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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! * FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEER f Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday . August 26. 10 III THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BS OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LI—NUMBER 68 ESTABLISHED 1899 County’s Schools To f Open September 1 st Several Positions In Two Faculties Yet To Be Filled 4 New Building Program Will Nol Be Ready For The Opening Wednesday Martin County's nine white and twenty-one colored schools will open the 1948-49 term next Wed nesday, September 1, at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon with pres ent indications pointing to an en 4L rollment increase. In reality, some of the schools are not ready for the opening, but, as usual, the ob stacles will be met in some way. The new building program is not near complete at Bear Grass, Wil liamston and Robersonville, but .— 29tm*5CS . wiu. Jfa»«s-.ri4.i«ww4 •'.i’ftd.i,'r. crowded conditions and in make shift classrooms. The addition at Bear Grass, including a cafeteria, three classrooms, home economics, science rooms, girls’ dressing room and toilets, will be complet ed possibly in six or eight weeks. Christmas has been mentioned as a possibly date for the completion of a high school unit in Williams ton and a cafeteria in Roberson ville. Several faculty positions in two schools are yet to be filled, but a draft is expected. j The new term officially opens | on Tuesday of next week when! the teachers meet in Williamston | at 10:00 a. m., the white teachers! in the high school building and the colored in the colored high school building. Wednesday i ► morning at 9:00 o’clock, the sev eral groups of teachers will meet in their respective schools, and at 3:30 o'clock tha. afternoon pupils j will be enrolled. Busses will start j operating soon after the lunch, hour next Wednesday to get the 1 children to the schools by ) .30 o'clock. The registration is not] ® expected to last very long. The following day, Thursday, Septem ber 2 school will be opened at j 9:30 o’clock when books will be issued and assignments made. The pupils are expected to return j home for lunch that day. On Fri-1 day of next week, regular work is! scheduled. It is estimated that! 7,500 children will enroll in the k 21 county schools for the coming term. Book rentals and lees set up by the state-county system are listed, as follows: High school book ren tal fee, $3; the fees for home eco nomics, vocational agriculture and library vary from school to school, the officials explaining that the assessments are limited to actual costs of materials. In the elemen tary schools the book supplement § al fee ranges from 50 cents in first two grades, 60 cents in the 3, 4 and 5th grades to 70 cents in the 6, 7 and 8 grades, plus an instructional fee of 50 cents for all grades. Reports from the individual white schools show: Jamcsville ready to go with all faculty positions filled. Farm Life has all its teacher positions filled, but the school is ¥ losing an elementary teacher this year. All faculty positions are filled i (Continued on page two) -o Last Rites For Hannah Rogers Last rites are being conducted this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock from the Everett Funeral Home on Sy camore Street for Hannah Rogers who died in a local hospital yes terday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Interment will follow in the Rog ers Cemetery in Hear Grass Town ship. She was a faithful member of the household of Mrs. Eloise Ben nett on West Main Street here for thirteen years, and was held in high esteem by all who knew her The daughter ot Sophronia Rog ers and the late William Rogers, she was 39 years of age. She suf fered a stroke a few days ago and was removed to the hospital early , this week. I | NO BIG INCREASE | The opening of the tobacco markets has brought no major increase in liquor sales at the legal stores operated by Mar tin County, according to a re port coming from one of the store representatives. How ever, there has been an in crease in court activities. For the most part, farmers are applying their early in come from tobacco sales on existing debts and investing in durable goods. Poor Chance Of Getting \ County Hospital Soon KliuiMe Only for Thirty Koom Hospital lender A “D” Priority "Martin County is eligible to claim governmental aid for a thirty-room hospital, but only un der a D' priority,” a member of a special county committee said this morning following an interview held with North Carolina Good Health or Hospital Association of ficials in Raleigh yesterday. The hospital issue is still up in the air, and while no definite solu tion was offered, members of the committee advanced the opinion that the chances are poor for get ting a hospital for the county un- j der the Good Health plan any time soon. The committee, composed of Commissioners J. H. Edwards and C. A. Roberson and County At torney Elbert S. Peel, conferred with Dr. Ferrell in Raleigh for more than two years. The official explained that