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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ SI OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEHI VOLUME LI—NUMBER 36 W'illiamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May t, 19-18 ESTABLISHED 1899 To Exhibit Over > Hundred Animals At Show Friday Interest Shifts From Beef Cattle To Hogs In This County After emphasizing beef cattle j for several years, the annual Mar- j tin County Fat Stock Show on! Friday of this week will feature) hogs, reports from the office of the county agent indicating that the hog show will be the largest of its kind ever held in this sec tion. Where the county club members exhibited over forty nice beef calves a year ago, they'll enter only eight this year. There ^ will be some keen competition among the eight, however, accord ing to 4-H Club Leader Jesse Sumner. With a record number of hogs entered, the show is expected to attract even more interest than it did a year ago or in any preced ing year. The price outlook is possibly more favorable than it was a year ago when the beef cat tle department sales averaged on ly 29 cents or thereabouts. Beef calves are to be exhibited by Billy Bailey, who brought down the grand champion from Everetts last year, and Mahue Bailey of Bear Grass, Mary Jane Rogers of Williamston. John Gur ganus of Hamilton, Peggy Gur , ganus of Oak City, Johnny Price of Williamston and Everett Pur vis of Hassell. The 4-H club members are all betting on their Herefords to take prize money. The exhibitors of calves grading choice or prime will receive $10 and a ribbon, and exhibitors of animals grading good will receive $8. Owners of animals grading below good will receive $5. A showmanship prize of $5 will be offered. The 4-H club members and Fu ture Farmers of Americb are com bining to make the swine depart ment the big feature of the show this year. Approximately 85 hogs are to be exhibited by the follow ing club boys and girls: Asa Bail » ey, LeRoy Leggett and Raymond Bennett of Bear Grass, Billy Ed mondson, Hilton Leggett, Clifton Matthews and Marion Griffin of Everetts, Bennie Ray Hopkins, Darrell Manning, Thurman Man ning and Larry Woolard of Farm Life, Calvin Oglesby of Hamil ton, Jimmy Knowles, Ross Knowles, Robt. Lloyd Sexton and Bobby Ray Rogers of Jamesville, Albert Thompson, Gene Hyman and N. G. Hyman of Oak City, El liott Harris, Dan Johnson, Mary Alice Warren and Earl Warren of Robersonville, Cloy Price, Vir ginia Price, Johnny Price, Jerry Nichols, Reg. Coltrain, Dillon Rogerson, Jack Woolard, Wade Rogerson, Taylor Rogerson, Wade Bunting, Aubrey Rogerson, Jack Williams and Billy VanNortwick of Williamston, and by FFA mem bers Geo. Ayers of Oak City, James Modlin of Jamesville and several from Robersonville. The show will be held in the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse. The youthful exhibitors are to deliv er their entries on Thursday of this week. Judges J. C. Pierce of the State Extension Division and Harry Hamilton of the State De partment of Agriculture, have been assigned to the show and they will be assisted by Messrs. Kelly and Case. Commenting on the show in an article a short time ago, Assistant Agent Sumner said he misquoted Mary Jane Rogers. The first Martin County Fat Stock Show was held April 27, 1944. Eight fat steers were ex hibited and fat hogs were exhibit ed by three farmers and one 4-H (Continued on page eight) TEN IN ONE N-/ The unusual in strawber ries was displayed here over the week-end by Farmer W. R. Cratt, RFI) 2, Williamston. Shaped somewhat like toes un, the feet, the freak had ten berries attached Siamese fashion to each other, form ing a clump about as wide as one’s iour lingers. There were seven other normally developed berries on the same vine, CITIZENS OF TOMORROW The Enterprise takes much pleasure in presenting another in a picture senes of this section's “citizens of tomorrow”. So far none has figured prominently in public affairs, but as fu ture citizens they have a tremendous assignment to handle in a muddled world. Certain they’ll do a better job than has been done or is being done, The Enterprise presents the youngsters as the one great hope for the future. Top row. left to right, Alease, eight months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Bazemore, Williamston; Garland, two, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Shephard, Williamston; James Carlton, two and a half, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Wynne, Jr., Williams ton; Bottom row, Mary Lou, one, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Revels, Williamston; Perry, Jr., two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry E. Odom, Sr., Williamston; and William Eugene, ten months, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Revels, Williamston. W atchman Attacked And Robbed Friday j DOG KILLINGS | V-J Operating over a period of several months and without formal ceremony, some one has