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m THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,060 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK === VOLUME LI—NUMBER 98 Williamstcn, Marlin County, ]Vor|/i Carolina, Thursday. December 9, 19 Id ESTABLISHED 1899 Handle Sixty” Cases In Recorders Court Fines Amount To More Than $1,000 In Court Monday Prisoners Form Long Line At Bar While Waiting To Be Called - While no records were actually broken, the Martin County Re corder’s Court with Judge Charles Hall Manning on the bench for his first time, had one big day last ~ Monday, Sixty cases were called, including twelve charging the de fendants with speeding. Thirteen were continued for one reason or another, most of them having been carried over because the court could not handle all the scheduled business in a day. Sev eral of the continued cases charg ed drunken driving and had they been tried, the court possibly would have established a new in come record for fines. As it was the court imposed fines in the amount of $1,135.00, the costs of the court pushing the total in come for the day to more than $2,- ; 000. The courtroom was fairly well packed by defendants and wit * nesses with a few spectators go ing there to observe the new judge in his first session on the bench. There were a few diffi cult decisions, but the judge’s work was generally approved, possibly" by alTexeeptfjjjj'e"victims"" Just as the court was convened Jailer Roy Peel marched in the jail defendants, the group form ing a long line at the bar. Sever al could be seen shaking their heads when they heard the sen tences pronounced for their chums in crime. The court cleared from the i docket several cases that had been j ♦ pending in the court under pray er for judgment for some time, in cluding the following: C. S. VanLandingham, allowing stock to run at -large; Wm. D. Leg gett, non-support, the records showing that the case had been handled in the superior court; Henry M. Bass, violating the school attendance law; and Jake David Spruill, issuing a worthless check. Other proceedings: Pleading not guilty, Joe Rodg ers was adjudged guilty of an as sault with a deadly weapon and was fined $35 and taxed with the ; cost. James Ramsey, Sr., adjudged i guilty over his plea of innocence, | was fined $15 and taxed with the for an assault with a deadly* weapon. Frank Simmons, pleading guil ty, was fined $25 and required to pay the costs for assaulting a fe male. Facing the court in two cases, Jim Pierce was required to pay | the costs for being drunk and dis- I orderly, and $50 and costs for re sisting arrest. »» > Drunk and disorderly antb w< listing arrest, Walter "Bud” Free man piT&ySPgui/ty' and was*sen tcnced to the roads for six months. Iri a second case, charging him with larceny, he was adjudged not Curtis Yarrell was fined $100, taxed with the cost and had his license revoked for one year for drunken driving. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, i and careless driving, Willie E. Boyd was fined $50 and taxed with the costs. Pleading not guilty, Chas. Pur vis was adjudged guilty of drunk en driving and was fined $100, required to pay the costs and had his operator's license revoked for a year. Pleading guilty of operating a i motor vehicle without a driver's license, Charlie Biggs was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of being drunk, F. L. Haislip was fined $10 and taxed with the costs, Woodrow Wilson Spruill plead ed not guilty when charged with operating a motor vehicle without a license. Adjudged guilty, he was (Continued on page eight) i f ROANOKE RIVER I v) After reaching; a crest of 12.4 feet last Monday, the Roanoke River at this point had dropped to 12.2 feet late Tuesday and has been on a stand at that reading up until noon today. The river is ris ing slowly and following a se cond rise at Weldon is expect ed to reach a crest of about thirteen feet here Sunday or Monday, according to infor mation received from the Ral eigh weather bureau. All logging activities in the river area are at a standstill and work will hardly be re sumed until the early part of January, leaving approxi mately 400 men idle. Speedsters Have Another Day In The County Court Eleven of .Twelve Defend* ants Plead Guilty, 12tli 1“ Found Guilty Motorists, apparently in too big a hurry, had a speedsters' conven tion in the Martin County Record er’s Court last Monday with Chas. H. Manning acting as judge of ceremonies.