THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 8,000 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 87 Williamaton, Martin Couniy, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 29. 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Two Amendments- ' To Constitution Being Proposed ——«.— i One To Iucreast Riglil* Of, Women; Other To Boost Pay Of Legislators Voters of the State will l>e nail ed upon to determine the fate of two proposed amendments to the North Carolina State Constitution when they go to the polls in the general election on Tuesday, Nov ember 5. One of the amendments would make the Constitution equally applicable to men and women as to jury service, suf frage and in other respects. The other amendment would allow legislators $10 a day expenses while attending regular or special sessions of the General Assembly, the expense allowance to be in addition to the regular salary which is fixed at $600 per regular term, and $160 for a special ses Section 1 of Article 1 in the Constitution reads, ‘That we hold it to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of hap piness.” The proposed amendment would substitute the word “per sons” in the place of “men,” giv ing the members of the fair sex a claim to “certain inalienable rights” along with the men. In section seven of the same article, same constitution, the words “person” and “persons” would be substituted for “man” and “men.” At the present time the section reads, “No man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privi leges from the community but in consideration of public services.” It is fairly evident that the wo men will gain little or nothing by changing this particular section. The proposed amendment would change Sections 11, 13, 19 and 26. all of Article 1 to include both sexes, speciafieally allow ing women to sit on juries. Sec tion 1 of Article IV would leave no doubt as to the right of wo man suffrage in North Carolina. Voters favoring the adoption of the proposed changes shall vote a ballot on which is printed the words, “For Amendments Mak ing the Constitution Equally Ap plicable to Men and Women”, and voters opposed to the changes shall vote a ballot on which is printed the words, “Against the Amendments Making the Consti tution Equally Applicable to Men and Women.” ■£be amendments were propos ed when the North Carolina Su preme Court held in the case of State against Emory that women are ineligible to serve on the jury in this State. Other changes cov ered in the proposed amendment are designed to bring the State Constitution in line with the Fed eral document, for, under the Federal Constitution, women are guaranteed the right of the bal lot. Little opposition is predicted for the amendment for the wo mwi. ---- " 1 '*■ The other amendment calling for an expense account for legis lators of $10 a day in addition tc their regular salaries is very sim ple, but likely to encounter op position. Voters favoring this amendment shall vote a ballot or which is printed the words, “Foi Amendment Allowing Limitec Necessary Expenses of Members of the General Assembly,” anc those opposed to the adoption o the amendment shall vote a bal lot on which is printed the words “Against Amendment Allowini Limited Necessary Expenses o Members of the General Assem bly.” -- Warehouseman Hurt In Wrecl —•—■ Mr. Jim Gray, prominent Rob ersonville citizen and tobacconisl suffered a broken rib and possibl; other injuries in an auto-breai truck accident at a street inter section in the warehouse sectioi of Robersonville shortly after S O o'clock yesterday morning. Treat ed in the Ward Clinic, Mr. Gra was later removed to his home. The warehouseman was turn ing in the intersection and his ca chowed down. Starting sudden ly, it struck and turned over th bread truck. Mr. Gray wa thrown out ci ou car. Sales On Local Market Go j Over Ten Million Pounds \ Williamston’s tobacco market bandied well over half a million pounds of tobacco last week, to carry the total sales for the season through last Friday to 10,078,080 pounds. While there was a slight downward trend in prices, aver- | ages last week were just a frac tion over $1 per hundred lower than those for the week before when 851.014 pounds averaged $55.98. The official average last week for 590.390 pounds was $54.73. Approximately 135,000 pounds of tobacco were offered on the floors here Monday, and prices for some grades were off as much as four and five dollars per hun dred. However, the low medium quality grades were selling good, and the average for the day was well over $50 per hundied pounds. Where the better grades last week and the week before were selling as high as 60 and 67 cents