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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER 45 THE ENTERPRISE W Wiamstor, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 6, IV17 .»?."• ■WKy - 1 ■•v- - H.t^Mm*m**** ** U'.A'.l? i' .* '#t-' *' ige j.T: a Has Sixteen Cases In County's Court Total Of $215 In Fines Im posed At Regular Ses sion Last Monday <t Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor In Paul D. Roberson handled sixteen , cases in the county’s recorder's court last Monday when fines in the amount of $215 were imposed. The per case revenue, while not ^ to be associated with justice, is dropping from those hey days when fines, costs and forfeitures pushed close to $800 or $1,000 at a single session. The seasonal slump is taking hold or a recession is horning its way into the law vio lators' economy. The session, witnessed by a small crowd, last ed until about 12:30. Proceedings: The case charging Barney Con ^ way with speeding was nol pross ed. Lu Davenport, charged with an assault and resisting arrest, was adjudged not guilty on the second count, but was fined $25 and tax ed with the cost on the first charge to which he pleaded guil s; 0 b it u e t< v ii n e 1: v n t t c c e \ r 1 ty- i Fred Daley, charged with be- ' ing drunk and disorderly, was fined $25 and required to pay the costs. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, William Henry Williams pleaded not guilty. Ad judged guilty he was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the roafl term upon the payment of a $25 fine and the case costs and on the fur ther-carid: Men that he violate-nor criminal law' during a one-year suspension period. The case charging Noah F. Co tanch with an assault with a deadly weapon was no’ prossed. Rodman R. Cunningham, a Vir ginia man, pleaded guilty when he was arraigned on a drunken driving charge and was fined $5U A and taxed with the costs. His li cense to operate a motor vehicle was revoked for one year. James Jackson was fined $20. and required to pay the costs in the case charging him with speed-1 ing. Charged with an assault with a] deadly weapon, Clara Mitchell i pleaded not guilty. The court ad-1 judged her guilty of simple as-1 sault and suspended judgment upon the payment of the costs. Robert Andrews, Jr., was fined $25 and required to pay the costs for operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes and speed ing. It was recommended that hU< driver’s license be suspended 13r sixty days. Andrews pleaded not guilty in the case. Finding that the defendant had been convicted of failure to stop at an intersection and the case had been continued under prayer for judgment, the court suspend ed judgment upon the payment of the cost in the action charging Mary E. Reed with reckless driv ing. Anthony Lanier, colored man who plowed into a funeral pro cession several weeks ago, injur ing Undertaker S. R. Biggs and Rev. John L. Goff, was fined $45 and taxed with the cost in the case charging him with reckless driving, operating a motor ve hicle with improper brakes and without a driver’s license. It ap peared to the court that the de fendant had made full restitution to the injured parties and accept ed property damages amounting to an estimated $700 or more. Charged with assaulting a fe (Continued on page six) BUDGET * Meeting in special session on Friday of this week, the Martin County Commission ers are almost certain to spend a greater part of the day studying budget figures for the 1947-48 fiscal year. No figures have been re leased, but it is thought pos sible that despite increased costs in some departments, the tax rate for 1947-48 will remain at about $1.05 on the $100 assessed property valua tion. The rate will not be formally fixed until an esti mate is submitted for public inspection. uanyKeaay i o owircn To Dial Service Thursday Representatives of the Carolina j Telephone and Telegraph Com pany explained today that every thing was in readiness to switch ; the local exchange from the com mon battery to the automatic dial system Thursday evening at 10:00 j o’clock. Only a few seconds will | be required to make the change, it was explained. Subscribers, using their telephones shortly aft er that time, will hear the dial tone instead of an operator's voice. The subscriber, upon hear ing the dial tone, will then re move the circular cardboard cov ering from the dial and manipu late