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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK »•«■*#<¥ m»W*46 • i4»t; -(,il» »' ---vmw*# •*,* -V ■-*•««•. , '• -■■••+***'. ..-M* .'-i -I «.*'«!* f -I •-rmmi.lt SggF’ ■ .*-*%-•**¥ J» * .... .. « J THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LY -* -NUMBER 52 ft illiumslon, Marlin County, ISorlh Carolina, Thursday, June 26, l,f.~>2 ESTABLISHED 1899 CalLIweaLy-JLijuv Cases In County's Court On Monday Fin**** A*t*l lip To $720,011 i turnip Short Session I Of The Tribunal -sS> Fines added up to $720 in the Martin County Recorder's Court when the tribunal was in less than a three-hour session last Monday morning. Twenty-nine cases, in cluding a number of speeding charges, were called by Judge R. T. Johnson and Solicitor Clarence Griffin. Proceedings: Pleading not guilty, Fred Doug i™s Reynolds was adjudged guilty of drunken driving and was fined $100, plus costs. He appealed and bond was lixed at $200. Kenneth Odell • Brickhouse, charged with public drunkenness, was found not guilty. In the case in which Ed and Laura Brewington were charged with violating the liquor laws, Laura was adjudged not guilty. Found guilty, Ed was fined $25 plus a $5 fine for being late and tl™ court costs. A four-month road sentence was suspended. Charged with drunken driving, Leggett Roebuck called for a jury trial and his case was automati cally placed on the superior court docket. Pleading innocent, Elmer Rodg ers was adjudged guilty of drunk en driving and was sentenced to the roads for six months, the sen tence to be suspended upon the Payment of a $100 fine, plus costs. He appealed and bond was re quired in the sum of $200. Billy R. Waters of Cary was taxed with the costs for speeding. Charged with being drunk and participating in an affray, Lucy Mae Hayes and Luke Williford both pleaded guilty, and each was fined $10, plus costs. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Horace Sherman, Jr., was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of the ^ourt costs. Charlie Razor was charged with careless and reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle while his driver's license was revoked. The reckless driving case was nol pressed, and the defendant plead ed guilty of operating a car while his license was revoked. He was sentenced to the road for ninety .»! K I i d V10 - , -•••<«»> * roads lor six upon the payment of a $200 fine and costs. Thomas R Whitehurst was tax ed with the costs for speeding, af ter pleading not ■•■ft" 'TJXr.'g-’-gu:ftv >: n»n-*U{ i.he ii to the sentence to be suspended upon the payment of the court costs and $4 a week for the support of his illegitimate child. Charlie H. Crowe and Joe R. SjWller both pleaded guilty of operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, and each was lined $25, plus costs. George R. Bullock of RFD 1, To iLm^jrnidJoh n W. / Lews ol RFD*" l', " Rpbersonvilie, pleaded guilty of speeding and were taxed with the court costs. Operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license, Hgber Carr was fined $?fi, pKtt. costs. . Sam A. Vanlandingham was fin e<jL$10. plus costs, for speeding. Charged with operating a motor (Continued on page eight) W.J. Green Will Upheld By Court The will of Willie J. Lyons Green, batted around in the courts following her death several years ago^as been upheld in the courts, and everything has been settled, leaving the heirs named in the instrument with an estate unof ficially valued at several thousand dollars. The latest and last attempt to have the will set aside was made by a relative in New York. The court ruled that the will was pro perly made. While the latest caveator re curves notiiing, the court, as a re sult of the suit, stipulated law yers’ fees at $600, as follows: Critcher and Guiganus, $200; H. G. Horton, Peel and Peel, Chas. H. Manning, and LeRoy Scott, j §100 each. j l&JnnexsuIn Jayce£, B°auty Pageant Misses Jackie Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Harris of Williamston, Jean Carrol Griffin (left), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Griffin of Griffins, and Dannette Bailey (right), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Bailey of near Williamston, were chosen winners from a field of fourteen contestants in the annual Williamston Jaycec Beauty Pageant held last week in the local high school auditorium. Miss Harris will represent the local Jaycecs at the State meeting to be held in Winston-Salem next month. Japanese Beetles Invading Sections Of Martin County Comparatively free up until | this year, Marlin County is being invaded by Japanese beetles in numbers, especially in the Farm Life section of Griffins Township. Farmer Henry Corey told As sistant Farm Agent S. A. Tuten here this week that the beetles were about to wipe out a soy bean j patch and were also devouring certain types of weeds. Farmer Coy Griffin also reported the pre sence of beetles on his farm in the same section of this county Far l;,C i Cl' :v V. V*-or» --.'