a THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE V THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 85 William ft on, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 23, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 roar Accidents On the Highways In Martin County Only One Person Injured But Property Damage Approaches $1,500 —»— One person was painfully but believed not critically injured in a series of automobile accidents on Martin County highways last week-tend. Property damage was estimated at about $1,500. Apparently speeding north on U. S. Highway 17 about six miles from Williamston shortly before 11:00 o'clock last Thursday night, Albert Dexter Newbern of Oce ana, Virginia, lost control of his 1950 Chevrolet and wrecked it. Investigating the accident, Patrol man B. V/. Parker said the ma chine skidded onto the right shoulder during the rain and went eighty-four yards before swerv ing across the highway and skid ding forty-five more yards, com ing to a stop after tearing down a tree stump and turning two flips. The driver suffered a neg ligible cut on the top of his head, but required no medical attention. Damage to the car was estimated at $1,100. Booked on a reckless driving charge, the man was fin ed $10, plus costs. Ihe second in the series of ac cidents was reported at 3:30 o’clock Sunday morning when Willie Ray Taylor, colored man of Gold Point, dropped off to sleep and ran his 1940 Oldsmo bile off Highway 125 a few miles out of Williamston and struck a tree. Taylor and his two com panions were not hurt. Damage to the car was estimated at $100 by Patrolman R. P. Narron who made the investigation. Mi's. Joseph Thigpen was pain fully but believed not badly hurt when her car, a 1951 Plymouth, wrecked near the Sherrod farm on Highway 125 about 7:00 o'clock Sunday morning. She was removed to a Williamstga hospi tal for treatment, last reports stating that her condition was much improved. Driving from their home in Ahoskie that morn ing, Mr. and Mrs. Thigpen stop ped in Windsor where he joined a fishing party. Mrs. Thigpen was continuing to Hamilton to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B B. Taylor, when she either dropped off to sleep or “blacked out’’ for a second and lost control of her car. It was reported that she suf fered no broken bones, but she was cut on the leg and was bruis ed on her back. Investigating the accident, Patrolman B. W. Park er said the damage to the car would approximate $300. At 10:30 o’clock Sunday morn ing, Zolly Brinkley, colored of Gold Point, was driving on the Iiobersonville-Gold Point road in (Continued on Page Eight) Worker Killed In Logging Accident —*— Paul Parker, 40-year-old color ed man of RFD 4, Windsor, was instantly killed in a logging acci dent in Devreaux Swamp, aboul 500 yards from the Chesson place in Conoho last Thursday after noon. His head was split open by a falling tree, witnesses saying that the victim never knew whal lowing sc quickly. A steam skidder, attached to a log train, was pulling a log out of the swamp. The log hit a com paratively small tree and pushed it over, the top oi the failing Tret striking Parker who was thirty or more feet away from the base of the tree. Coroner W. W. Biggs investi gated tile death and announced that no inquest was considered necessary, that witnesses saw the accident, and that his findings supported their evidence. The logging operations were in an almost inaccessible location. The body was carried part of the way out of the woods on the train, transferred to a boat and later to an ambulance and delivered to Williamston. It was turned over to a Windsor undertaker a short time later Parker, married and father of three children, had been employ ed in legging operations for the Atlas Plywood Corporation for about two weeks. Candidates For Harvest Festival Queen g * ' Some of this section’s finest young ladies arc competing for Queen of Williamston’s fourth an nual harvest festival tomorrow. Riding in conve tibles with chauffeurs, the young ladies will ap pear in the mammoth parade at 2:00 o’clock and report to die annual ball in the Planters Warehouse that evening when the queen will be chosen bv out-of-town judges at 10,00 o’clock. Top row, left to right. Misses Ann Byrd of Windsor, Lynette Coltrain of Farm Life, and Jean Culliphei of Bethel, middle row: Misses