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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY %)VER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 24. 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 66 Several Are Hurl In Serier 9f Gar Wrecks In County Properly Loss In Four Ac eidenls Plared at SI.860 Past Few Days Seven persons were injured, none of them believed seriously, in a series of four automobile ac cidents on the highways in this county during the past few days. The property loss was conserva tively estimated at $1,861). The first in the series of acci dents was reported about 8:30 o’clock last Wednesday evening near Everett's bridge on the route from Cross Roads to Highway 903. Driving along the road, Don nie Hugo Whitley looked away at a trash fire and lost control of his 1949 Ford. The machine went into a ditch and turned over. Whitley was bruised and cut about the face. Three others rid ing with him were also hurt. O’Dell Bullock received minor head injuries. Jennette Leggett was cut over her right eye, and Shelly Jean Leggett was painful ly bruised and cut about the head and face. They were able to re turn to their homes following treatment in the Robersonville Clinic. Damage to the car was es timated at $500. Two persons, Eddie Daniels and Jas. Herbert Ward, Jr., were in jured when the Pontiac young Daniels was driving went out ot control on a rural road in the Smithwick’s Creek section Wed nesday night and went into a ditch first on one side of the road and then the other. Daniels had two ribs broken, and Ward re ceived a scalp injury. Driving toward Jamesville or Highway 171 early Friday eve ning, Cilia Cora Hodges slowec down her 1948 Chevrolet at t road intersection in the Farm Lift communitly, and Jos. Bostor ^truck her car from the real'. Nc ^one was injured. Damage to tht Chevrolet was estimated at $10( and that to Boston's 1947 Fore approximated $60, according to < report released by the investigat ing patrolman. Frank Moore, driving betweer Hamilton and Oak City last Sat urday evening at 6:00 o’clock los control of his 1951 Mercury in i curve near Conoho Creek and tin machine ran off the road anc turned over about three time: down an embankment. Moon was treated in Dr. Highsmith’s of 0ice at Hamilton, but no repor on his injuries could be had im mediately. A child, accompany ing Moore, was said not to havi been hurt. Damage to the car wa estimated at $600. A minor accident was reportei on Williamston's North Eln Street Sunday afternoon whei Leonard Walston, said to havi been imbibing too freely, ran ov er and knocked down a sidewall marker in front of the W C Bunch home. Damage to the trucl was estimated at about $200. Two cars, driven by Bobb; James and John Sheppard, col lided at a street intersection ii Robersonville Sunday evenin causing about $600 damage. N one was hurt. County Boys Gel Special Award: # Several Martin County boy: members of Future Farmers c American chapters, won specie awards at the 26th anniversar convention of their organizatio held in Raleigh last week. Jimmy Knowles of the James ..., .jytih ' ■ .the the State Star Dairy Farmer Con — test and was presented a plaqu *and $130 in cash by the Nations Daily Products Corporation. Th award carries special significanc in that it is the first time specxt recognition has been gained in th dairy field by a Martin Count young man. Ordinarily top hon ors in dairying are centered in th main milk producing areas in th State. Oak City placed second in th jwme and beef cattle judgm Contest and received a $20 cas award. Hilton Leggett of Robersonvill was second in the State-wid speaking contest and received $7 in cash, in addition to $10 for fir: place in District I. Jamesville won a place in til tool identification contest. Aerial Photo Of Farm Home In County The aerial photographer intentionally or unintentionally slipped up from the side-rear to make it a bit more difficult to identify the above picture. The identity of the picture remains a mystery until someone acquainted with th. premisses advises this paper who the owner is. The picture is another in a series taken by an aerial