•'Cl j comb!'1 ot 'lie vests Horn a litutis. Cil aiea this week and delivered them to the agent’s office. Beetle traps have been main tained in this county several HOLIDAY r "\ j In keeping with established custom, The Enterprise will ; U*v*i.»nlv one edition nest week, making it' the personnel to observe a three-da.v July 4 holiday. Announcements, programs and church notices will be combined for publication in the Tuesday edition, and copy submitted early will be great ly appreciated. One day, July 4, will be ob served gent rally as .a holiday by other business firms here. Taking Part In Big Maneuvers With Marine Aircraft Group 24 in the Cariboean.—Private First Class D. Pritchard Lindsley. son of Mt. and Mis. K. P. Lindsley, of Watts Street, Williainston, is cur rently participating in militaiy] maneuvers in Puerto Rico. Including fighting planes, ground control intercept units, re inforced land forces and Naval units, the maneuvers are design ed to improve the combat profi ciency of Marine and Navy fight ing elements. Islands in the Caribbean are be ing utilized for headouarters and firing areas during the exercise, designated TRAEX-1, under the command of Brigadier General L. D. Cresswell, USMC. years, but none was caught as far as it could be learned, and those taken by Farmer Corey were the first seen in this immediate area, the agent was quoted as saying. Using a DDT powder, Farmer Corey is working to check the beetle, but it is fairly certain that the pest will spread, endangering i just about all kinds of crops, fruit trees and even grass. It is not certain, but the beetles are believed to have worked their way into this county from neigh ' bin ine Beaufoit where they have v-ist t:, sep- ’ "■ vi « ■lion loi i wo 01 vuois. . i iic beetle when a gi on the roots of plants and when developed it comes to the surface to attack the foliage. Teacher Quotas In This County A planned i eduction in the teach7?iL loud 1: om 3'2'Vn' jo pupils will possibly add four teachers in the county school system, accord ing to preliminary estimates. Kv£:.'.V-.^4nL' bf-'-ng * teachers will be added in the col ored schools and one in the white schools. However, the white /schools are losing one teacher in the Oak City elementary depart 'ment, and another as a result of the Faint Life High School con solidation, meaning that the num ber of white teachers will be re duced by one. These figures are only tentative ones, it was explained. County Boys In I Chance Meeting —<*—— Meeting by chance in a supply depot in Japan early last week, Jesse Gray Lilley of Griffins Township and David Carson of Williamston had a great time talking about home and old friends back home. War, it was said, never even entered into the conversation, the young men were so busy talking about home dur ing the hour they were together. Pic. Lilley was en route to Ko rea, it was reported. Crops Damaged By Hoi-Dry Season —*— Crop conditions in certain areas of this and several other counties were said today to be nearing the critical stage as a. result of the, hot dry weather. Crops are suf fering generally, hut in a streak touching the Smithwiek's Creek area and extending into James viHe Township they have been al most wiped out. Other than one or two light showers, no rain has fallen in that area in more than a month. Tobacco is burning up and the corn crop is tasseling >ut at point about'.half the normal i 1'iei'gVn ol the stalk, tCV/.b. tfeoTai - i» ; 'the dry season is being aggra vated seriously by •record high temperatures. Yesterday, the mercury climbed to 100 degrees, and even warmer weather is in prospect before today is spent. Comparisons are not available hut it is fairly certain that the hot spell this June has broken all re cords in this section. -« . His condition improved, Mr. J. E. King returned to his home .yes terday after receiving treatment in a local hospital for several weens. —-«-» SLIGHTLY IMPKOVEI) -» Entering Duke