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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 COUNTi FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 64 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 11, 1953 ESTABLISHED 189 C. B. Williams Pleads Innocent In Peanut Case Probable Cause 01 Guilt Fduncl And $2,000 Bond Required .. Probable cause of guilt appear ing, C. B. (Candy Cake) Wil liams, young colored man, was bound over to the superior court for trial in connection with the wholesale theft of peanuts from a local warehouse last January. Justice Chas. R. Mobley fixed bond in the sum of $2,000 and Williams, unable to arrange bond, was returned to 'jail. Williams, said to have left here soon after the case was “broken” last Jan uary, was arrested in Virginia last week and returned here. Williams, through his attorney, Edgar Gurganus, pleaded not guilty. Attorneys E. S. Peel ^and Clarence W. Griffin represented the private prosecution at the hearing. Williams, said to have denied having any knowledge whatever about the theft which possibly added up to 500 bags of peanuts, was* definitely identified as one of four men who borrowed the truck from Julius Williams, aged colored man of Bertie County. The truck was stopped soon after it left the Roanoke-Dixie Ware house the morning of January 25, and seventy or seventy-one bags of peanuts were recovered. Williams, charged with aiding and abetting in the thefts, is at liberty in $1,500 bond along with William Henry Brown and Oscar Burnette. Williams, at the hear ing held in the courtroom last evening, said C. B. Williams came to his home on January 23 and asked him about hauling some peanuts. Julius Williams ex plained that it was mighty late, and that the lights on his truck were out of order. The younger Williams talked with his partners and told the older man they would see him later. Young Wil Qiams. according to the older man, returned the following night, borrowed the truck and drovf it away .. Julius Williams explaining that he did not see it any more until it was parked back of the police station here. On cross examination, the old er Williams again identified the younger man, and said there were three boys with Williams, that they talked nice and seemed to agl 11.. talked nice he lent them his truck. William Bonds, the only other witness called by the State, also identified Williams, explaining that Williams and two others boys went to his home on ur about January 23 and that he showed them wh^re Julius Williams liv ed. He said that C. B. Williams did not return to his (Bonds’) home on Saturday night before the theft was discovered the fol lowing morning. The case, one of the largest thefts reported in this county in years, has been continued in the courts since last March, pending the arrest and return of young Williams. Tranaf erred To A Local Hoapital FromJUchmond -• A patient in a Richmond hospi tal since June 20, Mr. Henry D. Harrison was transferred by am bulance to a local hospital Sun day. He stood the trip well and continues to hold his own, but he is not able to have company. Mr. Harrison suffered an attack at his home here June 20. TOBACCO CARDS j Tobacco marketing cards are being mailed to farmers in this county this week, pre paratory to the opening of the markets on Thursday of next week. Unofficial reports declare that several hundred cards have already been delivered to farmers who called for them >in person at the office of the county agent. It is ap parent that much Martin County tobacco has been and is being moved to the border markets. Some good Sales and some sales that were not so good have been reported by Martin farmers visiting the markets to the south. Thirty Car Caravan Will Roll Next Friday Morning --$ Sponsored by the Williamston Boosters in cooperation with the several warehouses here, the Williamston Tobacco Market car avan will roll through much of this county next Friday morning, it was tnnounced by Ed Grady, executive secretary of the spen soring organization. Plans, while not completed to the last detail, are shaping up rapidly for the tour. Approxi mately thirty vehicles are de finitely lined up for the trip, and the event is expected to be one of the pargest to run theh route in yrs., The tour will feature brief programs by Professor J. Butler and his Green Wave Band. There will be special favors and a brief message at each of the several scheduled stops. -N SCRAPPINGS -J • With sixty percent of the harvest already completed, about thirty percent of the remaining tobacco farmers scrapping” the fields for the final tobacco “pulling” this week. It is fairly certain that most of the remaining ten percent will complete the harvest next week, leaving a few stragglers with a little of the crop to be housed the following week. Prices Climb On Georgia Markets Average prices by grades con tinued steady to slightly higher last week for Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco. Volume of sales was heavy, however, several markets were out of "block” by the end of the week. The U. S. Department of Agriculture re ports quality of offerings was lower compared with the previous week. Gross sales for the week end ing August 7 totaled 40,680,255 pounds and averaged $51.52 per hundred—under last week and the lowest since the two-day opening week. Sales for the sea son reached 165,410,895 pounds averaging $51.94., For the same! number of sales days