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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 1,0*0 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE 18 READ B? OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT1 KAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 58 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 21, 19.13 ESTABLISHED 189* High Infestation Oi Boll Weevils In County Cotton —«— Infestation As High As 90 Percent Recently Reported Boll weevil infestation in Mar tin County cotton is running | mighty high in some instances, ac cording to Assistant County Larry ! Hodges, who reports on the trend and lists some timely questions and anwers, as follows: The boll weevil infestation is running high this year. Treated fields are running as high as 36 percent infestation. One field cheeked that was not treated was 90 percent infested. High tempertature with high rainfall is the main cause for such large numbers of boll wee vils. Any farmer can cheek his boll weevil count by picking 100 bolls scattered over the field. Count the number punctured. If you like, bring them to the County Agent’s office and we will be glad to count them for you. If 10 percent or more is punctured, the cotton should be dusted or spray ed with 20 percent toxaphene at the rate ofr 10 to 15 pounds per acre. The cotton should be treat ed every five or six days until it is under control then once a week will be enough as long as the infestation stays below 10 per cent. Questions and Answers 1. How long does a square re main on the plant after being puncturpd? Average 7 days. 2. What age square is preferr ed by weevils? 7 days old to 3 days before blooming. 3. How old must a boll be be fore it is safe from weevil attack? Approximately 20 days. 4. How long will an overwinter ed boll weevil live if he emerges before the cotton is up? Minimum 1 day, maximum 52 days, average 5.65 days. 5. How long will an overwinter ed boll weevil live in young cot ton before it begins to square? Maximum 40 days (80 percent die within 10 days), average 8 days. 6. How long will a boll weevil live in cotton that is fruiting? Males about 20 days, females »bout 16 days. 7. How many eggs does a weevil fey ? VrrmT'^i^<^4^(5 hvTm'mkc ol ”1 8. How many eggs per day does ■ boll weevil lay? A maximum of 33, average of 6.4. 9. How long does it take a boll v'eevil to develop in a cotton square? From an average of 17 6 days for first eeneraton to an average of 33 5 days for fourth generation, with an average for aii’genePaPidffi^iJf^.cf.d JZj 10. How old must a square be before it is attacked by boll wee viles? About 5 days. 11. When does the first brood of boll weevils appear? At ap pearance of first blooms. 12. What influences boll wee vil emergence in the spring? Moisture is the main factor. High temperature without moisture won’t bring many weevils out of libernation. 14. What percent of hibernating boll weevils emerge into cotton fields after June 15? Approximate, ly 40 percent, ranging form 23.7 percent to 53.2 percent. 15. How old must a female wee vil be before she can lay eggs? Approximately 5 days. 16. What is the proportion of male to female boll weevils? There appears to be slightly less females. 17. Will a feeding puncture made by a male boll weevil cause a square to shed? Yes. Contest Winner Miss Janie Perry, former Wil liamston girl who is now making her home with her sister, Mrs. Alnnza Bland, in- Ahoskie was seennd place winner in the Cho wan Beach Beauty contest held at Colerain last Sunday evening. She is receiving a free trip to New York City in about two weeks as special guest of the beaches, and while in the city will appear on television. Miss Perry is the daughter of Mr. Simon Perry and the late Mrs- Perry. Georgia Leaf Prices Drop To Slightly Lower Figures Contrary to individual reports, tobacco prices on the Georgia Florida markets are not as high as they were last year, grade for grade, according to official fig ures released by the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. An increased percentage of fair and good quality tobacco resulted in a 13 cents higher general av erage than the first two day’s of sales for the 1952 crop reports the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Most markets had blocked sales opening day but many cleared floors on Friday. Deliveries will be slow for a few days as farmers are trying to complete harvesting their crops. A gross volume of 17,414,351 pounds were sold on July 16 and 17 for an average of $51.15 per hundred. Last year sales the first two days amounted to 17,564.403 pounds averaginfg $51.02. Most grades showed losses of Fair-Sized Rain Fell Yesterday A fair-sized rain, the first of any consequence reported in this im mediate area this month, fell early yesterday morning. Forty hun dredths of an inch was reported by Weatherman Hugh Spruill on Roanoke River, but to the south east the fall was believed to have been much greater. Heavy rains fell on the lower edge of Griffins Township in the Dymond City section Sunday aft ernoon, and a light sprinkle fell here and in other parts of the county a short time later. The main rain fell between 1:30 and 2:30 o’clock yesterday morning, incomplete reports stating that it was fairly general in the county but heavier in some communities than in others. While it was no trashmover, the1 rain was timely and did much good. Some crops were showing signs of drought and the tobacco crop was deteriorating rapidly.] The rain is believed to have! of leaf spot that swept over a large ' part of the county last week. |: While there are ten more days in this month in which most any thing could happen as far as the] weather goes, the rainfall so far ; mm m.wi'e ..teifti. inches below the normal of 5.10 inches. In July of last year, 7.35 inches of rain fell at this point. i rew Barns Burn InThisGounty' -.-Q>—•—^ able, but as far as it could be learned only two tobacco barns have been destroyed b; fire in this county so far this season. However, the curing season is hardly a third complete in the county and every caution is need ed if the fire loss is to be held to a minimum. A third barn fire was reported about 4:00 o’clock last Saturday , morning on the Bill Abbitt farm on the Hamilton road, but it was checked without much damage re sulting to the barn itself. The to bacco was badly smoked and dam aged, it was learned. A stick fell : from the racks and burned, firing 1 the door. A traveler happened 1 along and saw the fire from the : road and the keeper was called 1 in time to put the fire out. Child Injured In Farm Accident, Earl Bryant, 6-year-old colored i child, was painfully and possibly dangerously hurt, in a farm acci dent near Oak City last Wednes- | day. Removed to a Tarboro hos- i pital, the child, while suffering i no broken bones, was said to be i paralyzed from the waist down. However, it is believed the vie- I tim will improve after the sore ness subsides. The child was standing on a tobacco truck and jumped off | just as his grandfather, Joe Pur- i vise, started to back a pick-up | around in the yard of Murray | Bryant, the child’s father. The i rear wheel ran over the boy i about the wasitline, it was re- i ported. i 51.00 to $3.00 per hundred. The argest declines were for lower quality lugs, primings and non lescript. There were a tew scat ered increases but mostly in small volume grades. Quality improved as the pro portion of fair ar.d good offerings was larger. Less leaf was on sale. Nearly 85 percent was graded in emon and orange color. Most sales consisted of lugs and pri nings with fair and good lugs and ow and fair primings predomina ;ing. Heavy volume grades moved at average prices generally $1.00 to 514.00 over their respective Com nodity Credit Corporation loan evels. Growers delivered 927,328 pounds to the Stabilization Cor poration under Government loan pn opening day. This represented 3.6 percent of gross sales. Receipts last year for the first two days were 12 percent of gross. --- | TOO HOT TO RUN | s--/ While the mercury has not soared to the heights reached last summer, there’s been some mighty warm weather experienced around these parts this summer. Making a quick report on the weather out in Griffins last week-end, Farmer Sher rod Corey said he was attend ing to his tobacco barn when he saw an old hound chasing a rabbit. “And you know, it was so hot, both of the ani mals were in a slow walk," Mr. Corey said. Power Lines Are Changed Sunday A power interruption, duly scheduled and lasting for three lours and twenty-two minutes, A'as little noticed in this area last Sunday morning by the general public. Many would never have <nown there had been an inter uption if their electric clocks did lot throw them off the time beam. No trouble was reported as a re sult of the interruption. Some fountain operators declared that he current was not off long en >ugh for their stocks to melt or soften. 'VI.