YHE ENTERPRISE IS BEAD 81 OVER 3,000 MARTEN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE 9 THE ENTERPRISE IS REAU « OVER 3,000 MARTIN COON/ FAMILIES TWICE EACH Wffc VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 101 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, D?rember 17, 1953 ESTABLISHED Reports Trip To ■J-JLPnb Congssss, j Held In Chicago —•— *' Hiss Coltrain Represented Stale In Home Electric Contest At Meeting By Joan Carol Coltrain I was very excited on the morn-! ing of November 29 because this j was the day I was to leave on my | trip to the 32nd National 4-H Club ! Congress in Chicago for being the State winner in the Farm and Homf Electric project. My trip was* sponsored by the Westing houffe Educational Foundation. Not only was 1 excited, but thrill ed over the fact that I would ride on a train for the first time, eat and sleep on a train. It was quite an experience lor me. The State Recognition Program was held at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh previous to us leaving the Durham Train Station at 2 P. M. After 23 hours on the train we arrived in Chicago to spend a week at the largest hotel in the world, the Conrad Hilton Saturday afternoon the Natio nal Barn Dance put on a special 4-H Show at Sight St Theatre. Here we saw Lula Belle and Scot ty, Woody Mercer, Homer and Jethra, Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers, and others that you hear over WLS every Saturday night. We were guests of Prairie Farmer-~WLS. Then we went to hear “Pops" Concert, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra whose music was just a dream. We were guests of Ford Motor Co. Sunday morning we had Special 4-H Church Services held in the Grand Ballroom of the Conrad Hilton. This was the most impres sive service I have ever attended During the singing of the Stars Spangled Banner with all the lights out the flag of the United States in a spot light was waving back and forth. Can you imagine the feeling this gave me" In our General Assembly Sun day afternoon Mrs Charles R Walgreen showed us some of her slides she took ip. the. Southwest frffMfu?. ■'f-ift-v.-cufu tent gtout state winners had Receptions or Suppers. All of State Farm and Home Electric winners had a Re ception. We were the guests of the Sunday Evening Club. Our tpeaker was Dr. Charles C. Noble, Dean Emeritus of Hendrieks Cha pel, University ofa Syracuse, New Vork. For bresk/ast Monday we were the Tire and Rubber Co. We had our host Mr. Raymond C. Firestone to ijreet us and for entertainment we had the Sunrise Serenaders. “Careerscope Fashions” was the title of the fashion show which was presented for this year’s Na tional dress Revue received a set of dressmaking shears given by the Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc. I appeared on the “Hi Ladies” program over WGN-TV in Chi cago Monday at 12:30 P. M. There were fourteen hundred official delegates to Club Con gress, but with leaders and others there were 2.000 present We were divided into two groups for tours We went or. a motor coach tour of the city and an education tour of the cTly * We viTiTecr’TRe'TCITR? um of Science and Industry. Per haps one of the most interesting parts of the tour to many of us was going down into a coal mine W'e had the famous Thomas E. Wilson Dinner with Mr. Wilson present himself. Many spurt cele brities were interview and oui speaker was the honorable Ezra Taft Benson. Tuesday at lunch the boys and girls separated. The boys had i 'lunch' ftT the I Terrace Casino, Morrison Hotel. | (Continued on Page Three) | --<*> Taking Action To Close Pink House Preliminary action was taken in the superior court this morning to have the ‘'Pink House”, a sand wich shop in West End, declared a public nuisance. The injunc tion names Mrs. Blanche Knowels as the defendant. The injunction had not been signed by the court early today, but it was said the plaintiff w'as seeking to have the place pad locked without delay. A hearing in the case has not been schedul ed. Mobile X-Ray Unit Coming XiilV^eUoiw^ Next Month Plans have been complete for bringing two mobile X-ray units | to this county in January tor mak-, ing a mass tuberculosis survey 1 amorg all person® 16 years old | and older, it was announced by the Martin County Health Depart ment this week. According to a tentative