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THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 50 Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina. Tuesday, June 23. 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899
Nomination Conceded
To Robert L, Coburn
T. B. Attmore Issues
Statement Declining
To Ask 2nd Primary
Only Candidates for State
Offices To Be Voted On
In County July 4th
Robert L Coburn, Martin man
who captured second position in the
June 6 primary for one of the sec
ond district's two seats in the State
Senate, but who failed to get a ma
jority, was conceded the nomination
when T. B. Attmore. third high can
didate, said in a written statement
that he would not ask a run-off. Mr.
Attmore's action, although delayed
to almost the last minute, substan
tiates predictions made week before
last that he would not ask for a sec
ond primary.
The withdrawal by Mr. Attmore
from further participation In the
contest for senator chops off consid
erable interest in the primary July
4, when Martin voters will have on
ly the state ticket to consider. The
elimination of a second contest for
senator will, it is believed by some,
reduce the second primary vote by
one-third or more of the county re
corded the 6th of this month.
Mr. Attmore's statement reads::
"In the primary election hetd on
June 6th, I am advised that Mr. C<v
burn received only 271 votes more
than I did as a candidate for the
state senate from the second dis
trict.
"The State Board of Elections has
advised me that I can ask for a sec
ond primary with Mr. Coburn. Many
Democrats all over the district have
asked me to enter a second primary
with Mr. Coburn,,but it is my judg
ment that inasmuch as Beaufort
County will have one senator that
it would not be faia to the other
counties for this county to have
more than one senator. Senator Co
burn is my personal friend, is a gen
tleman and will well represent our
people. I am grateful for the fine
support I received, but I decline to
ask for a second primary.''
Reports received here following
the first primary indicate Mr. Att
more was greatly disappointed in
the support accorded him by Mar
Iin voters However, as far as it
can be learned here, no open de
nunciation has been directed against
anyone or any political group as a
result of the outcome.
Henry (1 Lilley
Passes Saturday
Henry C. Lilley, well-known
young man, died at his home in
Bear Grass Township last Saturday
following a long illness. High blood
pressure and resulting complica
tions caused death.
Mr. Lilley, 26 years old, was the
son of Stubbs Lilley. He married
seveul yeam agti and Is nurvlvfed by
his widow and two children.
Funeral services were copducted
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by
Rev. J. M. Perry, of Robersonville.
Interment was in the Lilley ceme
tery in Griffins Township.
Mrs. Geo. W. Reason
Dies Near Hamilton
Mrs. George W. Reason, 22 years
old, died at her home near Hamil
ton last Friday following a period
of failing health. She was a Miss
Whitehurst before marriage.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by
Rev. James' Purvis, and interment
was in the Scott burial ground near
HasselL
While the last rites were being
conducted for Mrs. Reason her baby,
just a few days old, died. Burial
was beside its mother.
S
Fire Company Gets Call
Early Yesterday Morning
lite local volunteer fire company
had its first call in several weeks
yesterday morning at 12:30 o'clock,
when fire destroyed the Chevrolet
sedan of William Stokes, colored, at
his home between the Roanoke.
Dixie and Planters Tobacco Ware
bouses. When discovered, the Are
was biasing through the top of the
car and was about to catch the old
two-story frame house. Some one
pushed the machine from in front
of the house to the Planters Wars
house, but no damage was done to
either structure.
SENATE NOMINEE
Holding second place In the
recent primary, Robert L. Co
burn, local man, has been con
ceded the nomination to the
state senate without entering a
second contest. Mr. Coburn and
Mr. William B. Rodman, of
Washington, will doubtless rep
resent the second district in the
state senate next term, begin
ning in January.
BOARD URGED TO
REMOVE OFFICER
AT ONE PRECINCT
County Elections Officials
Investigating Charge In
Hamilton Today
Complaints growing out of the
June 4 primary were directed to the
chairman of the Martiu County
Board of Elections last week-end,
when a petition was filed asking the
removal of Mr. John A. Davenport
as registrar in Hamilton precinct
The petition, carrying the names of
20 citizens in the precinct, has not
been made public, but it is under
stood the paper attacks the charac
ter of the registrar and charges him
with misconduct in handling the pri
mary election early this month.