the gadget in accordance with instructioss. A program,more or less infor mal, is being arranged to mark the progressive advancement in this section’s telephone communi cations, Representatives of the company are expected for the event, along with about as many visitors as the office will accom modate, Manager Thornton ex plaining that the company would like to have all interested persons j attend, but that the office accom-! rnodates only a limited number. Open house will be announced later for the general public. In inaugurating the improved system, the company is asking its patrons to rely strictly on the [telephone directory and follow i the instructions ‘carefully. The mechanism connects the caller I with the number called, meaning [ that if one guesses at a number : and he is wrong that he will get a j wrong number. Three emergency numbers are listed locally, including the fire department, 2111; police depart ment, 2124; and State Highway 1 Patrol. 2250. In other cases of emergency, including calls for re porting equipment troubles and for long distance service the sub ' scriber will dial the figure "O”. The accuracy of the automatic system has been tested and found all right. Now, it is up to the subscriber to make it work per fectly by observing the rules anc : regulations. BACK IN STYLE Worthless checks, appear ing just now and then during the past several years, are coming back in style, accord ing to reports coming from the sheriff's office and sev eral of the police departments in this county. Robersonville police have been working on such cases faiyly regubtrlv for some weeks. More recently, the worthless instruments start ed making their appearance in greater numbers here and in other sections. Approxi mately one dozen worthless checks, ranging in size up to about 8100, were placed in the hands of officers last week-end. 'Stops At Best Hotels Oil Tour Making an extensive tour of Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas recently with bis daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Sid Mobley, local man, informed j friends that he stopped at nearly : every one of the best hotels on the long route through the four states. He then explained, “Wei stopped in front and viewed the big shots' quarters with amaze-! ment. “Quite a few people down Tex as way said they had never heard of eastern Carolina,” Mr. Mob ley explained. “The next day . they read accounts of the doings in Northampton County and had something to say about it. 1 ask ed them, ‘How long has it been since you stopped hanging horse thieves in Texas?’ and they shut right up.” "Florida hasn't got a thing Tex as hasn’t got, and I’d rather live in Texas,” the traveler said, add ing that if he were looking for a wife he would not go to Alabama, and explained, 'They are too big and eat too much.” -o Justice Hassell Has Nine Cases Justice John L. Hassell handled nine cases in his court here dur ing the past few days. Most of the defendants carried before the justice were charged with public drunkenness and disorderly con duct. Henry Wayne Whitley, Jr., charged with attempting to pass a school bus, was fined $10 and taxed with $6.50 costs. Cecil Allen. George Bonds, Wil lie Bonds, William Lanier, Willie Wright, all charged with public drunkenness and disorderly con duct were each required to pay a $5 fine and $8.50 trial costs. Moses Staton, drunk and down, was fined $5 and required to pay $9.50 costs. William Jones and R. P. Han cock, charged with being drunk and down, were fined $5 and re quired to pay $8.50 costs each. I 1947 Combine And Thresher Permits ——<*> Operators of combines and j threshing machines are reminded that they are required to obtain j permits to operate their machines in Ninth Carolina. The permits to to be obtained through 1he Re gister of Deeds Office in each county of the State. There is raiely any charge for these per mits. although handy daily record books are provided along with forms on which to report the acre age threshed and bushels obtain ed from this acreage. Farmers and businessmen need information resulting from these records to make their plans for better and safer farming. /.Iso, county agricultural leaders need county totals and averages for their general program planning. The State Threshers’ Law is the means for getting such informa tion on small grains. The purpose of this law is for information and not for revenue. It seeks