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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,MO MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WERE THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 65 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 13, 1953 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Hi OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEi ESTABUSHED 189* National Guard Unit To Leave Saturday * <* —t— Foriy-lwo Men To Go on Two-Weeks Trip To Georgia —$> WilLTonel Iff" Two Jeeps And Four Large Tracks —•— Battery C, 150th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battalion, with head quart ers in Williamston will roll out of here Saturday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock for a two-week en campment at Camp Stewart, Ga. The forty-two officers and men will travel in two jeeps and four large trucks. The personnel includes the commanding officer, Capt. El bert S. Peel, Jr., 2nd Lt. Hugh G. Horton, Jr., three master ser geants, Leslie T. Fowden, Paul H. Peel, Jr., and Garland B. Wynne; five first-class sergeants, Reginald i W. Coltrain, Wilbur L. Jackson,j Noah R. Peele, Jr., George Ben Selby and John R. Wobbleton; nine sergenats, Willian D. Barnes, Johnnie F. Beacham, Alfred S. Craft, Charles D. Edwards, Alton M. Harrell, Russell E. Keel, A1 ! G. Mills, George C. Moore, and ! George W. Williams; four cor ! porals, Hobson D. Carter. Jr., Ro | land B. Leggett, Jr., William H. Mobley and George D. Reason, j Jr.; and nineteen first-class pri i vates, Spencer A, Ayers, Edwin j Baker, Billy S. Biggs, Calie S. Biggs, Mareellus Bullock, Jr., John A. Cherry, Dell F. Coburn, James H. Coltrain, Tommy W. Gardner, Ernest H. Godard, Al len Gossett, Jr., Aree C. Harrison, John C. Latham, John H. Lynch, William R. Mobley, Wayne H. Pate, Bonnie R. Pilgreen, Jerry G. Savage and Earl T. Sills. Traveling light, the battery will! carry no training equipment, the! commanding officer explaining that equipment already at Ste wart will be used for training, that permanent equipment for the battery is now on requisition. The battery is scheduled to reach Wilmington Saturday night about 11:00 o’clock and will spenc the night at the air port. Follow ing breakfast there Sunday morn ing, the Williamston unit wil join batteries from Wilmington form a convoy 7:00 o’clock. The units will bi vouac at Ridgelands, South Caro iina, not far from Savannal Sunday night and leave there ear ly Monday morning, reachini Camp Stewart about 1:30 tha and ieave abou i i (Continued on Page Six) Li. J. A. Edens Awarded Medal —•— First Lt. J. A. Edens who prac ticed optometry in Williatnston tor a number of years, before he entered the air force, was re cently awarded the Air Medal at the Okinawa headquarters of the veteran 19th Bomb Wing. A U. S. Air Force B-29 Super ior navigator, Lieutenant Edens was awarded the medal for his part in B-29 strikes against Com munist installations and equip ment in North Korea during the Korean War. The citation read in part: ‘By his courage, fortitude and desire to aid the United Na tions’ cause, Lieutenant Edens has brought credit upon himself, the Far East Air Forces, and the Unit ed States Air Force.” During the war he flew 28 Ko rean combat missions and is slat ed for early return to the United States. CARAVAN | __/ Plans are complete for run ning the annual Williamston Tobacco Market caravan through Martin County to morrow. More than thirty ve hicles have been pledged for the trip, it was announced this morning. The local high school band will accompany the group, and all those planning to par ticipate in the event are ask ed to report promptly to the warehouse area tomorrow morning promptly at 8:30 o’ clock. -----“h STREET MONEY v-----J Its balance almost depleted as a result of drainage and curb and gutter projects on Sycamore and Elm Streets, the town's street fund is be 11ss.-e of approximately $17,343 nett month by money coming from the Powell Bill fund, it was unofficially learned yester day. Last year the town received $16,089.39 from the fund which is created by a one-half cent gas tax. No projects have been ear marked for surfacing, but the allocation is hardly suf ficient to pave one-twentieth of the streets needing paving, it is estimated. Large Reduction In Tobacco Crop —«— Raleigh.