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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,00® MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ SI OVER 3,00# MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LI—NUMBER 26 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 30, 1918 ESTABLISHED 1899 Business Leaders ♦ Plan Promotion Bureau for Town To Hold General Meeting In Courthouse Here Next Monday at 8 ♦ * * « Advanced by a special commit-' tee last week, plans for the or- j ganization of a Business Bureau; for Williamston will be discussed ] at a general meeting of business and professional men and other leaders to be held in the court house here next Monday evening at 8:00 o’clock. Sam Bundy, form er local school principal who has had experience in community promotional work, is coming here from Farmville to address the meeting, and all business firms and professional offices are ex pected to have representatives at the meeting. Incorporation plans and sug gested objects to be advanced by the bureau have been outlined by a committee composed of J. D. Woolard, Jack Edmondson, F. J. Margolis, Tom Parker, C. D. Pitt man, Joel Muse, Ben Courtney, Ernest Mears and R. Edwin Peel. The objectives of the organiza tion which is designed after a chamber of commerce pattern, are reviewed briefly, as follows: To effect a closer union of the merchants and professional men of Williamston for the purpose of cooperation in all matters per taining to the welfare and ad vancement of the community and its people. To develop the territory around the town and make the same tri butary to the town as a trading center. To protect its members against dishonest employees, shop-lifters, improper legislation and delin quent debtors. To eliminate wasteful advertis ing and donation solicitation in the community. To establish and maintain a high standard of business ethics among the merchants and profes (Continued on page eight) Bookmobile Has j Manv New Books *-• Making its monthly tour of this county this week, the Beaufort Hyde-Martin bookmobile is circu lating a number of newly added volumes, according to Mrs. Pau A line Worthy, district librarian. Listed among the recently add ed volumes are the following: The House that Jacob Built by John Gould. A chuckling, mel low story about five generations of a Maine family in the house built by Jacob Gould in 1780. Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd. A long absorbing novel about a beautiful Australian girl who married into the English aris ^ toeracy. Letter from Grosvenor Square by John G. Winant. Ambassador Winant’s story of London in war time told with warm and sin cerity. Lani by Margaret Widdemer. A delightful love story with back ground in Hawaii, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Marshall: Citizen Soldier by ^ William Frye. A splendid biog raphy of our great Secretary of i| State. Hawaii, the 49th State, by Blake Clark. A colorful account of the fascinating early days of Hawaii as well as of its present ways of life. VOLUNTEERS v_. ... ..' Spending an entire week here, a recruiting party of three received only three re cruits for the Navy. “But we did better than we did the week before when we main tained a six-day stand and re ceived no enlistees.. No official report could be had, but it is understood that one of the three failed to pass the physical ir. Raleigh. Several other potential re eruits were unabieKo pass the initial tests here. The recruiting party, trav eling in a special truck and car, moved from here to Ral eig^toflay. 1 r Record Number Present A t Easter Services On Sunday Attendance upon Easter Day religious services, including the special sunrise program in Wood lawn Cemetery, broke all records here Sunday, the houses of wor ship in some instances being too small to accommodate the wor shippers. Preceded by special pro grams in the local theater, schools and in several of the churches last week, the Easter Day worship schedule constituted a great day in the community's religious realm. Ministers saw many new faces, and the town's religious power asserted itself after a posi tive and encouraging fashion. “If we can hold a portion of the gains made during the Easter season, much will have been accomplish ed," a religious leader was quoted as saying, adding that he only hoped that the peak attendance figures and the religious spirit prevailing during the Easter seas on could be maintained all year through. No official count of attendance figures could be had for all the services, but it is conservatively estimated that one-half of Wil liamston's population, at least and including white and colored, was represented in one or more ser vices during the day. The Chris tian Sunday school, reporting 199 present the Sunday before, had 283 for the program Sunday morning, including seventy in the adult men’s class. Other Sunday schools reported large attendance figures, most of them breaking all previous records. The sunrise service that morn ing attracted an estimated 325 persons, and the program partici pated in by representatives of the various churches, was a very im