Hospital Tues da yfor treatment and possibly an operation next week, Mr. Redden Leggett was reported slightly im proved this morning. ( KliADY TO GO I Williamston’s fourth deep well, located on the grounds at the municipal water plant on South Sycamore Street, is hooked up and already to go into production. Clearance by the State Health Department is being awaited, the depart ment superintendent explain ing that the three old wells have barely been able to meet . the great demand existing in recent weeks. Costing $16,000, the new well is guaranteed to produce 350 gallons of water per min ute. It is the eighth deep well that has been dug here since the early twenties, four of them having been abandoned. ! Funeral Service In Rgbersonviile For Mrs. Norman -,$> I’romiiu'iit Oli/t-u Dies! Vi Her Home Tire, e Tues day of a Heart At lurk ■-<S> Mrs. Margaret Peel Norman, ] prominent citizen of Robersonville and wife of Henry C. Norman, died at her home in Robersonville at 9:00 o'eock Tuesday night. Death came unexpectedly follow ing a brief illness. A daughter of the late Lafayette Peel and wife, she was born in Robersonville (18 years ago and was married to Mr. Norman in early womanhood. She was a member of the Rob ersonville Missionary Baptist Church for many years, serving as treasurer of the Woman's Mission ary Society, succeeding her moth er who had held that post of duty for a number of years. Mrs. Nor man was devoted to the church, serving it with her presence and supporting it after a liberal man ner. She was devoted to her fam ily and was held in high esteem by her many friends and aequain ta nccs. A charter member of the Rober sonvillc Book Lovers' Club, Mrs. (Continued on Page Eight) Interruption In Power Service An interruption to electric serv ice, scheduled to last approxi mately one hour, is planned over the lines of the Virginia Electric and Power Company starting at 2:00 a. in., Sunday, June 29, ac cording to an announcement re leased today by A. L. Jameson, managur of the Company's Albe marle District. Affected bv the interruption will be Roberson ville, Everct’ts, Williamston, Hear Grass, Jamesville, Cross Roads, Farm Life, Plymouth, Roper, Maekeys, Creswcll and Columbia. The interruption is necessary in order that equipment may be placed within the company’s transmission line near Williams ton to improve service. In case of inclement weather, the interruption will occur Mou day morning, June JO, at the same time. Thomas Norwood Died Early Today Thomas. N-.i".'. ! <• 111 iii tann er, died 31 ‘his home in Rober«<>n villc this morning at 2:40 o'clock following eight weeks of critical illness. Hi1 had been in declining health several years, and moved from the farm to Robersonvilie five years ago. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Bessie Edmondson; two sons, Paul Norwood of Hob cisonville and Thomas Norwood Norfolk., and two grandehil He was a member of the Primi tive Baptist Church at Spring Green for a number of years. Funeral services will be con ,j)'u.;led\ i nthe vil’n ••■sissr mitive Baptist Church Friday af ternoon at 4:00 o’clock by Elders W. E. Grimes and A. B. Ayers. Interment will be in th< Ilober sonville Cemetery. - ■ --- Import Labor To Harvest Tobacco —1>— Junes County growers have ar ranged for 350 workers from Ala bama to arrive next week to spend about six weeks helping to harvest the county's tobacco crop. Money has already been advanced for their transportation to the county and they have guaranteed money for the return trip after the work is finished. I’itt County growers have made similar arrangements for about 200 farm workers from Georgia to aid in their tobacco crops for about six weeks, starting July 1, Curtis Gilliam, assistant State farm placement supervisor, re ports. Plans are under way for bringing about 75 tobacco work ers to Hat nett County from Flori da within a few weeks. Listless Election Is Predicted In Conn tv * J Vote Expected To' Fall Below 1,000 Nark On Saturday I’arkrr anil llohhilt Only (laudiiluto In Slate* Vk i»l«* Contest Nmth Carolina voters will choose either R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids or William II. Bobbitt of Charlotte as their nom inee for associate justice of the North Carolina State Supreme Court in a second State-wide pri mary election to be held on Satur day of this week. But Martin County voters, lor the most part, are executed to take a compara tively small part in the nominat ing vote. The contest has attracted