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I THE 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 87 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 30, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 Several Accidents Reported In Area During Week-End -<?> One tiadly Injured: Prop-j erty Damage Estimated In Excess of 81.000 One person was badly hurt and property damage ran up to about $1,000 in another series of high way and street accidents in this area during the past week-end. Driving east on Highway 64 lust Wednesday afternoon, Bert Gorham started to make a left turn into George Bryant’s filling station, about three miles from Williams ton, when an Edenton Cadillac started to pass Gorham suffered a slight shoulder injury. Damage to Gorham’s old model pick-up truck was estimated at $25 and that to the Cadillac at $100. Only minor damage resulted when Elmer Parrisher’s 1947 Ford and a car driven by Wilmer Whitehurst crashed at the Rail road and Roberson Street inter section in Robersonville last Sat urday evening. One estimate plac ed the damage to the Parrisher car at about $35. No one was hurt Driving a Chevrolet truck on the River Road near the Everett Estate farm, Jasper Harrell start ed to make a left turn into a driveway just as Joe Whitfield was making ready to pass in his 1951 Oldsmobilc. No one was hurt but damage to the Olds was esti mated at $500 and that to the truck at $25 by Patrolman R. I1. NuiTon who made the investiga tion. Sunday morning about 11:00 o’clock, James Benjamin Howell lost control of his 1941 Plymouth nn the route from Corey’s Cross Roads to Smithwicks Creek and turned it over twice. Haywood Johnson, about, forty years old ■nd a tenant on the H. C. Green farm, was said io nave suffered j a neck injury, possibly a broken j neck, in the accident. Said to! have been under the influence ; of liquor, Johnson was lying on the ground when Patrolman R. P. i Narron reached the scene The officer was assured that Johnson ; was not hurt, Johnson’s wife and | others saying, “He’s just drunk”. j The patrolman investigated and. Johnson said he was all right ex eept he had a pain in his back. Johnson was placed in a car and then said he was all right. After clearing up the wreck, Patrol man Narron lechecked Johnson, asking him if he could walk. Johnson got out of the car and walked about fifty feet and buck (Continued on Page Six) Employ Forester In This District Martin County Forest Ranger M. H. Leggett announced today that the Department of Conserva tion & Development Division of Forestry has recently employed another forester, Mr. John Davis, for this District. Davis will be located at the district headquarters in Elizabeth City but will be available to heip woodland owners of this County with their forest problems. The greater part of his time will be spent on Forest Management work throughout the district, lie has had several years experience in tins work.,and. it. uufelt that he wiii be of a great assis tance to the people of this area. County Ranger Leggett urges the woodland owner." of Martin County to take advantage of this service. Any one desiring forest management assistance should contact him or write direct to the district forester in Elizabeth City. FOURTEEN HI NDUED I l - Canvassers have signed up 1,400 members for the farm llureau in this county, leav ing only six hundred to go be fore the current goal is reach ed, it was announced at a meeting of the committee held in the agriculture build ing last Friday evening. Another meeting of the committee will be held on November 9, and it is hoped the goal will have been reach ed by that time. Jamesville’s New Christian Chureli Built at a cost of approximately $20,000, Jamesvi lie’s new Christian church was used for the fust time Sunday with a full worship and fellowship program. Many former members of the church who had moved away down through the years, including several of its supporters of more than half a century ago, returned for the homecoming-day program anti participated in the wor ship services and enjoyed a bountiful picnic dinner. Advance Plans To Modernize Taylor Dairy Plant Here -<*• Manager In Roportin^j For Duly Friday ; Mach- j iiu* I'a|htIimI Soon Plans for modernizing Taylor's Dairy here are going forward rap idly and with the wholehearted support of the people, one of tin best plants in this section of northeastern North Carolina will | be in full operation by the latter i part of this year or early in 1952, according to information released by the owners today. J. W. Howard, a specialist in tile dail^v field who lias be-eli con nected with the industry fori eighteen years, is reporting here | on Friday of this week to take over the active management of the plant He is