the ENTERPRISE is read by OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LII—NUMBER 28 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williamston. Marlin County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 7, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1890 Asks Action of Town Officials At Meeting Club Group Asks Suitable Garbage Disposal System Suggests Ei}for<*eiiuyiil ol Kat Ordinance and Covers For Garbage Cans Pledging its cooperation, a spec ial committee from the local Wo man's Club very cordially directed a meaningful appeal or directive to the town officials for action al a meeting of the board Tuesday evening. With Mrs, Joanna Martin as its spokesman, the committee sug gested a three-point program and went so far as to say that it would circulate a petition for a tax rate increase for one year to finance those three points. The spokes man opposed a bond issue sugges tion. In accordance with resolutions adopted by the club, the special committee pointed out that the present garbage disposal system was inadequate, unsightly and in sanitary, and pleaded for a suit able disposal method. It was sug gested that possibly a land system or a trench system would meet the need of the town, that the project could be financed with ten or twelve thousand dollars. The committee called for the en forcement of the recently-passed anti-rat ordinance, and urged cov ered metal garbage containers for every home or establishment. It was suggested that some type of cover he used on the present gar bage trucks, and that the present equipment be replaced, in time, with regular garbage trucks. In accordance with the commit tee requests, the board ordered covers placed on the garbage trucks and instructed the super intendent of the department to have garbage and cans sprayed with DDT. A survey of garbage containers is to be made with the possibility that all places will be required to provide and properly maintain garbage cans. 'The clufc committee is calling for a report, and it is fairly apparent that strict enforcement of the ordinance will he demanded. The garbage disposal system has been studied and investigated from many angles over a period of years, and costs to finance an ideal plan, it was found, will run into fairly big money. The system proposed by the Woman’s Club committee calls for a fairly large tract of land and a bulldozer tc cover the garbage. The board agreed to investigate the proposals further and exploit every possi bility for improving the present system. It was pointed out that the present garbage dump is be ing "abused” by individuals, that where the town is extending the I'C'OhiiouCd on Page ._._ Start Pre-School Clinics In County Hcg?nmnS,*m'‘"xt Monday, tfl? health department will conduct a series of pre-school clinics, and the health officer is asking that, one parent accompany his or her child and present certificates if child has been vaccinated against whooping cough and diph theria. The schedule follows: White Williamston, April 11 and 12, y 30 to 11:30; Robersonville, April 13 and 14, 9:30 to 11:30; Hamilton, April 15, 9:30 to 11:30; Hassell, April 19, 9:30 to 11:30; Bear Grass, April 20, 9:30 to 11:30; Jamesville, April 21, 9:30 to 11:30; Oak City, April 22, 9:30 to 11:30; Farm Life, April 25, 9:30 to 11:30; Everetts, April 26, 9.30 to 11.30. Colored Williamston, April 27 and 28, 9:30 and 11:30; Robersonville, April 29, 9:30 to 11:30; Jamesville, May 2, 9:30 to 11:30; Gold Point, May 3, 9:30 to 11:30; Parmeie, May 4, 9:30 to 11:30; Oak City, May 5, 9:30 to 11:30; Salsbury, May fi. 9:30 to 11:30; Everetts, May y, 9.30 to 11:30. I f~VSKS TO WITHDRAW ] s__J An unexpected turn in the town's pre-primary campaign was announced yesterday I when Candidate for Commis sioner L. Closs Robersoi/ask ed to have his name with i drawn from the ballot. No statement accompanied the request. He was advised that the ballots had been prepared and other arrangements for the primary had been com pleted, and that his name would appear as scheduled. Committeemen for School Districts In Martin County J. I). Woolard Renamed Board Chairman, J. C. Manning Re-eleeted | Holding their first meeting of the new term, members of the Martin County Board of Educa | tion—F. W. Holliday, George C. ! Griffin, J. D. Woolard, Cecil Pow ell and Ernest Edmondson—per | feeted their organization by nam ing Mr. Woolard chairman and re electing J. C. Manning, superin ; tendent of county schools. Mr. Woolard is beginning his third six | year term on the board, and its : the tenth two-year term for the superintendent. Committees for the various dis tricts, remaining about the same, were named as follows: Williamston: R. L. Coburn, R. H. Goodmon, C. B. Clark, Sr., W. Iverson Skinner and T. Marvin Britton. I Robersonville: N. C. Everett, | John M. Dixon, Sherwood L. Rob j erson, H. L. Roebuck and J. Mar shall Kilpatrick. Oak City: Elmer R. Edmondson, LeRoy Everett, Wheeler Daniel, H M. Ainsley and J. A. Everett. The Messrs. Everett, Daniel and Ainsley are new members of the I committee. Jamesville: Elmer R. Modlin, W. E Manning, Chas. Gurkin, W. J. Gardner and Clarence Barber. The Jamesville committee was in creased from three to five mem bers and Messrs. Gardner and Barber are the new members. Farm Life: A. J. Hardison, B. F. Lilley and Lester Griffin. Bear Grass: E. C. Harrison, W. I C. Jones and Kneezer Harrison. Sub-Committees The following