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|| VOLUME LVK—NUMBER 55 Williams ton, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Thursday, Jii/y Z5, 1954 ESTABLISHED 189*J Drainage TriahEnds Wednesday Evening Judgment Signed By Jndge Malcolm Paul Here Today Trial One Of Longest In The Superior Court In Recent Years After floundering around since Tuesday of last week, the trial of the No. 3 Martin County Drain age District was tenderly salted down in the records here this j morning, making the end of one of the longest court contests in the county during recent years. And it ended in a victory for nei ther side. After the evidence was com pleted Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock Judge Malcolm Paul, presiding, ordered two separate recess of about ten minutes each to study his notes, already having heard lengthy arguments from several of the battery of lawyers in the case. Returning to the bench about 6:20, the jurist de livered his decision orally which, in substance, follows: The railroad company is to be given ten days notice before the drainage district contractor will be allowed to cross any one of the five points on the railroad; The drainage district is to cut the canal under the railroad, in stall culverts at two points and back fill except for the lay of the track. The railroad company is to reimburse the drainage district for filling, the amount to be paid by the company not to exceed $200. The railroad is to build three trestles. No official figures could be had, but the cost to the railroad wjll approximate $13,000. The district, pointing out that the railroad company under the law must bare the expense of , enlarging the openings under its track, had assessed the company | • rnui-li ot: i*~ right-of-way. The $200 indirectly represents the as ^ sesSiya. |\t a&aniat. tie. coil.palij , but fail< far short of the amount the district had asked. The judgment as it relates to the pulp company, briefly stated,! provides, For the exclusion of the com pany's lands: thirteen acres from Tract No. 1, eleven acres from Track No. 18, and eighteen acres from Tract 211 -E, The remaining acreage (ap proximately 900 acres) is to be retained in the district and be assessed at the rate of fifty per- j cent of the Class E assessment. J The Class E assessment is $4.50 an acre, and the judgment lowers ' it to $2.25 per acre. The judgment also makes provision for a change 1 in the assessment in the event the pulp company decides to dig ca- j nals through its lands in the dis-1 triet. Should that be done, the1 assessment will be fixed at $4.501 an acre, meaning the pulp com pany will be expected to pay ap proximately $2,250. There is no appeal from the dccisipn reached in a circuitous manner. Finding their lands—approxi mately 19,000 acres—badly in need of drainage, around 300 : property owners in the general area of Robersonville-Parmele- j1 F hit _Swamp started out more than two years ago to create a i1 drainage district. The project, la-1; ter known as Martin County ' Drainage District No. 3, progres sed without too much trouble un .iC .tihueij from Page Six) BOND SALE J The town of Wiiliamston, through the local Goverament Commission, Raleigh, will of fer for sole oa Tuesday, July 37, $115,M9 street improve ment hoods, it wu announced today. The bonds, expected to sell for a premium, mature an nually, 54,OM from 1157 to IMS, lie,Mf from 196$ to 1 m, and 59,OM In 197$, with out option of prior payment. They are being Issued in $1, 9M denomination, and inter est and principal are payable sete-annuaJly. ! ( RECOGNIZED h-' At the regular meeting of the Lions Club last Thursday evening it the Scout Building, Roger Rob erts was awarded the coveted honor of being “The Lion of the Year”, the presentation being made by retiring president Flet cher Thomas. The award went to the cIud memner, who was cho sen as the one who had done more for the club during the past fiscal year. Roberts has served as chair man of the club-sponsored ball gum machines, the proceeds dur ing the last twelve months being $1561.45( with twenty percent go ing to the club for use among the blind and visually handicapped. H. Dallas Gardner Died In A Durham HeapDal Tuesday Four - Year • Old Lad Had Been lu Poor Health Most Of His Life Hcnrv Dallas Gardner, four years old. died m Duke HospTTai, T*ueieft,j ,,,.gE\t o.f C( v o’clock The little fellow had been j sickly all his ii|e. suffering with an up-side-down stomach. He was i on the way to make medical his tory but the shock of a series of j major “operations was too much for his frail little body and the end did not come unexpectedly. His parents had kept him in various hospitals in this State at intervals over a long period of time, specialists finally deciding to perform the series of major operations in an effort to correct the condition. The stomach was righted, but trouble was encoun tered in lengthening his wind pipe. He had been in the hospital on the last trip since the latter part of last week. The son of Maurice and Lucy Lilley Gardner, he was born in Williams Township four years ago on September 5, 1949. Surviving besides his parents are three sis ters, Mrs. Hazel Morgan of Rich mond, and Jaynell and Judy Anne Gardner, both