► \ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY • OVER 3.300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TW*CE EACH WEEK VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 67 Williamston, Marlin County, !Sorth Carolina, 1 liursday, August 26, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 T Moving Bus Station ‘To A New Location! Station Will Be Housed In Pearl Street Building Move Offers Marked Ini • provenien* Over The Present Facilities Taking the first opportunity to relieve a bad bus station condition here, the Carolina Coach Com pany will move its local terminal from the little box on Washington Street to the building formerly occupied by the Martin Tractor and Truck Company on Pearl Street just across the way from Chas. H. Jenkins and Company. The change, effective Saturday of this week, will be welcomed not only by patrons but also by the general public. It is common knowledge that special efforts have been advanc ed for months in an effort to lo cate a suitable station for the traveling public, but one obstacle after another has been encount ered. While the new location will not afford ideal advantages for a bus station, the facilities there are far better than those available in the present one. It could not be learned official ly, but it is possible that the com pany is still seeking a more suit able site, that the Pearl Street station will be maintained on a temporary basis. The street is to be paved within the next two or three months, and the public is , . .certain ta, .yecept the change a marked improvement uvei the present facilities. Club Ai Dardens Supports Drive Sponsored by the Home Demon stration elub there, the Dardens community recently raised $41 for the 1954 cancer fund. Contribu tions are acknowledger, as fol lows: Mrs. Ernest Hayes. $1.00: Mrs C. A. Houg, 1.00: Mrs. Carrol] Eagan, 1.00; Mrs. Bob Harden, 1.00; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hardi ® son, 1.00; Mrs. Hoyle Davenport, 1.00; Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Waters, 1.00; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Wat ers, 1.00; Mrs. Hosea Davis, 1.00; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woolard, 1.00; Mrs. Julian Fagan, 1.00: Mrs. Sam Coburn, .50; Palu Allen, 2.00; Herman Riddick, 1.00; David Scott, 1.00; Bert Lu Roberson, 1.00; S. F. Davis, .50; Willie B. Dickerson, 1.00; George Smith, 1.00; Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Knowles, 5.00. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Davis, $2.00; Mrs. Mattie Davis, 1.00; Mrs. Dur ham Davis, 1.00; C. G. Gurkin, 1.00; Albert Martin, 1.00; Warren Cherry, 1.50; Mrs. Roland Coburn, 1.00; Mack Davis, 1.00; B. A. Dan iels, l'.OO; Elmer Mod|in, 1.00; Marvin Jones, 1.25; G. C. Lilley, 1.00; Mrs. Betty Jackson, .50; Mrs. Ed Davenport, .25; Dan Fagan, 1.00; James Stalls, 1.00; Mrs. Winston Holliday, .50. * Wreck Two Stills In This County Raiding in the Bear Grabs sec tion Tuesday afternoon, ABC Of ...... '■'■'.-nn ■» v-’i-. , C-i-U-'Xv 'iV.. >*•»>. Mt^aDW lenes ana poured out aooui 4ou gallons of mash. W The plants, located about two miles apart, were equipped with oil drum stills. Officers Cecil Bullock, Wiley Craft and Garland Bunting made the raids. -g> Y oung Man Cut In Farm Accident In Bear Grass -4> Melvin Holliday, young Bear Grass farmer, was painfully cut W on his left leg in a farm accident there late yesterday afternoon. Details of the accident could not be learned immediately, but the farmer was trying out a new stalk cutter and was struck on the leg. He was treated in a local hospital. Five stitches were need • ed to'close the gash, it v.as said. MOVED I The Martin County Trac tor and Truck Company has moved from the Chas. H. Jen kins and Company building on Pearl Street to its new home on the truck route or by-pass. All operations are being directed from the new location. During the course of the next few weeks, the manage ment will direct activities in the parts department and when the task is completed, the Company will hold its formal opening, it was learn ed. Judge Peele Has Thirty Cases In Recorder's Court i Fines 4.1.1 Up To $870.00 In Long Session Of Tri bunal Last Monday -- Judge H. O. Peele called thirty cases in the Martin County Re corder’s Court and during ses sions lasting until well after 2:00 o’clock Monday afternoon impos ed fines in