Rumors, heard here from indirect
sources, indicated counter charges
were likely to be considered, action
in the case pending a hearing by
the county board of elections in
Hamilton today.
It was said the Board had advised
Mr. Davenport to resign, but no
request for such action, if any,
would be considered by the authori
ties until after the hearing today.
While the matter may be amicably
settled at the hearing today, it is
possible that the petition will be
given a complete airing before a
called meeting of the county board
of elections later, according to Mr.
Peel, chairman.
Action was said to have been start
ed when the registrar allegedly del
egated the task of marking tickets
to himself, and cleared the polling
place of others who might have par
ticipated, it was said.
The investigation of the charges
brought against Mr. Davenport at
Hamilton is likely to reach into oth
er precincts, an official of the elec
tions board explaining that informal
complaints had been received from
voters in at least one other precinct
in the county; Facts in the latter
case are being withheld, pending a
preliminary investigation of the
sources where the complaints are al
leged to have been created.
The action started in the two pre
cincts is contrary to reports on the
conduct of the election heard here a
few days after June 4th. However,
the original reports probably limit
ed information to ftstic action rather
than to any irregularities in voting
methods and any other passive hap
penings at the polls.
typhoid Campaign Gets Off
lo Good Start Despite Rain
Martin County's anti-typhoid cam-1
paign was oil to a good start Mon
day, despite unfavorable weather
conditions, according to information'
received from two or three of the
dispensaries. More than 600 men
women and children, mostly chil
dren, took the vaccine at Sandy
Ridge and Farm Life, reports stated,
and large numbers were at James
ville and Oak City.
Reports of typhoid cases are being
received in adjoining counties al
ready, but so far no cases have been
reported in this county.
Today the clinics are being held
at Eason Lilley's atora and Smith
wicks Creek school in Griffins Town
ship, and a Maednnia, Parmele, Has
sell and Dardens.
Wednesday the campaign will be
carried into Bear Grass and Poplar
Point.
Clinics wil be held on Thursday
at Everetta and Cross Roads school
house and at Gold Point.
Next Friday clinics will be held
at Williamston and Robersonville
This weekly schedule will be re
peated during the next three weeks
at the same places and at the same
hours.
Small Increase in County Property Listings
1935 and 1936 County Property Listings, by Townships
The following tabulations show, by townships, the 1935 and 1936 valuations of real and personal property values in Martin County, sep
arateiy and collectively, the increase in total valuations over the 193S listings, and also the percentage of increase or decrease by townships. The
figures are subject to minor change and do not include corporations listings. Five townships show losses in their personal property values, and
two a decrease In real property listings. Asterisk (?) indicates loss. All others are gains.
TOWNSHIPS:
Jamesvllle
Williams
Griffins
Bear Gram
Williamston
Cram Rands
Robersonville
Goose Nest
Hamilton
Poplar Point
County Totals
PERSONAL PROPERTY
1935 1936 Gain Loss
192.421 I 186.850 $ 5,571*
45.685 42,530 3.155*
181,272 190,018 8.746
163,283 157,905 5,378*
500,028 589,053 89,025
101,873 95,588 6,285*
589,472 576.242 13,230*
192,183 192,339 156
159,336 163,643 4.307
62,679 67,204 4,525
82.188,232 52.261.372 9 73.140
REAL ESTATE
1935
1936
Gain-Loss
Pet.
3 645,905
8*645.970
8 65
.01
247,137
245,690
1,447*
.58*
353,802
357,721
3,919
1.10
379.058
384,428
5,370
1.15
1,354.280
1,411,554
57.274
4.23
424,425
427,746
3,315
.78
1,357.836
1,369,397
11,561
.85
898.123
912,555
14,432
1.61
645,710
644,235
1,475*
.23*
232,487
235,337
2.850
1.23
16,538,763
26,634,627
3 95.864
1.46
TOTAL VALUES
1935
1936
(lain Loos
Pet.
