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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,OH 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 71 ff'iftftlvnYUm-, Martin Cotfmy, Carolina, Tuetday, September 2. IV52 ESTABLISHED 1899 Axe Attack by Son Tom Scott Removed To A Durham Hospital; Son Held Without Bond Tom Scott. 58-year-old colored I . man, was critically injured at hisj f home on Susie Street early last Saturday night by his son, Ed ward (Ted) Scott, 27 years old. Using an axe, the son split his father’s head open, almost cut I ting out the left eye and expos-1 ing the brain. Last reports reach ing here from a Durham hospital 1. where the victim was carried for treatment stated that he was at vne point of death. Scott was re i moved to the hosp.tal by ambu lance after receiving treatment in a local hospital. Conflicting stories have been i told about the attack, but officers are taking no action pending the outcome of the victim’s condition, f The son continues in the county ( jail without the privilege of bond. Officers Chas. R. Moore and Clayton Rogers, answering a call '•to the Scott home just off Peel Street, said that they found the father lying unconscious on his t bedroom floor, that the son and a brother-in-law were fighting I when they reached the home. Scott was said to have been drink i • i'lg. The son told the officers that he went home and heard his father cursing his mother, that he (the son) said something to his father, and the father started on him with a large pocket kr.ife The son | claims he ran around the house several times, the father in close pursuit. The boy declared that as lie passed a door he picked up the axe and then attacked his father, sinking the cutting edge of the axe in the man’s head. No names were disclosed, but officers said thay .laaanad, a. difa ferent story from witnesses, claimed that the boy tore through i a screen door and attacked his father . Young Scott was .just in court the previous Saturday for an as sault. He has been in court quite a few times, one for resisting ar rest and assaulting officers and fo ravnous attacks on other per sons over a period of several years. He did not offer to resist when the two officers closed in on him last Saturday night shortly before 8:00 o’clock. Final Report On Georgia Markets ---A.- | Thr marketing season for the 1952 Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco crop ended August 29 with final sales at Statesboro and Vidalia, Georgia. During the sixth and last week of sales, average prices by grades Vere generally the lowest qf the season reports the U. S. depart ment of Agriculture. Quality of offerings was lower than the pre vious week. Volume was light for the week ending August 29 as gross sales amounted to only 2,181,202 pounds and averaged $30.28 per hundred —or $5.12 under the previous , week. Season gross sales totaled 179,677,839 pounds for an average of $49.04 s Lower quality leaf and nonde script offerings which made up three-fourths of the sales dropped S2.0ti to $8.00 below averages week before last. Lugs and prim ings were as much as $6.00 lower. The majority of declines ranged from $2.00 to $5.00 per hundred. Receipts of the Stabilization Corporation under the Govern ment loan program were about 5.3 percent of last week’s sales. if.}asun deliveries are slightly ov er 3.6 percent of gross sales. Nan Booked For Knife Assanll Willie Ruffin has been booked for a knife assault on Dora Wil liams, officers stating that the damage was slight. Officer Chas. ^R. Moore, investigating the com plaint, said the attack was made when the victim would not sit with him at the Carver theater last Saturday. The attack was on? of several reported during the week-end. ■ , . w- 4nHiV' *' • • . jf, y ^ ™ -Blocdmokte (to 2dwrsdiiy With hardly half of the quota i pledged as of this -morning, the chairman of the Martin County Red Cross Blood Bank program issued an urgent call for one hun dred additional volunteers, re questing them tf> sign up and give blood when the bloodmobile comes here on Thursday of this week. Reviewing the recruiting work this morning, Chairman James S. Rhodes, Jr., said that a few more than 100 persons in the chapter had volunteered to give blood. Williamston and community had right at sixty pledges. Griffins promised twenty-five volunteers, Bear Grass, 12; and little Williams Township said it could be count ed on for five pints. Chairman Rhodes and Recruiter Edgar Gurganus said that new donors are needed, that the pro gram in the past had been sup ported by a faithful few. While it does not injure one to give a pint of blood every six weeks, it is hardly fair to ask the faithful few to meet the bloodmobile even eve ry twelve weeks. Reliable reports declare that the supply at the blood center in Norfolk continues at a low point, that the demand is increasing. If the program is to be maintained for this area, more donors will have to volunteer. Volunteers are asked to contact Recruiter Gur ganus or Chairman J. S. Rhodes, Jr., or Mrs. Lucille Cowen at the Red Cross office in the town hall. FARM TOIIR v. Farmers Home Admihistra ' tion committeemen from Ber tie, Pitt, Greene and