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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,M* MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEI VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 46 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 9, 1933 ESTABLISHED 189) Painfully Hurt In Track Wreck Friday Evening No One Reported Injured In A Seeond Road Acci dent Over Week-end One person was painfully in jured, but believed not seriously and a property damage, estimated in excess of $800, resulted in two motor vehicle accidents reported on the highways in this county last week-end. Driving a 1953 pick-up truck on the Bear Grass-Everetts road near McDaniel's service station, Milton Bowen, 17-year-old soft of Mr. and Mrs. Toba Bowen, lost control of the machine which plunged into a ditch and turned over. Traveling alone, the young driver, said to have been travel ing at a moderate speed, possibly not in excess of 35 miles an hour, was thrown partly through the windshield. While he suffered no broken bones, he was badly cut about the face and neck, one re port stating that more than fifty ■ stitches were necessary to close the cuts. Treated in a Williams ton hospital, the young man was said to be getting along very well. Damage to the truck was estimated at $500, according to a report gained from the North Carolina Highway Patrol office in the county courthouse No other vehicle was involved. It was ex plained that the vehicle was run ning down the road, and suddenly swerved to the left and went into the ditch. The accident was re ported about 10:30 o’clock Fri day night. Driving a 1950 Chevrolet truck in the Cross Roads section last Friday evening about 5:45 o’ clock Charlie Lee Crandall, color ed man of RFD 2, Robersonville, started to make a right turn when James Arthur Perkins, of Par mele„ started to pass him in a 1953 Oldsmobile. Perkins said the truck moved to its left, apparent ly to make the right turn into a lane, and that he thought Cran dall was leaving the road on the left. No one was injured. Damage to the car was estimated at $300 and that to the truck at about $15, according to a report released by the partol office. No one was injured and prop erty damage was limited to about $265 in a truck-car accident be low Jamesville on Highway 64 Monday morning about 9:00 o’ clock Driving east, Elbert Man - ning started to make a left lurn in an oil truck ju^t as Wm. C. Creel, Cary man, started to pass (ConMnued on page eight) Minister Falk Dead In Pulpit —-e— The Rev. Samuel David Manuel died suddenly in the pulpit of Barnabas Negro Missionary Bap tist Church near Williamston at 2:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Serving the church in the ab sence of a regular pastor, the Washington minister was in his usual health that morning. Mem bers of the congregation said he had just completed a “powerful” sermon, and announced the clos ing hymn when he was stricken and fell dead to the floor. A doctor called to 4he church, pronounced him dead, and Coron er W. W. Biggs, ruling an inquest unnecessary following an mveSti- ( gation, said the 66-year-old min- ( ister apparently died of a heart attack. —--» Recovering From Wreck Injuries ' -9- I Dick Levin, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Levin of Williamston, is recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident the early part of last week near New ton. Suffering several broken ribs, the young man was released today from the Satawba General Hos pital at Newton. Accompained by several other College students and Miss Kerry Jones, Raleigh high school stu dents, all members of Levin’s dance orchestra, were returning to Raleigh when an automobile crashed a red light and struck Levin’s station wagon. Miss Jones was said to have suffered a brok en pelvis but none of the others was seriously injured, according to reports reaching here. Overrule County Board On Consolidation Plan Order A Martin County Board of Edu - cation order, directing the consoli dation of that section between Old Mill Inn and Corey’s Cross Roads on Highway 17 with the Bear Grass School, was overruled by the North Carolina State Board of Education in Raleigh last Thursday noon. The action tak en by the State body leaves about 25 pupils free to continue their schooling in Williamston. As far as it could be learned here, no mention was made about the county board order, taking away a part of the Williamston district along the Price Mill Road and an nexing it to Bear Grass. There's no appeal from the rul I PROMOTED I v-/ Bob Gentry, manager of the Texas Company's terminal since it was opened here sev eral days ago, has been pro moted and is going with the company’s sales division in Baltimore. Mr. Gentry is be ing succeeded by Bill Bridgcn who is returning here from Baltimore, Mr. Bridgen was with the terminal here until he was transferred to Balti more, and now his promotion places him in the manager’s position at the