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the enterprise is read by OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 13 William ston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 15, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Hold Funeral For David ^. Hardison At Holly Springs Young Man, Fatally Wound ed At Okinawa, Be Buried In ^oodlawn Cemetery Funeral services will be con ducted in the Holly Springs Meth odist Church Wednesday after noon at 2:30 o’clock for Pfc. David W. Hardison who was mortally wounded ir the Battle for Okin awa in th£ Pacific on May 22, 1945. The young man died in a hospital on the island four days later. R<gv. E. R. Shuller, the pas tor, will'conduct /ihe service, and interment will be in Williamston’s Woodlawn Cemetery. Arriving here early this after noon from the Atlanta Quarter master Depot, the body will be carried to the home in Williams Township where it will lie in state until shortly before service time. The son of Lee D. and Fannie Gui'kin Hardison, he was born in Williams Township on February 25, 1925, and spent most of his life on the farm before entering the service. Following his gradu ation from the Williamston High School in 1941. he attended a busi ness school in Norfolk for one year. Returning home from school he helped his father on the farm until he entered the service on September 28, 1944. At the time of his death he was a member of Company B, 307th Infantry Regi ment. The young man was a member of the church at Holly Springs since early youth. He taught a Sunday school class there for Bev el a! .years and was a leader of youth in his community, where he was held in high esteem. Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Henry Hardison of the home community and Ben Hardison of Farmville; and two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Whitehurst of Portsmouth and Mrs. Sallic Mar tin Bunting of the home. William G. Leary Passes In County William Gray Leary, young far mer and respeeted county citizen, died at his home in Bear Grass Township last Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock of a stroke of para lysis suffered at 3:00 o’clock that morning. He had been in declin ing health for about a year, but Was in his usual health Friday when he attended to a few duties »n the farm. A son of the late Jordan and Louisa Rogers Leary, he was born in Bear Grass 44 years ago and lived and farmed there all his life. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Lucy Rogerson; eight children, six sons, Joseph Leary of Beaufort County, Robert, Mack, Albert, Raymond and Elmer Leary; and two daughters, Misses Christine and Mildred Leary, all of the home; and one brother, Jesse Leaiy of Stokes. Funeral services were conduct cd at the home Sundav afternoon 4 at 2:30 o’clock by Rcv.-Jns. I. Low ry and Rev John P. Hodges. In terment was in the Cowin Ceme tery near the home. Special Votes Representative A. Corey last week introduced a bill in the State House of Representatives provid ing for special elections in school districts in the county with a school population of less than 1, 000 for the purpose of levying a tax to supplement schools in those districts of a higher standard than that provided by state support ot to employ additional teachers. The bill, designed primarily to meet a request in the Bear Grass district, would require the coun ty board of education and board of commissioners and the State board of education to approve an election petition before an elec tion could be called. Of course, the final action wouid rest with the voters. Today, the representative intro duced a bill calling for a change in the distribution of liquor prof its to county towns, and another calling for enabling legislation for setting up drainage districts. I Preliminary Hearing Held In Murder Case .----- ylL . Going into a huddle, defense counsel and defendant discuss Jut’,ice K. T. Johnson’s findings at | a preliminary hearing held in the county courthouse last Wednesday afternoon when John R. Col train was denied bond in the case in which he staands charged with the murder of W. Torn Rober son, neighbor farmer, in Griffins Township on January 26. Pictured in'the foreground are, left to right, Attorneys Edgar Gurganus and B. A. Critcher; Coltrain, the defendant, and Attorney Albion Dunn. Several of the large crowd attending the hearing can be seen in the background, including ! J. E. Pope, far right, and Tom Cooke's eye shield top left. Aged Street Problem Here \ Finally Solved Last Week j The century-old problem sur ; rounding the condition of South Smithwick Street between the railroad and Marshall Avenue has been solved All paved and gut tered with a concrete sidewalk on one side, the street was opened to traffic last Friday evening. Un fortunately, the solution was ! reached too late for Miss Hattie ! Thrower and many other old-tim ers who wended their way around washouts and rotten planks in the i old boardwalk year after year, go ! ing to and from their homes in I New Town, but surely they can j now look down on