pressive one. The several houses of worship were filled to capacity for the regular church services. | FARM WORK v_ _—' Going into high gear last week after considerable de lay caused by bad weather conditions, work on the farms in this county is gaining mo mentum. Quite a few farm ers have completed their spring p’owing and others are steady at the task. Some early corn has been planted, and next week, weather per mitting, will see thousands of acres planted to the crop. Irish potato plantings, re ported to be smaller this year than they were last, have just been completed and a late crop is fairly certain. Tobacco plants arc doing well and farmers are mark ing ready to combat blue mold wiih fermate. | Defendants Lose | Their Appeal To John David Woolen and Webb Ward Scheduled To Serve Terms Losing their appeals to the North Carolina Supreme Court, John David Wooten and Webb Ward, Pitt County colored men, are expected to start serving long prison terms the latter part of next June for manslaughter. Their appeals from judgments handed down by Judge Clawson Williams in the Martin County Superior Court last September were denied by the State Su preme Court last week, the high court finding that the exceptions taken to the trial proceedings by Defense Attorney Dick Bundy were without foundation. The high court's decision was handed down too late for the superior court of this county to invoke sen tence at the regular March term, and action will be delayed until the June term. Wooten, charged with killing Henry Ward, was sentenced to prison for not less than seven and not more than ten years by Judge Williams. Ward, charged with killing Mary Brown and Mac Rid dick, was sentenced to prison for not less than three and not more than five years. The cases against the two de fendants grew cut of a multiple automobile accident on December 15, 1946, between Rohersonville and Stokes. The defendants, charged with reckless and care less driving resulting in the death of the three persons, were booked for trial the following March but one of the was still in the hos pital at that time. Similar condi tion existed when court was con vened last June and the cases were continued at that time un til last September when they were finally heard before Judge Williams. o Maiiv Easier Kilt! Hunts Held Over the Week-end A dozen or more Easter egg hunts were held here over the week-end, man.y of them bt-ifUt IcgBWffyiBPBBUBirtAfl g"rf i v, r. Raisins Money For Crippled Children In Martin County Aeoounting for tin* 1917 Fund Listed This Week Bv Treasurer The Martin County League for Crippled Children is making pro gress in the current drive for funds to finance its 1948 program. Up until yesterday afternoon $243.89 had been contributed, most of it coming from direct mail appeals. Last year a total of $557.06 was donated. Half of this amount or $278.53 was sent to State Head quarters in Chapel Hill where it was used to help pay for spastic clinics, speech clinics, special in structors for handicapped chil dren and numerous other ser vices. The financial report of the Martin County Chapter for the past year is as follows; Ambulance service to Gastonia (orthopoedic hospital) $30.00; Or thopoedic Shoes, $8.25; bus fare for parent and child to Gastonia, $11.10; campaign material (stamps) $31.00; transportation to Goldsboro Clinic during the year (3 trips—4 children each trip) $22.50; hospitalization (all paid to Duke) $175.00; Total $277.85. Bal ance on hand, $0.68. The object of the Crippled Chil dren’s League throughout North Carolina is to provide a program of medical care and educational opportunities designed to help handicapped youngsters grow in to self-supporting and useful citi zens who may live in dignity rather than be forced to live as dependents on their relatives or on the State. Last year the League in North Carolina provided 1902 physical examinations, 344 medical treat ments, transported 1976 children over 169,240 miles to clinics and hospitals; paid for 1032 days hos pitalization, and 2252 days of con valescent care; paid for 132 X ] ays, 164 artificial appliances, gave glasses, shoes food or cloth ing to 328 children, senV 6 handi capped children to special board ing schools, provided instructions for 27 "homebound" children by visiting teachers, gave specialized (Continued on page eight) [Order Last Unit For the Ambroses —♦— I Supplemented by a $7.00 cash 1 donation by members of the Riv erhill Colored Christian Church, and a $7.02 contribution by stud ents of the veterans’ school in the | local colored high school, the Am | brose rehabilitation fund reached i sufficient proportions to finance i the construction of a sanitary | privy. The last unit in the pro gram was ordered last Friday and is being installed at a cost of $40.75, balancing off the fund to the last, petuvjg..■'projes* in the program is to be handled l this week. No other contributions will be accepted since the family is now Former Resident Kidnaped, Robbed In Georgia City Mrs. E. T. Walker Reported To Have Lost S3,0(H) In Jewell v and Cash Atlanta.