^. Eleven of the twelve defend ants in the speeding cases pleaded guilty, and the twelfth, after the evidence was offered, was adjudg ed guilty. The defendant, one of tender years, advised the court that he was sent somewhere in a hurry by his teacher, that while he was traveling sixty miles an hour, he actually did not violate the law. Four states—New York, New Jersey, Virginia and North Caro lina—were represented by the twelve defendants. The cases had piled up over a period of three wefcKs winch partly explains away the large number of speeds ters entering the court in a single day. When the condition is con sidered in that light, it does not appear that everybody is speed ing. The speeding cases follow: Myer Smolowe, Brooklyn, $15 and costs. Robt. C. Peery, Tazewell, Vir ginia, $15 and costs. Ralph C. Parrish, Hertford, $15 and costs. Chester D. Judis, New Rochelle, N. Y., $15 and costs. Pictw*Td»F Neuman, West Eng..,J, lewood, N. J., $15 and costs. William Henry Woolard, RFD 1, Williamston, $15 and costs. William C. Cannon, Ayden, $15 and costs. William Brown, Williamston, $15 and costs. Matthew James, Columbia, $15 and costs. William Goldstein, New York City/ IISthti*‘costs. ..• .. .John J. McGlotikey. Madison. N J., $15 and costs. Three Minor Car j Wrecks Reported! Very little damage resulted and no one was hurt in any of three minor auto accidents here last Tuesday s fternoon. Fauzy S. Zahka of Brooklyn backed his car into a bicycle in j front of a local theater, causing $5 I damage to the wheel. He paid the J bill and went his way. A few minutes later two cars, one driven by G. W. Churchill and the other by E. G. Boncy, crashed on Baltimore Street, causing about $75 damage to th; 1947 Plymouth driven by Church ill and about $50 to the 1946 Ford driven by Boney. At 5:45 Walter Edward Barr, driving a 1939 Ford, made a right turn off Main into Watts Street and stopped just as J, H. Edwards ounded the corner behind him. (\bout $25 damage was done to the Edwards car. but no iwirt. one was Placing Thirteen Cases On Docket In Superior Court Jinl){r Waller Bone Sched uled To Preside Over One-Week Term Thirteen criminal cases and a few civil.actions have been plac ed on. the docket and calendar for trial next week when the Martin County Superior Court is conven ed for a one-week term. t Other than a murder case, the criminal docket carries only what may be termed insignificant charges. One claim and delivery case and three divorce actions have been tentatively scheduled for trial next Wednesday. Judge Walter Bone of Nashville is to preside over the term which in all probability, will be ended about Wednesday, court officials stating that the trial of the crim inal docket will hardly last two days. While it is not of general inter est, the murder charge lodged against Dave Brooks, 75-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his son, George, to death the evening before Thanksgiving, is expected to attract quite a few people from the Free Union section of James ville Township. Admittedly drunk on the night of the killing, the old man remembers a few per tinent facts but denies the stab bing. Clarence Earl Stevenson is charged with having raped Ear line Edwards on October 4. Two breaking and entering cas es are on the docket. In one, Samuel Jenkins., j„«. charged with breaking into the Red Front Gro cery in Williamston on the night of October 31 and stealing $6.54 in cash. In the other one, R. H. Moore Is charged with breaking into the home of Ethel Lee Rollins and using abusive language. James Wesley Ormond is charg ed with having carnal knowledge of a girl sixteen years of age or under, the warrant stating that he attacked Martha L. Winbush on or about July 25 near Roberson ville. Martha Gray is charged with the larceny of $400 from Milbcrt Mitchell on November 2 while al legedly maintaining illicit rela tions with the prosecuting witness in Williamston on that date. Lee Rollins is charged with the larceny of six bushels of corn on October 23 from H. D. Nelson and taking Nelson’s mules and wagon to transport the corn. Wannamker James is charged with the theft of clothing valued at $76.90 from Wm. Jenkins, Jr., on October 2. Junie Wynne is charged with the theft of $205 from the person of Simon Gardner in Bear Grass ''ii i 'her 29 in Bear Grass Four cases were appealed from the county court end appear on the docket, as follows: Lollie Williams, drunkeri driv ing; William L. Hollis, drunken driving; Dr. Wm. F. Coppage, speeding; and Charlie Paige, issu ing a worthless check. Fees Amounted To More Tfcur $3,400 — '■» Fees, -fines and forfeitures re ported by the courts and various oT57c.es in the county amo’unte^To" $3,460.39 for the month of Oc tober, according to a report filed a few days ago. The largest, single item was fines reported in the sum of $1, 615.CO by the county recorder’s court. Costs in the same court amounting to $978.05 represented the next largest item of income. The superior court reported fees in the amount of $47.95, and mis cllaneous items in the office of the court clerk amounted to $214 46. J. Sam Getsinger reported for the office of register of deeds in come in