photographei to show how Martin County farm homes show up from the air. The paper appreciates the help ot those who have identified past pietuies. Original photos may be had at the ne wspapei office. The picture last week showed the home and premises of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jenkins on Highway 125 near Williamston, and was identified by his daughter, Mrs. Courtney Odom and Lane Ross soon after it was published. Band Director Named For High School By Committee Clyde Wade, a native of Rox boro, has been named director of the Williamston High School Band, it was announced during | the week-end by Principal B G. I Stewart following a meeting of j the local school committee. Succeeding Professor Jack l Butler ns director, Mr. Wade comes to the school here from Reidsville where he taught instru mental music and directed the 1 high school band for five and I one-half years. He was graduated | from the University of North Ca rolina in January, 1949, and im j mediately went with the Reids j ville school. During the early part of this summer he was at Colum j bia University, New York, study Woman Critically Hurt In Attack -—»— Magdalene Goss, colored wo man, was attacked and critically wounded by Allie G. Thompson at the Little Savoy Cafe on Wash t ington Street here last Saturday i evening. In addition to a pain i ful cut in her forehead, the vic ; tim was said to have almost lost one of her hands at the wrist. ; The attacker was placed under . $500 bond and a preliminary hear i ing date is pending the outcome of the victim's condition in a lo / cal hospital. Police were quoted as saying 11 that they did not know the cause > i for the attack. The Goss woman > was talking with her husband, and he turned and left. Seconds later, the Thompson woman hurl ed a heavy beer mug, striking the-victim in the forehead. Pick ing up th broken and jagged • beei mug, the Thompson woman ’ followed up the attack and cut tin victim on the wrist. ; Summer Crop 01 College Graduates hbd.Pi'ik.ir' - tively sizable crop of summer col 3 lege graduates, according to first 1 reports received here. e Over at East Carolina College, e Greenville, last Friday afternoon 1 three Martin young ladies ikert e graduated with the B. S. degree y another with the M. A. degree - and a young man earned tht M. A S degree. e e t h e e 5 t e Barbara Jean Cargile of Par mele, Ethelyn Coward Hines ol Williamston and Mary Roebucf Woolaid of Robersonville wei awarded the B. S. degree. Idalir Lee Oglesby of Hamilton anc John Miller Walker of Roberson ville received the M. A. degree. Earlier in the week, Julian De wey Mason, Jr,, of Williamston received the master of arts de gree at Peabody College, Nash ville, Tennesse. ing music education looking for ward to the master’s degree. Mr. Wade visited here last j week and was greatly impressed with the set-up. A single man, he plans to report later this week to enter upon his new duties. Principal Stewart also announc ed that all positions in the local faculty haci been filled, that Miss Rosemary Bland, of Oak Park, Illinois, had acrr*pted the posi tion as teacher of English in the eighth grade. Miss Bland is a 1954 graduate of the University of Florida where she majored in English. Plans for opening the schools on. Thursday, September 2, will be announced within the next few days, Principal Stewart said Left ion n air os S ponsori n g Dances In Hamilton lint -« Members of the Haislip-Roe buck Post of the American Legion are sponsoring weekly dances in ; the legion hut at Hamilton each j Friday night from 9:00 until 1:00 , o’clock a. m. Wilbur Weeks and ' his orchestra of Scotland Neck, are playing for the weekly danc 1 es. Church Announces Its Appointments The Rev. J. W Berry yesterda; was reassigned to the pastorshh of the local Pentecostal Holmes Church by the annual conferenci held m Falcon. The conference, holding its 4411 session, also ordained two Wil liamston young men, Samuel La thenhouse Whichard and Thai White, to the full time ministr of the church. Included among other appoint merits of the conferenceb in th Williamston District was: Sam 1 Whichard, Robersonville. The