"»SW»iiHIMMfc ^-wntow•<•■*»«« .MWW< iTTil uni |i I MT.:il«sts. Morris Reddick, pleading not guilty of violating the liquor laws, was adjudged guilty and the court taxed him with the costs. The case in which O. K. Har rison was charged with assaulting 1 a female, was nol prossed. f Adjudged guilty of bastardy, James Sanders Simmons was serr | fenced to the roads for six months. ^ The .court suspended the road w term upon the payment of' the f costs and $20 a month for the support of his child. He is to reap pear at the end of two years for further judgment. Judgment was suspended in the se in which Mitchell Peterson as charged with operating a mo tor vehicle without a driver's li 1 cense. Charged with violating the liq i uor laws, Hazel Andrews plead ed guilty and was fined $50, plus costs. Pleading innocent, Leonard ♦ Walston was adjudged guilty of drunken driving and the court fined him $100, plus costs. He loses his operator’s license for a fear. Grover Williams was found not guilty of assaulting a female. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, William A. Biggs was sen tenced to the roads for 60 days and taxed with the costs. The road term is to begin at the direction of the court at anytime within the next two years. Charged with drunken driving, (Continued on page eistiti Arrest Mao For Deadly Assault Hosea Gordon, 29-year-old ’ ! worker at the new plant of the ■ 1 Coastal Lumber Company, was' l arrested here this week for an al-1 I lcged deadly weapon assault. Gordon accused other workers at the plant of robbing him of $40 ' last Saturday. Sunday night he went to one of the shanties* on the ! property and fired a load of gun shut through tue weather board • ing. The load of shot went into a .math-ess. inches below_the head | (of the intended vict* JWt'iio“frasT sleeping there. Gordon is being held in the county jail following his arrest ! by the sheriff’s department. He will be tried in the county court e next Monday for an assault with !u deadly weapon. ■-# ! Bakery Open» New Retail | Outlet Here Thin Week Its products growing in de ■mand, Morton's Bakery this week j * opened a new retail outlet in the , Flat Iron or Williamston Hard ware Company building on Wash ington Street. The bakery will I continue operations in its plant near Peel's market farther out on I Washington Street. I: Annual Membership Drive •'-Meelite* in the ftgstctttote building Tuesday afternoon, of ficials of the Martin County Farm Bureau mapped tentative plans for advancing the organization's annual membership drive. In the absence of President C. L. Dan iel, who is recovering from a heart attack at his home over in Williams Township, Vice Presi dent Sam Everett of Roberson ville presided. Other representa tives attending the meeting were Mayo Hardison, secretary, Reuben Everett and Sidney Mallory. The group set apart, Wednes day, September 15, as Farm Bu reau Day in Martin County, and nearly one hundred canvassers are expected to carry the mem bership appeal into every nook and comer in the ten townships that day. xrmabcx&lfcer drive are to be formulated at a meeting of officials and canvas sers in Williamston on Friday evening of next we£k. Field Rep resentative William Little is to attend the meeting and outline general plans being formulated for similar drives in the other ninety-nine counties in the State. Martin County, holding a lead ing position in the support and work of the State Farm Bureau organization, is being asked to sign up approximately two thou sand members for 1955. It was stated that all the old canvassers are being asked to help with the membership drive, that quite a few others had vol unteered their service in advanc ing the membership appeal. ROUTINE ! __/ Only routine busiiyss is be ing scheduled for considera tion at the regular meeting of the county and town boards of commissioners next Monday, Messrs. J. Sam Getsinger and C. M. Cobbs, clerks to the re spective boards, announced today. The members of the two boards are foregoing the holi day feature of Labor Day and will hold their monthly meet ing| as usual, the county group meeting that morning, and the town board meeting that evening. Officers Conduct Raids In County Searching the woods in this county and several homes, liquor! law t-isIririxmcai ■ eiJittrs■■■ -- lastj week wrecked four illicit liquor j distilleries and cited tw.o persons! to the coqrt for possessing illicit; liquor. I One of the stills was wiecked near Stingy Point in Hamilton Townsip. The plant was equipped with an oil drum still and had 150 gallons of mash on hand Two plants were wrecked in Bear Grass Township. One was equipped with an oil drum. The officers poured out 100 gallons of mash. The other plant was equip ped with a tin still with a copper