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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT -OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BV OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LVl—NUMBER 5 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, January lit, 1953 ESTABLISHED 1899 Large Liquor Still Wrecked Tuesday In Martin County -- 1 mo .M«*n Arn*»tf(i And Thin! Oiif* Escaped Fed eral and ABC Officers --— An illicit liquor distillery, be lieved to have been about the se cond largest ever set up in this county, was wrecked early Tues day night by federal and ABC of ficers front this and Pitt County in Bear Grass Township about one-half mile off U ,S. Highway 17. Locating the plant early Tues day morning. Chief ABC Officer Joe H. Roebuck planted two men, Officers Cecil Bullock and Joe Smith, there to watch the still while he made arrangements for a general round-op. Pitt County ABC Officers James M. Ward, Brinkley Lilley and King were called, and Ward and Lilley join ed the other two at the observa tion post. Federal Officers Jack • Gaskill, Moses Harshaw and an other ATU officer from Elizabeth City moved in to assist in the raid. During the meantime, officers at the observation post arrested C. Griffin and Willie Gray Lilley, young Beaufort County colored man, and a third man whose iden tity could not be learned, escap ed. Other detailed plans for the raid were called in and the offic ers, using walkie-talkies, moved in to wreck the plant well after dark. Officer Roebuck said the plant was equipped with a six horse power upright boiler, two 200-gal lon capacity wood stills, six 50 gallon doublers, two 100-gallon coolers, two 100-gallon superheat ers, forty-one 200-gallon capacity hogsheads or pickle barrels con taining more than 8,000 gallons ot mash. The officers poured out 14-4 gallons of white liquor all packed in one-half gallon jars and appar ently made the night before. There were forty-five cases of one-half gallon empty fruit jars >n hand. The raiders also found Iwenty-one bags of sugar, eight 100-pound bags of coals, fifteen bags of coke, a pitcher pump, a power water pump and other equipment. Given a hearing before U S. Commissioner Taylor in Washing ton yesterday morning, the two men caught at the still were plac ed under $200 bonds and they arc to appear in federal court at Washington in April for trial Earlier in the week. Martin (Continued Fiom Page Six) Church Schedules Mid-Winter Rally —#—— Thu mid-winter gospel rally ol Ihe Church of Christ will be held at the Roanoke Christian Service camp near Washington for three days, beginning January 20. Theme of the rally will be. "What Will Thou Have Me T» Do" ,and it will open Tuesday night at 7:00 o’clock. Leaders oi various churches will speak on different aspects of that topic in seven different sessions during the three-day meeting, it was announced. The women of the Old Ford Church will sell sandwiches and _ — gaffer Wednesday -tp.d *he women of the Beaver Dam Church will sell them on Thursday The Rev Garland Bland will be song leader, and Mrs. Eva Wood ley will be the pianist. The rally will end with the Thursday night session, when R L. Gardiner delivers the closing sermon. —-^ TAX LISTING ___ J Tax listing in this township is going forward fairly rapid ly, List-Taker C. M. Cobb stating that approximately 1,000 owners bad listed their boldines up until last evening. There are about 3,300 names on the list in this township. The list-taker said that car and hog values were drop ping, but that other proper ties were showing an increase to maintain an over-all gain of moderate size. The list-taker for this town ship is located in the treasur er’s office in Williamston’s town hail. Fertilizer Plant Addition msmm Despite unfavorable weather and other adverse I actors, construction work continued to go for ward on the addition to the plant of the Standard Fertilizer Division. Mathieson Chemical Com pany on Roanoke River here. The addition is a part of a quarter-million-dollar expansion and moderfuzation program being handled by the company at its local plant. - Photo by Royal Studios. Chas. A. Warren Died Near Gold | Point Wednesday FiiiutuI At Home lri<l;t> Afternoon Al 2:30 For Relir«‘<l Farmer Charles A. Warren, retired far mer and highly respected citizen of this county, died suddenly at his home near Gold Point Wednes day morning at 7:00 o'clock. Al though he had been in declining health since last September he was thought to be getting along very well following recent treat ment in a Rocky Mount hospital. He attended to business in Robei sonville Monday arid was getting along very well until Wednesday morning when he complained of hurting in his chest and died a short time later Mr. Warren was born and spent most of his life in Pitt County, moving to Martin ami locating on the farm about four yeats ago. He was 64 years of age, and was a member of the Gum Swamp Pi c e Will Baptist Church in Pitt Coun ty. He was the son of the late Joe and Jackie Ann Whitehurst War ren. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Rena Brown, of Pitt County; six children, three sons, Hassell Warren of Gold Point, Edgar and Troy Warren, both of Robersonville, three daughtt i s, M. . Mack D. Mobley ot Robei sonville, Mrs. Vernon Brown of Gold Point, and Miss Jo Ann Wai len ul the home; three brothers, L t. Warren oi Rnbersonvilie, and Jerry ami Hetlry Warren, both of Greenville; two sisters, Mrs. Kel ly Whitehurst of Bethel, and Mr Floyd Whitehurst of Portsmouth. The funeral will he conducted at the home Frida\ afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by thi Rev John White, pastor oi the Oak Grove Christian Church, assisted by the Rev. Ralph E Ferguson. Baptist minister of Robei sonville. Inter ment will be in the Bethel ceme tery. His nephews, Calvin Warren, Ro.v C. Whitehurst Marvin White hurst, Hoke Roberson, Tom Pur vis and Clifton Everett, will serve as active pallbearers. Will Dedicate Hayes School —+— Dr. Charles E. Stewart, noted educator, will deliver the princi pal address next Thursday even ing at 8:00 o’clock when the new E. J. Hayes school building is de dicated here. Dr. Stewart, a graduate oi How ard Law School, Wilberfoice Uni versity, Payne Theological Semi nary and Chicago Musical College, has served as a member of the faculties of Morgan State College, A. and T .College, and dean of the theological department, Wil berforce University. He has held several prominent pastorates, in cluding those at St Paul,* A. M E., Raleigh, Old Emmanuel A. M E., Portsmouth, and is now serv ing the Israel A M. E. Church in Albany, New York. Elaborate plans are being made for the dedication, and the school officials are extending an invita j tion to patrons and other friends to attend and hear Dr. Stewart, PLANT BEDS | \/ Farmer Herbert (Skippy) ( owen was among the first, if not the first, farmers in this section to seed a 1933 tobacco plant bed. He sowed several hundred yards of bed last week-end and added to the yardage this week. Quite a few farmers are now seeding their beds, but the task will hardly get under way on any large scale before next week and the week fol lowing, weather permitting, of course. Although the acreage is be ing reduced about eight per cent, most growers are seed ing about the same size beds seeded last season. Case Blows Up In The County Court j Mad enough to kill one an other during a meaningful argu i ment last Saturday night, Janies I Bell and William Earl Ballance, local young colored men, had cooled off considerably when they went into the county court this week. At a preliminary hearing held Indole Justice Chas R. Mobley following then arrests last Sat titrdny night, Ballance declared Bel! had hit him in the face with ia brick When Bed was called for trial in the court this week, Ballance said he did not know v\ no shuck huii, and Bell was freed. It was not brought out in the trial, but one reliable report de ! dared 1hat Bell, after allegedly ! striking Ballance with the brick, ! went to fn home for an axe with murder in his heart. ' Ballance, at liberty in $500 bond, is scheduled for trial in the Martin County Superior Court next March, and it re mains to be seen whether Bell will have cooled off enough to I declare ignorance about who shot him in the hip with a 22 caliber 1 rifle. County YonUuHas Part In Exercises i AT SEA, Jan. 0 (FHTNG i Par itidpating in the largest training exercise held bv the Pacific Fleet j since World War II, aboard the - iadar picket destroyer USS Frank Knox, is Jaim s W Tei ry, fireman. ! USN, son of Mr and Mrs. Irvin ! Terry of RED 2, Williamston, N. C. The vessel is a unit of the 26 ship task force, composed of cruis ers, destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and service support ships They are shooting at sur tace and air targets; repelling si mulated enemy submarine and air attacks; exercising at replenish ing ann refueling underway; and executing intricate battle maneuv ers. The ships left from West Coast ports yesterday. The two-week operation will be broken by a visit | to San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 10 | and 11. j Real Admiral Herbert C. Hop j wood, USN, is in command of the I exercise. Manufacturer's Profits Up in '52 —<t~. The government has reported that manufacturing corporations ! showed net profits after taxes of $2,600,000,000 in the third quar ' ter of 1952. I A joint report of the Securities ! and Exchange Commission and 1 the Federal Trade Commission said this figure was unchanged from the first and second quar ters of the year. The total was slightly above the $2,500,000,000 profit's after taxes m the third \ quarter of 1951. The report estimated that sales of the 25 manufacturing indus j tries classified dropped off to $60, 700.000. 000 compared with $61, 400.000. 