Martin County will make a tour of several farms in this county tomorrow. They will travel in about five cars. They will Inspect develop ments on the farms of Joseph H. Lilley, Garland C. Tice, John D. Lilley, Robert Hard ison and Henry Corey in Grif fins Township, and study Far mer James Smithwick’s beef cattle project at Jamesville. flan Badly Hurl In Hatchet Duel -- Frank Simmons, 33-year-old local colored man, suffered a fractured skull and his girl friend, Mary Lee Dickerson, 4H, was puTnfiilly ' cut above the head, cheek and right arm in a hatchet duel at his home hare on Andrews Street early last night. Simmons continues in a local hospital, and the Dickerson woman changed her residence, temporarily at least, from Oak City to the coun ty jail. . Using a small hand axe or la ther’s hatchet, the two went about the scalping work in the true In dian fashion. Only half conscious, Simnums declared to police that she struck the first lick and the carving and hacking got under way in real earnest. The nature of the trouble lead ing up to the hatchet, swinging could not be learned immediately. The Dickerson woman came here to join Simmons on a trip to South Carolina. They struck a dif ference and the hatchet severed just about the last ties between the two, police said. It was reported that Simmons had been a frequent visitor in the Dickerson woman’s home in Oak City for a year or moj-e. Opening Schedule For Local School The following schedule has been adopted for the first three days in the local schools, Principal B. G. Stewart announced today: Wednesday, September 3.* School opens at 1:30 and closes at 3:00 folfowing registration of stu dents; Thursday, September . 4.— School opens at 8:30 and closes at 12:00 o’clock noon, following dis tribution of books. Friday. September 5.—School opens at 8:30 and closes that after noon at 3:15 o’clock. Lunches will be served Friday and m the new high school cafeteria for the first time. Children entering the first grade will report to Miss Grace Talton’s room in the primary building Wednesday at 1:30 o’clock. Pupils entering grades two, three and four will report ip the grammar school auditorium. Pupils entering grades five through twelve wMl report in the high school auditorium. Fees payable are: $2.25 from grade one through grade eight; $5.60 for all high school students; and $9 for typewriter rentals. The fees are payable Wednesday and Thursday. There’ll be no formal opening program Oak City School Ready To Begin Work Tomorrow —•— School Has Nine New Fac ulty Members and Four New Bus Drivers Everything is in readiness for the opening of the Oak City School Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, Principal B. F. Sloan announced. The school is opening with good prospects for one of its best ses sions. With the consolidation of the Hassell primary and elemen tary units, Oak City is expected to show an increase in its enroll ment. Approximately 45 pupils are being transferred from the Hassell area along with two teach ers, Mrs. Beatrice J. Edmondson and Mrs. Viola P. Leggett. The i« making it possi ble to eliminate all combination grades, Principal Sloan said. f Some new equipment has been added, including new desks, in dividual lockers for the dressing rooms, tables and chairs and a new sink for the lunchroom, a new boiler for the primary build ing and floor coverings for the halls in the high school building. The faculty includes: Sarah Eleanor Barnett, first grade; Mrs. Beatrice J. Edmondson, second grade; Mrs. Dorothy Woodworth, third grade; Mrs. J. S. Ayers, fourth grade; Mrs. Rachel High, fifth grade, Mis. Viola P Leggett, sixth grade; Imogene Lewis, seventh grade; Russell Manning, and Mrs. Katie S. Copeland, eighth grades; Eleanor Eubanks, public school music; B. F. Sloan, principal; J. L. Hassell, agricul ture; Alma English, home eco nomics; Jack H. Ange, English; Mrs. Isabelle Mallory, history and French; H. J. McCracken, math ematics and science, and Mrs. Ma rie B. Harrell, commercial sub jects. Mrs. Francis Hyman will man age the lunch room, and Sol Hy mantis the new janitor. Bus drivers include, B. M. Har rell, Freddie Holliday, Maylon Edmondson, William Hackney High, Wade Hinson, Jr , Eddie La tham and Everett Purvis. There are nine new members of the faculty, including the two transfering from Hassell, and there are four new bus drivers. No formal opening is being planned. Battle On Insect Rated As Serious Washington.—M;in may be los ing his age-old battle against in sects. In the foreward of a new 952 page Agriculture Department yearbook titled, "Insects,” Sec retary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan calls the situation “dis turbing.” He wrote: "We have more insect pests, although we have better insecti cides to use against them and bet ter ways to fight them.” Mr. Brannan blamed foreign pests which slip through United States quarantines for part of the trouble. He urged natural scientists to continue searching for new methods of fighting bugs. He said insects are costing the country approximately four bil lion dollars a year in damage to crops and property. HnwSwawyJ.at Eddie P Hardison —•— Retired Railroad Man Died Friday Following A Long Illness Eddie Preston Hardison, retir-1 ed railroad man, died at his home here on Haughton Street last Fri day afternoon at 6:15 o’clock fol lowing a long period of declining health. Suffering a stroke a* num ber of years ago, he had been an invalid for a long time, receiving hospital treatment at intervals during his illness. His condition had been critical for several weeks. The son of the late Asa and Sallie Modlin Hardison, he was born in Jamesvillc Township 66 years ago and spent his early life on the farm there. He went with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company in early manhood and following his marriage to Miss Bessie Roberson oil May 17. 