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3 2 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY ^ OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES -THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT? FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEP =S3 V OLUME LYII—NUMBER 29 ff'illiuniston, Martin County, Xorth Carolina, Tuoutlay. April f.i, 1954 ESTABLISHED 189V I Stock Show-Sale Here Friday Steers Averaged Above $33; Hogs Sold For $30.90 -$ Thomas Revels Sells Champ Steer For 45e; Champ Hog Brought 70c 4-H club mem and show oi an time las day and Friday when twenty-five beef calves were sold for an av erage of $33.13 and the sixt\ prize hogs brought an average price of $30.90 per hundred pounds. Total receipts added up to $12,222.52, including $4,000.61 for the sixty hogs, $7,156.52 foi the 25 choice beef calves and sev en commercial grade beef calves. The price average for hogs com pared with an average of $21.81 last year, an increase this year ol $9.02 per hundred pounds. The average price for the twenty-five prize steers this years was 71 cents per hundred higher than il was a year ago. The largest crowd ever to at tend a show and sale in this coun ty was present for the event which was held in Williamston’f Carolina tobacco warehouse. An added feature last Friday after noon was a rope and whip per formance by James Cratt, formet flub member of Bear Grass Town jhip. Thomas Revels of Griffins Township walked away with top honors when his Hereford steer was rated giand champion of the show and was sold for 45 cents a ,pound, or $-425.25. Tile animal 1 was purchased by Colonial Stores I and is to be sold in its Williams ton store. The reserve champion, also a Hereford, was sold by Mike Grif fin. of.JaiYicsviUi for 39 cents a pound or $31 a.MU to S arid V Super Market where it will be placed on sale. |_ Other choice steers were sold by ""Hieyouthful owners, as follows. Larry Mobley to Raymond Rawls at $35.50. Henry Rogers to Belk-Tyler’s at $32.00; Lester Ear ly to Slade-Rhodes Co., Hamilton, it $33; Dorothy Price to Manning )nd Peel Hardware Company at $32.50, John Griffin to Greenville Livestock Sales at $33 50, James Parker to House Chevrolet Com pany, Plymouth, at $32; Johnnie Griffin to Robersonville Tractor Company at $33, Ward Perry to Smithfield (Va.) Packing Com pany at $32, Wallace Smith to Henderson’s, Inc., Scotland Neck, at $32, Robt. Lee Perry to Mar tin Feed Mills at $33, Rudolph Parker to Sunny Side Market at (Continued on Page Seven) Investigate Death Of Resident Here The unexpected death of L. Branch Marslender here last Thursday evening is being inves tigated by officers from the police and sheriff departments, but no findings have been announced, Funeral services were held for Marslender last Saturday. According to the sheriff’s de partment, Marslender was injured in an affray at the river here on the afternoon ot Saturday, April 3, and those injuries .may or may not have caused his death. Ar rangements were made by Coron er W. W. Biggs and an autopsy was performed at Duke last Fri day, but no report from the pathology department there is ex ported immediately. It was said us d ins anc legs when He was j carried t <he hospital by Preston Stedman, a neighbor, . >on aft< the attack. George Hardison, local fisher man, was detained last Thursday night, but was released in $10,000 bond in connection with the at tack. Officers said that Marslend er was in a boat fishing near the bridge when Hardison’s boat pass ed and sprayed water on the fish erman. It was reported that Mar slender later followed Hardison to the old wharf and started an argument, that Hardison was quoted as saying he was crazy, and tliul he tried to avoid an af fray. Pre- School Clinics Being Held Now In This County With private doctors cooperat ing, the Martin County Board o Health is now conducting the an nual pre-shool clinics in thi: county. The first in the series wa: held last week at the Health Cen ter for Williamston white child n. Ninetv-five little tuts report the Maola Milk and Ice Clean | Company. All clinics are held between the hours of 9:30 and 11:00 a. m., anc parents are asked to accompany their children where possible anc submit vaccination records. Today a clinic was held in the Jamesville white school, but m report could be had immediately Other clinics are scheduled ir the white schools as follows: I Bear Grass, April 16; Rober i sonville, April 22 for childrer whose initials go from A througl M, and on April 23 for childrei whose names begin with the ini tials N through Z; Hamilton 01 April 27; Oak City on May 4 Everetts on May 19, and Farn fe on May as follows: Bonnie Hess on Apri 28, Hamilton on April 29, Rob ersonville on April 30, Jamesvill | on May 3, Dardens on May 3, Oal i City and Whichard-James oi May 6. Parmele on May 7, Wil | liams Lower on May 10, Salsbur; | on May 11, Williamston. t through M on May 12 and I through Z on May 13, both days a the Health Center; Everetts oi May 17, Biggs and Rodgers oi May 18, and Gold Point on Ma 20. L. B. Marslender Funeral Held In West End Church --— Highway Worker I)ie<l In