a pound, few piles were bring over 62 and 63 cents this week. Apparently : some of the buyers have filled | their orders, causing prices for | certain grades to fall. Late ord ers may boost the price trend shortly, but some market observ ■rs are of the opinion that the best inn* lor selling tobacco'is past. The Departments of Agricul .me report that price advances which tiaH continued tor four con secutive weeks were halted last a eek. and in the large majority u cases averages turned down ward. Most losses amounted to I 51.00 to $3.00 a hundred pounds) with every group affected with decreases t xcept nondescript. These tobaccos gained slightly. A few small increases also were mingled with declines in lugs and primings but, as a whole, these grades were down. Gross sales for the week amounted to 35.683.327 pounds for an average of $54.75 per hundred. This was around 7 1-2 million pounds below the previous week’s volume and $1.28 under the gen eral average. Season gross sales were boosted to 375,685,970 pounds at a $53.01 average. Quality of the offerings was about the same as the previous week. The proportion of cutters increased slightly while leaf was all teen-agers of Martin County mon to good leaf, low and fair cutters, and fair and good lugs composed the bulk of marketings. I COMPLAINTS Numerous complaints have been filed with the police dr partment, ami it is reported that appeals have been made direct to the authorities, against the promiscuous shouting of fireworks all over town during recent nights. Quite a few are looking to the authorities to ban the firing of all fireworks unless great er discretion is cxen ised in their use. Religious services were troubled by the promiscuous firing of the crackers in close proximity of the churches last I Sunday evening. Reports j state that the thoughtless ones are not numbered strict ly among the boys, but that those who have no respect or regard for worship services or the rest of citizens late hours of the night are young men in their late teens or early twen ties, that they move about in automobiles, firing as they go. Infant Dies On Way To Doctor Archie Ray Conaway, si? | months old. died en route to ; doctor’s office here last Sundaj shortly before noon. The son o Dalton E. and Ola Mae White Car raway, the infant was taken il only the night before. When hi condition showed no improve ment Sunday morning they start cd to the doctor here, the chil; dying about the time they reachei the office and before the troubl j could be determined. A brothel I suffering apparently |with a siii^i 'i'iix' (U1, VV tla plc-v * 11 ilf Greenville hospital recently. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home of the child’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Whitt on Beach Street here Monday aft ernoon at 3:30 o'clock and burn was in the Clark Cemetery 1 Cross Roads Township. Rev. L W. Davis officiated. Surviving are the paients. an two brothers, Jimmy and Daltor Jr., both of the home in Everett: Infant Died Saturday Morning ISeur Hen Larry Shelton Beacham, tw months old, died at the home t his mother, Mrs. Esue Beach-in on the old Greenville Road nea here last Saluiday morning to. lowing a short illness. Funeral services were conduc ed Sunday afternoon and intei mtnt was in the family cenieter; near the home. r i In Accident At Bethel Stop Light Sunday A igl i -—« ) No one was hurt but right mut - damage resulted when a car plow f ed into Mr J. W Watts’s Cadi lac at the stop light in Bethel la - Sunday night. r Crashing the light, the colore - man’s old car. apparently witl = out brakes, knocked the Cadill; s engine partly out of line and dan aged two fenders._. t . Minister Is Badly Injsired In \\ reek Friday Afternoon l!< J. < I'ot UtM’ Suffers lirukt’ii !\e< I-. \\ lien (!ar I urns t >\ er Rev. J. G. Crocker, of Pine Lev el and a former pastor of the Wil liamstnn Pentecostal Holiness Church, suffered a broken neck, slim k and bruises when the car in which hi was tiding turned over between Everetts and Collie Swamp on U. S. Highway No. 64 at 3:30 o'clock last Friday after noon. Placed in Brown's Com munity Hospital soon after tin accident, the minister was trans ferred by ambulance to a Raleigh hospital for special treatment Whih his condition is possibly serious, it is not. critical, last re ports reaching here stating that be was getting along as well a: could be expected. Rev. Julian Floyd Williams pastor of the' Williarnston church was driving his 1937 Plymoutl car west on the highway when ; tire blew out and caused the ma chine to turn over. Rev. Wil barns was not hurt, according te inforrnatiein gainea from Patrol ! man W. E. Saunders who made ai ! investigation. Damage to the ea I was limited, the patrolman stat i irig that possibly it could be re j paired for about $100. j The accident was erne of sever a reported in this county over the week-end. No one was hurt ii I wo others, Cpl. W. T. Simpsoi said following investigations. Ernest Walston of Pinetopj driving noith on U. S. No. 17 started to make a left turn a Skewarkcy with a 1946 Chevrole ow n. by DV Trucking Company of Tarborr He turned just as Guild Malloy o Fontana, California, started t pass in his 1942 Pontiac. The let front bumper of the truck hooke the car in the side, damaging th door and ripping off a right rea fender. Damage to the ear wa ■ stimated by Cpl. Simpson at $15 and that to the truck at about $71 His car minus a fender and th side battered. Ivlailoy was able t drive away and continue his 1iav el north. A very minor accident was rc (Continued on page six) ■f ^ ■ I r V. HOl'MMIP if h St A now arrest reourri l»r the f.ill season was chalked up last week end when local, county and state otficers rounded up seventeen drunks and registered them in the ole hoosegow at the county little white house" near the brink of the river hill here. Intrud ing on the drunks’ week-end convention, two others were jailed during the period, one for issuing a worthless check and the other for drunken i driving. Cjuite a few of the nineteen ic jailed weie wdiite, and most i- ! of them were in their early ir ( twenties. Well-Known Local I Citizen Died At Home On Saturday Funeral Sunday Afternoon At 3 {00 O'clock For Mrs, I,rover Hardison -• Furvral services were conduct ed at the Biggs Funeral Home here on West Main Street Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Mrs, Grover W. Hardison who died suddenly at her home on Church Street Saturday morning at 3:15 o’clock. Her pastor, Dr. Ira D. S. Knight, of the local Baptist Church, officiated, and interment was in Williamston’s Woodlawn Cemetery. The daughter of the late Joseph 11 and Mary Rogers Peel, she was born on November 8, 1884, near Williamston. When she was quite young the family located in Wil liamston where she had since made her home. The former Miss Annie Peel, she was married to Grover W. Hardison on June 9, 1910, and was numbered among the town’s well known women and citizens. She was a member of the Baptist church here since her childhood, and is remembered as a friend of the needy. Mrs. Hardison, suffering with high blood pressure, had been in feeble health for a long number of years. Her condition had not been very favorable for the past two weeks, but she apparently seemed to be getting along as well as usual when she went to her room and retired about 9:00 o’clock Friday evening. Going into the bedroom about 11:00 o'clock she was found sleeping soundly by her daughter at that time. The attention of members of the family was attracted by her difficult breathing about three hours later, and medical aid was summoned. She died within about an hour without regaining consci ousness, the victim of a cerebral hemorrhage. i 1 i 1 1 Surviving are Mr. Hardison, two daughters, Mrs. Calvin Slud er of the home, and Mrs. Irvin Hull, Jr., of Pulaski, Va.; a sister, Miss Essie Peel, of Williamston, and two grandchildren, Paulanne and Frank Hull, of Pulaski. Mrs. Hardison was a great-niece of the late Sylvester Hassell, noted min ister and author of Williamston. To Close Meeting Tomorrow Night —<*— 1 Rev. Paul Nickens, Baptist min ister of Plymouth, will close a 1 series of revival services in the local Baptist Church tomorrow evening. Starting last Sunday, a week ago, the meeting has at tracted record-size congregations l at nearly every service, and the • messages have been well received, 1 not only by Dr. Ira Knight’s Bap 1 tists but also by members from all othei denominations in the town ■ and community. The visiting minister centered his text last Sunday evening in the 23rd Psalm, amJjrMjvcred an unusually ..I. o 11 g iTnaappea j b ig sermon, the second for the day. Three members were added to the church roll at the evening ser vice. A special invitation is being ex tended to the general public and I especially to the young people, j urging them to attend the meeting I tonight and tomorrow night. Texaco Dealers In Meeting Here Meeting in the r annual dinner business session at the Woman’s Club here last Friday night, 121 I dealers distributors and official * representatives of the Texas Com pany were told what they must do to “Grow With Texaco” in the coming year. Featured on tin program was Edmund H Hardin) of Washington, noted humoris and after dinner speaker win spoke on ' What Next” in a mos Interesting and entertaining bu also pointed manner. The meeting was arranged b: Mr. George H Harrison, Sr , o the Harrison Oil Company of Wil liarnston with the assistance o his associates here and in the af fiiiated Roberson Oil Company o Robersonville, Oak City Oil Com pany of Oak City, Windsor Oi Company of Windsor and Aulanc (Continued on page sis) Jtile Riot Takes Place At Carnival Saturday Night ......