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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,NO MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LV—NUMBER 58 Williamalon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tupsday, July 22, IV.12 ESTABLISHED 1899 Eleven Cases In County's Court Monday Morning Crowd* Attending Saturday Sessions Reported Com paratively Small Eleven cases were handled in the Martin County Recorder's Court last Saturday during a ses sion lasting hardly more than one and one-half hours. Compara tively small crowds were in at tendance, and several of the mem bers of the bar were absent. Twelve cases were continued for trial on Saturday of this week and the first Saturday in August. ^ The summer slump is evident in the number of cases being call ed, and the small amount of fines collected. The income of the court last Saturday was less than $150. Proceedings: Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs when Edward A Conway pleaded guil ty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Pleading not guilty of reckless (hiving, Vernon Randolph Moore ^as adjudged guilty, the court suspending judgment upon the payment of the court costs. Lorey K. Bland was fined $100, plus costs for drunken driving. He loses his license to operate a mot or vehicle for a year. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Sallie E. Long of Durham was charged with speed ing. The ease in which Guy Ander son wus charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license was nol pressed. The ac tion was taken when it was point ed out that the defendant had been back from Korea less than thirty days. Pleading not guilty of non-sup port, James David Rodgers was idjudged guilty and drew six nonths on the roads. The road ■ rm was suspended upon the payment of the costs and $7 a week for the support of his chil dren. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Theodore Freeman i was sentenced to the roads for six 1 months. The road terms was sus i pended upon the payment of a $35 fine and costs The defendant is to violate no liquor laws during the next two years. When asked what he was going to do with the hajf gallon of bootleg liquor, I^\>eman said he had planned to tell it. Frank Scott, a second de fendant in the case, was adjudged iu>t guilty. Roland Matthews was taxed with the costs for speeding. Charged with non-support, (Continued Cn Page Two) Demonstrate New «Tracior Models —$— Two ih’w heavy-duty John Deere two and three-plow trac tors, successors to models “A” nionstrated here last Saturday by the Lindsley Implement Com 1 pany. Approximately 300 farmers , attended the first showing of these new John Deere models at . the local implement dealers’ head quarters. Recording to Mr. K. P. Lindsley and L. P. Lindsley, managers and owners, these new tractors fea ture a number of engineering ad vancements and major improve , meets which make them the greatest values ever offered by Jqbn Deere. -4> incept Volunteers 'i‘; —— Yt)oacd for a while, the doors to Hi U S. Air Force have been re oiymd. temporarily at least. Dur ind the remainder of this month, a limited number of volunteers will be received, it was announc ed by the recruiting officer in this area | Volunteers, passing the exami nations, will be in the service v.fUiin thirty days after applica tions are filed, it was explained. The recruiting officer, Sgt. Al fred Monteith, in this area is in his office, third floor of Williams ton’s town hall, each Tuesday. Higher Prices On Georgia Markets Reported Monday -0-; Opening the new season Men day, Georgia's tobacco markets re- ( ported prices $8 to $10 higher j than those of last year despite a 1 poorer quality leaf th s year. The over-all average price for the first-day sales was unofficially placed at $54, several individual markets reporting averages be tween $55 and $60. Gains by grades ranged from $1 to about $9, but most of the increase was centered in the $l-to-$3 range. As of July 1 the U. S. Crop Re porting Board estimated produc tion of the 1952 crop in Georgia and Florida as 158,080,000 pounds. Although planted acreage was larger this year, the indicated average yield per acre stands at 1,157 pounds per acre compared with 1,220 pounds last year. This accounts for the drop of more than 4 1-2 million pounds in pro duction from the 1951 croj? Total flue-cured production was placed at 1,402,540,000 pounds. This is around 50 million pounds less than last year's production. Producers’ sales of the 1951 Georgia-Florida crop totaled 175, 860,500 pounds for an average of $46.46 