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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN BOUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ■ THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS REAR HI OVER 3,090 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LI—NUMBER 9 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 29, 194S ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Smith Has Eighteen Cases In County Court Several Road Sentences Are Meted Out; Fines Amount to $360 -o Judge J. Calvin Smith held the county recorder’s court in session until noon, handling eighteen cas es before a large audience consid ering the unfavorable weather. Several road sentences were met ed out and fines, amounting to $360, were imposed. Proceedings: Charged with disposing of mort gaged property, Hubert Roberson was adjudged not guilty. The case charging Sid Harris with an assault and being drunk and disorderly was dismissed, but is subject to be recalled. Charged with drunken driving and failure to stop after being in an accident in which personal pro perty was damaged, Merlin Hollis was adjudged not guilty of drunk en driving. Judgment was sus pended on the other count, the court directing the defendant to pay the costs and $46 Vo the prose cuting witness, Thea Roberson, for hogs killed by the defendant. Pleading not guilty, Clarence Bullock was found guilty of as saulting a female and was sen tenced to the roads for sixty days. The road sentence was suspended upon trte payment of a $10 fine and costs. The defendant is to re main off the premises of Henrietta Bullock for one year. Sam Gorham, charged with lar ceny and receiving, was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. He pleaded not guilty. Pleading guilty in the case charging him with speeding, Jas per E. Meekin was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. L. Williams, charged with speeding, failed to answer when called. Papers for his arrest were ordered issued by the court. It is likely that the court will render judgment absolute on the $50 bond posted by the defendant. George Jernigan pleaded guilty and was lined $25 and taxed with the costs. Facing the cour* on three counts charging him with issuing bad checks, Wiley Brown was sentenc-/ ed to the roads for thirty days in each case, the second and third sentences to begin at the expira tion of the preceding ones. It was pointed out that the defendant had issued worthless checks in the sum of $50 to Williamslon taxi drivers. Pleading guilty in the case charging him with bastardy, John Moore, colored, was sentenced to the roads for eight months. The road sentence was suspended up on the payment of the trial costs, $15 to the prosecuting witness, Viola Belcherm, and $16 a month for the support of his child. James Godard, pleading guilty of bastardy, was sentenced to the roads for six months The road term was-suspeoded-wpr.n4fe« .py-.y*. nient of the trial costs and $62.50 for medical attention and the burial of his child. Pleading guilty of larceny of a $3 bucket, Ray Woolard was re leased upon the payment of the trial costs. Bailey Willoughby was adjudg ed not guilty of reckless driving. Pleading guilty of speeding, George A. Hobart was fined $25 and required to pay the trial costs. Stewart McArthur, pleading (Continued on page eight) -o Short Time Left To Do a Lot In -9 There’s much to be done and lit tle time is left to do it in, proper ty owners, taxpayers and vehicle operators are reminded. Taxes are to be listed on or be fore Saturday of this week, re ports stating that quite a few pro perty owners have not yet sub mitted their lists. All motor vehicles arc to be tag ged with ilie new 1943 town and state license plates before Sunday, or the qwners will have to accept the consequences. The license sale is lagging. Payment of 1947 taxes after next Monday will carry interest charges. Report Infantile Paralysis Case In County This Week wnue me disease reacnea epi demic form in several states dur ing recent months, this county has been free of poliomyelitis until just a few days ago when a small colored child, Naomi Little, 22 months-old daughter of Fernando and Olivia Little of Cross Roads Township, fell victim of it. The child was removed to a Durham hospital and the case was report ed to the Martin County Onit of the National Paralysis Foundation yesterday. The hospital report did not describe the case, but other sources said the victim is helpless and that prolonged treat ment is absolutely necessary. Accepting the case without hesi tation, the County Unit immedi ately started making arrange ments to have the victim removed to the hospital at Gastonia this week-end or early next week for treatment. L. B. Wynne, chairman of the paralysis fund raising drive which is now in progress, pointed out that it is necessary to exceed the Schools Continue Open In County —— Despite unfavorable weather and bad road conditions, all but one of the schools in the county are continuing to operate, a report from the office of the superin tendent yesterday stating that at tendance figures, with one or two exceptions, are holding up very well. Bear Grass School, forced to close last week when the boiler cracked, is scheduled to reopen next Monday. A new boiler was installed last Tuesday night when workmen worked all night, but the proper fittings could not