THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME U—NUMBER 5 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3.000 MARTIN COCNCT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEI* W illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, January / >. 10 Mi ESTABLISHED 1899 Eastern Carolina Firemen Met Here Tuesday EveStng Loral Fire Chief Elected To Vice Presidency Of Association Weather conditions and other unforeseen events ruled out just about everv one of the headliners on the program, but the elements did not stop more than 150 volun teer firemen from attending the quarterly meeting of the Eastern North Carolina Firemen’s Asso ciation in the Legion Hut here last TuesdaS evening. State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell was called to Chapel Hill at the last minute, the group was informed. State Insurance Commissioner Wm. P. Hodges was held to his of fice when all other members of the department were unable to re port for duty on account of ill ness. Even President Stanley Davis of Mr rehead City was un able to attend. Despite the program upset, the meeting moved ahead according to schedule with Secretary C. H. Flannagan of Farmville holding down the chair and Williamston’s Fire Chief G. P. Hall serving as j toastmaster. The meeting was highlighted 'by Professor Jack Butler end the high school band. Frank S, Weaver’s Tune Toppers, a talk by Attorney H. G. HortOn and a sumptuous barbecue and Brunswick stew dinner. The ses sion. la.-ting about two hours, was an enjoyable event. The preliminaries successfully handled, including the recognition of special guests, the meeting set tled down to its business program. C. II. Flannagan, nominated by Chief Guthrie of Morehead City, was ejected president for the cur rent year. The election came aft er the association refused to be bound by a precedent providing the promotion of vice president* to the higher post A two-way con test developed for the post of vice president. 'hie. Hugh So sley of ■Rocky Mount was nominated and Fire Chief G. p. Hall w as placed in the-race and elected by a sub stantial majority. Miller Warren of the Plymouth departi.lent was nominated and unanimously elected secretary treasurer of the organization. Following the election of offic- j ers, the meeting heard an open discussi m of the administration of firemen’s relief funds. One of I the delegates explained that a member of hr department had j fallen victim of tuberculosis and I asked 'he opinion of the associa tion in financing his care in a san atorium. The issue was discuss ed by several delegates, but it was the expressed opinion of the en tile membership that the depart ment o'1 which the victim was a member should finance the case, that should the department’s re lief fund he exhausted, then the cost should be financed from the .State Association’s relief fund. "No volunteer fireman in North Carolina has yet had to turn to charity, and we.don’t want it to (Continued on page eight) County Banks 7’o Have Holiday l\exl Monday The Branch Banking and Tru;-t Company and the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Williams ton and the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Robersonville will be closed Monday, January 19. to observe Lee's birthday. Pa trons of the institutions are asked to remember this closing date. j MAIL DELIVERY |l V-/ I City nail delivery will be etxended to just about every , section of the town and to several hundred patrons just outside of town just as soon | as equipment is made avail j able, Postmaster YV. E. Dunn said yesterday. "We hope the • '"equipment wilt reach here within the next few weeks," Mr. Dunn said. Handled by a third carrier, the new route will serve all that territory back of Wood lawn Cemetery, most every one in North End and extend to the city limit on Wesf Main Stre?t,. Lad Walks Again With Aid Offered By March Of Dimes Mucn has been written, a ereat deal said and goodly sums of money have been advanced, but those who wrote, wrokc d and con tributed to the March of Dimes have been well repaid by the vir tual recovery of the brieht-eved happy little fellow pictun ’ here. He is John Wade Colt'ain, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Col train of Griffins Township. It is for such young fellows as John Wade and others that the annual drive for $2,600 is being launched to finance the relentless figh* against infantile paralysis. Stricken by the disease, the lad was rendered helpless He had no use of any of his limbs. His case, a few years ago would have been regarded as a hopeless one But the imantile paralysis fund came to his rescue and he was removed to the foundation's hospital at Gastonia. Months of nursing and care gradually restored the young ster's health. Last summer when Patrolman W. E. Saunders took his picture, the lad hopped and skipped around the yard on his crutches. Although he could walk without the crutches he held on to them at the advice of to hos pital phvsicians who referred o him as an ideal patient. Ther-' is no assurance that polio will not strike again this suinmr. It may hit your home or mine, but T\\ IJSTIIW; Tax listiiis* for the year 1!I18 was announced about fc rtv percent complete in most of the ten townships to day ov Tax Supervisor M. Peel. Time for listing prop pertv is half spent, and while the task is not yet half com plete, the supervisor pointed out that the work is consider ably ahead of the schedule followed in years past. The list takers are handling the task without much delay, hut if property owners delay in reporting there'll he a last minute rush and long waits. Willir Bea**ham