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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LII—NUMBER 72 William ston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 13, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Road Group Met In Plymouth Last Saturday Morning Association Will Advertise U. S. 64 As Historical Highway Route -* Representatives from Washing-1 ton, Tyrrell, Dare, Martin, Nash, Edgecombe and Wake Counties met in Plymouth Saturday morn ing to form an association to ad vertise U. S. No. 64 as a historical highway, connecting Manteo and Murphy under a continuous route number. Suggestions were made to invite representatives form each town and county that U. S. Highway No. 64 passes through, to join the association. Victor Meekins, of Dare County, said that within the month he planned to travel from Manteo to Murphy and would personally locate some represen tatives. Those present at the meeting voted to temporarily name the group the “U. S. 64 Historic High way Association.” Sometime ago a movement was started in Ar kansas, which U. S. 64 passes through, to name the highway a historic continental highway as it reaches from Columbia to Cali fornia. If that association is found to be active, then the North Carolina Association will adopt its name. R. Mayne Albright was named acting chairman of an executive steering committee. 'Serving on the committee are: Melvin R. Daniels, of Dare County; E. J. Fleming, of Nash County; Paul Liverman, of Tyrrell County; E. O. Arnold, of Washington County; J. Roy Manning, Jr., of Plymouth; Robert H. Cowen of Williamston; A. Corey of Martin County; and W. E. Babbitt, of Edgecombe County. Each of these commit teemen are to get committeemen to serve with them from his own county or town. (Continued on page eight) Lions To Handle Sale Of Brooms I Sale of brooms made by the | blind at the Guilford Industries | for the Blind will get underway in Williamston on September 22, 23 and 24, with a house to house canvass by members of the local Lions Club. Final plans for the sale have been completed by Charles J. Brady, chairman of the Lions Club Sight Conservation Com mittee, and other members of the civic organization A portable truck laden with brooms will be at the Sinclair Service Station on I Thursday, Friday and Saturday | and the brooms will be offered { residents of the city and county who have not been contacted. Al though the truck will be stationed at the Sinclair Service Station members of the club will canvass the residential sections of the town offering the brooms for a nominal price. The money real ized from the sale will go to the \ civic club to be used in its work I for the blind. The Lions Club, the main pro-1 gram of which is to help blind , spwstti s the .works!’ in an unofficial and advisory ca pacity. The output of workers in I the Guilford Industries for the | Blind, js high—aveiaging brooms, 12,000 mops, 500 floor mops and 1,260 mop handles each month. The merchandise is sold mainly through club sponsorship, brokers and to wholesale houses. Mr. Brady said the brooms are of good quality and are compar able to those which can he pur chased anywhere. The prices will be in line with all competition. Negro and white men and wo men work together through their eight-hour day, five days each week. There is no diffeience in their rate of pay, which is on a piece-work basis, with an average weekly earning of $25. Mr. Brady said it is being plan necj to sell several hundred brooms in Williamston during the three-day sale which will end Sat urday night. Members of the lo cal club will canvass the homes and he urges all residents in need of brooms to purchase them dur ing this campaign. County School Enrollment .y .. . The following figures show the enrollment in the nine county white schools for the 1948-49 arid 1949-50 term as reported this week by the office of the superintendent: 194S-49 Term 1949-50 Term Ele. H.S. Tot. Ele. H.S. Tot. Jamcsvillc _ _ 320 109 429 368 109 477 Farm Life _ 135 55 190 141 59 200 Bear Grass . . 270 74 344 265 90 355 Williamston _ 770 185 955 824 198 1022 Robersonville _ 428 181 609 448 201 649 Oak City - 201 120 321 228 110 338 Hamilton _ _ 165 165 168 168 Hassell ... ___ 75 75 60 60 Everetts 195 195 190 190 Totals ._ 2559 724 3283 2692 767 3459 GETTING READY v> All 4-H member;; planning to buy a steer for the 1950 fat stock show are urged to at tend the feeder calf sale at the Worsley Stock Yard at Rocky Mount on Thursday, of this week, at 2 p. m. There will be over 100 there to . choose from. Many of the breeders who have been sell ing steers for the show will have their steers on the sale. There will also be other feed er calves that farmers may purchase for their own use too. A small number of beef type heifers will also be on the sale_J. W. Sumner, As sistant County Agent. Sleep And Rest Are Essential To Keep Good Looks Insufficient Sleep Can Tear Down One’s Health In Short Time Like many other healthful hab its, getting enough sleep and rest is one that's important to our good looks. Fashion models and movie I actresses, whose