moving his fam ily here from Chattanooga where he managed the United Dairies. Making a survey of this area a short time ago, Mr. Howard was impressed by the potentialities of a plant here, botli from the stand point of production and distribu tion. While tobacco income fig ures prominently in the economy of this section, he sees the dairy and beef cattle industry as hold- j ing great promise right hen- in Martin and adjoining counties. He stressed the value of having a plant available right here at home, declaring that its operation could and will mean a great deal to the community and section. Its operations interrupted for a while, the new owner! are mak ing every effort possible to re-es tablish it, and carry to completion the plans of the late V G. Tay lor who wanted to see this county come into its own in the dairy field. “W» have encountered many obstacles, but we are doing our best to meet them to the com- , (Continued on Page Five) Bountiful Feasts Served In County Bountiful feasts—spnitual and materia!—were enjoyed in vari ous sections of the county Sunday when religious groups got to gether for worship services and picnic dinners. At Smithwicks Creek, the church concluded a three-day as sociation, the event attracting mnisters from at least three states and a large crowd for the ser vice and fellowship Sunday. Other services and picnics were held in Hamilton. Everetts, James ville and Fairview, reports de flating tiiat the attendance as large and the preparations were ample to provide for crowds two and even three times the size of those present. I WOUNDED I \_✓ IM'c. Alfred Hollis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy lloliis of near Williams ton, was wounded in Korea on October 13, according to information reaching here a few days ago. A personnel letter to a rel ative stated that he was hurt in the leg and that he hoped to get out of the hospital sometime in early November. Answering a draft call, the young man went overseas soon after he finished his bas ic training and was in the thick of the fight a few days later. Alton L. Sheppard Stabbed To Death In County Sunday —•— . ! ('awlannit* Sutton, Admit* Attack ami Ulaiin* Self-Defense -—-4/ Alton Lee Sheppard, 20- 1 year-old Negro, was stabbed to death b> Castannie Sutton, 35 year-old colored woman, in the Sutton home near Parmele about 12:15 o’clock last Sunday morn ing. Using an ice pick, the woman drove the blade into a main ar terv near the victim’s heart and he walked a few feet before fall ing to the floor dead. The killer was arrested by Rob ersonville and county officers at j her home and placed in jail to ' await a preliminary hearing be- ! fore Justice Chas. R Mobley in the courthouse Wednesday eve- ! riing at 7:30 o’clock Sheriff M j W. Holloman said tin. woman ad mitted the attack, but claims she acted in self-defense. Act r:Hr.-g- to—the ’■;*•, -Sh.-p - j pard, a roomer in the Sutton home for the- past few months, j and the Sutton woman dined that j evening at. a piccolo joint operat- I ed by Thomas Clav on the Par mele Bethel Highway. Sheppard had some friends down from New York and he wanted the Sutton woman to accompany them to some other night spot. She refus ed to go with them and returned to her home with someone else Sheppard followed in another car. Upon reaching the house, he dragged her into a bedroom (Continued on Page Five) -$ Man Dangerously Cnl Here Saturday Slight - - A dangerous attack was made by Levi Jones on Warren Griffin, both colored, on Washington Street here last Saturday night. Few details of the attack could be had immediately, but officers | said that 35 stichcs were neces sary to close the knife wounds in Griffin’s body. County Boy Hero In Fight To Take Korean Hill 851 _—«— Son of !Vlr. mimI *!Y1 i*m. K. 4], Harrison I’assrs The Aniiiiiiniliou —♦—: By ( pi. Chuck Francisco Combat Correspondent With the 7{h Infantry Division U. S. Army, in Korea.- Hill 851 ii a burned and barren handmaid in the moun-taifis of central Nortl Korea. Unlike the mountain: which surround* it', Hill 851, has nc vegetation except for a few char red stumps of once lofty trees. Until recently, QI’s -of the* 17th Infantry (Buffalo! Regiment re ferred to the peak as “Old Biddy" Now 851 is called ‘Blood Hill” oi the ‘‘Million Dollar Hill.” This is the story of one battal ion’s gallant struggle on 8517 bloody slopes. This is a story ol death and unbelievable courage This is the story of the 17th's thirc battalion as told to me by five North Carolina men who surviv ed one of the bloodiest battlei of the Korean War to date. Corporal Odell H. Pugh, Ashe boro, knocked out two heavy Chi nese hunkers with direct hit: from his 57mm recoilless rifle Private Erse 11 Kearney, Hender son, kept his (idiom mortar