last yeai | 150,731,638 gross had been soldi for an average of $50.96. Higher average prices were soowo mi nonuesciipt marketings and most lower quality leaf grades. Increases were mainly $1.00 to $3.00 a hundred pounds. Better quality offerings remained generally unchanged. Several losses of around $1.00 were noted Poor and low quality leaf to bacco showed an increase in per centage. Predominating sales were poor to fair leaf, fair lugs and nondescript. Stabilization Corporation re ceipts under the Government loan program amounted to around 1.2 percent of gross sales for the week. For the season August 5 deliveries amounted to 4,933.319 pounds or 3.3 percent. August 12 has been set as the closing date for Quitman and Ha hira, Georgia and Jasper, Flori da. Youth Baffling County Officers * ♦ A 16year-old colored youth, ,’lifton Earl Brown, is baffling county officers. Leaving a daring crime trail in his wake, the boy has been book ed* for various law violations across the county, the record ex ending into surrounding coun ties. Treated as a juvenile delin quent, Brown has escaped or evaded officers' at least fenr ♦ imoc He slipped through the fingers of county officers several weeks ago, and more recently he escan | ed from Hoffman Training School i three times. Last Wednesday night he broke into E. W. Elks’ place of business in Robersonvjllc and allegedly stole seven cartons of cigarettes. It was reported that he had stol en shoes and other clothing from homes in the Robersonville area. Given a preliminary hearing held before Justice H S. Everett last Thursday. Brown/was book ed for trial in the superior court next month Unable to arrange $500 bond, he continues in the county jail. Those participating in the tour his vear are being asked to re sort to the warehouse center at i:30 o’clock Friday morning. The 'aravan is to start rolling not ater than 9:00 o’clock. The first stop will be made in Hamilton st 9:25 o’clock. ,The remainder >f the- morning schedule follows: 1 Dak City, 9:55; Hassell, 10:25; Sold Point, 10:45; Everetts, 11: 15 and on into Williamston for lunch. That afternoon the cara van will get going at 1:45 o'clock and adhere to the following sche dule: Bear Grass, 2::00 o'clock; Farm Life, 2::50; Jamesville, 3: 25 and Dardens, 3:55 o’clock. The public is invited to make :he tour, and an invitation is ex tended the people of the several communities to take off a few minutes for the programs. Jaycees Taping Vehicle Bumpers The Williamston Jaycees have come up with an idea that promis es to make the automobile bump er something more than a device for bending fenders. With the ap plication of reflective tape, the bumper becomes an effective means by which night-time ac cidents can actually be prevent ed. The "Lite-A-Bumper" program currently promoted by the Junior effort to reduce the hazard of night driving on our streets and highways—which anyone will agree, are hazardous enough at best. Endorsed by local safety au thorities, the reflectorization pro gram merit the support of every motorist. Anything that will aid night-time visibility on the high ways will help reduce one of the great dangers of motor travel. The end purpose of such a campaign is to help save lives. The secret of the reflective tape used by the Jaycees in their orogram is in its construction— thousands of tiny glass lenses, embedded in plastic, which serve as a multitude of tiny mirrors, re flecting the headlights of oncom ing cars. The red reflective tape applied to the rear bumpers “lights up” cars and trucks that are parked or stalled along *he street or high way—even when their tail lights nv.> r>nt operative •t.'M.'Wir-.esyu,r.• a - i Four times as many errors of' judgment were made ujJon seeing a truck, for example, with tail lights only, as when seeing a truck with tail lights combined with r e f 1 ec t c r: ’ a t i on. For all speed and lighting con ditions, much less time—hence shorter distance traveled—is re quired for a motorist to detect the motion of a reflectorized ve hicle than a non-reflectorized one. The small fee of $1.00 for each reflectorized bumper under the new program is a worthwhile in vestment which affords im mediate benefits to motorists, as well as eventual benefits to the kids on the bike*. A taping station for applying the reflective tape has been ar ranged at Belk Tylers lot (old bus station lot) and will be man ned by a crew of Jaycees members Saturday August 1 from 8:30 to 6:00 p m. Final Plans Made For Band Concert —■$— Final plans were completed over the week-end and a full re hearsal held last night in the band room for the Summer concert of the Green Wave Band of Wil liamston High School, to be pre sented in the ball park here on Thursday evening of this week at 8:00 p. m. The band will be stationed on the infield of the baseball dia mond facing the grandstand so that the grandstand as well as bleachers may be used by the audience. The program contains a varied fare of music, marches, overtures, pop tune, rhythm novelty, etc., to suit the taste of all. The program is without charge airo the public is cordially invited. The annual picnic of the band and band parents will be held on Tuesday, August 18, on the high school grounds, it has been an nounced. Funeral Hell AT The Home Sunday For Mrs. Bennett Prominent Citizen Died At Her Home Near Wil liamston Saturday —*— Funeral services were conduct ed at the home near Williamston on the MeCaskey