1908, he located in Williamston. Declin ing health forced his retirement. During his long illness, he ac cepted his suffering with patience, never complaining and always greeting visitors and other friends with a smile. He lived at’ peace with his fellow man, contributing in an humble way his bit for the betterment of his adopted com munity. Surviving besides Mrs. Hardi son are three sons, Noah E. Mayo E. and R. J. Hardison, all ol Wil liamston; four daughters, Mrs. W. B. Harris and Mrs. Richard Corey, both of Williamston, Mrs. Wood row Lawrence of Edenton, and Rosa Lee Hardison, of the home. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock by the Rev. John L. Goff, pastor of the Christian church. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery. International Oil Cartel Is Costing Citizens Billions -3, Monopoly So Strong That It Rales as an Indcpend* ent Government Washington.—A senator charg es that an “International Oil Car tel”—so powerful that it is an “independent world governmvn*” —has picked the pockets of Amer ican taxpayers of “billions of dol lars.” . In Iran, the Premier is ousted and replaced by a "rightist” will ing to make an oil deal with Bri tain. The people get rough. The new Premier flees and the old one comes back. At first glance, it may not seem that those two developments have anything to do with each other. Actually, both are parts of the same picture and it is extremely important to all Americans. The Senator is Thomas C. Hen nings (Dem., Mo ). Last week, he said: “For four months I have been trying to obtain the release of the Federal Trade Commission’s oil cartel report which has been kept from Congress and the public by being labeled ‘Secret’.” The State Department and De fense Department clamped on the lid of secrecy, by claiming publi cation of the report would harm the interests” of the United States, Hennings pointed out. He said he rasn't seen the re port, but it undoubtedly contains facts which were disclosed several yearn ago by a “world petroleum industry” investigation conducted by a committee headed by Sena tor Joseph C. O’Mahoney (Dem., Wyo.) Among those disclosures, Hennings explained, were these: “Seven companies own and control—lock, stock and barrel— practically the entire world oil industry outside of the United States. Six of these same com panies dominate the oil industry within the United States.” This “Big Seven” combine of five American and two foreign corporations, Hennings said, fixes oil prices the world around. It is “backed up” by the British For eign Office, the U. S. State De partment and the American Pe troleum Administration for De fense. It operates in secret and (Continued on Page Six) -i -Short MeeTingJn.. Monday Morning -cy Endorse Resolution ('.ailing For Bridges Over River And Ooalan Sound With little new business on their calendar the Martin County com missioners completed their work and were gone before noon Mon day. Only one or two persons ap peared before the board with special requests, but they took very little of the officials’ time and routine duties were handled quickly. The board, lending a sympathe tic ear, recommended to the North Carolina State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission that the 1.7 miles of road leading off High way 64 between Williamston and Everetts be worked as a commun ity project to the residence of Al len Williams. It was pointed out that residents along the route had already spent more than $1,000 on the road. A resolution, passed by a meet ing of the Southern Alberlmarle Association and the Alligator Croatan Bridge Association held in Columbia a few days ago, was endorsed by the county officials. The associations are appealing to the State for the construction of bridges over the Alligator River and Croatan Sound and make them toll projects. It is proposed to have a corporation build one of the bridges and the State to build the other one, but to be fi nanced as toll projects. Making his first report on 1952 tax collections, Collector M. L. I Peel said that $ 136,562.60 of the $393,582 02 levy for the fiscal year of 1952-53 had already been paid. He explained that collections this year were considerably larger than they were up to the corre sponding time a year ago. The col lector said that $351,700.27 of the $372,148 64 levy for 1951 had been paid, and that all but $8,626.97 of the $337,123.44 levy for 1950 had been collected. There is only a balance of $5,145.29 due on the $314,098.95 levy for 1949. I Representatives of the Beaufort Hyde-Martin Library Association appeared before the meeting and discussed the operations, and ask ed the board to consider an ap propriation for new equipment. It was explained that the bookmo bile is now serving the county schools as well as individuals in nearly every community in the county. Miss Copeland, librarian, explained the operations of the unit along with the Rev. John L. Goff, a member of the library board from this county. Commissioners C. C. Martin, John H. Edwards, Herbert L. Roe buck and Henry A. Johnson, Jr., were present for the meeting. Commissioner W. M Harrison continues ill in a Rocky Mount hospital and wus unable to attend. County Boy Takes Special Training Fleet Training Center, Norfolk, Vr.