THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COCNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 52 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 30, 1933 ESTABLISHED 189J Handled Thirty Cases In County Court on Monday Fines Imposed During The Long Session Add Up To $360.00 -- Scheduled to observe the Fourth of Julv on the sixth along with general business, the Martin County Recorder’ Court was held in session until late Monday after noon, clearing its docket and get ting everything in ship shape. The next session of the court will be held on Monday, July 13. Judge H. O. Peele and Solicitor Clarence Griffin handled thirty eases during the long session. Fines were imposed in the sum of $360, but the defendants appealed in several of the cases and fines actually collected during the day were just a little over $100. Sev eral road sentences were meted out. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Sylvester James was sentenced to the roads for three months, the court suspend ing the term upon the payment of a $25 and court costs. It was fairly well proved that the man did not deal in liquor, that he had the half gallon of white liquor on hand for his own use. Judgment was suspended when Horce Shurman pleaded guilty of an assault with a deadly wea pon. Pleading not guilty of larceny, Booker T. Brown was adjudged guilty and was sentenced to the roads for sixtv days. The road term was suspended for two years upon the payment of a $25 line and costs. Pleading guilty of speeding 80 miles an hour, Crumel Mooring of RFD 1, Hobgood, was fined $10 and taxed with the costs. John H. Mooring, Jr., of Wash ington, D. C , pleaded guilty of aiding and abetting speeding, and was taxed with the costs. Charged with larceny. Edward Hassell, Joe Alec Spruill and John Woodley pleaded not guilty and the evidence sustained them in their plaes. A fourth defend ttne, Kenneth Hassell, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roods. Charged with speeding 70 miles tin hour, James Tupper Perry pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty, he was fined $10 and tax ed with the costs. Pleading not guilty. L. D. La nier was adjudged guilty of drunken driving and was fined $200, plus costs. It was his sec mid time in court on a drunken driving charge, and he appealed to tile superior court, Judge Peele calling for a $300 bond. Charged with larceny, Jesse Lawrence Brown was found not guiHy. Ray Clark drew six months on the roads when he pleaded guilty of larceny. Pleading not guilty, Alexander (Continued on Page Two) Local Boy Heads Miami Beach Club Bill Holloman, former Williams ton boy, recently completed a year as president of the Miami Beach Junior Chamber of Com merce. The group, made up af about 250 of the city’s leading young man, reported a year of much activity. The work was extended into various fields, touching the religious, civic and business life of the beach resort. Holloman is the son of Mrs. Al bert Holloman Perry of Williams ton, and is a brother to Sheriff M. W. Holloman. ROUND-UP Eleven persons were round ed up and temporarily de tained in the county jail dur ing the past week-end. Steal ing and fighting featured the arrest calendar. Four were booked for lar ceny, two for assults and one each for public drunkeness, drunken driving, operating motor vehicle without a driv er’s license, disorderly con duct and operating a motor vehicle after driver’s license was revoked. Two of the eleven were white and the ages of the group ranged from 18 to 48 years. Drunk Run Over By Drunk On Co u 11 tyHigh waySu 1 iday Alleged to have been drunk, Richard Dickens, 24 of RFD 1, Oak City, passed out on the Oak City-Speed highway about mid night last Saturday. About an hour later, George Robt. Bryant, RFD 1, Hobgood, came along in a car and ran over the man, Patrolman J. O. Arthur stating that the victim's clothes were al most torn of in their entirety and that the man was skinned from head to foot. Dickens, however, suffered no broken bones even though two wheels of .the car passed over his body. Treated in the Bethel Clinic early Sunday morning, Dickens juas released, last reports stating that he was removed to his home where he was said yesterday to be too sore to wiggle. Bryant is being charged with drunken driving. Accompanied by Dickon's sister, Bryant picked the man up and carried him to the clinic. It was