pas torship m Jamesville is to b supplied. The Rev. N. J. Ward, forme pastor of the church here, is re turning to Wilson. Will Appear On / I Program August -iOll Miss Alva Rose Hardison daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthu Hardison of Plymouth, will ap pear on a television program n Greenvelle next Monday evenin at 7:15 o’clock, taking a part n a program of classical music o: “The Grand Piano Program". Sh will be accompanied by Mr; W. D. Walker. Miss Hardison is well known n this county where she lias num emus relatives and friends. Arresi Three At Liquor Stills In County Last Week Five Plants Are Wreeked1 By ABC Officers Dur ing Past Fen Days The illicit liquor traffic, rais- j ing its head to share in tobacco incort ■. v. as dealt a severe blow in this county last week when ABC officers arrested three al leged violators and wrecked five illicit liquor distilleries. Starting last Tuesday, the off icers destroyed two crude plants in Robersonville Township, pour ing out about three gallons of sloppy beer. Both plants were equipped with fifty gallon oil drums, and were cold when found. After sitting just about all of Wednesday night waiting for the operators to report for work, the officers early Thursday mor i ning wrecked a large plant along the Martin Beaufort boundary. The plant was equipped with a 200-gallon capacity copper ket tle, sixteen 50-gallon barrels and seven 200-gallon bozos. There was much assorted equipment. The officers poured out 2,000 gal lons of beer. Aftyr taking a short rest, Ot I fleers Cecil Bullock and Wiley I Craft moved into Cross Roads and I arrested John Henry Biggs at a plant there. He was said to have | (Continued on Page Bight) -<j>-. Native Oi County Died Last Sunday i Mrs. Cora Paramore Hardison native fo this county, died at hei I home in Washington Sunday mor , ning at 6.15 o’clock. She had beer in feeble health for some time. The daughter of the late Gideor , and Mary Wright Paramore, shi was born in Jamesville 64 yean ago on September 5, 1669. Sni , spent her early life there anr following her marriage to J T I ardison she located in Wash ington when Mr Hardison en gaged in building const ructiot work She was a member of Hu First Christian Church in Wash ! ington Surviving besides her husbanc , are one son, Audrey B Hardison a sister, Mrs. J B. Mitchell and four grand-children, all of Wash i ington; and nive brother, Perc> > I Paramore, of New York. C The funeral services was con i ducted at the Oden Funeral Cha ■ pel m Washington Monday after . noon by the Rev. Hermit Traylor assisted by the Rev. F. A. lulle} i and the Rev. Kenneth R. Cusste veiis. Interment was in Washing ton’s Oakdale Cemetery Tobacco Sales Near First Million Mark f ROUND-UP ! \* Seven persons were round ed up and jailed for alleged violation of the laws in this county during the past week end. Two were booked for breaking and entering, two for public drunkenness and one each for violating the health laws, drunken driving and assault. Two of the seven were white and the ages of the group ranged from 21 to 49 years. Renewed Appeals Made In Behalf Of Polio Drive Approximuh'ly SH.'iO Don ated in Uoimly Recently ; #20 Million Is Needed As polio - lighting funds throughout the nation reached dangerously low ebb, volunteers in Martin County have joined 3,100 other chapters of the Nation al Foundation for Infantile Para lysis in a coast-to-coast Emerg ency Match of Dimes. Approximately $330 has beer contributed in this county fol lowing appeals directed to thi public a few days ago. Volunteers will make an urgen drive the rest of the month to re plenish polio funds. The unusua emergency collection comes as thi polio season reaches its height but with national March of Dime: funds at least $20,000,000 shor of 1954 needs. "The shortage is serious,” Mrs Tiltnon Coltrain, Martin Count) Emergency March of Dimes di rector, said "We must have mull money to pay I'm a double load record polio patient care and thi polio prevention program with it: thrilling hope for the future. To ■ day 51 Polio Chapters in Nortl I Carolina are in debt to the Cen | Carolina Convalescent (Polio Hospital