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i * THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,00ft MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK A OUJME LV—NUMBER 65 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 12, 1952 ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty-Six Cases In County's Court Saturday Morning tines At Recent Session Added Up To Slightly More Than $250 -* Following a period of little ac tivity, the Martin County Record er's Court reported an increase in business during its regular session last Saturday morning. Twenty six cases were called and fines imposed during the morning add ed up to $255. Proceedings: Clarence Purvis, 21-year-old tailored Robersonville man who had been in the court previously on careless and reckless driving charges, was sentenced to the roads for six months when he pleaded guilty to a similar charge last Saturday morning. The road term was suspended upon the pay ment of the court costs. He lost his operator's license for a year. Pleading not guilty of being thunk and disorderly, Paul Man ning was adjudged guilty and $T3, Tifli's costs. Charged with careless and reck less driving, Leslie T. Latham was found guilty of failing to stop be fore entering a highway and was taxed with the costs. Richard B. Harrison of RFD 3, Williamston, was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding 70 miles an hour. George Williams, Jr., adjudged guilty of an assault, was sentcnc ||l to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of the costs and on the further condition that he remain of good behavior for twelve months. Charged with assaulting a fe male, Ervin Brooks was adjudg ed guilty of assaulting a minor and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the pavmenl of a $10 fine and cost. He is not tu molest any member of Roberl L tierce's family in the future. W IsEmmeU Sanders was sentenced to the roads for six months for ar aj^ault and non-support. The ifacntence was suspended upon the may men t of the court costs and T$5 a week for two years for the support of his family. Willie Moore was sentenced tc the roads for thirty days for re sisting arrest. ^he case in which O. K. Harrii \cas charged with issuing a worth less check, was remanded to the Justice courts. Charged with careless and reck less driving, Robt. E. Whitehurst was adji dged not guilty. The case in which Lester Saun dors was charged with breaking and entering was nol prossed. Charged with careless and reck less driving, Clifton Meaty Mat thews was adjudged guilty of fol lowing another vehicle too closelj and was taxed with the couri costs. Adjudged guilty of drunker driving, Roy Ciaude Joyner was ViML.ifwtvd.ayth.ibe ..cusli and lost his operator’s license foi a year. Judgment was suspended upor the payment of the court cost ir Council was charged with hit-and run driving. The case, charging Thomas P Skoud with operating a motoi vniicle without a driver’s license was nol prossed. Charged with and pleading guilty of speeding. Vernon L. Gur ganus of RFD 2, Williamston, Jas per Dail of Washington, Estel N Browner of Frazer, Ky., Jerry E (Continued From Page Seven) URGENT CALL An urgent cal! was issued today by Secretary At Sweatt of the Williamston Boosters for small apartments and rooms for tobacconists who’ll start arriving here over the Week-end for assignment on the local market. Mr. Sweatt said that* the need is urgent, that much dif <ieulty is being encountered n finding living quarters. Anyone who has a small? fur - - atslted apart <wa&«8rta*»s.. they can spare during! the tobacco marketing season is asked to contact the Boosters in the Watts Theater build ing. Organize Movement For Overseas Relief I SUMMER CONCERT I v/ Tomorrow evening; (Wed nesday) at 8:30 the Green Wave Band of Williamston High School will present its annual Summer Concert on the all-weather tennis courts at the high school grounds. A number of former mem bers of the band will take part in the concert and a va ried program is being finish ed off for the event. Most of the numbers are of the light er kind. There will be sever al marches and one of the lo cal favorites, “Red Rhythm Valley,” is on the list. The concert is absolutely free aqd the puulic is invited. Since it is outdoors the audi ence may move at will. Causes Of Malar... Vehicle Accidents Listed In Order DiNt'oiirtcous Acts Lcuil To Two-TItinls Of All Koud Wrecks .