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} THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3.000 MARTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L—NUMBER 83 Williams ton. Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 17, 1917 ESTABLISHED 1899 Sixty-Three Lose ^ Lives In Vehicle Wrecks In State Nearly 600 Injured During August In More Than 1 >000 Accidents > During August. 63 persons were killed and 555 were injured in 1, 046 traffic accidents on North Carolina streets and highways, bringing the total traffic death count for the first eight months of this year to 515. Col. L. C. Rosser. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, announced today. The August figures show a 28 percent decrease in fatalities and a 32 percent increase in accidents over August of last year, when 87 persons were killed and 541 were injured in 792 accidents. Col. Rosser said there were more fatal accidents involving pe destrians during August than any other single type of accident. Twenty persons lost their lives by not crossing at intersections, com ing from behind parked cars, or working or playing in roadways. Nineteen persons were killed in collisions between two or more motor vehicles; fifteen by motor vehicle overturning or running off roadway; four by motor vehicle colliding with bicycle; and five in other non-collision, accidents. Pedestrian accidents showed an 11 percent increase over August, 1946. and motor vehicle-bicycle collisions showed a 33 percent in crease. Cities and towns reported 423 accidents in which .13 persons were killed and 118 were injured. This was an eight percent de crease in fatalities, and a 13 per cent increase in accidents over August, 1940. r'ayetteville led citie.d in fatali ties with four persons killed, and Charlotte was second with two. Through August, Charlotte has led in fatalities with 18 persons killed, seven of whom were pe destrians. On rural highways, 50 persons % were killed and 437 were injured in 623 accidents, as compared with 75 killed and 379 injured in 418 accihciWi'lor tile s- iflffl 1i biJSMa -t year. Cumberland again led all coun ties in fatalities, with six persons killed. (Seven traffic deaths were reported in Cumberland in July.) Mecklenburg ran a close second with five fatalities. Buncombe and Alamance followed with four each; and Durham and Wayne hud three each. Two fatalities were reported in each of these ten counties: Bladen, Cleveland, Fdgecombe, Haywood. Moore, Richmond, Rockingham, Sampson. Wilkes and Union. Eighteen counties reported one tatality each: Beaufort, Caldwell Chatham. Forsyth, Guilford, Hoke, Lee, Macon, McDowell, On slow. Pamlico, Pender, Person Randolph, Rowan, Surry, Wash ington, and Wilson. Commenting on the report, Col Rosserr said' "The 28 percent de crease in fatalities over August he added that "the cost of driving automobiles—measured in term; of human life and limb and prop erty damage—is still too high.” He said that North Carolina’s highway fatality report "does show progress in that for everj month this year, our traffic deaths have shown consistent decreases over the corresponding months for last year.” He also urged traffic officials ir all cities to make a concerted ef fort to reduce pedestrian fatali ties, and to urge children with bi (Continued on page eight) -o Religious Census Planned Sunday -o The religious survey sponsorec by the Wiliiamston Ministeria Association will be held on Sun canvassers are asked to meet' a the Wiliiamston Christian Churcl at 2:30 when assignments will b< made. If any family knows tha they will not be at home on Sun ^ day afternoon they are asked t( procure cards from their churche: Sunday morning and fill them ou and leave them in a conspicuou: place for the canvassers. Thi; will be a great help and will bi appreciated. Body of County Young Man On Way Home From Pacific - -- The body of Machinist’s Mate 1/c Louis T. Holliday who lost his life while a prisoner of the Japan ese on December 7. 