at Greensboro more that I $ 100,000.00 and cannot pay unti the people give the money in thi: J Emergency March of Dimes. Wi ) know that we appeal at a diffi I cult time of the year, when man; people are on vacation. But polii takes no vacation. Patients neei ■ help now. The prevention pro gram must not be halted.” Mrs Coltrain explained wh; tContinued on Page Eight) Civil War Diary ol Docton Warren Bagle^ * Installment 4 With a considerable amount of j money in hand (especially for j that period) Treasurer Bagley started paying out cash for ma terials, food and service. Mr. | John C. Lamb was requested to | go and see the Governor and se ! cure arms from the State. A note on page 09 in the diary reads, a.- follows: 'The North has j waxed fat. become proud, haugh ty, arrogant, exacting and deny i our rights. See, Joel 2nd Chap j ter and 20th verse’.” I In late April, 18(51, Treasurer Bagley launched an extensive j book-keeping system and during ,;. tMU-ivat. .the .leiiawin*. eial months he made thousands of entries. Considerable dealings in fish, pork, bacon, corn and other provisions were carried on, many of the provisions having been purchased for the volun teers who left the county on May 20, 1881, for the defense of Hat teras. Other provisions were made available to the wives of Negroes who had accompanied j the volunteers to dig trenches at I Hatteras e Many of those who had pledg ed contributions and could not pay in cash, delivered fish, pork, bacon anu corn, indicating that I the Martin County volunteers had ; their main ration based on fish, , 1 corn bread, pork and bacon. The current installment of Mr. Bagley’s diary is, out of necessity, being limited to a few financial items. The first payment lor pn visions was made in tlie sum < $3.00 to Baker for corn The no item includes $15.65 expenses fi; P. G. Foster for a trip to Peter; burg. (Foster lived on the h where* the Wiiliamston Memoric Baptist Church now stands). To finance the early operation: John Norfleet, A. Biggs, J. E Biggs, J. L Ewell, L. K Spun and U W Bagley floated thei notes in the total sum of $5,000 o May 6. The following day til treasurer of the fund paid $1 775.95 to A. C. Williams for con and $2,000 to Capt. Lamb. With a surplus on hand, th surer .hoj.VSyh' j corn for $63 Herrings were pi ing up and sales were reported t the following: James Burrough: 150 at one cent each; Wm. Weatl ersbee, 3,334 fish, $30; J. / | Rhodes, 1,500 fish, $13.50; D j Burnett, 8,000 herring, $80; Wi j liain Reddick, 300 herring, $3, f J. Mizelle, 2,500 fish for $22.50; . 1 H. Thrower, 600 herring, $6; . , Rogers, 400 herring, $■!. F W Moure received $130 on aci'oui for lisli. During the meantime, subscril. ers were paying in cash, tli treasurei showing $6,082.30 ha been received and $4,378.81 sper .as of May 13, 1861. On that sam day $20.60 was spent for baco and pork. Jason T)ce receive $4.45 for pork arid bacon aftc meeting his contribution subscrif tion. Eason Lillcy sold 69 pounc - ol pm k for $10.35. f The accounts include amount t as little as five cents, that amoun r having been spent for nails witl - which to hung bacon. Gurkin re l ecjived $3.50 for seven bushels o I corn. John Watts was paid $2.1 for sundries on Foster’s order and W. Martin received $21.50 to. '■ bacon over a swap. Lt. Knigh 1 was paid S3 to reimburse him fo I ; money advanced William Wyat r who went after goods. 1 On May 20. 1801. the day th< 2 ! volunteers left by boat for Hat ■ teras, the treasurer paid $850.28 it > mounty to the soldiers. Theenti .' reads, "Paid soldiers for firs e bounty to the soldiers. The entr; f rrjaax.having received, a portioi *! in money or goods. . . . Sorm ) show as being paid $11.50 whirl I. is because they furnished thei * own shoes, being considered ; ■ part of equipment." Treasurer Bagley paid B. E. G - Jewett, treasurer, $650 and $1.2: to 8. E Moore for hat furnishes • self Paid Mrs. Cherry $1.25 fo ' making clothes. (B. E. G. Jewel ’. was the step-son of the late Elde t c If Hassell. .Jewett came to thi: county from New York am - fought in the war for the Con e federacy). 