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tHI ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 1,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE 18 BEAD to OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE =5= VOLIJM £ L Vf—WMBEK 96 WHimmMom Marlin Courtly, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 1. 1953 ESTABLISHED 189* Improved Peanut Seed Types Boost Yields In County —»— Quality of Crops From Tlie! Special Seed Best Ever Found In County —-« | The value of high grade seed i has been firmly established in tests conducted by a dozen or more peanuts farmers in the coun try this year. Complete findings are not available, but preliminary reports were said to be very en couraging, according to County Agent T. B. Brandon. Yields were said to be averag ing several bags per acre higher than the local varieties, and quali ty is the best ever found in this area. Fifteen Martin farmers plant ed 2.350 pounds of the special hy brid-type seed known as Nos. 1 and 2. Six of the farmers report ed their findings last week, the increased yield ranging up to as many as 7 bags per acre. The better quality product graded up to almost fifteen cents per pound, it was said, and all were above the grades traceable to the local or old varieties. Most of the farmers explained they had not completed their tests, and a few had not picked their crops. However, all the farmers expressed the opinion that the new seed "definitely hold an advantage,” and that the new varieties are recommended. It is difficult to establish a de finite comparison of the value of the new seed against the old va rieties, the farmers explaining that yields and quality varied on the same farm for both the new and old type varieties. However, the new varieties held an advant age in just about every test. It is proposed to turn all the peanuts produced from the new varieties back into seed. It is now possible to introduce the new va rieties on a fairly general scale throughout the county, it was pointed out. No definite price schedule has been determined, but it has been suggested that the new varieties to be used for seed should sell for about 22 cents a pound in the shell and about 40 fContinued on Page Eight) ' Holiday Liquor Trade Suffered —«► Illicit li<^tior trade planned for Thanksgiving holiday was inter rupted ih at least two county areas last Wednesday evening, accord ing to a late report coming from tlwABC enforcement division. Jim Mordeeai’s premises were raided that evening and the offic ers, Deputies Cecil Bullock, Wiley Craft and Dennis A. Roberson, confiscated a gallon of the white spirits. Placed under a $300 bond, Mordecai is scheduled for trial in the county court next Monday. The man is under a suspended sentence for a similar offense. When caught and convicted some time in 1932, Mordecai was hand ling legal liquor, but he was trap ped for exceeding the quantity i limit. It is now claimed that he had taken over the illicit business formerly and allegedly handled by Simon Jenkins who is waiting his turn in superior court for two or more alleged liquor law viola tions. Mordecai was sentenced to i the roads for six months, the court f having suspended the sentence upon guaranteed good behavior Completing the raid in Rober-; sonville, the three officers contin-! ued to Parmele where they found j another gallon of illicit ilquor, one-half gallon in Charlie Phil lips’ home and the other half gal lon in Curtis Little’s possession. Phillips arranged $200 bond and Little is out under a $100 bond. They are scheduled for trial next j Monday in the recorder s court. I Large Croud Annuls Meeting In County! ■—$>— Large crowds were present fori the fifth Sunday meeting in the! Smithwick Creek Primitive Bap-1 tist Church in this county. Visiting ministers were present ' from Virginia and Maryland and 1 participated in the services. A picnic dinner was enjoyed follow- i ing the Sunday service. The annual community Thanks- 1 giving service was held in the church lust Thursday. Peanut Marketing Rapidly j Nears End In This County \ Interrupted by rains early last week, the peanut harvest was re sumed on a big scale yesterday, a few growers started threshing operations Friday, but the g«ob ers were found to be too wet and the task was delayed in the main until yesterday. The market is presenting a $64 question in this area. It is fairly apparent that eighty percent of j the crop in this county has been harvested, but no one seems to know where the peanuts are now. Buyers declare their purchases are behind those of a year ago. Even after the decreased acreage is taken into consideration along j with the reduction in yields, buy Agent Stresses Proper Feeding Oi Swine Herds Balanced Ration Important When Hogs Are In The Peanut Fields -j,—_ By D. W. Brady Assistant