THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES w—■ THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 18, 1947 VOLUME L—NUMBER 14 ESTABLISHED 1899 Work As Well As Word* Needed In ! Field Of Missions — — Medicine, Education, Agri culture Are Evangelis tic, Says Dr. Miller Work as well as words, even though they be words of the Bible, is necessary in the mission field in India, Dr. George E. Mill er declared in an address at the Christian church here Friday night. Following up his talk of the week before, Dr. Miller, a medi cal missionary in India for forty years, gave more details of the church’s accomplishments in the continent down-under. “Agriculture, medicine, educa tion, character-building are evan gelistic,’’ he said, adding that be fore the Indian people could be expected to interest themselves in the spiritual and esthetic, they must be relieved of the pressing physical and economic worries that harrass their every thought. Dr. Miller said that the mis sionary entering India with the sole idea of preaching the gospel and setting himself apart from all other work was an automatic failure. Not by their words alone, but by their deeds are they known and rewarded, he assert ed. Describing himself as the “missing link" as all missionaries to a new land must be. Dr. Miller got down to eases in point. He told how agriculture was being expanded, medical facilities and service improved, educational ac tivities broadened, and withal the good name of the Christian spread through the land. The scriptures are thus being fulfilled in tlnat the hungry are fed, the blind are made to see, the lame walk and the sick are made well again. The missionary, who lost his wife in India in 1940, illustrated the ideal spirit of mission giving with the story of the little boy W'ho loved and admired him so much while he was in India. Dr. Miller had bought a ticket to go to a district meeting in a neigh boring province and was about to leave when this youngster, riding on the back of an older brother, rushed into his home and opened his makeshift purse to give the doctor some money. It was seven cents in American exchange, but the words of the youngster were: “I w'ant to help with the expenses of Sahib, (honorable sir) in his work.” And so, the missionary said, the mission supporter is giv ing of his means to help with the expenses of the Lord, Jesus Christ, in his work of saving the wrorld. Dr. Miller said that he had been told before he went to India that the mothers who had to work oft en gave their children opium so that they would lie in a stupor all day and not worry anyone. Also, he know that many mothers blacked the area around the eyes of their children to make the eyes shine with more brilliance. So, one day he came upon a child ly ing on the ground, apparently in a daze or stupor. It had black rings around its eyes. But the doctor stopped to take a closer look. What he had thought to be the black of charcoal markings in truth was a band or ring of living flies. The child’s eyes wefe swol len until it could not open them. Eventually the child was made to see out of one eye but under si milar circumstances many lost their sight and not a few their( lives. Speaking of eye trouble, the (Continued on page eight) AGED FIRE r s. Webb Taylor, Bear Grass fanner, found one for Rip ley’s “Believe It or Not" a short time ago when he was dismantling his tobacco barn flues and the soot started burning. A fire had been in the barn more than five months ago, and the farmer was surprised when he dump ed the soot out on the ground and it started burning. He had removed the smokestack soon after he us ed the barn the last time and placed a sack in the end of the flue. When he discover ed the fire, he called neigh bors to Jiovv it to them. Mule Falls Into Well Last Saturday In Hamilton Lot The age-old nursery rhyme, “Dmg Dong D 'll, Fussy s in the Well,” will have to be revised if it is to continue up to date. The latest version should read, ‘‘Ding Dong Dell, Mule’s in the Well.” While being sheared in the lot at Hamilton last Saturday morn ing. a large mule belonging to Bryant B. Taylor went out of con trol, backed into the well curb ing, kicked it into pieces and fell into the well backwards. Most of the animal's body was said to have been covered by water, but its head and shoulders were only a few feet from the top of the ground and did not get wet. Help I OVERFLOWING ) L-' Liquor supplies, limited to a ration schedule for several years, are now overflowing the stores and main ware house in this county. A big transport truck was unload ed at the county warehouse last Friday, the delivery overflowing the large storage rqom. One hundred or more cases had to be stored in the hall. Sales have dropped off con siderably during the past few weeks, and it is believed that there’ll be no shortage in the face of larger supplies and reduced consumption. Social Security Benefits Sought For More People New I’lun Would Inelude Farmer?*, Doinestie?