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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,«M MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE fas- . ' —1 'i r. -:?1 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COCNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WrEEK VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 96 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 29, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 Postmaster Asks Patrons For Early Nailing This Year .« Offers Suggestions To K\ pdilf Prompt Delivery Of Holiday Mail With the approach of the holi day season, Williamston Post master W. E. Dunn this week appealed for the cooperation of the public in the preparation of Christmas greeting cards and gift parcels in order to facilitate ex peditious handling and avoid un necessary delay and disappoint ment. Mr. Dunn said that pub lic cooperation with postal work ers last year was very gratifying and in the interest of better ser vice he expressed the hope that it would continue. Specific suggestion* to insure the best possible service and least inconvenience were made by the postmistress as follows: 1. Save time by purchasing an adequate supply of stamps in ad vance of the rush season. 2. Mail matter should be plain ly and completely addressed, pre ferably in ink, giving street ad dress, apartment number if any, post office box or rural route and rural box number when ever poss ible. Mail for delivery in larger cities should include the zone number. Sender’s return card should appear in the upper left corner of the address side. 3. Greeting cards should be sent as first-class mail to obtain the best service. Such greetings sent first class may be sealed and con tain personal messages, they are dispatched and delivered first and forwarded if necessary without additional postage. Unsealed Christmas cards, sent as third class mail, may not have any un authorized writing and arc chargeable at 2 cents postage, il weight does not exceed 2 ounces. However, a minimum charge of 3 cents* is made on such cards which measure less than 4 inches long or 2 3-4 inches wide. 4. Patrons having a number of greeting cards to mail are urged to tie them in bundles with ad dtvsscs all faced one way to facil itate handling in the post oft ice. 5. Pack articles carefully and lightly in strong durable con tainers. Wrap and tie parcels se curely with good quality paper and cord, but do not seal unlcss namc and address of sender are shown together with the usual parcel-post inscription. Package* sent by air or parcel post are limited to a miximum of 100 inches length and girth combined, ' The weight limit is 70 pounds. G. To encourage early mailing, senders are permitted to mark • parcels "Do not open until Christ- j mag." In addition, written salu- j tatinns, such as ‘Merry Christ mas,” “With Best Wishes,” etc. | may be enclosed with third or fourth class mail. Do not enclose letters or messages, no matter how brief, in parcels, as to do would subject the entire package to the letter rate. Communica tions enclosed in envelopes pre paid at the letter rate may be se curely fastened to the outside of packages sent by parcel post. 7. Above all, mail greeting cards and packages early, allowing am ple time to reach the addressee before Christmas. Diabetes Detection Clinic Ends Today Today, Thursday, November 29, is the last day citizens of Wil liamston and vicinity can partici pate in the diabetic prevention campaign conducted here this week. The tests are free and any per son even so much as suspicious of a diabetic condition should have a urinal test while this service is free. -- Little Business On Agenda For Officials -*_— Very little business, other than that of a routine nature, has been placed on the agenda for discus sion at the meetings of the coun ty and town board of commission ers next Monday. The county board is scheduled to appoint a tax supervisor, and that is about the only new busi ness planned by that group. It is ! hke'y that M. L. Peel will be re appointed. I Farmers Will Get Checks For Their Peanut Surhlus j Between 1,000 and 1,100 Martin' | County farmers will get Christ-1 I mas presents shortly in the form jot cheeks for peanuts nrndneed i -a.vrjviiv -n\ excess of their regu i 'ar allotments, according to re liable but unofficial informatiom | gained today. It is estimated that right at I $43,500.00 will be distributed by direct mail to the individual grow ers, tenant and landlord. The checks are being made ready