ^nong if not at the top of the highest ever reported here. The major companies bought every pile. The hundreds of farmers, selling j here, are well pleased with their | sales. Quite a few of the patrons . point out that the quality of their crop is poor, but that the prices are high, and they are doing all light. A rather sad note was heard ^his morning when two farmers explained they were marketing the last of their crops. It is esti mated that more than 25 percent, possibly one-third, of the crop in this area has already been sold. The estimate fs hard to accept since comparatively little of the middle-of-the stalk tobacco has made its appearance so far. How A (Continued' on page eight) \ ^ " i- 1, Station Plans Formal Opening Operating as Pete Raynor’s j Service Station under the per sonal management of Mr. Ray..or, Williamston’s newest and one of its most modern filling stations # will formally open here Satur day. Equipped with every modern convenience and probably the j best fixtures and machinery in j this section, the station will fea ture Texaco products and Fire stone tires and batteries in ad dition to the usual accessories | stocked by a modern service sta tion. Just recently completed the sta m tion Was built of cement blocks and the front is covered with handsome white rock tile. New pumps h ive been installed on the front with adequate space for the convenience of the customers and '"•“‘^operators!”*' ,l—® For the formal opening, prizes will be given men, women ui.d children. For the children Texaco candy iolliepops and Texaco Fire Chief hats will be given free by the management. The men will be * given Havoline motor oil banks and razor blade containers; to the wtnpen Texaco thimbles and tape measures. i Colored Patients In New Hospital —*— Work on their quarters delayed by materia! shortages, the first * colored patients entered the Mar tin General Hospital here this week. Maggie James, entering the hospital Tuesday, underwent a major operation yesterday nrtorn | ing. A daugh*er was born to Sarah Roberson early Wednesday morn ing. 1 M FARM BUREAU | v-/ Plans will be formulated at a meeting in the county court house Friday night of this week at 7:30 o’clock for launching the annual Farm Bureau membership drive. All Jarmers and others Inter ested in farming are invited. A- women’s organisation is to be perfected at the meet ing and a special Invitation is being extended them to at tend. There have been repeated attempts to exclude the far mer from the nation's eco ^ nomic set-up. and the need for a strong farmers’ organi zation was never greater than now. Bethel Fireman Electrocuted In Accident Monday Victim Ila* Brother Teach ing ill the Schools At Robersonville Willie Abeyounis, Bethel young man, was killed instantly Monday afternoon around five o’clock when he came in contact with a high voltage power line. A volunteer fireman in the Bethel fire department, he had answered a call with his depart ment to the property of Johnny L. Brown about three miles from Bethel on the Greenville high way where a wood shed had been fired frdm a broken power line. The power line had fallen across and was hanging from the roof of the shed. How Abeyounis came into con tact with the 7600 volt line could not be determined immediately. It is believed that he grabbed the line to tear it from the wood shed, thinking that it was a small 110 bolt line or that he touched it j accidently while walking beneath i the line. The Greenville fire department rescue squad was called and ar tificial respiration and oxygen were given the victim for about two and a half hours before he was pronounced dead. The son of the late J. G. and Sally Abeyounis, he owned and operated an ice cream parlor in Bethel. Funeral services arc being con ducted today at 4 o'clock at the (Continued on page eight) Club Al Hassell Names Officers In a recent meeting, the Has sell Community Club named its officers for the new year and dis cussed plans for sponsoring sev eral projects. R. A. Haislip, Jr., is heading the club as president. Other officers are, Thomas Etheridge, vice pres ident; George Ayers, Jr., secre tary and treasurer; George Ayers, Sr., chaplain; and Olin Fox, re porter. The ciuD is sponsor in Boy I Scout program with a scout hut project well under way, and the members working with the 4-H program, are encouraging pure bred pig raising. Supper meetings are held by the club each first Friday eve ning. Revival Servicea Begin At Piney Grove Sunday A series of revival meetings will begin at Piney Grove Baptist Church Sunday night at 7:45 o’clock and continue through the following week each night, clos ing on the second Sunday. Rev Stewart B. Simms, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church of Williamston. will begin with the Monday night services and do the , preaching through until the close of the meeting. All members are urged to attend these services and the public is invited. W. B. Har rington is pastor of the church. Twenty-two