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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNT? ♦ FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE! VOLUME LYII—NUMBER 85 W'illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 28. 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Peele Has Twenty-One Cases |b Corniy's Cear! Fines Add Up To $695.00 During Short Session Monday Morning Judge H. O. Peele and Solicitor! Clarence Griffin handled twenty-1 one cases during a short session J of the Martin County Recorder’s j Court last Monday morning, me docket included five speeding cas 0s. Fines added up to $695. Proceedings: Charged with careles#, reckless and drunken driving, John Carroll Williams, Jr., pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty of drun ken driving and the court fined him $100, plus costs. He loses his driver’s license for a year. Notice of appeal to the superior court was given, and $250 bond was re quired. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Earl Taylor Mann was fined $25, plus costs. Wardnell Hadnott was fined $100 and taxed with the costs for! drunken driving. He loses his op- : erator’s license for jg year. In the case charging James ; Stokes and Jasper Perry with an j assault with a deadly weapon, Perry was adjudged not guilty, und Stokes was adjudged guilty nf simple assault. Judgment was | suspended upon the payment of j the costs. The case in which Robert B. Gault of Norfolk was charged with speeding 75 miles an hour, was nol pressed with leave, the defendant begging the court’s par don for being slopped out with the lJ. S. fleet before he could be tried. Charged with forcible trespass, Boss Alexander first pleaded guil ty and then changed his plea. Ad judged guilty, he was sentenced to the roads for six months, the rourt suspending the road term upon the payment of Ihe cost*. ® Pleading guilty of gambling, ; ruJson Mack Whitfield end Willie I Shorty) G i.ha/U were taxed Judgmen?^m?^S(Kndc<t upwfn Ihe payment of me costs in the sase in whi.’h Joseph Braswell rft charged with careless and • feckless driving. Daniel O. Reich of Cherry Poin ^25 fine, plus costs, und surrender lis driver's license for six months. Pleading not guilty, James Dav (Continued on Page Seven) J In Agreement Bnt Attack Followed Everyone was said to have been jn agreement, but yet a twelve year-old lad was attacked and painfully hurt on a street corner here last Monday evening. The victim, Larry Mims, is being re leased today following treatment for a head concussion. The lad was said to have been waiting on the corner for a ride to his home in West End when two colored boys came along. Mims or one of the other boys made a remark. Police, investi gating the ca^se, said Mims ex plained that one of the colored boys told him they did not want to go to school with you white so and so. "And we don't want to go to school with you colored so and so,” officers quoted Mims as' saying. • While the lads apparently were in agreement, possibly the titles, used in addressing one another prompted th* attack. Mims w'ent ; to the hospital with a 4-stitch gash . in his head. FIRST MONDAY Little or no new business has been placed on the agenda for next Monday when the Martin County Commission ers, Board of Education and Town Commissioners meet in their regular sessions, the clerks of the three boards said today. * The county board will draw a jury for the Decemb er court and handle routine business, Clerk J. Sam Get singer said. The county commissioners meet at 9£0 a. m„ the edu cation board at 10:00 a. m., and the town commissioners at 7:30 that evening. "N J i Dedicate $100,000 Armory Here Tomorrow j Williamston's new $1000,000 National Guard Armory, home of Battc ry C, 150th AAA Battalion (Gun, 90MM), NC NG, will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon. The public si invited. Open house will be observed, beginning at 2:00 o'clock. There’ll be a concert by the Williamston High Senool Band at 4:00 o'clock. General John II. Manning will deliver an address at 5:00. There will be a barbecue supper from 5:30 to 7:00. and a dance that night, beginning at 10:00 o’clock. Proceeds from the supper and dance will be used to beautify the grounds. Rotary Official Addresses Local Club On Tuesday Governor Egbert Feeler Of Raleigh Stresses “Good Living” In Talk Making his annual visit to the local Rotary club last Tuesday, District Governor Egbert Peeler of Raleinh stressed “Good Living” in a timely talk to the group. "We want to live right and get the best things out of life,” the speake; said "But what do we mean by getting ahead in •life money. prestige'.'” he asked, point ing out that too many live for to morrow when we should be living •odisV j Boy Scouts tomorrow, Mr. Peei j or said, and