the total amount of $870. The number of speeders ap parently is dwindling, the court records showing only eight were called to answer during the ses sion. There have been as many as thirty in the court. i r: : . ' "F>irng‘ -irtrrs" drunk and disorderly and resist ing arrest, Charlie B. Andrews was found guilty and drew nine ty days on the roads. Henry Horton Barber, charged ■with drunken driving and failing to report an accident, was found not guilty. Pleading innocent, Archie Roe Respass was found guilty of violating the liquor laws. Pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon and drunk enness, George Bond was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Charged with non-support, W. Alton Rogers pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty and was ■ directed to pay $20 a week for I the support of his wife and three children for the next two years. He is- to report at the end of that time for further judgment. A per formance bond in the sum of $500 was fixed by the court. The de fendant gave notice of appeal, and appearance bond was requir ed in the sum of $500. Leamon R. Mizzell, pleading guilty of operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license, was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the road term to be gin at the direction of the court I at any time within the next two years. No costs were attached to the judgment. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license and after his license had been revoked. Milton Baines was fined $200 and directed to pay the costs. Charged with operating a mo tor vehicle without a driver’s li cense, Preston Earl Tucker plead ed guilty and judgment W’as su spended upon the payment of the court costs. David Andrews was fined $50 I ana taxed with the costs for op t crating a motor vehicle without •*>'Vn—»-& on the wrong side of the road. Pleading guilty of drunken dri ving, Anna Laurie Nobles, young white woman, was fined $100 and taxed with the costs. She loses her operator's license for a year. Pleading ^iut guilty of operat ing a motor vehicle with improp (Continued on Page Eight) --«--— Attack Victim Plana To Return Home Tomorrow Suffering an attack about a month ago, Mr. Chas. L. Daniel plans to leave a local hospital and return to his home in Williams Township tomorrow. He is able to sit up and walk around during short intervals, his condition hav ing improved much during the past two v/efcks. Make Ready For School Opening In This County Principals In Meeliuji Here This Week; A11 Teach er Positions Filled Plans are just about complete for opening the eight white and fourteen colored schools in this county on Thursday, September 2, according to information re leased by the office of the Martin County Board of Education today. All teacher positions have been filled, it'was explained, and other arrangements are being handled rapidly for the opening. Two additional rooms for the primary school here are nearing completion. Work on a new high school unit is going forward rapidly in Robersonville, and work has been started on a shop and an additional class room at the local high school. The Rob ersonville unit will not be ready just yet, and school will be con tinued in temporary quarters at Parmele. Meeting here this week, prin cipals discussed their plans for opening the schools next Thurs day. All principals were present except Professor George Haislip of Hamilton. Suffering an attack a few weeks ago, Mr. Haislip is improving rapidly. Until he is able to return, Mrs. Sarah Ed mondson Cherry, former teacher in the schools here, will direct the Hamilton school, it was an nounced. Principals attending the meet ing earlier this week included, W. C. Gay, Jamesville; Milton Griffin who is succeeding A. If. Braswell, resigned at Farm Life; H. V. Parker, Jr., Bear Grass; B. G. Stewart, Williamston; C. F. Murrow, Everetts; George Culli nbc' Oak Oit fcv. The last oi tnc teat in the county were announced filled this morning. The science coach position was filled at Oak City by a Clinton young man, and Miss Marilyn Thomas of Fairfax, South Carolina, was appointed public music teacher at Oak City. Next Wednesday there’ll be a county-wide meeting of teachers here. Next Thursday morning, the principals will meet with their teachers in the several schools, and the doors will be opened to the pupils Thursday