1942. arrived in San Francisco on the Honda j Knot last Friday, according to in formation received a few days ago by his sister, Mrs. H. E. Baker, of j Robersonville. It is not known j when the body will reach Rober sonville where it will be laid to final rest. However, the Graves Registration Division of the Quar termaster Corps has announced that normally three weeks will be required to dispatch the several thousand bodies to their final des tinations. At Corregidor when the Ameri can forces made their last stand following the sneak attack by the Japs, the young Martin County man was taken prisoner and re moved to Manchuria where he MEETING N_* The Martin County Wildlife | Club will bold a meeting next Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Bear Grass School, it was announced this week. Mr. King of the North Car olina Wildlife Resources Com mission and an authority on fishing, will address the meet ! ing, and possibly Ross Stev ens, executive •secretary of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, will attend. There are about 250 members of the club and most of them are ex pected to attend. The gener- . al public is invited. Wrong Numbers Cause Trouble —»— . The switch from operators to i the dial system at the local tele phone exchange did not relieve the wrong number menace. Many Asafeceeibers dec!. •- that they are troubled more with wrong num : bers r. w than they were when ! human hands handled the num i bers. It is fairly apparent that I the trouble is not traceable to any I fault of the equipment, certainly not in most instances. Subscrib ers. who it was thought could have mastered the operation of the dials by this time, are hand ling their calls apparently in a careless manner. As many as five wrong numbers have poured into one telephone in the course of an hour or two. No telephone is exempt, the fire de partment reporting five wrong numbers in a single evening this week. A climax to this wrong-number business was reported this week when a business man answered his telephone at the sound of the bell. Answering twice, he was I finally told by the sweet voice at the other end of the lira , "Tiity gave me the wrong number.” That old excuse went out with the manual operating boaid, and wrong numbers are now charge able to the person making the calls. Subscribers who are waking up persons needlessly will help re lieve much of the trouble if they carefully check the number want ed and write it down where they can refer to it as they dial the digits. Most of the wrong num bers are traceable to those callers I who transpose the numbers while j dialing. Absent Without Leave from Army Borrowing his brother’s ear, William R. Osteen wrecked it on North Haughton Street near the Pentesoslal Holiness Church here ■J-,)_ iyi..r,,I;f , j injury himseil but doing about $75 damage to the machine. Charged with reckless driving, Osteen w-as later found to be ab sent from the Army Air Forces at i Williams Field, Arizona. Author!' ; ties were notified at the field, and . the commanding general wired lo ; jeal police to hold the young man. ; Military police are slated to leave ^Arizona this week-end to claim I Osteen. died of acute enteritis and dry beri-beri. The young navy man on May 11, 1-94*2 • w*v?rj ?,*. Corregkior, Philippine Islands. The next word was received in March. 1943, stating that he was a prisoner of the Japs, but it was later learned that he had paid the supreme sacrifice for his country months before. Funeral arrangements for the World War II hero are being de layed, pending the arrival of the body. The serviceman was the son of Mrs. Beulah White Holliday of State Hospital. Camp Butner, and the lafe M. H. Holliday of Rober sonville. His body is the first of those of fifty-six Martin County youths who made the supreme sacrifice in World War II, to be returned from foreign soil for in terment in their native land. No Word Received From Missing Man —♦ Andrew Roberson, 36-year-old colored farmer of Cross Roads Township, left his home on the W. K. Roebuck farm to go squirrel hunting at 2:00 o’clock last Tues day and lie has not been heard from since that time. When he failed to return home his wife thought possibly lie was spending the night with some friend, but after waiting until noon Wednesday and hearing nothing from him she notified of ficers and they with neighbors, white and colored, started a search of the woods in that sec tion. Fifteen or twenty persons, fighting mosquito swarms, search ed until dark Wednesday and the search was renewed Thursday morning. Roberson, a dependable worker and a good citizen, left his pock jetbook with his wife, explaining | that he might lose it while hunt i mg. He offered no hint that hi planned to leave or resort to any I violent act. ■—~— '■ Drunken Driver Out Under Bond -(!