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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B J OVER i.OUU MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 24, 1953 ESTABLISHED 1899 VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 16 Several Are Hurt In Road Accidents -in Martin Cenntf -^ Properly Damage In .Six Wrecks Approximate* $3,000 Figure -<* Several persons were injured, one of them seriously, and a prop erty loss approximating $3,000, re sulted in a series of six motor ve hicle accidents on the streets and highways in this county during the past few days'. The wrecks followed a perfect record marked up by motorists on the highways in this county the previous week. The first in the series was re ported by Patrolman B. W. Park er earlier in the week when George Mahlan Edmondson of RFD 1, Palmyra, ran over and killed a large hog on Highway 11 about one mile south of Oak City. The car damage was estimated at $150. The owner of the loose ani mal could not be determined im mediately, Patrolman Parker ex plained. The big week-end rush got un der way last Friday night when at 10:15 o’clock Clarence Edwards of Windsor ran his 1947 Ford into the rear of Richard Earl O’Mary’s 1947 Ford. Driving west on High way 64 toward Everetts, O'Mary slowed down to make a right turn when his car was hit and knocked about 45 feet. The O’Mary car turned over, coming to a stop with all four wheels in the air. O' Mary's son was bruised and suf fered shock, but his injury was not believed serious. Saturday morning about 7:45 o’clock, Thad Harrison w'as driv ing his International piek-up truck south, on Highway 17 when Willie Richard Peden of Maccles field drove out of Sycamore Street and struck the truck with a 1952 Plymouth at the intersection. The cSr was owned by R. W. Long of Tarboro. No one was injured, but Officer Chas. R .Moore, making the investigation, estimated the damage at $750, $275 to the truck and $475 to the car. Damage, estimated at $350, re sulted in a truck-car accident on Highway 64 in Robcrsonville Sat urday afternoon at 5:35 o’clock. Richard Cornelius Bradlet of RFD 7, Whitakers, was driving west on the street near Lane's station in his 1953 Ford when Frank Wil liams started to make a left turn in front of the approaching car. The vehicles crashed about the center of the street. Robersonville officers and Patrolman B. W Par ker and Cpl. M. C. Byrum of,the Highway Patrol,made the inves tigation. Two persons were injured, both badly and one possibly seriously, in a crash on Hamilton's main street in front of the theater at 7:00 o’clock last Saturday even ing. David Mayo, of Palmyra, was backing his 1939 Chevrolet from the curve and was struck by a 1952 Packard, driven by Grady Keith Lamm and owned by Ruth O'Neal of 607 Harris Street, Greenville David Mayo, Jr., five years old was painfully cut on the chin and suffered internal in juries, He was. removed to a Wil liamston hospital where he was responding to treatment, accord ing to last reports. Robert E. Bak er, riding with Lamm, had his nose almost cut off, it was report (Continued on Page Six) Nominating Group Is Chosen By PTA A nominating committee to se lect a slate of officers for the Jamcsville Parent-Teachi : Asso ciation was named at the month ly meeting of the organization Thursday night. Named to the committee were G. H. Baker, Jr., Mrs. C. A. Askew, and R. G. Co burn. They will present the slate for approval at the next meeting of the organization. In observance of Founders' Day, Miss Peggy Barrow program chairman, gave a talk in which she stressed the cooperation of parents and teachers toward building the child and in making the child understand his responsi bilities. Mrs. Margaret Latham's eighth grade and Miss Kinard’s home room won the attendance prizes. After the business and program, a social hour was held with Mrs Tom Gaines and Mrs. Georgia Mai tin irt charge. Taylor's Dairy Goes Under New Management Shortly * x new itlcO'iagel Wo, ,,x il_i 111, vl i later this week to succc d Mr. J. W. Howard who, after serving more than a year, is resigning his position with Taylor's Dairy here to go with the industry in Chatta nooga, it was learned this week. Mr. Howard, under whose super vision the plant has been develop ed into one of the most modern in this entire section of northeastern North Carolina, will complete his work here the last of this week, and he will move his family, Mrs. Howard and two sons, to