THU ENTERPRISE IS PE AD BT OVER 3,BOO MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 78 William*Ion, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, Septemhet 27, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 <'i'i .-"i* /•(— » ■ Iwenty Cases In Justice Hassell’s Court This Week Fines and Costs Collected In The Smn Of $262 By The Mayor Climaxing a little crime wave which was nipped by local offic ers after a hectic week-end, twenty cases were placed on Jus tice John L. Hassell’s docket dur ing the past few days. Although limited to the trial of misdemean or cases, the court rated attention ordinarily given any one of the higher tribunals. Fines were im posed in the sum of $135 and costs —$127—boosted the total to $262. The docket recently handled was flavored with all types of cases, including one with squir rel meat. It is apparent that the beef and pork shortage will make life miserable for a squirrel. Charged with passing a school bus while it was unloading,pas sengers, James Lawrence Brown was fined $10 and taxed with $6 costs. Charged with hunting and tak ing squirrel out of season, Ben Wilson was fined $10, taxed with $5.50 costs and had his hunting license revoked. Dora Mae Turner was fined $5 and required to pay $7.50 costs for being publicly drunk. James Perkins, charged with disorderly conduct, was fined $5 and required to pay $7.50 costs. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper lights and brakes, Theodore R. Ballard was fined $10 and taxed with $7 costs. Drunk and down, Ben Clem mons fined $5 and taxed with $7.50 costs. John Henry Smith, charged with disorderly conduct, was fin ed $10 and required to pay $6.50 costs. Charged with operating a motor vehicle while his driver's license was revoked, Guilford Brown was bound over to the county court for trial. Bond in the sum of $50 was required. John Linwood Powell was fined $10 and taxed with $6.50 costs in the case charging him with dis orderly conduct. Charged with larceny by trick, James Henry Jackson was bound over to the county court in bond of $100. Theodore Roosevelt Wilson, Jr., charged with carrying a conceal ed weapon, was bound over to the county court for trial, the justice requiring bond in the sum of $100. James Edward Powell, facing a disorderly conduct charge, was fined $10 and taxed with $6.50 costs. Maholen S. Moore was fined $5 and taxed with the cost for pass ing a school bus. Wheeler Beach, charged with disorderly conduct, was fined $5 and required to pay $8.50 costs. Wilbur B. Yarrell w'as fined $10 and taxed with $8.50 costs for dis orderly conduct. Charged with disorderly con duct, B. Moore was fined $5 and required tQ„paycc-als,— Luther Bonds, booked for dis orderly conduct, was fined $10 plus $8.50 costs. Eli Raynor was fined $10 and taxed with $9.50 costs for disord erly conduct. Booked on a disorderly conduct charge, Curtis Yarrell was fined $10 and required to pay $8.50 costs. James Walston, charged with disorderly conduct, was fined $5 and taxed with $6.50 costs. FHA Names New Officers Here —♦— The Future Homemakers of America of Williamston High School held their first meeting of the year on Friday, September 20, under the sponsorship of Miss Florine Clark, home economics teacher. Elizabeth Manning, re tiring president, presided during the election of the new president. The following officers were chos en for the current school term: Julia Laughinghouse, president; Joan Peele, vice president; Lucille Quinn, secretary; Barbara Sulli van, treasurer; Elizabeth Whitley, song-leader; Fanny Bowen, his torian: and Elizabeth Manning, reporter. The club, with an in creased enrollment and under new leadership, is anticipating an eventful year. Big LawSuit Settled In Court This Week ■S’ — LICENSES -» The sale of hunting licenses is progressing rapidly in this county, some reports declar ing that it will approach an all-time record. Despite the reported shortage of shells, hunters are meeting the legal requirements and making ready for the opening of the squirrel season next Tues day. The deer season follows on October 15 when it will be lawful to take opossums and coons with dogs. The hunting season gets under way on a big scale on November 28 when it will be lawful to shoot quail and turkeys on certain days. The trapping season does not open until December 1. TB Victim Faces Complete Change In Everyday Life Training For a New Type of M'ork Necessary In Many Cases -• When