* and Government Worker;* The ^Social Security Board has asked Congress to blanket all wage earners and employers un der the social security program and to establish a nationwide health insurance program that would pay workers for wages lost through disability. Federal Security Administrator Watson R. Miller said in the board’s 11th annual report recent ly that the Government's present public assistance programs are “seriously deficient" and should be expanded to provide for "all common hazards of livelihood among all groups of workers." The recommendations conform closely with proposals of the Mur ray-Wagner-Dingell Social Se curity Bill which President Tru man has endorsed on several oc casions. “Our social and political tradi tions as a democracy and the con tinuing progress of our free com petitive economy," Miller said, “require, in the opinion of the board, a broader, sounder and more equitable basis for ensuring individual and national well be ing." To achieve this goal, the Board (Continued oil page five) No One Hurt In Car Wreck Here No onu was hurt but consider able property damage resulted when a Dodge truck and a DeSoto '»j»r crashed at the intersection of Vj Bin and Watts Streets here yes terday morning at 7:15 o’clock. Hoke Kobe; son was driving the DeSoto into Main Street just as G. P. Brayhill, driving a truck be longing to a telephone construc tion contractor, was driving east on the main thoroughfare. The left front light, fender and wheel on the car were smashed. No es timate on the damage could be had immediately, but officers stated that possibly it would amount to more than $200. Tobacco Trices Loir On Kentucky Markets Oise of the lowest tobacco prici averages of the 1940-47 season was reported a few days in Rus sellville, Ky., where the income dropped to $21.46 per hundred pounds. The market reported to tal sales for the season at. 7, 142:539 pounds for an average of $24.41. was summoned and workers tried to dig the animal out. but made little progress in the attempt. Frank Smith and the Jenkins Motor Company auto wrecker were called from Williamston and they hooped onto the mule and lifted him out in a short time, workers having secured ropes around the animal’s body by the | time the wrecker reached there. According to reports reaching here the animal could not stand up after he was freed from the hole in the ground. His condition later improved and although it was hurt, apparently the animal went through the ordeal without serious injury. Bov Attempts To End His Life In Jail At Oak City 1 Roosevelt Hyman Found In ! Unconscious Condition By Officer Karly i ni’ sugmu oi arrest ana incar ceration behind prison bars was too much for him to bear and Roosevelt Hyman, 17-year-old colored youth of this county at tempted to end it all by hanging in the Oak City jail last Satur day night. And he almost suc ceeded in the attempt, according to reports reaching here. Placed in the jail for allegedly carrying a deadly weapon, a home-made black jack, Hyman was brooding over his fate when he decided to end it all then and there. Taking his belt from his body he tied it around his neck and to a top bar in the jail and jumped off the bunk. Arresting another person, Of ficer Edmond Early went to the jail with the second prisoner and i found Hyman almost dead. The man’s eyes, according to the of ' ficer, were almost as prominent I as May paps and his tongue was hanging out. The officer snatch ed his pocket knife out and cut the belt, Hyman dropping to the floor. Medical attention was sum moned and the doctor worked i with the suicide attempt victim for several minutes before any sign of life could be found. Regaining consciousness and apparently no worse as a result of the act, Hyman was placed in the county jail a few hours later along with two other prisoners. Hyman would talk very little about the suicide attempt, but he (Continued on page eight) -n. .. -. Two Persons Hurt In County Wreck Two persons were slightly hurt when two cars crashed near the Fitt County boundary line on Highway f>4 last Saturday even ing at 6.40 o'clock. Property damage to the two cars was esti mated at $350 by Cpl. W. T. Simp son who nradie the investigation. Driving west on the highway, Richard C. Hux of near Tarboro, stated that the engine of iris 1938 model Chevrolet cut off and that his speed was greatly reduced. Mack H. Jenkins, colored of Pur r.Tcle, driving in the same direc tion behind the Hux car, stated that he thought Hux was slowing down to make a turn into a left side road, lhat he, traveling about 40 miles an hour, started to pass on the right When he saw that the Hux car was not going to make a turn, Jenkins said that he turned back to the left and struck, the rear of the car ahead of him. Rev. John Henry Taylor and Isaiah Williams, hitch-hikers rid ing with Jenkins, were slightly hurt and received treatment in a Bethel doctor’s office. Jenkins and another passenger in his car, George Andrews, were not hurt. No one was hurt in the IIux car. I'ircmen Arc Called Out Here Monday Afternoon Local firemen were called out yesterday afternoon at 3:25 o’clock to » grass tire just off Sy camore Street between Main and the railroad. The volunteers have made an annual call there each ycui about this time fur several years. Proposed Bill To Extend Powers of Police-Constable —®—— Legalize Arrests Outside of Towns in County By Poliee Officers Hampered by boundary limita tions, town officers, under the terms of a proposed legislative law, would be empowered to serve writs, warrants, subpoenas and other criminal process any where in Martin County and to make arrests any where in their respective t ownships. While there is a special act empowering police in certain towns to make arrests up to one mile outside the town limits, the proposed law would extend their authority to make arrests to the township boundaries. Constables are al ready empowered to make arrests anywhere