the enterprise is read by OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE s~==s~~~~~~=~sh=.~\ .a THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 41 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 21, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Seven Members Of School Faculties Resign Jobs Here Five New Teachers Elected; Thea Positions Remain To Be Filled — o A fairly large turnover in facul ty personnel for the local high school has been reported, but members of the five-man school committee explained that five of the positions made vacant by re signations had been filled, that ap plications had been received for the three positions now open. Most of the seven faculty mem bers resigning their posts are quit ting the profession for various reasons, it was learned. Mrs. Jes sie H. White, trying to withdraw from the profession for some time after years of devoted service in the local schools, has resigned. She has been repeatedly drafted for service, and responded to help relieve the teacher shortage. Miss Estelle Crawlord. a faithful mem ber of the faculty for years, is be ing given a leave of absence on ac count of illness. Miss Betty Sue , Tilley. Frpneh-Englirh teacher, re signed to study at the University in Chapel Hill next term. Others resigning are, Miss Ida Roberts, Mi's. W. H. Harrison, Mrs. E. R. Shuller and Mis. Jesse Sumner. The faculty, headed again by B. G. Stewart, principal, includes: First grade: Miss Lamina Baker, Mrs. Miriam Saunders and Miss Grace Talton. Second grade: Mrs. Mary B Carstarphen. Mrs. Rosalie Frone berger, Mrs. D. W. Brady. Third grade: Mrs. Elise Kimball, Miss Ruth Manning, Mrs. Mary E. Gaylord. Fourth grade: Mrs. Alma Fus scll, Miss Frances Jenkins. One position in this grade is to be fill ed. Fifth grade: Mrs. Charlotte Ab ernathy, Miss Dora Bailey, Mrs. Velma Coburn. Sixth grade: Misses Irma Ben son. Marian Regerson and Martha Whitehurst. Seventh grade: Miss Mildred By rum, Mrs. Evelyn Baker Moore, Mrs. Mildred Crawford. Eighth grade: Miss Anne Car son, Mrs. Anne Corey, Miss Mary Whitley. High school: Jack Butler, civics and band: Stuart Maynard, physi cal education and coach; Norwood Smith, English; Miss Arina Belle Privott, mathematics; Miss Peggy Hopkins, commercial subjects; Carlyle Cox, history and social studies; Mrs. Beecher Patterson, public school music; A. J. Abdalla," science. There are three teaching posi tions to be filli d, one fourth grade section, and home economics and French-English in the high school. The new members of the faculty are: Mrs. D. W. Brady of Williams ton who has been teaching in the county and who will have one sec tion of the second grade; Mrs. Evelyn B. Moore of Wil liamston, a former teacher in the local schools and who has been re lief teaching this term, will have one of the seventh grade sections. Mrs. Mildied Crawford of Wil liamston who taught at Farm Life during the term just closed and a tile'local facul ty wall have a seventh grade sec tion. Miss Anne Carson of Bethel and ...a 1949 Fast Carolina Teacher*' College graduate, has been elected ! to teach one of the three eighth grades. A. J. Abdalla, native of Selma, a war veteran and a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, has been elected to (Continued on page eight) f~DEATH ON SNAKES ]! \ Mrs. Octavious Barber, farm woman of near James ville, has no use for snakes. Over a period of five days she killed five of the reptiles, in cluding a rattler and four moccasins. For the attack on (he moccasins, Mrs. Barber used any weapon at hand, in cluding a weeding hoe and a poker, but she took greater precaution in battling the rattler and brought into use a shot gun. Winner At Stock Show Mary Jane Rogers, Williamston 4-H club member, walked away with honors for the second time in three years when her white faced Hereford was judged the grand champion of the re cently held Martin County Fat Stock Show. STREETS ■> I J Approximately §16,000 has been set aside from tfye town’s allotment for street improve ments here, it was learned this week. The street improvement program calls for the surfac ing of two blocks on Smith wick Street in front of the high school and Liberty Street from Smitliwiek to Haughton. Highway 17 is to be surfaced either from the bridge or the