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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bf OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 73 * Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina* Tuesday, September II, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 Child Loses Leg In Tragedy Near Dardens Sunday Sheriff’s Office Investigat ing Shooting To Deter mine If Criminal -•— Sheriff Buck Holloman and his aides were still investigating to day a tragedy in the Piney Woods section near Dardens which on Sunday afternoon cost a 13 months-old child its left leg and its father the little finger and a portion of his left hand. The of ficers are seeking to determine what part of the tragedy was criminal and what part of it was accident. All parties to the in cident are colored The child which its mother, Mary Moore, 22 listed as Marjor ie Brooks, daughter of Urbin Brooks, 25, had its left leg vir tually blown to bits when its mother claims she aimed an un loaded gun at its father while he was holHmg the child next to his left breast. The father was wounded by the same charge. According to the story told the investigating officers, Mary and Urbin, without benefit legal mar riage, were living in the home of Warren Brooks who is about 75 years of age. Sunday afternoon just before night they said they were without food and Mary' handed a 12 gauge shotgun to Urbin with instructions to go shoot some rabbits for supper. Both were drinking heavily and, although they were short of food. Mary told officers she had had \ three bottles of beer during the * afternoon preceding the shooting Urbin took the gun but said he thought it needed cleaning and , worked on it for some time, Fin-1 ally, he gave it back to Mary i telling her it was too late to go I hunting. Mary said she started to put it up but then aimed at Ur bin as ho came into the bedroom door, saying, “1 am going to shoot you " She pulled the trigger on , the gun which according to her | story should not have had a shell , in it. The full charge hit the baby and scattered bits of its flesh and particles of bone as big as a man’s thumb about the room. The left leg from above the knee was badly mangled and amputation was necessary when the child was finally carried to the hospital at Plymouth some forty minutes or more after the shooting which took place about 6:30 p m The father lost the little finger of his left hand and a portion of the hand just back of the little ! linger and both victims of the shooting sustained powder burns which indicated that they were fired upon at close range. The mother indicated she was about five feet from them when she pulled the trigger. Doctors at the hospital in Ply mouth reported that the man vo mited quite a quantity of alcohol after he reached the hospital emergency room and from infor mation pieced together by offi cers as well as their own state ments, it appears that both the man and woman were probably under the influence of intoxicants when the shooting occurred. There are a number, of points which the officers wish to clear up They are handicapped in the work hv the fart that neighbors Ir e some 500 yards away but none of them heard the report of the gun and no one apparently knows what happened except the three involved in the tragedy. The mother claims it was all a mistake. Officers cannot under stand how a shell could be in the gun by accident if the man elean (Continued on page seven) CUB SCOUTS vj There will he a Pack Meet ing of the Cub Scouts, old and new, at 8 o’clock Friday night at the Grammar school. Any boy between the ages of eight and ten who is in terested in becoming a Cub Scout is invited, accompan ied by one or both parents. A registration fee of 50 cents is to be paid and this applies to present Cubs as well as new boys. Rev. T. L. Hastings is call ing the meeting and hopes to have a large attendance. Deny Motion To Abolish Segregation In The Schools A motion advanced by Charles i V Bell, Negro attorney, to abol ish segregation in the Washing ton County schools was denied by Judge Donnell Gillam in fed eral court at Washington last week. The motion was made dur ing the trial of the Washington County school suit before Judge Gilliam. Washington County pro posed to build a $203,124 consoli dated school for Negroes at Ro per, and a suit was brought to block the action. Opposing the Bell motion to abolish segregation, North Caro lina’s attorney general, Harry McMullap argued to the court that the motion was “frivolous,” in that the court had no jurisdic tion but that it Would require a three-judge federal court to hear it, since the morion involved a constitutional question. During the meantime, a peti tion, filed by a Raleigh Negro lawyer and signed by twenty-one Martin County Negro men and women and asking that segrega tion be abolished in Martin Coun ty, is being aired by Negro pa pers. The facts, while quite clear and understandable to most eve ryone, are being distorted, block ing a true picture of the situation and helping no one. The petition has been openly discussed and without feeling or excitement. A cooperative spirit still exists among leaders of both races in this county. f WOODEN TOYS j y ■» Santa Claus, like everyone else, is feeling the pinch