per hundred. This figure includes some tobacco that was marketed from other belts. Pro ducers' sales of all flue-cured to bacco last year were 1,441,613,016 pounds at an average of $52.67. The consensus is that the crop is spotty throughout the belt. Some sections lacking rainfall in June and early July, barned immature leaves with a loss of body and color. KOUND-UP r v j Seven persons were arrest ed and detained temporarily in the county jail last week end. Four were booked for public drunkenness and three for assaults. Included in the list was a young white woman and six colored men whose ages rang ed from 28 to 50 years. Barkley Bows Out As Candidate For Parly Nomination —»— Loyalty Pledge Approved At Democratic Conven tion Late Last Night -<& While the Democrats, opening their convention in Chicago yes terday, devoted most of their time hearing talk's and discussing rules and regulations and credentials, a fairly definite trend toward the selection of a Presidential nominee for the party was noted. Alben Barkley narrowed the field of avowed candidates when he gracefully bowed out of the race late last night. Even prior to that time the spotlight was turning to ward Adlai Stevenson, governor of Illinois. But the convention is all bog ged down in confusion. Alben Barkley, who apparently wanted the nomination, backed out when labor leaders turned their thumbs down on him. Governor Steven son who declares he does not want the nomination, takes a front po- j sition in the race. Stevenson made j one of the best speeches during j the first day of the convention, and he is rated as the most logical candidate to take and carry the ball for all factions of the party. There was much talk about the unfitness of the Republicans, but the main argument during the first day centered around delegate credentials and loyalty pledges. It was agreed that no delegation whose credentials were not f.irm .ijfc.established .sbmiW .participated in the proceedings until creden tials had been determined. The loyalty oath was the cause of much argument. A committee offered and approved a resolution, binding the delegates to the action of the convention. The plan would morally bind the delegates to see that the names of the party nomi nees or electors appear on the De mocratic ticket. Georgia’s Talmadge was bitter ly opposed to it, but the .Texas and Alabama delegations favored it, the action showing that the confusion was great and support ed Guy Gillette, U. S. Senator from Iowa, when he said that half of the delegations did not know what was going on in the convention. The convention recessed at 2:00 1 o’clock this morning to be recall ed into session at noon today. No thing ,has been said about ad journment, but one delegate said he was certain it would not go on forever. Suffers Slight Stroke At His Home Sunday —« Mr Roy Gurganus suffered a slight stroke at his home in West End last Sunday evening. Remov ed to a local hospital a short time later, he was reported today to be responding to treatment. Native 01 County Fatally Injured In Car Accident ■-*> Funeral At Macedonia For Mrs. Frances MrClaren Abbitt Today Mrs. Frances McCluren Abbitt, native of this county, was fatally injured and Mrs. Lillian Black, a traveling companion of Norfolk was seriously hurt in an automo bille accident near Columbia, South Carolina, last Saturday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock. Suffering a skull fracture and other injuries, Mrs. Abbitt died about two hours later in a Columbia hospital with out regaining consciousness. Mrs. Black, suffering a broken arm and leg and other injures, con tinues in the hospital at Columbia Mrs. Abbitt had just returned with her sister, Mrs. Urnec Bunt ing, tast Tuesday from ta visit in New York state and Canada. Go ing to her home in Norfolk Wed nesday, Mrs. Abbitt returned with Mrs. Black and stopped here a short while Saturday morning en route to Columbia where they were to visit friends and relatives. Few details of the accident could be learned here, but it was reported that another automobile plowed into the side of Mrs. Ab bitt’s 1950 Plymouth at a high way intersection about twenty miles from the South Carolina capital, turning the car -over and demolishing it. A brothei* in-law, Mr. Urnec Bunting, and a brother, -Mr. Rob ert McClaren, of Portsmouth, claimed the body and returned it here in a Biggs funeral coach at 8:30 o’clock Sunday evening. Mrs. Abbitt, daughter of the late James Thomas and Virginia Moore McCluren, was born in Poplar Point Township 34 years ago on October 7, 1917, and spent most of her