a person learns that he has tuberculosis, he faces a com plete change in his way of living. The probability is that he must undergo a long period of treat ment, usually in* a tuberculosis hospital where he will be separat ed from his family and friends except for the visits which they may make to the hospital. For the man or woman who has been earning his or her own liv ing, it means winding up all busi ness affairs and giving up an ac tive life for one of rest. Those are only a few of the changes which TB may bring to a man’s life. They call for a great deal of adjustment. In most in stances, some outside aid is need ed to help the patient make the adjustment satisfactorily. If the patient is the breadwin ner, he must know that his family will not suffer while he is in the hospital. With the aid of estab lished community agencies, ar rangements can be made to pro vide the proper care for the fam ily. Whether this will mean some form of financial assistance or care of the young children while the mother works will depend upon the particular situation. In the ideal community, all agencies work together to help the individual solve his family and economic problems so that he can enter the hospital free from worries about his family. As a hospital patient, he con tinues to need assistance in addi tion to medical care. He needs it in the form of occupational ther apy to relieve the tedium of long days in the hospital. He needs special guidance to help him dis cover or i e-diSCCJi'Ci ~j/<-CJai interests and aptitudes he may have which will enable him to live a more complete life when his dis ease is arrested and he leaves the hospital. If he has followed a strenuous, outdoor life in the past, a life which may be barred to him in the future; he needs training for a new type ot work in which he may engage safely and with satis faction after his medical dis charge from the hospital. The patient who receives such aid as he needs becomes fully re habilitated and an asset to society when he again taks up his life in the community. Officers Destroy Two Distilleries —<» Raiding in the Hassell section of Hamilton Township last Wed nesday, ABC Officer J. H. Roe buck and Deputy Roy Peel wreck ed two liquor distilleries. At the first plant the operator had placed about 150 pounds of corn meal in the three fermenters and was waiting for it to sour be fore adding the sweetening. The ingredients were destroyed along with the old oil drum used for a kettle. The second plant had been abandoned for a short time and nothing was found there except an old oil drum. Plaintiff Given Deed In $37,000 Suit On Tuesday -<$> Consent Judgment Filtered In Case Of Saunders Against Bowen -- The civil case of C. B. Saunders, timber speculator, against H. A Bowen and involving property and timber rights valued at $37. 000, was settled in the Martin County Superior Court before Judge W. H. S. Burgwvn last Tuesday afternoon, the plaintiff winning each of four counts be foie the jury but later agreeing to a consent judgment. Alleging the defendant had vio lated the terms of an option agreement, the plaintiff was the first to take the witness stand. It was pointed out that the plainiff had taken an option on the Per ry farm in the islands section of Williams Township last Decem ber until May 11 of this year. Saunders said on the witness stand that he went to the bank to have the option renewed, that the defendant tried to put him off. Saunders also stated that the de fendant suggested that they wait a few days, that they might be able to freeze W. 1). Daniel out and handle it themselves. The plaintiff declared that he finally got the option renewed until June 11 for $125. On June 6 the plain tiff testified that he showed the defendant a letter from F. E. Wes ton. manager of the Wells-Oates Lumber Company, supporting a sale of the property under the option. The defendant was quot ed as saying at that time, ' It looks like you made a good sale.” Saun ders then testified that he asked the defendant for a deed, but the defendant told him he was too busy at that time, and the same excuse was offered on June 7 and 8 when the plaintiff maintained he called foi a deed. The witness stated that he did not see the de fendant on the 9, 10 or 11, Ihul on the 11th he could not find the de fendant even though he went to the bank several times and also to the defendant's home. The wit ness added that he saw the de fendant on the 12th when the de