J THE ENTERPRISE 1 to Orar VOLUME XL?NUMBER 20 WiUiamston. Martin County. North Carolina. Tuesday. March 9.1937 ESTABLISHED 1899 32 CIVIL ACTIONS SET FOR TRIAL IN SUPERIOR COURT $65,000 Suit Against Corey Again Piled for Trial Te against Corey have quite a I lory, and they are not ?pots Young Leovtster I were killed instantly a a truck-car collision near Boberamville in Sep tember. 1*34 driver of the track, was i charged with ? ing the trial of the I Corey in Clayton Mnorc Henry A. Ci adj called a lor trial Several ho the trial of the The civil rihndir recently pre pared fay the county bar carries the folknraw cares Wednesday. March IT Lag vs Lang. Snuthwirk n Waters. Rogers vs. Bailey Matthews is James. Hy Thursday. March 1? Keel et al vs. Taylor. Bank is James. Grdhn vs. Ferry. Keel vs. Rotwrsaci March 22 Andrews. Ad n Corey: Leavister. Admr. vs Corey Tuesday March 23 Fertilizer Co vs Brown. Bank vs Eeoett. Fer tilizer Co vs Edwards. Fertilizer Co vs Bray: Boberson vs ana. Fertilizer Co vs Everett. Rob nws vs. TO a a. Stake vs f. March 24 Fertilizer Co vs Parker; finBm Co vs Car away. fhrtaum Co vs Mdh; Fer tilizer Co vs Lewis. Fertilizer Co vs Waqlnv . Wioilns vs Crop: Ro et al; Petitioners Oppose Anti-Trappin? Law Liquor Stores To Retain Same Hours, Pending State Action No enroediale chance it expected in the hours liquor stores stay open in this county, t was learned fol low inc a meeting 01 the Martin Coun ty Alcoholic Beverages Control Beard here last night While se eral counties are now holding their stores open until 9 o'clock each eve the provisions of the re cently passed county option lieu law. V. J. Spivey. chairman of the Martin County Board, explained that the meeting last night preferred to await uniform action by the State board, yet to be appointed. Chairman Spivey stated, however, that the longer working day would be considered by the board in a special meeting if stores in all ad joining wet counties adopt the long er schedule before uniform action is directed by the State commission. The board chairman also explain ed that it might be possible to limit the longer schedule to the two stores in Williamston and Roberson ville. and add no additional hours to the schedule at Oak City and Jamesville. where each store has on ly one employee Legislature Plans To Adjourn Next Week [ TAKE ACTION I, While Marti* Coaaty pwyte and athrn are Ulkiar a beet i uti iaiai Senator Jaaiah W. Bailey's standi against President tmildli roart plan. Bertie rirralated la sections of the caaaty arms the way. carried bandied* of nana aad nude it plain that the people there thiak little of the Sena agaiast Mr. Bust Bailey's ofliee is two behind in acknowledging hy peeple all over the Stale. He is hiding he hind ?ethiag he clainu is la Seniors of Oak Citv Planning Trip Soon; Other School News Coach C. R. Edwards Starts' Spring Baseball Practice There This Week The senior class of Oak City High | School will present its play, 'Crash ing Society," there Friday evening at 7 30 o'clock The play, getting itsj foundation when a small-town fam ily inherits a fortune and goes to the I city to break into society, has the promise of being one of th most en tertaining ever presented there A! small admission will be charged to! Plans have just been completed by the seniors for an annual trip, the pupils, after giving much time and sight to the event, agreeing to march on Richmond the 2nd of nr ? nth. Other points were consul ered. but to keep the expenses wi.1 in the reach of everyone, the sem< ? .? ?ad to visit the historic points u. and around Richmond Members of the home economics asses are making rapid progress in their work, which is now centering around the kitchen, the pupils of the cghth grade preparing breakfasts and turning the kitchen over to the ninth graders for the preparation of ?cheon. Both grades are aiding the hot-lunch program in coopera Coach C R. Edwards is now busy I shaping up his baseball prospects j for the coming season, and is anx ious to effect a complete schedule with teams in near-by centers. The basketball season was virtually ruled out this year by weather conditions, but the athletic program promises to create interest Four Persons Hurt In Accident Sunday Their car wrecked beyond repfcir it turned over several times a curve near George Williams' filling station between here and Jamesville early Sunday evening. | Joe Clark. Junior God ley and Misses and Lillie Jane Latham, all | of Chocowinity. were painfully but not seriously hurt. God |ky sidfeied a bad cut an his nose use Latham was said to have I a slight fracture of the J brought here, where they were treat | ad by Or W. T. Winn. driver of the by the control of it struck the The four Work Is Completed On Most Important Bills Before Croup Homestead Exemption Is Voted Down Monday By Committee North Carolina's legislature struck a real relief note last week when it virtually agreed to quit Raleigh on Thursday of nest wek There are many who believe the state would be better off today if the pott-' ticians had not met at all. With few exceptions, the legislature was just another "yes" group, baited along with an occasional and insignificant pet issue that meets with general approval of a sucker public. All the major bills have been han dled or are in the process of han dling. and the lawmakers are faced with the task of cleaning up their desks and learning what they have and havent done since back yonder in early January Some