tnere were 35 hos pital beds already in the county, exclusive of the dozen in the coun ty TB Sanitorium. Ordinarily a county of this size would be en titled to a 60-bed hospital under the Good Health plan. Named following a special ap peal advanced by county civic or ganizations, the committee was instructed to investigate the hos pital proposal and report to the county commissioners. None of the committee members would commit himself, but under the cir cumstances the group is expected to advise against calling a special election just at this time to decide the hospital question. Under the terms of the proposal, Martin County would be required to raise 27.4 percent of the cost of the structure and guarantee ap proximately $11,000 for its main tenance. --r*v — Fire Threatens Oil Bulk Plant Apparently starting from static or a spark resulting when the feed pipe came in contact with metal, fire threatened the bulk plant of the Sinclair Oil Company on Roanoke Rivei here this morn ing at 7.00 o’clock. Truck driver, Ellis White, had hair on one arm and on his head singed a bit, but he was not hurt when he discon nected the feed pipe leading from one of the lug storage tanks to the truck. The burning feed pipe was thrown clear of the tank and truck, and the burning naedjj one of the truck compartments was smothered out when the truck driver lowered the lid. Firemen were called to the plant, but the oil truck driver and his helper had the fire out when they reached there Firemen Are ( alleel (hel Here Tuesday Afternoon Volunteer firemen were called ouf at 3:00 o'clock Tuesday after noon tc the Mobley warehouse on Railroad Street here when a port able furnace used in heating tar for a roof went out of control and fired a large quantity of tar. The fire, sending up a large vol ume of black smoke, was brought under control without much trou ble. Judge Smith Hears Twenty-five Cases1 * In Countv’s Court * i Fines Alone Amount To' Over $600 At Session Last Monday Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor I Paul D. Roberson handled twenty-1 l ive cases in the Martin County Recorder’s Court in about three hours last Monday morning when fines, amounting to $615, were im posed and several road sentences were meted out. Solicitor Rober ! erson "batted” almost 1.000 when all but one defendant either plead ed guilty or were adjudged guilty. In one other case the charge was dismissed. Proceedings: I Willie Jane Crandell, pleading guilty of an assault with a dead ly weapon, was sentenced to jail for three days and fined $20. plus costs. Charged with drunken driving, Zeb Brown pleaded guilty and was fined $200 taxed with the.cost and had his license to operate a motor vehicle suspended accord ing to law. It was the defendant's second drunken driving convic tion. His case hanging Tiro in the court for weeks, Raymond D. Davis was adjudged not guilty of drunken driving. Joe Williams, pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to jail for three days and drew a $20 fine with costs attached. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the court costs in the case charging Elmer Ray Woclard with reckless driving. William Stanley Short pleaded guilty when charged with bas tardy and he was sentenced to the roads for nine months. The court suspended the road term upon the payment of the costs and $56 to William Everett, father of Mar garet Everett, the prosecuting witness, for medical expenses. The defendant is to pay $20 a month for the support of the illegitimate child during the next two years. William Hyman, charged with an assault, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the sentence upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs and on the fur ther condition that he violate no criminal law or be publicly drunk for two years. Adjudged guilty, William Simon Jenkins was fined $20 and taxed with the costs for assaulting a fe male. Richard Thomas Fisher of Hali fax County was fined $100 and taxed with the costs for drunken driving. Over 70 years of age, the defendant Joses his license for one year. William Thomas Bunting was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for operating a ’motor vehicle without a driver’s license. The case charging Jesse Gard ner with the removal of crops was nol pressed or thrown out of court. Pleading not guilty of the re moval of personal property with out satisfying a lien, Simon D. Moore was adjudged guilty. He was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of the costs and $129,117 to the Roan o«;c Chevrolet Co. Notice of ap peal was given and bond was re (Continued on page aix) | LATE SPOUTS DOPE ] Because it was necessary to close its sports page last night a bit of late sports dope is giv en below which did not arrive until this morning. Playing a postponed game in Oak City yesterday after noon a crippled Robersonville team was defeated by the Roosters 5 to 4 after an 11-in ning battle. This loss by the Rams moved Bear Grass back to (lie top of the heap by four percentage points and lifts the Roosters to within two games of fourth place. The report of the score is unofficial. Beaufort County’s