1 On May 31 and upon the orde; t ol Capt. Lamb, the treasurer pan e Captain Taylor $03 96 for trails a porting troops, and $66 to Captaii i Joseph Melson for transportinj r men, wood and lumber. Alfret - Jordan, a tailor, was paid $62.31 s for cutting cloth lor uniforms, tin tailor having paid the name da . $31 on his subscription and $22.7 . for corn. Anothei item show i $1.05 win Hi of cm n sold to “Ol Simon”. I Dunns the month of May, 1110! ’ the diary shows that 51,409 hei ’ iing were delivered to the com mittee, hut only 8.000 were pui chased, the remainder liavin been delivered on pledges ol' I trade. To meet the balance on a swaj Dennis Peal delivered 950 her i1 ring to the committee. Mr. Pea a Bear Grass man, lived to be 10 years old). Fiom May, 1801, until earl i Sentember that year, the commit lee tiahd'feu tf,22tT"ijUs)Tetb' oi cor; i Some ol the corn was made ini meal for the dependents of th i volunteers and others, hut in us of it was sold to raise cash On December 20, 1801, the lol i lowing entry was made: “To thi I sum paid by Judge Biggs on tie note payable to William Norfleet agent for Mrs. Caldwell, $3, 872.02.” (The Mrs. Caldwell is no known). ! (In the next and fifth install ment, Mi' Bagley reports on note and amounts subscribed in Dis 11 let 7 to help bolster the rapid],' I diminishing funds in the treasury He also lists items provided to i j families of Negro volunteers win . went with the troops to Hatteras I and the bounty paid the volun I leers on May 20, 1801, the da; . they left for ilatteras inlet) Highest Sale 01 The Season Held Monday Morning — Larger Sale* Kxpeeled The Latter Part Of Thin And Early Next Week Handling its second largest sale of the season, the Williamston to bacco market yesterday scored a peak in prices. An official report for the- day shows that 188,150 pounds were sold for $105,641.30, an average of $56.15. Keen ob servers on the market declared j that the general market was stronger than at any other time this season, that just about all the medium and better types of leaf 1 were in demand. Up until today, the market had [sold 673,200 pounds for $370,944, an average for the season of $55.10. The offerings today are expected to push the total for the season in the neighborhood of a million pounds. A majority of farmers complet ! ed the harvest last week. Most ! of the remaining one-third of the growers are planning to barn their last next week. It is possible that a few growers in widely scat tered areas will have some of tilt ) leaf in the field next week, but 1 those cases are expected to In I limited in number. With the bar j vest nearing completion, sales or the market here are expected t( I show a marked increase the lat tei part of this and early nexl week. ■! More farmers from a wide ter ; ritory are selling on the marke i here than at any ether time ir recent years. Many old customer: are returning to the market, i was said. The market yesterday went oi ia full-time operating schedule but the deliveries were not largi enough to hold the sales to tin 1 limit. A report on the market activi ties throughout the belt as re leased by the U S and N De (Continued on Page Eight) Robersonville Supports Fail ' HuljciMiiiviHi fimis ..i licit inn a strong support to the Mar tin County Agricultural Fair t< he held in Williamston in Oetobei according to int'onnation gainei Iron) Chief of Police Win. Smitl this week. The following firms have sub j scribed a total of $31 n worth o i advertising space in the prcmiun | list : Williams Grocery, McRorii ■ Home and Auto Supply, A ( i Roberson and Co., MaeArthury s Exchange, New Deal Furnitur I Co., Smith’s Garage, Groom’s Re I'rigeration. Farmer’s Uepartmen Store, RobersonviIle Oil Co., Hob II ersonville lee arid Coal Co., Ad - | kills -Bailey and Red Front Ware ..bouses, Planters Warehouse.' Taylor Mill and Gin Co., Everet Oil Co., Fulchers Fashion shof » Public Oil Co, Robersonvill 1 Shelling Co., Smith Johnson Co R. 1. Smith and Sons, Wilsoi '> Ruilding Supplies, and G and £ Motor Co. Storm Causes Minor Damage J| 1 A wind storm struck the James l ! ville area late Saturday after noon and caused minor damage - : Quite a few trees were blowi ■> [ down and power