—— Several Battered But None Was Seriously Hurt In Free-For-All Several persons were battered nd bruised and one or two eyes vere blackened in a free-for-all ight at the gypsy carnival on the >ld Martin County fairgrounds lear here about 9:30 o’clock last Saturday night. Complete de ails could not be had, officers dating that several innocent by standers were struck in what ap reared to be in the begining a lit le riot. A young man whose name ;ould not be learned but who is said to live on the Whitley farm i short distance from here on :he Hamilton Road, suggested ihat it was about time to close iown the carnival outfit, and started knocking out lights at one [if the stands. He met opposition, and the scuffle attracted attention of others. Going to the scene to satisfy their curiosity, several young men were said to have en countered trouble, but they back ed out and were not badly hurt. The apparent instigator of the trouble moved away and was said to have cleared out for home, but not until he had started a mass exodus from the grounds. Gypsies, flocking into the grounds earlier in the week in record numbers, packed and got out in a hurry. Spectators, not certain of their own safety, form ed a steady flow of traffic with their cars in leaving the grounds. Carnivals have left a trail of sorrow and woe in the old fair grounds for more than a quarter of a century, the agricultural fea ture having been lost in the rush some years ago. But the climax was reached last week when the gypsies and professional gamblers moved in along with the girlie shows and a few rides. A lid was clamped down on the gambling by county officers and the girlie shows were tamed. The rides arid concessions reported very little business, and it is possible that the carnival group, for the first time on record, left more money in the community than they car ried away. Considered an insult to the in telligence of the community, car nivals of that type are believed to have made their last stand in this community. It has been re ported that the county commis sioners will, under no circum stances, relieve such outfits of taxes in the future, and will like ly explore possibilities of banning them from the county forever and ever. 'I'lie carnival last week met all tax requirements and one re port stated that a ground rental fee of $600 was charged and paid. National Air Mail Week Observance —•— National Air Mail Week is be ing observed this week. Inauguration of the new fives cent United States fiag rate Octo ber 1 immediately brought a sharp rise in the air mail volume says Postmoster W. E. Dunn. Rap id air mail service, offered for thi first time at a low postage rate should stimulate commerce, busi ness leaders here believe. Fo that reason, they are encouragini large air mailings during the na tion-wide air mail promolioi week. The Post Office Department ha taken a leaf from the book o American business, reducing th< air-mail late from 8 cents to cents an ounce and simultaneous ly offering better and faster scr vice. The Post Office has bor rowed the proven principle tha by getting more customers for good product at a reduced cos the unit cost of delivery is eul 1 lower price requires one thing t succeed—large volume. 1 Business men want to have th five-cent rate continued. A polic ' of enlightened self-interest sug gests that all promote air ma ' during this period when the ne' low rate is being tested. Meanwhile, Posmaster Dun 1 reported air mail letters are be ing received at the post of fit with incorrect postage aflixei ’ The five-cent late applies an; where that the American fia ‘ flies, including all United Statt 1 possessions. It is also applicab to the armed force, abroad and 1 Canada and Mexico. h riday Is Designa ted b arm \ Bureau Day In the County Us membership drive prepress tig very favorably, the Martin bounty Farm Bureau has desig- 1 luted Fliday of this week as i .he day to carry the campaign ' iver the top. Farm Buitau Da.v ,n Martin County was so designat - id by the officials and member I ship committee members in a meeting held last Friday night, the group pleading their further j efforts to help carry the drive over the top. All the member ship committee members were not present but they were contacted by the officials who explained that approximately thirty can - j vassers would- devote the entire | day in rounding up approximate ly 400 members now needed to carry the Martin County Bureau 1 over its assigned goal. Briefly addressing the group ‘ last Friday evening at a supper i paid for by the canvassers them selves, President (’has. L. Daniel Ice! )red that the Farm Bureau ] was needed more than ever be j tore, that unless •» a sliunn support it cannot be expected !