of metal shortages. His bag will be packed with more wooden toys this Christmas and play things generally will be priced slightly higher. That was the word today from government officials charged with keeping a close eye on materials and prices. They sid they based their predictions on information from the toy industry. These officials said that, in anticipation of metal short ages, more toy makers than had been expected already have shifted to wood. Many will increase their use of plas tic. Wood will be used for toys on an even wider scale in 1952. Band Fund Drive To Reach Clamix With Sale oi Tags1 —<*— YomijL! Musicians To Hr U|) Town For An Hour This Morning The Williamston High School Green Wave Hand is marching up liie street this morning while the members of the Williamston Band Parents Club offer special tags for sale as a climax to the annual band fund drive which started on Tuesday of last week and is re poi ted to be progressing rapidly No details as to how near the $2,000.00 goal the drive has ap proached were available early in the morning but it is understood that there has been a fine re sponse in most quarters. The band has purchased many instru ments during the past several years in an effort to provide help for those who are unable to buy expensive horns but wish to play in the band and have talent tor the job. One of the instruments which the band has needed badly i for some time has been purchas- j ed and is in use but funds from the current drive will be needed to pay for it. A display in the window of Bulluck’s store gives the public a fair idea of the things it takes to keep a iin-t clas- high school band going and some of those (Continued on page seven) County Farmers Digging Peanuts —*— The peanut digging season was officially opened in this county Monday afternoon when farmers Dave Gurganus and Robert Grimes dug their peanut crops. Mr. Gurganus operates the C. B. Clark farm between Williamston and Everetts. Mr. Grimes farms only a short distance from Mr. Gurganus. Others may have dug or may be digging but this is the first re port of such operations reaching here this season. The crop was said bv Messrs. Gurganus and Grimes to be only fair Peanuts found on the vines were said to be of good quality but the sinal crop was attributed to the extremely dry weather that has prevailed here for sever al weeks. John A. Winfield Calls For Strong Research Program —*— Aildrcssps Small Group In Goiiiitv (lour! Iioii sc Friday Night —— Explaining the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation's “Nick els for Knowledge' plan, John A. Winfield, director of Division of Markets, N. C. State Department of Agriculture, pleaded for a strong farm research program in a talk delivered to members of the Martin County Farm Bureau in a meeting held in the court house last Friday night. The plea for unanimous sup port of the program in this coun ty was one of nearly a hundred heard throughout the State last week, and success for the move ment is predicted to approve a 5-cent levy per ton on fertilizers and feeds to support expanded research for agriculture. Farmers will be given an opportunity to vote on the proposal Saturday, November 3. Mr. Winfield, declaring his friendship for the people of this county and pointing out that Mar tin County weathered the depres sion and came out stronger than possibly any other one in the State, explained that industry was way out in front in research pro gross. “The mills and industry, in general, have put money in lab oratories and employed the best scientists to promote research in their businesses,’ Mr. Winfield ex plained. Agriculture, he declared, must do the same if it is to keep pace with the time and meet the ever increasing problems. After reviewing what has been accomplished and what is being accomplished in combatting prob lems associated with tobacco cul ture, Mr Winfield pointed out that there is an urgent need for re search in peanuts. “If we don’t do something and do it quick, we can lose our peanut industry to the states farther south,” he de clared. “We have got to produce a peanut acceptable to ccrflhn (Continued on Page Eight) Home Destroyed Sunday Morning -—•— Fire of undetermined origin wrecked th< four-room home of Jesse (Duke) Walston on Mil burn Street and burned ail the contents shortly after 3:00 o'clock Sunday morning. Volunteer fire men were out more than an hour battling the fire. No one was at home and the fire was not discovered until Dr J. T. Llewellyn, returning home from a late call, saw the light as he traveled down Smithwick Street. He drove to the scene back of Woodlawn Cemetery, sounded an alarm and threw bricks against the burning house in an effort to wake the occupants before he learned no one was there. About that time, members of the police department saw the fire as they traveled out , North Haughton Street and they ■ radioed a call for the fire depart ment. The loss, including furniture, i will possibly exceed $3,500 with i between $2,500 and $3,000 insur- i ance in effect. ] Officers Wrecked Twelve Stills In County In August —— Seven Persons Arrested Ami Carried Into Court During Period In the absence of Chief En forcement Officer Jos. II. Roebuck who is on sick leave but who has been helping direct