the completed | project with sublime approval. ] Crossing a large ditch, the street | continued in a bad way for years. The town authorities would every now and then build a board walk ! across the ravine, but time and weather conditions exacted their | toll in a matter of months. Dur i ing repair times, Miss Thrower, ' as editor of her Eastern Carolina News and later as a member of The Enterprise staff, would lam-. bast and roast the town fathers for , not doing something about the! street. The link was a part of the old post road from Plymouth to Scot-1 land Neck and dates back nearly 1 200 years. The old road entered the town across the property! where Mrs. Kate B. York now lives, continued down Hassell Street, on across the property! about wheie the Guaranty Bank I now stands and finally going] across the property where Roses' store now stands to enter Smith wick Street at the railroad. While Miss Thrower and many of the others have passed away, Mr. Joe Godard plans to memor alize the street opening with fit ting ceremonies. Details have not yet been announced, but Mr. God j ai d is looking around for a beaver 1 hat and clothes more fitting than | a zoot suit for such an event. The exercises will be brief before the] I whacking of a pink ribbon. March Of Dimes Almost Over Top In Martin County | i Chairman Reports Total of $4,436.35 Raised For Paralysis Fund Submitting a final report this i week, Chairman L. Bruce Wynne: ; stated that the infantile paralysis! fund drive had gone almost over , the top, that possibly a few late; contributions will wipe out the1 I fund deficit. T„w-C.fflfr■,j)\, 436.35 had been raised and report- j ed, leaving the drive $263.65 short of the $4,700 quota. The latest tabulation shows that ; $1,361.70 was received by direct; mail, $740.86 from 21 colored schools, $1,778.18 from the ntrte white schools, $117.20 from the coin collectors and $429.41 from three theaters. While the drive now stands a little short of its goal, there was much good work advanced in; handling the drive. Williamston’s j elementary school led the list with | over $600, but the three-teacher! colored Salsbury School reported ' $77.00 to make a splendid show ing for so small a unit. Nearly all the schools broke the past re records. Macedonia's Sunday School contributed $23 to the fund, and several large individual ! contributions, some ranging up to! $100, were received A detailed report, prepared by the chairman, follows: Direct mail, $1,361.70; Colored; schodls—Hamilton, $36.60; White ! Oak Springs, $22.26; Everetts, j (Continued on page sue) i Books Added To Library Shelves The Williamston Public Library has recently added to its perma-1 nent collection a group of books whose subject matter covers a wide range of interests. These books were donated through the j Woman’s Club by its individual j past presidents. The authors, titles, and donors are as follows: j ' WsiSeV— ?£*S. in the short story. Mrs. Jennie S. Moore; Gunther—1 Inside U. S. A., Mrs. Louie P. Mar tin; van Doren—The Great Re-! hears?5!, Mrs ham; Wyck-Mason—Eagle in the! Sky, Mrs. Lucy Dunn Biggs; Morse—Book of the White Moun tains, Mrs. Evelyn Good^on;! Schoonover — Burnished Blade,! Mrs. Arline M. Harrison; Fletcher —Roanoke Hundred, Mrs. Salliej F. Cone; Bradford — OF Man ^ Adam and his Chillun, Sharp—■ Nutmeg Tree, Feuchtwanger— Proud Destiny, Mrs. Fannie C. | Staton. Several other books are on ord-1 er and will be made available fui j circulation as soon as possible, -^ Install Organ In Funeral Home The Bigfis Funeral Home last week installed a Minshall-Estey organ in its chapel here on West Main Street, and renovated its building to seat approximately 125 persons for funeral services. In addition to the seating capacity in the chapel, the owners of the funeral home have set apart a room for those attending services there for a member of the family. . Report Increase Iii Illicit Liquor Traffic Receiitlv -—<$> "(even Manufacturing lTnit: Wrecked in County Last Week After holding to what was con sidered normal operations, iltiei liquor manufacturing flared up ii this county last week, accordin; to a report released this week In \BC Enforcement Officer Joe II fcdebuck. During the month of January he enforcement officers wreekec seven illicit distilleries and pourec mt 2,800 gallons of mash. The first few days of the cur ■ent months netted little, hut las iveek an effective drive developec ind by early Sunday morning seven plants had been wrecked. The first in the series wa, wrecked in Hamilton Township about four miles from Hassell where the officers destroyed a 30 gallon oil drum still and pourec out 200 gallons of beer. A seconc plant, equipped with a 30-gallot ail drum, was wrecked in the sami section th«t day. The officer; poured out 100 gallons of suga beer there. Last Thursday the officer; wrecked a 50-gallon capacity oi drum still and poured out 200 gal Ions of beer in Cross Roads Town ship on what is known as Gu; Lane. On Friday, the oft.cers invadec Bear Grass and wrecked a 50 gallon capacity copper still ant much equipment. There