continued, "The high I school boy wants to go to col j lege to get away from his mean teacher and home. Is he happy ! when he gets there. After college he thinks to the future, including ! matrimony. But is he happy when 1 he gets married. He wants a pay | raise and children, lie gets one, two, three or more children and several pay raises, but is he sat isfied-’ The wife wants a rug on the floor and othej things, but are they happy then? "In each area we are interested in something in the future. We work hard today, expecting to morrow to be what we want.” The speaker declared that we must get "good living” out of what we do today. "We enjoy this moment think the next will be j more important,” he said and continued, "We keep grinding on, thinking tomorrow is going to be (Continued on Page Eight) I TOBACCO MARKET I vJ Selling more than 75,000 pounds yesterday, the Wil liamston tobacco market con tinues to push on toward the thirteen million-pound mark, observers stating that the fig ure should he reached with out too much trouble. I'p until this morning the market had sold 12,032,542 pounds for $7,052,510, an average of $55.83 per hund red pounds. Youth Club Lists Parent Directors At h meeting of the Williams-1 toil Youth Club at the High i School last week tile following; *" '<■" Cl Ml)' Mis. i Irving Margolis, Mis. Jessup Har rison, Mis J C. Cooke, Mrs. V J. Spivey, Mrs. W R. Glover and Mrs Victor Brown. Miss Mary Elizabeth Britton is president of the club which was organized to sponsor youth ac tivities of a recreational nature in tht- town. f IM Ak !Ni:\T WKKK vi Getting off to a good start this week and little affect ed by the light rain last night, the peanut harvest is expect ed to approach a peak next Tuesday or Wednesday, wea ther conditions permitting. An estimated 25,000 or 30, 000 bags have been handled by the market here so far this week, the prices ranging ' from around ten cents to 14.16 cents per pound. The average is holding to a point between twelve and thirteen cents a pound. Makes Good Sale On Market Today Delivering what was describ- J i d as ju.'t about the best tobacco seen on the local market this year, Farmei John Cratt of Bear Grass i Township made one of 'he best sales of the year this morning on j the local floors. The sale had not been figured by mid-morning, but the average will run well over 70 cents a pound for about 1,100 pounds. Mr. Cratt grew 4.8 acres, and1 up until this morning he had soldi more than $5,000 worth of to bacco from the plot. The proceeds j from the sale will likely boost. the income to almost $6,000. The farmer said he planted the1 white gold variety. To Attend Farm-Homo Electric Event Soon Representing the Virginia Electric and Power Company, i Messrs. E. T. Diggs, J. H. McBray er, R. H. Goodmon, A. L. Jameson and J. F. Wellons, ai)d Mrs. Doris Leggett and Mrs. Martha Stilley leave during the week-end for Charlotte where they are to at tend a 4-H farm and home elec tric congress. To Formally Open $100,000 Armory Friday Afternoon John Hull Manning To Sprak; (ion^n'MKiiiaii Kaiini'i' To Atiriul Friday afternoon at 4:30 the lo cal National Guard unit will dedi cate its new $100,000 Armory. Ma jor General John Hall Manning, the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina, will deliver the dedicatory address. The program calls for a concert by the Williamston High School band from 4:30 until 6:00 p. m. At 5:00 p. m., the Reverend John L. Goff of the First Christian Church, will pronounce the invo cation. Captain Elbert S. Pee!**, Jr., Battery Commander of the lo cal unit, will then welcome the guests after which Mayor Robert H. Cowon of Williamston will make the response. A short history of Battery C, MMi, ~i\T" ' Nt. wTTi Lt. Hugh G. Horton, Jr., followed by the dedicatory remarks of General Manning. The dedicatory prayer, to be given by the Rev erend E. Gordon Conklin of the Memorial Baptist Church, will close the program. Representatives of the 15th AA A Battalion and the 252nd AAA Group from Wilmington have in dicated they will attend the dedi cation There will be representa tives of the town of Williamston and the County of Martin on the speaker’s stand and it is hoped Congressman Herbert C. Bonner of Washington will be able to be1 here. From 2:00 p. in., on throughout the afternoon the Guardsmen plan to hold open house and hope as many people as possible will come by to see their beautiful new home. Immediately following the dedi cation there will be a barbecue supper which has been prepared (Continued on Page Seven) Fair Attracting Record-Breaking Attendance Here Exhibits umi Displays Hat-! «•«! Host Ever Seen At | Fair In This Area _ -—<&— The Martin County Fair this week is attracting record crowds, reliable estimates placing the at tend, nee figure last night at 5,000 or more. And the exhibits and displays are attracting favorable | comment from all. Last night the Sunshine Boys packed 'em in. This evening, home talent is certain to attract another large crowd with Dick Carter as master of ceremonies. The Grand Ole Opry will attract another throng Friday night, with a big jamboree scheduled for Sat urday night. The exhibits while not exten sive as had been planned, are pos sibly superior to any ever seen at a fair in this area. Since Monday more exhibits have been added along with other commercial displays. Added fea tures today center around the new car models. Prize winning exhibits have not been announced, but they will be published within the next few days. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has a realistic display, showing a victim of an auto-bicycle crash. Advancing various themes, such as education in the atomic age, natural resources, farm products and manufacturing in the county, I booths and display* have been at tractively arranged by the follow ing schools, clubs and organiza tions: Williamston schools, Bear Grass school library, Everetts school, Jamesville elementary school, Williamston primary grades, Oak City school, Boy Scouts from sev eral troops, Jamesville Future Farmers of America, Bear Grass Future Homemakers of America, Williamston F11A, the Veterans Training Program, Salsbur.v school, Jamesville Township school, rtobersonville grade mi niuni ' ntn, *s m 11 m - - —~ -- -n’rt" ship School 4-li club, Everett 4-H (Continued on Page Seven) Sale Observance For Halloween —— Williamston parents an- urged to bring their youngsters and to encourage their teenagers to cele brate Halloween in a safe and sane manner at the Farmers Warehouse on Saturday night. The Williamston Woman’s Club is having this annual festival of fun to encourage the proper cele bration of Halloween. Young spooks, witcher and Hal oween goblins can find a real out let in their energies in the many activities which has been planned for them. Plenty of surprises and lots of good food will make a happy eve ning for all from fi-9 on Saturday evening, October 30, at the Farm ers Warehouse. Listless Election In Prospect In County No Opposition On Tuesday Ballot To County Candidates Fifteen Names On Ballot In' County; Constable Ballot In Four Townships A listless election is in pros pect in this county next Tuesday, little interest having been ex pressed in the ballots which carry no contests at all in this county and comparatively few at the State level. A light vote is fairly certain in this county, and all in dications are that it will be pre dominantly democratic. The fifteen Democratic nomi nees on the county ballot for the ten offices have no opposition, and neither do the nominees for sons table in four townships have op ponents listed in the official forms. The county Democratic ballot carries the following nominees names: Elbert s. Peel for solicitor Sec ond Solieitorial District, Edward L. Owens and L. II. Ross for State Senate, Second Senatorial District, R. Frank Everett for State House of Representatives, L. Bruce Wynne for clerk of superior court, W. Raymond Rawls for sheriff, R. II. Smith for treasurer, William W. Biggs for coroner, Herbert O. Peele for judge of recorder’s court, Marvin W. Corey for surveyor, C. C. Martin, H. L. Roebuck, J. C. Gurkin, J. 11. Edwards and II. S. Johnson, Jr., for board of commissioners. The Republican side of the county ticket is blank, the party having offered no nominees. There are four non inees for : constable, as follows: J. H. Roebuck in Witliamston, ,. Clvde || Hunting m Rob. •Wn mtfSWZZr * J. S. Ayers n Hamilton, and Harry C. Jones in Jamesville. The Republican side of the township tickets is also blank. Five amendments to the State Constitution are being proposed, and the voters will decid • their (Continued on Page Eight) f PRESIDENT r j\ A. Corey, Jamesville man, was elected president of the Southern Albemarle Associa tion at a meting of the organi zation held in Helhaven yes terday. The association is made up of the counties of Dare, Tyrrell, Beaufort, llyde and Martin. Few Contests On Stale Ballot In Tuesday Election Opposition Li*t**ri For H. S. Senator Anri Represent!** Ii>e ami a Few Others •— —" Whilr the Republicans and De mocrats are locked In mortal com bat in various parts of the coun j try and even in some of the cun j gressional districts in this State, I Martin County voters are giving only casual attention to the State j ballot, and comparatively few are! j expected to participate in the I general election r.