activities from his bedside, Assistant ABC Officer Cecil Bullock and Depu ties Raymond R. Rawls and Roy Peel have been carrying on a re lentless drive against the illicit liquor traffic in this county. Blows were struck at both the manufacturing and the outlet ends,. Officer Bullock said in his report to the Martin County Al coholic Beverages Control Board for the month of August. Twelve illicit manufacturing plants were wrecked in addition to several partial units during the month The officers poured 3,775 gallons of beer or mash and con fiscated twenty-three gallons and a quart of illegal liquor during their raids. Seven persons were arrested for alleged liquor law violations. Four were given road sentences, ringing from six to nine months, and fines imposed in the county court amounted to $445. There was a marked increase in the illicit liquor traffic in the county last month as compared with activities reported in July. The business was almost doubled last month, the operators, whole salers and retailers apparently taking advantage of the opening id the markets and the increased flow of cash. The drive against the traffic is being continued this month. Offi (Continued on Page Seven) --^ Minor Accidents On County Roads —<$>— Two minor accidents were re ported by highway patrolmen in Martin County last Saturday af ternoon, Damage totaled $150.00 and no one was injured. The first occurred at 1:45 Sat urday afternoon when Corporal Robert Milton Johnson of Cherry Point ran his ear into a ditch on the River Road near Hamilton in what he reported was an effort to avoid hitting a child which ran into the road. About $50 00 dam age was done to the 1040 Chevro let, Patrolman R. P. Narron, the investigating officer, said. About 5:30 Saturday afternoon King David Rogers, 19-year-old white youth of Bear Grass, turn ed over his father’s 1950 Ford pickup truck near the J. T. Har ris residence on the Corey Cross roads-Bear Grass highway, doing about $100 damage. The truck was going west when it crossed to the left side of the road and overturned. Cpl. It. H Chadwick of the State Highway Patrol was the investigating officer. Arrest Three At Big Liquor Still ——•— Three' Williamston men, Chas. Wty^^rd, Heuben Rogers and i -sse Gardner, were arreste d last week at an illicit liquor stiil in the Lake Phelps area of Tyrrell County by Washington County and federal officers, according to information reaching here. Giv en a hearing before U. S Com missioner Mary Wright in Eliza beth City, the three men were placed under $300 bonds and are slated to face trial in the federal courts next month The officers confiscated a 500 gallon copper kettle, eleven five gallon jugs, twenty cases of half gallon fruit jars and a 1942 Chev rolet pickup truck They poured iut 400 gallons of mash and 40 gallons of liquor. The operators were at work at •he still when the revenue agents noved in. One of them jumped nto the canal nearby trying to 'scape, but swam back to shore vhen he found thal the water vas more than head deep. Participating in the raid and irrests were ATU Agents Jack Jaskill, Mose Harshaw and ABC Jfficers A. D. Baum and B. V. falstead. Thirteen Divorce Cases On Calendar In Superior Court Most of ihe Actions Arc Based Oil Two-Year Separation Gromnls Thirteen divorce eases have been placed on the calendar and are tentatively scheduled for trial in the Martin County Superior Court during the second week of the term opening on Monday, the 17th. The cases are on the Monday. September 24, calendar, and for the most part are based on grounds of two years of separa tion. Suing James Hudgins for di vorce, Edna Hudgins says they were married in January, 1947, and were separated five months later in May, and no children were born of the union. In the ease of Verblc Henry Cherry against Irene Cherry, the plaintiff says they were married January 1. 1933, and were sepa rated in May, 1938, that the de fendant is now living in Detroit. Four children of the union are with the plaintiff. Howard Roebuck, suing Betty Jean Roebuck for divorce, says in his complaint that they wore married February 6, 1948, and were separated July 26, 1948, that no children were born of the un ion. Suing John Frazier for divorce, Estelle C. Frazier says they were married May 31, 1932, and were separated May 31, 1946. She is asking custody of the two child ren born of the union. Moses Wilson is suing Mildred House Wilson for a divorce, ex plaining that they were married October 6, 1947, and separated May 28, 1948. The plaintiff says that the one child horn of the un ion is living with the mother but is being supported by the father. In the ease of James E. God ard against Barbara Godard, the plaintiff says they were married December 24, 1948 and separated August 3, 1949, that no children were born of the union. In addition to two-year sepa1 ration grounds, James Biggs in his case against Mary Lee Biggs, alleged adultery He says they were married seven years ago last May and were separated in March. 