been busy killing dogs in the town of Hassell. A report reaching here over the week end stated that about thirty dogs had been poisoned there during the period. Finding his $100 hound dead. M. Mills had an autopsy performed and it was reveal ed that strychnine had been used to destroy the canine. Ollicers are investigating the dog deaths, and while sus picion centers on one man. no proof to support charge against him has been obtain ed. Father of Local Resident Passes Barnett Bloom, father of Mrs. Fl ank J. Margolin of Wiliiamston, died in Los Angeles, California, last Saturday evening following a long - period of declining health. His condition had been critical af ter a heart attack suffered last week. He was born in New York 75 years ago and lived there until about ten years ago when he re tired from business and went west for his health. He had visited here several times, making his last trip about nine years ago. The body is being transferred to New York bv air express and the last rites will be conducted in Riverside Chapel Wednesday aft ernoon, interment following in New York. Surviving besides Mrs. Bloom and Mrs. Margolis are two daugh ters, Mrs. Norman Arenwald and Miss Alice Bloom of New York; and three brothers, Milton Bloom of Norfolk, and Lou and Saul Bloom, both of New York. Report Highway Attack In County —♦— Driving along Highway 125 be tween Oak City and Conoho Church last. Saturday afternoon, four young white men stopped their Virginia Ford* car and at tacked three teen age girls, ac cording to reports reaching here. They tried to drag the girls into the car, but the victims broke sway and ran into a field, the white boys following. The attack was stopped when the girls yelled and attracted attention of resi dents in the neighborhood. Badly frightened the attack vic tims, escaping unhurt, failed to get the license number but said that the eai was from Virginia. I No report was made immediately to officers who were unable to get a lead in the case Offer Reward For Apprehension Of Attacker - Robber Maywood Cherry Reeover inji from Allaek In The Hospital Here Haywood Cherry, watchman at the Marvil Package Company plant near the river here was brutally attacked and robbed there last Friday nigtit about 10:00 o’clock. Almost beaten to death, the young man was removed to the local hospital by Officers Chas. h. Moore and Bill Haislip a few minutes after the attack. Struck at least four times with some instrument. Cherry has hardly been able to discuss the at taek, but he has revealed some in formation during brief interviews officers held with him so far. A fairly sizable reward is being posted for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attacker. Police are working on the case, investigating one or two meager leads which they hope will help solve the case. Robbery was given by Police Chief W. E. Saunders as the mo tive for the attack, the assailant apparently planning to kill the watchman and then rob him. Re ceiving his wages for the week Friday evening, Cherry had sent his earnings home to his wife by messenger just a short time be fore the attack, the robber remov ing the man's empty billfold and relieving him of a .38 calibre spec ial Smith and Weston pistol. Making his hourly inspection of the plant, Cherry was moving along the back side of the stor age warehouse and just as he started to make a turn at the cor ner near the railroad he was knocked in the head. He toppled over backwards into some weeds and bushes and a small drain ditch. He saw the man just about the time the blow landed on his head. Knocked almost unconsci ous by the first blow, the watch man could hardly recall what fol lowed. It is apparent, however, that he was struck at least three more times with some object, and* (Continued on page eight) Cur Damaged At Street Intet auction Saturday Damage estimated at $100 re sulted to Herbert Taylor’s new Buick when a log truck, owned by R J. Hardison, crashed into it at the intersection of Smithwiek and Church Streets here last Saturday afternoon. Taylor was driving on Smithwiek and the- truck was traveling East on Church. The brake fluid container de-1 veloped a leak just as the truck driver started to apply his brakes, leaving him without braking pow Hold Pre - School Clinics Beginning Mav 10 In County —> Children Filtering Sehool Next Fall Are To Be Kx uinined At Sellouts Beginning next Monday, May 10, health department personnel will hold the first clinics for chil dren, both white and colored, planning to enter school next fall for the first time The clinics are held free and all children enur ing school next fall must be vac cinated against certain diseases. Dr. John Williams, health offic er, stated that clinics in al the white schools will be held in the mornings from 9:30 until 11:30 ex cept in Hassell where the clinic will be held from 2:00 until 3.30 in the afternoon. Dates for hold ing the clinics in the whit - schools follow: Hamilton, May 10; Everetts, May 