tubf red hot, Private Eli D. Harrison Williamston, dodged death time and again bringing up the am munition, Corporal Clyde L. Wal ker, Roxboro, and Private Clar ence 11 Hill, Raleigh, fought with bayonets when their ammunition supply gave out This is their story! For 78 days in succession, the jagged heights of 851 had been hit with artillery, napalm, and 500 pound bombs, but the Reds were fiof.r.YSQ hUi'd in.their heavy for tifications. Another Americar Army regiment had sufferer heavy casualties m an earlier at tempt to wrest the peak from thi fanatical Chinese And now i1 was a must! The '‘Buffaloes” hac to take that fortress it the UF forces were to control the region It was a cool, rainy fall morn (Continued on Page Five) Lonesome Soldier Asking For Hail —<t— In a short letter, Pvt. Janie; David Lilley, Jamseville youni man, went right to the point, e* plaining that he was in Korea anc that “it gets mighty lonesome” He added that letters from horm and friends would be greatly ap preciated. His address: Pvt. Jame. David Lilley, U. S. 58052216, Co. B, 79th Engrs. Cons. Bn., APO 301, Care PM, San Francisco, Calif. Hundreds Attend Services In New Janesville Church Kuildiu^ Ju*t CompleUsl t» list'd For First Time Sunday Morning -<§» With representatives of all the denominations in the community and a goodly number of former members and friends from several states participating with them, members of the Jamcsville Chris tian Church and their pastor, the Rev. Harold Tver, occupied then new church home there Sunday morning for the first time. A full program was planned, including Sunday school, morning worship, a bountiful picnic din ner, a fellowship service that af ternoon and that evening the first in a series of revival services was held. Following tlu' Sunday school hour, the church was filled to overflowing for the morning wor ship service. The Rev. Mr. Tver chose for his sermon topic, "A House Big Enough for God." Spe cial music was rendered by Jas per Holliday and Giles Stallings with Mrs. A. J Holliday at the piano. The entire community joined the membership in preparing and spreading a bountiful picnic din ner which was enjoyed by possi bly more than 500 visitors and friends. That afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, Giles Stallings and Arthur Wal lace Lilley whose grandfather was instrumental in establishing the first church for the denomination in Jamcsville more than sixty years ago, led a fellowship serv ice. Mr Stallings sang, ‘‘It Is Well with My Soul," and Mr. Jas per Holliday sang, "I Walked To day Where Jesus Walked.” An impromptu quartet composed of Messrs. Jasper, Macon, Monroe and Andrew Holliday, Jr., sang, “In the Garden.” The Rev John L. Goff, pastor of the Williamston Christian Church, preached that evening, opening a series of services which will be held each evening through Friday of this week. Among those from out of the county, including many members who had moved away, returning for the special event, were: Mr and Mrs. Leon S. Bray of Roper, Mrs. C. C. Rawls of Suf folk, Mr. and Mrs. Odin A Brown of Norfolk, Miss Betty McAllister of Roper, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Griffin of Goldsboro, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Aber, Jr., of Green ville, Miss Angelum Leggett of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Russ of Greenville, Henry Leggett of Fort Jackson, Miss Wyni Ever ett, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hardison. Jimmy Mitchell, Ted Bowen and Mrs. J. B. Mitchell of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Corey of Wake Forest, J H Riddick of Plym outh, Mrs. R. C. Abee, Sr., of Greenville, Miss Jeannette Tous ley of Boston, J. F. Hardison of (Continued on Page Six) Gus Hooper Died Sunday Evening —♦— Gus Hooper, respected colored citizen of this county, died at his home near James v!!<- Sunday night. He had been in declining health for some time. Hooper, 74 wars of age, 'eve employed by the Jamcsville fish ery for many years, and had many friends in the Jamcsville commun ity. Surviving arc his widow ant several children. f w hom; statk A report in the last Sun day New Vork Times eaused considerable excitement in the commercial world in these parts, but it was clear ed away when it was learned that the paper had the wrong state. The Textron Corporation, the paper said, was planning to build a plant in Williams ton, N. C. After several papers called here for information, including one or two in Vir ginia, it was found that the paper referred to Williams ton, South Carolina. Finial Hearing Held In Drainage District Project In the Ross Swamp Estimated To Cost $61,782.00 Differences Ironed (hit In Most Cases At Hearing Monday Afternoon Following a final