—Based on the condi tion of the crop as of August 1 the total 1953 production of flue cured tobacco in North Carolina is estimated at 933,260,000 pounds This is 51,965,000 pounds less than the July 1 estimate. A flue-cured crop of 833,260D00 pounds, if real ized, would be 7.2 percent lest than the 1952 crop of 898,090,()0C pounds. Estimated flue cured produc tion in the State this year by types compared with 1952 fol lows; Type 11: 267,000,000 pounds in 1953 compared with 333,050, 600 pounds in 1952; Type 12: 450, 160.000 pounds compared with 452.120.000 last year; Type 13 116.100.000 compared with 115, 920.000 pounds in 1952. The yielc per acre by types is estimated as follows: Type 11: 1,000 pounds Type 12: 1,360; and Type 13, 1, 350 pounds. Total United States flue-cured production is currently estimatec at 1,270,282,000 pounds or 9.3 per cent below total production of 1, 365.341.000 pounds last year. Burley production in North Carolina is currently estimated al 19.775.000 pounds or nearly 2 per cent below last year. nr&riitreairfir Heel In Tarbora ♦ ■■ -- Greensboro—State Farm Bu idau Headquarters announced bel t this week that the organization : eaders from seven eastern coun ties will hold their Annual Dis rict membership meeting on Au gust 17, at the Agricultural Build ng, in Tarboro, at 7:30 P. M. County leaders from Edge combe, Greene, Hal.fax, Martin Nash, Northampton and Wilsor are expected to be on hand foi the session to discuss plans foi conducting the 1953 state-wide Farm Bureau membership drive and formulate a program of policy development for this year. Farm Bureau officers scheduled to appear on the program are Ex ecutive Vice-President R. Flake Shaw and Director of Organiza tion Will H Rogers, both ol Greensboro; W. E. Little of Elrr City and Paul Shackelford o] Fremont, district Farm Bureai representatives. Officials from al agricultural agencies in the arei have also been invited to attenc the meeting. Farm Bureau officials said eve ry effort will be made this yeai in policy development to obtair the expressions of all member; on such important issues as farm income, stability and improve ment, general price levels, the federal budget, production and marketing adjustments the role of government, conservation and improvement of farm resources the free choice system, capital needs of agriculture, two-way trade or aid, labor management relations and many others. District Revenue Office To Close For Week Hert -«. The distirct office of the Nortl Carolina State Department 01 Revenue will be closed here al next week while the deputy col lector, E. R. Froneberger, is away on vacation, it was announced to day. Secretary Benson Stiffens Policy on Farm Payments - Conservation Program Will Be Whittled Down By New Administration -« Washington,—It will be a little 1 more difficult next year for farm ers to get a slice of a $ 195-million subsidy the United States is of fering thorjT^^or conserving soil and water. No longer will they be able to get lime and fertilizer year after year to boost cash crop yields with the government paying as much as half the cost. This has been possible under past pro grams which have ranged from $225 to $500 million. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, a foe of government handouts and a believer in self reliance, has remodelled the con troversial “Agricultural Conser-1 vation Program” (ACP), insofar as Congress permitted, to limit aid to measures of "enduring" benefit to the nation. The KOP farm chief has direct ed that payments under the pro gram be used only for those prac tices deemed essential in the pub lic interest and which the farm er or rancher indicates he would not otherwise carry out with his own resources. As a consequence, the program will move a step .away from the farm relief setup it started out to be in the mid-30s when farm ers were struggling to get out of a depression Redistribution In the beginning, the program was largely a device for distrib uting money—at that time $500 million a year—-into farm pock ets. Little in the way of lasting conservation measures was re quired. Smre the early days, attempts have been made to place more and more emphasis on actual con servation work. Even so, political and ecunofic pressures have led to the distribution of a large part of the funds for carrying out measures of short, if any, conser vation value. Until this year, practices for which subsidies were made were divided into two general classes; annual and permanent. It was Mr. Benson’s idea to eliminate the annual type alto gether, but congressional farm leaders objected. Nevertheless, next year’s program, as recently out bnerl hv the spcre*a; ;' jireatlv In the class of annual practices were the application of lime and fertilizers, and the seeding of crop land to glasses between growing seasons to prevent soil blowing .