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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 43 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 31, 7949 ESTABLISHED 1899 I Alleged Hold-up I Man Arrested Bv Baltimore Police Henry Slade Butler Return ed To County fos Rob bery of Henry Harris -®— Henry Slade Butler, young col ored man wanted in connection with the robbery of Henry Harris, filling station owner-operator on the Griffins Township Road just a short' distance from Old Mill Inn on April 26, was returned to this county last Friday afternoon to face trial. No preliminary hear ing has been scheduled in the case, but the defendant is almost certain to be booked for trial in the Mar tin County Superior Court during the one-week term opening on Monday, June 20. Butler, arrested in Baltimore by police there last Thursday, was brought back the next day by De puty Sheriff Murray Holloman and Patrolman M. F. Powers. The 1 officers left here late Thursday night, reached the Maryland city about 7:00 o’clock the next morn ing and cleared the city with their prisoner about two hours later, reaching here shortly alter 4:00 o’clock that afternoon. In a preliminary discussion of the alleged attack and hold-up Butler was quoted as saying that he went to the station on the aft ernoon of April 26 with Willie Williams, but denied attacking the operator. Butler claimed that he made no effort immediately to leave this area, that he returned to town! played sandlot baseball and attended the picture show. Later when it was rumored that he was wanted by officers, he bor rowed from his girl and checked out. Williams, arrested a fe.v hours after the attack and robbery j which netted the two about $15 in cash, was given a preliminary! hearing before Justice R. T. John son and placed under bond in the sum of $700. Unable to raise that • amount, Williams continues in the county jail. Williams said at the preliminary hearing that Butler got all the money, that he got none. Plan Program For Barn Dance Entertainers tor the floor show at the annual barn dance t,o be held Thursday night at the Plant ers Warehouse were announced today by Miss Marjorie Lindsley, chairman of the entertainment committee. The committee has succeeded in securing Miss Jean Stevenson, novelty singer, of Jamesville, win ner of three recent talent shows in the State, and Miss Sue Edmond son of Hassell, popular young dancer. A high light of the pro gram will be the appearance of William Ebron, colored singer, who brought down the house at the recent Jaycee Banquet. Mr. Jack Butler will introduce three of his senior majorettes and three junior majorettes who will pre sent a special dance number. Square dancing begins at 8:30 and will last until 10:30. Music /a will be furnished by! string band Attef^nS?SrrpVnsion for the floor show, round dancing with Billy Peele and his “Tune Toppers” will continue until 2 o’clock. 'Mrs; J. L. Parker, Jr., vhairman of ticket sales, reported that tick ets have been distributed to mem bers of the Woman's Club, spon sorers of the barn dance. They may be obtained from Mrs. Park er, membeis of the cluh or at the Hotel George Reynolds. ROUND-UP Six persons were rounded up and jailed in this county over the week-end by local, county and state officers who reported a flare-up on the crime front. Two of those jailed were charged with public drunken ness, and one each with non support, assault and robbery, drunken driving and assault with a deadly weapon. Two of the six were white and the ages of the group ranged from ' 19 to 50 years. Exhibits Winner At Show Miss Susan Griffin, daughter of Mrs. Henry Mizelle, and a member of Williamston 4-H Club, exhibited the reserve cham pion pig at the recent Martin County Fat Stock show. She sold the 256-pound hog for 31 cents a pound and received $8 in prize money. PROBLEM ^-/ Town officials here admit ted they could not solve the flag problem yesterday. Mem orial Day. Plans had been made to fly the street flags, but the death of a finite^ States official, W. A. Julian, Treasurer of the United States, automatically required the flying of the flags at half mast. The flags were made to fly only at full mast, and the officials, fully aware of the Memorial Day custom, solved the problem by displaying no flags at all. The post office flew its flag at half mast. Martin Member Of League Committee Wheeler Martin, Secretary of the Martin County Building and Loan Association, received word today of his appointment to the Attorneys’ Committee of the Unit ed States Sayings and Loan League, the 5,7-year-old, nation wide trade organization of the savings association business. The appointment came from M. K. M Murphy, Rutherford, New Jersey, president of the League. The Attorneys’ Committee acts as a clearing house for the study of savings association court cases and legislation, besides advising with the staff of the League on the contents of the bi-monthly publi cation which it sends to all sav ings and loan attorneys in the country. It sponsors League studies of new legal questions and has boon busy the past few yea-s with interpretations of legal phas gram. It has also