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X. ■ • - . ■ '■ <M09IWh THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES '-L-W-—-, ,3.gS_4J UBSSi THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES C=!TT:" -j I VOLUME LII—NUMBER 68 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. August 30, 19-19 ESTABLISHED 1899 Announce Faculty fa Local Schools For The New Term Eight New Tearhers Includ ed In Local List, Princi pal Stewart Says Principal B. G. Stewart, begin ning his fourth term here, today announced faculty appointments complete and plans shaping up rapidly for the opening of the schools here on Wednesday of next week. Eight new members are included in the faculty this year, the principal stated. In the list of new teachers are: Miss Margaret McDaniel of Woodland who entered upon her duties as head of the home eco nomics department the middle of last month. Miss McDaniel, a graduate of East Carolina Teach ers College, taught in the South Edgecombe School last term. Miss Leona Peterson, Freneh English teacher, comes here from Delco, N. C. She taught last year at Meadows High School in John ston County, and did advanced work at Wake Forest this sum mer. A. J. Abdalla, holder of a mas ter’s degree, from East Carolina Teachers College, comes here from Selma. This is his first year in the profession, having spent much time in school after com pleting four years in the armed forces. He is from Selma and will teach science. G. C. Wood, Jr., brother of Mr. T. P. Wood of Williamston, is a graduate of East Carolina Teach ers College and this is his first year in the profession. Accom panying her husband to the coun ty, Mrs. Wood will teach at Farm Life. They are from Silverdale, N. C. Entering the profession this year. Miss Anne F. Carson of near Bethel will teach one of the eighth grades. She is a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College. Mrs. Claribel G. Mayo, wife of a marine lieutenant who is sta tioned at the Edenton base, joins the faculty from Minnesota. Hold ing an AB degree and certificates in elementary education and music, Mrs. Mavo taught two years in the Minnesota schools and is now at home in West End. She is to teach one of the fourth grades. Mrs. D. W. Brady of West End joins the local faculty for the first time, after having taught at Ever etts. Mi's. Mildred Crawford of Wil liamston is returning to the local tchool to teach one of the seventh jrades. She was a member of the faculty here several years ago and more recently taught at Farm Life. The Williamston faculty, num (Continued on page eight) Town Native Dies In Elizabeth City —<*>— Mrs. Maggie Simmons Hurris, native of Williamston, died in Elizabeth City last Wednesday and was buried there the follow ing day. She was the widow of Dr. Marion Harris of Elizabeth The daughter of the late Daniel and Jessie Stubbs Simmons, she was born in the home now occu pied by the W. K. Parkers on Main and Watts Streets here 60 years ago. When quite young she moved to Raleigh, but had made her home in Elizabeth City for a number of years. She was a niece of the late H. W Stubbs and great-niece of Dennis Simmons. Three children survive. SLIGHT DAMAGE The hurricane, leaving da mage estimated at $40 million in its sweep over Florida, was felt here in subdued force Sunday evening between 6:00 and 10:00 o’clock. Other than blowing down a few trees and slightly battering field crops, the storm did little damage in this county. Very little rain accompanied the blow. Other parts of North Caro lina reported fairly heavy losses in the blow. Veterans Rush To Prepare Insu ra nee Dividend Glaims Martin County World War II veterans started a little rush yes terday to prepare their claims for National Service Life Insurance dividends. No record of the num ber of claims filed could be had for the county, but the Red Cross and Veterans Service office in Williamston combined handled between 150 and 200 applications and prepared individual surveys for that many individuals. The work was handled very smoothly despite a long line that formed early in the day. The rush was soon over and the office handled the applicants without very much delay. Everyone of the applicants ex cept one knew his serial number and all the pertinent facts, Veter ans Service Officer Edgar Gur ganus said. Most of them even knew their insurance policy num bers. The office will be open on the third floor of the town hall each day from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. ex cept on Saturdays when it will be open from 9 a. m. until 1:00 p. m. Veterans have several months to file claims for the insurance divi dend, but the veterans officer is anxious to get all the claims in without delay. Commenting on the individual veteran’s survey, Mr. Gurganus said that several cases had al ready been uncovered where the veteran had not received his full benefits. Several had never re ceived their terminal leave pay, and others were entitled to bene fits but had not received them be cause they did not know they were eligible for them. | CLOSING v The community summer re creation program here will close tomorrow night, it was announced today by John L. Goff, director. The program embraces ac tivities at the