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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE sj-~—... ■ ^ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME Lli—NUMBER 33 * Williams ton. Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 26, 1949 ESTABLISHED' 1899 Distributed Over 3,500 Books Last Month In County Bookmobile To Start An other Run In County on Thursday of this Week When the B H M Regional Bookmobile made its Match run in Martin County, the librarians circulated approximately 3500 books, the largest number in the history of the Region. In the three counties of the Region al most 10,000 books were lent to the Bookmobile patrons. This free service is made possible by coun ty participation in North Caro lina's State Aid Program for pub lic libraries. Beaufort, Hyde and Martin Counties pool their funds to supplement the state appropri ation and are served from a cen tral office in Washington. Thus they are able to secure better ser vice and more books for the many county readers. The popular bookmobile returns to Martin County for its usual run Thursday, April 28th. This will mark the last visit to most of the schools this season. Arrangements are being made to carry books to the boys and girls in their home communities during the summer. Watch the paper for new sched ules and fill your reading desires with selections from the Regional book collection. Among the new books to be found this time are: There is no Armour by Howard Spring. The mood “My son, my son" continues irt this story of Ted Pentecost, determined to be come a famous artist, and of the two very different women he loves through the years. The God Seeker, by Sinclair Lewis. Lewis turns to historical fiction for the story of Aaron Gadd, who traveled to the frontier of Minnesota to be a missionary to the Indians. The Chain, by Paul Wellman. Third in a series on Jericho, Kan sas. and dealing with the same problem. That problem is the blend of godliness with worldli ness that the congregation of St. Albans want to call religion, and that Father Carlisle, the new rec tor. will have nothing to do with. Marmee, by Salyer. Brings to life the vivid picture of the real woman known and loved as “Mar mee,” the mother of Little Women. The Trembling Years, by Elsie Barber. Human, sympathetic story of Kathy Storm who got infantile paralysis while in college and 'learned she would have tu rely on herself alone. The Golden Warrior, by Hope Muntz. Historical novel of the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a recreation of the life of King Harold of England. The Wrath and the Wind, by Al exander Key. Color and action along the Florida coast in the 1840’s, and in the story of Maury St. John, disillusioned young doc tor turned slave runner, who has almost given up the search for decency—Reported. Firemen Called To The Cran ford Home Sunday --• No great damage resulted hut one'wafHvaS^fustered and several , ....*;***/?. sr",.&X:d when fire, starting when an oil stove went out of control, in the home of Mrs. .7 C Crawford on North Haugh ♦on Street shortly, bgforg 11.0.0 o'clock Sunday morn.eg. Mem bers of the household managed to remove the oil tank from the stove, but the lire spread to the wall arid the fire department was called out. Firemen handled the task in a matter of a few minutes and re turned to the station. \ ACCIDENTS Twelve thousand four hun dred and ninety-nine persons were injured in industrial ac cidents during the months of February and March of this year, according to a recent re port released by the industrial commission. One-sixth of the number or 2,125 were injured in cotton, woolen and silk mills. About 1,600 were in jured in construction work. Sixteen of the accidents i \ Cancer Fund Drive Moving Forward In Martin County -—* The annual Cancer Fund Drive in this county is progressing rap idly, Chairman T. F. Harrison an nouncing yesterday that over half the quota had been raised- Only four townships — Poplar Point, : Griffins, Cross Roads and Wil | liamston—have submitted reports | and only two of those were com I plete. While no figures have been i released for the six other town I ships, the drive is meeting with a I favorable response in most of i them, according to preliminary reports received by the chairmon i this week. Griffins and Poplar Point ex , ceeded their quotas without delay. Griffins, with a $75 quota, raised Launched on a very small scale the early part of last week, tobacco transplanting is progressing rapidly in near ly every section of the county this week. Unless unfavor able conditions are experienc ed, a majority of the crop will have been transplanted in this county by the latter part of next week. Some fields transplanted to the crop last week were swept hy a little dust storm Sunday afternoon and the young plants were damaged, one or two farmers stating yesterday that they were considering doing the job all over again. Eubanks To Head Parents-Teachers TRANSPLANTING v. j In the happiest mood of the i year, V. J. (Bill) Spivey relin quished the duties of president of the local Parent-Teacher Associa tion last evening, wished his suc , cessor the best u’ luck and gra ciously bowed out of the picture, but not until he had completed , an effective year of service for the