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THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT? FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEP VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 23 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. March 2,'i. 1954 ESTABLISHED 189V County's Farmers Again Endorsing * 90 Percent Plan Some Doubt About Posi tion Taken By Farm Leader In This State Leaders, politicians and lobby ists may favor flexible price sup ports for farm commodities, but Martin County farmers, attend ing a Farm Bureau meeting in the county courthouse last Friday evening, again unanimously en dorsed the rigid or 90 percent price support plan. The meeting, attracting representatives farm ers from all parts of the county, left little doubt about where they stand in the crucial farm battle now pending in the U. S. Cong ress, and they earnestly sought for a clarification of the stand now being taken by national and state farm leaders. Bill Little, field representative for the North Carolina Farm Bu reau, discussed* the parity pro grams, and said that R. Flake Shaw, president of the North Ca rolina Farm Bureau, favored the present or 90 percent parity pro gram. The statement about Shaw’s stand on the parity plan was qua lified a bit, leaving some doubt just as to where the state leader really stands. Shaw was charged a few days ago with having deserted the 90 percent parity plan, State Agri culture Commissioner “Stag" Bal lentine pointing out that 'he North Carolina Farm Bureau in its annual meeting last November had gone on record «n an unmis takable way in favor of the 90 percent parity plan! When Mr. Little maintained at the last Friday evening meeting that Mr Shaw had not deserted the 90 percent parity plan, his declaration hardly is in keeping with statements made by the state leaders before the U. S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry in Washington the week before. Answering Senator Holland’s question, “Do you mean by that that your state Farm Bureau is J supporting tne program that has I been outlined by Mr. Kline?’’, Mr. Shaw was quoted as saying: j ’’W<* had 'he president of the! North Carolina Faro Bureau who' tsat on the resolutions committee and we have five voting delegates who voted for every principle in it. 1 would say this, Senator Hol land, and I do not want to be mis understood; we have people in our state, just like all other states, who do not agree with that philo sophy, and do not agree with that principle, because in the first in-1 stance they do not understand what they are talking about when! they say 90 versus 75. They do i not understand the qualifying ele ments and a lot that is in this) document that we have present-1 cd here today. We think it is pret-t ty good. We know very well that I wo worked at it as hard as we j knew how and it is the best basis! that we have for developing facts 1 and information on any kind of I a program.” Mr. Little explained that Shaw represented the Southern Region which is comprised of thirteen] states, and that nine of those thir-l (Continued on Page Eight) County Men Are Named Directors *. I Messrs. C. L. Daniel <if Williams: Township and Sidney Mallory of j RFD 1, Oak City, were rennmmai efl for places on the North Caro-1' lina Peanut Growers Association I' board of directors at a meeting of j Martin County farmers in the courthouse last Friday evening. Their election is scheduled at a meeting of thei association to be held in Scotland Neck on Friday \ of this week. ROUND-UP Fight persons were round ed up and jailed in this coun ty during the past week-end, . according to a jail entry re cord. Five of the eight were i i booked for puplic drunken- 11 ness, two for drunken driving { and one for forgery. Six of the eight were white, a man and his wife and his brother i from Virginia. The ages of the group rang ed from 21 to 55 years. / Committee Named To Plan A nnual Farm Bureau Meet i A committee was named to make plans for the annual Mar tin County Farm Bureau memb ership held in the courthouse last Friday evening. Messrs. Johnny Gurkin, Mayo Hardison, R. S. Everett Carl Griffin, S. T. Eve I rett, T. B. Brandon, Sidney Mal ^ lory and Wilbur Barrett were | named to the committee and they are charged with the duty of making all the arrangements for the event which will be held on April 9 in connection with the annua! fat stock show. The committee is expected to have between 25 and 30 pigs bar becued for the event, and the ladies aid of the Cedar Branch Baptist Church will serve the sup per. The meeting will be held in the