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■* •rtst'ffmsmsft- re irbst** § OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTS FAMI? IES TWICE EACH WEEK ■ - 1 HE ENTERPRISE 15 RF. it) BY OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TW*CE EACH WEEK YWLtflHE I.VTI—NUMBER tfZ~' Williaiitzion, Martin County, ,YwlJi iktretifHL -Tnamlsy, 1 V.t I Five Car Wrecks . On County Roads In Recent Days Only One Person Reported Injured In Latest Accidents One person was painfully but i not badly injured in a series of j motor vehicle accidents on the highways in this county during the last few days. The property ® damage was estimated at SI,250 by the investigating patrolmen. The first in the series was re ported last Wednesday afternoon i when Henry Horton Barber. ! driving Eugene Bembridge's 1948 j Chevrolet, lost control and bank ed it in a curve on the Barber Island road in Williams Township. Barbei' wasn’t hurt and damage to the ear was estimated at $125. Trying to dial his radio while driving on the Bear Trap Mill road last Thursday morning at 6:30 o’clock, Charlie Gray Cpl train. of RFD 2. Williamston. lost control of his 1953 Mercury and the machine plowed into a ditch bank. The car went oil the > ight side of the road and swerved back to the left, striking the bank and causing about $300 damage to his car. He wasn't injured. Friday morning at 6:00 o’clock two cars met head-on on the Parmele-Flat Swamp road, in juring no one but causing $125 damage to James Hopkins’ 1949 Plymouth and about $100 damage to David Andrews’ 1949 Chevro let. Andrews was cjted to the courts for driving on the wrong side of the road. Stopping his 1946 Chevrolet near a ditch on the Oak City-Has sell road about a mile from Oak City Sunday morning at 11:00 o' clock, J C. Sherrod of Oak Citv started to back up in a hurry and lost control, the machine turning w...... vy.:-,* mjxtmrwr damage to the machine was esti W mated at $200. While driving her 1953 Ply mouth on the Prison Camp road Sunday afternoon about* 12:30 o’ clock Mrs. Betty Gurganus Wynn reached to catch her eight-monlh .. ■c.V.i.V.v.'.tj'i’d ■ ws.r shout ; off the • •...{, <?•?• »r—>r.•>. - I n.,-J. the machine ran into a ditch. The baby wasn’t injured but Mrs. Wynn suffered a broken right wrist and a cut on the forehead. Following treatment in the Rnb ersonville Clinic she was able to continue to her home. Damage to ^ the car was estimated at $300. ™ Driving east on Highway 64 be tween Purmele and Bethel, Clyde W. Burnett of Williamston start ed to pass Arthur Powell who gave a right signal and turned left. No one was injured. Dam age to Burnett's 1953 Chevrolet was estimated at $75 and that to Powell’s 7949 Chevrolet will hardly exceed $25, the investigat ing patrolman said. Another Curing Barn Destroyed Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed a large tobacco barn on the Brown farm near Jamesville about 6:00 o’clock Sunday mor ning. Farmer Carl Brown, state*1/ that he did not know how the fire started, that the barn was al most burined down when he dis covered the fire. The barn, an unusually large one, housed 1,100 sticks of choice tobacco. It was partially covered by insurance. The barn was the sixth, known to hive been destroyed by fire during the current curing season. DOGWOOD J Dogwood is being marketed on a commercial scale in this county, but the operation goes fiyward tut a limited scale. Independent dealers were in the county a few days ago searching out the scarce wood, and moved out the first carload last week-end. The wood goes to Greens | boro where it is cut into blocks and then shipped on to Massachusetts where it is niade into shuttles for the textile industry. It is said that millions of dollars have been spent in research but no substitute for dogwood has | been found in the manufac ture ol the bhutfiet>. I l E Aerial Pieture Of Martin County Farm The above is an aerial photo of an attractive farm property somewhere in Martin County II is the third m a series of about fifty litis paper had made to get for its readers an nreiul glimpse of the attractive farm homes in the county The paper will appreciate help from any of its readers in identifying the picture series. In addition to a nice home, the farm family ot the property picture has a well-kept yard and plenty of barn storage. The picture last week was identified as that of Farmer and Mis. Clyde Williams on Highway 17 near Williamston. Mi Bland of the Williamston Hardware Company was the first to definitely identify the picture last week. Many others gave help. Child Fatally Burned In Bed Phillip Kay Vick, three-year old colored child, was fatally j burned at his home in Jamesville j Township last week. Bathed and 1 dressed in his pajamas, he was put to bed by his mother. Playingl with matches, he ignited his night clothes and was burned from his chin to his waist before the fire . 'vvv? v*^-* w ' <'i?