afternoon, September 2, at 1:30 o'clock p m. During the first public session, the pupils will be assigned rooms and instructed as to fees and other details. .:u‘i pi »m fun Annual Picnic Of Band Wednesday The annual picnic for the Green Wave Band of Williamston High School which always includes the members of the Band Parents Club, the sponsoring organization, will be held on Wednesday after noon of next week at 6:30 o'clock in the grove in front of the Wil liamston Christian Church where the church recently held its big picnic. President Joseph Griffin and a number of committees are busily completing plans for the event. The new band director, Clyde i Wade, of Roxboro and Reidsville, i is expected here this W'eek-end : and will be at the picnic where i parents and friends of the band j may meet him. Civil War — c'*s low ebb, apparently an appeal was marie for more money, the treasurer listing the following notes and amounts subscribed in District 7: Jos. B. E. Andrews, Ervin Page and Wallace Andrews, $100 each; Dr. James L. Teel, $200; R. B. Smith, H. Gray and W. W. Tay lor, $50 each; John A. Page, Tho mas A. Andrews, Staton Everett. R D. Matthews, Wm A Mat thews, W. K. Nelson, Dennis Rawls, Joel Johnson and William Jenkins, $25 each; Willis Man ning, Jesse B. Whitfield, Joseph Wynne, John Scott, Hadley Co burn, William E. Everett, Tho nfas D. CarsAn, Kenneth B. Whit field, $10 each; Reuben Edmond son, Kinchen Nelson, Jesse Win berry, Henry A. Barnhill, Sainuei Plan To Open New Track Route Here By October 15 No official date has been men tioned, but it is exp (ted that the new truck route, serving high ways 17 and 64 around the town, will be open to unlimited use on or about the middle of October, according to estimates coming from the project location this week, Completion dates depend much on the weather prevailing during the next few weeks, and, too. other factors are to be con sidered, it was explained. All but about two carloads of rock have beer, placed on the load for the base. The first primer as phalt was poured on that section of the road between Highway 64 and highway 17 late Tuesday and yesterday. The section between Skewarkey and West End is about i ready for the first liquid asphalt coat. Sub let by the Hill Construction Company to Dickerson and Com pany, the road capping calls for o primer asphalt coat followed by another to hold inch-sized rot*, j Another application of liquid as phalt will be made and covered with lint rock, followed by a final application of liquid asphalt. In time, possibly one, two or three years, the road will be surfacted with sand asphalt. Local or limited traffic will not be interrupted on portions of the road any great length of time, and provisions have been made to care for the traffic moving to and from the new warehouse, it was learned. Nan Kidnaped In Norfolk Tuesday Kidnaped in Norfolk late Tues day evening, Maury Gardner, white man of the Virginia city, was released two miles south of here on Highway 17 about 1:00 o’clock yesterday morning fol lowing a fast and exciting trip with his two captors Gardner halted for a stop light in Norfolk and two young men forced their way into his Ford coupe. One whipped out a gun and told him to drive. They di rected him out of Norfolk and instructed him to drive them south. Without offering to rob or hurt him, the two men got out of the car and told him to turn around. Returning to Williamston, he called the police and Sheriff M. 1 W. Holloman was notified. Work I ing with the town officers, the ^Ti’gfTtTTfUf’ffWf*11. s—rhrrr the two men got out of the car and started a search that was ex tended miles out i ,i Highway 17 and into sections off the main highway route. No trace of the two men was found during a search lasting several hours. Both men were thought to have been between 28 and 31 years of age. Both wore dark trousers and short sleeves. Neither one wore a hat. Safety Awards Go To Drivers Here —»— Maintaining perfect safety re cords for one or more years in the operation of motoi vehicles, most of the employees of the Williams ton Packing Company and the Lindsley Ice Company this week were awarded safety certificates and pins by Herman Marsh, rep resentative of the Great American Indemnity Company. At a meeting held in the pars ing company plant Tuesday eve nin, Marsh presented the awards to Jasper Jones, Grover Lilley, j