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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ 81 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK » * \ V THE ENTERPRISE 18 READ 0 • OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT• FAMILIES TWICE EACH AEEI VOLUME LYI—NUMBER 86 WiUiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 27, 1953 ESTABLISHED I8«* Brothers Get Ten To Twenty Years For Bank Robbery Third Brother Released In Federal Court At Wash ington Monday -<*>— Pleading guilty of robbing the Guaranty Bank and Trust Com pany here last August 28, two brothers, Adrill Strickland, 24, and Quitman Strickland, 21, were sentenced to prison by Judge Don Gilliam in federal court at Wash ington yesterday morning. A third brother, James Earl Strickland, 19, who was detained in connec tion with the robbery, gained his freedom when the two older brothers declared he had noth ing to do with planning or execut ing the robbery. Adrill Strickland was sentenc ed to federal prison for twenty years, including five years for the theft of a car from Charleston, South Carolina. Quitman Strick land was given ten years in pris on. The 15 year sentence given the older brother for bank rob bery and the five-year sentence for transporting a stolen car across state lines, are to run con currently. The trial setting was described as pathetic. The wives of the two older boys were in court along with the boys’ mother. Two small children hovered around one of the wives, and the pther carried a baby in her arms with another due in a few months. The babies cried and the wives and mother wept, attendants having to help some of them from the courtroom. Only two bank employees, Cashier D. V. Clayton and Assis tant Cashier Jos. Griffin, were called to the stand. They told how they were held at gun point and how the robbers bagged in excess of $17,000 and hurried from the bank. Cashier D. V. Clayton, Assis tant Cashier Jos. Griffin and Miss Marie Griffin, another bank em ployee, were called to Washing ton, but only Cashier Clayton took the stand. He gave a detailed re port on the stickup, and identi fied the brothers as the two men who walked into the bank brand ishing .32 calibre pistols, hold ing the bank employees and a few customers at bay, and walking out with more than $17,0000 stuffed in a laundry bag. He testified that following the capture, all of the stolen money was returned. William H. Gibson, special agent with the FBI, the only other wit ness called by the state, told the tourt the details of the investiga tion following the stickup and of (Continued on Page Six) Commission To Hold Hearing -- ♦— The newly created North Caro lina Milk Commission will hold a public hearing in the Municipal Building, Rocky Mount, on Friday of ths week at 10.30 o’clock. Reports on the production, dis tribution and sale of milk will be received by the commission representatives, it was announced. Producers delivering milk to plants located in this area and dis tributors of ipilk serving this area and the general public are invited to attend, information obtain ed at the Hearing will be con sidered by the Commission in de wh^th.cr, wj will , be in the public interest for this area, or any part thereof, to be established as a Milk Marketing Area under the authority vested in Milk Commission by the 1953 Session laws of the General As sembly. ROUND-UP Ten persons were rounded up and jailed by local, county and state officers last week end for varied violations of the public laws. Four were booked for drunkenness, and one eaeli for drunken driving, disturbing the peace, larceny, Carrying a concealed weapon, abandonment and trespassing. A tenth per son was held for Virginia authorities. Two of the ted were white. Two of the eight colored were women, one being charged with abandoning her children. The ages of the group rang ed from 19 to 46 years. c 4' New Peanut Crop Begins To Move To Local Market _._ The first of the new peanut crop is beginning to move to the local market in fairly sizable volume. However, the deliveries have not been of sufficient size to support a general average both as to yield and price. Approximately 2.0000 bags of the new crop had been handled by the local market up until late yesterday, the price ranging from a low of about nine cents a pound to $12.99 per hundred pounds. Ac cording to unofficial reports, sup port price are about ninety cents higher than they were last year. Peanuts, grading 57 percent meat and fifteen, per cent extra large, are supported at $10.01 per hund red pounds. Peanuts, grading 72 percent meat and 45 percent extra large, are supported at $14,585. f CROWDED OUT j The Halloween carnival, sponsored each year by the Williamston Woman’s Club, has been crowded out of the picture by other events this week, it was announced today. Extensive plans had been advanced for the event this year, but it was ruled out by conflicts, a representative of the ciub said, adding that the organization was appreciative of the cooperation extended in the past and that continued support is solicited for the annual event next year. Special Exhibits At The Fair Here Corey Plumbing Company, owned and operated by Mr. Geo. Corey, is featuring several spe cific demonstrations at the Martin County Fair this week. Factory representatives are explaining and presenting their products to the public. Mr. Carlton Davis of Norfolk, representative from the Minnea polis-Honeywell Regular Com pany in Minnesota is on hand to demonstrate the electronic nodu flow complete heating sustem all thermostaticlly controlled. Mr. Beverley Johnson of Ra leigh comes as representative of the Stahl-Rider Distributing Com pany, Carrier air conditioning dis tributors for eastern Carolina He will have an ice maker in opera tion and a combination heating and air conditioning unitTopen to the public for inspection. The famous Youngstown Kitch ens have sent Mr. J. P. Gulley of Norfolk to remain in the main Corey booth with the display of kitchen appliances. Ajl three of the factory men ar rived yesterday to stay for most or all of the Martin County Fair. They seemed surprised and pleas ed at the great enthusiasm being shown even yesterday by visitors at the fair. Fire Destroyed Home Near Here —®— Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the five-room tenant house and all its contents on the Griffin Brothers’ farm on the McCaskey Road near here last Friday morning. The tenant, Jack Williams, and that morning and were in Wil liamston when the fire started. Passerby saw the fire and called for help. Answering the call, lo cal volunteer firemen reached there just about the time the roof was falling in, but/they kept the fire from spreading to outbuild ings, including a tobacco barn. The Williamses lost all their earthly goods except what they wore on their backs. Included in their losses were three $100 bills hidden undei a rug. A small amount of insurance was carried on the building, but none was car ried on the contents. --- Continues Critically III In Hospital Here -b— Sihmon Lilley, well-known Griffins Township farmer, con tinues gravely ill in a local hos pital. Taken sick about two weeks ago he has been in the hospital about ten days, and lapsed into unconsciousness last week-end, it was stated. There are deductions tor damaged kernels and foreign material, and peanuts containing over 10 per cent moisture are not eligible for support, it was explained. Early deliveries show a fair low meat content, but the quali ty varies from section to section and almost from field to field. Yields as low as two bags have been reported while Mrs. Bessie Mitchell of Powllsvirie harvested ninety-three bags on a little less than three acres. The bags, the first of the new crop to be de livered to the local market this year, sold for $11.73 per hund red younds. Yields in other fields on the Mitchell farms were not so large, it was reported. The highest yield reported in this county so far is 20 bags per acre. Ask Decrease In Tobacco Acreage Directors of the North Caro lina Farm Bureau, meeting in Ra leigh a few days ago, urged the Secretary of Agriculture to ef fect a five percent reduction in the 1964 tobacco acreage. The Bu rear directors pointed out that to bacco prices had declined in re cent days and that cigarette con sumption in the nation was fall ing. At the same time, Fred S Roy ster of Henderson, president of the B’right Belt Warehouses Asso ciation, criticized certain types of cigarette advertising. Royster said “medical claims” by cigarette makers are "wholly unjustified." There is r.o evidence to show that tobacco is “either good or bad” for a person, said Royster, and “A great deal off this advertising is plain silly and ridiculous.” Royster declared general eco nomic conditions are working against the tobacco farmer and “We are in a decline whether we realize it or not.” He asserted that if the decline in tobacco consumption for the past four months were averaged out “for the rest of the year a de crease of 75 million pounds will occur.” -.-.-<b Teen-Agers In Wreck Friday —<*.