Dies !n County Willi" M--ion Bcacham, native of Beaufort County, died at his homo, RFD 1, Jamesville, at 7:00 o’clock Wednesday morning of a stroke of paralysis suffered a few days previously. Mr B‘ n-ham was born in Beau fort Count’ 7*1 years ago. the son of the late William and Jane Lil ley Beacham. He was married to Miss Allie Moo. e of Beaufort County in 1 :)00 and moved to this county forty years ago. He was a member of the Janjesville Chris tian Church. Surviving arc hi: widow; scaur daughters Mrs. Annie Bell Mod lin, Mrs. George Hopkins. Mrs. Lloyd Price Mrs. Ve ter Coltrain and M's. Wilbur Gurganus, all of Jamesville, and Mrs. Stella Saw yer of Norfolk; three sons, Els worth, William and Evan Beach am of Jamesville; and 26 grand children. Funeral services are being con ducted at the home this afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. W. B. Harrington. Interment will be in the family! cemetery near the home. Justice Hassell Has Four Cases j —— Justice John L. Hassell handled ; four cases in his court during the j early part of the week. Finos in 1 the amount of $20 were imposed. Charged with running through a red stop light, Jack Dixon was fined ViO and taxed with $7.50 costs. Will Council was fined $5 and required to pay $7.00 costs when ; he was li d into court fui ai leged'y en*'-rirg :■ high'.'."'! v-'-ith out stopping. Publicly drunk Cecil Pippen was fined $5 and taxed with $9.50 costs. Judgment was suspended upon | the payment of $6.50 costs in the case charging Clarence Roberts with disorderly conduct. wherever to fig1'.*, it it hits let's T>o prepare i i by helping Chairman L. 15 Wynn,' carry the current fund drive over the $2,600 goal. AM that’s been done and contrib uted, we’ve been well repaid by the near miracles performed w’th John Wade and seva ral other chil dren right here in Martin County. Let us be prepared for whatever the future may offer. More Than Half a Million Victims 01 Tuberculosis \-ru> Is Advised Vl Refill lar I ii I er \ a Is As A Safeguard Nunc of us wants to grow old. We give generously of time, mon ey and energy each yeai to beau ty parlors, barbers and gymnas iums m efforts to ward off, a*- long as possible, the visible changes that time makes in us. How muen of our concentration goes to the prevention of disease and the pres< rvation of health? How many of us tiy to avoid hav ing and spreading tuberculosis, a communicable disease that kills 50,000 Americans annually? About half a million people in the United Slates today are suf fering from active tuberculosis. It is est 'mated that only half of these cases are known to health auth orities, which means that there are approximateiv 5(50.duo Ameri cans suffering from the disease who may not know they have it, who arc not receiving proper care and who may be unknowingly spreading it to their families, friends and co-workers. We are needlessly gambling with our own lives and those of our associates when we ignore the possibility .0, Vi*1 * * »■ jy, (it. i-.e ejrriong r* , known victims of tuberculosis. Preventing the visible signs of advancing age just doesn’t make sense when we do nothing about losing our health, and even our lives, to tuberculosis. A complete physical examina tion with a chest X-ray will tell you whether or not you have tu berculosis. The X-ray can find signs of tuberculosis in your lungs before you actually feel ill and see your doctor as a result. That is why chest X-rays of apparently healthy people have resulted in eai ly detection and early cure of tuberculosis in thousands of per sons who would otherwise go un til ated and spread the disease in their daily contacts. Although the X-ray is the easi est way to detect pulmonary tub erculosis in its early stages, it does (Continued on page five) New Ford Truck On Display Here ii.f fiew ty48 bi.riu--built Ford | ti’UC/v iiiiC «. ‘ ■ * gu t>u Ui.-piuy here in tilt' showroom of the Wiliiums ton Motor Company tomorrow morning. Then are more than 115 differ ent molels to choose from in the new series, its three entirely new! engines ranging from 95 to 1451 hors-Ev'owcr. Many Tenants Are Moving About The County This Year School Reports Indicate the County Is Cuming In IS uni her of Students The annual airing of furniture, other household goods and little children is progressing rapidly and or. a larger scale this year than last in this county, according to preliminary reports coming from several county departments. Unfortunately quite a few of the shifts were made at the insistence of the law, the sheriff's depart ment declaring that more eject ment proceedings had been insti tuted during the past several years than in any other similar period ..ince before the war. While there has been much moving among non-fanners dur ing recent weeks, the more-or les4 annual task for many is be ing confined to tenant families. In quite tt lew instances, places are being swapped, the first re ports maintaining that few ten ants are* being pushed out on ac count of the proposed drastic re duction in tobacco acreage for 1948. Had the peanut reduction program been maintained, the story for the tenant may not have had such a favorable ending. It is fairly evident now that the farm poDulation will about main tain itself in the county this year. Most of the moving is traceable to adverse farm and financial condi tions, tiie landlords calling for changes in most of those instances where the tenants did not “pay out." On the other hand, a few tenants are moving out volun tarily, claiming in some cases that the landlords were delaying set tlement or exacting contracts of a more stringent nature for the cur rent year