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TIIE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY « FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 37 ! William ft on, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 7, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 {Nearly §1,200 Is Raised In County For Cancer Fund Ten Of Eleven Districts Exeeeil Quotas, Latest Report Shows Nearly $1,200—$1,193.34, to be exact—has been raised and re ported to date in this county for the National Cancer Fund, Chair man Robet. L. Coburn announced Monday. Ten of the eleven dis tricts where quotas were assigned have exceeded their goals, some of them more than doubling the amount asked. No complete re port has been received from Ham ilton, the chairman explained. Williamston, with a quota of $450, went over the top last week end, the township chairman, Mrs. P. B. Cone, reporting that $454.33 had been raised in the district to boost the total for the county to $1,193.34. In addition to that amount, Robersonville’s Trio The ater raised in excess of $300 which is being forwarded direct to the National Fund through the motion picture industry. Contributions not previously ac knowledged in Williamston Town ship follow: Ann's Variety Store, $10; F. U. Barnes, $5; Margolis Bros., $20; Elizabeth Parker, $3; B. T. Hurley, $1; Mrs. Dean! Speight, $2; Mrs. C. A. James, $2; | Mrs. G. W Hardison. $4: Essie Peel. $1; Katherine Sluder, $5;' Roanoke Chevrolet, $5; Mis. John 1 Ward, $2: Clyde Griffin. $1; Mrs.! 1). C. McLawhorn, $1; King To bacco Co., $5; W. 1. Skinner Co., $5; John I,. Goff, $2.50; Peel and Manning, $5; Davis Pharmacy, $5; Wafts Theater, $10; Mr. and Mrs. J- T. Barnhill, $5; Estelle Craw ford, $5; Mrs. M D. Wilson. $5 Titus Criteher, $5; Stewart Critch- . or, $5: Lions Club. $10: Williams- ! ton Motor Co., $5: Bill Spivey, $5; j Clyde Manning, $5; Wheeler Mar j tin, $5; Eagles Stores, $5; Law rence Peel, $2; J. D. Woolard, $1;] 1’iilon Cobb, $3; Alpha Cleaners, $5; O. L. Willard, $5; Warren j Biggs, $1 : E and W Grocery, $2.50; G. P. Hall, $1; Pioneer Shop, $2; Proctor Shop, $2; D. E. Darden, $5; Belk Tyler, $15: McCleese Groc ery, $3: Ayers Electric Co., $5; C. L. Jenkins. 50c; Moore Grocery, $12.50; Eastern Bond and Mort gage Co., $2; Blue Star Cleaners, $3; Thrower Appliance Co., $2.50; Martin Supply Co., $5; Sarah Wobblelon, $1; Dorothy Manning $1; Mrs. Tilghman Coltrain, $1; J Sam Getsinger, $2; Mary Charles Godwin, $2, and Lindsley Ice Co., $4. Badly Injured In Runaway Accident —*— Henry Wynne, young Goose Nest farmer, was dangerously in jured early Monday miming when the mule team he was driv ing on Highway 44 ran away with him in Oak City. He suffered a compound fracture of one leg just above the ankle, and was remov ed to a Tarboro hospital for treat ment. Hitched to a tobacco transplant er, the mules became frightened when a wheel ran off and the fen der rattled on the concrete. The farmer, sitting on top of the ma chine which he was moving to an other fai m, was thrown off, and it is thought the machine ran over his leg. Andrew Flanagan, another Goose Nest farmer who was rend ered unconscious when a mule team ran away with him in Oak City last week, is getting along all right, it was learned. Firemen Get Two Calls Saturday —«—.— Local firemen were called out twice last Saturday, first to Dr. Edward Early's office cr» Wuoh ington Street that morning and to a store room just back of Sam Ze mon's store on Main Street. Very little damage was done by fire at either place, Fire Chief G. P. Hall said. ,, The Early fire started from an oil stove and scorched the floor and smoked one room. Someone fired a small pile of trash paper just outside the Zemon storeroom, and the fire spread to the build ing. Very little damage was done to the building, but one or two chairs and several chair cushions were damaged. Price Violations Reported In This Area By The OP A i Twelve of the 390 grocery stores in the Williamston area were found, through a survey just com pleted by the Local OPA Price | Board, to be charging more than ceiling prices, for the most popu lar canned fruits and vegetables, the chairman of the board an nounced last week-end. The survey covered canned green beans, corn, peas, toma- 1 toes, tomato juice, peaches, pears, pineapple and juice, and fruit | cocktail which represented about | 60 percent of all sales of canned fruits and vegetables. Prices were checked on all the brands and types which were on 1 the grocers’ shelves regardless of whether they were or were not listed on the “Community Ceiling Price list.’’ Space is limited on the posted list so that it is impos sible to include every brand and type. “The survey was conducted," the chairman said, “to see how many of the grovery stores are complying with OPA price regula tions.” “It is disappointing to know that 12 grocery stores in the area are not complying with the regu lations.” “The manager or owner of the 12 that are not complying with the regulation will be called before the OPA Price Panel,” it was said. Any merchant who continues to violate the regulation after meet ing with the Price Panel, is sub ject to being referred to the OPA District Office for enforcement ac tion. BOARD MEMBER s. Ernest Edmondson, llas.srll farmer-business man and form er school teacher, was recently appointed by the Martin Coun ty Democratic Executive Com mittee to succeed Leslie VV. Hardison as a member of the Martin County Hoard of Educa tion. Jamrsvillc Man Masquerading as stove repair j men, two white men robbed Steve j Staton, aged colored man, of $103 at his home near Jamesville last Friday noon. Officers entered the case a short time later, but the two men covered their retreat and es caped in an old truck. Going to the home and finding the old man alone, the two men agreed to repair a stove for $5. They demanded payment in ad vance. When Staton went to get the money, one followed him and the other tinkered with the stove. After receiving payment, one of the men used a little silver polish on the stove while the other slip ped into the room and lifted $98 in cash from its hiding place in a trunk. Accomplishing the job bery, the two men left without handling the repair job. Staton became suspicious when he in spected the stove and found that they had merely filled a crack in the stove with putty. He went to the trunk and found his money gone. With tears in his eyes, he re ported his ill luck. Officers, work ing in the Jamesville community at the time, entered the case im mediately and patrolmen were called to help. The thieves left in the direction of Jamesville, but they are believed to have later turned off on a dirt road, doubled around Jamesville, making good their escape. Minor Car Wreck In County Sunday No one was hurt and very little uanmgr ICOUIICU wneu two cars ran together in front of the Hardi son home in Jamesville early last Sunday evening. William Hubert Freeman, color ed of Plymouth, was driving his 1938 Plymouth toward Williams ton when Alfred T. Liiley, driv ing a 1940 Dodge coupe, either started to turn into or back out of the Hardison driveway and the cars crashed. Investigating the accident Cpl. W. T. Simpson and W. E. Saund ers of the Highway Patrol, stated the damage to both ears amounted to hardly $50. |: Officers Review ! Work of County’s Legion Auxiliary | —«— Krport Siihniillrtl Rwrnlly Hy PrrHideiil Ami Tin* Secretary Recently completing another year, the John Walton Hassell Unit No. 163, American Legion Auxiliary, handled an effective work during the period, according to a report submitted a few days ago by the president, Mi s. John A. Ward, and the secretary, Mrs. R. If. Goodmon. With a membership of thirty two, the Auxiliary met. all its ob ligations, including a $12 donation to the Central Fund, $5 to the Educational Fund and $2.75 to the Hospital Memorial Library Fund, given in memory of Mrs. Sadie Peel, an active member of the auxiliary for a number of years. Among its present membership, the report states, there are four Gold Star mothers, three from the I first and one from the second World War, and three Gold Star ! sisters. Last year the auxiliary sold 1, | 500 poppies fot $219.56. The same number has been ordered for the ■ sale this year on May 25, the presi dent explaining that money from the poppy sales is used for child ‘ welfare and rehabilitation. In its child welfare program, j the auxiliary has handled an ef j fective work, the president stat i ing that $20 had been eontribut i ed to a needy child in Jamesville, J that clothes were bought and that | the home economics department had altered them. The auxiliary donated $50 to a child in the coun ty who has had nearly 150 blood transfusions, the members also working to arrange blood for the transfusions. In April