life in the county. Following her marriage in early w'omanhood "to Raymond Abbitt, she located and made her home in Norfolk where she owned and goyoaged a beauty shop for. the past fifteen years. She joined the church at Ma cedonia about two years ago while visiting relatives in the county, and was doing well with her business operations in her adopted community. She often re turned to her native county and enjoyed a large friendship circle here and in Norfolk, maintaining a friendly interest in her old home secticin and its people. Surviving are a daughter, Vir ginia Abbitt, of Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. Urnec Bunting and Mrs. Simon Beach, both of near Wilhamston, and Mrs. Pennell (Continued on Page Six) -%— -. Suffers Bad Leg Cut la Accident —•— While doing carpenter work on tire home of Mr. Albert Perry last Friday, B. F. Lilley, Jr. was pain fully cut on the leg while using a skill saw. He had just cut the current off and started to step over some material when he hit the saw with his left leg, cutting a gash that required 20 stitches to close. While he rested very little Friday night and Saturday, he was reported to be much irnprov and feeling much better Sunday. County Boys Take | First Honors In Various Contests —t— Rcrurds Made In Vocation* »1 A|rrieiiltnre By Four County Schools I' By Professor J. H. Dixon The Coastal Federation of Fu ture Farmers of America, con sisting of schools teaching voca tional agriculture in Martin, Washington, and Tyrell counties, has completed the most success ful year of activities in its his tory. Participating in these ac tivities were four F. F. A. De partments in Martin County — Oak City, Williamston, James ville and Robersonvillo. The 1951-52 activities were of a varied nature. The numerous con tests which \yerc held made up a great portion of the F. F. A. activities. The first of these con tests was "Ritual and Parliamen tary Procedure," which was held at Oak City. The Jamesville F. F. A. chapter won highest hon ors, Oak City F. F. A. chapter won 2nd place, and Williamston F. F. A. chapter placed 3rd. Business interest of the Oak City district, realizing the importance of this activity awarded prizes — 1st, $15.00; 2nd, $10.00; 3rd, $5.00 to the 3 highest placing teams. The following establishments donated the prizes: Hamilton Theatre, Edgecombe Bank and Trust Co., J. H. Ayers and Co., and N. W. Johnson Insurance Agency. The crops contest was held in Robersonville. Contestants were to identify samples of 50 varieties of crops and noxuous weeds. Win ners of the crops contest were Ouk City Chapter, 1st place, Wil liamston 2nd place, and Roper 3rd place. Prizes were donated by business interests in the town of Robeysonvillc: 1st prize, Sher wood L. Roberson and Co.; 2nd prize, R. L. Smith and Co., and 3fd prize, ‘A. 'O. RobPfsoh arid Co. The 3rd contest F. F. A. mem bers participated in was the "Shop Contest” which was held in Crcswell. The contestants were to name 207 different tools. Walk ing away with highest honors was the Oak City Chapter, 2nd place winner Jamesville and 3rd place Robersonville. The following bus iness interests of Crcswell award ed the prizes: East Carolina Bank, Lucy’s Variety Store, H. W. Prit chard Hdwa., and H. O. Chessdn Store. The next contest, Public Speak ing, was held at Jamesville. Each chapter entered one contestant who was to deliver a speech of 7-10 minutes in length. The speakers were graded on content of speech, delivery and clarity. Williamston chapter won 1st place, Jamesville 2nd place and Oak City placed 3rd. Prizes were donated by Lindsley Ice Co., Belk Tyler Co., Jamesville Womans Club and Williamston Branch and Guaranty Banks. The last contest of the school year, Livestock Judging, was held in Roper. Contesting teams from kvich school v: juding, dair.4, and beef cattle judging. The Robersonville chap ter won 1st place, Roper chapter won 2nd prize and The James ville chapter placed 3rd. Prizes were awarded by Momblcs Drug Store (Plymouth), Evas Cleaners (Roper), Norman Furniture Co. (Plymouth), House Chevrolet Co. (Plymouth) and Southern Hdwe. Co. (Plymouth). At the end of the school year, an over-all prize was awarded (Continued on Page Six) Drail Board Has Few Delinquents -4 Two draftees were listed de linquent last week-end by the Martin County Draft Board, the list including one white and one young colored man. Those listed as delinquent are: James Robert Williams, white, who moved from his address, RFD 1, Oak City to Littleton, N. C. William Grimes, colored, who gave his home address as RFD 1, Bethel, and who was