THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE =~=Si-^~=S~L^..r. -=rS. THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 48 Williams ton, Martin County, North Cr.J.lna, Thursday, June 16, 1919 ESTABLISHED 1899 Board Retains All Employes Of Town Salary Schedules i J To Remain Intact ; For the New Year Remuneration Small When Long Hours and Respon sibility are Considered Meeting in special session Tues- | day evening, Williamston’s board j of commissioners retained all town employees and ordered the old sal ary schedule retained after study ing each job or position individ ually. It was the consensus of opinion that remuneration, while compar ing favorably in size with salaries paid bv other towns, was small when the long hours and respon- j sibilities are taken into considera tion. While other business was dis cussed, the board members spent most of their time fixing the sal ary schedule to be incorporated into the budget estimate for the next fiscal year. When that task was completed .the hour was get ting a bit late and the officials de cided to recess and resume at an other special meeting possibly the latter part of this month, the study of thebudget figures. ' The salary schedule as adopted, | follows: Superintendent of the street and ; water departments, $3,420.00. Chief of police, $260 per month. Salaries, ranging from $50 to $52.50 per week, were retained for the five police officers. The mo tion to retain the chief of police was offered by Commissioner! Leman Barnhill Qnd seconded by i Commissioner W. O. Griffin, Com- j missioner N. C. Green offered the motion that all officers be retain-! ed with present salaries to be maintained. | •The town treasurer-clerk was, retained at the old salary of $3,120' per year, and the assistant clerk was re-employed at a salary of, $800 annually. The town attorney was also re tained, and the retainer's fee was unchanged at $150 per year. The town hall custodian is to continue to receive $50 a month. The mayor’s pay was left at $50 (Continued on page eight) Slightly Injured In Street Wreck Samuel Williams, operator of a Store on Sycamore Street, suffered a slight knee injury when his Ply mouth sedan was in collision with a freight truck of the Carolina Norfolk Line at the intersection of Haughton and Washington Streets about 9:00 o’clock yesterday morning. Williams, driving out Washing ton Street, started to make a right turn into Haughton, explaining that he the ght Uie freight truck would enter and travel up Wash ington Street. The truck driver, Elton Kelly Bo>ce, RFD 3, Eden ton, sweiffUfflflHSticS; to me leit and Williams pulled hard tc the right, the front left side of the vehicles crashing. Local officers, investigating the accident, estimated the damage to the Williams car at $530 and that to the truck at $100. j note of thanks . __ Williamston's fire depart ment this week received a note of thanks along with a §50 check for service render ed during the fire that wreck ed the warehouse of the Har rington Manufacturing Com pany in Lewiston a short time ago. The department dispatched a truck to the Bertie town and the firemen did what they could. Grateful for the note of thanks and the remunera tion offered, the fire depart ment chief and officials would not accept the check, looking upon the deed as one among friends. i MOSQUITO FIGHT v-y The fight against singing mosquitoes is being carried relentlessly on in the town. Last reports state that nearly 250 homes have been sprayed, that a barrier will have been placed around the town by the latter part of next week. Most of the homes in the northern and western fringes of the town have been spray ed, and the sprayers arc^ gradually working on around toward the river with plans to work inland the following week. So far no one has refused the service which is being made available without cost to home owners by the town and health departments. Few Cases Listed For Trial Monday In Superior Court Twelve 'Defendant* In llie Court for Alleged Viola* lions of Sanitary Laws i .. ii | With only fourteen cases on the | criminal docket, the Martin Coun ty Superior Court is almost certain I to attract very little attention dur 1 ing the one-week term opening ' next Monday morning at 9:00 o’clock. Unless complications pre sent themselves, the court is ex pected to clear the criminal docket | possibly late Monday and certain | ly by noon Tuesday. A few dir j vorce cases have been tentatively set for trial Tuesday afternoon j and only a few civil actions are on 1 the calendar for consideration lat | er in the week. Judge Chester Morris, presiding I over a hectic session last March, is scheduled to return for his second round on the bench