THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
THE ENTERPRISE IS RKAd B
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT.
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEKl
VOLUME LM—NUMBER 91
Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina. Thursday. November 12. 1953
ESTABLISHED 189*
Farmers Calling
For 100 Percent
Parity In County
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Support Proposed Reduc
tion In Tobacco At Meet
ing Here Last Niglit
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Martin County farmers, attend
ing a meeting of the county Farm
Bureau here last night in the
courthouse, went on record as
favoring 100 percent parity for
basic farm commodities. They al
so recommended an investigation
of the price spread between pro
ducer and consumer, and support
ed by resolution the proposed five
percent reduction in 1954 tobacco
acreages.
The group, led by Farmer Noah
Daniel Griffin, discussed the high
er parity feature at length, and
unanimously passed a resolution
to be laid before the annual con
vention of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau in Raleigh early
next week. "It’s all right when
the Stabilization Corporation gets
my tobacco at ninety percent of
parity, but when it goes into re
gular channels, it should get con
sideration equal to that according
to the things we have to buy,"
Farmer Griffin declared. The
Griffin motion was seconded by
Farmer E. C. Harrison.
“We would like to know just
what happens to prices from the
time a commodity is produced un
til it reaches the consumer,”
Farmer Mayo Hardison of Poplar
Point said. The group petitioned
the State organization to carry an
appeal to Washington, urging an
investigation of the price spread.
Evaluating the facts surround
ing tobacco production and con
sumption, the group upon a mo
tion offered by Farmer Hardison
and a second by Farmer E. C.
Harrison of Bear Grass, unanim
ously favored the proposed five
percent decrease in the 1954 to
bacco crop. It was pointed out
that tobacco stocks are piling up,
that the Stabilization Corporation
Is now getting as much as seventy
percent ol the offerings op some
markets and that consumption is
dwindling for the first time in
twenty years.
Chas. L. Daniel, president of
the Martin County Farm Bureau,
is to carry the recommendations
of the group to Raleigh this week
end when he goes to the eonven
tion as a member of the resolu
tions committee of the State or
ganization.
Martin County is to be well re
presented at the convention, it
was learned.
The group at the meeting vol
unteered to cooperate in the
drive to raise the equal of $3,000
in farm products during the
CROP drive Thanksgiving week.
Methodists Plan
Observance Mere
During the past several months
members of first Methodist church
have been quietly preparing for
the observance of an important
anniversary. One hundred twen
ty-five years ago a small congre
gation secured the property on
which the present church and
parsonage stands. Since that time
worship and church activity have
been carried on by succeeding
generations of Methodists on the
same spot.
Bishop Paul N. Garber of Rich
mond, President Bishop of the
North Carolina Conference, will
come to Williamston on November
22 to lead the local church in the
observance. He will be the speak
er at the morning worship on that
<vv..Skrhn’.tr -•£ arDC-r - has fcecn-*
familiar figure in North Caro
lina Methodism for many years,
having been successively profes
sor of history at Duke Universi
ty, professor of church history of
the Duke Divinity School, Dean
of the Divinity School, and new
presiding Bishop of the Richmond
Area within which scores of his
former students serve as pastors.
Previous to his appointment to the
Richmond Area, he was the pre
siding Bishop of the Geneva Area
where lie supervised work of the
church in portions of Europe and
North Africa.
Following morning worship,
dinner will be served at the
church. Former members of the
church and former pastors are
being invited to return for the
day. In the afternoon Bishop Gar
ber will meet with groups of lay
men, but there will bt no after
noon service. Thus ample appor
tunity will be provided for fel
lowship and visiting.
Subscribes To Solicitor's Oath In Raleigh
Elbert S. Peel, Williamston attorney, subscribes to the oath
of solicitor for the second district before Associate Justice M. V.
Barnhill in the hall of the House of Representatives in Raleigh.
The oath was administered last Friday morning, and the new
solicitor entered upon his duties as prosecutor in the N 'sh Coun
ty Superior Court at Nashville Monday.
Speeder Gets Twelve
Months on the Roads
PRIZES
r
s.
Williamston is planning a
decorative holiday season,
possibly one of the most ela
borate ever seen here. In a
meeting Tuesday evening di
rectors of the Boosters, Inc.,
placed an order fur special
decorations for the streets,
and then individually pledged
considerable cash prizes for
the best home and yard de
corations.
