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TI1E ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE TIIK ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 ViARTIN COUNTY F*V|fi ies TWU » EAC*I WEEK VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 45 Williamslon. Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Jane 4. 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Several Injured In Car Accident Last Saturday Morning J c Oi.tr Vietim Partially Para lize«l; Another Has Lefi Broken Five persons were injured, two of them badly, about 1:00 o’clock last Saturday morning when their car, a 1941 Ford sedan, went out of control and turned over in a curve at Dardens. Partially paralyzed when his neck was hurt, Hallet Davis was removed to a Washington hospital for treatment. No late report on his condition has been received here. Ransom Davenport, his left leg reportedly broken in two places, was removed to the Marine hospital in’ Norfolk. Phillip Swin son. driver of the car, Billie Gene Tetterton and Miss Frances Grif fin, passengers, were slightly bruised and shocked, but their in juries were not serious, according to Patrolman W. E. Saunders who investigated as soon as he learned of the accident later that day. Damage to the car was estimat ed at $600. The party was returning in the direction of Jamesvillc to their homes from a beach resort dance when the driver apparently tried to round the curve at fifty or fifty-five miles an hour. Swinson lost control and the car plowed down the shoulder of tin highway about 315 feet, turned over and came to a stop about thirty feet away in a field. One report maintained that Tet terton, a victim of at least one serious motor vehicle accident, stated that he could drive the curve at 50 miles an hour and dared Swinson to try it. Tla accident was one of three reported in the county last week end. Last Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock, several persons were hurt, none badly, in a truck-car crash .it Oscin Edwards’ service station on 'he Hamilton Highway. William Henry Walston, em ploye of the Martin-Elliott Whole sale firm, had parked the firm’s truck and trailer on the left shoul der of the highway in front of the station while unloading an order of goods. Melbon Donaldson, driving a 1937 Plymouth in the direction of Hamilton, saw the lights of the truck and thought he was on the wrong side of the road. Blinded by the lights, Donaldson turned to the left and the left front of his car plowed into the (Continued on page six) —--Si Several Buildings Destroyed By Fire -j)—— Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed two homes, a store build ing used as a rooming house and a barbershop in Jamesville early last Friday morning. No estimate on the loss could be had, but one report stated that the damage would possibly exceed $3,000, in cluding the loss of contents. It could not be learned if insurance was carried on the property. When discovered about 7:30 o’clock that morning the fire was burning through the five-room home of Norma Staton, colored. The fire spread to an old store building where several workers were rooming, and then caught the 4 room home of Emma Gray. Hubert Wooten’s barbershop caugld next. Most of the contents in the Stat on home, including the clothes of several families, were burned, but most of the contents in the other buildings were saved, according to reports reaching here. ’’’he fire, raging for less than an hour, left at least ten or twelve people homeless. ROUND-UP ] —> Following two periods of little activity on the crime front in this section, local, county and suite officers had a fairly busy time last week end when they rounded up eight alleged law violators. Three of the eight were white and the ages of the group ranged from 21 to 43 years. Four of the eight were ar rested for public drunkenness, two for adultery and one each for breaking and entering and assault with a deadly weapon. HuJnanfyCa l ling For Help\ A YUGOSLAV MOTHER holds her baby which she has managed to keep ilhe by feeding it her own meager ration. Both are typical of millions suffering from acute malnutrition in Europe and Asia who will die unless more food is provided immediately. You can help by giving money or canned food to the Emergency Food Collection. r LAND SALE i One hundred and forty-two parcels of land were offered for sale for delinquent taxes by Martin County at the courthouse door Monday. Taxes due and unpaid in the 142 cases amounted to hardly $1,000, Tax Collector M. I,. Peel pointing out that the in dividual amounts ranged front a few cents to about $80. There were no individual bidders and the county bought most of the tracts, titles to which will be trans ferred in the course of time. Bookmobile Mow Open, in" On Its Summer Schedule -« liiiprovoil Service Being Offered Headers III Tin* 4'imnly This Year The Bookmobile goes on sum mer schedule next week. With an increase in the use of the service, it has become necessary to con tinue the five day schedule during the summer. Good books for vacation read ing are ready for the children and adults. A few of the new adult titles are: Yankee Storekeeper by Gould; W,.ke of the Red Witch by Roark; Doctors East Doctors West by Norton; Golden Earrings by Foldes; This Side of Innocence by Caldwell; Earth Could Be