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nil ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER MM MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRIS H THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTk FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 85 WUUamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 22, 1953 ESTABLISHED 189* Harvest Festival-Fair Promise Big Time For Town Next Week Record Parade Will Climax The Festival Dick Carter Will Lauch Festival Schedule Monday Big Colored Dance Tues day; Nearly 100 Units Signed For Parade Williamston’s annual harvest festival and fair promise to make for a big time in the ole home town next week when an exten sive program will be offered by the sponsors of the Martin County Fair and the Williamston Boos ters line up one of the greatest street parades ever seen in this section of North Carolina, plus special harvest festival events Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Boosters’ Executive Secretary Ed Grady said this morning that nearly 100 units had been assign ed places in the parade, includ ing fifteen brass bands, seventeen princesses and Miss Elizabeth Walker, queen of the 1952 festival. Next Monday night at 9:00 o’ clock Dick Carter will bring his Circle C Ranch Hands for a big square dance in the Planters Warehouse. Tuesday night at the same hour and same place, the Norfolk All Star Be Bop Orchestra will play for a colored dance. The big festival event is sche duled for 3 00 o’clock next Wednesday afternoon when the parade is scheduled to move. There’ll be no public speaker for the occasion' this year, tmi^meual guests, including Congressman Herbert Bonners, other dignitari es from the county and several towns, will be in the parade which will climax the festival schedule. While the Monday and Tuesday events along with the Martin County Fair are expected to at tract large crowds, the Wednesday parade promises to be the biggest thing of itS kind ever seen east of Raleigh, according to advance reports from the Boosters’ office. The Army Air Force will buzz the town with a squadron of B-26 bombers just before the parade starts. About two o’clock that aft ernoon, Doc Eugene Rice’s cLowns, aided and abetted in merry-mak ing by several from Windsor, will take over the main parade route on Main at Watts to Washington Street and to the warehouse area. Names of the seventeen princes ses are: Jean Vaughan, Ahoskie; Nancy Ward, Rear Grass; Lois James, Bethel; Miriam Joyner, Enfield; Carolyn Ashley, Eden ton; Ann Styon, Jamesville; Mary Waldo House, Oak City; Eva Rus sell, Perquimans High, Hertford; Ina Faye Wells, Plymouth; Penn Strandberg, Rocky Mount; Terry Lewis, Roper; Trudy Staton, Scot land Neck; Mary Eleanor Tew, (Continued on Page Eight) Pre-School Tols To Be In Parade • —■»— The Community Kindergarten, located in the First Methodist Church, has an enrollment of thir ty pupil's, including one from^vt - retts and one from Robersonville. Mrs. Wheeler Manning, president of the Kindergarten Mother’s As sociation, is making plans for a halloween intertainment and for a kindergarten float for the Har vest festival, the last of the month. A tiny tots rhythm band has been started in the school and uniforms will be discussed soon. The min isters, who sponsor the school, are to begin lesson in religious education each Wedneday morn ing; in addition to the devotionals conducted each day by the teach ers New playground equipment is to be put on the playground, loan ta the kindergarten by Mr. Ben Courtney. The teachers and spon sors of the kindergarten would like to announce that this is a pri vate playground and that the equipment is planned for small children only. Public cooperation in helping to keep it in good con-i dition will be appreciated. MARKET r V. Tobacco sales, after estab lishing new price records this season, have dwindled rapid ly in size during; the past two days, but the average con tinues to hold right to the 60-cent* level. Only 20,334 pounds were sold yesterday, and it is apparent that just about all the crop has been sold in this area. No date for closing the sea son has been mentioned, but it is possible that a closing time will be fixed next week. To date, the market here has sold 11,205,148 pounds for an official average of $59. 