* 938,326
* 832,820
* 5,506*
.65'
292.822. 288,220
4,602*
1.39*
535,014* 541,139
12,665
2.36
542,341
542,333
8*
.01"
1.854,308
2,000,601
146,299
1.88
526,098
523328
3,310*
.64*
1.941.308
1,945.639
1,669*
.09*
1.090.306
1.104.894
14,588
1.34
805.046
801,818
2,832
.35
295.166
302,541
1,315
2.50
*8,121,395
*8,895,999
*168,604
1.93
CHILD WELFARE
TOPIC AT MEET
HELD FRIDAY
County Health Department
Also Discussed at Joint
Session of Boards
The first joint meeting of the Mar
tin County Welfare Board and the
Child Welfare Advisory Committee
was held last Friday morning in the
courthouse. Mr. J. C Manning, sup
erintendent of public welfare, pre
sided. He challenged the group
with a presentation of the need in
this county of a health department.
He told of the opportunity of get
ting financial help through the so
cial security funds for the establish
ment of such a department to meet
the dire medical problems existing
in the county. He stated that Mar
tin County, this summer, would
spend approximately $4,000 for the
typhoid immunization campaign and
that with a great deal less expendi
ture a full-fledged health depart
ment with a doctor, sanitary officer,
and two nurses could be operated
for a full year and the advantage of
treatment of numerous other tfis.
eases would be available. He point
ed out with emphasis the wisdom
of launching such a plan while there
is the chance of securing aid from
the state and federal governments.
It was agreed that every member
of the board and the committee
would endeavor to carry on an edu
cational program in the county to
arouse public consciousness, that Mr
Manning would contact the proper
source to see if the available aid
could be secured so that the project
might be a permanent one. If this
is possible the group will lay the
plan before the board of commis
sioners.
Mr. William J. Wingate, field sup
ervisor of social work for the State
Board of Charities and Public Wel
fare, was present and presented two
plans which the state board requests
Martin County to accept in order
| for it to become a standard welfare
department. These plans are being
offered to those counties in the state
which do not have a full-time wel
fare department with a full-time
superintendent of public welfare.
Mr. Wingate said: "In order to de
rive the full benefits of the social
security funds for this state, the
state board is most anxious that the
above counties accept one of the
two plans." The first and wiser
plan is that of appointing a super
intendent of public welfare. A case
worker for the department and a
clerk is also needed. These staff
members would comprise an organ
ized standard welfare department.
The state will pay one-half the sal
ary of the superintendent and the
case worker and half of their ex
penses, as well as $25 toward the
clerk's sai?ry. The other is to be
assumed by the county. The other
plan resembles the set-up of the wel
fare department as it is, with J. C.
Manning acting as superintendent
of welfare and Miss Selma Ayers
(Continued on page four)
Series Farm Meetings To Be
Held Nightly for Two Weeks
Rain interrupted preliminary ef
forts toward perfecting a soil con
servation organization in this coun
ty Monday night, when it was found
necessary?to cancel a meeting at
Robersonville, the first of a series
scheduled in the county during this
and next week.
The organization program will go
forward at a meeting in the court
house here this evening at 8 o'clock.
Other meeting dates are as fol
Tows: Wednesday, June 24, Bear
Grass; Thursday, June 25, Hasell;
Friday, June 26, Oak City; Monday,
June 29, Holly Springs; Tuesday,
June 30, Farm Life; Wednesday,
July 1, Everetts; Thursday, July 2.
Jamesville. All meetings are sched
uled to get underway at 8 p. m.
These meetings, recognized as of
great importance,, are designed to
set up,an organization for localizing
to a great extent the control of the
soil conservation program. The
work sheet signers have the oppor
tunity to choose their own repre
sentatives to serve on the district
and county committees, and it is up
to them to attend the meetings and
perfect their own organization.