the sum of $415.80, in cluding such items as birth certifi cates, $24;.death certificates, $3.50; marriage certificates, $5; marriage licenses, white, $72 and colored, $56; delayed birth certificates, $9; and other miscellaneous items, $246.30. The sheriff's office reported an income of $189.13, most of which amount was raised in servicing civil papers. | mi iUiTRPrAi Prunut I'rsiinil (Photo bv courtesy Royal Photographic Center) Forgetting all about bis cares and woeSj^Jb _J local business man, donned a home-made clown suit and joined j in the spirit of the recent Peanut Festival, enjoying the accepted role and creating fun for the spectators. He started out with the first note sounded by the Mai ine Corps Hand and maintained the pace for two days, but he petered out on the third and hud to withdraw with his feet aching and his voice gone. Advised today that the fourth month salaries could be paid before the current school month is completed, the County Board of Educa tion is-now leaving it up -to the individual schools to fix the Christmas Holiday sched ule, it was officially learned at noon from the office of the county superintendent. Few reports could he had from the individual schools, but Williamston will choose the old schedule, calling for the suspension of classes at noon an the 17th and the re opening on the 29th. All colored schools in the county will close on the 22nd to maintain a uniform sched -aforfor busses i.pv’r.vih.g in more than one district. _ “ Going To Rescue Of Needy Family Their pathetic plight railed to the attention of a Christian peo ple, members of a needy family in the Cross Roads section of this WWRV avif receiving md Horn far and near. While no large amount of money has been received so far, the family has been given liberal boxej^^fnofUtWjo i< ai ned to day. Approximately $50 in cash has been donated, according to Mr. W. L. Ausbon, a neighbor who j with others, has been aiding the family for months. The father, an invalid, is criti cally ill and his condition de mands much medicine. Tw.» chil dren are paralyzed and are help less. The mother has impaired | her health trying to wait on her I sick husband and helpless chil dren. One able-bodied son, the only bread winner in the group, has been out of work on account j of weather conditions. While the response to the call i for aid has been fairly liberal, the | need is great and additional e m- j tributions will be received and j Placed to the very best advantage for the family by Mr. W. L. Aus ; bon, RFD 1, Robersonville. Mr. Ausbond said yesterday that a $;j cash donation had been received from a friend in Winston-Salem j who read an act ount t,i the trop hy's plight in a county paper. | Postal Officials Urge Patrons To Mail Gifts Early —<*> Karl> Mailing \\ ill Insure I )rii\ cry of I’nrkagrM Before < lirisUmi* Day To avoid waiting at the parcel post and stamp windows in your local post office and to bo certain j that the gifts yon mail will he re ceived before Christmas, W. E. j Dunn, local postmaster, lists be low information which should prove valuable by saving your time and the time of your postal employees. Mail your greeting cards and gift_.packages as early in Decem going to other states. All pack ages should hi1 mailed before De cember 15 to assure delivery be fore Christmas day. Early Christmas mailing is ex tremely vital. Packages and cards mailed late in the month may be held up on the way because of the great volume of mail handled dur ing the season. All out of town Trialr *TioUWW 'rnmieu Ti??,'. ThV delivery of Yuletide meetings ex-, changed locally can he handled with case the week before Christ mas. Much time would be saved if: - veri one ivouid ..i-trp or next week and purchase the ex tra stamps they are going to need for their Christmas cards. This would be one way of avoiding the last minute crowds at the post of fice windows. Put the correct postage on all mail matter and be sure that the mail is correctly addressed or you risk disappointing your friends. When sending cards to small chil dren, address them in care of their parents. This save much time as the youngsters arc not al ways listed. I’arei ] post packages cannot be accepted unless stoutly wrapped. 1 se heavy cardboard outer paper, heavy cord and printed fourth class labels. 