organization and the school. Jim C. Eubanks, making a short acceptance speech as the new president of the organization, ex pressed his appreciation for the honor. ‘ While I know there are many who could do a better job , than I, but since I am your choice, I'd do the best I can,” the newly i elected officer said, adding that with the committees’ brains and my mouth we ought to get some thing done.” Pointing out that a new term of school is only four months away, the president ex plained that preparations should not be delayed, that suggestions are welcome at any time. Mr. Eubanks was unanimously I elected along with Mrs. Urbin Rogers as vice president, Miss j Mary Whitley as secretary and Mrs. Fitzhugh S. Fussell as treas urer. The nominations were sub ! mitted by Committee Chairman i Edith Davis. 1 Mrs. Fussell’s four*h grade re ceived the attendance award, the teacher explaining that she was greatly pleased since it was the first time her gra’d’e had*earned it this year. Rev. E. R. Shuller offered the invocation. Mr. Spivey presided and Mrs. Jos. Griffin completed as Goff introduced thg speaker, Dr R. L. Humber, to the approximate ly 200 persons in attendance upor the meeting and Mrs. Beechei Patterson s glee club rendered twc numbers. -- Reported Storm Damage In Area Minor damage resulted to trees young crops and other property in thsi area Sunday afternoon when a wind storm struck. The blow followed a deluge of hail in Hert ford County near Ahoskie the day before, reports declaring that the pellets could have been scooped up by the wagonload The wind, striking about 1:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon, blew down a few trees, w'hipped ofl leaves and limbs and covered up young corn and tobacco crops in $122.38, and Poplar Point exceed ed its $35 quota by $6.69. Crdss Roads has raised $65 of its $75 quota and Williainston reports $574.13 of its $600 quota in hand with the promise that the goal will be reached and passed. The four townships reporting, have a com ! bined quota of $785 and already | the four have raised and turned in 1 $803.20. I Martin County is being asked to raise $1,500 for the fund this | year, and it is reasonably expect 1 ed that the six other townships— ; Jamesville, Bear Grass, Williams, I Robersonville, Hamilton and j Goose Nest—will carry the drive over the top. Mary F. Parrisher Died at Her Home In County Sunday Funeral For Aged Resident Held In Siloani Church Monday Afternoon - Mrs. Mary Frances Parrisher, widow of Samuel J. Parrisher, and one of the county’s oldest resi dents, died at the hopie of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ade Rober son, in Williamst Township Sun day afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. She had been in declining health for ten years or more, but had been able to be up most of the time un til four weeks ago when she was forced to her bed. The daughter of the late Eddie and Frances Clark Griffin, she was born in Williams Township 89 years ago on June 30, 1859, and spent all her life there, making her home with her granddaughter during the past twelve years. She was married in 1883 to Mr. Par risher who died in the early thir ties. Mrs. Parrisher was a member i of the Siloam Methodist Church | near her home for forty years, and her pastor, the Rev. Mr. Bingham conducted the last rites in the church Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock. He was assisted in the service by Rev. W. B. Harrington, county Baptist minister, and inter ment was in the church cemetery. Surviving are four sons, Rob ert F. Parrisher of Jamesville, Charles Parrisher of Farmville, Gus p. Parriser of Norfolk and George Parrisher; a brother, Geo. Griffin of Greene County; seven teen grandchildren; thirty-six great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. —:-4 Fines-rees lotal $3,266 In March —«— Income derived by the county from fines, court costs and fees last month amounted to $3,266.07. A greater part of the amount was reported by the county re corder's court. The fines amount ed to $1,105 and the costs taxed by the court boosted the total to $1,875. The court was in session only two days during the month, the. other tiw?.having, been tali, en over by the superior tribunal. The income from the court goes directly to the county, the judge, solicitor and other court officers drawing regular salaries. - Trrc-vc*^^1?uoeu? idyMW!? an income of $612.70 for issuing licenses, certificates and recording various types of papers during the month. The sheriff’s office reported $480.40 income received in serving papers and summoning witnesses. Tno Booked For The Posseation Of Liquor Booked for the possession of il licit liquors, James Everett was bound over to the county court for trial next Monday under $200 bond. Harry Riddick,%facing a similai charge, took French leave. Officers John Roebuck and C. R. Moore and Deputy Roy Peel raided the homes Sunday after noon, finding about six gallons in the Everett home and about one half gallon in the Riddick home. Unofficial repprts declare that the bootleg liquor business is.in creasing rapidly here and In the TB Committee In Annual Meeting Wednesday Night Field Secretary Stresses Im portance of Advancing Educational Program Holding their annual meeting in Williamston