and he’ll find that this county isn’t so bad after all. Included in the list of fourteen cases on the criminal docket, sev eral of them were brought over from previous sessions. The cases charging Lollie Wil liams with drunken driving was continued last December, but when it was called in March the defendant did not answer, forfeit ing the $200 cash bond. In the case of James Wesley I Ormond, a true bill was returned i last December when he was for i mally charged with carnal knowl ! edge of a girl sixteen years old. He did not answei either during that term or last'March. Charged with on assault v/ith a deadly weapon, Charlie Bell ap pealed from a judgment handed down in the county court and the case was continued until the June term. Raymond L. Uhelps, drunk driv ! ing; Virginia Slade Boston, violat : ing the liquor laws: Cloven James, I assault with a deadly weapon, and Lawrence Lilley, drunken driving, | all appealed from the lower courts coses are 'mi next week. Possibly the most serious case on the docket is the one in which (Continued on page eight) Planning Tour Of Tobacco Station Farmers interested in the latest research work on tobacco produc tion should plan to tour the Ox ford Tobacco Experiment Station Wednesday, June 29. The following research work will be observed: 16 variety yield and quality test demonstrations; horn worm and wire worm con trol work; black shank and Gran ville wilt control strains; fertiliz er placement; sucker control de monstrations, topping and sucker ing test, starter solution test (in transplanting water), and methods of ridging and cultivating tobacco. Farmers interested in making the trip should contact R. McK. ! Edwards, Negro County Agent for j this county. Fourteen Cases In County Court Monday Morning Fines Imposed At the 3hort Session Amounted To $375.00 - -- In a session lasting a little over two hours, Judge Chas. H. Man ning and Solicitor Paul D. Rober son cleared fourteen cases from the Martin County Recorder’s Court docket Monday morning. The session was fairly well attend ed ,and was featured by the trial of a warmly contested speeding case. Fines imposed at the session amounted to $375, the income for the day falling well below the average reported for the past six or eight months. Proceedings: Represented by two attorneys. James Bruce House, young Hali fax County man, pleaded not guil ty when formally charged with speeding. He was adjudged not guilty after the defendant had of fered a number of able witnesses. It was brought'out by Solicitor Roberson that the defendant had offered to plead guilty but the plea was not perfected and the case was scheduled for trial. The de fendant was given the advantage of the doubt and was found not guilty. It was also brought out in evidence that the defendant had, been booked for speeding earlier in the year. Pleading guilty of violating the health laws, Robert Purvis was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the judgment upon the payment of the cost and on the further condition that he meet certain health re quirements. Lorenzo Bryant, maintaining his innocence in the case charging him with assaulting a female,* was found guilty and drew six months on the roads. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. He is to remain of good behavior for two years. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Daniel Jones was sentenc ed to the roads for sixty days, the [court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. He is to remain sober and law abiding for one year. Charged with speeding, David Sylvester I-ee pleaded guilty and was fined $15 plus costs. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes, Jim Jenkins, Jr., was fin ed $15 and required to pay the costs. John Mason, pleading guilty of trespass and assault, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. He was directed to pay a $20 doctor’s bill for Clyde Tyner, the prosecuting witness. Facing a drunken driving charge, LeRoy Lawrence pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the pay ment of a $100 fine and costs. The defendant lost his driver’s license for one year. A mandatory fine of $100, was imposed, plus costs, in the case charging F.icYwai* D. Dixon, Jr., with speeding at 83 miles an hour. Charged with leaving the scene of an accident without identifying guilty and was fined $15 plus the costs. Pleading not guilty of non-sup port, William Grimes was adjudg ed guilty of not providing aue (Continued on page eight) Take Action On House Location Selling the old tenant house for merly located near Rhodes Street on the property recently bought from the Halberstadt heirs for a cemetery addition, the board of town comissioncrs in a special meeting Tuesday evening were advised that the purchaser had moved the house several hundred yards from the street and set it jp on property owned by yie town. The board slapped a $5 monthly rental fee for the site, allowing the house owner until next Sep tember to clear it off the cemetery site.