l-oral Hospital Larlv On TluirH«lay Kvniing ! Lawrence Branch Marslender j native of Beaufort County, died ir :a hospital here last Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock following ja five-day illness. Pneumonia was ! given as the immediate cause of j his death. He was a victim of arthritis but continued active until the Saturday before his death five jdays later. ! The son of the late Lillie j Whit hard and Julius Jasper j Marslender, he was born at | Blounts Creek 46 years ago on ; March 15, 1908. After spending his early life there fo Washington where he was em ployed until 1935 when he located in the Farm Life community of this county. In 1942 he went with the State Highway and Public Works Commission and made his j home in West Find since that time. He was married to Miss Ernes 11me Wilson of Grimcsland. Sur viving are his widow; two sons, | L. Branch Marslender, Jr., and Jackie MarslendeV of Norfolk, i Dick and Ward Marslender, both 1 of Washington, and three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Cratch of Washington, Mrs. J. B. Wilkinson of Weldon and Mrs. A. M. Davis, Jr., of Roa noke Rapids. He was a member of the West End Baptist Church here and funeral services were conducted there last Saturday afternoon at 3.00 o’clock by the Rev. William C. Medlin, pastor. Interment was in Oakdale Cemetery at Wash ington. Inspect Model Kitchen Here The Virginia Electric Power | Company’s model kitchen was 1 minutely inspected by home eco ! nomics teachers and home agents ! from several counties in this area j and by a number of local people 1 last Thursday evening. Unfavor | able weather conditions held | down the attendance. After inspecting the living cen-1 j ter and the modern equipment, j ' the visitors were served refresh- , I ments. TO1MM nniflli liiiii i j HOLIDAY SCHKDULK J Clearing up a misunder standing, Ed Grady, execu tive secretary of the Wil liamston Boosters, States that the. Caster season holiday schedule provides for an all day holiday Easter Monday hut no half-holiday the fol lowing Wednesday, April 2i. The regular half-holidays on Wednesday will be in effect again on the 28th to run un til tobadco market opening lime. Stores will he open here to morrow afternoon. f TRAFFIC COUNT Observing the Mow of traf fic on Highway 17 just south of here last Friday afternoon, CpI. M C. Byrum of the Highway Patrol said that ve hicles were moving at the rate of 192 per hour, that the average speed during a 30 minute check was 42.2 miles per hour. Only one was speeding and speed was checked at 58 miles an hour. A slow-poke, travel ing 22 miles an hour, was warned to speed up. C. Calvin Wynne, ! Native oi County, i Dies Near Roper iFunerul lfl«*l«l In WuhIi;ii|!' ion i oiTiIin Afternoon Charles Calvin Wynne, native of this county, died at his home in Washington County between Roper and Creswell early Sun day morning under what have been described as mysterious cir cumstances. It was reported that two unidentified colored men at , tacked him at a store near his 'home late Saturday night and ap parently ruptured his spleen. The I sheriff of Washington County is ; investigating the attack, but as far as it could be learned here to I day no report on his findings, if any, has been released. Mr. Wynne retired Saturday evening and about 9:00 o’clock a neighbor Edison Tweedy, called him to accompany him to a rural store. He got in the pick-up truck and left home. He was returned home about, 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning, and explained that he had been attacked. At the time it was not thought his condition was serious, later investigation re vealing no bruised or extensive marks on his body. He went to sleep, and roused jibout 2:00 o’ clock, telling his wife that his legs were killing him, that he was cold. More cover was placed over him and he went back to sleep. Waking about 4:00 o’clock, Mrs. Lilli y felt his cold body and summoned help. An Edcnton doc tor was called and he was quoted as saying that the spleen had been ruptured, apparently resulting in his death. The son of the late Augustus and Esther Bennett Wynne, he i was born near Williamston next I r arm .1? years the farm. In 1945 hi a <.ed i (Continued on Page Seven) Hew Firm Opens For Business Here A now firm, operating under the name of Hobby Shop, was opened in the Maytag building just out side the town limits on Highway 17 yesterday. The shop handles all types of hobb^ materials and supplies such as model planes, cars, paint sets and numerous items associat ed with hobbies '<* >tore Roboei Everetts Sunday Small Amount Of Money Ami Few Articles Re ported Missing | Robbers were active again in this county during the week-end, striking Everetts and entering the post office and Harry Hardy’s store sometime during the early hours of Sunday morning. The post office is locate din the D. C. Peel store. left by the rear door which they easily opened from the inside. Mr. Peel keeps two safes, one for the post office receipts and the other for his store records and post of fices supplies. The main door to the big safe containing the sup plies was not locked and the rob bers forced the interior door, finding nothing of value to them. They worked on the door to the other safe where the money was kept, but they could not get it open. Turning their attention to the store stock, the robbers picked up a man's gold watch and a lady's shoulder Elgin watch, five two-cell flash lights and about eight decks of playing cards. The papers in the safe was ransacked an dscattered on the floor, Sheriff M. W. Holloman said. An entrance to the Hardy store was gained through the back door where the door facing was prized off and moved away. About ,hc things missing there were between two and three hundred pennies and possibly a flash light and u fe wother small items. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Clyde Fentress and Post Office Inspector Johnson were called and they are cooperating tvith Sheriff Holloman. One or two small leads are be ing investigated but no arrests have been made as yet. Breaking into the agriculture building, a robber stole between $50 and $WJ in cash from the tool supply room at Oak City some time during the past week-end. Officers have questioned one or more youth.-, m ci.-rmecuon with the robbery but no arrests have been made. Investigating other recent rob beries, officers are said to have closed in on two or more suspects, one report stating that one of the suspects was found wearing noth ing but stolen goods. —t' Pep And Vigor In Slock Show Sale Martin County's eleventh an nual fat stock sale was paekei with pep and vigor and rated th liveliest ever held. A. R. Howard, A. C. L. represen tative, before starting the auction coring pointed out that the stool shows had meant a great deal tc the economy of this section ant | pleaded with the public, urging ■, | strong support for the youthfu i exhibitors. He briefly reviewec I the growth of the livestock indus try in eastern North Carolina stating that beef cattle had beer increased 100 percent between 1040 and 1050, and another IOC percent in 1950 and 1951, and still another 100 percent in 1952. It was at that point that A. V. Allen, of the Extension Animal Husbandry Department, State College, presented the Hereford Breeders Association trophy to Thomas Revels for exhibiting the.1 grand champion calf in the show. The sale was off to a whooping start, when Bob L. Thompson of the Carolina Power and Light Company let out a loud yell. Jim Butler of the Extension Hus the State Department of Agricul ture, L. B. Outlaw of the A. C. L., and A. V. Allen. Slifflitly Improved In (lltapt'l Hill II capital Removed to N. Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, last week following an attack suffered early in the morning of April 5, Mr. Evun Willard, local tobacconist, was reported slightly improved j this morning. While he has little use of his: right side, he is responding to j treatment and expects to return to his home here in about a week I Will Be Retained —•— Gharpe* Trouble* Are Main ly Traeeable To Poor Administration Addressing the annual meet ing of the Martin County Farm Bureau in the Williamston High School auditorium last Friday aft ernoon, Congressman Herbert Bonner declared that the farm program had worked well, and charged that many of the troubles surrounding it today are traceable program, and predicted ■ that it would be retained, notwitstand ing a strong opposition in some quarters. The first district representative charged that the United States Department of State is partly re sponsible for the huge surpluses of farm commodities in this coun try. He said that the State De partment has ben so busy re habilitating other countries that our own economy has been neg lected. It was alleged that other countries had been favored in selling farm products on the world market while American farm products had not been offer ed for sale abroad. Bad administration accounted for the downfall of the potato pro gram, Mr. Bonner said, pointing out that California was given cre dit for overplanting. "Had the program been properly administ ered, potatoes would never have got into the fix they did," he said. After hearing Secretary of Agriculture Benson and Farm Bu reau President Allan Kline testi fy at the recent farm program hearings, Congressman Bonner said he differed widely with both gentlemen, but "I don’t mean 1 would break up the organization,” he added. It was explained that Congress is behind the program, that t.hcre’11 be no slipping and slid ding scale or moving from justice to injustice, and that funds have (Continued from Page Six) Critically Shot While Pranking — *-<•» While pranking with Edmond Pierce, 35-year-old colored man of the Piney Woods section in Jamesville Township, early last Friday evening, Blake Hodges, colored, was shot in the chest and critically wounded, according to a report coming from the sheriff’s department. Struck by a bullet from a .25 caliber pistol just to the right of center, Hodges was removed to a Plymouth hospital where he was still living, according to last re ports reaching here. Hodges and Pierce are both said to have explained to investi gating officers that they were playing th ePierce yard, that Hodges, pulling