given much at tention recently to the study of trust accounts, which now occupy a more prominent place in the sav ings investments in the business than in former years. Open Union Bible School Yesterday The annual daily vacation Bible school was opened here yesterday with 179 pupils enrolled, 56 begin ners at the Episcopal church, 53 primary pupils at the Methodist and 70 juniors who are holding their daily sessions from 9 to 12 in the Baptist church. Director E. R. Shuller said that the enrollment for the first day was larger than it was a year ago, that while one or two teachers were not present for the opening, they are expected to report today or tomorrow. "We can use a few more workers in the junior de* pertinent,” the director added. The school will continue through next weels. JJ| Swimming; Pool Opens Tomorrow • Tomorrow may be just the first day of June to most of the older folks in town but to the young sters it will bo a red letter day be cause it will mark the opening of the Williamston Municipal Swim ming pool for the summer season. The pool will open at 1:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and close at 5:00 p. m It will reopen for the night session at 6:30 and close for the day at 8:30 p. m J[ohn L. Goff, Jr., will be direc tor of activities at the poo^ this year and will be assisted by a ca pable staff, a complete list of the personnel although the complete list has not been officially an nounced. The pool is to be open every afternoon and night eScept that will be closed on Sunday evenings. Morning hours are to be reserved for swimming instruction but the hours have not as yet been deter mined. A complete official sched ule covering all activities will be released later this week or the first of next week. Charges this year will again be based on periods rather than by the hour. A dime will pay for a child's admission to stay until the closing time. A quarter will be charged for adults for the same period, that is from opening time until closing time in each period the pool is open. Coach Stuart Maynard has been directing the sale of season tickets but reports they have bpn mov ing very slow and he expects the major portion of the revenue to come from admission fees at the pool. It had been hoped that ad vance sales would help to get the .Off to a grid ial prices are being made to those who bought season tickets last year for renewals this season. A child who held a ticket last year can get another ior $3.00 while a holder of a 1948 adult ticket can get another one for $4.50. Coach Maynard has a complete record of last year’s ticket holders. The pool was very popular with children here abouts, especially the teen-agers until the threat of polio came along last year. This cut attendance and the pool was closed a month earlier than usual because of the threat from the dread disease. -% Father Of Mr*. Eubanks Dies In Mississippi -$ Nathan Wright, 67, died in a Hattiesburg, Mississippi, hospital last Saturday following an opera tion. Funeral services were held Saturday and burial was in Petal, Miss. Mr. Wright was the father of Mrs. James C. Eubanks of Wil liamston. Mr. and Mrs. Eubanks and children left here last Wed nesday to visit in Mississippi. Retired Business Man-Farmer Died Sunday Afternoon Funeral Service Monday At Hon»e In Rohersonville For W. A. Everett ■—® Willard Augustus Everett, for many years active in the agricul tural and business field in this county, died in a Washington hos pital Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock following several years of declining health. Forced to re tire by declining health about two years ago, he was getting along fairly well until about the middle of May when he fell at his home and broke his hip. He was remov ed to a Washington hospital and was undergoing treatment for the injury when pneumonia develop ed and resulted in death. The son of the late William Elia and Penniah Williams Everett, he was born near Robersonville 79 years ago and spent his early life on the farm. In the late nineties he located in Robersonville and entered the mercantile business in which he was engaged for many ytars. lie continued active in the management of his farming inter ests until about two years ago. In early manhood he was mar ried to Miss Kate Hassell and she survives with two sons, D. R. Ev erett of Robersonville and Fred Everett of Greenville; three dau ghters, Mrs. Edgar Johnson of Ro bersonville, Mrs. John Gotten Tay lor of Washington, and Mrs. W. S. Privette, Jr., of Edenton; two sis ters, Mrs. William Trevatham and Mrs. J. D. Roberson of Roberson ville, and six grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at the late home Monday after noon at 4:00 o’clock by Rev. J. M Perry, pastor of the Christian Church, and Elder A. B. Ayers, Primitive Baptist minister of Bear Grass. Burial was in the Rober sonville Cemetery. Steals Cash And Coats From Auto A thief, apparently knowing the lay of the land, stole two sport coats and a pocketbook contain ing about $35 in cash from a car parked at Mobley’s station at short distance out of Rnbersonville on the Stokes Road about midnight last Thursday, according