alleged that Dick ens' sister had all but "passed out" in the car, that she did not remember to much about the ts sult. Patrolman Arthur i» still try ing to figure out how the man lived through the attack, not to ! mention how he came through it j without a broken bone. [largest I IN YEARS ll More rain fell here in 45 minutes yesterday afternoon than in any other 24-hour period since June 28, 1951, j when 3.14 inches were record- \ ed by Hugh Spruill at the Roanoke River bridge. Dur ing the 45-minute period yes terday afternoon, 2.22 inches of rain fell at that point. The total for the day, however, was 2.55 inches. On July 7, last year,, 2.18 inches of rain fell here, Mr. Spruill said. While a new two-year re cord was in the making here, other sections in the county reported that the rain was so limited there that farmers did not stop their plows. WM. R. Taylor Died on Friday William Robert Taylor. 51, died in a Greenville hospital last Fri day evening at 8:30 o’clock of in juries received at his home in RobersonvitV the previous Mon day night. He had been in declin ing health for a long time, return ing home from out West some time ago after going there for treatment. He was a son of the late Leon ard and Lollie Highsmith Taylor. He was a native of Pitt County, but had resided in Robersonville for the past 30 years. He was a member of the Christian Church and of Stonewall Lodge 296 He is survived by his wife, the former Lina Gurganus; two sisters, Mrs. Ernestine Taylor Alcroft of Fre mont, Mrs Alton Grimes of Rob (ersonvile; a stepmother, Mrs. Zel la Moore Taylor of Robersonville. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home Sunday at 4 p. m , I with the Rev. Wilbur T. Wallace officiating. Burial was m the Rob ersonville cemetery, with Masonic graveside ntes. Education Board Meeting Tpngiht Meeting at 8:00 o’clock in the courthouse, the Martin County Board of Education will review local district budgets and receive Sherwood L. Roberson, Rober sonville man, as a new member. Mr. Roberson Was recently elect ed by the Democratic Executive Committed!, to fill the position made vacant on the board by the untimely death of C<*cil Powell. The election of Mr. Roberson by the committee is effective onl., until the next county primary when the voters may express their prferences It is possible Mr. Roberson will recommend some one to succeed himself as a member of the Rob ersonville local school committee where he has ably served for some time. Booked on Theft Charge in Court Henry Price, 31-year-old color ed man, has been booked for trial in the county court for the al leged theft of a power cocain saw from the back porch of Elijah Dixon in Parmele last Friday night. Working on the case during the week-end, Deputy Dennis A. Ro berson recovered the saw, the property of Henry Woodcock of Robersonville. Price was given a preliminary hearing before Justice H. S. Eve rett in Robersonville Monday evening. Father Oi Local Resident Passes Oscar H. Britton, father of Mr. Clarence Britton of Williamstun, died in an Ahoskie hospital yes terday. Mr. Britton, 65, was the son of the late William and Mary H. Britton. He was a member of the Ahos kie Baptist Church and the fun eral service will be conducted there Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by tht Rev. W. P. Milne, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Lon nie Sasser of Murfreesboro. In terment will be in the Ahoskie cemetery. Surviving besides his son here, arc a daughter, Mrs. Ed McCullom of Raleight; two sons, Linwood and Lloyd Britton of Ahoskie; one brother, Zeb Britton of Ports mouth, Va., one sister, Mrs. W. P. Summer of Elizabeth City; his stepmother, Mrs. Mary E. Brit ton of Ocean View, Va.; two halfbrothers, Wayland of Ports mouth, Va., and William Britton of Ocean View, Va , one halfsister, Mrs. Josephine Palmer of Ocean View, Va.; and five grandchildren. Accident Victim Suffers Relapse Injured in a car-truck acci dent costing the lives of two men near Bear Grass on Friday, June 12, Willie B. Brinkley, colored man, was said to have suffered a relapse a few days ago. Returned to the hospital for further treat ment, the patient had to be re moved to some county jail Mon day to await transfer possibly to some State institution. Suffering a head injury in the accident, Brinkley was said to be greatly depressed, and that he went around with a stick declar ing he was going to get those who "killed his boss man” Arangements were not com pleted immediately for his trans fer to an institution. " ...