of the home, and a brother, Maurice Wayne Gard ner, also of the home; and his paternal grandfather, Mr. Wheel er Gardner, of Williams Town ship. The funeral service is being conducted this afternoon at 4:00j o'clock in the Siloam Methodist j Church where the lad attended | Sunday school when he was able, I The Rev. William Davenport, pas-i tor, of Plymouth, will conduct! the rites. Interment will be in j the family cemetery near the! home. j Being Transferred To Newport News District' I Dick Bender, for several years stationed here with the Virginia Eleetric and Power Company of fice, is being transferred to the company’s office in Newport News. It is with deep regret that the people learn' of the transfer. During his stay here, Mr. Bend er built a new home in West End, was active in Boy 3cout work and prompted the general interest of the community. After reporting this week to his new assignment, he plans to return and spend a few days be fore moving his family to the Virginia city. Iranian Doctor* Making Study Of Health Problems County Health Department Visited By Dr. Greg Sa roukhanian Recently Holding a degree from Tehran University in Iran, Dr. Greg Sar oukhanian is today completing a hurried survey of health work and problems in this county. The young medical man stated he was impressed with the progress be ing made in this country, but ex plained that the problems in this part of this country are a bit si milar to those in his own. Completing a course in public health at the University of Cali fornia recently, Dr. Saroukhanian stated that he came to the south east for his field training to learn how midwivery is controlled, the doctor explaining that there are few or no midwives in California or none where he was stationed. Rural health problems in the South are more like those exist in gin his country, and the doctor was keenly alert to the methods and practices employed in solving those problems Although! midwivery has no place in an advanced society, the doctor said he was impressed by the expert control over the sys tem. It was fairly apparent that he had gained some valuable pointers in solving the problems, that he will employ many; if not all of them when he returns to Iran next month. “We have no control over the widwives at home," the doctor explained, in timating that there is much ruom for improvement. The doctor spoke of the friend liness of the people, and showed special interest in the race prob lems, suggesting that economic conditions had a place in the pic ture, especially in the South. , Coming to jlhis country on a scholarship, Dr. Saroukhanian was appreciative of this coun try’s Point 4 program, declaring that it has meant much to his na tive land and to other countries throughout the world. After working with Dr. Sam Graham and the nurses and ob | serving their work in the clinic i at J.amt-avDJc on - Toe^W,- ii-.v ! doctor spent yesterday and part of today in the field with Sanitar ian W. B. Gaylord, Jr., studying sanitation and the program that is being advanced to improve it. The visiting doctor is returning to Raleigh today and will make a quick tour of parts of Georgia before leaving about the ninth of August for his home in Tehran. Dr. Saroukhanian said that the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University were possibly better known in his country than any other institu tions in the United States. “You hear both of them referred to often,” he said. The Iranian apparently enjoyed his stay in this area, Sanitarion Gaylord said. Everetts Plans An Observation Unit Plans are being advanced for establishing an observation post in Everetts in cooperation with the Civil Defense program, it was announced yesterday by Edward E. Mobley. The first organizational meet ing is scheduled for 8.00 o'clock in the evening of Monday, July 26, Mr. Mobley said. The-session is to be held in the Everetts school and the public is urged to attend. Civil Defense officials pointed out recently that an aircraft ob servation post is needed in Eve .tSits ..ilk... »do.qu covt'i in this area insofar as spotting of aircraft is concerned in the event of a national emergency. Similar posts are being maintained throughout this and other states, it was explained. United States Air Force Per sonnel will be present to explain our defense requirements to be followed with a movie showing the simulated dAtruction of one of our largest American cities. Persons volunteering for duty with the Observation Post will not be required to participate daily. Participation will be re quired only during practice exer cises, emergency alerts and in the event of a national emerg ency. Young and old may take part in this vital Defense Pro gram. «4rimf) Conditions *(m(n it in lie Critical In Parts Of County Rains, falling last week-end brought great relief to most of this county, but crop conditions in other areas, especially in the Hamilton-Hassell-Oak City area, continue critical, according to re i ports heard here yesterday. As a whole, this county has far I better crops than those in many sections outside this area, but the conditions in the northwestern part of the county is said to be pitiful along with large areas throughout large sections of this and other states. Light