Dorothy Henninger of Fdenton Pat Mayne of Washington and Sarah Lee Smith of Robeisonville, bottom row: Patricia Taylor of Williamston, Betty Lou Rogerson of Bear Grass and Mary Lou Voirol of Plymouth. Others not pictured here but who are candidates for the title of queen include: Misses Martha Pearson of Ahoskie, Jean Ellis of Jamesville, Cherry Edmondson of Oak City, Mary Beth Perry of Perquimans, Nannette Upchurch of Scotland Neck and Dorothy O’Neal of Tarboro. Plan Recreation School In County —— Lonnie Powell, Recreation In structor, North Carolina Recrea tion Commission will conduct a Recreation Leader Training Seho<»l in the Everetts School auditorium Thursday and Friday nights. October 25th and 26th. Recreation leaders or represent atives of both youth and adult or ganizations in Martin County are invited to attend. Most organizations include type of recreation in their pro grams. The purpose of this School is to provide leaders with useful ideas which they may use in working with their respective groups. The School will include actual pai f . i. u p ' creational activities. The mini mum age for participants is fif teen years, and the size of the . group will be limited to about sixty persons. Friday night’s pro-•! giaiii Will be u ioiitinuiiui.il oi in i struction started Thursday night. I Any one desiring further infer- | mation should contact either Ruby j Lee Spencer, Ass't Horne Agent or ! S. A. Tuten, Ass't County Agent, j N. C. State College Extension Service, Williamston, N. C. I NO ASSESSMENT I Finding the treasury in ex cellent financial condition, di rectors of the Martin County branch of the North Carolina Farmers Mutual Fire Insur ance Association have found that no assessment will be ne cessary this year. The action was announced this week by Jos. S. Griffin, president of the association in this county. r MAY OIJEEN Miss Eleanor Eubanks, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Jotin Eubanks of Hassell, has been selected 1952 May Queen at Woman’s College, University of North Carolina, Greens boro, it was announced this week. * Miss Eubanks is a music major and choir soloist. Her maids of honor will be her roommates, Misses Gloria Anne Mank of Winston-Sal em, and Dorothy Hogan of Chapel Hill. Jaycees Sponsor Freedom Crusade £>fA,*lisd?cd i-’y " re, / with George Corey as chairman, the drive advanced for funds in behalf’of tile Crusade for Free dom met with great success in this county recently, according to a reodrt submitted to ine group at a regular meeting held in the Methodist Church annex last Fri day evening. Recognizing the great value of such an undertaking, Professor John F. Carson, member of the Jamesvillc School faculty, headed the fund drive there. Members of the classes, discussing the Free dom Crusade, got out and raised $101.18. In recognition of a job I ivell done, the Jaycees had as :heir guests at the Friday night neeting, Professor Carson, Wayne Heard, and Missies Joyce Mizelle, Betty James, Louie Faye Hardi ;on and Frances Ellis who repre sented the workers. With a goal of approximately j >300, the Jaycees, according to the a test report, had raised $501.78 .vith the possibility that the fund vxli reach $000. Recover Missing Man's Clothing While no trace of Ransom Whitehurst, 37-year-old colored man, missing since last Saturday I morning, has been found, his | clothes were recovered beside j Sweet Water Creek between the old Watts landing and Highway 64 creek bridge date last night, Officers, investigating the man’s disappearance, believe he drown ed in the creek which is about forty feet wide and unusually deep at the spot where his clothes were found. Whitehurst, a logwoods worker, left his home here early last Sat urday morning to go squirrel hunting. A taxi carried him to the creek and put him out near"the bridge tie has not been seen sine? Officers are of the opinion that Whitehurst shot and killed a squirrel, that he removed his clothing to recover the squirrel from the y.alci and drowned. It , was said that he had suffered at- , tacks on previous occasions. Offi cers are dragging the creek today , in an effort to find the body. , Whitehurst's double barrel gun was found standing against a tree and his clothes were neatly piled beside it, ms pocketbook, foil- 1 taining $2 in cash and his wee kly wage check, untouched. Two emp ty gun shells