—Joseph L. Hardison, seaman,' ySCG, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis F. Hardison of Jamesville, N. C. has reported here for a course of instruction in Anti-Submarine Warfare. Here Hardison will learn the operation of underwater sound detection equipment and proce dures used in warfare against ene my submarines. On completing the course he will return to his ship, the USCG No. 83435, now in the Atlantic Fleet. He entered the. Coast Guard in Jan., 1951, and received his re cruit training at Cape May, N. J. Resume Everyday Delivery Of Milk I --1_ Beginning tomorrow, Taylor’s Dairy plant here will maintain every-day milk deliveries in this territory, according to an an nuuncement released this morn ing by Manager J. W Howard. Alter working on an every-oth er-day delivery schedule for a short time, the management found it was not very convenient for its patrons and it was decided to re turn to the every-day delivery plan for both retail and wholesale outlets. Largest Sale Of The Season Held Here Last Friday -<$>■ Largo Sale Today Is Push ing Total To Date To Mil lion ami Half Pounds After holding to comparative ly small poundages after the first day of the new marketing season, the Wiiliamston tobacco market is now in full swing with capac ity sales on its floors. A new poundage record was es tablished last Friday when 308, 582 pounds were sold for an av erage slightly under $50 per hum died pounds. Tips were offered in fairly large quantity and the market was said to have been stronger for those types. However, the lifeless lugs continue to hold the general average down. Up until this morning the mar ket here had sold 1,179,080 pounds for $580,539 or an average of $48.40. Considering the quality of the tobacco .the price average is in line with the figure reported during the early part of the mar- j keting season a year ago. During the first seven days of the 1951 marketing season the market here i sold 1,370,494 pounds for an av-1 erage of $49.08 per hundred J pounds. The price so far this sea son is $1.20 pel hundred pounds with the average reported in the corresponding period a year ago. Late .yesterday the houses were| filled just about to capacity One report said that the market would have blocked last Friday, but, far- > mors chose not to spread their tobacco on the floors and hold it there until today lor sales on ac count of weather conditions, under the average reported in the count of weather conditions. The block is scheduled to be cleared tomorrow. A report on the markets in the entire belt follows: Average prices for most grades of Eastern North Carolina flue cured tobacco last week were about m line with quotations ol opening week. According to the Federal-State Market News Si r vice, volume of sales was light; j however, on Friday auctions were! heavy at most points. A laige hurnbci of grade aver ages fluctuated slightly. Praeti-; callv all changes were only $1.00 and $2:60 a 'hundred pounds. Loss- i es and gains were about equally divided. Practical top price was $70.00. Gross sales for the week ending August 29 totaled 25,172,585 pounds and averaged $50.31 per hundred. This average was only 25 cents above that ol opening week, which consisted of two sales days. Sales for the season word brought to 39,578,047 pounds for $50.22. For the corresponding per iod last year, 44 million pounds had sold*for $50.80. The proportion of primings and lugs decreased slightly while the ratio of leaf increased. Sales were comprised chiefly of common to fair leaf, low and air primings,f fair and good lugs and noiulojj the ( script. Deliveries to the Corporation, under ment loan program, amounted to around 10 pr gross sales. Receipts to, son are approximately No sales were hek Monday, Septembi tions were resunit Stahili/a6jflj| 0 Climaxes Qu In one nf a series of ml fui attaik> reported ami colored population here the week-end, Hattie Husci all but knocked out by Gei Smith on Griffin Street la: urday morning. To climax an argument bet^ the two, the Smith woman t a folding chair. Planting it mil Rascoe woman’s head, the att.it er left a seventeen-stitch gash. At a preliminary hearing belli Justice Chas. R. Mobley rl Smith woman was bound over the county court for trial ne Saturday, Bond was required H the sum of $50. ROUND-UP \ Clumped down fairly sub stantially for several weeks, the lid on the crime front in this immediate area literally blew off last