•• successfully wage .1 light in agii culture's behalf around the con feience tables and in the legisla tive halls. It. has been pointed out that present prices may not be main tained, but the Farm Bureau has worked to cushion the decline when it sets in. To guarantee that protection for the future, the far mers must maintain a strong or ganization, and only by boosting its membership can that be ac complished. Martin County has gained na tional recognition for its liberal support of the Farm Bureau, and since the current drive is only about 400 members short of the 2,080 goal, President Daniel is ap pealing both to the canvassers and the public to lend their support to it. Jaycees To Sponsor Town Primary Law w Propose To Rule I Out Convention Plan Of Voting —®— (lull Spokesman Points Out Thai Move Strictly Non-Political Folowing a lengthy discussion during which various members reported they had been contacted by quite a tew citizens asking the the organization to sponsor a movement to secure a primary type of election to replace the present city convention type of election, the Williamston Junior Chamber of Commerce voted last Friday night to undertake the task. The meeting was held in [ the community building ot the j Macedonia church and the ladies of the church served a delicious fi ied chicken supper to the group The project is to be handled by the club’s Civic Improvement committee and officials stressed that they desired to keep it on u civic basis as their organization is a non-political one. The opinion was expressed at. the meeting that a primary type election would be more conven ient for a larger number of voters to east their ballot, since voting could be done “all during the day of election instead of all voting being crowded into a few short minutes every two years as is now the ease.” Further information and plans are to be announced by the committee at a later date. President Ernest Mears presid ed over the meeting while Dan Sharpe led the singing. Wheeler Manning pronounced the invocu Guest.s attending the meeting were Messers, vValter Hamilton, J. C. While, Jim Collins, and Al ton Pleasants. A report by Oswald Stalls, chairman of the sports committee, revealed that committee members sold over $400.00 wor th of season tickets for the High School Ath letic fund. A report, by Exum r Ward, Jr . indicated that the club made a srzuble profit on their re > ccntly staged home lalerrt play, f Pep Parade. This money is to be ■ donated to lire High School Alit 1 letic Assoeration. I JOINT EFFORT t v_> i t No large collections were i marie by any indiviriual but j when the joint efforts were checked it was found that d American housewives were / responsible for the recovery of five hundred million 1 pounds ni fat during the past v tour years, according to a re port teleased a short time ago n by the American Fat Salvage C ommittee. A marked drop e in the recovery of fats was I evident during the meat shortage. g No official collection :s agency operated here and not e very many pounds of fat o j were, recovered m this imme diate section. STAIUNUIKST | y Martin County has hail anil still has some able leaders in its Kami Bureau, men who have given much of their time in the furtherance of its or ganization and activities and without remunerative re ward. but the Billy Ciatl lam ily of Bear Brass is recogni/. cd as among the Bureau's staunchest supporters. Karmer Cratt, recognizing the value of the organization and convinced it has hcl|>cd agriculture tremendously, did not stop when he tendered his membership fee. He signed for Mrs. Cratt and then went on to sign for five of his children, a total of sev en. Junior Knl Cross Seeking MouiInt The Marlin County Red Cm. Chapter’s junior organization i1 launching a membership drive this week with the aid of Me Florine Clark and Mrs Ross Fronebcrgcr in the local schools. I Mrs. V. E. Brown, chairman, an nounced. School children are en rolled in groups and no individual fee is required, the chairman ex plained, adding that each indi vidual is urged to participate in the Junior Red Cross program. The organization just recently formed in this chapter, affords its members an opportunity to serve others, both at home and abm.id. in war -or in-pv.vcc. metTn ; ^ gain a growing sense of r-sponsi