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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bl OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE __— -:-;T-r-r -77 tf Uliarnstott, Martin County, IScrth i rolina, Friday, September 26, 1947 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bl OVER 3.000 MARTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Discuss Plan For * Annual Seal Sale At Local Meeting c? 9 Executive Secretary Of State Association Ad dresses Leaders -» - Meeting in the local Woman’s Club hall last Tuesday represen tatives from seven counties in this section of the State discussed plans for handling the annual tu berculosis seal sale this year and Jieard timely talks by Mr. Frank ^Afebster. executive secretary of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association, Mrs. Glen Pendleton, executive secretary of the .Pas quotank County Association, and Miss Anne Mann, field secretary of the North Carolina Tubercu losis Association. Miss Mann discussed the me chanics of tlie Seal Sale, including the newest techniques of fund 'fcising Mr. Webster discussed the Tub erculosis control program. He pointed out that the Tuberculosis Association is only one of the agencies concerned with this problem. He stressed the import ance of the cooperation of the Health Dept , the private physi cian and the welfare department if a good control program is to be carried on. A good control pro gram includes four phases: Case finding, treatment, rehabilitation and protection of the families of tuberculosis patients from eco nomic distress. Mr, Webster point ed out that the need for more hos pital beds for the state of North Carolina is urgent. Hi called on all those present to do all they could to inform their senators and representatives of this need so that when the legislature meets again that something will be done about the shortage of beds. Mi. Webster also pointed out that though the deatji rate from TB had dropped 89'1 since 1900 that the battle was not yet over: There were 53,000 deaths in the United ® States from the disease last year, 1300 of which were in North Car olina. This disease still icmauis the first cause of death in the age group 15-44. In conclusion Mr. Webster stat ed that the death rate has shown a decline as the Seal Sale has gone up. Though the Tubercu losis Associations do not feel that they are entirely responsible for this decline, they do feel that they have played an important part in the decline. This year the na tion's quota is $18,000,000. Of tins North Carolina hopes to raise $350,000. Ninety-live cents out of every dollar that is raised will stay in the state. * Mrs. Pendleton in her talk dis cussed the various phases of the program that could be carried on by local associations cr commit tees. She stressed the point that no matter how small the county that a year round program should be carried on. She also pointed i/i:am . h<—! meet the needs of the individual coun ty. since no two counties have the same problem. She emphasized the fact that Health education is the most important function of any Tuberculosis committee or Association Through this educa tion we hope lo control, prevent and eventually eradicate this dis ease. Mr. Charles Manning, Martin County Seal Sale chairman pre sided at the meeting. Mrs. Eva Grimes, Executive Secretary of the Martin County Tuberculosis Committee was in charge of all , arrangements. » -• Owners Warned to ^ Pen Their Dogs Receiving numerous complaints from citizens in all patts of town the police department this week issued a warning against the prac tice of allowing female dogs tc run at large. “Unable to catcf -Vn-rf'pwtrrur titt"drugs- rr»~mnst in stances, we II be' forced to shoot them on the spot.’’ Chief W. T Simpson explained. ^ The officer also warned parent; against allowing their children ti ride bicycles at nrght without equipping the vehicles with prop er lights. Double riding is alsc prohibited, and violators are sub ject tc court action, it was ex plained. Make Last Call For Return jl Of Peanut Questionaires i. A last-mi; te reminder to all Martin County peanut growers was issued today by Mr. George C. Griffin, chairman of the Mar tin County Agricultural Conserva tion Committee, urging all those who have not already done so to j get their questionnaires into the office of the county agent at once. ^ , It w'as pointed out tha* less than | sixty percent of the farmers had returned the questionnaires, that j those farmers who do not act be ! fore October 1 