—An Atlanta woman reported Thursday to Fulton County police that she had been drugged, kidnaped and taken to a sopt near Crestlaxvn Cemetery, and robbed of nearly $3,000 in jewelry and cash. Fulton Police Lieutenant R. F Jordan and Patrolman A. E. Hug gins said the victim was Mi".. E. T. Walker, of 395 Callan Circle, N. E., wife of a Grady hospital physician. The Walkers moved to Atlanta from Williamston, and he has been prominently connect ed with the hospital since that time. The officers reported that Dr. and Mrs. Walker told them they went to the Anchorage in the Clermont hotel Wednesday night with some friends, whose identity they did not disclose. She said in her statement that the party had been making a tour of local night spots. The officers said Mrs. Walker said she drank three glasses of beer at the Anchorage, and that she told them she believed the last glass had been drugged. She said she did not know how she became separated from her paity, and that the next thing she1 re membered was that two men were taking her out of a black 1941 Ford coupe near the ceme tery. Mrs. Walker, according to the police, quoted the men as saying that 'it was her jewelry of else.” She reported the loss of a Ham ilton platinum watch valued at $1,200 and an oblong platinum dinner ring set with 26 diamonds valued at $1,600. In addition, she said the men took her handbag containing $18 in cash, two re ceipts for $5,000 worth of gov ernment bonds, a receipt for a fur coat in storage, a safety de posit box key, bank book, a gold compact and an expensive foun tain pen. After the robbery, Mis. Walker said the two men drove off and left her standing in the street. She said she ran to the nearby home of C. A. Harris, 1531 Chat tahooche Avenue, and asked Mr. Harris to call the police. The record showed the call was plac ed at approximately 1:45 a. b. The only description Mrs, Walker could give of the pair was that one was tall and wore a brown suit and the other was ‘short and chunky.” Numerous Arrests Made In County ■—.. #> - . Despite the momentous occas ion on the religious front, crime flared up on a fairly extensive but not after a serious fashion in Martin County last week-end. The drunks all but tried to take over in one or two areas and al least four ventured on the high ways under steerings wheels. Fourteen persons were arrest ed and placed in the county jail, a report from anothe! town stat ing that the local jail was over run and two or three inmates had to be moved out to make room for others. Numbered among the fourteen placed in the county jail were nine drunks, one of whom was booked for resisting arrest. Four were charged with drunken driv ing and another was booked for indecent exposure. Three Car Wrecks On The Highways Of County Sunday •— .Several Persons* Were Hurl Bui None Seriously, Pa* Irolnien Report Several persons suffered minor injuries and shock in a series of automobile accidents on Martin County highways Easter Sunday. Several others were detained for drunken driving, patrolmen stat ing that traffic was unusually heavy during the week-end and especially on Sunday. Mrs. Chas. G. Gurkins of near Jamesvillc suffered a minor knee injury and other suffered minor shock in an accident just this side of Ward's Bridge on U. S. High way 64 between Jamesvillc and Plymouth Sunday morning about. 10:45 o’clock. She was riding with Mr. Gurkin and their son, Hubert Lee Gurkin of Richmond. Wil liam Hopkins, RED 1. Jamesvillc, was driving his 1939 Chevrolet west on the highway and started to pass a car in or near the curve on the hill just this side of the creek when he met the Gurkin car, a Nash, driven by the Rich mond man. Realizing he could not make it to his right side of the road, Hopkins turned sharply to his left but not in time for the Gurkin car to miss plowing into the right side of his Chevrolet. The Hopkins car continued into the ditch, turned over and came to a stop in a field. Damage to the Hopkins car was estimated at $350 and that to the Gurkin car at $200 by Patrolman M. P. Powers who made the investigation. Hopkins, suffering a cut on his chin, was (Continued on page eight) Speedster Admits Guilt But Argues -Af> Admitting that he was speeding along on the highways of this county at sixty-nine miles an hour, Norman F. Drew, Brattle - boro Road, North Bernaidston, Mass., went on to throw off on “southern justice.” He declared that patrolmen in the South did not know how to treat motorists, that some should be imported from the North to teach ’em how to act. Drew had his props virtually torn from un der him when it was explained that the arresting patrolman, M. F. Powers, was from Massachus etts. Drew posted bond in the sum of $47.05 and continued north ward, but at a more reasonable I speed. | Charles Stienglass, Bronx (N. j Y.) attorney, was detained temp I orarily on a sijr.ilar charge, but l the attorney was most congenial ! and accepted the arrangements j as a gentleman without slurring remarks. WEATHER Ole Man Winter slipped back over night Sunday to deTy Miss Springtime, and while he sent the mercury scampering down to .'ll de grees, formed a little ice and sprinkled a light frost, lie isn’t believed to have done ! much