TUT7 T?\TT1?D DD TCI? OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT*" ■ E ■ El . ■ 1 . I ^1 ■ ■ 1 - | I I 1 - FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK JL JL XI i M—J JL ^ JL H >X U.X 1 % 1 L f 1 VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 82 -- --. . THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTI FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEl Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 17, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Local Firm Switches To War-Time Work Marvil Package Firm Made Last Baskets Friday Scheduled To Make Ply wood for Indefinite Period, Reports Say The Marvil Package Company, operators of the large basket fac tory on Roanoke River here, made its last baskets Friday, presum ably to switch over to the manu facture of plywood to meet war and defense orders. ^ No official announcement has been released by the company -and complete details could not be learned. Approximately one-half of the labor force has been 'laid off", leaving less than one hun dred workers with jobs when ply wood manufacturing operations are started. One report said that the basket making machinery would be left intact, indicating that a switch ^ back is possible if and when con ditions demand it. It is understood that the pre sent equipment is ample to cut the veneer, but machinery will be added to glue and pack the ply wood. Just how long the change over will require could not be learned, but production is believed possible within the course of a 0 few weeks. The product will be prepared and packed for ship ment to other plants of the Atlas Plywood Corporation for manu facture into packing cases. M. M. Levin, salesman for the company, tendered his resigna tion some months ago but he a greed to continue in its service until the first of next month when he plans to devote his entire time to sweet potato marketing and the operation of the Martin Coun ty Yam Growers Association. . Few other changes are antici pated in the management person nel, but it is likely that additions will be made to the present stall from the company’s plywood di visions. It was learned yesterday that the package company has more *■ (Continued on page five) Levin Leaving Narvil Company Effective Nuvenibei 1st, Mcyei M. Levin will leave the service.' i>f the Marvi I Package Company with whom he has been eonnectec for the past three years. He came here when the plan' was first built by the Goldmar Package Company, of which hi was Vice President in charge o sales. The plant later was sole to local interests and operated a: the Williamston Package Co., anc then resold by them to the Mar vil Package Co. Mr Levin intends to devote hi: time to the rapid growing swee potato business, which he believe; will play an important part ir the agricultural interests in thi; community. He is Secretary Treasurer of the Martin Count; Yam Growers, who have mad< rapid strides in gaining aeceptanei and recognition of a quality pro duct encouraging growers to grov better yams. Mr. Levin has had years of mar keting and selling experience 11 produce and is acquainted witl the entire industry, and will de vote his time to selling and mar keting for growers throughou this area. SPECIAL OKUER \ Mr Eugene Rice, Chairman •>f laical Board No. GO, Mar tin County, N. C, requests that all men who registered with the local board in Williams ton, N. C. during the month of September, 1950 report ter the local board office, City Hall, Williamston, N. C. not late' than October 23, 1950. All men reporting are direct ed to bring their Registration Certificates with them. ROUND-UP \/ Nine persons were rounded up and placed in the county jail here last week-end, re ports declaring that the jail traffic was also heavy in other parts of the county dur ing the period. Of the nine jailed here, five were charged with possession of “bush" liquor, three with public drunkenness and one with an assault. Marlin General Given Approval Following detailed inspections the Martin General Hospital s few days ago was formally op proved by the North Carolina ant American Hospital Associations ithe action automatically invok jing hospital savings plans. Thi hospital was also approved for tin use of new drugs for treatment o: 'arthritis, Administrator D. C Sharpe Announced. Three Injured In Recent Accidents On County Roads Patrol Busy Sunday Haul I iii|£ Drunken Drivers and Drunks To Jail j Three persons were hurt, pain fully but not critically, in a series I of four motor vehicle accidents on highways in this county dur ing the past few days. In addition to investigating the accidents, members