000 m the second quarter of 1952. The report showed iron and ; steel company profits before taxes in the third quarter were up 03 | per cent ove. the second quarter. | The increase after taxes was shown as 15 percent. The agencies said this reflected partial recovery of the industry from last sum mer's steel strike Profits were still reported below the levels of 1951 and early 1952. The largest decline in profits before taxes in the third quarter ! was 43 per cent for the motor vehicle and parts industry. The , report said this resulted from ' the impact of the steel strike. , lutlvfkvndvnrv Sri To I (irrrt Thr Trumans Independence Mo. - President Truman and his family will re ceive a hometown welcome Jan uary 21, when they return from Wa.-hington. Mayor Robert P. Weatherford, Ji., has appointed a committee of 50 to plan thi' affair, which has the approval of Mr. Truman. Plans call for a delegation to welcome the family upon arrival in Independence b.v train and pro vide an escort to the Truman home at 219 North Delaware. Several days later a dinnei will be held to honor the Trumans. Milj. Gen. E. M. Stayton, retir ed, a friend of Mr. Truman, sug gested a simple welcoming cere mony ......... m •-T^nrKJjr.,} 'u rTO,„. |(ii |*ly simple in arrangements," lie said. There will be no need for a lot of speeches. No one can eulogize a President." f SIKC1A1 DISPLAY I v Sponsored b.v the local I.ions Club, a special adver tising novelty display will be maintained in the McLawhorn Furniture Store on Washing ton Street this afternoon and evening and again tomorrow afternoon and evening, Club President Bob Welch an nounced last night. A company representative is displaying hundreds of nov elty items, and local business men and others are invited to sec the display and place or ders for calendars and novel ties for the coming months and year. The display is well worth examining and there is no ob ligation on the part of any one to buy. Call Forty-Fonr In Martin County For Physical Test Group Scheduled To Leave Next Monday For The Center lu Raleigh —— Calls have been sent out, direct ing forty-four Martin County young men to report next Monday for pre-induction examinations at the center in Raleigh. They will make the trip to Raleigh by char ter bus. In addition to the call to be answered next Monday, a call for thirty-seven men is pending for January 30. Then there are two pre-induction calls, each for thir ty-seven men. for February, the first to be answered on February 5. and the other on February 26. A final induction call, one of the largest received in this county in many months, is to be answered by thirty-five men on February 18. It was unofficially learned that Selective .Service i< tightening up on its draft deferments, and judg ing from the recent calls, both pre-induction and final, the draft is to be stepped up considerably in the next few months. During the meantime, those young men of draft age who are in college and have not filed pro per papers, will find it advisable to do so without further delay it was pointed out. The pre-induction call to be an swered next Monday includes the names of nineteen white and twenty-five colored men, as fol lows: White---Wavland Alton Bunch, Ernest Wilson Bounting, William Nicholas Manning, Reginald Fran cis Rodgerson, Haywood Lindelle Ward, Nathan Perry, Jr., James Truett Stewart, Howard Mallison Ange, John Reginald Griffin, Bob by Charles Roger,son, Dallas Hugh Barbel, George Arthur Green, | Stephen Edwin Manning, Jr., [Charles Thomas Griffin, James ! Archie Wynne, Bryant Taylor Rogeison, Pei Icy Thomas Rawls, I William Ashley Mi/olle, and James Edgar Myers Colored Lester Williams, Floyd Eugene Peele, William Frank Bell, Willie Clyde Brown, Frank Purvis, Willie J Reuse, Jr., James Matthew Ore, Elbert Mar tin, Lum Augustus Brown, Leo Land, William Earl Shepherd, William Edward Little,“Louis Col umbus Short, Thomas Rudolph Green, Charlie Frank Clemmons, William Clyde Brown, Jr., Jobic Parker, Jr., Robert Dalton Bell, Garland Perkins, Jesse Lee Knight, Norman Barnes, Smith Marshall, Jr . Charles Henry Hy man, James Worsley Davis and William Curbs Little. Accounting Office Recovers Funds —v— Comptroller Lindsay C Wamin has advised Congress that the General Accounting Office has collected more than $1116,000,000 since 1041 in funds "illegally or ! otherwise improperly paid out" by the govci nment. "Little of this amount would ever have been recovered except j for the work of the GAO,” Mr. Warren said in a letter he writes to members of Congress each year to acquaint them with the activi i ties his office. ^ ^ The GAO is an agency of Con gress and its: duties include the auditing and settling of accounts and claims. The Comptroller General, appointed for 15 years, can be removed only by Congress. THE ItECOltD SPEAKS . . . During the first eleven days of this year, motorists on Martin County highways and streets pil ed up the greatest number of ve hicle wrecks ever recorded in a similar period. Fortunately no one was killed and none of three injured was hurt badly. The pro perty damage iva, placed right at $3,50U. In the first week of 1952 live persons were injured in six acci dents and the property damage was estimated at $3,415. At least, the