- The house was sold at pub lic auction some months ago for $605. * Local Firms Plan Special Promotion Days Next Week For the first time in a number of years, Williamston merchants are cooperating in a special trade promotion to be held here for three days, June 23, 2-1 and 25, Ernest Mears, chairman of the Williamston Booster Days com mittee, announced yesterday. During the three days Williams ton stores will offer special mer chandise at bargain prices. Ap proximately fifty retail establish me ts are cooperating in this joint trade promotion and bargain items and services from diapers to lubrication jobs will bo ottered at especially reduced prices by the participating firms. This is the first promotion the merchants have conducted in some time and the first one of its size ever to be offered in Williamston. During Booster Days every cour tesy will be extended to visitors and free parking will be provided on the streets. The June 21st edition of The En-' terprise will carry two sections fef bargains to be offered during i Booster Days. BUDGET Martin County's commis sioners are almost certain to fidget with budget figures when they meet in special ses sion tomorrow to map out a fi nancial course for the coming fiscal year. No estimates are yet to be had, but it is reasonably ex pected that the officials will do well to hold the tax rate to its present figure. Some hard ly see how they can do any thing but increase the rate a few cents. Name Local Man Area Chairman N. C. Green, local Ford dealer, has been appointed Area Chair man for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Mr. Green was selected as Area Chairman by a committee of the National Association and NCADA officials. The appointment was announced by P. L. Abernethy of Charlotte, director of NADA for North Carolina, and M. Brack Wil • son of Smithfield, President of the State Association, NADA is the largest retail trade association in the country with a membership of more than 34,000 new automobile and new truck dealers. The national organiza tion is widely known for its spon sorship of highway safety and other public interest programs and its policy of supporting the highest standards and ethics of re tail automobile merchandising. Receive Request For Playgrounds —%— Petitioning the board of com missioners in a special meeting this week, a recreation committee, headed by Geo. T. Hyman, W. C. Bunch and G. H. Ormond, asked for an appropriation to finance a playground for the colored chil dren of the town. The petitioners asked for $40 a week for personnel and $200 for equipment. Commissioners K. D. Worrell and W. C. Griffin were named on a committee to meet with the council leaders and discuss the proposed project, the officials ten tatively agreeing that some help tcould he offered. .r| t t Justice Johnson Hears Six Cases In Recent Days Most Cases On Docket Cer tain To Attract Little At tention in Short Term i Justice R. T. Johnson heard six cases in his court here during the past few days, but final action was reserved for the higher courts in half of them and fourteen defend ants were found not guilty. The violation of the sanitary laws on a wholesale scale was charged when twelve defendants allegedly failed to maintain prop er sewage disposal. It was report-1 ed that the sewer line serving sev eral homes near the corner of Elm j and Railroad Streets was clogged j with rags and other foreign sub-; stance, throwing the system out of operation in that sector. Jus-! tice Johnson dismissed the action I but warned the defendants to keep the system clear in the future. The following were defendants in1 the case: Rosa Johnson, Bill Goss, I L. M. Brown, Lou Manning, Gladys Spruill, Lucy Melton, Vir ginia Lloyd, Mary James,- Ida Land, Mary Lee, Solomon Hodges! and James Biggs. Publicly drunk, Henry Raynor was taxed with $7.85 costs. Willie Mayo Ango of Sharps burg was fined $10 and taxed with the costs in the case in which she was charged with fishing without a license. L. W. Respass, publicly drunk, was fined $5 and taxed with $7.85 , costs. 