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* The enterprise is read by OVER 3,091 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LV—NUMBER 64 ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK t Williamalon, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday. August 7, 1952 ESTABLISHED 1899 Work On Foundation For 'Phone Building Raymond Concrete Pile Firm Moving Its Equip* ment To Tennessee •The last of sixty piling were driven for an addition to the lo cal telephone building this week, and workmen are dismantling the large pile driver and making it ready for shipment by rail to Cal houn, Tennessee, The project has attracted con siderable attention, and various cost estimates have been advanc ed. No official figure has been released, but it is fairly certain that the cost of driving the 50-foot iling will approximate and pos sibly exceed $50,000. Sidewalk observers saw the need for the foundation when they saw the big Raymond Concrete Pile Company machine in action. The piling would sing twelve or more feet under its own weight. After a few licks with a steam hammer, the piling would cut loose and quickly sink another ten or fifteen feet, striking solid ground about f(0.ty feet from the surface. While the building addition is to be limited to one story, it will ear ly a great deal of heavy equip ment which requires a level sur face. One report maintains that the telephone company may eventually house equipment there with a value ranging between one and two million dollars. The foundation project is the first one of its kind in the town ■roper. The Raymond company, *ne of the largest in the world, drove the piling for the first river bridge here back in the early twenties. Since that time the company has expanded until it is iiporating about 500 machines all over the world. It was recently awarded a contract for a $336 mil lion project overseas. Now that the piling work' hHs been completed, the contractors, 13. J. Rose and Son of Rocky Mount, are pouring concrete for the foundation, a task that is al most certain to require several Weeks. ' The structure when completed • Will cost between $50,000 and $100,000, it is believed. Forced to rent quarters in an other building for its business of i ces the Carolina Company, a few months ago, bought the Dr. J. H. Saunders building next to its l^int on South Smithwick Street arid will occupy it just as soon as the lease now held by Radio Sta tion W1AM expires, it is under stood. When work on the new addition is completed and when the build ing recently purchased is made available, the telephone com pany, it is believed, will have en ough room to take care of any fu ture expansion. Alterations were made to the plant less than a year aijo, but the company soon out r grew its enlarged quarters. Income From Fees Dropsrlff ~Ct>uniy After holding to an unusually high figure during the first six months of this year, income from the county fee system dropped considerably last month, accord ing to reports filed recently with 1®e commissioners by the various departmental heads. The big drop took place in the county court fines and fees. Ac cording to Clerk L. B. Wynne, the court accounted for only $978.05 in July. Only $440 of the amount represented fines. Register of Deeds J. Sam Get singer reported $420.35 in fees, including'$338.85 for recordings. Sheriff M. W. Holiomna report ed <$121.00. f MEETING j An important meeting for the organisation of a Christ ian Rural Overseas Program unit in this county la being held in the county courthouse here this evening at S:M o’clock. The Rev. Carl R. Rey, • State director of Durham, is to attend the meeting. ■ i-Ea-ttferi, b'&liSHt*1 V and women and church repre | seaiatives are being aakod to attend the meeting. ■ I A Tobacco Farmers Plagued From All Sides This Year h‘1 «.****••*; »»•»«> »v.