Thos. E. Martin, H. P. Price, K. j Price, R. Purvis, John B Kob | ergon and Ben Andrews. Messrs. Russell Griffin and Geo. Peele, j plant owners, served the group | suppei and a speiial safety pit - | ture was shown. The awards were made at a special supper meeting last night, to the Lindsley Company drivers, including W D. Barnes, J P. | Hedspeth, W J. Mathkins, J H. j Roberson and Ijcrnian Johnson. Painfully Hurt In By-Pass Wreck Apparently trying to open the truck route now nearing comple tion around the town, ahead of time, John F. Ward, young Wil mington man suffered painful in juries when his car went out of control and turned over on the eastern end of the route shortly before 11 00 o’clock Tuesday night. The victim, apparently suf fering no broken bones and few or not cuts, was thought to have been hurt internally. Said to have been traveling at a rapid speed, Ward could not make the curve as he came off the river bridge, llis Ford con vertible barely missed the bar ricade across the new highway route and struck a concrete post just to the side of the road. The machine turned over two or three times, coming to a stop on its wheels. the bi idge, Bridgekeeper Hugh I Spruill told Mrs. Spruill that he I did not believe the car could make the curve. Brakes were heard squealing and trenches were dug [quite a distance by the tires in I the rock base for the new road. Ward was thrown from Ihe car, landing about fifteen feet away between the rails of the track leading to the fertilizer plant. The victim was picked up by a Biggs ambulance and removed to Brown’s Community Hospital. No estimate on the property damage could be hud immediate ly, but it will run into the severa hundreds of dollars. -'i— Towns Gei Street Money From State .... t The several towns in this coun ty are receiving $35,277.91 under the Powell Pill for their streets, according to unofficial informa tion received here today. Williamston is receiving just about half the allotment for the county units. The $17,706.33 al lotted this year is $357.62 more than was received last year Iron) the special fund. Other town allotments: Jamesville, $2,134.46; Everetts, $860.83; Iiobersonville, $6,819.37; Parmele, $1,944.62; Hassell, $1, f70.00; Hamilton, $2,373.53; and Oak City, $2,268.77 More than five million dollars are being distributed from the fund. Native Of County Diesjn Hospital At ft. Wayne, ind. Funeral W ill Itr ( omlurlrd Here Saturday Afternoon For Flienler Harrison -• Chester Haywood Harrison, na-; tive of this county, died in a Fort; Wayne, Indiana, hospital yester day morning at 7:00 o’clock. He had been critically ill for three weeks. Undergoing a major op eration nearly four years ago, he recovered and was getting along very well until his recent illness. The son of the lute Joseph R. and Amanda White Harrison, he was bom in Bear Grass Town ship 56 years ago on May 22, 1896. Ten years later he moved with the family to Poplar Point where he attended the local schools un til he entered a Richmond busi ness school. He was with the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in 1919 and la ter that year went with tthe S S. Kregsee Company as a clerk in Richmond where he laid the foun dation for a phenomenal rise in business In 1924 he was made manager of the company's store in Trenton, N J , and rose to be one of the firm’s main buyers in Fort Wayne where he had made his home lor the past live years. He also managed stores in Cleve land, Portland, Maine and Woon socket, Rhode Island He volunteered for service in World War II and was in army procurement for two years. In early manhood he was mar ried to Miss Ruby Barrett of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Fort Wayne Presbyterian Church and was active in religi ous, business and civic circles j whereever he went. He was held in high esteem by .in.