Three Negro Boys
Held for Robbery
Of Warehouse Here
Half of $175 Stolen from!
FCX Safe Recovered
Saturday Night
Harry M. and William Brown and
Jack Whitley, all young colored
boys, were arrested in Windsor last
Saturday night and formally charged
in Mayor J. L. Hassell's court here
yesterday with the robbery of the
Farmers Cooperative Exchange
warehouse on Railroad Street here
early last .Thursday night.
Caught in a Windsor pool room
by Officer J. H. Allsbrook and Sher
iff C H. Roebuck and Windsor of
ficers, the trio admitted the crime
when returned here and carried be
fore the trial justice for preliminary
hearing. While they confessed en
tering the warehouse and carrying
the small safe to a near-by lot, all
three of the boys denied reaching
into the iron box for the cash. About
one-half of the $175 in cash stolen
from the safe was recovered, but
two or three checks representing
small amounts and some records
rould not be found, the boys ex
plaining that they probably were
blown away.
The warehouse was entered about
B o'clock lacl Thnr.Hn,
robbers tearing off the lock to a side
door. Officers centered their inves
tigation on the boys, but no definite
clues were established until Satur
day night, when the young robbers
started purchasing suits of clothes.
When the three learned the officers
were on their trail, they hired some
one to take them to Windsor, where
they were arrested a short while
later.- -
Unable to raise bond in the sum
of $500 each, all three of the boys,
Harry M. Brown, 17; William Brown
and Jack Whitley, both 16 years of
age, were ordered jailed to await
trial in the superior court next Sep
tember.
Local Man's Car Damaged
In Wreck Sunday Evening
Considerable damage was done to
the machine but no one was hurt
when Mr. R. D. Taylor's car was
sideswiped by a reckless colored
driver near Currituck Courthouse
early last Sunday evening. The
front axle of the Taytor car Was
badly twisted an'd the left of the
body was battered.
Commission Urged to Pave
Jamesville-Old Ford Route
" Carrying a lengthy petition urg
ing the paving of the road from
Jamesville to Old Ford, via Hardi
son Mill, leading citizens from
Jamesville and Griffins Townships
were given a hearing by the North
Carolina Highway and Public
Works Commission in Raleigh last
Friday The delegation leaders well
presented their case, but the com
mission took no action and offered
little or no comment, It was said.
| SUMMER BEGINS
Summer, by the Calendar, and
by the weather, too, arrived last
Sunday morning at 9:20 o'clock,
bringing with it the longest day
of the year. While the day was
typical of summer all right,
rains and cooler weather pushed
the season temporarily into the
background yesterday and to
day. Smoke was seen rising
from a chlmlney here and there
to cut off a chilling edge. The
lapse in summer weather activ
ities will be short, for there have
been hot times during the sum
mers in years past, and there
will be plenty of hot days in the
years to come, no doubt. >.
Local and County
Officers Had Busy
Week-End Period
Nine People Arrested and
Placed In Jail To Await
Action of Courts
Making nine arrests and conduct
ing several liquor raids, local and
county officers yesterday reported
a busy week-end. The liquor raids,
conducted in Jamesville, Williams,
and Hamilton Townships, proved
fruitless, but Deputy J. H. Roebuck
barely escaped with his life when
an alleged liquor dealer in Hamil
Ion threw a half gallon jar of spir
its out of the window and missed
the officer's head by inches.
The arrests included three young
men charged with the robbery of
the FCX warehouse here and Jack
Oakley in Cross Roads.
Robert Winbush, young negro,
was arrested here for carrying a
concealed weapon. Officers, mak
ing the arrest, learned after ques
tioning him that he stole the pistol
from Farmer Daniel Gardner, near
here, sometime ago. Winbush da
nied stealing about 100 pounds of
hams from the farmer about the
time the pistol was stolen.
