5 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Rl OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEKR VOLUME LI—NUMBER 21 Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 11, 1948 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge J. C. Smith Has Twenty Cases In County’s Court Muii, Charged With Drunk en Mule Driving, Fined $100 Last Monday Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor 1 Paul D. Roberson worked until 4:30 o’clock last Monday after noon handling twenty cases in the Martin County Recorder's Court. More than two hours were spent hearing a single case, but the high spot in the proceedings was reach ed when Lee Tyner, convicted of driving a mule while he (Tyner) was intoxicated, was fined $100 and taxed with the costs. Attracting a veiy large number of spectators as well as defendants and witnesses, the court meted out several road sentences and impos ed fines amounting to $275. Proceedings: C. G. Council, charged with fail ing to send his child to school, of fered a pathetic defense. He ex plained that he was nearly blind and that he was unemployed. Pleading guilty, he was dismissed when the court suspended judg ment upon the payment of the costs. The case charging Dallas Gad ard with operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license, was continued for the third time until March 29. Leman J. Bennett, the colored man who had a second charge lodged against him before the first one could be aired in the court, was adjudged guilty of an assault, and attempted highway robbery. Sentenced to the roads for fifteen months, he appealed to the higher court and bond was required in the sum of $500. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, James Hawkins was sen tenced to the roads for thirty days. Charged with being drunk and disorderly and an assault, Robert O'Mary pleaded not guilty. The weight of the evidence was against him and he was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road term upon the payment of a $50 fine and the . costs and on the further condition that he isn’t intoxicated for one year. Allen Warren, facing similar (Continued on page eight) Last Rites Today For Cpl. Haislip —•— Last rites are being conduc ted this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock in the Hassell Christian Church for Cpl. William F. Haislip. II, who lost his life in the service of our country on Guadalcanal on Octob er 23, 1942. Rev. J. M. Perry of Robersonville, a former pastor, assisted by Rev. Z. T. Cox of Fgrmville are conducting the ser vice and a detail from the Haislip Roebuck Post of the American Le gion in Hamilton will have charge of the rites at the grave. Burial will be in the family plot in the Harhilton Cemetery. Accompanied by a special es cort on a government motor car, the body reached here last even ing, the casket draped in a large United States flag which will be presented to the family by S/Sgt. C. C. Rizer. The body is being moved to the Hassell church in time for the 3:00 o'clock service. ONE-FIFTH COMPLETE v-_... -/ The annual Red Cross fund drive in this chapter is some dver one-fifth complete, or that much has been collected and reported to the drive chairman, C. B. Clark, Jr. Bear Grass yesterday report ed $144.30 raised, leaving the district only about $80 short of its goal. Two solicitors in Williams ton reported approximately $400 yesterday, their progress indicating that the goal here would be reached. No reports have been fewivert from tbe. other townships in this chap ter other than those stating the drive was in progress and ■ ■ MMunriy. , I, — I'.ftjvtie JtftinL .«.v£.r.. .inJJjL?. ..J. Robersonville Chapter, yes terday reported that its quota bad been met with some to spare. [ 1 Place Twenty Cases On Criminal Docket Assault OnCrumey And Ho^ Stealing Cases To Be Heard -— Wliit Salsbury Admits Hop Thefts But Expert Pri vate Properiilion - ■ ♦ Opening a two-week mixed term here next Monday morning at 10:00 o'clock with Judge R. Hunt Parker o) Roanoke Rapids on the bench, the Martin County Superior Court is slated to handle at least twenty cases. Two days have been set aside for handling the criminal docket, and it is quite likely that all of that time will be needed. While there are no mur der or manslaughter cases on the docket, several others are almost certain to attract large crowds. The series of hog thefts, running from last June almost up until last Christmas, is certain to at tract farmers to the court in num bers, one report stating that some of the farmers have already em ployed private prosecutors in the cases. While he is believed to have struck at least a dozen pig pens during about six months, Whit Salsbury, Pitt County colored man who formerly lived in this county, is charged in only four eases, officers admitting that they have been unable to get positive proof against the man in the others. On July 25, Salsbury stole two hogs valued at $65 from David Gurganus. The next case in which the defendant admits his guilt originated on November 25 when he stole four hogs valued at $200 from W O. Abbitt. About three weeks later he stole three pigs, valued at $51 from Reuben Everett, and two days later