Williamston High School audi torium at 5:00 o'clock on the even ing of Friday. April 9, and just about all of the more than 2,000 Farm Bureau members are .ex pected t« attend. Congressman Herbert Bonner is being invited to address the annual meeting, and special invitations are being extended^! Farm Bureau officials in the State and other farm lead ers in this section to attend. A contribution of $150 was vot ed at the meeting to help finance the annual fat stogk show to be held on April 8. The sale is sche duled for April 9. and a record show is in prospect. f OVER THE TOP J “Our township is over the top with some to spare,” Chairman Floyd Moore said yesterday, explaining that the people of Williams had re sponded willingly to the cur rent Red Cross Fund Drive call. The small township is the first district in the Mar tin County Chapter to reach the 1954 goal. Mr. Moore explained that a detailed report on the drive would be released just as soon as a few more contacts are handled. $ Funeral Held For ; James A. Warren Funeral services were conduct ed at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Wynne, in Cross Roads Township last Saturday afternoon at !):00 o’clock for James Allen Warren who died at his home on Highway 903 be tween Robersonville and Stokes last Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. The Rev. P. E. Cayton, pastor of Christian Chapel, con ducted the service. Interment was | m the Ausbon Cemetery in Cross | Roads. Apparently in his usual health I last Wednesday, Mr. Warren suf fered a stroke early the follow ! mg. morning, (lying a tew hours iatei at his home A son if the late Stanley and j Mary Corey Warren, he was born in Pitt County 03 years ago on February 28. 1891. He spent his early life in Pitt County where he was employed by an oil company. In 1923 he moved to this county and farmed until about five years ago when he engaged in the'build ing trades. He was first married to Melissa Cherry of Pitt County, and three I daughters, Mrs. Wynne, Mrs. Ruf ! us Cherry of Wilson, and Mrs. Russell Garrett of Elm City, and a son, Allen Warren, survive that union. His second marriage was to Lucy Bland of Martin County who died in 1952. A daughter, Mrs. Ruppert Brown of Baltimore and a son, William Stanley War ren of the home, survive that un ion. Also surviving are two bro thers, Frank Warren of Roberson ville Willie Warren of Greenville, and a sister. Mrs. Lawrence Nel ; son, of Stokes. Local Firemen Answer Calls *— Local firemen answered two, calls yesterday afternoon, oni to a grass fire between the Williams ton Peanu* Company plant and the G. and H. Builders' Supply Company, and the other to the Clark farm near Oak City. The grass fire was soon check-: cd. Ad vised lhat the Claik farm, fire had been brought under con trol, the department called the E. L. White store in Poplar Point just in time for Mrs. White to flag the truck and direct it back to the station. Details of the farm fire could not be learned immediately, but one report said a gas tank ex ploded on a tractor, and that the operator was not hurt. This morning shortly after 12:00 o'clock, a general alarm was sounded and firemen went to a chicken coop near the Whitfield home just off Plum Street in j North End. ''Firemen” Thurman Nicholson was doing an effective job with a garden hose, and fire- i : men were able to knock the fire ! i out in a matter of minutes. The; coop was charred on one side, but damage was negligible Lillie Relief Is Offered Majority Of The Taxpayers Set* Thai Most Of Tin* Relief Goes To The Well-To-Do —*— j Washington.— l'hn-e Democra j tic leaders have offered their par | ty’s answer to President Eisen | hower in the tax battle. It is the biggest and most clean cut partisan fiscal struggle since Mr. Eisenhower took office. Nobody can guess how it will turn out. President Eisenhower made a strong 15-minute defense of his position recently. The counterargument given by the Democrats was delivered over equivalent radio time by ihree respected Leaders. It was notable that they were all from the South and generally regarded as middle road or conservative. In brief, their argument is that the Republicans are proposing to ; give tax concession to the well to-do and neglecting the poor peo- j pie, and that they are following j what Democrats charge is the old ! R blican "trickle-down” theory ! i m distributing economic conces sions. Eisenhower Keystone The issue is red hot because of the approaching electiotv. Forth-j * rmore, as Mr. Eisenhower says, the tax program is the “keystone” of his legislative program. The Democratic proposal