— Drivers who have operated a ear for 10 years or longer without an accident have an important thing in common. They arc cour teous and considerate of others who use the highway. An analysis recognized by the Istitute for Safer Living shows that in more than two-thirds of all traffic accidents involving a Jalities, a discourteous act was the actor principally responsible for the accident. Discourteous driv ing in one form or another ac counts for an estimated 25,000 motor vehicle deaths each year. The Institute holds that disre gard of the rights and well-being of others o nthe highway is dis courtesy. Safe driving principles and practices are designed to pro tect motorists and their property. Therefore disregard of these prac tices is discourtesy. For example, the driver who weaves in and out of traffic is just discourteous as a pedestrian who shoulders his way along a crowded street forcing others to side-step him or risk being jabbed with an elbow. However, shouldering ones way through motor vehicle traffic is much more dangerous. A pedes trian may risk getting a smash on the chin by an irate person’s fist. But the weaving driver is risking a nimpaet with some 3,000 pounds of unyielding steel. The following are listed by the Institute as being the most com mon acts of driving discourtesy, and ones which most frequently lead to injury or death: 1. Driving at excessive speed or exceeding lawful speed limits. !■! i»rt .0 i.tJ« pr curveft. 3. Following other cars too (Continued on Page Seven) Taxi Driver In Conri for Assault ., - _— Charged with assaulting Clay ton Wilkins with a lug wrench near here last Saturday afternoon, Hubert Everett was bound over to the county court for trial later that day by Justice Chas. R. Mob ley. Bond was required in the sum of $100. Everett was said to have asked Wilkins for money for pushing the Wilkins car. An argument fol lowed and Everett planted the lug wrench on Wilkins' head, making a seven-stitch gash and almost fracturing the skull. Everett claimed at the hearing that Wil kins had a knife in his hand. -:— Minor Accident On The Street Here Saturday -— No one was hurt and damage es timated at about $50 resulted when a pick-up truck driven by Farmer Major Gardner and a 1947 - -flord-dKvcfflk.iby- Jmmi'i i hooked bumpers on South Haugh ton Street near Raynor’s station here last Saturday afternoon. Of Jficer Tom Chesson made the in I vestigation. Seek Train Load Of Farm Produce For War Victims -<r W. Mayo Hardison and Mayo Little Elected To Head The Project An organization, advanced in the name of suffering humanity in the wake of war and destruction overseas, was perfected at a meet ing of representative citizens held in the Martin County courthouse last Thursday evening. Known as "CROP”—Christian Overseas Relief Program—the or ganization is being reactivated in this county in answer to urgent appeals coming from the suffer ing millions in Korea and other war-torn countries where starva want still tv.rver-.vvsi:. millions as a result of war and other disasters. Farmer W. Mayo Hardison of Poplar Point was elected chair man and Mr. Mayo Little of Rob ersonville was unanimously nam ed co-chairman for this county at the last Thursday meeting. The The Rev. W. B. Harrington of Farm Life was elected vice chair man; Mrs. Elizabeth P. Harrison, secretary, and D. V. Clayton, trea surer. S. A. Tuten, assistant farm agent, and Larry L. Hodges, ag riculture teacher in Williamston, was named commodity chairmen. The Rev. John L. Goff of Wil liamston is to head the speakers' bureau. The township directors include; V. B. Hairr, Jamesvillc; C. L. Dan iel, Williams; Stephen Manning, Griffins; Noah Rogerson, Bear Grass; J. W. Snead, Williamston; Garland H. Forbes, Cross Roads; Sam T. Everett, Robersonville; Mrs. Ben James, Poplar Point; J. jH. Lillard, Hamilton, and John Hassell, Goose Nest. In answer to appeals from Ko rea, supported by personal let ters from American servicemen who are witnesses to the hunger and want in the wrecked coun tries overseas, Ihe national orga nization has already gone into ac tion to help relieve the suffering and rehabilitate the homeless and penniless in Korea along with thousands of dozens of hatching eggs to Korea in recent weeks. It is the goal of the national or ganization to ship between forty and fifty trainloads of food and supplies overseas between now and the last of November. Martin County is being asked to load a car of peanuts, but any farm product 'will be accepted, it was explained. Prospects are bright just now for a good peanut crop, and it is believed that the organization can collect a car of the goobers without too much ! trouble . It ha.