„ i.Oo,—I.ruiup '• h.erj. jut almost twice as long as it was irst planned. When the line news started pulling the main ines around the large storage varchouse now being constructed lore by the Williamston Storage Corporation, they foynd eight or en broken insulators and they lad to be replaced It was decid 'd to handle both tasks while th' ■w.c.’m pj iff Mill m-t»-. ■r than arrange for a second one. Further changes in the lines lei ving the town of Williamston iroper are being considered and t is likely that there’ll be a short nterruption sometime in August, iut no date or hours have been nentioned. --# Anniversary For LocalRoiarians —— Williamston Rotarians will ob ;erve ladies' night and their sec )nd anniversary at a meeting this ■voning at 7:.'t0 o’clock at the Switch. Robert 11. Cowen will jreside over the meeting which vilf feature J. B. Kittrell, Sr., of jieenville as the main speaker. Scarborough Mizelle of the iVindsor club is coming over to ead the singing as a special guest, ind Mis- Jean Ward Mobley will >e at the piano. The club now has twenty-five nembers. The victim (if a virus infection, Mayor Cowen entered a local hos >ital for treatment late yester lay for treatment, and it is not :ertain he’ll be able to attend the ipecial event this evening. ■ Continues (*ravcly III In Richmond Hospital --- A patient in a Richmond hos jital since June 20, Mr. Henry J. Harrison, local man, continues [ravely ill, according to last re >orts reaching here. It was stat 'd that his fevei had gone to a langerous point, and that his jeneral condition was rapidly vorsening. Call Fifteen To I Report For Duty I In Armed Forces 1 Name OC Delinquent Regis- ] Irani Turned Over To Federal Bureau Fifteen Martin County men— seven white and eight colored—j were called to report today for final induction into the armed forces. Traveling by regular bus, the group left this morning for Raleigh where they will draw assignments. Most of the men leaving this county for duty in the services have been assigned to Fort Jackson at Columbia, South Carolina in recent months. In addition to the fifteen men called today, another young man, Hulbert Lester Daniels, Jr., en listed for duty and reported to his station week before last. A seventeenth man, Edmond Horace Whitley, colored of RFD 1, Williamston, has been listed de linquent and his name is now in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was reported that the young man told friends that the "spirit told him not to report”. The names of those called to report include: White Billie Baxter Harrison, RFD 2, Williamston Thade Eugene Hardison, RFD 1, Williamston Dallas Marvin Matthews, RFD 2, Robersonville David Hoggard, RFD 2, Wil liamston Foy Wilford Ange, RFD 1, Jamesville Paul Pollard, Jr., Williamston Kenneth Lee, RFD 2, Williams-, ton Colored Marvin Purnell Little, Parmele Julius Waddeil Evans, RFD 2, Williamston Wilbert Hassell, Robersonville Sherman Harold Beach, RFD 2, Williamston Benjamin Coffield, Williamston Rurdcss Leathers, RFD 1, Hob good Robert Jones, Jr., RFD 2, Wil liamston James Carlton Huff, Williams ton. Notorious 'Legger Again In Courts ^^^mm^jIljrduns^JTcdTU mys^Ro bersonville bootlegger who claims a select elientel, is again in the hands of the law with a dark fu ture ahead of him. Raiding his combination home store last Friday night, ABC Of ficers Cecil Bullock and Wiley Craft and Deputies Dennis A. Roberson and Rov Peel found seven pints of white liquor and in the mail’s home. The pints of illicit liquor were found under his bed pillow where it was readily accessible for a quick sale. The other liquor was stack ed beside the bed, officers said. Jenkins was sentenced to the roads by Judge Jos W. Parkei in the Superior Court last March, but the road term was suspended upon the payment of a $1,000 fine. Raiding the other side of the Jenkins duplex, the officers found six pints of illicit liquor under the floor. « Given a preliminary hearing be fore Justice W. M. Tetterton in Williamston last week-end, each defendant was placed under bond in the sum of $300. They are to face trial in the recorder’s court next Monday. -- Attacks and Badly Cuts Nan Saturday Said to have been drinking, Octavious Roberson turned on Frank Cross here last Saturday afternoon and sliced him about the face and arm with a pocket knife. Twenty-three stitches were needed to close the wounds. It could not be learned what prompted the attack, but the case will be aired in the county court next Monday. The attack took place on South Elm Street, near Railroad. Sewed up and treated in a lo cal hospital, the victim was able to report at a hearing for Rober son before Justice Chas. R. Mob ley later that day. Roberson is at liberty $100 bond. One Person Badly Hurl In Accidents In Martin County —<t>— Property Loss* In Series* Of Three Wreeks Estimated Iu Excess of SI,300 At least one person was badly njured and a property loss