top. No beer or mash was on hand. The plant found and destroyed near Williamston was equipped with an oil drum still and had lour barrels of mash on hand. The raids were made by Offic ers Cecil Bullock, Garland Bunt ing and Roy Peel. Saturday night, the officers raided the home of Lazarus Wil liams on Williamston's East Main Street and found only one-half pint of white liquor on hand. The other home raid was made in Oak City where they found Geneva Bellamy with a quart of illicit liquor on hadn. A big fish fry was in progress there. Williams is booked for trial next Monday, and | the Bellamy woman is to have her day in court on the 13th. -* Fire Prevention Club Talk Topic Speaking to members of the1 Rotary Club in their regular, meeting at the Switch Tuesday noon, James H. Robertson, repre sentative of the New York Un derwriters and a member of the | North Carolina Stock Fire Insiir-' ance Field Club, stressed fire pre vention and urged the club to co operate in advancing fire preven-1 tion during Fire Prevention ^veeK*‘ijrtoCtu**5%ir,*'l*k Mr. Robertson showed a film| of the $50 million fire at Texas j City, and briefly reviewed the! daily fire losses in the nation. On an average, 8,000 homes are de stroyed by fire each day in the nation. Mon? than 5,000 people, mny children under five years of age, lost their lives in fires last year. The North Carolina Club, Mr. Robertson explained, will furn ish literature for a check of fire hazards and he urged the club members and other organizations to promote aii inventory in homes and business houses. He also ex plained that the club would send field inspectors to the town free of charge r Marriages Hold To Low Figure During August Imuuncr Smallest For Any August In Thr Past Ten Years Maybe it was the extremely warm weather or maybe Cupid declared a holiday. Anyway, there were fewer marriages last month in this county than in any other August during the past ten years, according to information coming from the office of Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger. For the second time this year the number of licenses going to colored couples did not exceed the number issued to white cou ples. The licenses were evilly di vided, sh and six. In July the count was three for the whites and twelve for the colored. On "aii "aVIfigr,"W«8ISr isaarfl** age licenses were issued '.'during the month of August over the past ten years. Licenses were issued last month to the following. White Howard Tilmon Simpson and Jean Ange, both of Jamesville. John Ward Perry of Williams ton and Ethel Ann House of Rob ersonville. Carl B. Gardner of RFD 1, Wil (Continued on Page Eight) Loral Boy Grin On irk Promotion In The Army Volunteering for service in the army three weeks ago, Don Par sons, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Parsons of Williamston, (his week was promoted to sergeant. Fol lowing a few days’ stay at Fort Jackson, he was stationed at Camp Gordon, Georgia. WeaHiEi'Itevkw In This Section Foe-Past Month Hard To Believe Mereury al 55 Degrees Any Time During August 'The heat was turned on in fuP force during the greater part of August, but the obstinate heat | wave was dented now and then by | rain. While no such relief was felt i outwardly, the official records ; kept by Bridgekeeper Hugh 1 Spruill shows the mercury fell to ■ a low of 55’ degrees on August 1 12. Many who were around on the 26th were positive the mercury scooted beyond the 100 mark, but the best Mr Spruill could do was record a reading of 98 degrees I that day, and that was the high ■ est point reached by the mercury here during the past month. The 6.19 inches of rain were slightly more than three-quarters of an inch above the 5.40-inch normal for August. Rain fell on ten of the 31 days, the 2.24 inches on the 22nd leading the fall. The ole Roanoke maintained a ! fairly even flow during the period, its level varying less than two feet, starting out at 5.2 feet on tne first and reaching a low of 3.3 | feet on the twelfth The weather data, 'including the I river gauge readings, as released I by Mr. Spruill for the month of ] August follows, with the date |in the first column, the river range j readings in the second column, i the maximum temperature read | ing in the third, minimum tem ! perature reading in the fourth and the rainfall in the fifth col umn for each day of the month: Date I *■ 2. | 3. 1 »• I 6. Li:: ! — 9. i 10. 11. : 12. ; 12. 1 i. ' 15. 10. I 17. . 18. I 19. I 20. I 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Total * Indicates Trace Of River 5.2 4.6 3.9 4.0 4.4 5.0 4.5 4 2 4 2 4.0 5. 3.3 3.4 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.9 4.5 4 3 4 4 4.6 4.1 3.6 3.9 4.1 4.5 4.6 4.9 4.9 4 0 II 96 94 90 91 97 84 87 91 :-39 90 89 83 88 90 96 97 92 89 97 94 98 88 85 89 94 98 94 93 89 81 86 L 72 68 68 66 65 70 61 59 .. .