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*“Uncle Sam” THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME I To Lead Williamston’s Harvest Festival Parade Wednesday Afternoon At 3:00 O’Clock THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK SKMUttmtlon* Marlin County? North Carolina- Tttimday, (htoher 21, KSTAlil jSIIEf) ,1399 Twenty Cases In Recorder's Couri Saturday Morning —«— Mail Gels Two Years For Violating Health Law; IO Fines Total &T20 -♦ Twenty cases were handled in the Martin County Recoredr's (Court in a little ovftr two hours lust Saturady morning. One de | fendant was sentenced to the | roads for two years for alleged ! violation of the health laws. | Judge R. T. Johnson imposed fines in the sum of $450. Proceedings: ® Adjudged guilty of drunken driving, Jetson Bonner Gurkin, former State highway employe, was fined $100, plus costs. He lost •his operator’s license for a year. Pleading not guilty, Jimmie Howard Stancil of Newport News was found guilty of speeding and was taxed with the costs. [ Charged with drunken driving. », r Cottnpjv^ adoidgod guilt*, of ope:.- ring a jnotor vehicle: the wrong side of the road and \#is fined $10, plus costs. Lonnie Bell Crisp of Washing | ton was fined $50, plus costs, for speeding 75 miles per hour. The cage in which Thurman Hy man was charged with resisting arrow, was remanded to the jus tice court. Jasper vVoolard was found not guilty of drunken driving. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Henry Rose Sykes j|vas fined $25, plus costs. Charged with drunken driving, Daniel Howerin pleaded guilty and was fined $100, plus costs. He lost his operator’s license for a year. \ In the case of Francis Thomas and Nellie Mae Thomas, Ihc wife pleaded guilty of violating the liquor laws and was sentenced to Woman's Prison for six months, the court suspending the sentence jpon payment of a $100 fine and costs. Shi' is to violate no liquor law during the next two years. The case against the husband was mil pressed. Bonzie Cuton was fined $10. plus costes, for public drunken ness. Pleading guilty of violating the Health laws, Daniel Jones was sentenced to the’roads for two years. Charged with an assault and ^n-support, Theodore Watson was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road sentence for two years on rendition that the defendant pay $12 a week for the support of his family and the court costs. John T. Campbell, Jr., of Wash ington, was fined $25, plus costs, for speeding 70 miles an hour. Judgement was suspended up on the payment of the court costs in the following speeding ,#ses: James Fly.yd Wilson, Jr., of HFD 1, Bethel, Jesse Franklin Williams, Jr., of Wilmington, Gar land E. Ross of Ahoskie, Jos. B. Hardison of Aprahue, James B. Smith of Portsmouth, Thomas R. Wolf of Baltimore, and Charles Button, address unknown. taken Over Muougemeut Of Local Coffee Shop ■—# WE. Morton, for several years associated with the -Colonial Stores organization, will take over the active management of Wier’s Coffee Shop, recently purchased by Skinner, James and others. Experineced in the business and well known here, Mr. Morton will enter upor) his new duties Sunday, it was an nounced by the owners. SPECIAL v_ He has promised not to "steal” the parade, but A. Corey, Martin County nomi nee for the State House of Representatives, will be one of the features in the harv est festival march here to morrow afternoon at 3:M o'clock when he rides a Hoov • er cart. The cart, all but extinct in this county, waa borrowed from a Pitt County farmer who has kept it for years as a grim reminder of the early thirties. [Big District Rally In County October 23 JUDGE SHARP | - J i Miss Susie Sharp, the first woman superior court judge in North Carolina, twill pre side over the two-week term of the Martin County Superi or Court, beginning Novem ber 17, it was announced this week. Judge Sharp has served with distinction for several years, but it will be her first official visit to this county when she reports on the 17th from her home in Reidsville. The court will handle civil cases only. Mrs. Geo. Brown Died In Hospital Saturday Mfcrnifitj Funeral Held Monday Aft ernoon In Community Christian Chureli Mrs. Mattie Elizabeth Brown, 54, died in a local hospital last Saturday morning at 7:30 o’clcok following a second heart attack. She had been a patient in the hospital