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THE ENTERFRise IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIY NUMBER 71 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Scplan her l, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1999 | illicit Liquor Law Violators Arrested One Charged With Wholesaling More Than Ten Gallons Mom „f ||„, KhmIs Were Centered Here During I'ast ^ eek-eiul A fairly telling blow was di rected against the illicit liquor tiaffic here and in one or two other places in the county, and, as a result, there’ll be a little bootleggers convention in Judge R. T. Johnson s county court next Monday. Most of the alleged vio 1 lations were minor within them selves, but officers declared that one of the group admitted hand ling the illicit brand on a whole sale scale. The first of the raids was cen tered on Faulk Street, the thor oughfare leading to the Odd Fel lows Cemetery early Saturday af ternon. On William Owens' pre mises under a trap door they found ten gallons of white liquor. Owens, said to have been indicted for the first time in connection with a liquor law violations, ad mitted ownership and the officers declared he admitted having sold fifteen gallons earlier in the day to the local trade. Given a hear ing before Justice Chas. R. Mob ley that afternoon, Owens was booked for trial in the county court, next Monday. Officers R R. Rawls, Cecil Bullock, Roy f Peel and Chas R. Moore made the raid. ^ From there the officers went to the Jas Everett home near the water plant and picked up three pints of illicit liquor. Everett and his wife are booked for trial next Monday. The next raid was centered in Griffin's Street, commonly known as "Bootleggers’ Row”. Going to Annie Woolard’s home the offi cers-found one half pint of white liquor, but O K Harrison, a boarder m the home, stepped in to save the day when he claimed ownership. He is to be tried next Monday. Switching to the upper part of the county later in the day, Dep uty Rawls, assisted by Officers Wiley Craft and Minton Beach, Jr., found three pints of white liquor in Tom Council’s home. Council blocked the door and al legedly fought officers off, hut they succeeded in getting three pints of liquor for evidence. Giv en a preliminary hearing, Coun cil was required to post bond in the sum of $700 for his appear ance in court next Monday morn ing. While officers waited in front of the house, an undercover ag ent, unidentified and a stranger, went to Mary Jane Payton’s front door and bargained for a pint of liquor. He paid $3.50 for J the legal pint, and officers closed in with a warrant and found sev- J eral other pints of legal liquor. Almost Drowned In The Roanoke —*— Clifton Powell. 30-year-oid Helhavon man and mate on the AUa» Plywood Corporation’s tug boat, "Immigrant'. almost lost his life in the Roanoke near here last Friday afternoon. Powell, standing near the front of the tug, slipped and fell into the water and was thrown under a 100-font barge by the tug pro peller. When the long barge had finally past over him, Powell was almost too weak to swim. He made a few strokes toward shore and apparently could do little more. He went down twice and made another stroke toward shore. When he went down a third time, he hit bottom and bounced back up and staggered toward the bank. The barge captain, during the j meantime, had out loose from the barge and circled back down the river. A deck hand jumped into the witter and pulled the exhaust ed man out. Powell was treated in a local hospital for shock and bruises he received while bumping the bot tom of the barge. UPWARD -—-/ A substantial sain in local school enrollment figures is expected in the white schools here this term, according to a survey made by Principal B. G. Stewart. No marked in crease in elementary enroll ment is likely, but the school I believes the high school will pass the 250 mark, boost ing the total for all depart ments to more than 1.075. Gains are also certain in the colored schools here and throughout the county. County Teachers | Hold Pre-School Conference Here ——A Schools Openlinp New Term In County Totluy And Wednesday Pi ior to the opening of the nine white schools in the county to morrow, tiie teachers held a con ference in the high school audi torium here last evening with various civic representatives, committee members and P.