little j attention in this county, and it is ! fairly certain the total vote count will fall below the 1,000 mark. Some political observers doubt if the vote will exceed the 750 fig ure. There are no other contests in this county to make for a large vote, and the contest for associate justice is not expected to attract even a moderate size vote on its own. The judgeship race is the only State-wide one, but the vot ers will decide the nominee for both the short and regular terms. In the first primary, Associate Justcic I. T. Valentine led the ticket in this county by a wide margin. Judge Parker was second, holding a substantial lead over the others in the race. Judge 1!. Hunt Parker is well known in this and other countie ; where he has presided over sup crior court terms for a number of years, and he is expected to take a commanding lead in the east. However, William 11. Bob bitt, a superior corut judge him self, is well known in the Pied mont and west where the prepOn derance of the vote is found. On that basis he Isolds a distinct nil vantage Judge Bobbitt was a prominent practicing attorney in Charlotte before lie went on the superior court bench in 1938. lie | is a graduate of the University of | North Carolina and a native of Raleigh. He has been assigned mainly to (lie courts in th" west as resident judge of the Mecklen burg-Gaston District for fourteen years. Since the contest is expected to occasion no great interest m this • 111" t , I . ‘ 1^ [- - ...» 'i*'.' i —V. >'; no election "pacts ” Saturday eve rung. Ho we v> i ,• thr-ffl?..' and Ob server and the United Press As (Continued on Page Eight) Inspect Tobacco Test Farms Soon Tobacco growers and others in n li sted in experimental work at the various Tobacco Te.,1 Farms arc invited to attend organized tours which wili be conducted during July. Experiments which will be of most interest 4.0 .t'rMiW .rr being conducted on Te: ‘ Farms In cuted at Greenville, Rocky Mount and Oxford. The dates for the tours and some of the experiments which may be observed are as follows: Lower Coastal Plain Station, Greenville, Tuesday July 1, be ginning at 2:00 p. m : Black Shank resistant variety breeding plots; minor elements; hail damage; va licty demonstration; orgnaie vs. mineral fertilizers; spacing; and cultivation. Upper Coastal Plain Station, Rocky Mount, Wednesday, July 2, beginning ..I 0 00 a in. M1001 cie. ments; hybrid work; variety tests; spacing—variety test; insect con trol, hail damage; organic vs mineral fertilizer; and cultivation Oxford Test Farm, Oxford, July 14, 15, 10, 17 and 18, a complete tour each day beginning in the morning: Minor elements; stage of ma turity and curing; spacing and va riety; lime—cover crops; irriga tion; insecticide residue; breeding resistant varieties; curing; hail damage, variety demonstration; organic vs. mineral fertilizers; and cultivation. v Judge William II. Bobbitt, superior court judge of the Mecklenburg-Gaston District, is contesting Judge It. Hunt Barker of Roanoke Rapids for the nomination for associate justice of the North Carolina State Supreme Court in the State-wide primary election • to be held on Saturday of this week. Hold Funeral For Local Minister Funeral services were held In : the Cornerstone Missionary Bap tist Church on West Warren Street here Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock for the Rev. Adrow Smith who died at Ins home on Washington Street last Saturday morning at 9.21) o'clock. The pas tor, the Rev. T. T Shivers, eon ducted the rite.-, and interment was m Odd Fellows’ Cemetery. • Recovering .sufficiently from a heart attack suffered last Novem ber to resume Ins pulpit duties, the minister had filled Ins last ap pointment at Arapahoe the pre vious Sunday, hut hardly made it home the following morning. Me was born m Kinston 54 years ago, and rattle to this county in I!> 13, tanning for .) B. Cherry, L. T Bowden and II T. Roberson I b lore marrying Mary Bell Kvcr ett and locating in Wilhamston in 1929 to devote his full time to the ministry. Surviving besides his widow are a son, Geo Smith of W.d liamston, an adopted son, flurry » * ' ' /■ • • »>* i ! wn is David Smith of Kinston. At the time ol his death he held pastorates at Hattleboro, Rocky Mount, Windsor and Arapahoe. Wynne Infant Dies In Hospital Here -—*>— . Phyllj , Ann Wynne. fcrytr.U., vVCf’lv*T.y.