would cost the Treasury a good deal more money than the Eisenhower program and would put the bud get further, in the red. Democrats say this is justified to bolster purchasing power and sustain the economy in the cur rent business decline to which they attach greater weight than do the Republicans. Mr. Eisenhower hit out sharply against the prophets of “gloom” whom he charges, are using fore casts of a “depression” for elec tion purposes. The only comment on this was from Senator Walter F. George conservative Democrat from Georgia: "We do not assert that wer are facing a major depression. We profoundly hope that we are not.” But he argued “there are dis turbing signs” and the time to meet “a downswing in the econo my is before it gets under way.” Democrats say they are follow ing the philosophy that what 1he economy needs to halt unemploy ment is greater mass purchasing power. They propose to get this by raising the $500 exemption in 1 he income-tax law for individ uals and dependents by a mini mum of $100 and perhaps $200 or ev n more. Each $100 raise cost the treasury $2,400,000,000 Stock Ownership A. an example ui Republican preferential treatment to the1 "wealthy” in the pending bill all three Democratic leaders argued that the GOP proposal to give concessions to recipients of stock dividends is unfair. Put in brief by Representative Jere Cooper (D) of Tennessee, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Commit (Continued on Page Six) rakea Over Munuffement Of H ier Coffee Shop -•— Chas. J. Brady has taken over the management of Wier’s Coffee Shop here on Washington Street, ' entering upon his new duties this morning. He succeeds W. E. Mor- j i ton, who, it is understood, plans , to enter business for himself. I Nan Lost Life In Gardner's Creek Saturday Night ———<1>—— Body Of Whitakers Man Had Not Been Recover ed Early Today —* Johnnie Hull, 55-year-old man of RFD 1, Whitakers, fell from a boat while fishing in Gardner’s Creek shortly after 10:00 o’clock last Saturday night and is pre sumed dead. No trace of the body had been found up until early this morning after friends, relatives and representatives of the sheriff’s department had dragged the stream since early Sunday morning. Floating logs and limbs and submerged debris made the dragging operations difficult, and officers explained that it looked as if the search would have to be one of watching and waiting for the body to surface. Accompanied by Russell Proc tor of RFD 4. Rocky Mount, Hall had loaded his small boat about | half full with herring, lie stood up near the front of the boat and lost his balance, toppling over in to the swift current. Proctor said he saw him surface one time, wave his hand and disappear in the darkness. Hall is believed to have tried to make it ashore. Proctor and other friends from Rocky Mount who had come down from Rocky Mount for a week-end fishing trip, circled the area for a long time, but found no trace of the body and dragging op-, orations were started the next I morning. Hall fell out of the boat several miles from Gardner's Creek bridge and at a point not too far from where the stream empties into Devils Gut. It was the first drowning in the Roanoke or its tributaries this fishing season. A Nash County man lost his life in the creek year before last not too far from the spot where Hull fell out of his bold. There were no drowning* reported in this immediate area during the fishing season last year. There arc seven children in the Hall family, a friend of the miss ing man said yesterday. Enter Pleas in Beaufort Court + Pleading guilty of participating in a series of robberies in Beau fort County during recent months, five Martin County youths were sentenced by Judge Malcolm Paul in Washington last Thurs day afternoon. James Moore, Bobby Mims and William Roberson were placed on probation, and Wm, Barnes and Onward Reason were sentenced to prison for not less than three and not more than four years. The probation and sentences are to run concurrently with the ones handed down by Judge Chester Morris in the Martin County Su perior Court earlier in the week The two lads sentenced to pri son were removed from Beaufort County to Raleigh today to start serving their terms, it was report-1 Enginvera (.lub Hill Meet In Jackaonvillv The East Carolina Engineers. Club will hold its monthly meet-i ing at Jacksonville, Norlh Caro lina, on Wednesday, March 24, at 6:30 p. in. The announced program is to b<' a talk on “Combat Engineering” by a member of the Joint De veloprnent Board of the U. S. Ma rine ,mp Lcjcune. Ail members are urged to attend what