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„ ® ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEE VOLUME LI—NUMBEK 96 THE ENTERPRISE IVilliamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday. Ih camhrr 2. I*) HI THV ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 .MARTEN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 189"1 Plans Going Forward ’For Friendship T rai u To Receive Cash —And VarkrtfB'^ypes Of Farm Produce i —•— Admirable Response From Township Committee Groups Reported Plans for running the Friend ship Train through Martin Coun ty not later than December 12 are going forward rapidly, and the chairman, Messrs. Jesse B. Sum 9 ner, assistant farm agent, and Mayo Little of Robersonville, de clare that the township commit tee groups are responding admir ably, that the movement is assur ed success. Farmers contacted here this week were most encouraging and willingly said they would cooper ate in the undertaking. “They can count on me for the best bag of peanuts I have and a sack of corn,” Farmer Mayo Hardison said when asked what he thought of the plan included in the Chris tian Rural Overseas Program and known as “CROP.” “We can’t af ford to let Martin County fall down after hundreds of other counties in most of the states have packed thousands of carloads of food and equipment for distribu tion among the starving in the war stricken areas, ' anothei far mer said. “I am convinced that I can keep some little boy or girl or some helpless adult from starv ing, and I’m going to support the Friendship Train,” another said. Time is short for handling the project, but the county chairmer, are devoting much of their time especially after their regular working hours to it, and they are optimistic. Preachers of the (Continued on page eight) -o “ Justices Of Peace Hear Eleven Cases In Past Few Days Fines Amount to $70: One Defemlunt Is Bound Over To The County Court -o Justices of the Peace John L. Hassell and R. T. Johnson handled eleven cases in their courts dur ing the past few days, imposing fines in the sum of $70 and send ing two eases to the higher courts for trial. Justice Hassell heard the fol lowing cases: Oscar J. Knips, charged with passing a school bus while pas sengers were being discharged, W'as fined $10 and taxed with $6 costs. Charlie Wiggins, Ernest Bonds and Eddis Bonds, charged with being drunk and disorderly were each fined $5 and taxed with $0.50 costs. Charged with disorderly con duct, William Stokes was sen tenced to the roads for thirty days, the cvjprf suspending the road term upon good behavior for one year and the payment of $7.50 costs. >>i<i((MMJug^e Johnson handled the fol ...jpwing cases in his ?<io Pit-.'cc, booked in two cases for being drunk and disorderly and threatened bodily harm to a neighbor, and resisting arrest, was bound over to the county court under $1,000 bond. Drunk on highway, Raynv M. Campbell was fined $5 ; taxed with $5.85 costs. Charged with assaulting a male, William Livingston was judged not guilty. Operating a motor vehicle vn improper equipment, William Jones was fined $10 < nd ta with $5.85 cost;:. Gloria Biggs, drunk on hi way, was fined $5 and requi to pay $5.85 costs. Drunk on highway, Early May Boston was fined $15 and taxed with $5.85 costs. Charged with simple assault Simon and George Beach were JlnV- + ;!>; costs. — | TOY COLLECTION Sponsoring again a Christ mas party for underprivileg ed children, Williamston's Jaycees are asking local peo ple to support the program. Representatives of the organi tion will canvass the town Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for used, discarded toys and other items suitable for gifts. Householders are cordially requested to place the bundles on their porches. Last year's party was a great success, and the Jaycces are working to make this a better one. Brief Review Of TB Sanatorium In Martin County Institution Mas (lured For 128 Patients Since It Was Opened In 1941 By Mrs. Eva Grimes As a result ol established need in Martin County, the first tuber culosis sanatorium was officially opened on April 11, 1941, with Dr. E. T. Walker as physician in charge and Mrs. Carrie Corey as the first nurse. Since Dr. Walker left, Dr, J. T. Llewellyn has been physician in charge. So many applicants for assist ance were in need of treatment or probable isolation that the Sup erintendent of public welfare, who had been given the task of supervision over the county home removed the inmates who were able and whiling to live in private homes or with relatives. This left part of the building vacant and made room for those who were in dire need of medical care and rest. Dr Ferguson, who was county health officer at that time enthus iastically cooperated in develop ing the sanatorium. The old bath room was remodeled into a kitch en. A second