Fair by Van Paassen; Torrents of Spring by Payne; Hawk Flight by Hull; D. A. Breaks a Seal by Gardner; I Out of Control by Kendrick; A 1 Solo in Tom-Toms by Fowler; Thus and No Further by Godden; This House Against This House by Sheean; Lustre in the Sky by Wal deck; A Treasury of Names by Wells. The summer schedule follows: Monday, June 10 Edward’s Service Station, 10; Sherrod Farm, 10:30; Hamilton Bank, 11; Gold Point, 1; and Rob ersonville Public Library, 2:30. Tuesday, June 11 Hassell, 10; Edmonson Service Station, 11:30; Oak City, Barrett’s Drug Store, 1; Smith’s Store on Palmyra Road, 2:30. Wednesday, June 12 Everetts, Ayers’ Store, 10; Cross Roads Church, 12:15; House com munity, 2; Parmele, Chesson’s Station, 3. Thursday, June 13 Griffin’s Service Station, 9:15; Farm Life, Manning & Gurkin Store, 10; Smithwick’s Creek Community, 11; Corey's Cross Roads, 12; Bear Grass, Terry Bros. Store, 1:15; Wynne’s Service Sta tion, 2:30. Friday, June 14 Darden's, Jordan’s Store, 9:30; Browning’s Store, 10:45; Ange Town, 11:45; Popular Chapel Church, 1:; Jamesville, 2. This schedule will be followed throughout the summer months. Many stops will be made between those listed above. If you cannot meet the bookmobile at the stop in your community, please flag the truck as it passes your house or write to the Librarian, Regional Library, Box 65, Washington, North Carolina. Family Quarrel Ends In Serious Shooting Attack -.<a> Sislrr Removed To llos|»it iil Ami Riollier In County Jail Vivian Staton Andrews, colored woman, was seriously shot at the home of her mother, Tina Staton, in Goose Nest Township early last Saturday night. the attack climax ing a family quarrel that had gained momentulm over a period oi several hours. Shot in the thigh, the victim was removed to a Tarboro hos pital where blood transfusions were given Sunday morning when her condition became critical. One report stated that the entire load from a shot gun tore into the wo man's thigh. Her brother, William Staton, 45 years old, was arrested and plac ed in the county jail. A hearing in the case is being delayed pend ing the outcome of the woman’s condition, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said late Monday. A victim of a stroke of paraly i sis, Tina Staton, about 70 years of 1 age, has been in bed for some time, and her daughter and son in-law, Perlie Andrews, came to the county from Virginia to visit her. Some trouble arose and a heated quarrel followed. Staton told officers that he took the shot I gun, went outside and fired through a window at his brother ; in-law, missed and struck his sis i ter. Andrews, questioned by of ficers, declared that he was not in the house at the time, and maintained that he had left and was at a filling station when his wife was shot. Details of the trouble leading up to the shot gun attack could not be learned, but they will be aired when a hearing is scheduled, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said. Start Collection Tuesday Morning Meeting in Chairman Hildreth I Mobley’s office last evening, the Lions Club local Emergency Food | Collection Committee completed j plans for canvassing this district in support of the humanitarian movement to relieve the starving in other lands. The people of this area are again asked to sup port the worthy cause, remember ing that life itself depends on gen erous contributions and that the canvassers are working without pay. Several cantributions have been forwarded to members of the committee and they will be ac knowledged soon along with others. Word received here from na tional headquarters indicates a good response over the nation. -$ Firemen Called To T rash Pile Friday Local firemen were called out last Friday morning when fire started in the paper tra§h pile near the Lee Glenn home 0-. East Main Street. The fire was under j control when the firemen reached there and damage was negligible. Town Authorities In Regular Meet Here Last Night ———— Order Purchase of USO Fixtures Anil Furni ture for $697 -* Mooting in regular session here last night the town commissioners discussed a varied business calen dar. including such items as street paving, water line extensions and an application for a franchise to operate regular bus schedules within the town limits or within a radius of one mile of the town. Representing the group inter ested in the establishment of a local youth center, Attorney Wheeler Martin explained to the commissioners that the furniture and fixtures used by United Ser vice Organizations in the Ameri can Legion Hut could be bought for $697. that the original cost was between $3,500 and $4,000. The town agreed to buy the equip ment and it is being stored temp orarily in the high school gym nasium. A tentative petition was placed before the board for paving one block of Park Street between Warren Street and Marshall Avenue. The measure was pass ed subject to the legal prepara tion of petitions by the property owners. The authorities agreed to run a water line approximately 300 feet from Marshall Avenue across pri vate property to service a sprink ler system in the W. I. Skinner Tobacco Company plant. The cost, it was estimated, will run around (Continued on page three) -- Beta Club Group Tours the Capital -® The Williamston High School I Beta Club has recently returned from a five