swimming pool and youth center. Plans for the fall and winter program at the youth center have not been worked out, it was stat ed. The summer program, especially at the swimming pool has been a successful one. Mrs. J. E. Bufflap Dies In Edenton i Mrs. J. Edwin Bufflap, 57, died i at her home in Edenton Sunday | evening at 8:20 o'eloek alter an I illness of several months. | She was a native of York, Penn sylvania, but had made her home in North Carolina for more than a quarter of a century, locating in Edenton about sixteen years ago after a few years spent in Rocky Mount and Elizabeth City. She visited Williamston occasionally while her late son, Floyd E. Buff j lap, made his home here. Surviving besides Mr. Bufflap jure two children, Lance Bufflap I of Wallace, and Miss Dorothy Bufflap of Edenton; several i brothers and sisters, and a grand : daughter, Miss Sondra Bufflap, of 1 Williamston. Funeral services are being con ducted in the Edenton Methodist j Church this afternoon at 3:00 j o’clock and burial will follow in Beaver Hill Cemetery there. Two Lars Burn In County Recently Two automobiles, one belonging I j to Lester Meeks and the other to a farmer living near Roberson ! ville, were damaged by fire dur ) ing the past few days, Patrolman B. W. Parker reported this week. I Meeks’ car, a 1941 Buick, was j gutted by fire starting near the dome light, the officer said. The owner was operating the car near • his home not .far ho' ; at the time. Late Saturday night fire started j i in the dash board and destroyed j the farmer’s 1938 Chevrolet on a i dirt road about three miles from Rnbersanv.tUe near the House farm. Insurance was carried on both! vehicles, according to the officer.! Plan Pasture Demonstration i A special pasture demonstra tion will be held in Washington County at the Experiment Station on Friday of this week at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon, it was an nounced this week. A group, planning to attend the demonstra tion, will leave the county agri cultural building about 12 o’clock that day. The demonstration will show proper land preparation and seed ing of a permanent pasture, and should prove valuable to Martin farmers who are interested in more and better pastures. Drainage Project Will Be Examined In Superior Court —,*>— Detailed Survey of 1,anils In Two Townships To Be Made Shortly A plan to drain several thous and acres of land in Bear Grass and Cross Roads Townships was advanced another notch last Sat urday at a hearing held before Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne in the county courtroom. Pending the completion of a de tailed survey of the district, known as Martin County Drain age District No. 1, expert testi mony could not be offered in be half of the petitioners' side. Most I of the respondents, speaking from ! their own personal knowledge, ! denied they could receive any benefit from the project, and they ! were excluded by the court clerk. Notice of appeal was given and the project is tentatively schedul ed to be aired at the special term of superior court opening in Nov ember. During the meantime, the peti tioners are going ahead with a survey, and the findings of that survey will help determine the course of the project. It is under stood that the survey will reveal how much each landowner will profit from the project and about how much his assessments or spe cial drainage district taxes will be. Several of the respondents at the Hearing last Saturday stated possibly they would be benefitted by the project, but explained that they wanted to know more about the benefit and cost before signing (Continued on page five) Local Firemen Get Two Calls Local volunteer firemen were called out twice last week-end, first when fire threatened the Richard Raynor home in Hamil ton early Friday afternoon, and again Saturday morning when the brakes on an automobile caught fire on WashmJfW^filreet Saici mV ted !. ’ iI't * T' stove in the kitchen, the fire was gaining much headway in the Hamilton home and threatening severai near-by buildings when it was brought under control. Rob ersonvilie’s lire department an swered the call with the commun ity's new truck. Right much dam age was done by smoke and some furniture was broken when neigh bors and other friends carried it from the house. The automobile fire here did not amount to much. PLAN TO REOPEN v---/ According to unofficial in formation reaching here, the Wells-Oates Lumber Com pany plans to reopen its large plant on East Main Street within the next month or two. It was reported that the com pany will install two new boilers and some new mach inery. The plant has been idle for about a year. I County Young Man; Is To Be BurkiLJo National Cemetery | Boilv of Jimmy Burnette Just Recently Identified | In European Theater ! The body of S/Sgt. William! i James (Jimmie) Burnette is on its' j way home from Europe for re-1 I burial in the National Cemetery! I at Arlington, Virginia, according to information reaching here last | week-end. Dates for the funeral arid recommittal rites have not been determined. A native of Jamesville, the young man was reported missing in action over Italy on February 28, 1945. A year later he was pre sumed dead. Nothing