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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES \ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B! OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! ■ FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 69 Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, September /, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty Cases In County s Court Monday Morning Several Defendants Sent To Roads; Fines Imposed In Sum of $605 The Martin County Recorder’s Court handled twenty cases dur ing its weekly session last Mon day morning. Several defendants were sent to the roads and fines were imposed in the amount of $605. Quite a few spectators were in the courtroom for the session which lasted until 1:00 o’clock. Proceedings: The cases charging Fred Gilbert Cherry with an assault with a deadly weapon and Romas Taylor Griffin with aiding and abetting an assault with a deadly weapon, were nol prossed or dismissed. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Leslie E. Simpson pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty, he was fined the minimum amount of $200 and taxed wtih the costs. The court recommended that no driv er’s license be issued the defend ant for an additional two years. Adjudged guilty of drunken driving over his plea of not guilty, Irving Riddick was fined $100 and taxed with the costs. He appeal * ed to the higher court and bond was required in the sum of $250. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Daisy Gray Woolard was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Charged with an assault and disorderly conduct, Ernest Woot en was found guilty of disorderly conduct, and judgment was sus pended upon the payment of the costs. The case in which Edmund E. Mobley was charged with an as sault was remanded to the jus tice court where it originated, the defendant to abide by the judg ment there. Pleading not guilty, Lester R. Meeks was found guilty of drunk en driving and was fined $100, plus costs. Notice of appeal was given and bond was required in the sum of $250. The case in which Billy Gene Tetterton was charged with tem porary larceny was nol prossed. Charged with failing to report an automobile accident, Leggett Roebuck, Jr., pleaded guilty and judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs. James Edward Chorley was found not guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Rhodes Bud Speller, adjudged guilty of operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Speller explained that he drove the car across Washington Street to clear a way for traffic in front of Williamston’s Duck Inn. Oscar Bynum, charged with as saulting his wife and receiving a 17-stitch gash in his forehead in the act, was sentenced to the roads for two months when he could not arrange to finance a $25 fine and the court costs. Julius Crandell was fined $15 and taxed with the costs for as saulting a female. _ Charged with violating^fftc li quor laws and public drunken ness, Linwood W. Moore was fin ed $60 and required to pay the -«•* 3. - —-. Charles ■ &sA-sgc!;s, the- Balt! more marine, who wrecked his father’s Cadillac near Gardner’s Creek about ten days ago was re leased when the State could not offer evidence supporting a* care less and reckless driving charge. Roy Bell, pleading guilty of al lowing a slot machine to be sta tioned in his store, was fined-$50 and taxed with the costs. James Alexander Hardison, pleading guilty of speeding, was fined $15 and taxed with the costs. Theodore Staton pleaded guilty of non-support and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of the case costs and $6 a week for the support of his wife and child during the next two years. Eddie B. Boykin was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding, the de fendant having pleaded guilty. Farm Bureau Starts Drive For2,000 County Mem bers Meeting in the county court house Wednesday evening, offic-' ers of the Martin County Farm Bureau and other interested farm ers mapped plans for launching the organization's membership drive this year. Assigned a quota of 2,000 memberships, the organi zation is starting its drive imme diately with the expressed hope of reaching the goal the last of this month or in early October. Secretary-treasurer Mayo Har dison reported that the annual barbecue held last May when nearly 2,500 persons were served, had just about depleted the treas-, ury. The annual feed cost right at $1,500. He also explained that prize money had been advanced for the fat stock show and for other 4-H Club events in addition to an amount raised to supple ment agricultural research at State College. Commenting on the member ship drive, President C. L. Daniel said that the canvassers work without remuneration, that they give of their time and expenses, and that farmers interested in the conitnuance of a parity program for agriculture could aid the good work by looking up a canvasser and joining the organization. Important farm legislation is to be passed between now and next year, and unless the farmer acts to protect himself the present pro gram -is subject to be wiped out and replaced by the Aiken Bill which offers a sliding parity as low as 60 percent. The membership committee will meet in the county court house again on Wednesday, Sep tember 