since suffering a first at tack about a week ago. Prior to that time she was apparently in good health Mrs. Brown was born in Par mele February 2, 1898. the daugh ter of the late Henry D. and Eliza Nelson ^oburn. Following her marriage in 1912 to George L. Brown, she made her home in Bear Grass Township'a few years before moving to Blackstone, Vir ginia, about thirty-two year's ago. After a short residence in Vir ginia, the family returned to Bear Grass, later moving to the Mary Cherry farm near Williamston where she had since made her home. She whs devoted to her family and was a thoughtful neighbor and friend. She was a member of the Com munity Christian Church near Williamston for a number of years, and the funeral service was conducted there Monday after noon at 3:00 o’clock by the Rev. Russell Smith of Columbia. In terment was in the Robersonville Cemetery. Surviving are seven sons, Jos eph H. Brown of Norfolk, George Lee Brown of Detroit, Ernest E. Walter W., Jesse Reuben, Harvey Dell and Hubert Saunders Brown, all of Williamston; four daughters, Mrs. Russell Holliday, Mrs. Seth Roberson, Nellie Faye and Bettie Ray Brown, all of the home com munity; five brothers, H. E. Co burn of Porthsmouth, William Henry Coburn of Robersonville, H. C. Coburn of Newport News, i M. H. Coburn of Blackstone, Va., and Hubert Edward Coburn of Church Roads, Va.; three sisters,' Mrs. Elmer Stevenson of Hamil ton, Mrs. Ira Watson of Church Roads, Va., and Mrs. Garland Bishop of Hopewell, and twenty four grandchildren, Common Carnival i Leaves Victims Thi' Harrison Greater Shows, rated one of the most common | carnivals in America, left a good- j ly number of victims here last i week-end. Open robbery was j charged to the gypsy outfit and gambling took a heavy toll. One reliable estimate placed the ill gotten tool in the thousands of dollars. Some money was recovered by officers, but hundreds were fleec ed and they did not complain. A fairly sizable check was literally snatched out of a “sucker’s” i hands, but it was recovered when j the law moved in. It is expected that an appeal i will be directed to the county commissioners at their next meet ing, urging action that will out law carnivals of the type that. victimized hundreds of unsus- j porting people here last week. While the outfit carried away thousands of dollars, the county received a meager $100 in taxes and the sponsors cleared about $300. Robersonville All Set To Entertain 14-County Meeting; —•— Hill Uimteail, Nomiuee for Governor, and Slate Of ficiul* To Speak -* Plans were announced just about complete this morning for the First Congressional Demo cratic rally in Robersonville Thursday evening of this week, and Jim Gray, chairman of the Martin County Democratic Execu tive Committee, declared that it promises to be the biggest and best rally in the entire State. Entertaining the 14-county meeting, Robersonville is going all out in its preparations to welcome between 1,200 and 1,500 Demo •* •• * •v'A •••' •««»<*:*♦•• n ats trorn ManU-o tu The western edge of Pitt County. The Wash ington High School Band has ac cepted an invitation to play at the ra.ly, and Williamston’s High School Band will be there, too, if illness of several members does nut make the trip impossible. Bill Umstead, the gubernatori al nominee, is tentatively schedul ed to deliver the main address along with the Honorable Camer on Morrison who is coming to the ; county tomorrow. Other State of- i ficials, including Herber Bonner, I the host congressman for the ral ly, will have parts on the pro gram. it was announced. Similar rallies have already been held across the State down to the First District, and the event in Robersonville is expected to climax them all. The program will be held in the new Robersonville High School gymnasium, beginning at 5:00 o’clock Thursday. Following the program, a barbecue-Bruns wick stew dinner will bo served free to the guests m the Planters Warehouse there. A report from Pitt County maintains that the party there will be represented by a delegation of 200 or more strong Other counties have advised Chairman Gray that they will he well represented, indicating that Democrats in the First District will hold the pprty flag high on Thursday of this week and again on Tuesday, Nov ember 4, election day. Martin County Democrats are raising approximately $2,000 to fi nance the rally