were named on I the sub committees, some of whom I are to serve as liason members , between the committees: Everetts: G. T. Forbes, Alton ! Keel and H. L. Roebuck, i Hamilton: LeRoy Everett, Clay l ton House and H. Jot nson. r w: r I Purvis and Joe Haislip. Twenty-Three In County Court For Hi'way Speeding •—^— Same Consideration Shown Tourists As Accorded The Home Folks Alleged speedsters on the state highways in this county had an other day in court this week when (wenty-three were called to an swer before Judge Chas. H. Man ning. Three of those whose cases were called did not answer and action against them was continu ed. Stopped on U. S. 17 a few days ago after being clocked by Patrol men Powers and Rowe at 74 miles an hour over a six-mile course, a tourist talked “mighty ugly,” but his eyes brightened when he was assured that tourists were given every consideration. “Tourists are charged no more for speeding than are the home folks,” the patrol man assured him. The speedster posted bond and continued on his way. Thomas Bennett of Sumter, South Carolina, did not report when called. The case against Chas. Richard Southerner of Greensboro was continued until next Monday along with one charging John Brown with speed ing. Charged with careless and reck less driving along with speeding, William Darling Meeks was fined $40 and required to pay the costs. Everett Alford Richman, Jr., of Elizabeth City, was fined $35 and taxed with the costs fot speeding. Charged with speeding and operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Orlander Green, Jr., was fined $50 and taxed with the costs. Daniel Jos. Hassell of Columbia was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of speeding, each of the following defendants was fined $15 and required to pay $22.05 costs for speeding: Edward Eugene Monk of Scran ton, N. C., Russell T. Wingate of Cherry Point, Harold I. Nemuth of Portsmouth, Louis Gold of New York City, Edward S. Nurikien (Continued on page liz) -• Band Program Is Well Received All dressed up in attractive new uniforms, members of the local colored high school band were well received in a concert last evening. The house was packed for the program, the group includ ing quite a few white spectators. The local band offered four num bers and the Roper High School band participated in the program. Several addresses were made, including talks by Jesse Rogers, who has worked hard for the band, Junie Peel and M. M. Levin who assisted the band in its early organization. It was reported that the mcet ing was climaxed by an impromp-1 tu political rally. Ask $1,000 For County’s Crippled Children ■ A LUDLOW SPLIT crippled chil i A goal of $1000 00 has been set for the 16th annual Easter Seal Sale, Rev. Jim Lowry, chairman '■f the drive, sponsored by the Martin County Crippled Child ren’s Society, announced today. The sale of the Easter Seals is now undei way and will end Easter Sunday, April 17. Rev. Lowry said records reveal 55 crippled children registered in Martin County. ' Each child should have the opportunity to build up all normal faculties and to outwit disabilities through rehabilita tion,’’ Rev. Lowry said. "Proper schooling, recreation, and voca tional guidance must be provided so that each individual cap be come a useful and self-sustaining citizen.” The Martin County Society is an affiliate of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children, one of more than 2,000 member units of the National Society for Crip p-ed c*iddi erl and adults. Easter Seals help to sponsor not only crippled and deaf children, but also national programs to benefit the cerebral palsied and other ne glected disabled groups. Rev. Lowry added, "It is a prin ciple of our Democratic system that the weak are not eliminated by the strong, but are given an equal chance to participate in our society.” In a report released this week, the treasurer of the fund stated that $1,025.28 was spent last year for the treatment of needy crip pled children in this county, that ane pathetic case alone cost $400. I'he money was spent for club foot shoes, braces, transportation, hospital treatment and other ne cessities the helpless were unable to provide for themselves. The Fund has a small balance, but every cent of the $1,000 asked for in the current drive is needed and can materially help a number of cnildren who can't help them selves. The fund is administered Ui expedite laic. Local Ministerial Group Plans Holy Week Services - - —<*> By E. R. Shuller, Secretary There will be no special night services other than those planned by the individual churches during I Holy Week. Services are planned j for each morning at 10:00 o’clock, I begininng Monday, April 11, and running through Friday, April 15, at the Viccar Theatre. The speakers for these services will be as fallows: Monday, Rev. John L. Gc4'f; Tuesday, Rev. J. Thad Ashley; Wednesday, Rev. Stewart B. Simms; Thursday, Rev. James I. Lowry ; Fr/day, Rev. E. R. Shuller. The speakers for Mon day, Wednesday and Friday will go to the High School to speak to the student body at 10:30. The people of the town have supported these services in a very fine way in past years and it. is anticipated that the response will be as good as any previous year if not better. It has been custom ary for those business firms which cannot close for the thirty minute period between 10:00 and 10:30 to get along witlV as small working