their former home in Tennessee. The owners, now considering several applicants for the manag erial position, are looking forward to expanded operations m this area. In addition to adding a $50,000 investment in the plant last year, the owners of the plant have fig ured prominently in promoting dairying in the county, a business that is absolutely certain to fit into the economy of this section before iiio ung, according to’lt cogni^od farm leaders in this State. Just now the plant here is paying approximately $7,000 a month to Martin County dairy men for milk. While that figure is not of enormous size, it can mean the difference of success or failure, and as industry develops, the plant can mean much to Wil liamston and this entire area. Reliable reports show that the dairy is producing a high quality product, tests rating the butterfat content considerably above the general average. It was also learned that the dairy's rating is right up at the top. Rigid inspec tions are made periodically, and the plant is now rated right along with the1 best with the promise of expanding into a larger and more valuable industry in the economy of this section. It was reliably learned this week that once the plant's opera tions are increased, a divisional laboratory will be located in Wil liamston. Mr. Asa Ckawford, promi nent local insurance man, has ! been nominated by a special committee for the post of chairman of the Martin Coun | ty Red Cross Chapter. Ilis nomination is tantamount toa election at a meeting of the Red Cross chapter in the courthouse here Friday eve ing of this week at 8:00 o' clock. Under Bond For Hit-Run Driving Grady K' ith Lamm, young white man, was formally booked for hit-and-run driving, resulting in personal injury and property damage, and operating a motor vehicle while his driver's license was revoked, at a preliminary hearing held before Justice Chas. R. Mobley here last evening. Unable to arrange the $500 bond immediately, Lamm was re turned to the county jail. Ar rested in Greenville Sunday aft ernon following the accident m Hamilton the night before, Lamm j is booked for trial in superior [court during the term beginning j March 16. TOWN MEETING -- - Fifteen property owners went before the town commissioners in a special meeting here this morn ing, pleading for relief against the proposed construction of ten ant houses on South Haughton Street, planting out that the pio posed buildings would not be in keeping with other structures in the neighborhood. A zoning plan and possibly a restraining order are being con sidered, one report said. f DEPRESSION V—__ - J Despite falling farm com modity prices and talk about an uncertain future, things are still sailing along pretty good in this part of the ole world. A small landowner, one who tills the soil himself, came into the office yester day to subscribe to The En terprise and tendered a sure enough $100.00 bill. That was really an encouraging note in the economy. Oh, yes, it was necessary to go looking for change, but that has been customary in any and all limes. Special Teacher Describes Glass -<$ Mi*s A«l«lic Let* Meador Tolls PTA Of Work In The County A young woman who is obvious ly very much interested in her work described her occupation to members of the Williamston Par ent-Teacher Association last eve ning Miss Addie Lee Meador, special teacher of Martin County children with speech defects, held the interest of the group with her outline of the attempts she makes to correct speech difficulties of 134 school children. Beginning by pointing out an act of the 11)47 General Assembly provided funds for special edu cation, Miss Meador said she is one of a group of 100 teachers in North Carolina who work with special children, and as such a teachers she spends 30 minutes each week with every subject each week m all the schools ex cept Williamston and Farm Life which she visits every two weeks. She described types of defects and summarized her plan of work in setting up classes in the county. She said a thorough explanation of the'program to the teachers, a survey of the needs for train ing, and individual screening were necessary before she plan ned her schedule and program. After telling of the background work, she described the actual class work briefly and explained that correcting defective speech is a long, slow process requiring both skill and an enormous a inuunt of patience. She ended her summary by saying, "1 consider my work a challenge and I derive a great sense of pleasure from helping the children and watching them respond to my help ” A report from the F.