THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK t THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B! OVER 3.1)00 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER 61 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August I, CUT KSTABLISIIKD 1899 Judge J. C. Smith 1 Has Eleven Cases In County’s Court Still Sonic Doubt About the Provisions Of the New Safety Law Judge J. Calvin Smith called eleven cases in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday, the number including several viola tions directly or indirectly affect ed by the new highway safety laws. His driver’s license revok ed prior to July 1 of this year, a defendant, through his attorney, maintained that the new law should not be applied in his cur rent case in which he stands charged with operating a motor vehicle while his driver's license was revoked. The defendant, C. B. Gould, pleaded guilty of driv ing a motor vehicle without a li cense, and not certain about the applicability of the new law to the case, the court continued the ac tion under prayer for Judgment until August 11. The session, lasting hardly two hours last Monday, attracted a comparatively small number of spectators. Fines and forfeitures for the day amounted to $240. Proceedings: The $100 bond pledged in the' ; case charging David Hix Harrell with operating a motor vehicle while his driver’s license was re- j voked, was forfeited, the court discharging the surety upon the payment of $50. The charge still stands against the defendant, and papers were issued for his arrest. Pleading guilty in the case charging him with drunken driv H. Gbik'in was fined $100, taxed with the cost and had his driver’s license revoked for one year. The case charging Arthur Nich olson with trespassing, was dis missed, but is subject to be reop ened. * Pleading guilty of obtaining board-room and not paying. Cha~. .deed einltv f, and judgment was suspend^ Bullock was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The road term was suspended upon the payment of the trial costs and $54 to Mrs. Della Cowen, operator of a boarding home in Williamston. Charged with being drunk and disorderly and aiding and abet ting in larceny, Hudson Best was jjpudg only! cd upon the payment of the case costs. Willie James Roberson, charged with the larceny of a "stray” pint of liquor, pleaded not guilty. His plea failed to stand up under the bombardment of Solicitor Paul D. Roberson and the defendant was sentenced to jail for a day and directed to pay the court costs. Charged with drunken and careless and reckless driving, Marvin Macon Ross pleaded guil ty of careless and reckless driv ing. The plea was accepted by the solicitor and Judge Smith sen tenced the defendant to the roads for six months. The sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $50 fine. The court recommend ed that the defendant's driver’s li cense be revoked for two years. Pleading guilty in the case in which he was charged with op (Continued from page five) House Burned In County This Week A small tenant house, occupied by the Bullock family and owned by Don Johnson, was burned on the Johnson farm in Poplar Point last Monday afternoon. According to reports reaching here, one of the Bullock children, about a 5-year-old lad. went into the kitchen in mid-afternoon to cook something to eat for himsc'f and accidentally fired the build ing. The little chap told a sister, a few years older than he, what he had done and left the burning building. Fearful of punishment, the little fellow ran away and hid and for a while it was thought possible that he was burned. He showed up a short time later, however. The fire, causing a gallon of gasoline used for ironing to ex plode, spread quickly and it was impossible to save anything from the house. The occupants lost everything they had except the clothes they were wearing. Women's Names Placed In Jury Box For First Time Their names placed in the jury box for the first time, it is quite likely that one or more women will be drawn for jury service in September by the Martin County | Commissioners at their regular meeting next Monday. Whether any of the fairer sex will qualify and serve is another matter, and it is possible that no women’s names will be drawn next Mon- < day. Purging the jury list not so long ago, the commissioners, working over the tax books for their re spective districts, placed several thousand names in the jury box 1 pool. Since comparatively few j women listed property and got , their names on the tax books, the j authorities resorted to election j ; books and telephone directories.; |Ari exact count could not be had i ■but it is estimated that the names j of several hundred women are in ; the jury pool. It was also learned r TOWN MEETING Meeting in regular session next Monday evening at 8:00 o'clock Williamston's town commissioners are slated to study the proposed budget for the new fiscal year and handle routine duties. No ad vanced report on the budget figures has been released, but the general opinion is that no increase in the tax rate will be necessary to finance the town's operations during the new period. • A new schedule of privilege or Schedule H licenses, rang-** ing from 50 cents for shoe shine stands to $100 for the aters, will be discussed at the meeting along with several newly proposed ordinances. Cub Tractor Will Be Demonstrated Here August 7th -* Machine Is Especially De siune(,'() resulted, according to infoi mation gained from Patrolman W. E. Saunders who made the inves tigat ions. Driving a 1940 Chevrolet coupe, alleged to have been stolen in Greenville about 11:00 o'clock last Monday night, Raleigh Coburn, Greenville white man, wrecked it near Gardner’s Creek on the James ville-Williamston Highway shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. Slightly hurt, Coburn was can ied to the clinic at Plym outh where he was treated and later discharged. Damage to the car was estimated at $200. Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Theodore (Dock) Taylor slowed down Ins vehicle, a 1046 Dodge bakery truck, on Highway 64, a short distance west of Wil liamston, and it was struck from the rear by a highway truck di ivcn by James Robert Rawls. No orn was hurt. Patrolman Saunders said that the damage to the bakery truck was upproxi mately $100, that r< pairs to the highway ti uck would cost about $300, -o Hunting Licenses /Voir On Suit- In 1 lir l.ounl The new 1947 48 hunting an. combination hunting-! i-hing li censes are now on sale at variou dealers throughout the count', Warden Bill Abbitt announcer this week. There’s no change in the li censes fees for the new s.easor County resident licenses sell to $1.10; state hunting licenses co $3.10, and combination hunting fishing licenses for the State $4.10. Fishing licenses cost $1.1 but. are necessary only where a: tlilcial bait la u-icd. A Slight Decrease In Post Office Receipts Reported For the first time in a long time, postal receipts at the Williamston post office are showing a slight decline in volume, according to a report just recently released by Postmaster W. E. Dunn for the Second quarter. The decrease is not very large, but it is of suffici ent size to indicate that the use of the postal system as a means of communication has passed its peak in this immediate section for a while, at least. That the de crease reflects a decline in gener al business cannot be establish ed as a fact. While postage stamp sales last quarter fell to $7,742,117 as com pared to sales of $8,215.28 in the second three months of last year, the office is still doing a pretty good business for a town this size. Stamp sales held up very well during the early part of this year, but started weakening in Febru ary. lost nearly $500 in March, and barely held their own in April. Then in May, there was over a $300 loss followed by a $200 decline in June. The nearly $800 gain last January over the same month in 1946 helped hold stamp sale receipts this year to within $305.50 of those reported for the first six months last year. The money order business handled by the local office con tinues to hold to a right big figure and is on the increase, according to the postmaster’s report. The business dropped last quarter by about $900 below the $68,904.21 reported for the second quarter in 1946, but April, May and June of this year recorded sales $12 017.10 greater than the $58,053.95 reported in the cm responding months of last year. Army Deserter Is j * Located In State | Prison Camp Here Serving ShiIcikt And Fin* in" Dfnerliou and Itig ainy Charge* Now Deserting the Army about three yi'ar.s ago, Frank S. Cherry, young Martin County white man, has since that time aggravated his standing with the law and the fu ture is anything but bright for! him. Month after month and year j | after year, tin- young man suc cessfully evaded service in the | Army, and nothing was heard j from him until a short time ago when he was arrested and con victed for an alleged crime in Guilford County. He was sent to State's Prison in Raleigh and lat er farmed out to a road prison camp near Hillsboro. His past record was brought to light when | he was identified by fingerprints under the name of William Luth er James. working on the case, Mai tm I County officers learned that the man deserted 11is wife and child in this county, took the assumed name and went to High Point ports stating that he is expecting another heir by his last marriage. Even before he had served many months for the Guilford County crime, the federal authori ties stepped in to claim him, but d could not be learned whether he'll be allowed to complete the term he is now serving before he is called to answer in the Army desertion case. To further aggravate his almost hopeless predicament, the young man is almost certain to face a bigamy charge in this county, sooner or later. The young man's arrest just. ] about clears up all the service de sertion cases in this county, it is believed, and so far as it can be learned no one from the county has been prosecuted for desertion. Jos, Godard Dios Near Jamesville Joseph Godard, retired farmer, died at Ins home neai Jamesville hist Tuesday evening at G:0() o’clock. A victim of TB, lie hud been in declining health two years or more and he had been confined to his bed for about twelve months. The son of Mrs. Lon ora Hardi son Godard and the late Louis Godai d, he was horn in Jamesville Township on December 17, 1894, and lived and farmed there all his life. When a youth he joined the ■ church at Fairview. He wii.s first married to Miss Novella Whitfield and two sons, Leslie and Joseph Godard, Jr., of ; Jamesville, survive that union. His second marriage was to Miss Gladys Hem bridge and she .sur vives. He also leaves two broth er'. Sam and Walter Godard, both of Jamesville Funeral se rvices will be con . ducted at the home Friday after noon at 8:00 o'clock by his pastor, . Rev. A. F. Lillcy, assisted by Rev. i 1 W. B. Harrington. Burial will be in a ni w cemetery on the old home larm. \ ANOTHER I-OSS | v* A tilth tobacco barn burn ed in the county this season last Monday when lire de stroyed one filled with Rood quality tobacco on l’aul Hy man's farm near Hamilton. The barn was equipped with oil eurers. It was reported that the leaf had been “Killed out,” and it is thought that the cur ins equipment, merlins little resistance, ran the mercury to a hish point, srttins the barn on fire. New River Bridge Placed; Riveters to Start Work Soon -a, Kx|t(‘(l Opening: Some Tim.