to re ports coming from the sheriff’s of fice. The coats belonged to H. E. Mobley and a Warren boy. The pocketbook and cash belonged to Louise Bullock. The owners of the coats and pocketbook had left their car and were in the filling station dance hall at the time. Answering the call, Deputy Sheriff Roy Peel and Captain A. H. Sessoms of the highway prison camp carried bloodhounds there and a trail was followed from the station to Robersonville’s town limits where the trail was lost. Ends Successful Church Meeting —», The Rev. Mr. J. N. Stancill of Wendell concluded a very success illLjgp.ting- in .WilliamstonV West End Baptist Church Sunday eve ning Twelve members were add ed to the church roll, boosting the , membership to about 70, Rev. | Thud Aohley, the pastor, said The-visiting ministei was v/ell received and large crowds were present for all the services. Rev. Ashley will cond ,ct the baptismal service in the Memorial Baptist Church here this evening at 8 o’clock when other candidates for baptism are expected to pre sent themselves, according to the West End church pastor. Tobacco Stabilization (iroup To Meet June 21 Members of the Flue-Cured To bacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation will hold their annual meeting in Raleigh on Friday, June 24, at 11:00 o’clock, it has been announced by the secretary. The organization is remember ed as the agency that stepped in and put a floor under tobacco prices, and several thousand of its 328,000 grower-members are ex pected to attend the Raleigh meet ing. I Endorses Program ForRoads-SehooIs Dr. Jane S. McKimmon, nation ally famous for her pioneer home demonstration work in North Car olina. today joined the list of lead ing citizens speaking in favor of Governor Scott’s Better Schools and Roads program. “Miss Jennie”—as Dr. McKim mon is known and loved by gen erations of North Carolinians, said that looking back over the years she had found the people respond ed with a keen understanding to “those programs which mean bet ter homes, better schools, and eas ier means of reaching them in all kinds of weather.” Without mentioning by name the big oil interests who are fight ing the Road Bond issue, Dr. Mc Kimmon says: "All worthwhile programs have been opposed by somebody, but I found that North Carolinians gen erally know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. “Governor Charles B. Aycock aroused a storm of protests earlier j in this century when he made the simple statement that all North | Carolina's children deserve an op portunity for education That was revolutionary in its day, but we lived to see it accepted as a basic pattern of our culture. “Sometimes it is easy to say "We cannot do this’ or ‘we cannot do that’ because we have never done it before. Perhaps you can re call how many far-reaching pro grams in this State were opposed by people who later realized how beneficial they became to North Carolina’s ’ progress. Remember Governor Morrison’s Bond issue for roads in the 1920’s? There arc very few today who will tell you that North Carolina did not reap golden dividends from the cam paign which paved her county seat-to-county-seat roads. “Today we stand on the thresh old of another great era of ad vancement. The people of North Carolina are clamoring for im proved services for themselves and their children, and our legis lature has authorized a progran of school and road improvemeni that will set us on the way towarc new prosperity and new economic and spiritual well-being.” Minor Car Wreck Saturday Might Very little damage resulted and no one was hurt when two ears figured in a minor accident on Highway 125 just outside of Wil liamston last Saturday night at 10:45 o’clock. James S. Whitehurst, RFD 2, Williamston, was driving his 1937 Chevrolet toward Hamilton and started to slow down to make a turn when Noah Woodard Leggett of Hassell plowed into the Chevro let with his 1946 Ford. Patrolman J. T. Rowe made the investigation and estimated the damage to the Ford at $40. White hurst \ s quoted as saying h< gave a hand signal, hut Leggett expk ined that he did not see it that the first thing he saw wa; the brake lights flash on and that he was so iclose on the car that he could rtot avoid a strike. * mmZlmJtim,n&.\ti.t .... Returns From (ieorg'u Taken ill a few weeks ago, Mr Henry Johnson, a native of this County, hu.-> returned iiou, in. i adopted home in Moultrie, Ga., to his old home near Gold Point. Un dergoing treatment at the hands of Rocky Mount physicians, he is confined to his bed at the home of his brother, James Johnson, most of the time. Messrs. Exum Ward, Jr., James Johnson and Clyde Ward visited in Moultrie Sunday and were ac companied home late last night by Mrs. Johnson and the children. Ill At Daughter's Dome In Portsmouth Mr. W. J. Keel, local man, con tinues quite ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Larry Chandler it Portsmouth, He had been visiting there just a few days when he wa taken ill. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck did noi rest well last night and continue: quite sick in a Washington hos pital, it was learned today. 