biiity toward others through the service projects, Mrs. Brown pointed out. Already plans are being made to send educational gilt boxes oVL‘1 st as, thi? cliairman unnouiu' ing that the Junior Ri it Cm. ; has been asked to prepare and send at least one million gills by tin* end of November. Work on the project is slated to get under way immediately. --o Victim Of I'islol H tnnnl Improving In Hospital -» William Hopkins, .young coun ty farmer who seriously shot him self at his home near Jamcsville last week, was reported to be improving in the local hospital late yesterday. His left lung col lapsed by a bullet that plowed all the way through his body, tin man wa,^ said, however, to con tinue quite ill llalloit t cn (an nival In (,\m Herr Thursday An/if An elaborate Hallowe'en carni val will be held in the high school gymnasium heie Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Special 1 entertainment features are sched uled and there'll be rides, games land eats Prizes will be awarded for the most attractive and origin al ccatumes. i ,ouiitv loun® iVlaii -- jimmy Viallaei* Of James \iile ( ouler (Micc lu IVu$»ne A University of North Carolina delegate to Woild Student Con ference held in Prague, Czecho slovakia. August 18-31. Jimmy Wallace. Martin County young man who is now studying law in Chapel Hill. Iasi week reported on the meeting to tudents at the Univer-ity. Bill Sexton reported Wallace's summary in the Daily Tar Hell, student publication at the University, as follows: Characterizing the 11)46 World Student Congri.-s at Prague as-a “miniature United Nations assem bly.'’ UNC Delegate Jimmy Wal lace last night reported to the : tudents he represented that "the conference accomplished its maj or objective . . . the formation of an International Student union.” He told how the 300 students from 40 nations went on record for world government, set up or | ganization of the n< w world stud ent federation with headquarters in Piague, and determined to re asfi mble in three years. The Carolina delegate, one of 15 repp eiitmg the United States at the August e mu. noted "eternal i (Iis ''ferment" between Catholic mi misers hem all countries and toe repre. entalives of the Com mute '1 countries. "Their wran gles." he said, “constantly threat ened to impair the whole confer ence.’ But Wallace added that the students w • e able to com promise such s fully at the ex pense of great effort.” Comparing the Prague confer ence with oilier international as semb!ie: Wallace declared. "The Hu - - to deli gat ion \i, - intelligent and cooperative. It voted unani mously on all matte: -: . . . g-. Lting the nod from its leaders.” The Yugoslav, Poli.-h, and Rumanian member- he rout in.!, "voted with tin He. mu delegation lJ5 percent of the time.” “The tin c i contingents of the Indian delegation (Moslem, Hin du ar I C'-mmun t i never agreed unless it was to disagree with the Biiti.h tr imlii i.- ' he reported. Wallace, who wa elected one of 100 members ol the Congress Council, i xplained the organiza tion which was adopted for the newly - instituted International Union of Student••• “A Council win steer tnc as sembly between its meetings eveiy tlm o years, it will as mb'e annually . . . Arrange ments fur (he council's meetings will be taken cure of by an Exe cutive committee with 17 mem bers. Most of these have be eomc i esidelits of Prague . . . the Czi 1 gl anted them scholar-hips to Charles uni vei.ity then.’ He told how C1/'. ehmlovakia, l,o~i to the Au gust 18-31 asm uiily. had arranged building.- and pi. -or.nrl tor per manent lu .idqu.u U .of the sltid I enl union in Pi ague. port a "hike warm ver ion” cl world government, which Wallace deplored .... “hopelessly inade quate.’’ He aid that he himself had u ;;ed the na mb. rs that “a genuine w orld uowrnment must be evolved with the utmost . pi. d,” "II i ■ in.mediatel.y tier iary. if vv. n>' in avoid a mw wm ” Wal ls. . I,. I nie,Id said that lie had told th« delegates, "to interna tionalize tin control of the atomic h. ini'..” lit added that the veto power must go as fai as matters atomic are concerned.” Officers Destroy Two Distilleries Maiding in Goose Nr.I. Town ship the greater part of last Fri day, AP.C Officer d H, Roebuck and Deputy Ro> F. > 1 wrecked two illicit liquo, d tillerim. The plaids o ere equipped with oil drums and other inferior manu 1 faeturing materials. The first, plant, was found just off the old river read not far from : Pain:' ra where the officers pour ed out fifty gallons of cheap rao . lasses beer. The second plant was found just off the new highway * le...lmg out of Oak City in the di I lection of Has;ell. The officer y u.td out 150 gallons of beer there.