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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,090 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEB THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B! OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEB VOLUME LI—NUMBER 3 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, I'liursday, January It, 1948 ESTABLISHED J899 Firemen Of Eastern! Carolina Meet Hemj Making Plans For First Session Of ► Year Next Week - - # Stale Officials To Address \ Group; Baiul Slated To Appear On Program Plans for entertaining the quar terly meeting of the Eastern Caro lina Firemen’s Association here I next Tuesday evening were an- \ nounced just about complete to- j day by Fire Chief G. P. Hall. More ! than 150 delegates from the twen- ! ty-six departments making up the I association are expected for the j one-night session the fire chief i said. State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell and State Insurance ► Commissioner William P. Hodges have been invited to address the meeting which will be held in the Legion Hut on Watts Street. Other notables are expected to attend and participate in the program. Mayor Rr-bt. Cowen is to wel come the delegates, and Mr. H. S. Everett, Mayor of Robersonville, is on the program to make the re sponse. Professor Jack Butler and * his high school band will have a place on the brief entertainment ' program. The business session calls for the election of association officers and discussions of fire-fighting problems and other matters of timely interest to fire depart ments. A barbecue-Brunswick stew i dinner will be served the group. Chief Hall explaining that every i effort will be made to entertain I the visitors and make them feel welcome while here. Headed by Stanley Davis of Morehead City as president, the ! association is comprised of the fol- I lowing departments: Ayden Beaufort, Belhaven. Bethel. Columbia. Eden ton, Engel II hard, Faison, Farmville, Golds boro Greenville Kinston, La Grange. Morehead City. Mt. Olive, New Bern, Pinetops, Plymouth, Robersonville, Rocky Mount, Snow Hill. Walstonburg, Wash ington. Warsaw, Windsor. Winter ville and Williamston. Durham, Raleigh, Elizabeth City, Cherry Point and Camp Davis hold honor ary membership in the Associa tion. Julian Harrell secretary of the department here, has heard from most of the departments in the • sociation and a large rcpiesenta tion is expected for the meeting which is the first to be held here in seven years. -O Gets Shorter Car And Passes Test Finding it difficult to maneuver his long car in a narrow street turn-around last week, Mr. Harry A. Biggs, numbered among the very first motor vehicle drivers in this countv, borrowed a shorter car and parsed the new driver’s examination on Wednesday of this week with flying colors. Reports from the license bureau in the courthouse state that driv ers whose names begin with C or D are reporting in fairly large number to take the new type driver’s testr. Holding Clinics For Workstoek -a Cooperating with the county agent’s office. Dr W. F. Coppage is conducting a series of work stock cl’nics inrfhe county. Similar clinics have been held in the county for several years and they have proved highly success ful in that the physical condition of the workstoek was greatly im proved. Costs are being held to a.minimum While a definite schedule has been prepared. Dr. Coppage will make special trips to any com munity where farmers gather as many as ten animals for treat ment. A schedule for the clinics next week appears in this paper. TOWN TAGS Local vehicle owners will have until February 1 to pur chase and display the $1 li cense plates, but on and after that date court action can be expected in those cases where licenses are not displayed on town vehicles after that date, according to instructions issu ed the police department by the town commissioners. From half to two-thirds of local vehicle owners have been buying and displaying the tags in past years. The supply is adequate this year and a unanimous display is expected. Enterprise Wants Pictures Of All County Children j —•— Pictures Will Be Taken uiul Printed In Paper At No Cost To Parents The Enterprise today announces the forthcoming publication of a series of county white children’s pictures yet to be taken. Arrange ments have been completed with the Wolty. Studios of Des Moines, Iowa, a nationally known firm who specialize in children’s photo graphy for newspapers, to take the pictures and furnish the en gravings. Expert children's photographers for the studios, with all the neces sary equipment for