day educational and sight-seeing tour of Washington, D. C., and other points. The trip Included the Sky-Line Drive and the Lura.v Caverns on the way there. The points visited while in Washington were Shapespearean Library, Congressional Library, Supreme Court Building, Con gressman Bonner’s office, the House of Representatives and the Senate, Washington Monument, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum of Natural History, National Art Gallery, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington Na tional Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Lee Man sion, Federal Bureau of Investi gation, the Zoo, Franciscan Mon astery, Union Station, Jefferson Memorial, the National Airport, and Mount Vernon. The party at tended theatres on two nights and spent one evening at the Glen Echo amusement and recreational park. On the return trip the par ty came by Williamsburg and Yorktown. The group was chaperoned by Mrs. Evelyn Manning, sponsor, and Sam D. lJundy, principal, served as guide anil director. It was the sixteenth such group tak en to Washington by Mr. Bundy. Others in the party were Mrs. Sam D. Bundy and two sons, Sam, Jr., and James Henry, Mrs. Jessie White, Miss Verna Belle Lowery, Mr. Frank Hopkins, Mr. Roy Had ley, Mr. Robert Peele, Mrs. R. H. Peele, Mrs. George Peele, Misses Louise Griffin, Elizabeth Man ning, Elizabeth Parker, Louise Hines, Edna Hadley, Mary Lou Coltrain, Lucy Robertson, Melba Revels, Loura Frances Peele, Lola Peele, Alice Wynne, Lucy An drews, Marceline Johnson, Eliza beth Hopkins, Jean Stinette, and John Gurkin and Ernest Wynne. SABOTEUR ___> (Robersonville Herald) Vernon Powelt who lives near here went out early Monday morning following the heavy rain of Sunday to transplant tobacco. However, he didn't get very far until he found a visitor who was up rooting and tearing down more tobacco than he could stick into the ground. The visitor was a turtle and one of the largest caught in this section in many years. It was a full turn for Mr. Powell and about all he could carry to the house where it was slaughter ed. TB "Ciircs^TVIake Good Employees Doctors Declare —•— “Arrested Eases” Should Seek Employment Hut Not Manual Labor (The following is. one in a series of articles prepared by the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association and sponsored by civic organiza tions.—ed.) Not so many years ago tubercu losis was commonly called con sumption, the “wasting" disease. Novels, plays and even operas were written about lovely heroines whose lives were slowly ebbing away as a result of this disease. Today wo know a great deal more about tuberculosis than we did at the beginning of the cen tury. We know that it can be cur ed, particularly if it is discovered early, and we know it can be dis covered before outward symp toms appear by means of chest X-rays. Knowing more of the nature of the disease, we know that its vic tim is not necessarily doomed. The person who has had tubercu losis can return to useful, satisfy ing occupations when treatment has been completed. The only safe treatment is rest, complete bed rest, which is best obtained in a hospital for the tuberculous, i When the patient receives his medical discharge from the hos ! pital as “cured”-—or, as the doc I tors prefer to say, “an arrested case”- there is no reason why he should not seek employment in an occupation which appeals to him so long as it does not require strenuous manual labor. Many employers are eager to hire former TB patients because experience has shown they are. as a rule, good employees. But some employers still believe such persons are poor health risks. Actually, the former TB patient is usually a good health risk. While in the hospital he has learn ed how to protect his health and is able to avoid many of the com mon illnesses to which other peo ple fall victim from time to time. And the fact that he once had tuberculosis does not mean that he may be endangering the health of his associates. While tuberculosis is a communicable disease and people catch it from people who have an active case, an arrested case cannot transmit the disease to others. While physicians advise former tuberculous patients against ac cepting employment which re quires great physical exertion, it is not dangerous for them to take other types of work. High blood pressure will be dis cussed in the next column. -® Plan To Attend Kiwanis Meeting —•— The Kiwanis Club of Williams ton today announced the delegates that it will send to the 1946 Vic tory Convention of Kiwanis Inter national, June 9 to 13, at Atlantic; City, N. J. They are: President Wheeler Martin and Ex-Governor Sam D. Bundy. Hamilton Holt, prominent southern industrialist and presi dent of Kiwanis International, will preside at the five-day meet ing, which is expected to attract some 19,000 men and women from all sections of the United States and Canada. Many leaders in business, indus try, agriculture, and government, have accepted invitations to ad dress the convention. The speak ing program will feature Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, pastor of Christ church, New York; Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and delegate to the San Francisco Conference; General Omar N. Bradley, administrator of veterans affairs; Rep. Claire Boothe Luce of