cooperative aid and in terest and not compulsion or re sentment. Reliable plans must be developed from information orig inating at the farm; thus, the threshers’ records provide the best basis for county grain statis tics for program planning usage. The source and usage is within the county itself. Operators must obtain from the Register of Deeds: (1) Permit or license card; (2) Daily record book; and (3) Report blanks upon which to report their entire operations for the season. Private and public machines, alike, are no exception or exemp tion, even for those outside the State if they operate inside North Carolina. -% HURT IN ACCIDENT M. Luther Peel, county tax col lector, was painfully but not seri ously hurt Wednesday afternoon when a pair of mules, hitched to a farm implement, ran away. His leg was almost cut to the bone, but he is expected to hobble around shortly. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists on Martin County highways continue to improve their safety record over that of a year ago, but the record 1 is still far from perfect. Marked improvement has been made in holding down the number injured, the re cords showing they had been halved this year as compared with the record for the first 22 w'eeks in 1945. And the property damage is less, too. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac j cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 22nd Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Damge 1947 4 1 0 $ 1,325 1940 4 7 1 1,300 Comparisons To Date 1947 56 28 3 12.700 | 1940 05 50 3 10,820 Twenty-Three Get Marriage Licenses In Martin County Issuance For Last Month Is Slightly Larger Than Average For May Twenty-three marriage licenses were issued in this county during the month of May by the office of Register J. Sam Getsinger. The issuance for the period is slightly larger than the average for May over a 15-year period. Licenses were issued, eight to white and fifteen to colored cou ples, as follows: White Leslie Thurston Fowden and Eunice F. Buff lap, both of Wil liamston. Archie Mizelle and Fonnie Hardison, both of RFD 2, Wil liamston. Charles Hubert Haislip of Jamesville and Madie Marie Phelps of Plymouth. Leslie W. Manning, RFD 1, Wil liamston. and Doris Modlin ol Jamesville. Mills 11. Ayers of Hassell anc Nellie Hopewell of Bethel. Thomas Collins Cooper and An nie Lee Spoon, both of Windsor. Bernis E. Shaw and Betty Loi Knox, both of Norfolk. Colored Charles A. Bennett, RFD 3, Wil liamston, and Elizabeth Rollins of Robersonville. Clarence Bowen and Norma Reddick, both of Williamston. George Williams Lee and Lula Mae Brown, both of Williamston. William R .Bryant', RFD 1. i’al myra, and Helen Lynch, RED 1, Oak City. Willie Briley and Sadie Askew, both of Robersonville. Neal Coburn and Louise Jenk ins, both of Robersonville. Jesse T. Bond and Pearl Parker, both of RFD 4. Windsor. Roy Lee Hyman and Luey Gray Knight, both of Palmyra. James Luther Speller and Ruth Hazel Knight, both of Williams ton. Richard Junior Sharp of Rob ersonville and Alice Marie Brad ley ot Williamston. James Edward Lawrence of Hamilton and Sophronia CoffieUd of Williamston. Monnie Whitt hurst, Jr , and Bessie Pierce, both of RFD 1, Jamesville. Elbert Mitchell and Mary Louise Bryant, both of Williams ton. -a, . — Three Girls From County Graduate Among the 413 seniors who were graduated from the Wo man’s College of the University of North Carolina Monday morn ing, June 2, were three students from Martin County. Graduates from this county and their records are as follows: Miss Emma Lou Taylor, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Taylor, Route 3, Williamston, received a bachelor of arts degree in prim ary education. This year she was I hall representative and marshal for the Cornelian Soeiety and a member of May Court, in addi tion to being dance chairman for jher class, member of Hall Board, land the Education Club. Last year I she was a member of Botany i Club, the Y. W. C. A. and was i floor leader for the College Serv ice League. Miss Taylor was a member of Daisy Chain her soph jomore year. Miss Grace Brew'er, daughter of | Mrs. Gladys A. Brewer, of James I ville, was awarded a bachelor of science degree in home economics, j majoring in foods and nutrition. She has been a member of Adel phian Society, Home Economics Club, Play-Likers and Masquera ders, Chemistry Club, Omicron Nu (honor home economics fra ternity), and