he struck Monroe Taylor’s pen steal ing five hogs valued at $150 F’ar mers Sam T. Everett, A. Z. Clark, Claudia Keel, Frank Little, L. Gardner and others lost hogs from thgir pens, but officers have been unable to connect Salsbury with those thefts, and Salsbury admits his guilt only if and when he can not deny the charges. Salsbury, momicking up several hogs, would visit a pen near the road, knock the hogs in the head, stick them and load them in his car parked, on the highway. He carried them to lus home near Bethel where his j parents helped clean and dress' them. Several of the Monroe Tay- j lor hogs were found in the freezer locker at Tarboro. Arrested on, December 19 after he was traced by the number on his old car, Sals-1 bury denied the charges, but offie-1 ers started questioning him and confronting him with some perti-| nent facts and he admitted four) thefts. As far as it can he learned 1 here, no action has been taken j against Salsbury’s parents by Pitt County authorities for aiding and abetting in the illegitimate butch ery business. Unable to raise bond in the sum of $1,100, Salsbury has continued, in jail since his arrest. The case charging George Jun ior Jackson, young colored man, with brutally assaulting ana near ly cutting to death, Jimmy Crum-1 ey, Edenton taxi driver, in the is land section of Williams Township last January 20, is expected to at tract much attention. Jackson was hound over to the superior court by Justice R. T. Johnson. Unable to post $2,000 bond, the defendant has been in jail since his arrest. Then there is the larceny case against Neal Coburn, colored man, who stole approximately $300 from Ammie Ambrose, aged grandmother, who has been living virtually out of doors for some time. Receiving aid from others, the old woman and the other eight members of her family are now living in a small but new house about three miles from Williams ton. • it may ,ejt ut' a de/iiiTtc »igi;,r but there are quite a few larceny j and breaking and entcimg cases j on the- docket, supporting a trend-, tiGiiffi^rroJiTiTin/uVwrnvjir”*' —[ Clara Bell Moore is charged | with the theft of $10 from Frances (Continued on page seven) NEW PASTOR v--y Accepting a call to the pas torate of the Presbyterian churches in this county, Rev. Janies I. Lowry established residence here last week-end. He will occupy the Baptist pulpit at a special union ser vice Sunday evening. Announce the Full Concert Program For Visiting Band —-rj$> ■■ —i. - Famous lli^li School Musi cal Croup (.outing Here Friday, March 19 -» . The complete program for the concert which the nationally fam ous Elizabeth City High School Rand i> to present at the Wil liamston High School auditorium Friday evening, March 19, at 8:00 o’clock v\as announced today by Roy L. Hu^scll, director. “Choice of music played by the band,” Director Russell says, "runs all the way from Beethoven and Bach to the latest Boogie Woogie and an effort to interpret each type in its true style is the ambition of the young musicians. If it is Beethoven, they try to play the music as nearly symphonic as possible but if it is Boogie Woogie, the bund strives just as diligently to portray the Boogie beat in true swing style.” The program: Silver Moon, from “My Mary land” by Sigmund Romberg; In a Persian Market, Intermezzo-Scene by Albert Ketelby; March Slave by P. Tschaikowsky; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, a Symphonic Para phrase from “Roberta” by Jerome Kerns; Colonel Bogey On Parade by Kennet J. Alford; Intermission (Ten minutes); I’ll See \ ou Again, from “Bitter Sweet” by Noel Cow ard; The Three Trumpeters by G. Agostini; Carolina In the Morning by Walter Donaldson; Barnurn and Bailey’s Favorite by K. L. King; The Billboard March by John N. Klohr; and Auditorium Session, Boogie Woogie for Con cert Band by Deke Moffitt. While the concert is being spon sored by the Williamston High School Band Parents Club it lsj open to children and adults from anywhere in the area at a very reasonable price, fifty cents for the adults and twenty-five for the children. Tickets are on sale at Clark’s Pharmacy in Williamston. The band has almost every in (Continued on page five) COUNTY BOARD ) Meeting in special session here next Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock the Martin Coun ty Commissioners will hear complaints against property values as assessed for 1948 taxation, but new listings | will !** reviewed onlyjr> those. [ cases where the owners ask for reviews. Surrendering their room to .