} d, «**«•*!»' tm, ttie more than Jut) in Fort Wayne holding a special service for him there yesterday afternoon The funeral party entrained at Fort Wayne early today and will reach hen late Friday afternoon. The body will lie in state at the Biggs Funeral Home where the last rites will he conducted Sat urday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by the Rev. J Don Skinner, local Presbyiei ian minister, assisted by the Rev John L Goff, castor of | the First Christian Church In terment will be ill tile family I plot m Woodlawn Cemetery here. Surviving besides his widow i arc a daughter of South Bend, Indiana; two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Peaks of Everetts and Mis Buck Howell ol Poplar Point; and four brothers, Messrs. Normal. K. Har rison of Williamston, Herman and Raymond Harrison, both of Pop lar Point, and Milton Harrison of Gold Point. NcClees Florisl Giii Shop Moved The McClees Florist and Gift Shop have moved from their for mer location in the Flat Iron building next to the Williamston Hardware Company to new quar ters. They are now occupying I the building formerly occupied by Archie Perry Grocery, next to Martin General Hospital. With the latest equipment and expert training, they are pre pared to serve their customers with complete satisfaction. Diary of Docton Warren Bagley ' H>. wVi AJ- v;:7k!v.-! fi. H W L. Crawford, P. W Everett, Lie welling Boweis, Wallace Man ning, and Ebenezer Edmundson, $5 each. (The subscription raised $1,015.) (Even before the Volunteers left May 20, 1861, for Hatteras, the economic pinch was being felt at home by dependents of the volunteers. From May 15 un til September 11, the treasurer, according to Mr Bagley’s diary records, paid for Joe Cotanch per order of Mr. Gibson, commission er, $15.15). The diary lists the following items for Cotanch’s family. For. wife, pair of shoes, $1; four and three-quarter pounds of bacon, and a bushel of meal, aU valued at $2 10 On June 8. the family giver, fifty herring, nine pounds of pork, and a bu«h<*l >>f 22, more fish were given the fam ily along with more pork. Then on July 12, 50 cents in cash was tendered along wifh more pork and more meal Simon Scott's family, during the same period, received $8.00 worth of provisions. James Wilkins’ family receiv ed $11.05 worth of food, includ ing $1 in cash, in the same per iod John J m< i s family was allot ed $10.70 in food, including five bushels of corn at 05 cents a bus hel, fifteen pounds of poik and other items. John Baker’s family was giv en fifteen bushels of corn and cash at the request of the com pany commander llie wile of Noah Wiggins spent $!) IK of the fund niunfv 1/1 the The mother of Eli Brewei was allotted $10 for the purchase of fifteen bushels of corn. (Although Mr. Bagley operated a large mercantile firm, the pui chases were made at the C B Hassell store). No destinction is made in the accounts, but several of them were those of Negro volunteers who went with the Volunteers to Mallei as, later reports showing that they dug trenches and engag ed in other activities in support of the Confederates there. (In the next installment (ti), Mr. Bagley '.'sts the names of the first Martin County men to leave home for war service. The list cover several pages and shows the amount of bounty paid each vul Ui'-teer) Tobacco Sales Pass Million-Pound Mark PROJECT The narrow bridge at Welch's Creek, a bottle neck lor traffic between Jamesville and Plymouth, is to be wid ened, according to reports reaching here. The project, located on the Mart in -Washington boundary, is subject to contract next month, it was stated. The bridge will not be replaced, the specifications calling for its widening to conform to the recently improved high way between Williamston and Plymouth. Peanut Crop And Market Prospects Rated Favorable —<$— Supply of lYumil* on tlaiul In Smallest In Past Several Years While production its not yet as sured, current reports on the crop condition and that with a low supply on hand points to a fav orable season for the peanut farm er in this section Recent rains have opened the way for a good I quality crop of substantial yield, ! farmers declare. I A report from Washington dis | cusses the supply, as follows: This country's peanut supply [ is at its lowest for this date since .July, 1950, according to the Agri j cultural Marketing Service, De ! partment of Agriculture Peanuts held in off farm poo lion., jul', '1 totaled gan. oo.oeo pounds ol equivalent fanners' stock (uncleaned, unshelled) pea nuts, preliminary reports to the crop reporting board indicate. That is the lowest figure for this date since July, 1950, when sup plies totaled 187,000,000 pounds Included in this year's figure are 121 000,000 pounds of shelled edible peanuts (equivalent to 187,000,000 pounds of farmers stock), 15,000,000 pounds of roast mg stock peanuts, and 82,000,000 pounds