this specializ ed work, will be here Monday and Tuesday. January 2(1 and 27. The special studio will be set up in the Woman’s Club and will be open from 1 p. m to 8 p. m. each day. There is no charge to the par ents. There is absolutely no obli gation to this invitation. There is no age limit. It is bonaiide in every sense of the word. Parents do not have to be subscribers, nor even readers of this newspaper. Neither are they obligated to pur chase pictures alter they are tak en. Those who want some addi tional prints may obtain them by arrangement with the studio rep resentative when they select the pose they want printed in the paper. It is entirely up to them. You will be happy, alterwurds, if you let your child or children participate and very sorry if you don’t. The kiddies will have fun and Mother and Dad wiu be very proud to see their pictures in print later. Many will clip them out and preserve them until junior grows up. The Enterprise wants as many pictures as possible, so don’t forget the days and date. If your last name begins with any of the letters between A and M visit the photographers Mom, day, January 28; N and Z Tues day, January 27. The hours are from 1 p. m. to 8 p. m. each day. . . The above suggestion is not compulsory but your cooperation will be appre ciated. Farm Bureau To Meet This Week ' - A meeting of the Martin County Farm 3ureau will be held in the courthouse Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, President Chas. L. Daniel announces. The meeting will hear a report on the national convention held in Chicago last month, and officers for the new year will be elected. Delegates to the state convention to be held in Asheville the early part of February will be named. “It is an important meeting, and all Farm Bureau members are urged to attend.'1 President Daniel said. --o Conlinttps f’ory III In Washington Hospital Removed to a Washington hos pital last Saturday for treatment, Mr. N. T Tice. Griffins Township farmer, continues critically ill. IDs'vOivdilio,. took ,1 turn for the worse early Thursday, it was re ported. Judge J. C. Smith Has Thirty Cases County’s Court' Tribunal In Tong Session j Clearing The Docket l.asl Monday -•- I Calling thirty cases, Judge J. I Calvin Smith held the county re- i corder s court in session until 4:30 j o’clock before clearing the docket last Monday. The session attract ed unusually large crowds, the colored citizens overflowing one entire section. A record-size fine was imposed during the day, the jurist literal ly frowning down on the practice of running automobiles up and down the highways at 90 miles an hour. Total fines imposed by the court Monday amounted to $1,005, a near record. Proceedings: Facing the court on two counts, Leamon Bennett went to the jury. Pleading not guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon and carry ing a concealed weapon, Bennett was adjudged innocent by the six man jury. In the second case in which he was charged with oper ating a motor vehicle with im proper lights. Bennett was ad judged guilty and Judge Smith sentenced him to the roads for thirty days The defendant ap pealed and bond in the sum of $200 was required A member of | a motor club, Bennett raised the j bond without delay. 1 Entering a plea of nolo con | tendre, R. C. Young, charged with | speeding, was fined $25 and taxed i with the costs. The case charging L. H. Hamm | with issuing a worthless check was dismissed. Adjudged guilty over his own plea of innocence, D. D. Hill, charged with assaulting a female, was sentenced to the roads for six months. The sentence was sus pended for one year upon the payment of a $25 fine and the court costs. The defendant is not to be publicly intoxicated during the suspension period. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Rufus Taylor colored, was fined $25 and required to pay the court costs He was also direct ed to pay $11 to Fannie Staton for the payment of medical attention. Judgment was suspended upon tin' payment of the cost in the case charging Thurman Spruill with being drunk and disoiderly. In a second case in which he was charged with resisting arrest, Spruill pleaded not guilty. The weight of the evidence was i against him, and Judge Smith called for a $50 fine and the pay ment of the court costs. Adjudged guilty ■ r his pica of innocence of drunken driving, Normal Terrell Parker was fined $100 and taxed with the cost, the court recommending that his li cense be revoked for one year in accordance with law\ Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Cam ijilllpkLatham Smith was fined $1,25 I and taxed with tne cost. His li