The special street material
is estimated to cost $1 per
yard, but the Boosters, plac
ing an order for several hund
red yards, were agreed that
everything iwssible should be
done to dress up and brighten
the town for Christmas.
Sister Oi Local
Residents Dies
Funeral services were conduct
ed in St. John’s Baptist Church
near Ahoskie yesterday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock for Mrs. Ethel Sum
mer Cleaton, sister of Mrs. F F.
Thigpen and Mrs. Coy J. Rober
son of Williamston. The Rev T. N.
Cooper conducted the service. In
terment was in the family ceme
tery. Mrs. Cleaton died in a Ports
mouth hospital early Tuesday
morning.
A daughter of the late John L.
and Magnolia Howard Summer
she was born in Hertford County
58 years ago and was making her
(to-ij., .Vi' JMVi ■ •*, -f W, 1
she died. She was a member of
Jackson Memorial Baptist Church,
Portsmouth.
Surviving besides here sisters in
Williamston are her husband, J. T.
Cleaton; a son, John L. Teaster,
by a former marriage; a step
daughter, Josephine Cleaton, of
Portsmouth; two step-sons, M. J.
Cleaton of Portsmouth and H. T.
Cleaton of Kinston, and a brother,
John L. Summer, of Ahoskie.
Little Attention I'nitl
Armistice Day Locally
The 35th anniversary of Armis
tice Day yesterday received little
attention in this section. A few
business establishments, including
the post office, banks and federal
state offices were closed for the
day, but no public celebrations
were held. About the only re
; minder of the anniversary mark
I mg the end of World War I was
the flags flying on the streets.
Forty-Four Cases
Heard Monday In
The County Court
Fine* Impos«*<l Dm iiij; Tin*
SetsHiou Monday Add
Up To $765.00
During a lung session of the
Martin County Kecorder’s Court
Monday, Judge H. O. Peele had
plenty of time to spare and he di
vided it liberally and freely with
several defendants. One was given
twelve months on the roads for
speeding ninety miles an hour.
Another was given a year on the
roads for violating the liquor laws,
and still another drew twelve
twelve months for forcible tres
pass and a deadly weapon assault.
In addition to dividing the time,
the jurist shared the wealth when
he imposed sums in the total
amount of $7ti5. O $1,000 fine iri a
speeding case did not materialize,
the defendant choosing a road sen
tence instead.
The court was in session until
late afternoon clearing its docket
which included right many speed
ing cases.
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Air Force Opens
An Office Here
The Army and Air Force has
re-opened their Recruiting Office
in Williamston located un the 2nd
tftiid the Chf rtait utsem-M
represented by M Sgt. William
A. Haynes.
M Sgt Haynes arrived in Wil
liamston Monday and is now
ready to interview any applicant
that is interested in the Army and
Air Force programs and will be
in his office Monday thru Satur
days betwen the hours of 8 o’clock
A M. and 12 o’clock noon, and
on Mondays and Fridays will be
there from 1 o’clock P. M. thru
4:30 o'clock P. M., Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, and Thursday after
noons will be reserved for other
towns through the area.
M Sgt Haynes has served with
the Armed Forces for the past 11
and one-half yeaiand has just
returned from Europe where he
served a 42-month tour of duty
with the 10th Field Hospital in
Germany, as a Pharmacist and
was schooled lot this profession
during his service with the Armed
Forces.
CROP Drive Set
During The Week
Of Thanksgiving
Meeting with a Farm Bureau
j group 111 the courthouse Wednes
day evening, Mayo Hardison,
chairman of the Christian Rural
Overseas Program, discussed
plans for carrying the annual
"CROP" appeal to the people of
this county. The drive is to be
launched during Thanksgiving
week, it was decided.
Chairman Hardison, with the
aid of Farm Bureau leaders, is
contacting representatives in
every one of the ten townships
and plans to complete his ar
rangements for the drive within
the next few days. The county is
being asked to raise the equal of
| 1,000 pounds of peanut butter,
; valued at about $3,000. It is pro
j posed to receive corn, soy beans
or other farm commodities.
Last year this county shipped aj
solid carload of corn valued at
$2,750, for distribution in South
Korea. Martin was the second
ranking county in the State, it was
learned. Already this year, one
county has shipped two carloads
of wheat and another county has
loaded a car of powdered milk for
j distribution in the war-torn and
poverty-stricken areas overseas.