will have their al lotments determined after the best fashion on the meager facts available. “October 1 is the deadline," the chairman said, “for returning the questionnaires on peanut acreages and production which were sent from the Agricultural Conserva tion office. Information needed by the county office for establish ing peanut acreage allotments on each farm in 1948 will be taken from facts furnished by the farm ers themselves. These question naires also establish each grow er's right to vote in the coming re ferendum.” The chairman explained that, if the county committee does not have complete information on a certain farm by time allot ments are established, that gllot ment must be. made from the lim ited county1* reserve. Failure to file the questionnaires by October 1 may result in smaller allotments for some farms. Whether marketing quotas and acreage allotments are'to be in effect next year will depend upon the results of the referendum to be held later this year, the chair man points out. The referendum date will be announced shortly. The county office then will notify [farmers of voting places, and pro | vide other information about the referendum. Get Long Terms For Killing On Highway TOWN TAXES | I-s Notices of taxes due for the current fiscal year are going: out to Wiliamston property owners and others this week. Of the approximately 1,442 notices, 827 are going to white | and 615 to colored property owners. Preparation of the 1947-48 tax books was delayed when a definite lax rate could net be determined some weeks ago. The current levy amounts to approximately $611,060. Hundred and One Placed On Jobs —«— i The Williamston office of the ! State Employment Service reports that 15fio persons contacted the office and itinerant points during August. Over 1000 of these were veterans and a total of 101 wcie placed on jobs according to the manager Howard S. Sexton. The I level of employment for Martin ! County, despite sir ike threats, re 1 mains v,c<* auuVc average and | only 20 new applications for work 1 were received in the office area j during August. Job openings in I Martin. Bertie, Washington, and { Tyrrell Counties at the end of the month were over 150 which is the highest figure foi some months. Among the 1500 individuals who contacted the office a good percentage were seeking informa tion othef than on job openings. The 1000 veterans wereaMrfidng , ddvit'C iGdTia. iilSliryilCt:. Vtilff J an hospitilization, self-employed j allowances, and one-the-job train | ing opportunities. Eleven of these , visitors were given special em I ployment counseling. Mr. Sexton reports that from the entire office I area there are 265 active applica | tions for work on file, and that is a much lower figure than was j shown during the first part of the year. In placing these applicants in existing openings numerous problems arise such as transpor ; tation to work, living accommoda ; tions, and personal qualifications, i Plans will soon be initiated for jobserving the National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week I during the week of October 5-11. This is the annual campaign pro claimed by the president for mak ing a special effort to place all I types of physically Handicapped ' workers in suitable employment. The Williamston Employment Of fice has on file applications from | twelve handicapped persons cur j refitly out of work and special at tention will be giver, these annli •!B'.-i" " '“O' ' • caiTtr tlunm* trn- -■ • ■ !: n ad . to cases submitted by the State Blind Commission. The annua! drive to aid the handicapped is supported by the Veterans’ Ad 1 ministration. American Red Cross. American Legion. VFW, local j civic clubs, United States Employ ment Service, and the State Re habilitation Offices and all work in conduction to make the cam (paign a success. |Subjeelin«; Human I Life To Too Many Hazards On Roads -4t Vi oolrii G<‘l» I'm Years ;m<l Witnl Five For Killing; Three 1'ersons At In listening patiently nearly I all of last Monday afternoon to j the evidence in the case charging I John D. Woolen and Webb Ward, i Pitt County colored man, with manslaughter. Judge Clawson L. Williams, presiding over the re gular term of Marlin County Sup I erior Court, ottered some timely 'and strong comments when he ; pronounced sentence upon the two i defendants lute Tuesday. Evidence in the case tended to show that Wooten and Ward, op erating cars oh the Robersonville Stokes Highway last December 15, j were driving on the wrong sides of Ihe road that they crashed