damage to tree blos soms. Temperatures in the forties prevailed and a cold wind blew Easter Sunday, but Mi lady ventured out thinly clad and with possibly a more conservative Easter bonnet than was expected. PROCLAMATION Whereas one of every three who now die of cancer could be saved through early detection and prompt treatment, and Whereas it already has been demonstrated that the death late from cancer, which is responsible for one in every eight deaths, could be reduced by an informed public and existing ‘ medical skill, and Whereas the people of the Town of Williamston always have shown a progressive attitude toward all worthy public health enterprises, therefore, I, Robert H. Cowen, Mayor of Williamston, do hereby proclaim April as Cancer Control it as such. I further request that all individuals, institutions, busi nesses and organizations cooperate and assist the American Cancer Society in its campaign during April. Robert M. Cowen. Mavor n Four Political Races Lined Up In County J. C. Smith Says He Is Candidate For County Judge • Illicit (I. Horton Is Not V Qimli'latr For I'ltr Stair Senalr With four contests virtually lined up ,tho bin gun in Martin) County politics is believed to have ! been fired, observers voicing the i opinion that while there’ll be en ough candidates to go around for the major positions little or no opposition is expected outside the j field of county commissioner, I county court judge and the State I House of Representatives. Just a I little ovei two weeks remain for ! tire candidates to get their names I into tlie pot, the filing time clos- j ing at (1:00 o’clock p. m. on Satur- j day, April 17. The major developments on the 1 political scene in this county! came over the week-end when J. Calvin Smith announced to suc ceed himself as judge of the county court. Chas. H. Manning,) Williamston attorney, announced a few days earlier that he would be a candidate for the position and filed with the county board of elections. Hugh G. Horton, Wil liamston attorney, in a move that came a bit as a surprise, announc ed that he would .not be a can didate to succeed himself as sec ond district senator. His action leaves the field, more or less, wide open, but Senator Rodman of Beaufort County, and Steve As kew of Pamlico County have been mentioned as potential can didates. However, reports reach ing here raised the issue of As kew’s residence requirements. The line-up now includes three contests in the county other than the one for county judge, as fol lows W Tom Roberson and Wil liam M. Harrison for county com missioner from the Griffins-Bear Grass District; Henry Johnson, Jr., and Nat Johnson for county commissioner from the Hamilton Goose Nest District; and Edgar Gurganus and A. Corey for coun ty representatives in the North Carolina General Assembly. C. C. Martin has announced for county commissioner from the James ville-WilHams District, and no op l position is of record so far. While they are, in the final an alysis, filled by the legislature, there are two positions on the board of education. The terms of J. D. Woolard of Williamston and II. C. Norman of Robersonville are expiring next April, and it has been customary for candi dates to go before the people in the spring primary, the legislative action recognizing the wishes ex pressed by the voters at the polls. No official announcements have been made, but it is presumed that the following will be candi dates to succeed themselves: J. II. Edwards for county com missioner from the Williamston Poplar Point District; C. A. Rob erson for county commissioner from the Cross Roads-Roberson ville District; J. Sam Getsinger for register of deeds; Paul D. Rob erson for county solicitor; It. 11. (Continued on page eight) Add New Books To Library Here —»— Several new volumes have been ] added to the shelves in the local library, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, 11 1 brarian, announced this week, as j follows: Transfer Point, Immortal Hel en, The Playboy, Hide-out, Lu einda Brayford, the Years of the Pilgrimage, The Cry of Dolores, Look South to the Polar Star, Way of Life, The Case of the Sec ond Chance, Many for Money, Uncertain Heart, Flaming Irons, ' \Stiu’ Vv aTTi, The" Cat tii.it Walked By Himself The Butterfly that Stamped, Susie, Mountain Pony and the Pinto Colt, Beacon Cot ( tage Mystery, Happy Little Fain lly, Nanev Keep: Hour.e Princes.' GOVKKiNOH Vw-- -> Sherwood I.. Roberson, pro minent Roberson ville busi ness man and well known county citizen, was elected governor of the 18!Uh District of Rotary International at a meeting held in Raleigh yes terday. Make An Urgent Appeal For Red Cross In County -& Incomplete Kopoi^ Show l iiml (attnpai^n Itelow Minimum Ouola Pointing out that the Red Cross Fund Drive in the Martin County I i I chapWt#, jS t i 11 Shore iif'-tls min^ mum quota, Mrs, John W Hardy, chapter chairman, yesterday di rected an urgent appeal to all thoughtful citizens to come to the aid of the organization and help, push if uvei Hie goal by Thursday of this week. Complete reports could not be had from the fund drive chair man, but it was stated that while