— Several local high school stu dents were hurt, none believed seriously, and several others es caped' injury when the pick-up truck in which they were riding was in collision with a car at a Plymouth street intersection about 7:00 o’clock last Friday evening. Jane Manning and Jane Speller suffered head injuries and bruises about the body. Betty Fagan Car starphen suffered a cut on her head which required a stitch. Son dra Bufflap was bruised on one awn and suffered a small cut on her lip. Margaret Andrews, driv ing her uncle's new pirK-up truck, and Helen Christopher were not hurt. Three other girls got out of the vehicle a short time before the accident to visit one of their aunts before going on to the foot ball game between Plymouth and Williamston. The accident virtims, treated in the Plymouth clinic, were able to return to their home here later that evening. Local Men Bay Equipment Firm —<*>— Organized only a few days ago by Messrs. Pete Rogers, Hershel Miller, W. O. Peele, Jr., and Laur ence Eason Lilley, the Martin Tractor and Truck Company has purchased the Jenkins Equipment Company on South Pearl Street here and will assume active man agement as of November 1, ac cording to an announcement made this week by the new firm. Mr. Harvey Baggett, formerly with Roanoke Chevrolet, and the Woolard Furniture Company, is to manage the new firm. Details have not been made public but it is understood that the new tirm will carry on opera tions at the Pearl Street location for the present, with the possi bility that the business will be housed in a new plant on or near the U. S. Highway 17 by-pas;>i Skewarkcy. Three Accidents On Highways And Streets Recently —<*>— Only Oge Person Reported Injured; Property Loss Estimated At £ I (MM) -•— One person was painfully but! not seriously injured in a series ! of three automobile accidents on the streets and highways in this county during the past week-end. One or two other minor accidents were reported, but the damage was negligible and no record was made, it was learned. The first in the series was re ported on Williamston’s Washing ton Street Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock when a car and a truck crashed near the Jamesville Road intersection. John Henry Wiggins, of RF 2, Williamston, pulled out from a parking place near the Roanoke Chevrolet Com pany and crashed into the side of a Merita bread truck driven by John Cornell, Jr., or RFD 3, Wil liamston. Damage to Wiggins’ 1949 Ford was estimated at $100. Damage to the truck hardly ex ceeded $10, local officers said fol lowing their investigation. Driving toward Hassell on the Hassell-Tarboro road at 11:30 o’ clock that morning, Henry Har rell, of RFD 1, Bethel, run off the road and lost control of his 1953 Chevrolet. The machine turned over, resulting in a property dam age estimated at $700 by the in vestigating patrolman. Harrell re ceived a four-stitch cut in his head, but he was able to continue to his home following treatment in the Bethel Clinic. Harrell’s companion was not injured. Driving east on Highway 04 be tween Robersonville and Everetts, William Clarence Jones of Ply mouth started to pass a black Ford just as 4he Ford driver start ed to make a left turn. The ve hicles crashed and the Ford con tinued without stopping. Damage to Jones' 1952 Oldsmobile was estimated at $100 by the investi gating patrolman. The driver of the Ford was not immediately ap prehended, but hit-and-run charges are pending in the case, it was learned. Jerry Ball's Son Still Unconsious —•— When Jerry Ball, Charlotte man, was in Williamston last January playing a piano for the March of Dimes, he received a message stating that his son, Bob by Ball, had been injured that day in a midget auto racing ac-, cident out in Phoneix, Arizona, Playing the role of a regular trou per, Mr. Ball, offering his services free, held to the piano on the porch of Attorney Horton’s porch all that day, keeping in touch throughout the day with the hos pital where his son was being treated. That night the father caught a plane in Norfolk and flew to Arizona. This week, 326 days after the accident, youg Ball continues in report received here stating that there is no percepti ble improvement in his condition. Ball, one of the nation’s out standing young drivers, stirs oc casionally and opens his eyes but does not rouse from the coma into which a brain injury plunged him. His father, after doing what he could for his son, returned East and continued to play for the >- r .