I The people of this county are
: asked to join in the movement
| and lend Mr. Hardison and the
canvassers a willing support when
j the drive gets under way.
j /Vinely-Eiffh/- \cur-(lid
i'atirnl In Ihm/iilal
Win. Preston Powell, Uli years
old, is receiving treatment in a
local hospital. Battling the in
firmities of age, he was reported
last evening to be holding his
own.. ... . .
Powell, a colored man, is from
Williams Township. ,
County Nan Buys
Prize Animal At
Kinston Recently
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Assisliml Farm Agent Toll
Of Quality Factor In
Raising Faille
l(> I>. W. Brady, Assistant Martii
Farm Agent
I attended the 4th Annual Ea.s
tern North Carolina Polled Here
ford Show and Sale at Kinston
recently with Mr. D. C. Carstar
phen who purchased the Gram
Champion bull. A polled bull am
a beautiful animal, he had a lo
of keen competition at the show
He won over a very good Greet
Pasture bull and several othe
very good polled and horned bulls
m fact, there were 20 bulls am
50 heifers in the show and sale
Another purebred sale will bi
held in Winston Salem on Friday
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f PRELIMINARY
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No final report is yet avail
able, but the sponsors are
quoted as saying the recent
Martin County fair was a suc
cess financially. It is esti
mated that the net income
will approximate $4,500.
Sponsoring the Hoy Scout
but building program, the Ki
wanis and Lions Clubs will
turn the proceeds into the
building fund, leaving only
a few thousand dollars indebt
edness on the structure.
It is tentatively planned to
use the building for the first
time next Monday night for a
meeting of the Wasmarty
Scout District.. However,
JJMUiSMwk.H yet Uvh*. Jpm«V
ed before the building is made
ready for use.
Opening A nnual Christmas
Seal Sale In This County
Th».‘ 47th annual Christmas Seal
Sale opens officially on Novem
ber 10th, hut Christmas Seal
Bonds are being mailed to firms
throughout the county this week
J. Paul Simpson, seal sale chair
man, advises that unless other
wise requested, purchasers of the
tuberculosis seal bonds will not
be solicited by personal contact
this year. All bonds are being
mailed to firms in the county just
a few days prior to the mailing of
the little seals. This method was
adopted out of i onsidei ation for
the contributors who were gen
erous and forebearing even though
calls were, of necessity, made dur
ing business hours.
The Bond Sale is a major par
of the Christmas Seal Sale aru
anyone buying a bond is erititlcc
to us many seals as the dollar:
they spend. Purchasers are askei
to post their bonds in a eonspici
ous place in order 1 hat evcryont
may see that they are still takin(
part in a program vitally effectinj
the health and welfare of the com
munity. Remember, another mas:
chest X-ray survey is scheduler
for 1954 and your money helps ti
finance this project. Eighty per
eenl of all bond and seal sail
funds are spent right here ii
Martin County.
Temporary Plans
Made For Housing
Bus Station Here
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No Definite Arrangements
Advanced For Perma
nent Terminal
! After battling the elements on j
a vacant lot on South Elm Street
for three weeks and without even
an outhouse available for the re
lief of its patrons. Williamston's
bus terminal is going back to its
little wooden box next to the Ca
rolina warehouse on Washington
Street, where the traveling public
can at least get out of the rain
and where limited facilities are
provided.
The latest set-up is said to be
temporary, but that is meant by
temporary could not be learned.
For a year or more the bus ter
minal bad been operated after an
uncertain fashion. The bus com
panies' lease on the station located
on Main Street expired a long
tune ago, and apparently little
was accomplished in the way of
providing facilities for the travel
‘ mg public elsewhere. The station
was finally moved to the desert
ed filling station next to the Ca
j rolina warehouse on Washington
Street. Weeks passed and no ac
i eeptable progress was made in lo
cating a permanent site for the
station. Three weeks ago, on Oc
tober 21, the bus companies were
I forced to abandon that location,
which had a rating of about lti
points. Since that time the travel
ing public has received treatment
more in keeping with that offered
in the back countries of China or
Russia.
During the meantime the bus
operators entered into a contract
for a bus station on Smithwiek
Street. It appears that the site was
not approved, leaving the con
tract bogged down in uncertainty.
Representatives Richards of the
p Carolina Trailwavs and Tarking
ton of the Norfolk Southern were
here Tuesday afternoon and made
arrangements to move the station
* back to the little wooden box on
Washington Street. It could not
be learned officially, but one re
port indicated that the bus com
i panics have not been released
from the terms of the contract
entered into with the owners of
the Smithwiek Street site.