are of the belief that the people are going to wake up and learn thy have not been treated so well, that a continued sales tax and a tax on land will re mind them of that fact. A flood of local bills filled the hop pers to overflowing in both branches of the assembly during the past few days, n.ust of them passmg without notice The North Carolina divorce law, based on two years' separation was liberalized, and under the new rul ing mutual consent is not necessary. A large percentage of the divorces granted under the old two-year plan are not legal as mutual consent was never mentioned, it is understood. Complete terms of the new bill are not known here, but it is not be lieved that any effort was made to validate the divorces. Representative H. G. Morton plans to introduce the educational omni bus bUl this week.' appointing mem '?? :s of county buards ui education. A reduction of 10 cents a hundred v eight in the cost of licensing auto mobiles is being considered, the bill placing the new rate at 30 cents A proposed amendment to the state constitution, which would have abolished capital punishment in North Carolina, was killed by the senate Monday Contrary to the action of ilia peo ple when they favored a homestead exemption last November, the ex emption of (300 was voted down in committee, and a governor-appoint ed commission was asked to "study" the question. Funeral tor Prominent County Man Saturday Funeral services, attended by near ly 2,000 people, were held for R. A. Bailey, retired Robersonville tobac co warehouseman and business man, in the Primitive Baptist church' in Robersonville last Saturday after Mr Bailey. 66 years old, was found dead in a small woods near Rober sonville last Friday afternoon, a bullet wound in his throat. "My troubles are more than I can bear," eras written in a small memorandum book, the note bearing his signature : his wife died some time ago. Make Plans to Beautily County Building Grounds Pauline Smith, acting spec ialist in landscaping the home grounds, was in the county last At home and tan of the grounds in front of the c MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED WHEN TRAIN HITS AllTO Nathaniel Coltrain Suffers Three Breaks in His Back Saturday s Struck by an Atlantic Coast Line freight train as he was driving a truck across a little-used grade cross ing just this side of Gardner's Creek early last Saturday afternoon. Na thaniel Coltrain. young white boy. is in a Washington hospital with his back broken in three places and oth ?r less serious injuries. Last reports ? the hospital state the boy. son and Mrs. Jim Horton Col ,..n, of Williams Township, is get ting along as well as could be ex pected Chances for his recovery were considered doubtful soon after he was struck by the train The train, traveling toward Wil liams ton. plowed into the truck, striking the door at the side of the boy and whipping the machine into V-shape before knocking it into a grass held on the side of the track Witnesses stated the engineer appar ently sensed the collision and applied I he emergency brakes on the engine, slopping the train ? na comparative ly short distance Coltrain. complaining with his back when members of the train crew and others started to lift hun into a car for removal to a doctor here, asked them to stop and he crawled into the car on his hands and knees. After receiving first-aid treatment here he was carried to a WagKin^tftn Kmcpi^nl -y , The truck, said to have belonged to the W I. Skinner & Co . mas de molished Hauger s Contract Received by local Baseluill Officials Reorganization of Team In Arkansas Not Likely To Affect Contract Here Art Hauger. Momenta man and old baseball band, was officially an nounced under contract U> manage the Martins here this coming sea son. R H Goodmon. president of the local baseball club, stating that he believed the Bentonvdle (Ark i club had surendered its contract with llauger The contract was signed by Hauger last Saturday, and in let ter to the club president here he stated that contracts could be ex peeled with at least six members of the Bentonville club After surrendering its franchise mvtrit wRtnpt W Bentonnth club reconsidered and is planning u suport a team again this season The action gave rise to the question ai to whether Hauger would be re leased The contract with the Mar tins was signed by Haugei after Bentonvdle merchants announced their plans to support a team thu coming season Contracts with other players aw coming in almost duly, and the team personnel will be contracted in its entirety within the next week or 1C days, it is believed President Goodmon has been nam ed a member of a committee to pre pare a schedule, the season to open Piclure Exhibit at School Next Week An exhibit of ISO of the Snest re | productions of recognised master I pieces of art will be placed ?