THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 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 90 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, November 8, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge J. C. Smith Has Eleven €aser In County’s Court Fines Collected In Last Monday Session Total Over SI00.00 Judge J. Calvin Smith called eleven cases in the Martin Coun ty Recorder’s Court last Monday and completed the trial docket in a little over two hours. The ses sion was in marked contrast in several particulars with the one of the Monday before when an al most record number of cases was called and fines approximated $1,000. A comparatively small number of spectators heard the trials, and no great interest was shown in the proceedings by the general public. Fines collected during the ses sion Monday amounted to $110.00. Proceedings: Pleading guilty in the case charging him with speeding, Troy Lee Haymer was fined $25, taxed with the cost and had his opera tor’s license revoked for thirty da} 3. Charged with drunken driving and public drunkenness, George Mobley pleaded guilty of being publicly drunk. He was adjudg ed not guilty of drunken driving, but in the first charge the court fined him $25 plus the cost. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Dalton Brown and Lewis Winberry pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty, each was fined $10 and required to pay the costs. In the case in which Webb Pa trick was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, the de fendant pleaded not guilty. The court found from the evidence that the prosecution was frivol ous, that it was prompted by ma lice and that it was not required by public interest. Judge Smith ruled the defendant was not guil ty and taxed the prosecuting wit ness, W. C. Sitterson, with the cost. The case charging Cieve James with violating the sanitary laws was continued for the defendant until the 23rd of December. Charged with an assault on a female, Woodrow Wrisby was ad judged guilty of simple assault and the court suspended judg ment upon the payment of the I costs. John Wesley Whitfield, plead ing guilty of operating a motor vehicle while his driver’s license was revoked, was fined $25 and required to pay the costs. Charged with violating the san itary laws, Hubert Robot son pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. The j;»ad term was suspended upon the payment of the court costs and on the further condition that he erect a sanitary privy within (Continued on page eight) o Peanuts Moving To Market Here After getting off to a slow start as a result of unfavorable weather conditions and a season much lat er than usual, peanuts are begin ning to move to the market here in larger numbers. Several thous and bags of the goobers were placed in local factories during the past two or three days, and with favorable weather the crop is certain to begin moving in vol ume next week. Its plant remodeled and capac ity greatly increased, the Wil liamston Peanut Company is scheduled to begin its regular milling schedule next Monday morning. Only one shift will be employed at first, but an extra operating schedule will get con sideration w-hen deliveries gain in volume. The Dixie Peanut Company, having made some changes in its large plant, put fire in its boilers this week, making ready to start operations. The market, according to un official reports, remains bullish with prices hovering around 11 cents. Farmers, who in some instances had anticipated fairly large yields are disappointed with production. “I had conservatively estimated my crop, I thought, but instead of getting around twenty bags I got only thirteen,” one farmer de clared. And thirteen bags will be a high yield in the county this year. Observing Armistice Day as Holiday Here SPEAKER m Col. Edgar 11. Baiue of Goldsboro, holder of the DSC and Silver Star from World War I and department his torian, will address an Ar mistice Day meeting of the American Legion in the hut here next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Doctor and Nurse Shortage Offering Problem In State Doctor Points < till \ aluc of Student Fund Proposed lu New Program One of the greatest crises North Carolina faces today is the short age of doctors, nurses, and medi cal facilities, Dr. Hamilton Me- j Kay. of Charlotte, told 60 of the State's leading doctors who gath- j ered in Durham last week to at tend a dinner meeting held under the joint sponsorship of the Good Health Association and the State Medical Society. Dr. McKay told the assembled : doctors that in his opinion the Good Health Program being ad vanced by the Good Health Asso ciation is the "answer to tin* health needs of our state.” Dr. McKay, named by the Medi cal Society to serve as liaison of ficer witli the Good Health Asso ciation. declared that the Good Health Plan must become a