■■ — Police Recover Slolss Battery A comparatively new auto bat tery, stolen from Walter Johnson’s ear at the water plant, Sycamore Street last week, was recovered by local police the following clay. Booker T. B/own, 22 was given a preliminary hearing Thursday night and bound over to the coun ty court for trial. Brown claims he found the bat tery abandoned near his home just acros the railroad from the plant. Checking the junk yards, the officers learned that Rufus Brown, Booker T.'s 14-year-old nephew, had sold the battery for $1.10. f v [ FIRST BLOSSOM j The first cotton blossom of the season was reported in the fields of Harris Brothers on the old Staton farm near Wil liamston last Friday. The blossoms are making: their appearance a bit later than usual in the county this year. Weather conditions have not been too favorable for cotton, and reports state that indica - tions point to an unusually heavy pest damage. Picking; them last Friday, Farmer John Leggett of Bear Grass Township displayed three pretty blossoms, one red and two white, last Saturday morning. Airs. Leggett said he has four fine acres of cot ton, that he is expecting a bumper crop if the weevils don't beat him Vo it. Tobacco Markets To Open In Bell On August 20th Opening This Year Is One Da vEarlier Than It Was In 1952 The local tobacco market will open thcl 953 season on Thursday, August 20, it was ruled by the board of governors of the Bright. Belt Warehouse Association in session at Raleight Monday. The1 opening this year is one day ear lier than the one a year ago. While most of the opening dates hold close to those in effect last season, a big change was made in the Georgia-Florida belt where the markets are scheduled to open Thursday, July 16. The open ing there is one of the earliest en record, and should give the farmers there ample time to mar ket their crop before the buyers are withdrawn for the opening in this belt. However, reports from Georgia indicate that the crop is not yet harvested, that sales are expected to continue comparatively light during the marketing season. Many things can happen to up set the time table, but just now this section is starting the har vest of one of its earliest crops in several years. An opening a week or more ahead of the date set would be in order, farmers have pointed out. The opening schedules are: Georgia-Florida, Thursday, July 16; North Carolina-South Caro lina Border, Monday, August 3; Eastern, Thursday, August 20; Middle Belt, Tuesday, September 1; Old Belt, Monday, September 14. The markets are opening this year with daily sales time fixed at five and one-half hours. As usual, there was argument in fixing the dates. The Border argu ed, about the early opening in Georgia, meaning that they are fearful some Border tobacco will go to Georgia. The Eastern Belt representatives said nothing about the opening on the Border, but much tobacco has moved from the belt to the Border in years past. i Tobacco Harvest Gets Under way Started in a small way week be fore last, the tobacco harvest is beginning to get under way on a fairly large scale. Dozens of farm ers harvested the first of the crop last week, and it is believed that one-fourth and possibly a fourth of the growers will “pull'’ their lugs by the latter part of this week. Approximated 95 percent of the growers will have harvested the first of the current crop by the middle or latter part of next week, according to reports re ceived here this week from all sections ot the countv With possibly a few—very few exceptions, the county is beginn ing the harvest of one of its best crops in several years. Dry weather continues to pre vail in some areas, but even in those districts the drought has exacted no heavy toll, it was ex plained. First “cures” have been describ ed as being of good quality. Songster Breaks Up Justice's Court —«— P Lester Martin, 38-year-old colored man, literally broke up Justice Edmond Early’s court in Oak City last Saturday evening. Said to have been under the in fluence. of intoxicants, Martin wandered into the court room and started singing. The proceedings were halted long cnougty to get th man out. Placed under arrest, Martin was released from the county jail Monday, and was returned to Oak City to