sche dule announced by the depart ment, one of the units will be lo cated in Williamston beginning January 6. It is to retain the loca tion through the 23rd in front of Davis’ Pharmacy. A second unit will be stationed at the basket factory on January 6 for one day only. On January 7, 8 and 9, the unit will be located in Oak City, arid it will: spend oife day in Hamilton o«i January 12. Moving from Hamilton the unit will set up in Jamesville for a two-day stay on January 13 and 14. Follow ing a one-day stop in Bear Grass on January 15, the mobile X-ray unit will locate in Robersonvllle on January 16 and remain open there that day and on January 19, 20, 21 and 23. Maintained by the State Board of Health in cooperation with the Martin County Health Depart ment and the Martin County Tu berculosis Association, the service is offered free to all persons 15 years old and older. The X-rays, made without charge, require on ly two minutes of one’s time, and the findings are kept confidential. The simple picture-taking requir es no undressing, just the removal of metal objects from one’s cloth ing covering the chest. WARNS SHOPPERS I i _/ Chief of Police John Roe-' buck yesterday issued his an nual w arning to shoppers to be careful with their Christ mas parcels, especially cau tioning them against leaving them in plain view in un locked and unattended auto mobiles. Each year there are numerous complaints to the police about stolen articles during the Christmas shopp ing period. The warning was pointed up by the report yesterday that a coat had been stolen from a car belonging to an Oak City resident visiting in Williamston. Many other towns have reported an epi demic of thefts from cars, the reports indicating that Nor folk is being plagued with that particular type of crime now. Chief Roebuck feels that if persons will heed the warn ing It will save them both thSir possessions and the ne cessity of reporting the theft to the police. JQasingJ£wp" Drive Tonight The annual CROP, (Christian Rural Relief Program) will be closed in the county this evening when canvassers and other in terested leaders meeting in the courthouse for final reports, it was announced 'by'CTIairmarMVia yo Hardison. Although only six of the town ships have reported, a total of $1,029.37 has been raised and re ported, Mr. Mardison said. Kober sonville, Poplar Point and Hamil ton were said to have gone yver the top. Reports were either in complete or had not been filed by the chairmen in Cross Roads, Griffins, Jamesville and Bear : Grass. The county was asked to raise $3,000 or its equivalent in farm | commodities to advance the pur i chase of 10,0u0 pounds of peanut : butter for the hungry multitudes : over seas. It isn’t too late to get a contri fbuoi/ti either to Mr. Hardtowwr fo? I county chairman, or to the Rev. Thos. Hastings, Williamston chair man. Turkey Targets In This County -- The turkey is really on the 1 spot in this county. In addition Ut> Vhe- routine attack, the turkey is being made a prime target at “shoots” all over the county. Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’ clock and agpin at the same hour next Tuesday, the Everett Ruri tians are sponsoring a shoot at the Everetts school. From 1:00 to 4:00 o’clock Satur day afternoon, the Ruritans are holding a shoot at Bear Grass. Next Monday and Tuesday at 7:00 o’clock p. m., the Williamston Kiwanis Club is sponsoring shoots near the office of the Standard Fertilizer Company here on Roa noke River. On Thursday, December 24, from 9 a. m. until 2:00 p. m., the Farm Life Ruritans are holding a shoot at Manning and Gurkin’s store. Income from all the events will go to worthy causes, it was ex plained. Court Will Close Criminal Session Friday Aiternoon —•— Goodly Number Of Cases Continued For Trial At March Term Devoting considerable time to the trial of two cases, the Martin County Superior Court, after clearing a dozen or more cases from the criminal docket last Monday, found the going slow up until early this afternoon. The case against J. T. Briley, charged with assaulting Larine Raynor, young colored girl, is expected to reach the jury this afternoon. The court started working on the case late yesterday. At noon today the court agreed to continue quite a few cases, but the list was not certain. It is planned to try a murder case and