- During Mnnlli Of < li'lobiT Progressing slowly lull steadily, win k on thi' Knan.ikc River In idge project here is tentatively sclied ulerl for completion some time in October, one report station that traffic may start moving ovi r the new structure possibly in Sep tember. ___ * i ofTnti hugest of its kind in the Slat", has been placed and i iveters are scheduled to start their wot k in xt week. With ten thousand rivet to drive, the i ivi lets are expected to complete their task in about two weeks. The installation of the bridge machinery and clcctri cal equipment will require con siderable time. Control house, are to be built and traffic controls are to be installed before the pro ject can be opened to traffic. Assistant Supei mtendeiil Ku genc Sandy is completing peeial construction work on the eastern end of the bridge and the guaid rail is being advanced at the rate of about four sections per day. After completing the bridge construction, IB-inch walk ways are to be welded to each ide and a three-inch concrete slab is to In poured on the bridge roadway. The bridge was fitted inti | place under the direction of Sup , ei intendi nt Dickson without a | hitch, and the particular work was advanced ahead of schedule. The first causeway was official ly opened to traffic twenty-fivi years ago next month, the event I attracting state notable- , inctud | ing Governor Cameron Morrison land representatives of the Keder jal Roads Commission. No celt | bration is scheduled for the open I ing of the new bridge Alleged I Jobber Is Out On $->00 Bond —»— Harold Clark, young while fnan charged with breaking and enter ing the Blue Star Cleaners here last April, was released in $500 cash bond from the Martin Coun ty jail on Wednesday morning of this week. He is to be tried at the next term of the superior court convening here in September. Clark, alleged to have stolen clothing from the cleaning estab lishment and sold them, was ar j rested in New Yoik early in July, j He has been held in the county jail here since July 4. Dinrtor Declares Hi»h School Band Hand I’arcnl* < 111!> Slated To Meet Next Monday, Tlie Willianis ton School Band is poing into the final weeks of sum mer work with a definite record of achievement behind them. This I work has been carried on since the closing of regular school in May. It will not be long before the opening of regular school again, and the young musicians are redoubling their efforts to have some sort of musical pro gram ready at that time. Sum mer vacations, summer camps, and summer work have kept per sonnel at a rather unsteady level, but for the must part the tudents have shown a tremendous interest m tin band work, and are to be commended for their efforts. The band is still a long way from the goal of being a polished organiza tion, a process that will take at least two yean, but the spirit and effort put forth so far indicate fine n suits In the future. There is a regular daily sched ule of lessons, section practice, and full rehearsals, and compe tition between sections for top musical rating of the week, is strong, all of which tends to raise the standard of the group. There are approximate!) xty students under instruction, some are fur ther advanced than others, hav ing had their instrument-; a long er period of time, but it i expect ed that the c neweont as will soon be holding down a place in the re gular bold !’:.!!> i. being made to put a band on the field. lei the coming football season, al though as yet it is, uncertain when the band will be ready to per form. Drum majorette candidates have been under the instruction of Delia ,1am Ml li di a ;;;< R, at’ [Leggcllc. both lui iiki drum ma jorettes o! tin1 school bund. The drum suction has been receiving special instruction from Mr. Maurice Moore, and promises to shape into a real group, once ex perience is gained. Another valuable organization is taking l.iapc, the Band Parents j Club. This club was the back i 'it— and hoi e I b- main burden of per ch;, mg the new uniforms which are m .-torage at the present. It is planned to have an important i meeting of i!ii., gimip on Mfmday night, August -t. at ti:15, in the High School auditorial! . Parents oi bund members, and all others who arc interested in starting students in fall beginning classes, are urged to attend. Plans for raring funds to purchase addi tional new uniforms will be dis ctissed, and the organization of activities for the coming year will be worked out. Meyer Levin, pri rodent of the Band Parents i Club, urges a full attendance at this meeting so that full plans can be formulated. Following is the list of student pei omiel taking band work, those in the first hand and beginning students are both listed: Clarinet- Sarah Manning, Sally Hardison, Norma Wood, Mary Vl «:!."> I*. VI (Continued on page eight) Hr I ii» ions Worker Imports For Work —♦— Mi Margaret Waca.- tor. re cently named directo of religious education foi the Williams ton Memorial Baptist Church, is en tering upon her 1 i w duties on | Friday of tins week, Di Ira L). S. I Knight, the pastor, announced yesterday. A native of Cherryville. Miss Waeaster , • a graduate of Gard ner-Webb and Wake Forest Col leges. completing her studies and special training at the latter insti tution last trgm. She succeeds Miss Ethel Guest who resigned I some time ago and w ho plans to enter foreign mission work. Miss Waeaster, a member of jibe Wake Forest Glee Club, visit lid Williamston with t'e club some | months ago. She is a very talent i i'd young woman arid conies to the I position !ict‘o witli tin1 very ticst ! recommendations. She w ill make I her home w ith the Uni Harrisons uu Huughtou Street.