face a contempt-of-court charge. Suffer* Broken Ann In Lonifing Accident J. E. Hedrick, Jamesville timb erman and mill operator, suffer ed a fracture of the left arm in a logging accident over in Williams Township last week. Treated in a local hospital, the victim is now getting along very well. Three Men Badly Injured In Attacks Saturday Morning One Victim Continues In Semi-Conscious State In A Tarboro Hospital -••— Three persons were injured, one of them critically, in a freo-j -for-all fight at Oak City about 12:30 o’clock last Saturday morn ing. Eddie Coffield, Sr., 50-year old colored man, continues in a Tarboro hospital in a semi-cons cious condition according to last reports reaching here. Suffering a fracture of the skull, measuring from three to five inches, the man was said to be in a critical condition. IIis son, Eddie Coffield, 25, suf fered bad cuts on the back of his iegs just below the knees, one re port stating tf\at nineteen stitches were needed to close the wounds. He was also said to have been struck on the head with a piece of two by-four timber and badly hurt. Arthur Harris, 19, suffered a ten stitch cut on his shoulder and back in the fight. Complete details could not be had immediately, but the fight is believed to have centered around a marine, Vinson Shaw, and his wife. Shaw was talking with young Coffield at Mary Burnett's store when Joe Brown, colored man, moved in and cut Coffield on the legs with a pocket knife. Coffield went home, a quarter mile away, and told his father who accom panied him back to the store “to get things straightened out.” While the senior Coffield was talking with the marine, Joe Brown moved in a second time. Using a piece of two-by-four lumber, he planted it on the eld er Coffield’s head, cracking it in two places on the side. Re moved to his home in Oak City, Coffield, Sr., was not carried to the Tarboro hospital until Jate Saurday afternoon when it looked as if he would not survive the blow. Harris, who was badly cut on th<‘ shoulder and back, claims Ed die Coffield, Jr., attacked him. Harris and Coffield were treated in Dr. Highsmith’s office Saturday and released. Given a preliminary hearing be fore Justice Edmond Early in Oak City Saturday evening, the par ties were booked for trial, two in the county court on July 13 and the other at the September term of the superior court. Brown is being held in the county jail, Justice Early refusing him bond pending the outcome of the eldei Coffield’s condition. Officers said that trouble had been brewing for some time. The marine’s wife had been receiving a $130 allotment from (he govern ment, and she allegedly had not been using it for the care of her two children. The allotment was withdrawn and fowarded to Blown for him to administer Auto Damaged in Street Accident No one was injured but con siderable property damage result ed in an automobile accident at the corner of Main and Watts Streets here at 6:40 o’clock Sun day morning. | Both cars were traveling south Cyrus Fogel, 6232 Summerdale Avenue, Philadelphia, stopped lus 1952 Plymouth for the stop light, and William Odenwalk, 34 Hill Street, Morristown, New Jersey, plowed into the rear of the Ply mouth with his 1953 Chrysler Im perial. Odenwald said a book fell off the seat, that he reached down to pick it up and before he anew what had happened he crashed into the rear of the car. He ac cepted the damages, police said following their investigaton. I The rear left wheel of the Ply mouth was torn down and one report stated the chassis was bent, officers estimating the damage at $350. The right left front of the Chrysler was wrecked, and of ficers said, the damage would ap proximate $250. Viewing the damage, Fogel said the wreck marked the end of a vacation he had planned a long time tor his wife and baby. How ever garagemen were able to patch up the vehicles and the parties continued south, police stated. Car-Truck Accident Ruled "Unavoidable’ * -• Driver 01 Truck Cleared By Jury At Formal Inquest Action Virtually Blocks Any Criminal Action But INot Civil Suits Declaring the truck-automobile accident in which J. Augustus Powell and his son, Cecil B. Po- 1 well, were fatally injured near I Bear Grass on June 12 was “un- ! avoidable”, a corner s jury at a formal inquest held in the Martin County courthouse last Thursday evening cleared Asa David Bai ley, the truck driver, of any cri minal