terminal. His family will join him here in a few weeks. Local People Will Figure In Event Willianistim is being well re pi e sentea at the 4bth annual session nf the Grand Chapter of North Carolina, Order of the East ern Star, now under way in Dur ham. And several of its citizens will figure prominently in the event. Mr. V. J. Spivey is to be installed as Worthy Grand Patron Murfressboro where he had a and Mrs. Clyde G. Harrison is *o be installed as Grand Esther of the Grand Chapter of North Caro lina, O. E. S., for the year 1953 54. Mr. and Mrs. Spivey and Mes dames H. D. Harrison, W. O. Ab bilt and Clyde Manning left Sun day for the annual sessions in Durham. Miss Beth Spivey, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Manning, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Harrison, Mrs. J. L. Harris, Mrs. Ralph J. Parker, Mr. and Mis. E. E. Holding, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Coburn and Mr. Henry D. Harrison are to attend and take part in the installation ceremonies tomorrow evening. Scattered Rains In This Conniy While many sections of the state reported heavy rains Sun lay and yesterday, most parts of his county had only little <pfinkles during the two days. However, the limited rain did much gc od, but early today farm ers and others were anxiously awaiting more showers. Mr. Hugh Spruill, keeper of the rain gauge here, reported a total uf .19 of an inch yesterday, 'Inhere were slight traces of rain the ear y part of last week, but there las been no rain to talk about since May 20 when .53 of an inch was recorded at the weather sta tion on Roanoke River here. Incomplete leports state that that good showers fell up in Pop lar Point, parts of Hamilton and Goose Nest Townships. The fall was also heavier in the James ville area, but over in Griffins hardly enough rain fell to wet one in his shirtsleeves. —— ing handed down by the State board, it was pointed out. A twelve-member delegation from the Macedonia area, led by Messrs. Joe Shep Holliday and Ralph Holliday, appealed to the State body to leave the territory just as it Tiad been for years. A group of about six, headed by Mr. Ephraim C. Harrison, represented Bear Grass and asked the State Authorities to uphold the order handed down by the Martin Board of Education a few weeks aRo. Each delegation, allowed ten minutes to present its case, was heard separately, and the exact nature of the arguments could not be learned here immediately. i Farmers Vole On Peanut Program Plan August 29 -- Propose To Assess Peanuts Al One Cent A To Aid Marketing Going to the polls on Saturday, August 29, peanut growers in thirty-two North Carolina pro ducing counties will decide whe ther to assess themselves at the | rate of one cent per hundred pounds to raise a fund for ad vancing the cause of the peanut, according to the two directors from this county, Messrs. Sidney Mallory and Chas. L. Daniel, who attended a meeting of the North Carolina Peanut Growers Associ ation held in Winton Monday aft ernoon. Efforts were made to hold the referendum on the assessment plan on the same date farmers will be asked to decide on ac reage quotes, but apparently no such arrangements could be made. Farmers will vote on the allot ment or acreage quotas in Decem ber. It was explained that the pro posed assessment is small, that in reality it will hardly average one cent a bag. In other wards, if a farmer has 100 bags of pea nuts for sale he will contribute $1 to the special fund, the direct ors said. It is generally agreed that the peanut program is on the spot, so to speak, that unless the pea hut farmers set busy and do some thing they are subject to lose the quota plan and price support. The fund that the assessment will create is to be used in furth ering or maintaining favorable legislation along with promoting resear* h and the marketing of peanuts. Following the meeting, Messrs. Daniel and Mallory said that the directors were well pleased with the outlook for the assessment plan, and predicted that once the farmers realize its importance they will support it in the August 29 referendum. Wm. T. Whichard Accident Victim -<i. William T. Wichard, '23-year-old native of Robersonville, was fatal ly injured in an automobile ac cident early yesterday morning. Hiding with another Coast Guard sman, the young man was said to have suffered internal injuries and died ten minutes after reach ing a hospital in Elizabeth City. The report said the driver was al so badly ^injured when the car wont out of control and turned over. The son of the late John R. Whichard and wife ,he was born in Robersonville and spent most of his life there before entering the service six years ago. He was stationed at Elizabeth City. He was a member of the Rober sonville Baptist Church and the pastor, 1he Rev. Ralph Ferguson, will conduct the rites at the home in Robersonville Wednesday aft ernoon at 3 .10 o’clock. Burial will be in the Robersonville Cemetery. A detail from the Air