in the office of the county agent and will be placed in the mails as j soon as possible. Farmers are ask i ed not to call for the checks unless | instructed to do so. It was pointed out that a few growers who are eligible to par ticipate in the distribution, had not signed applications, and that. checks in those cases would be de- , laycd. As a result of a special plea carried tu the U S. Department ot Agriculture last year bv a North Carolina Senator and oth ers, farmers were assured they would receive about the same price for peanuts planted in excess of the current allotment but not in excess of their 1947 plantings, as they did for their regular al lotment peanuts. The payments about to be made now are the re sult of those arrangements. While no penalty is in effect this year, the surplus peanuts when not in excess of the 1947 plantings, are selling at regular oil prices, with little or no hope that the growers will receive any more than that amount now or ever. Complete Plans For Town-Wide Sale Of Bread Income from Sale Snmlin Afternoon Will Be |l»e<l For School Library On Sunday, December 2 th< Wiliiamston Woman’s Ciub wil conduct a bread sale for the ben efit of the Wiliiamston Schoo Libraries. Recent inventories o library materials show an urgen need for more books and for man.) replacements The Club believe: this work done for the librarie: may be one of its most importan undertakings of the year. Between the hours of 1:00 anc .'1:00 P. M. on Sunday, member: of the Club will knock on the doors of people in the community and offer a loaf of bread in'ex change fur the price of a book the price of the loaf, or any amount which the received may wish to give The Club hopes t+ial members of the community wil feel the need of the undertaking and respond heartily. Where people are not at home the loaf of bread and a copy of the following letter, signed by Mrs Martin Moore, president of the Woman's Club will be left: "This loat of bread has been left at your door by a member of the Wiliiamston Woman's Club Today we arc conducting a bene fit bread sale, the proceeds of which will be used to purchase books for the Wiliiamston School Libraries. "A loaf of bread feeds the body a book feeds the mind The boys and girls of our school need books to food their minds. You can help by contributing the price of a book, the price of the loaf, or any amount which you would like to give. The dollars or pennies which you give will bo turned over to the Wiliiamston School to bo used exclusively for library books. "We felt so sure that you would want to help in this undertaking that we are leaving a stamped ad dressed envelope in which you may mail your contribution. For the sake of the children may we count on you to give generously? We would appreciate an early re sponse so that the children may soon receive the benefits. 1‘lan Antique Show In Rob or non villo I\oxt Hook -® Sponsored by the Eastern Star, an antique show and sale will be held in the Robersonville Masonic Building next Monday and Tues day between the hours of 10:00 a m. and 9:00 p. m., it was an nounced today. Delayed for months, radia tors for the new Martin County Health Center, cor ner of Han ell and Ray Streets, have at last reached here. The heating units are now being installed and final inspection of the plant is ten tatively scheduled for next week. Health authorities, having set several dates lor opening the center, would not mention another date for the formal opening, but “it won't be long now," they said today. r~— -■—-» RESPONSE I The direct mail appeal, urging the purchase of TB Bonds, is meeting with mark success, according to a report from Mr. W. G. Peele, the chairman of the Christmas TB Seal sale in the county this year. However, it was pointed out that few have answered the 2,500 letter appeals, urg ing the purchase of the Christ mas TB seal stickers. “If the seal sale picks up. we’ll go over the top,” Mr. Peele said, urging those who received the seals through the mail to respond svithout further delay. Throngs Greeted Santa Yesterday ■—■— A couple of thousand little folk and quite a few old ones, too, Ciected Santa Claus during his annual visit here in person yester day afternoon. Making a brief stop in the main street near the theaters, Santa and his assistants were just about mobbed by the crowd, but he managed to pack away several hundred letters dur ing the shuffle. Between l,.r>00 and 2,000 bags of candy were distributed to the children by Santa and his helpers in less than eight