< xt Tuesday. | 1 There are onlv five districts and ■'^'Zxztsbsz ; •V**ns offering no opposition in j the race for twenty-two offices, most ol the posts be in |{ centered in the judiciary. In the district eon^st, W. T Love, Republican, is contesting I tin* office now held by Congress- I man Herbert C. Bonner. Love will get a few votes in this county. Possibly the race for the Unit-' (Continued on Page Eight) i API'ROYKh r I j New car models placed on display here today by the Itoanoke Chevrolet and ('has. II. Jenkins and Company, are attracting much attention at the showrooms here today. And they are receiving a firm stamp of approval by the gen eral public. The cars are also to be plac ed on display at the county fair this afternoon, it was reported. Civil War Diary of Docton Warren Bagley Installment 23 I On the evenings of the 4th and j 5th, October, 1861, the young gen-) tlemen have a concert in the Mas onic Lodge for and on account of "The Ladies Soldiers’ Relief So ciety of Martin County,” led by Captain Knight and Lieutenant Sitterson, which resulted in the collection of $48.90, which I paid over to the president, Mrs. Knight. On the morning of the 6th of October, 1861. 1 received a mess age from Mr. N. B. Fagan, 1st Lieutenant, saying his men were suffering for blankets, etc., and that sick soldiers had to lay upon the ground with but one blanket to cover, and asking me to see if aid could not be sent to them from the county. 1 wrote to Mr Bennett on the subject', learning that the ladies had a large collection at Hamil-j ton. .1 On Monday, the 14th, Messrs. T. Jones, W. R. W. Sherrod, Baldy| Staton, and Bryant Bennett met us here and reported the articles. of blankets, quilt.-', comforts, I sheets, drawers, etc., they had on hand at Hamilton from the work' and free contribution of the up County Ladies, which with a por tion we iiave here from a similar collection and from the “Ladies Soldiers Aid Society”, we conclud ed to send Captain Hives’s com pany aid at once, and Messrs. B. Staton and Bryant Bennett gen-j eruuoly offered to accompany them and see they were delivered. (Mr. Bagley submiled a list of j the articles with Mr. C. B. Has-' sell). j Messrs. Bennett and Staton left 1 on Thursday, October 17 with the ! goods. (On December 30, 1861, Mr.j Bagley had to alter his bookkeep-j ing records, the State having re fused to accept all the items char ged against it) Judge Biggs rendered the fol-l lowing account of deductions from our account against the State: Hedrick and Ryan, gold lace, $5.39; camp chests, 12 deducted,! $16; Lamb, bounty, $11.50; ex penses of public meeting, $35; excess in mattresses, 15 of them, $37.50; excess in board, $136.95; j vouchers for bounty. $940; rosetts,' I $14; trunk straps, $85c; combs, I 20s; popper and box, 25c; spoons, I $4.90; pan, 25c; peppty, $!0c; to j bacco, $15; excess in meals, $68.94; bounty charged, $1,215; Sundries, stools, tables, etc., $54; Thrower, $2.50; needles, gai ters, etc., $5.05; mattresses, $25; shoes, $1.25; sundries, 65c; trunk straps, $2.55; needles, 10c; spoons, $1.25; stone pitcher, 65c; sundries, $2.30; gilt lace, sundries and er ror in addition, $7.49; sundries, $1.05; carpet bags, knife, etc, $8,37; officers’ equipment for both companies, $169.10, C, $72. The companies A and C, having drawn bounty money from thej State, the bounty paid by me was! not allowed fThe amount deducted added up to $2.855.14 ) Deductions were made in tire account for the Hamilton Com pany, as follows: Eggs, $3.60; apple brandy, $35.20; eggs, $2.40; canvas and ex penses, camp stools, $19; Gilliken stools, $9.33; cash paid bounty, $2,080. Free negroes, $42.50; lan terns, $1.70; matches, 80c; wash! pans, $2.40; pepper, 35c; milk, $6; j, crush, 3.72; sleights negro, $16.60; officers’ equipment, $114.50; offi cers’ trimmings, $6.08; excess on the dhers, $119.50; officers’ share of tailor’s bill, $2.50; additional for ; officers, $74.07; four gallons of! brandy, $7; spoons, $1.40; whiskey,; $1; brandy, $6.12; jug, $1; powder and allot, 20c; 43 1-2 gallons of j whiskey, $15,211; forty gal lofts of whiskey, $14. The Company B having receiv ed bounty money from the State, it is now allowed. Company B claimed $5,811.54 but the Board of Claims (State) allowed only $3,395.35. Companies I A and C claimed $6,727.76, but the i Board of Claims allowed only $3, 1 872.62. (Allowed only $7,267197, the! county vlounteer fund apparent ly was called upon to make up the amount of $5,271.33 the Board uf, Claims rejected, the amount in-, eluding $2,155 bounty paid Com panies A and C and $2,080 paid t Company B. .In the next installment, No. 24, ; Mr Bagiev jumps to February 15, I i 1862, telling about picket duty j , and listing dispatches) Native Of County Dies In Maryland Mrs. Li.shii Ballard Wheatley, a native gf this county died late ] Monday afternoon in Hebron, ! Maryland, the victim of a heart I attack. Employed in the offices of a branch of the Alla.