Law En forcement Officers’ softball team defeated a Martin Coun ty officers' team last night 17 to 5. CITIZENS OF TOMORROW The Enterprise takes much pleasure in presenting another in a picture series of this section's “citizens of tomonow”. So far none lias figured prominently in public affairs, b it 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, Russell, six, Loretta, one, son and daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bland, Williamston; Benny, three, Paul, six months, sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bunting, Oak City, Lucy Fay, three, Judy, sixteen months, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Dickerson, Williamston; Bottom row, Jesse, eight, son of Mr. and :\lrs. J. W. Peel, Everetts; Sydney, five, Jimmy, one and a half, sons of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Herrington, Williamston; and Billy, nine, Linda, six, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thornton, Williamston. Speedsters Have Another Day In The County Court Defendant Appeals To The Higher Courts When Fined $ 100 Speedsters, most of them from out of the State, had another day in court last Monday, Judge J. C. Smith calling nine defendants to answer to speeding charges dur ing the three-hour session of the Martin County tribunal. Charged with speeding in excess of seventy miles an hour, John Markland Coulbourn of Windsor was fined $100 and taxed with the' costs. Nothing was said about re voking the defendant’s license. I Adjudged guilty over his plea of | innocence, the defendant appealed j to the higher courts and bond was , required in the sum of $150. Charged with * speeding and reckless driving, John Jordan Wright of Washington pleaded guilty. The defendant explained that he was running too fast, that he struck a bump in he road, caus ing him to run off. Judge Smith said it was refreshing for one to admit the charge and a fine of $25 plus costs was imposed. Pleading guilty of speeding, Billy Washington Honeycutt, Dur ham truck driver, was fined $15, plus costs. Frank Joseph Alexander of Mi ami Beach, pleaded guilty of speeding and he was fined $15 and taxed with the court costs. Neil Pershing Chamblee of Wendell was fined $15 and taxed with the cost for speeding. Raymond Haavind, Huntington. New York, man, was fined $15 and required to pay the costs in the case charging him with speeding. Arthur Sollosy, speeding, was fined $15, plus the court costs. Geo. William Bittle, facing a speeding charge, pleaded guilty and he was fined $15 and taxed with the court costs, Burke Henry Parker pleaded not guilty when charged with speeding. Adjudged guilty he was fined $15 and taxed with the; court costs. Consent Decree In Damage Suit ___v Badly hurt when he was run! down on his bicycle on Highway 17 near Williainston June 21, 1947, Thomas Wade Bunting, 12 years old, was awarded $2,000 by a con sent judgment signed by Judge Walter Bone in special chambers here Tuesday afternoon ot this week. The action was brought against Herman Ray Faulkner, a Virginia man, who was driving the car that struck the Bunting boy. The consent judgment provided lor the payment of a $300 medical bill and $200 for the attorney, leaving the lad $1,500. Judge Bone was here Tuesday hearing a motion in another case originating in Washington County. Possibly more watermelons have been sold here this year than in any other period, and at a comparatively Inch price. However, the main melons did not show up until a few days ago when Farmer Calvin Ay ers moved in with an assort ment of large and delicious melons offered at very reas onable prices. The price, the farmer ex plained, is in keeping with tobacco income and not meat price quotations. Justices: Handle Number of’Cases In Mast Few Days -t Several Defendants lluuinl Over To lli^lier ('mills For Trial A general increase in business for the courts followed the open ing of the tobacco markets a week ago, and two justices of the peace, Judge John L Hassell and Judge R. T. Johnson, were called into service to handle the cases. Sev eral defendants were bound over to the higher courts for trial. Charged with breaking and en tering, J. R., Wilmer and W. C. Whitehurst and Melvin Mozingo were bound over to the superior court for trial. Rond in the sum of $100 was required of three oi the defendants. Charged with failing to stop at a road intersection, Geo. Ward was fined $5 and taxed with the costs by Justice Johnson. Orion W. Harding and Richard W. Briley were charged with fad ing to top at a road intersection and judgment was suspended by Justice Johnson upon the payment of the costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Stephen Griffin witii operating a motor vehicle with improper lights. Charged with assaulting Katie Harris, Russ Perry and wife, Eva, were hound over to the county court lor trial, the court requiring bond in the sum of $300 of the first defendant. In Judge Ha.