a knife from his | pocket, joking said, “I’m good will I to cut your throat.” Pierce whip j ped out a pistol and pointed it at ! Hodges, the weapon accidentally firing. Pierce, declaring it was un intentional, picked Hodges up and carried him to the hospital. Pierce is at liberty under a $300 bond which was arranged shortly after his arrest. Scouts To Handle Light Bulb Sale Wednesday night, uniformed ; .scouts of troop 27 will make house I to house calls in Williams ton .sell ing light bulbs. The purpose of the sale is to raise money to help pay expenses to Hilmont Ranch ; * Cimarron, N., fcxicu for the scoll is graded >n ■ interest he takes in troop activities and rank advancements he has made during the contest period. Troop leaders fee) this contest has done more to stimulate interest in scouting than any other activity the troop has undertaken. The blubs will be sold ui packages of foul in 00, 75, and 100 watt sizes. A pack age of four 00 watt bulbs will sell for 70 cents while the 75’s and 100’s will sell for 00 cents. These prices are equivalent to or some what lower than the regular re tail pi ice. Everyone is urged to support the local scouting pro gram by purchasing at least one package of bulbs. Bonner Address Farmers Here Janiesville Making Plans For Annual Fish Festival j Plans arc well advanced for Jamesvilie's annual fish festival on Easter Monday, preliminary reports pointing to the biggest event of the kind ever planned .there. Sponsored this year by the 1 Ruritan Club, the festival is to the fishery, and fish dinners will be served to a king’s taste. The run fish is now nearing the saturation point and the event this year is expected to hit the I peak of the season with favorable j weather prevailing. Reports from the Roanoke state that herring are being taken in i the large seine at Jamesville by the tens of thousands. One report not .vet confirmed declared that thirty thousand of the fish had to be dumped back into the river when tlie size of the catch created a bottleneck at the plant. In addition to herring, the fish ermen are taking rock in greater numbers, the runs becoming larg tered around herring and rock just now. Hundreds of fishermen are. visiting the stream from a wide territory Rridgekeeper Hugh Spruill reported more than 150 cars parked near the river bridge j here during the past few days. Using small hoop net;;, the fish-; ertnen were said to be dipping up fish four and five at a dip Poll Holders Named In County Saturday r AT LAST 11 -/! Delayed for months, plans are now going forward for a new bus station here. A rep resentative of Trailways was here last Friday and was said to have announced that some thing; was to be done in the near future to relieve primi tive conditions surrounding bus travel in and out of the town. No plans were revealed, but a site is lo be selected shortly, according to one reliable but j unofficial report. Superior Court In Session For Trial Of Civil Calendar - I'Vh (jiscs l{<*iuov<*d From Tin* Calendar During First Silling Monday Opening a special two-week term for the trial of eivil cases only, tile Martin County Superior Court with Judge Malcolm Paul if Washington presiding, cleared a few cases from the calendar Monday, and discussed motions in several other actions. It was learned that quite a few eases had been settled by agree ment, hut judgments were not en tered immediately. Proceedings: Two divorces, all based on two year separation grounds, were granted as follows: Chessie Sut ton hum Willie Gray Sutton, Paul Holliday from Mary K. Holliday. Considerable time was spent Monday morning hearing counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company and the North Carolina Pulp Company plead for a continuance in the ease of the petitioners for Martin County Drainage District No. 3 in which the companies are defendants. The pulp company, stating that it had a bout 1,000 .teres involved, maintained that it had not had (Continued on Fh^c Five) Furniture School Here Last Week ersentative of (he Southern Furni ture Association in High Point, was instrui tor here each evening last week for a series of classes in the sale of furniture. This pro «ri*m is sponsored by the dealers in conjunction with the State De partment of Public Instruction. All the local dealers and employ ees attended each evening for two hours. The classes included furni ture finishes, fabrics, colors, color I coordination, room balance and salesmanship. The dealers and! employees not only enjoyed Mr, Zimmerman's illustrated classes,! but also profited a great deal! from the instruction. I Few Substitutions In Personnel For Handling Election -•+ l{rpi*tration Itooks Open On May 1 For Tin* I'ri niary On May 29th Precinct olficiuls for handling thi' May 29 primary election were ' named in this county last Satur | day when the elections board met I in the courthouse and perfected 'organization for another two | years. Ail three members, Messrs. 