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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,00(1 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 42 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 26, 1019 ESTABLISHED 189*3 Call Dozen Cases ! In County Court Monday Morning —•— Fines and Forfeitures Total $'145; Several Road Sentences Imposed -® Meeting in regular session at 9:30 o'clock last Monday morning, tore county court cleared a dozen / cases frojn the docket and ad journed fwo hours later after im posing fines in jhe amount of $445 and meling out several road sen tences. Judge Chas. H. Manning was on the bench and Solicitor Paul Ifj. Roberson prosecuted. There were very few spectators in the court room; i/i fact there were only a few defendants and wit nesses. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license and displaying improper license plates. Edmond Earl Mait land was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court suspend ing the road term upon the pay ment of a $35 fine and costs. When Leslie B. Neely, Akron, Ohio, man charged with drunken driving, failed to answer when called, the court ordered the $150 bond forfeited. Gordie Council and Thelma Ward were charged with violating the liquor laws and both pleaded not guilty. The defendant, Ward, was adjudged not guilty, and Council was found guilty of pos sessing seven pints of non-tax li quor in his filling station at Sting Point on Highway No. 11 in Rob ersonville Township. He was sen tenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a fine of $150 and the costs, and not be convicted of any liquor law viola tion during the next five years. Charged with breaking jail and damaging property, James Clinton Council was adjudged not guilty. It was brought out that there was another man in the Oak City jail with Council and it could not be determined which one damaged the property. The other man has not been apprehended, as yet. Pleading guilty of speeding, Norris LeRoy Cahoon, RFD 3, Col (Continued on page eight) •o Swimming Pool To Open June 1 Announcement has been made of the opening of the Municipal Swimming Pool here on Wednes day, June 1, Complete plans are being work ed out but are not ready for of ficial announcement as yet. Coach Stuart Maynard of the Williamston High School, is hand ling the ticket sales for the pool and has announced that a conces sion is being made to the holders of season tickets for last year. A reduction of $1.50 will be allowed holders of last year's tickets. The coach has the names of last year’s purchasers. This will make the price to last year’s patrons, $3.00 for a children’s ticket and $4.50 for an adult ticket. The regular price to new patrons will be $6 00 for the adult Ticket and $4.50 for the children s ticket A life guard is to be stationed at the pool and John L. Goff. Jr., will be director of activities there this summer. An effort i= being made to get Mbs Louise Griffin to handle the children’s department at the pool this season, it was re ported. It is understood that the pool will be open in the afternoon and evening only to the public. It will be open for instruction only in the mornings, it is reported. HOLIDAY Next Monday, National Me morial Day, will be observed as a holiday by a few local firms and offices, including the Virginia Electric and Pow er Company, post office, banks and possibly one or two others. County and State of fices, according to one report, will not observe the day as a holiday, and business, for the most part, will be maintained as usual by all other establish ments. * Exhibits Champion At Show Howard Gardner, member of the Jamesville chapter Future Farmers of America, is pictured with his grand champion hog he exhibited at the recent Martin County Fat Stock show. The fu ture farmer is a son of Mr. Lonnie Gardner, and he sold his 246 pound porkers for 36 cents a pound, receiving in addition a $10 prize. TOBACCO VOTE 1 ' Tobacco growers in the flue-growing states will vote on acreage control for tobacco on July 23. it was announced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The growers will be given an opportunity to vote for acreage control for one year or three years or to eliminate control altogether. Martin County and North Carolina farmers have sup ported control programs in the past with big majority votes, and tbe consensus of opinion is that they will con tinue to support the plan. | Engineers’ Club Met Last Night —<*>— The May meeting of the East Carolina Engineers' Club was held last night at the logal Woman's Club. Following a delicious din ner served by the ladies of the I Maple Grove Christian Church, President Kenneth Knight, direc tor of Utilities for the City of Rocky Mount, turned the meeting over to R. E. Kimball, program chairman, who introduced K. S. Trowbridge, manager of the wood ^ and land department of the N. C. Pulp Company of Plymouth, as the guest speaker. In his talk on the subject of “Conservation of Timber Re sources,’’ Mr. Trowbridge pointed . out that although private indus tries, such as wood pulp and lum ber producers were guilty t6 a certain extent for the drain of wood resources, that on