river hill lo the town limits at Sunny Side Inn and from the intersection of Haughton and Main to the town limits on Highway 64 just beyond : tiie hospital. An asphalt plant i is lo be placed in Windsor and j work is to get under way j some time in July. Hamilton Native Dies in Edgecombe! --i'. J. T. Lawrence, native of Ham ilton and member of a family pro minent in the religious life m this county for a number of years, died at his home in Edgecombe County last Thursday night after a long illness. He was born in Hamilton 65 years ago, a son of the late Elfier M. T. and Linda House Lawrence. He moved to Leggett when a young man and became a success ful merchant and farmer there. Ho ivas married to Mary Lillian Foun tain in 1906. Mr Lawrence was active in religious and civic life nf his community. He was a mem ber and presiding elder of Wil liam and Mary Hart Presbyterian Church and served as Sunday School superintendent for many years. He served on the Edge combe County school board and was chairman when the present Leggett High School was erected and consolidated. He was a mem ber of the board of trustees of Edgecombe General Hospital in Tarburo, served one full term and part i,i another! on the Edgecombe County Posrd of ^jjTgm^issioners Surviving are n'i^wtre; a son, J. T. Lawrence, Jr.; three daughters, Mrs. W. J. Edmondson and Mrs. O. Grahdm Gulley of Leggett, and Til..n.as E. Page of tVcsfave* Field, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs, A. L. Harrison of Front Royal, Va., and Mrs. A. V. Cuthbertson of Charlotte; a brother, W. B. Law rence of Whitakers; and 10 grand children. Funeral services were held from William and Mary Hart Presbyterian Church at Leggett Saturday at 4 p. m., conducted by the Rev. L. W. Kessler, assist ed by the Rev. Norman Johnson. Burial was m the church ceme tery. Continues Critically III In The II a it/tit al Removed to a Washington hos pital last Saturday, Mrs. Simon Perry of West End continued gravely ill in a Washington hos pital this morning. Reports reach ing here stated that she had had seven or more blood transfusions in two days, that doctors this morning were planning an opera tion. Wreck Large Oil Drum Type Still In Cross Roads Several Ollier Plants Are Destroyed In County Last Week . -<t> Going back into the illicit li quor business op a comparatively large scale, Martin County moon shiners are employing large types of equipment for their operations, ABC Enforcement Officer Joe H. Roebuck said this week. After taking one of the largest copper kettles ever found in the county week before last, the offic er, assisted by Deputy Roy Peel, invaded the Tranters Creek sec tion near the two bridges in Cross Roads Township early last week and wrecked a plant equipped with a 150-gallon capacity oil drum still. The officers said il was the largest ^oil drum kettle they had ever seen. The officers poured out 250 gallons of mas! and wrecked the still, two 50-gal Ion coolers and five 50-gallon fer menters at the plant. Raiding in Griffins Township near Batts’ Cross Roads, the twe officers wrecked a 200-gallon c-a pacity wood still and poured ou 1,200 gallons of mash. The plan was equipped with a 100-gallor capacity cooler, a 50-gallon doub ler and oil burner. Last Friday, the officers workec in the Stingy Point area of Rober sonville Township and destroyer a 50-gallon oil drum, three 50 gallon fermenters and poured ou 100 gallons of sugar mash. During the week the officer; made two raids in the Free Unior section of Jamesville Township and wrecked a couple of plants The first was equipped with i (Continued on page eight) ---^ Tom Thumb Wedding Set for 8:00 Thursday The Wesleyan Guild of the local Methodist Church are presenting a Tom Thumb Wedding at the w^}):iKS&tjon high school Thorsdc, night of this week with over 10C of tne tiny folks taking part, il has been announced. Plans for the big affair for the fiftie people have already been completed. The event is schedul ed for 7:45 p. m. and a small ad mission charge will be made, 50c fur grownups and 25c for child ren. ! COMMISSIONER v District Highway Commis sioner Henry G. Shelton of Tarboro will address the re gular meeting of the Lions Club here Thursday evening at the regular meeting hour, it was announced yesterday by a club official. Making his first public ap pearance in this county as a member of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, Mr. Shelton is expected to discuss the S200 million road program, and answer any questions pertinent to < that program, it was learned. Congressman From' Missouri Rejects Invitation to Party j ■—<$>— (itnigmssnian Magcr I)r- J mantis “Greatest Good for Greatest Number” Faces of some Missouri business ! “bigwigs" may be r£d, but a lot of I other people are going to cheer a !