wc.s n. beer at the plant. Going into the Free Union sec lion' of'Jamcsvuic Township las Saturday, the officers found i brand new plant, equipped with i 50-gallcn ail drum still and sevei 50 gallon IWRcW*-"Pa . found 300 pounds of corn meal but the operators had not hue time to mix a brew. Gaining a lead on other activi tics that day, the enforcement of ficer and his assistant, Deput; Roy Peel, returned to the area tb next morning about 5:00 o’clock At the first plant, the operator hud finished their brewing activi ties for the day and departed leaving a bright bed of coals. Thi still had been moved, but the of ficers found pait of the equipmen and poured out 400 gallons o beer. At the second plant, the officer found one operator busy fil ing th< still, but he ran right out of hi hip hoots when Deputy Peel gav chase. The officers wrecked th 50-gallon oil drum still, poum out J00 gallons of beer and confix cated one and one-half gallons u white liquor. Suspectijng an increase in th< llicit retail business, local officer; rave recently conducted severa •aids on shops and homes, bir he raids did not prove success :ui. Brief Review Of Work Handled By The Legislature Vory Little Has Been Ae eomplislted. But Increased Activity Is Expected This is the fifth of a series ol i the 15349 spssioii of the Genera j Assembly .of North Carolina Tin i report on all legislation, but art | confined to discussions of matter: ! of general interest or of major im I It isn't that the legislators havi found their chairs too hard yet for during the early part of am session the daily meetings in tht capital are short. That complain1 might apply to the committee room chairs for they have beer rendering increasing service dui ing the fifth full week of the 1945 session. It’s just that the chair: in the House and Senate chamber: are sighing and giving up tin ghost after bearing the legislative burden for lo! these many years Feeling it unseemly that the ver seat of North Carolina’s govern rnent should be falling apart, leg islators last week introduced HI 335 appropriating $4,225 for re building those venerable chairs. It would be a good thing if thi work could be done now, for then is a growing likelihood that de bate will be lengthy before thi session is over. The committee have been busy and will beeom busier. The Joint Appropriation Committee will complete its pub lie hearings this week and then g< . into executive session, probably n bring out its report earlier thar did its 1947 predecessor. Since re quests before the committee fo . urgently needed public service far exceed foreseeable revenue i sharp floor debate on its recom > mendations can be anticipatec Public hearings will be held dur ing the next ten days on the pro pused liquor referendums, am there will be disappointment whatever action the committei takes. Last week, however, th spotlight played on roads am schools. weekly summaries of the work o i no identical bills calling for referendum on the proposed $20 million bond issue for seeondar; roads caused great commotion las ; week though they still lie in th Roads committee. Answerinj Governor Scott’s broadcast ap . peal, well over a thousand peopl | thronged to the Joint Roads Com I mittce hearing Wednesday after i noon to voice their support of th' . Governor's program. When th ; people who live on dirt road? • whose . trade comes from thus, who live on dirt roads, and wh ; buy products for resale from thosi [ who live on dirt roads overflows the House chamber, the Join Committee was forced to move ti ; the City Auditorium. Those win spoke before the Committee- as ! s. ted that the only question wa wnethc to submit the bond issu II t ’ the pi .pie, and in saying so, lef , little (' ibt as to how they wouli vote : i the referendum even if i . | m ant increasing the gas tax.. Onl; i sion opposed the bills, one sayin i that he was against debt-financin i and the other, former Highv/a, , that he thought the present high i way building program was pre grossing fast enough with cx pcnditurcs from current rovenu . alone. Their voices may hav ’ been mere whispers in the storn • but the effect of the hearing wii . not be known until the commute ; reports on tlie bill. On Friday morning the Hous , Roads Committee met to conside ■ three bids dealing with the mot or vehicle inspection program: HI : 5 abolishing the present systerr • an“ Hil 180 and SB 59, the identi ral bills reducing trie number c ; inspections to one a year. Afte ■ considerable juggling, HB 5, offer ; ing the clean sweep, was reporte ■ favorably and placed ori the calen dnr for February 1H. Oddly er ! ough after this decision the othc - two bills were handed to a sut f committee for further stud; Whether HB 5 passes or not, th chances are good that some subst tute program will be forthcominj In a special message on Thurs day night the Governor asked th General Assembly to make the $2 (Continued on page eight) i Corey Declares Car Inspection A Racket ,1 ROUND-UP v/ There was comparatively 'j little activity on the crime front in the county over the week-end, the various offic ers statin# that Jhey detained only six persons during the period. Two were jailed for drunken driving, two for pub lic drunkenness, and one each fa? assault and violating the j health laws. Four of the six were white and the afces of the group ranged from 23 to 51 years. Hassell Section \ Has An Unusual Community Club j | Affiliated With No National Group, (Hub Handles A Unique Work t .