14 at 8:00 o’clock. PAVING BID --- The Nello Teer Company of Durham submitted a low bid—$21,213—for resurfacing streets here and in Windsor. The bid, along with 28 others submitted on other highway projects calling for an ex penditure of nearly three mil lion dollars, will be reviewed by the Highway Commission in meeting at Raleigh today. The contract calls for the • resurfacing of Main and Washington Streets, and the work is tentatively scheduled to get under way within thir ty days. Sales At Three Million Founds Tobacco sales on the local mar ket are pushing close to the three million-pound mark today, re ports stating that the mark will be passed by a considerable mar gin tomorrow. At the close of sales yesterday the market had sold 2,705,304 pounds for $1,189,409, or an aver age price right at $44 per hun dred. The market in the first nine selling days of the current season has sold half a million pounds more than it did in the corre sponding period last year, but the price average is about $3.00 per hundred lower this year than it was last. A fairly large sale is on the floors today, and indications point to a big sale tomorrow and next Monday. The market has caught up fair ly well with the demand for space, and sales are running smoothly. Farmers, offering good quality of tobacco, are averaging above 65 cents a pound, but some of the in ferior grades, especially smoked tobacco, are without friends. -o Urges Purchase Savings Bonds Kenneth C. Wible, deputy di rector of the North Carolina U. S. Savings Boricis’ ditice in ’\SffflRs? boro, yesterday directed an ap peal to Martin County citizens, urging them to invest in savings bunds .during the course of the .A<ixt.ievu>s3&tbs, .„..a„. ‘‘A financial reserve is just as important a part of a well man aged farm business as land, live stock and equipment,” he pointed out, adding that a financial re serve is needed by every family to meet emergencies such as crop failures, sickness or accident as well as a hedge against lower farm incomes. He stated that Martin County citizens now hold $3,960,554 in U. S. savings bonds and urged that the amount be maintained and supplemented during the fall months. Martin County people, after going all out to support bond purchases during the war, have bought very few bonds since that time. However, an urgent ap peal is being advanced in behalf of larger bond purchases this fall and during the course of the following twelve months. Road Plans Heard By Commissioner Henry G. Shelton Says Road Program Ad vanced By Road Com mittee is Reasonable Plans for advancing a road con struction program under the bond system are rapidly taking shape, and while no immediate action can be expected, this county is in line to move as soon as the pro gram is launched, A. Corey, chair man, and J. H. Hopkins, vice chairman of the Martin County Road Committee, said following a conference with District Highway Commissioner Henry G. Shelton yesterday afternoon at the com missioner’s home in Edgecombe County. The commissioner apparently was encouraged when it was ex plained that the citizens of the county had studied the road needs : and cooperated in preparing a j program. He said that the pro | gram appeared very reasonable, S and assured the committee repre ' sentatives that all possible would be done to cooperate with them. While the commissioner did not know just when the program could be launched, he did say that it was reasonable to expect that the commission would stabilize about 75 or 80 miles of roads in the county during the course of a year. However, he said he could make no definite promises, ex plaining that the program would take more definite form about the I middle of this month when recom mendations are submitted at a meeting of the Highway and Pub ! lie Works Commission. It has been learned unofficially that a million dollars will be made available from federal aid, state and county road betterment and bond funds for road work in this county during the next two years, that possibly 23 miles will be surfaced within the period while about 75 or 80 miles of road will be stabilized. Commissioner Shelton said he 1 was well pleased with the bids re ceived this week, and explained ! that if that cost trend is maintain panded beyond the original plans. He pointed out that the bids fell about $300,000 below the original estimates. While the commission is rapidly ' •p7~pSTrr,g'TrS*pTf>T'» there if be lit tle activity under the bond pro gram until the first batch of bonds are sold the 28th of this month. Commissioner Shelton is in Ra leigh today reviewing the bids submitted on the projects costing approximately three million dol lars. He said yesterday that a contract will possibly be entered into this month foi surfacing Highway 171 from the Farm Life area to the Beaufort County line. He said it would have been in cluded in the August letting, but it was delayed when plans were changed to route the road over Hardison’s Mill Pond in such a way as not to make it necessary to move any homes there. Invited to address the James ville Ruritans next Monday night, Mr. Shelton said he wanted to meet with the county commission | Continued on Page Five) Arrange Schedule For School Term In Martin County Colored Schools lo Open on Tuesday; While Schools Open Day Later Opening a bit later than usual, the Martin