-T. A landscape committee given by B W. Stewart, principal, showed that grounds around the new high school building had been graded and made ready for seeding and shrubbery. Mr. Stewart asked for donations of shrubbery and the use of machinery to complete the work as well as volunteeis to help with the planting and seed ing. Miss Grace Talton’s first grade received the attendance prize, Local Man's Sister Dies In Richmond —«>— Mrs. Chailcs Lemmon, sister of Mr. Robert Newell of William ston, died at her home in Rich mond late last night following a prolonged illness. Her condition had been serious following a stroke suffered about a week ago. She was a native of Reids ville and the body is being re turned there for funeral services Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’ clock in the Episcopal church. In terment will be in the Reidsville Cemetery. Surviving besides her husband and brother are two daughters. Misses Jennie Wright and Mary Wilson Lemmon of Richmond, and a sister, Mrs. B. F. Co/art ol ilcid.sville. Wm. Lee Hopkins Died In Hospital Sunday Aftera««» Funeral In The Everetts Baptist Church Tues day Afternoon •-* William Lee Hopkins, retired employe of the North Carolina State Highway and Publie Works Commission, died in a local hospi tal Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. In declining health for several years, he had received hospital treatment at intervals since Feb ruary of last year when he was forced to retire from active work. His condition had been serious during most of that time. The son of the late William and Addie Carroway Hopkins, he was bom in Williams Township sixty years ago on June 28, 1892. After spending his early life there on the farm, he moved to Bear Grass Township where he farmed for fourteen years before going to J Bertie County where he farmed | two years before returning to this j county about twelve years ago. After spending one year in the Dardens area and another year near Spring Green he went with the highway commission and lo cated in Everetts about fen years ago. He was a diligent worker and a faithful employee of the commission. He first joined the Methodist church at Siloam, later affiliating with the Baptist church when he located in Everetts. He was mar ried in 1923 to Miss Lillian Grif fin. Surviving are Mrs. Hopkins; four sons, William Cortez Hop kins of the home, Rosby Rudolph Hopkins of Everetts, Billy Bob Hopkins, of Portsmouth, and Cecil G. Hopkins, stationed with Battery C, 150th AAA Battalion of the National Guard in Merchantville, N. J.; one daughter, Mrs. Herbert Leggett of Robersonville; two sis ters. Mrs. Ben Daniels of Ports mouth and Mrs. Theodore Mobley j of Rocky Mount; two brothers, Howard and Thade Hopkins, both jof Williams Township; and three grandchildren. Funeral services are being con ducted in the Everetts Baptist Church this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock b^ his pastor, the Rev. C. L. Gatling, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Harrington, county Baptist minister. Interment will be in Wpodlawn Cemetery, Williamston. Holding Nan On Forgery Charges —*>— Alloyed to have forged four checks, one on his father, Luke Biggs was given a preliminary hearing before Justice Chas. R. Mobley here last evening. Find ing probable cause of guilt, the trial justice bound the man over to the superior court for trial in March. Unable to raise $100 bonds in each of the four cases, Biggs was returned to jail. Biggs admitted forging a $19 check on his father, Jim Henry Biggs, and cashing it at the Wil liamston Hardware Company here last December 17. Seven days later he is alleged to have forged ar, $0 check and cashed it at the Branch Banking- and Trust Company. On December 27 he is charged with passing a forged check in the amount of $10 to Margolis Brothers. His last check, one for $12, was cash ed by Bulluck’s. Explains Aim Oi Student Training M#Ml College RrprfsciilalivcH Of Kiulio Amt Newspapers Tour College Campus -« Spending the greater part of two days as guests of State College, forty or more representatives of radio stations and newspapers from every section of North Caro lina were impressed by the teach ing and activities at the Raleigh is stitution last week-end. Advancing a down - to - earth study course and a forward-look ing research