*• 71 63 55 56 58 68 71 72 71 72 72 70 70 63 61 66 73 70 68 72 70 68 Kain 0 74 .79 0 0 .03 0 0 .-(> * 0 0 0 0 0 .49 0 0 0 0 .08 2.24 0 0 0 0 .01 16 0 .45 .08 6.19 Ham Clyde Wade Taka* Over As Director GreenJKave Band -- Joseph Griffin Elected As President Of The Band Parents Club Here Closing out their old year with a big picnic in the ball park where it was mi vert so that lights could be turned on as needed, the Wil liamston High School Band today begins a new year with a new di rector, Mr. Clyde Wade, of Rox boro, in charge. Tlie Williamston Band Parents Club got their new year off to a good start with the election of new officers and the launching of plans for the annual financial drive and tag day. Succeeding Hildreth Mobley as president is Joseph Griffin. The other officers include: V. J. (Bill) Spivey as vice president, Mrs. J. C. White as secretary-treasurer; T. M. Britton, J. Edward Corey, H. A. Bowen and A. J. Manning as directors, and Mrs. R. L. (Bob) Welch as custodian of the scrap book which now is a couple of inches thick. Director Wade was introduced by President Griffin and Principal Stewart explained that the new director is from Hoxboro, a grad uate of the University of North Carolina where he worked under Professor Slocum, and had spent the past five and a half years as director of the Reidsville band and instructor in instrumental music in the Reidsville city school system. Director Wade, noting he was not too much impressed with Willifemston when he came in as the hurricane off the coast was creating rain and wind storms in this area, declared he had come to like the place and the people and was pleased with everything here. He expressed confidence in the future of the band program here and asked the cooperation of ali. the club and dnectors of the club (Continued on- Page Eight) IVVIUDK r The Martin Tractor and Truck Company Is completing plans with the manufacturers for an extensive parade of In ternational trucks in Wll liamston within the near fu ture, Mr. Laurence Kason l-.il ley, company representative, said this week. The caravan is made up of just about all kinds of trucks —fire trucks, bookmobiles, pick-ups and one with the hood standing six feet off the ground. Dates for the parade will be announced early next week. Civil War Diary of Docton Warren Bagley - --A.... ■ - . * Installment 7 (With more than one hundred of its finest young men off at war, Williamston citizens, three days after the departure of the volunteers for Hatteras, formed special committee, Mr. Bagley points out in his diary in the cur rent installment). May, 1861. The board of Com missioners for the town of Wil liamston, in meeting on the 23rd day of May, made the following order, viz.: At a meeting of the board of town commissioners held on the night of the 23rd, instant, at the counting room of C. B. Hassell. D. W. Bagley, W. B. Lanier, William A. Weathersbee, F. A. Rhodes and W. H. Harrell were appointed a committee of vigil ance for the said town of Wil iL'inston whose . '"Ue' to have an eye upon all suspect ed persons and strangers, scruti-i nizing all such persons coming into this vicinity and release the. same or hand them over to the i proper authorities, according to i their best discretion, and that Joseph D. Biggs, Anson J. Mi zelle and S. R. Spruill are request ed to act in concert with the. above committee. (The order was signed by John j R. Lanier, clerk, and dated May 24, 1861). , A note in the diary reads as fol-1 lows: “Capt. L. L. Clements with his | Company B, formed at Hamilton, passed here 5th, June, 1861, on their way to Hatteras by steamer j and transport.” Apparently there was little cash in this part of the country even at the start of the war, for the barter system was inaugurated on a fairly extensive scale, Mr. Bag ley listing every transaction in detail. The next six pages of the diary (pages 88 through 93) carry hund reds of bookkeeping items. AH of the entries will not be included, but a few are listed at random to show how trade was handled. The Volunteer Fund had been given thousands of fish, pork, bacon and other provisions. In ad dition to that made available to the soldiers, then was much swapping going on back home. In May, 1881, Dr. Joseph II Burnett got several bushels of corn, priced at 85 cents a bushel. »• j.,;' , fltitNMW-i) by delivering fish and peas to the fund treasurer. Joseph L. ,Biggs drew 3.000 corned herring from the fund’s store, and paid it back with labor of his slave, Jack. Thi diary does not list the hours, but $3 was a 1 - j lowed for Jack’s work, Biggs pay ing $15 in cash to balance the $18 account. Mrs. J L Knight bought 2,000 corned herring and Mr Knight