Road Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock for Mrs. Fannie Malissa Bennett who died there last Saturday morning at 9:50 o’clock. She had been in de clining health for some time. A daughter of the late John and Lucy Knox Bland, she was born in Pitt County 55 years ago, and spent her early life there. She was first married to Henry Harrison, and her second mar riage was to Frank C. Bennett, well-known farmer and ware houseman before his death a num ber of years ago. Locating in this county near Williamston following her marri age, Mis. Bennett had made many friends in her adopted communi ty, and played the role of a de voted mother and wife and a thoughtful neighbor. Surviving her second marriage are two daughters Mrs. Halford House of Robersonville, Mrs, Har ry Smith of the home; four sons, Ronald and Gene Bennett of the home, Frank Richmond Bennett and Melvin Bennett of Raleigh; three stepchildren, Jasper Bennett of Williamston, Garland Bennett of Norfolk, and Mrs. G. L. Gra ham of Atlanta; eight grandchil dren; and one broker, Hosea Bland of Oak City, and a sister. Mrs. Thelma Rogers of Roberson ville. The Rev. T. E. Walston, pastor of the Williamston Methodist Church, conducted the funeral service, and interment was in Williamston's Woodlawn Ceme tery. ——-—_4-1— Loans Available To Slock Raisers Emergency livestock loans, au thorized by recent legislation, are now available to eligible farm ers in North Carolina, J. B. Slack, Farmers Home Administration State Director, announced today. These loans will be made to established producers and feed ers of cattle, sheep and goats, pro vided they have pood records to » ........ * II ,irn obtain needed credit from other sources to continue their normal operations. Such loans will %iot be made to carry on commercial feed lot operations, to refinance existing debts except for payment of current incidental bills, or to enable a boriower to start live stock operations. Special livestock loans will bear 5 percent interest and may be made for periods up to 3 years. Borrowers will be expected to re pay the loans as rapidly as they can. Each loan must be secured in the full amount by the personal obligation and available security of the borrower. The Government will not require present credi tors to subordinate their lines, ut borrowers will be expected to obtain standby agreements from their present creditors so they will have a chance to work 014) of their difficulties. Also, present credi tors must be willing for a por tion of the borrower’s livestock income to be paid on the Govern ment loan. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has designated the Farmers Home Administration as the agency to handle this emer gency credit program, and has made Administrator R. B. Mc Leaish administratively responsi ble for it at the national level. However, all loans must be ap proved by the special livestock loan committees r.. Secretary. To serve as a tempory State special livestock loan committee for North Carolina, Secretary Benson has named the following: J. B. Slack, State Director, Farm ers Home Administration; D. S. Weaver, State Director of Ex tension, and G. T. Scott, Chair man, State PMA Committee. This temporary committee was nam ed in order to speed up process ing of applications for assistance. Application forms may be ob tained at any county office of the Farmers Home Administration,. They mav be filed with the local county FHA supervisor or dir< -‘ ly with The state special livestock loan committee. 1 Highway Patrol 1 o J Master Radio Station Here Military Drail Not Affected By Truce In Korea Authorities Say End Of the Shooting Means No Let Down In Cold War Washington,—Military authori ties are hastening to make it clear that young men of draft age may expect no deferment because of the Korean truce. Draft quotas may even be in creased within a year, according to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. At the same time, servicemen present and future have been given assurance that men in uni form will not be used as labor battalions in the rehabilitation and recopstruction of Korea. ' Combat Readiness This assurance comes from the White House itself to put an end to talk originating in a State Department press conference by Secretary John Foster Dulles that combat troops now in Korea might be used in the rebuilding of that war-devasted land. The report that Mr. Dulles ap peared to be thinking in that di rection shocked Congress and the Pentagon into immediate expos tulation. Legislators jumped to their feet on the floor of the Senate. The Pentagon registered surprise and disapproval. Although the impression was given at the Dulles conference that the White House backed the plan, the official statement disputes that and explains that United States armed forces re- i maining in Korea will give only “technical assistance" to the South Korean Government. “The primary, mission of our military personnel there is de fense,” the statement declared. “They are going to be rested, trained, and kept in a high de gree of combat readiness.” Just how the wires between the White House and the State De partment became crossed on this issue is not clear. But there was no doubt among those attending the Dulles press conference that he envisaged South Korean re construction as a proper and States forces, with the new Ko rea a propaganda show-place of the free world. The White House statemenWde nying any