-*MNMVMfveMnAiNniflHPt* w»» He was brought to a local hos pital last Wednesday night and' was treated, the mother refusing to admit him as a patient. He was treated a second time the follow ing day, doctors insisting that the victim be admitted for treatment, ...but "v . JtiQthe! refusing Late ‘ ThursSfa.v,.. i-he. iTflEEfc. Te5F>'w was returned a third time for treat ment, and again doctors were un able to convince the parents that it should be admitted to the hos pital for care. Before reaching home, the victim had a convulsion and the parents returned and ad I mitted him to the hospital. He | was placed in an oxygen tent, death following a short time later at 12.30 o’clock Friday morning. ---t>-. I ' County Boys To Enter Services Five Martin County young men | are to leave toiftorrow for final j induction into the armed forces. They are to report to the center in Raleigh. The call, although received by the draft board, is being met en tirely by volunteers, it was lyarn ! ed. The list includes four white j and one colored volunteer. Those volunteering for service include, ! JjJgjjUimin Mayo Harrell of RFD ! 1, Oak City, LaVry James Bullock, Jr., and Donald Thomas Parsons, both of Williamston, and Ray mond Stanley Fleming of RFD 1, Robersontiille, all white, and Len ' nell JdWtg colored, of Williams j ton. Another induction call for ! twelve men is pending for Sep ! tember Id. Two pre-induction j calls are also pending, each for j. 37' men, the—fii st- -tst Seyfesafet-r , 3 and the other for September 28. -* ! Firemen Called Out Thursday * [ Said to have been started by I small children playing with an j oil drum and matches, fire threa tened several buildings on and adjoining the property' of Mrs J. H Saunders, corner of Church and Watts streets, here last Thurs j day afternoon at 4:40 o'clock ; There was little oil in the barrel and the fire was discovered and brought under control before it could spread. Damage was negli gible, Fire Chief G. P. Hall said. It was reported the little tots, after starting the fire, made their way to safer quarters in a hurry. ( $25 REWARD l! v-' Members of the local vol- i unteer fire department late yesterday posted a $25 re ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person sending in a false firm alarm at 3:25 o’ clock. Police Chief John Roebuck received the call which di rected the firemen to 116 Rhodes Street, the officer ex -pteHnmt ty hung up the receiver be fore giving a name. The re sidents at 116 Rhodes were about as surprised to see the fire truck drive up in front of their home as the firemen were when they learned there District Officers In Meeting Here Forty-five women representing nine Women's Clubs, members of the 15th District of the North Ca rolina Federation of Women’s Clubs, met in executive session at 10:00 o’clock Thursday, August 5, at the Williamston Woman's Club home. Mrs. Harry L. Smith, President, presided and introduced two guests; Mrs J G. Brickhouse of Columbia, State Chairman if the Public Affairs Department, and Mrs. W. Jesse Moye of Farmville, Chairman of the Help-a-Home Departmeit. Mrs. Smith announced the themes and motto for the year as follows: "You are the Light of the World”, General Federation thtme; “Your Self-Discipline, Un derstanding and Faith will Light the World”; State theme; and "Discipline, Understanding and Faith”, the motto. Goals for the individual clubs and the district for the coming year are; two new clubs, one jun ior and one senior in every dis trict and a load sign for each club to be erected during the year. The date and places of the An nual district meeting is September 15th in Greenville at the Memor ial Baptist Church. Mrs. W. H. Abernathy, Presi dent. a(lOf oiLeers oi die- WilbuiVia ton Woman s Club were tie hos tess committee. House arrange ments were by Mrs. E. R. Car loway, House Chairman.^and the basket arrangement of giant ziri nas for the speakers table was brought bv Mrs. W. O. Abbitt f LIVING QUARIKHS j s_/ With the opening of the to j bacco market next week, a sizable demand for living quarters for tobacconists is certain to develop this week end. Those having furnished apartments and rooms are asked to advise Ed Grady at the Boosters’ office, listing what they have for rent. Call Telephone 5133. Need More Funds ; For The Care Oi Victims Of Polio' [North Carolina lias Rrrt'iv <mI Far Mon1 Thau Its Donations To Fuiul -* Despite vast sums of money contributed to the fight against .puim chapters are still on the “receiving end” of the March of Dimes organization, Mrs. Tilmon Coltrain, director of the Emerg ency. March of Dimes in Martin County, declared today In an appeal to all people of the, counts, to licit) then National ; .ZCtu/Hib'oy.-S v^“;‘:iOdj.