promises to be a very interesting meeting. One Hart In Car Accident On The County Highways - ! r*vo Young: Navy Mon Vic tims Of Accident On Roulo 171 Last Friday —*— One person was slightly hurt in an automobile accident on the highways in this county, and two young Navy men were painfuiily but believed not seriously hurt in a wreck last Friday evening on Highway 171 just over in Beau fort County. Damage to vehicles in the five accidents in this county was estimated $1,800 while the Nash car driven by the navy men was said to have been a to tal loss. Driving on West Main Street last Friday evening about 5:20 o' clock, Mrs. Susie Hudson Vann started to make a left turn near the J. B. Peele home when her 1952 DeSoto w as struck by a 1952 Dodge truck driven by Jas. E. Manning and owned by Dock Tay lor. No one was injured, but the property damage was estimated at $800, about $000 to the truck and approximately $200 to the car. Reaching into the glove com partment for a comb, Ervin Baker lost control of his 1950 Ford on the Poplar Point road near the Rainbow farm last Saturday af ternoon. The car ran off the road on the left side of the road, lit erally jumped back across the road to the right and then turned back to the left and plunging into a ditch. Baker, driving toward Thomas store t the Sherrod farm, was not injured. Damage to his car was estimated at $200. Kelly Crandall lost control of his 1951 Chevrolet near the Fill Everett farm on a road leading off the Prison Camp highway last Saturday night about 11:00 o’ clock and suffered a three-stitch gash near one of his eyes. The 1951 Chevrolet was said to have traveled down the right shoulder for about fifty yards, swerved 27 yards across the road and con tinued into a pasture a distance of about fifty yards before crash mg into and demolishing a pig pen and after tearing down three fences and cutting a small tree in ■ two. Walter Jones and helpers; had a difficult time penning hisl hogs after the accident. Crandall, | his car damaged at about $300.1 was treated in the Bethel clinic. Driving his 1954 Plymouth to ward Hamilton, Alonza Daniel, 23-year-old colored fnan of Wil liamston started to make a left turn into Chas. Bullock's drive way a short distance from Spring Green. Herman Lee Privott, Nor folk colored man, starting to pass just at that time, crashed into the Crandall car with his 1947 Chevrolet, causing about $150 i damage to the Plymouth and j about $100 to his own car. No one! was flurt. Daniel said he gave a hand signal and Privott said he | did not see the signal. Privott j said he blew his horn and Daniel I said he did not hear it. The acci dent was reported about 11:30 Sunday Morning. (Continued from Page Six) j ( DKiMONSTimiOIN J The Kxtcnsion Service, In j cooperation with the Mathie son Chemical Company, will conduct a special field de monstration on the use of an hydrous ammonia on the O. P. Wolf farm near Jamesville on Friday afternoon of this week at 2:00 o’clock. The liquid fertilizer, rapid ly Raining acceptance in the farming world, will be plac ed in the ground jusl ahead of the corn planting. Farmers and others inter ested are invited to attend. ‘I Teen-Age Mother A nd Her Ch ild A re Reported Missing Invited to attend her 17-year - did a wedding, *vrrs. Loillian Alex of Belmar, New Jersey, after traveling all night Thursday ir.ght, reached here last Friday to find her daughter miss ing along with her tvvo-month-old grandchild. After looking in vain most of Friday, the mother re turned by Trail ways to her New Jersey home, but not until she had pleaded with officers to con tinue the search for the two wanderers. The story behind the pathetic story has an ugly twist and dates back a year or more, according to information coming from the sheriff's office. The story appar ently had its beginning in New Jersey, but the locale was shift ed to this county last September when the teen-ager told officers’ she came down to marry a young man she met while he was near her home In Now Jersey. She found the boy either engaged or already married to another. After wandering around the county, mostly in WilliamMon, she was handed bus fare donated by Ske warkey Masons. The girl's baby was born last January, and about three weeks ago she left home with the infant, presumably to many another man. She called her mother and explained that she was being taken care of in a trailer in or near Wilhamston, that the wedding was planned for the past weekend. The man she advised her mother she was mar rying is already married, accord ing to officers who believe that the ease is or could be an involved