Connecticut; Sec retary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; William K. Jackson, Boston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Lionel Chevrier, Ottawa, minister of transport, Dominion of Canada, and Drew Pearson, nationally Known newspaper columnist and radio commentator. Kiwanis International cancelled its annual conventions during the war and next month's meeting will be the first since Cleveland four years ago. \oulli Loses Life In Aeeident Near Here; Clyde T. Paul Is j Fatally Injured ^ Saturday Evening! —«— Motorcycle Crashes Into Car After Passing Warning Light Clyde T. Paul, 32 years old and a member of the Merchant Ma rine, was fatally injured shortly after 8:00 o'clock last Saturday evening when he drove his new high-powered motorcycle into an automobile near here on the Washington Highway. His neck apparently broken, skull fractur ed and left leg mangled, the young man died in a local hospital at 1:25 o’clock Sunday morning without regaining consciousness. Just recently returned to this country from an ocean crossing, young Paul was traveling toward his home in the Aurora section to visit relatives when he was fatal ly injured. Reportedly traveling at 50 or 55 miles on hour, Paul was said to have run by, possibly without seeing it, a warning light, and struck a car being driven by Dallas Taylor, recently returned serviceman. He was thrown sev enty two feet through the air, his motorcycle landing eighteen feet from the spot where the two ve hicles crashed. Cpl. W. T. Simpson of the High way Patrol, reporting the acci dent, stated that he trailed the Taylor car from near the Old Mill Inn and signaled the driver to stop because the car had no rear light burning. Taylor applied his brakes, and the car swerved to the right and ran onto the shoul der and back on the highway, stopping at an angle on the high way with the left front wheel a few inches over the center line. The highway corporal .topped on the shoulder a short distance ahead of the Taylor car and got out. He saw the motorcycle ap proaching and thinking it was an automobile with one headlight burning he waved his flashlight in an effort to stop the vehicle. Paul, either ignoring the warning or possibly failing to see it, drove full speed ahead, the highway cor poral darting to one side to get out of the way. A few seconds later the motorcycle crashed into the car which was at a standstill on the highway. A passenger, in the act of getting out of the car, was thrown to the concrete by the crash but he or none of the others in the machine was hurt. No estimate on the property damage could be had, but the left front of the car was badly damag ed and the chasis was bent. The front part of the motorcycle was not damaged, but the left side from the handlebar to the back was wrecked. The motorcycle, its rear view mirror on the left hand lebar unbroken, had been driven less than 1,000 miles. Paul’s body was turned over to a Washington undertaker and re moved there early Sunday morn ing where it was prepaied for burial. The last rites were con ducted Monday morning at 11:00 o’clock by Rev. F. C. Hodges, Holi ness minister of Grimesland, and interment was in the South Creek (Continued on page six) Mrs. C. A. Stand I Died Thursday Funeral services were conduct -<g> ed last Friday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock at the home for Mrs. Charles A. Stancill, mother of Mrs. Chas. Manning of Williams ton, who died at her home in Washington last Thursday after noon following a short illness. Rev. C. Freeman Heath, pastor of the First Methodist Church of which Mrs. Stancill was a member for many years, conducted the last rites. Interment was in Oakdale Cemetery, Washrngton. Mrs. Stancill, daughter of the late Seth Bridgeman and Mary Carrow Bridgeman, was horn in Washington on April 6, 1882. She was married to Mr. Stancill in 1917. Surviving besides her daughter here, are Mr. StarrcrU and a grand daughter. CRITICALLY ILL W.irrisnn. lie young daughter ol iVIr. and Mrs. E. C. Harrison of Hear Grass and who has had approximately 150 blood transfusions, this week was reported critically ill in Duke hospital. Last reports state that she continues in a semi conscious condition, that she has been unable to take a blood transfusion in about ten days, that only glucose was keeping her little body and soul together. Mrs. Harrison continues at her bedside. A patient in the hospital for over five weeks, the little girl had firmly hoped she would be able to return home before now. Her friends here and in the county have not forgotten her, a report stating that the local I,ions had deposited an other $37.50 to her credit in a local bank. Ayers' Store In Oak City Robbed On Sunday Mi^lit -§ Kolilicr Trailed To High way Ity llloodliuiinds Marly Monday Morning Breaking through a back win- | (low, a robber or robbers entered the store of Joe Ayers, member of tiie Martin County Draft Board, in Oak City some time during the early hours of last Sunday night. First reports reaching here slal ed that several sports suits, dress shirts, a number of cartons of cig arettes, and cigars and tobaccos, one or two checks and about four teen or fifteen dollars in cash were stolen. The robbery was discovered about 11:15 that night when one of the store employees went there on an errand. The