such intention came on the heels of protests from both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Com mittee. Draft hue to Continue But as far us legitimate mili tary service is concerned, teen agers may expect business as us ual. High military authorities are taking particular pains to quash any wishful thinking that the end if the Korean shooting means a letdown in the cold war. Quite the contrary, they say. Even if a peace should develop out of the truce, they hold no hope of any escape from military service for those vtiho become draft eligible. This appears to blight the pro spect held out by Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson lust July that a truce might mean draft call reductions of 5,000 to 6,000 a month within 90 days after the signing It apparently means th;^ the military men don’t see it that way at all, for shortly after this came Maj. Gen. Louis B. Her shc-y’s statement to the contrary. Pinch in Manpower He feels it would be unfortun ate to let young men believe “their plans for the future hinge on the truce. I would tell these young people that Congress has placed a two-year obligation on them, and they are going to live up to it.” Even the most optimistic man power experts in the Defense Department look for a sharp pinch m service manpower within 40 months. Selective Service offi cials, watching the potential de fense manpower pool steadily ebb, see the pinch as arriving even sooner, at least within the fiscal year 1953-54 A sharp pinch, such ,is General Hershey has forecast, would re quire either a new presidential directive on cjraft standards or a change in tjie draft lawn | HOME ECONOMIST v Miss Doris Strickland entered upon her new duties as homes for the Virginia Electric and Power Company here last week. A na tive of Halifax, Miss Strickland, following her graduation from Weldon High School, entered East Carolina College, Greenville, and received her B. S. degree in home economics there last May. Since that time she has been receiving training in Richmond for her new duties. Heading up the work in the Company’s Albemarle Dis trict, Miss Strickland will gladly assist house wive in handling electrical appliances and working with groups and dealers in stag ing demonstrations in electrical equipment. Minor Accidents On County Roads No one was injured and proper ty damage was limited to a few hundred dollars in a series of three or four accidents on the highways and streets in this coun ty last week-end. Mrs. Clarence Britton was mak ing a right turn off Highway 64 just west of Williamston last Thursday afternoon during a rain when her 1047 Qldsmobile was struck by a 1951 Dodge driven by Mrs. Lillian Ruth Haislip. Mrs Britton was said to have suffered a slight neck h^uryc^Prirn-.u'.e to til'inaUMi at $£>() and that to the Dodge at $150. Drivin* south on Highway 17 about eight miles out of Williams ton early last Saturday after noon, Harvey Williams applied brakes on his 1950 Pontiac and the machine skidded and turned over. The car came to a stop on its top, but the driver was not injured. Damage to the machine was estimated at $400. There was ,a minor accident in J’armele Sunday night, and an other on Williamston’s main St., last Saturday. Damdge was neg ligible in eaeh accident and no one was injured, according to unofficial reports. Former Resident Killed On Road —«.— Gus Andrews, former resident of the Parmele section, was run down and killed on a highway leading out of Bethel toward Flat Swamp about 10:00 o’clock last Saturday mghl Officers are in vestigating the hit and-run crime, but no developments had been re ported early today. It is believed that one car struck and knocked Andrews down the road about fifty or sixty feet and left him in the road, and that an other car struck him a short time later. Andrews was about 58 yeart old. •---s Robbery Aliempi Foiled By Officers An attempt to break through the rear door of Ledcr Brothers' store on Main Street here be tween 4:00 and 5:00 o’clock last. Sunday morning was interrupted by members of the night force, ac cording to information released by the police department. The door was intact at 4:00 o’ clock that morning but within an hour, the officers found a glass had been broken next to the lock in’ the back dour. The Commissioner Says Station Here Will Be Improved Remnant* of Patrol Garage W ill He Goii*oli«taIe<i In Greenville The North Carolina State High way Patrol radio station will not be moved from Williamston to Greenville. Motor Vehicles Com missioner Ed Scheldt told an in terested group of local citizens in a meeting held in the directors’ room at the Branch Banking and Trust Company last Thursday noon. " Accompanied by Colonel W. B. Lentz of the Patrol. Commission er Scheidt explained that the sta tion would be mailftained as one of the five master units in the State system, that it would be renovated and improved. He also explained that a 24-hour operat ing schedule is to go into effect as soon as possible, that the per sonnel olj the station would be in creased. While no elaborate renovation program is being considered, the station will be greatly improved, and its permanent rating defin itely re-established. Talking straight from the shoulder and after a frank fashion that is characteristic ot the man, Commissioner Scheidt explained that he had made a minute study of the set-up, and found that Wil liamston was’the logical place for the radio