46 or a total of $6,662,390. Speaker Declares Nation Descending A Toboggan Slide Marine Corps Officer Talks To Woman’s Club Here Tuesday Evening —<*— "Unless we can integrate the American home and restore re verence for the head of the Am erican family, this country will plunge down the tobaggan slide,’’ Lt. Colonel George W. Martin de clared in a talk to the local Wo man’s Club Tuesday evening. “We live in dangerous times,” the speaker declared, apparent ly deferring to the lapse in Ameri can morals and character rather than to the threat of an enemy at tack. "Men of serious thought see a distinct parallel between con ditions in ancient Rome and pre sent-day conditions in our own country,” the Marine Corps co lonel said, referring to the “De cline and Fall of the Roman Em pire" as told by Gibbon, and add ing that America is farther down the tobaggan slide than Rome was when that empire crumbled. “Our leaders see the American way of life in grave peril unless we apply ever^y possible remedy,”’ Colonel Martin said, pointing out that an important step will have been taken in the right direction when we look to the preserva tion of the highest and noblest of our American traditions. The speaker stressed character, customs and beliefs, and explain ed that "By these traditions, the greatness of America was attain ed." He warned that the continue ed neglect of these high traditions will cause the downfall of our nation. “In character, the founding fathers of our nation were, above all. purposeful men, freedom-lov (Continued on Page Five) Mother Of Local Resident Passes — Mis. Haskell J. Morris, mother of Mrs. C. Urbin Rogers and sis ter of Miss Jane Freeman and Mrs. P. B Cone of Williamston, died at her' "Rome in' G'bidsb'Ofc’;' yesterday morning at 11:00 o’ clock. She had been critically ill with a heart condition for .several weeks, she was 74 years old. Mrs. Morris was the daughter of the late Dr. Howard F. and Sal ly Williamson Freeman of Rock Ridge, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Goldsboro. Surviving besides her daughter and sisters here are three daugh ters, Mrs. Raymond Bryan, Mrs. Sumter Turner and Mrs. James sister, Mrs. R. H. Fulghum, of Wilson; a son, Haskell J. Morris, L. Wharton, Jr . or Goldsboro; a Jr., of Monnt Olive; two broth ers, Dr. M. R Freeman of Bailey and H. F. Freeman of Long Is land, N. Y.; and eight grandchild ren. Funeral services are being held at the home this afternon at 3:00 o’clock with the Rev. Gilmer H. Cross, her pastor, officiating. In terment will be in Goldsboro’s < Willow Dale Cemetery. | Judge Peele Has Forty Cases In County's Court —•— Bond* Anioiinting To $200 Ordered Forfeiletl By Court Monday -« The Martin Recorder’s Court had its biggest day in quite a few weeks last Monday when Judge H, O. Peele and Solicitor Clar ence Griffin handled forty cases. An afternon session was held and fines were assessed in the total amount of $1,000, the figure in cluding two fines forfeited in the sian of $200. One or two appeals were noted. Proceedings: William H. Williams, pleading guilty of bastardy, was sentenced to the roads for three months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of the costs and $5 a week for the support of his illegitimate child. The case in which John Berry DeVaney of Mackeys was charged with speeding 60 miles an hour in a truck, was nol pressed. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon in two cases, James E. Randolph pleaded not guilty in one and the other was nol prossed. Adjudged guilty in the first he was taxed with the court costs. Rufus Locke, adjudged guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, ! was sentenced to the roads for | sixty days, the court suspending the road sentence upon the pay ment of a $25 and cost. The case in which Locke was charged with aiding iNhd abetting drunken driv ing and speeding at 80 miles an hour, was nol prossed. Pleading not guilty, Katthay Locke was found guilty of drunk en driving and failing to heed a siren, and she was fined $150, plus costs. She loses her driver’s li cense for a year. Charged with bastardy and non-support, Smith Everett Dol berry failed to appear for trial, and the court ordered his $150 bond forfeited. Before he could be triefl for operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license, William Haywood Myrick was caught a second time and booked for the same offense. He was fined $25 each case, plus costs. Pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, David W. McKee! was taxed with the court costs. Archie Brown, pleading guilty, (Continued on Page Five) Bear Grass Adds To Cancer Fund —♦— When no others would tackle the task, members of the Bear Grass Home Demonstration Club, led by Mesdames Chesley. Jones, J. C. Rawls, Jr., Rose Rogerson and Gaston Savage, went to the bat for the Cancer Fund and rais ed $70. by individuals were reported as follows: Elder A. B. Ayers, $5; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rawls, Bill Harrison, Mrs. Inez Jackson, Mr. and Mrs Chesley Jones, $2 each; Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Rogerson, Mrs. Wal ter Wynne and Mr. Patterson, $1.50 ea^i; Mrs. N. R. Rogerson, Mack Liggett. May Ion Price, Sarn Mobley, Ralph Mobley, Dan Peele, Mrs. Clarence Bailey, Mrs. Elbert ■ .