« ' <**.,». .. rnM | Although the harvest is far from complete, Martin County to bacco farmers have been plagued from all sides in recent weeks. The latest adversity is Centered in a record hail damage. It has been conservatively estimated that the insurance companies have paid out approximately $150,000 already and the adjusters are still working in the Parmele-Flat Swamp sections where an esti mated 100 claims originated dur ing the past week., Entiy.o cr<}j)s were said to have been wiped out' by a hail storm in that area the middle of last week. After getting off to one of the most favorable starts in years, the crop was hardened by Coo! wea ther in its early growth. Dry wea ther set in and the mercury soar ed to record highs. The tobacco was stunned and much of it blistered under a hot sun day af ter day. Disease appeared in many sec tions to cut back much tobacco that had survived the dry-hot weather. Latest estimates declare that the nematode, the latest in sect to raise its head in a really big threatening way, will claim right at 20 percent of the crop. The harvest is late and pro spects for quality arc mighty dis heartening with some few excep tions, of course. However, there is one bright spot in the outlook, and that is the high price being paid for poor and medium quality grades on those markets now operating. 1 MOTORCADE I v/ Williamston will extend its hand of friendship and wel come on Thursday, August 14, to the rest of the county when it starts the annual Tobacco Motorcade, sponsored by the Williamston Boosters. Early in the morning of that date approximately 43 cars and trucks will leave Williamston for the north western portion of the county, tour the upper end until noon, return to Williamston for lunch and will resume the tour to cover the rest of the county in the afternoon. The Green Wave Band of Williamston High School, un der the direction of Jack But ler, will be an important fea ture of the motorcade, play ing at- each of the scheduled stops, which include Hamil ' ton, Oak City, Hassells, Gold Point, Everetts, Bear Grass, Manning and Gurkln’s store, Jamesvllie Add Dardens. A complete list of schedul ed stops and the time for each will be announced in next Tuesday's Enterprise. Two Accidents In County Yesterday No one was injured but proper ty damage estimated at approxi mately $1,000 resulted when two vehicles went out of control and turned over on the highways in this county yesterday afternoon. Driving west on Highway 04 about two miles this side of Jamesville, Donald M. Plumb lost control of his 1952 Ford when it ran off the hard surface while passing another vehicle. The ma chine turned over. Mr. Plumb, an engineer of 284 Grcystone Road, Bridgeport, Conn., was accom panied by Mrs. Plumb, but neither of them was hurt. Investigating the accident. Sgt. Clagon estimat ed the damage to the car at about $650. Thirty minutes later at about 4,..! 5 o’clock, Palma-Gray.-Mapping lost control of his GMC pick-up truck on Highway 17 about three miles south of here, and the ma chine turned over, missing a large oak tree by a narrow margin and stopping inches short of a large pecan tree. Mr. Mann^ig said the rear tires on his truck were slick, causing him to lose control on the wet surface. He had to break a door glass to get out of the over turned truck, but was not injured. Patrolman B. W. Parker investi gated the accident. Damage to the truck was estimated at about $250. Thousands Issued Drivers' Licenses —*, — Raleigh—Driver licer. -mg offi cials of the Department of Motor Vehicles said today their examin ers issued 18,915 operators licens es during July. Included in the total were 11, 743 original operators permits; 991 original chauffeurs licenses; 2,697 duplicate operators licenses and 2,412 renewal chauffeurs li censes. The examiners collected $81, StOMft ■■ fa-. • mils during the month. They also reported 528 license suspensions and 929 revocations. Experiment With Sucker Control By 8. A. Tuten Assistant County Agent Is the laborious tHsk of suckcr ing tobacco sown to be a thing of the past? Maybe so. Experiments involving the applieation of a mineral oil emulsion look Very promising. Several companies are producing the material and ways and means of applying it are be ing worked out. The present estimated savings of direct cash labor cost is from ten to eighteen dollars per acre. And surely, if any crop needs rt> lief, from increasing cost of pro duction, it is tobacco. There is one obstacle, however, which pre vents a clear billing for the treat ment at this time. Soft rot has occurred in a few experiments un der damp, hot, humid weather conditions. Although no such in jury has been observed where tests were made in Martin County, this year. Some of the growers who have tried the material arc: J. A. Wynn, Cross Roads community; Asa Moore, R1 Jamcsvillc; Car lyle Manning, R1 Jamcsville; Howard Tyre, R1 Williamston; James Harrington, Farm Life; K. A. Roberson, RF2 