livelihoods de pend on looking and feeling well, are very much aware of the im portance of rest and sleep and make certain that they get their | full quota. Yet too many of us try to “get ] away with” as little sleep and rest as possible. It’s true that some people need less rest and sleep than others. But those who defy nature by ignoring the body's de j mands for relaxation when it be I comes fatigued are looking for trouble. Insufficient rest and sleep take their immediate toll by cutting down a person’s speed, accuracy and alertness at work or study. In general it interferes with full enjoyment of the day’s activities because the sufferer is ‘dragged out” and weary. From a long-range point of view, insufficient sleep and rest can have injurious effects of a permanent nature on the health. While adults need enough rest and sleep to repair parts of the body worn by work and play, children need extra amounts be cause their bodies must build as well as repair by way of plenty of sleep and rest. For people of all ages, sufficient sleep and rest are necessary to Una in tain the body’s icsi-aancetp ulness and disease. When em^gy is drained by fatigue, and not re placed as soon as possible by ade quate rest, the body becomes vul > civ n.-is**,ftsrc~wa't ordinarily resist. There are some people who have difficulty in sleeping and, in desperation, resort to sleeping drugs. All sleeping drugs in large quantities are poisons, and they should never be taken unless un der the advice and prescription of the doctor. Those w'ho suffer from sleep lessness for unexplained reasons should see their doctors. Prolong ed inability to sleep can be the sign of a serious illness and the doctor might detect unsuspected disease or infection. Many cases of insomnia, how ever, are due to easily corrected things like worry, overwork, lack of physical exercise and fresh air, or eating too heavily immediate ly before bedtime. Doctors believe that good sleep ing habits, if established early in (Ccnuni’ed on page six) J Seven Schools Report A Gain of 176 Pupils Over Last Year Seven of the nine schools re ported gains in their enrollments I which now stand at an all-time high figure, 2692 in the elemen tary and 767 in the high schools. The elementary gain is 133 and 43 in the high schools. While seven schools reported gains, the in crease is centered mainly in Jamesvillc, Williamston and Rob ersonville, Jamesvillc gaining 48, Williamston 67 and Robersonville 40. The loss of 15 in the Hassell Elementary jehool is traceable to the transfer of the seventh grade there to the Ouk City School this term. The 1948-49 enrollment was only 30 greater than the figures for 1947-48 while the current term starts with 176 more pupils than were enrolled a year ago. While'the total enrollment gain could claim four additional teach ers in the system, the increase is said to be so well distributed that not more than one can be expect ed to be added. Average daily at tendance during the course of the first two weeks will determine if other teachers are to be added to the faculties. Unfavorable weather has plagued the term most of the time so far, but all the schools are said to be operating very successfully. Complete reports are not to be had, but enrollment figures in the colored schools are said to have broken all records. Enrollment figures were released by fourteen of the 21 colored school, as fol lows: Gold Point, 143; Jamesville, 92; Williams, 107; Cross Roads, 66; Bear Grass, 60; Everetts, 246; Hamilton, 238; Smithwicks, 57; White Oak Springs, 62; Oak City, 236; Rogers, 97; Dardens, 118; Salsbury, 126; Robersonville, 344. In the local colored high school, Professor Edgar Hayes said that 875 had enrolled, 677 in the ele mentary and 198 in the high school. Of the 677 in the elemen mentary school 333 are boys and 344 are girls. In ‘he high school the girls outnumber the boys 123 to 75. Lions Club Holds Regular Meeting The regular meeting of the Lions Club met last Thursday evening at the Woman's Club, and was served a most delicious sup j per by the ladies of Circle No. 2 I of the Methodist Church. “Project Meeting”, as practically the entire session was taken up by the discussion of the various pro Jggji Jhg-UaM. £luh_ij injures ted in. The coming sale of brooms and mats, sponsored by the club for the benefit of the blind, is ex pected to be a huge success. The Lions are also very inter ested in the proposed project to erect two tennis courts in joint sponsorship with the other Civic Clubs in Williamston. The club is also giving whole-hearted sup port to the drive to raise money for the buying of much needed equipment and instruments for the High School Band. Lion Stewart gave a most im pressive talk on school work and the functions of the school board and its connections and responsi bilities to the general public. Lion Stewart also introduced his guest of the evening, Mr. Carlyle Cox. Lion Huffman had as his guest for the evening, an out-of-town Lion, Mr. John Stallings, from Laurel, Delaware.