1 he address should be repeated inside the outer wrap pings. Parcels may be marked ’ Do not open until Christmas.” Written greetings such as ‘'Mer ry Christmas,” Happy New j Year", "With Best Wishes,” etc.! (Continued on page eight) Town Board Of To mm issioners Met On Tuesday Di'lcpiiilions Appear Before Meeting With Nations Problems Very little business was on their calendar, but the town commis sioners in regulaivmeeting Tues day evening had several problems dumped into their lap when dele gations, representing various or ganizations, appeared before the board. Ad\ ised that motor vehicle traffic was about to take the right of-way away from the Coast Lin?’ freight train on Railroad Street next to the Williamston Hardware Company, the commissioners gave the railroad permission to place posts along the track. Representing the Martin Coun tv Athletic Association, D. V. Clayton and John Henry Edwards laid the Williamston baseball .Dark light problem before the group. Clayton explained that $7,450 in stock had been sold, leaving a balance due of about $3,250, including $1,321 for instal lation, $1,200 for equipment, $410 for a switch and about $250 for miscellaneous. It was also ex plained that $3,000 in stock had been sold in Williamston, that Hamilton, Hassell, Oak City and Bear Grass each had bought $700 in stock. The town donated $500 It was pointed out that the county had been asked for $500. The two men stated that the civic clubs of Williamston had agreed to contri bute $250 each. Representing the local Parent T't-'a-elve-c-'—A-ssociation, W" Iverson Skinner, Marvin Britton and R. E. Manning asked the town to tile the ditch just to the rear of the grammar school. It was pointed out that the town dumped water from Smithwick Street into the ditch. The P.-T. A. committee es timated that the till' would cost $525. The plea was heard sym pathetically, the board assuring till' delegation that the ditch would be tiled "if and when funds are available.” Much discussion centered around a request made by repre sentatives of the several civic clubs, urging the board to require a permit for solicitors. While the representatives, headed by Wheel er Manning and Exum Ward, Jr., stated that they did not want to hamper any worthy cause, they explained that "begging” has gone beyond all reasonable limits, that school publications, parties and other undertakings, all possibly worthwhile, were beyond reason. The commissioners and represen tatives discussed the problem, but no action was taken. To supplement the drive to wipe out rats, the board adopted rat ordinance etdlirm for proper garbage containers and the removal of trash and other matter in which rats harbor. Issue Last Call For Inspections Raleigh. Have you had your vehicles inspected yet:* By ve hicles: wo tnyar) autnrnn£>i|es, trucks, semi-trailers, trailers, mo torcycles, motorbikes, or any oth: i motor propelled contrap tion, propelled by internal com ^***P*f*l*m^ , -/fE,,:,, except" trackless trollies. In other words, the Motor Ve hicle Department said today, any vehicle which is required to be re gistered with the State and carries state license plates must be in spected at the State’s Mechanical Inspection Lanes The absolute deadline for 1948, the Department said, is fast ap proaching, adding that the lanes will be able to handle just so many vehicles on the last day, De cember 31. Then, too, there arc just so many days left, and no doubt some of these days will be rainy (some of the testing equip •pent at the lanes cannot be oper ated during inclement weather). “Don't procrastinate any long er, was the word of warning from Arthur T. Moore, director of the Inspection Division. Moore said that the lanes would be clos > d several days around Christmas, thereby cutting the number of (Continued on page eight) j To Load Friendship Train December \ TOY COLLKCTION ) VJ Working to provide rheer ior the less fortunate in the community at Christmas, the Williamston .laycees will make a second canvass of the town for old toys Sunday af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The canvassers will aiso accept other articles suitable for gifts. The canvass last Sunday was very successful, but more toys and gifts ate needed, it was explained. Individual donations are being received by T. F. Davenport at the Wil liamston Motor Company and by Kxurn Ward, Jr., at the Williamston Hardware Com pany. Fifteen Cases In Justice Of Peace Courts This Week Several Defendant* Are Itoninl Over To Higher Court* For Trial Justices of the Peace John L. Hassell and R. T. Johnson handled fifteen eases in their courts here during the past few days. Several of the defendants were bound ov er to the higher courts for--trial. | Petty larceny, absent from thi j dockets for some time, was back 1 in the courts this week, and pub ; lie drunkenness and disorderly conduct were reviewed in num bers. Justice Hassell handled the fol lowing cases: Charged with disorderly con duct and assaulting a female, Wil i liam Stokes was bound over to the county court for trial, the court requiring bond in the sum of $100 Back in the courts again, James ; Ridley, charged with simple tres pass, was taxed with $5.50 costs. Ridley is under -a suspended sent ience in Justice R. T. Johnson's court. Charged with disorderly con duct, V. J. Peel was taxed with $8.50 