County schools will 1 start the new term next week, the j twenty-one colored schools begin | ning the fall session at 8:30 Tues I day morning and the nine white ' schools opening at 1:30 o’clock the 1 following day, it was announced by the office of the superintend ent. Events in which teachers, I school officials and parents-teach ers' organizations will participate are scheduled earlier in the week. The 110 colored teachers and principals will meet in the Wil laimston colored school next Mon day morning at 9:30 o’clock to complete plans for the opening the next day. Teacher assign ments are just about complete in all the 21 colored schools, it was learned. When the colored schools open at 8:30 Tuesday morning, September 6, registrations will be handled and the schedule of book and other fees will be announced. On Wednesday, September 7, books will be distributed and les sons assigned and fees collected, preparatory for a full-day sched ule on Thursday. A peak enroll ment is predicted in the colored schools this year. The first in the schedule of pre liminary events leading up to the opening of the nine white school; on Wednesday, September 7, will be an informal conference in the Williamston High School audi torium Monday evening at ! o’clock. All teachers have beer invited to attend along with mem bers of the county board of edu cation, administrative personnel officers of the Martin Count} Council of Parent-Teacher Associ ation, ana officers of the Martir County Unit of the North Caroline Education Association. Follow ing the invocation by Rev. John L Goff, the local high school'banc will have a part on the program 1 Introductions will be made anc I the superintendent will offer vari ous comments. The parent-teach er council will entertain at an in formal reception. 1 The first official event in the pre-school program for white teachers will be held in the ele mentary school building here nexi Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock In short and figuratively speak ing, the meeting will take on the aspects of a general "bull session,’ (Continued on page eight) --O Speaks Monday In Bear Grass School II. M. Covington, sweet potatc specialist of the State College Ex tension Service, Raleigh, will ad dress farmers and other interested citizens in the Bear Grass School next Monday evening at 8 o’clock it was announced this week. The public is invited to hear Mr. Cov ington discuss a timely topic which is certain to prove of in terest and value. Mr. Covington will be a guest of the Bear Grass Ru>aJWAUift just prior to the public meeting, it was explained. Julius Peel Died At His Home Near Here Early Today Funeral Arrangements Had Nut Been Completed Early This Afternoon Julius Staton Pool, retired at j torney and bond broker, died at ; his home near Williamston this I l I morning at 8:00 o’clock, the ap parent victim of a heart attack. He had been in declining health for some time, having received hospital treatment at intervals over a period of several years. The son of the late Noah Staton Peel and Elizabeth Yarrell Peel, he was born in Williamston 61 years ago on December 5, 1887. After attending the local schools he studied in a Virginia School, and at old Trinity Park before taking a business course at Pough keepsie. When a young man he served as cashier of a Kelford bank for several years, and en listed in the U. S. Army at the outbreak of World War I. Dis ! charged as a captain, he was later made a major in the Army Re ' serve Corps, but resigned that 1 commission some years later. | He attended Wake Forest Law | School and opened a law office here, later forming a partnership with Chas. H. Godwin, Sr., and I dealt in stocks and bonds. He had not been active in the busi I ness for some time on account ol lill health. Surviving is his widow, the for mer Miss Mary Layman of RoanJ | oke, Virginia. j Funeral arrangements had nol i been completed early this after noon. ♦ Youthful Robber Caught In Store Dick Dickens, 14-year-old col ored boy, is being carried before Juvenile Judge L. B. Wynne here this afternoon for allegedly break , ing into and robbing Barrett’.1 Drug Store in Oak City last Tues j day night. i Entering the store through the top sash of a back window, the youth allegedly stole several dol lars in change from the cash reg ister. The robbery is the third believed to have been maneuver ed by the youth during the course , of a few days. j Mr. Wilbur Barrett, owner and J operator of the store, was check ing the rear of the store Tuesday evening about 9:30 o’clock and caught the youth coming out the window. The boy was turned over to county officers who left him in the custody of his mother I until the hearing this afternoon. EXHIBITS A special exhibit of art work, scrap hooks anil other materials reflecting study and advancement in the schools of this county will be open to j the public in the Williamston | elementary building next j Monday between the hours of | 9:30 a. m. and 6:00 p. m., it was,announced today by Sup ! ■ ervisor Lissie Pearce. The public is invited to in spect the exhibits. Market-Will Close But No Genera l Holiday Schedu led There’ll be no tobacco sales on the local or any of the markets in the belt next Monday, Labor Day, but no general holiday will be ob served here, as l'ar as it could be learned today. All federal and