- been pointed out ttiSi'Ciic piiiil lTilST iJ'tTvt'fi'i iai gc, and that the removal of even a few hundred bags will help the program at home and mean the difference between life and death for many in Korea. The little group meeting in the courthouse last Thursday and rep resenting the farm organization, the ministry, civic organizations and others, discussed the task. While the fail outlook is not too encouraging, it was reasoned that this county can well afford to do nate a carload of farm produce, (Continued on Page Seven) -^ Two More Curing Barns Are Burned Two more tobacco curing barns were destroyed by fire in this county last week-end, pushing the barn fire count so far this season to five. Farmer Lewis Barber lost a barn near Dardens on the Daly Hill farm last Friday, and Farmer C. C. Fleming lost a barn on the Ball Gray farm near Jamesvillc Saturday. Fleming had insurance on his barn and tobacco. Up until the 12th of August of -vs^ja.- c.vrmc hml hurried in this county, the count running up to eleven before the season was spent. Seventeen barns were destroyed by fire during the 1950 curing season. Republicans Know They Have Tcugh Battle To Fight —•— ‘McCarthyfain' Will Bo One Of The Issues Fur Democrats Washington—The Republicans, now tightening their belts for a real fight against an unpredicta ble opponent, realize that this year’s election will be no cake walk as some had believed earlier. The harmony strokes pulled off by the brains of the Democratic party in Chicago have clearly de monstrated to the Republicans that the senior major party is readying on aggressive and con fident campaign. While the Democratic candidate is not known in all parts of the nation, and lacks the great mili tary reputation enjoyed by Gener al Dwight D. Eisenhower, hr has a record for drawing large num bers of voters to the polls, and is admittedly a dangerous opponent He has already begun to hit hard at General Ike, showing that he 'fs out to make 1952 campaign a lively one. The Republicans still have a tremendous backlog of “time for a change” sentiment to draw up on, and they have the known per sonality and popularity of Eisen hower. Now they must work out a campaign program which matches or outperforms the De mocratic campaign effort. It seems that results obtained in the actual campaigns will decide this year’s election. Should General Ike swing more to the Left, on such issues as civil right? Should he concentrate on scandals and cor ruption and inflation, and leave that hot potato alone? There are many questions. Ike’s inner circle knows the General could perfect his speech —making technique. They are confident he will find himself and hit his stride in the stretch campaign drive, even though he disappointed some in his swing through the West, prior to his nomination. The Republicans still feel that Ike is the favorite and jthat he will win, but they also know that they can lose if they don’t come up with an effective, hard-hitting campaign. President Harry Truman, who (Continued on Page Eight) Cattle Poisoned On County Farm —<*>— Relieved to have been poisoned, two cattle have died and several others continue ill on the Foy Rogcrson farm near Robersonville, Investigating the cattle deaths, Sheriff M. W. Holloman and Dep uty Raymond Rawls said they found some arsenate of lead in the pasture, but that it could not be traced to its source* The cows died Sunday. ISotliinf Heard From Chevrolet Stolen lien No trace has been found of the 1950 Chevrolet stolen from At torney B. A. Critcher on Main Street here last Wednesday eve ning. The attorney, leaving hit key in the ignition switch, park ed his ear in front of the Guaranty Rank and went to the movies. The car was gone when he left the show . Five Car Wrecks On County Roads During Week-End Only One Person Injured And Properly Duniupe Is Limited To About $500 Only one person was injured and property damage was limited to about $500 in a series of five motor vehicle accidents on the highways in this county during the past few days. Cars, driven by