and meet other obligations. Chairman Gray re ported Mpnday that Gold Point, Bear Grass, Jamesville, Roberson ville and Cross Roads had already raised their quotas and more, that nearly everyone of the other pre cincts are certain to reach their goals bv tomorrow. The rally will stress support for the Democratic Party and appeal for an active electorate on election day. It is certain to attract State wide attention, and leaders in the county and district are working to carry it over the top in a big way. All Martin County Democrats are invited to attend along with those from each of the other thir teen counties' in the district. Start Community Concert Program ———^— Holding a dinner meeting in the Woman's Club here last evening, the Martin County Community Concert Association launched its annual membership drive. Sixty workers, representing James villt, Farm Life, Bear Grass, Eveietts, Robersonville and Wil hamston. attended the event. Other towns in the area pratici pating in the association program include Hassell, Oak City, Ply mouth and Windson. Much interest in the 1952-53 program was expressed, and with two successful seasons behind them, the workers are convinced the new seaso nshould be the best and most successful. Headquarters for the week will again be located in the lobby of the Virginia Eelectric and Power Company. Those who are not contacted by the workers, are asked to call 3241 and a worker will contact them for a membership in the a$ socation. Circulate Quarter Million Books In Bookmobile Areas —<*— t hird Grade Borrower Says She Values Library Ser* viee Very Highly Miss Elizabeth Copeland, reg-' lonal librarian, this week review ed the operation of the Beaufort Hyde-Martin bookmobile, and submitted a letter from a third grader, expressing appreciation for the library service. Miss Copeland said: A quarter of a ^nillion books! That is how many were circulated last year from the Regional Book mobile to the people of Beaufort, Hyde and Martin Counties. For eleven years this travelling library has carried books to the people of these three counties each month. Regardless of the weather, the Boobmobile makes its run on schedule. People bor row as many books as they like absolutely free. There are no fines and no fees. .i Bookfiiolule*is' wearing out. tt is inadequate for an up-to-date library service. The Regional Library is faced with the problem of purchasing a new Bookmobile which will cost several thousand dollars. The service has out-grown the con verted Chevrolet truck now mak ing the rounds. The rural people need and deserve a modern "li brary-on-wheels.” That is what they hope to buy. Beaufort, Hyde, and Martin Commissioners recognize the need and are doing their part. They have appropriated money .to help purchase a new Bookmobile. But it is not enough. BUM Trustees are asking the people of these three counties to help raise the rest of the money. It is the first time in its history that the Reginua! Library has asked anything of the people it serves. This is a special request for this year only. All money collected will remain in these three counties. None will be sent outside or be spent for any other purpose. If more than enough money is raised, it will be placed in a sinking fund for ?i future bookmobile. This entire library service has been and will continue to be free of-charge. Any person may bor row as many books as he likes and keep them as long as he de sires. That the people rtre grateful for this service is provun by the great use they make of it. In con tributing to a new Boukmobile, they will be buying something for themselves. They will be able to see how their money is spent. They can see it on the roads ot this region and have the satis faction of knowing they helped pay for it. .Continued on page eight| Luncheon Planned For Nr. Morrison Scheduled to address the an nua! harvest festival here tomor row afternoon at about 3:45 o'clock or immediately after the big parade,- Ihc Horse; able .Cam ■ eron Morrison will be entertained at a special luncheon in the Wom an's Club at 1:00 o'clock. Offi cials from the county and the sev eral towns in the county will be special guests of the Boosters at the dinner. Mr. Morrison is leaving his home in Charlotte today and will continue here tomorrow morning after spending the night in ROUND-UP s Fourteen persona were rounded up and temporarily detained