*•,'■ ,*v*A<* «♦ ■ •» iviaicn 01 Dimes. Leal Marketing Nears End Here No definite date has been men tioned, but it is quite certain that the tobacco marketing season is nearing an end here and in other centers in this part of the State. It is possible that sales will be suspended later in the week, but market operators said yesterday that they are not certain of the day. Yesterday, the market sold only 13,152 pounds, but the price held right close to the 59-cent figure. Up until today, the market had sold 11,313,178 pounds for $6,726, 195, an average of $59.46. A report on the activities in the entire belt follows: Steady to slightly higher aver age prices were paid for most grades of Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco last week. The Federal-State Market News Ser vice reports volume of sales was light. Quality of marketings was inferior to that of the week before. Sales for the week ending Octo ber 23 totaled 26,048,712 gross pounds and averaged $56.23 per hundred. This average dropped $1.80 from the previous five-day period and was the lowest since the fourth week of sales. Season sales stand at 444,695,509 pounds for an average of $57.60. Over three-fourths of the grade averages were unchanger to high er. Increases amounted to around $1.00 per hundred pounds in most cases and were more frequent for lower quality grades of leaf, lugs and nondescript. Offerings of cut ters and smoking leaf remained generally steady. Small losses noted for several grades. The percentage of cutters and smoking leaf decreased slightly. Lower quality offerings showed a small increase in proportion. Bulk of sales consisted of poor to good leaf, low to good lugs, low and fair cutters, and nondescript. Around 5.5 per cent of weekly gross went under Government loan to the Stabilization Corpora tion. Season receipts of the Cor poration are slightly under 3 per j cent. Windsor closed Monday, Octo ber 19. Ahdskie will hold final sales Friday, October 30. Marketing Cards Mailed In County All those Martin County pea nut farmers whose plantings were not in excess of their allotments are receiving their 1953 market ing cards this week. Nearly 700 of the 1,700 peanuts farmers planted in excess of their allotments last spring, but all approximately 250 destroyed the surplus. It is believed that most of those who planted in excess of their allotments and who have not destroyed the surplus, will “hog them down”, leaving only a few to get extess marketing cards. Marketings in excess of the allot ments carry a penalty of about six cents a pound. UNANIMOUS Under a new ruling an nounreri by the United State* Department nf Agriculture a few days ago, farmers, par ticipating in the 1954 agricul tural program, will have to comply with all crop quota regulations to qualify for any price supports. In other words, a farmer who plants within his tobacco quota and exceeds his peanut allotment, ment, will not qualifv for to bacco support prices. Concert Association Plans One Of Its Next Programs Although the memberships fell belo\^ expectations, the Martin County Community Concert As sociation is making plans to of fer its patrons one of the best pro grams ever staged here. A preliminary reports shows that approximately 410 member ships were sold including a good ly number of those purchased by i students. The association is oper ating on a budget of $1,850, mean- ' ing that several artists were ruled out because there was not enough ! money to finance their appear ances. Meeting in the high school fol lowing the membership drive last Saturday evening, the committee j tentatively booked three concerts.! Dr. La Flunte and Stcssion, vio- j lmist and pianist, are to appear; here during the week of Novem ber 16. Ernest and Miles Mauney, the North Carolina twins and due pianists, are to perform in Febru ary, and Vivan Della Chiesa, so prana, is to sing sometime during the month of March. All bookings are tentative, and definite pro grams and dates arc to be an nounced shortly. , Representatives of the national association were pleased with the drive, declaring that it was well organized, and that the officers and special workers ably handled their tasks. The officers are grat l.v pleased with the tentative pro gram and it is certain the the ar tists will be well received by the concert members this fall and winter. Open Fair-Festival Here Last Evening Exhibits Come To Expectations, Officials Declare Thousumls Expected For Big Parade Here To morrow At 3:00 I The Martin County Fair and Harvest Festival were opened with a bang here last night when a big square dance was held in the Planters Warehouse and after the finishing touches were made to the record number of commer cial booths and farm exhibits at the fair quarters in the Carolina Warehouse. Although threatening weather is being promised for tomorrow, the festival officials have as of now planned one of the biggest parades ever seen in this section of the State Approximately 