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Advertiser! Will Find Our Col umns ? Latchkey to over 1,800 Homes of Martin County. I THE ENTERPRISE Watch the Label on Your Paper, As It Carries the Data Your Subscription Expires. VOLUME XLII?NUMBER 46 WillianiMton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 9, 1939. ESTABLISHED 1899 Wind Storm Hits Eastern Section of State on Thursday No Great Damage Reported To Crops or Property In This Area ? Sweeping out of the west, a terri fic wind and sand storm damaged crops and property over a wide area in eastern North Carolina last eve ning about 7 o'clock, incomplete re ports stating that the storm left one dead and untold damage to crops and property. The Martin County area, exper iencing a wind with an estimated ve locity approximating 50 miles an hour at times, reported no serious damage. Field crops were blown down to some extent, but the result ing damage was not, near as great as many had expected to find it early this morning. Light service and communication were maintained over the county, as a whole. Corn was broken in some sections and tobacco apparently attacked pre viously by worms fell in the fields. Mulberry trees fell in numbers and a few others broke in the wind. Traffic on the highways was choked, travelers deserting their cars and seeking shelter in ditches Riding along a country road in Wil liams Township, Val Teel and Nor man K. Harrison crawled hurriedly from their car and stretched them selves in a ditch for fifteen minutes. As they rounded a curve in the road, Teel. seeing the dust swept by the wind, yelled, "Tornado, cyclone stop the car!" Harrison said before he could stop the car. the dust was so thick he could not see the cap oh his radiator. Joe Davis, 26, of Jacksonville, Fla., was killed when a tree blew down on his truck between Rocky Mount and Wilson. The colored sec tion of Tarboro's new WPA grand stand was blown down, and consid erable damage was reported to crops in Wilson arfd Nash Counties Few Cases Called In The Recorders Court Last Monday Judge H. O. Perl Hold* The Court in Session Hard ly One Hour Crime continues virtually on a holiday schedule in this county judging from the few cases that are being called in the recorder's court these days. Only five cases were call ed by Judge H. O. Peel last Mon day, and the jurist and the solici tor, D. E. Johnson, had completed their work and adjourned the tri bunal within the hour. Three of the cases were continued, a fourth was nol pressed and a fifth was cleared from the docket when Judge Peel fined the defendant $10, taxed him with the cost and revoked his driv ing licenses for a period of six months. The case charging Johnnie Peel with non-support was continued un til next Monday under prayer for judgment the defendant having pleaded guilty to the charge. A continuance was also granted in the case charging Inhn F Conke with non-support. The case charging Beveraly T. Woolard with the issuance of a bad check was nol prossed. Charged with damaging or de otreying personal piupeily, Aubiey Pierce had his case continued until next Monday. Matthew Peel, the colored man who deserted the scene after his car crashed into another one on the Robersonville-Stokes road on Sat urday, May 27, appeared in court and answered to a charge of reckless driving. Peel denied his guilt, and explained to the court that he re ported the accident to the landlord and was assured that proper action would be taken by him. Peel was fined $10, taxed with the cost and had hia license revoked for a period of six months. The Peel car and that of Henry Pittman, Pactolus colored man, were damaged in the crash. Hardin Is Charged With Manslaughter Charged with operating an auto mobile with improper brakes, Em mett Hardin, Wilson candy sales man, will be tried for manslaughter in the Martin County Superior court here week after next. Hardin ran down and killed William Bonds, small colored child, on the Hamil ton road, near here, last Monday morning. At a preliminary hearing held be fore Justice Hassell here Wednes day morning, Hardin waived exam ination and was bound over to the superior court under a $900 bond. It was brought out at the hearing that there were no eye witnesses to the accident, but evidence offered by Patrolman W. S. Hunt was con sidered sufficient to support the charge and the case was set for trial in the superior court. Evidence of fered by the patrolman was identi cal with the facts reported immed iately after the accident Board A pprovesManualA rts Department for Local School Meeting in regular session here this week for a preliminary review of the budget for the 1939-40 term, members of the Martin County Board of Education delayed action until next Monday on account of the illness of Mr G. C. Griffin, member of the