^ste!lta«10.fiW •tMMjtoejta'.. J. or around the courthouse to .1 handle their business as a board of equalization and re view. Matthews Named To Head County Wildlife Club Slovens Outlines Six-Point Program for Effeetive Organization Meeting in the countv com t house last evening, members or the Martin County Wildlife Club elected new officers and heart: Ross Stevens, executive so re I ary of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, outline a si c-point program for an effective organi zation. Don G. Matthews, Jr., of Ham ilton, was elected president to succeed J C. Manning H. P. Mobley, Williamston, was 'lect ed vice president and John Henry Edwards was reelected secretary treasurer. The club will hold a meeting on April 7 to discuss recommon la tions to the State Wildlife Re sources Commission which hold a special meeting in Kinston on April 12 to consider changes in hunting and fishing regulations. At the county meeting on Apul 7 the hunters and fishermen will discuss such things as lay day;; for rabbits, bag limits, fishing seasons and other game regulations. The recommendations will be submit ted to the commission at its meet ing in Kinston. A committee, composed of J. C. Manning, V. J. Spivey and H. P. Mobley, was named by the new president to outline a program of activities IV r the club in this county during the next twelve months. Secretary Stevens stated that there were 102 active wildlife clubs in the State, that half of them are making splendid prog ress while the others are follow ing practices that are proving in effective, so to speak. The ineffec tive clubs have officers and many members, but they are not regu lar in their meetings and the pro grams are not well planned, the secretary explained, adding that he was not criticising. He went •n .to outline six points inducive to effective work. The clubs must meet regularly and the programs should be plan ned with committees active in various departments. The educa tion feature must be stressed, the state secretary suggesting that the clubs work more closely with the farmers and 4-H club members and others interested in preserv ing wildlife. More assistance is (Continued oil page five) Father Seeking Custody of Child -o According to information re ceived here this week, Robert B. Nelson, Robersonville, has started action in the Virginia courts for the custody of his son. The de fendant, Mrs. Susie White Nelson, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Eva K. Thomas, of Norfolk, were here this week presumably mak ing arrangements to fight the ac tion. Several years ago a judgment was entered in the court records of this county, giving the mother custody of the child. The plaintiff is now asking the Virginia courts to set that verdict aside. Depositions were taken at a hearing held here yesterday aft ernoon, and the findings will be offered to the Virginia courts. Several Robberies Solved When Boys Are Detained Here Two Lads Slated To Kilter' Training School; Olliers Faring Big Court --* : A series of petty robberies and ! thefts was solved this week when ■ four teen-age colored boys were arrested and detained by the | courts and Juvenile Judge L. B. Wynne. Apparently prompted more by meanness than by actual want or necessity, the boys are involved in several robberies, including ones at Ridley’s pool room several months ago. Sunny Side Inn sev eral weeks ago, and more recent ly at the Williamston Parts and Metal Company’s junk yard on West Main Street and tin- Hitch ing Post on Sycamore Street. The little crime wave blew out when the four hoys, Willie Frank Deans and Jimmy Watts, both 17 years old, and James Earl Felton and Louis Moore, both 15, alleged ly broke into the junk yard and stole eight used batteries, and just a few days later returned them to the yard themselves for sale to the original owner. The batteries were purchased for the second time and the transaction was reported to local police who rounded up the two older boys within a short time. They involv ed the other two, and questioning uncovered the other robberies. Very little was stolen from any of the places, the boys barely es caping with a few packs of cigar ettes when they broke into Sunny Side Inn. Louis Freeman, 17, and a delin quent who has been before the courts at more or less regular in tervals during the past six years, was involved in'the pool ruym robbery. At a preliminary hearing be fore Judge J. C. Smith in the coun ty court last Monday, Deans and i Watts waived examination and I they were bound over to the -v ' penor court for trial next week. Bends were required in the sum of $300 each. Carried before Judge Wynne Tuesday, Felton and Moore were| booked for a stay at the Huffman I correctional school for boys. They were released into the custody of relatives until next Monday when they are to testify for the State in the cases against the other boys. -o Last Rites Friday i For Mrs. Hopkins! —*— Mrs. Sara Hopkins, 02, died at i her home near Hobgood yesterday j morning at 4:30 o’clock after a1 long illness. The daughter of the late An-j drew Currie and wife, she was I born in Halifax County on March I 12, 1866. Surviving are three sons, Eli, | William and Jesse H Hopkins, all of Hobgood; and four daughters, I Mrs. Austin Brown of Tarboro, i Mrs. Cannie Williams of Oak City, I Mrs. Henry Harrell and Mrs. liar- j vey Braddy, both of Hobgood. Funeral services will be con [ ducted by the Rev. Mr Warren,! Methodist minister of Scotland; Neck, Friday afternoon at 3:30' o’clock from the home of her son, I Eli Hopkins, in Hobgood. Inter ment will be in the old family cemetery near Palmyra. To Welcome New Ministers \ At Union Service Sunday \ -•—— Williamston’s two new minis ters— Rev. Stewart B. Simms for the Baptists, and Rev. James I. Lowry for the Presbyterians-—! will be welcomed to the commun ity at a union