esti nated conservatively at $1,573 re sulted in a series of three motor vehicle accidents on the highways n the county last week-end. Sev eral of those in the wrecks mira culously escaped unhurt, members >f the highway partol said follow ng their investigations. One vic :im had his left arm crushed from :he elbow to the hand, and anoth ?r victim was removed to a hos pital for treatment of possible in ternal injuries. The first in the series was re ported within the town limits of Jamesville on the highway about 11:30 o’clock last Saturday morn ing when Mack Cotton, 60-year old colored minister of Bethel, blacked out or fainted, and lost control of his 1950 Hudson. The car swerved to the left and ran about 85 feet down a machine ditch before striking an abutment. The machine leaped into the air, and cleared fourteen ft., of ground before landing and turninng over. Damage to the machine was esti mated at $500 He was picked up in a Biggs ambulance and remov ed to a Williamston hospital for treatment. Efforts are being made lo save the limb, but reports de clared it was badly mangled. The second in the series of week-end wrecks was reported Saturday afternoon at 2 00 o’clock on a dirt road at Barrett’s Fork near Oak City. William B. Mal lory was rounding a curve in his 1952 Pontiac and crashed into a 1941 Plymouth driven by Leamon Lanier. No one was hurt, the in vestigator officer from the high way patrol reported. Damage to the Pontiac was estimated at $400 and that to the Plymouth at $75, Darting toward and from pedes trians, Stuart Wiggins lost con trol of his 1941 Ford truck and ran it into a large pine tree on the River Road, about eight miles north of Hamilton last Sunday evening about 7:15 o’clock. No pedestrian was hit, but Wiggins’ wife suffered possible internal in juries and was removed to a hos pital in Scotland Neck for treat ment, the investigating patrolman sai<?.""11 1 “ J * ■*“*” "*'* One of its sides upped away beyond repair, the truck wras dam aged to the extent of about $600, the patrolman said following his investigation. Positions Filled —Is FaroH^Hese -—«■— Unless there are other resigna tions, the local schools are ready to start the new term this fall, Principal B. G. Stewart announc ed last week-end. All faculty position have been filled, including those made va cant a short time ago by unex pected resignations, the principal explained. Mrs. Robt. Everett, Jr., former member of the Plymouth faculty, has been employed to succeed Mrs. Ann Carson Cargile, eight grade teached , here for several years, who recently resigned the position Mrs. Everett is now making her home in Williamston. Miss Mary Ann Bass of Whit ikers is idling the fifth grade position. She taught in the Nash idlle schools the past four years. Miss Carolyn Hines of Green /ille is succeeding Mis. Sally Wat ers as high school English teach ;r. ROUND-UP | ./ There was a marked de crease in activities on the crime front in this county last iveekend, according to a re port coming from the sheriff’s office. Only six persons were ar rented and detained in the county jail during the period, four for public drunkenness, and one for drunken driving and the other for carrying a concealed weapon. All those arrested were colored, their ages ranging from 20 to 57 years. Facts Misunderstood About Radio Station /—-N i POLICE SCHOOL I v/ Starting next Monday after noon, Special Agent R. YV. Turkelson of the State Bu conduct a four-day police school in the county court house, it was announced last week-end, by Director James i W. Powell. It is expected that law en forcement officers from other towns in this and surround ing counties will attend the school. Health Center Makes Report _—#— Martin County Health Depart ment officials pointed out yester day that there had been only one ease of polio reported in the coun ty this year, and that was a mild one. The prevalence of polio is lower in the county so fqr that year than usual, and unless it flares up there’s no immediate cause for alarm, it was pointed out. There’s little than can be done to meet a current season attack of polio, but health officials ex plained that the people can work now for the future. More blood donations will make available more gamma globulin. The sup ply is so scarce now that it is made available only to household contacts, and it cannot be had by just calling the family doctor or the health department for general use. It was explained that to make two cc's of the serum, two pints of blood are needed. In order to immunize the average adult it takes twenty to thirty cc’s of se rum meaning that twenty to thir