“TeT^r”v’' pull out of its present critical fin ancial plight, Mrs. Coltrain point - i i'd out that North Carolina has ' benefitted tremendously from the generosity of this organization. "Up to July 15 this year,” she said, “fourteen of our polio chapters have asked for and received from the Foundation's Emergency Fund $ 110,650.00 for the care of oui own children and young men and women stricken by polio. Un doubtedly much more would have come to use but for the fact that this source of emergency aid has run dry,” said Mrs. Coltrain. This distressing situation is why special drive has been set in Martin County and the nation for' August 16-31. The Emergency March of Dimes director pointed out that the to tal raised in last January's March of Dimes was not enough to con tinue payment of patient aid bills this year, in addition to meeting the costs of the vaccine field trials and purchase of increased quanti ties of gamma globulin. "To North Carolina ' $441,445.00 worth of gamma globulin, the temporary preventive against paralytic polio, has been allotted this year, Mrs, Coltrain declared “Our chapter raised $5,919.25 last January, and we are fortu nate that the requirements of i patient aid to date have not drain-1 ed our treasury dry,” Mrs. Col umn said "However, less fnrtu-i nate areas where epidemics have occurred are out of money and j , r quin immediate outside help. I We would ask lui similar aid our . selves under the circumstances. “Through the National Founda tion, all polio patients who need; Jielp get it; no mattei where they live.” Chapter funds are used almost exclusively to aid patients Mrs Coltrain pointed out. This primary ! obligation also constitutes the largest financial load of the Na tional Foundation headquarters; perhaps as much as $33,500,000 may he needed for patient tare this year, she said The vaccine field trials and the greatly expanded gamma globulin program will take up to $20,500, 000 by the end of the year. Added to all this, she noted, continued research, training of doctors, nurs es, physical therapist- and otilci (Continued train Page Six) Senate Votes To Lower Income Of American Farmer —*— [Ninety Percent of Parity To Continue For Tobacco A Price Support The United States Senate last I night voted 49 to 44 to lower the I income of the American farmer I by about seven and one-half per- I cent. While the action was not as! sweeping as President Eisenhow er and Agriculture Secretary Ez ra Benson had pleaded for, the Chief Executive regarded the vote as a "sweeping victory” for his administration. Eisenhower-Benson called for flexible supports as low as 75 percent of parity and no higher than 90 percent of the cost. His recent stand stand on farm pric es is far removed from the 100 percent parity plan he advocated when a candidate back in 1952 out in Minnesota. When administration leaders saw the 75 percent flexible base w as m danger, it was proposed to place the range for flexibles from BO to 90 percent Poring the meantime, Senator McCarthy, ap parently grabbing for the spot light, proposed parity support from 90 to 100 percenrt. The farm question reached a vote after leaders compromised and fixed the parity range from 82 to 1-2 to 90 percent. The plan, excluding tobacco, applies to cotton, corn, peanuts, wheat and rice. North Carolina’s two senators supported the 90 percent parity plan, but opposed the 90 to 100 percent version proposed in an amendment. Thirty-seven Repub licans and ten Democrats voted to cut the farmer’s income. Debate on the farm bill late yesterday excited little interest, j with minds made up in advance. : s• i tmi-i nv.• • UVm**. wur.u. i h «.u j fewer senators on tne floor, but 20 turned out to hear Sen. Russell !<D-Ga.) deliver a fervent argil ; ment for extension of the present | 90 pel cent supports. Sen. Anderson (D-NM) deliv ered an equally strong argument . 1 iulf., ■ :,U*<. - i Ini's 53 \v »11 H <Vk V iv»»iiVl'iv) ') tvTKt I Schoeppel ( R-Kan) were active in behalf of the compromise finally | agreed upon. Schoeppel offered the 82 1-2 to 90 proposal as an amendment to Aiken’s amendment calling for 80 (Continued on Page Six) Catch Two With Liquor Supply * Two persons were caught by local and county ABC officers last week-end in and near Wil liarnston. Taking a stand a short distance off the McCaskey road near the slaughter house siding, ABC of ficers waited about three hours | before Herbert Godard, young colored man, suspended opera { lions at ins still and started away I with four gallons of freshly made liquor. When told to halt, God ard merely grunted and slumped to the ground with his turn ol liquor. He admitted ownership of the 25-gallon copper kettle, and is waiting trial in the county court next Monday. Ernniett Thomas', entertaining about fifty friends at Ins home on i Contei and Martin Streets early last Saturday morning, admitted | ownership of live quarts ol illicit liquor. Tried iri the county court Monday, Thomas was sentenced to the loads for twclvi months, the sentem-cd to be nispenri! d upon the payment ot a $100 tinl and costs. He appealed and bond wfis fixed in the sum of $500 Of ficers Jones anti Chesson and