7 \co Districts Favor Supplement Last Saturday' Tvvj Martin County School dis tricts—Bear Grass and Oak City —favored a special tax levy in an ■election hold last Saturday in the precincts of Bear Grass, Hamilton, | Hassell and Oak City. The action leaves only one school district— Farm Life—in this county without i a special tax levy for the support j of the schools. Bear Grass, proposing a 20-eent special tax levy, was almost un animous in support of the plan, unofficial returns giving the levy 103 votes with one for the opposi [ tion. As far as the records show ! no greater support was ever ae I corded any school measure than 1 that offered the special tax levy in Bear Grass last Saturday. Ap t ; proximatoiy 135 registered there ' for the election and over three fourths of them found time to go 1 to the polls and vote for the meas ! ure. In the Oak City District the vote I was 115 for and -18 against the 15 j cent levy. In the precincts of Has I sell and Oak City, the vote was almost three to one for the levy, while Hamilton repected the plan by a margin of three votes. The vote in the Oak City District ful I lows by precincts: Hamilton, 25 I for and 28 against; Hassell, 27 for ! and six against; Oak City, 63 for | and 14 against. The special tax will be used pri j manly for supplementing teach ers’ salaries, it was explained. Commissioner Talks To Lions Club Here ' Endorses Program For Belter State Schools and Roads IVopli* W ill Yot»> On Pro posed Plans In Kcfereu <1 mu Saturday, June I Addressing the members of the .Lions Club here lust Thursday I I night, Henry Grady Shelton, high-J | way commissioner for this district, | unequivocally endorsed the pro j posed $200,000,000 road and $25, 000,000 school building programs which will be voted on in a special referendum on June <Mh. Mr. Shelton’s amplification of the is sues involved was clear and con cise. The membership of the club was, apparently, thoroughly in ac cord with the speaker or else, after devouring half a large barbecued I chicken, was too complacent andi too satisfied as a result of an over indulgence of food to raise any is sues or register any complaints to the commissioner. Going back to the Cherry ad ministration at which time a com mittee or commission was appoint ed to report back to the 1949 legis lature on. the physical condition of the school property in North Caro lina, thi‘ speaker pointed out with concrete evidence and information the inadequacy of the school buildings to take care of the ever increasing population of North Carolina as well as the deteriora tion of hundreds of buildings. “The committee stated it would take at least $150,000,000 for new construction and repairs and the last legislature appropriated $25, 000,000, The Governor is asking an additional $25,000,000 which is badly needed for necessary imme diate construction and repairs,” the speaker said. Mr. Shelton coordinated the school and road issues when he emphasized the importance of vot ing for both the school and road bonds. “In North Carolina we operate 5,400 school busses and transport d: Iv 359,000 hnnl chil dren and the trucks travel 200,500 WWWWfTTitr', Huqdi CuS oj ■ MB school busses travel over muddy roads many weeks and months during the year. Repairs to trucks each year amount to uppi oxiniati l.v $1,390,000 and with good roads the savings on this item alone would be tremendous,” he said. According to stipulated plans and agreements the entire $200, 000,000, if the referendum is car ried, will be spent and used ex clusively over a period frofn fi to 8 .years on secondary roads. Martin County, as all other counties, will receive its proportional share of this fund and every penny will be used on what we commonly refer to as the backwoods roads, the speaker stati d. Joseph Griffin, a new member, was recognized and welcomed by President Wheeler Manning. A continuous member of the local club for 10 years, Fred Taylor was presented an emblem symbolic of the fine service he has rendered the club over a long period of time. Probably the oldest mem ber of the club, Roy Ward, was (Continued on page eightj MOI»hKM/\ I ION Work on tile modernization of the fronts to the Darden’s Department Store and the one to be occupied b.v Leder Brothers was started yester day by Contractor Hugh B. Wyatt. The present fronts w ill undergo a radical change and will be finished in build er’s glass, black for the Leder store and green for Darden’s. No official figures were re leased, but the modernization program will cost approxi mately $10,000. Leder Broth ers are also modernizing the interior of their store. "We'll continue to do business right on,” Mr. Dred Darden, own er-operator of the store hear ing his name, said yesterday. The project will he completed in about six or eight weeks. Reviews Work Of Highway Patrol ——<■»— Raleigh North Carolina's 423 highway patrolmen averaged ap proximately 11 hours per day per man on duty during April and traveled approximately 115 miles per day patrolling the highways of the State, according to a report re leased today by the Department of Motor Vehicles, The total number of hours on the job for the entire group was 137,210 and