Cases On The Docket In Recorder's Conrt —v— Jeveral Road Sentences are Meted Out; Fines Total More Than 0600 Holding its first afternoon ses sion in recent weeks, the Martin County Recorder's Court handled twenty-two cases last Monday. Several road sentences were met ed out and fines amounted to $615. Jury cases are scheduled for the next several sessions. Proceedings: Charged with an assault, Ed ward “Ted" Scott was found not guilty. The prosecuting witness declared that Scott started on him with a knife, that he (the witness) shot Scott. The charge did not stand up in court. Charged with assaulting his wife, Ophus Revels was sentenc ed to the roads for three months. The road term was suspended up on the payment of the costs. Adjudged guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, George Perry was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Ananias Lyons was adjudged not guilty of disorderly conduct. P. B. Spruill, charged with dis orderly conduct, was fined $25, plus costs. He appealed to the higher court and bond was re quired in the sum of $500. Pleading not guilty of assaulting a female, William Wimbush was adjudged guilty and drew three months on the roads. The road term suspended upon the pay ment of the costs and on further condition that the defendant does not in any way molest the prose cuting witness, Lena Mae Eason, during the next two years. Pleading not guilty of drunken driving, Garland Thomas Rober son was found guilty of speeding and careless driving and was lin ed $35, plus costs. H. W. Ford, charged with vio lating the liquor laws, was ad judged not guilty. Charged with forcible trespass and found guilty, Elmer Rodgers was sentenced to the roads for six months. Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing, Nemo Stanley, was fined $100, plus costs. The court recommend ed that the defendant’s license to operate a motor vehicle be re voked for a year. Ralph Boston was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Pleading guilty of speeding, Floyd Gorham was taxed with the costs. Tom Council pleaded guilty of violating the liquor laws and was sentenced to the roads for nine months. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of a $75 fine and costs. The defendant is not to violate any liquer law during the next five years. Wilmer Biggs was taxed with the costs for speeding. George Peterson, charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, failed to ap pear and papers were ordered issued calling for his arrest. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, James Taylor was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of the costs and a $50 fine. The defen dant is to violate no liquor law during the .nexj^vo.yefttf Samuel Timothy Carter was re quired to pay the costs in the case in which he was charged with speeding. John Norfleet, charged with careless driving, pleaded guilty and was fined $15, plus costs. Charged with drunken driving, Charlie Gaston Curtis pleaded not guilty and called for a jury trial. The following jurors were culled: (Continued on page five) Small Amount Of Leaf Tobacco Stolen Recently A small amount—about seventy pounds—of graded tobacco was stolen from the Clayton House farm near Hamilton a short time ago. Officers followed a track and found some tobacco believed to have been that stolen from the farm. However, the owner said he could nut definitely identify it and no further action was taken. Asking Strict Enforcement Of Traffic Laws At Fires Reasonably lenient in the en-. forcement of traffic laws when j fire alarms are sounded, local po- j lice arc expected to crack down on violators in the future, it was announced following a meeting of Chief of Police John Roebuck and volunteer firemen last night. Officers are to be stationed on the corners and general traffic will be delayed one or two min utes, giving firemen who travel in their own vehicles a chance to get to a fire. No individual, other than mem bers of the fire department, is to be allowed to run within or park near a fire. Officers will ride the fire truck and violators can ex pected to be cited to the courts. The action is being taken fol lowing several fairly recent fires when volunteer firemen were ac tually pushed to the curb and when the second truck was called i to a fire and found the way com pletely blocked by cars belonging to spectators. Officers and firemen expressed the hope that the public would cooperate and make citations to the courts unnecessary. There'll be no warnings issued, the an nouncement pointed out. Insurance Plan For All County School Children Small Fee of 40 Cents Will Give Protcetiou To Each Child A group accident insurance plan I jnder which every enrolled child | in the Martin County School Sys tem will be covered with accident insurance, wilt go into effect at the beginning of the school year. J. C. Manning, superintendent of Martin County Schools, report ed the action today. Manning said that while the Board