•*». ..«•»•*. •»*** m- ■*. Rawls, Mrs. Jay Price, Mrs. J. C. Rawls, Jr., Virgil Wobbleton, Ir vin Terry, Red Taylor, Buddy Cowan, Tim Malone, Pete Men denhall, Leroy Harrison, Buie Bailey, Mrs. Robert Bailey, Willie Brown, Mark Chisson, Delmus Rogerson, Eli Bowen, William Peele, Bill Bullock, Ray Hardi son, Alton Harrison, Howard Bowen, Bill Rogerson, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gurganus, and Mes dames Toby Bowen, Wdlie Gur ganus, Pearl ie Rogers, Lcamon Keel, Earl Roberson, Susie Bry ant, Gaston Savage, Clayton Cowan, Jack Cowiui, Kneezer Harrison, Mayo Harrison, Marvin Cowin, Ethel Rogerson, Arthur Peele, Ephraim Harrison, Tempie Keel, Annie Harrison, Lizzie Har rison, Effie Shaw and Rena Har rison, $1 each; Lee Savage, Clay ton Savage and Miss Bessie Ma lone, 50 cents ear'll; Mrs. Fonnie Taylor, 35c, and Mrs. Fernando Bowen, 25c. / Martin County Community Concert Officers Meeting in the Woman’s Club last Monday evening, officers of the Martin County Community Concert Association launched the 1953 membership drive. They are, left to right, seated, Miss Camelia Campbell, who is here for the local drive from national headquarters in New York, Mrs F. F.arl Wynne, treasurer, Mrs. Mayo Little, vice-president, from Robersonville, Mrs. Thomas' W. Skinner, co-chairman of the membership drive; standing, left to right, Mr L, Bruce Wynne, vice president, Mrs, Joseph Griffin, secretary, Mr. B. G. Stewart, president, and Mrs. Charles H. Man ning, co-chairman of the drive. Bus Operators Have Plenty Trouble Getting A Station Representatives of three com panies operating busses through Witliamston are having plenty of trouble in locating a terminal here. A temporary solution to the problem is expected this after noon, an unofficial report stating that it is possible the station will be temporarily located in the pea nut warehouse offices just across the street from the Maola Milk and Ice Cream Company plant on South Haughton. During th« meantime it appears that plans to locate a permanent station on South Elm Street just back of the old Everett homo are being blocked. Ope report stated that an ownet adjoining the pro posed site has chosen not to sell about sixty feet to the owners who were considering building a station for the bus companies. Their lease agreement expired, the bus companies closed the old deserted station on Washington Street next to the Carolina ware house Monday evening. Opera tions have been based in the open air on Elm Street with represen tatives of the bus companies from the home offices selling tickets, handling baggage and delivering packages. Hus company representatives, openly worried over the trend of events and the miserable failure in providing decent station facili ties, declared that they had woik ed to solve the problem long be fore the lease on the Main Street station expired, that real estate deals failed to materialize. ' During the meantime, the bus companies have pledged to offer a better service no matter how humble the surroundings may be. ! WANTED v..—. , _/ Although there have been a number of convertibles al ready scheduled to partici pate in the Harvest Festival, there is still a great shortage. One is needed for each prin ces and some others for of ficials, so if you own a con vertible, please contact Mr. F.d Grady at the Williamston Boosters Ounce or Mr. Ernest Mears at Belk-Tyler’s. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Firm Organized By Local Men — 4b mif) r.$»an ' -- WMVi ♦ young men, the Martin Tractor and Truck Company was granted a certificate of incorporation by Secretary of State Thad Eure in Raleigh this week. The firm has authorized capital stock of $100, 000, $300 of which was subscribed by Laurence Eason Lillev, H. C. Miller and W. O. Peele, Jr. No official announcement of its plans has been made by the new firm. -—*> County Farmer Crow* (riant Sirccl Potato -«, Somp sizable sweet potatoes have been produced and displayed in this county, but Farmer Jesse Griffin of Griffins jumped into j an indisputable lead this week whe he came to town with a Por to Rican weighing nine and three quarter pounds. The potato topp ed by about five pounds the weight of another large specimen displayed here a few days ago. Contract Finally Let For By-Pass —«— A contract for building a $171, 000 truck route around Williams ton vyas finally let this week to the J. S Hill Construction Company of Washington. The bids were opened last month, hut the con tract award was delayed pending the completion of preliminary plans and the handling of other details. A representative of the lirm said this morning that another six or eight weeks likely would