last Wednesday e ve ning, members of the Martin County Tuberculosis Committee discussed the program in this county, heard short talks by Dr-. John W. Williams, county health officer, and Miss Anne Mann, field secretary for the State Tubercu losis association. Edgar Gurganus, chairman of the county commit tee, presided over the meeting. Dr. Williams reported briefly on the number of tuberculosis cases in the county and the follow-up work being carried on as a result of the mass chest X-ray program. Miss Mann discussed the pro gram in general and stressed the importance of an active work by the committee in advancing a county-wide educational plan. The executive secretary, Mrs. Grimes explained that necessary articles, costing $52, had been sup plied patients going from the county to the State Sanatorium, that two hospital beds and four bedside tables had been furnished the sanatorium in this county. Reviewing the financial opera tion of the county association, the secretary said that $2,428.84 was raised from the seal sale last year that there was a balance at the beginning of last year in the surr of $2,615.51, making a total of $5, 044.35. Disbursements were listed as follows: salary, executive secre tary, $900; office administration $159.10; films for X-rays in the health department, $312.88; health literature, $45.66; contributions t( county sanatorium, $289.29; ex penses of seal sale, $312.23. Othei disbursements, $485.76, making e total of $2,505.92 and leaving e balance on hand for the new yeai of $2,539.43. The association adopted the fol lowing budget for the curreni year: Conferences and meetings, $50 motion pictures and exhibits, $25 office'equipment, $25; office sup plies, $10; postage, express ant freight, $150; supplies and litera ture, $250; office rent, $120; salary executive secretary, $900; tele phone and telegraph, $30; trave and auto expense, $50; X-raj films, $500; projector for showinj educational films, $250—a total o $2,360.00. o Staggering Waste In the Military Former President Hoover ha: spent months checking up on the Federal Government to see wheth er he and other U. S. taxpayers an getting their money’s worth. Las week, he reported to Congress or the Army, Navy and Air Force His conclusion: “Staggering waste!” The military department: waste so much money he said that they are endangering the whole country, and the budget; used trial nobody Cai tell exactly how great the waste I? Before he resigned as secretary Kenneth C. Royall said Mr. Hoov er was incorrect—but he temper ed it, by adding that lorees could have saved $1,000, 000,000 last year if they had hac a better unification law. | ROUND.UP Law violators went on a small rampage in this section last week-end, and by late Saturday eleven were arrest ed and jailed. It was a drunk ard’s holiday, the report showing that six drunks were jailed during the period. An other report said they were celebrating the adjournment of the legislature. Two others were jailed for larceny and one each for a bad check and drunken driving. An eleventh one was arrested for violating the terms of a suspended judgment. One of the eleven was white, and the ages ranged I from 17 to 47 years. Youths Reminded Of Laws Calling For Registration —.<♦> However, No Draft Calls Are Considered Likely Any Time Soon Although no draft calls are an ticipated soon, possibly not before ’ nixt year, Martin County Draft | Board officials this week warned 18-year-olds that they must regis • ter and meet certain requirements, j It is fairly certain that most of i those youths attaining the age of eighteen \ ears are registering with the draft board on the third floor if Williamston’s town hall, but reports indicate that a few are not meeting the terms of the law. Almost one registration is record ed each day or between 25 and 30 each month. Since the draft law went into effect last August, 1,919 young men men have registered. Most of them have been classified and questionnaires have been filed in all but about fifty cases. The draft board chairman, Eugene Rice, stated that those who have not returned the questionnaires will be rated as delinquents short ly and that their names will bo turned over to the federal authori ties. There are eight classifications now in effect: 5-A—20-year-olds; 4-F—physically, morally or men tally incapacitated; 4-D—minister or student of religion; 4-A—t-war veteran; 3-A—dependency estab lished; 1-D—-active in reserve training; 1-C—service volunteers. If a registrant does not fall into one of those classifications, lie is subject to call at the pleasure of the services. It has been reported that only 35,000 men out of 9,161,645 regis trants, including two from this county, had been drafted up to the first of last February, when the calls were suspended. The r, - ports further state that volun teers are filling the ranks, that the services have already reached their man-power goals. Approxi mately 15,000 men are being re cruited each month, most of them re-enlisting. The reports also in dicate that recruiting activities I are being curtailed, making it ap . pear that the services are getting all the men they need without the . draft and with a curtailed recruit 1 ing system. This fiscal year Selective Ser ; vice is spending well over 27 mil 1 lion