last heard from at RFD 1, Box 455, Sanford, Fla. Prior to going to Sanford he was at 105 Lake Street. Kissim mee, Fla. Four Accidents | On County Roads; During Week-end —,j>— Three Cars Turn Over Hut INu One Injured lu Tin; Four Wreeks No one was injured and prop erty damages were held to a com paratively low figure in a series of four accidents reported on the highways in this county during the latter part of last wek, ac cording to Patrolmen R. P. Nat ron and B. W. Parker. In three of the four accidents reported, the cars turned com pletely over, it was stated. A driver of Joe Gainer’s 1950 Chevrolet lost control of the ma chine on Highway 125 near the Pennie Slade farm Thursday af ternoon about 2:30 o’clock and turned it over. No other vehicle was involved. One report placed the damage to the car at $500. A few hours later that day, Bennie Shelton Harrison hist con trol of a 1951 Chevrolet on the Bailey Road and turned the ma chine over. He was accompanied by several children but none of them was hurt. Harrison, driving on the road connecting Highway 04 with the Prison Camp road said he tried to dodge a cow in the road and lost control of the car. Investigating the accident. Pa trolman Narron estimated the damage at $300. Driving toward Oak City on Highway 125, Joseph Bernard Lours of Baltimore dropped off to sleep, ran off the road into the ditch and turned his 1940 Chevro let over about two miles tins side of Hobgoud. Neither the driver or Mrs. Luers was hurt, according to Patrolman B. W. Parker who made the investigation and who estimated the damage at $250. The Luers were en route to Florida. The wreck was reported about 8:00 o’clock Saturday morning-: Earlier in the week there was a minor accident on the Everetts Spring Green road, Patrolman Parker estimating the damage at less than $25. Jeremiah Peel of Plymouth was driving a 1951 Ford toward Spring Green when Wil lit1 Latham was said to have pull ed into the highway, the two ve hicles crashing. Considerable excitement result ed about 9:00 o’clock last Satur day night when a Chevrolet panel truck turned over between here and Windsor, almost blocking the highway. The driver was pinned under the truck and a Biggs am bulance was dispatched there. Quite a few local people “chased" the ambulance to the scene. De tails of the accident could not be learned immediately. The truck, owned by a barber and beauty shop supply firm in Newport News, was loaded with all kinds of greases and tonics which were spilled all over the highway. The vitim, pinned under the truck, suffered several limb fractures and was removed to a local hos pital for treatment. RunOuitH Woods By Rattle Snakes —*—. A logging crew, headed by Junior Perry and employed by the (j and II Builders Supply Com pany here, was chased out of a Bertie woods yesterday afternoon by rattle snakes. The loggers killed and brought out three of the large reptiles to prove it was snakes and not the hot weather tiiat made them seek shelter. A fourth snake, king of the nest, es caped, but not until after he had chased one of the luggers into a truck. ‘‘He rared back on his tail and held its head two or more feet in the air, and that’s when I left that area/’ one of the lojsuer^ was quoted as saying. Firemen Called To Barn In K ent Fml T)ie local fire department was called*4o West End yesterday af ternoon at 2:10 o'clock when a oil burner went out of control in a tobacco barn on the Andrew Clark farm. The burner sent birioke pouring out of the ventilators, but neither the barn nor the tobacco cuught fire, and damage was negligible, Fire Chief G P. Hall said. 1 Martin Votes Heavy w For Tobacco Quotas! Only Four Voles Counted Saturday Against Program -- &fore Than 3,100 Favored l ilt' Tobacco Associates Assessment While so-called farm leaders, apparently tainted with reaction arism, were asking the Democrat ic Party platform committee out in Chicago to disavow farm price supports, Martin County farmers last Saturday voted 4,211! to 4 for the continuance of the tobacco marketing program. It was the largest vote ever cast for a farm program, exceeding the one in July, 1949, by almost 1,500 votes. Three years ago Martin farmers voted 2,790 for and ten against marketing quotas for tobacco. Poll holders were literally swamped by the rush during most of the day last Saturday. Several of the officials in some of the dis tricts where the polls were main tained found it impossible to leave their posts hardly long enough to get a drink of water. The farmers voted m earnest, and made it clear that they would not stand idly by and allow any professed