fendant advised him that he didn't believe he wanted to sell the property. • Escapes Ahead Of Undertaker Drunk and down in front of a Washington Street store last Mon day afternoon, a drunk whose identity could not be definitely determined, narrowly escaped ahead of the law and the under taker. So deep in tile ai ms'lff liioi pheus, the drunk had the appear ance of a dead man. Merchant Chas. Davis advised the police de partment that a man had drop ped dead in front of his store, and the local undertaker was im mediately dispatched there. Dur ing the meantime, two friends, knowing the weakness of the man, picked him up in their arms and moved him away just ahead of the poiiee and the undertaker. Another victim of alcohol was found drunk and down in the doorway of the Branch bank later that evening, but he was moved at the end of a police stick. DELAYED Delayed in shipment, the beef calves purchased by the Roberson Slaughter House will not be ready for distribu tion to 4-H club members in this county until next Thurs day, it was learned yesterday. The carload of calves wili not reach here until late Saturday afternoon, and they will be held in the stock yards for a few days. Approximately forty club members are planning to pur chase calves and enter them in the fourth annual fat stock show in the county next April. Clear Civil Cases In Superior Court Here On Tuesday Jiid^e Says Plaintiff Vi ill IN ever Get Divoree In His Court ——at Handling one or two cases in addition to ihe Saunders-Bowen suit last Tuesday, the Martin County Superior Court adjourned the September term after work ing two days the first week and two days the second week. One divorce was granted and another was denied and judgments were entered in two minor cases before the tribunal quit late that after noon. A climax in the twenty-five claims for divorce came on the last day of the term when Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn informed the plaintiff in the divorce case of R. T. Chance against Mary E. Chance that he (Chance) would never get a divorce in his (Bur gwyn's) court. The jurist spoke very frank, and admitted that the plaintiff may gi t a divorce under some other judge. While Chance’s wife was an in mate of a state institution some years ago lie appealed to the courts for a divorce and failed. His wife was later declared sane and when released from the insti tution it was intimated that she was forced to seek refuge in the home of her brother. A second plea for divorce was started by tli(' plaintiff, lie was again de nied, but the court took action and directed him to pay $50 a month for the support of his wife. The plea was renewed a short time ago. Asked it he planned to continue the monthly payments, the plaintiff, placed in the role of a defendant, was quoted as say ing that he had talked it over with members, of his family and decid ed to discontinue them. The judge then announced his stand and the divorce pleadings went on the rocks. Based on two years’ separation, a divorce was granted Willie D. Brown in his case against Annie Mae Brown. In the case of J. Hoyt Holliday against Lucy Perry, administra trix, a consent judgment was en tered, the plaintiff receiving $51). The court ruled in the case of Sylvester Dancey against Lazarus Rivers that a deed from Augustus Forrest to the plaintiff is a prior lien on certain lands to judgment of the defendant. ■o Will Hold Dress Review Saturday The 4-11 clubs of Martin County will hold their annual Fall Dress Review Saturday, September 28, at 3:00 P. M. in the Woman’s Club here. The following girls are planning to enter: Mary Lou Col train, Melba Revels, Mary Ola Lilley, Elizabeth Holliday, Fian ces Griffin, Medolen Hudging, and Mildred Wynne. From these girls will be picked the County ir' '^u' District Dress Review in Eden ton on October 3. Should she win in Edenton, she will be in the State contest. Following the dress review there will be an informal tea for the entrants, their parents and friends. The public is invited to attend. Judges foi the contest will be M i>s Virginia Patrick, Home Agent, in Bertie County, Miss Maxine Pleasant, assistant home agent in Bertie County, Miss Frances Lakes, home economics teacher in Oak City, and Miss Florine Clark, home economics teacher in Williamston. Wild Life (>roup To Hold District Meet -• Meeting in Windsor Friday evening of this week, members of the North Carolina Wild Life Fed eration in this district, will