-T. A leaders as their guests. The event attracted a goodly number from ail over the county and a low from outside the county, includ ing Dr. Richard L. Weaver of the State Department of Instruction, Raleigh. The conference was fol lowed by an informal reception in the home economics rooms. It was reported that all teachers were ready to start the term to morrow with onr exception. There was a vacancy in the first grade at the Hamilton School which officials are trying to fill without further delay. Today the teachers are holding a general meeting in the high school auditorium with Professor John L. Hassell of Oak City pre- j siding. Group meetings will fol low undei the direction of special leaders, including: Mrs. Beatrice1 Mullen. Professor George Mc Rorie, Professor Carlyle Cox. Mrs. Betty Manning, Mrs. Martha Tar kington, Professor H V Parker, Jr., and Miss Nancy Worsley. Mr. Edmund Harding, noted j humorist, is addressing the group i at a luncheon in the grammar j school cafeteria at 1 00 o’clock i this afternoon. The seventeen colored schools are opening this afternoon, an un i official report stating that all teachers reported to their assign ed positions this morning. The nine white schools will open to receive pupils at 1:30 (Continued on page eight) County Boy Likes It In Germany Although he has been there on ly a short time, Pvt. Clayton Grant Savage is liking it just fine in Germany, according to letters receTvffl*oy Tus parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Ravage I The young Martin County sold ier says he was greatly impress ed by the beauty of the country, that he is near Hitler’s retreat 1 near the Swiss border. Pvt Savage left the county last : March and received his basic i training at Fort Jac kson. —-— -- Little Damage ('.aimed To School Hu* Ity Tire -♦ Operating with the emergency brake in place, a school bus, serv ing colored pupils iVi the Oak City area, caught fire on Wil liamston’s West Main Street at 11:15 yesterday morning. The driver is said to have jumped out and run, but a passerby stop ped and removed the floor boards and had the fire just about out by the time the town’s fire truck reached there and finished the job. The fire, centered around the emergency brake lining, burned the grease from the universal joint but did very little damage, i No One Hurl In Minor Accidents During Week-end Property Damage Approxi mates $500, Members Of Patrol Say No one was hurt but the prop erty damage climbed to nearly $500 in a series of highway ac cidents in this county last week end, according to reports com ing from the highway patrol of fice in this county. The 1948 Chevrolet driven by Mildred W. Gurganus of Wil liamston and a 1950 Mercury dri ven by Wm. Claudius Cannons of Ayden were in collision at the Ross Motel driveway on U. S. Highway 17 near Williamston last Friday afternoon. Investigating the accident, FJatrolman R. P. Narron estimated damage to the Chevrolet at $25 and that to the Mercury at $200. A bread truck, ditched a few miles out on State Highway 125 when a tire blew out, was being pulled clear by a wrecker when an asphalt truck, driven by Ed ward Wynne of Roberson ville, came around the bend at Mill Branch and struck the bread truck. Wynne said he started to try and turn out, but feared he would turn his truck and the hot asphalt over and he held his course No one was hurt and dam age to the bread truck was limit ed to about $25 while the loss to the asphalt truck approximated about $200, according to Patrol t man R P Narron who made the i investigation. Driving toward Williamston on j Highway 64 early last Thursday afternoon, Wm. Oscar Roberson, colored of Williamston, stopped his 1948 Chevrolet to discharge some fishermen. A. Corey of Jamesville stopped his Ford be hind Roberson’s car. Bobby Gene Modlin of Jamesville, driving be hind Corey, hit Corey’s car which, in turn, hit Roberson’s chi No one was hurt. Patrolman B W. Parker, making the investi gation, estimated the damage: $50 to the Corey car, $40 to Modlin’s 1940 Ford, and none to Rober son’s Chevrolet. Missionary Will Review Program Miss Ethel Guest, former Edu cationa! Director of Memorial Baptist Church, and now a For eign Missionary in Nigeria, Afri ca, is visiting in Williamston this week. She will show slides of her work during the Midweek Pray er Service Wednesday night at Memorial Church and will tell about some of her work. The prayer service will begin at eight o’clock. Next Sunday, September 9, Miss Guts! Will speck oil