minutes. Un fortunately, a few were crowded | out while others caught several bags of candy especially bagged I for the event by the Williamston I Boosters. Those few who went without favors found a poor sub stitute in the larger portions of candy purchased as substitutes by parents in the stores. Professoi Jack Butler and his high school band were on the pro gram and played several Christ mas numbers before Santa arrived on the town's fire truck. The pro gram was broadcast over Station WIAM, and the holiday lights were turned on a short time later to officially mark the opi ning of what promises to Ije a great holi day shopping period in Williams ton stores. Eleven Atomic Bombs Exploded —4/ The current service of atomic explosions was ended at the Yuc ca Flat proving ground in Nevada I recently. In the series five atomic I bombs were exploded, making I eleven in all that have been set I off in the United States since the I first atomic bomb explosion in J New Mexico in 1945. Little infor mation as to the results has been made public beyond the state ment that the Nevada explosions were for the purpose of develop ing atomic weapons for use on the battlefield. !\et Farm Income I\ol Likely To (>o Higher | -I—« While 1952 is expected to bring more jobs and higher consumer j incomes, no general income boost is expected for the farmers, ac cording to the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. Farmers’ cash si income may rise next year, but < production costs will rise too, so e that the net income of farmers c will be about the same as this t year. F Packing Company Operating Under New Management — ♦ - lolin B. Robemon amt Geo. M. Peel Lease Roberson Parking Firm - Closed for several weeks, the meat packing plant formerly op erated here by the Roberson Packing Company has been leas ed by John B. Roberson and CJeorge M. Peel and is now being aperated under the name of Wil liamston Packing Company. Op erations were resumed this week under entirely new management, the new operators explaining that they were making every effort to get the plant back in full pro duction as soon as possible. At the present time the plant is employing thirteen persons, in cluding the new managers-opera ors. Besides Messrs. Roberson and Peel the following are connected with the operation of the plant: Thos. Earl Martin, Jasper Jones, Mrs. Magdaline 11. Fisher, book keeper; Dewey Adams, Mrs. Dewy Adams, Mrs. Lula Moore, Burt Ella James, Clara Wilkins, Clay ton Wilkins, Leon Brown and Jodie Coffield. The plant located a short dis tance off Highway 64 in West End has been altered and reno vated, and purchases of hogs and other livestock are being made daily. "We have completed ar rangements for curing meat and handling custom slaughtering," nne of the new managers said to day. The former operator, D. M. Roberson is now devoting all his time to the management of his "arms in Martin, Washington and ryrrell Counties and looking af ter his cattle-herds. -^ Crowded Docket In County Court —~ Resuming Ihcir work after a two-week holiday during which time the superior tribunal was in session, Judge R. T. Johnson and Solicitor Clarence Griffin will find a fairly crowded docket awaiting their attention in the county court next Monday. About forty cases have already been placed on the docket and others are almost certain to find ] their way before the court opens I its sessions Monday morning at I 9:30 o’clock. Several of the cases ' were continued from previous session. Speeding charges, numbering fifteen, lead in the number of cases. Six defendants arc charg ed with drunken driving, three with operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, two with assault and two others with care less and reckless driving, and one each with public drunken ness, violating the liquor laws, i larceny, non-support, hit-and- '• run driving, and issuing a worth- j ess check. -/*> Federal Spending About 70 Billion —•— The Budget Bureau in Wash gton recently forecast that fed eral spending in the fiscal year I ending June 30, 1052, will total " ibout $70,000,000,000,, with a sub- 1 :tantial budget deficit, based on i )resent taxes. The bureau issued i statement putting the ‘obliga ion authority" available to gov- ( •rnment agencies during the fis- j •al year at $39,600,000,000. This is 13,900,000,000 or about four per- j , ent less than the recommends-j ( ions of President Truman to Con ", ;rcss. "Obhgational authority" is not ( he same as appropriations. It in ( ludes all types of new authority 0 incur