be made in time to reopen the school this week. With the exception of Williams ton where 124 children were ab sent yesterday, attendance has held up from tan to good in the • Farm Life yesterday reported fair at tendance, while Robersonville and Jamesville reported good at tendance. The attendance in Williamston was 15 percent short, but nearly half of the absences were confin ed to the town itself, about 70 be ing traceable to the territory served by the six busses. County Students On Honor List The names of seven Martin County young men and women appear in the list of honor stud ents at East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, for the fall quarter, it was announced a few days ago by Dr. J. K. Long, regis trar. To gain the recognition, students were to make an average of 90 or 'better on their work. The report said 168 students met the list requirements. Miss Ellen Joyce Clark of Ever etts, the registrar said, was one of six students in the entire school to average 95 or better in all then studies. The names of the other six Mar tin County boys and girls who met the honor list requirements are,1 Carlyle L. Cox and Georgie C. Ed mondson of Robersonville, Varo H. Davenport of Jamesville,: Louise Hines, Elizabeth Manning, and Lessic Manning of Williams ton. -o Justice Hassell Has Four Cases Justice John L Hassell heard four minor cases in his court the i early part of this week. George Owens and Christine Brown, charged with disorderly conduct, were each required to pay $5.50 trial costs. William Douglass, drunk and disorderly, was fined $5 and tax- ' ed with $6.50 costs. Found drunk on a highway,! David Bryant was taxed with $8.50 costs. Drunk and down when taken into custody, Columbus C. Berry was required to pay $8.50 costs. current. $2,bUU quota in the coun ty chapter is to maintain a re serve for future emergencies. Commenting on reports receiv ed so far on the drive, Chairman Wynne said that .slightly more than half of the original quota had been raised and reported. Over $700 was received from the direct mail appeals. The Hassell School raised and reported $31. Approxi mately $185 was raised by the schools in Robersonville, and the grammar school here had raised $435 up until this morning. Miss Modlin’s room, one of the small est in the school here, up until this morning had raised $53, Miss Rogerson's following very closely with slightly more than $50 in hand. Complete reports are expected from most of the canvassers this week-end. During the mean time, the fund chairman is urging all to double their efforts in the face of the new case and help build up the fund for future emer gencies. POSTPONED -/ A meeting of the Martin County. Parents - Teachers Council, scheduled for tonight in the local high school audi torium, has been postponed, the Council president, Mrs. W. C. Wynne, announced this morniqg. * The meeting was postponed on account of the cold weath er and bad condition of the roads, it was explained. No date for the meeting has been fixed. Funeral Thursday For Mrs. Woolard Mrs. Mary Lee Woolard, 07, widow of Hardy T. Woolard died at the home of a neighbor, Ed ward Gurganus near Bear Grass Monday mgnt. one^wais" taken suddenly ill Monday after noon while visiting in the Gur ganus home. Funeral services will be con ducted m the Rehobeth Holiness Church, Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial wifi be in the Woolard family cemetery near by. Mrs. Woolard, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lee, was born and reared in the Spring Green Community. Surviving are a step-son, Whiley Woolard of near Bear Grass, and five step grandchildren, Mrs. Mack Terry of Bell Glade, Fla., Willie Bullock, Charlie Bullock, Joe Mack Bul lock and Wiley Bullock all of near Bear Grass. Town Board Will Meet On Tuesday " ... m.. - “'i Holding their regular meeting next Tuesday night instead of Monday, local town authorities are tentatively scheduled to dis cuss a possible bohd issue for fi nancing the construction of a 300, 000-gallon capacity water tank and the extension of a small sew er line from a point near the river to the city limits on West Main Street and another sewer line from the intersection of Haughton and Washington Streets out Wash ington Street. During the meantime plans are well advanced for digging another deep well to relieve a potentially serious water shortage. Specifi cations are being drawn for the well and bids will be asked with in a few days. -o Ministers Plan W indsor Meeting -U The annual North Carolina j Minister's Retreat of the Disciples i of Christ will bt held in the Dukcj of Windsor Hotel February 3-5. The special guest speaker is the j Rev. Archie Mackey, a member, o! the executive committee ot; "The Crusade for a Christian I World.’’ Indications point to a large attendance of ministers from all over the state. ! Big Damage Suit Started Recently In County Court —«.. James E. Godard Is Asking #18,000 Damages from Robert Hardison Critically injured in an automo bile wreck at Plymouth on last November 8, James E. Godard, through his next Friend, Lizzie Godard, a few days ago filed a friendly suilt to recover $18,000 damages from Robert Hardison, The suit is the second filed against Hardison as a result of the Nov ember 8 wreck, E, G. Modlin hav ing asked $10,000 damages in his appeal to the superior court a few weeks ago. No answer has been filed to either complaint, and it is not certain what action the de fendant will take since he is un derstood to have carried “all kinds of insurance" on his auto mobile. In the complaint filed by Attor- j ney H. G, Horton, hodard says he j was riding an an invited guest of Hardison in a 1941 Pontiac 4 door sedan, owned and operated by Hardison. He states further that he, the defendant and two others had been to a dance in Ro per, that they were returning to their homes in Jamesville when the defendant, while passing through the town of Plymouth about 11:30 that night, “without regard for the safety of the plain tiff, did drive his auto in a care less and reckless manner, and at a rate of speed greatly in excess of that allowed by law, and in a negligent manner, he allowed the automobile to leave the road and run into a telephone or light pole.” The complaint continues, “That the car was completely demolish ed, and that plaintiff was thrown out and seriously injured.” It is also claimed by the plaintiff that the defendant was negligent in that he knew he could not drive safely at the particular place in the road at the rate of speed he was driving. Supporting his claim to $18,000 j bark was broken, that he sustain- i ed face lacerations and other se- | vere cuts and bruises and severe shock to his nervous system. Go dard also points out that he was in a cast for several weeks, and now has to wear a supporting j brace, that he is unable to bend his back and is still receiving medical treatment, and that his injuries are permanent. The plain tiff also states that he has incur red considerable expense for hos pital and medical drug bills. -o Coal Output Sets New High Record The bituminous coal output during 1947 was at the new peace time record of about 617,000,000 tons, it was announced in Wash mgton last week 1ms output was | exceeded only once, and that was! in the war year of 1944, when the I total was 619,000.000 tons. Farmers Planning Drainage Program In Martin County Reviews Soil Conservation Work Huiulletl During Past Five Years -o Reviewing the work handled by the Soil Conservation Service in Martin County during the past five years, H. F. McKnight, con servationist, said there have been complete soil conservation plans made on 268 farms and the follow ing practices established on these farms: crop rotation 10,477 acres; terracing 34 miles; contour farm ing 467 acres; woodland improve ment 4,408 acres; pasture im provement 174 acres; farm drain age 735 acres of which 665 acres were tile drained using 150,000 ft. of tile; there has been 57 acres of Kudzu and 14 acres of pine seed lings planted on land too poor Re production of crops; there have been 6 nice fish ponds construct ed averaging 4 acres per pond. There is in the county a new trenching machine purchased by local people to do custom work in digging ditches both for open ditch and tile drainage. It is hop ed to use this machine to lay ap proximately 150,000 feet of farm drain tile this season in Martin County. Reviewing the work handled by the service last year on a national scale, Chief H. H. Bennett of the Soil Conservation Service, in his annual report to Secretary of Ag riculture Clinton P. Anderson, pointed out that both 1945 and 1946 were years of record accom plishments, but that in 1947 ser vice technicians assisted farmers in putting more than twice as much conservation work on the land as during 1945 and increased the 1946 record by more than 25 percent. That included some 127, 000 farm plans that covered about 36-million acres, in addition to soil conservation practices which were spread to thousands of neighboring farms and ranches. He explained that the conservu RKPA1RKI) v* J The town's general fire j alarm, out of order since last ( Saturday, was repaired and I placed hack in operation yes ' terday afternoon. Sleet and snow froze the blades to the frame, and when the switch was thrown in answer to a call last Saturday afternoon the motor could not turn. The mechanism caught fire and burned the wiring from the motor. The siren has heen in oper ation for about twenty years and the recent trouble was the first of any consequence, Fire Chief G. P. Hall said. While the alarm was out of order, the volunteer firemen ' " Vvcie 'coirtacti“Tr*6> telephone ' while a few others were sum moned by the siren on the truck. Clothing Drive In County Falls Short of Expectations The drive for serviceable old clothing and other articles in Mar tin County as a part of "Fill a Ship with Friendship’’ movement now being conducted in every one of the one hundred counties of North Carolina and in most of the other states, is not measuring up to ex pectations, according to prelimin ary reports reaching here. It is recognized that the supply of old clothing is not as plentiful as it once was, but the prelimin- j ary reports seem to indicate that! many have forgotten to partici pate in the drive being advanced in the name of suffering human- 1 ity across the seas. Comparatively few reports have ! been received so far, but those re porting declared that the response ranged from only fair to good. Few shop-worn items have been offered so far and quite a few persons, admittedly, have just de layed getting their bundles to the receiving stations. It isn’t too late to pack a bundle an(f get it included in the Friend ship Ship. Deliveries may be made to