head-on, causing the deaths of Henry Ward, Mary Brown and I Gladys Riddick, all colored of Pitt | County. Both defendants plead ed not guilty and the case was warmly contested. Taking then first case of the term, the jury men found that both defendants were guilty of manslaughter. Judge Williams stated that he I would reserve judgment until j later, and it was apparent that he ! studied the evidence and gave it ; much consideration before an 1 nouncing his decision late Tues day afternoon. “The jury properly., jcgggrkgted I both defendants.” the judge said. "Human life is subjected to too | many hazards on the highways, j and all people ought to hang their , heads in shame when they are \ lold of the number being killed Ion the highways ot our State." Continuing his comments, the jurist said, “the victims were vio lating no laws. They were inno cent. but their existence on this earth is ended. Too many deaths and too much maiming are brought about by folks who get into automobiles and don't care where they go or how. People are not going to tolerate it longer, this great disregard for safety." Speaking directly to Wooten, Judge Williams said “You have no regard for law. You have been caught viofating the highway laws since your driver’s license was re voked. You have no business ; driving a motor vehicle and you (should have no driver’s license, i And if you ever come into this court again tor violating the high | way laws you'll be sent to prison '‘j: the"re11,.rr.,'i f’, hiu, ai ■ is£f. You ii if. .ci. ace Hie sun' rise 'or set except over prison walls.” Just before pronouncing sen tience, Judge Williams overruled j Defense Attorney Dick Bundy's I motion to have the verdict set .aside. Without blinking an eye i and in a clear, ringing voice, ! Judge Williams sentenced Woot en to State’s Prison for not less ^ (Continued on page eight) Karin Bureau Head \ddresses Appeal For Organization —-s— Twenty Percent of Nation’s Population Gets Ten Percent of Income W. W. Eagles, Macclesfield, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, said this week that despite all the clamor about high prices for farm products, “the farmers’ share in the total United States income in 1946 Was less than 10 percent.” Appealing for all-out support of the current Farm Bureau cam paign for 100.000 members in the State "to insure a sound agricul tural program for the future,” Eagles said: “The U. S. Department of Com merce's ‘Survey of Current Busi ness.’ a study of major sources of income, shows agricultural income for the nation last year at 9.5 per cent, compared with 21.3 percent for manufacturing payrolls, 26.8 percent for trades and services, and 17 percent for those receiving income from Federal, State, and local governments.” Eagles said the road ahead for agriculture, one of the nation's chief industries, employing nearly 20 percent of the total population, is going to be difficult, especially for southern agriculture. Farm ers of the South, he added, fact an uphill battle to keep price sup port and acreage allotments, fot many agricultural people in othei parts of the nation have no imme diate need for such “safeguards of income,” and therefore are nol inclined to fight for them. “While agricultural income was the smallest piece in the country’s income pie,” he said, "farming scored a gain as a source of in come from 1940 to 1946. The shart that agricultural income repre sents in the United States’ tota income increased 2.6 percent iron 1940 to 1946. while percentage gains for other major source: were: Manufacturing payrolls, one ! percent; trade and service income 1.4 percent, curd CJuvernnrent pay rolls, 4.6 percent.” North Carolina farmers canno' afford to wait to show their deter - mination to secure their tremend ous investment of lime, labor anc money, Eagles declared. They must organize to their fullest strength r ight now, he continued of they hope to extend their pres ent overall program beyond 194H when the direct benefits of the Steagall amendment and the cur - rent Commodity Credit Corpora tion appropriation for support ol tobacco prices will end. Eagles urged every farmer it the State to join ‘he Farm Bu (Continued on page eight) Member Police hon e Tenders lieaignatioii A member of the local police force for the past several years Li'wis K'-jjjh r this his resignation, effe ctive as of Fri day, September 26. Faithful and punctual to duty, the officer it considering several job offers, in cluding one from a trucking firm with an increase in salary. It wa; also reported he is considering moving back to his home in South Carolina. Willie Modlin was named to day by Chief of Police W. T Simpson to succeed Keisler. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Mo^pi isls on Martin County highways traveled through the 38th week of the current year without serious acci dent, but so far they are piling , up more machines than they did a year ago. Fortunately, however, the motorists hold no more disrespect for life and are far more considerate of limb. fedi&cjb&ft U-.bulzV&ns of ter a cojrtparwc.Tt/f "tfvf ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 38th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam'ge 1947 2 1 U $ 100 1946 210 400 Comparison* To Date 1947 96 49 3 $21 170 1946 93 72 3 $21 800 Jury Charged With.Blocking Justice By judge C. L. Williams In The Superior Court Here Great Miscarriage Of Justice, Judge Williams Declares Jury Krliirus “!Not Guilty” Verilirl In Gurnal Kiiov (’use -<v “In all my forty years in the courts of this State 1 have never seen a greater miscarriage of jus tice," Judge Clawson L. Williams, presiding over the current term of the Martin County Superior Court, lashed out against twelve jurymen late Wednesday after noon when they returned a ver dict of not guilty in the case in whiejj Burniee Builock, young white man, was charged with car nal knowledge of a female over twelve and under sixteen years of age. “If you desire to make your daughters and other young girls of your county open prey to such men under such evidence as was offered in this case, that's your privilege," Judge Williams con tinued in what was described as one of the most timely and scath ing attacks ever directed ^quarely at a Martin County jury. "If a man 2(i years old can ful fill his lascivious desire on a 13 year-old child, and the jury ac quits him on the evidence offered in this case, justice has been blocked,” the jurist declared "The State statute was designed to protect children when they were persuaded by older men, but you have failed to suppoit it. It is your county, not mine, but 1 must say your verdict constitutes the greatest miscarriage of justice I have ever seen in a superior court in North Carolina,” the jur ist said in his verbal lashing of the jury. | That the just was bitterly dis appointed in the action of the jury was quite evident, and he then moved to take action “that the de fendant may not go rfree.” He called for a bench warrant charg ing Bullock with bastardy and non-support. Bond w'us required in the sum of $1,500 and Bullock is slated for trial in the county court next Monday on that charge. D. C. Keel, a witness for the de fense, was charged in a bench warrant wtih aiding and abetting prostitution and in the felonious j abuse and carnal knowledge of a female under sixteen years of age. I The warrant was drawn by a bench order prior to the action of | the jury, ami Judge Williams fix j ed bond in the sum of $1,000. Keel | is slaved for trial in the county Uou fwtey- •— Members of uie jury handling , the case were, Grady Godard. I Mack Wynne, M. N. Griffin, Ro l land G, Coburn, Kenneth Harring ton, Eli H. Bowen, Dennis Beach, Archie Coltrain, Atwood Gur ganus, Grady C. Modlin, Henry C. | Oakley and B. E. Anderson. Judge Williams, definitely pointed out before offering the J stinging comment, that not one 1 mite of evidence liad been offer led by the defense to support such a verdict, that the defendant had admitted illicit relations with the 1 prosecuting witness, Margaret , Beacham, when she was only thirteen years of age. The case, one of the most sordid heard in the courts of this county in many, many years, was called for trial late Tuesday afternoon. The prosecuting witness told her story before recess was taken late that day, relating her connection with the 25-yeai-old defendant, i She said that he suggested a name j for the child, now seven months I old that he had paid the hospital d imiif 11ijui.'jh. 5>o for trie child's support. No holds were barred, and the evidence reviewed a condition suf ficient to rock the foundations of society while the cries of the little waif, tin: illegitimate offspring of an illegitimate, warned of shock degeneracy and decay, all of which was capped smoothly by the jury’s verdict. (Continued on page six) Tobacco Prices Stronger On The Market Here Thursday Dispite unfavorable weather, tobacco deliveries continue unus ually heavy on the local market and direct reports from the sales Thursday indicated prices were strengthening on several types No official