body, who just recently re turned from a Washington hospital following a major operation. Certain phases of the budget will be discuss ed at the meeting next Monday, but no definite action will be taken un til Mr. Griffin is able to be present at a later meeting, Superintendent J. C. Manning said today. The establishment of a manual arts department in the Williamston High school was tentatively approv ed by the meeting this week, subject to final approval by the county board \ of commissioners and education au thorities in Raleigh It is estimated that the proposed department can be created and maintained with no great cost accruing to the county. Plans for the department call for the construction of a small wooden building to house the workshop, the cost estimates running from $750 to $1,000. The new department will not be created before the 1940-41 term, if then, it was stated. Conducting an investigation of crowded conditions in the colored school at Parmele, the board made a ground inspection there but no ac tion can be taken to relieve the con gested conditions this coming term, the board ruled. It is*likely that a new high school unit costing possi bly $5,000 will be proposed next year for the Parmele school. HE-ELECTED Inanimouslv re elected by a joint meeting of the County Board of Commissioners and County Welfare Board this week Miss Mary Taylor begins her third term as superintendent of public welfare in this county. Mother Of County Agent Dies Here Mrs. Mattie Burns Brandon, mem ber of a prominent South Carolina family, died here Wednesday after noon at 3 o'clock while visiting her son. T. B. Brandon, and family on Grace Street Mrs Brandon, who would have been 81 years old the first of next month, after spending the winter here returned last Thurs day for-a-short~vinit and was token ill Sunday. She had been in feeble health for some time but was able to be up until her last illness, the end being attributable to the infirmities of age. Mrs. Brandon was born in McCon nellsville. South Carolina, the daugh ter of Thomas Davis Burris and Mar garet Bone Burris. Her father, a na tive of Scotland, figured prominent ly in the War Between the States, serving the South as a major in the army. She was the test member "of" ers having had an active part in the development of York and Chester Counties in South Carolina Following the death of her hus band. J. E. Brandon, about six years ago, Mrs. Brandon made her home with her sons spending much of that time with her son here. Besides her sou here, she is survivea Dy two sons, Messrs. L. B Brandon, superinten dent of the State Farm at Caledonia, and J. D. Brandon, of Mt. Olive. The body was carried early yester day morning to the old family home where services were conducted yes terday afternoon in the Oliver Pres byterian church by her pastor, the Rev Mr Bailey. Interment was in the family plot in the churchyard at McConnellsville. County Han Tiro Candidaten For Placet On The Patrol Martin County has two out of the 100 candidates for places on the State Highway Patrol. James Doug las Mallory, of Oak City, and Wil liamston, and James Robert Wynne, of Robersonville, are slated to en ter training at H,endersonville next month subject to appointment a short time later. I*ROGRESSING The drive to establish a live chamber of commerce here is progressing nicely, and consider able interest is being shown in the proposed organization, a' member of the special commit tee appointed at a meeting of cltisen* last Friday evening, said No direct refusals to join the chamber o4 commerce had been reported by one of the or ganisation's membership can i said today. A meeting of the organisation committee will be held the early part of nest week when farther piano will be advanced for the organization of the body. Fire Chief Files Answer In Small Damage Suit Here Dcfi-lliluiit Starts (Counter Ac tion to Ret-over Kimiiigr Result of Vt reek ? ? ? Denying the principal charges preferred in a complain! filed by Miss Ella Mae Gaylord to recover $125 damages alleged to have re sulted in an automobile accident at the intersection of Smithwick and Church Streets here on the morning of May 15, the defendant, G. I\ Hall, local fire chief, this week started a counter suit to recover $187.50, dam ages allegedly it-suiting to his car through the negligence of the plain tiff. In his answer, the defendant al leges "That the plaintiff in driving on Smithwick Street approaching the intersection of Church and Smith wick Street was driving in a care less and reckless manner at an ex cessive rate of speed, to wit 35 miles per hour as she approached said in tersection without due caution and circumspection and without a prop er look-out for pedestrians and oth ers driving on her wrong side of the street and was driving in such a manner as