a pinafore and slip were made and donated to the child, and other gifts are offered each time she is hospital ized. The rehabilitation program for veterans represented a cash con tribution of approximately $300, and included the distribution of sweaters, a radio, books, special Christmas boxes and other re membrances for disabled in vet erans' hospitals at Oteen and Fay etteville. Personal notes were written, offering encouragement to those who have spent years in hospitals, and any number of other thoughtful acts were done by the auxiliary members and of ficers. In its war activities, the auxili ary helped at the Red Cross sew ing room and participated in war bond drives, the membership in vesting $16,000 in bonds during the last two drives. Its members ' have served on various commit tees and served as hostesses and furnished refreshments for serv icemen visiting the USO in Wil liamston. Its work in the community has been valuable also, the president pointing out that two girls, one from Jamesville and one from (Continued on page six) County l,iris Are \umed Marshals At College Miss Emma Lou Taylor, Wil liamston, and Miss Margaret Johnson, Robersonville, were named marshals for their literary societies at East Carolina Teach ers’ College, Greenville, last week, Miss Taylor, a senior, for the Cor nelians, and Miss Johnson for the Dikeans. Fire District Is Extended Here By Town Board —«>— Studying Ritl for Making Repairs To Old Fire Truek Costing; $6,600 -#—:— Meeting in regular session for about an hour last evening, the local town commissioners handled routine matters, extended the fire district and discussed a few other matters without taking official ac tion in several instances. Anticipating a continued expan sion of commercial building on Washington Street, the commis sioners following a short discus sion, ordered that the fire district be extended from Pearl Street to the railroad, the newly affected area to include a strip two hun dred feet wide on both sides of Washington Street. The fire dis triet was extended to Pearl Street several years ago. All building construction in the newly re stricted area w ill have to conform to fairly strict regulations. The Virginia Electric and Pow er Company filed a formal appli cation for permission to amend its contract with the town to place in effect a lower municipal power and light rate. Appearing before the meeting, a delegation of leading colored citi zens discussed the possibility of . building a recreational center. It ! was explained that the colored citizens had raised approximately j $1,500 for the project, and the i town previously had pledged sup !port. Not certain of building re strictions and priorities, the dele gation will contact tin1 proper authorities for rulings and report their findings to the mayor. The spokesman pointed out that there was urgent need to keep children off the streets, that every effort would he made to promote better citizenship among his race. A bid, calling for an expendi ture of approximately $6,600 for reconditioning the town’s old fire truck, was received and the com missioners discussed it hut delay ed final action until today when a committee composed of Commis sioners L. P. Lindsley, Hoy T. Griffin and N. (’. Green, will study the proposal in detail. It was pointed out that the contract calls for a complete overhauling and added equipment, that the truck will carry the same guaran tee as a new one when the work is completed. S H. Grimes appealed to the board for the widening of North Haughton Street from Simmons Avenue to Grace Street and the construction of a sidewalk along the street in the same block. Mysteriously Hurt Saturday Evening —•— Raymond Harrington, young Robersonville colored man, was badly but nut seriously hurt un der lather mysterious circum stances in Oak City last Saturday night. Struck with some blunt weapon, the man suffered a bad gash in his forehead and lost much blood before he could reach a doctor’s office there. Harrington, traveling alone, claims that he stopped his car on the streets there and went to sleep, that some one struck him while he slept. Officers are of the opinion that the victim is with holding the details of the attack. After receiving medical atten tion, Hairington drove away, de claring just before leaving that he never expected to return to Oak City. REGISTRATION Although there was a mark ed increase