costs. Eunice Odom, charged with public drunkenness, was required to pay $9.50 costs. Booked for disorderly conduct Chas. Ben Roberson was taxed with $7.50 costs. Dora Williams was sentenced to jail for thirty days for an alleged assault on Lillie Bell Berry. The jail term was lifted upon the pay ment of a $3 doctor’s bill and $5.50 el,sis - John Henry Jones was taxed with $8.50 costs for disorderly conduct. Justice Johnson handled the following cases: Alton Hoyt Smith and Horace Hodges each were taxed with! $6 35 costs for public drunken ness. •Charged with thy. larceny,^'' five chickens, Kelly Myriek was bound over to the eoanty <-owv' for trial. Charged with failing to stop at a highway stop sign, Chas. If. Cliesson was[ taxed with $5.35 costs. In the ease charging him with disorderly conduct and damage to personal property, E. G. Modlinj was directed to pay the damages and $(1.85 costs, (Continued on page eight) Name Committees For Red Cross W. H. Cttrstarphen, chairman of the Martin County Chapter of the American Red Cross, this week completed the committees for car rying on the work of the organi zation in the five townships com prising the chapter. Garland G. Woolard has been named chairman of the fund drive which is to get under way next March, and Dr. J. A. Edens has been named chairman of water safety and accident prevention. Other committee chairmen were named at the annual meeting of| the chapter a short time ago. Schedule Delayed One Week Account Of Rainy Weather However, Several Distriets In This <anility (Mail To (>o Ahead w ■ tli Y\ork/ -o- ' Rains, falling almost con'tinu ously over the State during the past several days, have made it necessary to delay loading the Friendship Train one week, it was announced this week by Rev. Wayne McLean, state chairman of the good will movement. Instead of loading the train next Sunday in this county, the work will be handled on Monday, December 20, it was announced. However, sev eral districts in this county are well advanced with the work and the volunteers plan to deliver the food and farm products to the Williamston depot without delay. The offerings will be stored in the depot and made ready for ship ment in accordance with the new schedule. Commenting on the movement today, Chairman Jesse W. Sum ner and Mayo Little said they were convinced that the people will meet the challenge, but that the movement will have to have the cooperation of all the citizens in the county. Some individuals have al>;,ead,y delivered eases of canned foods to the depot center here and food and farm products are expected to start moving in volume ♦nmorrow and Saturday. The collection in several community centers is very encouraging, preliminary reports stating that corn offerings arc running ahead of other products in the strictly rural areas. Heading the work in the five townships of Jamcsville, Wil liams, Griffins, Bear Grass and Williamston, Chairman Sumner said today that the movement is making splendid progress in Jamcsville where Professor V B. Ilairr is handling the local de tails. Mrs. Wendell Griffin is water bound over in Williams, but the people there can be depended upon to support the plan. Rev. W. B Harrington and Geo. C. Griffin, heading the collection in Griffins, state the response is en couraging, and Mrs. W. C. Wynne and Mr. Sidney Beacham said the cause is well advanced in Bear Grass. In Williamston the canvass of business houses is to be completed today and tomorrow, first reports from business canvasser chair V'-<v-y-) H'iTvhv 1 st that the response has been very encouraging, that numerous cases of canned milk and other foods had been contributed and that the cash contributions had been very liberal. Mrs. Johnny Gurkins, chairman in the township, has made a survey of th» territory and is planning to go ahead with the collection. 1 ie’if&'tng the 'work.in 'Cross''’ Roads, j ijp Ponlai' Point, Hamilton and Goose Nest. County Chairman Mayo Little said today that the district volun tce i:. tii c ,v i,, aiiig, 111at tcy aie -fl*.L can to insure the success of the cause." io Cross Roads, Chairman Geo. Taylor has lined up Garland rorbes, Gordon Bailey, Frank Bailey and Herbert Roebuck to help put it across in that town ship. Robersonviile chairman, Vance Roberson, states that some deliveries have been made al ready to the township collection center in the Planters Warehouse there, business canvasser chair man, Charlie Gray, is carrying the appeal to the business firms there. Poplar Point can be depended on, Chairman Little said, com- " menting on the drive there Hamilton yesterday planned to make the first delivery to the county center today, but it could not be learned this morning if th work would be delayed on accoul af rain. Nat lContinued on page eight)
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