one other with the possibility that others will be heard if there is time tomorrow afternoon. After 25 minutes of delibera tion a jury declared Robert Gray i n v > a ■ rg'r- caifesz ] zlement closing the case at 3:30 : Tuesdav^afidl day after it was at 3:30. Another defendant, Marcellus “Dock” Bullock, was freed when the grand jury returned a “no true bill" in the indictment charg ing him with breaking and enter ! mg with intent to commit a fel j ony. 1 Robert Bailey, alias Bobbie Lee ; Bailey, alias David McLean was , /cun J guili-j. | breaking and entering and the | court sentenced him to serve from two to three years in one case. In i a second case, he was sentenced to serve twelve months, the sen tence to begin at the expiration of the first. He was also sen tenced to serve twelve months in each of two other breaking and entering effses, the sentences to run concurrently with the one im posed in the second case. He al ready is serving time on a Craven County road gang. Augustus Cotton entered a plea of guilty to drunken driving and was fined $100 and costs. WtUiBTO..J3pruiU was. e> I ty of an assault with intent to ‘kill and was sentenced to the | roadj, ,rf.p W* ■ i — - Stolen Sale Is FoundNear Here !.A comparatively small iron safe, believed to have been stolen from a Roper grocery store a year or more ago, was found ear ly this week less than one hund red feet off Highway 17 about four miles south of Williamston. Children playing near an old junk pile, saw the safeand investigat ed. More than $2 in coins was found in and near the safe. Farmer J. T. Woolard reported the find to Sheriff M. W. Hollo man who identified the safe as that of Grocer Chesson in Roper. The safe, one of several stolen in this part of the State about a year ago, had its handle and com bination knocked off, but the money was removed from a hole blov/n in the bottom of the iron box. Sheriff Holloman said others had seen the safe, but since, it was in a trash pile others thought it Lock Runs Out On Simnn Jenkins In 4M» ♦ -s»^•**■•*♦ • - •■• • <11— « Suspended Sentences He Hud Shelved With Cash Fines Handed Back Luck ran out on Simon Jen kins in the bootleg racket yes terday and the suspended sent ences he had put on the shelf through payment fo cash fines have been handed back to him by Judge Walter J. Bone, presiding jurist at the December term of Martin County Superior court in session this week. Brought into the court on sev eral charges involving the pos session and sale of liquor, the no torious Robersonville bootlegger whose game of tag with the law runs back as far as 1928, was found guilty yesterday afternoon by a jury and drew a new sent ence of six months on the roads to run concurrently with a couple of two-year suspended sentences which were invoked to run con secutively—a total of four years. The defendant’s two out of coun ty lawyers indicated late yester day that Jenkins would serve the time, that no further battle with the law to stay off the roads was anticipated. In this particular case twenty minutes were required to get the jury empanelled and Investiga tor Stuz took the stand for the State. He told of visiting Jenkins place on the 24th of October and declared he had purchased a pint of whjskey for $3.75. He said he went to the side door of Jenkins house about 10:25 in the evening and Simon invited him in. The witness said there were two col ored women in the house and a colored man in the kitchen who had just finished taking a drink. Stutz said he asked Jenkins if he could get a pint and was told to wait just a minute. Jenkins was alleged to have gone into another room and returned with a pint which Stutz bought. Stutz said he left the building and return ed to his car. On cross examina he had -bern with j the State ABC for three and a i half years. It was also alleged vestigators a drink of liquor on October 23rd about 8:10 p. m. for 50c. The investigator diank part i of it. F. W. Thompson, special in vestigator for the State ABC al so testified. Jenkins told the court that he runs a store and raises hogs. He | admitted being tried for liquor ! law violations several times. He wife, they have been separated for about three years, but he said he had not been convicted in this connection. It was admitted that he drew 90 dd>i, and 60 days on Whiskey charges in 1928 and 1937 but he