more was heard about the 19-year-old tail gunner on a U. S. Army Air Force bomber until a few days ago when his father in Norfolk was advised that the body had been identified by Graves Registration section. The War Department explained that the body was first buried in the civilian cemetery at San Pie tro DiLaion, Italy. It was disin terred by the graves registration personnel and reburied in the United States Military Cemetery at Mirandola, Italy, after being properly identified. The son of George II. Burnette of Norfolk and the late Mrs. Ethel Byrd Martin Burnette, he was horn and reared in Jamesville. Following the death of his moth er when he was about three years old he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Holliday in Jamesville. After his graduation from the Jamesville High School in 1943, he volunteered when he was nineteen years old in Novem ber of that year for service in the Air Corps. Surviving besides his father are a half-sister. Mrs. Tommie Martin Steekel of Fort Knox, Kentucky, and his step-mother. ■a Suffers ltntl.ru Leg In Mill Yard Accident Philip Strickland, G. and II Builders Supply Company em ploye, suffered a broken leu in a mill yard accident there yester day morning. He was removed to the local hospital in a Big . am bulance for treatment and is re ported to be getting along very well. The man’s leg, one report stat ed, was caught under a vehicle operating in the mill yard. f I'OTATO MACHINE v j Machine'* and other equip ment for the proper fading, cleaning and waxing of sweet potatoes have been ordered and will be made ready for operation within the next few weeks, M. M. Levin, secretary of the Martin County Yam Growers Association, an nounced following a recent meeting of the directors. The secretary said that the outlook for sweet potatoes is fairly promising, that with proper care, grading and Handling farmers should re ceive a SaS'r TBk'-r^fVhe proper ..>V«S,«..s<rcy?eji.. .a* an important feature in build ing up a dependable market, he added. Upward Trend Is Not ed J» Tobacco Prices Yesterday More Than Two ami One Third Million Pounds Sold oil IMarkrt I lore After following a downward trend, gradual one to be sure, to-' banco prices on the local market yesterday stiffened, and farmers declared the sale to be the second best of the season. Prices for the inferior grades appeared to be stronger while the prices for the | better quality offerings held then own. Through yesterday the market had sold more than two and one third million pounds at an aver age slightly above 44 cents a pound. Sales today will carry the poundage over the two and one half million mark by a good mar gin. So far the market has sold more than a million pounds in ex cess of the sales for the corre- [ spending period in 11)48, but the average price is trailing by about six cents a pound this year, j A government report, covering | activities in the entire belt j through last Friday, follows: | Grade averages were lower in most instances on the Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco markets opening week of the 1041) season as compared with the first week last year. Volume of offer | mgs w as extremely heavy with a j large quantity of inferior tobacco ! appearing. According to the Federal State Market News Service leaf grades were from $1.00 to $9.00 pel lum .died below averages established I opening week last year. Smoking | leaf, cutters, and better lugs rung led $1.00 to $2.00 lower while green I lugs and nondescript lost $2.00 to ,$6.00 generally. Most decreases , were from $1.00 to $0.00. Low to good lemon and orange lugs and primings were the only guides showing inere .. These grades, used principally by domestic com panies for cigarette manufacture, were steady to $3.00 higher. The .bulk of the baskets brought from around $20.00 to $00.00. By the end of the week the practical top j price had moved up to $60.00. All grades average above their re spective loan values with the ex ception of best eutters and lugs and a few lower green lugs and primings. Gross sales for the week totaled Of),497,051 pounds and averaged $44.05 per hundred. This average was $6 75 below that of the first sales week in 1948 which consist ed of t wo days. Sales for the first six days amounted to 69,501,331 pounds averaging $44.53. In di- ■ viduul market averages rapgedj from a low of $38.80 to $48.47. Last year in a comparable period 39,681,451 pounds were sold for an average of $49.30 with individ ual market averages from $41.37 to $54.93. Tlu- general quality of the of ferings was lower than early sales last year as the tobacco did not! grade out us well as expected.’ There were more primings, lower leaf grades, and nondescript uni the markets with the shift from I lugs. Leaf, lugs, and primings' were the princ ipal offerings. Low j tion. (Continued from page five) Open War on County Punch! Boards A nd Slot Machines \ ___ After due warning that they would not be tolerated, Sheriff M. W. Holloman last week formally declared war on the use of .slot machines, punch boards and other gaming devices in this county. Few of the machines found their way into the open during the terms Sheriff C. B. Roebuck serv ed, and apparently the owners were making a test case under the new sheriff. Very few of the machines have been placed in op eration, as far as it could be learned, and it is fairly certain now that they will not be tolerat ed. In addition to the gaming ma chines. parading under the dis guise of skill or whatnot, Sheriff Holloman has much it quite clear that picolos are not to he operat ed until licenses are bought. Going into action last week, the officer confiscated a pieolo, a one arm bandit and a skill hall ma j chine. In the county court this week j Judge Chas. 11. Manning backed | up the officer when he fined the operator of the little bandit $50, J plus costs. The owner of the ma-1 chine has not been called into] court, but it was reported that charges are pending against him. j And so it goes that the new sheriff will not tolerate gaming devices in his domain, and when he says gaming devices he means' punch boards, slot machines and all games of chance. ' Committee Prop oses For Comity’s Roads Officers To Carry Proposals Before District Official Tentative I'ropxum Would Stabilize \ltoui a Third Of The Hoads Holding its second meeting since it was created about two ! weeks ago, the. Martin County Hoad Committee', composed of re presentatives from each of the ten townships, last Saturday morning during a three-hour session in the I courthouse proposed a secondary : stabilization road program, cm i bracing approximately eighty I miles of rural roads. While the action has no official recognition and is not final by I any means, the program was ad ’ vanced on the basis of need, uses i as school and mail bus routes and I does not jeopardise upkeep on those roads that fall into a bad slate of repair in spots during bad weather. No action was taken on the 65 mile black top road program ad vanced by the Highway Commis sion itself and placed before the county commissioners in a spec ial meeting on August 6. Repre Isentativox from Williumston ' Township suggested that possibly j the surfacing of the Wildcat or ; old Everetts Road would serve mote people than the road from | Everetts to Spring Green, the | committee pointing out that seven , school busses travel the old Ever etts roau along with mail carriers. Members of the county commit tee expressed the opinion that the Everetts Spring Green Route was preferable, and it is possible a compromise will follow with the provision that the old Everetts load will be given preference in the next black top program. it is now quite likely that the black top program will gain fin al approval, leaving about 25 mill's to the county’s credit for surfacing after the initial program is completed. | The county is being allotted suf i ficient funds to stabilize apprnxi I matcly 262 miles of other second ary roads, and the county is rec ommending about 80 miles for first attention. The stabilization work will be extended to other roads as tapidly as possible, pro vided of course, the present pro posed program gains official rec ognition. It, is again pointed out that the ! action of the committee is not of ficial, that individual citizens are I to be given every opportunity to present their gases, j Tiie stabili/btion program as i proposed at the last Saturday meeting was balked in some in ■ stances when members of the committee pointed out that some property owners did not want iin l proved roads. "They,” members lo! the committee declared, do not widening. It has been pointed out that not damages will be al-! lowed for widening except in ex (Continued on page eight) | Kooky Mount To Hold Dairy Show The Third Northeastern District Junior Dairy Cattle Show will he held at Worsley's Stock Yard in Kooky Mount on Thursday. The following Negro 4 11 Club mem bers will enter calves in the show: Leroy Little, John D. Andrews, Jessie Overton, Haywood Brown, Sherman Slade, Melvin Chance and Clarence Cherry, The show is sponsored by the Rocky Mount Chamber of Com merce, Nash County Board of Commissioners and Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners. Its purpose is to stimulate a great er interest for dairy cattle among rural youth of Eastern North Car olina. The show will start ai 10 a. m. COURT CHANGE A change in the county i court schedule was ordered this week by Judge t'has. II. j Manning to avoid a conflict. It was stated that several county attorneys and the judge himself are slated to be in the Pitt County court on Monday, September 12. No session of the county court will be held that day, but a session will be held on Wed nesday, September 14. it was announced. The court will not observe Labor Day next Monday as a holiday. Ony cases sent up to the county court by jus tices of the peace should not be scheduled for trial on the 12th hut rather on the 14th. Call For Bids On Street Surfacing Project In Towns Si/.ahle I’rojoels (lonsidrr nl For .SevernI of The Ad joining Areas Thought to have been already let, a contract will he entered into, providing the terms are right, on or about September 1 for the re surfacing of highways within the towns of Windsor and Williams t >n. The combined projects cover a distance of 3.55 miles. It was understood that a contract had been let to a Durham firm some weeks ago and that work was ten tatively scheduled to get under