negligence. Although the path is open to civil suits, no such action has been advanced, and as far as it could be learned here, none is being considered at this time. Serving as members of the jury were T. M Parker, J. C. White, R. E. Peele, C. R. Whita ker, Geo. C. Griffin, Jr. and Bcr nard Harrison, Attorneys Clifton Everett of Bethel and Bill Speight of Greenville represented the family, and Attorney J. A. Prit chett and his partner of Windsor represented the trucking com pany at the inquest which was attended by a fairly sizable group, including relatives of the accident victims. Partolman B. E. Burton, the first witness called by Coroner Win. W. Biggs, said the injured had already been removed from the scene, that the truck was in the ditch on its right side of the road and the ear was in the cent er of the highway, facing across the road. The patrolman said the car rested 53 feet from the point of the crash. He estimated the car traveled about 59 feet after the driver saw the truck, and that the truck left skid marks over a distance of 29 feet. After clearing up the wreck age, Patrolman Burton said lie went to the hospital and saw James Sheppard, Zoley and Wil lie E Brinkley. Sheppard was quoted as saying that the ear, driven by Young Powell, failed to stop at the stop sign at the old new Bear Grass Road, that the ear was traveling at no high rate of speed, posibly 35 or 49 miles an hour. Zoley Brinkley, not too coher ent m his speech at the time, was quoted by the patrolman as say ing that the car dicl not stop, but that it did slow down. Willie Brinkley, another passenger in the Powell car, was in no condition to talk at that time, the patrol man explained. When he reached the hospital, the father and son had been pro nounced dead and removed to a funeral home. Questioning the truck driver, the patrol member said the big freight transport owned by the Carolina Norfolk line, was travel ing from Bear Grass toward Wil iiamston on the new Bear Grass load. Bailey was quoted as saying that as he reached the interscc tion, the ear came across the road and struck the front of the truck. Bailey was also quoted as saying that he did not know whether the ear would stop until it had run through the stop sign. Questioned by Attorney Eve rett, the patrolman said he did (Continued on Page Five) J 1INTEJKKUI‘TKI> v ties was interrupted Sundaywi The scheduled interruption scheduled in the power ser vice in parts of this and just about all of Washington and Tyrrell Counties was inter rupted Sunday morning when an emergency presented itself In a Columbia hospital. De tails of the emergency were not disclosed. No new date for (lie inter ruption has been definitely mentioned, but none is plann ed before July 12, it was un officially learned. The interruption is being scheduled so linesmen can move the main lines feeding the territory out of the way of a large storage house now under construction here. I SECRETARY ~\ j \„ Recently elected executive secretary of the Williamston Boosters, Mr. E. L. Grady is moving his family—Mrs. Grady, son and daughter— here today from Monroe. A native of Kinston, Mr. Grady is succeeding Al Svveatt who resigned to go with the Rocky Mount Merchants Association. Locating in the Corey Apart ments, Mr. Gratly will enter upon his new duties tomor row. Changing Around Holiday Schedule The aiiiuvi'isaly i>l thi' signing of the Declartion of Independence will bt1 observed by local busi ness houses and individual of fices here not on Saturday the fourth, but on Monday, the sixth, m accordance with a majority vote of the business operators, it has been announced. The change in the observance schedule is not uniform altogeth er. Federal and Slate offices, in | eluding the post office, will close | on Saturday along with the banks. These institutions will open on Monday. But stores, offices and other places of business not con nected with the state federal set up will close on Monday and re main open on Saturday. Following a custom in effect for some years, the Enterprise j will suspend operation tomorrow ! for the remainder of the week, I There’ll be no edition on Thurs I day, but the office will be open I next Monday and back on regulai schedule with the Tuesday edition There 11 be no session of the I county recorder' court next Mon day, but the county commissioners ! will meet that day, and the van ous county offices will