rains brought some re lief even to the worst stricken areas, but the relief was said to be negligible. Farmers in the up per part of the county were said to have harvested just about all their tobacco in two •‘pullings”, averaging less than 100 sticks per acre\ in some instances. The corn crop in the same areas was said to be so dry that a single match could ignite and cause to burn entire fields. Farmer Sidney Mallory stated this week that he found it pru dent to cancel his pack barn in surance, explaining that he would have little or no crop to place in the barn. In most other sections of the county crops are looking fairly good. Tobacco has turned green t following the last week-end rains, and few farmers have harvested any of the crop this week. Con tinued hot weather is almost cer tain to cause the crop to "break", meaning that the growers will find it difficult to harvest it fast enough. Even with favorable wea ther conditions prevailing from now until the end of the season, Martin farmers are certain to have a light tobacco crop, and a I corn yield far below normal, it ! was said. MEETING W iliUlnston's Civic Im provement Committee is meeting early this afternoon to discuss plans for furthering the current clean-up, paint up movement. During the meantime, the movement is gaining mo mentum and several prop erty owners have been direct- i ly commended for handling projects, it was learned from Mrs. Margaret R. Whitley, chairman of the Awards Com mittee. Other projects are be ing observed, it was said. No One Injured In Street Wreck - No one was injured but prop erty damage, estimated at about $450, resulted in a three-vehicle crash on the main street near J. Paul Simpson’s office here about 5:40 yesterday evening. John Robert Wynne, driving a pick-up truck, stopped for traf ahead ol him. aiid^ Boh Turk | ingti " driving a !95iTuuick, stop ; peu m iitve. Albert CWreiVct Biggs, driving a two-ton truck belonging ;to the Tilmon Coltrain Truck Line, crushed into the rear of the Buick when the truck brakes fail ed. The Buick was knocked into the rear of the Wynne pick-up. Damage was centered mainly on the Buick, Officers Roebuck and Haislip, said following their investigation. Boy Scouts Make Beporl To Club ——«— Four of the seven Williamston' Boy Seouts who made a trip to the scout camp in New Mexico aa short time ago, spoke to the: local Rotary Club at noon Tues day at the Switch. Billy Carstarphen, Joe Clayton, Danny Manning and Ronny Reece told about the long bus ride, where and how they ate and slept and all about their stay in camp and the long hikes they made in the hilly country of New Mexico. | Report $52 - $54 A ve rages On Georgia Markets 1'oday Ail optimistic note trickled | northward today as tile Georgia-j Florida tobacco markets opened the 1954 marketing season. ^cs.V. r- Jic-H.-od t ; the government market service and individual markets placed the average for ea>-|y sales at $52 to $54, a price that seemed to be satisfactory and cause for opti mism. Most sales fell in the 45 63-ee»t bracket and ranged most ly from a low of 10 to a high of 65 cents. The government was getting from five to twelve per cent of lilt early offerings, it was staled. Quality of the crop was de scribed as much better than anti cipated. The first-day offerings were large despite the earliest opening in the two-state belt. De-1 maud was "good”. The market at Fitzgerald with 250,000 pounds on its floors, re ported prices ranging from 10 to 65 cents. ! Lake City, Florida, had 350,000 pounds and the best grades were .'.filing for 52 to 54 cents Waycross reported about 600, 000 pounds on its floors and a p ice range from 15 to 04 cants. Valdosta had an average id' a bout $62 for its early sales. The quality of the crop there was said to be excellent. The 21 Georgia and four Flori da markets last year sold 173, 5000,000 pounds for an average of $51.50. Flue c ured tobacco in this sec Lon is suported at 4 cents a pound higher and on that basis the prices foi the same tobacco here would be 56 to 60 cents a pound , JAxCEES TO MEET The local Jayeees will hold their 1 regular meeting Friday evening at 7:00 o’clock at the playground wich is to be formally opened at that time A weiner roast is plan ned and tlie Jayeees are asked to invite their wives and friends. June Narrfages Below Average In This County Moir Whites Marry In June Thau in any Ollier Mouth So Far This Year j June is gradually slipping as ithe month of weddings in this i county, according to a report com ; ing from the office of Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger. The is 1 suanee of marriage licenses last month in the county was the smallest for any month so far this year At the same time there were - more whites married during the period than in any other month. For the first time this year there I were more marriages among the j white population than among the | colored, the records show. The popularity of June for wed dings dropped off considerably last year when only thirteen mar riage licenser; were issued in the county In 1953 there were 28 li censes issued, and the year before the count stood at 34. Fifteen licenses were issued during the month ,|u-t < titled. U n to Wo,o- eh' cou ples, as follows: White