( remarkable letter just sent by [' Congressman Clare Magee, “fresh- j j man” Democrat from the “Show , Me" state, to President George C. Smith of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. Magee was invited to attend a “cocktail party and dinner” to be held at the Statler Hotel in Wash ington on May 2, with delegates present from looal Chambers of Commerce all over Missouri. It was to be a typical lobbyists’ at tempt to induce solons to keep the Taft-Hartley bill on the statute books and defeat all the rest of President Truman's "Fair Deal" program. The Congressman's let ter follows in full: “To George C. Smith, President, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce: “Dear Mr. Smith: Receipt is ac knowledged of your letter of April 6, in which you invite me to a cocktail party and dinner to be held at the Hotel Statler here in Washington on May 2nd. You state that the St. Louis, Kansas City and other Missouri Chambers of Com merce will be here attending the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce. “I must decline this invitation Kven the inducement of one hour of cocktails is not sufficient. In fact you would not be able to get enough cocktails down me in sixty minutes to make me agree with what you and ch<- United States Chamber of Commerce stand for. "You may recall that soon after the election of last fall, you invit ed the newly elected Missouri Congressmen to a dinner at St. Louis. Only three of us were fool ish enough to attend. I had some idea of what we would hear; but it exceeded all expectations. “We were not given a chance to say a word; but we were only ex pected to, and did sit meekly by while you and an officer of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce , heaped every conceivable insult , upon those of us who were elected j by the support of liberal elements. “You charged that we would probably witness the first ’Labor Government’ in America when the 81st Congress convened. Yours was the most excoriating and re actionary speech that I have ever heard or read. “I am not a rubber-stamp poli tician, and perhaps cannot agree with every proposal of this Ad ministration; but I believe that we have enough wealth and resourc es in this great country of ours, that no one need be in want. “I believe the prime aim of this government, under the leadership of our distinguished fellow Mis sourian, is to grant the greatest good to the greatest number. I be lieve we can have a controlled economy within our democracy. “Free enterprise and individual liberty become hollow terms when all wealth is aggregated in the | hands of a few people. -ifettvvk you for tne invita tion; but those cocktails might cause me to forget the usual amenities that a guest should dis play to his host. T "’’Very Truly yours, Clare Ma gee, M. C.” Soldiers Body on ml Its Way Home I The body of Stf. Sgt. Samuel | Leo Andrews is on its way home for burial in native soil, relatives were advised last week. No date of arrival has been mentioned, but the body is expected to reach here sometime the latter part of June. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Luther Andrews of Williams Township, the young man was killed in action in Italy on April 10, 1945. Relatives have also been advis ed that the body of Pfc. John G Stalls is on its way home. The son of John G. Stalls, Sr., and Bet tie Brown Stalls Clifton, he was killed in action in Italy on October 10, 1943. rwenty-six Boys I And Girls Finish High School Here | Special Awards Announced At Closing Exercises Held Last Evening Twenty-six—thirteen .boys and I hirteen girls—out of a starting; lass in 19117 of 115, were graduat 'd from the local high school at i ippropriate exercises held in the ugh school auditorium last eve-j ling. The exercises, featuring