financial obligations on \ j ichalf of the government, includ- ! J ng new appropriations, and such ( hings as authority to enter into! ontracts for which Congress will j •e called upon for later appropri-j tions. i J --«- j f ) riven Stolon Car Into Oirner’g Sorrier Station , — ♦ — El Dorado, Ai k, — A few hours I f fter reporting his car stolen, Col-' s n Watson recognized a car driv- b 1 into his service station. He; b died the sheriff, who arrested v ic driver, Raymond Charles g hillips. The car was Watson’s. , c Call Married Men For Pre-Induction Physicals Today -- Firs! Timo Married Men Been ('.ailed T«» Report For Preliminary Tests _* Thirteen Martin County men, including several who are mar ried, were called to report for pre-induction examinations this morning. It is the first time that married men have been called for pre-induction since World War II days. A few married men have been inducted into service, hut they married after they had received their calls, it was learn ed. Instead of going to Fayetteville and Fort Bragg, the group left jhorc this morning by regular bus (schedule for Raleigh for their examinations. They are expected to complete the tests in time to get back on a late schedule this evening. It is the first time that men from this county were routed to Raleigh for the examinations, the change cutting off more than 100 miles in travel. (names to follow). The names of those called: White: William Peel Nelson, John D. Lilley, Jr., Francis D. Taylor, Raymond Jasper Mndlin, Moses LeRoy Merritt, Edward Eason Matthews, Jesse Reuben Brown, Tommy Edward Martin and David Rhodes Rogerson. Colored: William Grimes, John Thomas Cloman, Thomas Jeffer son Purvis and James Cox. The original call was for fif teen men, but several including Chas. Felton Keel of Roberson ville, “beat" the draft by enlist ing. Bridge Group In Columbia Meeting -<#•. Members of the Alligator-Croa tan- Bridge Association, meeting in Columbia yesterday, were told to keep "pecking away” at their task, that possibly some day the Alligator River and Croatan Sound would be bridged to ex tend U. S. 64 to the Atlantic. Governor Kerr Scott, address ing the group, said that he work ed thirty-three years for a tele phone, that three days after he was nominated for governor he got the telephone, leaving Ins audience to guess whether the thirty-three years of work or the gubernatorial nomination got him the phone. II is a determined group, and while some pointed out the time is not yet quite ripe for bridging the two bodies of wgter, the as sociation brought its organiza tion up to date with the expecta tion of continuing a claim to midges across the Alligator and "roatan. Martin County was represented it the meeting by County Board Chairman J. H. Edwards, Mayor Robt. Cowen, County Board Clerk 1. Sam Getsinger, Representative ?. G. Anderson, who introduced he governor, Herbert Highsmith, lohn Tyler and R. B. Nelson. Eovernmenl Opens Peanut Warehouse —«.— Acting to relieve the pressure in the open market, the Cornmod ty Credit Corporation opened a tovernmcnt warehouse here to iay and immediately started re viving peanuts. The receiving tat ion is the Carolina Warehouse zhich is being managed by S. C. Iriffin and Leman Barnhill The perators explained that they •'ere having trouble locating suf icient labor to handle the opera ions, but that they would add to heir force just as rapidly as pos ible. The open market is just about lutted today. Between forty and ifty large trucks were fined up at ie plants and other warehouses ere at one time this morning ifhile prices continue to hold rmly to price support levels, >mc of the buyers were said to e imposing limitations on their i uying operations; that is, they j ere bargaining only for peanuts I lading a certain percentage of xtra large kernels. i i i ( ] ( I t t t 1 v (, C *q h t f h t t. P R o n Cl /l h Ji tf n 1> ai bi et Ci Give Small Amount In Alienation Suit r Contrary to stories, telling about an increase in quotas for 1952 in North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco crop, there will be little or no increase in individual allotments. It is true the allotment is being upped from 710,717 acrc«,s to 744,348 acres, but that in crease is being allowed for making adjustments and pro viding small acreages for new growers. After producing a record crop this year, tobacco far mers are of the opinion that quotas should be held to old figures and possibly reduced a bit. County and Towns Receive $24,140.00 From Sale Of Beer —•— Kali