paid $18 cash for them. John Watts bought 25 barrels of corn and paid cash in the i amount of $89.33. James H. Ellison bought 500. corned herring and balanced the. account with pork Peter G. Foster bought 20 bus-1 hels of corn in May, ten barrels in July and balanced the sum by State account in the amount of $22.44, and account of N. Win gins in the amount of $2.Mi and $19.21 in cash, making a total of $45.50. Other accounts, holding to about the same figures, were recorded in the following names: Henry P. Gibson, Joseph Grit ffn, John C. Lamb (100 bushels of corn and a lot of lumber for the captain’s brother, Wilson), J A Cherry, Joseph Wynn, Green Whitaker, Franklin Grif fin, J. Short, William Rogers, Kli Everitt, S. Rogers, J. S. Yarn II, Wm, Turner, Mrs. Nelson, Henry Everett, Mr. Roanoke Hotel, S. W. Outterbridge, S A. Andrews, Jordan Jinkins, W. Matthews, Si mon Everett, Major Shepherd, '«»' ■ W- „ v.. Cherry, George Reed, Heseklah Newsom, William Powell, Eli Has- j sell, Nim Scott, Joseph Dempsey, i Edward Wiggins, Larry Bell, Ed-' win Bell, Henry Scott, Dick Bos ton, Joseph Scott, Friley Itobason (It will be well to note the price i of provisions during 1861 foi com j paiison with prices for the same Reins a fev ; eais later) (On July 1 •!, 18(11, the fund was' about $1,000 in debt, but the treasurer apparently was still paying^bills and carrying on hisl work). On July 10, 1801, the treasurer| paid John R. Lanier $276.18 fori cloth for Company A. The returni trip ol free Negroes from Hatterasj cost the fund $16 50 on July 10 I An entry on July 11 shows that $85 w'as paid the steamer, Penn sylvania fur transporting Com pany C to Plymouth. On July 12, 1861, C. B Hassell, committeeman of the county vol uneer fund, came up with $1,000 m cash, according to a diary en try of that date. On the same day, the treasurer balanced the bounty account, the entries reading, as follows: “By balance of the first bounty, with the additional sum of $1,50 each to buy shoes for Company C per captain’s order, $906.50.” Another < ntry on the same date reads: "By this sum paid John Taylor, paymaster, appointment of Cap tain for Company C, per receipt] for second bounty, $810,000.” Anothei entry of July 12, 1861, "By this sum paid Capt. Lamb to take to paymaster Jewett for balance due Company A for sec ond bounty, $287.50” And still another entry in the treasurer's ledger on the samel lay: “This sum advanced Capt. Rieves for Company C to buy amp stools, chests, tables, etc, 685.” Completing his bookkeeping for he day, Mr. Bag Icy credited C. . Jolly ori subscription with one ind one-half bushels of corn, vai led at 97 cents. On July 12, 1861, J. H. Thrower A’as paid $2.50 for work and at — A second dentist’s office will be opened here within the near future, it was reliably learned this week. Offices are being rear ranged in the Manning building for the newcomer, it was learn ed. f SURFACING Th* first asphalt in the town s quarter million dollar paving program was laid this morning with the possibility that several streets will have been paved before the day is spent. Handling a sub-contract for the Rea Construction Com pany of Charlotte, the White Paving Company of Kinston and Greenville placed the first asphalt down on l.ee Street near Martin General Hospital.. Thirteen Speed Cases In Court Thirteen speeding eases were aired in the county ecu ft Mon day before Judge H. O Peele. Fines, ranging from $10 to $50, added up to $130 James R Bennington of Roan oke Rapids, eharged with speed ing 70 miles an hour, pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty and the eourt fined him $50, plus costs. Charged with speeding 05 miles an hour and pleading guilty, the following were fined $10, plus costs: Robert Taft Kirkman of Raleigh, Booker Talliffens Lloyd of Williamston, Thomas Franklin Johnstone of Asheboro, Julius David Zachary of Hertford, James Edwin Curry of Dehue, West Vir ginia, Robert Paul Brown of Ma rine Air Station, Miami, and Chris Combis of Charlotte. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the ease in which Alton Win. V.m -rf i’* vs , ■ ,e.‘ 1 : I J V ■ I1 -. | was charged witii speeding 70 | miles an hour. Comer Raymond Brown of Nt •.-.■nor, New- pf ii.linr guiltv < S|Jl e(tll»9i^> O.