hearing Mon day afternoon in the courhouse, everything is now just about set to launch a second drainage pro ject in this county, according to a representative of the approxi mately 170 petitioners. Only a few asked to be heard when the two viewers, Messrs. G. A. Oglesby and J. 11. Lillard, at torneys, engineers and about forty interested citizens met in the courtroom One report stated that much misunderstanding was cleared away and differences were ironed out, leaving only a very few in direct opposition to the plan. It is possible but not likely, according to one report, that those few will carry their cause to court. If there is no court action, it is likely that assessments will be figured within the next few days, opening the way for bids on the project. Included among those asking to be heard were, O P. Roberson Kstate, G C. Taylor, J J. Johnson, John D. Roberson, Mrs. Wm. Gray, Mrs. J. T. Tay lor .Mrs Kmm; Powe^. Mill Lida Congleton, Mrs. Mary Wool ard, II 15 Roberson, J F. Mat thews and Claude Smith. The proposed project, for the most part, is centered in a more or less direct line between a point in the railroad running between Everetts and Robersotjville and a point in the railroad running be tween Parmele and Hassell, mak ing a distance of about six miles. Then there are two laterals, one starting in Ross Swamp at or near the O. P. Roberson farm and branching off almost to the towui of Robersonville, and the other branching off the same swamp above the Robersonville Gold Point Highway and extend mg almost to the R. 11 Salsbury farm, west of Gold Point. The en tire project is about ten and one half miles long. It i.-, estimated the project will cost $61,782.82. There are 8,229.2 acres in the project known a.. Martin County Drainage District No. 2, the No. 1 project being centered in the Hear Grass section where work is w'eil advanced. The tentative survey, subject ed to question at the final hear ing Monday, shows 197.5 acres of (Continued on Page Six) Mother Is Charged With Drunkenness -» Queenie Hawkins, the mother who deserted her eight-year-old child in superior court in Septem her when a man was charged with assaulting the daughter, was in the justice ol peace courts last night hooked for public drunken ness and disorderly conduct. The mother told fantastic stor ies, but admitted that she had not j one penny left from the $40 she i had last Saturday and that there | was not enough food in the house | to feed her children. It was also j brought out at the trial that neighbors had gone to the home and washed the children’s clothes I while the mother was in a drunk I en condition. Welfare authorities declared that something needed to be done to correct the pathetic condition Justice Chas. It. Mobley sen tenced the woman to jail for thirty days. The jail term was suspended upon the payment of the costs, and good behavior The defendant had to borrow money to meet the costs. Jailed Saturday, the woman was released Sunday when it was learned that her brother, Mat | thew Williams, had fallen down I a second-story stairway and suf fered a broken neck, and that she wanted to try to get him into a veterans’ hospital. TRIAL RUN "\ j The two highway post of fices, slated to serve the ter ritory between Raleigh and Norfolk with Williamston as a terminal, made the first trial run last Saturday, mak ing ready for regular schedule operations on Thursday of this week. On the first run, the bus out of Raleigh turned around in Washington w hen it got far behind what would have been a regular schedule. On the second run Sunday, the time was made up and yesterday on the third trial run, the op erations were just about on time. Vote Saturday On Plan To Finance Disease Research ■ - *$> Farmers ami Feed Purchas ers, Including: Youths, Fligildc To Vote -* North Carolina farm people will 40 to the polls Saturday, Novem ber 3, to vote on the "Nickels for Snow-How” plan for financing nore agricultural research and ■duration in the State. Polls will ac open from (i:30 a m. to 6:30 p. 11. Regular PMA polling places will be used. All persons who use feed or for tilizer, including women as well as 4 11, FFA, and NFA members with crop or livestock projects, are eligible to vote. No special registration is required. Each per son may vote at the polling place which is most convenient for him, regardless of whether it is in his own township. Two-thirds approval is requir ed to make the plan effective. The referendum covers a period af three years. To be continued beyond that time, the plan would have to be renewed by referen dum in 1954. Agricultural leaders have been urging for the past several weeks that every eligible person vote. The size of the vote east, they say, will indicate how much interest farm people