——— By Robert Haislip, Reporter The Hassell Community Club ; mot Friday night, February 3, ■ 1949, at seven o'clock in the lunch . room of tlic Hassell school build ; ing. This meeting was the sev j! enth since the club was formed in j July of 194!!. i This club, formed by the men of - the Hassell community is unique i in that it is not affiliated with > any national civic organization, i It was formed last July when a group of men from the Hassell community met in the Town Hall of Hassell to discuss the plight of the “Spuds,” Hassell's entry in the Martin County Baseball league. At this meeting the financial con dition of the “Spuds” was discuss ed and the baseball club did re ceive some financial support. The most noteworthy result of the meeting, however, was that the men of Hassell realized a need for 1 a club which would hold regular meetings to discuss community af i fairs. ) i unicors were tnen elected anu u r committee appointed to draw up l : by-laws for the club. The by-laws ■ that were drawn up and adopted i at the next meeting of the club . ! were not taken from any national . organization. They are rather by . laws which the .committee thought . were applicable to a club interest . ed solely in community affairs . and advancement. The heart of the club is its , Worthy Cause Committee. This , committee investigates any cause . in the community which it feels I should receive attention from the ; club. The committee then makes , recommendations to the club as to , what they feel should be done. . The club then discusses what ac ; ; tion should be taken and a com . 1 rnittee is appointed to handle the t details. This method has proven a I : very satisfactory way of helping t and contributing help to any wor r thy cause in the community. . “"IMW.ne most important of < I *he club’s accomplishments are: , j The club sponsored a boy scout / ; troop in Hassell. The troop has Witi: 'C *H. ju: - . I roughs, superintendent of the . | Sunday School of the Hassell . Christian Church as .Scoutmaster, j -’k: Worthy Cause Committee . prepared baskets and presented them to the needy families in the 1 community at Christmas. A pump and the necessary pipe was donated by members of the , club to put down a pump for one r of the residents of the community . who had *o carry her water from 1 a distant house. A committee was i> appointed to put down the pump. _ Due to the sandy sub-soil and the f amount ot water in the ground, v the committee’s first attempt was . not successful. ( At the lust meeting of the club, . the purebred hog sale to be held . in the county March 4, was dis j. cussed. The club decided to buy . a pure-bred gilt to be presented ■. to the son of one of the club piem o bers. This boy wouid give the . club two gilts from the first litter r and a pig chain would bo started. The Hassell Community Club p meets once a month, on the first 0 Friday night of each month. At (Continued on page eight) Says He’ll Favor Modified Measure For Vehicle Lane T Much Favorable Comment Heard at Inspection Fane Here 'Phis Week Declaring that the state motor vehicle inspection system is noth ing but a racket, Representative A. Corey did say this week that, he would support a modifier/ measure continuing the operatiijfh of the inspection lanes. The leg islator directed an attack at the complicated system, and sa/1 it should be abolished. The modified form which he said would have his support, possibly reluctantly, would reduce the inspection items from 25 to 5. The lawmaker expressed the opinion that the present system is a racket maintained by the lane and the garages, that it was use less. He went cm to question some of the practice." of other agencies, and declared that there were too many persons on the payrolls. He was not specific on that score, but it is presumed that he did not mean house stenog raphers, secretaries and clerks carried there by/ the legislators themselves. While the legislator was dis cussing the inspection system, mo tor vehicles were passing through in a fairly steady stream at the lane on South Haughton Street. A public conveyance carrying lit tle children, was moved into the lane and it was rejected because the inspector said there was a de fect that jeopardized the safety of the children and others. A par ent, standing nearby, remarked that inspection is a good thing when it will point out defects and enhance the safety of all who use the highways. About fifty percent of the cars passing through the lane last Fri day, Saturday and early yester day, were approved on the first inspection. The defects, calling for a second inspection, were min or for the most part, and repairs cost little and time lost