of the high way patrol were kept busy haul ing drunken drivers and highway drunks to the jail in Roberson ville and to the county hoosegow. About a dozen persons were jail ed for liquor law violations of one type or another, a member of the patrol said. Mr. J. W. Grimes of Roberson ville and Etta Little of Parmele were injured when the car in which they were riding with Ed ward B. Simmons, No. 1, Tryon Palace, Portsmouth, was struck 1 head on by a 1941 Buick sedan owned and driven by Harry C. Walker of Hertford. Mrs. Grimes suffered a broken left arm and shoulder, and the Little woman . suffered a broken right arm They were treated in the Ward Clinic. (Continued on page eight) Stolen Bonds Found By Kentucky Sheriff Two Young While Men Linked Will Everetts Robber] -- Kohl. Foreman and Jowpl Murray Wauled In Al Least Six Stales -.$> Government bonds, valued < several thousand dollars and sto en from the family of the late J. ! Ayers in Everetts the early pai of June, have been recoverei according to Deputy Sheri: Raymond Rawls. Complete detai of the recovery could not be ha immediately, the officer explair mg that all the facts could not b learned until a personal investig. tion is made in Lexington, Ker tucky. The arrest of Joseph Murra and Robert Foreman, young whil 1 men, in Fayette County, Keritir ky, last week virtually solved tb June robberies in Everetts an ! also the robbery of the store < 1 Stokes and Congleton at Stoki several months ago. According to information ri | leased by Warren Franklin, chii I of Fayette County’s police, Mu rav and Foreman were arrestt in the Kentucky county last wet 1 and charged with robbery. A investigation led to the home < Foreman’s sister in the Kentucb , city. It was reported that goveri 1 ment bonds issued to members < the Ayers family were four ’ there along with bonds owned t (Continued on page aix) c FARM BUREAU l| t\ *1 1 -| l. Nearly 1,300 members have been signed and reported by the Farm Bureau In this coun ty, according to a report re leased following a meeting of the membership committee in the American Legion hut last Friday evening. Another meeting of the committee is scheduled for Friday, October 27, when the president, Mr. C. L. Daniel, hopes the drive will be right at its 2,000 member goal. d e y e, e u •f ■s if d k n >f y 1 >f d y Native Of County Died Saturday At Home in Beaulorl Fii lirrul Siinihty AI tin* Oe«l nr Rruitcli Ulturrli for James H. L. Peel James Henry Lawrence Peel native of this county and retire farmer-teacher, died at his hom near Pinetown in Beaufort Coun ty last Saturday morning at 6:0 o’clock after a long period of de dining health. He suffered stroke of paralysis six years ag and had been an invalid sine that time. The son of the late Henry Pec and wife, Frances Peel, he wa born in Griffins Township 7 years ago on October 10, 1878, am (Continued on page six) Local Church To Observe 100th Anniversary Friday Observing its one hundreth an niversary on Friday of this week, the Church of the Advent has prepared a timely program under the direction of the rector, the Rev. Mr. Thomas L. Hastings. Sev eral former rectors, including Rev. John Hardy, rector of St. John's Church, Wilmington, and Rev. Edwin F. Moseley, rector of St. Mary's Church, Kinston, will have parts on the program along with the Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright, Bishop of the Diocese; Rev. Edwin Spruill, rector of j Grace Church, Plymouth. Mr Norman Cordon, grandson of the late Rev. Thomas B. Haugh I ton, beloved rector of the church ! for a number of years, will be | guest soloist at the 11:00 o’clock ! service. Mr. Cordon is a noted singer. At 1:00 o'clock that afternoon! afternoon a luncheon will be serv ed the members and special guests in the Woman's club, and Bishop Wright will speak That evening at 8:00 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Mose ley will be the guest preacher. In connection with the obser vance. the rector, Rev. Hastings has written an interesting history of the church, and Senior Ward en N. C. Green will read it as part of the morning program. The historical sketch, reflecting much study and research, has been pre served in booklet form, but since I it is certain to prove of interest i to members of other denomina jtions, it is being published in this I paper. The first installment ap pears today and the second will follow Thursday. History Of The Church Of The Advent By Thomas L. Hastings, Rector James L. Wilson was a resident of Williamston in 17114. In the court house records today wo find that he witnessed the will of one 1 j Kenneth McKenzie in that year. Five years