said he did not recall be ing tried again. He was tried in September, 1953, but was not con victed. He admitted being under a suspended sentence imposed last March on a liquor charge, saying he did not know what the judg ment was but did know how much it cost. He denied selling li quor since that time. | Jenkins said he saw Stutz and I T! r*'pson on October 31, no the 24th. He said he had not seen j Stutz before. Simon said he was in-the*twin*mt p\uyi is , 1 full silos, dependable available! protein supplies plus maximum j employment for worker’s in com merce and industry. He advised the beef cattlemen not to allow temporary market drops to dis courage them. He said that only last September did the South west and other sections begin to get rainsneeded to break a 30 to ! 38 montnorought. Before the' drought was broken we had heavy runs of low grade cattle far outnumbering the demand for slaughter cattle of this grade. Furthermore, he pointed out there was no place for them back on the farms, so many of which had greatly exhausted all their feed supplies. It was only natural, un der these circumstances, for the market to drop. The Department of Agriculture did step in begin ning last March and buy beef which was the type of help that was sound, Mr. Ward said. The Department of Agriculture bought over two hundred million pounds of beef and beef product:', some of which went to school lunch pro aeftBftS -i*-4fl ■£asm was exported. The drought over a large part of the Southwest and other sections did create a temporary acute sit uation Mr. Ward said but there is nothing basically wrong with the cuttle business. It is as sound as ever and is one of the great industries of America. Dr. E. K. Barrick gave a report of demonstrations of feeding out cattle with pasture alone versus pastures and different amounts of ci;,i n fed He .pe)..u.!,e*d out. that with the light type of feeder cattle some could be fed to the choice grade with good Ladino Fescue pastures. However, it would gen erally be more profitable to in clude some corn in the ration. Again it takes the right type feed ers, out of the right type cows and off the right type bulls to get into these good and choice grades with good feeding. Among other important phases of the beef eattlc program, a tour of the Animal Husbandry farm at State College was made where pastures of Ladino Clover and Fescue were lush and green with brood cows of different beef breeds getting nothing to eat ex cept this pasture and mineral and a limited amount of hay and they were nice and fat. In fact, one of (Continued on Page Three) f EARLY KIHTION J The Enterprise plans to publish its next edition on Monday of next week. Adver tisers and others, including those having public notices or announcements for publica tion next week, are cordially asked to have their copy or notices in the office not later than Saturday of this week. In keeping with a custom of long standing there'll be no second edition next week, making it possible for the em ployees to take about a week oft for Christmas. Girl Scouts Are Guests Oi Club -aj, The Williamston Woman's Club was host to the local girl Scouts and Brownie troops at its regular meeting in the Club building on December 15 This Gil l. Scout Christmas party is an annual affair and all members of j, | Brownies are incited. Seventy-two girls were present. Mrs. Roy Jameson, program chairman, presented Mrs. Char lotte Abernathy who led the group in the singing of popular Christmas songs. The spirit of Christmas was soon felt as the Girl Scouts and the "girl club members” joined in singing the old favorite, ‘‘Up on the House ToT','lffiB!Pm*ff.r,-ct.o.i M|"s Mary Taylor and Mrs. Ray Good man, the Girl Scout troops, dress ed in their uniforms of red and green, grouped themselves to form an effective living Christ mas tree. The troop was again seated and listened in reverent silence as Mrs. Abernathy told a beautiful story concerning the favorite Christmas hymn, “Silent Night.” She told how this hymn, written by a German, united the hearts of German and American soldiers as they sang it together, each in his own language, on a Christmas morning while the American soldiers stood guard jover the German soldiers during I World War 11. ^ - Whcdcn Main op —paid Dickens Christmas Carol as adap ted for children. The happy spirit