>-■ i George Hardison, young white farmer of Jamesville Township charged with drunken driving was released in $200 bond this week. He is slated to appear foi trial in the county recorder's court next Monday. Hardison is under a two-year suspended sentence, and the new charge is certain to aggravate his standing in the eyes of the law. When arrested by Patrolman W E. Saunders and Deputy Sheriff Buck Holloman last Sunday mglil Hardison said he was looking fot liquor. Asked where he could get liquor, Hardison said, “You car get liquor anywhere down here for everybody keeps it.” Joshua Pritchard Dies In Hamilton -- Joshua Pritchard, about 3! years of age. died at ins home ir Hamilton lust Friday morning Found unconscious on the streets I there the evening before tie wa: j picked up and carried to his home where he died sometime during ; the night. Funeral services were conducted at the home Saturday by Rev. E. R. Stewart and buria was in the Hamilton Cemetery. Pritchard, a divorcee and fathei of four children, was a son o: Mr. and Mi's. Bert Pritchard o Hamilton. He was one of a family of eighteen who made their horn* in a srr.all house in Hamilton. -« Retires After 17 Year* Ah Fertilizer Agent Mr. W. W. Walters, for 17 year: j JamcsviHe representative for th< pany. has resigned bn account"*) ill health and will be sueceedec by Messrs. James W. (Skillet Long and Edgar Brown, both resi dents of Jamesville. Mr. Walters, a capable and effi cient representative of the com pany over a long period of years sold a large tonnage for the com pany each year, according to Pau Waters, of Washington, who head: the Washington branch. Several Charged With Non-support In Martin County Officers Kepi Busy Chasing All Over Cuunlr> For Obligation Dodgers Running cut on their marital obligations, several husbands and fathers are keeping county offic \ ers busy chasing all over the 'country for the alleged obligation i dodgers. Even before one long ! trip is completed, papers are pre ' pared, calling for the return of an | other defendant from a distant point to face non-support and abandonment charges in the courts of this county. Once in a while a defendant, charged with the violation of some other crim inal law. is returned here from a distant state, but most of the war rants charge non-support. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and Chief of Police W T Simpson, traveling by car, left San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday on their return trip i with Edward Fisher who stands [charged with the non-support of his wife and two small children. A warrant was drawn in the of fice of the clerk of court this week at the request of Mrs. Marjorie C. Rappold, charging her husband, Junius Rappold, with non-sup port. The husband and father of two children is in Florida, and it looks as if officers will find it necessary to go after him. It is not known if the young veteran will i fight extradition or return volu ! tarily to the county for trial. Floyd Scott, charged with aban doning his wife and three children in September of last year, is in | Brooklyn. A warrant was issued | against him by his wife, Lizzie i Mac Scott, a few weeks ago. bul j papers have not yet cleared for hi; return. DavidS. Williams Dies In Hospital —.»—. David S. Williams, 4(i. died ir Edgecombe General Hospital in Tarboro Monday afternoon at 2:3C alter a few days' illness. Funer al services were conducted from the home of his mother, Mrs. Lot Williams of Fountain Crossroads near Oak City Wednesday after noon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. Thad Cox, Christian minister of Farm I ville, assisted by the Rev. D. W i Alexander, Free Will Baptist min ! isier of Betnel. Burial was in fh< j Bethel cemetery. Mr. Williams \ was born and reared in Pitt Coun I ty and lived there until 11)37 ! when he moved to Martin County j He was married to Nettie Han oi of Oak City March 10, 1938. Hi I was a farmer and member of tin j Reedy Branch Free Will Baptist Church near Winterville. ! Surviving are his wire; a daugh ter, Mrs. George Brown, Jr , ol Hobgood; two sons, James Robert and Sidney Earl Williams ol th.i home; his mother, Mrs. Lou Wil liams; his maternal grandmother Mrs. W. B. Wingate of Wilson; six brothers, Eddie, John D., Clyde i Lester and Braxton Williams, al I of the Fountain Crossroads com munity; and three sisters, Mis 1 Royce High of Fountain Cross 'loads, Mrs. William Prescott ol ' Hamilton, and Mrs. Jennie Lui j Williams of Norfolk. Va. -o-' Justice Hassell Has Three Cases —»- ■ ’ I In addition to hearing a first de 'gree burglary charge against Le ] Roy Lanier this week, Justice jJohn L. Hassell had three othei leases on his docket the early par i of this week. • Octavious Manning, colored boj i who specializes in operating ole i 1 worn-out motor vehicles, wa ■- sajija B|*^,ri|gS S,. •* *•?