*n.1 to p......p,ji..iii..t, 1, ^. livestock feed. Also in this class was the planting of crops to be plowed under for soil enrichment. 4 Government Fertilizers In the past, a farmer could get Government lime and ferti lizers for the same fields, year after year, regardless of whether the fields were used to produce such soil-depleting crops as cot ton, grains, tobacco, peanuts, po tatoes, etc., or for grasses and pastures. This practice, whereby the Government helped pay for soil materials has been sharply criti cized. It was argued that the farmer should arid them at his own expense because it was good farming to do so. They greatly increased his yields and hence boosted his income. Mr. Benson took this view, but Congress, in appropriating funds for the 1954 program, asked that the hme and fertilizer payments be continued. Accordingly, farmers next year will be able to get these materials with the government paying up to half the cost, but only under limited conditions. They will be available for use on land subject to erosion pro vided it is seeded to grasses and legumes, but only for the initial application. Any additional ap plications would have to be fin anced by the farmei. They also will be available for land to be used in 1954 for cash crops, providing the land is put to grasses and legumes in 1955. Only in the initial application will the government share the cost. Aid Justified Federal contributions on lime and fertilizers for grasses and pastures are justified on the basis that such uses of the land bring farmers no immediate returns, (Continued From Page Six) Work on Long-Ra ngeFa rm Program In Martin County Meeting in the county court house Friday evening of this week at 8:00 o’clock, farm leaders and laymen will map plans for ad vancing a long-range agricul tural program in this county, it was announced this week by Mrs. Alma English Smith, chairman and home economics teacher in the Oak City High School. The project in this county is a part of a State-wide program re ferred to as “The Challenge", and much study has been devoted to it already, it was explained. Ex tension service personnel, Pro duction-Marketing Administra tion workers, Farm Home Admin istration employees, vocational agriculture teachers, home eco nomics teachers, forestry service personnel and others have made tentative surveys in nearly every Talk Is Costly Business In The Nation's Capital One ami One-Tlnnl Million OollarH Spent To Record Dehate* In Congress Congressional talk cost Ihe tax payers more than a million dol lars for printing in the session that ended August 3. The Congressional Record put out a resume showing just what the nation's lawmakers did and didn’t do in the first session of the 83rd Congress. The resume did not cover the final two days of the session, but it turned up these statistics for the period from Jan. 3 through July 31: 1. The Senate and House were in session for a total of 1,235 hours during the seven-month stretch. 2. Floor debates and supple mentary ;naterial inserted in the Record filled 16,211 pages of printed matter. 3. There were 302 bills passed by both houses, 176 public bills and 126 for the benefit of private individuals. 4. Of the total, President Eisen hower vetoed three. 5. The House ran far behind the Senate in the number of hours in session and in the volume of talk. It costs $84 for the Government page of the Congressional Record, which records all the debate on the floors of both houses plus the letters, editorials and speeches put into the record by the Con The senators used 6,479 pages for debate. That cost $544,236. The House talked thiough only 4,533 pages costing $380,772. In addi tion, there were 5,199 pages in the appendixes at a cost of $436,716. The grand totaly: $1,371,724. In 115 days of sessions, House members talked for a total of 492 hours. That’s a little over fourshours a day. The Senate, on the other hand, met 123 times and talked 743 (Continued on Page Six) Expected Home Today From Wilson Hospital His condition much improved following an attack suffered the early part of last week, Mr. C. C. Fleming is planning to return to his home in Jamesville today or tomorrow. He plans to make the trip by car, it was said. | RAIN OR SHINE i * Director J #k Butler an nounced this morning that the annual summer band concert of the Williamston