to endanger or likely to endanger this plaintiff and others who had occasion to cross said street; that the plaintiff failed to exercise ordinary care in the operation of said car, hut on the contrary drove same at an excessive rate of speed in an improper and careless manner in view of the circumstances, she approaching said intersection, and the plaintiff Hirt t1..j Imve the prop er look-out or circumspection and did not have said car under control and did not act as a prudent person under the circumstances for although she was approaching said intersec tion on the wrong side of the street at an excessive rate of speed, when she observed this defendant enter ing said intersection, if she had act ed as a prudent person and turned from one to two feet tot her right towards her right side of'the street, there would have-been ITO collision for the collision took place four feet from the center of said street orT her wrong side of the street, but in stead of turning to ihe riphi? avoiding the collision, she did not act as a prudent or ordinary person as she did not put on any brakes or lessen her speed but drove into and hit defendant's car on the right hand aide of the?front uf Ills car?STicT smashed irt the right wheel, light and damaged other parts of defen dant's car and after doing this, drov at least forty feet before she wa able hi stop her car. "That the unlawful acts and neg ligence of the plaintiff as set ou above in detail, was the proximal cause of injury and damages to dc fendant's car and resulted from th negligence of the plaintiff and plain tiff on account of her negligenci same being the proximate cause o the collision, is now stopped to re cover of this defendant and the de fendant especially pleads the negli gence of the plaintiff as a complet bar to any recovery on the part o the plaintiff." Enforcement Unit tins Busy Month After getting off to a late start, liquor law enforcement officers set tled down to an active schedule and battered away in their campaign against the illicit traffic last month. The officers did not score during the first eight days of June, but from them on they averaged wrecking nearly one plant a day until the lat ter part of the period. Fifteen stills were captured, three in Jamesville, nine in Bear Grass, two in Cross Roads and one in Ham ilton Townships Six thousand and fifty gallons of beer and thirteen and one-half pints of liquor were poured out, and four arrests were made Fine. inf.leH $91 and the combined sentences call for fifteen months on the roads and in Jail. Headed by Special Officer J. H. Roebuck, the raiders traveled 897 miles during the month. Everetts Citizens Settle Polities For Another Tw o Years Sliuke-iip Follows in General Municipal Flection Last Tuesday Showing an unprecedented inter est and casting a record vote, Ever etts citizens settled their local poli tics for another two years last Tues day when they effected a shake-up in their old organization Squeezing in on the regular ticket, independent candidates annexed two of the four positions, and while the legality of the election as it relates to dates may be questioned, it is generally understood that the losing candidates will accept the verdict at the polls and fall in line with the political op position to promote the general welfare of the town and its 270 poo pi?'- - C B. Riddick, convention nomi nee, scored a 56-20 victory over Woolard Peel, the independent can didate who was seeking re-election. Main interest in the election ap parently was centered in the race for commissioners, the electorate getting busy with its p?ns and pen cils to score victories for two inde pendent candidates, Harry Hardy and Paul Bailey, by writing in their names on the regular ticket. While the vote was decisive, it was an in teresting contest, and one that pos sibly attracted more attention than any ever held in the district While the race was friendly and no enem ies were created, it is generally ad mitted that the increased interest shown by the voters will promote a greater interest in the town's af fairs. The new board, scheduled to en ter upon its duties immediately, has only one old member, Harry Hardy, and he held on to his post by running as an independent. Casting a total of 78 votes, a record here and the largest cast in a municipal election in the entire county in recent years, the electorate chose the following officials: C B Riddick for mayor; Mack L. James, Harry Hardy and Paul Bailey for town commission ers, the latter two running as inde pendents The vote announced by Registrar | Ayers, follows For mayor: C. B. Riddick, 56 votes | and Woolard Peel, 20 votes; for com missioners, Mack L James, 72; Har ry Hardy, 52; Paul Bailey, 48. Jesse Keel. 31, and H. H. Williams, 26 votes. "w Messrs. James and Bailey succeed Messrs. Jesse