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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 5,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TW*CE EACH WEEK VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 64 ftilliamslon, Martin County, ISorih Carolina, Tuesday. Aug; ’ 17, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 Curtailed Hail Service Is Now In Eiiect Here Lust Daily Deliveries From The West Reach Here At 1:00 P. M. A curtailed mail service for this section went into effect this week, the ac'ion of the Post Office De partment reducing schedules to a bare minimum for some offices. While postal authorities main 0 tain that the service actually has been improved, it now takes al most two days for a letter to reach this point from the Charlotte area. However, at the same time, parcel post has been speeded up a few hours, one report pointing out that the mail order houses are now in a better position to make deliveries than ever before. Possibly some delay was un avoidable during the first day or two of the change, and better con nections may be expected later on. However, the schedule is so ar ranged that no mail is to be ex pected here daily after 1:00, p. m. in the afternoon. The last mail from the west leaves Rocky Mount about 11:00 o’clock a. m„ and the next delivery from that direction comes the following morning at 5:30 a. m. In other words, mail destined for this sec tion apparently is to be held over in Rocky Mount from about 11:00 a. m. one day until early the next morning. But when the mail highway post offices and parcel trucks start running the r.ext morning about 2:00 o’clock they’ll bring thY mail order packages and other parcel post. According to a schedule ideas ed by Postmaster W. E. Dunn, , local patrons ckn expect mail , about as follows: From Rocky Mount and other points west, 5:30 a. m. and 1:00 p. | m.; from Plymouth at 7:00 a. m„ 4:00 p. m. and 6:30 p. m.; from Elizabeth City and other points ^ east, 5:00 p. m. and 6:30 p. m. Outgoing mail schedules are as follows: Mail for Jamesville, Plymouth, Elizabeth City, Wind sor and Edenton will be made ready at 10:00 p. m. for dispatch the next morning at 5:30 o'clock. Mail destined for Everetts, Robcr © sonville, Parmele and on in to Rocky Mount will be tied up at 8:30 a. m. for dispatch thirty minutes later, and again at 5:00 o’clock p. m. for dispatch at 5.30 p. m. Mail for Washington is tied up at 6:00 p. m. and made ready for dispatch at 6:30 p. m. Parcel © post will be handled on just about (Continued on Page Eight) Bailer Employed By Company Here —«,— Retiring from the profession after a successful carreer as di rector of the Williamston High School Band, Professor Jack But ler is now in the employ of the Dixie Motor Company here, it was officially announced this week. A native of New York state, Mr. Butler planned to quit the profession last ye ar and enter the business field. He reconsidered and and continued for another term. When a definite decision had been reached some weeks ago, and it looked as if the popu lar professor and Mrs. Butler might leave, an offer was \made © by the local company. Mr. Butler has now' entered upon his new du ties with the motor firm and he and Mrs. Butler will continue to make their home here. Child Struck By „ CarHereFriday Frank r. Pun is, two and one half year-old child, was painful ly but not seriously hurt wher he was struck by a car at the in tersection of Pearl and Wilsor Streets here last Friday evening at 8:30 o’clock. Suffering a heac injury and a sprained ankle, hi was able to leave the hospital fol lowing over-night treatment. ^ According to Officer Verbl< Jones the child ran into the stree and into a path of a car driven bj LeRoy Puckett, saw mill workei of Plymouth. Puckett had slowei his car down for a mud puddli and stopped with the front whee a few inches from the child’ # ’ body. I Aerial View Of Farm Home In County The above picture .is ihe fourth in a series of aei ial photos taken at this county for this paper. Our readers are asked to help identity it. 1 he quickly identified by Clayton McKeel and others as that of the John A. Smith farm between Williamston and Everetts on Highway t>4 random in the air oyer picture last week was Roberson home on the Jim Brown Holliday! Recognized Inventor Manufacturer Is Busy Preparing For Next Season —.