11; Bear Grass, May 12; Hob ersonville, May 13 and 14; Wil liamston, May 17 and 13; James ville, May 19; Oak City. May 20, Farm Life, May 21. The clinic will be held in Hassell on May 20 from 2:00 to 3:30 p. m., and the others from 9:30 until 11:30 on the speci fied dates. The clinics in the colored schools will be held from 1:00 un til 3:30 in the afternoons on the following dates: Jamesville, May 10; Gold Point May 11; Parmelc, May 12; Rober sonville, May 13; Oak City, May 14; Salsbury, May 17; Everetts, May 18; and Williamston, May 19 and 20. In connection with the climes, the health officer said: As here-to-fore, we will exam ine all the children for remedial defects and begin the vaccinations for whooping cough and diph theria; the remainder of which can be continued ut health units at regular stations. We will also vaccinate for smallpox. It is state law that all children be protect ed against whooping cough, diph theria and smallpox by the time they are one year old. This mat ter of waiting until the child is of school age is not only illegal hut dangerous, as by that age he has lived over the most dangerous period of his life for whooping cough and diphtherial. The fact that we give these vaccinations at our preschool clinics simply is to encourage this practice. This year will be the last time we are going to do it. “It would certainly be a grand thing for a parent, especially the mother, to be present. It will not take much of her time, and she knows what diseases the child has had, what vaccinations and some times, what is the child’s handi cap. “I feel the parent who sends her child to school on the truck to spend the day and be examined at the clinic is not much interested, (Continued on page eight) ■o Takes Over Management Of Jamesville AIK. Store Named to fill the position made vacant by the death of Mr Mont ford Brown a few weeks ago, Mr. Lloyd Waters tyok over the man agement of the Jamesville ABC store last Saturday. Four Thousand Dogs Vaccinated Nearly four thousand dogs— 3,846, to be exact—were vaccinat ed in the annual drive against ra bies recently handled in this coun ty, Dr, W. F. Coppage veterin arian, handling the clinics, an nounced this week Although appointments have been met in just about every sec tion of the county, there are quite a few dogs that have not been im munized and arrangements have been made to handle those at the doctor's office in Williamston any week day. The list has been turned over to the county authorities for check ing, and dogs that have not been vaccinated will cither be immun ized or killed. A review of the vaccinations, by townships, follows: Jamesville, 377; Williams, 81; Griffins, 355; Bear Grass, 215; Williamston, 478; Cross Roads, 237; Robersonville, 462; Poplar Point, 114; Hamilton, 234; Goose Nest, 484; post-clinic vaccinations, 79. The campaign is believed to have been the most successful ever conducted against rabies in this county. Building Burns In Bear Grass Believed to have started from defective wiring, fire destroyed a small feed house and a small quantity of hay and corn on the premises of Mrs. Javan Rogers in Bear Grass early last night. No estimate of the damage could be hail immedi itcly. Fearful the fire would spread to other buildings and possibly to the align dwelling, some one placed a call for volunteer fire men here. The call was answer ed but by the time the fire-fight ing apparatus reached there a large and hard-working group had confined the fire to the one small structure. Marini• (.iir/jfi Recruiter Here Once Each II eeh A new recruiting service was inaugurated here last week when the Marine Corps opened an of fice in the post office to interview prospective recruits. The recruit er, M-Sgt. John M. Faulkner, a native of Mississippi, will be in the post office here each Friday from 10:00 a. m until 5:30 p. m. until further notice. skim: fishing Started last Tuesday after a delay of weeks seine fishing in the Roanoke at Jamesville met with failure through yesterday and ■ operations were suspended late in the day. The operator plans to resume operations on a trial basis later in the week, pos sibly on Thursday or Friday. The catches during the brief operating season have averaged little more than 150 herring and only one rock has been taken from the stream by the seine this season. Ministers A crept Cha llenge To Fight Beer- Wine Sales --*>_ Fairly certain the industry will move in for action, county minis ters and interested laymen, meet ing in the Christian Church here last Friday evening, readily ac cepted the challenge and the min isters accepted the call to lead the movement calling for a vote on beer and wine sales in this coun ty. Accepting the call to head the drive, the ministers will meet here Thursday night of this week | in the Christian church and make ready for a rough-and-tumble | fight oi’ any other action they I deem necessary to carry the pro ! posal before the people. It was pointed out at the meet- j | ing that the number of petition ; ers is sufficient to support a plea j for a special referendum, but the j leaders ary calling for more signa j I lures to the- pedal petitions. More [ names are being added and the petitions will be placed in the hands of the committee at the meeting ibis wee k. To support the movement and as a starter, the group “chipped” in $22.35 at the last Friday night meeting to help finance the pre liminary arrangements, ti e group declaring it was ready to match two for one advanced by the beer barons. During the meantime, represen tatives of the brewers continue their work in the county. But the ban proponents are making ready to point out that the present sys tem has failed, that nuisances have been created, that there is little discretion .that cart, he exec-., cised ifi issuing licenses, that teen agers are being attracted to the beer counter in evei-mu easing numbers. Two Thousand Expected Here Fritlay for Fat Stock Show And Annual Farm Bureau Barbecue Good And True Democrats Meet in Precincts Saturday All good and true Democrats are slated to meet in their respec tive precincts in this county on Saturday of this week, Elbert S. Peel, chairman of the party’s ex ecutive committee, announcing that the meeting may be held any time from (i:00 o'clock that morn ing until sunset the same day. The precinct meetings, ordinal i* ly attracting very little attention in this county in recent years, art to perfect their organizations by electing a chairman, secretary and treasurer and they are to name delegates to the county conven tion which is to be held the fol lowing Saturday in the court house. Precinct organizations have de teriorated to a low point, possibly as a result of the A1 Smith-Hoover debacle way back in 1928, and the task of "hanging on" has been ■ handled by the old-liners for the most part. Horace Ayers is suc ceeding his father as chairman of the Cross Roads unit. Other pre cinct chairmen earned over from year to year are: C B. Martin,1 Jamesville; Joshua L ColtrainJ Williams; P'eny Peel, Griffins; J. D. Wynne, Bear Grass; (’. 11 God win, Williamston No. 1; 11 G. Horton, Williamston No 2; Paul Roberson, Robei sonville; Jos. R. Winslow, Gold Point; W S. White, Poplar Point: L. U. Everett. Ham ilton; D. R. Edmodnson, llassell;' and J. F. Crisp. Goose Nest. Authorities Appoint Hospital Committee Proposed Welfare Budget ("alls For Total Of $66,390 - <8> Hoard To Moot Willi Kdu ealion (»roup May IH lo Consider School Hills I Meeting m regular session on Monday, the Martin County Com missioners worked until late aft-| ernoon handling routine duties] and speeiai business and discuss ing the proposed welfare budget for the 1948-49 fiscal year. After virtually agreeing at a previous meeting to call a special election to ascertain the wishes of the people of the county relative to the construction of a hospital, the commissioners this week nam . ed a committee to proceed with the preliminary work John Hen ry Edwards, board chairman, was named chairman of the commit too and he will be assisted by Commissioners C. A. Roberson and W. M. Harrison and Elbert S. Peel, county attorney. The duties of the committee were not sped fied, the board instructing the group to go ahead with its work preparatory to calling an election for a bond issue at an early date. Two juries were called by the commissioners, one for a ease in the county court next Monday and a second for the June term of the superior court. Names of the jurors called for the special coun ty court case next Monday are, Griffins, Thermon L. Griffin and N. R. Daniel; Williamston, W. M. Myers, W. G. Peel, Carl C Col train; Williams, Vein Hardison; Jamesville, George Hopkins; Rob ersonville, J C. Martin; and Cross Roads, L. A. Clark. Reporting to the board, Tax Collector M. L. Peel stated that all hut $16 437.00 of the $215, 221.01 levy for 1947 had been col lected, that all hut $3,476.50 of the $207,102.92 levy for 1946 had been collected, and that there was a | balance uncollected for 1945 in the j sum of $1,641.81. | Meeting with members of the i county welfare department com I imttee, the board spent consider I able time studying the proposed I welfare budget, approving with I out delay several items but delay , ing action in others. j The proposed budget calls for a I rough increase of approximately' I $14,350 or light at $66,400.00 for I the 1948-49 fiscal year as compar I ed with approximately $52,000 ap | propriated in the current fiscal ! year. | Administration costs are being j upped from $11,785 to $12,870, the j ‘"stale and n <n > ,i' governments to pay $4,672 of the administration | cost, leaving$ 8,198 to be financed. 