program, the college is definitely leading the way to a brighter future for agriculture in North Carolina. Going to college should do more than give a student technical training for earning his living. It should also make him a responsi ble, well-rounded citizen who is active in community affairs. That's, how Dr, C. H. Bostian, di rector of resident teaching, de scribes the aims of classroom work in the School of Agriculture at the college. About 3,800 students are en rolled at State College for the 1952-53 school year, wjith some 800 of them in the School of Agri culture. Another 200 in the School of Education are studying to become high school vocational agriculture teachers and thus take many of their courses in the School of Agriculture. All 10 departments in the School of Agriculture offer a 4-year course of study leading to a Bach elor's degree and advanced work for a Master’s degree. In six of the 10 departments, a student can earn his Ph. D. degree. In June 1952, about 1000 stu dents received their agricultural degrees. Bostian says that norm ally about one-third of the gradu ates return to farms; another one third go to work for fertilizer, feed, machinery and other agri cultural business firms; and the rest become county agents, grad uate students, govrenment farm agency officials, Extension Service specialists, and other agricultural workers. At present, however, about one-half of each graduating class is going directly into the Armed Services. (Other stories about the work at State will follow.—Ed.) Fire Department A this Another ISew Member James W. Thrower was unani mously elected to membership in the Williamston Volunteer Fire Department at'a meetmp of the group held last evening in the fire station. His elections boosts the personnel count to twenty three, two short of maximum strength. W. Harrell Everett is grow ing them big this year. According to I). IV. tirady, assistant county agent, Mr. V vertll, uho.se farm is on Highway 125, brought a col lard into his office last Thurs day weighing 15 pounds and measuring 40 Inches across the top. Tom Brandon, county agent, said the collard was mighty fine, hut there was one thing missing — Mr. Everett brought no backbone to cook with it. ! Town All Set For Booster ] Bargain Days This Week I -rk._ Booster Days, an event offering bargains ir, everything from ap ples to zippers for citizens in the Williarnston trading area, will be gin here Thursday. Sponsored by the Williarnston Boosters, Incorporated, an organi zation of local merchants and businessmen, the three-day pro motion has been heralded as one of the greatest events of its kind in this section of the state riming recent years. Citizens who buy and sell here are urged to look through the spe cial Booster section and to “come a runnin’ ” to take advantage of the tremendous savings offered. The special customer days will run Thursday, Friday and Satur day of this week and bargains arej offered in every tvpo of merehan-1 I disc, store and department. ! Merchants participating in this special event are Woolard Furni ture Company, Western Auto As sociate Store McLawhorn's Fur niture Company, The Proctor Shoppe, Worrell Appliance Com pany, Margolis Brothers, Muse Jewelry Company, Bulluek’s Men's Store, Belk-Tyler’s, B. S. Courtney and Son, Pecle's-Jewel ers, Corey Plumbing Company, Clark's Pharmacy, Darden’s De partment Store, Ann’s Specialty Shop, Leder Brothers, Harrison Shoppe, Williamgton Furniture Company, Griffin’s Quick Lunch, Helig-Mevers Furniture Company, Williamston Hardware Company, Farmers Supply Company, Criteh er Shoe Company, McLawhorn’s Lullaby House Make Plans For Red Cross Chanter Drive Chapter Asked To Raise $5,000.00 For Projects This Year —«,— Drive Already Well Advane ed In Several Parts Of Tliis ('liapler Plans, already well advanced, will be completed at a meeting of interested persons with officials tomorrow evening for handling the 1953 Red Cross Fund Drive in this the Martin County Chapter, it was learned today. Mr. W. Iverson Skinner has again agreed to serve as fund chairman on condition that others will volunteer and extend a help ing hand. The organization is virtually complete in several of the five townships, and Griffins is said to be nearing its goal, following a pledged support by Farm Life Club Ruritans to push the drive in that district. A definite report is due from President Arthur Wal lace Lillev of the Jamesville club shortly. Mr. A. B. Ayers is