**«% ! guilty of entering ” a~" fitgKwaj i without stopping, tin- boy wa: j fined $10 and required to pay tin costs. He was also fined $10 anc taxed with the costs for operating | a motor vehicle with impropei brakes. Melvin Langley, charged witf j operating a motor vehicle wit! : improper equipment, was finec $10 and required to pay the tria | costs. Flim-Flam Game Costs Man $200 Here Wednesday —#— First Time Pooketbook Came \\u<) IJ<rn i’limd Here In Two Years -». — Gus Yarrell, Griffins Township .colored farmer, lost $200 in coid cash as slick as a whistle Wednes j day afternoon when he fell for j the old flim-flam or poeketbook j game near the corner of Haugh 1 ton and Main Streets. • The rules of the game were lit tle different from those in effect when others fell prey to the schemers. Yarrell \told police that he went to the bank and drew out $200, that apparently one of the flim flammers saw him place the ten $20 bills in his wallet. Yarrell walked up the main street almost to Haughton when a man about 35 years of age and dressed in a pair of overalls and a white shirt informed him that he saw a man pick up a poeketbook with $2,000 in it. Yarrell admitted that he lost just about all his reasoning power, and when the three talked it over lie willingly put up his $200 to show good faith, and then accommodated the swindlers by agreeing to wait for them to go to the bank to break the money down into three parts. "After waiting about ten min utes and hearing nothing from the two men, I became suspicious and called the law,” Yarrell said. When Yarrell entered the police station beads of perspiration were popping out on his forehead. Of ficers made a search of the town, but the swindlers were not to be found. "They hit me a heavy blow, but they did not clean me out," Yar I (Continued on page eight) -* Farmer Fires On Chicken Thieves For the second time in about two months, chicken thieves re ceived a hot reception at Farm er George Wood's chicken house | late Wednesday night. Wood fir ed a load of gun shot in the gener al direction of the chicken house, but it could not be learned if he scored a hit. Reports reaching here stated the thieves started out with four chickens, but lost one when the attack was warmed up with gun shot. Officers Buck Holloman and Roy Peel reported there with | blood hounds and a trainer early Thursday and trailed the thieves to the ABC store in Jamcsvillt where the track faded out. Officers Wreck Still In County Fighting through a terrible siege of mosquitoes and wading their shoe tops, Of ficers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel wrecked a small still in Hamilton Township, about three miles wesi of Hassell last Tuesday afternoon The plant was equipped with s crude 30-gallon capacity oil drum and two fermenters. The officers poured out fifty gallons of sugui beer. The still was the fourth wreck ed by officers in this county sc far this month, or more than was destroyed in September. I I THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists on Martin County highways boosted the accident count but did little damage to property, life or limb last week, according to reports coming from members of the highway patrol. Tivjy •f.Jriavc"ilig;.;ialjuiatiqns., j offer a comparison of the ac | cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 41st Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam'ge 1947 3 1 0 $ 100 1946 2 1 0 300 Comparison*; To Date 1947 105 51 3 $22,690 1946 99 78 3 23,650 Bureau Membership Drive Is Lagging In The County The annual Martin County Farm Bureau membership drive is eoing forward mighty slowly.! according to' a YefSoTt rCTeased this week by President Chas. L. Dan iel. Explaining tho* only 285 members had been signed since the drive started weeks ago. the bureau official said that the drive was 2.049 members short of its goal. Membership solicitors are being called to meet in the county court house at 7:00 o'clock Saturday night of this week, and it is plan ned to get the drive started in a big way, looking toward reaching the goal by the middle of next month, if not before. On Friday of this week one of twelve Congressional hearings on agriculture will bo held in Rocky Mount. The Farm Bureau has al ready made plans to represent the I farmers of this county and section Reviews Work Of Regional Library Durinsf Six Years » — Waterbury, Connecticut, Library Donates Volumes To the B-II-IM Library ——• The BUM Regional Library Association has been serving the people of Beaufort, Hyde and Martin Counties for the past six years. Starting without any book collection of its own, but using a loan of six hundred volumes from the North Carolina Library