be needed to complete arrangements for starting work on the project. Possibly the several homes and one small Nimmercial building now in the right-of-way will be j »/> ■» <■*»»• • '«w«i moved shortly, but little or no work on the by-pass is to be start ed before late November or early December, according to unofficial information reaching here today. New Firm To Open Here Next Monday —»— The J. D. McCotter Company is opening a ready-mix concern plant here next Monday, it was officially announced today by Mr. J. C. Anderson, manager. The company, operating a large plant in Washington, will run three large ready-mix trucks from its new station located here on West Warren Street just back of the Wiljiamston Tractor and Im plement Company. In addition to its ready-mix concrete, the new firm will handle building sup plies, it was learned. Concert Drive Going Forward Startl'd day before yesterday, the annual Martin County Com munity Concei t membership drive is making splendid progress in this and nearby towns, according to a report released by the drive headquarters in the VEP lobby shortly before noon today. Reports on the membership drive in nearby towns were said to be most encouraging, and the drive in Williamston is consider ably farther advanced than it was in the corresponding perinea year ago, it was explained. The chairmen, Mrs. Tom Skin ner and Mrs. Chas. H. Manning, said this morning they were well pleased with the success of the drive to date, and went on to pre dict that the membership would be greater this year than last, that with a larger membership a bet ter program can be planned. Following the close of the mem bership drive Saturday evening at (1:00 o’clock, the committee will meet and determine the program series, it was announced. It has been pointed out that no memberships will be sold after the closing hour Saturday, that there will be no general admis sions, the chairmen explaining that the program series is based on the budget fixed at the close of the membership drive. P.-T. A. Program About Personality —«— "Healthy Personality for Your Child,” will he the subject of the program for the Williamston Pai ents-Teaehcrs Association at Us October meeting in the high ing at 7:45. The Hospitality Committee will again offer a door prize and in an effort to get more of the parents in the front seats, a lucky seat is tieing selected in one of the first ten rows of the center ajsle and $1.00 will be given to the person seated there during the meeting. Included in the program will be a review of the extra-curricular activities of students in the,ele mentary grades and high School department. A representative of each of the grades will briefly outline their activities. Another feature of the program will be a short skit by the F. F. A. Parliamentary Team outlining parliamentary procedure. Asa Crawford is president of the association for the current school year and he is anxious to have all parents and teachers join the assoiiation early and attend all meetings promptly. —♦— —3— Formal Opening Of Fair Monday Night TOP HONORS r Jamesville's Future Farm ers of America took top hon ors at the State Fair in Ra leigh this week with their wildlife conservation exhibit. Directed by Professor V. B. Hairr, the future farmers ov ercame strong competition offered on a state-wide basis and walked away with $225 in prize money, The exhibit displays ways for conserving wildlife, and cites the value of wildlife. The display consisted of a forest background, border strips of lespedeza and small grain, and a farm pond in the center. Live fish were used in the pond and mounted ani mals, including specimen of duck, cardinals, owles, deer, opossum, rabbit and squirrel, were used to illustrate wild life native to this State. IHold Funeral For Mrs. Tetter Ion In Church Near Here —«— Member of Pioneer Family In This County Died Wednesday Morning -4 Funeral services are being cun ducted this afternoon at 3:00 o’ clock in the Holly Springs Metho dist Church near here for Mrs. Glennie Hannah Smithwick Tet terton who died in a local hospi tal yesterday morning at 4:0I| o’ clock. The pastor, the Rev. R. E. Walston, assisted by the Rev. K. B. Harrington, county Baptist minister, will conduct the rites. Interment will be in the family cemetery near the home in Wil liams Township. The body is be ing moved from the Biggs Funeral Home to the church one hour be fore the service. The daughter of the late Edgar and Mary Hadley Smithwick, she was born in Williams Township I seventy years ago on August 17, 1883. She was a member of one of the early pioneer families in this county, the Smithwicks hav ing settled in the Island Section of Williams Township several de cades before the Revolutionary War. Following her