were at the spot. n in* special iicarti Offered lly Motor Firm Holding second place agiong parts salesman in this district, C. A. Askew of the Williamston Mo tor Company was awarded a $250 defense bond as a prize by the Ford Motor Company recently. The award was made at a banquet held in the Cavalier Hotel, Vir ginia Beach. Sales Breaking All Records On Tobacco Market -9 just About Twelve Million Pounds Bern Sob! Here So Far This Year Sales on Williamston's tobacco market are nearing the twelve million mark today, placing the market in position to break all previous records for both pounds and income. Prices, going into the high brackets about the first of this month, continue to hold firm. Last Thursday the market sold 177,470 pounds for an average of $62.66. On Friday, $290,3?t8 pounds were sold for an average of $61.75. The 247,874 pounds sold yesterday averaged $61.15 per hundred. Up until this morning, the market had sold a total of 11,696,136 pounds for $6,458,615, a resulting average of $55.22 for the season to date. Market observers would ven ture no guess as to market pro spects the next few days, but it is fairly certain that the twelve million mark will he reaehed shortly, that sales will likely climb to a point some where be tween the twelve and twelve and one-half million-pound mark. Sales on the market today arc comparatively light, an early morning report estimating the de liveries at about one hundred thousand pounds. A report on operations in the entire Bright Belt follows: Average prices for most offer ings on Eastern North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco markets last week continued firm at the pre vious week's quotations. The gen eral quality of a fairly heavy volume of sales was slightly low er. According to the Federal-State Market News Service gross sales for the week ending October 19 amounted to 49,323,484 pounds for an average of $59.92 per hun dred. The average was $1.43 be low the all-time high of $61.35 paid the previous week. Volume dropped about 2 million pounds. .Season gross sales totaled 433, 202,213 pounds at an average of $54.95. Gross sales on eleven of the seventeen markets in the area have passed those for the full sea son last year. Prices for a few better ciga rette tobaccos were slightly be low those of the previous week but about as many lower quality grades showed slight increases. Variations in averages were held mostly to $1.00 a hundred pounds. Over two-thirds of the offerings (Continued on Page Eight) Arrest Two For Recent Robbery Two U. S. Marines, Robert A Wzorek, li), of Cherry Point, and Robert C. Swanke, 19, of Peters Point Field, were arrested in Car teret County during the week end in connection with the rob bery of Harris Brothers store filling station near- Williamston on the night of October Pi. Pre liminary reports reaching here said the youths were wanted in Connection with about sixteen robberies in at least four counties. Found stolen goods in a stolen au ;omobile abandoned by them on J S. Highway 20. Harris Brothers recovered much >f their property yesterday, in ■hiding watches and jewelry vai led at about $400. Other goods ire to be returned to the store iwners today. FARM BUREAU WEEK I - j This week has been desig nated Farm Bureau Week in Martin County, and leaders of the organization are ap pealing to farmers and others to advance a strong support to the current membership drive. Approximately 1,200 have joined the Farm Bureau since the drive was launched a short time ago, and it is hoped the 2,000 member goal may reached within the next few days. Annual Harvest Get Under Wav Festival Will This Evening Sweet Potato Rating High In Income List This Season Spurned by many fanners and little noticed by the public for years, the sweet potato is really coming into its own in this section this year. Preliminary reports de clare that the potato is now keep ing company with tobacco as an income producer. With the current market aver aging between a strong $2.50 and $3.00 per bushel, Farmers Ira and George C. Griffin hit the jack pot, literally speaking, last week, according to Myer M Le vin, secretary of the Martin Coun ty Yam Growers Association. Harvesting an acre of the sweets a short time ago, Farmer Ira Griffin received $813.96 on i the local market. The yield was ! 