of Education and the schools themselves have no legal liability in case of acci dent or injuries to children in the performance of their normal school duties, it has always been a matter of serious concern to the school when children were in jured and had to be taken to the hospital, often they know the par ents were unable to pay the bills. He said that this type of cov erage will relieve that kind of situation greatly and will assure every child attending school in Martin County adequate medical attention in case any accident oc curs to him in connection with any of his school life while on the sehol property. It has been the desire for many years among both teachers and parents, accord ing to Mr. Manning that some plan of coverage might be found which would provide financial as sistance in payment of medical or hospital expense that might come as a result of such injuries. Since the cost of accident in surance is higher thun the aver age family feels that it can afford, j very few chlidren have the bene fit of such coverage, he said. However, through this group school child accident plan, each child will contribute 40 cents per year. Then all students in the school unit will be adequately provided with accident coverage during the school day, Manning revealed. The plan has been discussed with a number of parents all of whom are enthusiastic in their praise of the action. At a recent meeting of the principals, it was decided, with the assistance of the parents, to undertake the program of protec tion for school children. The policy, according to Man ning, covers the children while within a school building or on the school grounds or premises effective one hour before school takes in and lasting one hour af ter sehool dismisses. Another uni que foature-uf., *'** it covers practicing for or partic ipating in sports and gymnastics (Continued on page eight; THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Last week for the first time in nearly two months not a single highway accident of any consequence was report ed in this county. During the meantime, twenty-two ac cidents were reported, involv ing six personal injury cases and two deaths. Last week was the third so far this year in which no accidents were reported. 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. 34(h Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam’ge 1950 0 0 0 $ 00 1949 1 0 0 320 Comparisons To Date 1950 92 43 2 $20,755 1949 70 20 4 16,010 Two Injured In Highway Wreck Near Jamesville VictiniH Disrliar^fd Follow iiig Treatment In llonpi IhI Luftl Kvenin^ Edward Lee Coltrain and Jim- , my Wallace, young men of James- I ville, were painfully but believed not badly injured in an automo bile accident one mile south of Jamesville on N. C. Highway 171 at 7:45 o’clock last evening. Both victims suffered slight lacerations of the face and leg abrasions. Mr. Wallace, former teacher in the Koberson ville schools and well known throughout the county, complained of a sore left knee m addition to his other injuries. His clothes were badly torn but he was able to walk despite his in juries. ' Both young men were discharg ed from a local hospital following i treatment. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman John T. Rowe said that Coltrain, 20 years old, was driv ing south of the road, that he (Coltrain) swerved his car to avoid striking two children walk ing in the highway. The Coltrain car crashed almost head on into the Wallace machine, a 1940 Ford. Damage to Coltrain's 1939 Chev rolet was estimated at $200 and damage to the Ford will run pos sibly $400 or more, the patrolman said. Joseph Thigpen, 7, and Lewis Dean Thigpen, 0, were walking the highway. No General Holiday Here Next Monday, Labor Day There’ll be no general holiday i here next Monday—Labor Day. I However, all federal offices, in cluding the post office, will sus pend general operations that day. The tobacco market here and all others throughout the belt will not operate Monday. A few other businesses, including the banks, the Virginia Electric and Power Company, will close for the day, and the ABC store will be on t^ "dry side” that day. County offices, including the county court, general stores and offices will remain open as usual. The Martin County Commis sioners arc holding their regular meeting next Monday, hut reports from the board clerk indicate there'll be little business on the calendar for the day other than routine matters. While there will be no sales, the local tobucco market will be open to receive tobacco Monday for sale Tuesday. There’ll be rio mail deliveries either in town or rural areas Mon day. Willianrston’s town commis sioners will hold their regular September meeting on schedule next Monday night at 8:00 o'clock. Reviews Enlarged Social Security Coverage In Area -- Chucks Will Be Larger And Thousands Will Be Add ed To The System Here is what happened to old-1 age and survivors insurance in this area this week when Presi dent Truman