service to be held in the Baptist church Sunday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock with the other mi-oxters ,of the town participat ing. -'i*icr Establishing residence here last week-end, the two young minis .tHHSStSSfaOi.ttPfL/'Jyi.w great pii;-. mise of a fruitful rr’nistry in the community. They were welcomed to the Williamston Ministerial As-1 soeiation at a meeting of that * group yesterday and they showed a fine spirit of cooperation in the i task of promoting community re-1 iigious activities. This is the first time the minis-1 terial group and the people of the ! community have been able to plan i a union service for welcoming the j two young men, and it is certain that memb“" ■ of all denominations! as well as friends will show their I usual fine spirit by attending the [ service in laige numbers. a bout 1 .the length oft the service, for it is! planned for only one of tile two I men to preach,” a member of the i ministerial association pointed out. I Several Big Damage Cases Up For Trial NEW PASTOR J Rev. Stewart B. Simms re cently entered upon his duties heer as pastor of the Mem orial Baptist Church. Faniliv Moves To Their New Home .<&—■ —— The Ammie Ambrose family, af ter braving the winds, snow and rain in their tumbled down shacks for several winters, are in safe re fuge m their snug, little three room house that a thoughtful peo ple in several states helped build. The aged grandmother, her daugh ter and seven small grandchild ren, moved into the new home late yesterday after the Ayers Elec tric Company had installed a modern electric system, including wall switches, a number of out lets, fixtures and even light bulbs for all the sockets. Thurston Jones, moving to this section from Gold Point just re cently. fitted the familv on with! much furniture, and neighuuiVi and other friends added to the house furnishings list. Members of the family experi enced difficulty in moving their few earthly belongings. Nearly every piece of clothing, drenched during recent rains, hail to be placed on a line to dry. When it was learned that the old cook stove would fall to pieces, it was left in the old shack. A $30 cook stove, purchased at cost from the Courtney Furniture Store, was de livered late yesterday to complete the set-up for the family. The aged grandmother would sort out a piece or two of old clothing and hold her head up just long enough to express her appre ciation for all that had been done for her and her family. A full accounting of the fund will be made just us soon as sev eral miscellaneous bills are re ceived. ---r, Ur. Win. h. bray To Locate Here Or. Win. II Gray, Jr., Roberson villr young man, plans to locate here on or about the first of next month for the practice of dentis try, it was learned late yesterday. Few details about the doctor's plans could be learned immediate ly, but one report stated that he had leased the office now occupied by Km’s Beauty .Salon next to the Marco Theater on South Haughton Street. The office, built by Or. V. E. Brown, was recently purchased by J. Paul Simpson. Or. Gray is a graduate of Wake Forest College and since he com pleted dentistry’s school he has been practicing in Pink Hill. INSPECTION »----j Bombarded with requests for new road projects in this county. . IBstrje* . • Jli.ichiva-r.-r Commissioner Merrill Evans and several of his engineers are expected here next Mon jb^wUeniojy^to ni.iktmu^n^_ speetion of the proposeTTpree"^’ jecls. While in the county they are slated to discusi the road situation with the com missioners, one report stated. Plaintiffs Asking $44. )88 Damage In \ ehi«4n \mdents Scvni Of Thirl) <li\il Suits (iron Oul of 1I iitlm ay Vrriilriils Seven of the thirty civil eases scheduled for trial in the Martin County Superior Court next week and the week following are asking damages alleged to have resulted in motor vehicle accidents. Most of the other cases are expected to addition to the damage suits and aditio nto the damage suits and various disputes between land lords and tenants and over proper ty lines, there are seventeen di vorce eases slated for trial. The first of the civil calendar cases are scheduled for March 17 wlum the court is slated -to crank up its divorce mill. One or two minor eases are also slated for trial that day, but the main civil calendar will not be opened until Monday, March 112. Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roan oke Rapids is to preside over the two-week term which opens next Monday for the trial of criminal cases. A brief review of the civil cal endar follows: Paul Peel is asking the court to discharge his guardian, the ease going into the “big” court when the guardianship was dissolved in the lower courts and an appeal was noted. The Standard Fertilizer Com pany is suing J. E. Mooney, Jr to recover $300.8(1 on a note dated October 1, 1042. In a second ease, the fertilizer Company is seeking to recover $702.50 on a note signed by W S Cowan, Jr, and ntwmmmm. A boundary imr is tn dispute in the ease of We: 'ey Davis and others against R. S. Critcher. Aired in the courts previously, the old milch cow ease brought by A W. Hardison against Mrs Bettie Williams is up