I cense was ordered revoked in ac cordance with the law. Charged wi.th non-support, I Jimmy James pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty of failing j to provide adequate support for his child and the ease was contin ued under prayer for judgment until the'first Monday in January, 1949. The defendant is to pay the court costs and $3 a week for the support of his child. Pleading guilty of speeding, Dallas Godard wa9 fined $50 and taxed with the costs. In a second case in which he was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Godard was fin ed another $50 and required to pay th«* court costs. The record fine for speeding was imposed on Charlie Cox who allegedly drove his automobile 90 miles an hour on U. S. Highway 17. He was fined $100 and taxed with the ocst. The arrest was made by Patrolman J. T. Rowe. William Hinton Gurkins was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for speeding. The case charging Samuel Man ning with non-support was con tinued under prayer for judgment until February 2, 1948, after he was adjudged guilty over his own plea of innocence. Pleading guilty of speeding John Manuel Little was fined $25 I (Continued on page eight) Make Plans For Clothing Drive Throughout County advanced this week for an extensive drive throughout Martin County for old clothes for the ill clad in war's wake overseas. Headed by Mrs. R. H. Goodmon as county chair man. the campaign, declared the most urgent yet, is to be conduct- ] ed during the week beginning January 25. The Council of Churches is di- | reefing the drive throughout the nation and w’hen the Willianiston ! Woman's Club was called on to ' head the drive in this county, Mrs. Wheeler Martin. Jr., club presi di nt, named Mrs. Goodmon chair man and plans are already well advanced for the task. This county is being asked to raise approximately 26.000 pounds of old but serviceable clothing, or about one pound per capital. Si milar drives have been held for Nancy Bullock Dies In County » Miss Nancy Bullock. 53. died at the home of her brother, John Ro bert Bullock, h^ar Everetts in Cross Roads Township Wednesday morning at 8:15 o’clock. She had been ill only about two weeks, having enjoyed very good health until that time. Miss 3ullock was born in Cross Roads Township on October 16, 1894, the daughter of the late Robert and Fannie Price Bullock. She lived in that community all her life where she was held in high esteem. She was a faithful member of the Baptist church in Everetts for about eighteen years. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Chester Beach; and two brothers, John Robert and Staton Bullock, all of Cross Roads Township. Funeral services will be con ducted in the church at Everetts by the pastor, Rev. E. R. Stewart, on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Interment will be in the Bul!ock,4amily cemetery • Native Of County Dies In Hospital —~» Joseph S. Bland, 68, died at Tay loe Hospital, in Washington, Sun day night at 7:30 o’clock after sev eral months’ illness. Funeral ser vices were conducted in Green ville Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock Mr. Bland was born and reared in Martin County, near Roberson* ville. He was a farmer and a min ister of the Gospel He was first married to Miss Minnie Leggett of Martin County. Surviving this union are two sons, John Asa and Oscar Bland of Martin County, and a daughter Mrs. Edward Pridgen of Hamilton. He was lat er married to Miss Juanita Sutton in 1919. who survives. Surviving this union are three sons. Pfc. Joseph K. Bland of the U. S. Army, now in Germany; James C. and David Bland of the home; three daughters, Mrs. William Ed mondson of Bell Arthur, Mrs. Her man Lee Herring of near Green ville, and Doris Bland of the home; 12 grandchildren; two bro thers, Fernando Bland of near Roberson ville and Chester Bland of near Shelmerdine. " ’ <9*-- — - Complete Bridge Here This Week —• — When factory representatives hook urj two traffic barriers this week-end the Roanoke River bridge improvement project will have been completed in its en tiret.