an iddress by Dr. James Slay of the Duke University faculty and the presentation of special awards, vere largely attended. Principal B. G. Stewart intro duced the special guests and W. I. Skinner, a member of the local school committee, introduced the main speaker. Following Dr. Slay’s address, the band offered two selections, and R L. Coburn, committee chairman, presented diplomas to the following: Elmer Guy Carrow, David Sam uel Carson, Charles Alton Cowan, Doris Lee Cullipher, William llcwctt Edwards, Jr„ Marilyn Winifred Fussell, William Orlando Griffin, Jr., Clayton Laffittee Had- | ley, Sally Elizabeth Hardison, Hid en Martin Howard, Vivian Jean Hudson, Edna Julia Laughing house, Winnie Mae Li 1 ley, Jessie Estelle Long, Polly Janice Man ning, Julian Dewey Mason, Jr., Tillie Margaret Mizelle, Paul Has sell Peel, Jr., Joan Peele, Doris Jean Rogers, Robert Earl Rogers, Edna Ray Thomas, Clayton Grant Savage, Robert Alonzo Taylor, Jr., King Edward White, John Rogers Wobbleton. The presentation of special awards attracted particular atten tion. Julian Mason was presented the W. C. Manning valedictorian cup by County Superintendent of Schools J. C. Manning. Jean Me Lawhorn, the outstanding student in the department, was awarded the Sarah M. Manning home eeo nomies cup by her teacher, Miss Ida Roberts. The Woman’s Club civics cup was awarded to Mrs. Beecher Patterson’s Glee Club by Mrs. Wheeler Martin, Jr., club president . The R. H. Goodman athletic trophy went to Bobby Rogers, the presentation being made by Sam Woolford. The Junior Woman’s Club scholarship cup wit: awarded to Sallie Rober son by her teacher, Miss Mary Whitley, and the Commercial Club award was made to Sallie Hardi son by Professor Norwood Smith, Submits Report On Cancer Fund Assigned a quota of $1,500, Mar tin County citizens raised a total of $1,695.51 for the cancer fund during the recent drive, Mrs. Chas. I. Harris, county command er, and Thad F. Harrison, fund d iva eh rinan, announced last week. The following report lists the l districts, chairmen, quota and amount raised, in order: Jamesville, Mis Leslie Hardi son, $100.00; $50.44; Williams, C. I. Dame', $?5no...t.5c..Oi; fluffin.. B. R. Manning. $75.00 $122 38: Leal A. Li Ayeis, ,i i., $75, $78.05; Cress Roads, Buck Ayers, $75, $65.10; Robersonville Mrs W. B Rogerson, $300, $261.50; i Goose Nest, Nancy W-.rd._y. $I0Q $55; Hamilton, Mr-: E. R. Sti ,v„rt, $75, $100.10; Poplai Point, Mrs Herman Harrison, $80, $41.69; Hassell, John W. Eubanks, $35. $36.90; Williamston, Mrs. Wheeloi Martin, Jr., $600, $758.29. The colored citizen of the coun ty raised $68.97 with Mary Gray as chairman. No quota was assigned. Call Firemen Out Sunday Morning —0-. Volunteer firemen were called out at 2:45 o’clock Sunday moi li ng when fire threatened the home of Mary Clark on Perry Street near the Sunny Side market. An incubator burner went out of control and fired the side of the house. A neighbor happened to wake up and gave the alarm aftei seeing the fire light. Very little damage was done. Robbers Active Here Last Friday Evening Amateurs Entered \ Wholesale Store And Supply Finn —•»— l.ifjarrllt's ami l.itllr Money! Miss««l from Marlin* Klliutt Store Activities on the crime front made the headlines here when | robbers, believed to have been1 amateurs, robbed the Wkllamstonj Supply Company and Martin-El liott Wholesale store sometime during last Friday night or early Saturday morning. Officers, work ing on the cases, said early today 1 they had exhausted every lead j and got no where, but that, they were still investigating. Forcing a window on Railroad Street, the robbers entered the Williamstnn Supply Company , building and then broke the glass J door leading to the office. They , ransacked the (Usk drawers, but nothing was missed there. Crawling up on some old oil storage tanks, the robbers reached , the roof of the wholesale store at the rear and got into the store by j removing a skylight and tearing through some mesh wire. Several dollars in change were missed from thi’ shipping room along with a quantity of cigarettes. Nothing | else was missed. The robbers on tered the office and ransacked the place and possibly took a little | change from the stamp box. Doors to the wholesale firm: were locked, and alter