state offices will observe the day as a holiday, in cluding the post office, Triple A and county agent’s offices. There will be no mail deliveries in the town or rural sections. The li quor store is closing along with the Virginia Electric and Power Company offices and possibly a few more offices. The stores and other general offices arc schedul ed to remain open. The county commissioners will hold their regular monthly meet ing according to schedule, but there is little business to come be fore the body and the session is almost certain to be u short one. The county court will convene as usual, and all strictly county of fices aie to remain open. It is possible the local town commissioners will delay their meeting either until the next night or the following Monday. Most North Carolina towns arc not recognizing the day as a holi day, but several are scheduling a holiday for the day. Roberson "ille will observe the day as a holiday, according to an an nouncement released yesterday by Mr. Oscar Roberson, of the Robersonville Merchants Associa tion. Schools Expect Big Opening Wednesday Pupils To Report For Registration At 1:30 Wednesday Assign Three Teaeliera To I Each Grade In the Klemeutary School Plans were announced complete ' I today by Principal B. G. Stewart for the opening of the Williamston white schools next Wednesday j when previous enrollment records are expected to topple :n the path! of a determined horde of little and youthful education seekers. A staff of thirty-five capable teachers will greet the pupils for i registrations at 1:30 o’clock that | afternoon, the principal explain-1 ing that one teacher had been added to the faculty since last term, that there’ll be three teach ers for each grade in the primary and elementary departments. The school busses will start their runs between 12 and 12:30 o’clock that afternoon, and start the return trips soon are registrations are completed. Reporting at 8:30 o'clock the following morning, the pupils will receive their books and assign ments and depart for their homes between 12:30 and 1:00 o’clock. A full-day schedule, begininng at 8:30 and ending at 3:15 o’clock, is slated for Friday when the lunch rooms will be open for the first time. No formal program has been planned for the opening, the prin cipal said. Commenting on the teacher al lotment and other timely school facts, Principal Stewart said to day: “The five state supplied teach ers gained during the past three years due to increases in enroll ment and decreases in teacher load have all been elementary teachers. If the enrollment in the high school is as great as our fore cast and we are able to improve upon high school attendance we should gain a high school teacher this year. Another teacher in the high school is needed badly to re duce the size of some overcrowd ed classes and study halls, to pro vide more time for library super vision and to make it possible to add some new courses to the high school curriculum. “The problem of classroom space which was temporarily solved last year by the addition of four new classrooms has arisen again. The new section of the eighth grade will occupy a room formerly used by the high school. It is hoped that additional class room space, a cafeteria and facili ties for the offering of vocational agriculture and industrial aits will be provided soon. “With a corps of experienced teachers to back up this statement and with increased support from the State in salaries, teaching ma terials and buildings, 1 predict for our schools a successful year.” Detailed instructions were re leased ' today for pupils anti par ents by the principal, as follows: 1. Students of the Williamston While Schools will report to the following places for registration | Wo'urtesuay, September 7, at 1:30 p. til. .. . Grammar school: 1st Grade—all who attended the pre-school clinic to Mrs. Saund ers’ room. 1st Grade—all who did not attend the pre-school clinic to auditorium. 2nd Grade to Mrs. Froneberg er’s Room. 3rd Grade to Miss Manning’s Room. 4th Grade to Miss Jenkins’ Room. 5th Grade to Mrs. Abernathy’s Room. Gth Grade to Miss Rogerson’s Room. New students of Grades 1st through 6th to auditorium. High school: Grades 7 through 12 to auditorium. 2. Fees to be paid by students (due Wednesday or Thursday): 1st and 2nd Grades, $1.00; 3rd, 4th (Continued on page eight) DIRECTOR -* v Miss Emilyn Wagner assumes her new duties with the Memorial Baptist Church here today. She will direct the church's program of Religious Education and work with the young people of ihe Church. Prior to coming here she work ed in the capacity of an Associa tional Missionary or worker in the western part of this State. She was graduated from the South western Baptist Theological Sem inary in Fort Worth, Texas, this past spring with the Master of Re ligious Education degree. Her A. B. degree was earned at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory. Prior to her studies at the Seminary, she taught in the elementary grades of the public schools for about three years. Miss Wagner is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Wagner of Taylorsville, N. C. Evening Classes For County Vets Beginning this evening, a spec ial course in business administra tion will be offered white veter ans in this area, Director C. A Hamilton of the veterans school