the whole the major part of the guilt lies with John Q. Public and the own er of the small wood lot. Fire in (the forests of North Carolina, a I drain caused in a large part by the carelessness of John Q. Pub jlic, destroys much more wood in i the state than does the require ments of the pulp industry in the I State. At the same time, the j small wood lot owners of the state ! use 2 1-2 times as much wood for t tobacco cui ing purposes than does Indus': The oblroi, he brought out, howeve., lies not so much in the matter cf depletion of forest resources as in awaken ing within the people of the State, the need lor conservation and re sto^ition of the wooded areas tnat arc unfit for cultivation. In a brief business session pre ceding the talk by Mr. Trow bridge, President Knight announc ed to the club that due to the va cation season that the executive committee had suspended meet ings for the months of June and July. The club organized in the spring of 1948 as a means t>f pro viding a mutual meeting ground for the engineering profession of Eastern North Carolina, has a membership representing points as far west as Raleigh, as far south as Kinston and New Bern, as far north as Ahoskie, and as far east as Williamston. Williamston, which is by far the smallest host city, has eight mem bers within the club. Other local members besides R E. Kimball, are Neil Ripley, Asa L. Moore, George C. Mahler, Alton B. Pleas ants, W. Bennie Daniel, L. Nelson Leggette and Wendell Feel. John T. Hooten Died Tuesday At Jamesville Home Funeral There This After noon for Retired Cap tain; Burial Here Catpain John Thomas Hooten, 71, died at his home in Jamesville Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock following a long period of declin ing healthy He suffered a slight stroke of paralysis about four years ago, but he had been able to be up and was fairly active un til about a week ago. His condi tion had been serious since that time. The son of the late Brian and Sallie Jackson Hooten, he was born in Hyde County on March 9, 1878, and spent his early life there. When a young man he located in Norfolk and entered the steam boat business, later be coming captain. He was employ ed for a number of years with the Norfolk Dredging Company. Twenty-six years ago he was I married to Miss Della Topping of Jamesville and made his home there since that time. Ill health forced his retirement about four years ago. Jovial and friendly, he made many friends in his adopted com j munities, and seemed to get much out of life. He was a Mason, hold ing membership in the Ports mouth lodge for quarter of a cen tury. Surviving besides Mrs. Hooten is a daughter, Mrs. Luther How ell of Norfolk. Funeral services arc being con ducted at the home in Jamesville this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock by Rev. W. B. Harrington, County Baptist minister, and interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Members of Skewarkey Masonic Lodge will serve as pallbearers and conduct the last rites at the graveside. To Check Tobacco And Peanut Crops tobacco acreage in this county, a report from the agent's office stat ed this week. Community committeemen are being charged with the responsi bility of doing or having the work done, and several special survey ors or workers have been assign ed to the task already, it was learned. Measurements are to get under way shortly or as soon as practical. Plans call for the com pletion of the work on or before June 25. Acreage planted to peanuts and tobacco is to be checked this year. Wine Inspector Makes Survey In the County An inspector from the State of fice made a survey of retail wine outiets in the county this week, and warned retailers that the spirits may be sold only between 9:00 a. m. and 10 p. m. on week days. He also warned that per mits may be suspended by the county ABC board, and that auth ority is reserved to inspect pre i rnises and conditions where wine is sold. limely Questions'; About Rural Road! i Program In State Would Hardsurfaoc Close To 12,000 Miles of Roads Of Secondary Type Sojne timely questions have been asked and Governor Keur Sc.ott has gone up with some tiny ly answers about the proposed >200,000,000 road program in North Carolina. Proposing to hardsurface 12,000 miles of sec ondary roads, the governor an swered recently fifteen questions, as follows: 1. Question: What improve ments are contemplated by Gover nor Scott's “GO FORWARD” pro gram for secondary roads? Answer: The Governor himself has answered this question in the following words: “My goal is to hard-surface 12,000 miles of sec ondary roads. Some people call them county roads, but I’m talk ing about the same thing. I plan to put another 35,000 miles of dirt roads in all-weather condition.” 2. Question: How much of this program would be accomplished during the next four years on a normal “pay-as-you-go” basis? Answer: Approximately 3,000 miles. This figure is arrived at on the basis of expenditures for roads as recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission in its regular budget for the State Highway and Public Works Commission for the next two years. 