Com mission, the young organization purchased a Bookmobile formerly i used for demonstration purposes by the WPA and began its work in the three counties. The circu lation has grown rapidly until now more than one hundred'thou sand volumes are circulated dur ing a calendar year. A new Book mobile was put into service this past spring and now gives wider service in the region. The num ber of registered borrowers has reached the total of three thous and and six. The library now has a total of 14,095 volumes. Recently a letter came from the Silas Bronson Library of Water bury, Connecticut, saying that they had a number of duplicate copies that they would like to put in the best place for service and offered them to the Region. This offer was accepted and soon two hundred splendid volumes arriv ed. It still remains a mystery why this region was chosen. Mrs. Ford S. Worthy of Wash ington is the librarian and has nine helpers in the office and on the Bookmobile to carry on this growing service. Hundreds of books have been mended and put back into circulation during the past year at about one third the cost of sending them to a bindery. Martin County lias Supported this enterprise enthusiastically from the beginning and is humbly gratified that the regional set-up has received ijational recognition for its service and operation. The county is represented on the Re gion Board by Charles R. Gray, treasurer, Robersonville; Dr. John D. Biggs and Rev. John L. Goff, chairman, William.‘ ton. Injured In Road Accident Tuesday W. J. Cartner, Washington ! white man, suffered a shoulder injury in an automobile-truck ac cident between Oak City and Hob good last Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. The extent of his in jury could not be learned, but first reports indicated it was not j serious. Charles Frederick Caiinadv. of Washington, was d. bung toward Oak City accompanied by Cart ner and started to pass a Tar boro ice and coal truck when the truck driver, James C. Knight, started to make a left turn. The ve hicles crashed and swerved to the left side of the road. Investigating the accident, Cpl. T. Fearing and Patrolman W. B. Parker estimated the damage to ’ the cai at about $250. Damage to Jthc truck was negligible, at that meeting. A four-year pro gram for agricultue is being ask ed by the Form Bureau and other (arm leaders, but as Mr. Daniel points out, the organization will be helpless to act unless more sup port is given it by individual far mers. The local unit president went on to point out that had it not been for the Cooperative Flue Cured Tobacco Stabilization Cor poration. tobacco prices possibly wuold have averaged hardly 25 cents a pound this season. Tire parity program expires next year, and much work must be done be fore that time if agriculture is to hold its rightful place around the legislative tables. Mr. Daniel declares that the farmers are ready and willing to join and support the farm organi zation. that apparently the mem bership canvassers have been slow in advancing the drive. MARKET 1 v/ Tobacco scales on the local market pushed on by the nine million-pound mark this week when daily deliveries broke all records for size. While price averages did not hold to the pace set last week, indi vidual prices continued very high despite inferior quality leaf being offered in larger quantities and ip the face of unfavorable weather condi tions. The sale last Monday was the largest for any one day this year, followed closely by the one on Wednesday when, a small block developed. iLarge Enrollment At East Carolina With 1401 students now attend ing classes, East Carolina Teach cm s I college lias this fall the largest en J rollment for a single quarter in its I history and for the first time since tiie founding of the school 40 yeas ago. a larger number of men than of women. Figures in dicating tiie unusual enrollment have just been made public by Dr. J. K. Long, registrar, following the close on October 9 of tiie period when students might en ter school. Of the total figure, 075 of the students are women and 720 are men. North Carolinians greatly outnumbi r those from other states as is usual at East Carolina. Tar heels number 1305; from other states 96 are enrolled. The freshman class for this year ineludes 557 men and women, ap I proximately 40 pt rcent of the students in college. Men outnum I her women, 319 to 238. .,««k Enrollmcm ■ 1 w* * group are 369 sophomores. 