■* Jim Brown Holliday Contri bute* To Machine Age With ‘Uaf’ Harvester -# The hard backbreaking task of harvesting tobacco started Jim Brown Holliday, young James ville Township farmer, thinking | several years ago. In due time he | came through with a mechanical I harvester that is meeting drastic j tests and winning wide acclaim in j tobacco fields in several states, j Plans are going forward to intro | duce the machine in other eoun | tries. , Working in Browder's Machine I Shop on West Church Street, in j Williamston, Holliday and his bro | ther started work on the first ma i chine more than two years ago. I Year before last he used it to sucker- and top tobacco. Last sea i son he put the machine to exact I ing tests, and it measured up to I expectations. its operations limited to tne, | Holliday farms and a few others l in the Jamfesville area, the ma j chine attracted considerable at tention. Interested persons from miles away visited the farm to see the machine in operation. ; There were so many crowding : around the machine that opera tions were delayed at times. Convinced he had a practical machine, Young Holliday con tractered with a manufacturer in Lewiston, and the machines are now being turned out after as sembly line fashion. Representing the company in this area, Mr. Fitzhugh Fussell of the Williamston Tractor and Implement Company states that production was not able to keep up with demand this year. It is predicted that the machine will be widely used next year and the years to follow. The first approach to solving the problem was made when (Cer-Unueu from Page Six) Jamesvilie To Close Cannery —«— The Jamesvilie cannery, operat i ed as a community project, will ; close its most successful season I on Thursday of next week, it was : announced today. Produce will be received between the hours of 12:00, noon, until 3:00 p m., on ; Thursday of this week, and on t Monday and Thursday of next ' week. The cannery has served 150 1 families and handled between ; thirteen and fourteen thousand I cans of produce, including just s about every "kind fo vegetable and fruit. Three More Barns Burned In County Three more tobacco curing barns were destroyed by fire in this county over the week-end, pushing the count to nine so far this year. J. C. Johnson lost a barn on 1he Higgs farm a few miles not of Hamilton last Saturday after noon. Williamston’s fire depart ment was called there when it looked as if the fire would spread to another barn. Sunday afternoon at 2:24 o - | clock Williamston's fire depart ment was called to the Willie | Gurkin farm over in Williams Township when a barn caught file and burned. A storage tank ex | ploded and scattered fire al around, threatening spectators. Only a limited amount of tobacco was in the barn. Paul Hyman lost a barn on the farm of Mrs. Clara Everet' near Hamilton shortly after 3:0( o’clock Monday morning. The I barn was heated with oil burner: j and no insurance was carried 01 I the tobacco. _ .. . — Suffers Attack At Home In Hamilton George Haislip, principal of the Hamilton school, suffered an at tack at his home in Hamilton Sun day morning about 4:00 o clock. Several Are Hurt ! In Car Accidents -$v PcojM'rtv Loss IMucinI Al $2,750 In Four Motor \ ehiolr W rooks —«k~— At least four persons were in jured ml a property damage esti nrat at at $2,750 resulted in a ser ies , f motor vehicle accidents on the highways in this county dur ing the past few days, r’cording to reports coming from the office of the State Highway Patrol. Oth er accidents were reported on town streets by the police. James Everett, Jr., farmer of RFD 2, Williamston, was believ ed to have been badly injured when the car in which he was rid ing went out of control and crash ed into another between Rober sotn'ille and Parmele about 6:15 j o’clock Sunday evening. Suffer ing a head injury and renderet unconscious, the victim was re moved to Martin General Hospi tal for treatment, late report: staling his condition was improv : ed. Riley Everett was driving i ] 1042 Chevrolet east on Highway I 64 and started to pass "Hawk | Leggett's car. Everett lost contro I of the car running about 50 mile I an hour. The machine skidded am the rear end turned and struel I the front end of a 11(40 Chevrole | being driven want on the route b; i