have in solving their production and marketing prob lems. The "Nickels for Know-How” plan, worked out by l<o m leaders themselves, calls lor an assess ment of live cents per ton to be added to the cost of all feed and (Continued on Page Six) Poultry Show And Sale In the County Holding their first poultry show and sale, Martin County Negro •4-11 club members displayed some prize chickens at the county ag riculture building last Thursday morning Poultry Specialists W. G. Andrews and C. J Maupin of Stati College were in charge of -.Ikiw ;»nd AuctluntT'i1' y Johnson handled the* salt* l1 ifty dollars in prizes were awarded the exhibitors, including James Pa ike i of Hamilton, Yarah Wal lace of Everett. . Milton Moore of Gold Point, Eva Dorothea Cor don of Jamosville, LeRoy Little of Woe lard, Franklin Albritton of Hassell, Major Hyman of Oak City, William N. Brown of Biggs and Vera Highsmith and Alton Highsmith of Robersonville There were three Blue ribbon pens; three Red ribbon pens, and four White ribbon pens. Blue ribbon pens won $7 00 each in Prize money; Red, $5.00, and White, $3.50. James Parker, Ham ilton 4-H Club member, showed the Grand Champion pen of pul lets They were bought by his father at $4 50 each. The seven ty pullets sold for $183.75. Money received from the sale of the pullets will be used to buy more baby chicks next year Linflsley Ice &■ Coal Company supported the sale by large pur chases. There were approximately one hundred people present. Tobacco Sales On Market Here Pass 12-Million Mark -<» No Date Mentioned for the Market To (’.lose The C urrent Season -.*> Wililamston’s tobacco market, breaking all records for both pounds and money, passed the twelve million-pound mark last Friday and pushed on up to 12, 161,018 pounds at the does of sales yesterday. Prices, while not up to the re cord figures maintained for near ly a solid month, continue to hold firm A report released late yes terday stated that 78,486 pounds were sold for $45,543.17, a result ing average of $58 03. The 12,161,018 pounds sold so far this season on the local mar ket averaged right at $55.30 per hundred pounds. Light sales are certain during the remainder of the season. While no dosing date has been mentioned, it is .'.ell understood that very little tobacco remains in the growers' hands in this sec tion, and that the season’s end can't be far away. A report released f r the east ern belt by the departments of agriculture, follows: Prices by grades for Eastern North Carolina flue cured tobac co held fairly steady during the tenth week of sales. Quality of the offerings was slightly lower as many farmers in the belt com pleted marketing their crops. Vo umc of sales was fairly heavy for the week as a whole The Federal-State Market News Service reports gross sales for the week ending October 28 totaled 40,895,682 pounds and av eraged $57.91 per hundred. The general average dropped to the lowest point in four weeks of sales and was $2.01 below the pre vious week Season gross sales were brought to 474,097,895 pounds for an average of $55.21. Last year for the full season gross sales totaled 448,247.035 pounds at an average of $56.47. Aveiage prices by grades as compared with the previous week showed a few scattered losses of $1 00 and $2.00 among some of (Continued on Page Five) Find Missing Man Drowned In Creek Missing since the early morn in." nf October 20, Ransom White hurst, 40-veai old local colored man, was found drowned iit Sweet Water Creek between the old Watts landing and the bridge on U. S. Highway t>4 last Friday morning. A search was started Monday when Whitehurst did not return home from the hunt the previous Saturday. Monday night his gun, leaning against a tree, ins clothes neatly piled and two empty gun shells on the ground were found on the creek bank. The creek bot tom was dragged for hours, but the search was handicapped by sumerged logs and tree.limbs. Fri day morning the body surfaced and was said to have been in fair condition. Investigating the death, Coro ner W W Biggs found no sign of foul pi iv and ruled an inquest was unnecessary. It is (airly certain that White burst shot a squirrel and that ho removed his clothes to recover his game which apparently fell on tin other side of the creek or possibly in the water. The body surfaced on the far side of the. stream. His death was the second un timely one reported in the swamps in this section during a period of about one week. ROUND-UP I s___ Six persons, three of them women, were arrested and placed in the county jail last week-end. One each was book ed for murder, public drunk enness, disorderly conduct, assault, liquor and health law violations. All six were colored and the ages of the group mem bers ranged from 20 to 49 years.