lie! WOl k during the worship service at eleven o’clock. The public is in vited to both of the services to hear her. Miss Guest has served as a mis sionary for the past three years and is now in the States for a furlough of one year. She will re turn to Africa early next year. Her permanent address is Greer, South Carolina. Father OTTocal Resident Passes —<*>— j Thomas W. Hott, father of Mrs. John L. Goff of Williamston, died in a BJuefield. W, Va., hospital last Saturday afternoon following an illness of four months’ dura tion. ffe was 79 years of age and was unusually active until just a few months ago. His condition was critical for only a short time and the end came unexpectedly. Funeral services were held at the home in Narrows, Va., yester day afternoon and burial was in the cemetery there. Surviving besides his daughter here are his widow, the former Cynthia Johnson, a son, T. W. Hott, Jr., of Narrows, and a dau ghter, Mrs. Everett Wheeler of Bedford, Va. Mrs. Goff continues in a local hospital where she is recovering from a broken hip. The Rev. Mr. Goff, Miss Lelia Mai and Bobby Golf attended the funeral from ) Making Plans For Fourth Annual Harvest Festival Williamston will play host to the area when its Fourth'Annual Harvest Festival is held on Tues day and Wednesday, October 2 and 3, it was announced today by A1 Sweatt, Managing Director of the Williamston Boosters, Inc., sponsors of the popular annual af fair. Mr. Sweatt reports that plans are shaping up very nicely and that even at this early date, it ap pears that this year’s Festival will be the best ever produced for the public in this section. Many new features will be in evidence this year, as well as enlarged and in creased dances, the parade and other festivities. Bands for the parade will total at least twelve and there is a pos sibility that there will be as many as fifteen Already, bands from Tarboro, Edenton, Williamston White and Colored High Schools have accepted invitations to par ticipate as well as a Marine Band from the Cherry Point Marine Air Base. Other bands invited in clude those from high schools in Ahoskie, Elizabeth City, Green ville, .1 J. Clemmons of Roper, Plymouth, Scotland Neck, Wash irgton, and an Army or Air Fora band from Fort Bragg. M-'st arc expected to accept the invitation and for most of them, it will be repeat performances from last year. Princesses arc being invited from all the nearby towns and communities and there will be ap proximately fifteen of these royal beauties competing for the title of "Queen of the Harvest, 1951". For the Harvest Festival Ball, to held on Wednesday evening, October 3, in one of the tobacco warehouses, it is expected that a name band will play for the event, although negotiations arc as yet incomplete. The Annual Williamston Har vest Festival has steadily gained in importance among this type of celebration held in Eastern Caro lina and ranks favorably with the Azalea Festival, held each spring in Wilmington, according to the reports on the previous Festivals held in Williamston. For many residents of Eastern Carolina, it has proved to be the “One Pig Festival” of the year, and if pre sent plans are any indication, the 1951 Festival will not disappoint anyone. I, I TALL TOBACCO I v_/ To dale, Farmer John T. Kmitliwick of Griffins Town ship, holds the tail-tobacco record. Picking a stalk at random, the farmer said it measured ten feet and eleven inches from the ground to the point where it was topped, lie got tired harvesting the crop, and after pulling twenty-seven leaves from the stalk, he quit, leaving I'ivfe or six leaves on it. Several farmers in this county mounted mule hacks to top their tobacco, the Dixie Bright varieties, this year. Local Girl Hurt In Car Accident | Miss C'hloe Fine, daughter of Mr, find Mrs. Robert Price of near Williamston, was painfully but believed not critically hurt in an automobile accident in Grccti ville early Sunday morning. Suf fering three broken ribs and other internal injuries, she was report ed improving late yesterday in a Greenville hospital. David Smith, college student, driving a new Kaiser with seven passengers, was said to have tried] to pass a car on a curve, struck Uj parked pick-up truck and then crashed into a tree on a Green- ] ville street. The driver and all seven pas-; sengers were hospitalized, ..II ex cept two suffering rather severe injuries. Smith had just returned home and the family went