motorists, while wrecking more cars, are holding the per-unit damage down to a lower figure than the one record ed a yeai ago. Illicit Liquor Traffic! In County Last Year; Slight Decrease In Manufacturing On Woods Front Officers Wrecked Tolu I Of 138 Still*; Arrested Forly-eijilit Persons Although it flourished right along with the legal store busi ness, the illicit liquor business in Martin County last year did not measure up to the record estab lished in 1951, according to a re port released this week by Chief ABC Officer J. H. Roebuck. In fact, the illicit operations main tained a downward trend for the third straight year, a review of the records reveals. During last year there were 13b complete liquor manufactur ing plants wrecked in this coun ty. In addition to that number, eighteen partial plants were de stroyed, Officer Roebuck said Less than one-fourth of the ket tles were made of copper, the of ficer declaring that the business fell to a record low in using cheap equipment. The ordinaryoil drum was used more than any other type container for brewing the poison liquid. In 1951, 151 stills were wrecked, the- number drop ping from 170 the year before Shortly before prohibition was abolished, sixty stills were wreck ed m the county. The business back in those days was limited to a comparatively small number of operators who turned out tin illicit liquid in large quantities. During 1929, the officers, includ i ing several federal agents poured j out an estimated 100,000 gallons I of mash, arrested 07 persons and confiscated four automobiles. Last year the officers poured out 40.970 gallons of mash as com pared witm 60,175 gallons of mash destroyed in 1951. The mash was found m crude containers, many of them made at home The officers in 1952 poured out 132 gallons of illicit liquoi and confiscated about 17 gallons of legal liquoi . In 1951 the offic ers confiscated 266 gallons of ilh eit liquor and about one gallon id the legal brands. Forty-eight persons were arrest ed and charged with violating tin liquor laws Most of them wen booked for retailing illicit liquor. Forty-five of the foity-eight pi i sons faring the courts on liquoi law charges were convicted. Road terpis added up to 324 months and the fines amounted to $2,740. Din ing the yeai 1951, forty-three per sons were arrested for alleged vio (Continued on Page Six) Homemakers In ] Meeting Monday -sV The Williamston Chapter of The Future Homemakers of Ameriea held it’s January meeting Mon day flight in the home Economics Department. The official opening eeremony was used, being led by the president, Theresa Modi in Jean Ward Mobley who had served as chairman of the chap CI! tNiv” ,'W'(.•S't’-;," "g'OST a most interesting report on thej clothes and loud which wen col 1 lectcd for the adopted family, 'I lie acknowledgement from the fane ! ily was presented to the girls. Miss Maud Thomas, social) studies teacher, was guest spcakei j for the evening. She presented a most realistic picture of Washing ton at the time of inaugurations both past and present. She also included a Very Interesting list of famous "firsts” connected with various inaugurations of the past. In her closing remarks, she re minded the chapter membeis'that as the new administration goes into office that fair minded citi zens will withhold criticism until the new leaders have had oppoi (unity to prove themselves All tneinbeis present thoroughly en joyed the talk and were generous in their praise of the mater al pre- 1 seated. Refreshments consisting or nb-i1 bon sandwiches, cookies, potato! chips and punch were served by 1 1 the third period Home Economics 1 students why are members of ttie 1 F. H A. Reported by Faye Peel. | i*oii/mv SCHOOL I _/ There will be ,i Poultry School Tuesday, January to, in the Courthouse startin'; at 1:30 p. rn. Clifton F. Parrish and VV. G. Andrews, poultry specialist from State College, will con duct the school. Their topics for discussion will he encour aging more farmers to enter egg production, egg produc tion for beginners and broiler production for beginners. The school will last one and one half hours allowing 30 min utes for open forum questions. finite a few farmers attend ed this school last year and gained a lot of information from the specialists. There will be an entirely new pro gram this year with a new set of specialists. ! i rhirteen Answer Induction Call In County Tuesday • l omlmitli Man l i~l«<l V l)eliii<|ii<‘iil lt\ Martin i I trai l Itoanl -<*.- j Thirteen Martin County young lien answered a final draft indue inn call on Tuesday of tins week Lining to Raleigh oil regular sche lule, the men have already been is.agnecl to the several branches )f the armed services in various ■amps. Their assignments could lot be learned immediately A fourteenth man, Roger Gray Bennett, colored, forme! ly of Oak City and more recently of Brook lyn, N Y„ was listed as delin riuent Any one knowing Ins cor reet address is asked to contact Ihe Martin County Draft: Board | office m Willianiston. Only one final induction call las been received for this month, but two pro-induction calls are to oe answered during January, one next Monday and a second on the (U.h, it was learned Thirty-live men are being called to answer a final induction call on February IK, it was also learned. There'll be two pre-induction calls in Feb ruary, one on the 5th and anothcl m the 26th. The names ot those answering the final induction call in this county nn Tuesday ot this week include seven whiti and ,-ix col in ed men, as follows: White Raymond Sylvester Kilver thome. 