3. Question: Doesn’t such an es timate leave some funds left over which c'ould be used to build ad ditional hard-surfaced roads? Answer: Yes, there would be an estimated balance of $14,572,208. This would provide about $3,643, 052 a year and would pay for only about 200 miles of hard-surfacing. 4. Question: What will tha-Gov ernor’g program cost? Answer: Approximately $218, 000,000 figured on the following basis: Paving 9,000 miles of Rural Roads at $18,000 a mile $162,000,00C Betterment of 35, 000 miles of other Rural Roads at $1, 600 a mile _ _ 56,000,00C TOTAL $218,000,000 5. Question: What work is con templated by “betterment” of 35, 000 miles of other rural roads? Answer: The application ol crushed stone, soil, or black-top -ping so that these roads can be us cd any day in the year. 6. Question: How does the Gov ernor propose to finance this pro gram? Answer: By the issuance ol $200,000,000 in State bonds, sub ject to a vote of the people. 7. Question: How long would ii take to pay off the bonds and hov. much would it cost each year? Answer: The bonds would be is sued, as *he money is needed, tf mature in 20 years The estimat ed annual carrying charge is $14, 000,000 including interest figurec at two percent. Bond experts huvi advised the Governor that the> believe the money can be raised at 1 1-? to 1 3-4 percent and that thi interest rate, certainly should not exceed two percent. This com ITS;tv with intecot ot TTfr* aiif five percent paid on bonds issuer in the ’twenties. 8. Question: Where would th< Statc^jfO the money to pay of] these bonds? Answer: From gasoline taxes The governor has proposed in creasing these taxes one cent i gallon. This would raise an esti mated $7,000,000 a year, half ol thi required amount. Increased rev enues are anticipated, if more dirt roads arc hard-surfaced, from tht present gasoline tax of six cents i gallon. Experience has shown tha people use highways more wher they are surfaced, and this mean: more gasoline tax revenue. Then too, the State expects to have on ough money in its highway sink ing fund by June, 1953, to tak< care of road bonds outstanding Money now set aside from gaso line revenues to pay on new bond or to help maintain newly surfac ed roads. 9. Question: What portion of th highway bonds issued during th 1920’s remains outstanding am what is the status of the sinkinj (Continued on page eight} Summer Schedule) F o r Bookmobile Goes Into Effect Additional New Books Add ed To List Recently For Vacation Months If you buy all the books you need for yourself and your family, you are building up a good private library. It's costing you money, but it's a gilt-edged investment in education, pleasure and culture. Still, maybe you can use some of that money for something else. Maybe you haven't time to keep informed of the many new books that are published every day. That's where-the B H M Regional Library comes in. A trained li brarian does your book selection for you, and the best literature is available to you and your children for an annual cost in taxes of less than the price of one novel. The Regional Library, brought to you by the Bookmobile, is a tax-sup ported community Service just like schools and fire protection. Supplement your home library bv making use nf the Rnnkmnhile col lection as it visits your commun ity. As always many new and useful books will be found on the Book mobile when it returns to Martin County this week. All will be of interest to Some reader. Some of the books you will want to see and read are: llomemaking can be made easy by Myrtle Tolg. Common-sense! methods and principles of planned I home management. Covers time budgets, room arrangements, planned home management. Cov ers time budgets, room arrange ments, planned housekeeping, washing and ironing. kitchen management, meal planning, first aid, etc. Kinfolk, by Pearl S. Buck. The "kinfolk" are the family of the I famous Dr. Liang, living in New York and lecturing about Confu cius to admiring ladies, and fat Uncle Tao and cousins who live in the ancestral village in China. The Green Roller, by Roark Bradford. The Green Roller preached up and down the swamp lands of Louisiana for a hundred years, and then went to Glory dis satisfied that he had made hardly a scratch on the surface of in-* iquity. Here are sermons by the twelve men the Green Roller taught to carry on the Lord’s work against Satan. Aunt Bel, by Guy McCrone. The author brings again to seriate and cheerfully humorous like the Vie torian Scottish Moore House of Glasgow, whom he introduced in Red Plush. This is in particular the story of Aunt Bel, social ar biter and tactician who lived for those minor crises of life which were tests of her generalship. Wayfaring Stranger, by Burl Ives. Burl Ives, whom Carl Sand bur;; calls “the greatest folk-bal lad sin."'r of them all,” has writ .ten an autobiography that’s us fresh a 1 wholesome as a sum mer's breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. He lias written his own story—a genuine piece of Arneri (Continued on page eight) "■nrHEmLoinri SPEAKS Al'tei building up a fright ening record over u period of months, motorists checked their destruction and maiming last week, but the terrible business was shifted to town streets. However, no serious damage or injuries were re ported. Meeting a car at the intersection of Highways 17 and 64, one motorist made a left turn in front of another, and explained that he gave a signal but the other guy paid no attention to it. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 20th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1949 1 0 0 $ 150 ' 1948 1 1 0 350 Comparisons To Date ! 1949 43 24 2 $11,665 1948 55 21 1 10,915 Open Daily Vacation Bible School Term Here Monday - -. The WiUiamston Union Vaca tion Bible School will begin Mon lay morning, May 30, at 0:00 a. m. rhe ages of the pupils begin at 4 ind run through 12. The daily sessions will run from 9:00 o’clock to i.2:00, Monday through Friday, over a period of two weeks. All the pupils will meet at the; Baptist church for the fust session and then will be divid/d into de partments. The beginner group, Mrs. S. D. Ferry Died In Hospital Tuesday Evening Funeral Srrvirrs Are Bring Comluctetl tit Home Near Here This Afternoon Mrs. Simon D. Perry died in a Washington hospital Tuesday, evening at 7:45 o'clock following an illness of about two weeks' du j ration. Apparently in her Usual | health, she was taken quite ill I while visiting In the home of her daughter on Marshall Avenue, but ' her condition seemed to improve until last Saturday when she suf fered a relapse and was removed to the hospital in Washington. Her condition had been critical since that time, and hope for her reeov- [ Cry was abandoned after she had | received thirteen blood transfus ions in the course of about three days The former Miss Mary Emily Jones, she was born in Williams ton Township near the old Daniel and Staton mill on August 17, 1900, the daughter oi Mrs. Mattie Elizabeth Green Jones and the late William Larry Jones. She] was married at an early age to I Mr. Perry on November 18, 1914, j and spent all her life on the farm in this county until about a year, ago when the family located in West End near the Highway Pa trol radio station. She was a member of the West' End Baptist Church and was wel comed as a good neighbor and friend in her home and adopted communities. She was a devoted wife and mother, lending a help ing hand and encouiagement to all and willingly sharing the respon sibilities of others Surviving besides Mr. Perry and her mother, are four daughters, Mrs. Onward Roberson, Mrs. Joe Roberson and Mrs. Alon/.a Bland of WiUiamston, and Miss Janie Perry of the home; four sons, Si nion, Jr., Archie and Thurman Perry of WiUiamston, and David Perry of Norfolk; six brothers, Marvin Jones of near Jamesville, John Jones of Everetts, Dan Jones of near Hamilton, Eustice and James Jones of the ojd home, and Woodrow Jones of near Williams ton; four sisters, Mrs. Clyde Mod lin and Mrs. Carrie Mizelle of Jamesville, Mrs. Lindwood Ben nett of Bear Grass Township, and Mrs. Noah Daniel Griffin of near WiUiamston. Funeral services are being con ducted at tile home in Wist End tins afternoon at 4:80 o'clock by s'sted by Rev.' W B. Harrington. Burial v. ill be m Woodlawn Cem etery. -0 Seniors Flan To Attend College Ten of the twenty-six seniors graduated from the high school hero this week are planning to en ter college next fall. The other sixteen graduates have not an nounced their plans. Billy Edwards, Julian Mason ;ind Landy Griffin are going to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Mill. Guy Carrow will en ter N. C. State, Raleigh. Sallie Hardison is going to Duke where her brother, Fred, figured promi nently in football. Bobby Rogers and Bobby Taylor are lined up^o enter Davidson College. Marilyn Fussell is going to Woman's Col lege of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Joan Peel and David Carson are enter ing East Carolina Teachers’ Col lege, Greenville. ages 4 and 5, will go to the Epis copal church; the primary group, ages 6, 7 and 8, will go to the Methodist church; and the Junior group, ages 9, 10, 11, and 12 will remain at the Baptist church. This is a very important part :>f the religious education work if the churches and without ques- 1 tion the parents of the children of the community will give their full cooperation as has been true in the 1 past. ! FEW REGISTER | sJ A complete report was not to be had, but according to in formation coming from eight of the thirteen precinct regis trars, few new names were added to the registration books in this county for the road and school bond election i to be held on June 4. The hooks will be held open this Saturday for challenge only. Fifty-five new names were added to the hooks in eight of the thirteen precincts, as fol lows: Jamesville, 4; Griffins, 5; Bear Grass, fi; Williamston No. 1, 16; Williamston No. 2, 18; Kobcrsonvillc, 0; Goose Nest, 2. Minor Accidents On Stree/s Here] No one was hurt and property damage was limited in several ac cidents on local streets earlier tliisi week. William Root. Hopkins ot Ever etts was driving west on the main street Tuesday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock and started to make a left turn into Haughton when Robert Ernest Modlin, driving a Plym outh, started to pass. Damage to the Plymouth was