—C. A. Hami lton, Jr. ‘ Tell How Funds Will Be Used By Green Wave Band Two Thirds of the Money Sought Is For Buying New Instruments Just where the funds sought in! the band fund drive to close next Friday night, will be used is ex-! plained by the officers of the | Band Parents Club and Professor j Jack Butler in the budget which i was recently approved by the club ' membership. Biggest item of course, and the one which the friends of the band feel it must have, is the $1320.40 fund for the purchase of new in struments for the band. Other items include $123.09 for the uni form fund to keep it up to a safe level, $343.27 for current ex penses which will include music and general repair to larger in struments not rented or privately owned and $213.24 for the trans portation fund. Chairman Hildreth Mobley and Co-Chairman Julian Harrell are going forward with their plans for a successful finish to the drive on Friday of this week when the band will appear up the street for its annual tag day appearance. The way the band has conserv ed its resources and stretched them out is revealed in the small amount being asked now for the uniform fund which was the big gest item by far when the first drive for funds was made. Every dollar put in those uniforms is re presented by a uniform on hand and in use. Professor Butler is very proud of his uniforms and told the Band Parents Club re cently that they would match up against any band's dress. The drive for funds for the band is not going to be a prolonged one. It ends next Friday night regard less of its outcome. And the band and Band Parents Club has made it a policy not to come running up town to the merchants for any in-between funds all during the year. The band has some tenta tive trips in store for it but it will make all its trips and do its work the coming year on the budget it has already outlined. It has given the town of Williamston unexcell ed representation wherever it has made a public appearance and is very proud of the way the town has supported it in every move to improve its appearance and its instrumentation. Last year Professor Butler told a meeting of the Band Parents Club that he wanted his band to get into a position where it could go after the top ratings in the dis trict contests and that the top was the only place he was seeking. He and his youngsters now want the instruments that will equip them to go after the top honors. They anticipate that the town will support them in this worthy ef fort. Some canvassers have already contacted their prospects and all will have done so by Friday noon. I PASTURE TOUR -- . A good pasture (not a pos I ture) on every farm is the I 1949 pasture goal for Martin . ■ ..Cstsutty. To i« doing this, a pasture seeding demonstration and pasture tour has been planned for Fridayt September, y *Hr> ing at 9 a. m. on the farm of Mr. Dannie Mobley, about one mile east of Everetts on the old Bailey Road. This dem onstration will consist of land preparation, liming, fertiliz ing, and seeding. Mr. Sam Dobson, Extension Pasture Specialist, will conduct the demonstration. The afternoon program consists of a tour of establish ed pastures in Jamesville Township, starting at the farm of Marvin Jones, con ducted by V. B. Ilairr, Voca tional Agricultural Teacher of Jamesville. E. Y. Floyd, Director of the Plant Food In stitute, will be guest at the day program. All farmers who are plan ning to establish a pasture this fall are urged to at tend.—J. W. Sumner, assist ant County Agent. Thirty-two Cases j Slated For Trial In Superior Court —*— $15,000 Damage Suit Brought Against Railroad For Death of Fluid ! Thirty-two civil cases have been calendared for trial in the Martin ! County Superior Court during the j two-week term opening on the 19th for the trial of criminal and civil actions. In addition to the regular civil issues, twelve di vorces are scheduled to be tried during the term. Judge Leo Carr of Burlington is to preside over the term, re turning to the county for the first tiaie in about five years. The criminal docket is still in the mak ing, but so far there are no cases of major importance on either the ' criminal or the civil dockets. The civil cases include the fol lowing: The case of L. Herman Worth ington against Melva Johnson, in which the plaintiff is petitioning for a land division jn Roberson-1 ville Township, has been pending! for about seven years. Boundary line disputes are in volved in the cases of C. E. Jenk ins against H. 11. Cowen, Willie Bullock against J. D. Wynne, II. H. Cowen against Dennis Modlin, and H. H. Cowen against Willie II. Modlin. Several of the cases have been dragging slow in the courts for some time. One or two have been tried, referred to ref erees and now are back again. In the case of Thurston Daven port against Dorothy Taylor, it is understood one of the issues ad vanced is to have a deed to certain property in Everetts set aside, but that the value of the improve ments made by the defendant is yet to be determined. D. G. Matthews is suing Robert | S. Howell to recover $390 dam \ ages alleged to have resulted I when the defendant ran his car j into that of the plaintiff in Ham ilton in April of last