figures could be had for Thursday's sale, but it was conservatively estimated that the general average for the day would hit right at $40 per hun died pounds. Sales earlier in the week averaged from $30.95 ti slightly more than $38, pulling the average for the season to a poitr slightly below $40 per hundred, ; figure below the price guaranteec by the government. Including today’s offerings sales for the season now static right at six and three quarter mil lion pounds. A reduction in tin selling hours from five to four tin J Quarterly Report In Superior Courl -• Finds Thai Suggested Rt1 pairs Had l\ol Born MikIi1 To iIm* Fount) Homo -*—— Functioning efficiently am without delay, the Martin Count; Grand Jury completed its work including the handling of bills o indictment and county-wide in spections last Monday and recess 1 ed until next December. Th , jury’s quarterly report tiled uve , the signature of Foreman Hem , S. Johnson, Jr,, of Hamilton, fol j lows: | We have passed on all bills u j indictment presented to us. We visited the Clerk of Court’ Office and found it to be in excel lent condition with all Guardia Accounts filed. We found the Register of Deed: Office in excellent condition an I all bonds in order. ! The Sheriff's Office and Ta | Collector’s Office were visile and found to be in good conditio with all records up to date. We visited the office of the Sup ei intendent of Schools and foun it in excellent condition. We checked all Justices of Peac | reports and found them all file with the Clerk of Court and fine submitted to the Tieasurer. We visited the County Jail an 'd v. t kept. We found J White Male in mates, ti colored male inmates, an 1 colored female inmate. We visited the County Horn and Prison Farm and found every thing in good condition. (Continued from Page Six) -* I Jurymen React To ! Judge’s Comment* —«— The verdict freeing Burme j Bullock, 25-year-old Pitt Count ^ white man, of carnal knowledg did not have the wholehearted support of the jury in the superio court here this week. At leas two of the twelve men oppose the acquittal verdict at first, “bu j we were outnumbered and gav | in," one of the jurymen declarer | "It was fairly evident that w I were doing wrong, and I tried t [tell our leader that the evidenc j demanded us to find the defend ant guilty,” one juryman added. ' *' th» i'.rvm,'-. ; desire to talk with U«i judge am 'ask to be excused, ‘‘For In j ashamed to return to the corn I room.” j Still another juror boasted o j his stand and that he would vot | for acquittal again and again. | There is the possibility tha there was a "leak” in the ease dui j ing tiie noon recess Wednesday j but such a possibility was dismiss ' ed m ¥'ini“ quarters. week dropped the poundage re ceipts by about 75,000 pounds daily. Inferior types of leaf are still predominating the sales, playing havoc with the daily price aver ages. Reports coming from the Old Belt this week indicate that the markets there are plagued w ith ;• price decrease compared with revenue reported there last year Opening prices w ere ranging fron $2 to $12 below those of last seas on, and deliveries to the Stabiliza tion Corporation were said to bi heavy. Very little tobacco was going t< the stabilization organization or the market here Thursday, one re port stating that the agency re eeived on an average hardly man ■ than one pile to the row during i1 the early sales. TURN BRIDGE ; V._— ■ The new draw bridge over Roanoke River here was turn , cd in position for traffic at 4:27 o'clock last Tuesday aft ernoon, nearly a year after the old bridge was closed to traffic. Reports state that the draw span fitted perfectly and that it worked without a 1 1 hitch. The steel structure, one of the largest of Us kind in the entire state highway 1 system, was turned by man | power, reports stating that it ' ! will he several more weeks before electrical equipment j can be installed to power the | bridge operations. It could not be learned I when the bridge would be 1 opened lo traffic. Kiwanians Will Stage Play Hen The Williamston Kiwanis Clu I announced the arrival in Wil 11 Hamilton this week ol Miss Bell I will direct their home talent sliov ’ “Cornzapoppin.” The show wil be presented in the local higl . school auditorium on Thursda; 1 and Friday nights, October 2 am 3. Mr. W. H. Carstarphen, presi my Harris chairman ol the shov | and he will be assisted by Gen Kimball, Bruce Wynne, John II " Gurganus, Bill Glover and Meye Levin. “Cornzapoppin”. a 3-act musica comedy, will be presented