owner was called and officers were notified a short time later. Bloodhounds were ordered out from Greenville and they picked up a trail leading from the store, to the railroad, down the railroad and across to | Highway 125 where the robbers boarded a waiting car. After fol- . lowing the trail during the hours of darkness, the officers waited until daylight and placed the dogs on the trail again. The same course was followed, and a dollar , bill and several small pieces of change were found which the rob-, bers apparently had dropped along the way. None of the goods stolen from the store was found. Investigating the robbery, Sher iff Roebuck stated that the rob bers dumped papers and other ar ticles in the middle of the office floor and apparently wandered around the store, moving articles from one place to another. It is thought by some that the robbers were in the rear of the store when the employee entered the front, that they slipped out the window without being seen. A lead is understood to have been established in the case but Jute Monday no official report had been released. Officers Destroy Two Liquor Stills —*— Returning to the Flat Swamp section of Robersonville last week-end after dealing the illicit liquor traffic in that area a tell ing blow a few days earlier , Offi cers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel wrecked two more liquor plants and poured out a quantity o£ beer1. The first plant was equipped with a 50-gallon capacity oil drum and had 50 gallons of cheap beer. The operators were using a keg for a cap and pump pipe for con nections. About one mile from the church, the officers found a sec ond plant equipped with two drums for still. They poured out two barrels of beer. The operator s, possibly disturb ed by the previous lard, were pre paring to move the plant. LoiUitv Board Of Coin m iss ioners In 411-Day Meeting \mv Ncjjro Farm \yrnl !Nu»i**<l, To Siim-cd Ol i>ri r.arl«T, Although little busincs other than of a routine nature was scheduled for consideration, the Martin County Commissioners had quite a few matters placed be fore them at the last minute and they spent just about all of Mon day clearing their desk. Even then they did not g( t around to county budget figures. A special meeting will be called later in the month by Chairman R. L. Perry for a discussion of budget esti mates and tax rates. Receiving a petition from the County Board of Education, the commissioners ordered a special school election be held in Rober sonville to ascertain the wishes of the qualified voters relative to the levying of a 20-cent special tax to supplement, the minimum st.at • supported school term. The election is to be held on July 6, and Mi'. Allen R. Osborne was ap pointed registrar, and Messrs. Mayo Little and Charles R. Gray, judges of election. Richard Edwards of Greene County was appointed Negro farm agent for Martin County to suc ceed Oliver Carter, resigned. Ed wards studied at Tennessee State College and was graduated from A. and T College, Greensboro. For thi' past nine months he served as assistant agent in Bertie County. R. W Wilson also applied for the agent’s job. Oliver Carter, starting as Mar tin County’s first Negro farm agent twenty-two years ago, re ceived $12.50 a month from the county. During his long pei iod of service, he handled an effective work, and the commissioners nev er heard a word spoken against his work. He proved n 1 leader among his race, and con tributed much to the general ad vancement of his people and the county, as a whole. A budget estimate was submit ted to the commissioners by the Wi Ifare Department for consid eration. The superintendent, Mary W. Taylor, and Mrs. Wheth er Martin, Sr., and C. C. Fleming, ! members of the county welfare j board, discussed the budget with the commissioners. The Forest Fire Service asked that $2,til)0 tie included in the new J budget for forest fire protection in the county during the coming | year. Warden Marvin Leggett re ported that there were 28 forest fires in the county last year, that 7,000 acres of timber land were (Continued on page three) Poppy Sale Nets $200 In County ———<s>—— Thu salo ul poppies in the coun ty la t Saturday netted approxi mately $200, Mi.-. John A. Ward, pi csidunt ul the John Walton Has si II American Lesion Post Auxil iary, announced this week. Income from the sale of the 1,« 500 poppies was slightlv less than the amount received a year ago, it was pointed out, but the auxiliary officers and members expressed, then appreciation to those who handled the salt and to those who bought the little artificial flowers made by hospitalised veterans in tiie nation. A complete report on the sale is being delayed pending returns from one or two of the rural com munities. Money raised will be used to help rehabilitate families of veter ans of both wars. | BIBLE SCHOOL ~J Williamston's annual union daily vacation Bible school had a very successful opening yesterday morning, IMiss F.thel Guest, the superintendent, stating that 184 pupils were enrolled the first day and that 25 teaehers were present to handle the classes and direct the varied activity program Scheduled to run two weeks, the school opens each morning at !t:00 o'clock for a period of three hours. The school is prepared to handle a larger enrollment, the sup erintendent explained.