was ne gligible. Most of the comment heard at the lane was favorable, hut one or two said they hated to mess w'ith the repairs even though they knew the repairs should be made. Last Friday, the lane handled 272 vehicles after getting off to a slow start. On Saturday there were 195 vehicle inspected. Ve hicles wore going through the lane farily rapidly all day yesterday and early this morning, hut no one had to wait more than fifteen or twenty minutes. The lane will remain open here through Thursday of this week and will be reopened on March 12, provided the legislature does not abolish the system. It is fairly certain that the sys tem. will be modified d >nr- ! During the meantime, vehicle owners will be playing it safe to abide by the inspection law. |Minor wreck On Hamilton Street No one was hurt and little dam age resulted when a ear driven by Ellis Burnette of Oak City crash ed into one. driven by Clifton Hollis on Hamilton’s main street at 10:20 last Saturday evening. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman R. P. Narron said he was driving on the street toward Wil liamston just ahead of Hollis, that he had to run off the pavement to keep Burnette from hitting his car. Before he could turn around, the patrolman said Burnette struck the Hollis car, that it would have been a head-on crash if Hollis had not scampered to his right. CONTRAST A year ago this section was dig ging out of a 15-inch snow, one of the largest recorded in years Just a year later, the mercury is holding to the high seventies, and there’s evidence of springtime on every hand. Some contrast. Jurors Drawn For Regular Term Of Court Next Month Almost Certain Special Ven ire Will Be Drawn For Murder Case I [ The board of commissioners in their regular February meeting drew thirty persons, including several women and one or two colored citizens, for jury duty dur ing the first week of the regular term of Martin County Superior Court convening the third Mon day in March. No jury was drawn for the second week of the term, but the commissioners will get a list at their next meeting in March. It is almost certain that a spec ial venire will be asked in the Roberson murder case, but there is some doubt if the special group will be selected in this or one of the adjoining counties. The spe cial venire question will hardly be settled until the court is opened on March 21. Judge Chester Morris of Eliza beth City is scheduled to preside over the two-week term. It will be his first official visit to the county as a member of the sup erior court judiciary, and the mur der case will he one of the few scheduled in his court. The jury list fur the first week of the term includes the names of two women and one colored citi zen. The list follows, l y townships: Jamesviile: Mrs. Tom Gaines, J. Carl Griffin, Mis. Leslie Hardison and P. J. Modlin. Williams: Wesley Hardison, Meiburn Hardison and Clinton Jones (colored). Griffins: Nuali Tom Daniel, J. Eason Revels and N. G. Ellis. Bear Grass: LeRoy Harrison, Warner Bailey, Leamon (Red) Taylor, Willie Hadley and Frank Holliday. Williamston: Clias. P. Roberson, L. C. Moore, J. W. Hollowed, Jr., Paul V. Jones, Euris R. Vander ford, W. R. Banks, Marion Cobb and F. Lester Rogers. Robersonville: Leo Warren, Hassell Warren, Andrew Modlin and Wiley B. Rogerson. Poplar Point: Willie Weathers. Hamilton: Richard G. Slade and 11. A. Huislip. t r | I Former Minister I A Feature Writer i Nashville, Tenn.—The Rev. S. J. Starnes, former Williamston min ister and now pastor of Davis Street Methodist Church, Burling ton, North Carolina, is a featured writer in the February issue of The Pastor, a specialized maga zine for ministers of every faith. Writi.ig under the title "Visit ing the Unchurched,” Dr. Starnes relates some cf the experiences he has had with visitation evangel ism. He believes that the visita tion-evangelism method frequent ly wins to the church many per • sons who ordinarily are not reach 1 e.d. v converted bv revivals.,. He say's: 'Wherever the visita tion method has been properly us ed, satisfactory results have oeen rea 1lzed^Somo pastors who have lookccfflponvisit a tion'evangelism with misgivings have become en thusiastic converts to the method once they have given it a fair trial. “Visitation evangelism is not in tended to take the place of the revival in the program of the church. There is a great need for both. But it lias been demonstrat ed that the visitation method is a strong support to the revival in reaching new people. This meth od, like any other, requires care ful preparation, a firm belief in its value and tact in carrying it out.” The Pastor is published at Nash ville by the Methodist Publishing House under the editorship of Newman S. Cryer, Jr. -o To Assist Taxpayers File Income Tax Returna A United States deputy collec tor will be in the local post office on February 21, 23, 24 and 25 to assist taxpayers prepare their fed eral income tax returns. He will be in the Robersonville post office on February 21, it was announced
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