Station in Elizabeth City will conduct the military rites at the cemetery. Surviving are a brother, Ro bert; five sisters, Miss Lena Whic hard and Mrs. Dell Coe of Rober sonville, Mr. C. P. Parson and Mrs. E. A. Conley of Marietta, Ohio, and Mrs. Jack Warren of Greenville. Returned to Robersonville yes terday, the body will be carried tp’the home of his sister this aft ternoon for the funeral tomorrow. Martin County Property Values Show Sizable Gain And Send Total Pass Twenty-Six Million Mark ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUATIONS IN MARTIN COUNTY 1952-195:1 Township JaiUesville_ Williams_ Griffins_ Boar Grass_ Wiliiunislon __ Cross Roads __ Robersonville _ Poplar Point __ Hamilton _ Goose Nest_ 1953 Real Estate .5 1,193,782 318,951 589,801 623,536 3,656,844 593,090 1,990,224 319.739 895,687 1,014,869 Total (while) Jamesvillc Williams_ Griffins_ Bear Grass_ Williamston _ Cross Roads __ Rohersonville Poplar Point _ Hamilton _ Goose Nest __ —$ $ 1952 Real Estate 1,171,133 339,960 585,862 600,002 3,404,792 570,434 1,928,422 323,172 875,705 1,007,785 $11,226,526 149,435 43,890 15,436 30,138 348,823 38.284 232,740 6,237 120,042 206,428 $ 1953 1952 Gain Personal Property Personal Property 22,649 $ 2,935,412 $ 2,796,832 8,991 3.942 23,534 252,052 22,656 61,802 *3.433 19.982 7,084 205,719 470,591 474,249 2,745,885 340,901 1.826,188 216,474 538,316 617,146 177,916 465,194 447,513 2,724,507 320.010 1,698,431 220,598 527,140 609,978 $10,807,267 $ 144,891 43,637 14,921 28,053 334,831 34,917 226,840 6,237 115,218 205,176 4,544 253 515 2,085 13,989 3,367 5,900 0 4,824 1,252 98,070 29,748 27,805 47,571 228,862 37,313 260,718 17,61 I 152,873 169,535 $ 87,365 29,854 33,787 14,971 205,901 37,771 258,966 21,766 153,027 170,804 Gain 138,580 27.803 5,397 26,736 21,378 20,891 127,757 *4,124 11,176 7.168 $419,259 $ 10,3 70,881 $ 9,988.119 $ 382.762 10,705 *106 *5,982 2,600 22,961 * 158 1,752 *4.155 *151 * 1,269 1953 Total Gain $161,229 36,794 9.339 50.270 273,430 13,517 189,559 * 7,557 31,158! 14,252 i $802 15 *5 4 36 2 ,021 .219 147 , 167 ,685 950 ,909 ,(*52 . 155 .670 *17 Total (eol.) __$ 1,191,453 $ 1,154,724 $ 36,729 $ 1,070,106 $ 1,014,212 $ 25,891 $ 62,623 Grand Total __$12,417,979 $11,961,991 $455,988 $11.140,987 $ I 1,032,331 $ 108,656 $861,611 * Denotes Loss. I CARDS v Farmers, selling; surplus peanuts left over from their plantings, are reminded that marketing eards are needed to complete the transactions. Quite a few farmers have their left-over seed peanuts for sale without submitting their marketing cards. In those cases, the farmers l'opnd it necessary to recover and present the cards. Firemen Answer Call On Friday Idle more than two months, lo cal volunteer firemen went into action last Friday morning at 11:00 o'clock when they were call ed to the Emma Harvey home on North Sycamore Street. A gas stove went out of control and smoked up the house a bit before neighbors rushed in, cut the gas supply off and checked the fire. It looked as if the firemen at one time would have to get a i search warrant to find the fire, j The call directed them to 602 Sy camore Street, but no direction as to north or south was given. The truck driver, going purely by guess, turned north on tne afreet, went within one block of the Har vey home. A person, questioned there, said he knew of no fire and did not know where the party liv ed. Turning around, the firemen went to the other end of the street just to learn that the Harvey wo man lived on the far north end. The firemen were called out twice last Saturday afternoon when fire, starting in a pasture that had been dried out by the long dry spell, caught fire and threatened to. spread to buildings just West of Main Street between Brown’s Community Hospital and the railroad Little or no damag. was reported. A fourth call in as many days was received yesterday afternoon when defective electrical wiring fired the house owned by R. S: Critcher and occupied by James Harnhijl just off Hunter Street. T'he electric cable shorted out around a piece of tin, and blew a transformer fuse. Damage was negligible. --♦ Farm Bureau To Meet Thursday *— Members of the Martin County Farm Bureau, meeting in the county courthouse Thursday even ing at 6:00 o’clock, will discuss the possibility of putting the or ganization into the insurance busi ness, President Chas. L. Daniel announced. Gordan Maddry, pre sident of the State Bureau, will attend the meeting. Not to be confused with the company beering its name, the r'<rm Bureau is now operating an insurance place in several states. Repeating Urgent Call For Blood Donors Thursday Another final and urgent plea for blood donors was issued today by the local Red Cross Chapter. The bloodmobile is due here on Thursday of this week and just a few over 100 persons have signed up to give blood, meaning that the list is between 75 and 80 short if the 150-pint quota is to be met.' An appeal was made last week to local civic clubs. * Up until this