\. During the meantime traf fic is moving over the new draw bridge and the widened ap proaches without delay. The barriers, worked by com pressed air, will, it is said, stop a car going about 60 miles an hour and hold it without turning it over. Most- uC fhe contracting firm workers and engineers have al ready moved to new locations, and only a few pieces of equipment are to be transferred. One of the state inspectors on the project, Fred Fraley, is leav ing for Ahoskie shortly, but other engineers will continue here for work on the Griffins Township road project. the past two years, but the re-1 sponse d'd not come up to ex pectations. Appeals this year are being di rected to the people through the churches, schools, press and radio, and it is earnestly hoped that the people will cooperate to the full est in supporting the drive during the last week in this month. In Williamston the Lions will handle a house-to-house canvass on Sunday, January 25. Every church in the county is being ask ed to receive clothing and turn it into the depot to be maintained in the showroom of the Virginia Electric and Power Company. School children will be asked to carry old clothing to their respec tive schools. The sponsors, acting out of mer cy for the freezing, are looking to the people of Martin County to put the drive across. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists started the Now Year off with a bang on Mar tin County highways. In the first week there were three highway and street accidents, but fortunately no one was hurt, at least, not badly. The property damage amounted to approximately $800. A year ago there were two accidents on county highways. No one was hurt then but the property damage run up to $950. Record Rainfall Fell Last Year More rain fell heir last year I than in any other year on Yecord, a report from Bridge Keeper Hugh Spruill stating that 57.12 j inches of rain fell in 11)47 Fairly j heavy rainfall was reported in all 'id three months during !**47 In jony one month, February, did the [rainfall fall below an inch ar^d in jthat month .84 of an inch was re corded. While it set no record for any one month, the precipitation j went as high as 8 30 inches last July, followed by 8.0(i inches in | August. A record fall of 7.33 j inches was reported for the month I of November. Only 2.71 inches of rain fell in December. The rainfall last year was about , eleven inches above the norma! | and is almost two inches greater [than the previous record of 55.48 J inches reported in 1030 . The 1 r»4 V | rainfall is 25.30 inches greater than the record low of 31.70 inches recorded in 1941. Very little rain has fallen here so far this year, and the weather has been fairly moderate. -— ■ - Hold Program At I TheCountyHome Approximately 50 men and wo men visited the county home Sun day afternoon, January 4. at 3:00 o'clock to hold their annual Old Christmas program. Christmas carols, scripture, prayer, greetings I and a talk by Ri v. John Hardy, I l ector of the Church of the Ad | vent, were included in the pro gram. Rev Hardy gave a timely italk on “Why We Celebrate Oid j Christmas.” As the custom has been for I years, the Home Demonstration | Clubs of the county took a collec j tion at their December dub meet ings to buy gifts for the inmates 'to be presented at this time. This year, instead of ouying personal gifts, a radio was presented to the home. After the program, room-to room visits were made to those people unable to gather in the auditorium.—Reported. Ltmr Canr I Irani la Jwtlirr's Court llrrr ——* Only one case was cai ned into Justice John L. Hassell’s court this week, other than two or three hearings held in connection with ejectment proceedings. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper licenses. Wilbur Jackson was fined $5 and taxed with the costs. Man Arrested At Liquor Plant In Coimtv^Tnesdnv Five I!Ij«-it Distiilerios Are Deulroyfil In Two Days This Week -• Oni' man was caught and an- I other was recognized when Mar-1 tin County ABC officers raided in j the Smithwicks Creek section of Griffins Township last Tuesday. Continuing their work the follow ing day the officers wrecked four illicit distilleries in Roberson ville and Hamilton Townships. Accompanied by ABC officers from Beaufort County, ABC Of ficer J. H. Roebuck and Deputy Roy Peel went into the Smith wicks Crock section and trapped Hubert A. Perry at a still. V. L. Peel. Jr., escaped, but he was rec ognized. The two men are being brought into the county court on January 19, charged with possess ing materials for the manufacture of illicit liquor. When the officers reached the plant, the two men, having received advanced infor mation that the law was operat ing in that section, were dismant ling the manufacturing equip ment and were carrying away an oil burner. Perry could not get away, but Peel dropped the-oil burner and ran out from under his hat. The plant was equipped with a wood still measuring fourteen feet in length, two feet in width and about fourteen inches deep. There were four 200-gallon ca pacity fermenters and approxi mately 600 gallons of sugar beer. Yesterday the officers were met by representatives of