111' 1) 3, Willianiston Maurice Allen Coltrain, HKD I Oak City. Shelton W;ird Funnel Robei sonvillc. Clifton LcRoy Keel, RFD 1 Robersonvilh Wilson ,1 Wiggins RKD I, Wil liumston. Jesse Vernon IJmphlett, Wil liamston. Jesse Williams, Jr RFD I Rob ei sonvillc ( olured Louis Vernon Lee RFD 2, Rob ersonville. James Edward Fleming. RFD 3, Williams ton. Askew Brown, Jr Hamilton. William.-,ton. Joseph Peter Perkins, RFD 2, Robersonvi lie William ( >li\ ei' Fra/ii r Janie.-, ville. To Give Concert Here January 22 *— Frames Bible, community con •ert series artist, will appear in i concert at the high school here irxt Thursday, January 22, at 1:15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday bv the association pie.-i lent. Members are being advised if the change m date. Mr. B G Stewart, president of the com nunity association, explained that Miss Bible is enjoying a success u! season, and that a change in he appearance date here was. nade to accommodate an expand 'd schedule fm the singer. The third and last m the con ■ert series is to be held here Feb uary 7 when the Song Masters vill he on the program, it was an louneed. Thirteen Cases In The County Court Monday Morning Huilr \ Fen (lutttfM Fontiuii t <i For 'Trial Al Thr, Next Session Judge H. O Peel and Sulicito Clarence Griffin handled thirtec cases in the county court las' Monday, and continued quite a few others for trial at the next regular session. Most of the cases were contested and the trials held the court in session until about 1:00 o’clock. Fines were imposed in the sum of $1110. and several road sen tences, meted out during the day, were suspended. Proceedings: Thi' ease in which Luther Earl Edwards was charged with drunken driving was no! pressed, and the defendant, charged with careless and reckless driving, was found not guilty. Pleading not guilts-, Rodney Hall Botkins was adjudged guilty ol drunken driving and was fined $100, plus costs. He loses his license to operate a motor ve hicle for twelve months. Z.eph and Bill William Rober son pleaded not guilty of speed ing Adjudged guilty of driving trucks 55 miles an hour, they were taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of hit-and-run driving, Albert Lee Prices was taxed with the court costs. Charged with operating a mo tor vehicle without a driver’s li cense, Leon Bond pleaded guilty and was faxed with the court Asa Rogers and James Howell, charged with assaults with dead ly weapons, were each sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road terms uopn the payment of the court costs. Rogers pleaded guilty, and Howell entered a plea of not guilty in his ease. Pleading guilty of being drunk and disorderly. LoRoy Bunting was fined $10 and taxed with the court costs. James Bell, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, pleaded not guilty and was found not guilty. Jos M. Hardison of RED 2, Robersonville, pleaded guilty of speeding and was taxed with the court costs. Pleading guilty of . drunken driving, Gaston James was fined $200 and taxed with the costs. He lose.- his license to operate a mo tor vehicle for two years. Charged with speeding, Mar cellos E Roberson, Jr , of Rob eisonville was taxed with the court costs. Horton Named To Committee Posts * — — Senator Hugh G. Horton, repre senting the second district in the State Legislature, yesterday was assigned to five committee posts m the upper house of the general assembly. In addition to heading the insu; ance committee as chairman, he holds membership on the appro pi nations, election laws, judiciary one, and propositions, and griev a i lees With Governoi W. LI Umstead iceovering from a light heart at !'- K. bl.’-d. the legislature handled comparative ly little business during its first week There has been talk about a $1(15 million bonus for war vet erans and other matters dismiss ed, but official action has been limited to irtinoi bills to date. Loral HanAs t o llarr Holiday !Soxt Monday Local banks will observe next Monday, January 19, as a holiday as a tribute to the membory of Robert E Lee and his birthday. ( lUXlliF FUND I t1 Representative A. Corey in traduced a bill in the legisla ture yesterday, proposing the creation of a relief fund for peace officers in this county. Details of the bill have not been made public, but it is un derstood that $1 will be added to the costs of each criminal case, the amount to be set uside for the officers in the county.
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