in the county jail during the past week-end, the activities on the crime front having shown a slight increase ever the business reported in similar periods during the past few weeks. Eight were hooked for pub lic drunkenness, two for as sault and two for disorderly conduct, and one each for , breaking and entering and drunken driving. Six of the fourteen were white, and the ages of the group ranged from lb to M years. Honorable Speaks T< -«$>- , A. Corey To Ride Special Carl In Mammoth Parade —<*>— Ten ltuuil»i, Many Float* Anti Sixteen l’rime**e* To Be In March "Wo are rapidly forming one of the largest and best parades ever seen in this soetion, and with fair weather the annual Williamston Harvest Festival event Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock will sur pass all past events." A1 Sweatt, executive secretary of the Will iamston Boosters said today. All plans are complete for the big event which was opened last evening with a street dance for the colored citizens. Fifteen or more firms and clubs arc rapidly mrift'ig > eudy speeftfi’IWlSW* Mu* the parade which will feature two outside specialities, one by Chest erfield and the other by the At lantic Coast Line Railroad Com panv. Cold weather all but froze out the dan'ce last evening, but the orchestra hovered in the Heilicg Myers Furniture store and the dancers shortened the schedule. There wer few spectators. Mr. A. C Davis, retired postal worker of Rocky Mount and the man who portrayed 'Tinkle Sam” and led the national inaugural parade in Washington in January, 1949, will lead the parade here tomorrow, it was announced to day. A. Corey, county nominee for the State House of Representa tives, will drive a special Hoover Cart model, following officials from the county and the various towns in the county. The Honorable Cameron Mor rison, 84 years young, will address the festival crowd at the corner of J Main and Smithwick Streets. The former Governor and United | States Senator is still going ! strong, and is looking forward to I his visit in the county tomorrow. He plans to remain over for the party rally in Robersonville Thursday. I Edwards Military Institute of Salemburg is sending its band I here for the parade, making ten bands all lined up for the march. The band includes two local boys Wilson Knox and John Leslie (Tommie) Cooke. There’ll be sixteen princesses in the parade, all riding in con vertibles with chauffeurs, with Miss Barbara Ann Harris who is Miss North Carolina for 1952, r id ing the JayCees float, ft was an nounced yesterday that Miss Al ice Partin will represent Scot land Neck in the beauty contest which will reach a climax at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow night when the festival queen will be named and crowned by Miss Patricia Taylor, queen of the 1951 event. Dean Hudson and his orchestra will play for the ball. The parade, almost certain to be a mile long, will form on Beech, Ray and Watts Streets and Mar shall Avenue, and start moving promptly at 3:00 o’clock. It will (Continued on Page Eight) Ins pert rirt^hghtinfi Equipment Here Friday Accompanied by their teacher, Minn Peggy Barrow, and several patrons, members of the Janus ville fourth grade inspected W i I - liamston's fire-fighting equipment last Friday. The boys and girls had been studying fire departments and they were literally bubbling over with timely questions. Most of the pupils wanted to know how fast the trucks would run, while others inspected the equipment right down to the last wrench or tool. •---« Firemen t'.tilled Out At Noon haul Friday -* Starting from a spark, fire caus ed only slight damage to the boil er room roof at the Sunny Side oyster bar at 12:35 o'clock last Friday afternoon. Firemen, ans wering the call, found the fire out on arrival there, the owner, C. T. Roberson, explaining that it was checked with a bucket of watei. 