Keel and J. W. Cherry as new members of the board of com missioners. Three Arrested At Stills In County Arrested at liquor stills in the Free Union section of Jamesvillc Township this week, Ix wis Keyes, Joe Taper and James Moore, all col ored, were placed under bonds in the sum of $300 each by United States Commissioner Waller llalber stadt here for their appearance in the next term of federal court at Washington. Unable~tb TEtse the" amount of bond immediately,?tfte three men were placed in the coun ty jail. Taken into custody by Fedei.il Uf ficer Steve Adler, of Elizabeth City, und County Officers J. H. Roebuck and Bill Haislip, at a large still, the three men maintained that they had just reached the plant ahead nf till1 Ollicers and went there to get a drink of beer. The plant was not in operation and the kettle was not to be found, but approximately 1, 400 gallons of beer were on hand and most ready for cooking Before leaving the section, the of ficers found and wrecked a second plant, pouring out approximately 250 gallons of beer. Returning to the Free Union sec tion Wednesday morning, the offi cers wrecked a large plant, but the manufacturing equipment had been moved. Yesterday morning, Special Offi cer J. H. Roebuck, operating alone, wrecked two stills in Bear Grass and poured out about 800 gallons of beer. One of the stills was made of tin. ' the officer stating that the best it could turn out would be poison li quor. The other still was an old gas drum with a keg for a cap. ? Drive Againtt Typhoid Clone* It* Third Week Thousands were assured protec tion against typhoid fever in the couty as the anti-fever drive neared the end of its third week this af ternoon. TTie clinics will be opened next week in accordance with the regu lar schedule for those who were a week late in getting started. Early next month the campaign will be continued-in-the upper part the county. Wearing out an automatic syringe, Dr. F. E. Wilson drew blood from his fingers as he used an old-type syringe?in making?appiiuiinaU'ly 1,000 injections at the colored school here yesterday. Miss Grace Burroughs left this morning for Asheville for an ex tended visit with friends. Able Auctioneers Will Sing Familiar Tobacco Song Here With Jaktc Taylor returning and Joe Cuthrell coming in for his first trip, the Williamston Tobacco Mar ket is assured one of the best auc tioneering teams in the country. Cuthrell was signed this week by the operators of the New Farmers and Planters warehouses, the event drawing favorable comment from leading tobacconists over the Bright Belt. Cuthrell. whose home is in Kinston, has been heard by hun dreds of thousands of people over the radio when he appeared on the Lucky Strike program. He is one of the main three who have successful ly tuned their pecufter jargon to harmonize with the sounds as they rode the ether waves. During the past several seasons, Mr Cuthrell has been on the Kins ton market. He resigned his job tlitre t<> enter business for himself, but later changed his mind and his con tract had been filled by another He has also auctioneered on the Wilson market and has held one of the lar gest auctioneering jobs in Tennessee for the. past several seasons. Jakie Taylor. already widely known throughout this section one of the smoothest auctioneers in the business, will return to the Ro anoke and Dixie and in addition to that assignment handle the task in the New Carolina thus coming sea son. Regardless of whatever tongue they employ, be it known or un known. these two men are certain to sing high tunes over the piles of golden leaf in the four warehouses here this season Start Checking Land Under Soil Program Important Rules And Regulations Must Be Followed Survivor* Start Work M011 ilay; (.oopcralioii of Far mers In Sought The annual task of checking com pliance with the soil conservation program gets underway in this coun ty next Monday, the office of the county agent announcing several im portant rules and regulations that the growers will find profitable to follow In completing preparations i today for surveying county crop lands, T. B. Slade. assistant in the I office of Farm Agent T. B. Brandon, ? appealed to all farmers for their co operation with the surveyors or su pervisors in checking the compliance work. - - While there is some doubt as to the number participating in the soil program-mid also as to the extent of participation, it is important that all cotton acreages be measured, Mr. Slade explaining that cotton is un der a control program and that a farmer's cotton acreage must be checked before a free marketing card can be issued. In connection with the cotton program. Mr Slade also pointed out that the farmer who planted cot<nn V<>;>r mlltil have his cotton acreage measured this year whether he is cooperating with