orf sharing Christmas cheer was Scouts and Brownie troops recited thrir pledges. Refreshments, were served from a table very fittingly decorated with its pop corn Christmas tree and apple candle holders. Other holiday arrangements, furnished by the gard-n club, were placed throughout the building A beau ti.ful, .CkriCtoms tree lighted the collection of gjft:; wrapped in white that had ben contributed by the club members for distri bution to needy families in the County. Eleven Hundred Motor Tags Sold Sale of about 1100 motor ve hicle license tans for 19H was re ported this morning by Harrison & Carstarphen Insurance office— 800 for automobiles, 200 for trucks and 100 for trailers. The report indicated that the sales were none too brisk at this time leaving a possibility that a late rush may develop next month as the February 1 deadline ap proaches. Marlin Farmers Leave Mo Doubt Tn Uueht Voiing Colton Carries By 812 to 6; Peanuts Do Even Better At 2277 to 13 Peanut anu cotton growers Oi Martin County left no doubt as to their position in the matter of quotas for these two important crops when they went to the polls Tuesday to support peanut quo tas 2277 to 13 and cotton quotas 812 to 6. Three voting places re ported unanimous support of both programs—Beat Grass, Grif fins and Poplar Point. Seven of the ten voting places for the cotton referendum re ported no dissenting votes—Bear Grass, Cross Roads, Griffins, Jamesville 1 and II, Poplar Point, Williams and Williamston. Seven of 13 in the peanut voting pre cincts reported unanimous sup port for the program. These were Bear Grass, Goose Nest I and II, Griffins, Jamesville I, Poplar Point nad Robersonville I. In the peanut vote Williamston cast the highest number of bal lots with 364 w'hile Williams was low with 76. Goose Nest I and II showed the highest count in the cotton vote with 252 while only seven growers in Jamesville I and II bothered to vote on the issue of quotas. The vote proved, as had bee predicted, that the farmers ther - selves have learned what is ne cessary to keep their economy in som sort of balance and are not going to be talked into believing that they do not know. The voting by communities in the cotton quota referendum was reported as follows: For Bear Grass 25 Cross Roads 47 Goose Nest I and II 252 Griffins 10 Hamilton 161 Jamesville I and II 7 Poplar Point 28 Robersonville I and II 200 10 64 812 Vs, 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 6 Williams Williamston | Total in the peanut quota voting the : eount ran as follows: Beat j■■ "'1 i ,! Cross Roads 175 1 j Goose Nest I '60 0 Goose Nest II 123 0 Griffins 197 0 (Continued on Page Three) Four Accidents OnXft'intyRwis—« Three persons were injured but property damage was held to a figure under $500 in a series of ac cidents on the highways and streets in the county during the past three days. Floyd Harris of RFD I. Rober sonville, ran his 19-48 Plymouth into a ditch on a rural road north of Oak City early last Tuesday evening. He was not hurt and damage to his car was estimated at about $25. Herbert Brown, 71-year-old Oak City man, was painfully but be lieved not seriously injured when i he was run down by a car at the intersection of Highways 11 and 125 in Oak City Tuesday evening- ■ ■.■■«*« at 7:15 o'clock. Win. H. Johnson of 510 S. Andrews Street, Golds boro, was driving the car, and it was reported that the victim walked into the intersection. Suf fering lacerations about the face and body, the victim was removed to a Tarboro hospital for treat ment. Driving out of the drive-way at the Sundown Theater iieai Ro i ber'sonvillo on Highway 903 this fmorning about 9:00 o’clock, Step hen Stalls crashed into a 1948 (Dodge piek-up truck being driv en by Harry Slade. No one was injured. Property damage was estimated at $200 to each vehicle. Two marines, one from Cherry Point, and the other from Le jeune, were injured when their car, a 1953 Chevrolet, could not make a curve just this side of Butler’s Bridge on Highway 125 at 4:50 o'clock yesterday morning and went into a ditch. John J. Twolling of Jamaica, New York, was driving the car and he was treated in a local hos 1 pital for lacerations of the fore head. His companion, whose name could not be learned im mediately, suffered a shoulder j injury. He was also treated in .' | local hospital.