dollars to carry on its activi ties. It is asking only 16 millions dollars for the next fiscal year ti finance its operations. While the present draft law is given uhtil June 24 of next year ■ to run its course, it is being held intact merely on a stand-by basis During the meantime compulsory 1 military training is fading out ol the armed service program. -d Minister Given Honorary Degree Rev. S. A. Maxwell, formei pastor of the Williamston Moth odist Church, is to receive the honorary,.degnw' -f at Tu. vinity at Anbury Theological Sum iriaiy, WUmore, Kentucky, n June, it was learned here this week. The minister, now in Oxford was the tirst £Tm!iuaTe ol fh'flff^? tutioo, and will receive the honor ary degree on the twenty-fifth an niversary of his graduation. Dr. J. C. McPheeters, president of the seminary, said, “We fee] that we are honoring ourselves a. well as you in this regard. We re joice in the success which has come to you in your work and pray that your ministry may con tinue to be one of enlargement, a it has been during the past twen> ty-five years.” Lillie Rain Fell Here During Month of March While rain fell on thirteen dif ferent days in March, the tota, rainfall here for the month wa; only 11.47 inches, according to a re port coming from Hugh Spruill bridge-keeper on Roanoke River The total was about one inch lest than the 3.55-inch average for the particular month over a twenty year period. Hob. L. Humber Says •/ W orld Gove rumen I Only Hope for Peace V. SPEAKER ■N' J I)r. Robert Lee Humber, in liationally known figure, spoke to more than 200 per sons in the high school audi torium here last night. The meeting was sponsored by the P.-T. A. and the local Wo man’s Cluh. I)r. Humber, talking lor more than an hour, pleaded lor world government and supported the bond program for better schools and roads. Revival Services At Baptist Church —•— Delivering the third in a cur rent series of revival sermons in the local Baptist church, Rev. George T. Tunstall, pastor of the West End Baptist Church, Peters burg, last evening used the topic, "Prayer”. Ills message was well received by " approximately 150 persons, and three affilliated with the church. Pastor Stewart B. Simms an nounces that two special musical selections have been planned for each service, that the meeting will continue through Sunday night. In developing his sermon topic I last evening, the visiting minister 1 who is at home with the Getsin i gers on South Haughton Street, | declared that we have the same I prayer-answering God that an Iswered the prayers of the Saints 1 in Bible times, that if we arc willing to meet ilis conditions, He’ll answer our prayers today. Those conditions were briefly out lined us follows We must repent of our sins, pray in accordance with His will, pray with faith that God will answer our prayers, that we must pray and get others to pray with us, and that we must help God answer our prayers, that lie expects us not to sit down and fold our hands. Gold Valued At Forty Bill-ions ——»— Gold mined in all tin- world since Columbus wandered over tc America just about 457 years age ■ has vjiIui ■ rty 1. irfut-, ol dol lars with a leeway of a few cents one way or the other. The miners have done right well, to be sure, but if they would finance the next year budget for the federal government they must get busy and really dig. With tin forty billion in gold already ir hand, the miners could possibly get by with five billion more min ed in 1949 and 1950. - . Former Local Boy On Town Council -u Victor G. Burrell, son of the lati Dr. and Mrs Win, J{ Burrell and a resident of Williamston for a num ber of years, was nominated as a member of the Florence, South Carolina, city council last week by a vote of 1,900 to 934. Mr. Burrell has made his home in Florence for some time and is v head of a meat packing firm there r* Prominent Leader Speaks To Session Here Last Evening —* Internationally Known hi<; nre Supports Hmnls for Hoads And Schools Addressing the Parent-Teachers Association at its regular monthly meeting, held in the high school auditorium last night, Robert Lee Humber, of Greenville, declared that the imperative task of this generation was to produce a war less world —an objective which no longer represented the dream of idealists but the most profound preoccupation of practical states men, businessmen, farmers, house wives and all true patriots. Upon its achievement, lie added, de pended the very survival of civili zation. “We cannot build the civiliza tion of tomorrow upon war,” the speaker asserted. “Civilization and modern war eannot exist together. One or the other must go. Either we banish war or war will banish civilization.” The responsibility for this deeision now rests in the hands of American citizens, he de clared. What is the use, Humber in quired, of building great cities with schools and churches, fac tories and business centers of cm ! ploynient, hospitals, libraries and community centers, good roads and monuments of culture — in ; fact, what is the use of trying te j build a more healthy society, one j that is better fed, better clothed | and better housed, if the destiny i of the human race is simply anni hilation? “Wars have become carnivals of insanity,” Humber continued, “and must be suppressed