marriage to Stuart Tetterton on December 28, 1911, she made her home in Wash ington County a year and return ed to her old home where she liv ed the remainder of her life ex eept for a year spent in Norfolk after World War II She had been in declining health following a fall in which she suffered a broken hip four years ago. Hardly before she re ' , .y, , [i from that accident, she fell and broke the same hip again. During the past several months she was able to be up and abo> and only last Friday she was .n Williamston attending to business, settling the estate of her sister who died earlier this year. The time for making the final report was not near spent, but Mrs. Tet terton explained that her time was t*1*11 she wanted to handlT'""ffrwithout*!ul thci*deiay" Saturday morning she suffered a stroke at her home and was mov ed to the hospital soon thereafter. Her condition worsened rapidly following two or three other strokes. Surviving besides her husband are a son, Earl V Tetterton, of j Norfolk, and one grandchild. Mrs. Tetterton was a faithful | member of the Holly Springs ] Church since IB 13. Of fivers To Testify In /Vrir York Murder Trial Cpl M C. By rum ■and Officer Chas. I!. Moore will leave here early Sunday for White Plains, N. Y., to testify in the murder case against Chester Lee. Charged with murdering a store operator in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., last Ma. h, Lee, a native of Bertie County, was arrested by the of ficers here a few days later. t Preparations Are Being Completed For A Big Event Imlicutions Pointing To A “Cooking Good Time” All Next Week The Martin County Fair, for mally opening in and around the Carolina warehouse on Washing ton Street next Monday evening and sponsored jointly by the local Kiwanis and Lions Clubs for the second year in behalf of the Boy Scout Building Fund, promises to be the biggest event of its kind ever held here. Keen interest is being shown in all types of exhibits by family, school, organizational and other groups, individuals and more than j fifty commercial firms. Professor V B. Hairr and his Jamesville Future Farmers of America are i planning switching their prize winning wildlife exhibit from the State Fair to the one here next week. The exhibits will measure up to every expectation, Manager Fletcher Thomas declaring, ex plaining that $1,100 is being of fered fti premiums. All exhibit space has been book ed and the booths, stage and other exhibits are being arranged to very good advantage. The live stock exhihits will be pennned outside, and some fancy stock is being booked for the event. A harvest festival feature, a square dance featuring Dick Car , ter, is booked in the Planters j Warehouse Monday night, but the fair and midway will be open for the early visitors. Tuesday at the fair has been designated as colored school day, all colored schol children to be admitted free until 6:00 o'clock that evening. A feature that day will be a parade led by the E. J. Hayes High School band from East Main to the fairgrounds, be ginning at 4:00 o’clock. That even ing at 7:30, several spiritual sing ers, including the Gospelaries, Silverairs, Humming Birds from Williamston, Diamond Five from Bethel and others will be on the program at the fair. That even ing at 9:00 o’clock there'll be a dance in the Planters Warehouse for the colored citizens, featuring the Norfolk All-Star Be Bop Or chestra. Wednesday will be the big day with the fair and festival going lull blast, featuring a parade that , afternoon at 3:00 o'clock and Tom my Tucker and his orchestra at the coronation ball that evening at 9:00 o’clock Thursday is white sch ool child ren’s day. A special entertainment feature will be a program by the Harmony Trio of Goldsboro. The group appeared here in Septem ber and the singers were well re 1 reived. ture the Old Virginia Barn Dance with Sunshine Sue in two per formances, one at 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon and the other at 7:30 oiclock that evenfing. Local talent is being lined up for amateur time Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock. Following the ama i teur programs, prizes, valued in toe Hinicti eds TV'tloilurs,'' wiifUe given away. The Virginia Greater Shows w ill be on the midway which will (Continued on Page Eight) Escape Injury In Taxi Wreck --- Applying the brakes to avoid sinking a stray cat, Brad Brown, driving John Little’s Plymouth i taxi, lost control and the machine turned over two times, stopping ion its four wheels. Accompanied by two fares. Brown was traveling toward Bear Grass when the car went out of control and turned over near Eli Bowen’s store shortly before 12:00 o’clock last night. No one was hurt, but damage | to the taxi was estimated «tt $700.