estimated at $50, Chief W. E. Saunders stating that little or no damage was done to the Ford driven by Hopkins. The drivers settled the accident on the scene, the officer said. About two hours later two vc hides crashed at the intersection of Washington and Sycamore Streets, the accident being the sec ond at that point in three days. Both vehicles, a 1946 Plymouth driven by Andrew Clemmons Ro berson, and a Ford panel truck driven by Oscar 1). Quidley of Baltimore, were traveling south. Quidley, detained on a drunken driving charge by Officers Saun ders and Moore, started to pass the Roberson car on the right .just as Roberson started to make a right turn into Sycamore Street. David E, Quidley, accompanying the driver of the juinel truck, was booked for public drunkenness. Damage to the Plymouth w as esti mated at $200 and that to the truck at $50. Justice Johnson Hears Feu Case's Little activity was reported in the inferior courts here during the past few day.-). Justice John L Hassell explained he has enjoyed an eailv summer vacation, and Justice It T. Johnson said he handled only three minor cases. Charged with disorderly con duct, Freeman Hazemore was fin ed $5 and taxed with the costs. Jas T. Edmondson, charged with not stopping at a road inter section was taxed with $5.85 costs. Anthony Lanier was required to pay $5.85 costs in the ease charg ing him with disorderly conduct. Mr. IS. T. Tiro Murli Improved at His llomr Mr Noah t. Tice who has been quite ill at hi.: home in Griffins Township for some time, has shown much improvement during recent days. He was able to at tend a church meeting near his home last Sunday, and had dinner at the table with bis family for the first time since January. He enjoyed seeing many old friends throughout the day. Farm Bureau In State Supports Road Bond Issue Slantl Taken \t Meeting Of Organization Held Last F*‘bruarv -<s> Greensboro. — North Carolina Farm Bureau President A. C. Ed wards, llookcrton, and Executive Vice-President R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro, pointed out today that voting delegates at the or ganization's annual meeting in Asheville last February "went on record unanimously in favor of Governor W. Kerr Scott's $2^0, 000.000 roads bond issue.” In a joint statement Edwards and Shaw cited another resolu tion unanimously adopted which declared that it was “necessary to provide a school building fund of $50,000,000" for “additional school buildings for rural areas,” The two farm leaders said "the General Assembly has already provided $25,000,000 of this amount to be divided equally amt ng the counties,” and it would be natural that “support for the additional $25,00U,U0U by a vote of the people in the June 4 referen dum would follow. The State Farm Bureau’s voting delegates, representing more than 78,000 farm families who are mem bers of the organization, Edwards and Shaw said, adopted the fol lowing resolution on the roads bond issue: "We support Governor W. Kerr Scott's program to improve and construct secondary roads in North Carolina. We, therefore, ur gently recommend: “(A) That the 1949 General As sembly enact legislation submit ting a bond issue of $200,000,000 to the. people of North Carolina for the construction of secondary roads wilh said bonus to be issued as needed. "(B) That when the bond issue i.4 submitted to the people for a vote, the North Carolina Farm Bu reau actively support the program to the end that it be approved by the people of North Carolina. “(C) That the General Assem bly by proper legislation add one cent tax per gallon on gasoline to be used in retiring the $200,000, 000 bond issue. “(D) That secondary roads be hard surfaced and improved to en courage new rural industries to facilitate the marketing of farm (Continued on page six) Weather Perfect For County Crops Weather conditions along with an ample supply of plants have been and continue almost perfect for growing crops in this county, farmers declaring they have never seen better prospects for crops at this season of the year. Light rains falling in the county this week have made the crops literally jump, and good stands exist al most without exception. While gentle rains were falling in this county, severe hail storms were reported in the Plymouth an } Ropci area.. Tuesday. A few crops were almos^viped out and reports state that a JW l'miiers had ti replant their tobacco crops. In Roper, people v. eie said to have hunied to shelter to avoid being pounded bv the pellets. Most, of the main crops art up and growing m this county and a sizeable acreage is being planted to sweet potatoes Jit the present time, quite a few farmers having already completed the transplant ing work. ! TAX FUCiiONS 1 xj Citizens in the Bear Grass anil Oak City School Districts will decide in special elections to be held on Saturday of this week whether to supplement their schools with a special tax. The polls wilt open at (i:30 o’clock a. m. and close at t»:30 p. ni., and voting will be centered in Bear Grass, Ham ilton, Hassell and Oak City Precincts. Only a fair-sized registra tion has been reported in the lour precincts.
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