a hall basketball I team. Miss Brewer was hall lead ! er for the College Service League : this year, a hall proctor two years [ ago, and has also been named to Dean’s List and Honor Roll. Mrs. Mildred Carson Garner, of I Robersonville, will receive a bachelor of science decree in sec retarial administration. She has been a member of the Adelpluan Society and Gamma Alpha, busi ness club. Committeemen To Measure Tobacco Lands In County Excess Plantings' Certain to Prove Costly To The Growers This \ ear Following a meeting in the ag ricultural building Tuesday, Triple A Community Committee men started measuring tobacco lands in some areas Wednesday, reports stating that the task will i be completed as soon as possible ; throughout the county. The work i will be handled mainly by the committeemen, but they are at liberty to call in helpers. The committeemen, however, are be ling held responsible for the meas urements which are subject to ! verification. j The "surveyors" or checkers I are being allowed 211 cents an acre | for the work or $1 for small farms where the acreage is 4.4 acres or iless. hxcc'ss planting* art' crnain u> | prove costly to growers this year. ] The excess plantings are subject j to a 19-cent pel pound penalty,] and where the acreage is in excess the farmer forfeits his right to participate in the benefits provid ed by Tobacco Cooperative Sta bilization Corporation. The grow er whose acreage is in excess of the allotment will not be allowed to destroy the excess to avoid the penalty and quality for the stab ilization corporation's benefits, it was learned. The foliowing committr omen will handle the measurements in the designated districts: Hear Gras;: IF G."Hvivi T L Roberson, K C Harrison, Wheeler Reger-on and II. U. Peel. Cro . Roads: II 1, Roebuck, G H. Forbes. ,J. F Hailey, W. L. Aus born and .1 M. Griflin. Goose Nest No. 1: 11 A Early, M. E Hyman. H. R. Smith, Jr., and J. L. Mize 11. Goose Nest No. J: Jack Smith, N. E. Hyman, Minton Beach, 11 A. Haislip, and N W. Johnson. Griffins: Clarence Gurkin, Os car H. Roberson, J. R. P. Griffin, John A. Griffin, James B. Har rington. Hamilton: Jesse B Everett, I). R. Edmondson. J. II. Hilliard, Geo. S. Haislip, and C. 1. Nelson. Jamesville No. I Herbert Hex ton. Howard Hardison, Arthur Modlin, Carl Griflin, and Clar ence Barber. Jamesville No. 2: Roland G Co burn, Leo R. Gardner, David Ange and Clias. G. Gurkin. Kolic-r.--onVi 1 !<-■ No. I H. S. hvei HI, J. R. Danie ls, S. T. Everett, Thus. !,. Roebuck, and Lester House. Robi rsonville No. 2: Cecil I’ow ell, C L. Keel, II II. Roberson, D. O. Weaver and Johnnie H. Ross. Williams: C. L Daniel, R. J. (Continued on page three) Justice Johnson Hears Two Cases Justice R. T. Johnson handled two cases in his court this week. Columbus Sheppard, charged with breaking and entering the home of Dan Jones and the lar ceny of a silver dollar, wrist watch and other articles, waived preliminary examination and was bound over to the superior court under bond in the sum of $100. Charged with issuing a worth less check, Joe Mobley was sen tenced to the roads for thirty i days, lie appealed to the county I court and bond was arranged in , the sum of $20i). At a previous ! trial, judgment was suspended on condition that Mobley pay the trial costs and make good the check. Failing to comply with the judgment he was Drought into court again. Announce Meeting At Church ISeur Painty ra The Rev. Mr. Charles Jones will conduct a series of revival ser vices in the Williams Chapel Methodist Church near Palmyra beginning Sunday evening at 8:Uf) o’clock. Services will be held at that hour each evening through Friday; it was- announced. The pastor, Rev. W. M. Warren, of ! Scotland Neck, will assist the vis iting minister and the public is invited to attend. I) INo Developments In Loeal Assault Case Special Agent Is j Assisting Police And Sheriff Here -<$> Victims Are Interviewed And Fifteenth Suspect In Case Questioned While no new developments have been reported, local police and the sheriff’s department with the assistance of Special Agent Guy 1- Scott of the North Caro lina State Bureau of Investiga tion are still working night and day to establish a lead in the Corey attack case here. Whether the officers have made progress in the case could not be learned, tint it was established that fif teenth suspect had been Question ed, and certain that others will be questioned