churches Sunday and to the schools as late as next Mon day. The main receiving station for the county is being opened in the Virginia Electric Power Com pany building in Williamston where the clothing and other ar ticles will be sorted and packed for shipment either to Wilming ton or to Maryland for transship ment. Arrangements are being made to have trucks to pick up the clothing next week. Churches other than those in Williamston are asked to deliver their collec tions to the schools. In Williams ton, the chairman of the collec tion, Mrs H H Coodmon, or the ministers will round up the col lections in the churches. During the meantime, our people are ask ed, in the name of suffering hu manity, to double their efforts and push the collection to a point somewhere close to the 26,000 pound goal. Over Two Thousand Get X-rays In County Mass TB Survey j Under Way On A Big Scale Today — ♦.— Nearly 900 Gel Client X-ray First Day; Four Units Now In Operation -o Getting off to an unusually good start last Tuesday despite bad road conditions and unfavor able weather, the mass TB survey in this county really went into high gear yesterday when lines formed at the mobile X-ray units. And the survey was progressing rapidly this morning in the face of low temperatures. Jesse Lee, RFD 3, Williamston, was the first man in the county to have his X-ray made in the cur rent survey. He reported to the unit stationed at the Dixie Peanut Company plant here. Mavis Dav enport, RFD 1, Robersonvillc, was the first at Everetts, and Kenneth Harrington led the list at Farm Life. A review of the work for the first day shows that 852 X rays were made, 418 at Williams ton, 227 at Everetts and 207 at Farm Life. Yesterday, 1,080 X-rays were made, 590 in Williamston, 309 ini Bear Grass and 181 in Cross! Roads. Moving from the peanut plant to a location in front of Clark’s Pharmacy on the main street here, the mobile X-ray unit handled a large group of jaycees early yes terday morning. They were fol lowed by an almost continuous line during the remainder of the day. The unit will be stationed there during the remainder of the survey, operating each week day except Monday, through Satur day, February 14. In addition to the unit there, three are operating elsewhere in the county today, one at Parmele, | anofher at Liokl Point in7ii stiimm " other at J. Eason Lilley’s store in ! Griffins Township. On Friday, a unit will be locat ed in Robersonvillc where it will | remain through Saturday, Feb- I ruary 7. Other units will operate .it Corey’s Cross Roads on High- ! way 17, and at Edwards’ store in Poplar Point Township on High-1 way 125. Of course, the unit here will be in operation as usual. On Saturday of this week, the I schedule calls for unit operations at Robersonvillc, the Highway Prison Camp near here, Hamilton and Williamston. The mobile units will not oper (Continued on page seven) -« Plan Classified Phone Directory .— The next issue of Williamston’s telephone directory, which will be delivered in April will carry a new classified section, according to W. E. Thornton, manager of the Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Company. Mr. Thornton points out that the need for the new classified' section is brought about by the in creased number of telephones. Re cords show that during the past year, 400 telephones have been added in Williamston and that in addition to the 400 telephones in service here, there are now 150 applications on hand for telephone service. “We are doing everything pos sible to give service to all who want it," Mr. Thornton said. “And we know that all telephone users will find the new classified tele phone directory a convenient source of useful business informa tion, The classified section will be printed on yellow pages and will be similar to those now ap pearing in directories published for many other cities throughout the country,” The new yellow page section will list the names, addresses and telephone numbers of business telephone subscribers under head ings alphabetically arranged and which describe their businesses, professions, or the commodities or services they sell. COUNTY BOAKI) * Unless the roads improve greatly between now and then, few if any road delega tions are likely to get to go before the county commis sioners in session next Mon day in the interest of improv ed roads. But even with no road delegations to hear, the commissioners are likely to have a dog-gone hard time solving the dog vaccination business. The tax collectors is asking to be relieved of the checking job, leaving the sheriff's office wide open for the task. The commissioners are to draw 64 citizens for jury duty in March and handle other routine business. No long session is anticipated. , jno. K. Woolard Dies In Beaufort —•— John Kelly Woolard, Beaufort County farmer, died at his home along the Martin-Beaufort bound ary, last Tuesday afternoon at 2 00 o'clock. He had been in declin ing health for more than a year and his condition had been seri ous for about a month. The son of the late Redden Staneill Woolard and wife, Ellen Woolard, he was born in Beaufort County on January 5, 11181, and lived and farmed there all his life. He was a member of the church at Old Ford for a number of years. When a young man he was mar ried to Miss Mintie Woolard who died in May, 184(1. * Surviving are one son, Chester Woolhrd; six daughters, Mrs