Robersonville and Jack James also of Rober sonville. These test involved from a few hills up to about three acres. Experimental work to de terminc the value of chemical suckering under a wide range of conditions has been underway for about two years. This year, tests have been made in practically eve- j ry tobacco growing county in the flue-cured belt. A State-wide summary of results should be available by the end of the year. Another Tobacco Barn Destroyed —— A third tobacco barn to be de stroyed in the county so far this season was burned on Thad New some, Jr.,’s farm near Williams ton yesterday afternoon at 2:30 The barn, cqu.pped with oil burners, container 680 sticks of the farmer’s best tobacco. New some said he visited the barn about an hour before the fire started, that apparently every thing was in order at that time. No insurance was carried on the property which was valued at about $1,600. ! THE RECORD j SPEAKS . . . The number of motor ve hicle accidents on the high ways and streets in this coun ty continues to climb at an alarming rate, and unless cheeked the count will set an all-time record before the year is spent. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac eidcht trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 31at Week Accidents lnj’d Killed Dam’ge 1952 8 5 0 $ 2,770 »wdl—.<■*’wdalik&Mr j Comparisons To Date 1952 101 85 1 $54,130 1951 144 09 5 33,445 t Program For Band Open Air Concert Wednesday Listed —•— Varied Program Will Be Presented At The Ten nis Courts at 8:30 Director Jack Butler last night announced the program for the annuel Spring open-air concert of the Green Wave Band of Wil [liamston High School to be pre sented Wednesday evening of next week on the all-weather tennis courts at the high school, begin ning at 8:3b o'cfot-kT'- . Containing many marches, the program is varied enough to meet the requirements of a light con cert and contains some old-time favorites of local band music lov ers. The program opens with a march, “The Cardinal,” by Pat Lee, and another march, “Pursuit Squadron,”’ by K. L. King, fol lows. The third number will be “Prairie Skies," an overture by Clair W. Johnson. Another march, "Salutation," by Seitz, follows The balance of the program in cludes: “Grandfather's Clock” by Clifford P. Barnes; “When You Wore A Tulip" as arranged by Yoder; “Fort Bragg”, a march by Lee; "Gallant Cadet", overture by House," a march-foxtrot, arrang ed by Walter Beeler; "Colum bian,” a march by K. L. King: "Red Rhythm Valley,” a moderr rhythm arrangement by Charles Lee Hill, and a special number featuring a flag routine if it can be developed in time for use Wed nesday. As has been previously an nounced, several former members Of the band who have graduated from school here, will participate in the concert this spring. They include players in every depart ment or section of the band. The names of these have not been re leased because it is not certain just how many of them will be available Wednesday night but ii is intended to take the strain ofl the regular band members, near ly three dozen of whom have had a year or less experience in.tlu senior unit. The old grads also will be invited to accompany the band on the tobacco motorcade next week. All members of the band have been busy this week as the musi cians practiced for the concert and the majorettes attended an intensive training school being (Continued on Page Eight) Snail-Size Draft Calls Received Contrary to public announce ments, comparatively small-size draft calls have been received in this county for August and Sep tember, according to Mrs. Olivia Handy, clerk to the county draft board. Thirty-five men are to report for pre-induction examination on Tuesday, August 18, and seven are scheduled to report for final in duytjyn on Tuesday, August 26. The first group will travel by charter bus. The September calls are for 25 men for pre-induction on the 15th, and four for final induction on September 26. All men in the groups will re port to the service center in Ra leigh. Soldier Wants To Stay In Germany —o— Home on furlough after spend ing three years with occupation forces in Germany, Cpl. Caltenee W. Ange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lev in Angc of the Angeluwn section in this county, says he is hoping for orders, returning him to his foreign post. Stationed at Landstuhl, he drove an ambulance in the 6UJrd Medical Ambulance Company. Ange lias ben in the army almost four years, re-enlisting last Sep tember for an additional six-year hitch. He said he had met a few boys from this county, including James Modlin of flamesville and Morton ind Critcher got together and ex changed The Enterprise and the Roanoke Beacon. Agriculture Goal Blocked In Nation By Great Drought Nation On Verjjr Of Out* Of Greatest Disasters It Ever Faced Nashville, Tenn.