1 Cameron Morrison omorrow Afternoon Edgecombe - Martin REA Paying Off Its Obligations Mori- than $236,000.00 in prin cipal and interest has been repaid to the Rural Electrification Ad ministration by Edgecombe-Mar tin County Electric Membership Corporation since receiving it; first loan of construction funds ir 1936, according to Mr. John W Eubanks, President of the Coop eiative’s Board of Directors. Mr. Eubanks stated yesterday that since the cooperative's form ation sixteen years ago a tota of $129,423.39 had been repaid oi the principal and $106,665.90 hai been paid in interest on loans re eeived from the government Moreover, according to Mr. Eu banks, $15,508.90 of these amount the schedule called for in the eo operative’s mortgage-loan con tract. ‘‘In the past," Mr. Eubank said, “we have always publicize! the amounts of the loans we havi received from the government. We believe the public, ;is well as our members, is interested in these loans. We also feel that the public would like to know how progress in paying the loans off." Mr Eubanks stated that the basic relation between an electric membership corporation and REA is one of banker and borrower, with the cooperative being owned and operated solely by its mem ber-consumers. He also said that I since the beginning of the rural i electrification program in North I Carolina some 1(3 yearsxign there had not been a single default on . (the- part of any cooperative in paying off its loans and interest, i Edgecombe-Martin C o u n t y [ Electrje Membership Corporation*, with us home office in Tarboru. North Carolina, serves 4001 mem ber-owner families in the counties • of Edgecombe, Martin, Nash, I'itt, 1 Halifax, Beaufort,. Bertie and ■ I Wilson. Tobacco Sales Pass Ten Million Figure Sale On Monday Among Highest Oi Season Here 10,003,122 INhi iu In Suit I in Otiti* For AvmijH1 Kiplit | At 5 I Out* u I'oiiiiiI Tobacco .sales on the Williums ton market went over the ten mil lion pound mark yesterday with the average standing right close to $51.00 per luimireu pounds. The ten million-pound goal, tentative ly set up just before the season opened, has been advanced to tin eleven million-pound figure. Following that record sale of 407,000 pounds recorded on Mon | day of last week, sales have eon tinued to hold up unusually well. Last Friday more than 000,000 j pounds were sold for an average above $53.00 per hundred. Yes ; terday, the sales added up to 234, 100 pounds, thi' average, standing right at $54.00 per hundred, being among the highest recorded on the local market this season. Sales are comparatively light today, but early reports maintain ed that the price was holding firm. A report for the entire bright belt, as released by the State and U. S. Departments of Agriculture, follows: Average prices by grades for Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco held fairly steady last week. Sales for the week grossed 51,354,050 pounds foi an • of $52,09 per hundred- $1.56 und er the previous week. Since auc tions began on August 21, volume has amounted to 373,223,036 pounds at an average of $51.27 Quality of offerings was about the same, according to the Federal and State Market News Service. Around half of the grade aver ages remained unchanged from i the previous week. Gains and losses were equally divided. Most fluctuations amounted to $1.00 to (Continued on Page Eight) Garage Robbery Here on Sunday Believed to have gained an en trance through a buck window or through a door while employes were working there, a robber en tered the Roanoke Chevrolet, Company garage sometime during Sunday afternoon or evening and stole ten or twelve dollars from the cash register A far as it could be learned nothing else was missed from the i bulding, and the register was not i damaged. | FA I It HOOKS | vy Three thousand premium lists for the Martin County Agricultural Fair to he held in Williamston the week ol' November 3, were placed in the mails this week. The premiums, covering all farm products and livestock, add up to more than $1,000, and entries are invited from farmers, hoincinakcgs and others. The event, sponsored joint ly by the Williamston I.ions and Kiwanis Clubs and ap proved by the State Depart ment of Agriculture, will be held in the big Carolina Warehouse. Native Died In Johnston County Sunday Afternoon Fmimil Service Her** Thin Afternoon \l .'i o'clock For IN. S. (iotlnrtl Noah Staton Godard, native of Williamstoh, died at the home of >iis nephew, Sherwood Lassiter, near Smithfield in Johnston Coun ty Sunday afternoon at 3:40 o'clock, lie had been m declining health for eight months or more, and underwent treatment in var ions hospitals at intervals during that timiv lie was reported to have suffered a stroke of paraly sis which resulted in his death. The son of the late Salmon and Alice Hardison Godard, he was born in Williamston 54 years ago on October