|>ositioii of Road Commission SUIT FOR $50,000 IS OUTGROWTH OF AUTO ACCIDENT New Bill Is Compromise In Claims Formerly Filed Ay This County Still Hoiking fur refunds due this and uther counties by the State ilighna> and Public Works Com mission. Senator R L C??burn now has a bill before the legislature di recting the commission to reimburse the counties for all the money ad vanced tor highway construction after the commission took over the highways The opposition has effect ed some clever maneuvers, however, and there is little hope for the pass age of the bill or any other bill that is advanced to coirect an apparent injustice This and other counties first en tered claims for all meal of the car. passing out the back window. Represented by Worth and Horn- j |er. the defense maintains that thej duver was operating the truck with mission, that no cargo was carried lor the company at the time of the ! accident. Negroes Engage in Free-for-AII Fight Mayor J. L. Ifassell issued an open I warning in his court last night to the operator of Payton's poolroom (col ored! on Washington Street here.' stating that the place would be rinsed if any?more?trouble takes ? place there The warning was is ued following a free-for-all fight there last Saturday night James KufTin, Harvey Bryant, Brad Bag ley and George Ruffin. ail colored fell victims of the law and were fined $2 50 and taxed with the costs for participating in an aSray William Smith, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon on Fannie Purvis, both colored, was bound over to the county court for trial under a $50 bond Evidence offered at the hearing last night was that Smith drove a knife blade into the woman's shoulder and then broke the blade from the kmfe han dle Charged with public drunkenness. Galvin Hyman was fined $2.50 and taxed with the cost. ? Free Movies tor Farmers Here Saturday Morning An entertaining ami highly ntn esting talking picture will be riuwnl free l" f .iii,ii> i.l Uil> aiul aurroumi. ing counties in the WilIiamston| High Schuul auditorium at 10 30 o' clock Saturday morning Brought I here by the Lindsley Ice Company. John Deere dealers, the picture cm-1 ten around the following -The Blacksmith's Gift." "Her Hus-| band's Choice. Prom One Anril" flnd "What's New in Implements." | Tickets are issued free fay the Lind sley Ice Company, and all are invit ed to see the picture. List Takers Named For Eaeh Township; Start Work April 1st List-takers. Assessors And Commissioners To Hold Meeting Monday A revaluation of all real property was ordered for Martin County by the board of commissioners in spec ial session here yesterday the au thorities reserving ri|{hls to make final adjustments and consider a horizontal reduction or horizontal increase ui values when they con vene as a board of equalization and review The commissioners first consider ed ordering a horizontal increase in all real propel ty values and effect ing equalizations on that basis. The method of procedure now is to re value. using present values as a working basis for any changes. The official order of the commissioners reads a* follows "Relist all real es tate on revaluation sheets and to ap point three men in each township to examifw the list and to equalize values, using ? the present standard ?ng the right, w hen sitting as a board of cqualfcatioii and review, to make any final adjustments and make hor izontal reductions or increases in total valuation of real estate as, in their discretion, to be to the best interest of the county " Uncertain that a horizontal in crease in value., would include cor poration properties, the authorities at the Monday meeting, ruled a gainst the first plan to order the in ii ease and adjust values on that basts And no such increase is ex pected. which means the tax rate will not be affected other than pos sibly by a slight gain in values. The personnel for handling the listing and revaluation, by town ships. is as follows, the names of the list-lakers coming first and those of the assessors following Jamesville O. W. Hamilton, Lin woud Know les and J K Martin. Williams lainan Hardison, Joshua L Coltrain and C L. Daniel. Griffins George C Griffin, Sylves ter H 1-11 Ic y and James L. Coltrain. Bear Grass A B Ayers. W. O. Peel and C. U Rogers. Williamston H M. Burr as. John D I.illey a:iil l.uthi-r I'eel Cruss Koads G G. Bailey, H. D. iwlsiyl I y a yen Kubeisonville H S. Everett, J. R. Winskiw and T L Roebuck Poplar Point L. G Taylor, W. S. White and Mayo Hardison. Hamilton I- H Everett, F. L. Hai shp and D R Edmondson. Goose Nest J A Rawls. J. T. Dan iel and H A Early The list takers and assessors are to meet with the tax supervisor and county commissioners next Monday, when plans will be formulated for handling tlie work. Considerable attention is being given the task, and, while it will be next to mipusMtrte?tn handle lliB work in perfect fashion, the com nussioneis have shown that they plan to do all in their power to im prove tire system and eliminate n-ai.y inequalities that have exist ed for several years A casual review of the present tine I on the books shows some startling inequalities, and there is mi doubt but that -some townships have a higher valuation than others In one township, plows and all the tainting implements were valued at less than $5u on a 10-horse farm. In another district a piece of property .alued at approximately $1,500 sold foe $5.00 cash, and another piece, valued at more than $5,000 on the tax books, and sold on the same day and in the same section, brought around $1,750 It is the purpose and aim of the commissioners to elimi nate such apparent inequalities in taxable values Local Attorney Recovering In a Richmond Hospital Hu right leg amputated just be low the knee a week ago last Satur day Attorney W H Coburn was able to be up in a rolling chair last Sunday, reports stating that his con dition was much improved and that he was recovering rapidly in the Hichmond hospital, where he has spent considerable time. , Doctors started rinsing his lag wound yesterday, and he is expect ed home in about two wnki