Raymond Collins Battle of Grit (Continued on Page Eight! Williamslo Little League Stars Although they were edged out l>v the Greenville Little Leaguers in a one-game pla.v-oll at f’le.mv 1 leeentfv. the Williamston Little League All Star team did a Hue job ol representing i ..I | ♦ heir It is difficult to got all members ol a largo group togothoi on shoit was taken were Gordon Cowan and Nicky Hardison. The emblems not showing me ol notauans. Ci vil War Diary Of Docton Warren Bagley Installment 11 Pledged support by the people of the town and county, military leaders within a matter ot a few days settled down to prepare for war. Mr. Bagley, one of the sec tion’s greatest patriots, wrote in his diary under date of Saturday, April 27, 1861, as follows: Samuel W. Watts, Colonel Com mandant, having ordered out the Regiment for drill, etc., after which he formed them around the academy from the back porch which Hon. Asa Biggs again add ressed them together by the Rev. C. B. Hassell and others, The following preamble and resolutions were then read and offered by Judge Biggs, viz: j At a meeting of the citizens of 1 Martin County at the academy in William,-ion or, Saturday, the ; 27th of April, 1861, the Martin I County Regiment being on pa j rade, the following resolutions I were adopted: 1. Resolved that the people of this county ought at once to form at least two volunteer compan ies of 100 each for active service who should be armed and equip ped at the earliest moment and ready to respond to the call of the Governor, 2 Resolved that all the citizens of the county in proportion to their means ought to contribute liberally at once to a fund*to sup port and equip the volunteers and to provide for the comfortable support of the families of volun teers during their absence in ac tive service, 3 Resolved that out of said fund 1 he sum "I twenty dollars shall bo appropriated to each vol unteer when he starts into active service, one-hall to be paid at once to the volunteer upon Ins leaving for service and the other halt to be retained by the paymas ter of the oompan lyfor the bene tlt ot and to he paid to the volun teer as he may need it, < 4. Resolved that the militia of i each district should be at once | thoroughly organized and drilled ; at least once a week at the re spective muster ground, and that jail the male citizen- of the sav eral districts whethei exempt I from military duty by age or 1 otherwise; but who have the phys ical ability ought to turn out and | undergo drill for the purpose of forming a Home Guard m -every ; neighborhood to defend our homes and the defenseless, 5. Resolved that the captains of the several companies before they dismiss then companies this day, ought to appoint a day and notify their companies of the first drill, and before that day arrives i enroll the names of the male eiti I zens exempt from military duty land cause them to lie notified to attend dull, I) Resolved that the following persons be a committee m each district who shall :.<< that the families of volunteers called into service are comfortably supported I in their absence, viz: District No. 1—Clayton Moi re, Hoyt N. Waters, William Gray. A B Fagan and Dr Jesse J. Smith, District No. 2—Samuel S. S Shepherd, William U Perry, Da vid D Jones, Henry Rogerson and Henry Gibson, District No. 3 Jesse S Stal linns, William Daniel, Jason Tice, Noa! Peal and John A. Griffin, Distiiet No. 4 Joseph D. B inns. Shepherd R. Spruill, Anson J Mi zelle, John Walts and John L Knight, District No. 5 Davis If. Ham• son, John B. Harrison, James C ar raway, John Ward and John Woolard, District N. li -Archibald N. Cof field, William Brown, Joshua L Ewell, Benjamin Leggett and Si mon Gurganus, District No. 7 Henry B Roba son, Henry D Robason, William W Andrews, Wallace Andrews and Henry T. Brown. (No committees were named that day tor aDistnels ii and 9, but a full committee was later appointed). It was resolved that the treas urns of the Volunteei Fund shall expend the money as follows: 1. Upon the requisition of the captains of the companie s for the support and equipment ol the vol untec rs m which requisition the captain she 11 e -l.imnte lot I he dll - fci c id ai ted' : in dc tail, J Upon the lpqun.ition of the paymaster ol the companies for the bounty appropriated to each volunteei in which requisition