way in early August. The Wil liamston project, it was first an nounced, was to include resurfac ing on U. S. 17 from a point near the river to Sunny Side and on U. S. 04 from the Haughton Street intersection to the western town limits and the two streets near the high school. The street pro ject here was to have cost about $ IB,000. The Highway Commission is opening the bids on 235 miles of construction and betterment work in 2ti counties. Aside from the 3.55 miles in the Martin-Bertie combination, there are 231.45 miles for 20 counties, including long mileage in nearly all the other surrounding counties to be let to contract. Edgecombe is to get 11.51 miles. Edgecombe Hali fax are to get 14.9 miles, and Hali fax is to get 14.54 miles, a total of 37.95 miles in the two counties. Beaufort is to get 20.35 miles, and 12.47 miles have boon tentatively allotted for September contract to Beaufort and Pamlico counties, or 32.112 miles for the two. During the meantime the com mission has received a low bid of Continued on Page Five) Tgrfrrfecr4(j4cK?<?\ Still In the County | After reporting little activity on | the illicit manufacturing front during most of August, ABC Of ficer J. H. Roebuck stated yester day that business showed a re markable comeback during the past few days. Raiding in Goose Nest Town ship about three miles north of Oak City last Saturday afternoon, the officer, assisted by Deputies Raymond Rawls, Roy Peel and Officer Wiley Craft, found and captured a grand-daddy still. Made of copper and having a ca pacity of 150 gallons, the still re sembled the type found in the Free Union Section over a period of years. Whether the Free Un ion operators are branching out or their patents are being infring ed upon, the officer could not say. The officers wrecked eight 50 gallon capacity fermenters and poured out 400 gallons of sugar mash. The plant had been set up at the location only a short time. County Faculties Lirke! Tkis Week»— For New Terra Tvonty-fivo of 127 Touch ors Aro Now To Posi tions This Your With two exceptions — public school music places in Oak City and Jamesville—all teacher posi tions in the county white schools have been filled, tho office of the superintendent announced today. The faculties include 127 white teachers, 25 of whom are new to their respective assignments. The list of teachers follows with the assigned subjects or grades and home addresses: RobersonviUe Charles B. Martin, principal, RobersonviUe; Ila Warren, Eng lish, Newton Grove, N. C.; Kelly Abe.vounis, history, Bethel; Jessie E. Richardson, library, Kinston; Beatrice S. Mullen, Erenc'h-Eng lish, RobersonviUe; Ellen Riddick, commerce, Hobbsville; Jerold It. Dixon, agriculture, RobersonviUe; Queenie McG. Warren, home eco nomics, RobersonviUe; James Wallace, physics and mathema tics, RobersonviUe; Adrian Brown, science, Greenville; S. Jack Scott, mathematics and sci ence, Greenville; Sophia Webb Critcher, public school music, Wil liamston; Ruth E. Hollowell, eighth grade, Hertford; Irene J. Roberson, eighth grade, Roberson ville; Marvin M-. Everett, seventh grade, RobersonviUe; Evelyn B. Cherry, seventh grade, Stokes; Hilda L. Sumrell, sixth grade, Av den; Annie P. Roberson, fifth and sixth grades, RobersonviUe; Doris E, Roebuck, fifth grade, llober sunville; Millie J. Roebuck, fourth grade, RobersonviUe; Alida S. Tyler, third and fourth grades, RobersonviUe; Emma Lou Taylor, third grade, RED J, Williamston; Louise Dixon, second grade. Elm City; Carrie R. Martin, first and second grades, RobersonviUe; Minnie Cochran, first grade, Rob erson ville. Everetts George S. McRorie, principal, RobersonviUe; Marjorie B. James, sixth grade, Everetts; Beatrice W. James filth grade, Everetts; Jose phine E. Bullock, fourth grade, RobersonviUe; Grace R. Ayers, third grade, Everetts; Allie Roe buck James, RED 3, Williamston; Margarete It, Roberson, first grade, RobersonviUe. Oak City B. E. Sloan, principal, White ville; Lucy M. Worsley, English french, Oak City; Katheryne Gib son, history, Wilmington; II. J. McCracken, science, Oak City; Alma English, home economics, Oak City, John Leary Hassell, ag riculture, Oak City; Marie B. Har rell, commerce, Palmyra; Katie Speer Copeland, eighth grade, Oak City; Rachel Rawls High, (Continued on page five) Greets Husband With Baby Bottle Returning to his home in Ham ilton last Saturday evening after working away for several days, 4 ;sv‘4 m, 3-1, was greeted with t: when the damag. was surveyed it was found neeessary to take sev enteen stitches to el se the wound in his forehead. Bynum, said to have been drinking, started u fuss, allegedly, and his wife planted the bottle on his forehead. Charged with an as sault, he was given medical treat ment and placed in the county jail. In court Monday he was fined $25. | ROUND-UP S, ] Law enforcement officers reported a comparatively quiet week-end in the county. There were no wrecks report ed and only five persons were arrested ami detained in the county jail during the period. One each was charged with larceny, drunkenness, assault, drunken driving and violat ing the liquor laws' Four of the five were white men, their ages rauging from 20 to 51 years.
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