Farm Agent Looking at the hog situation in Martin County, hog prices have been good and are holding up well. There has been a good mar gin in feeding out hogs this year. In fact, there is still a good mar-, gin for feeding out hogs at $20.00 to $22.00 per cent with $1.50 c^rn if they continue to hold up in price. Good feeder pigs are scarce and high in price. Many farmers have or soon will be turning their hogs into the fields to utilize the sur plus feeds. Soon after this, espe cially after Christmas, many farmers run into trouble. These hogs get sick and the losses often are great Due reason for this is believed to be dietary trouble. The food in the field often is very un balanced, sometimes it consists of only peanuts or only soybeans or just corn. Many times this feed stuff becomes partially decayed. In addition to this unbalanced feeding or the feed being of an inferior , nature, weather condi tions become adverse. The weath er may be interchangably cold and hot and rainy making con ditions favorable for colds, pneu monia or other types of sickness. To help correct this situation it i is suggested and recommended that a balanced ration be fed even though the hogs are in the fields getting the surplus feed. To balance this ration different farm ers may have different situations and requirements and to meet these needs for balancing a ration information may be had at the county farm agent’s office. In gen eral the hogs should have carbo hydrates for energy that is found in corn and other small grains, some animal and plant .protein that may be found in tankage, fishmeal, soybean plant, cotton seed meal and others and also! minerals that may consist of lime, steamed bonemeal or deflorinateci phosphate and salt. A source of Vitamin A should also be provid ed that may be found in green grazing or green alfalfa leafmeal and yellow torn. The question is often asked what is the difference in yellow corn and white. Vitamin A content is the difference, yellow corn car rying some Vitamin A and white corn not carrying any. Where a good tender green grazing is available, white corn should be as good as yellow corn. I might mention before turning lliese pigs into the fields, it will pay dividends to deworm and de louse them if they are troubled with these parasites. Bn French Leave From Prison Camp Serving lime at the State High-I .vay prison camp near Williams on, George Braswell, .'18. derid | •d to take French leave last week. iVorkmg as a trusty in the garage! here, Braswell ' borrowed” Wil-j ie D. Rogers’ car, wiring it j iruund the switch. Driving into | own, he visited friends, loaded ip on liquor and returned to the | :amp about three hours later. Charged with temporary larce ly and escaping from prison, 3raswcll is being booked for trial n the county court next Monday. ers can’t figure out where the peanuts went to. It is fairly certain that the crop in 'the county this year will fall about one-third under last year’s figures. It was predicted late in the summer that production would fall at least fifty percent below 1952 total, but farmers now say their crops are turning out much better than they expected. Marketing to date has been or derly, and prices have remained firm, averagin gut and slightly above loan rates, plus handling. Few peanuts have moved into government storage, the ware house here having received none so far. ( BOARD MEETING I v--J Meeting in special session last evening, members of the Martin County Board of Edu cation discussed potential sites for locating a Negro high school in or near Roberson ville. A committee was named to study several possible sites and report to a full meeting of the board, it was learned. A Greenville architect went before the board, but a dis cussion of building plans was delayed, pending the selection of a site. Firemen Called To Rural Areas —— WiLliamslon's volunteer firemen were called to two fires in rural areas last week-end. The first call was received Fri day ufternon about 3:30 t'clock when fire destroyed the stables and barn on the farm of Mrs. Wm. I Dave Manning in the Piney Grove section of Griffins Township. Catching from a pile of burning leaves, the fire destroyed the building and approximately 150 bales of hay, resulting in a loss estimated at between $1,500 and $2,000. No general alarm was sounded, but firemen went to the Cullipher home on the Penny Slade farm near here on the Hamilton Road I Saturday afternoon when a pile of wood burned and the fire threa-1 tened nearby buildings, ^amage was slight there, it was reported. ----- Assistant Home Agent's Successor Not Named —• So far no one has been named to succeed Miss Ruby Lee Spencer us assistant home agent in this county. Miss Spencer resigned a short time ago to be with her father in Ayden. Clear Four Cases From The Docket In