force as possible so that the other workers would have (he privilege of attending the service. This same spirit of cooperation " ill be greatly appreciated again this year. An Easter sunrise service will be held as usual and will be under the direction of Rev. James I. Lowry. Call Sixty-Six Cases In Recorder's Court Set New Records At Court Session Held Last Monday -—«>— Fines, Forfeitures a 11 cl Costs Imposed That Day In Excess of $2,500. New records were set last Mon day when the Martin County Re corder’s Court tackled an accumu lated docket. During the sessions lasting from 9:30 that morning until about 4:30 that afternoon, Judge Chas. H. Manning and Sol icitor Paul D. Roberson handled sixty-six cases. Fines amounted to $1,240 and the court costs boosted the amount to approximately $2, 563.00. Twenty speedsters were fined $350 and nine defendants, charged with operating motor ve hicles without drivers’ licenses, were fined $225. The sessions were the first held since March 14, the court having yielded its place to make way for the superior tribunal. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of bastardy, Woodrow Spruill was directed to pay $10 a month to Mildred Demp sey until September of this year when the payments are to be in creased to $15 a month. He was taxed with the costs. Charged with bastardy, Henry Latham Peel was found guilty oy er his.plea of innocence and was sentenced to the roads for six j months. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of the court costs, and on the further) condition that he pay $15 a month to Roberta Askew and a $89 med-1 ical bill and the costs. Pleading guilty of assaulting a j female and violating the liquor laws, Lewis Jones and Mayo An- j drews were directed to pay the costs of court. Andrews was giv cn a 30-day road sentence. * " Me'i'n Hollis was iurjud^WlWl" guilty of drunken driving. Pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, Ed Pil green was sentenced to the roads for ninety days, the court sus pending the road sentence upon tiw- v^yment of a $50 fir..: and costs. Mary Lee (Mon) Dickens,; pleading guilty of an assault wdh a deadly weapon, was sentenced to jail for three months, and is to work at the county home during that time. Ora Staton was adjudged not guilty of an assault with a deadly: weapon. Judgment suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case charging Booker T. Teel with as saulting a female. The cases charging Jesse Lee Jones and Ernest Wooten with careless and" reckless driving was continued until next .Monday. Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing, Samuel Council was scntenc- 1 ed to the r.oads for four months. Ihe road term was suspended upon the payment of a $100 fine and costs. His license to operate a motor vehicle was revoked for one yeas In the case charging Annie W. Barnes with deserting minor chil dren. the court found that the de (Ccatiaued on page aucj ( BRIDGE MEETING v/ Allowed to almost rot down while millions were spent bridging the Albemarle, the Chowan River bridge is about to be condemned, and there is a concerted movement to alter highway routings, according to unofficial information reaching here. One report stated that traf fice over the bridge is being limited, that there is a possi bility the bridge will be clos ed to all traffic. Representative A. Corey, conferring with highway of ficials in Raleigh, is expected to attend a meeting in Eden ton with other interested citi zens next Monday and discuss the problem, it was learned today. Charge Nine With Operating Autos Without Licenses -O'*- — Drivers Continue To Take Chanees Despite Set Fine Ami Large Court Cost Despite the appearance of de fendants in the county court near ly every Monday for allegedly operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, quite a few driv ers continue to take chances. Some maintain they have been licensed by other states to operate motor vehicles, but are unable to pro duce the permits. Others claim they operate under licenses issued by the armed forces. But most of them go into court without any excuse, leaving them no other al ternative except to plead guilty, and pay a fine of $25 fixed by law plus large court costs. "*1777 cases in wftictTTITrra&IIWWP ants stood charged with operating motor vehicles without drivers’ li censes were before Judge Chas. H. Manning in the Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday. Included in the list of nine cases unusi.vd ' ;U‘ troiman became suspicious of the operator of a car, but before he could determine who was driving the vehicle'trie driver stopped and got out with his companion. Luke Council, whose driver’s li censes had been revoked when he was convicted of drunken driving some time ago, said he was driv ing and then said he wasn’t. To make certain that the identity of the driver could be determined, I the patrolman cited Council to | court along with the companion,] William Henry Randolph. In! court, Randolph pleaded guilty of jperating the car and since he had to driver’s license he was fined >25 and taxed with the costs. Council was found not guilty. Quite a few non-lieensed drivers apparently believe it is all right to operate cars on town streets even without driver’s licenses, and the court has ruled that it is un lawful for an unlicensed driver to operate a car unless a learner’s permit has been issued and the pupil is accompanied by a licens