1 (CunUaued on page eight) ! -\ di;ki» \m;i i 1>IKKi>>K 440 feet into the ground at the town's muni cipal water plant, well drill ers are believed to have dis covered a large water source for the town. In the course of the drilling, the well men found M^’t.v feet of excellent water hearing s'and, offering the largest supply of water in the system. The contractors are sinking a test well tins week to cheek the c|iiality and determine the chloride or salt content. If the findings are favorable, work will he rushed on a permanent well. Three geologists, sent here by the federal government, checked ttie operations foot by foot, offering valuable suggestions as the test well was being dug. Ob S(TV(‘ Family Week Tli is Week —«— The sixth observance' of Nation ^ al Family Week is being held this week, with "Christ, the Center of j Home Life," as the Protestant ! theme, according to l)r L Fos ! ter Wood, chairman of the spoil | soring Inter council Committee on Christian Family Life Dr Wood I said the purpose of Family Week is "to challenge our American ! people to create homes which will , be a blessing to the men, women ! and children in them.” The Inter i council Committee represents the family life agencies of the Fedor 1 al Council of Churches, the Inter national Council of Religious Kdu cation, and the United Council of Church Women. It joins with re presentatives of the Jewish and Catholic faiths in sponsoring Family Week. Rentvsenl County On Roll Of Honor -- FiveMaitin County young wo ! men met the scholastic require ments to have their names appear on tiie East Carolina Teachers College honor roll for the winter quarter, it was announced a few days ago by Dr. J. K. Long, the registrar. Fourteen out of every 100 stud cuts enrolled in the college had their names included in the hon or list. The names of Martin .County's honor students are: Mercedes A.pi'" HO(i V-1I-M ,1 h.tii"' S'riiV 1 » Jameoville, Louise limes unci Elizabeth Manning, Williamston; and Ellen Joyce Clark, of Ever etts. Secretary Of The Fann Bureau To Make Main Speech Thirty Pit'- ami Bushels Of (lorn Bread \ml Slaw Beinir Prepared Extensive preparations are rapidly being completed for en tertaining the annual meeting of the Martin County Farm Bureau at the high school in Williamston on Friday afternoon of this week. A preliminary report from the or ganization's office yesterday stat ed that thirty pigs will be bar becued. that bushels of corn meal will be baked and made ready along with tasty slaw. Cool drinks will be made available on the spot. A special committee has been working for days, making preparations for the county’s big gest annual event. The program is slated to get un der way in the high school audi torium at 4:110 o'clock that after noon, the Farm Bureau official! explaining that some important business is to be placed before the membership, that R. Flake Shaw, the organization’s executive sec retar v, and Mr. Curl Hicks of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation, will address the ! meeting. The business program | will be brief and will not delay I the barbecue very long, an official of the Fui in Bureau declared. "Mr. Shaw will have some time ly information to offer and it will I lie well for every member to hear , him,” an official said. Mr. Hicks | will discuss a plan whereby the Farm Bureau can aid materially ! research programs. It was decid ed some tinu ago by the county I Farm Bureau directors to appeal to tlic members for cash cuntribu e lions to support a research pro gram. Mr. Hicks wfll explain the j plan in detail. The contributions I will be voluntary, and while it is I hoped the Farm Bureau members j will support the plan, they are under no obligation to do so and they'll be welcomed at the annual meeting whether they contribute 1 to the research program or not. The directors are anxious to raise Martin County's share in financ I mg the program. Quite a few other counties have already rais , od their quotas. Over two thousand persons at tended the last meeting, and with fair weather and most of the to bacco already transplanted, it is I quite likely that an all - tune re cord number will be present for the annual meeting on Friday of | this week. Tickets to the barbecue have ! been placed in the mails and just about all the details for feeding j and handling the crowd have been attended to, and all are just hoping lhi weather will be favor | able for a big day in the county’s ' farm history. Coroner Hosting it Ilium• (In II Hits Street Troubled with high blood pres sure, S. Rome Biggs, Martin Coun ts coroner, retired to his bed at Ins home on Watts Street here last week-end upon the advice of his physician. He was instructed to rest for ten days or two weeks , and remain quiet and receive no j company, reports stating that rest I and dieting will enable him to be i out within a reasonable time. I urns .1 llids lor (lu‘ construction ot .in addition to the Hear (irass School and an addition al unit lor tVilliamslon will be received by the Martin C ounty Hoard of Education in special session here on Mon day, May 17. it was learned _—. - ^ Advance reports iuttkaia that quite a few coni' plan to enter bids for both of the contract*.
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