278 bushels. Producing 241 bush on slightly loss than one acre, Far j mrr George Griffin received $ti!)7.tili on the market here a few days ago. While the price schedules are little changed from last week, de mand is believed a bit stronger at the present time. The crop is be ginning to move in larger volume, but the peak period is yet uncer tain. Up until this week few po tatoes were offered for storage, but farmers arc now making ar rangements to store at least a part of the crop, anticipating a good market for the cured product la ter this year or early next year. KKPKAT r > V The Marlin County Minis terial Association will spon sor again this year the Alco hol Educational Program that was so agreeably received last year hy the students and fac ulties in eight high schools throughout the county. The program presents the scientific approach of harm ful effects of alcohol upon the human body. The Association will present the first program in Novem ber and another in the early part of the new year, it was announced hy the Rev. J. Don Skinner, secretary. Hold Funeral For Mrs. Hardison Al Jamesville Home --<|> I I (iti/.cu Dint In j WillianiHlon Hospital Thursday Night —— Mrs. Della Florence Gardner Hardison, respected citizen of Jamesville Township, died m a local hospital last Thursday night I of a heart attack. She had been in declining health for about a year, her condition becoming critical only a short time before she was removed Thursday afternoon to the hospital where she suffered the attack and died a few' minutes later at 9:15 o’clock. The daughter of the late John and Kate Waters Gardner, she was born in Jamesville Township 70 years ago on June 19, 1881, and spent all her life there. She was mai l ied in 1901 to Ebenczer N. Hardison who died on November 14. 1949. Mrs. Hardison was a faithful member of the Cedar Branch Bap tist Church for about twenty years. She was devoted to her home and family and was a cher ished friend in her community. Surviving are a son, Howard Hardison of near Jamesville; four daughters, Mrs. Noah Hardison and Miss Ann Hardison, of Wij liamston, and Mrs. Willie 11 Mou lin. and.Mrs. Dennis Modlin, both al near Wiiliamston; twelve grandchildren, and an adopted laughter, Miss leelene Gardnei of Wiiliamston. Funerai services were conduct- j i'Ti af tile lih'iiie liesi J'an" sviiTe’'; Saturday afternoon ai J:UU o'clock i (Continued on Page Light,) —--— Young People In Religious Rally —*— More than two hundred and fifty young people, representing churches throughout northeastern North Carolina, participated in a fall religious rally at the Presby terian church here Sunday after noon and evening. The meeting centered around the themes, “Deepening .Our Faith,’’ “Widening Our Circle of Influence’’ and “Heightening Our Fellowship.” Lunch was served the large group m the Methodist Church recreational building. Hold Funeral For Cpl. John Garrell Sunday Ailernoon -- Vi illiumston Anting Man Was Killed In Action In Korea April 30 Funeral services were conduct- | ed in the Macedonia Church near ■ l Williamston Sunday afternoon at i 3:30 o'clock for Cpl. John H. Gar- J rett who was killed in action in , Korea on April >30, 1051 The young man attended Sunday i school at Macedonia as a child, and the pastor, the Hev. P. E. Cayton, assisted by the Kev. W B. Harrington, conducted the ser vice A detail from the John W Hassel post of the American Le gion and a firing squad from Fort Bragg were in charge of the , military rites at the graveside in Woodlawn Cemetery. The young man entered the ser vice in October, 19411, and soon j after completing his basic train | ing at Fort Jackson he was trans | ferred to Japan as a member of the occupation force, going from there to Korea immediately after war broke out there. He was a member of Battery B, 31st Field Artillery Battalion, and was in the thick of the fight in and around Seoul and in the Yalu Ri ver sectop. In a last letter writ ten in the front line to his father, [ he said a transfer to Japan was j coming op, and that he looked forward to returning home. A son of Carl R. Garrett of Wd I liarnston and Toyc Bell Beryhill | Garrett, late of Cooke County, ] Georgia, he was born in Lenox, | Georgia, on June 8, 1930. When I about three years old he moved with his parents to this county, his father’s native home. After attending the Williamston schools, (Continued on Page Eigiit) Pullet