H. D. Carter, Jr., and Janet Christian Ross, both of Williams ton. William Alton Harrison and .le nd Lee, both of RFD 2, Williams ton. James Elwood Holliday of RFD 1, Jamesville, and Anna Maigaret Daniels of Jamesville Nathan Russell Roberson, Jr., of Roberson vi He and Margaret Ruth Haislip of Oak City. Sidney Bryant of Askewville and Shirley Jones of RFD I, Rob ersonville. Mack Alden Roberson of Eve retts and Patricia Annie Wynne of Williamston. Stephen Edwin Manning, Jr., and Nancy Manning Gurkin, both of RFD 1, Williamston. William Elmo Baird and Helen Rogalski, both of Camden, N J. Frankiin D. Roosevelt Sheppard of RFD 3, Washington and Myrtle Ruth Bennett of Washington. (Continued on Page Three) Defendant 6»t» Prison Term For ; Drunken Driving •— Fine* Arid Up to $5 18.00 at Regular Term of Court Monday Morning After observing Monday, July If), as a holiday, the Martin Coun ty Recorders court politely squeezed the superior tribunal out of the courtroom to hold its regular session on Monday mor ning of this week. Completing its work at 12:45 o’clock, the county court invited Judge Malcolm Paul and his superior tribunal back from the commissioners' room where work on the No, 3 drain age district case was in progress that morning. Since Solicitor Clarence Grif fin was tied up in the drainage case, Attorney Hugh M. Martin prosecuted the docket and Judge II O. Peele cleared forty-eight ’cases from the docket before quitting for the day. One defendant, charged with j drunken driving and operating a I motor vehicle without a driver’s j license, was sentenced to the roads to serve six months. Total fines added up to $518, including $258 assessed against speeders and $280 against the other nine teen defendants. Proceedings: Pleading not guilty, Raleigh Bell was found guilty of non support and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was to be suspended upon the payment of the court costs and $10 a week for the support of his children during the next | two years. Bell appealed and l bond was fixed in the sum of ! $ioo Charged with drunken driving and violating the liquor laws, Henry Price pleaded guilty of the second count and was ad judged guilty on the first. He was fined $100 and taxed with the costs and loses his driver's license for twelve months. George Davenport was adjudg ed not guilty of hit-and-run driv ing. Pleading guilty of an assault Dallas Peel was fined $10. taxed with (he costs and directed to |.<:r a bill. 4 The case in which Joe Bullock was charged with an assault was nol pressed, subject to be re opened at a later date. Donald Morris, Jr., and Char lie Shelton were charged with assaults with deadly weapons. The case was nol pressed as to Morris. Shelton, pleading not guilty, was adjudged guilty and was lined! $50, plus eostes. He appealed and bond was fixed in the sum of $200. William Henry Pearson was un able to sustain his plea of in nocent, and he was sentenced to the roads to serve six months for drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle without a driv er's license. The case charging Roseo Moore, Jr., with bastardy, was nol pres sed. Pleading guilty of operating a machine over the road width, Clifton W. Sherril was taxed with the cost. The non-support ease against Leo Rollins was nol pressed but it is subject to be reopened at a later date. ' ( harged with violating the liq uor laws, Hooker T. Bridges, Jr., called for a jury trial and his case 'was automatically booked for trial in the superior court. The had cheek ease against Wil lie Lee Hill was no) pressed for the time being. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the ease in which Maggie Jane Bowen was cbarged with ui asSii'ifit with I a deadly weapon , Thomas Eugene Staton, eharg j-ed with violating the liquor law's, I called for a jury trial and his ease was placed on the superior court docket for trial in September. The case in which England I Andrews, Jesse Hudson and John Rhodes Hie charged with break ing and entering was remanded to the trial justice ioi judgment Ernest Best, Jr, charged with! drivign a motor vehicle while his operator’s license was revoked, was adjudged not guilty. Judgment was suspended in the ease in which George Bryant was charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper equipment. Charged with raiding Farmer (Continued on Page High Peak In Section f PRESIDENT v-/ fc *> •*** vtx-., , iSKiffl! W. II. (Shag) Abernathy was installed last wrtk as president of the Williamston l.ions Club, succeeding Flet cher Thomas in the post. In the obsenee of Deputy Dis trict Governor Ben D. Court ney who was attending the. Lions International Conven tion in New York, Wheeler Manning officiated at the In ; stallation ceremony. Twenty-Nine In County Court On Speeding Charge Finest Hnn^iii" From SIO To S I5, Add Up To A Total Of $258 During it two-week course, the {motorists on Martin County high | ways piled up the speeding eases I but they were rapidly clearer from the ducket in Judge H. O j Peel»s court last Monday. Turn 'ty-nine speeding cases were on (the docket, and fines, adding up j to $358, were imposed in all but 1 U\\\v t\{' tVwT'v Tvy\- V'V' $15. end ants were from all parts of the country, including a I few in this immediate