morning only two persons had re turned their pledge cards. It is hoped and believed that the re sponse will improve by tomorrow. Others are being asked to con tact Dr J. S. Rhodes, Jr., at Mar tin General Hospital, or Mrs. Lu cille Cowen, Red Cross Chapter secretary, in the Red Cross office in the town hall or at her home on West Main, and pledge a pint of blood. This chapter is'still using more blood than it is giving. If the quota is not met the program hardly can be expected to sustain itself. i Opening Summer School OnFriday ---<t' Professor Carlyle Cox, prin cipal of the Farm Life School and a former member of the local faculty, will open a summer term in the local high school on Fri day of this week, it was anouneed today by Principal R. G. Stewart. The school, carrying a nominal fee, is open to any student de siring to make up any work in the high school department. No school is being conducted for the elementary grade pupils, it was j explained. Those interested in taking spe cial work may contact Principal B. G. Stewart at the high school any day this week. The school this year will opeare from 8:00 a. m. until 12:30 p. m. Members of the local National Guard unit signed up last night, but a complete report could not be had immediately. /---si I AT FOUR TODAY I k _I_> Recreation Director Roger Thrill is asking ail children of school age who are interest ed in participating in the re creation program here this summer to meet with him at the Whliamston Athletic field this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. He wants to talk over plans with them and get an idea of what type of recreation they will he interested in. About 5:00 he wants to talk with the boys who are in the Pony League age bracket. Parents are invited to come with the children if they can and any adults who can aid in the program in any way are urged to volunteer their as sistance as often as possible. Illicit Liquor Business Dealt Heavy Blow In This County The illicit liquor business was 1 dealt a heavy blow in Ibis county '' last week, the effectiveness of the ■ ( strike to be determined in the j , weeks to come. Raiding in the Free Union sec tion of Jamesville Township, Bear Grass, Williamston, Griffins, < Goose Nest and Robersonville Township, Chief Enforcement Of ficer Cecil Bullock and Deputies Wiley Craft and Joe Smith wreck ed twelve plants, not including one found and destroyed just < across the line in Beaufort Coun- 1 ty. Three of the plants were equipped with copper kettles and with one exception all the plants were operated on a comparatibely small seal, Officer Bullock stat- i > Nan Bad Hurt In | Shot Gun Attack Charlie Grimes, 33-year-old Oak City Negro, was badly wounded in a shot gun attack there last Saturday morning about 11:20 o'clock, the attack climax ing a feud existing for some time between the victim and Alexander “Duke” Savage. According to one report, Grimes right ankle was just about torn away by the shot blast which was fired at close range. Officer Garland Bunting said the two men had some trouble several weeks ago, that Grimes t knocked out several of Savage's j teeth in a fight. Saturday morn ing Savage claims his brother-in law moved in on him with a bot tle. Running into his home, Sav age got the gun, returned to the road on the edge of Oak City and j shot Grimes who was removed j to a Williamston hospital for treatment. Another report stated that Sav- ( age had inquired about how much time he could expected if he shot , a man. Told that a sentence could run from ten to twenty years, Sav- ( age was quoted as saying, “Well, I am going to shoot a man.” I Navy Promotes Jas. A. Rogerson ■' Washington, D. C. -The Bui.ou J of Naval Personnel has announced I an advancement in rating for[(’ James A. Rogerson, son of Mr. j, and Mrs. Ira Rogerson of RouteL 2, Williamston, N. C„ to metal-', smith third class, USN, at the U.| S. Naval Submarine Base, Pearl i. Harbor, T. H. L The advancement came as a re-j. suit of a world-wide competitive j, written test which consisted of 11 questions testing military and J, professional skills. j p To be eligible for the written |< quiz, Naval personnel had to ex- > hibit proficiency in the on-the-job j j; phases of their ratings. Ic tiK that the three cupper kettles core of hardly more than 30-gal on capacity, and that most of he other plants were equipped v'ith oil drums. The officers poured out aproxi nately 15,000 gallons of mash and 51 gallons of raw liquor. Con equipment were confiscated. Three of the plants were in op nation and red hot when the of icers arrived, but the operators, ipparently gaining advanced not ee of the officers' approach, had leparted the scenes of manufact ure. Three of the plants were found n Jamesville, three in Bear Grass, wo each in Griffins and Goose Vest and one each in Williamston md Robersonville Townships. Kl.