hand stove was pur chased for $25.00 and also a sec ond hand refrigeratof. Dishes, glasses and cooking utensils were begged from individuals and local organizations. . . And that's how it all stalled. The first pa tient w'as a negro woman who w'as admitted on April 1, 1938 and the second patient was a white wo man who was admitted April 15, 1938. These patients were admit ted before the sanatorium was of ficially opened but are mentioned to show that they and many : others in like circumstance? were in dire need of special eaie which up until that time had not been i provided by the county. From the 'official opening on April 11, 1941 (when the "small hospital,” which was far from being adequately equipped but had already met so much need) until the present time there has been a total of 20,723 ,days. Total number of white wo men—12—average age at time of admission 35 1-2 Six died, two were cured and (our were .sent to n state sanatorium. ; The total number of white men J —20—average age at time of ad mission M.i^ajj^^hed, thtye Wen cured, two entered for (Continued on page eight) Minor Accident On County Road No one was hurt and compai tively little damage resulted in automobile accident between Ge Pofht and Robersonville Wedne day morning. John Lawton House of Hass, was driving his 1941 Chevrolet t wrad Robersonville when a m< orlst ahead of him started to tu off the highway. House slow down and Jodie Haislip, driving 1938 Chevrolet, plowed into t rear of the House ear, doing a bo $5 damage to House's car ai about $25 to his own, according Patrolman B. W. Parker w ■?;.i uP.i.t Wjp.w /n< orlst accepted his own damage. Crowds Vtlrnd IVamil Fosfhal Sinai Danrr Ilrrr (Photo Pictured above is a segment of the crowd of several thousand p a sons i , nwiiin : into Wa tival dances In the above picture, the iitterbuggeis *vre in action, tin .;u culm: hardly folks to do their stufl. The crowd continued all the way out the- street, to 11, i .dirtied »v1k same time. (The last and feature picture in the Festival senes i., scheduled l.. appe.u n, by courtesy Royal Photographic Center) shington Street for the recent Peanut Fe - giving them enough room for the young a square dai>cc was in progress at the issue). County ( ommissioiN rs Koliriii" Messrs. Joshua L. Coltrain, left, and R. A. Haislip, i-i^ht, are retiring next Monday as members of the Martin Counts Board of Commissioners after long terms of untiring service. m<om> V. A record rainfall for Ihe month of November was re corded here last month, the weather station on Roanoke River placing the precipita tion for the period at 8.62 inches. The rainfall was 1.29 inches greater than the previ ous record reported in Nov ember of last year when 7.33 inches of rain fell here. It was the largest rainfall since August, 194 a, when 11.07 iwhes were recounted.*^^m Rain last month fell on VI - of the thirty days, 2.05 inches having fell last Sundav. The Roanoke, already in flood stage at 11 feci here to day, is expected to crest at about 13 feet the early part of next week, and is certain to damage crops in tjie low areas. Busy Month For ABC Law Forces Alter reporting comparatively little business in Oct jber, ABC .-nforcement officers in this coun ty had a busy time in November. Officer J. H. Roebuck's report tor the period shows that thirteen plants were wrecked, and that he and his assistants poured out 72 saiians'atta five pints ut illicit h luor and 3,850 gallons of beer. Auto Inspector Here Each Week Representing the North Caro lina Department of Motor VY hides, Automobile Inspector W. E Ebert of Elizabeth Cits' will be at the Carolina Motor Club license bureau in the office of Harrison and Cai starphen hole each Tors day dm mg thi^anci next nmnui * to assist truck owners in proem mg their licenses, in. ludir.g eon .tract, common earlier, fi.mdiise also assist in sti aightenum out "tangled title: to motor vehicles and aid taxi drivers in getting their licenses, it was announced | this w“ek. He will be in the elfin each Tuesday during the two months! from 1C 00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m. Ilifi Docket For 7 lie (.ounty Court Vlonrlo\ -'-<9 Accumulated over a pe riod of j ne arly three weeks, a lai .n* docket will greet C'lias. 11. Manning when „he presides over his IV-! session of the Martin County IN e.irder Court next Monday. Nearly fifty eases have already been placed on the docket, including, eight drunken driving, fourteen speed 1 •ng, eight no operators' licenses, foui liquor, five assault, two iar ceny, two resisting arrest, one d r u uruhH???