Superior Court -- Three Reach The Jury Amt A Fourth Settled By Agreement Monday Resuming its work following the Thanksgiving holiday, the Mar tin County Superior Court Mon day cleared four cases from the docket and continued several others. Today the court is working on the $500 suit brought by Henry F. Thomas against the Coastal Plain Life Insurance Company. The defendant claims the party insured was ill at the time the policy was issued. The plaintiff, not denying that defense, main tains that the death of the insured was attributable to another cause, and that the benefit should be paid. Divorces, based on two-year separation grounds, were grant ed Robert Williams, Jr., from El la Mae Williams, and Otelia Lee Mitchell from Theodore Mitchell of New York City. The latter cou ple was married April 14, 1951, and separated August 14, that year. No children were born of the union. In the first case it was said the couple married in 1950 and separated after Christmas that same year, that one ehild born of the union is living with the plaintiff’s people and is being sup ported by the plaintiff. The case of Standard Fertilizer (Continued on Page Eight) [ AIJTO TAGS [ The new 1954 automobile tags—black letters and num erals on a yellow background —went on sale in the insur ance offices of Harrison and Carstarphen here next to Ann’s Specialty Shop on Main Street this morning, the first of the MM issuance going to G. H. Moore of Williamston. The tags in this area bear the letter N and start at 8,501. The Carolina Motor Club for the 32nd year is agent for the State in the sale of the tags, and Harrison and Car starphen has represented the club for years, maintaining one of the most efficient and accommodating license bu reaus in the State. Last year the office in this county handled approximate ly 8,000 tags, one of the last going to County Commission er Herbert L. Roebuck. Motor vehicle owners have until January 31, 1954, to dis play their tags, but the early purchase will eliminate the old last-minute rush. Slight Increase In Tobacco Crop | For Coining Year —♦— Little ('liunge Predicted In The Acreage In This* Section —<•— Ignoring the expressed wishes of farmers, Secretary of Agricul-i ture Ezra Taft Benson Hast week-1 end ordered a slight increase in! 1954 flue-cured tobacco. The add ed acreage will be limited to about 13,500, and most of the in crease will go to fringe-producing areas, according to the announce ment. It is possible a few addi tional acres will be allotted to far mers in this county, but the in crease will hardly come as a blan ket percentage gain. Rather, any additional acreage allotted this and other main tobacco producing counties will be limited possibly to new growers or for making ad justments: in some eases. The ac tion taken by Mr. Benson has not been officially announced. This year 1,044,500 acres were I planted to tobacco in the flue-cur ed producing sections. The allot \ ment has been increased, accord ing to the unofficial announce ment, to 1,057,000 acres in 1954, a gain of 13,500 acres. The preliminary announcement is not quite clear in thai the secre tary was quoted as saying the in crease would be nearly seventy five million pounds. The pound age does not correspond with the announced acreage- increase. Hardly more than fifteen million pounds can be expected from the 13,500 additional acres allotted for 1954, Congressman Harold Cooley, former chairman of the House Ag riculture committee, commented that he had rather trust the judg ment of the farmers and their or ganizations which supported a .de crease in acres of not less than ! five percent. W. P. Hedrick, tobacco market ing specialist for the North Caro lina State Department of Agri-i culture, was quoted as saying the action of the United States De pertinent of Agriculture was all right. While Mr. Benson increased to baeco slightly, he cut peanuts about four percent and just about wiped out cotton production. The over-all decrease in cotton acreage will run, around 30 per cent, but the reduction will run considerably higher than that fig ure in many cases. WINNER Johnny Wayne Peele of RED 2, Williamston, won the Dixie suit given away last Saturday by Bul luck’s here. Thi award marked . the observance of the firm’s fourth | anniversary. Name Directors For Local Country Club (PROGRESSING J Fairly complete reports point to an all-out campaign to raise $3,000 or its equival ent to finance the purchase of ten thousand pounds of pea nut butter for Korean war orphans, Chairman Mayo | Hardison said last night. The district chairmen are lin ing up helpers to make a whirl-wind drive on Friday of this week, Mr. Hardison explained. While some of the chairmen are receiving only limited encouragement, they are still plugging away at the task, “and we are hopeful the goal can