signed the 1950 amendments to the Social Securi ty Act. All monthly insurance checks now being paid to the -4,147 social I security beneficiaries in the 15 counties administered by the i Rocky Mount Field Office will be raised substantially, beginning with the September checks, ac cording to M. H Barney, Manager of the local office. Mr. Barney ex plained that these automatic in creases, for September, are sched ulcd to reach local Denenciaries) during the first week of October. Increases will range from about 50 per cent to about 100 per cent. For example, the average primary benefit of approximately $26 per month for a retired worker will be increased to about $40. A wid ow with two children who has been receiving $55 a month, will now receive about $110 altogether. Manager Barney said that under the old terms of the social se curity law the 4,147 beneficiaries in this area would have received about $00,172 (total) for the month of September. Under the new increases, however, total pay ments for September are estimat ed to be about $113,417, or an im mediate increu.se of some $53,245 j monthly in insurance benefits to this area. Under the new law the amount of earnings which a beneficiary may make in a month, and still ac cept his insurance payment for thut month, is raised trom $lt.au to $50. This applies to bencficia ries under age 75, and for earn ings in a job covered by social security. After attaining age 75, a beneficiary may have any a mount of earnings and still ac cept his insurance checks. Approximately 9,700 more peo ple may have old-age and survi vors insurance under the revised law. For most of the new groups, coverage will be mandatory after January 1, 1951. However, em ployees of non-profit charitable, religious, and educational insti tutions will come under social se curity only if the employer choos es and if two-thirds of the em ployees express a wish to parti cipate. Employees of State and lodal governments may have so cial security coverage on an op tional basis but the State govern ment must take the initiative if it chooses to participate. An es timated 2,050,000 workers are in the two groups subject to op tional participation in the pro I gram. A very important aspect of the new legislation is the more lib eral qualifying renditions. Mr. Barney pointed out that any in dividual now aye 05 or more who has at least six “quarters of cov erage" may be immediately eli gible for monthly benefit pay ments. It has been estimated that about 750,000 old people in the United States may qualify for in surance payments under this clause. Many aged persons may now claim benefits even though they have nit been employed long enough to qualify under the former requirements. Barney said that th-is* A’ouid— able number of aged persons in this area who had once filed claims for social security benefits but had not at that time been able to qualify The social security of fice here has been reviewing rec ords for several weeks to screen as many as possible of these per sons and will send letters notify ing them that benefits may now be payable if the claim is renew ed. Other persons not yet age 65— those now 63 and over—will also only need six quarters of cover age— roughly a year and a half of employment in work covered by social security—to be insured! upon reaching age 65 and retir ing. A sliding scale requires long er employment for those reaching age 65 after 1953, but in no case will a person be required more than ten years of employment un der social security in order for benefits to be payable. (Cunturned on Page Eight) County Schools Start New Year Next Week REGISTRATION _) \ Registration books for the proposed $200,000 bond elec tion here will be opened by ! Registrar John E. Pope in his office on Washington Street tomorrow. The books are to remain open for eight days or through Saturday, September 9. The election, to decide whether the town will move forward or go backward, is to be held on Wednesday, September 20. It has been pointed out that no new registration Is neces sary. that any person who participated in a town elec tion in recent years will not have to register again to vote in the bond election. There are those who have never vot ed or registered in the town, and to participate in the Sep tember 20 event, they will have to get their names on the books. The town registra tion is not to be confused with the county registration. Justice Oi Peace Hears Few Cases Justice Chas. R. Mobley heard a few cases in his court this week, i imposing fines in the amount of $35 and sending one or two de fendants to the higher courts for trial. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Johnnie Mat thews Williams was bound over to the county court for trial next Monday. Bond in the sum of $200 was required. 