^fftin,r aiVt i to give right-of-wav. I Hcindlr FVw Cases In Sii|Mkrior Court j The Martin Comity Superior j Court has worker! fairly long |hours in this the second of a two | work tci in hut vrry low cases have horn c loa'cil from the calen ilar Pn sided over by Judge W. H. S. Burgw.x n, the court is hand ling civil cases only. Slated to last a greater part of the day, the case ol W. V Ormond against If. Cl Matthews; was re moved from the calendar last Tuesday hv agreement. The plain till, it was: reported, received $.r>0l) and the defendant gets a clear title to certain property. Tuesday afternoon, the court heard a contempt order, and in structed C. K. Jenkins: to remove a fence from a boundary line in dis pute, A long, drawn out trial was started Tuesday afternoon in the landloi it tenant > ase h, ought b.v Roosevelt Cl recn against f{. B. Hunt and Janie Flora, executors The plaintiff claimed he w a due $515.01 as his part of the 1047 crop proeet J and asked $1,000 for al leged breach of contract. Taking the ca.-,e Wednesday afti moon at 4:30 o'clock after hearing every expense item and credit read, the jury could not agree immediately and vva: dismissed at 5:30 until this lining. (Continued on page six) \tti*ii(l Meeting Of Farm Bureau The North Carolina Farm Bn rouu took a definite stand against any tohaeeo acreage increase for 1949, Mr Char. L. Daniel, presi dent ol the Martin County Farm Bureau, said this week after at tending a meeting of the organiza lion's directors held in Raleigh last Saturday. It was pointed put at the meet ing, according to Mr Daniel, that there is a tremendous carry-over of tohaeeo that farm leaders were of the opinion that an increase would do no good. Mr. Daniel was accompanied to Raleigh by Messrs. 11. IJ. Feel and Ro.\ Hadley, but they were in the meeting and did not get even a glimpse of the big parade there that morning. Itoonl of Kdiiralion ) o Moot //<"-»* Monday The Martin County Board of Education will hold a meeting in the courthouse next Monday morning at 10 1)0 o’clock to handle routine business. REPORTED IMPROVING A patient in a Rocky Mount hospital for several weeks, Mr. G. 11 Harrison is improving, accord ing to reports reaching here. He ' !! ;! ioIU two hours one day tli^vmek. * J^Tune XoiL’US# ip.(JuuwiittQL For The Friendship Train Lining up lh« i township com mittee. v'c:;f;• rc!ii•. and this; morn ing Ini the K; ii-ridship Train, * ‘httirman .J< It. Suinmn and Mayo Little saxl they were re ceiving splendid *npoi ntion. that all of the dirt net leaden willing ly at;reed to even negleet their own work to help handle the t. - k. They and the other leaJei;. ale app< aling to the people to lend the eijininitti • vej aid possible. i 'ontaetinj; h adi r. in live town ■-! 111 • I i rn;a n Sum in ■ annouile ed the chairmen a.-, follows: V 11 Hen .1; ne.-.ville; Mrs. Wetjdell Griffin, William.-,; Hey. W B Harrington and Go Grit I'hi, Griffins; Mis. Walter Wynne md Sidney I' acriani, Bi o Grass; ton. Chairman Mayo Little announo ‘I Hi* following township chair men this morning: Vance Roberson, Robei sonville; Mayo I jardisott, Poplar Poinl; ( raven Roebuck, Hamilton, and I’ ( Kdmondson, Hassell; Nat Johnson, Goose1 Nest; George W. Taylm , Cm Roads, The township chairmen are ho 10)-', asked to stait tin- collection at their eat Rest convenience. I ho,\ are to call for volunteers w'ho will 1 j» asked to canvass so i much tia ntory with trailers or ; tiuek and start deliveries moving R> township centers to be picked j up later and moved to the train. . When it is not convenient for one person to give a 100-lb. bag of ' dry shelled corn, possibly two j ■ a. „ ei, and so on for peanuts, pecans ! and oth< r items. I Officials Of Count y * Begin Term Monday BOOS I I I) The Children's t rusatle, sponsored bv the I’nited Na tions, was given another boost in the county this week when the colored citizens here and in the Dardens sec tion offered $72.37 in cash. The money was raised as fol lows: Williamston colored School, $41.87; Dardens Col ored School, $5.75; Dardens Agriculture School, $10.25; C. L. Bonds' class, Williamston Colored School, $4.50, and Williamston A g r i c u I t ure School, $10. Of an assigned quota of $2, 500, the county has now rais ed $1,253.50, or just a little over half, Mrs. N. C. Green, treasurer, said. Mrs. Jas. Coltrain Passes In Hospital Tuesday At 5:40 Kuticral Service \t I,ale Hume In (»rillins Town slii|i 'I lii> Vfteruooii Mrs, James I. Coltrain, well known and greatly tx Ivr.