1C. D .Cat starphen, of Williams ton and J. H. Winslow and Wade sol iv nit \\ ti t pit cut for the one-hour inciting. Cat starphen was continued as chairman of the board and he was empowered to handle the secre tarial work. The creation of a third precinct in Williamsion Township was dis cussed but no action was taken It was pointed out that the vote in the No. 2 precinct runs well over 1,100, that the precinct in Rober sonville is becoming too large for the efficient tabulation of votes. While no changes were made in the 13-precinct line-up, it is pos sible that some action will be tak en within the next two years if thi1 vote continues to increase. Chairman Caistarphen is now making arrangements for opening the registration books on May 1 1 for tile May 29 primary. Places of registration and polling places are to be announced within the next lew days. Taking into consideration that there is no Republican primary this year, tile election officials named three straight Democrats to handle the registration and judge tin May 29 primary, and then named Republicans to handle the general election next Novem ber. However, it was impossible to name a Republican judge of election for each precinct since identity could not be determined. Quit, a few voted the Republican ticket in the 1952 election, but they are riot regr tored • s Repub licans. The following wire nutiled to handle the voting in the several precincts at thi May 29 Demo (Continued on Page Seven) White persons are moving i toward a monopoly on erime . S in this county, according to j c a review of the jail record f during recent weeks, last d week-end, ten persons were. 1 jailed, and six of them were c white. Seven of the ten were e. booked for public drunken- o ness, two were detained for tl investigation and one each si was booked lor murder and cl an assault with a deadly wea- tl pon. | si The ages of the group rang- j n cd from 21 to 51 years. 1 b< Two Thousand Al Annual Meeting Of Farm Bureau Bureau Official Declares He Is Against Flexible Price Support Plan I executive vice president of the ! North Carolina Farm Bureau, I went on to say at the annual [meeting of the Martin County Farm Bureau last Friday after noon m the Williamston High ! School auditorium that he did not think the present farm pro ' gram is in any serious danger and j that there'll be little if anything | done to its basic structure. Mr. Shaw, stating that he was glad to be back in Martin County where co-workers had meant much to him and the State or ganization, maintained that no one wants to do anything to the program, adding that he was just back from a meeting of State Farm Bureau presidents in Chi ! cago and there was support for the continuation of the present program. But the Farm Bureau official declared that the program i must live up to the law and re spect the facts, adding that no ‘country ever got into trouble where there was a sound agricul tural program. While he said the cost of the program did not worry him, Mr. Shaw apparently is greatly con cerned over the growing public sentiment against the farmer. ! Some want to know why farm | price supports are needed when [food prices are so high. There's little the farmer can do in be j tween the two ends, and they must have price supports to pro tect themselves and the country, Shaw said. "The at to manufac turers can all meet in one room itnii woi k on their problei olvo can t, N.i. said, pointing out that t!5 percent of the population looks to the 15 percent on the farm for food and fiber and that they should be pleased to know that so few will s, but (Continued on Pago Seven) Three Accidents On County Roads No one was reported hurt and damage was limited to about $1, 300 in a series of three accidents on the highways in this county during the past few days. Last Wednesday evening about 7:45 o'clock, Clcophas Leather of RFD 1, Hobgood, was driving a tractor with a disk attached, when Guilford Herman Hollis, of RFD 1, Oak City, ran up behind him and into the disk with a 1953 Chevrolet. Both vehicles were traveling on Highway 135 in the direction of Hobgood. Damage to the car was estimated at $250. When Louise Stewart Bryant of 713 Howard Street, Tarboro, slow ed down at the mteresection of Highways 125 and 903 last Wednesday evening at (1:45 o’ clock, Jos Benjamin Whitfield struck the rear of her 1952 Chev rolet with his 1953 Pontiac, caus ing about $150 damage to his car ind about $100 to the other ma jhine. Sunday morning at about 11.00 •'clock, Rufus Knight slowed town or stopped his Meicury for he railroad in Jamesville on Highway 171, and George Mar iner plowed into the rear of the Mercury with his Chevrolet, caus _ to ,‘ach nto Jamesville. Bart Eugene Melvin was driv ng on the Prison Camp road last Saturday morning when his car linked down, and was struck rom the rear bv a 1953 Chrysler riven by Genet Everctte Lilicy of 00 N. Green Street, Greenville, a using about $250 damage to her ai and about $23 damage to the ther one. Mrs. Lilley said she hought the ear was moving, that he was watching the action of a hi Id to the side of the road, and lat when she loked ahead she iw the eai was stopped but did ul have tene^to stop hu own tfore crushing into it. »t ,v 40Q (i ;*yj'i 'j >» i naemne. tSotTT eai s
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