last Saturday, reg istrations for the approach ing political primary on May 25 are going lorward in very small numbers, according to incomplete reports received this week. Nineteen persons registered in Williamston's two pre cincts last Saturday, boosting the county to 21. Some pre cincts have not yet registered their first new voter. Next Saturday, May 11, is the last day to register for the primary. Those who have voted in previous primaries or general elections do not have to register to participate in the May 25 primary. County Board Of Commissioners In Regular Meeting c —*— Highway Commission l)e ni«> Request For Koatl In Jamesville Area With very little special business on their calendar, the Martin County Commissioners held a very short and uneventful session on Monday. The meeting very likely will be the last short one in some time because the authorities are just before going into the new fiscal year budgets and future ses sions are almost certain to be tedi ous and long. It was considered likely a short time ago that the commissioners would be called in to special session for a discussion of the new fiscal year budget fig ures, but the figures will hardly be ready before sometime in June, and no called meeting is expected. Various departmental reports were received .it the meeting this week and routine matters were handled in a very short time. C. J. Goodman, assistant county agent for the past thirteen months, officially tendered his resignation effective the 21st of this month, and it was received with regret. Expressing his appreciation for the opportunity of working in this county and for the splendid cooperation received from the commissioners and the general 'public, Mr. Goodman explained that he was going with the Frozen Locker Foods, Incorporated, in Williamston, as manager. Reynold T. Gardner was perma nently relieved ol the payment of poll taxes on account of physical disability. James Thomas Howard, colored of Robersonville, was relieved of the payment of $2 poll tax for the year 15M4 since he was in the Army. Hubert C. Roberson, white of Williams Township, was relieved of the payment of $2 poll tax. William Godard, colored, of Dear Grass, was relieved of pay ment of $3.42 in 11)45 taxes on ac count of death. The estate of F. E. Bufflap, late oi Williamston, was relieved of the payment of $2.74 taxes due in 1945. Taxes in the amount of $2 were cancelled for J. E. Strawbridge and Naomi R. Leggett, both of Williamston, when it was shown that the accounts had been listed in error. Requesting the highway com mission to take over and maintain a small stretch of the old Wil liamston - Jamesville highway which was abandoned when the new road was located, the county commissioners were advised that a survey revealed it was not ad visable for the highway commis sion to include the road in its sys tem. “We have so much work rendering greater service else where, that it would not be piac- , tical to include it,’’ the commis sion engineer replied in denying the request. Vets Offered Aid Hy Farm Security Requests from veterans ac counted for 24 percent of the 1,397 applications for Farm Security Administration rural rehabilita tion loans received from farm families during March in FSA Re gion IV, comprising Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir ginia and West Virginia. In North Carolina there were 385 applications, 92 or 24 percent of them from veterans, according to James C. Eubanks, F^SA Super visor foi Mai tin County. Mr. Eubanks said that many of the veterans returning to farms find rural rehabilitation loans use ful for operation expenses and the purchase of livestock and equip ment. Loans are repayable in j one to five years and bear five ' percent interest. About 1,000 loans averaging $048 have been made to veterans in this region. Applications on hand in this re gion for farm ownership loans I total over 10,000, of which about eight pei cent aie from veterans. In Noith Carolina there are 1,715 of which 14 percent are veterans i applications, Mr. Eubanks stated, j Farm ownership loans may run i 40 years at three peicent interest t orr unpaid principal. To date 39 t loans averaging $5,810 have been t made to veterans in this region. I Winner and Champion Jack Williamson, Bear Grass 4-H Club boy, is pictured with bis prize-winning steer following Martin Countv’s third an nual rat Stock Show held recently in