—The federal government reported that a $500, 000,000 drought in the Southeast and parts of New England will prevent the nation from reaching its agriculture defense goals. The Department of Agriculture worked on emergency measures to salvage the South's IH’t-stuik industry and save farmers from financial ruin by one of the most damaging dry spells of the re gion's history. Department officials agreed with representatives of drought stricken slates at a government sponsored emergency conference here that it is too late to avert a “major blow" to the nation's agri culture production. "This is on the verge of being one of the most serious disasters this country ever faced," said Knox T. Hutchinson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. "It has eliminated any chance of reaching our national production goal for the defense effort.” Mr. Hutchinson presided over *V,: here by Charles F. Brannan, Sec retary o Agriculture. Itaub M. Synder of the Nation al Production and Marketing Ad ministration afterward held a strategy session with farm repre sentatives of the southeastern states to organize some form of "hay life” for the suering live stock industry. One possibility was to allocate grain from states not hit by the drought to spare southeastern far mers from ruinous competition in importing feed. Disaster areas have been de clared in six and parts of two other southeastern states and in Maine and Massachusetts and thus made farmers eligible fur emerg ency loans and other federal ben efits to tide them over until next year. "We can justify subsidization for a few weeks of dire emergen cy," Mr. Snyder added, "but we couldn’t do it for more." Mr. Hutchinson conferred with farm officials from Georgia, Ala bama, Kentuck, Mississippi, Ten nessee, and South Carolina, all designated disaster areas because of crop damages ranging from 20 to 100 per cent. In addition, 44 counties of Mis souri and 27, Arkansas counties were given the "disaster areas" designation. In Tennessee S. E. Johnson, Germantown rancher, said his herd was losing weight up to 200 pounds a head although he was using winter feed stores and im porting hay at almost twice the normal prices. "It will be at least next sum mer before they regain top pro duction," the rancher said. "We’ll be paying for this next year. . .re gardless of when we get rain.” In Georgia, where damage to the corn crop was estimated up to 30 per cent and cotton faced hea vy damage unless*Tams*" come soon, losses were placed at $200, 000,000. Mr. Hutchinson called the out look for the next 12 months "very distressing." "There is no hope to recover the crops even if it rained today,” Mr. Hutchinson said, "and no re lief is in sight in the way of de sirable, weather." In the entire South, the only threatened crop to get rain in time to show an improved out look was the North Carolina to bacco harvest, but the damage to it was estimated as high as $100, 000,000. This state was not desig nated as a disaster area, however. A Tennessee farm official said the stale s iivcstuek industry will need 3,000,000 tons of extra hay during the next eight months, hut farmers cannot aiford tiie price i without low-interest loans. In Mississippi tile drought dam age was officially called the "worst on record". A Missouri of ficial said damage to feed crops in the southeastern part of the state has been "severe”. AMVETS TO MEET The Martin County AMVETS. PvatJSl, .will meet Tpesday night, August 1 i, at 0:00 at the court house. All officers and members are urged to attend. Low Water Stalls Traffic In Upper Roanoke River Traffic on the Roanoke River is being hampered by low water, and boats are finding it difficult to travel beyond Hamilton. It was also pointed out that traffic hasj been stuck on mud flats between here and Hamilton, and that few commercial boats have been able to move any distance beyond Hamilton recently. No definite cause for the low water has been offered, but it is