the paymaster shall furnish the name of such volunteer for whom a re quisition is made, 3 Upon then requisition of the several district committees for the support oi the families ol vol unteers in which the committee ^ shall state for what purpose in tended and what family is to he supplied. It is also resolved that we eon firm the appointment of L E. Clo ' ments as one ot the Treasurer s of the Volunteer Fund made by meet ing of the citizens of Hamil ton on Thursday last as to the contributions made at that place and the D. W Hanley be appoint ed treasurer of the Volunteer Fund m Williamston with pow er to the district committees by ' ,1 majority of the several dis tricts to supply vacancies in these appointments if any occur. i1 is furthet resolved, it having been agreed at Hamilton at the aforesaid that Thomas Jones, Joseph J Williams, William K. A. Williams, William K. Brown and William R. W. Sherrod will as sume the responsibility to raise at once the amount of the sub set iptions made at Hamilton and take from the treasurer there the obligations of the euiirtributors for their several subscriptions. It is now agreed by A. Biggs, Joseph 1) Biggs, S li. Spruill, Jesse M Kwell, Joshua L Ewell 1 and B Bagley that they will as ume the lespoiisibility to raise at once the amount of the sub scriptions made at Williamston and take from the treasurer here j the obligations of the contributors for their several subscriptions. (In the next installment, Mr. Bag ley lists till: pledges and re fers In instructions given John G. Lamb to secure arms). Williamston’s Tobacco Market Had Sneeessf«1 Opening With An Average Of $54.15 Monday Tobacco Sold For $1.30 Per Pound on The Market Here As far as it can be determined a record hind price for tobacco was paid for a sizable pile of to bacco (>ii a local warehouse floor yesterday morning. Needing to bacco to decorate its windows for | the fall harvest, the Belk-Tyler | Company paid $1.30 a pound for fifty pounds of tobacco. The hid attracted considerable attention immediately, and the | sale was temporarily stopped I while company representatives j j crowded around the pile of tobac-1 co to examine it after a minute I I fashion. News of the sale was J ' sounded from wall to wall and spectators gathered around in numbers. Realizing that many , wanted samples of the high-price tobacco, floor managers for the warehouse had the tobacco pick ed up and moved away for safe keeping. The tobacco, grown on the old ' Perry farm in Bear Grass Town ship, was sold by Carl Garrett and Johnny Rogers. Pepped up by a brief program y the lueal high school band di eted by Retiring Professor Jack idler, the market was off to a | ood start. Garrett and Rogers ffered 47(1 pounds of tobacco for ile and received $358.38, the av rage figuring out right at $75.29 or hundred pounds. One pile of 02 pounds sold for (17 cents a 1 >ound or $(18.34. A second pile of ' 7(1 pounds sold for (1!) cents a * ound or a total of $121.44. Anoth- L r pile of 148 pounds sold for 70 * elds a pound or $103.(10. And 1 hen there was the fifty-pound N lilt’ that sold for $(15, or $1.30 a ' lound. * Former Rector Of Church Here Died ! Early On Monday ■ Funeral Service For I lie j Kei. Morrison Bel hen , In |{ei<U\ ill** Today -•- j The Rev. Morrison Bethea, be- i oved rector of the Church of the ; i Advent here for a number of .ears, died yesterday morning at 12:30 o’clock at Ins home in Reids ville. lie had been an invalid for many years. lie was born in Marion County,: South Carolina, 81 years ago on Novembei 27, 1872, and was mar ried in 1892 to Gertrude Curtis why died some ygars ago, Liu was the son of the late William and Sallie Morrison Batliea Completing his college and ministerial training, he served as rector of the Auburn, Alabama Episcopal Church from 1907 to 1911, coming to Williamston in 191 I. Following a five-year rector ship here, he served St. Timothy’s ■ Church, Wilson, from 191(1 until 1922, going to Reidsville in the latter year and serving St. Tho mas' Church there until his re tirement in 1941 Mr. Bethea, well remembered here, held several high positions in the church both in the East Carolina and North Carolina Dioceses Funeral services arc being con ducted in the Reidsville Church this afternoon at 8:00 o'clock by the Right Rev. Edwin A Penick, bishop of