again, this time to have the value of the animal de termined. Shields Distributing Company is suing C. D Pittman for $105.72 al leged due on contract, and the de fendant, in a counter suit, is ask ing $113,36. Alleging she was wrongfully and maliciously assaulted by the defendant on last July 5, Mildred Ray is suing Grace Maynard for $2,500 damages -$1,500 actual and $1,000 punitive. In the list of seven wreck dam age suits, the one brought by James E Godard against Robert Hardison is the largest, Godard, alleging fie was critically and per manently injured while ruling in the defendant’s ear when it was wrecked in Plymouth last Novem ber 8, is asking $18,000, Defendant) m a second action, Hardison, driv-l or and owner of the ear, is being sued by E. G, Modlin for $10,000 damages, the plaintiff claiming that he was critically hurt and permanently injured. Both suits are said to be of a friendly nature, reports declaring that Hardison I carried "all kinds of insurance,” Alleging she was critically in jured m an automobile-truck acci dent on the Bethel-Greenville Highway January 18, 1047 as a re sult of the negligence and care lessness of the defendants, Margie Sullivan is suing Amos Cox and Vance Harrington lot $10,000 damage. The plaintiff's husband, J. B. Sullivan, was also injuredj badly in the same accident and he is asking $5,000 damages of the de fendants. K. B. Crawford in his suit against J. S. Peel is asking pos session of two cupboard cabinets. Lina J. Taylor in a suit against Cl. C. Taylor is suing to recovei $5,025.26 alleged due her from iafmuig 'SjK', ,,tioils. In the landlord-tenant dispute rase, R. E. Williams is suing Julian C _Smilh for >1,900 actuni_aiid $a,-j -- , , t . . W.fe'Ae, it is snil <111 fii.v ':-:dcedar the case of Calvin Ayers and ithers against the Roanoke Ware (Coiitinued on Page Seven) Several Cases In Justness Courts In Past Few Days — Pool Room Operator Loses License For Period Of Three Months Breaking into the public when four teen-agers were arrested for breaking unci entering and lar ceny. juvenile delinquency was climaxed last Tuesday night when two youths and a pool room opera tor were carried before Mayor Robert Cowen. James Ridley, charged with per mitting minors to loiter around and play pool in his pool room on JainesviJle Street, had his license to operate such a business revoked for three months. Ridley, admit ting that minors had entered his place of business, maintained that they did so without his know ledge, that he had posted a sign, advising minors they were not al lowed in the place. He pleaded at length, explaining to the mayor that he would lose his means of livelihood if the license should be revoked. Mayor Cowen told Rid ley that it was the third charge that had been lodged against him, that the law had tried to go along with him, but "there is no alter native now except to revoke the license," the mayor said. Ridley asked the mayor to give the judg ment further consideration, inti mating that he would appeal to the higher courts. Louis Freeman, charged with loitering around the pool room, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, Mayor Cowen ex plaining to the defendant that ho (Freeman) had been a regular vis itor m the courts, that he had been given every chance and muffed them. The pool room cases hit the jus tice's court after a mother of a de linquent youth had wept for more than two hours in Judge Wynne's juvenile court earlier in the day when her son was booked for breaking and entering and lar ceny. She was ioil as saying that her sou had left home to at tend school, that she later learned he did not go to school but main tained headquarters in and around the pool room. A father at the hearing Tuesday night said he had found his son in the pool room, but Ridley pleaded (Continued on page eight) Brother Of Local Man Died Today John Hoyt Handy, brother of Henry Handy of Williamston, died in Doctors’ Hospital, New York, this morning at 1:40 o’clock. Spending about a month here with his brother and his mother in Washington .just before Christ mas, Mr. Handy was taken ill soon after his return to New York and had been a patient in the hospital there since that time. A son of Mrs. Margaret Styron Handy and the late Robert Handy, he was born in Washington 45 years ago and located in New York twenty-four years ago. Surviving are his widow and four children; five sisters, Mrs. Arthur Welch of Aheskie, Miss Margaret Handy of Greensboro, Mrs. ('has. Franklin of Lenoir, N. C., and Mrs. Chas. Bramlitt and Miss Marina Handy, both of Wash ington, D. C , and his brother here. Funeral arrangement had not jeon completed shortly before noon today. rv\ \ urns j Preliminary reports from tax list-takers in Griffins and Williams Townships point to a fairly large property value gains in (lie two districts this year. Listtaker Tom Koberson re ports an increase of about $70,000, and Listtaker C. L. -JUauvei ~‘ iTii tint YI"IH||infi. f§ one of the two smallest dis tricts in the county, will gain about $33,000. Mrtk+Bv-Jrtrme adjustments- ■ i Gtf.uua G. Hailey says that the listings w ill drop about ,$G.tM» year.

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