1HE ENTERPRISE 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 LIV—NUMBER 80
Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, October I, Z95/
ESTABLISHED 1899
Jorly-SjjLCases- :
Handled Monday
In County Court
I H'cnty Cases (iontinned
After Court Was In Ses
sion Most Of Day
Holding its first session since
September 10. the Martin County
Recorder’s Court last Monday was
literally “snowed under” with
cases, and after holding the trib
unal in session most of the day
Judge R. T. Johnson and Solic
itor Clarence Griffin continued
twenty cases and quit until nest
Monday. Before quitting for the
day, the court handled forty-six
cases, including thirteen in which
defendants were charged with
speeding.
Several road sentences were im
with violating the liquor laws,
amounted to $435. Quite a few of
the cases continued involved al
leged drunken driving Several
defendants, charged with drunk
en driving .asked for jury trials,
their cases automatically going to
the superior court docket for hear- -
ing in December.
Proceedings:
Willie Junior Lawrence and Lu
ther Strickland, charged with op
erating motor vehicles without
driver's licenses, were each fined
$25, plus costs.
Pleading n< t guilty, Hubert
Page was adjudged guilty of vio
lating the motor vehicle laws, and
was fined $25, plus costs.
Failing to answer when called
in the case in which she was
charged with operating a motor
vehicle without a driver's license. -
Delia Cross forfeited a $50 cash
bond.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of the cost in the case
in which Joe Yarrell was charged
with operating a motor vehicle
without a driver’s license.
Frank O. Ussery and Eugene
Rawls, charged with drunken dri
ving;, called for jury trials.
Pleading guilty of hit-and-run
driving, J. E. Parrisher was fined
$10, plus costs, the defendant ex
plaining that property damages
had been assumed.
The cuse in which Fitzhugh L.
Boatwright was charged with
careless and reckless driving, was
nol prossed or dismissed
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of 'he costs in the
ease in which Moses Lee Anthony
was charged with careless and
reckless driving.
James Earl Mizclle was sen
tenced to the roads for ninety days
(Continuedon Page Five.)
Painfully Cut In
llnnsual Accident
Mrs. J. C. Blanchard of Hert
ford was painfully cut about the
head and hand while t iding in an
automobile between here and
Everetts on Highway 64 late yes
terday afternoon. Carried to 1
Brown’s Community Hospital, she j
was reported early today to be i
getting along very well. (
Riding in the front seat of a >
coupe with Mr. Geo. White, also 1
of Hertford, Mrs. Blanchard was •
cut on the forehead when a duck
flew into and broke the wind- ‘
shield. Two cuts, almost forming
a "T” were on ihe forehead and '
head and another was . t.h® <
hand, requiring about fifteen ■'
stitches. 1
Returning to her home when ‘
the accident happened, Mrs ;
Blanchard now plans to go to 1
Durham upon leaving the local
hospital possibly tomorrow and ‘
visit with her daughter. Mrs Mar- f
cus Hobbs.
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YAM MARKET
N._J 1
The Martin County Yam
Growers Association is op
ening the local market next. |
Monday, it was announced
this week. The market will be 1
open each week day from i
8:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m.
One of the smallest crops f
is being produced in this area, v
and prices are certain to be
higher than they were a year
ago. Dry weather has affected a
the crop adversely during re- t
cent weeks, and it isn’t likely i
that there’ll he many potatoes c
offered during the next week , g
or two. ; c
Bath Facilities b
Private First Class Eli D. Harrison, son ol Mr. and Mrs. E.
C. Harrison. RED Z. Williamston, North Carolina, cools off after
a long, dusty patrol into enemy held territory. He is lighting
with the 17th Infantry (Buffalo) Regiment on the central front.
(U. S. Army photo by Sgt. Hal Randall.)
Complete Plans For
The Jamesville Fair
EMERGENCY I
. ■' ■ -. . .. ,✓
The Tidewater Regional
Blood Bank with headquart
ers in Norfolk and of whieh
the Martin County Red Cross
Chapter is a part, measured
up perfectly in another emer
gency yesterday. Six pints of
blood were needed hadlv, and
in a little over an hour the
life-saving blood was in the
hospital here.
An airplane brought the
blood from Norfolk and de- i
livered it to Highway Patrol
man R. P. Narron at the little
airport between here and
Windsor. Last reports said the
patients, a mother and baby,
were getting along all right. \
Concert Tickets i
Placed In Nails
Membership tickets in the Mai i
in County Community Concert |
Association for the 1951-52 sen
on are being put in the mails to- !
lay. The association is very proud
o announce that the following ar- [
ists have been secured fol the en- !
uing concert year:
Nov. 20, 1951—The Teltschiks— I
Alfred and Herbert of Texas, j
'his is a very find duo piano team j
rho hi ing A'ith them their own
once, t grand pianos. The Telt- j
cfiik.s are a young, bi:lli’an?7s^^^
ontained team-embodying in
heir playing and intei pretations
rich quality, vision and unlim
ted wealth of expression.