mated $ Utii.OOO.OO SjH'iil For Itccr In War Fiulrd Scplciiihcr ,‘iO « Martin County and its eight in corporated towns received $24, 140.titi in thii form of a per crown tax on tin' sale of beer and wine from October 1, 1950, until Sep tember 30, 1051, according to un official figures released here this week. Marlin County received $1(1, 530.35 as its share, based on about 37 cents per capita The several towns shared, as follows: Jamesville ,$401.07; Williams on, $4,341.82, including $4,201.37 m beer sales and $140.45 on wine iales; Everetts, 212.04; Roberson I’ille, $1,234.04; Parmele, $345.34; lasscll, $1 19.57; Hamilton, $434.07; I ind Oak City, $452.06. | Beer sales are taxed at the rate ] if a 2 1-4 cents per bottle, the state of North Carolina roeoiv ng half, and the county and owns sharing.the other half. The ipproxiinalely 290 towns and ■ounties sharing in the tax. are o 'reviving $2,298,402.51 Charlotte i tot the lion’s share distributed to own and cities, the Mecklenburg netropolis receiving nearly $117, (00 The amounts were as low as ill.82 for some towns in the \ State. The tax this year is about $200 (00 greater than it was last year 1 It is estimated that beer and vine drinkers in this county spent ' (Continued on Page Six) ; -- < flaking Plans For tloodmobile Visit C —*— Miss Mary Quinlan, field repre rotative of the Tidewater Blood . 'enter in Norfolk, met with local ted Cross workers and volunteers r ere today and discussed plans for . re third visit of the center’s , loodmobile on Friday, Deeembei 4. , She reviewed the recruiting ] mrk and stressed the importance f f meeting the requirements Miss ) •uinlan explained that when ( uotas are not met, the cost of , andling the program is inereas t rl, creating anothei problem for ic project. Recruiting work is progressing r lirly rapidly throughout the | hapter, but no complete reports | ave been received frorn 'afty of ie recruiters. During the mean me, volunteers may pledge a int of blood by contacting the f ed Cross office in the City Hall ^ ■ Bill Spivev and Wheeler Man ing, chairman of the recruiting immittce. ranks Ann In hill it llis Ilium> ISmr Jaini'svilh• ■-« Simon Barber fell anrl broke s left arm in his home in imesville Wedm glay. Date for e Ruritan Club meeting, Barber ished through his home on new waxed floors and in the fall his m was broken between the ol iw and shoulder. He is now re iving treatment in the Brown immunity Hospital. Special Term 01 Court Ended At Noon Wednesday • — l‘V\» Big; Cases Settled By Agreement; Judgments Are lYmling -* The Martin County Superior Jourt, opening a two-week term >n Monday of last week for the trial of eivil eases only, folded its ent yesterday noon, after clearing i few long eases from its calendar Several eases were continued for one reason or another, and in one ;>r to big cases agreements were reached but judgments were not entered immediately. One case, involving a fairly sizable amount, was continued when it was ex plained that an expert witness was at the mile-high race track out in Colorado. The $25,000 alienation of affec tions suit, brought by Thurston Davenport against Leroy Reed, claimed most of the time the court was in session this week and at tracted possibly more attention than ail the other eases combined. Taking the ease shortly before the noon recess Tuesday, the jury returned a verdict about 3:30 o'clock, favoring tin plaintiff. The jury found that the defendant had alienated the affections of the plaintiff's wife and rewarded the plaintiff with a $250 judgment to be paid within ten days If the judgment is not satisfied by that time, the defendant, Reed, is to be irrested and jailed. After the verdict was announc 'd, Judge W. II S, Burgwyn, pre siding over the term, openly ox Dressed his opinion in the ease, minting out that he was going Hv Plow the verdict to stand, and ■xplaining that if he had been on he jury he would not have given he plaintiff a penny. The jurist hen opened up on the plaintiff, laying, "lie (Davenport) is about is sorry as any fellow who has ■ver come into my court. He ihould have been indicted for mating his wife, and if he had >een and I could have had an.v hing to do with it lie would be on he roads instead of being plain iff in a case in which he asked or money to keep himself up.” I'he judge frowned down upon htvenport’s wrist watch, sharp oed shoes and loud neck tie. 11 lias been pointed out that the lefendant allegedly deserted a vifo in an institution for the in ane, and married the plaintiff's i