to get ice cream and were returning home when the accident happened. Others injured: David Smith, hip injuries and lacerations. Florence Smith, fracture of hip. Barbara Smith, fracture of jaw. Marie Roebuck, hip and other injuries. Delbert Smith, Mack Smith and Helen Roebuck, bruises and la cerations. Funeral Held For Failhiul Worker John W. Williams, retired drug store attendant, died in the coun ty home late last Wednesday night following months of declin ing health. Funeral services were conducted in the Shiloh Baptist Church here Sunday afternoon by the Rev Walter Griffin and bur ial was in the Odd Fellows Cem etery. Williams, about 70 years of age, went to w'ork for the Saunders ai.d Fowden Drug Store nearly half century ago. He stopped one year to farm, but the harvest season was hardly completed be fore he returned to the store to continue a faithful service. Surviving are tw'o brothers, George, of Williamston, and Joe Harry Williams of Wilson. Former Local Man Died Thursday At Home In Tarboro l iiiK iiil Lh>| Saturday For J. Marl in (dir*tai*pli<*n, Kilned I'onIiiiuhIi'I' -»—— Joseph Martin Carstarphen, na tive of Williamston and a promi nent citizen of Tarboro for many years, died at his home in the Edgecombe capital late last Thursday night following sever al years of declining health. He had undergone two major opera tions in a Durham hospital in re cent years, and his condition had been recognized as serious for some time. The son of the late James K and Fannie Martin Carstarphen, he was born in Williamston (>t> years ago and spent his early life here At (lie age of thirteen years, he went to Tarboro to make his home with his grand parents, and a few years later en tered the postal service. He serv ed Tarboro as postmaster for thii teen of the fifty years he was in the postal work In early manhood he was mar ried to Miss Susie Gray Baker, who died about a year ago. Surviving are two sons, J M . Jr., and Manley M. Carstarphen, both of Tarboro; a sister, Mrs Mary Louise Tallon of Suffolk; a brother, Frank Carstarphen, of Williamston, and three grandsons. lie was a member of the Cal vary Episcopal Church in Tar boro and funeral services were conducted there last Saturday af ternoon at 3:00 o’clock by the rector, the Rev. S Grayson Clary. Interment was in the church cemetery there, $45,000 BOND QUOTA Martin County has been as signed a $45,000 quota in the cui rent defense bond drive, Chair man H. A. Bowen announces. MKKIIIM, There will he a meeting of the Martin County Farm Bu reau at the Courthouse in W'illiamston, Thursday night, Sept. 7th, at 7:30 o’clock. This meeting is open to all farm ers, businessmen, and hnyonc who would like to attend. Mr. John A. Winfield, Di rector, Markets Division, De partment ol Agriculture, has been assigned to help con duct the meeting and discuss the program of agriculture and the Agricultural Founda tion in North Carolina, lie will he prepared to speak and answer any questions re garding the live cents per ton program, known as "NICKEC FOR KNOW-HOW” campaign • a plan to expand agricultur al research in North Caro lina through the direct con tributions of farm people. The public is urged to at tend. County Board Of Commissioners In Regular Meeting -<$ Lillli' Business Ollier Thau Hull Of Routine Nature Haiulleil Monday Meeting in regular session on Monday, Martin County’s Board h‘ Commissioners handled very little business other than that of a routine nature, but discussions of various matters held the of ficials in session until about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon. The board ruled that no action can be taken on future petitions, calling for the surfacing of roads. It was explained that all the bond money has just about been allo cated, that if there is*any surplus left after the present, program is completed, petitions will be re ceived and considered. Road matters, aside from peti tions, asking for resurfacing, re quired considerable time, the board expressing hope that all roads not in the surfacing pro gram can be widened and stabiliz ed. The following roads were re commended for immediate wid ening and stabilizing: The Price Road in Williamston and Bear Grass Township of about two and one-tenth miles; The Tyner Road, running nine tenths of a mile in Williamston Township; The Cross Roads, running 1.2 miles from the Price Road to the Williamston Bear Grass Road, near the Hadley farm; A road running about