Jan. 25, 1952--Michael Rhodes
26 year old baritone, who got |
ff to a singing career at fifteen ,
e11h NBC. After three years in
he army, he returned to his ea
ger and last year was with New
'oik Philharmonic Symphony,
le was also soloist under Stokos
kd.
April 21, 1952—John Sebastian
-Harmonica. Sebastian is a su
ireme entertainer and a fine mu
ician who has proved that the
armoniea is as valid a concert
istrument as the piano or violin.
The last two concerts will also
eature concert grand pianos and
ery capable accompanists.
The concert drive held in the
pring was a big success, and the
pproximately 500 membership
cket holders are in for a season
f fine entertainment. These tick
ts are also good for other en
agements wherever Community
jncerts are held.—Reported.
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Clubs Sponsoring
Community Event
There Next Week
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Itifj Day Falls On Friday Of
Ni'xl Week Willi Parade
And Speaking
Plans were announced jus*
about complete today for holding
Jamesville’s third annua! com
munity fair next week Sponsored
by the Jamesviile Ruritan Club in
cooperation with the Womans
Club, the event is already attract
ing more attention than either of
the other two and is being antic
ipated with much interest Keen
competition in the exhibit hull
has already developed, and spec
ial entertainment is being plan
ned.
While Friday, October 12, will
be the big day, the fair committee
is featuring rides during the
week. Several rides will be op
erated during the week, and a
free show will be presented at
7:00 and 9:00 o’clock next Wed
nesday night.
The fair this year will feature
several new' exhibits, including
those by family groups, pastry ex
hibits, miscellaneous displays,
garden crops and projects by the
Girl Scouts and others. During
the past two years, the fair has
offered exhibits equalling those
PH*-' ay wheie, including farm
crops, canned goods, home-made
clothing, antiques, swine, dairy
and beef cattle, and displays by
Hit North Carolina Forest Service
Woman’s Club Veterans' Farm
Training Program, Future Fann
ers of America, Future Home
makers of America, Beta Club,
High and Elementary School, Pa
rents-Teachers Association, and
displays by machinery manufac
turers and dealers and other com
mercial showings.
The big day, October 12, will
feature a parade, led by the Wil
(Continued on Page Five)
left Lvf! Amputated /»»
Itoeky Mount Hospital
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Suffering a circulatory ailment,
Mr. Claude B. Clark, Sr., local
druggist, last Friday entered a
rtocky Mount hospital and had
his left leg amputated above the
Knee this morning. Reports reacti
ng here shortly before noon stat
ed he stood the operation all right
md was getting along very well.
Jams. Brawit For.
November Service
In Superior Court
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List of Fifty-Six Inchuleg
Fi'h Women ami Sever
al Negro Citizens
Fiftv-'six Martin County citi
zens, including a few women and
[several Negroes, have been drawn
for jury duty during the two
week term of the Martin County
Superior Court, opening on Mon
day, November 19.
No judge has been assigned to
the court, but Supreme Court
Justice Devin is expected to make
an assignment well ahead of the
court next month.
The first week of the term runs
head on into Thanksgiving, and
while no calendar has yet been
prepared, it is likely that few cas
?s, other than divorce actions,
will be scheduled for trial that
week.
Names of the jurors drawn by
the county commissioners in re
cent session, include:
First Week
Jamcsvillc Township: C. C.
Gurkin, O. C. Barber and Gradv
H. Davenport.
Williams Township: Asa L.
Moore
Griffins Township: Russell
Ferry, Harry M. Feel and A. L.
Roberson.
Bear Grass Township: Grover
Bowen, O. K. Revels. Willie A.
Leggett and LcRoy Harrison.
Williamston Township: Jesse F.
Roberson, W. 11. Abernathy, J.
Theodore Gurganus, Mrs. D. V
Clayton, Wm. J Morris and R V
Bunting
Cross Roads Township: G. 11.
Forbes and W. L. Ausborn.
Robersonville Township: James
A. Cherry, C L. Green, Jr., and i
M. C. House.
Hamilton Township: A. S. Rob- ,
erson, Jr., Johnnie Bland, Stan- ]
ley A. Ayers, D. G. Matthews,
Geo. A. Oglesby and F. D. Hud
gins.