- Plywood Corporation, she suffered the at tack and died before she could be moved to a hospital. She was born in Griffins Town ship, the daughter of the late Byrd and Hattie Manning Ballard. She was first married to Richard Bassett and had made her home in Maryland for the past eighteen or nineteen years. Her second marriage was to Atlas Wheatley, also of Maryland. Surviving besides her husband are four children, Danny, Bettie, Willard and Benny Bassett, all of Hebron; two sisters, Mrs. John Dickerson of Oklahoma City, and Mis. Mary Sharpe of Cambridge, i Maryland; and one half-brother, | Dalton Brown, of Robersonville. The funeral service will be con ducted Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the Smith Funeral Cha- ! pel in Sharptown, Md., and inter-1 nient will be in Galetown, Mary- [ land. Mrs. Eula Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Biggs, Mrs. Sallie Mobley, Mrs. Shirley Ward and Mr. Dal ton Brown are leaving today to attend the funeral tomorrow. Drunk Subdurd It Thv Carnival llvrv Thin Week —-*§>—* No report was released by of- 1 ficers, but it was learned that car- j nival attendants devised a way of their own for taking care of drunks here this week. A rather boisterous fellow' was subdued, tied securely and rolled under the warehouse to sober up. As far as it could- be learned he w as not hurt or robbed Proposed Changer In Constitution Up To The People Five VnteiMlmentss Before Tile \ (tiers In Kleetion On November 2nd North Carolinians will vote November 2 on live proposed amendments to the State Consti tution. The first one would authorize the General Assembly to provide for recalling retired supreme court justices to fill temporary vacancies caused by illness or other emergencies. The second would authorize the General Assembly to create a board of paroles and confer upon it the authority to grant, revoke and terminate pansies which is now exercised by the Governor. The third would limit to one, the number of State Senators from any one county. The fourth would reduce from four months to 30 days, the time a voter must reside in a precinct before becoming eligible to vote. The fifth would permit the Gov ernor, in filling a vacancy in the executive or judicial departments to appoint a person to serve the balance of the unexpired term if that term is to expire on the first day of January after the next general election. Under existing statutes retired supreme court justices become emergency superior court justices and may be called on to hold terms of superior court. There is no existing authority to recall them for duty on the supreme court. The amendment creating a pa role board would terminate the Governor’s power of granting, terminating and revoking paroles after July 1, 195b. Under present laws, it is per missible for one county to have two or more senators. The effect of the proposed amendment would be to prevent any one county from having more than one senator in the General Assembly at any giv en time, whether the county alone composes a .- -natorial distric* or whether it is combined « th other ; countn - ITfAiich a di. met. i ii'‘making ap|» uitivul,- accord ; mg to existing statu* the gov ( riuir': appointee to fill a vacancy can hold office under the appoint ment only until the next regular election. At this next regular elec tion, any person seeking the office in question must run for election j for the period of time between the election and the end of the term to which the person vacating the office was originally elected, and must also run for a regular term to commence at the end of that short term. Grass Fire Goes Out Oi Control Several homes and outbuild ings were threatened shortly af ter 3:00 o'cloek yesterday after noon when a grass fire went out of control on West Main Street between Brown’s Community Hospital and tin- railroad trestle. Said to have started from a trash pile, the fire was burning rapidly along the railroad right of-way in both directions. Called to the scene, firemen were able to cut off the fire on the west with small hose lines, but a large and long hose line had to be con nected with the town water sys tem to check the fire at the eas tern end. More than an hour was spent bringing the fire under control and returning the equipment to the station. VOTING HOURS I v__...__/ The polls for the general election next Tuesday will be open in thirteen precincts in this county from 6:30 a. in., until 6:30 p. in. Even though there is no opposition expressed to the county ticket, .Martin Coun ty voters are being urged to vote in numbers to offset op position to the ticket in the I'irst Congressional District and also in the State. The Enterprise will not post the returns, but it has been asked to canvass the re turns for the press associa tions and the State press. Poll holders are asked to tele phone in the returns.