High School Green Wave Band would be given tonight, be ginning at 8:15, rain or shine. Scheduled for the baseball park, the concert will be held in the high school auditorium if rain forces it out of the haii park or if rain causes the field to become so muddy that the band cannot be placed on it withont damage. With a number of graduates joining in, the band will pre sent a varied program suit able for the type of concert given by it each summer. The band picnic is to be held next Tuesday evening at the high school. community in the county, looking forward to underwriting an ef fective program designed to im prove conditions for every one in the county. The plan, advanced for several years, is taking on added import ance in view of changing condi tions in Washington. It has been pointed out in fairly certain terms that farmers and others in agri cultural communities must exploit every plan of their own if they are to make progress or even sur vive in the future. If is understood that the pro gram will interest itself in a bet ter balanced agriculture, market ing and harvesting, with special emphasis to be placed on com munity improvements, such as re creation, religious and civic acti vities. ( rotary governor"! P. D. Midgett of Engelhard made his annual visit to the local 1 Rotary club Tuesday as governor of the 278th district. During his short talk Jo the club, Mr. Mid gott traced the origin of Rotary and briefly reviewed its early history, stating that there are now 8,000 clubs with 372,000 members in 86 countries. He referred to the 'days whim he sold maps in Mar tin County to finance his college education, stressing the value of honest business methods. He went on to say that if civilization is to exist there must be unity and tolerance. Following the meeting Mi Midgett met with the club offi cials and noted the progress the Drought Damage In This County -"*—^ I According to a survey just re cently completed by the combin ed farm agencies, the drought damage to crops in this county will approximate 25 percent. The damage runs as low as two and one-half percent for temporary pastures up to eighty-five per cent orf permanent pastures. It was estimated that the dam age to tobacco will run around thirteen percent. The damage to cotton, peanuts and sweet pota toes was estimated at 10 percent on each crop, while the corn crop damage will approximate forty percent. While the damage is greater in some parts than in others, the loss is more or less county-wide, the survey pointed out. No dollar estimates on the loss es were offered, but it will ex ceed one and one-half million dol lars and possibly more, according to some observers. See Decline In Sweet Potatoes —<*,— i Raleigh.—As of August !, a North Carolina sweet potato crop of 4,500,000 bushels is estimated for 1953. This is a reduction of 9 percent from the July 1 fore cast and almost 3) percent below the 1942-51 average production of 0,492,000 busiu is but is 15 percent above last year's crop of 3,900,000 bushels. Yield is now placed alt 100 bush els per acre, the same as the av erage yield last year but 7 bush els per acre below the 10-year average The currently estimated acre age of 45,000 acres compares with 39,000 acres harvested in 1952 and the 1942-51 average of 00,000 acres. Caution Against Exaggeration In Prisoner Stories —<*>— Some Are Well Founded But Others Exaggerated For Sensational Cause -• Henry S. Hayward, Eastern correspondent tor the Christian Science Mon,tor, cautions against the stories told by returning pri soners of war. Hayward does not minimize the ordeals' aTiu’“triuis of the prisoners, but some of the stories apparently were told for sensational reasons. His story written under a Munsan, Korea, date line, follows: Those who have talked with scores of returned Allied pris oners during "Operation Little Switch" counsel caution in ac cepting as typical certain stories that stir sensational headlines. Among those cited are reports concerning atrocities, withhold ing of American prisoners, and Americans who do not wish to come home. The vanguard of American soldiers liberated in the great Korean war prisoner exchange were to leave for home by plane Aug. 10, Associated Press said. About 325 more Americans -all healthy —were loaded aboard a plushly outfitted Navy transport at Inchon, a Korean west coast port. Aug. 10 saw 389 more Allied soldiers return from North Ko rean stockades—laughing, happy Americans, British, and Turks, and 189 South Koreans. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said after a conference with President Eisenhower that the United States probably would adopt "reciprocal measures" il the Communists refuse to return some American prisoners of war Concerning the stories of atro cities, mistreatment, lack of medi cal attention, shortages of food and clothing, and outright tor ture did occur, according to eye witness leports. Personal abuse and torture however, were fairly isolated in stances. Moreover, most of thest “death matches” occured in late 1950 and early in 1951, just nftei Chinese Communists had enterec the war and while the North Ko reans still were smarting frorr the Allied drive to the Yalu Rivei and practically destroyed then armies. Those were bitter days and it’s evident that, savage excesses die difficult time in captivity. Bu‘ the average man, nevertheless survived the ordeal and returned Few stories are written about th< bulk of men who experienced m harrowing incidents. The charge (hat American pri soners are being withheld arise: from the fact that only 3,311 United States prisoners are sche duled for return while 8,705 an listed as n issing in action. Thi: leaves over 5,000 Americans un accounted for. This figure can be whittle! down considerably, however Many men are listed as missini who actually were killed in ac tion. But unless the body wa recovered or two eyewitness! saw the fatality, tin- soldier stil was carried on the rolls as miss ing. Many captured Americans un questionably expired in Com munist captivity. Some person: speculate that this figure alom totals 1,800 men. Rome were seriously woundei when taken prisoner. Other: could not survive the harsh ene my standards of living and tin crude confinement. And sunn doubtless wen- victims of unne cessary brutality -mostly in tin war’s earlier days, It. remains possible that Bonn American prisoners - perhaps a; many as 2,000 sometime is cite! will hi- withheld deliberate!} by tlie Communists. This possi bility will bear careful investi gallon. But with the information nov in hand it as permature to eon chide that any vast number o American prisoners who are stil alive, are- being retained. Instead tin investigation mai have to center on why so man} Americans failed to survive ene niy treatment. Another report that numerou: Americans an- being held in con centration camps in Soviet sate! life countries m Eastern Europi ha., been given n<> oluciai tied ence here so far. (Continued on Page Six) Fined $1,000.00 For Liquor Law Violation OPENING Preparatory to launching i the 1933 selling season on Thursday of next week, local warehouses have completed all marketing arrangements with a lull set of buyers and -j attendants lined up. Tobacco is expected to start rolling in volume about next Tuesday morning for the first sale on Thursday. Present indications point to one of the market’s best years. Sales Supervisor Ver non Bunting said this morn ing. Tobacco barn fires have been held to a low figure, but a huricane, reported nearing the coast, can damage cured tobacco unless it is well pro tected in packbarns. Make Progress On Church Building ——*>— With the cement floors all pour- I ed on the first floor of the First! Christian Church, the Church Board in its regular meeting on Monday night, enthusiastically voted to continue and speed-up the work on the building until it is completed, since most of the wm k will he on the inside. Plans are underway for the corner-stone laying on Sunday, October 1th with Dr Travis A. White, President of Atlantic | Christian College delivering the address. For the present construction and site, the congregation has spent a little less than one hund red thousand dollars and have not as yet incurred any indebted ness. Soon the outside till around the Church will be laid and then | the grounds levelled so as to give I ample time for the grounds to settle before landscaping is be- ! gun. The Church Board was grate j lied at the splcSfcid report made | by the Building Finance Com | I mittees. Father of Local Resident Passes U. )■!•. i.v, "!atn< .-nrt» i.