one and three-quarter miles in Goose Nest Township from Highway 125 about three miles north of Oak City at the J. T. Matthews farm | and running westwardly via E. R. Turner’s to the old River Road. Upon a special request from the Robersonville Town Board of Commissioners, the county offi einls are petitioning highway of ficials to make an alternate route for 258, beginning in Kinston and running through Avden, Green ville, Robersonville, Hamilton and Palmyra to Scotland Neck. The board took no action on a I request to petition the Highway Commission for a belt line into Robersonville to connect with 903 at the Red Front, Adkins Bailey and Central Warehouses. The proposed belt line would begin near the railroad crossing be tween Everetts and Robersonville and follow the old Everetts-Rob ersonvillc Road to the 903 junc tion. Tax Collector M. L Peel report ed that $133,805.79 l;ad already been collected in 1951 taxes The exact size of the levy has not been determined, the officials explain ing that all corporation listings had not been filed by the 'Raleigh commission. The collector said that $321,422.43 of the $336,635. levy for 1950 had been collected. All but $7,468.37 of the $313,706,69 levy for 1949 has been collected. There is a balance due of $4,961 40 iContinued on page eight) Woman Painfully Gul Last Sunday Saul to have started over a buy friend, a quarrel at Guawk Coun <■ 11 stnii near llas.sell was eli l;-v a ! :. -.■• ‘ *>' •!-. ‘:a. day afternoon Investigating the attack, Dep uty It It. Haw is said that houvt na Roberson opened a 15-stitch wound just undei la ssie II, Cher ry's left arm. The victim was ti e ated in a Bethel doctor’s of fice and is expected to be able to attend a preliminary hearing before Justice Chas. It. Mobley in Williamstnn Wednesday eve ning at 6:00 o’clock. Both ot the women are from Pitt County anil both are said to be married i— Kvrrrtts lloy Acer pis Position In Hospital -— ('ompleting his internship in the Duke Hospital Pharmacy, Me Rudy Hardy of Everetts has ae ■epted a position in the new Gas Ion Memorial Hospital as pur chasing agent and pharmacist.! After spending the week-end vitli his parents in Everetts, Mr, j lardy and his wife left for Gas-I onia where he is entering upon lis new duties today. Tobacco Sales Pass Two Million Pounds Block Sales Grip Most Markets In The Eastern Bell I pwiinl Trend Predicted in Prices With Delivery Of Iteller Leaf -- Reporting comparatively light sales following the opening two weeks ago, the local tobacco mar ket went into a big block last Friday, and by noon today a day’s block was still on the floors. Ag gravated by a holiday yesterday, the sales just piled up, but a five ; hour selling day has been ordered I continued during the remainder of i this week and there is some hope I of keeping the sales fairly well up with deliveries just as soon as the existing carryover is cleared. The market went over the two million pound mark last Friday, and is now in line to pass the three million pound mark by the j latter part of this week. Heavy deliveries of inferior types are holding the general price average down, but an up ward trend in prices is predicted the latter part of this week. The 2,024,948 pounds sold on the local market through last Friday glossed right at one mil lion dollars, or an average of right at $50 per hundred pounds. A report from the market at noon today said that there was a marked upward trend in prices, that tobacco was possibly selling the best, if not better than it had at any time this season. The following report, released by the U. S and N. C. State De partment:, of Agriculture, re views the sales in this belt through last Friday: During the second week of Eastern North Carolina flue-cur ed tobacco sales average prices for grades held relatively steady with opening week The Federal State Market News Service re ports a larger proportion of poor er quality marketings lowered the weekly general average. Volume of sales was fairly heavy with most markets filled to ca pacity by Friday From an overall standpoint there were more grades display ing slight price gains than losses. Declines appeared more frequent ly in glades sold in heaviest volume A lew leaf, smoking leaf and nondescript grades and low | orange primings were off gener ally $1 00 per hundred. Other primings, lugs and cutters gain ed $1.00 and $2.00. Some markets reported a practical top of $00.00 with occasional baskets of best lugs and cutters still at $70.00 and $71.00. Gross salts for the week end ing August 01 amounted to 43, 707,443 pounds for an average of $49.89 per hundred. This aver age was $1 19 below that estab lished during the four days open ing week Season gross sales were brought tn 07,824,233 pounds av ci aging $50.31. Last year the first nine days sales had grossed 103, 535,718 pounds for $56.98. Proportion.