240 juiors, 180 seniors, 38 graduate students, and 5 special students. Veterans are attending East Carolina 540 strong A large num ber of these plan to teach in the public schools of the state. Others are candidates for the liberal arts degree or are enrolled in the pre pi ofessional courses offered for those desiring to attend schools of law, engineering, medicine, and dentistry. -1 Cars In Minor Crash Tuesday No one was hurt and little dam age resulted when a car and pick up truck cr ashed at the intersec tion of Highway 17 and the Grif ■ fins Township Road at the Old I Mill Inn last Tuesday afternoon, rDamage to. both vehicles was less I than S2('n- Patrolman W K Saun ders said following Ills investiga tion. George Willis Lee, driving a furniture truck, star ted to make a left turn into the Griffins road just as Boyd K. Vine of Long Is land City. New York, started to pass. The fenders on the two ve hicles were smashed, but Vine pulled into the side roar! and Lee pulled back into the main high way to avoid a more direct crash, All-Day Session Of County Court Held Last Monday j Forty <!««.«•-. Tried; Total of !*(* I In Hvi-i (inpost'd Hy Jinl^n Smith Calling just about the largest docket ever scheduled for a single session, Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor Paul D. Roberson work ed all day last Monday before ad journing the county recorder’s court until next Monday. There were fifty-three cases on the docket, and had no cases been con tinued the court wouid have been obliged to hold a night session or return the following morning to complete its work. Judge Smith imposed fines amounting to $615 and meted out a few road sentences. The docket was swelled last Monday when the health department carried sev eral alleged health law violators into court. Proceedings: Appearing in court for further judgment in the case charging him with non-support, David Ricks Harrell was ordered to pay $50 a month for the support of his two children, and post $400 bond to show compliance with the judg ment on January 26, 1948. In a second case in which Harrell was charged \*ith operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, the defendant was fined $24 and taxed with the cost. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Irving Brook* was adjudged guilty of simple as sault and he was fined $15 and taxed with the costs. After hearing the evidence in the case charging Tommie Griffin with drunken driving, the court declared that the prosecution was i frivolous and malicious and not 11-iiu11 ed by public (iTb'i VSt. i m: court taxed the prosecuting wit ness Mrs. T. M. Craddock, with the costs which amounted to j $23.05. Pleading guilty of speeding, B. L. Conway was fined $25 and tax ! ed with the costs. Drunk and di n 1 Thurman bind Albert Williams, of Hobgood, j were each fined $25 and required ' to pay the court costs. Charged with assaulting a fe i male and being drunk and disord erly, Ben Long Stevenson was ud ! judged not guilty. Hattie Bryant, charged with larceny, was found not guilty. Edward Williams, adjudged guilty of drunken driving, was fined $100, taxed with the cost land had his license revoked for 1 one year. He appealed to the I higher courts and bond was fixed [ m the sum of $200. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Edward Pippen 1 was fined $10 and required to pay I the costs. The judgment was an nounced after it was learned that the defendant had paid his vic tim’s $34 doctor’s bill and $30 to I James Goss for loss of time. The I assault cost the man over $100, it i w ,t > vs ’nil a ted. James Mobley, charged with assaulting a female, was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. Unable to get his employer to finance the bill, Mobley drew six months on the roads. The ease charging D. C. Keel with aiding and abetting in adul tery was nol pressed, but is sub ject to be reopened. Charged with larceny by trick, William Purvis was fined $15 plus the costs and required to pay $11.25 to John Bryant. Marcellus House was sentenced (Continued on page eight) Purse Snatcher Is Detained In Jail -a> — Stephen McCaden, charged with snatching Will Roberson's wallet containing about $250 in cash, con tinues in the county jail, unable | to •••!•"«' !'■•••-! -n the sun- if $?tvt j At liberty under Slut) bond lor I alleged rape ’when' he" '.-hatched" Roberson's purse in Hamilton last Thursday evening, McCaden found it impossible to gain his freedom when he aggravated his standing in the eyes of the law. McCaden. 28-year-old colored man, came to this county from ! Danville, Virginia, several months I ago and had been working m the Hamilton section until his arrest.
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