'Louis Clark, Hubert Page and' Cecil Williams, charged with be- j ing drunk and disorderly, were, each fined $5 and taxed with $tl.H5 J costs. James Stokes was fined $10 and required to pay $5.85 costs for simple assault. Mark Griffin, charged with dis orderly conduct, was fined $10, plus $5.85 costs. Business Firms Moving Offices Whin Dr. J T Llewellyn mov ed his offices from Smith wick Street to the Williamstun Clinic in the Martin General Hospital j he set the stage for a regular mov ing spree. Del-Mar’s beauty shop moved a few days ago to the Llewellyn building from Baltimore Street. Bill Howell is moving his book keeping service offices from Bal timore Street to offices in the Llewellyn building, and Attor ney Hold. Cowen is moving his offices to the Llewellyn building also. J. E. Pope is moving Ins in surance offices to the location be ing vacated by Messrs Howell and Cowen on Baltimore Street Pastors Return To Local Church Rev. N J Ward and Rev .-j;'.. A -r this wcek-isaax. relumed to the pastorates of lo cal and county churches by the Conference held in Falcon. The Rev. M. Ward is returning to the Williamston and Rehoboth Pentecostal Holiness Churches for the fourth year. The Rev. Mr. Casper is returning to the Beth any church for his fourth yeai also. The return of the two ministers by the Conference recognizes the able work carried on by them dur ing the last three years. Rev. W. K White was assign ed to Merritt Chapel Taken III While On Local Warehouse Floor Mr. Mack Lamb, popular on the tobacco market for the American, was taken ill suddenly while at tending his duties in a warehouse here yesterday morning. He was removed to Brown’s Community Hospital and was reported much improved this morning. 7,600 Enrollment Figure Predicted In Entire System Colored Scliotils Opening Tuesday; W Srhools Open Wnlnestlay Vacation clays are ending in this county next week tor approx imately 7,600 younsters—3,500 white and 4,100 colored. Possibly a few will stretch the vacation period a lew clas s, but school of ficials are preparing to greet the I nearly 8,000 children, the 4,100 colored Tuesday and the 3,500 'white pupils Wednesday. Plans for opening the schools i are well advanced, and final de tails for opening the white schools will be handled at a series of 'three conferences, beginning next Monday evening There'll be an , informal meeting of the county | white teachers in Williamston s I elementary school at 8.00 o clock for a get-acquainted session. Rev. E. R. Stewart, Supt. J C Man ning, school officials, P.-T. A. leaders and others will have briel jarts on the program. Next Tuesday morning at 9:110 Velock in the elementary school here, there'll be an open forum with Dr. R M Kink, consultant m mental hygiene, school-health coordinating service; Geo. S. Me Rorie, president of the Marti’! County Unit of the North Carolina Education Association; Alida W. Tyler, Josh Hassell and Charlotte Abernathy leading the discussions. A luncheon session will follow at 1.00 o’clock in the Woman's Club where Dr. Arnold E Hoffman, State Supervisor of Music, will address the group. Colored Schools The eighteen colored schools two under the 1949-50 count arc to open next Tuesday morning at 9:00 o’clock for registrations, fol lowed by the distribution of books and lesson assignments the follow ing day. The last of the one-teacher schools in the county Corey's is disappearing and the pupils m that area are to go to James villc this year. Another consolida tion eliminates the two-teacher Jones school, the pupils in that area to go to Whichard-James Last term there were 4,099 children enrolled in the county’s colored schools, but the average daily attendance sagged to a low of 3,389. In 1948-49 there were 3,882 children enrolled in the col ored schools. There were 118 teachers. White Schools The white schools are to open the new term at 1:20 o clock next Wednesday afternoon when reg istrations are to be handled. Books are to be distributed and lessons assigned on Thursday, with a lull school day scheduled for Friday. There were 3,491 pupils enroll ed in the nine white schools last year with an average daily at tendance of 3,215 pupils In 1949 50 there were 3,354 white child ren enrolled in the nine schools. There are 138 teachers in the white schools. The combined school system will operate 55 busses this year - 'orty for the while and 15 for rn"i schools, • —*» ■"* :u2 four new units for the colored. Hold Funeral For Dr. John D. Biggs $ - Funeral services were conduct ed at the home on Halifax Street here yesterday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock for Or. John O. Biggs, who died in a local hospital Tues day morning following a long per iod of declining health. His pastor, Kev. Stewart B. Simms, assisted by Rev. W B. Harrington, county Raptist minister; Rev. John L. Goff, pastor of the local C hristian Church, and Rev John Lawrence. Wilmington minister, conducted the rites. Interment was in the family plot in Woodlawn Ceme tery. It was one of the doctor’s last requests that no flowers be sent, but many fiienus throughout the State made flora! offerings
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