farm leader or political group wreck their program. While the growers were giving marketing quotas the the greatest marginal victory ever recorded in this county for anybody or any plan, they went on to favor the Tobacco Associates 10-eent per acre assessment by a vote of 3,136 to nine. The Tobacco Asso ciates ballots supply was exhaust ed in several of the districts, and 'if is fairly certain that the count would have been much larger had more ballots been available Reviewing the unofficial vote record, members of the Martin County Production and Market mg Administration reported that eighteen farmers voted for one year quotas, that 4,200 voted for the three-year plan with only four votes east in opposition to the program. The vote for the three year pro gram follows, by districts: For Against Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston-P Cross Iloads Robersonvillc Hamilton Goose Nest Pt. 431 156 505 383 775 380 701 484 385 4200 Half of the votes east one-year plan was Robersonvillc. The vote for the soeiati's 10 cent per meat follows by districts: For v 4 loi the reported ill Tobacco acre as.' As | Against c:-./rn ■»•**»»» •» Williams Griffins Bear Grass W’mston-Pop. Pt Cross Roads Robersonvillc v-it"’ 155 299 376 383 201 508 (Continued on Page Six) Team Guests Oi Kiwanians Here ——<*>— The Kiwanis Club Little League Baseball Teatn was honored at a regular meeting of the Club last Thursday night. Among those present from the team were: Mel vin Bowen, Boyee Homs, Carlyle Brown, Alien Mizelle, Arnold Howard. .Johnny Woulurd, Carol Freeman Brown, Ralph Leggett, Frankie Roberson, Hugh Raynor and Bobby Perry. Recognized and aplauded in addition to the team were: Bill Spivey, Manager, and the team coaches: Vernon Bunt ing, Bob Newell and Bynum Smith. Carlyle Brown, speaking on behalf of the team, thanked the club for sponsoring them in the Little League organization Buck Saunders, son of a char ter member, was installed us a | new member by James Manning. ( The attendance prize of the cyc ling was won by Melvin Bowen. VIK MKDAL J l-t. L. Nelson Leggett, Wil liamston young man, was re cently presented the fifth cluster to the Air Medal in Korea. The presentation was made by Col. Thomas M. Wat lington, 2nd Division Artil lery commander in Korea, for making llights over enemy territory in a light, unarmed observation plane. Lt. Leggett is an observer with the 38th Kield Artillery Battalion. Senator Explains Why This Nation Went Into Korea I’olilieiaus Ihm- talked So Miieli, Issues Have lieen Overlooked So many millions of words have boon written about Korea and tho politicians have cheapened them selves for selfish reasons that there is a tendency to forget the true issues surrounding the pre sence of the United Nations in Korea. It is timely to recall what Senator linen McMahon had to say some time ago about Korea. He was quoted as follows: We are in Korea to maintain the peace and to prevent a third world war. War, like peace, is indivisable. In an era of atom bombs and jet planes, aggression no matter where it occurs—is a direct threat to peace every where What we do or fail to do in Korea may determine whether our American cities and factories are spared the horror of global war. We learned this in the thirties, when failure to resist To jo in Manchuria, Mussolini in Italy, and Hitler in Czechoslovakia, led directly to World War 11 Had we stood up to the dictators when first they started upon their cam paigns of conquest, millions and n i I lions of lives later lost might have been saved. If a thief is not punished after his first criminal act,he is tempt ed to new and greater crimes. So it is with tyrannical rulers. Ag gression unresisted invites furth er aggression. Our hold stand in Korea has enormously increased American prestige throughout the world. f'01 years the terror propagan da of the Kremlin had pounded away at the theme that America would fight to the last Kuropean or Asiatic. Small nations living in the shadow of Communist tyr anny were warned never to ex peel help from the United States Our historic decision to stand firm in Korea has shown the world that Wi• all gobbled up a nioi-1eli: at a time The Soviet Union, in the meanwhile, has shown bv its own conduct that it is perfectly willing to fight to the last Korean or I Chinese As a result, the prestige of the United States has been immense ly st i engethened, and the pres tlge of Russia has been just as immensely diminished The defense of Korea has un inensely strengthened the United Nations by making collective se curity a fact instead of a