in connection with the attack. Assigned to the case after Mr. J. Edward Corey, local ware j houseman and father of Miss Louise Corey who was attacked tmt not badly hurt, appealed to the governor for aid. Agent Scott reached here Wednesday after noon and immediately started work with local officers and the sheriff’s department. The main victim of the -attack. Miss Corey !who was grabbed around the i | neck and slapped when she screamed, and her companion, ! Miss Bettie Rhodes Taylor, were I interviewed by the special—ag-srst, ! and it was learned that the two | gave identical and fairly com j plete descriptions of their at | tucker. Other witnesses, inelud ] mg Mr. and Mrs. George Lee, : Mrs. Durham, and 11. O. Peel, were also interviewed. It could not be learned how long the special agent is to re main here, but with most of the j turning point is to be expected one way or the other within a reasonable time. According to unofficial inl'or 1 motion it has been established that others, including a white i couple parked in a car near the i wan-house, may be able to throw some light on the case. Officers would not discuss developments, if any, in that connection. And it could not he learned if any of three colored men known to have been sitting on the front steps of a warehouse just prior to the at tack had been questioned. It is believed that much attention is being given to that angle of the case with the possibility that a new lead can be established. It was planned to ask the vic i tints of the attack to visit cloth . Saturday night when the two young girls were subjected to his 1 heinous insult on South 1 laugh ton Street while they were on 1 their way home from the movies. Pointing out that he was satis 1 lied that local officers had done - all that possibly could be done by them, the lather of Miss Corey, . appraised of the successful work I special agents hud handled in ; rounding up alleged white mob work laid m the case, a ing stores and pick out wearing apparel similar to that worn by the attaekei at 11:80 o'clock last the attaekei (Continued on i-iuge eight) While May seemed tu be an unusually dry month, pre cipitulion was just a little over one-half ineh below the average recorded for the par ticular period over the past ten years. A total of 2.35 inches of rain fell at this point last month, the keeper of the gauge, Hugh Spruill, stating that eleven rains were record ed along with four traces dur ing the period. None of the rains exceeded one-half inch, and one measured only .01 of an inch. Heavy rains fell ill May of last year, followed by over six inches in June, but in May, 1945, less than one and one-lialf inches fell here, and the fall in 'the previous months was far below aver age. MINISTER __ - > Rev. Cyrus YV. Bazemore, native of Bertie and a former local resident, will conduct a series of religious services in the West Knd Baptist Church here, heginning next Monday evening. Services will he held at 8:1(0 o'clock p. in. din ing the week. liailry Funeral Held Wednesday Funeral services were conduct ed at 3:00 o’clock Wednesday al't ,1/inr.j) :U the late home he Ml John Thomas Bailey who da d nil lowing a long period ol declining health there last Monday evening at 7.If) o’clock. Elder It S Cow in, assisted hy Rev 1). W Davis, conducted the last rites and burial was in the Mobley Cemetery in Bear Grass Township. Suffering a stroke of paralysis about five years ago, Mr. Bailey | had been in declining health sinee : that time. He was an invalid for I twenty-two months, and Ins con dition was critical for almost three weeks. The son of the late Daniel and Louise Robinson Hailes he was horn near Williamston 7!l yeai ago the 9th of next Align t. Lx eept for two year.-, spent in Mali fax County when lie was a young man he lived and farmed neai Williamston all his life. Year; ago he joined the church at Chn turn Chapel, but moved Ins mem bership to the Roberson’s Chape Presbyterian Church nearer he home a few years ago lie was ; respected citizen, and suffered hi: affliction without complaint. When a young man he was mar ried to Miss Armanda Moore o 1 I»itt County. She died last De I cember, j Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Annie Mizelle; a brother. Mae! Bailey of Tarboro, and six grand children. Mrs. Briley Died In Bethel Friday Mrs. Maggie Briley, widow of Watson Biiley, died of a heart at tack at the home of a