plac ing the plan before the Ruritans in Bear Grass at their next meet ing, and Mr. Floyd Moore has been named chairman for Williams Township. In Williamston, Mr. R. J. Har dison is serving as assistant to the chairman. Mr. James Bulluck is heading up the employee soliei tntions. Following the meeting tomorrow night in the offices of the W. I, Skinner Tobacco Com pan.v, committee chairmen will be announced to handle the special gift solicitations and the canvass in Williamston's residential areas Other arrangments for advancing the drive are to be made at that time A nominating committee, nam ed at a recent meeting of the chapter directors, is submitting at the meeting on Friday nighi the following names: For township directors: James ville, Mrs. C. A. Askew and Ar thur Wallace Lilley; Williams Mrs. Irving Roberson and Floyc Moore; Griffins, Mrs. J. Easoi Lilley and Pete Hardison; Beai Grass, Mrs. Ralph Mobley am A. B. Ayers, Jr.; Williamston, Mis R. W. Bondurant and Mrs W O Griffin. For ehaptci chairman: Asa II Crawford, vice chairman, Mrs. A L. Jameson, and secretary, Mrs Henry Griffin. Called upon to supply severs million pints of blood to carry 01 the fight against infantile paraly sis in addition to its present blooc program, and its regular services the Red Cross is appealing for ad ditional funds. The Martin County Chapter made up of Jamesville, Williams Griffins, Bear Grass and Wil liamston Townships, raised $4,20( under the direction of Mr. Skin ner last year. It is being askci to i ,n.M this year. On that basis the several town ships and groups are asked t< raise the stipulated amounts, a; follows: Jamesville, $350; Williams, $100 Griffins, $250; Hear Grass, $250 colored citizens in all five town ships, $025, and Williamston, $3, 425. The 1953 appeal presents a dial lenge to the people not only in tin; chapter but also throughout the country. In this county alone, tin Red Cross has returned more that it has collected in both blood ant (Continued From Page Six) Fatally Injured In Auto Accident Funeral services were conducte< in Ahoskie Sunday afternoon ul 2:30 o’clock for Winborne Lei Odont, brother ol' Mrs. K D. Wor rell of Williamston. Mr. Odom died in Roanoke Chowan Hospital Saturday morn ing from a head injury he received about midnight when an automo bile ran head-on into the Odom ear that was pulling another ear out of a diteh. The Rev. W. P. Milne, pastor ol the Ahoskie Baptist Church, con ducted the services and burial was in the Ahoskie eeme*-,ry To Speak Here Friday Evening Daniel K Edwards, member ol' I the Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross, prominent Durham atturm v and World W;p' II veteran, will ad dross a public meeting of the Mar tin County lied Cross Chapter in the courthouse here Friday even mg of this week at 8:00 o'clock. In addition to holding prominent places m the lied Cross organi/.a tion, Mr Edwards served in the infantry for five years, three of which were spent in the South west Pacific His denotations in elude the Distinguished Service 1 Cross, Bronze Medal with Oak | Leaf Cluster, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman's Badge and Sliver Star Mr. Edwards is an able speaker and everyone who has eontribut ed m any way to the Bed Cross is invited along with the general public to hear him when lie speaks m the courthouse Friday night of tins week. Citizens Gather For Prayer Here Approximately Hit) prisons at tended the services sponsored here last Friday in observance <>l' the sixty sixth World Day of Prayer. Held in the Presbyterian church at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, the program was one written by missionaries and Christians in Africa. The music and setting of the progi am had a idedly ! African tone and those attending I the program observed it was both different and stimulating. It was led by M: . .J W. Berry Fifty-one persons attended the I services held at the same hour in the Cornerstone Baptist Church I with the lio\ G. T Hill in eluu gc j Topic of the brio! talk at the I Cornerstone Baptist Church was the power of and need for pray er. The minister pointed out in i i his talk that must of the world’s | ills can be solved with daily prayers Offerings were taken at the services arid will be divided equally between the Division of Foreign Missions and tile Division | of I ionic Missions {Truck Knocked Into Home Tty S/teeiliiin I rciftlil Train Westport, Md Mrs Austin Gordon and her four small