service out fron •• j the town was interrupted a shor . time. A short time later lightnin, 1 struck a pole near Williamstoi and interrupted power service ii • I several rural areas for about twi '! hours. •-<c-• I ASSISTANT POSTMASTER | Mr. Henry Handy, Sr., em ' ployee in the loeal post office fo i the past sixteen years, enterec , upon his new duties as assistan I to Postmaster W. E. Dunn hen ’ I yesterday. The position had bed j vacant for more than a year. Last Rites For Mrs. Crawford Here Wednesday Mr*. Fannie (irawforil \l Hrr Home At 9: 13 I*. VI. Monday Mis. Fannie Bateman Craw ford, well-known local resident and widow of J. Cornelius Craw ford who was sheriff of this coun ty for many years, died at her home on North Haughton Street Monday night at 9:45 o'clock. She had been in declining health for [several years. Shortly before 4:00 o’clock Monday afternoon she suf fered a stroke and her condition was recognized as critical. Prior to the attack she seemed to be in her usual health and was up and about the house. The daughter of the late Zepha niah and Louisa Roberson Bate man, she was born in Jamesville ! HI years ago on March 12, 1873, and spent her early life there. During her young womanhood she taught in the county schools for several years and was teach ing in Robersonville when she met and married Mr Crawford in 1895 Following his election to the office of sheriff, they moved to Williamston in 1898 and she hail made her home here since that time, excepting short inter vals spent with her son in Nor folk. Mr. Crawford died July 18, 1924. She was a member of the First Methodist Church here for man./ I years and was active in women’s | work m the church for a long time. Down through the years, Mrs. Crawford maintained an m 1 terest in the schools, holding her home open to teachers and pro moting the ’cause of education I Two of her daughters, the late Miss Estelle Crawford and the - late Mrs. Annie Louise C. Gres ham, followed her in the teach ing profession, Miss Crawford serving us a member of the facul ty here for many years before her death. Surviving are two sons, Roland : C. Craw ford ot Norfolk and Wm. Thomas Crawford of Williamston; one daughter, Mrs Hilda C. Clark Of Jacksonville, Florida: four grandchildren, John W. Gresham of Wilson, Mrs. Ann Gresham Bullock of Wilmington, and Mrs. Frances Clark Hagan of Memphis, Tenn., and little Miss Patricia Crawford of Williamston; and a great-grandson, Charlie Bullock, i Jr., of Wilmington; and a half-sis I ter, Mrs Ida Godard Ainsley of Columbia, N. The funeral service will be con ducted m tile Methodist church Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 o' II clock by tile pastor, the Rev. R ■ E. Walston. Interment will be in ' the family plot in Woodlawn Ce 1 j mctery here. Tobacco Prices 1 1 Fall In Georgia Volume cil .-.ales continued fuir l\ heavy on the eleven Georgia tobaeeo markets still operating last week in the Georgta-Flori da flue-cured belt. During mid wet k several had more tobacco on hand than could be handled in the allotted selling time. Some markets ended the week in block. The U. S. Department of Agl'icul tun reports prices by grades and quality much lower than the previous week Weekly gross sales ending Aug ust 20 totaled 11,099,059 pounds and averaged only $2(1.45 per hun dred. This was $11.04 below the previous week’s average. Season gross sales after 27 marketing days amounted to 181,290.700 pounds "Tor ah' a verage " or tjhrv 2rr l.ast year for the same time sales had grossed 190,991,808 pounds averaging $51.00. Lower quality leaf and nonde script grades which made up around 80 percent of sales drop ped $2.00 to $9.00 per hundred from the previous week. Many baskets of poorest nondescript brought only $1.00 to $3.00. How ever, better cigarette tobacco continued m good demand and bidding was sharper when an oc casional basket was found Receipts of the Flue-cured Sta bilization Corporation under Gov ernment loan were around 7 per cent of weekly gross sales the highest ratio received this season Deliveries for the season approxi (Continued on Page Fight)
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