perfect an organization and discuss other matters. The district embraces most of the territory from North ampton County on ciowm to the coast. The chairman of the organiza tion's state legislative committee announced from his headquarteis in Kinston this week that a bill would be introduced in the next State assembly to create a new di vision for game and fish, separate fiom the conservation depart ment. MINISTER Kev. C. Freeman Heath, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Washington, will conduct a series of evangelis tic services in the local Meth odist church beginning Sun day evening at 7:30 o’clock. Services will be held each evening a that hour during the coming week and the public is invited, the pastor, Kev. B. T. Hurley, announced. Limit Allowance For War Veterans In accordance with a law pass ed by the recent Congress, World War II veterans now training on the job under the G. I. Bill oi Rights may have their subsistence allowances reduced or suspended Veterans without dependents may not receive subsistence when salaries or wages exceed $171) s month. The limit for vets with dependents is $200. It is important for veterans t< know that training is not auto imatically terminated or interrupt ed when the $175.00 or $200.0( ceiling disqualifies them for sub J sirtence allowances. The perioc of training is continued anc counts against training entitle ments until the veteran himseli requests that his training be in ( rrupled. Such requests should be addressed to the Veterans Ad ministration, Winston-Salem, N C. Veterans should contact theii training officer or any V. A. rep resentative for correct procedure in reporting their wages or for in formation pertaining to Public Law 679. -•*, Mother 01 Local Resident Passes .■■■ ■ M's. Adams, mother of Mrs, Carlyle Langley, died unexpect edly at her home in Shelbyville Tennessee, last Sunday night Eighty years of age, Mrs. Adarm fell and broke her hip in early September but was reported to be getting along very well last Satur day. Her condition suddenly be came worse Sunday, death fol lowing late that night. Mrs. Langley left Monday to at tend the funeral which was held at the home there Wednesday after noon. Interment was in the family plot in the Shelbyville cemetery. Besides her daughter here, Mrs Adams leaves three sons ant three daughters. ■-« Wynn Infant Dies In Duke Hospital Phillip O’Neal Wynn, three month-old son of Thurston Wynn, Jr., and Lina Bailey Wynn, died late last Wednesday afternoon in Duke Hospital, Dur ham. The infant had been in ill health since birth. Mr. and Mrs Wynn were in Durham Wednes day afternoon to see their son and when they left to return home he was apparently improving. His condition became worse a shorl time later, death following soon thereafter. Funeral services were conducted at the home in Wesl End Thursday afternoon and burial was in Woodlawn Ceme tery here. -«— Local JaycecH Will Help Fund for Child --■ - Williamston Jaycees ate plan ning to help boost, the fund now being raised in the State for two year-old Jane Caiol Frost, daugh ter of Clayton Frost who was kill td in an automobile acciden while in the performance of hi, duties as State Jaycee president. To Open Recreation Center In Legion I In l Representative Tenders Use Of The Legion Hnt ■ — <» Delegations From Various Clubs Diseuss Plans For Youth ('enter -• Meeting in the town commis sioners’ room here the early pari of this week, delegations from the various civic clubs, junior cham ber of commerce and town repre sentatives advanced tentative plans for reopening a recreation center for the youth of the com munity. Representatives from the Woman's Club. Lions and Ki wanis Clubs. Junior Chamber ol Commerce, the John Walton Has sell Post of the American Legion Ministerial Association, and the town’s official board of commis sioners were present and discuss ed plans for reopening and main taining the center. W. E. Dunn, representing the Legion Post, offered the use o: the Legion hut on Watts Stree on any of three nights each wee! except Monday night. The offei was made on the condition tha competent supervision be exercis ed at all times. Speaking for the Woman’; Club, Mrs. J. W. Watts explainer the club hall could be used on < t( nporary basis or until mori suitable quarters were made available. Appreciation was ex pressed to the club for the offer but the meeting advanced th( opinion that the Legion Hu would prove more