later Mr. Wilson was 1 called to Holy Orders and he trav elled to Philadelphia where he was ordained by the Right Rev erend William W.hite, the first, Presiding Bishop of the Episco pal Church in America. The Rev- 1 erend James L. Wilson returned to Williamston and from the first federal census in 171)0 we learn this much about his family: he 1 had “one boy under sixteen years of age and there were two white females in his household-includ- 1 ing the head of the family”. With in seven years he had purchased lots number 14 and 18 on the south side of Main Street between Biggs and Harrell Struts. Some time in the year 1797 Mr Wilson moved from here to Halifax Coun ty from where our history loses sight of him. Between the years 1790 and 1797, however, Mr. Wil son will be seen as one of most influential leaders of the Episco pal Church in North Carolina. By the year 1790 the Episcopal Church in all of America had but shortly been organized; the first General Convention being held in 1785. Yet only five years later in 1790 we find Mr. Wilson and the Reverend Charles Pettigrew of • Eden ton, N. ('., meeting in Tar pon and holding the first etuiven tion in an effort to organize the Church in the State of North Car olina. The following passage is j from the “History of Edgecombe County.” “Di. William White, an eminent figure in the Episcopal " Church after the Revolution, in 1789, wrote Governor Samuel Johnston of his desire to inaug 1 urate a movement for the reor ’ ganization of the Church. Gov ’ ernor Johnston, being a layman of the church, referred the letter to the Reverend Charles Petti s grew. Governor Johnston and Mr. ^ Pettigrew had for sometime been intimate friends, he being a mem ber of Mr. Pettigrew’s congrega lion at St. Paul's Churcft in Eden ton The contents of the letter voiced a desire to select some convenient place for the clergy men to meet and consult as to procedure to reawaken an interest in tile Church. After the matter was referred to Mr. Pettigrew, he wrote let ters to Dr. Cutting, rector at New Bern; the Rev. Mr Wilson, of Martin County, and the Rev. Mr. Blount, residing on Tar River, expressing a desire that they meet at Tatboro on the second Thurs day of May, 1790. He mentions this place as a central and con venient location. Accordingly, Mr Pettigrew and Mr. Wilson met in Tarboro on June 3, 1790, and held the first convention of the Episcopal Church in North Caro lina These two gentlemen wen met in Tarboro by Dr John Leigh and Mr. William Clements, win were residents and staunch churchmen. Mr. Pettigrew, in ; letter addressed to Bishop White regretted the fact that no inort were in attendance, and that hi had expected that as many as si> clergymen would hi' present . . Two years later (after 1791) the third convention met in Tar boro. Mr. Wilson was presiden and Mr. Clements was again sec retary. This convention made con siderable more progress in tin movement for a church reorga nization. A State committee wa; appointed, and a circular wa; published calling a lourth con veil lion to be held ill Tarbc ro in May 1794. The convention of 17915 w ABSKiyi'KKS Absentee voting, avowed only in general elcetions, may be arranged in this eounty by submitting written applica tions to C. 1>. Carstarphen, chairman o!' the Martin Coun ty Hoard of Klections. Appli cation forms may be had from the registrars in the several precincts. >! A number of absentee bal lots were prepared for mem bers of (he armed forces, but so far no applications have been received for ballots. Lit tle interest is being shown in the off-year election in this county, and a miserably small vote is expected. Native Of County ■\ Died Late Sunday In Wilson County , -—— Fnm-riil This Afternoon for Mrs, Vernon (!. I.iin^lcy Of Si. I.ewis ’ — t- — 1 Mrs Mary Amelia Langley, na tive of this eounty and member of a family prominent in the' affairs of tins section, died at the home 1 of her daughter, Mrs. Leon Grif ' fm, m St. Lewis, Wilson County, Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock. She 1 had been ill declining health for several years and hud been con • fined to her home following a (Continued on page six) Farmers Receive Million Dollars Above 1949 Price SiiIvm Almost Ortuin To (Jo Over Nine uml Olio-Half ■Million I'oiintls Sales mi Williamston's tobacco market went over the nine mil lion-pound mark last Friday with neat ly one hundred thousand pounds to spare. The 143,370 pounds sold yesterday boosted the total sales for the season up to 0,240,041) pounds. Total income now stands at $5,314.50, an aver age of $57.52 per hundred pounds If the market maintains the | same pace