Ella Griffin, Mrs. Oina Ingalls and Misses Katie IMinnie Pearl Woolard, all of (he home community, aim V idfP Crisp of Washington and Mrs. Ni'llie Gray Griffin of Blounts Creek; a brother, James Woolard of Beaufort County. Funeral services are being con ducted at the home this after noon at 3:30 o’clock by Rev. Fred Hardy. Interment will be in the family cemetery near the home. Presbyterians (Jet Regular Minister Rev. James Lowry, promising young minister who is completing courses in the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond next ■month, has accepted a call tender ed him a short time ago by the Presbyterian churches- in this county, it was announced yester day. He is to serve the church here. Robotson>''t’t«r,:;ct*Tnrd'^»i-' one in Bear Grass. The young minister will enter upon his new duties on Sunday, February 1, and he and Mrs. Low ry will move to the manse on South Watts Street in late Feb ruary or early March. The Presbyterians have been without a regular pastor since Rev. Gower Crosswell resigned to enter the armed service during the last war. --i Plan Education Meet at College Martin County Schools will be represented at an all-day yonfer ence on Resource-Use Education to be held at F.ast Carolina Teach ers’ College on Saturday, January 31. Among those planning to at tend are Mr. W. B. Sugg of James villc, Mr. H. V. Parker of Bear Grass, Mr. C. B. Martin and Mr. James Wallace of Robersonville, and Miss Lissie Pearce and Mr. B. G. Stewart of Williumston. Representatives from health, welfare, extension, forestry and soil agencies, as well as some edi tors. ministers, industrialists, and civic leaders, are being asked to consider with school people how to increase emphasis on conserva tion and resource-use in our school and community programs. No Critical Fuel Oil Shortage Has Developed Here - f—— Nationwide Shortage Spurs Nine Billion Dollar Synthetic Plan • No critical oil or gas shortage has developed locally, at least not so far, but users have been pinch ed by minimum deliveries allow ing hardly more than a day-to* day supply in some instances. However, as far as it could be learned, no one has been com pletely out of fuel oil and there have been no hardships, it is un derstood. The heavy demand was handled in some instances when distribut ors drew slightly on their Febru ary allotment and when addition al distributors entered the market in recent months. While fuel oil users managed to keep the home fires burning, us ers of other types of fuel or gas were forced to put up wood and coal burners to tide them over, it was learned this week. The scarcity of gasoline and fuel oils has been sufficient to create much interest in plans for the pro duction of synthetic gas. A nine billion dollar synthetic oil program, being launched by Secretary of the Interior Krug, may offer "Big Oil,” through the old I G. Farben patents, an oppor tunity to control the great indus try, while Uncle Sam puts up the cash. Discussing the huge synthetic oil program, a Washington news paper reporter had the following to say; In liis report to Congress this week, under the synthetic liquid fuels act of 1944, Secretary Krug said commercial synthetic produc tion of oil was now feasible and declared that "during the coming year, with the assistance of in dustrial leaders interested in li quid fuels ... He would make spe cif ie recommendations for the erection of the necessary plants and tin' founding of au American synthetic fuel industry." *"^'or?F^^'mesc m^usTT7?TrTeaii"crs were named in tile report itself, but inquiry at the Interior Dept, brought information as to three of tlie principal groups which have been working with Krug on the program. One is Standard Oil of New Jer sey and Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal, which have been engaged jointly on a project for making oil from coal. Another is Gulf Oil and Koppcrs Coke, both Mellon family interests, which have been cooperating on a similar project. Union Oil Company of California, one of the industry's "majors,” al so was named as interested in a project for extracting oil from shale. Business Week for January 24 published a survey of the growing activity in the field of synthetic fuel from coal, natural gas and snale, declaring that “commercial 'i of gasoline and oil” from such sources is "on the way.” Before the war such experimen tation was choked off by the Stan dard Oil-I. G. Farben cartel agree ment, which restricted synthetic development in this country. Now that Standard Oil and Al lied interests see the possibilities in a rapidly expanding post-war market for oil, they may be look ing around for ways to obtain Government financing. Secretary Krug proposed a $9, 000,000.000 program to be com (Continued on Page Seven) ■o Firemen Called To Plant Wednesday Still keeping their fires a secret, more or less, while the general alarm system was undergoing re pairs, volunteer firemen quietly answered a call to the Williamston Lumber Company plant on the Washington Road at 11:00 o'clock W'cdnesday morning. A tractor, used on the mill yard, caught foe and threatened the company's ground mill back of the main plant. The fire was confin ed to the vehicle which was dam aged considerably before firemen, using extinguishers and a small hose line from the truck, could put it out.
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