the program or not if he is to partici pate in the cotton price adjustment payments which will amount to more than $32,000 for the combined cotton farmers of the county' this year. Applications for cotton price adjustment payments may be filed just as soon as the acreage has been measured, checked and the grower notified. The payments will be made possibly -mH-4ater-than nrxt^NnvnrF' her - As a protective measure in the es tablishment of future bases for to ? baeco, plana uu being nude for the measurement of all tobacco acreages even where the grower is not coop erating with the soil conservation program. "It is possible that the acreage this year will h^ive some bearing on the si/.e of the county al lotment in years to come," Mr. Slade said. However, it was pointed out that it is not imperative for the non cooperating farmer^ to have his to Tjacco acreage checked. Apparently it is advisable to have the acreage measured and the facts recorded in case future allotments are partly de termined on the current year plant ings. The task of measuring the farm lands this year will get off to no rapid start next week, Mr. Slade stating that the surveyors will start in small groups and later increased as appointments are made and ap proved by the State office. The ap proximately 25 young men attend ing the three-day school and taking the examinations and field tests this wek showed up well in their grades, Mr. Slade said and a relia ble working organization is assured in handling the task this summer The young men are interested in the work, and with the cooperation of the farmers a good job can be expected. Farmers will be notified a few days before the surveyors are to check the compliance work, and as soon as the surveys are made and measurements are checked each far mer will be notified of the findings. Drowning Victim Operated Pannenger Bub Thru Here E. E. Fish, driver of one of the big Carolina Coach passenger busses through Williamston, lost his life by droning in Nvur" nnnr Ral eigh, last Wednesday afternoon. Go ing into the river soon after enjoy ing a picnic dinner, Fish called for help and A. J. Self and Leon W. Newton, drivers for the company, lost their lives trying to save him. MKKTING Meeting as a board of equali zation and review, the Martin County commissioners will hear property owners who wish to appeal from values assessed by the list-takers for the year 1939. Any property owner who has just cause for complaint is in vited to address his appeal to the board next Monday at 10 o'clock. If they are unable to hear all the complaints next Monday, the board is scheduled to recess from day to day until every complaint is heard. In addition to their equaliza tion work, the commissioners are likely to consider budget fig ures submitted by the hoard of education and the county, health board. May (Jaict Month For The Sheriff Following a hectic period the early part of the year the office of the sheriff in this county is settling down to a place of ease and quiet. Sure, the gang is still on the job and there is much to worry about right on such as slot machines. Schedule B taxes and other taxes and There were no big? courts to serve in May. Arrests dropped from 95 in Agpril to 43 in May, the number of criminal warrants and civil papers decreased materially, and things, as a whole, have been mighty quiet in and around the old hali of justice during recent weeks. Just now the office is busying it self with a check of dog vaccinations, and the guurdians of the law are ex pected to go into action within the next two or thrce~wceks wIich They scheduled to kill off all riotfs that have not been vaccinated. Getting back to the May activities m the office of .the sheriff, the fob lowing report reviews everything except the number of telephone calls: Taxes collected, $2508.08; war rants served, 11; capias served, 1; sunpoenas served, U4; civic papers served, 13-14; executions served, 5; liquor stills captured, 15; beer de stroyed, 6050 gallons; illegal whis key destroyed, 13 1 -2; arrests made on whiskey charge, 4; convictions made on whiskey charge, 4; miles traveled 3 cars, 4042; service render ed recorder's court, 5; days spent vaccinating dogs, 3; prisoners trans ferred to Goldsboro, 1; to Raleigh for jrisoners, 1; to Goldsboro for prison ?rs, 1. f 1 RAINFALL > Well advanced in a wet period that nearly proved disastrous to agriculture last season, this sec tion is experiencing almost Ideal weather conditions so far this year. However, things are get ting on the dry side, but there is some consolation in the old saying that dry weather scares us to death and wet weather ruins us. During April and May of last year, nearly fourteen inches of rain fell at this point as compar ed with five and one-half inches in the same two months this year. As the days