be reached," Mr. Hardison said. Fast year, Martin County was second in the list of 100 offering the greatest aid for the hungry and ill clad in other lands. Slightly Hurt In Saturday Wreck Mrs. Clinton House, the former Miss Margaret Rodgerson of Wil li. unston, was slightly injured in an automobile-ambulance acci dent at the Main Street stoplight in '..'bersonvilltj, last Saturday afternoon. Suffering a bruise on her forehead, she was able to con tinue to her home following treat ment in the Ward Clinic there. Mrs. House was ruling with Mrs. Wallace Roberson in the Rober sons’ new 1954 Dodge, traveling south on Highway 903 Just as the Roberson ear entered the intersec tion on a green light, the ambu lance, operated by Charlie West, Jr., and owned by -a Greenville firm, bore down on them. By swerving the 1942 Chevrolet am bulance, the driver missed hitting the Dodge a direct blow. However, th front of the car was badly dam aged and the left side of the am bulance was battered. One esti mate placed the car damage at about $500 and that to th ambu lance u* about $300. The ambulance was moving a victim of a heart attack from Bethel to a local hospital. He was not injured in the accident, and it could not be learned immediate ly if his condition was aggravated by the crash. The patient was transferred to another ambulance and continued the trip. West was charged with operat ing a motor vehicle without a li cense, and he has been booked for trial in the county court next Monday. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Friday Afternoon -N-.NA555 DL f?D=WUX NORTH POLE, NORTH AMERICA 23 233PMG *WILLI ALSTON BOOSTERS INC* \M . - JJltU TO N HC-Afa. 1. =PLEAS£ TELL ALL THE CHILDREN IN WILLIAMSTON AND PARTIN' THAT I AM COMING TO TOWN ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 4TH-; PEE THEM AND FIND OUT WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE FOR ISTMAS. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED SENDS HIS BEST WISHES. 1 ' HOPE TO SEE ALL THE CHILDREN MADE HAPPY AT CHRISTMAS ME. SO LONG TILL DECE.M3ER 4THS ‘SANTA-CLAUS*.. A * <? % <>' 6 d % In,a special telegram to the Williamston Boosters, Santa Claus stated that he would be in Wilhamston Friday afternoon of this week at 4:00 o clock Remaining here until 0:00 o’clock that evening, in front if the Boosters’ off ire, he will receive letters from the little folks and then take leave of absence until Friday, the 18th. He'll have no special favors on lus first trip hut there will be special favors during his subsequent visits on the 18th and during Christmas week. All the little folks are invited to get their letters ready as 4oon as possible. Nineteen Men To Choose Site And Promote Project —•—. Tentative Cost Figures Are Mentioned At Meeting Meld Last INiglit —»,— Expressing a neon interest, ap proximately fifty local citizens, meeting in the courthouse last evening, elected a hoard of direc tors for the prop >sed country club in this community and heard ten tative cost figures on the project. Given the name of Roanoke Country Club, the project is head ed by Dr. Ohas I. Harris, presi dent; William II Everett, vice president, and W. L. Howell, sec retary. The board of directors elected «t the meeting last night includes, John Henry Edwards, N (’. Green, H L. Barnhill, W. 1. Skinner, C. G Crockett, Fisher Harris, Geo. H e' -son, Jr., Edward Corey, Herbert Whitley, Don Mat thews, Jr, Vance Roberson, ,1. C White J. S. Rhodes, Jr., Sherwood Roberson, Robert Cowen and G G Woolard. The group is to meet Friday evening of this week, select one of several potential sites on Highway 17 between Wil liamston and the Old Mill Inn, 1 and map plan, for advancing the | project. The land committee, i named at a previous meeting of an interested group, explained that options had been taken on several sites, any one of which | would be suitable lor the project. Definite cost figures were limit | ed to the golf course, Dr Harris explaining that complete figures could not be advanced until a de ! finite dte is selected and plans for the club house are prepared. Ellis Maples, a professional golfer ind an authority on golf course projects, inspected several of the sites yesterday afternoon, and recommended tha' the project be limited to a nine hole course, explaining that approximately seventy acres would lie sulfa ient He estimated that $25 000 would be needed to prepare an A I course, that figure including blue prints, land preparation, seeding ar.d a water system. The meeting expressed mud in terest in an adequate club with sufficient facilities to care for so eial events and accommodate com muriity activities. It was also pointed out that arrangements could be made for tennis courts and . thcr sports. A certificate of incorporation was prepart d by Attorney Robt i H. Cowen, and nearly $50,000 in stock has already been pledged. It I is estimated that the project will j represent an investment of lie I tween $150,000 and $175,000, that if work can be started within the next few week.', the golf course would be ready for use about late spring or early summer. It was clearly pointed out that the future of the proposed project depends entirely on the support it receives. Residents throughout the county have expressed inter est in it, and while it is believed the project can be handled, no tangible results are to be expect ed until at least another $50,000 or $75,000 in stock is pledged. If present interest is sustained, and there is every indication that it ami->?