fiction. Before June 1950 there were those who compared the United Nations with the League of Na tions. which had proved a weak reed in time of trouble. Cynics said that the United Nations was merely an international debating society, incapable of resisting ag giiasion. But the diamatic hap penings in Korea proved the con trary. Collective Security the princi ple Hint we must defend freedom together or else he conquered separately - has turned out to be not a theorist's dream hut a prac tical reality. Men from 17 dif ferent nations are fighting side 3\ side. The long-run importance if this fact is incalculable. Dict ators bent on aggrandizement lave been put on notice that de cent people are capable of closing (Continued on Page Six) Green Wave Band Plans Its Summer Concert August 13 Director duller Faces One Of lliggenl Challenge** Since Starling Hand After working on their summer schedule since June !). the mem bers of the Williamston High School Green Wave Band and Di rector Jack Butler are taking this week-off before resuming work on August 4 with one of the big gest challenges confronting them since the band was reorganized back m 1947. While the entire organization is putting all it has into the effort to come up with a first class bund this fall it takes no great student of band programs to tell that the loss of 34 members in two years is a severe blow to any group. To help take the sting out of the annual summer concert which is to be presented outdoors, weather permitting, on August 13, the band is inviting all of its graduates who are in town on August 13 to join in the playing of the summer con cert and a number of them have accepted. By getting some help this way, the band will have more time to get on its own feet by the time the work of the scholastic season comes around. A special majorette school will be conducted here from August 4 to August 12 by Sarah Page Jack son who held such a successful session here last summer. While she graduated from the local school this spring, head majorette Jackie Harris will continue to be with the Green Wave Band until after the concert and expects to work out with the local majorettes under Miss Jackson. Miss Harris is enrolling at Wake Forest and will be trying this fall lor the top majorette spot there Which is be ing vacated this summer by Miss Jackson. Extra rehearsals for the concert will be held from August 4 until the day prior to the concert, j While no list of the numbers to j be included in the concert has 1 been released, Director Butler rc i ports that there will be about six I marches, some pop tunes and sev jeral popular numbers. Good Night lime and Heel Rhythm Valley are two popular numbers which are almost certain to make their ap pearance. Definite plans will be announc ed a few days prior to the concert but preliminary arrangements call for the concert to be played on the all-weather tennis courts un der the lights about 8:30 and the police are to be asked to rope off that block of Sniithwick Street facing the courts to permit the group attending the concert to move about freely. It is reasoned that the metal fence down one side of the courts will serve us a good sounding board. The annual picnic and organiza tional meeting of the Williamston Band Parents club will be held on August 2(> and Directoi Butlei hopes this meeting may be held in the new band room. However, there is considerable work to be 'inor :m 1(jOsV-.i- to be feasible. The band will again join the annual caravan ot the Williams ton Boosters before the opening "I the tobacco markets but the date for that has not as jet been announced officially. As an example of what has hap pened to the band this year in the way of graduation losses, take the drum section. Bobby Goff, Hondcil Beach and Dallas Wells all graduated this year. Fletcher Thomas ha> taken over as drum sergeant and others with limited experience art to assist These in clude Ann Peele, Leia Mae Goff, Wilbei Stewart and Janice Sav ave. Sondra Bufflap and Billy Thornton are the rookies in this section. It will take a_ lot of hard work to bring the hand up to its usual standards but hard work and dili gent effort are nothing new to the young musicians or their director. The marching band will present still other problems because the football season will take its toll of even the rookies who are now in tlic band. Listed us rookie bass drifniiners for the marching band are Ernest Carraway and Bobby Gi ay. CONTINUES GRAVELY ILL Mr. Redden Leggett, local man, continues gravely ill in Duke Hospital.
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