division, announces. Classes will be held five evenings each week for three hours in the high school and will be conducted by Mrs, Martin Moore and Mrs. C. A. Hamilton, Jr., the director said. Sixteen veterans have signed up for the course as follows: Joseph H. Baggett, William N. Cherry, Robert H. Cowen, Thurston F, Davenport, Jr., Simon C. Griffin, Jr., John H. Gurganus, Joseph Gurganus, Jimmy Earl Knight, Thurman H. Matthews, Leroy Mobley, Martin Moore, Joseph A Peele, Lewjs A. Pippin, Jesse F Roberson, Exum Ward, and George C. Wynne. Possibly two hundred veterans are enrolled in special agriculture classes in the county at present. "Bush (/rowers’’ To Parade Here A pi .view parade. of I (if Wash ington County' Sbi-'t’jti'i-1lent enn ia'i Celebration, honoring the found ing of the county 150 years ago, and scheduled to be held in Ply mouth 18-22, will in WHIiamstcn at 12 noon on Saturday of this week. The marchers will parade through the main business sesetion. They also plan to parade in Washington, Windsor, Edenton and Plymouth the same day. The parade will consist of mem bers of the “Hush Growers League,” men who have grown all types of beards, side-burns, goatees and moustaches for the celebration; members of the "sis ters of the swish,” women who will wear old time costumes; and the Plymouth High School bund. Return Man //ere To Face Larceny Charge Frank Williams, charged with petty larceny and who ran out from under a bond, is being re turned to the county today from Virginia Beach by Deputies Roy Peel and Raymond Rawls. Reviews Work Of Boosters Here In Past Four Months -—o elan for Harvest Festival To Be Held Latter Part Of October It has now been almost four months to the day since Alford Sweatt arrived in Williamston to take over his duties as managing director of the Williamston Boost ers. These four months have seen this organization grow from little more than an undeveloped em bryo into a state of permanency ■ which should assure any and all doubters that it is definitely here to stay. Starting out under considerable handicaps, under the direction of Mr. Lynn Taylor in the fall of 1948; the organization made a name for itself, the climax com ing with the first Williamston Peanut Festival in that year. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Taylor de parted from Williamston and the activities of the Boosters dimin ished to an almost complete stand still. However, there remained the nucleus of the present or ganization, the temporary board of directors, Messrs. C, B. Clark, Jr., Jay Griffin, Leman Barnhill, Urbin Rogers, Ernest Mears, Bur ras Critcher, Jr., Frank Margolis and Robert Cowen, For a num ber of months, these men endeav ored to find someone willing and able to assume the duties of Man aging Director or Executive Sec retary. Then, in April, 1949, through the services and efforts of the local North Carolina State Employment office and its mana ger, J. Kelly Gay, an interview was arranged with A1 Sweatt, ' who was then Sales and Promo ' lion Manager of the Charlotte Merchants Association. The out come of that interview is known to most everyone in Williamston; but for the benefit of those who don’t know, Mr. Sweatt arrived in Williamston on Sunday afternoon, May 1, 1949, to assume the job of organizing the group along per manent Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association liqes. The first few weeks were spent in studying and anlyzing the needs of the community and the best methods of serving these needs. First and foremost, the potential membership had to be felt out. Letters were sent out with return post cards enclosed and as those that were returned gave a vote of confidence, more or less, to the future of the or ganization. On May 17, 1949 the organiza tion became known as the Wil liamston Boosters, Inc., having been granted its charter by the State of North Carolina as of that date. By letter and by personal calls, memberships were solicited. The membership began growing I and is still growing. I On June 1, 1949, the Boosters began a daily radio program, feat | uring news, at 12:05 p. m., Mon I day through Friday, over radio station WRRF, Washington. This program was, and is, designed to present the name of Williamston to the radio listening audience of this section. On this program, 4 individual spot announcements ,i are.given each day iu; mouibeis of the Williamston Boosters. Inc. The only exception to this rule is of course, professional men, who are not allowed to advertise. The program has proveavery success iul 'and will be continued inde finitely. During the tobacco season a 15 minute program is carried over WRRF at 11:00 a. m., Monday through Friday direct from the warehouse floor. This program is conducted by Mr. Sweatt and has proven very popular. One of the more pressing needs of the community was and is, the necessity of the merchants to •’pull” together, especially for joint trade promotions. The re tail Trade Promotions Committee of the Boosters is helping to sup ply that need. One example is the Booster Days event which was held on June 23, 24 and 25, 1949. Needless to say, that promotion was a highly successful one, so much so, in fact, that Fall Booster Days are being planned for retail members of the Boosters during (Continued on page eight)
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