held as farmers’ stock. These total stocks arc 33 per cent below those held in similar positions last year. At the end of July, holdings ol farmers' stock peanuts by the ! government or undei government loan (and which are included in i the total stocks above) amounted to 30,000,000 pounds, compared with 174,000,000 pounds a year earliei farmers kujck peanuts milieu tim ing thr 1953-54 season through July totaled 1,4110 million pounds, an increase of 31 per cent over the 1,12(5 million pounds milled I to the same date last yeai These figures include peanuts milled foi export sales as crushing stocks, as well as peanuts nulled for do mestic crushing. Production of shelled edible peanuts through July 31 amount ed to til4,000,000 pounds, slightly more than were nulled to llus date last year. Production of cleaned in-shell roasting stock peanuts, including unordered crushing stock, both foi' domestic use and foreign export, has totaled 350, 000,000 pounds this season, com produced to this date last year. The apparent domestic disap pearance of shelled peanuts, in cluding peanuts crushed lor oil and meal, totaled 77(5,000,000 pounds, about 10 per cent higher f . , jm to date, Pisan ^wiiii^nnwiir '•■***»***-* nU|s, at 580,000,000 pounds, is running about the same as last year. Peanuts reported used in mak ing eundy, salted peanuts, peanut butter and other products are up about two per cent from a year ago. Peanuts used in making salt ed peanuts and peanut butter are above last season. Victim Of Attack Leaven Hospital On Wednesday Critically attacked at the Lit tle Savoy Cafe on Washington Street last Saturday night, Tem ple Goss was able to leave a local) hospital for her home here yes terday. She was badly cut on the fore head and cue arm. I Average Price In First Eight Days In Excess Of $55 One till' Lar^ol Sales Of I lie Season On Floors This Morning Although its sales are off to a slow start due to the late harvest season and the early opening this season, the Williamston Tobacco Market is setting a new price record day by day, according to official reports gained today. Holding about the second larg est, sale of the season, .he market yesterday sold 154,964 pounds for an official average of $55.30 per hundred pounds. Up until this morning, the market had sold 919,966 pounds for slightly more than one half million dollars and an official average of $55.10 per hundred pounds. a report rrom tne marKet to day pointed to about the largest poundage placed on the floors this season. During the first eight days last season, the market sold right at two and one-half million pounds of tobacco for an average of $54.25 per hundred pounds, giving the price figure this year an 85-eent per hundred pound advantage ov er the average for the correspond ing period last year. The harvest in this county is now reported ninety percent or more complete, several sections having completed the task in its entirety. A few farmers will be Inthi field l< x! " k but about -%0 - ---Wf 1 »■ •' *, it I I v 111 tii iii . • i lit. f.iiiVVti . have moved into the pack b>tns and are now busy grading and preparing leal for market Capacity sales are in prospect for next week, according to re ports More farmers from a wider ter l iters than at any other time in recent years are patronizing the local market, and general satis faction is being reported. Jumping the gun and without assurances that buyers would be there, Middle Belt tobacco mar kets closed yesterday until next Tuesday when buyers are expect ed to lit" available. Start Action To Close Business Hating a.- a dangerous nuisance, Carolina Moon, a juke box joint between Robersunville and Par mele on Highway (i4, is being sub ject to padlock prucedmgs, ac cording to information coming from the sheriff’s office No dale foi the moon setting has been established, but pru cedmgs were instituted this week, looking toward a discontinuance of the business establishment. Officers have been called to the place on several occasions recent ly, and while the operator, Leo Hooker, has cooperated in every way possible, difficulty has been encountered in handling the traf fic Hundreds arc said to congre gate there, blocking highway traf fic and creating a dangerous nuis ance. Quite a few are said to have used profane language, ignored pleas b> the management aikl were disorderly. Suffer* Broken Leg ?*~.4