one Plan Talent Show For Miss Bailey . The 10th grade of the Bear Grass school will sponsor a talent show on Friday, March 2tith at 8:00 P. M. Receipts are to to Norma Bailey Receipts are to be given to Norma Bailey. Norma is the 16 year old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bai ley, Rt. 2 Williamston, who was severly burned on December 17, 1058. She was in a local hospital until February 2, 1954, when she was transferred to Duke Hos pital where she stayed for nine ! days. Now she is lasne again. Al though there has been some dona tions this hospitalization wasn't given for a song, but there are many people willing to give a song ' or some other talent so that Nor [ ma and her family might be bet ter able to meet these and other ! bills that might present them j selves in the course of treatment j Some of those people are: The ' Bear Grass Trio, Louvenia Rog erson, Jeanette Lilly, Thurman Gritfm, Mars Anna Rogerson, Calvin Chesson, The Melody Mas 1 iters, Ruby Wynne and Wilda Wynne, Jesse Cowan, Myrtle Ann Nicholson, Carl Beacham and Ed ward Rogers, Myra Fisher, Rachel Rogerson and Katherine "LuTy* Hattie Stubbs, James Cratt, Janice Manning, Mary Lee Beacham, Ann Holliday and Miss Modlin, The Crazy Four, Henry Cowan and Guy Leggett Jr., Mike Kil Patrick and Judy Highsmith, Crisse Gurkin, Loretta Marring- j ton, Della Gurkin, Johnnie Leg gett, Betty Stubbs and several others. The price of admission to this | worthwhile cause is 15 and 25 cents. Norma's class is working hard to help her. When you are approached to buy a ticket won’t you? Amvets Consider Building Project Given an acre of land, the AMVETS (American veterans of World War II) are making plans to erect a building in this county, il was announced last week-end. The land, donated by Mrs. luz /u Sniithwick, is located on High way 171 just outside the James ville town limits. No details for the building have been made public, but it was learned that the organization has some funds m the bank There are about twenty active members of the organization in the county at this time, it was learned. A special meeting of the or ganization is scheduled for Friday > % < wing of the -. 11-. a' S o' clock in the Cypress Grill at Jamesville. Members will have special guests for the event. r I v I J I’KKSIDKiNT James ('. Manning, superin tendent of Martin County schools, was elected ((resident of the Superintendent’s Di vision of the North Carolina education Association at a meeting held in Raleigh last Friday. Martin County was well represented at the meet ing. Robbery Trail Being Retraced (—•The Ui)l cobinww trail Idwted bv a number of teen-agers (luring the past few months is being opened again in tins county, ac cording to reports coming from the sheriff’s office. The courts had hardly disposed of the first wave I of robberies before the second series was opened by another team. Twisting off the front door lock, robbers entered the Noah Rob erson store in Kami Life some time during early last Friday morning and carried away goods valued at about $75. The loot in eluded about $12 in cash which was carried away in the money drawer. Goods missed from the store included about 22 pairs of men’s dress socks, twelve pairs of women’s hose, a dozen "T” j shirts, a dozen men’s shorts and I half-dozen pairs of Happy Jim and Blue Bell overalls. A wrist I watch, stolen in the first robbery on January 21) and recovered a short time later, was stolen. It was a man’s wrist watch and had a suede band The robbers drove by the store two or three times and parked about twelve or fifteen steps from the front door to load up the stol en goods. The robbery was discovered I about 7:00 o’clock Friday morning i | when the owner went there to, open for the day's business. Scott Calls For Volunteers In a hurried trip through this area last evening, Kerr Scott, candidate for the U. S. Senate, called for volunteers to lend him support. No scheduled stop had been planned by the former gov ernor, but he saw several people in the county, and a committee is r.ow shaping up to support his candidacy. Mr. Scott, assured of a strong support in this county and ad joining territory, was asked what! he would compromise for in the I , way of a vote in Martin. "Wi ll, well, hay about 95 percent. Any thing over that figure would luok a bit irregular,” he jokingly de clared The candidate said he was greatly impressed with the re spon.se his candidacy is receiv ing, especially throughout .this part of the State. It was also learned that things are looking good for his candidacy in other areas. During his short stay in the