Williamston. The youngster, one of about forty Martin County 4-H dub mem bers to participate in the show, sold the grand champion for 61 cents a pound. Majority Vote Given In Saturday Election Schools In Local District May Now A<l<l New Courses Proposal Also Makes It IW l»l«* To Supplement IVaclier Salaries -» Tlu> special school election for tlie Willlam.ston district last Sat urday was carried by a majority of seventy-seven votes, Mr. R. L. | Perry, chairman of the Martin County Board of Commissioners, i announced yesterday after the re turns were filed with his board by the two precinct registrars. Out of a total registration of 353 potential votes, 272 were east in the election last Saturday. All but eighteen of the votes cast favored I lie proposal which received 254 voti s. a clear majority of seventy seven votes. Eighty-one of those registering for the election did not vote, and those votes automatical ly were counted against the pro posal. Those 81 votes, plus the eighteen votes actually cast against the measure, boosted the opposition’s strength to ninety nine votes. In Precinct No. I, Miss Edith Stallings, registrar, stated that llti out of the 187 registered partici paled in the election. The nine votes actually cast against the proposal plus the 51 which went to the opposition because they were not voted, boosted the op position to sixty, leaving the box in the No. I precinct a clear ma jority of 23 votes. In the No. II precinct, Registrar O- S. Anderson reported that 158 of the votes registered were cast in the election. Nine were cast in opposition to the measure which with those of the thirty who did not vote boosted the opposi tion in that precinct to thirty nine, hut leaving the measure a majority of fifty-three votes in the No. Il box. Messrs. Fred Taylor, J. E. Pope and .1. T. Price served as judges of election. The voting, representing hardly more than one-fifth of the poten tial vote in the district, was with out incident. Quite a few citizens forgot to register, and some of those who registered forgot to vote. School forces reminded sev eial to vote and helped build up a safe majority for the proposal. As a icsult of the favorable vote last Satuiday, the local schools are now in a position to add three courses to the curriculum and sup plement minimum teacher sal aries. The proposed courses are public school music, band and sup ervised recreation. It may be that all three of the courses will (Continued on page six) -—* Continues Quite III In .4 Durham Hos/ntal -<* Little; Miss Peggy Harrison con tinues quite ill in a Durham hos pital, according to last reports reaching here. She has been a pa tient in the hospital for nearly three weeks, and has received sev eral blood transfusions during tha* Ume. f ROUNIMJI ] The abrupt closing; »f the AKC store here for the special school election in this district last Saturday apparently sup ported sobriety, peace and quiet in the community last week-end. A few bottles of the spirits were imported, but officers declared that there were fewer drunks and ar rests during the period than at any other time in months. Only one person was jailed, and as far as it could be learn ed there were no lights or wrecks in the immediate ter ritory. Boar Crass Liies $117.47 To Fund -<*> Headed by J Russell Rogers, (he cancel’ drive in Bear Grass netted $117.47, an amount $(>7.47 greater Ilian (lie assigned quota. The dis triet made one of ttie best show ings in the recent drive of any district in the county, It. L. Co burn, county chairman, said. Chairman Rogers was aided principally by Mrs. Ralph Mob ley and A II. Ayers, Ji. The following contiibuted one dollar each: Kneezer Harrison, Irving Ter I ry, Willie Whitehurst, Conner Harrison, John Leggett, Luther Harris, Tommie L Roberson, Ro- i land Rogers, William II Mizelle, | William E. Rogers, Mrs. C’ylahet Rogers, Alec Williams, William j Cratt, A. B. Ayers, Sr., C. A. Hough, 11. O. Cowin, J. II. Te> ry, Mrs. Clarence Bailey, Hildreth Rogerson, Wheelei Rogerson, Hen ry White, Mrs. Ralph Holliday, W. , R, Griffin, Wm I) Rogerson, Mis Amos Perry, 11 C. Green, Mrs. H R. Hunt, Ben Whitehurst, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Griffin, Elmer Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Griffin, Slade ( Peel, Oliver Colt>air>, Mr. and Mrs. , Carl Lee Bcacham, R. L. Hodges, Arthur Revels, Roy Hadley, W. E. ■ Rogers, Ralph Mobley, Sam