year. Grover Peel, administrator, is suing the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for $15,000 da mages alleged to have resulted when Chloe Peel, 2-year-old child, was struck and killed by the de fendant’s train near Dardens on September 27, 1948. George C. James is asking $800 of the Coast Line for damage al leged to have resulted when the defendant's train fired his woods on August 13, 1948. In the case of William Johnson against Arthur Morgan, the plain tiff is asking $300 damages as a result of an automobile accident near Oak City last December 10. The defendant, denying the alle gations, has entered a counter-suit for $400. Walter Bailey and others are suing Mary E. Bailey and others to have a deed to certain property valued at $5,000 in Bear Grass set aside. In his suit against L. V. Fagan, Albert Biggs is asking $279.09 da mages alleged to have resulted in an automobile accident near Wil- j liamston on January 30, 1949. j Denying the allegations, the de fendant is asking $385.30 damages! in a counter claim. W H. Harrison is suing Consoli to- refwef'iLgU&l damages caused when the defend ant's truck driven by Charlie Had-1 dock plowed into the Harrison | Dodge near Williamston on Or j rober-stj, H/vf. S. Gluck and Co. is suing Rail way Express for $1,090. In De cember, 1946, the plaintiff shipped goods to Williamston and for sat isfactory reason were .returned. The plaintiff contends that the company made a mistake in in suring the goods, placing the val ue at $11 instead of $1,100. In two cases, Harrison Oil Com pany is suing to recover from Waters $2,435.79 on a note with interest from August, 1945, and $2,232.45 on account from Hardi son with interest from September, 1948. In the case of Cl. B. Savage against G. II. Manning, a restrain ing order is being sought and a $900 judgment sought. Alleging that $100 damage was caused when the defendant tres passed on his land, D. L. Howell is suing Leander Smith for that (Continued on «>age eight) Tobacco Sales Pass Five Million-Pound, Mark Here Tobacco sales on the local mar ket went over the five million pound mark yesterday when the price average reached its highest peak of the season. The $51.26 av erage yesterday was about three cents higher than the figure for opening day. A strong upward trend in prices was noted the lat ter part of last week. On Thurs day the market sold 294,278 pounds for an average right at $51.00 per hundred. On Friday the market sold 349,186 pounds for a 50 cent price. The average price for the season to date is $45.77. During the first seventeen sell ing days of the current season the market here sold right at three- j quarters of a million pounds more than it did in the first seventeen \ days of last year at a price only 40 cents a hundred pounds lower than the 1948 average. Along about this time last year, the price sagged in the low forties, but started picking up about Septem ber 23 and went on to reach a peak at $.37.92 on October 4. | Although prices continue to I climb, reports indicated that the export market was not quite as bullish during the past few days as it was earlier in the season. It was also pointed out that the quality of tobacco was better, as a whole, and tended to boost the price. It is estimated that about two thirds of the crop in this imme diate area has been marketed, that possibly one-third of the growers have already sold out all of their crop. Philip Williams Died At His Home Thursday Evening Funeral for Agril Gilizeti Held Friday lu I'inev Grove Cluireii Philip Williams, one of the | county’s oldest citizens, died at the home of his daughter in Grif fins Township last Thursday eve ning at (>:00 o'clock. Almost nine-1 ty-three years old, he had been in' declining health for a long period and his condition serious for some time. The son of the late Henry and Sallie Ann Hopkins Williams, he was born in Williams Township on November 5, 1856, and spent all his life in that section. He farmed until hi' was forced by de clining health to retire some years ago, but continued fairly active despite his advanced age. He join ed the church at Maple Grove more than a third of a century ago, and was well known and re spected as a citizen and friend. Surviving are three sons, Jim Williams, Lonnie Williams and Henry Williams; two daughters, Mis. Mary Griffin and Mrs. Simon Corey with whom he had made his home for some time; fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Piney Grove Baptist Church Jfriday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. W. B. Harrington. Burial was in the family cemetery on the old Man ning farm in Williams Township. Thousands Attend Raleigh Meeting More than 5,000 farm people from all sections of the state are in Raleigh today to hear Murray D. Lincoln, president of the Farm Bureau Life Insurance Com panies, deliver the principal ad dress before the joint state meet ing of the N. C. Cotton Growers Cooperative Association and the Farmers Cooperative Exchange. Mr. Lincoln, in addition to being .chief executive of the Insurance companies', is also Piesideni ol4 CARK the Cooperative for Am erican Remittances to Europe— which lias sent millions of pounds •'■ ■' <• ii iv,. stricken areas of Europe, His address will conclude the morning sessions of the meeting In Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Quite a few Martin County far mers arc attending the meeting. There was a decrease in crime activity in the county over the week-end hut offic ers rounded up seven persons, including one while man and a l!»