North Carolina. Inter ment will be in the cemetery there. Surviving are three brothers. Dr. (). W Bethea of New Orleans, La„ Dr James B Bethea iJ Aus tin, Texas and Theodore Bethea of Orlando, Fla : two sister, Mo Vivian Ward of Timmonsville, S. G„ and Mrs. Karl Chumness ol Beimel I svi lie, S C : six children, William Curtis Bethea of Louis ville, Ky„ Eugene Bethea ol Win ston-Salem, the Rev. J. E. Bethea of Blacksburg, Va., Mrs. John Satterfield and T C. Bethea ol Reidsville and Oscar Bethea ol Blacksburg, Va During his stay in Williamston, Mr Bethea exercised a lasting in fluence in the Skewarkey Lodge and m the community, irrespec tive of denomination. lie was a friend to every one and was liked and admired by all. Will Hold Fair Here October 25 _♦ — The Martin County Agricul tural Fair, sponsored annually by the local Lions and Kiwanis Clubs, will bo hold Ibis year dur ing the week ol October 25th | through 30th, It was announced today by John Hatton Gurganus, manager Gurganus was named as manager by the Board of Direc tors of the fair, which is made up of representatives of both clubs, when they met recently to pre pare preliminary plans foi the event which is becoming widely known as one of the finest ex hibitions of its type in Eastern North Carolina Gurganus stated that pre mium book advertisement space is now being sold, lualiiy Oi Crop Better Than It Was Last Season ’ricrs for Medium and The Poorer Oualily Grades Reported Lower Operating with a full buyer (implement, the Williamston To taeeo Market had a very success ul opening yesterday with a 'eneral price average of $53.00. tut the large crowds, ordinarily in hand for the big annual event, vere not present and the quanti y of leaf was sufficient to match he selling time which was limited o sixty percent of normal. The market yesterday sold 190, ’88 pounds for $103,320.35 or an iffieial average of $54.15 per umdred pounds. On opening day ast year the market sold 305,596 sounds for $195,9011, an average of 553.00. The 5-cent average advan age pger hundred pounds this rear over last is traceable to bet er quality leaf, it was pointed lUt. Warehousemen, go v eminent traders and others were agreed hat the quality of tin- first-day ifferings this year was better than it was on opening day last year. While the price held a com paratively small advantage this year over last, farmers were of the opinion that prices for the medium and poorer grades were lower than on opening day, 1953. Others declared they could dis cern liULe or no difference m the 1953 and 1954 opening day pile es. Pepped tip by a brief band pro gram rendered by the Williams ton High School band, the market was off hi selling in high gear at 9:05 o’clock The Export and J P Taylor companies were really "hot” from the start with all companies bid ding strongly. The first pile of 150 pounds sold for 56 cents a pound. The next pile of 206 pounds brought 67 cents a pound. The third pile of 176 pounds sold for 66 and a fourth of 166 pounds brought 69 cents a pound. Other prices on the first row were recorded as follows in order: 68c, 59c, 48c, 52e, 64c, 69c, 70e, 27c, 60c, 68c, 47c, 44c, 65c, 52c, 39c, 51c. 67c, 23c, 8c, 31c, and 65c. The first row was not a full one, but the price range brought ready smiles. It was reported that Stabilisa tion was active during the day, taking as much as 15 or twenty percent of the taobacco during certain periods of the day. The first 3,566 pounds sold brought $1,970.80 or an average of $55.26 A lute harvest held many farm ers at home, and only a few theu (Continued on Page Six) Report By Club In Poplar Point Members hi the Poplar Point Home Demonstration Club donat ed $11.50 to the 1054 cancer fund, as follows: Mesdames C. E. Jenkins, 1.00; Thurman Ange, 50: M D. Corey, .50; Robert Moore, .40; Perlie Moore. 50, Ben Moore, 50. Earl Moure. 45; Wiihe Lassiter, 1.00, ! Dennis Modlin, 1.15; Willie H. Modlin, 100; Reddin Tyre, 1.00; Clyde Roberson, .50, J B. James, 1.00. Jack Nanning With New Firm Jack Manning, local business man and farmer, is associated with the New Deal Tobacco Ware house here, it was announced by the management last week. In publishing the warehouse personnel last Thursday, this pap er, through error, left Mr. Man ning's name out of the personnel group
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