Show And Sale Thursday Seventy N C pullorum clean certified New Hampshire pullets will be offered for sale to the h ijdu^M^baldei^^^^bm October 251li, 10 00 ATnemT apricul ture building in Williamston. These pullets were mown by members of the Martin County 4-11 Poultry Chain. They are six, months old Most of the pullets are in pro duction This sale will offer a fine j opportunity for someone to got! some good pullets and support j Martin County's youth program, it was announced by It. McK. Ed wards, Negro County Agent. f'lii\TTi;i> NATIONS DAY 1 vJ The struggling United Na tions, all but snowed under by perplexing problems, will go by virtually unnoticed in this quarter tomorrow which has been designated as United Nations Day. No observance, supported by prayers of all people, has been planned here, but the day will be ob served in many parts of the wurld. Clowns Will Take Over The Town At 1P. M. Tomorrow -• Eleven HuimI* ami Fifteen Prinee*»es anil Floats To Be In Parade ——i# All is in readiness for Williams ton's Fourth Annual Harvest Fes tival, according to A1 Sweatt, Managing Director of the Wil liamston Boosters, Inc., sponsors of the annual event. Barring bad weather and major catastrophes, 1 the Harvest Festival this year j should prove to be the biggest, j best and by far, the most suc i eessful in Williamston's history. The festivities get started to night with a big free street dance on Washington Street, with both round and square dancing. A spec ial section will be set aside for the colored folk and dancing will be from 9:00 PM to midnight. Tomorrow will be the big day, with the “Clown Alley” taking over Main Street at 1:00 PM. The street will be closed at 12:30 PM and cleared of all vehicles. Fol lowing the appearance of the clowns, promptly at 2:00 PM, one of the largest parades ever seen in Eastern Carolina will get un jderway. In addition to many I floats, clowns, princesses and oth I er exhibits, eleven bands will i participate, including the onei from the following high schools: I Ahoskie, Edenton, Plymouth, J. J. Clemmons of Roper, Scotland Neck, Tarboro, Washington, Wil liamston W'hite and Williamston Colored and the colored band from P ,S. Jones High School in Washington. Also participating in the parade will be the popular Farm Life School’s Rhythm Band, riding in a tremendous “shoe float". For the benefit of those who will not be ab'e to get to Wil liamston to witness the big pa rade, special broadcasts will bu carried over Radio Stations WC PS, Tarboro; WRRF, Washington and WIAM, Williamston. These broadcasts will begin at 2:00 PM and continue until 3:00 PM. As mentioned above, the Main Street will be closed to traffic starting at 12:30 PM and will re main closed for one-half hour fol lowing the parade, or until about 3:30 PM ti allow some of the ex pected throng to disperse. Most Williamston firms are planning tu close for two hours, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, to allow the clerks and employees to see the parade. Sev eral of the schools of the county are planning to close their classes al 12 noon on Wednesday. Wednesday evening, in the Planters Warehouse on Haughton Street, the Annual Harvest Ball will be held. Music will be by Dick Levin and his State College Or chestra and dancing will begin at 9:30 PM, continuing until 1:30 AM. The selection and crowning of the Queen of the Harvest will begin at 10:00 PM, and the Queen will be presented with a beautiful (Continued on page eight) Associalhflr&]" - Smiihwick Creek —<$>— The Eat.f.i-Gatsoluiti PrirTwtiv® j Baptist Association will convene | with the church at Smithwicks l Creek on Friday, Saturday and I Sunday, October 2ti, 27 and 28, and a large representation is ex pected from the sister churches and from other denominations. Several ministers from Georgia, Virginia and western North Caro lina are planning to attend and partu riate in the three-day meet ing, it was announced by the pas tor, Elder P. E Getsinger, who is extending a cordial invitation to all to attend. Elders J A Monses of Atlanta, J H. Daily of Sherryville, Va., W, G. Fletcher of Strasburg, Va., C. W Miller of Arlington, Va., A. F. Sudduth of Kimball, Va., T. M. Moore of High Point, and C. T. Mabe of Lawsonville, N. C. are expected to attend and have parts in the program.

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