reali ty "in its entirety.” Any action to split the program would pi ove catastrophic, he asserted. The problem of too few doctors in the rural areas of the Slate would be solved through the ind ent loan fund stipulation of the proposed Good Health Program, Dr. McKay pointed out, observing that in Tennessee the number of doctors practicing in rural areas has been sharply increased through a similar plan. Decrying the belief that mod ern medical school gruduatesw^U practice only in urban areus^Dr? McKay stated tout doctors will practice “where they are needed’’ so long as three determining fac tors are observed. He listed the three factors as good living condi tions, proper facilities to work with, and sufficient compensation to live a good life. People are more health ccnaci ous now than ever before, Dr. Mc Kay continued. He noted that (Continued on page eight) Denied Claim To Canine By Court For years and years dogs have led nothing more than an ordin ary dog’s life in this county, but in recent years they have figured prominently in court litigations. In one or two eases witnesses were called from several counties to offer testimony in 1 lie big courts. This week Elton Andrew’s ap pealed to the inferior courts in support of his claim to a black and white female dog in the posses sion of Herman Farmer. The plaintiff had very favorable evi dence to support his claim, but when it was learned that he had not listed the dog for taxation, Justice John L. Hassell cited the law which denies claim to proper ty not listed for taxation. American Legion Planning Program For That Evening i Stores ami Tobacco Market IMan Holiday; Heavy Industry To Work Next Monday, Armistice Day, will be observed as a general holi day by Williamston stores, busi ness houses, post office and tobac co market, but heavy industry, in cluding the peanut market, saw mills and other plants will con tinue operations. The general holiday is being proclaimed by Mayor John L. Hassell at the suggestion of a ma jority of business firm operators and employes. The mayor’s pro clamation reads: “Whereas, Monday, November 11, is the twenty-eighth anniver sary of Armistice Day. and, "Whereas, we should show some appreciation to the memory of the gallant dead who served in World War I, and a majority of the business men have shown their willingness to observe this day, “Now. therefore, 1, J. L. Hassell, mayor of Williamston, do hereby declare Monday, November 11, a legal holiday in Williamston, and call upon all business houses to close in memory of the gallant dead who gave their lives in (It'dor that wo, as a nation, might never die.” No program for a general cele bration lias been planned here that day. but the John Walton Hassell Host nf the American Le gion will hold i xoreises in the le gion hut on Watts Street here that evening at 7:JO o’clock. A special invitation is br ing extended to all men and women who served in the various branches of the arm ed forces in any war, Post Com mander John W. Hardy explain ing that the invitation is not limit ed to legionnaires. Colonel Edgar H. Bain of Golds boro will address the meeting. The World War I veteran won the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star and is department his torian of the American Legion. A delicious supper is being prepar ed and will be served “Dutch” style at a very nominal fee. In addition to the Armistice Day program, the legion meeting will discuss tentative proposals for a suitable memorial for the county’s war d< art. A special com mittee discussed tentative plans for a central memorial cemetery and the construction of a field and housing in memory of the war dead. These plans will be placed before the meeting next Monday evening and all veterans, both men and women, and service men are asked to attend and take part in the program. Effort to Hi• Miiite Form AMVET Chapter ———» An organizational meeting will be held at the Williamston High School auditorium at H o’clock Wednesday night at which it is hoped to form a local unit of the national veterans organization known as AM VETS. The organization is making its principal appeal to the veterans who have recently returned from service in World War II. HOI ELECTION V-/ time of the holiest elections held in the country on Tues day of this week was held in llasscll. Two hours after the polls were opened in the old Salsbury store there, the building caught fire, forcing fhe election officials, Messrs. Dewey Edmondson, George Leggett and George Ayers to grab up the ballots, hooks and boxes and flee. Starting from a defective flue, the tire was stopped by volunteer firemen's effective work before much damage resulted. After the building cooled off, tlie election offic ials re-established themselves for further business which was later described as unus ually light. ! Opposition Party Boasts-*$meteeii~ Votes In Conn tv .,«— Unexpected Opposition Is Expressed In Race For Constable .... ..»