Second Week
Jamcsvillc Township: T. V Da
vis, Ben Gray Lillcy, C W. Moore,
David Ange and R. C. Sexton.
Williams Township: Frank Hop
kins.
Griffins Township: Ira F. Grif
fin. I
Williamston Township: Simon
E. Perry, Jr., D. E. Dardc-n, Per
ry E. Odum, Elton Hardy, Archie
Mizelle, William 11 Sessoms,
James Aaron Brown, Mrs. W E. I
Dunn, Frank Weston and James
A. Critcher. ,
Cross Roads Township: George
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Working For New
North-South Road
Robert B Nelson, county man,
is traveling up and down North
Carolina petitioning various coun
ty and town authorities for sup
port of a newly proposed north
south highway route.
Known as U. S. Highway 13,
the route originates in Canada
and moves inland to a point near
Portsmouth where it stops. Nel
son is working to have the route
extended southward to Windsor,
Williamston, Robersonville,
Stokes, Greenville, Winterville,
Ayden, Grifton, Kinston, Seven
Springs, Ml. Olive, Raison,- Eliz
abethtown. Lumbcrton, Fairmont
and on to the South Carolina line.
At the request of Mr. Nelson,
several official boards, including
the Martin County Commission,
Wiliiamston's town hoard and
others have already officially re
commended to the North Caro
lina Highway and Public Works
Commission that No. 13 be des
ignated as a new north-south
route.
OFFICERS
In a recent meeting of the
members of the local Wo
man's Club the following of
ficers were elected: Mrs.
Martin P. Moore, president;
Miss Irene Tetterton, first
vice president; Mrs. George
H. Gurganus, second vice
president; Mrs. II. E. Harring
ton, recording secretary; Mrs.
Sarah R. Manning, correspon
ding secretary; and Mrs. Ar
linc Harrison, treasurer.
Yenlh. tea*%JKULl
Be Opened Friday
The Youth Recreation Center
for Williamston 'teen agers will
bo reopened in the American Le
gion hut on Watts Street Friday
evening of this week at (TOO
o’clock, it was decided at a meet
ing of the Recreation Committee
with interested parents and
friends at the courthouse last eve
ning. Present plans call for the
center to be open on three nights
of each week during the school
term with other arrangements to
be worked out later.
First step toward opening the
center was made alter the meet
ing when Chairman Ben D. Court
ney named Bill Glover, Marvin
Britton and Hack Gaylord as a
committee to work with him in
arranging for the first evening’s
program on Friday night. Hours
are to be from 8 to 11 on Friday
and Saturday and 8:30 to 10:30
on Sunday evenings, except that
on nights when home football or
basketball games are being play -
ed ,*t the school, the center will
be open after the conclusion of
the game until 11 p. m.
Volunteer supervision by par
ents and adult friends is to hi
arranged by circles and groups in
the various churches, under the
plan proposed last night To get
the program under way immedi
ately three couples volunteered
to serve this week-end, Mr. and
Mrs, 1). R. Davis are to be at the
center Friday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. Meyer M. Levin on Saturday
evening and Mr. and Mrs, B. G.
Stewart on Sunday evening.
On motion by Rush Bondurant
and seconded by Mr*- Bondurant,
the group agreed to ask repro
sentatives of each church to con
tact the responsible person or per
sons in their church to get them
to agree to he responsible for sup
ervision of the center for lour
, week periods on a rotation basis.
; The groups are to report back to
Chairman Courtney and a rota
, tion schedule will then be set up.
| In the meantime members of
the committee are to take up with
students at the high school the
proposition id having each home
(room be responsible for the ac
tivities at the center for one
[ month of tho year. There are 12
home rooms in the high school. In
this wav the children would have
a voice in the actual operation of
the center and feel that it really
belonged to them, it was sug
gested.
Since the committee has hut a
little over $200 m cash on hand,
a paid worker for the center ap
pears out of the question, it,was
noted, although some still felt it
was necessary to have paid per
sonnel at the center. The money
on hand will pay for incidentals
and lights and heat for a year
if the cooperation of the parents
and children can be obtained, one
of the committee members point
(Continued on Page Three)
Committeemen To
Meet Here Friday
County Committeemen of the
Farmers Home Administration
from eight east Carolina counties
will hold a one day training meet
ing in Williamston Friday, it was
announced by James C. Eubanks,
County Supervisor. The Fanners
Home Administration is author!/- ,
cd to make loan:; for Tchaot Pur
chase, Farm Development. Farm
Enlargement, Farm Housing, and
Adjustments needed, and no loan
can be made without the written
approval of the committee. Each
county has a committee composed
of three men, two of which must j
be farmers. • j
At the meeting here Friday the J
committeemen will be given 1he
FHA’s policy for another year re
garding the making of loans, and
their duty and responsibility in
approving applicants and certify
ing to farms on which loans are
to be made.