1949. As a second cause of action, the plaintiff alleges the plaintiff committed adultery with one Charlie Speller and others, that since their separation one child was born and that the de fendant is now m a family way. The court action was filed as of July 7, 1951. John L. Alstin is suing Lucy May Alstin for divorce. They were married March 4, 1940 and sepa rated in March, 194(1. Two child ren born of the union are now in custody of the defendant. In the divorce action of Hilda Griffin Warren against William Franklin Warren, the plaintiff says they were married Decem ber 111, 1938, and separated in October, 1918, that the three children, aged, II, fi and 3 years, born of the union are in the cus tody of and supported by the plaintiff. In the case of Elouise Brown against Randolph Brown, the plaintiff says they were married in March, 1946, and separated in May, 1949. Two children, now 4 and 3 vears old won born o' ‘hi. union, but no mention was made about their present custody or support Smith Edward Dolberry is su ing Dolberry for divorce. They were married in Edenton in Oc tober, 1945, and separated in Sep tember, 1947. No children were born of the union, and the ad dresses of the defendant is un known. Stating they were married May (Continued ori page seven) FARM BUREAU The annual Farm Bureau membership drive is off to a (rood start in this county, ac cording to a report submitted at a meeting of the member ship canvassers in the court house last Friday night. Approximately twenty per cent ,or 400 of the 2,000 mem bership goal, has been added to the list since the 1051-52 drive started tw<. v. teks ago. Draftees And Volunteers Enter The Armed Service~ Seven Martin County veurg men, all colored, including four volunteers left today to enter the armed service at Fort Bragg. The call is the third answered in this county since May, and holds to a fairly low figure. Those called to make the trip by regular bus. include: Wiley Lee Jones. William I. Price and William Stokes, Jr., all of RFD 3. Williamston; Fred Samuel Brown of RFD 2, Wil liamston; Marvin Rudolph Wil liams of Williamston, Leodus Whitehurst, RFD 1, Jamesville, , and Robert Bonner of Everetts. Ten men are being called to re port for pre-induction examina tions on September 25. The call is the first for pre induction re ceived in this county since April 23 when 75 men reported for the first for preliminary tests. The examinations, good at one time for only ninety days, arc now re cognized for a year. I During the past twelve months, | including the September group, j 163 Martin County men have been called by the draft. During the same period, 225 were called for ' pre-induction examinations. Tobacco Sales Pass Four Million Mark ; Monday Average Is Second Highest For This Season Only 10 drills IVr llinnlrril llclow Prior Paiil Third Day After Opening -« Prices on the Williamston mar ket yesterday pushed up again despite the heavy influx of to bacco and at the close of sales for the day had reached $51.29 per hundred, only 10 cents per hundred below the highest avei age of the season which was paid on the third day's sale this year. The market will pass the four million mark today as it has an other capacity sale Monday's sales totaled 329,42(1 pounds for which $168,001.49 was paid, an average of $51.29 for the day Total sales through yesterday were 3,683,426 pounds for $1, 825,109, an average of $49.54 for the season to date Slow deliveries to the ware houses which caused sales m the early part ol the season to he very Ii«ht appear to he a thing of I the past now. In fact, it appears that a further shortening of sell ing time may be in order so that the redrying plants can catch up with the heavy flood of tobacco. In this immediate section some of the farmers may be turning to the digging of peanuts with a consequent lightening of the to bacco deliveries but in some see lions marketing will be pushed as rapidly as possible. While it took the local market nine day to pass its second mil lion-pound mark, sales arc now running close to a third of a mil lion pounds per day. Although prices usually fall with heavy de liveries of tobacco, Monday’s sales proved a reverse of that form It was the fourth biggest day in pounds sold but only the second from the top in total mon ey paid out for tobacco, indicat ing that all of the heavy deliver ies arc not the poorer grades. Average prices for heavier bodied grades on Eastern North Carol-nas flue-cured tobacco markets the third week of sales eased 'lightly lower than let week Oil the olhei hand, bettei cigarette tobaccos were some stronger. Volume of offerings was heavy witn the general qua! itv slightly lower The Federal-State Market News Service reports most leaf and smoking leaf grades dropped $1.00 and $2.00 per hundred. Common quality red grades lost $300 and $4.00. Low lugs also de clined $1.00 to $3.00 The h losses were more prevalent in lower quality offerings. Fair to fine lugs, cutters and primings were steady to $2.00 higher. Nonde script was steady to slightly high er in most instances. During the four-day week ending September 7 gross sales amounted to 49,343,225 pounds and averaged $49.08 per hundred. This average was only 21 cents below the previous week but off $1.40 from opening week Season Sross sales were brought to 116, 167,458 pounds for an average of $50 05 Season sales are running well below the comparable period (Continued on page seven} | WEDNESDAY VI 1 ] The dinner and annual i birthday celebration at Brown's Community Hospital