for tli benefit of the public school musi department and will feature a all-male cast with 30 local girl doing song and dance routines are > musical specialties between acts. Response to the appeal for tal ent has been exceptional and th show will have excellent charac 1 ters, dancers, choristers and solo I ists. -o j Farmer Recovers From Snake Bitt ■.O-a—— ’ Bitten by a copperhead snalt i while working in lus father’s pea -i nut field near Palmyra last Fri - day, Thomas Smith, son of Mi and Mrs. E. T. Smith, is rapidh i spending three days in a Tai bur i hospital. L Striking 11it: young man on tin left hand, the reptile's fangs pene 1 trated the middle finger. He v. a ; said yesterday to be suffering with tin mad itch, a reaction fron L medicine. The young man's mother enter , ed Duke hospital thi£ week fo. treatment of a high blood p.as c»?rr* »» A »l • U 1 vVifUP'iVil.i. Trial Of Criminal Cases Variite End r ■ In Superior Court Vi illiutn Kirkmaii SriitciK e«l To Prison for Twenty Years in Murder Case Delayed one week by the ill ness of Judge Clawson L. Wil liams, the Marlin County Super ior Court in the second of the two-week term was nearing the end of its criminal docket Thurs day afternoon, having sandwiched in a few divorce cases during the meantime. Trials have been long, drawn out in several instances, the court spending a day each in handling manslaughter charges against John D. Wooten and Webb Ward, ' Pitt County colored men, and carnal knowledge charge against I Burnice Bullock, 25-year-old Pitt ( County while man. Considerable , time was spent trying William I Kirkman for killing Fred Little, colored, in Purmcle a few weeks ago. ’ I The State did not ask a first degree verdict against Kirkman, .but announced it would try him. I for second degree murder or man ] slaughter. Kirkman, pleading self defense, was found guilty of manslaughter in the first case to I reach the jury which deliberated | hardly an hour before returning 'a verdict late Tuesday afternoon. Sentenceing Kirkman to State's Prison for not less than eighteen, and not more than twenty years or tiie maximum allowed by stat ute1, Judge Williams declared that too much of the defense evidence apparently had been “manufac tured.” The trial of Mack Peterson, col ored man charged with the theft of a erial hundred dollars from his wife here in 1945, was brought to a sudcb'ti halt Tuesday when Judge Williams had a juror with drawn and declared a mistrial. No explanation for the action was of fered immediately, and the ease ; was left hanging in suspense. Tony Cun v charged with b> 'big drunk and disorderly, was ruled not guilty by direction of the court. Curry had appealed from a 20-day sentence imposed in Judge J. C. Smith’s court. Richard Vines, charged with [freaking and entering and larceny of money from Roberson's Slaugh ter House, was freed, the court directing a verdict of not guilty when the evidence was declared insufficient to support the charge. Work on the ease w as started fol lowing near sensational develop ments in tin Bullock carnal know ledge case, and was brought to a close Thursday morning. The ease charging Charlie Lew is, colored native of Georgia who | has served time in quite a few | prisons, with an assault with in ! lent to commit rape, attracted much attention in the court Thurs day when Solicitor George Foun tain confronted the defend an t*, wulii u yard-long criminal record. Lewis, admitting at first only three law violations, broke down and acknowledged a crime record running front 1930 until August 27 almost without interruption. But the defendant denied attacking Julia Williams. 12-year-old color ed girl, here last August. The little prosecuting witness gave a good account of the attack but broke down and cried near the end of the cross examination. The evidence completed. De fense Attorney R. L. Coburn and Solicitor Fountain made their ar (Continued on page five) -—. — ijustice riasseu J Has Three Cases —#>—— j Justice John L. Hassell heard three cases in his court here this w ee k. D. L. Stallings, mayor ot' Bridge ton, was fined $5 and taxed with ' $6.50 costs for passing.a school bos i the highway near here. Charged \v ith disorderly con duet, Jeff Slade was sentenced to - the roads for thirty days Judge > Hassell suspended the road sen ; tence on guaranteed behavior for i twelve months and the payment of $8.50 costs. William Riddick was fined $5 ' and required to pay $r> costs for opt rating , a motor vehicle with A
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