-, of common and C.-; U-M,-=. ItoliiiMF sharply Also, the percentage of nondescript was larger. Less lugs, primings and cutters were s"k! with the decreases chiefly m low to good qualities. Prin cipal sales were common to good leaf, low and fair primings, fair (Continued on page eight) I YOUNG DEMOCRATS I '--—--✓ Holding a Dutch supper at "The Switch" this evening at 7:0(! o’clock, young Democrats I in !\lartin County will elect officers and name delegates to the State Convention to be held at Carolina Beach next week, it was announced by President LeRoy Harrison. All young Democrats are invited to attend and partici pate in the meeting. Minister Accepts Call to Richmond Virginia Church I The Krv. Stewart It. Simms I Loaves llaptist Church More September .'JO -- The Rev. Stewart B Simms, i following an unusually sueeess ful pastorate here during the past two arid one-half years, lias ae i eepted a call to the large Wood land Heights Baptist Chureh in , Riehmond, Virginia After dis cussing his plans with the Me morial Baptist Chureh Board of Deaeons last Friday evening, the minister announced his resigna tion at the elose of the last Sun , day morning service, the group accepting the resignation with deep regret. Mr Simms will fill his last appointment on the eve ning of September 30 and move thereafter to Richmond, it was announced. Numbered among the church's ablest pastors, Mr Simms came here from Texas on March 1, 11)48, and immediately launched an effective work not only within his denomination but also in the community and the section. He has gained recognition as a minister and religious leader in this section and is currently serv ing the Roanoke Baptist Associa tion as moderator. Announcing his resignation, Mr Simms said it was difficult to break the ties of friendship form ed during his stay here. "I have never lived at any place where 1 enjoyed a happier fellowship with all people," the minister said, adding that the story- might be different if it were based only on human relationships “Williamston, a growing town, i has its eyes to the future, and as i it progresses materially I’m sure the churches will keep step in the march of progress," the min ister said. Posibly in no other period has the church experienced such marked growth than it has under his ministry. The parsonage was made into a chureh annex to ae commodate its expanded aetivi ties. A new parsonage was pur chased. Tower chimes were in stalled and the chureh auditor ium has recently been redeco rated. Financially ,the church has measured up in everyway At tin same time, the chureh has had a i remarkable spiritual growth During hi- pastorate. 137 havi I been aflUed to tile church mb, I ()B by baptism. Attendance fig , ures have st( new high records, and the work of the church has 1 been extended to all field., of on dcavor, looking toward a bcttei , town and community. News of his resignation was received with profound regret by people outside as well as inside his own denomination, and while they regret to see him and his family leave, they wish for them happiness and success in their new home The new church, located on Spring Hill Avenue at 31st Street in South Richmond is one of a dozen Baptist churches there with j more than 1,000 members, it was 1 lea rued. Suffers ltrol.cn Ann 1 lu 1(11111 Accident ' —— , W illiam Wan un, 15-ycar-old! i sun of Mi. and Mrs. W Edward i Warren of RFD 1, Oak City, suf fered a broken, right arm in a ( farm aeeident last week. The i youth was trucking tobacco. I Tobacco Grading Demonstration Roy H. Gordon, tobacco market inn specialist, will conduct six tobacco grading demonstrations in the county on Thursday and Friday of this week, as follows: Thursday: 10:00 a. m., Cleve land Manning's; 1:00 p. m., Willie Latham's and, 3:00 p. m. John nie Mizelle’s. friday: 10.00 a. m., Rudolph Parker’s; 1:00 p m, Frank Bell's; 3:00 p. m., Love Williams’. Similar demonstrations, con ducted in past years, have prov ed high beneficial, and the pub lic is invited to attend.