1 Charged with an assault, W. G.l Thomas was fined $10 and taxed! with the costs. He appealed to the county court and was recog nized. Charged with disorderly con duct, assault and damage to per sonal property, N. S. Roberson and Thomas Griffin were bound over to the county court for trial on June 27, and Herbert Godard and Harman Roberson were ad judged not guilty. Court action followed a disturbance on Wash jington Street here last Saturday 'night. Guy Thomas parked his | car near his barbershop and left I several dozen eggs in the seat and j the ke.v in the switch. N. S. Rob erson “harrowed” the switch key . and broke two or three dozens ! of the eggs. He was cited to the I police station along with Grifiin. Words uc.'e exchanged there and while the night officer was call l——^Con tj n )i e d Peanut Mills Race Against i Time To Meet Big Contract j I -A- t Williamston’s two peanut plants are now entering the home stretch in the race to meet the terms of a big shelling contract with the gov ernment. Late reports from the plants indicate the race will be won with possibly a little time to spare, provided schedules can be maintained. Hours of operation have varied quite a bit, and at times the plants were running around the clock, but more recently the operations have been limited to eighteen and twenty hours each day. Awarded the shelling contracts week before last, the plants start ed operations on Monday of last week. They were assigned the task of shelling more than five million pounds of peanuts. The task within itself is not an un 1 usual one. but the time limit had j the operators worried for a while. The cleaned goods are to be iri a Norfolk warehouse by Saturday of this week for shipment overseas under the European Recovery Program. The more thail fifty thousand bags of farmers’ peanuts were moved from warehouses here and in Robersonvillc, the operations requiring quite a few trucks. To move the more than three million pounds of shelled goods to Vir ginia, approximately fifteen trucks were placed in operation daily. The haul to Virginfa hi* been hampered by load limits on the Chowan River bridge, sopne of the drivers going over Albehnarle Sound while others operated through Ahosldc. In addition to the peanuts, the mills are handling almost) fifty carloads of crushed huffs. • •*> Mrs. H. L Dawson Drowns Yesterday In Pamlic o River Throe Other* Barely Kseape! With Lives by Clinging To Capsized Boat Mrs. Robert Lee Dawson, the former Miss Rometta Taylor of Lucarna and a resident of Wil liamston for the past thirteen months, lost her life by drowning in the Pamlico River at the rail road bridge in Washington yester day afternoon about 5:00 o’clock when the small boat in which she was riding with her husband and Mr. and Mrs. James Parrisher, capsized in the rough water. ,The Parrishers and Mrs. Dawson's hus band barely escaped with their lives by clinging to the overturned boat. When tire boat, powered by an outboard motor, turned over, Dawson helped his wife on top of it. She had been there just a short time when a wave carried her off. Dawson explaining that j she drifted away before he could | reach her. During the meantime the bridge tender had called for help and members of the Wash ington fire and police departments responded and the body was re covered immediately, reports in dicating that death was the result of a heart attack. She was given 'artificial respiration there and | again in a Washington hospital where she was pronounced dead I soon after her arrival. The Beau ifort County coroner, according to i reports reaching here, ruled that j i death was attributable to acci dental drowning. The Dawson’:: and Parrishers had been at Whiehard’s Beach, rented a boat and were about a i mile or more away when rough | water was encountered and the boat turned over. The Parrishers, relatives of' Dawson, were originally from Sharpsburg but are now living in Washington. Mrs. Dawson was born in Lu- j cama, Wilson County, on April 23,1 1926, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j Paul Taylor. She was married in 1945 and made her home in Wil son until they located here. They were at home on Sopth Biggs Street in the late W. B. Daniel 1 house. Surviving besides her par i cuts and husband are a daughter, ' Little Miss Linda Fay Dawson; a j | sister, Mrs. Thomas Hatch, and aj brother, Rudolph Taylor, both of Lucarna. During most of their stay here, Mrs. Dawson was employed in Wter’s Coffee Shop and her hue band worked at the Central Kill- j ing Station. She had made many I friends during her stay here and j was held in high esteem by all who knew her. The body was brought to the (Continued on page eight) Taxi Ordinance To Be In Effect Soon An ordinance governing the op-1 oration of taxi cabs in Williams-1 ton was given final approval at a| special meeting tiie'ioca'/ town’! board of commissioners last Tiles meeting, the ordinance was amended (his week, lowering the license fee from $50 to $-10 a year. The amount may hr paid queder !