the Pitt County alcoholic beverages con trol board and they raided along Highway No. 11. Two plants, equipped with 50-gallon oil drum stills, were wrecked in Roberson ville Township, and two similar 1 plants were destroyed in Hamilton | Township, one near Hassell. The j officers poured out two barrels of I beer at each of three plants and I five barrels at the fourth. Mrs. Etta Cowin Pies In County Mrs. Church Cowin, 75, died at her home in Bear Grass Township I at 5:20 o’clock Wednesday after I noon after a long illness. She had been confined, to her bed for one year and her condition had been serious for several months. The end came gradually and she was conscioi'.. up until a few minute before she died. The daughter of the late Mack Gilbert, e-d Frances Rogerson she was born in Bear Grass on August 16, 1872, and lived there all her life. She was Miss Mary Etta Rogerson before her marriage to Mr. Cowin on March 15, 1902. He died two years ago next month. She was a member of the Chris tian Church in Washington. Surviving are three children, O C. Cowin of Tarboro and Cowin of Norfolk, and one daugh ter, Fannie Cowin of the home. Funeral.services will be con ducted tit the home Friday after noon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. John L. Goff and Elder A. B. Ayers. Burial will be in the Cowin Ceme tery near Bear Grass. - No Opening Date For Factory Here —— No date for reopening the bas ket factory recently purchased by the Marvil Package Company has been set, according to unoffic ial information gamed yesterday. Experienced machinists are busy making changes in the fac tory and overhauling the machin ery. Considerable progress has been made during the past two weeks, but the job is no small one and may require more time than was thought necessary last week. “We are doing everything pos sible to put the plant in operation as soon as possible,” one official was quoted as saying yesterday. County Trincipulx To Meet Hero I\ext Monday -■»_— Principals of the several county schools will meet in the office of the county superintendent here r«e»VMt>nr j afternoon at 4:00 o'clock to discuss cun cut school I matters. Town Asks Bids For Another Deep Weil I TAX LISTING I Annual tax listing, launch ed in this county the latter part of last week, is going for ward very rapidly in most townships according to re- | ports received here today. A "little" rush was report ed in the Williamston Town ship office this week, indicat ing that those property own ers who were caught in the j last-minute rush last year are acting to avoid it fhis year. It is too earlv to gain any idea as to the trend in values, but most list-takers are ex pecting to hold their own and show a gain. “Common Cold' Is Cause Of Absences! And Loss Of Tim? -- Averiijie IVrson Mas Two or Three Colds Annually, Statistics |{c\cal The “common cold”, just as the name implies, has the doubtful distinction of being the common est disease of mankind, Nor is “disease" to strong a word to de scribe it, since it tilings tempo! ary misery and frequently leaves in its wake very serious compli cations. Americans lose more school and work time from colds and their complications than from any other illness, Although it claims its greatest number of vic tims during the cold weather, the common cold st kes during all four seasons of the year. If you are an “average person,” according to statistics, you have two or three c >Ids a year. Chances are, you regm-ded them lightly., tried a few suggested remedies of well-meaning friend', nr let the colds “run their c< urse.” Once rid of the uncomfortable affliction, it is hard for you to realize that each cold, no matter how short-lived, weakened your physical well-being, at least for its duration and pel haps for a long time afterward, its neglect might have led to influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, serious ear trouble, or made your body a vulnerable target for tuberculosis germs. One of the greatest evils of the common cold is the fact that its early symptoms ran be mistaken lot th" e pi j.ii sg.rj.ous gnjiij, mun.eable diseases O'ten the more serious disease is mistaken for "a cold coming on," and is dis regarded until it has made danger ous progress with its victim and spread its germs to others. Keeping your body in a gener ally healthy condition is the best way to resist cold as it is to fight ;!:nc::; That means sufficient rest and sleep, and adequate and well-balanced die' fresh air and exercise. Hut a healthy body is no guarantee against a cold. Just as it does not confine itself to age or season, the common cold strikes the fragile and tne robust