Smnil M. W. Holloman made the raid on the Thomas home f HOUIND-UI* Seven persons were arrest ed mil detained in the county jail during the week end. Three were booked for pub lic drunkenness, and one each for violating the liquor laws, forgery, issuing a worthless check and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s li cense. All were eoiored and their ages tanged from 28 to 58 years. ! Tobacco Market To | Open Next Monday | Limited Selling Will Be In Order i For Several Days ! Operation* W ill Overlap In Several Bells During The Firs! Week The local tobacco market along' with all others in the Bright Belt will open the 1954 marketing sea son next Monday, August 1H, it , was announced following a meet- I ing of the Board of Governors of) the Bright Belt Warehouse As-j sociation in Raleigh last Satur i day. The opening in this belt was I first scheduled for Tuesday, Aug I gust 17. Advised that Gebrgia farmers could not market their crop in time for a full complement of personnel to reach this section next week, the board of governors of the association moved to solve the problem by limiting sales to sixty percent of normal. Under the arrangement just enough buy ers and other personnel will be left in Georgia to complete the sales there. It is not definitely known, but it was reported that markets with one set of buyers would get a full complement along with government graders, that the larger markets would have to operate with reduced sets of buyers during the first week of the season. However, sales on all ' markets will be limited to sixty percent of normal. Where a mar ket has been selling 2,200 baskets during a five and one-half hour day, it will be limited to 1,320 Mvhw* W -if" t , I ’' ,.'.f week of the season, it was also explained that it might be neces sary for the markets with one set of buyers to alternate the buyers | during each selling day. In other I words, sales could be held on the local market during the early part | of the day ami sales could he held ' '.TiT T I it a I'll V Tnaf tile i " uVt Ci' -'E?t tfvt day with the same buyers It is possible that the arrange ment will cause much confusion, ( but the board of governors could see no other way to solve the ! problem. When it was pointed out that Georgia could not complete the marketing of its crop in time for a full complement of buyers and other personnel to reach this hilt for the scheduled opening, several markets said they would 1 withdraw from the association if the opening date was delayed. Fred S. Royster of Henderson, president of the Bright Belt As 1 sociation, presented the proposal that Eustern, Middle and Old Belt openings this year be au thorized on a limited basis. The proposal was adopted unanimous ly by the advisory committee 1 made up of five growers, five warehousemen, and five buyers, and was approved by the board of governors with only one dis senting vote. Afterwards Royster said he was "highly pleased” with the action taken. He added that, the new ap proach adopted in principle for the first time yesterday should go a long way toward settling disputes over tobacco market opening dates which have been raging for the past 30 oi 40 years. As adopted, the plan included i assurances to the Georgia-Flonda | Belt that enough buyers will be ! left there to finish up late xe-sea j son sales. i In the case of the Eastern Belt, ■ the iii itfht-Boit Association's sales (Continued on Page Six) Firemen Called To Tobacco Barn Firemen were failed to a tobac ,io barn mi the D. M. Roberson larm in West End yesterday aft I ernoon at 4:15 o’clock when a j tobacco barn caught fire. Starting in a log just, over a hot furnace, the fire was burn ing fairly rapidly when Farmer Simon Perry discovered it. Using dry cement he knocked the .(‘re down and firemen were able to put it out witii a small hose line. The damage log was cut away and h*»!e damage was done to the tobacco and the barn. SKCKKTAin Mrs. Vella A. Wynne was nam ed secretary of the Martin County Building and Loan Association by the board of directors of the or ganization in regular meeting last evening She succeeds to the po sition made vacant by the death! of Wheeler Martin who guided the! affairs of the association for many | years Mrs. Wynne went with Building and Loan back in October, 1926. acting as treasurer and bookkeep er. She was the only full-time employee for years. Her close con nection with the association well qualifies her for the position of managing officer. Clarence W. Griffin was ap pointed attorney for the associa tion, and J. Paul Simpson takes a place on the board of directors. W. Clyde Griffin was named to serve i'll the appraisal committee by the directors in their meeting last evening. -<*>-■— To Farm Program In reply to a petition unani mously advanced by the Bear Grass Ruritun Club in a recent rr. (•.ting, S"n;.iiov, Alton Lennon,! -atnr sharp cduTdr.tr-por •,-ifwrrf ui support of 90 percent of parity