Jaff Whitehurst was arrested for
being drunk here. John Edmonds,
Everetts colored man, was arrested
there to face a similar charge. Ed
Briley, Everetts colored man, was
jailed to await removal to a hospital
for the insane.
Bollie Council, colored man of
Hassell, was arrested for drunken
driving following a wreck on the
Hamilton road early Sunday morn
ing. '
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Wet Season Now Menace
To Crops in This Section
Threatened by dry weather up
until a few days ago, farm crops in
this section are now facing wiiat
may prove an even more serious
condition caused by a wet season.
Up until noon today more rain had
fallen in this section during June
than in any month since last July.
The heaviest rain of the month fell
yesterday and last night, the weath
er station placing it at 2.31 inches,
bring the total for the month so far
to 7.28 Inches.
MARTINS WON 5
OUT OF 6 GAMES
IN WEEK S -PLAY
Now Within Half Game of
Top Position In Coastal
Plain Standings
Registering five wins, four of
them at the expense of the strong
Ayden game, and only one loss dur
ing the third week of play, Peahead
Walker's Martins annexed second
plact' in Pli*in league stand
ings, and are now bidding for the
head position With 11 victories and
7 losses, the Martins are trailing
the league leading Greenies by only
one-half game, and a show down for
the top rung is expected today and
tomorrow when the two teams aro
scheduled to meet.
After dropping a close contest to
the Bruins here last Thursday, the
Martins with Dick Cherry leading,
went to New Bern Friday to break
sort of an old custom <>f all losses
and no wins in New Bern territory
that had been in vogue since the
present league lme-up was perfect
ed. The mighty Kennel and long
time Jonah man for the Marlins,
,was knocked from the box in the
fifth after Walters and Black con
nected for a double each. Cherry
went the route for the Walker boys,
turning the Bruins back with only
seven hits. HouSe, Walters and
Black led with two hits each at bat
for the Martins to feature the 7 to
4 contest.
Douglass, coming .here from Ay
den early last week to hold down
first base, figured prominetnly in
the 5 to 3 victory over the Aces
here last Saturday afternoon when
he hit a homer on the gymnasium
with Black on base to straighten
out a score tied in a three-way
knot. Dean, pitching for the locals,
allowed an average of one hit dur
ing each of the 12 innings, but he
proved a master in the tight spots.
Black and Ferrell, with two hits
each, led at bat and accounted for
one-half the runs for the locals.
With the law of averages against
them, the Martins invaed Ayden
teritory again Sunday and returned
honre with ail H to B victoryLivin
good allowed the Aces only 5 hits
The Martths "backed him' up with
real ball maneuvering, and made
the mighty Aces show up like high
school boys. Avden tied the score
at one-all in the first inning when
Johnson hit a home run, and the
Aces went ahead in the second with
another run, hpt that ended their
scoring for the day. Ferrell tied
[ihe ^or^ih The To'urth wTfh a" hom
cr, and from then on the Martins
scored often. Douglass, Walters
and Gaylord, with two hits each,
accounted for two-thirds of the
Martins' hits
Colored Woman
Is Hurt in Wreck
Fannie Brayboy, local colored
woman, suffered a broken arm and
internal injuries about 2 o'clock
Sunday morning, when the automo.
bile in which she was riding with
Bollle Council, colored, of
and l.ena Roberson and a yo^inj
colored boy crashed into a ditch
bank and turned over near Mill
Brajic'H "bn the Hamilton road. She
was removed to a Washington hos
pital, where she is expected to re
cover. None Of Tfwoihers was hurt
it was said.
Council, arrested later for drunk
en driving, said they were travelinf
toward Williahiston and that wher
they were rounding the Mill Branch
curve, the Brayboy woman snatched
the steering wheel and caused the
accident.
The driver was released under I
1100 bond signed by Mr. J. W. Eu
banks, of Hasaell.
County Rate To Be
Fixed on Valuation
Total of $11,000,000
?