The station, scheduled to be re
> opened today, will be under the
management of Mrs. Jas. Bailey
' Peele who will lie assisted in its
' operation by her sons. Limited
facilities will necessarily create
problems, but the traveling public
1 is«at least assured a greatly im
proved service and better treat
ment than it has had in recent
weeks.
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Fatally Injured
In Road Accident
I Paul Wynne, 40-year-old color
ed man, was fatally injured when
he was thrown out of a cart by
a run-away horse on a dirt road
near Gold Point late Tuesday af
ternoon. Suffering internal in
jures, the victim died in a hospi
tal here yesterday afternoon at
2:00 o’clock. A wheiM of the cart
passed over him, it was reported.
Details of the accident could
not be learned here immediately,
bht one report said the man was
driving the horse and cart in a
curve near a colored church about
one-quarter mile from Gold Point
when the animal became frigh
tened and ran away.
Wynne, son of Andrew Wynne,
lived on the J W. Garris farm anti
worked at day labor. He leaves a
family.
Divorce Cases
In The Courts
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Two divorce cases, both based
on two years of separation, were
filed in the Martin County Su
perior Court during the past few
days. They have not been placed
on the trial calendar, however.
Ethel Williams Hines is suing
, W. A. Hines for divorce, the
plaintiff stating in the complaint
that they were married November
16, 1918, and separated in Decem
ber, 19411.
In the case of Annie Spruill
against James Spruill, the plain
tiff says they were married Au
gust 11, 1948, and separated
March 11, 1951. She is asking for
the custodjf of their two-year-old
child.
Eleven divorce cases are to be
tried Monday, November 23.
Organize Industrial
Development Group
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I SIKKKT CASK J
The Town of Williamston
has started a case against the
A. C. L. Railroad Company,
asking the defendant to re
move obstacles on Railroad
Street between Washington
and Smithwick and to permit
the paving of the street to
within about eight feet of the
center of the rail track.
The defendant is to appear
before Judge M. C. Paul in
superior court here on Decem
ber 2 and show cause, if any,
why the relief should not be
granted by the courts.
Issued Nineteen
Licenses to Wed
In Martin County
Issuance Is Slightly Below
Average For The l*as(
Ten Years
Nineteen marriage licenses were
issued by the ofilce of Register of
Deeds J Sam Getsinger rn this
counnty last month. The issuance
was slightly below the average
for the past ten-year period, but
the third largest for any month
so far this year.
Licenses were issued to seven
white and twelve colored couples,
as follows:
White
Raleigh T Vaughan of Conway
and Janie Ward Nelson of Rober
sonville; Ernest Carl Finley of
Lake City, Fla., and Helen Eliza
bethe Girvin of Jamesville; Dallas
Ward Manning and Peggy Rose
Williams, both of Rubersonville;
John Alfred Roberson and Mary
Alice Tice, both of Williamston;
Annis Hadad yf Yonkers, N. Y
and Williamston, and Mrs. Lillian
Yancey Pecle ot Williamston; Ot
tis W. Allen and Emma Padgette,
both of Washington; Harold
Francis Lyons of 41 Gardner St,
Peabody, Mass , and Gloria Ques
enberry of 373 Hamilton Ave
Norfolk.
Colored
Charlie Wiggins and Bethoru.
Barfield, both of Williamston; Jos
se Mayo Andrews and Clara Re
eves, both of R. F. D. 3, Williams
ton; William Thomas King of RFD
2, Williamston and Evelyn
Frances Hardison of RFD 1, Wil
liamston; Alonza Lloyd and Ma
mie Elyizabeth Wallace, both of
Robersonville; Willie Wiggins and
Mamie Andrews, both of Rober
sonville; Willie Frank Wilson and
Katie Lou Thigpen, both of James
ville; Eugene R Cherry and Lou
ise Wilder, both of Ahoskie; Hor
ace Lee Hall and Glenda Stancil,
both of Jamesville; Allen Brown
and Willie Mae Wilkins, both of
Robersonville; Roosevelt Askew
and Janie Mae Ward, both of
Ahoskie; William Roberson and
Earnestine Knight, both of Wil
liamston; Herbert Reves and Lou
ise Bowen, both of Williamston
Lillie Activity
On Peanut Mart
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Aftei getting off to a hurried
start, the peanut harvest was halt
ed by rains last week-end and
more falling weather tins week.