(■ , iji Wi in'ii anti Mamie Ruth Gardner Wynne of Everetts, died in a hospital here Wednesday evening at (1:00 o’clock following a short illness Tile ml. ml vwv. !» la • ( d' t-s-'h- ■ c been netting along very well up until just a short tune before it died. Surviving besides the parents are a brother, William Wynne, and the grandparents. The funeral service will be con ducted at the home in Everetts at 4:110 o'clock this afternoon by thi Uev. Frunk Ilutlcr, pastor of the Poplar Chapel Church. Inter ment will be in the Gardner fam ily cemetery near Jamesville. >H1{I UK? r j Aii aiion.vminis letter re ceived liv (lie sheriff's office (liis week savs that a person whose name was withheld was supposed to have mur dered one George Brown in .Martin County hack in 1919. No details were set out in the letter other than that the con fessed “killer" wanted to keep it secret. Sheriff M. VV. Holloman searched the records and could not find where such a murder had been recorded. | Peanut Prices To I Be About Same In 1952 As In 1951 «,ruler* Vroiiiin >Sar kriirijii Hans Inor Tifie " ('.iirmil drop Peanut prices tor the current crop will be supported at about the same level as existed in 11)51, according to unofficial informa tion received here following an announcement released this week by the United States Department of Agriculture. However, much doubt and uncertainty centers around the marketing plans, and, according to some unofficial re ports, the farmer will actually re ceive less for his 11)52’ crop than he received for the one marketed in 1951 The 1952 crop will have a base support of $231 per ton for Vir ginia type peanuts as compared with a $226 per ton figure last year. The base is figured on a 65 percent meat content with sound and mature kernels and minimum foreign matter. There will be a premium of $3.60 per ton for each one percent sound kernels above 65 percent. Penal ties will be determined at the same ratio, the farmer being al lowed four percent foreign ma terial The big “catch" in the 19511 support program is the required percentage of “fancy" size pea nuts The grower must produce a product grading 20 percent "fancy” size to have it rated a Virginia type Peanuts with less than 20 percent “fancies" will be. graded as runners, and the sup port price for that type is $215 per ton, meaning that the runner type will command about one cent per pound loss than the Virginia type A peanut that graded 70 percent meat and with 31 percent extra large and having no more than one percent damage sold last yeal for 13.17 1-2 cents per pound. : The same peanut is scheduled to I sell for $13.45 cents a pound this I year. I The bad features about the 1952 program is the marketing plan. The Commodity Credit Corpora tion is withdrawing from the mai'kets indirectly, and the clean ers will have no contracts, mean ing there'll be an open market in which they can buy at any price they can agree upon with the far- • mcr. , There’ll be a farm storage plan, the farmer storing his own pea nuts and getting a loan from the government Weights arc to he guarantee ' and inspection fees 111 m » w.. ... ■■ V — ■ - rur ■* agreement which is likely to prove the most popular. The Com modity Credit Corporation will lend the Peanut Growers Cooper ative money, and then the cooper ative will enter into agreements with warehouse operators. The support price Will be paid the far mer, but the farmer is to pay stor age costs, tentatively figured at $3.15 per ton, plus a 15-cent per ' ei'CVC t Tjuu uc. end till IfiXpCC * ’ tion fee of approximately $1 per ton. There will be deductions for | shrinkage, meaning that weights I must be guaranteed indirectly if I not directlv. " The farmer 'Way sell direct.to the open market with no strings attached except in those? cases where quotas are exceeded. Highway Surplus Dumped On 301 Nearly one-halt of the $12,000, 000 North Carolina highway fund surplus has been dumped on Route 301. Highway Route 70 comes in for another lion’s share—$2,900, 000 of the surplus fund. Appi oxim.iU !y $1,500,000 of the $5,800,000 allotted to No. 301 will finance a new route through Rocky Mount. A million dollar bridge is to be built across the Cape Hear at Fayetteville. More than one-half million dol lars are going to Carteret County for the completion of a bridge across Core Sound from Morehead City to Atlantic Beach. While the commission was dish ing out the millions, Williams ton's officials have been unable to get a naifow underpass on West Mam Street widened to protect life and limb. Irtish -i&drtfeidlirt*-'
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