station. Mi Scheidt said that it had been pointed out to him that the housing of troop headquarters, radio station and garage in one center would have been ideal. He went on to ex plain that the station here is in the center of the district, that there would be little difference in a wall separating the radio room from troop headquarters and in the few miles between Williamston and Greenville. The troop headquarters will be in ra dio communication with the sta tion here at all times. After making his study, the commissioner said he was satis fied that the facts justified his position in keeping the master The commissioner announced his decision before the interested group of local citizens, headed by Erl Grady, executive secretary of the Williamston Boosters, had of fered any oral argument, and he went on to explain that the facts supported the decision. "It isn’t a question of the one veiling the loudest getting the most. You have merit in your claim which can be explained to anyone any where," Commissioner Scheidt said. It was pointed out that previous officials had planned the centrali zation of the entire system in Greenville, and that plans were well advanced for moving the sta ti m. "We inherited those plans, but I am convinced that Williams ton is the logical center for one of the master broadcasting units in the system, ai\d 1 do not hesi tate to retain the station here with the firm conviction I can justify the action,” tin- commis sioner declared. It was planned to erect anothei (Confmued on page eight! Badly Hurt In Freak Accident —<*.— Turner Hines, 48-year-old col ored employee of the Standard Fertilizer Company plant on Roa noke River here, was badly in jured in an accident there yeste-r day noon, lie suffered several rib fractures and a back injury, possi bly one or more disc fractures, according to an unofficial report. Ilincis was pushing fertilizer materials into a hopper when a power digger, driven by Arthur Lee Jones, came up behind him. It is believed the brakes failed or the machine skidded, catching Hines in the back and mashing him against the elevator hopper or shaft. He was removed by ambulance to a local hospital whine he was reported this morning to be rest ing fairly comfortably. Sixteen Called ~~' From County To Enter Services Two Other Marlin Young .Men Volunteer And Join Army Today Sixteen Martin County young men were called a few days ago to report this morning for final induction in the armed forces. In addition to that group, two young vice,"- ti 10 two apparently desiring to get their military training behind them. A pre-induction call for ten men is pending for August 25. In I September, ten men are to answer a pre-induction call. It was learn ed. however, that no men are to be called to report for final induc tion next month. The names of those volunteer ing for service include, Leslie Collins Mouran (color ed), and Douglas Clinton Ebron (colored), both of Williamston. The names of those called, 11 white and five colored, to answer the draft call are: White Robert Fisher Goff (wtdte), of Williamston, Billy Saunders Allsbrook (white), of Williamston, * Elmer Guy Carrow of Williams ton. Nathan Bryant Lilley, RFD 1, Jamesville. James Arnesters Long, RED 1, Williamston. Henry Sylvester Sawyer, Jamesville and Stokes. William Davis Stevenson, RFD 1, Palmyra, and Creswell. Gussie Shelton Bunting, Rober sonville. James Woodrow Revels, RFD 1, Williamston Hubert Cherry Chesson, RFD 3, Williamston and Robei sonville. Gurnie Preston Hughes, Jr., Williamston. Colored Edward Anderson Chance, Par rnele. Henry Odell Close, Oak City. Forrest Barnhill, Williamston. Charles Henry Fields, RFD 1, Palmyra. Joshua Lee Jones, formerly of RFD 1, Robei sonville, was trans ferred to a draft board in New York City. Hughes and Chance did not re port and they are being instruct ed to aecompaney another grbup from the county to Raleigh ori August 25 for final induction. Tobacco Curing Barns Damaged —-«S> — Two tobacco curing barns were 'tUO.ia^v vi hi tills COUllt^ kub>f week end by lightning and another by [ire The damage was compara tively light m each qase, it was said. Striking a barn on the Mary Cherry farm near Wilhamston, lightning damaged an oil burner and cracked the foundation of another. Damage there was limit ed to a few dollars. Approximately seven hundred sticks of green tobacco were dam aged when anjjil burner went out of control m a barn on the W. M. Harrison farm m Bear Grass Pownship > last Friday morning. The tobacco was too green to spread the fire, but it was scorch ed and burned as if had been struck by a blow torch. A numb er of sticks were burned in two and a lew tier poles were almost chaired, but the burn itself did not catch fire. The loss was cov en d by insurance. KOIJISLMJP -/ Making their regular roundup, police and county officers reported a flare-up on the crime front in the county during last week-end. Sixteen persons were arrested and temporarily detained in the county jail for alleged vio lation of various laws. Five were hooked for public drunkenness, two for assault, and one each for drunken driving, breaking and enter ing, larceny, an affray, care less and reckless driving, dis orderly conduct, non-support, violating the liquor laws and still another was held for in vestigation. Three of the sixteen were white and the ages ef the group ranged from 16 to 55 years. _ _
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