—... While the nation, as a whole, fell over backwards into Republi can arms, Martin County Demo crats continued their tight hold on the ballot box, official repents showing that the opposition an nexed only nineteen out of the 1,346 votes cast in the general election last Tuesday. Without any local contests to attract at tention and showing little inter est in the proposed constitutional amendments, the electorate, for the most part, did not participate in the election in this county, but even then 169 more voces were cast than there were recorded in the off-year election four years ago. Unexpected opposition, appar ently offered by pranksters and without anyone’s knowledge, de veloped at the last minute in the race for the office of constable in Williamston Township. Bill Glover, according to the official record, was given two votes while Charlie R. Moore, the regular nominee, went back into the high post with 275 votes, or a mere 273 majority. Without opposition from one end to the other, the county tick et attracted from 1,290 to 1,316 votes, as follows: For State Sen ate: Hugh G. Horton, 1,316 and John C. Rodman, 1.274; for House of Representatives, Chas, B. Mar tin. 1,291; for clerk of court, L. B. Wynne, 1.309; for sheriff, C. B. Roebuck, 1,308; for judge of re corder’s court. J C. Smith, 1,295; for treasurer, R. H. Smith, 1,291; for coroner, S. R Biggs, 1.306; for surveyor, A. Corey, 1,236; for county commissioners: R. L. Per ry, Joshua L. Coltrain, R. A. Haislip and C. A. Roberson, 1,293 each, and J. H. Edwards, 1,290. In the First District Congres sional race, Herbert C. Bonner led his Republican opponent, Zeno O. Ratcliff, 1.296 to 18. Jainesville cast 8, Bear Grass 2, Williamston No. 1, 3, Williamston No. .2, 4, and Robersonville, 1, for the Re publican candidate. George M. Fountain received 1,282 votes for second district solicitor. On the state ticket, M. V. Barn hill led the voting with 1,265 votes (Continued on page eight) —-7* Caution Noticed In Sale Of Land ——•— After holding to figures regard ed by some as near an all-time peak earlier in the week, land prices were said not to be quite so bullish Thursday when 4,400 acres of timbui land were offered for sale at public auction in front of the courthouse here. , While there is a difference of opinion, some thinking bids sub mitted for the tirnherlnnd, most o'clock to make llirir last scheduled report on the campaign. Last Friday night when the committee met, the drive was hardly 200 short of Hie 2,080 goal The group agreed to make a last plea and earn a free trip from the state organization In the na | tionui convention to he held I soon ui ban 1 tauUaeu. ——<*• Jains Made l iwlcr Democrats In Past teal’s Threatened -•$> V»H'»*r-Uiiiifrr> Republicans Sui«l To Suggest Kcsitu; nalion Of President Sweeping the country almost ock. stuck and barrell in an off rear election last, Tuesday, the Republicans, come next January, vill resume control of Congress ind dominate twenty-five of the 'orty-eight states at the scat of government in the various cap tals. With many reactionary De nocrats on their side, including some of our own right here in North Carolina, the Republicans nave only one barrier in their bid lo republicani/.e the nation and that lone barrier is offered by the President himself. And some of the Republican leaders even hail the audacity to suggest that the President resign. Incomplete reports indicate that the Republicans hold at least a 14 seat majority in the National House of Representatives, and working margin enhanced in the Senate by ropublicats. In addi tion lo that stranglehold the Re publicans are safely entrenched in twenty-five of the forty-eight gubernatorial positions. Hardly before the ballots were counted. Conservative Republi cans started discussing plans for moving the people’s capital from Washington back to Wall Street. Representative Harold Knutson, the conservative who is scheduled to succeed North Carolina’s Doughton as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, pro poses a 20 percent reduction in in come tiixes. And just as if that were not enough to help tin high er income? croup, he went on to propose a cut in taxes on such items as cosmetics and whiskey. The Republicans in their earn paign, asked "llad enough?” The voters by the millions answered in the affirmative, meaning pos sibly that the people will soon be going on short rations. Tile Republicans elected at least 23 Senators, 232 Representatives and 20 governors in Thursday’s elections. The conquest brought from De mocratic Senator J. William Full bright of Arkansas a suggestion that President Truman name a Republican as Secretary oi Stale and then resign in his favor. Mr. Truman, back in Washing ton from Missouri, where he vot ed, had no comment on the sug gestion nor on the election re suits