t,4011,244 miles was traveled in the performance of duty. Patrolmen investigated 1,033 ac ridents during the month, i ' which 59 persons were killed and 800 injured. First aid was rend t*red in nine cases and 14 071 cour tesies were extended. Fires were extinguished on three occasions. I'll patrol assisted in recovery of 65 stolen vehicles. Complaints investigated numb ered 8,651. Citations were issued to 5,765 persons and 5,891 persons were arrested, 606 of them on di unken driving chargi When biought t.i tHa', •/,103 of thasi ,u en total sentence of 199 years, 26 months and 18 days. Four hun dred arid eighty -three defendants wei e found not guilty. Warning tickets were issued to 2,498 persons, 76,991 vehicles and 14,020 drivers' licenses were in speeted, and 29,180 lights were corrected. Two hundred and three vehicles were weighed and 76 were found to be overloaded, Revenue collected and value of property recovered as a result of patrol activities totaled $277, 754.15. Value of cars and proper ly returned to owners amounted to $57,140.85; lines totaled $141, 343.66, including lines turned over to County School Funds; costs col lected and turned over to County General Funds in counties where cases were tried totaled $74, 161.91, for a total of $237,146.42 in these three categories. Ijlighway revenue collected for overload and improper licenses amounted to $4,607.73. During recent weeks activities m the highways have been limit ed in this immediate section. To Take Millions Crop Production Kxh'iisiM' Soil Conservation I’ropram I ikelv To Be Vdvanced In Future • Good land use and production of needed crops were emphasized in the report of the conference of Committeemen from 12 States held in Washington recently. This was an exploratory con ference to shape up the questions which should be answered in de veloping policies and program provisions regarding conservation and price supports for the years ahead when we will need to make changes in the kinds of crops we grow in order to keep production in balance with consumers’ needs and at the same time work toward our objective of sustained produc tion. The basic question is how- best to use the land not needed for wheat, rice, peanuts, cotton, pota toes, tobacco and other cash crops in plentiful supply. Reducing the acreage of these in line with needs v.;!! mak v r 30 ■ -ii!1 i n ol land available , for other crops which are needed, especially grasses and legumes and for other conserving uses. Grasses and le gumes are especially important because they provide additional sources of farm income, feed for livestock to produce needed meat, poultry, and milk in some parts of the country, both for the farm family and local consumers, and last but not least they are essen tial in keeping soils productive. It was emphasized that the acre- ' ages “diverted” from the cash crops in abundant supply must be put to good use for the: welfare of both the individual farmer and the1 consumer. Public acceptance and approval of the farm program, could be hurt by not making the best possible use of these acres. We must tin what we can to pre vent them from being left idle to wash away or become a source of weed seeds. Shifting them to other crops in plentiful supply would work a hardship on the farmers who nor mally grow such crops and would either reduce prices to such an ex tent that the growing of them would be unprofitable for every one or would result in expensive Government price supports which could undermine the whole farm ; program in the eyes of the pub ! lie. For these reasons the con 1 fere nee recommended "the divert j ed acres on the farm should be put to crops in short supply, conserv ing uses such as legume crops, permanent grasses, rotation pas I tures, forest trees and other ap 1 proved land uses.” The “other | approved land uses” would be the | best use to which the land could i be put if it is not possible to put j it to a truly conserving use or to crops in short supply. Under the plan suggested by the conference, individual allotments ; would be established for crops for price support or marketing quota purposes. On farms with more than 20 acres of cropland there also would be set up a total al lotment, which would be the total of the individual allotments, and the normal acreage of all other | depleting crops, except those dc ] in short supply. A total allot ment would not be established on farms v\ ith 20 acres or less of cropland, or on any farm for I tWBeft :t'n iViuividuai allbfniefit had not been established. In setting total allotments, consideration would be given to the needs for food of the families on ihe farm, (Continued on page eight) A check shows that only 134 of the 379 miles traveled by school busses in this county are surfaced, that many of the 379 miles of unpaved road are so narrow that vehicles can not pass each other. The paved roads constitute about one-third of the school bus routes, while the average for the State is only 33 4 per 'cent. Of the 41,815 miles of road traveled bv school buss es in this State only 13,974 miles are surfaced. I SCHOOL IH S KOI I KS J
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