One report maintains that three times as many families are mov ing this year as last. During the war years and the period immedi ately following the war there was very little' moving reported in the county, tIn- renters unU landlords agreeing to make the best of the situation as il existed. It was fairly evident in recent reports received on enrollment figures in several schools that this county is gaining in population. Jamesvi'le, Bear Grass and Ham ilton have already placed orders for additional school desks to care for expanding enrollments. Other schools are said to have reported front one to ten or fifteen addi tional pupils, hut called tor no more equipment to care for them. Art Workshop In Counl y Next Week -a An exhibit of art work done by children in the Martin County Schools will be featured in con nection with the art workshop to be held in Willianiston next week, ftepre1*1nTauve art work of child ren from the first to the twelfth giade.i will be on display on the first floor of the Williamston Grammar School Building. Hours for the exhibit are from 3:00 to 6:00 p. m. and from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, January 19, 20, 21. The exhibit will be open to the pub lie. Sixth grade children will serve as guides. The art workshop for the white teachers of Martin County will lie held on January 19. 20, 21 in the Williamston Grammar School Lunchroom. Reports from the various schcols are that the num ber of teachers wishing to par ticipate will far exceed the maxi mum number of fifty allowed. Participation in the workshop is voluntary. Miss Lilli'tn V. Nunn, art edu cation representative of the 13 in - ney and Smith Company, will con duct th' workshop. On succes.-.ive days the sessions will includi de monstrations of crayon and clialk techniques design light and shade stenciiine ligure work brush painting, finger painting, color mixing end blending, texture com positions and discussions, After the demonstrations there will be experimental work periods for the teachers. A similar workshop will be held for the, Wegt o teachers on January 22. 23. 24 in the Williamston Ci/icred School Auditoi mm, ...: ... i Preliminary Plans Completed For Tl> Survey In County j j Slarl Takiim X-ray Pictures In Several Districts Vi eek After Next -O Prelirrinary plans for advanc ing one of the greatest movements to stamp out tuberculosis ever launched in Martin County have been completed. Dr. J. W. Wil liams, Health officer, announced this week. “We ore all set and about leady to go." the health of ficial said, explaining that the first X-rav pictures would be made in several districts on Tues day, January 27. The program calls for every person, white and colored rich and poor 15 years or older to be X-rayed during the mass TB survey. The project will not be complete unless every eli gible person avails himself or her self of the important service which ir being made available ab solutely free to the individual. rhc preliminary plans for the survey were handled by Miss Frances Kornogay of the North Carolina State Board of Health’s Bureau of Tuberculosis Control. Coming here in early December, Mi s Kornogay advanced plans for the survey. Under her direction, posters have been printed, adver tising the project Thousands of letters, outlining the purpose of the surrey and announcing the schedule, were prepared. They were addressed by students in the white and colored high schools where the task was handled promptly and willingly. Sites for locating the mobile X-ray equip ment were selected subject to power facilities and inspection by an electrician from headquarters. Pictures, tying in with the sur vey, have been shown in various schools and before the several civic organizations. Special meet ings were held with group leaders and with the Puritans, Rotarians, Javcees, I.ions and Kiwanians and parent teacher associations. Just before leaving the mmt.v to continue her work in Fayette ville, Miss Kornogay expressed her appreciation to all those who had aided her work, and express ed the 'pinion that the people of this county will take full advan tage of the service. It ha- been pointed out that the service is not limited to any one group, that M is being provided for every person in the county fifteen years old or older. Dr. Williams explained this week that X-rays of children under 15 years of age (Continued on page eight) Bishop Wright To Prradi In County The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright. Bishop of tin Diocese of East Car (hit:;!, will inakohisannual visit to Mari in County this week-end. Bishop Wright will preach at the II o’clock service in the Church of the Advent, Williamston, Sun day morning and at 7.30 that eve ning at St. Martin’s Church in Hamilton. At the morning service! the rector, Rev John W. Hardy, will present several persons to the Bishop f>> be received into the Episcopal church by the rite oi confirmation. Even though he is one of the younges* bishops of the Episcopal church, Bishop Wright is widely knov/n throughout the country. He was born and reared in Wil mington, where he now lives. When he was elected Bisiiop three years ago he was rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches in this country, St. M irks’ Church, San Antonio, Texas Before that he had served as head, and full time worker, of the Department for College work for the National church. For several years he was the rector of the Robert E. Lee j Memorial church at Lexington, Va., where he did excellent work i with Hie Students of the two col-j leges there Following this he was I dean of the Catnedral of Los Ari Gele.s. California. Bishop