-evl vtti zen ot the Farm Life section in Griffins Township, died in the lo cal hospital at 5:40 o'clock Tues day afternoon, the victim of z heart attack. She had been in de clining health for about two years but her condition continued aboul the same until last week-enc w hen she was stricken with pneu monia. Removed to the hospita Monday she was responding ti treatment for pneumonia, but , heart attack followed, death com mg peacefully a few minutes hit i or. The former Miss Bessie II Brown, she was born in James ville Township 07 years ago on May 30, 1881, and spent her early life there. She was married ti i Mr Coltrain in 1902 and had since that time made her home in Grit fins Township, where she was held in high esteem as a thought lul and helpful neighbor and a i cherished friend. Devoted to her family and to high ideals, she led a noble life. She was a mernbei of the church at Maple Grove foi many years. Surviving are live daughters, Mattie B. Coltrain and Mrs Daisy Marie Manning, both of the home, Mrs. W, 11 ugh Daniel of Balti more, Mrs J R, I> Griffin of Grif fins Township, and Mrs. Asliiey Wynne of Robersonville; two -sons, Roy C. Coltrain of Raleigh, and Archie Coltrain of the home; a brother, Tommie E. Brown, and a sister, Mrs. Raleigh Manning, both of Jamesville; nine grand children and one great-grand child. 1* unci al services are being con ducted at the home this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev D. W. Ar nokl and Rev. M. L. Ambrose and interment will Plot in the Hardison Miii Ceme tery. "focused -fifflrr To (#et Hearing Dave Brooks, aged colored man who stands charged witli the fatal stabbing of ins son at their home in Jamesville Township last week, will be given a preliminary hear ing before Justice It. T. Johnson tomorrow evening at 7:00 o'clock in the court room. Drunk at the time of the fatal attack, the old man has all but admitted the killing, officers say. Charged with the theft of 4.205 in cash from Simon Gardner in Bear Grass one night this week, Junior Wynne will be given a pre liminary hearing before Justice J. L. Hassell in the courtroom to morrow evening. Wynne main tains he found the money, but the atm"" w ' '1 'iifc; ’«■ W "■rnmrnmm Person while he slept in his auto mobile. Judge \iid Board -Mein bof-s K*-4 After Long Terms Vclion lax pee lei I On I’ro poso I To Rrvuliii- All Hi-ill Pni|M“rlies Starting a now term next Mon day, county officers will encoun ter a rather heavy schedule of duties, They’ll be called upon to make several major decisions and set their stakes for another period in the county's history. Surely, the county's official family, in cluding three new faces, are opti mistic as they make preparations for the next two years, but there’s a sneaking feeling that there’ll be problems to solve. Realizing that it has been a long time since the task was handled and aware that one might help re lieve certain existing conditions, the county commissioners are ex pected to further study the need for a revaluation of real property in the county The decision ranks with the major ones the new board will be called upon to make right from the start. Following tin' old schedule, the board is to perfect its reorganiza tion, .make vanoij,. appointments. call for bonds from the several of ficers and handle other routine duties along with any new busi ness that might be placed on the calendar. Next Monday will mark the end (Continued on page six) -u—. Funeral Service Sunday In Church For Late Soldier Dennis II. \\ hichnnl Pintle Supreme Saerifiee lit Italy In l*>l I Pie. Dennis 11. Whiehard, Wil liamston young man who made the supreme sacrifice for his coun try in Italy on July 11, 19-44, will be buried with full military hon ors in Woodlawn Cemetery here Sunday afti i noon following the funeral in the Pentecostal Holi ness Church on North Haughton Street at 11:00 o’clock The pastor, Rev N J Ward, and Rev. J. Floyd Williams, a former pastor, and the Rev. James I. Lowry, Presbyterian minister, will con duct the funeral, and a detail from the John Walton Hassell Post of the American l egion will be in ; charge of the military rites at the ! graveside. The young man was born in this ; county on February 5, 1921, a son of Mis Edith Terry Whiehard of I Williamston and the late David Whiehard, and spent most of his ! life on the farm. After attending school m Hamilton and Williams ton hi- volunteered l'or service in 1941, and was among the first to go ashore nr the North African moved on to Sicily with the first ; invasion troops on July 9, 1943, and was killed in action near Flor ence..,Ualv. He !""f Con pi o ■ A 51st Signal Battalion, Fifth Army, and was the sixth Martin County man to give his life in the Italian campaign. Surviving besides his mother are lour brothers, Paul, Charlie, and Samuel Whiehard, all of Wil liamston, and David Whiehard of St. Pauls, N, C.; five sisters, Mrs. Ira Price, Mrs. Palmer White, Mrs. Edith Weathers bee, Mrs. Charles Hoe 11 and Mrs. Gideon Harrison, all ol Williamston and communi ty He was a member of the Rober son Chapel Presbyterian Church and a promising voung man. I he body will bo removed Hie late home on Plum Street Saturday where it will lie in sta until shortly before the m the chure^ at 2:00 o’cloc day afternoon. His is the eighteenth .Campy been returned front burial in native soil.
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