as an in strument. of human society. They must be buried along with slav cry, witchcraft and duelling as no longer worthy of the suffrage ot the human race; or else this globe will lose all significance as a plage of habitation for civilized men.” The speaker described tin j changes which science has intro ' dueed in the techniques of modern j warfare through the perfection ol I atomic energy find of bacteriologi cal and biological weapons. The cost of modern wars is prohibitive to a free society, he asserted, and leads rapidly to socialism. Twc World Wars in the same genera tion have consumed practically all of the surplus capital and privati investment funds in Europe, leav ing public credit the only impor tant source of economic recovery on the continent. Western culture, based on free enterprise, cannol stand another war. Today 71) percent of our nation al budget, according to President Truman, is for war expenditures or about $32,000,000,000 out oi $41,000,000,000, the speaker ex tt. till., CitilOLiili au.-i ili.iUl ! ficient and. coniequently, emigres j Ibis month found it necessary u appropriate; $15,000,000,000 more j for national defense. The North Aliamtie■ ; , xpeG • • . '■ another $1 000,000,000, making al least $48,000,000,000 to be spent fen war durmg the twelve months ol the current year—-Or about $4, j 000,000,000 per month. "Just think of the criminal waste involved in all this expendi ture,” Humber declared, "and the infinite good to the human race that a wise administration of this amount of money could produce In a reasonable time, it could lit erally start transforming the globe.” Humber referred to the presem effort of North Carolina to raise $250,000,000 bv bond issue foi schools and roads and stated tha this entire sum represented onlj about 45 hours of expenditure foi war in 1949 by the United States. Just as the invention of gui powder and cannon destroyed feu dalism, so did the atomic bond end the reign of the modern na tional state. Absolute nationa (Continued on page eight) Expect Superior Court To Adjourn Term Thursday Feu (ileaml from the Docket During l.onju Session Monday -o>— In session sine?,-Tuesday..of last week, the Marti/County Superior Court today gf/ared its machinery for a shutdown on Thursday of this week. /Jailed to t.Cy civil cas es only, tpe court has cleared a few actions from th,6 calendar. No important or big eases have been heard And comparatively few spectators have been in the court room during the current term. Most of yesterday was spent hearing the case of W. R. Everett and others against D. W. Outlaw, the jury awarding the plaintiff a judgment in the sum of $500 less $200 already paid and $100 for im provements made by the defend ant. The suit wa= started when the defendant failed to comply with the terms of the tent con tract. Several cases were cleared from lilt- calelidai when the iiligauts compromised their differences. In the case of Van Lee Reddick against Theodore Gurganus, agent, an agreement was reached, the plaintiff recovering $100 to gether with the cost. A settlement was effected in the case of W. C. Hopkins against Thad Newsome, Jr., the plaintiff recovering $175. The plaintiff is to pay the case costs except cost of defendant’s witnesses. In the case of FaVm Bureau Mu tual Automobile Insurance Com pany, incorporated, against Willie G. Hodges and Winston Lee Hodges, the plaintiff voluntarily submitted to a non-suit as to the defendant, Willie G. Hodges. In the ease of J. C. Williams against J. B. Whitfield an agree ment was reached lute Monday afternoon after the ease was aired before a jury. The plaintiff re ceive a judgment in the sum of $175. Two or three other cases were compromised Monday, but judg ments were not recorded im mediately. Today, several of the local law yers are out of the county handl ing another case and very little work was scheduled. Exceptions are being taken to a referee’s find ings in the ease of Arthur Wil liams against Victoria Hassell, Minor Accident At Intersection No one was hurt but damage, es timated at $300 by local police who made the investigation, re sulted when a truck and car were in an accident at the intersection of Main and Haughton Streets here about 7:00 o’clock Sunday evening. J. B. Ilarnhill of Everetts was driving his new Pontiac across the main street toward the railroad station and had almost cleared the intersection when Herbert Everett . ran his 1041 pick-up truck into j the side of the ear, doing about ; ¥-00 •>! or re- to the Pontiac and ! about $100 damage to the truck. Log Amputated In Hospital Monday j Mr. Ned James of Everetts had | his right leg amputated just above the knee in a Washington hospital yesterday morning to relieve a cir culatory condition. He was said to have weathered the operation suc cessfully' and last reports stated he was getting along very well. | HALF HOLIDAYS v Starting tomorrow, most of the business houses ami of fices in the town will observe Wednesday afternoons as holi days The stores and shops will close at 13:30 each Wed nesday afternoon during the remainder of the spring and in the summer until <ate August. Several other towns are ob serving the half-holiday sche dule, including Jamesville and Kobersenville and possibly one or two others. _____ r