themsi Ives. If this off-year election means as much as those- of the past, the Republicans would take over the White House anyway in l!l4ti. Republicans hit the political jackpot for the first lime in 15 years. democratic strong men from Mas sachusetts to California and even crunched into the edge oi the still ‘‘Solid South," means the widest possible split between the While House and Congress. A Demo cratic President remains in office. Republicans will be in undisput ed command of the BOth Congress which meets January 3. Probably little change in Unit ed States foreign policy. Leading Republicans endorsed its present lines and even helped mold it. (Continued on page eight) Three Cases Heard By Justice Hassell Following a week-end of little activity on the crime front in this community, Justice John L. lias sell had only time vases in his com t this week. James Uilmule, charged u itli disorderly, conduct, was fined $r and required to pay $9.50 costs. Charged with tallying a con >raled weapon and ail assaull with a deadly weapon, J D. Hill was bound over to the county court for trial. Hand was requn • ed in the sum of $KI0. Charged with speeding, reck less and drunken driving, B. L House was bound o\ei mah r $U)U bond to tire county court fur trial. Man Jailed Here For! lariiori'ig an Escaped Prisoner « ar, Stolen Following Big Prison Break, Reeover «■«! In Norfolk -<* Louis Frazier. 25-year-old col ored farmer living just out of Williamston on the Jamesville Road, was arrested and jailed here Tuesday for allegedly har boring one of the eight colored convicts who escaped from the Martin County prison camp last Sunday night. He was later re leased in $2C0 bond. Frazii r, it was reported, first denied shielding the convict but when prison guards searched the home and found the escapee’s prison garb, the defendant ad mitted the presence of the man in his home during most of the day Monday. According to reports. Charlie Campbell, one of the eight long term convicts fleeing the prison camp near here, went to Fraziers home about daybreak Monday morning after wandering over a several-mile course through the woods barefooted. Campbell, wearing a suit of clothes, an old pair of slices and a hat given him by Frazier, boarded a bus for Ply moutn about dark. He was ar rested while asleep in a home there the following morning. Numerous reports have been received about the movements of the remaining six escapees. One, after being seen in the Parmele section Monday night, was be lieved to have boarded a car and rode away in the direction of (ireenvi lie. Nothing more was lu ard to supplement that report. Two are still believed hiding out m tin' Kdi'nton section. Jes sup Harrison’:; Dodge car, stolen by at least two of the convicts, was recovered in Norfolk Tues day. tail nothing has been heard firm the two men supposed to 1 have occupied it. A strange man, said to have been fleeing from the law, drown ed in a small body ot water near Ketiansville. Some one slept in Vernon i hutch on the old Everetts Road last Monday night, but nothing more has been heard from the in truder. A farmer in the commun ity w as passing the church shortly after sunrise and heard someone in the church. Other reports stale that two of three of the escapees were believ ed to have been in Jones County. A sizable robbery was reported thin Monday night. Baldwin and Campbell, wear ing shackles and other prison garb, ar- taking their regular places at designated road stations. Baldwin was sentenced in New Hanover County on June 111, 1041, to serve 20 to JO years on a car nal knowledge charge. Camp bell. sentenced in Guilford Coun ty for armed robbery, was serv ing a 20-30 year term. -i> Negro Man 1 ells One of tlio most unusual stories heard by local police in years was related ibis week by Louis Land, 25-year old local colored man. Standing on the streets here last Monday about noon, Land said a colored man approached him, and after explaining that he (the stranger) wasn’t, feeling well, "asked me to drive him to Columbia in his; 1 t»3D Chevrolet •1-door black sedan. Land declares that he did not recall getting into Hie car, and knew nothing until Tuesday morning when he “came to” while ill i\ mg the car alone down a street in Columbia, South Caro lina. Land believes he w as hyp notized. The story up until that point was really fantastic, but he went on to ,-,ay that he told a Columbia policeman has story, and declared that he did not have enough money to return home. A colored man overheard the conversation on the ..(reel of the South Caro lina town and voluntarily contrib uted $35 in cash. Land says that lie did not give the officer his name, nor did lus colored bene 1 actoi ask his name or the repay ment of tlm $35. "1 boarded a bus and started for home, reaching here about 2 UO o'clock Wednesday morning.’* Land told local officers wiiu art# checking the story.