either traceable to the closing of the gates of the Kerr Dam at Buggs’ishiTrd’ •ortite'iiimfwr ■ a in fall in the Roanoke Valley this summer. Possibly both factors have had their influence on the water level in the stream. Since the gatco were closed the last of June, the Roanoke has varied hardly a foot in its depth, holding to a point between three and four feet at this point. It has been so low that the tide has backed its way up and beyond this point. Because the tide pre vents the stream from falling be low a certain point, traffic from Williamston to Albemarle Sound has been able to move without en countering any difficulty. Log barges, traveling above Hamilton, have been held up often whelFthey WoTTm full a'groUild. It was said that workers would jump into the stream and help dig the barges out or use poles to pry hem loose. Fifteen Marriage Licenses Issued In County In July InMiaiicr Slightly Itelmv the \vcni(jr For Tin* I’asl Several Yrar» -<® Following a rather busy month | in June, tlv Mnriln County Mar riagc License Bureau reported quite a decrease in its activities last month. The number of li censes fell from 21) issued in June to fifteen issued last month. The issuance last month was slightly below the average for the month of July during recent years, but was larger than it was in July of last year. For the third month this year, the number of licenses go ing to white couples was larger than the number issued to colored couples. Last year the number of licenses issued to colored couples was greater than the number go ing to white couples only in one month through July. Licenses were issued last month in this county, eleven to white and four to colored couples, as follows: White Clarence J. Barkley of Eliza beth City and Margaret Joyce Halstead of Camden. Wheeler Martin Ward and Mil dred Chapman, both of Williarns ton. Martin S. Gentry of HFI) I, An son, Texas, and Dorothy Leona Waters of Jamesville. Garland Leo Simpson and Slur lev Jean Elks, both of Williams ton. Earl C. Williamson and Dorothy Cherry, both of Williarnston. Ilush W. Bondurant, Jr., and Mary Carolyn Leggett, both of Williarnston. Robert Spencer Jordan and Doris Marie Stevenson, both of Newport News. Eli Wynne of Williarnston and Fannie Alice Modlin of James villc. Marvin Keel and Helen Webb, both of Williarnston. Charles James Brady, Jr., and Doris Mae Andrews, both of Wil liumston _____ Leigh Peter Showalter otciif ton Forge, Va., and Jean Carol Moore of Windsor. Colored Charles B. Taylor and Loulene Brown, both of Williarnston. James Curtis Perkins and Thel ma Marie Baker, both of RED 1, Stokes.. Paul Cherry of Hassell and Joanna Dowdy of Washington. Thurman Rodgers and Ruby Lee Rodgers, both of Williarnston. r WOUNDED J Pvt. Willie C. Ilassell, son of Kva Hassell of RFI) 3, WU liamston, and the late John Hassell, was wounded in ac tion in Korea' last Thursday) July 31, according to a mes sage received by his mother yesterday. Few details were mentioned in the message, but he is in a hospital in Japan at the present time. Pvt. Hassell entered the service September 5,1951, and went overseas last April. The young man is the 31st known Martin County casual ty of the. war. The I'usiuUty report was the first received i in this county in about five months. >1 I SALKS SUPERVISOR I J. (>. (Illiic) Manning has been named sales supervisor lor the Williamston Tobacco Market, succeeding Henry A. Johnson who was forced to retire on account of his health. The young supervisor has been on and around the to Hacco market just about all hi* life, and is widely known in this section. Bertie Nan Faces Trial August 18 Chanted with impersonating an officer and threatening the safety ol Mrs. Gils Robbins, formerly of Williamston, and Mrs. Robbins’ inlant son, last July 14, Tillery Floyd, Bertie County man, is slat ed for trial in the Bertie Record er's Court at Windsor orf August 1H, according to reliable but un official information reaching here. Floyd was arrested a few days ago and was said to have admitted impersonating an officer, but de nied having ever had a siren on his car. It was pointed out that Floyd had almost wrecked the Robbins ear by bumping into it. Mrs. Robbins reported to I’a trolman Jack Thomas that she, her infant son and tier grand mother were stopped early in the night of July 14 on the Windsor Aulandcr road by a youth who claimed to be an officer. Report