area. All the defendants pleaded guilty. The following eases were clear ed from the docket before the court was adjourned at 12:45 i Monday afternoon: I Charged with speeding 70 null's an hour, Octavious Manning, col ored, of 318 S. 7th Avenue, Ml. Vernon, N Y. was fined $15, plus j costs. Levi Curley of Philadelphia i was fined $13 foi speeding 08 I miles an hour. Judgment was suspended in the cases in which James Thomas Hill of Norfolk, William Hubert Deans of Wilson and Russell Earl Hunch of Beaufort were charged with speeding 55 miles an hour in trucks. Judgment was also suspended upon the payment of the court costs in the ease in which James Bell of RED 1, Williamston, was charged with speeding 50 miles an hour in a 35-mile /.one. Hooked for speeding 55 miles an hour in a truck, Willie Red ford Sawyei of Washington was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with speeding 85 miles an hour, each of the following defendants was fined $10 and I ♦axed with the court costs, or a| total of $33.05; Rusm.II W Hanson of Cluyton, I New Mexico, Leon Bray Nobles j of Sili i City, Jonas Braxton Ilai - fell of Cob-rain, Charles McNeil, Jr., of Hassell. Carolyn Sallv Ho lman ol Miaou bench. Cecil W Fry of Edenton, Homer Jimmie j Rosser of Cleburne, Texas,! Charles William Jones of Taylor I ville, Illinois, Joseph Spanger of I Baysicie, N. V , Milton L. Frank 1 I in of Howard Beach, N Y Jerome Williams of Columbus, N. J , Charles Simmons of Bronx, N. Y., Eugene Watson of Balti more, William Curtis Little of I’armete, Edward F Price, Jr., I Philadelphia, William D. Bernar dim of Astoria, N. Y., Lewis Lor ing Carter of Brunswick, Ga., La mar Williams, of Gray, West Vir ginia, Joseph Panichilli of Phila delphia, Conrad C. Palumbo of Little Falls, N. J., Robert Henry Schultz of Maspeth, N. Y., and H. L. Manning of Rocky Mount (Continued on Po«c General Building And Road, Street Work Booming —•— Contractor Starts Work Ou Street Projeet; New I.limiter Mill Although holding to a fairly h;gh level during recent months, activities on the construction front are going into high gear here, according to reports coming from various sources. One of the larger projects just getting started is a new plant for the Coastal Lumber Company about two hundreds yards from the new higwav by-pass on the Plymouth branch of the Coast Line. The site is located just about of the new home of the Martin Tractor and Truck Company which is nearing completing on the by-pass not far from Skewar ke.v. The plant, according to un official reports, is to spcculize in hard wood lumber for the furni ture trade Work was started on the plant a short time ago. The large New Deal tobacco warehouse for the sale of leaf to bacco has been completed on the highway by-pass, and is about ready for the formal opening next month. G. and H. Builders Supply Company is well along with the construction of a warehouse for packing and shipping tobacco. The structure is just behind the plant of the Williamston Peanut Company and is served by a rail siding. Construction work continues on Belk-Tyler's large store on Mam Street, and the Baker Oil Company is completing a filling station on East Main at the inter section of Henderson Street. In the residential aiea.s Mr. and Mrs. George Nicely have started construction work on an eiphi voom ranch type hoc.-- on Woo<ir I lawn Drive. __________ 1 he fount. placed for homes for Mr. and Mrs. Hilly Griffin on Woodlawn Drive and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Griffin, corner of Woodlawn Drive and School Drive. Work is well advanced on a home for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Har dison on West Main Street. Contractors are making ready to start work on a six-room, brick veneer home for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoskins and family, 307 Academy Street. Work is moving along on the new truck route construction, the contractors having dumped 159 carloads of rock on the three-mile route during the past two weeks. Approximately 500 carloads of rock are to be placed on the road before it is topped with bitumin ous asphalt surface. The Rea Construction Company of Cliai lotte unloaded its equip ment tins week and is now work ing on the street paving project here. No definite report on the proposed street extension project has been released, but it is pos sible that not all the additional streets recently included in the plan will be signed up. It was learned that some of the signers were under the impression that all they had to do was sign a pe tition and that there would be no cost They were advised that the property owners are to finance approximately sixty percent of the cost. Idle fur a few days, the Atlas (Ct.idij.ued o. Page oia) r SERVICES J hollowing the successful dedication of the new build ing last Sunday morning, Ur. Warren Hastings has been conducting a series of evange listic services in the Christian Church here each evening at 8:00 o'clock.. The congrega tions have been unusually large, taking the capacity of the main auditorium and bal cony. Dr. Hastings, pastor of the National City Christian Church, Washington, D. C„ concludes his mission Friday fciuuug of tku week.
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