county, In briefly 'discussed vari ous campaign plans, but no de tails were bandied scheduling .1 return visit in the immediate future. Several voluntary eontri butions were handed Mr. Scott’s | aide, Mi Hoy Wilder, of Spring ! Hope* Coming here from Greenville, Mr. Scott left about 10:00 o’clock [to visit and spend the night with Henry G. Shelton, former high way commissioner for this dis trict. | Brother Oi Local Resident Passes David Styiun Wood, brother'of Mi *. Leman Jiarnhill of Wiilliams ton, died suddenly following a heart attack at his LaGrange home Sunday afternoon, lie was till years of age Surviving besides his sister in Williamston are his widow, the former Miss Annie Hardy; three sons, David, Jr, Milton Hardy and James Marshall Wood, all of1 LaGrange; and three sisters, Mrs. Fred S Isler, and Mrs. R. M. Ad ams, both of LeGrange and Mrs Guy Dawson of Clinton. Funeral services were conduct ed this morning at 11:00 o’clock in the LaGrange Presbyterian Church. Interment was in the cemetery there. Heard Few Civil Cases Monday In Superior Copra Fi\<‘ Divorces Granted In Short Time Diirinf 'Horning Session i Meeting Monday morning in the ; second of a two-week term the I Martin County Superior Court j with Judge Chester Morris pre ! siding, cleared a number of cases | from the civil caiena-r, including [ five divorce actions. I Divorces, all based on grounds . of two years of separation, were granted as follows: Sadie R. Joyner from George W Joyner, ollie O'Neal Corey j from Joseph Paisley orey, Mamie j Griffin from Emmett Alvin Grif I fin, Cleopatra Andrews Tyner from John M. Tyner, and Lucy Price from James Lloyd Price. In the case of Mamie Griffin against Emmett Griffin, the court found the plaintiff a fit and competent person and awarded her the cus tody of their child, the evidence ■ showing that the child had been abandoned bv the defendant. In the divorce case of Mamie A. ' Wynne against George H Wynne, ithe jury answered the issue in ! favor of the plaintiff, but custody of a minor was involved and a judgment was not signed immedi ! ately .by Judge Morris, i After thi' plaintiff had eom I pleted evidence in the case of I Mrs. Annie L. Roberson against I I). C. Williams, Jr., the defense | made a motion for non-suit. The | court ruled that the plaintiff “had not offered sufficient evidence to entitle the jury to pass upon the | cause" and the non-suit motion I was granted. An appeal to the State Supreme Court was made. | The plaintiff in the case alleged | false pretense and asked j damages in the sum of approxi | matelv $15,000. A voluntary non-suit was taken by the plaintiff in the case of 1 J S. Crandall against Garland i Wynne. | It was explained to the court that the case of Chas. H. Jenkins I against Curtis O’Mary had been sett led. Motions wen made in several other ease. , and still other cases I were continued for the term. ChrarnjpMaue In Elections Board (' D Carstarphen, Williams I ton man, and J, R. Winslow'.and j Wade Vick both of Robersonville, i were named to the Martin County Board of Elections by the State I board in session last Saturday. Mr Winslow is succeeding Has kell Worslev, Democrat, on the county board Mr. Vick repre ! 'i nts the Republican Party. | Messrs. Carstarphen and Vick have si rved on the board for some t imc. The group will meet early next month to perfect an organization, name precinct officials and make ready for the registration and subsequent primary election on May 29. A report from Chairman Car starphen this week revealed no major developments on the poli tical front in this county. A race den loped for constable in Hamil ton Township last week-end when Harper M Peel announced his candidacy. James S. Ayers filed his candidacy several weeks ago to succeed himself in the office. Clyde H Bunting, young busi n<-s man, also filed last week for constable of Robersonville Town ship. The eandnlaev of Lemuel H, Ross oi Washington was certified this week to Chairman Carstar phi n by the Beaufort County Hoard "of Elevir ie Wom log of Manteo and Edward L. Ow ens of Plymouth announced their candidacies, but theii candidacies had not been certified. Chairman Carstarphei said today. [ IMHILTKV SCHOOL T. B. Morris, poultry spe cialist ol the North Carolina extension Division, Raleigh, uill conduct a special poultry school in the grammar grade school auditorium in \Vil» li.unstop Thursday evening of liamston Thursday afternoon of this week at 1:30 o'clock. C lub members and adults, including home demonstra tion club members and oth ers, are invited to attend.
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