Hi, 1308, and spent most of his life here He worked as a mechanic most ol his life and traveled rather extern ively until a lew years ago. When his health began to fail early this year, he retired and moved to Johnston County to make his home with relatives Hi* was married to Myrtle Bramble Edmondson. Surviving ure lies widow; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Lassiter, of Four Oaks; i brother, Joseph G. Godard of Williamston He was a member ol the Epis opay church and the Rev. Thom us L. Hastings, rector ol the 'liureh of the Advent, will eon luet the last rites in the Biggs Funeral Home Chapel here this ifternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Intcr uent will be in the family plot in Wood lawn Cemetery KUKAI. URL Fire ol undetermined origin de ployed two empty tobacco cur ng barns, a truck and a number uf farm implements on the Clay on House farm near Ruberson ,'ille early today. Five Accidents On County Highways In Past Few Days No One KrporttMl Hurl Bad ly ami Property Damage No (ini’ was reported badly in juri’d and property damage was estimated at less than $1,000 in a series of automobile accidents on Martin County highways and streets during the past tew days. Its rear battered in an accident about two weeks ago in West End, Williamston's police car had its front smashed in last Friday night at 10:55 o'clock on the town's west main street when it crashed into the rear of a 1951 Ford driv en by Henry Benjamin Roberson Hf RFD 1. Williamston. The po lice car, driven by Officer Arthur Perry, was following a line of traffic east on the street when an unknown driver stopped suddenly a short distance east of the under pass. Roy Alton Stocks, Jr., of RFD I. Windsor, stopped in line, ~Ti?r*W>,yff..,;-, "*r^iwn? but the police car could not be stopped in time to avoid a crash. The Roberson car was knocked in to the rear of Stocks' 1951 Chev rolet. but no damage was done to the Chevrolet Damage to the front and rear of the Robersi.ni Ford was estimated at $150 by CpI. M. C. Byrum of the highway patrol who made the investiga tion. Damage to the police cur was estimated at $200 The motorist who had made the sudden stop sped away. It was pulled into the Chas II. Jenkins lot and the police are j now using a pick-up truck lent by the street department. Mrs. Benjamin Eugene Griffin, of Jamesvillc suffered what was described as a minor hip injury when the car in which she was riding with her husband went out of control and turned over a short distance beyond Sweet Water Creek on Highway 04 early last Wednesday night The ear struck a soft shoulder and went out of control, Patrolman Travis Register reported following an investigation. Damake to the 1952 Chevrolet was estimated at $200. Last Friday afternoon about 4 00 o'clock three vehicles were traveling toward Williamston on Highway 04 Wheeler Brown, driving a 1941 Chevrolet, pulled to the right shoulder to piek up a hitch hiker Charles Edward Ina binett of Williamston slowed down his 1947 Chevrolet, and Charles Womack, operating a tractor-trailer loaded with tobac co and belonging to the Taylor Transfer Company of Greenville, plowed into the rear of the Ina binett ear, knocking it about fifty feet across the highway Investi gating the accident, Patrolman B. W. Parker said the brakes on the truck apparently failed. The offi cer estimated the damage to the Inabinett ear at about $200 No one was reported injured. (Continued- on Page Eight) I.oral (wirl On lulilorial Staff Of ('.oUrgv Ta/im -- Mi.-s Jam' Mi l.aw horn has been (lamed In the .tail of the "Tc enan". East Carolina College year hook. She is listed as organiza tions editor. Kiiflinrrrs If ill Meat In Kinston Tomorrow — y Several local members of 'the East Carolina Engineers Club plan to attend a meeting of the organization in Kinston tomorrow evening Congressman-elect L. H. Fountain of Tarburo, is to address the group, it was announced. | I HUM1 v___ T h c fhcrniuinetrr w a s struck a sudden and heavy blow here yesterday after noon and by t>:30 o'clock this morning the mercury had tumbled down to the 30-dc gree mark. The mercury reg istered in the sixties yester day morning. Fair and continued cool weather waes promised for tomorrow. Maintenance forces were busy yesterday afternoon and last evening placing heating plants in operation.
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