tailing to j force an opening through a door the robbers had to leave through tlie skylight. It is fairly certain that the effectiveness of the | break-in was limited when the robbers could not gain an easy j way to get the loot out. It is | thought that the robbers used a rope to lower themselves down into the wholesale house, but no rope was found. Local officers called for blood-! hounds from the prison camp near here. The rings picked up a track quickly and ran it to a deadend ini the street where the robbers are believed to have boarded a ear and departed. The robberies here were two in [ a series reported in the county re cently. No leads have been es- ! tablished in any of them, includ ing thi- four reported in James-j vilie a few days earlier. Reports from Jamesville state that robbers attempted to enter the pressing club there last Friday night but were frightened away. No attempts were njade to open | an iron safe in any of the places entered, the officers are of the opinion that the robbers were amateurs in the business. Shertff HovUnvli Enter* Ihtspitul for Treatment Sheriff C. B Roebuck entered a Washington hospital yesterday for a check-up and doctors ordered him to bei} for L >tment. 11, wax s'o,u * . have rested, yary well mein. MY COODNKSS! ‘T' In New York recently a Yale geologist predicted that the streets of Chicago will one day he canals like those ol' Venice, Niagara Falls will he a dry precipice, and the SI. Lawrence valley an empty canyon. Hut all this won’t happen for thousands of years l)r. Richard Forester Flint as sured his listeners, lie said the changes will he caused by “settling” of the earth. The southern shores of Lakes Michigan, Erie and Superior are now sinking one inch every ten years. As a result, the Great Lakes will ultimate ly flow into the Mississippi Valley. The Yale professor didn’t mention it, hut it has been reported in geological circles that the coast of North Carolina is sinking at an even more rapid rate than the shores of the Great Lakes. NARROW I'SCVIM; .j Making her last trip to school (III ring the 1948-49 term, a little girl, about ten years of age anil whose name could not be learned, narrow ly escaped injury when she crashed a red light at the cor ner of Main and Watts Street yesterday morning. A Florida ear, traveling west on the main street, turned as far as it could in an effort to miss the child but did not quite suc ceed. The car struck the wheel, knocking the little rider off. Fortunately the vic tim wasn’t hurt. She got up and moved away about half crying. The couple in the car. badly frightened, continued on their way after learning the child was not hurt. Roots Of Grasses I Are Important In s Soil Conservation i {«>nl> Of (»ra*s When Sown Willi ('.lover Wei«;li .A,000 Pound' ci Acre The importance of the roots of trass crops in conservation often s not appreciated, in the opinion if Geo. C. Griffin, chairman of he Martin County Agricultural Conservation Committee. Since toots are below ground it is not apparent how completely they ui •upy the soil. 'I'o cheek up on this, scientists of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture have washed out the roots of a number of mixed crops. When sweet clover was grown alone it produced 1900 pounds of roots to the acre. When grass was grown with the sweet clover, 3000 pounds of roots were produced to the acre. Alfalfa alone produced 2300 pounds of roots to the acre. When gras, was awn with the alfalfa, the roots amounted to 5000 pounds to the acre and in some cases up to 9000 lbs It is these unseen chat aeteristics of grass which make it sueli a valuable conservation crop, the chairman points out. The roots fill the soil and hold the par tides together. When the gras is turned under, it is these roots which make the soil work easier. As the roots decay they make the native fertility of the soil avail able and add to the sponge-like ability of the soil to absorb water. It is fur this reason, the chairman explains, that grass is such an im portant conservation crop. Poppy Sale In County Saturday Plans have been completed for handling the sale of several thous urda.y of this week. Made by d:s ubied veteians, the poppies wiU be sold in nearly every section of the, couidv and the prur-ei-ds will be Useil loi