- . ;,.'WT;,}■ • mile zone, was fined $10, pin; costs. Judgment was suspended in tin ease charging Larry Moore James Jr , of Farmville, with speeding 50 miles an hour in a 35-mile zone Butler Given TV Set By Students Students and graduates of Wil liamston High School who were members of the (Ireen Wave band during the years Jack F. But lei served as director literally stun ned him last evening when they swarmed into his living room to present him with a new ItC’A tele vision receiving set. While they received some sup port from older friends and sup porters of the band, the project was largely one of and b.v the students and alumni of the band. The delivery was made b.v a largy group of the youngsters who just about filled the former director home at the corner of Biggs and Halifax streets and they reported i the recipient so overcome with emotion that he could not say aj word for a few minutes. Almost in , tears, Butler expressed his appre ciation for the gift and declared the youngsters had done more for him than In had or could do tm them. Booster Oliicials Discuss Festival -y - Meeting in the organization's jji'f'iee X'i.i.7. e. directjjraj of the VVilliainston Monsters dis cussed plans foi holding the an nual harvest festival this fall. Just now it is not certain that a festi val will be held. It has been pond -d out that the costs have increased front year to year, that the event is getting to lit a burden rather than an as- I el The organization, it was learn ! f'd, spent approximately $11,000 m » promoting the festival last year, leaving the treasury in a bad way and with a few bills still unpaid. Secretary Ed Grady is prepar ing a detailed report and a com mittee is expected at a meeting tomorrow evening to reach a final decision, favoring or ruling outj he event for 1954 County Teachers Hold Meeting In Hrnry IVIrFadyen Outline* Six-Point Legislative Program Speaking to a county-wide meeting of school teachers in the high school auditorium here yes terday afternoon, Henry McFad ven, director of research and pub lic relations, North Carolina Edu cation Association, outlined a pro posed six-point legislative pro gram. Sponsored by the United Forces for Education, including the Jaycees, North Carolina Cong ress of Parents and Teachers, Am erican Association Education As sociation, the program is to be placed before the next General Assembly for consideration. Stressing the need for State funds. Point One in the program i rails for attendance officers for i the various school units. Mr. Mc Fayden pointed out that, on an ! average, 61,000 pupils are absent each day in the State school sys ' tem, a condition deserving at tention. The program outlined bv the I United Forces would provide sec | retarial help in the schools, re i lieving the principal of extra uu I ties and giving him more time to I devote tu his regular tasks. The I program would also provide an extra teacher for each twenty teachers, the added teacher to handle special assignments. A new salary schedule, rang ing from $2,600 to $4,1000 for teachers htfTdmg A certificates, is also proposed. The maximum now is $3,400, a frigure reached after twelve years of ser only VICO. Declaring funds allotted for lights, heat and supplies and simi lar items are inadequate, the pro posed legislative program would provide sufficient money for ef A ter.-dav extended employ’ I meat period is provided in the ;■ program, the extra time making i! po-- ilih for teacher to re* room Work, contacting parents, j getting acquainted with their re \ gular vvoi k and completing and | handling reports and other de tails at the close of school. The meeting, scheduled as a preliminary event to the open ing of the schools this afternoon, was presided over by Mr. John Roberson, president of the Mar lin County Unit of the North Ca rulina Education Association, and he welcomed the teachers. Fol lowing a solo by Miss Mary Wal lace Foy, local public school music teacher, the Rev. Don Skin ner led the devotional. The business session featured reports by Mrs. Anna J Roebuck, chairman of the Professional Ser vices Committee; Mrs. Beatrice Edmondson, of the Planning Com mittei Miss Mary Whitley, rep resenting the county teachers, re ‘ Continued on Page Eight) Local Young Man Airman Of Month —«— A/li' J Herbert Harrell, Jr., was named "Airman of the Mnnth ' over m Korea, it was announced a few days ago by his commanding officer. The young man, two years in the service, met the rigid require’ ments to gain the honor, the of ficii explained. In addition to receiving a squa dron jacket and getting reliev ed of all detail work for a period, Airman Harrell was offered a week’s trip to Japan. The trip was rejected when it mterferred with his return-home schedule. He home the latter part of next week. During his stay in Korea he has been stationed at Kusan. Follow ing a It ave at home, he is to re port to Savannah. O/n'ii Hills On \cii Slor / or ( uloninl \vxt If rj'fc Five bids, submitted by con tractors in two states, will be opened here next Monday for the construction of a new building for Colonial Stores, corner of Main and Elm Streets. The lot has been cleared, and if the bids are acceptable, con struction is expected to get under a/ay within the near future