week-end. By the time the last round-up was completed Sunday, sev enteen persons had been jail ed. six for public drunken ness, seven for assault, and one each for larceny, care less and reckless driving, vio lating liquor laws and dis orderly conduct. Three of the seventeen were white and the ages of the group ranged from 18 to 55 years. Five Accidents On Streets Andj County Highways -- PuMMonper In Car Is Itailly Hurl In Accident Ou River Bridge One person was badly hurt and property damage was estimated in excess of $2,500 in a series of au tomobile accidents in and around William,ston over the week-end. Early Saturday afternoon two cars, one from Philadelphia and the other from New York City, scratched fenders on the town's main street at the Haughton spot light Officer Chas. Moore, making the investigation! said a little paint would cover the scratches, that the damage would hardly ex ceed $5 to both vehicles. A short time later there was a tl^ree vehicle accidenf on the town's Washington Street at Guil ford Brown's barbershop. Kussell Bennett Griffin, colored man of Everetts, was driving Jack Man ning's freight truck into town, following a 11)50 Packard driven by Elsia Mae Caruso of More head City. The Packard slowed down and the truck crashed into it when the brakes failed. The Packard crashed into John Rid dick’s 1041) Chevrolet parked in front of the barbershop and then j plowed into the barbershop, j Continued on Paye Six) mer Resident s Murder Clew .ley Lilley, former Wil boy, picked up the first he Officer Mills murder reenville. The young a motorcycle sergeant eenville police force, a cafe conversation, d he picked up there, wo Marines who killed! Is in Greenville a go, Saturday Morntag Several Defendants Sent To The Roads By Judge R. T. Johnson Judge R. T. Johnson handled wenty-six eases in a little over avo hours before adjourning a egular session of the Martin Jounty Recorder’s Court last Sat jrday morning. Fines were impos 'd in the sum of $435. Several oonds were forfeited and several defendejlts drew time on the roads. Proceedings: Pleading not guilty, LeRoy Barnes was adjudged guilty of drunken driving and was fined $100. plus costs. He lost his driv er’s license for a year. Charged with speeding 95 miles an hour, reckless driving and fail ing to heed a siren, Ralph Edgar Boston .of Jamesville pleaded »ot guilty Adjudepd^oiUtv, he was sentenced to ini' loads for nine months. He ga,ve notice of appeal and bond was required in the sum of $500. Walter E. Norris, charged with drunken driving and resisting ar rest, failed to answer when called and judgment abosolute was made on his bond. Russell Thompson was found not guilty ot an assault with a deadly weapon Roland Thompson, charged with assaulting a female, was found not guilty. Willie Watson, pleading not guilty, was adjudged guilty of ail assault with a deadly weapon, and was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with asaulting a fe male, Ervin Wynn was given a six-month road sentence which was suspended. Before the court had completed its work, the de fendant allegedly violated the terms of suspension, and the sen tence was invoked. Richard Dieken was sentenced to the roads for six months for entering and attempted larceny. Pleading guilty of drunken driving, Jesse Daniel Baker was fined $100, plus costs He lost his operator’s license for a year. Jerry Burl ington was fined $35, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Charged with speeding, Ralph Wisler Plows of Coral, Gables, Fla , failed to answer when called and his bend was forfeited. Charged with speeding, Benja min F. Hill of Ahoskie was taxed with the court costs. Judgment was suspended upon tlii' payment of the costs in the ease in which Guy Wade was charged with operating a motor ►vehicle without a driver’s license. Charlie Barnes was sentenced to the roads for thirty days for op erating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. In a second case against him, Barnes pleaded not guilty of larceny Adjudged guil ty, he was sentenced to the roads for six months. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Robert Lewis Everett was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. He drew a similar sentence for having no chauffeur’s license. In a third case in which he was adjudged guilty of larceny, Eve rett was sentenced to the roads for nine months. The sentences are to run consecutively. Johnnie Lee, pleading guilty of carrying a concealed weapon, was entenced to the roads for thirty days when he was unable to pay a $50 fine and costs. Charged with operating a motor (Continued on Page Six) GIs Asking For Duly In Korea Heidelberg, Germany.- A total ot 2,llti infantrymen in the Unit ed States Army in Europe have volunteered since January for duty in Korea, Army headquar teis announced here Army officials said that about 1,900 of the applications had been approved while only 67 disap roved. Most of the remaining ap plications now are being dealt with. More than 700 suldiers serving with the Army's technical or ser vice units in Europe have asked tor transfers to infantry units in Em ope.
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