will he held at 1 p. m. tomor row (Wednesday) it was stat ed today. Carlyle Cox, principal of the Farm Life school and special instructor in debating and public speaking. will make a short talk. Congress- i man Herbert Bonner was to make the talk but was unable to get away from Washing ton for the event. Mobilization Of Farmers' Views In County Begun Farmers Waul Several Of Present l(cg:iiluliuiis Al tered For Protection With ;il)out ii hundred farmers in attendance at the fust group ! meetings held in Hear Grass, I Jumesville and Oak City last eve- [ (ling, farm leaders reported toda.v i that "grass mots” opinion of the present farm program appeared to be favorable although a few minor changes likely will be of fered bv the time the mobiliza tion of farm opinion has been completed. Anothei group of three meet ings is scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 8:00 o’clock at Everetts school for the Cross Roads township, in Farm Life school for Griffins Township and in the Hamilton school house (Continued from Page Seven) niwamans Hear Guest Speaker Tlio Kiwnnis Club of Williams bin held ils regular meeting at I he Woman’s Club on Thursday, Scpteinbei (i, at 7 p m The Club was honored by the presence of a large number of to bacconists as special guests. A de Helens meal jj^^j^^cd by mem bers ot the Chretian ( lu.rch, of tii which Wheeler Martin intro dueed the speaker uf the evening, Mr. K.d Kuykendall. Executive j Vice President of North Carolina! Savings and Loan League. Mr. Kuykendall spoke briefly I on the general contributions of Building and Loan Associations L to the economic weltare of the In- j cal community and the nation, i The speaker pointed out that 1 Building and Loan is a plane to put savings and also a place to Sorrow money to buy or build a ionic A measure of success of a l ‘ ■nntinued is the amount of money I nade available to the local peo )le to build homes. f Stating that 50 percent of all amilies an home owners, Mr. <1 tuykcndall concluded his ad- v (less with a remark that "A na- f ion of home owners is a nation if only one ism; that is patriot- I < sm,” j i During the meeting W. J. Brid- j s ;en was installed as a new mem- c icr of the Club by Reverend John \ duilding and Loan Association, he i. Goff. Issue Twenty-One Licenses To Wed In Martin County Issuance Seeoml Large*! In The County So Far tli is Year -• Twenty-one marriage licenses were issued in this county last month by the office of the reg ister of deeds. The issuance, the second largest for any month this year, is slightly above the aver age for the month of August, but falls one unit below the issuance for August of last year. Licenses were issued to eleven white and ten colored couples last month, as follows: White George D. Reason, Jr , RFD 2, Williamston and Mary Alice Hop Oak-Ci ty. -- — William L. Cowan of Wilson and Janie Ball of Williamston. Hugh Millard Martin and Celia Myra Gardner, both of James vi lie Daniel M Bowen of Williams ton and Violet Elizabeth Rogers of Jamesville. Joseph Raymond Woodard of Halifax and Ellen Joyce Clark of Everetts. Phillip Ray Tvttcrton of Ply mouth arid Sarah Margaret Davis of Jamesville. Delmar Gray Manning and Josephine Hardison, both of Wil liamston. Gene Forrest McCombs of Ply mouth and Janice Ray Bailey of Jamesville James Darrell Wynne of Wil liamston and Sarah Elizabeth Leggett of Robersonville. William T Ely of Benton, Ky., and Louise Wilson of Roberson* ville. Luther Robinson Finch o| Spring Hope and Ruby J. Tra* hey of Williamston Colored Johnnie Edwards and Everle* na i’ocle, both of Williamston. Benjamin Wiggins of Williams ton and Minnie Bess Draught! of Stokes. Charles Francis Whitehead and Sadie Bell Perry, both of Oak City. Sylvcstci Spruill and Vurneda Stokes, both of Robcrsonville. Robert James Riddick and Eve lyn Chance, both of Williamston. Russell Ivan Matthewson of Robcrsonville and Annie Spruill of Everetts Gen is Lee Rogers of Boykins, Va . and Ollie Marie Land of Wil liamston. James Curtis Roberson of Rich mond and Latie Louise Maye of Stokes. Jesse J Outterbridge and Dai sel Jones, both of Williamston. Joseph Little and Clara Mitch ell, botli of Williamston. Former Resident Dies In Norfolk Friends hero were notified last week of the death of Mr. J. H. Dixon of Norfolk, former resi dent of Williamston, who died d a heart attack Wednesday in a Norfolk hospital Funeral services were conduct 'd Friday afternoon at three ./clock at the Norview Metho ds! Church there and interment tv.v in Fores* Lawn Mr Dixon made Williams! .ri ii: home for a number of years uid woes connected with the Dur iain Life Insurance Company. While here he was an active mmbrr in the local Methodist JI lurch. PNA Purchase Orders Issued Purchase orders arc being lssu t the P M. A office in the Agri ulturc building for all partici ating farmers of Martin County. The purchase orders arc issued >r all pasture seeds, fertilizers ml winter cover crops. Yester ay $2,500 00 m purchase orders ere issued to Martin County miners. There are a number of mer hants in the county who special se m handling these orders and took the seeds and materials re uned by the conditions under ,'hieh the orders are issued tu ne farmers.
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