Ity pints of blood were necessary. j*'The Red Cross has made urgent j appeals for blood repeatedly, but i the response has not been weak meaning that the supply of gam ma globulin is limited,” a repre sentative of the department said. | No report on the progress ofi I the anti-typhoid drive has been1 j released, but it was announced I that the health department will give the vaccine each Thursday j j afternoon between 1:00 and 4:00 I o'clock to those who have not been immunized. All children who have not had their whooping cough, diphteria and smallpox vaecainations are to report to the health center on 1 the corner of Ray and Harrell Streets in Williarnston either on1 Thursday afternoon or Saturday I morning. Those children entering school this fall are especially urg I to # tbf; cci^^^i^'ou!j further delay. William Whitley Dies In Hospital —•— William Whitley, 77, prominent local colored citizen, died in a Tar boro hospital last Thursday fol lowing a stroke of paralysis suf fi red while attending church here last July 4. He was employed by the Atlan tic Coast Line Railroad Company here for many years, retiring about ten years ago. He was a leader in the church and various civic organizations and societies The funeral service was con ducted in the Corner Stone Bap tist Church just off Jamesville Road here yesterday afternoon with his fraternal organization participating in the rites. Burial was in Old Fellows Cemetery. - -* - Continues Critically III In Hospital Here Although she appeared to be brighter, Mrs. Pleny Peel of Grif fins Township, continues critically ill in a local hospital, it was re ported this morning. Mrs. Peel has suffered two strokes in recent weeks. Remove Accident Victim To Durham Hospital Badly injured when run down by an automobile on Highway (14 near the Highway Patrol radio, station on Sunday, June 12. Mrs. i Lucy Whitehurst was removed to j a Durham hospital last Thursday t m a Biggs ambulance for treat- 1 meat. \ Effectiveness cf: System Is Risked j In Proposed Move: Further Appeals Vi ill Be Math' To Have Station Remain Here - ——1» Contrary to promises from high Maces in our State government, Mans are being pushed to move ;he North Carolina State High way Patrol radio station from iVilliamston to Greenville. The ae ;ion has been described by those n a position to know that it is nothing less than robbery, and hat the move will cost taxpayers housands of dollars with no guar mtee that the system will be as effective as it is under the present letup. Appeals have been made to Motor Vehicles Commissioner Kd ward Scheldt, but only polite answers have been received. Further appeals are being formu ated, and it is proposed to air .he entire history of the station md the political maneuvers sur rounding the proposed move. "We, an aparently forgotten people whose voices carry little nr no weight in high political cir cles, possibly cannot stop the move, but we can air out the rue facts and point out to the neople of North Carolina that the lotion is based on a mere politi cal whim rather than with a di ed view of improving the pa rol’s communications system and laving the taxpayers of this State money,” a citizen acquainted with he facts, declared soon after earning that Haleigh was plan nng to move the station. Mr. Edward Scheldt, newly ap pointed commissioner of motor vehicles, apparently has been mis led m joining up with the plan to move the station. In a letter to Ihe Willamston Roosters under re cent date, Commissioner Scheldt laid, in part: “Greenville has been the site >f Troop "A" Headquarters since 1951 and in 1935 when the Patrol Radio System was inaugurated, property near Greenville was not available for the erection of the transmitting towel and other re quired facilities and for that rea v.- . Vv J, sj, ..VV.J—-■, liamston . . The Motor Vehicles department apparent!.^ has forgotten the facts. Captain Farmer, the father of the radio system, located the stations, not after a political whim or fashion, but after making repeat ed tests. Using mobile equipment :ie went all ovci North Carolina, including a site near Greenville ly), and after making tests, he announced his findings, declaring that the Williamston site was one if the bes, if not the best, in the entire system. Patrolman George Stewart acompanied the mobile equipment here. It is recalled that when Captain Farmer was approached with an jffer to aid him, the old gentle man expressed his appreciation, Put explained that he would be ibliged to locate the station where t would be most effective. In due time, a 99-year lease was qiven the State for $1, the county