maintained during the latter part of 1040, total sales will ! go well in excess of nine and one half million pounds. Prices, while falling from one ! to two dollars under the peak reported earlier in the season, are still “good”, according to tin growers. The more than 250,000 pounds sold last Friday averaged above $57 per hundred pounds and there was no marked differ ence in the price average y ester i day. The market here has already sold 339,151 more pounds this sea son than it sold all of last year and the growers have received al most one million dollars more than they received all of last sea son. No closing date has been fixec for the market here, but it. is like ly that sales will be maintainec through next week. Lust year thi market operated 45 sales day: and closed on Friday, October 21 If that pattern is followed, ther sales will run through next week but no official announcement ha: been released, it is pointed out. Reports from the entire bed point to a downward trend u | prices, ranging from two to si: j cents. Minor Damage In Hamilton Fire Fire, starting in a gnsolin pump, threatened the Cherry am Kdmonson grocery in llamiltoi about 1:00 o'clock last Thursda noon Kxtmguishers were usei and the damage was limited, re ports stating that only the ga pump in front of the store wa burned. Fire departments were callei and local volunteer firemen wen making ready to leave the statiol when a cull was received, advism the fire was under control. Narines Setting Up Equipment on The Main Street !ti«i I'uruiU* Start* At 2:00; Govmiur To Sp<*uk \l 2: to O'Clook Plans were announced complete this morning for Williamston’s third annual Harvest Festival, F,x ecutive Director Al Sweatt of the Boosters. Inc., declaring that all indications point to the biggest event of its kind ever held here. The display of canned foods, sponsored as the first feature of the two-day festival, attracted attention in the Planters Ware house this morning and the ground display by the U S Ma rines from Cherry Point is creat ing much interest on the main street in front of the Dunning home. The first of the large crowds is expected this evening when a street dance gets under way on Washington Street. Frank Saunders Weaver and his band will furnish»the music for the round dances with spaces al lotted for both white and colored dancers. Farther down the street, Otho Willard and his string band , will play for the square dancers. Headed by Major K P Dunn, the Marine detachment is arrang ing a special display of guns and I rockets, jet engine models and aerial pictures of the town and section. 1 The big show tomorrow is scheduled to start shaping up at noon when the main street is | cleared from Watts to Washing I ton and Washington to the ware houses. The clowns, numbering nearly a dozen and including a professional, are to take over for about an hour beginning at 1:00 o’clock. The parade, led by Gov ernor Kerr Scott and Congress l man Herbert Bonner and other : dignitaries is to start moving 1 promptly at TOO o'clock 1 The parade, forming on the streets north of Main, will include about fifty units. Twelve decorat J (Continued from page five) Open Bids Here On Bond Projects Bids, received from five con tracting firms, exceeded the esti mates for extensions to the town's water and sewer systems by a goodly margin A complete study of the bids opened by the town commissioners in a special meet ing at 10:45 o'clock this morning i was not made immediately, and i action on the bids had not been taken shortly before noon. The bids on the two projects combined exceeded estimates by about $lti.000, according to an un official report Barnhill and Long of Tarboro ; submitted a bid of $151,005.00 on the sewer project, and the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company with offices in Atlanta were low with a $50,;)!)() bid on the 300,000 gallon water tank. The commissioners are studying the conditions and the over-all I picture, but no decision had been I reached about noon today. -N SCOUTS v-:j It was learned unofficially that nearly every circus, that is circuses of any size, will have scouts at the harvest festival here tomorrow al'ter ( noon, searching for clowns. 1 One of the clowns, a profes sional who was with one of (lie largest in the world for I several years, declares he can i nol he bought, giving the am ateurs a hotter chance. And li then Air. J. Lawrence Peele since he prefers an amateur's i standing with professional i ability. Director Eugene Hire said i today that he has a large bag • of tricks and that he'll have i his bevy of clowns shake the ■ hag just before the parade tomorrow.