100 units, including fifteen brass bands, seventeen princesses and special floats by clubs anti busi ness concerns, have been booked for the parade which is scheduled to get under way promptly at 3:00 o'clock. And with Master Starter "Blue'' Manning in charge, the parade is scheduled to move on time. In listing the parade units last week the Oirl Scouts and the Farm Life Rhythm Band were omitted from the list through an er ror. With favorable weather pre vailing, it is believed that one of the largest crowds ever assem bled in this section, will witness the parade. Local auto owners are being asked to leave their ve hicles at home to help relieve the parking problem. The festival will be climaxed tomorrow evening, rain or shine, when Tommy Tucker and his or chestra play for the coronation ball in the Planters Warehouse. A large crowd was present at the square dance held in the Planters Warehouse last night. Dick Carter and his Circle “C” (Continued on Page Eight) -- Robbers Steal Safe In County —$— Prizing open the front door, robbers entered the office of the Robersonville Shelling Company on the Stokes Highway a short distance out of Robersonville sometime during Sunday night and carried away an iron safe. The iron box, weighing between 350 and 400 pounds was found in a roadside ditch 100 yards or more down the highway, its door ham mered off. H. E. (Jake) Mobley was quoted as saying that between $100 and $150 in cash and about $400 in cheeks were missing from the safe. A number of checks and the i iH.iVTy'flflWfPoag . ere found a short distance east of Roberson ville on Highway 04 Monday aft ernoon, it was learned. Officers are working on the case, but up until early today no lead had been established. Local Boy Leads ~SGT£ Drill Team —*— Bobby Clayton will lead the Naval ROTC Drill Team when Duke meets Virginia in the Oyster Bowl game in Norfolk Saturday. The former local band major and the Duke ROTC Drill Team are planning-a great show. At the Duke-Navy game last year in Durham, the drill team first did its stuff before an amaz ed student body arid visiting dig nitaries from the Naval Academy. The Duke population had no irlea beforehand that it had such a razzle-dazzle outfit in its midst and the spectators from outlying areas were equally surprised. One re- -tedl.v turned to Naval Acad emy Commandant Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy and said, “Your drill team is marvelous, Admiral.” The admiral is reported to have replied, “Ours? We haven’t got anything like this.” So impressed was the admiral that he dispatched a special oum mendutiun to the Duke unit, upon his return to Annapolis. I WISE COON r J A wise old ctH>n took over the role of a cunning fox down in Jamesville last Sat urday night. Hunters Ernie Gardner and P. C. Blount, Jr„ have established quite a busi ness, catching live coons for distribution in western Caro lina. The two men had caught fifteen coons during the first days of the season and penned them in Mr. Gardner's back yard. During Saturday night, one old coon climbed to the top of the cage, unfastened the latch and turned the coons out. The old coon left the area, but most of the other remained around and were raptured a second time, it was learned. No Bus Station Made Available Busses operating in and out of Williamston are .still using an open-air station on South Elm Street, just off Mam, late reports stating that a representative of one of the operating companies plans to come here Thursday. There is a renote possibility that something will be done at that time to relieve the problem tem porarily, at least. During the meantime, bus op erations here are bogged down in shame and disgrace, not to men tion curtailed services and in con veniences experienced by the pa trons. It was reported that the Nor folk representative was a witness J in court this week and that he would not be able to discuss fa cilities, temporary or permanent, for a terminal here. It could not be learned what is behind the de laying action, but unless some thing is done soon an appeal could be made to the Utilities Commis sion. It has been pointed out that the bus operators have experienced some difficulty in providing sta tion facilities, but that those dif ficulties do not offset the terrible treatment patrons have and are still receiving -- Prizes Feature Fair This Year Special prices are featuring the program at the Martin County ! Fair in the Carolina Warehouse here this week. Williamston Furniture Com pany, beginning tomorrow, will give away eight or ten cooked meals each evening through Fri | day. The meals are to be prepar ed by Miss Dowdy, nationally