ixpressing the wish at that time :hut it would cooperate in every vay possible. The lease was re corded on January 9, 1937. Mr. Scheidt also stated in his letter, "The 1951 General Assemb ly appropriated funds for the con struction of four Troop Head quarters buildings to be located it Greenville, Greensboro, Salis jury and Asheville. Radio facult ies are being installed at tiu I’roop Headkuarteis under the im mediate supervision of the Troop Commander. We propose to cen tralize the control of all Troop A’ communication facilities at the Greenville Headquarters, thereby MPROVING the Communication System in Troop ‘A’.” Learning that the appropriation (Continued on Fage Six) Removed To Hospital Here Holiday Afternoon Mr. O. S. Anderson was remov- ; d tYom his home in the Tar Heel i Apartments yetserday afternoon o a local hospital for treatment, lis condition continues critical, it < .as reported this morning. ' Proposed Sale Oi Robber Plants To Industry Attacked IVinocralM Declare the Plan Is Grossly Defective And Sale Forced Washington.—A blistering re port signed by five Democrats on the Senate banking committee has threatened a major fight on a Republican-sponsored plan to dis pose of 29 government-owned rub ber plants. The report to be made public soon, called the plan “grossly de fective” and a “more or less forc ed sale” of synthetic rubber plants which cost the government more than half a billion dlollars. Signed by all but one of the committee’s Democarts, the re port was believed to have been written under the direction of Senator Douglas (D) of Illinois. Democratic Senators Sparkman (Ala.), Mu.ybank (S. C.), Ful bright (Ark.) and Lehman (N. Y.) signed it with Senator Douglas. The report said that under the terms of a disposal bill approved on straight party lines by the committee last week “a cartel may well be re-established” in the rubber industry. It recalled an antitrust suit brought against the major rub ber companies in 1947, and de clared ; 'The major rubber fabricators . . pleaded no defense in fed eral court to charges by the De partment of Justice in 1947 that they fixed prices collectively on major items of goods they sold.” The disposal plan, the report said, would “consolidate the hold over the rubber industry . . . now exercised by the big four”—U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone.* The Senate bill, somewhat similar to a pending House mea sure, would compel the sale of the plants bv next July 1, subject to a congressional veto of actual tern's of sale. The bill would set up a three man commission appointed by President Eisenhower to negoti ate sale of the plants to private industry. The commission would have from 45 to 90 days to accept bids. At the close of the bidding period, it would negotiate with bidders on contracts of sale. A full report,on the disposal contracts would come to Con gress by June 1, to take effect a month later unless Cnngi-■ ss ve toed the plan. The minority report, made available to a reporter, said the plan "plays into the hands of the big companies which now operate these plants and will work adver sely against the small firms." It said the plan does not allow Dear)} enough time for smaltri companies to investigate the ml make '. ' ' More than ?0 per cent of the nation’s total synthetic rubber capacity, the report continued, is being operated by the big four and one other rubber company, General Tire and Rubber. These firms now lease most of the 29 plants owned by the gov ernment. The report said war made it essential to get sysnethetic pro duction going at a fast pace, and Lidded there was "nothing sin ister" in the lease of the plants to major producers. Hut it does not follow that what was good in dire emergency should be frozen into the long time structuer of the industry Ihc reoprt said. Dress Revue Won By Joan Colirain 'S'-— Winning the Martin County tress revue in this county earlier n the month, Miss Joan Coltrain s competing in the State dress evue this week during 4-H Club Week in Kaleigh. Miss Coltrain’s attire consisted if a navy two-piece faille suit .vhich has a new back interest, rhe front of the skirt gives a dr. light, tight look witn soft deals which may be pressed or inpressed. The short jacket is fashioned with a shawl collar, rhe jacket has long sleeves with % .'entrusting fabric trims collar and ■uffs of blue velvet. Joan wears i white nylon tucked blouse she tiade a small hat of matching .civet with blue daisies and navy 11bbon which is also an original 'f Joan’s She wears white gloves vith navy shoes and bag.
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