for basic commoidties.” The club appealed to Senator Lennon and also Senator Sam Ervin to support the 90 percent parity plan Senator Lennon's reply was sent to H. U Peel, vice chairman of the club committee. In a letter to Mr. Elmer Griffin, cliao man, Senator Sam J Ervin advised he was supporting the legislation 90 percent ot parity. ■ County Boy Now Serving In Korea 3d Div.. Korea. Army Cpl. Ralph S. Mobley, 21, whose wile, Barbara, and parents, Mr and Mrs. I). H Mobley, live m Robei sonville, N C., is serving in Ko rea with the 3d Infantry Division. The "Hock ol the Marne” di vision, which saw bitter fighting! in the Iron Triangle and at Out post Harry, is now training as part! of the U. S. security force on the peninsula. Corporal Mobley, a rifleman in Company K of the division’s 15th Regiment, arrived in the Far Fast last February from Fort Jackson, S. C„ wlu-rc In: completed haste: ! training. Native Oi County Robert Goss, native of this: county, was killed almost instant ly in oi automobile accident near Baltimore last week, according to1 information received here by re- j latives. Goss was returning with mem bers of Ins family to their home in New Yoik following a visit in: the county. According to the re port, another member of the fami ly was badly injured. It was said that a hit-run car struck the Goss machine. IMPROVING Stricken week before last, Mr. Chas. L Daniel, prominent coun ty farmer, was reported improv ing in a local hospital today, lie was able to come from under an ox. gen tent during the week-end. Owners Announce Plans Ready For 'New Deal' House Se\nold* Family Purrhasefe Far^je Vi ari’house Her*" Fen Hays \j;o Purchasing the large tobacco tuction warehouse on the new ay-pass here a short time ago, he Reynolds family of Owens boro, Kentucky, yesterday an nouneed everything in readiness for the operation of the house, beginning next Monday. Explain ing they had purchased the- prop erty from King Roberts of Fu qua.v Springs, Mr. Marson Rey nolds said he. his brother and their father would operate the “New Deal" warehouse in co operation with the Smothers Bro thers, J. M. and C. Garland Smo thers. Reporting here yesterday mor ning, Mr. Marson Reynolds said that auctioneers had been em ployed along with a competent force with Mr. Casey Elks of Pitt County as general manager. Sev eral county people will be as sociated with the new firm, it was explained and detailed an nouncement will be released later this week. Mr. Reynolds, who started his schooling in the first grade at Robersonville while his father was on the market there, is just m from Jasper, Florida, where their house has had a most suc cessful season. "We have led the belt this >ear," Mr. Reynolds said. The Smothi r- Brothers, na tives of Reidsville. and well known in the tobacco business are now on the Georgia markets and they with Mr. Bethel Rey nolds, and Ins other son, Eugene, are expected to reach here later this week for the opening next Monday. During the meantime, ihV Gi tie i ,i I Marnier r,ik., and- tin other Reynolds everything in opening Mr. Reynolds they purchased with ttie son are whipping reading for the pointed out that the new ware intent of making this market their permanent. had beiii impressed with the friendliness of the people. He ex plained that he saw a bright fu ture for the market here, and pledged his firm's best efforts in advancing the interest of the mar ket and its patrons. Nan Detained On Forgery Charge Charged with forgery and im plicated in the attempted robbery ut the S and V Super Market on Washington Street here late last Thursday night, Archie Curtis Bond is being held in the Mar lin County jail in default of a $1, 000 bond He was given a hearing before Justice Clias. R. Mobley following his arrest last Saturday. Bond, a native ol Bertie, is al leged to have attempted to cash a check in the amount of $100 at a local bank The signature of J G Barnhill was said to have been forged. Investigating the case, officers found vai ious types of burglar tools m the man’s old model Buick. He had used a brace and bit and tried to bore around the look on a back door at the supei market, it was said. It is believed that Bond is wanted m possibly three other counties m this section for break ing and entering an robbery. He is booked for trial in the Mm lin County Superior Court o,.v'i”T,7r;rrr* **-m fSAFKU ] The same doctor who wor ried smokers last month with figures revealing a higher death rate among users of ci garettes offered some reas surance last week. Speaking before an Interna tional Cancer Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dr. fc, Ciuyler Hammond of the American l ancer Cocicty told the group he believed it would be pos sible to grow a tobacco free of any harmful s-uhstanee, IVhat did Russian doctors at the conference say? (Right, ' ou gue^ed It) They already ka> t sytto a tuuaico.
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