j known economist The meals are to go to lioiners of lucky numbers. On Saturday the company will give away a Caloric range. Worrell Appliance Company is giving away four cooked turkeys prepared by Miss Faulconer, an other nationally known home eco nomist who is spending much time at the fair this week. Other prizes to go to holders of lucky numbers include: suit of c lotihfr .Aa" > t.;... ,hv Bulluck s; furniture by Courtney’s 100 chicks by Lindsley’s Feed Stort; cedar chest by Heilig and Meyers; Silent Flame space heater by Farmers Supply; special fav ors by Western Auto. Other prizes will be announced later Engineers Plan Neel Tomorrow ——•— The East Carolina Engineers’ Club will meet in Roanoke Rap ids, tomorrow at 7:00 P. M The meeting place will be the VEPCO club house which is located near the northern edge of the city on Roanoke Avenue. Guest speaker for the evening will be Mr. Donald McCord, Resi dent Manager, Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation. The subject of the talk will be the en gineering aspects of the Roanoke Rapids Power Dam for the Vir ginia Electric and Power Com pany. Poultry Industry Growing Rapidly In Martin County —*— Assistant County Agent Larry Hodges Talks About Industry -* By Larry Hodges, Assistant Farm Agent Our poultry industry surely is growing. Only a few years ago farmers in one county wouldn't keep a hen. Now more than half these farmers have large flocks laying hatching eggs and North Carolina is one of the largest pro ducers of hatching eggs for broiler use. When I was a boy, fried chicken was a summer delicacy. Now with our broiler industry, we can have fresh chicken any time. Consumers have responded by eating three times more broil ers. "An egg a day” used to be the cry to get more eggs eaten. But with improved quality and lower relative price, that idea is out of date. Now consumers eat more than 400 eggs per person each year! Turkey used to be only for Thanksgiving dinner. Now with improved breeding and modern refrigeration, we can have turkey all year long. Consumers buy more than 1.000.000 North Caro lina turkeys each year. Where are we going from here? ! Commercial egg production would j boost the income of many small tobacco farmers. High efficiency of feed use lets broiler producers operate on narrow margins. De mand is strong for our poultry products. Many farmers would find it profitable to produce more poultry. Would you° Poultry and poultry products furnish a BIG slice of our North Carolina farm income. In 1952 eggs, broilers, chickens and tur keys brought in $105,033,000. Only tobacco with $462,824,000 and cot ton with $120,072,000 provided more income. After poultry in third place came dairy production in fourth spot with $103,522,000 in come. Here's where our 1952 poultry income came from: Eggs, $50,682, 000. Broilers $34,485,000 Chickens $13,746,000 and Turkeys $6,120, 000 Eggs—since 1925, North Caro lina farmers have increased the number of hens kept for layers from about 6 million to slightly over 8 million birds. During these 27 years they have doubled egg production. Rate of lay, which has increased from 85 eggs per hen in 1925 to 131 eggs in 1952, has been responsible for much of this increased production. Several factors have helped to increase the rate of lay per hen. 1 (Continued on Page Seven) Students Tell PTA Of Extra Activity —<*,— Representatives of the various grades and organizations in the Williamston schools outlined to a | large audience tat the Parcnts Teaclu r itl.-cs ■ • last- rf.g-kt the extra-curricula activities that help them build a healthy person ality as they grow and acquire an education. The association appears to have j found a solution to the age-old j problem of getting people to oc jeupy the front seats. Last night the middle section’s front rows were filled and one of those in that , .yctioji ..NJ,1'-. .,Tf>rv>, Letch worth walked out with a $1.00 prize for occupying a lucky seat. The door prize was won by Mrs. i D. W. Manning and the attend ance prize went to Mrs. Lorna Garrett Adkins’ 9th grade, j It was the second meeting of current school year and attend ance and interest were reported as excellent. I DANGER Despite extra efforts to con trol the situation, there is still a definite traffic hazard Washington Street, and police today appealed to parents to eaution their children and urge them to exercise due care when walking in the area of the warehouse where the fair is being held. Poliee are to keep watch es there, but with traffic at a saturation point, it is impas sible to guarantee perfect safety.
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