Bobby Brady and Booker T. Lloyd, sideswiped each other on the Huskinaw Swamp road leading off Highway 64 early last Wednesday night. Only one was injured and the total damage hardly exceeded $25, according to Patrolman B. W. Parker who made the investiga 1 tion. Driving toward Williamston last Thursday morning, Jos. Ambridge [Febre of Belhaven applied brakes on his 1950 Chevrolet pick-up truck to avoid hitting a car that was turning off Highway 17 into the Skewarkey read. The brakes [locked, causing Febre to lose con trol of the truck which went into a field and turned over. Febre suffered a broken collar bone and bruises about the body. Damage to his truck was estimated at $100 by Patrolman B. W. Parker who made this investigation. The other machine went on its way without stopping. Clifton Columbus Jones, driving his 1940 Dodge pick-up truck to ward Williamston on Highway 125, lost control of the machine when it struck a slick spot in the road near the Everett farm, went out of control and turned over, Jones was not hurt and damage to his truck was estimated at $5C by Patrolman B. W. Purkcr ancJ Travis Register who made the in vestigation. Two cars, a 1942 Ford driven b> Joseph Allen Brakes, colored oi RFD I, Washington, and a I94( Pontiac, driven by James Rawls colored of RFD 2, Williamston had a regular accident duel oi Highway 17 near the Robert Lee | Perry farm Sunday morning abou | 1:00 o'clock. Brakes said because of a defective steering gear he | was operating his old Ford in the middle of the highway, driving toward Washington. Rawls, think mg Brakes was going to make i left turn into a sideroad, slartec to pass. Brakes pullel back te his right about that time, and tin Pontiac hit the Ford in the rear knocking it some little <hstanc< down the highway. After tearing out of the road ditch, the Fore swerved to its right and “attack ed" the Pontiac, according to Pa trolman B. W. Parker who mad< the investigation. “It was the firs time I ever investigated an acci (Continued on Page Seven) ROUND-UP _> Eight persons were arrested “and'’detained in the county jail last wek-end. Three were booked for being drunk and disorderly and another three were charged with plain drunkenness, and one each for being absent front the armed forces without leave and another with an assault. Five of the eight arrested were white, and ages of the group ranged front 16 to 39 years. A nniuil 7 'obacco Motorcade In This County Thursday Williamston's annual tobacco motorcade, arranged by the Boos ters in cooperation with the To bacco Board of Trade and busi ness men, will start rolling promptly at 9:00 o'clock Thurs day morning of this week. A spec-, ial invitation is being extended to all local business men and others to take part in the special tour of the county. The motorcade will be led by Willimston’s High School Band and Sales Supervisor Blue Man ning- along with ALSweatt of the Wiiliarnston Boosters. While1 the schedule could not include every community in the county, the motorcade will reach most of them during the day. Scheduled to start at the ware houses Thursday morning at <1 3( o'clock, the motorcade will read Hamilton at 9:30 o’clock, going or to Oak City for a stop at 10:0( o'clock. Hassell is on the schedule for a stop at 10:30, and thence t< Gold Point at 11:00, and then ti Everetts at 11:25. The motorcade will return to Williamston foe lunch at 12:00 o’clock and con tinue its schedule that afternoon reaching Bear Grass at 2:3C o’clock. The next stop will be Manning and CJurkin’s store al £{10 o’clock an dtherice to Sannu ville at 3:45 o’clock. After a run down* to Dardens at 4:15, the mo torcade returns home, reaching here abeiut 5:00 o’clock fex4€ansi\wmng-i Insecticide Manufactuiing Senioi Enrique Gerrero and Ing, Octavio Mauero of Mexico City, Mexico, are spending sever al days here studying the latest methods employed in the manu facture of insecticides. Business associates of Mr. Bob Johnston, chemical engineer for the Mathie son Chemical Company, the visi tors are making detailed obser vations of the manufacturing pro cesses and methods employed at the Standard Fertilizer Company, a division of the Mathieson Cor poration. The visiting engineers came to the local p'ant after conferring with Dr. E. W. Constable, State chemist in Raleigh, a few days ago. These men are associated with the Sanidad Agriealo Mexicana, S. A., the