} -tiiii' juiij, the board provid ed , There are fourteen taxi opera tors here at the present time, but in the busy seasons the number has run as high as twenty-one. Fares within the town limits have been fixed, and the board ie serves the right to rule on license applications. While ami Had I’nletoes Come from Same Vine .Mr. R. A. Moore, filling station operator and a small scale farmer, of near Williamston, has the dis tinction of growing both white and red potatoes on the same vine. Mr. Moore who lives on the Ham ilton highway said he planted a cheese box full of potatoes and harvested 15 bushels. When har vesting his corn last year Mr, Moore found 3 perfectly formed and full grown ears of corn in the same shuck. Will Start Work On Street Project Soon f CLINICS 1 Completing the schedule of community clinics held for the immunization of subjects against typhoid fever, the county health department states that the service will still be offered at the estab lished clinics, as follows: Each Friday afternoon from 1 to 3 o'clock in Hamilton; each Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 3 o’clock in Rober sonville, and every afternoon from 4 to 5 and each Saturday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock in the health department of fices at W'illiamston. Approximately 9,000 per sons have been immunized against the fever to date, it was learned. Pest Damage Runs Into Big Figures B. C. Lineberger, chairman of the North Carolina Virginia unit of the National Cotton Council, said recently that North Carolina cotton farmers would have been able to profit an additional $9, 622,000 if insects had not reduced the state's 1948-4!) cotton yield ap proximately 7 percent. Pests, he said, claimed one out of every 13 bales produced. Mi. Lineberger, m announcing initiation of a campaign by the Cotton Council to reduce damage to cotton by pests during 1949, said lest year’s losses in North Caro lina amoupted to an average of 3 cents per pound of lint harvested. "Pests last year kept out of pro duction approximately 50. 119 bales of cotton and an estimated j 23,000 tons of cottonseed. Based on average prices, this lint would I have brought farmeis of the state some $8,235,000 and the seed would have meant an additional profit of $1,387,000,” the Council spokesman added. "Recommendations on how best t • edrol j„. <■ North Carolina already have been . sued. This information, which may be obtained from county agents or vocational agriculture workers, tells farmers how to apply potent insecticides which will control id' fectively such pests as the boll weevil, boll worm, pink bollworm, I cotton aphid, fleahopper, thrips I and others.” Mr. Lineberger explained that though the percentage of cotton damaged by insects throughout the Cotton Belt last year was the second lowest since 1924, an esti mated 6.6 percent of the crop, val ued at approximately $202,264,000 was destroyed. He observed further that a mild winter in many Cotton Belt states favored a high survival of cotton pests, and said that the Cotton Council is warning cotton farmers that unless insect control meas ures art year's crop may run much higher n that in,.u, in IJ)4g Soldier Buried Near Plymouth Graveside services were con ducted in the Jackson Cemetery iii Washington County .sterday afternoon for Pfe. Hubert W. Ange who was killed in Italy on March 31, 1944. Rev. P. li. Niekens, Bap tist minister, conducted the serv ice. A son of the late Charlie W. and Mamie Browning Ange, he was born in Washington County on November 29, 1912, and was working at the. N. C. Pulp Com pany m this county when lie en tered the service. Several rela tives live m this county. He was married to Miss Thelma Heath who survives with a daugh ter, Jessica Ruth Ange; three sis ters, Mrs. Isabella Mason, Mrs. Lula Quincy and Miss Mamie Ange. all of Tarboro; and three brother, Robert Ange of New' Bern, Charlie Ange of Wilmington and Oscar Ange of Baltimore. Promise Delivery Sewer Line Pipe In Next Few Days -c Stall* Will I’iiM' Several Of Tl.<> Blocks In Hijjh School Sc<*lion The final go-ahead signal for laying water and sewer lines in North Smithwick from Grace to Liberty Street and in Liberty from Smithwick to Haughton Street , ahead of the pavers was given at 1 a meeting of the local town com missioners last Tuesday evening. Pipe for the sewer line has been ordered and delivery was promis ed almost immediately. During the meantime, the street and wdt i er department forces will start laving pipe already on hand for the water lines. Contract prices for digging the ditches with a machine were con i sidered a bit high, and it is pos sible the projects will be handled with manual labor. However, no ! final action