within the county, ir respective of town lirpits or town ship boundaries. The bill, introduced in the State House of Representatives today by Martin County’s representa tive, C. B. Martin, reads, as fol lows: “'The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: "Section 1. That all duly quali fied and acting police officers and town constables in all cities and towns in Martin County are here by authorized to serve and exe cute all writs, warrants, subpo enas and other criminal process issued and directed to the Sheriff or other lawful officer of Martin County at any place in their county; and all such police offic ers shall be, and they are, hereby clothed with the power of arrest and arc authorized to act as con servators of the peace in all parts of the township in which the said city or town is located, and do and perform all other acts of law enforcement in such township as is now possessed by tine Sheriff of Mtbdin County. "Sec. 2. That all kivs and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. "Sec. 3. That this Act shall be in full force, and effect from and after the 18th day of March, 1947.” Former Resident Dies In Alabama —•— Edward G. Pascoe, a native p( Pennsylvania and a resident of Williamston for several years in the early twenties, died in a Bir mingham hospital Sunday night, it was learned here yesterday. He had been sick only a short while and underwent a brain tumor op eration from which he never re covered. About fifty years of age, Mr. Pascoe came to Williamston with a paving contractor, and while here married Miss Josephine Davis of Williamston. They mov ed to Mississippi a short time fol lowing their marriage and later located in Birmingham where he entered the contracting business Surviving are Mrs. Pascoe, a daughter and an adopted son, Ed ward Ransome Pascoe of Bir mingham, several sisters and brothers. Funeral arrangements could not be learned here immediately Skewarkey Masons Planning Banquet Climaxing an attendance con test advanced during tire past sev eral months, Skewarkey Lodge Masons will hold a big banquet in the local high school gymnasium on Tuesday evening, March 4, a member ot the arrangements committee announced this week. Grand Master W. J. Bundy is to address the meeting. Members of the committee, Frank E. Weston, Clyde Manning, H. P. Mobley and Paul Bailey, are asking all members of the lodge to call for their tickets as early as possible that proper ar rangements for the banquet call be completed. WOMAN’S CLUB MEETING -s There will be a meeting of the Woman’s Club Tuesday night, February 18 at 8:00 in the club building. Mrs. P. B. Cone, presi dent, urges every member to be 1 present. Winston Churchill Demands Big Cut In Imports of Leaf —*— Action Not Considered Very Kncoiira^inp: To Tobacco Growers According to reports coming from tire conservative members of the House of Commons. Lon don, England, sharp reductions in the imports of American tobacco and motion picture films have been demanded. Conservative Winston Church ill has asked that Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hugh Dalton, use severe restraint in any expendi ture. except for industrial equip ment and essential foods. Figures announced by Mr. Dalton, it is claimed, show that from July to December, 1946, Britain spent $156.8 million dollars in the Unit ed States for tobacco and $35.2 million for films. When Britain was arranging for a four billion dollar loan last summer, high officials in the to bacco business expressed the opinion that the loan would be a great impetus to increased ac tivity in the tobacco industry. It is admitted that Great Brit ain’s economy, bled to death al most by its activities in maintain ing large armed forces and the status quo in its far-flung empire, is suffering badly, that possibly drastic action is necessary to save the country. But when Mr. Churchill demanded sharp reduc tions in tobacco imports, he said nothing about Great Britain’s an nual liquor bill of nearly three and one-half billion dollars. Pos sibly the liquor bill has been re duced since 1945, the last year for which complete reports are avail able. Developments in Great Britain are not very encouraging for eastern North Carolina tobacco farmers who have depended on the Imperial fur setting the price pace in past years. Former Resident Of County Dies -i>-1 Henry T. Heath, a resident of this county for a number of years, died at his home near LaGrange last Saturday night at 10:00 o’clock. Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon by Rev. S. A. Smith, Free Will Baptist minister, and burial was in the family cemetery near the home. The son of the late Thomas and Bettie Heath, he came to this county when he was about two years of age and lived in Griffins Township for a long time before returning to the LaGrange sec tion of Lenoir County where he fa rmed. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Heath; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Herring, and a son, Henry T., Jr., of the home; a sister, Mis. Wesley Hines of Kinston, and two brothers, Joe E. Heath of Golds boro, and T. L. Heath ol Tarbo o. His lli/I llrobrn, Hi I soil Lamb Hovs To llos/iilal -* His lup broken in a fall at hi.s home here on Smilhwick Street on February 8, Mr. Wilson G. Lamb was removed last week to Duke Hospital, Durham, for treat ment. The break was not a severe one and last reports reaching here stated that he w'as to un dergo an operation on his hip this morning, that up to that time lie was getting along very well. He made the trip in a Higgs am bulance. r SOME TALK v* a Town politics, heading into a primary for the first time, started little groups talking under the surface here over the week-end. As far as it could he learned there were no developments, hut a few names were tentatively men tioned for the various politi cal jobs. A member of the Jaycees, the organization sponsoring the move for a primary elec tion, said yesterday they were not interested in any clique or group, that they were hopeful good men could he dialled fur tire town ollite^. Plan Divorce Trials In Recorder's Court Judjje Suggests Abolisliinw; Two Superior Courts Action To Kxpaiid (bounty Court Facilities Is Kcing Considered No formal announcement has! jeen made and no copy of the bill I las been made available to the j >ublic, but reliable reports indi- I •ate that there is a movement tin- I lerway in the State Legislature ! •o expand the powers of the Mar in County Recorder’s Court and maintain a jury service on a more jr less year-around basis. The Second District’s Senator, Hugh G. Horton, introduced, aft ?r contacting members of the :ounty bar association, a bill in bhe legislature last week calling for the resumption of trials by jury in the Martin County Re corder's Court. Apparently the Pill would make it possible for the county court to handle di vorces. Its provisions have not been revealed, however, and it is not known if the proposal would provide for resumption of trials by a six-man jury as was the case before the jury was abolished two years ago or whether it would call twelve men to serve. The jury bill, apparently with out provisions for divorce trials m the county court, was passed , in the senate last night. In a semi-public confab in the ] county court Monday morning, 1 the senator and members of the j county bar association briefly dis cussed the trial of divorce cases in the county tribunal. During the discussion several members of the bar expressed no great in terest in the proposal, and declar ' ed it was immaterial with them if the jury was re-established or _ whether divorce cases were tried in the lower court. Clerk of Court L. It. Wynne ex pressed the opinion that the cost i to the county of such a plan could I run as high as $ 1,000 a year. Commenting briefly. Judge J. C. Smith asked wouldn’t it be ad visable to abolish the special terms of superior court held in April and November of each year. A member of the bar answered that while the extra terms may not be needed now, they are like ly to be needed in the future, that if they are abolished now it would be difficult to have them reestablished. At the present time the county is providing four regular terms of superior court for the trial of criminal and civil cases. In addi tion to the regular terms two special sessions are held each year. In addition to those courts, the county holds each week when there are no conflict sessions of its recorder’s court for the trial of criminal violations mainly. -u Four Prisoners Seeking Paroles —•— Four persons, sentenced for various law violations in this county, have applied to the pa role commissioner in Raleigh lor paroles. Their terms varying in length flum six months to thirty years, the prisoners’ applications have been pending for more than two months in some cases. Togo Pulley, the man who kill ed a Bethel policeman at Butler's Bridge in this county about eigh teen years ago, was sentenced to serve from 28 to 30. years on the ,second degree murder charge, lie started serving time in March, 1029. Robert Brown, charged with larceny and receiving, was sen tenced last. December to the l oads for six months, and he had served only about iwn months before ap plying for a parole. Leslie Simpson was sentenced last December to serve nine months for an assault with a deadly weapon. Convicted lor forcible trespess, Willie Tevlor was sentenced last November 25 to serve twelve months on the roads. Any one objecting to the pa roles may do so by contacting the parole commissioner Raleigh. f ROUND-1 :P I While there was much ac tivity an the crime front in j the county over the week end, lew persons were arrest ed and placed in the county . jail. Four persons were de tained in the hoosegow here and one or two were held Ln other jails in the county, in I eluding one white youth and J four colored prisoners. A vehicle was taken hut the driver and his two pas sengers were not jailed when (hey visited the parking grounds in and around Wil liamston. Two lads accom panied by several bobby-sox girls reported to officers when the three men alleged ly molested them in their petting activities near here. Governors More Plentiful Than Birds In Georgia -—0-. Loral llimtrrs Relimi from Crarker Slato Lust Wrrk-eiul Mixing a little quail shooting in with business, Bill Spivey and Bob Coburn, local sportsmen, made a trip down into Talmadge country last week. Finding gov ernors more numerous than birds, the two hunters shortened their trip and returned home, leaving the bird Shortage still unchanged and the gubernatorial count hold ing its own. Planning their trip a little ahead, the hunters first decided to divide their support, one choos , ing Talmadge's side and the other agreeing to be a Thompson man, That, after a little deliberation on their part, was considered a ! bit dangerous, so they said they I would just take an unofficial im promptu poll kinder