County Committeemen and
County Supervisors will be here
from Martin, Pitt, Halifax, Wash
ington, Edgecombe, Hyde, Bertie,
and Beaufort Counties. Mr. Mar
ion C. Holland, State Field Repre
sentative, from Goldsboro will be
in charge of the meeting, assisted
by Mr Vance E Swift, Assistant .
State Director in charge of FO, j
from Raleigh, and Mr. David G. 1
Modlin, Appraiser-Engineer, from *
Williamston.
mMeiiUm QewajuUugJRatdl
i To Segregation Answered
The petition, .signed by twenty
one Martin County Negroes and
submitted by a Negro lawyer of
Raleigh before the Martin Coun
ty Board of Education at the Au
gust meeting, will lie answered
shortly, according to information
gained here today. A rough draft
of the answer was discussed by i
members of the board of educa
tion in their regular meeting here
this week, and the facts have been
turned over to the county attor
ney for final preparation, it was
learned.
A copy of the petition is not
immediately available, the attor
ney's office explaining that sev
eral days will he required to put
it in final shape. However, some
of the facts have been pointed
out, showing that the Negro
schools arc making rapid strides,
that it is absolutely certain fur
I ther gains arc to be expected un-j
der the program of consolidation j
proposed by county and state]
school authorities and now being j
advanced as rapidly as possible.'
It is understood that the num
ber of busses serving the Negro
schools has been increased from!
two to seventeen since 1045, that I
the expansion of bus seiviee for
the Negroes is advancing far more
rapidly than under the consolida
tion program inaugurated for the
white schools. The teacher load is
comparable for both the white
and colored schools, the Negro
teachers receiving, on an average,
about $11 more per month than
tile whites.
Ii is now well established that
some of the signers of the petition
misunderstood ils contents, and
that a vast majority of the Ne
groes are interested only in bet
ter school facilities for themselves
Tobacco Prices Hold
To High Figure Here
Averages Holding;
Well Above Sixty
Cents This Week
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<liirtailrd HHivrrics Possi
bly Arroiintiup' For The
Strong Price Avcri^e
After establishing an all-time
record last Monday, tobacco prices
on the local market continued to
hold their own during the suc
seeding days, the late sales stand
ing right at a til cent average fig
ure.
Hut two days alter the peak was
reached, the size of the sales start
ed dwindling, some observers de
claring that the price started
climbing toward the peak just
about the time most of the tobae
co had been marketed. Despite
the fourteen percent acreage in
crease, it is fairly certain that the
crop in this section wiii be no
larger, if as large, as it was last
year, that there'll be few more
than ten million pounds available
to the market this year.
Up until this morning the mar
ket had sold 8,522,875 pounds for
an average of $52.49 The market
has paid out $4,474,048 to the
growers, or about one-half mil
lion dollars less than the amount
received for just about the same
number of pounds last year. The
average this year is trailing that
of last season by an even five
cents a pound.
The block sales, after gripping
the market for more than a month
or the longest period in the his
tory of the market, literally dis
appeared over night. Sales were
completed bv noon yesterday, and
it isn't likely that blocks will be
in evidence much more this sea
son. It is possible that the pea
nut harvest and cotton picking in
terrupted the marketing of to
bacco in this section, but the re
ports indicate that the big trouble
is that the tobacco is just about
gone Surely, more than 75 per
j cent of it has been marketed, some
farmers, declaring that more than
18(1 peu.nt has been sold. One
third of the farmers are believed
to have finished their marketing,
and another thirty percent, if not,
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To Address Farm
Meeting Friday
Mrs. U B Everett of Palmyra
and Messrs. Haywood Dail and
J. E Winslow, all well-known
leaders in the North Carolina
Farm Bureau, will address a
meeting of membership canvass
ers in this county in the Methodist
Church recreation building on
Church Street here Friday eve
ning of this week at 7:00 o’clock,
it was announced this week by
Chas. I Daniel, president of the
organization in this county.
The canvassers will pay for
their own suppers, and an en
couraging membership report is
anticipated, Secretary Mayo Hard
ison said.
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I'RKSIDKM’
Professor George S. Me- j
Korie, principal of the Kve
retts school, was elected pres
ident of the North Carolina
education Association's north
eastern district at a meeting
held in Greenville Tuesday.