satisfactory and the group extended a vote o: thanks to the Legionnaires foi their gracious offer. Presided over by John L. Goff chairman, the meeting decider that a paid leader would be neces sary to supervise the activities o the youth at the center at al times, and plans were made foi reopening and maintaining thi center. The chairman is to appoint ; steering committee within the next few days and that group wil employ and work with a suner visor in completing plans for car lying on the work. Serving with Chairman Johr Goff, will be Hugh G. Horton vice chairman; W. B. Gaylord Jr., treasurer, and Mrs. Wheolei Martin, Jr., secretary. A finance committee composed of Wheelei Martin, chairman, and John Hen ry Edwards, Asa J. Manning unc C. B. Clark, Jr., was named, anc charged with the responsibility ol raising sufficient funds for tht operation of the center from Oc tober 1 to December 31. No cost figures were advanced and plans for raising the neces sary funds were not disclosed. Furniture and fixtures purchas (Continued on page eight) School 'MetttioM Meeting Tuesday -• The Martin County principals met in the office of the Countj Superintendent last Tuesday. Mi' Jesse R. Rhue was elevated to thi presidency which was vacated b> Mr. S. L>. Bundy. Mr. B. G. Stew art was elected vice-president Other officers of the club arc- Miss Lissie Pearce, secretary, and Miss Ruth Manning, treasurer. Materials for membership ir the N. E. A. and the N. C. E. A were distributed and announce ment was made of the district meeting of the N. C- E. A. ir Windsor, N. C., on October 2, 1946 Mr. A. L. Hendren invited the club to Robersonville for the sec ond meeting on October 14. j EVERYBODY PAID s..,.., ... (Robersonville Herald) For the first time in a quar ter of a century and possibly longer, no delinquent tax sale will be published this year by the Town of Robersonville. All taxes for the year 1945 have been paid and the unique record speaks highly for the town officials as well as the prosperous period we are experiencing. , TOBACCO SALES ___ Although hampered iiy fair ly large quantities of dam | aged leaf, tobacco prices on the local market continue to average well over 50 cents a pound. “Eliminate the dam aged leaf sales, and the prices would possibly average 1 around 55 or 50 cents a pound," a government repre sentative was quoted as say ing Thursday. Sales, including those on the floor today, are in excess of six and one-hall' million pounds for the season with the price average holding to a figure right at $4!) per hun dred pounds. Deliveries continue heavy, one report heard Wednesday i stating that farmers were placing tobacco on sale at that time for next Tuesday’s sale. Bookmobile Is On Winter Schedule In Martin County Extra Day To Ser vice Offrml By Travel ing Library l Hit The BUM Bookmobile has gone on winter schedule. In Martin . County the new schedule begins . on Friday, September 27. when the Bookmobile will serve the > Williamston High School and the . Williamston Elementary School. From Monday through Fi iday of ' | next week stops will In' made at 1 i all Martin County schools. This free book ser vice is aided by criu , i cational funds and it is hoped J that the traveling libr ar y will In ; welcomed at every school doot 1: Please note in the appended . | schedule that Martin County is to i have an extra day added to its service. I Among the news books which | the Bookmobile will bring to Mar (in County readers next week will be included: The Great Globe Itself. A pi e face to world affairs by William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia. The Veteran’s Program by Charles Hurd. This is a complete guide to the Benefits, Rights and Options of the veteran. Topflight by Anne Stoddard. Thirteen brief biographies of un usual women who have achieved success in such varied fields as Art, Aviation, Engineering, Poli tics, etc. Salem Frigate by John Jen nings. An outstanding new novel by the author of Next to Valour'. The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby. Historical novel of “blood and fire” laid in New Orleans be tween 1825 and Civil War period. The Great Promise by Noel Houston. A colorful and drani -ilk Hwy of pmn< suing da;.".:. The schedule: Friday, September 27 Williamston High School, 1), Williamston Elementary School. 