-,..ell';: court Klton LcRoy Ruffin, charged with br - ing drunk and disorderly and as saulting James Jennings, was fin ed $10 and taxed with $12.50 costs. Charged with being drunk at the Hitching Post. Elmer Rogers was fined $5 and taxed with the costs. Harry Wilson, drunk and disor derly, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, Justice Hassell suspending tin sentence upon good behavior foi 12 months and the payment of $9.50 costs Lazarus Williams, charged with an affray, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of $9 50 co i (Continued on page tu) Colored Citizen Leaving an Estate Valued at $25,000 -$ Duuuhler of Isaac Nichols Takes Oath \s Adminis tratrix This Week Isaac Nichols, Williams Town ship colored citizen who was fatal ly injured several weeks ago in an auto-bicycle accident on High way ()4 between Williamston and Jamesville, left an estate valued at $25 000 to $30,000. it was learn ed Tuesday after his daughter, Martha Moran, qualified as ad ministratrix. Sacrificing his personal wants and clinging tightly to every pen ny that came into his possession, Nichols accumulated lus holdings the hard way, possibly adding a bit by lending money on an ad vantageous market. He met bis obligations promptly and he edu cated his daughter, but he never accepted the costly version of life, varying from his conservative path only u> buy an occasional pint of hard liquor. The value of tf)c estate was partly determined on Tuesday of this week when Nichols' small iron safe, measuring hardly two by three feet, was torn open in a local garage in the presence of Clerk ot Court 1,. B. Wynne, Nich ols’ daughter and his trusted ad visors. Very little trouble was en countered in opening the safe, but the court clerk spent three hours counting the cash, bonds and ex amining numerous papers. The assets lound in the safe included approximately $1,100 in cash mostly in $1 bills, some of which were crumpled up and packed in individual wrappings, about $0,000 in bonds and a $10,000 paid-up in surance policy payable to the daughter. There was no will. Nichols apparently kept a re cord of his every business trans action. He had all his tobacco •des, showing receipts of five and six cents a pound for some of the Crop he sold in the early thirties, lie had a record of the sale of hams and shoulders twenty and twenty-five years ago. Then there was a note telling about the tune he was flim-flammed out of $1,100. "This day J was robbed of $1,100 by two men 1 do not know,” Nichols recorded in one of the preserved notes. Hacked ill the back of the safe was a quart of Haynes bottled-in bond liquor of 1917 vintage. The clerk wondered why Nichols had left the quart intact for so long a time, but when he (the clerk) tried to remove the bottle he found it tightly wedged. Appar ently Isaac was afraid lie would break the bottle and therefore he left it. the action being typical of In, saving nature The quart was removed only after the safe was prized apart. Motor Widen! On County Road No one was hurt and only limit ed damage resulted when a 1947 tank truck owned by the Baker Oil Company and driven by Theo dore Ourgunus, crashed into the rear of a car pai ked in the mid dle of the Bear Trap Mill Hoad late last Monday afternoon. Dam age to the car, a 1942 Plymouth driven by James Willis Rogers and owned by Van Lee Riddick, was estimated at $200 by Patrol man J. T. Howe. Damage to the truck was about $20. Patrolman Howe stated that H.-dde k stopped"*Vftis~%isctr hi*'the middle of the road, that the truck plowed into it from the rear. Rogers was temporarily detain ed for operating a motor vehicle without a driver s license. Mins II uni .tccr/ils (,rurnnln>ro Position Miss Mary Neil Ward, who, for (wo years, taught private piano here, has accepted a position with the Vassal- Studios in Greensboro. Miss Ward will teach piano and voice, serve as an accompanist and do some two-piano work begin ning September 1 at the studio which is headed by Walter Vassal', who formerly headed the voice de pai tiiiciit at Greensboro college for nine years. j Plans Complete For Draft Registrations O . | INSPECTION I.VM: | Making ready to beat the (leadline, quite a few owners are planning to line-up their vehicles lor inspection when the lane is opened to the pub lic on Warren Street here next Tuesday morning. It will be unlawful to oper ate models prior to and in cluding 193ti and models 1947 and 1948 after that date un less they have been carried through the inspection lanes. Sales Well Over A Million Pounds On Loral Market -9 .J*«• if-v — &*;vva.»u.. U UoJilLms. Alton! l ive Pound tJuin (K«*r I *!