ing the sei |es, ol misdemeanors to the police, Mis. Robbins said Floyd followed her car which kept blowing a siren Looking in the rear view mirror, Mrs. Rob bins said the Floyd ear did not look hkf a patrol or police car and that she kept driving until she reached a lighted spot at the Woodard road. When she stopped, the other car pulled over and Floyd got out and approached her car, declaring he was an of ficer and asking why she did nut heed his siren. Mrs Robbins told Floyd he did not look like an officer, and she drove aw Floyd followed, bumping the rear bumper of her car several times before she near ed Windsor where the Floyd cai turned off into a dirt road. Having heard similar com plaints, partolnicn .slieritfs offi cers and Windsor police arrested Floyd and he was brought here and identified. V el iiil To Mite With Next Cheek Issuance —*-— About 120,000 blind, crippled and tubercular veterans of all wars and peacetime service will ■eceive increased monthly pay ion checks due September 1st, j inder a bill recently signed byl ’resident Truman. Draw Citizens For Jury Duly During September Court Clawson L. William* To Preside Over The Two-Week Term Seventy-four citizens were drawn by the county commission ers recently to serve as members of the Martin County Superior Court jury during the two-week term opening on Monday, Sep tember 15. Forty were drawn for duty the first week, and out of that number nine will be selected to serve as members of the grand jury for a year. Judge Clawson L. Williams of Sanford is to preside over the term which will hear cases of both a criminal and civil nature. It will be the jurist's first visit to the county in an official capacity m five years. The names of those drawn for inn- duty, including several wo men, include the ullowing: First Week Jamesville Township: 11. L. Stallings, II L Riddick. Ralph Davenport and Arnold Modlin. Williams Township: Joe Law rence Coltrain. Griffins Township: Elmo Lilley, James Evan Perry and LI. R. Man ning Bear Grass Township: Gussie Harrison, Delmus Rogerson and O. R. Revels. Williamston Township: Henry A. Roberson, C. U. Rogers, Eli II. Bowen. J. R. Simpson, Roy L. Ward, Sam Pate, Jas. II. McGee, R. Leo Roberson. Cross Roads Township: J. W. Peele. Robersonville Township: Jar vis Whitfield, A. E. James, L. Wil son Wynne, Miss Fannie 11. Craw lord, 11. A. Rogers, R. C. Alexan der. Poplar Point Township: Joe Rogers and E. L White. Hamilton Township: Seth Rob erson, J. H Harrell, C. C. Rawls, R. J. Sydenstricker, Mrs. P. S. Williams, Jasper Williams and H. R. Purvis. Goose Nest Township: William K. Cross, John L. Hassell, Norman Turner, Mayo Harrell and Joseph C. Ross. Second Week Jamesville Township: J. Carl Griffin, Mrs. Candle Fleming Rawls, Mrs. Bettie Hassell, Carl Brow'n, T. V. Davis, George B. Ange and Clyde Glass. Griffins Township: Geo. W, (Continued on page eight) Defense Peak Is Certain In 1953 A .study of the demands for goods and services after current defense goals have been reached was ordered in July by the Com merce Department. Peak produc tion iri the present defense build up is expected about mid-1953. Commenting on the proposed ap praisal due for January publica tion, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer said: The Korean emergency, just as other emergency situations, has the amazing, amrisjttUxf capacity of the United States ec onomy. It is my hope and thought ‘hat this study will give the bus inessmen of America the informa tion they need to convert and maintain this high productivity for civilian peacetime pursuits once the present defense goals are reached. With our defense needs met, the basic objective of all Americans should be to see to it that we are as capable ;n using our economic might for useful peacetime pursuits. INTERRUPTION ) Virginia Electric uml Power Company officials announced today that there will be a ser vice interruption in this area Sunday morning from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock to make prelim inary connections to the new HO.OOitrvolt substation near Wiltiamslon. The company plans to place the new substa tion in operation on nr about Friday of next week. The Sunday morning inter ruption will affect Roberson - ville, Everetts, Wtlllamsten. Plymouth, Roper. Creswell and TSlBSRrsira.ali the tributary lines from those points.
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