Increase In Values Is Not
Expected To Decrease
Tax Rate Much
Martin County will have a prop,
erty valuation of iusi akmi til nnn
two to base its 1936 tax rate on, ac.
cording to a preliminary survey
made unofficially of the listings
turned in by the IU township list
takers recently Corporation values,
placed at $2,163,352 last year, were
accepted in the preliminary survey
without variation pending their cer
tification to the county authorities
y ?corporation ronimisminp
the near future. The figures, while
subject to change, show a valuation
of $8,895,999 for personal and real
property luted by the local taxing
authorities, the corporation Jax in
creasing the figure t? $1^059,351,
based on 1935 corporation listings
Compared with a gain of more
than 8 pe r cent last year, the values
this year are considerably less, the
1936 gain representing less than 2
per cent over the 1935 values. Ilow
ever, it was expected the valuation
this year would actually show a de
crease because of a change effected
111 the tax laws by the last general
assembly. The legislature increased
th list of possible exemptions, and
while the change probably accounts
for decreases in personal properly
listings in five townships, the in
crease in the five others is a bit dif
ficult to understand, especially in
thuse districts having . uidy farm
property, for instance, Grifrins and
Poplar Point reported sizeable gains
111 percentage, and those two dis
tricts are strictly agricultural.
Despite personal property losses
in .Jamesville, Williams, Kar Grass,?
Cross Koads and Kobei sonville, the
values on this type of property show
a gain of $73,1411, the total personal
property listings standing at $2,261,
372, as compared with $2,188,232 last
year. Williamston Township led the
gains with an increase of $89.(125, or
17 80 per cent Poplar Point, one of
the smallest townships in the coun
ty, had an increase of 7 22 per cent,
or $4,525 above its 1935 personal
property listings. Of iff ins had a
sizeable,gain and Hamilton had a
good Increase: Over III William*." ?
where a few dollars make a big dif
ference in the percentage column,
there was a decrease of nearly 7
per cent. Cross Roads had a drop
of slightly more than 6 per cent,
while Jamesville and Kobersonville
were under by between 2 and 3 per
tent their 1935 personal listings
In the real estate column, all but
two townships, Williams and Ham
ilton, show gains, some fairly large,
but most of them small The de
crease was a fraction of 1 per cent
while the next increase fell slight
ly under the I 1.2 per cent mark.
Williamston again Ted the list will!
a gain of $57,274, or 4.23 per cent.
Goose Nest was second with a gain
of $14,432, an increase that probably
is tlie ingti spiit in tin? listings, bmh?
personal and real, in the entire
frramy The actual gain in real
values after deducting the nearly
$3,000 combined loss in Williams
^ Hamilton 'lints In |tt5.f|H4
or 1 46 per cent more than the 1935
real property values.
The combined personal and real
values dropped in five townships.
Jamesville, Williams, Bear Grass,
Cross Roads, and Robersonville, but
the other districts overcame those
losses and made possible a total in
crease of $168,604, or just about 1.93
|ier cent over the 1935 total values.
Getting down to the meat of the
cocoanut, taxpayers will find very
little reduction possible in the tax
rate, as far as the increase in values
will affect the levy. The increase in
values will raise about $2,500, and,
other things being equal, may effect
a cent or cent and a half reduction
The figures offered here and in
the table appearing in this paper
are preliminary, and while they
I effect some rather marked varia
tions in listing, a detailed survey
tham?may?fnr
changes.
That some idea may be gained of
the trend of valuations, the listings
of this and the past two years are
given, as follows: personal property
values, 1934, $1,604,814; 1935 $2,188,.
182; 1936, $2,261,372; reaT property
values, 1934. $6,444,848; 1935, $$,
538,763; 1936, $6,634,627,
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Regular Masonic Meeting
Here Tonight at 8 O'clock
There will be a regular meeting
of Skewarkee Lodge, No. 60, A. F.
and A. If., at the Masonic Hall to
night at 8 p m. Members and vis
I ting Masons are urged to attend.