first Mexican owned Two Escape From Burning Building Friday Afternoon —®— lYiiuiil House Destroyed by Fire In Tin* I'oplur Point Area Sammy 1,., and Richard Earl Oakley, 3, barely escaped fire deaths last Friday afternoon about >3:30 o’clock when their home burned on the Ballard farm in Poplar Point. Minutes after they were removed from the burning • home, the roof fell in the room where the five-year-old tot was sleeping and his smaller brother was playing with a pet puppy, un conscious of any danger. James Oakley, the farmer, and other members of the family were housing tobacco several hundred yards away at the time and they 1 could not see the four-room house owned by Clayton House of Ham ilton. Clifton Scott, who lives on the same farm and who was help ing house the tobacco with the Oakleys and others, went by the i home en route to a store for cool drinks. He saw the children play ing in the road and advised them to seek shelter from the rain. | When Scott returned he found a i tricycle left in the road by one of the children He got out of his car and started to carry the tri cycle into the yard and saw the fire break through the roof, lie rail into the house, snatched up the two children and carried them to safety, the roof falling in a few seconds later and before any before any furniture could be saved. The little flog perished in the fire The origin of the fire could not be determined, but lightning had knocked out the lights in that section and it is believed the wil - ing in the home was damaged, possibly causing the fire. "We had no insurance and lost cvi-'i'jdhnTg wo had, Mr. Oakley said, adding that he and Ins fam ily were appreciative of the help tendered by neighbors and othei friends following the file. The loss on the contents was estimated al $1,1)00. No estimate on the house loss could be had immediately (Continued on Page Seven) Nan And Mules Stunned By Boll L W (Jake) Cullipher was stunned and two mules were knocked down by lightning on the Ballard farm in Poplar Point Township last Friday lumping about 11:00 o’clock Mr. Cullipher I was knocked flat, but quickly re i covered, reports stating that, he apparently suffered no ill effect I from the blow. One of the mules j went to his knees and quickly re covered while the oilier animal was "out" for several minutes before getting back to ils feet. The farmer was under u tobac co barn shelter with the mules, and said that the lightning was flashing so thick and fast he was reminded of a fourth of July fire works display. "It was flashing ho.kj( ••K iev,.! A* .:•< A:.- ! all directions," he said. Several other people were in the dry barn and felt only minor shock, it was said. company to make insecticides in Mexico. Their plant has manufac tured liquid insecticide for two years but has been making cotton dust foi one year only. Ing, in Mexico, is the title giv en to engineers. Ing Mauero is a Chemical Engineer, graduating from the University of Mexico. Sr nor Gerrero is a mechanical en gineer. who was graduated from the University of Mexico and Co lumbia University in New York City. After visiting the local plant, they plan to go to Mathieson's sulphur and insecticide plant in Houston Texas, and the Mathie son fertilizer plant in Pasadena, Texas. While m Williamston, the engi neers as well as Mr. Johnston, are guests of the Dunning Tourist . Home. Pvt. Willie C. Hassell, son of Eva Hassell of RFD 3, Wil liamston, and the lute John Hassell, was wounded In Korea July 31. Narine Detained In Martin County -—<*■— Alleged to have hen absent from Ins base at Camp Lojeunc, Charles Uayeke, Jr., was arrested near Hamilton early last Thursday eve ning, hut not until In' had led officers through woods and swamps a distance of several miles. The young marine, said to have been in trouble before his last ! unofficial absence from the ser vice, weld into Hamilton Wednes day, entered at least one home and was said to have threatened the lives of officers. Hamilton offi cers and others, armed with pis tols, aided in the chase The man was picked up bv Patrolmen Parker and Register between Hamilton and Oak City at the end of the chase lasting nearly three hours. County Boys Get College Degrees Edgai Ferrell Smith of Robei sonville and Russell Manning of Oak City were awarded degrees at Wake Forest College a annual summer school cijmmenccmont exercise!) Iasi week The