12; and Griffin’s Service Station, 3. Monday, September 30 Edward’s Service Station, 9:30; Hamilton School, It); Hamilton tin front of bank), 12:15; Gold Point. Johnson’s Service Station, 1 35, and Robersonville Public Library at 2:30. Tuesday, October 1 Hassell, 9:30; Hassell School, 10, (Continued on page eight) Hurt In Wreck Late Wednesday a -« Martin Anderson was slightly cut on the ear and bruised and Lee Thomas was shocked and i bruised when their car, an old model Chevrolet, went out ol control and turned over on the Windsor-Aulander Highway late Wednesday night. The steering rod came out o: place and Thomas, driver of the car, lost control, it was stated The machine, turning over pus sibly two times before resting was wrecked beyond repair. The young men, both of Wrl liamston, were returning froir Ahoekie. Hoiisiruction On Hridi O' Advances Slowlv Traffic To I no Dolour For Months [O-jOnniiur In About T'«'ii Days -* Stal led last, February, crnalruc tion work on the Roanoke River bridge widening project is ad vancing slowly but steadily, Sup erintendent S. W. Dickinson slal ing this week that weather condi tions and material shortages were causing considerable delay. Un less material deliver! irs are speed ed up. construction work will he completed hardly within the next twelve months, one engineer pre dicted. Construction work on a tempor ary draw bridge across the river is nearing completion and traffic is tentatively scheduled to start moving ovei the detour in about a week or ten days. The new draw span is only fifteen feet wide, permitting cars to pass on it when traveling very slowly. Big trucks and busses will not be able to pass on the draw span, but the ap proaches are wider than the regu lar bridge and traffic can move unhampered but at a curtailed speed. Most of the detour has been bridged and a paved fill completes the connection. While the detour is safe, traffic is warned lo move slowly over the temporary . tructun s. “Cau tion cannot be stressed too much for those who use the detour,” Superintendent Dickinson said. Unable In guess the weather or to anticipate the prompt delivery of materials, engineers can offer no guess as to when the project will be completed. “II i possible that the detour will be in use for just about a year," the superin tendent said. However, engi neers believe that with good weather and no delays in the de livery of materials, the contrac tors can complete the job in six or eight months. At the present time about 25 men arc employed by the contractors, Bowers Con i'! ruction Company. Work on widening the concrete bridge is fairly well advanced and the steel for that work has been delivered. It is possible that the concrete approaches to the l iver span will be widened within the next two or three months. The contractors plan to start tearing away the old bridge with in the next two weeks, state en gineers explaining that the struc ture would be placed in storage here temporarily. Much of the ctnli r support for the draw will be torn away and enlarged considerably. Several months will be spent handling that part of the project, and it is likely that it will be completed before the bridge work is deliv ered. Stating that delivery had been promised by next January 1, Supt. Dickinson explained that delivery on some materials pro mised last February was effected in May. The contracting firm is adding new units to its equipment hero from time to time, one report stat ifig that •* lit 'A ". a"*' ;,,Sj> prnximately $28,000 was deliver ed to the project here last week. ---—« House Bout Sails Sunday Morning J D Mi l ting this wet k, members of the local House Boat Club com puted arrangements for their an nual rendezvous along the lower reaches of the Roanok . Power ed by a tug, the boat is scheduled to sail Sunday morning at 8:00 o'clock for Daly’s Hill where it will tit; up at its old site at the well on the Bertie shore. The pas senger list for the sailing is not yet complete, but Commodore Jim Ollie Purvis is getting everything in ship shape for the sailing, and Purser K. B. Crawford is loading on provisions and supplies for a big season. The boat has been painted in side and out and a modern light ing plant has been purchased The . ipcat shortage is certain to make itself felt Sunday and Monday, but that condition will he remedi ed on Tuesday when the squirrel season opens, to be followed by deer hunting on the 15th. Forced out of their old hUHtiittf grounds for a season, the mem hers of the club have regained ^ game rights and they are ant mi, *'!; patmg a great period. £