While extremely favorable weath
er conditions would make pos
sible a resumption ot the harvest
this week-end, it isn’t likely that
. j»,'ll - --»• ■ II votf undi V
way before next week under nor
mal conditions.
Little activity is being reported
on the markets, most of those
goobers picked before the rains
having been bought and delivered
by the middle of this week.
The peanut growers cooperative
Marketing Association opened a
warehouse here this week, but up
'until yesterday no peanuts had
been delivered there. The open
market has been holding slightly
above the prices offered by the
cooperative, and has been handl
ing the hauling for the farmers.
There was about a 311-rent differ
ential, |> 1 us hauling, in favor of
the open market, but late reports
said that the rnarkin possibly had
been reduced to about 13 cents
a hundred pounds.
Messrs. Leman Barnhill and
S. C. Griffin are operating the
Carolina Warehouse here for the
cooperative.
Group Will Work
To Gel Industry
To Locate Here
Directors of Boosters Have
Subscribed To $5,(MM) of
Corporation Stock
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Looking forward to getting new
industries to locate in this sec
tion. directors of the Williamston
Booosters recently incorporated
the Williamston Industrial De
velopment Corporation and im
mediately subscribed to $5,000
worth of stock. The corporation
charter, issued by the Secretary
of State, provides for the sale of
$50 shares of stock up to $100,000.
At a meeting of the Boosters
directors Tuesday evening, Ben D.
Courtney was elected president
and A. J. Manning, vice president.
Ed Grady was named secretary
and treasurer The board of di
rectors, holding the positions tem
porarily and coming entirely from
the Boosters directorate, includes,
Leman Barnhill, Marvin Baker,
Ben D. Courtney, George Corey,
D. R. Davis, John Henry Edwards,
K. Grady, James E. Griffin, A. J.
Manning, Wheeler Manning R.
Edwin Peele and Urbin Rogers
Organized as a non-profit busi
ness, the new corporation propos
ed to work with industry in locat
ing plants or warehouses here. It
is planned for the corporation to
provide sites and construct build
ings for prospective industry, the
cost to be liquidated by fixed
rents.
It was pointed out that a trans
portation company, handling
freight in interstate commerce,
wants to open a terminal here for
the distribution of freight
, throughout this section of the
j State. No final plans have been
|announced, but it was learned that
the company has tentatively
agreed to liquidate the cost of
such a terminal over a ten-year
period Plans for the structure
are being prepared and represen
tatives of the newl.v-formed cor
poration are looking around for
a suitable site. The extent of the
operations planned by the trans
portation firm has not been an
nounced, but the operation could
(develop into a sizeable business,
one report said.
j The new corporation soon will
I be in a position to provide quar
ters to specifications for any new
industry looking for a location, it
was explained.
There are sufficient inquiries on
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neelmg Planned
In New Seoul Hui
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Williamston’s new Boy Scout
Hut, financed by the local Lions
and Kiwanis clubs on South
Smithwick Street, is to be used
for the first time next Monday
evening at 7:00 o'clock when the
Wasmarty District holds its an
i nuaJ meeting there. The district
includes Boy Scout troops in the
j counties of Martin, Washington
and Tyrrell.
| Professor V B. Hairr of James
ville is to preside at the meeting.
I Officers will be elected for the
i coming year, and a report is to
be submitted on the activities in
the district. Following the invoca
tion by the Rev. Thos. L. Hastings,
I C A . V kew of ^Jame.sv.ijle will,
| present training certincates. Del
bert Sawyer, district commission
er will introduce the unit leaders
and the district committee mem
bers will be introduced by V. B.
Hairr. District Scout master G. E.
I Ashwill will review the activities,
i Eagle Scouts are to be presented
to the meeting by R. C. Malone
and Clayton Revels.
An entertainment feature will
be the showing of the 1953 Coun
cil eamporee taken in Tarboro last
April.
Scout leaders and their wives
and friends from the three coun
ties are expected to attend The
ticket sale for the dinnr meting
is being handled by David Boyd
in Hamilton, P. C. Edmondson,
Jr., in Hassell, C. B. Martin in
Robersonville, Tim Malone in
Bear Grass, The Rev. T. L. Hast
ings, J. H. McBrayer and Kelly
Gay in Williamston, H. B. Gay
lord in Jamesville, Phil Liverman
m Plymouth, and Robert L. Mit