■ I 7 l' ifiniTs Tobacco sales on the local mar ket went over the one million pound mark yesterday when 100, 894 pounds were so't^ to boost the total for the season up until today to 1,044,850 pounds. Prices, alter opening at a fair figure and then dwindling sharply, apparently have leveled off just below $50 per hundred pounds. The 1,044,850 pounds sold for $521,092.72, an average of $49.87. During the first five days of the 1947 marketing season, 708,736 pounds were sold for an average of $45.30 per hundred pounds, giving current sales a price ad vantage of not quite five cents a pound. Sales have been running com paratively light since Monday, the market selling 110,392 pounds Tuesday for an average of $48.83. Yesterday, the market handled 100,894 pounds for an official av erage of $48.30. This morning, larger sales were in prospect and near capacity if not capacity sales are fairly certain for tomorrow and next Monday A few growers are still handling the harvest, and those who have completed the task have had little time to start marketing activit ics Quite a few tips are bejng of fered for sale and the price for most types is holding up units ually well. Intel lor quality is af fecting the price, no doubt, but 1 some grades are simply not selling for as much as they did on open ing day. Prices for the better grades seem to be holding firm, and farmers with quality leaf are averaging light on up to $04 and $05 a hundred pounds. Reports from the farms state that grading is getting under way on a fairly large scale and mar keting activities are certain to re flect a big increase soon. A report from the market at 3 o’clock this afternoon stated that there was a small block left on the floors, that tobacco was mov ing in fairly rapidly for sales to morrow. The rush apparently is getting under way. Soi! Building I Vac tiers ()|h*ii Till' Mil! soil building program is still open for tl ose farmers who care to improve their lands, ac cording to a report coming from Til* KlIJIi ill Mlt t WUIlt i info’ I week. Any farm opeiator who has 1 signed a 1948 farm v rk sheet may apply for payment for seed ing winter legumes, cover crops, fall permanent pasture and Ispreading ground limestone be fore October I To participate ill the program, the farmer must get approval from the county farm office. The practices are being sup ported by unearned soil budding payment allotted the county and unused as of September I, it was explained. Payments will be advanced at. the rate of a 0 1-2 cents for Aus | triun wintcr^reas, 14 cents a pound j for vetch, 7 cents for ryegrass and it! cents for Crimson clover. !\*‘<jfhtration To Get l ndrrwav In Ilul IIht Monday -o K»limut«‘ 2.088 Vlen 18-26, In ( omilv To 8«* Iih-IihI ril in Kruislralion As a part of the nation’s post war military conscription pro gram, registrations for this coun ty will get underway next Mon da\ morning, August 30, in the American Legion Hut on Watts Street in Wiliiamston. Registra tions will be handled each day from 8:00 o'clock a. m. until 5:00 p. m except Sundays and Labor Day, September 0. Rev, John W. Hardy, veteran of the last war, and Mrs. S. 11, Grimes will super vise t>u rt astrations with the aid ol othei volunteers during the special registration period begin ning next Monday and ending Sat urday, September 18. Certain days have been desig nated lor the registration of youths in certain age groups, and it is important that the registra tion schedule be observed. Those persons born in 1922, after August 30, that year, are to register next Monday. The remainder of the registra tion schedule follows: August 31 and September 1: Men born in 1923. September 2 and 3. Men born in 1924. Septembei 4 and V: Men born in 1925. September 8 and 9: Men born in 1926. September 10 and 11: Men born in 1927. September 13, and 14 Men born in 1928. September 15 and lti: Men born in 1929. September 17 and 18 Men born in 1930, before September 19, 1930. The registration is very simple and includes all young men in the designated age groups except those now in active service. While former servicemen in the 18-26 age group must register, it is fair ly certain they will not be subject to cal! if they served as much as one year in the armed forces be tween 1940 and 1948, or if they served as many as ninety days during actual combat. Registrants, who served previously are asked to present their discharges, the officials explaining that such evi dence offered at that time will virtually exempt the registrant from the draft. The registrant is to give his full name, date of bn III, place of real demo, mailing address, name of person who will likely always know the registrant's address, oc cupation. by whom employed, na ture of work engaged in, place of employment, if ever rejected for military service and if so, when, marital status, living with wife, divorced, separated, widower, father, active duty in the armed forces of the U. S. since Septem* (Continued on page six) \:!ii\r Dies At (wmiville Home Mi Suluinr Wilson Powell, a native oi this county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. If. ' liiUi v . cl rc, , i Cj n111 following an illness of several months Funeral services were conducted there on August 14 by Dr H. G Haney, pastor of Green ville's Eighth Street Christian Church, and Rev. Perry Case, Christian minister of Wilson. In terment was in the Wilson family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery here. The daughter of the late Billy Wilson and wife, Mrs, Powell was born in this county seventy seven rears ago. Following her marriage to E E Powell she made hei home in Griffon. Mr. Powell died in 1932 and in 193tj she went to Greenville to make her home with her daughter. Surviving bo-iucs her daughter arc a sister. Mrs Albert Perry nf Norfolk, and a grandsou. A
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