liachelor of Aits (It A ) de gree was presented to Manning. The Bachelor of Silence lit. S I i degree was given to Smith A graduating class of around ill) students received diplomas. Kelurnx Home From Tlic War Theater In Korea After a stay of nineteen months in Korea, much of the time spent in the thick of the light there, Cpl. George Leslie Godard is back home in Williamston The .young man landed on the West Coast a few (lays ago and arrived in Williamston during the week-end. 17. S. Foreign Trade Now Showing Decline -■» U. S. exports and imports of the normal commercial variety will tend to decline in the second half of 1952 and will close the year be low the peak levels reached in experts 11f"*the* 'goveihment. Tri? volumes attained last year were $15,000,000,000 in exports and $11,* I 000,000,000 in imports. D®dcs XapsAedg* *• - 0! 1919 Killing In Martin County —^— Formal Charge In Ca»d Is Held In Abeyanre I’eml iiifi >lau's Illness Bunt'd deep m the old criminal files in tliis county for thirty three years, the murder of George Brown, young colored man, at Hickory Grove Church near Wtl hamston on the second Sunday in May, lit 19, came to light again re cently, but Sheriff M W Hollo man said yesterday that no for mal charge had been lodged against the alleged killer and that possibly the case will never be called for trial. Climaxing an argument on the church ground back in May 1919, Robert Benson Harris, an adopt ed son, shot and fairly hurt George Brown. Witnesses recall the incident and Sheriff Holloman said they were ready to testify against the accused. Picking up a lead a short time ago, the officer followed it to 1W i-rrsf on - Sa-if-rn Sunday where he found Harris, alias Robert Wil liams, a helpless invalid in Kate Bettings Hospital. Harris or Wil liams, according to the sheriff, talks with difficulty and has lit tle or no use of any of his facul ties The accused denied any knowledge of the killing, declar ing he never saw a fellow by the name of George Brown, that he could not recall evei having had a fight. Harris admitted lie knew many people m this county, that he had relatives here. He also admitted that he last visited this section in either 194ti or 1949, but the man would smile a little when denying any knowledge id' the old crime. Sheriff Holloman said that ac tion in the case is being delayed pending the outcome of Harris's condition. Immediately following the fatal assault, Harris was said to have run away and officers were never able to trail him, and the case was lost sight of until a short time ago when an anonymous letter was received from Winston-Salem advising the sheriff here that the killer was in a hospital there. Admitting that he was reared in this county, Harris, now 57 years old, said he left in 1919 anti went to Hertford where he spent a few months before going to Norfolk. In 1922 he left the Vir ginia city and located m Winston Salem where he worked in the Foi .yth hospital until January of this year when he suffered a stroke of paralysis and was plac ed a short time later in the hos pital as a patient. Asked why he left the county, Harris was quot ed as saying, "1 just picked up and left.” Sheriff Holloman is continuing his investigation, but future action depends on the outcome of the man’s condition, the officer said. Tvlv i>lionc Manager Transfers To Kinston Manager of Uie local exchange for the Carolina Telephone Com pany for the past several years, I Mr W E. Thornton has been transferred to Kinston where he , will lake ovei the managerial (Ill lies sometime soon. Ills successor for the post made vacant here js believed to have been named but has not i epoi led as yet and no an nouncement has been made by the. i ompan.v Mr Thornton will move his family to Kinston as soon as he can find living quarters. FKW STILLS v_ There has been little ac tivity on the illicit liquor manufacturing front in this county on recent months, ac cording to a report tiled a few days ago by ABC Officer J. II. Roebuck. Last month six stills, one copper, were destroyed, the officers pouring out 2.900 gallons of mash. Two and one hall gallons of raw liquor were confiscated. Four per sons were arrested, tried and convicted. Road terms added up to 34 months and fines to In June, (he o.Mcers wrec|‘ ed four stills and poured ^ 1,000 gallons of mash. / /
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