chil dren narrowly escaped injury when a freight train struck a small truck near th ■ 11 house and tossed the vehicle against the building, ripping out a large section oi the front wall. Tire driver ol the truck I esea gied - .crime, injury KOI NIM l» f ■*> Drunks am! drunken driv j ers "hogged" the crime front in this county during the past week-end. Of the nine per sons arrested and jailed, five were charged with public drunkenness and three were booked for alleged drunken driving. A ninth person was jailed for hit-and-run driv ing. Four of the nine were j white, and the ages of the I group ranged from 26 to till years. Local police declared all j was quiet on the “razor-knife” j front during the period. Slight Decrease In Tobacco Crop Os World Front Must of Krriiirtinu (>t*iiteriHl In F!m*-Cur(*»l Arras In this County The Office nf Foreign Agricul ture Relation:7, of the United States Department of Agricul ture has received reports from foreign countries which indicate that the world tobacco produc tion for the harvest year, July 1, 1952, to June 30, 1953, will be 2.4 percent lower than a year earlier. This estimated world total does riot include tobacco produced in countries which is all used do mestically and is of little com mercial importance. Official data for Soviet Russie and her Satellites, including East ern European countries and Red China, are not available. Esti mates have been made for these countries by OFAR based upon the best Information available which in many cases may not be curate. About one-half of the total de crease m world production is ac counted for by a reduction m U. S production. A substantial part of tin7 U S. reduction was flue cured leal Flue-cured produc tion was also lower in Canada. Production of Oriental-type leaf was lower in Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy, and about un changed in Turkey. Total leaf production was also lower in France, Western Germ any and the Philippines. In connection with immediate foreign market prospects, J. R. Hutson, president of Tobacco As sociates, recently said, in part: “Since the end of the war, the use of U S. tobacco has been in creasing m most foreign coun tries. The gradual decline in the United Kingdom has been more than offset by increases in other countries. The increased indus trial production which has taken place in most countries has been accompanied by an increase in the use of cigarettes. Also, there has been a shift in preference to American cigarettes. “Stocks of U. S. leaf in foreign countries are small -smaller than a year ago. Supplies in relation to the current rate of usings are Mi ll below those of prewar years. These reduced stocks are due in large part to policy changes in the United Kingdom. Before the war, United Kindom factories tried tn keep on hand supplies sufficient for nearly two years’ operations. Since the end of the w;u supplies of U. S. tobacco have been near those required for one year's operations most of the time. Due to the smaller tak ings from the 1952 crop of U. S. 1 leaf, stocks in the United King dum are now well below those of a year ago. "In recent ,v< ars, a substantial part of the dollar purchasing powt i of many of the countries importing U. S. tobacco has been provided by grants and loans made through ECA and MSA programs. There has been a sub unit i n I reduction in i a ■ moffiii, ,'iid ’(, these countries. However, t here has been a gradual increase m U S. imports from many of these countries in recent years. Also, U. S. tourist expenditures were at a record level last year and a new record may be establ ished in 1953. “In addition, substantial pur (Continued on l’age Eight) Member Of Flood Relief Expedition Breda, Holland.—Pvt. Benjamin W. James, whose wife, Naomi, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. James, Sr., live at Robersonvilie, N C.. is on emergency duty in The Netherlands with the U. S. Army’: Flood Relief Expedition. He is a medical corpsman in the 5th Mobile Army Surgical Hospi tal, which is caring for many Dutch victims of the disaster as well as the more than 11100 Ameri i an soldiers fighting back the flood waters. The hospital, a self-contained unit readily adaptable for such i mergencies, rushed to Holland February a from its permanent station in Heidelberg, Germany. Private James arrived overseas ill November 1952, He attended East Carolina Col !»•:>•• Gx-vnviUe. N C.
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