Mob- | ley, Leon Hall Rawls, J. C. Rawls, j W. M Harrison, W. R Roebuck, Mrs. Sallie Cultiam, Ellis Malone, j Mrs. Heman Peel, Mrs. Oscar Peel, | W. K. Ward, Mrs. Lewis Holliday, v Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hodges, Mrs. . Hen Ward, Roy Ward, Redden , Leggett, Robert Leggett, John < Jackson, Henry D. Peel, M. D. Taylor, Mack D Leggett, Eli Bow- ^ en, Elmer Harrison, Mis. Leonard Mobley, Calvin Ayers, William Bowen, Fred McDaniel, Bert Wynne, A. B. Ayers, Jr., Lester Terry, Terry Bros Holier Taylor, William Taylor, Cecil Leggett, A. C. Harrison, William S. Peel, Le- v (Continued on page six) \ County Young Man Is Discharged By l\avy After serving thirty - one months, fourteen of them over seas, Berkley S Nicholson, Gun nel's Mate 3/c, was discharged by | the Navy on May 1, at the Charles- | ton Separation Center. He wears i the American and Pacific Theater : Philippine liberation Victory Med- : a Is. ] Robt. L Humber Addresses Local Club And Guests (!;iii«li<lal«' For (iongrrsn In District Talks About World Federation “Federation bucked by law is the ultimate and only means of maintaining and preserving peace throughout the world,” Robert Lee Humber, candidate for Con gress from the First Congres sional District, said last Thursday evening in a convincing address before the local Kiwanis Club who had as its guests twenty Ki wanians from Tarboro. “The League of Nations was a great effort in the right direction to build a permanent peace but it was found ineffective and could not supply the deficiency because its operations consisted of resolu tions rather than law,” Mr. Hum ber said. “The League, the UNO and the Unite-, Nations Charter are commendable but they do not go far enough,” the speaker add ed. “A world federation backed by law and an international police force is the only solution and we must do some constructive and creative thinking and quickly, if we are to save the universe from chaos and destruction.” Mr. Humber threw out a chal [ Ienge to think along the lines of human experience. “Law, which is fundamentally principle No. 1, must be adopted as the guiding force in saving the world. Peace and security in our own communi ties and cities are based upon law and without law and a world fed eration all the treaties, tribunals and arbitration will be of little consequence,” he said. “The two bombs that were planted on Japanese soil were equivalent to 20 thousand tons of TNT, Now, it is reported, a bomb has been developed that has the strength of one million tons of TNT,” Picturing the world as a pa tient, Mr. Humber said we must diagnose its ills and apply the cine which is law. “If we wait it may be too late. It is predicted that a bomb may be developed that if dropped in the United States it would dig a crater from New York to Detroit, a distance of several hundred miles. “Cooperation and resolutions are tine but we must have or ganized authority to stop nations like Japan and Germany. The op posite of law is anarchy and without law and order the world and nations will disintegrate and finally destroy themselves,” the speaker concluded. Scout (lainpom* Is Rained Out -a Tin’ annual Boy Scout camporee ot the Eastern Carolina Council was washed out in Wilson last week end after the nearly 1,600 youths braved cold rains Friday evening and night. Camp was broken Saturday morning, a lull day ahead of schedule, and the lads turned home in chartered busses greatly disappointed but still hoping an other camp would be arranged. Jamesville, Robersonville and Williurnston were represented at the camporee, 51 going from here. Hyman Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Edwards of Williams ton, was bitten by a spider and was hospitalized. His condition soon improved and he was return ed home by his parents and is in school today. A illiams Raises $37.03 For Fund Submitting a final report last week end, Chas. L. Daniel, chair man of the cancer fund drive in Williams Township, stated that his district raised $37.03 for the fund or $12.03 in excess of the assign ed quota. The names of the solicitors and the amounts collected by them follow: Vivian Hudson, $2.09; Sallie Belt Hardison, $4.75; Essie Men denhall, $5, Emma Ange, $2.19: Lonnie Perry, $2.75; Mrs. Annie Modlin, $5.25; Daisy Manning, $3.50; Lucy Andrews, $2; and Sal lie M. Hardison, $9.50. ,1
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