daughter, Mis. Louis Dail, in Bethel, last Friday night. Mrs. Briley was 7t) years oid. Funeral services were held at the Hickory Grove Baptist Church Sunday at 3 p. in., with the pastor, ftev. D. W. Alexander officiating. Interment was made in the Bethel cemetery. Surviving are five sons, William, K B and J- B Bri ley of Bethel, and G. B. and Gus Briley of Greenville: eight daugh ters, Mrs, Louis Dail, Mr. Elmer Bland and Mrs. Fred Boyette of Bethel, Mrs. Raymond Lee, Mrs. Henry Lee and Mrs. J. J. Farmer of Williamston, and Mrs. W. D. Cratt and Mrs. It L. Winberry of Robersonville; -14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, Dry - Tool II rather Retarding Tobacco Cool-dry weather is retarding I the tobacco crop in this section Belief tame for some sections j when lain fell earlier tins week, hut 50-degree weather Wednes day night partly offset the relief from the drought. People Of Rich Square Weary Of Sex Crime Wave -$ Nineteen Sr\ Crimes Re porteil In That Section In I liree Months In an interview with a reporter on the Hertford County Herald this week, a Rich Square officer discussed the recent trend in crime, the reaction to it in the Northampton County section, and declared that the “people were at their patience's end with regard to the series of sex crimes that have plagued the area for three months.'1 The interview reads: ' Police Chief Frank Outland, a veteran of 16 years standing in I Northampton County police cir cles. but still a young man in spite of his experience, said Sun day in an interview that he was at his wits end, just as the people of the Rich Square community were at their patience’s end with regal'd to the series of sex crimes that have plagued this rich little farm town for the past three months. The town's people not used to the high pressure nd blaring head line methods of big city newspapertng. are filled with re sentment over the many rude and cutting things that have been | spread across the nation since the now infamous ‘Buddy'' Bush case broke more than a week ago, Out land stated, “I am not in favor of lynching and have never forgotten my duty to a prisoner,” the chief v\ent on, | "but 1 can certainly appreciate | the sentiments of local people, w t .1 - most law abiding, when they are ma ligned a a >up for the mistakes ! of a few.” ! "Another factor not taken in to core idei ation by the outsider,” Outland asserted," a thi fact that j 111 ex crimes, including one of the nn t brutal and premeditated rape on record, three attempted ■ | rape- and 15 instances of "peep ing toms” have occurred in the Rich Square area in the past three month- an average of well over j one per week.” I "The better chi s Negro citi zens oi our area, which includes j the great majority -have asked I me b1 help th< m and have offei ed I their help to stop this wave of sex crimes before some innocent peo ple "i rally get hurt,'’ Outland ' cent inued. "Some of this crime may be due to tin Negro men who mixed with white women in Europe while they were members of the armed force . some of it is no doubt due to the spreading of vicious and lewd pictures ol' white women by the lowt t dregs of white society, hut no mallei what the cause may , be, 1 beg every responsible citi zen, white and colored, all the ! newspapers and the radio to do their very best to .stop this thing before it "really hurts a lot of people,” the chief went ont. "Because of rather than in spite of the gravity of a lynch attempt, I want to make the position of the people of Rich Square as cleaf-to tin1 outside as is possible,” the chief declared. "This series of events is the first semi connected bunch of this type crimes that 1 have been confront ed with in my 16 years as a law enforcement officer in North ampton county and I surely hope it i.-. the last,” Outland assured !is I tellers. i "A week before the vicious and premeditated attack of April 25th, two Negro men cut two of the screens in the home of a well known Rich Square woman and (Continued on p tje six) lilt; BI SIINUSS ! v:-/ Opening the season last Tuesday afternoon, Williams ton's municipal swimming pool handled an unusually large business. There were 11:* 10-eent and l‘J2 S-cent ad missions the first day, the management adding that eleven season tickets were sold at Si4 each. Cooler weather Wednesday cut down the volume of busi ness to some extent, but evau then the pool was fairly crowded in the alteruoou. V