be open on both Saturday and Monday it was learned. Williamston’s town commission ers will not meet next Monday but v, ill held th July session on the 13th. Hold Funeral For Mrs. R. W. Askew Mrs Amanda Nowell Askew, mother of Mrs. Henry N Manning formerly of Williamston, died in a Windsor hospital late last Thur sday night following a compara tively short illness She was 75 years old and was married in early womanhood to Richard W Askew who died several years ago. Surviving are four daughters. Mrs. A. N. Green of Charlotte, Miss Mary Webb Askew and Mrs, Manning, both of Windsor, and Mrs W. W. Fleetwood of Wash ington, D. C. She was 4 member of the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and the funeral was conducted there last Saturday afternon at 2:130 oClock by the rector, the Rev. Gardner Underhill Interment was in the church cemetery. Ilonto Slightly Ihmuigril Ity Lightning \ fstmlay Quite a few bricks wc.c knock ed off hut no other damage re sulted when a lightning bolt hit the chimney of the Curroway home on Academy Street here during the rain and electrical storm yesterday afternoon. Lightning also struck near the Abbitt Mill, knocking tools out of workmen’s hands, but injuring no ore. Make Changes In Regulations For 1954 Slock Show Exhibitors Vln*t Register (halves Not Later Than Decfniber 15th Quite a few changes have been made in the rules and regulations governing the 1954 fat stock show in this county, according to As sistant County Agent Larry Hod ges. The changes were designed to promote a better show, it was explained. The new rules and regulations follow: All calves must be registered by December 15th. The Show and Sale shall be for fat cattle and fat hogs. Cattle must be either polled or dehorn ed steers of either purebred beef breeding or a cross between two beef breeds, ranging in age from 12 months to not more than 18 months. Any 4 11, FFA or NFA Member m Martin County, is eligible to enter one animal in the Show and Sale. Hogs to be eligible must be barrows or gilts weighing not less than 180 pounds and not more than 240 pounds. Hogs not within these limits must be disqualified. All livestock is subject to the approval of the Entry Committee at the warehouse at the time of arrival of the animals. All animals entered must be weighed on scales designated by the Show and Sale Managers. All steers must be in place by 10.00 A. M. on day of show. All hogs must be in place by 6:00 P. M. on day of show. Each person entering animals will be responsible for furnish ing feed, feeding, care and show ing the animals. All animals will be Judged on conformation and market condi tion All calves grading below “good'’ will be sold in lots of 3's or 4's. Market price is all that we can promise on the Commercial Grade Steers. Nine out of 30 calves graded Commercial in 1953. Judging of steers will start at 1:30 P. M. on the day before sale and judging of hogs will com mence at 8:30 A. M. on second day. A Showmanship Contest will be held ii->w<.d<-n,,i-- i.q; .wing the judging on steers Thusrady after (Contrnued on Page Two) Surveyors' School Ends at Norehead I he Nin th Carolina Society of Surveyors and Engineers closed a one-week summer school at Morehoad City Institute last Fri day evening. A Corey, Jamesville man nad president of the State society, prc ! sided over the meeting, which was ! described as one of the most succcsslui ever hi Id. O. II. Roberson, elected county surveyor but who has never been atto qualify for the position, attended the school and took an active part in the discussions, it was reported. Continues ( riticully III In l{iclunond Hospital Although hi' (Vmtinues quite ill following an attack about ten days ago at his home here, Mr. Henry I). Harrison was reported this morning to be holding lus own in a Richmond hospital. NOTE CHANGE IN PRICES .An error was made in printing Colonial Stores' advertisement in this paper. The price for water melons should be 89c each, and the price for cantaloupes should be 23c each. no\omi> V_ J i 111111 it- Knowles, son of Air. anil Airs. J. I.. Knowles of Danlens, and a member of the Jamcsvillc Future Farm ers of America Chapter, re ceived fhe Carolina Fanner award at the annual FFA con vention held in Kaleight last week. The award is the highest offered on a state basis. Young Knowles was the only FFA chapter member in this county to received the unique honor. «