on the Gal lup pattern but for their own in dividual benefit. When they reached the Pelham section .the hunters found sports men there from various parts ot the nation. Quite a few of them were interested in shooting dove even though it is unlawful to take dove just now. The hunters also found that the sportsmen from (Continued on page eight) Critical I v Hurt •/ In An Axe Attack -O John Clay, alias John Black, was critcally hurt when he was attacked by Moses Smallwood near the river here last Saturday evening. No late report could be had from the hospital whm-o Clay was carried, but officers said that the man's condition was serious. Clay, according to police, chas ed a woman into Smallwood’s house. Smallwood ordered1 him out, but Clay returned and start ed cursing Smallwood. When Clay refu: i d to leave a second time. Smallwood took an axe and planted it against the man s head. The axe struck a side blow, but the blade turned just enough to make a sevcrul-stitch gash in Clay’s heath He was carried un conscious to a local doctor's office and given treatment. He reviv ed while there and lie was car ried to his home below the river hill. About 2:00 o’clock Sunday morning he lapsed into unconsci ousness again and he was remov ed to a Washington hospital short ly before noon that day. A worker on the bi idge. Clay is believed to be from Wilson. There's ISu Shortage iff Tobacco Bed (doth -* Contrary to general reports, there was no over all shortage of tobacco cloth this year, according to a report from the Civilian Pro duction administration. How ever, the CPA pointed out that prices were fifty percent higher than they were last year and that retailers hesitated somewhat to dock the cloth ;n laige quanti ties. Weekly Summary Of Activities In The Legislature —•— Nearly 500 Bills Offered In General Assembly Dur ing Current Term Monday through Friday of the filth full week of the 1947 session saw the introduction of 99 new bills, for a total to date of 484, as against 152 bills introduced during the corresponding period of the 1945 session and that ses sion's total at the end of the same legislative day of 521. At the close of the 33rd legislative day, the House was running practical ly even with the 1945 House in terms of the number of bills in troduced, with 343 bills in the hopper as againsit 1945’s 342. The Senate, however was somewhat behind with only 141 bills as against 179 in 1945. Of the 99 new bills introduced through Friday of this week, 63, or 63.6 percent were local bills concerned with the usual run of local matters. For example, 11 deal with local salaries and fees, 7 with local elections, 5 each with municipal boundaries and local taxes, 3 with local wine and beer sales, and others with such mat ters as recorders’ and mayors’ courts, local traffic bureaus and the prohibition of the practice of palmistry, clairvoyancy and for tune telling. Although the week was rela tively light with respect to the ( number of new public bills intro duced, a few bills w’hich may evoke some interest and a fair amount of argument were started upon their dubious journeys. For instance, there is SB 130. which might be termed the “Biennial Li quor Referendum Bill", which would put to a State-wide vote next November the question of the continuance of ABC liquor stores as well as the legal sale anywhere in the State of any al coholic beverage except malt beverages containing not over 5 percent of alculhol by weight, and light domestic wines. Then there is SB 118, which would "provide for the general welfare and pro tect the health, efficiency and general well-being of workers in the State of North Carolina by providing for minimum wages and maximum hour standards.” With numerous exceptions as to its applicability, the bill would provide a minimum wage of 40c per hour, require the payment of time-and-a-half for time in ex cess of 40 hours per week, and limit female employees to-whom [the bill would apply, except for I such seasonal periods as the pre Christmas period, to a maximum of a 9 hour day, 48 hour week, and six day week. This bill should stir up some excitement in the same camps already stirred up by the introduction last week of HB 229, which is designed to "make unlawful and to prohibit contracts or combinations which require membership in labor un ions, organizations or associations as a condition of employment.” Both, bills..A* the end of the week were m their respective commit tees on Manufactures and Labor. Another bill which might be paired1 off against one previously introduced is SB 111, which would create within the Depart ment of Conservation and Devel l opment the Noith Carolina Wild life Resources Commission.” This bill would set up within the De partment of Conservation and Development a 9-member com mission, with a commissioner and personnel of its own, to manage and promote the wildlife resourc es of the Stale with the exception (Continued on page eight) | nVU. KEl’OHT j v—t Marini County raised $3, 344.35 in the reeent infantile paralysis fund raising drive. Chairman L. B. Wynne said in submitting his final report. Assigned a quota of $2,120, the county exceeded the orig inal goal by $1,221.35. In addition to the $3,286.18 previously reported, the chairman said that $11 wm recently received from direct, mail contributors, that the Kobersunville High School donated $10, tliat the Panne lec School raised $25.52 and that three coin collectors in vg* JaiueivUlc contained 311.65. #