x-wife. A consent judgment was enter 'd m the case of Emma White gainst the Coastal Plain Life In urance Company, the plaintiff re eiving $250 of the $500 asked. The nsured wms alleged to have been offering at the time the insur nee was placed in effect with an ilment that resulted in his death ’he beneficiary received an mount about equal to the value f the premiums paid. In the ease of Hattie Reid gainst Nathaniel Reddick and R. I Peel. Edgar Gurganus was ap ointed receiver by the court to like in his possession all proper y set out in a lien and file and iventory with the court within airly days. An appeal from a justice of the eaee court in the case of Mal ison Oil Company against James .olid was dismissed when the cie .mdant failed to answer when (Continued on Page Six) -N 1*1 AiN KI.KCTION I Meeting lu-re next Monday morning, the Martin County Production-Marketing Ad niiiiistratiun Coinmittee and eliairmen of the several com munity committees will make < plans for the annual Triple i A nominating conventions and elections, it was .immune- l ed by the clerk today. \ it is likely that the nomi- I nating conventions will be v liehl the latter part of next < week with the elections to follow possibly during the l second week in December. c To Lower Peanut Acreage Figures For Next Season "'laJr'Kiiihtr Mlotuirnt To t)n i * |{\ -» - lii.000 Acres The U. S. Agricultural Depart ment has announced a 1952 pro duction control calling for harvest of $650,000 tons of peanuts for sale as nuts Farmers will be free to grow additional amounts for livestock feed and for sale for conversion into oil. But prices for the pea nuts diverted into oil will be con siderably lower than those at which the Department will sup port prices for nuts grown for eating. The program set a national planting allotment of 1,673,102 acres for edible peanuts. This compares with 1,806,017 allotted for the 1951 crop. The Department said the 1952 allotment may be increased later for types which may be deter mined to be available in insuffi cient quantities This year a spec ial allotment of 83,299 acres was added for Virginia and Valencia types. The Department said a decline m domestic use of peanuts for commercial edible purposes in re cent years is not expected to be offset entirely by population in crease and larger military re quirements. This year’s production of pea nuts for edible and oil purposes has ben estimated at about 819,000 tons. The acreage for harvest has been reported at about 2,255,008 acres. Under next year's program, as was the case this year, planting allotments and marketing quotas for peanuts for edible purposes will he set for individual farms. Peanuts grown in excess of such quotas may be- sold to the ^Department for diversion into oil. "The price to he paid for such pea nuts will be the equivalent of the prevailing market value of pea nut oil and meal, less the esti mated storing, handling, selling and crushing cost. This year prices for peanuts sold for oil have been about half those of the edible type peanuts. Quotas were set up under au thority of a farmer referendum held last year approving rigid controls for the 1951, 1952 and 1953 crops. The acreage allotments for edi ble peanuts for 1952 compared v\ k h 1951 bv states included: South Carolina, 14,282 and 15,342; Tennessee, 3,704 and 3,979; Vir ginia, 109,678 and 117,819; and North Carolina 175,429 and 188, 451. Local Young Nan Marketing Game —•— As its inventor, Hilly Mercer, local young man, is marketing through a New York toy manufac turer a unique football game un der the title of Quai terbacking with Choo Choo Justice. The game, based largely on the ability of one player to outguess or outmaneuver the other, was placed on sale in the Firestone store here a few days ago and the supply was quickly bought up. Repeat orders have been made and additional games are expect ed shortly. The invention has been copy righted, and reports point to volyme sales. Child Struck By Auto Yesterday Ed Purvis' seven-year-old boy, was struck by a car on the main street here yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock just before Santa Jlaus came to town. The little fellow dashed into the itreet and into the path of the ;ar and was knocked down, land ng about ten feet away. Examined in a local hospital, he little fellow was found little corse for the wear and tear, and ic insisted that he he allowed to eturn up town and see Santa 'laus. He was carried to the hospital y Miss Marie Peel, driver of the ar, and Mr. Joe Blythe.