\l A INS ! () KKSEKN j s lii a regular meeting last Friday evening, the Williams ton Jayeees unanimously vot ed to meet in a solid body at the recreation grounds behind the legion hut and work on improving the site. It yet remains to be seen if all the members will make the grade and he there on time at 5:00 o'clock Wednes day morning. However, the schedule was made under a fine agreement, passed by un animous vote. fads Uncovered By Dairy Month Appointed chairman of the 17th mnual observance of June Dairy donth, Mr W B. Pugh, of the dilk and lei- Cream Company m iVilhamston, this week mentioned nine interesting facts about the lairy industry. This locality, according to Mr ’ugh, is now producing nearly ,000 gallons of milk per day, and he entire output is being pur based by the Maloa Company lore. Mr. Pugh, explaining that milk iocs more for the human body han any other food and does it (lore cheaply, went on to cite tiler interesting facts about the lairy industry, as follows: If the annual production of 'luid Milk weie in quart bottles ide by side, the bottles would xtenci around the earth 140 times, inoiigh butter is produced an ually to generate more energy or humans than the Hoover Dam. ’he man in the moon would have cheese complexion one inch hick if all the cheese produced nnually were spread over alt the loon. As for ice cream, Ameli a's favorite, the annual ice cream utput could be snaped into a yramid bigger than the largest ne ever built by the Egyptians ill the cans of Evaporated milk ut end to end would form a able to the moon from the earth. Increase In List Expected To Hold Tax Rate In Line Estimate Properly Listed At INol More t han One Third True Value -« With an increase of $8(54,644 in 1953 tax values over those record ed for 1952, the Martin County Commissioners 'will have a little larger financial foundation to support them in their tussle when they meet next Tuesday in special session to study the proposed 1953-54 budget. While the in crease is slightly less than half the size of the record chalked up last year, the gain in values is expect ed to offer strong support in hold ing the general county and school tax rate in line at $1.35 per $100 assessed property valuation. If corporations listings—yet to be certified by the State agency to the county—remain about the same, the county will have one of the highest tax property valua tions in history $26,019,644. In ,i report on th 953 listings, Tax Supervisor M. L Peel said that the real property listings this year added up to $12,417,979, an amount $455,988 greater than the $11,961,991 value placed on real property listings last year, all amounts being exclusive of cor poration listings. The 1953 per sonal property holdings were val ued for taxation purposes at $11, 440,987 as compared with $11, 032,331 recorded a year ago, a gain of $4 08,(556. Corporation listings last year were figured at approxi mately $2,160,678. The over-all gain in tax values last year was $1,733,200. a record for any one year in recent years. When listings got under way last January, Tax Supervisor Peel was almost willing to compromise with a hold-the-line figure. How ever, a quarter million dollar gain m Williamston’s real holdings, and more than a $100,000 increase in the personal property listings in Jainesville and Robersonvillc Townships pulled up the total to a pleasing figure for the tax super visor. Only one township, Poplar Point, reported a drop in real property listings. The district lost Abbitt's mil! which was de stroyed by file last June, and that accounts partly for the drop in real property valuations there. The district also lost $8,279 in per son,d property listings, $4,124 less in the white list and $4,155 in thu colored list. Little Williams Township while coming through with a sizable gain in real and personal proper ty values to the tune of $36,794 among the white property owners lost $10(5 m its personal property listed by colored owners. Other losses in the personal pro pci t.v values listed bv colored owners were centered in Griffins, Cross Roads, Hamilton and Gooso Nest. All told, the decrease in values was limited to about $17, 000 which amount was absorbed, leaving a total gain of $864,644 in values over those recorded a year ago. An unusual feature in the list ings is found in the values given in by colored owners in Poplar Point where the real holdings re mained constant at $6,237. Fees Adding To County Revenue Approximately $3,730 was add ed to the Martin County treasury last month by the fee system, ac cording to a report released by Auditor J. Sam Getsinger. The county court reported the greatest income, $3,833.30, includ ing $885.00 in fines. The clerk of court also reported $228.78 in mis cellaneous fees. The register of deeds accounted for $405, including $379.15 for re cording papers, $50 for marriage licenses and $30.50 for death and birth certificates. The sheriff's office reported $151.50 in fees. Income from the various sources was considerably less than tho amount reported in April.
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