Wright is in g. ( at demand as a speaker. Recently he was elected as a dele gate to the Lambeth conference which meets in England this .sum mer, and has been asked to give a serie; of lectures at Cambridge University while in England. Reports Increase In Illicit Liquor Trade WEATHER | Following: warm weather and heavy rains earlier in the week, Ole Man Winter struck with force yesterday and last night, turning loose a bit of snow and sending the mer cury zooming down into the teens. Snow tried to break through several times Wed nesday but never succeeded. Fate Wednesday night enough of the white flakes fell to form a thin blanket over flat roofs. With the mercury hovering around 1‘* degrees, last night was the coldest of the winter so far. American Marines Are Being Moved To Mediterranean -$ Movement Seen In (ionfliet W iI!i Hope For Deeent Peaee Plan -« Two shiploads of United States Marini ; are moving to the Medi terranean area, presumably to in tervene in the civil war in Greece. The movement is seen by some to be hi conflict with any hope for a decent peace plan. An interesting story on Greece was written by Joseph P. Lvford in a recent issue of the New He public, and throws light on the situation there, as follows: Colonel A. W Sheppard is an Australian army officer who thinks that the present US-sup ported Greek government is man ufacturing communists taster than il can Hiii them oil. iie speaks from firsthand observation, .A . little . nui'‘ached ••regular who looks like someone out of a Kipling story, the colonel served two and a half years in Greece at different times in 11)41 as a mem ber of an Aussie combat team, in 11)45 as administrator of several UNKHA refugee camps, and fin ally as head of the British Eco nomic Mission to northern Greece. While lighting in Greece, Shep pard was wounded. He was shot by a German Nazi, not a Gieek one, which he claims differenti ates him from thousands of Greeks who have been killed by their own government since the "liberation” in 11)44. His experience has convinced him that tiie Royalist government, polluted with nazism. cannot de feat the rebels, and that its in credible brutality is gradually driving all democratic opposition into the extreme leftist camp. Sheppard outlined his position while in New York recently on ins way home. With the London Times and the accounts of US and British correspondents in Athens at the time to back him, the col onel described how Royalist troops machine-gunned a peace ful ELA.S demonstration in De cember, 1944, to start the civil war. "For '*3 days the enraged people of Athens battled lend-lease tanks and government troops to a stand (Continued on page five) Making Repairs At Factory Here —»—i An extensive repair and altera tion program continues to make prog re.-.- at the basket factory u cently purchased here by the Mai - v’il Package Company of Dela ware. That portion of the plant where basket bottoms arc mode was placed in operation a few days ago, but no definite date for open- i ing the main factory has been fix- I ed. Chief Engineer Seneca!, spend• 1 ing most of thus week at the local plant, stated this morning that the work was progressing rapidly but that the task is requiring more time than had been originally al lotted to it. An unofficial report: indicated the plant would possibly start operating in about ten days ox* two weeks. -- One Hundred And Forty - two Stills Taken Liist War Nearly 19,000 (ialloiis Of Mash l'oure«l Out !?\ Kiiforeemrnl (p roll ;> In the fact' of the legal slurrs and one of the most effective en forcement organizations in the State, the illicit liquor business continued to gajji in volume in this county last war, according to the annual report recently filed by ABC Enforcement Officer J. II. Roebuck. Submitted wiLhout comment, the report shows that the illicit liquor business continues to hold a place in the economic life of the county. It is fairly evident, how ever, that the increase in the illi cit business is trailing by a con siderable margin the phenomenal gain in the legal sale of intoxicat ing beverages. After struggling along with in ferior equipment forced upon it by wartime shortages, the illicit business is gradually replacing its plant with better equipment. More copper stills were captured last year than in any period since before the war, and sugar has re placed almost entirely the old common molasses No official figures are to he had. but it is estimated that the property confiscated and destroy ed by the enforcement officers was worth in excess of $20,000. Despite that economic blow, the manufacturers were able to charge exhorbitant prices for their pro duel and il is possible that the business netted the more fortu nate operators a . i/.uble net profit. However, .in those cases where plants were wrecked soon after thev ware placid in (iiwtv/'asrj, tne manufacturers lost money. Officer Roebuck, assisted in the main oy Deputy Roy Peel, wreck ed 142 plants last year as com pared with 130 in 1940. They poured out 10,050 gallons of mash or beer in 1947 a- compared with 15,930 the previous year. In 1947 the officers confiscated 420 gal lons of liquor as compared with 120 gallons taken in 1940. Seventeen persons were arrest ed eacli year for allegedly violat ing the liquor laws. Sixteen were convicted last year and drew twelve and one-half years on the roads. In 1947 iourtt en of the seventeen arrested were convict ed in the courts and they drew a total of nine years on the roads Fines imposed la-' year amounted to $915 as compared with $1,600 imposed in 1946. The officers traveled 12,927 miles in the performance of their dut.ics