alike. Everyone knows that colds are catching When a cold victim coughs or sneeezs he sprays the air around him with tiny droplets of moisture that contain cold germs. Anyone near him can easi ly inhale those germs. Every cough and sneeze should be cov ered, preferably with paper tis sues that can be burned. Never, under any circumstances, neglect a cold, no matter how triv ial it might seem to you. If you do catch cold, stay at home, if at all possible, to avoid giving it to others and get as much rest as you can. Eat easily digested foods and drink plenty of liquids, in cluding fruit juices. Rest and diet arc important factors in treating a cold. If you have a fever, call your doctor and remain in bed un til he says it is safe for you to get up. -—-o-- ——— I'ltvl Shortage Exists hi fa*iv Lot'dl llonivs -» Quite a few local homes are cold on account of « shortage of special gas Relief has been pro mised but it could nut be learned when deliveries could be effected. i Add No New Water Customers Until Plan Is Accepted -—— Ho;ir«l Takes No Wlion To Inerease Water Storage Facilities Here Meeting last Tuesday evening, the local town commissioners act ed to relieve the existing water supply shortage, but delayed ac tion on a proposed plan for in creasing the storage capacity. Other problems were briefly dis cussed. hut the two-hour meeting was devoted mainly to a review of thi' water supply and suggested remedies. Fairly certain that the project can be financed from special and current general funds, the com missioners directed Engineers Rivers and Rivers to advertise for bids for another deep well and discuss the problem with the State geologi.'t and State Health Departmen*. During the meantime no new water customers will be added to the system outside the town limits However, it was the expressed wish of all the board members to extend the service as soon as possible to those located on present watc lines. While no definite action was taken, it was intimated that no plans will be made to extend water mains out side ot town, but every effort will be made to maintain the present system outside of town. It was indirectly expressed that if the bids to be advertised with in the next ten days or two weeks are acceptable and a contract can be entered into, guaranteeing wat er within a reasonable time, the officials will make service avail aide to prospective customers soon after the contract preliminaries are completed. If no contract can be had assuring an increased sup ply of water before peak con -umption ikxl summer, then it is likely that no new customers will be added. Engineer Henry Rivers said that he thought it possible to sink a well within a short time, that possibly the project would be de layed on account of a pump and motor shortage. It is estimated that the new well will cost between $8,000 and $9,000. A site for the new well will bt -.elected following a study ot the present system by the State geologist, engineers and others. While discus.-iny the water sup ply, tiie officials reviewed service rates and costs for making connec tions to water and sewer lines. Where Wihiamston has a $1,25 minimum, Greenville has a $1.50 base. Greenville charges $30 for a sewer tap inside its limits and $60 out- ide. The Pitt capital also charg®s. ■Stl&JLuv.jswter connec tion inside the limits and $4U out side. Williamstor. charges $10 for a sewer connection and $15 for a water connection with no differ ential fnr the service outside the limits. It was pointed out that the tap connections actually cost more than the amounts charged here. Discussing brieny the need lot' increasing the water storage ea> pacity, it was pointed out that a 300,000 gallon elevated tank would cost between $45 000 and $50,000, At tlie present time the town has the fime elevated storage capac ity tna* the little town ol Winter vilie has, and during periods of peak consumption it is impossible for the present system to maintain a supply at a safety level. The need for enlarged storage facili ties is urgent, but the authorities decided to postpone action for the present. Contrary to plans advanced some weeks ago for inaugurating a long-range improvement pro gram for the town and its envir ons, the action taken by the board Tuesday evening can be consider ed only of a temporary nature. During the meantime the water department is making plans tu ex tend its water l.nes within the town. Approximately 2.000 feel »f cast iron pipe jusc recently de livered, is to be laid during th^ next several weeks. Very little other business wi (Continued on page eighty-** :
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