Queen To Return
For The Festival
Tlu: handicaps which appeared
when Willianiston's Fourth An
j nual Harvest Festival had to be
j delayed, have almost been over
! come, according to an announce
ment released yesterday by the
Williamston Boosters, Inc., spon
sors of the popular annual affaii
The delay was caused by the un
I usually large amount of tobacco
I being sold on the Williamston To
banco Market this season and will
now be held on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, October 23 and 24
The annual street dance will he
staged on Tuesday evening, Oc
tober 23 from 9:00 p. m. to 12 mid
night, with both round and square
dancing being featured, and a
special section set aside for the
colored folks.
The next dav. on Wednesday
! afternoon the Hui Vcm Festival
(parade will get underway nrompt
iy at 2.00 p. in., and this promis
es to be one of the largest ever
held in Eastern Carolina, with
at least ieu bands pai ticipating.
| Following the parade, a figure of
j national importance will deliver
| an addtess. The United States'
'Secretary of Agriculture, Charles
Brannan, loss been invited to de
liver this address, but definite ac
ceptance has not been received.
Representative Herbert Bonner
has also been invited to attend,
along with other important dig
nitaries.
The Harvest Festival Ball will
be held m the Planters Warehouse
on Wednesday evening, October
2-1 from 9:30 p. m. to 1:30 a m.
The selecting of the Queen of the
Harvest, 1951, will begin at ap
proximately 10:00 p. m., with the
new Queen being crowned about
10.30. Reigning over the entire
Festival this year will be the
Queen of last year. Miss Jean
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Eisfishsster.Ask^L
For Full Support
01 Security Bill
Truman Takes V Definite
Su.ncl Vhoiil Influence
In (iovernnienl
I Washington, D C.—The main
I reason General Dwight Eisenhow
i er appealed to Senators and Con
gressmen working out a tinai mu
tual security aid bill last week, to
restore some of the economic aid
cuts, is his knowledge that every
U. S. dollar of economic aid will
become two dollars for defense in
countries being rebuilt economic
ally.
Those legislators working out
the compromise mutual assistance
bill thought enough of Ike’s opin
ion to restore some of the conomic
aid slashed from the bill a month
ago by the Senate.
Anothei reason Eisenhower is
concerned about the current bill
is his belief that the international
crisis of crises, of the cold war,
might come next spring. Ameri
can officials base this belief on
i the fact that by the spring of 1953
Allied forces in Europe will be
strong enough to make any Com
munist aggression in Europe an
extremely dangerous gamble.
| Anyone who studies the mili
! tary history of the Communists,
since 1917, will readily see that
' the Russians do not take danger
! ous military gambles. On the con
I t.rary, despite the huge Red
Army, the Communists move mil
itarily only when they are assur
ed of success. United States atom
bombs have been the decisive fac
tor m the last few years, in pre
venting a Communist attack in
Europe Had it not been for
them, the Communists, with over
whelming ground and air
strength in Europe, could have
pushed the Allies out with little
danger of a revenge.
Probably, the last chance the
Russians will have of overrun
ning western Europe wulh com
parative ease will vanish before a
year is out In Europe campaign
ing time is in the spring, and it is
considered possible -though no
longer probable that the Reds
will move on western Europe
next spring, before defenses be
come impregnable if U. S. aid is
continued full-scale now, it might
make a difference of several di
visions by next spring—divisions
western European countries are
able to put into the field. And
that could be very important to
the Supreme Commander.
The bad part of the investiga
tion into Senator Joe McCarthy’s
(/”ontlnued on page eight)
Car Damaged In
Street Accident
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Considerable damage was done
to a 11)4:) Nash automobile when it
crashed with a 104!) Pontiac on
the main street here shortly af
ter 10:00 o'clock this morning.
Archie Allen Lilley of James
ville was backing his Pontiac
from the curb into the street just
us James Eason Leggett, Jr.,, 1015
Ellwood Street, Norfolk, was driv
ing east on the streets. The front
right fender on the Leggett car
was smashed and the door was
damaged. Ver\ little damage was
done™te-'Ac...other <<u Officer C;
R Moore said following an in
vestigate >n
PAVING
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Thirty-three miles of pav
ing were completed in this
county last month, according
to a report released by the
State Highway Commission.
In addition to the long pro
ject from Corey's Cross Roads
north via Hear Grass which
was started months ago, the
commission reported paving
completed, as follows: 3.1
miles on the old Williams
ton-Kvcrrtts Road; 3.9 miles
in the Oak City-llamilton
section; 8.6 miles in the
Jamesville area, including
2.2 miles running off High
way til below Jamesville to
county road intersection, and
6.4 miles running off 171
southeast to the Washington
County line.