-.t ant Martin County Agent D. W Brady of Williamston, died at his home near Carthage Tuesday at trrnoon. Seventy-nine years old, he had been in declining health for some time but was critically ill for only a few days. The funeral service is being conducted in the Carthage Pres byterian Churc h this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock and interment will follow in the Cross Hill Ceme tery. Surviving besides his son here are his widow, the former Miss Ida Wadsworth; four daughters, Mrs. Frank Andrews of Lowell, Mrs. Fred Leslie and Mrs. L. II Patterson, both of Sanfoid and Mrs. C. M Jackson of Carthage; four sons, 11 B , Oris B. and Fred B. Brady, all of Carthage, and B. J. Brady of Evergreen, two broth ers, R. H. Brady of Carthage and A. H. Brady of High Falls, two sisters, Miss Ellen Brady and Mrs Grovei Gardner of Ashoboro; twenty two grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. Brady and family were called to Carthage last Sunday. Jam os villa \ on lift Man Passes liar Examination i Hut; h M. Martin, Jamcsville young man, was oi.e of 122 per sons to pass thi reient State bur examination, it was announced yesterday. The examination was held August 4-0 A graduate of Wake Forest, Martin has not announced his plans tor tin future. ' Last Of Half-Day Holidays Observed In accordance with .in agree ' ment reached last spring, local business firms and other estab lishments observed the last of the half-holidays yesterday after noon. It was agreed last spring that till places of businesses would remain open all day Wednesdays beginning the week of the tobacco market's opening Judge Peele Has Twenty Cases In Recorder's Court Vui/svvP"* Bootlegger Ap peals To High Court; Boml Set At $2,500 Simon Jenkins, nortorious coun y bootlegger, drew his second M.000 fine last Monday when he A/as again carried into the county :ourt for the alleged violation of ;he liquor laws. Not too long ago, Jenkins was convicted in the jourt and was fined $1,000, the :ourt suspending the road term it that time. This week Jenkins, n addition to the fine, was sent ■nccd to serve two years on the loads. When arraigned in court his week, Jenkins pleaded not guilty by offering a flimsy story hat found little favor in the eyes if Judge H. O Peele. Appealing ns case to the superior court, lorikms was required to furnish Kind in the sum of $2,500. The Kind was arranged. James Battle moved in and rieil to save Jenkins and found limself in a predicament. Battle naintained the seven pints of llicit and four pints of legal li luor were his own property, that re slipped the liquor under Jen uns' pillow, and that Jenkins cnew nothing about it. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, lattle was sentenced to the roads or twelve months. He appealed ind bond was required in the sum if $500. Before quitting for the day ibout 3:00 o'clock Monday after loon Judge Peele and Solicitor LTarence W. Griffin handled twenty cases In addition to road sentences, the court imposed fines in the total sum of $1,215. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the .ase in which Garland Roberson aleaded guilty of careless and eckless driving. Pleading guilty of violating the iquor laws, Pete Dixon was fin 'd $10, plus costs. At the conclusion of state’s evi lence in the case in which James Daniel was charged with larceny, tie courj Upon Hefei Charged with speeding 75 miles in hour, Bernard Edward Bailey >f Willougnby, Ohio, pleaded guilty and was fined $25, plus .'lists. Pleading not guilty of an as sault with a deadly weapon. Ruby Clemons was found guilty of sim ple assault and was taxed with the court costs. John Wesley Andrews of RED I, Robersonville was fuied $10 ind taxed with the costs for speeding H8 miles an hour. John Reginald Pierce, Jr., was found not guilty of reckless driv ing. Oscar Walker, pleading guilty if assaulting a female, was taxed with the court costs. Pleading guilty of speeding 49 miles an hour in a 20-mile zone ind failing to stop at a traffic signal, Willie Ray Ward of Wind sor was fined $10, plus costs. Clephus Bell of Williamston pleaded guilty of speeding 55 miles an hour in a 35-mile zone and was taxed with the costs. Charged with drunken driving, Morion Joyner was fined $100 and taxed with costs, lie loses his iperator’s license for a year. Pleaning guilty of reckless driving, Robert Harris was sent tued to jail for ten days. The i-'ourt suspended the jail term (Continued on Page Six) -$— SEWER PROJECT Preliminary plans arc about complete for starting a 3,500 foot sanitary sewer line pro ject here. Pipe for the project lias been ordered and work will be started soon after the material is delivered. The project will be center ed on parts of Pearl and Rail road Streets and in the eas tern part of the town on Roa noke Avenue, Thelma and (Cast Church Streets. U is estimated the cost will ap proximate $4,000.
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