the benefit of the dis abled and their families. The following have volunteered to handle the sale, Mrs. J, 1!. Tay lor, general chairman, announced: Williamston: Mcsadems J M. Ward, R. 11. Goodman, Rush Bon durant, Arthur White, W. K Dunn, ,1 It. Barnhill, Clyde Anderson, J. Sum Getsinger, W. W. Beaird, W. (). Griffin, Roy Ward, Dean Speight, J. D. Baldree, II. D. Tay lor, Exum Ward, Jr., J. B. Sul 1 i van, J A. Wynne, Carlyle Lang ley, Joe Johnson, Robert T. Tay lor, J A. Wynn, and Miss Clyde Hassell. Farm Life: Mrs. J. A. Hardison and Mrs. A. C, Roberson. Robersnnville: Philip Keel chairman, Hamilton: Mrs. M. L. White anii Mrs. W. J. Beach. Jamesville: Mrs. J. A. Ellis, Mrs N. R. Daniel, Mrs. P. M. Holliday Mr:.. Raleigh Harrington and Mis: Brownie Holliday. Peanuts Moving Mo't of ill*' 19 Hi (iriip Has |{<t:i I’rrparril For Vlanufarlurri's Peanuts, stored here by the gov ernment last fall, art beginning to move to the oil mills, while most of the 1948 crop has been prepared for regular trade chan nels. Approximately 30,900 of the more than 100.000 bugs of peanuts stored here by the government are moving to a plant in Suffolk to be converted into oil for regu lar trade use. No price figure was divulged, but it was learned that the government had rejected a bid of about six cents for the goobers. Nine large trucks moved about 2,250 bags from the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse her*' yesterday and the others will be moved as rapid ly as posible. The government plans to move several hundred tons of peanuts out of storage at Darlington. South Carolina, and WC,.,long lei; c-v ■ * 1 i * l i Uic nt.\l lew days, one report stating that they will go to an oil mill in Wilson. It could not be learned when the remainder of the crop stored here would be moved. Local millers, while not interested in peanuts for oil, are expected to bid on shelling peanuts for shipment abroad, a few having been already shelled at one or two small plants in this section in recent weeks. According to unofficial reports, the government stored approxi mately 1,100,000 bags of peanuts from the 1948 crop in four states, and about one tenth of them or 102,000 bags were stored here. Except fo> the .11 mill which is being used to shell seed peanuts for farmers, the William ton Pea nut Company suspended opera tions yesterday for about two or three weeks or until some of the cleaned goodn ran be moved. "We have a few thousand bags still on hand, and we plan to reopen the plant just as soon as the market can take them,” one of the plant owners said yesterday. It is esti i mated that the company has t enough peanuts on hand to sup ply the plant for about two or I three weeks. If the government needs any peanuts shelled and local firms j can get the contract, the labor con dition here will have been great j ly relieved. "If bids are asked we , plan to submit an attractive one,” a company official said. Including the peanuts stored by the government, the market here handled nearly half million bags of peanuts from the 1948 crop. (Continued on page eight) To Hold Union At Sniitliw ieks Creek The Eastern Carolina Primitive Baptist Association will hold a un ion at Smithwicks Creek this week-end, it was announced yes terday by the pastor, Eldc P. E. Getsinger. Services will he held Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock and that night ,.t ii OO o'clock. The Sunday servici1 " 1!1 he held at j .‘0.30 01 lock, lolioweu b\ dinner I on the grounds. | Elders J. A. Fagg of Winston j Salem, J. H. Daily of Soc rwillc. V'a.. and 1'. U. Mccre of K, rn.-rs vdle have advised the church that they plan to be present and others art expert! d. A cordial invitation is being ex tended tiie public to attend the services and enjoy the fellowship. The host church and its friends are making preparations to enter tain hundreds of visitors. KOI MM I* -J There nas right much ac tivity on the crime front in this section, but very lew al leged law violators found their way into the county jail during the week-end. Only two persons were jail ed, one for failing to comply with a court judgment while the other was detained for in vestigation. Both were color ed. One was 33 and the other was 65 >ears ol age.

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