the campaign had met with sue cess in certain areas, the drive was lagging badly in others This chapter is being asked for a comparatively small amount, the county chairman pointing out that the organization has already extended aid this your to several sections of the country where tor nadoes and floods have left many homeless and in dire circum stances to cope with catastrophes last year, and the outlook now is for increasing and greater de mands for the service. Mrs. Hardy pointed out that while the fund drive is lagging in some ureas, Texas City, Haynes ville, Louisiana, Glades County, Florida, and Smith County, Ten nessee, where disasters were ex perienced, had passed their quo tas, doubling them in some in stances, the people having been impressed by the work the Red Cross did for them in times ol emergency. Two weeks ago, about half the chapters in the southeastern area had met their quota , and most of the others have since gone over the top, leaving the Martin Coun ty chapter and a few others in this section trailing. While no one knows what de mands will be made on the Red Cross this year, the Red Cross must be ready, it has been point ed out. ! O iformer I,oral Boy Vi ins Scholarship i —°— Zuck Piephoff, young sun of j Rev. and Mi d, /,. T. Piephoff, and ! a native of Williumston was one of six North Caiolma high sehool | students to win a scholarship re ! cently at Duke University. Valued ! at $3,000, the scholarship i.- off fl ed to six stiHhnits#. eaeh_ v.Ilt‘.i.'—.by, tin- Angler Duke Foundation. The young winner lived here I uniil his father entered the ehap | Iain’s service in World War II about five or six years ago. He is now a senior in the Beysotvor Vsking $1,500 To Carry On Cancer Control Program —«— Mrs. < !ia*. Harris anil Dan IV«*I tfeail I>ri\«* Opening In Comity l liursilay --# Plans arc just about complete for launching a county-wide drive to finance important cancer con trol work. Headed by Mrs. Chas. 1. Harris, the former Miss Helen Katherine Taylor, of Everetts, and W. Dan Peel, the drive to raise* $1,500 is to get under way on Thursday of this week. Sponsor ed here b\ the Jaycees with the cooperation of other organizations and individuals, the drive is to be i xtended into every district in the county during the next two weeks. District quota have been ac cepted bv volunteer chairmen in nearly every d strict in the county and with support coming from all the people, the over-all quota can he raised very easily and without delay. Mrs Harris, the county commander, and Mr. Peel, the county chairman, announced the following district chairmen and the quotas for the districts, as fol lows: Mrs. Leslie Hardison, James* viile, $100; Mr. Chas. L. Daniel, Williams, $35; Rev. W. B. Har rington, Griffins, $75; Mrs. Wheel er Martin, Jr„ Williamston, $600; Eldei A. 15. Ayers, Bear Grass, $75; Mrs. A. P. Barnhill, Cross Roads, $75; Mr. Chas. Gray, Rob ersonville, $300; Mrs. LeRoy Tay lor, Poplar Point, $30; Mrs. Nat Johnson, Goose Nest, $100; Mrs. John W. Eubanks, Hassell, $35. A chairman for Hamilton had not accepted the quota but it is cer tain that the people there will raise $75 or more. Last year this county was as (Contmucd on page eight) Slight Increase In Poslal Receipts Alter losing heavily during the middle part of the year, postal re ceipts in the local office made considerable gains in the last quarter to offset the losses and put the business for 1947 slightly ahead of the 1946 income, Post master W, K. Dunn said a few days ago. In the first quarter of last year receipts, amounting to $8,921 19, were about $800 greater than they were in the corresponding three months of 1940. That small gam was offset when the receipts for the second quarter dropped from $8,214.28 in 1940 to $7,742.87 in the corresponding months of April, May and June, 1947. The down ward trend in business won't al most through the third quarter of last year, the sale of stamps drop ping from $8,076.20 in the months of July, August and September, 1946, to $7,608.05 in the same months of 1947. Unusually heavy purchases of one and one-half cent stamps for greeting cards in December checked the downward trend, income jumping from $10, 502.42 m the last three months of 1946 to $11,362.90 in the corre sponding months of 1947. When the figures were compared for the two years, 1947 held an advantage of $180.84 over 1946. While the stamp sales just about held their own last year as com pared with the 1946 income, the money order business blossomed forth to what is believed to be a new high figure. Money orders increased from $303,270.90 in 1940 to $340,835.52 in 1947, a gain of $37,504.56. \ fisiii\(; | y_/ Although confronting sev eral "Its”, seine fishing is scheduled to get unde.' way at the Jamesville plant on Thursday of this week. Fast reports stated that higlj wat er still covered the battery, hut it could fail by Thursday. The river at this point wee* ... on a stand at 10.5 feet late yesterday after rising about five inches over the week end. Fishing was meeting with little success here, the fishermen stating (hat the |
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