passed In June a year ago, the rains continued to fall and at the end of the month, nearly ten Inches of rain had been recorded by the Ro anoke river weather station here. July added nearly six and one-half inches, and it was not until August that a mule could waik across many fields without miring to his knees in the soft land. The rains were well scattered last month, and while home sec tions had more than others, the station here recorded 2.16 Inches. Will Make Tenant Loans for Purchase Of Farms This Year Nine Farm* Bought I^ast Year For Tenant* in Martin County Meeting with marked success last year, the tenant farm purchase pro gram of the Farm Security Admin istration will be continued in this county this year, District Supervi sor David Modlin was advised this Week. Nine farms were bought for tenants through the program last year in this county reports stating that success is marking the venture and that possibly efforts will be ad vanced on a larger scale to expand the venture during the remainder of this year. On the basis of the recommenda tions of the State committee, loans are to be made under the terms The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant act in all the fifty counties previous ly designated for the Tenant Pur chase program, Modlin explained. In order that the program may get off to an early start and that the supervisors may have an opportun ity to process the loans in the var ious counties before next January 1, Supervisor Modlin in this county has been directed to receive appli cations immediately, giving full opportunity to those wishing to ap ply for loans and buy a farm of their own. It was pointed out that those who had already applied will not have to re-apply as their applications are still on file and will receive every consideration possible in due time. Modlin added, however, that this group, numbering nearly 300 in this county, were invited to report to the office and furnish any additional in formation they may have gained since their applications were filed. There will be no discrimination shown as between those filing last year and those filing this year, it was pointed out. Tonants, sharecroppers and farm laborers of all racial groups are eligible to apply for the loans. No closing date for receiving the appli cations has been mentioned but those desiring to purchase a farm and op erate under the program are urged to file their applications immediate ly with the supervisor in his office I in Williamston. Counter Suit Is Started In Evans Case Last Monday $> Defeiidanh Art* Suing for $7, 165.37 in (Counter Action AgaiiiMt Mrs. Evans Growing out of an automobile ac cident at a Kobersonville Street in tersection the 13th of last month, three damage suits have been start ed in the superior courts of this and Pitt County, the defendants in the case brought against them by Mrs. Deaaie Evans asking u combined 4amag^i? tbe-sum trf $7,465.37 in a counter suit. Alleging she was badly injured when her car and the one driven by Mis. J. C. Savage, of Greenville, crashed at the intersection, Mrs. Ev ans started suit the latter part of last month to recover $1,000 damages from N. T. Stokes, owner of the car, and Mrs. J. C. Savage, driver. ?Filing their answer in the Martin County Superior court this week, the defendants vigorously deny the complaint and advanced a claim for the $7,465.37 alleged damages in a counter suit. The wreck," the de fendants say in their answer, "was the direct result of, and caused whol ly and entirely through the danger ous, willful, negligent, reckless, care less, wanton and criminal operation of automobile by plaintiff, and that any resultant damage or injury there from, which plaintiff might have suffered, was the sole, proximate re sult of plaintiff's contributory neg ligence and failure on her part to exercise due care and caution. Supporting their claim for dam ages, the defendants allege that on the afternoon of May 13 about 3 (Continued on page six) Music Teacher Is Named By Board The local school board in session this week appointed Miss Kathryn Mewborn, of Tarboro, to fill the pub lic school music vacancy created by the resignation of Miss Clara Louise Jones. Miss Mewborn is a graduate of the Woman's college of the Uni versity of North Carolina and was highly recommended to local school authorities by Miss Grace Van Dyke Moore, head of the music depart- , ment of that institution. In addition to her choral work. Miss Mewborn has served in orchestras and bands, specializing in the trumpet and oth vr brass Instrument!, and Will assist " in training a larger and better band in the Williamston schools. The ma jor part of her work, however, will be in the choral work begun in ele mentary and high school grades last year.
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