*>ojy"ir£,ctiit-u, then the officials anrl directorate will prepare stock of $100 par value for public subscription. Memberships and due will be discussed later as the project ad vances, it was explained at the meeting Bond Skipper Is I Placed In Jail •—«•— Failing to appear in court on November Iti, David 1'urvis was arrested in Givenville Monday afternoon and returned to this anility. He is now in jail await ing trial next Monday. Purvis is charged with speed* ng 7ft miles an hour and operat ng a motor vehicle without a iriver’s license. When arrested, Purvis said he vas short of money and thought it lest out to go into court short of ash. Four Injured In Car-Truck Wreck Friday Evening —♦— Several Other Accidents Are Reported During The Past Week-end -a Four persons were injured, two of them badly, in an automobile truck accident just inside the town limits on Washington Street about 7:30 o’clock last Friday evening. The accident was one of several reported in the town during the week-end. Coming here with a party of friends from Kelford, Mrs. Ro bert Lassiter suffered fractures of nine ribs, Mrs. Russell Bazemore suffered three fractures of the pelvis bone Mr. Lassiter was hurt in the chest and Mr. Bazemore was bruised about the forehead. G A Outland, driver of the 1950 Buick, suffered a bruised nose and Mrs. Outland received minor chest injuries. All the- victims ex cept Mrs. Bazemore and Mrs. Las siter were able to return to their hemes following hospital treat ment James Woodard, driver of the truck figuring in the accident, and a companion were not injured, police, investigating the accident, said. Mrs. Lassiter is responding to treatment in a local hospital and Mrs. Bazemore. removed to a Rocky Mount hospital following first aid treatment here, was re ported to be getting along as well as could be expected. Driving south on Highway 17, Outland started oto make a left turn into Mrs. Mary Coltrain’s driveway and continue to the Sunny Side oyster bar Finding i the driveway blocked by another I car, he apparently turned back I into the highway and met the truck, driven by Woodard and ow ned by the Eastern Distributors of Goldsboro The truck, heavily loaded with acetylene gas find ixgyen tanks, .hooked into the ight side of the car and carried it down the road eeid down a sev eral foot embankment. The crash was not a direct one. and had it been, the toll could have been much worse, officers said. Woodard said he tried to run a round the ear to his left, but another one was meeting him. Police and ambulance sirens at tracted a large crowd to the scene ol the wreck which was not clear ed of the wreckage until almost midnight. Traffic wat blinked on the busy route during long per iods for considerable distances in •at h direction. Dajnage to the iar was unof ficially estimated at $1,250 unit (Continued on miee eight) Appoint Counsel In Staton Case —*— Attorneys Hugh Martin and Clarence Griffin of the Martin County Bar Association, were ap pointed last week to defend Er nest Everett Staton, colored man who stands charged with the bru tal murder of John Robert Has sell, aged mill worker, in Robet sonville on November 16. Judge Walter J. Bone, second district jurist, made the appointments. Staton is expected to enter a plea in the case, meaning that he is in line for a life sentence. As far as it could be learned no private counsel has been employ ed to assist Solicitor Elbert S. Peel in the prosecution of the cast*. Staton who reportedly wants the gas chamber, is to go on trial during the week of December 14 when Judge Bone returns to the county. f KUUMMJP j There was so little activity on the crime front in this county that law enforcement officers, too had a holiday Thanksgiving and Muring the week-end. Some suggested that the cold weather rail crime indoors. Only two persons were ar rested during the period from last Tuesday until Monday morning. Both, a young white man and a young colored man, were charged with as saults. It was the quietest week end on iiie crime front in this county in almost a year. v, I
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