-ycar-old boy. Two were charged with violating the liquor laws, two with assault and one each with operating a motor ve hicle without a license, break ing and entering and being drunk and disorderly. The ages 0ol the group ranged from 19 to 52 years. INSPECTION V J Motor vehicles brought into North Carolina from other states must be inspected be fore North Carolina license tags can be bought, the office of the highway patrol in this county points out. Inspections can be arrang ed each morning between 9 and 10:00 o'clock a. m. except Saturday and Sunday at the county courthouse, it was an nounced. Early Morning Fire Saturday Fire of undetermined origin wrecked the home and all the furniture of the Tom Stevenson’s near the colored high school just off Washington Street at 2:15 o’clock last Saturday morning. Fire Chief G. F. Hall estimated the loss at $5,000, including $1,500 worth of furniture, with only $3, 500 insurance in force. In addi tion to the property loss, the Stevensons had $307 in paper money burned, Stevenson ex plaining that he had accumulated the cash to meet a note the mid dle of this week. No one was at home at the time, Stevenson stating that his wife left Friday morning at 11:00 o’clock for Washington and that he was at a funeral wake in an other part of town. No fire had been in any stove since Friday morning. When the fire was discovered it had gained considerable headway and firemen, answering the call, were only able to keep it from spreading to other buildings. Recover Stolen Car Near Georgia The Dodge ear stolen from Mrs. W. C. Manning last Wednesday night on Church Street here was recovered in Hardeeville, South Carolina, about fourteen miles from Savannah, Georgia, last Fri day morning. Two young boys, charged with the theft and whose names could not be learned here, were arrested by South Carolina | officers and turned over to Feder '! incc: ..’gci.'.wi tv Apparently the boys sideswiped some object with the ear, but damage to the machine has not hfijndotormiried. They broke the trunk lock, and tore out the igni tion system when they made di rect connections to start the motor without a key. The jack was missing and the rear-view mirror was torn away. Plan Funeral For Drowning Victim Funeral services will be con ducted in the Riverhill church Thursday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Pvt. Elisha Ruffin, 18, who was accidentally drowned while swimming in a pool in Japan on the 13th of last month. Inter ment will be at Speller’s Ferry in Bertie County. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Nonie Ruffin; three sisters, Janie Cradle, Nonie Smallwood and Mildred Outlaw; and two broth ers, James and George Ruffin. Former Prisoner Of War Recalls His Stay in Camp Frank Gerhardt Says He Often Thinks of the Town and Its People Frank Gerhardt, former Ger man prisoner of war stationed in the Williamston camp, recently wrote a letter to The Enterprise and expressed his thanks for the fair treatment accorded him dur ing his stay here. His letter fol lows: Dear Sirs: You will shurely be surprised to read this letter. But at once you shall hear which reason gave me the impulse to write it, I was prisoner of war in Ameri ca and spent most of my time in your town “Williamston". I was there for good a half year and worked on different jobs. In 1946 I left your town and The U. S. for home where I reached last year. Now am I here in school again and the boys in my class always ask me to tell them something about the States, which they only know out of books or magazines. And now while telling them about the life of yours I remem ber the time in your little town, and the people in it, I became ac quainted with. I worked on Mr. Bowen's farm and built with Ar cher Mrceell a new barn there. On the farm of Mr. Everett I worked on sweet potatoes, which are completely unknown in Eu rope. On Mr. Rogers’ farm in Bear Grass I threshed peanuts and 1 worked on many other places. I often remember how fair and good we were treated by all of them. "And you shurely remember Christmas 1945, when we built a little hut before* our camp in which we showed the birth of Je sus. And when on Christmas-eve we all came out the camp and sang thy christmas-song "Silent Night and Holy Night" for the people who were at present. It was a wonderful time and I like to think of it often. Let me there fore take this occasion to thank the people of Williamston for the kindness they have shown to us. "1 don't think I shall ever have the chance to see the U. S. again and so with the town in North Carolina called Williamston. But believe me, I often shall think of you people and your town." Special Council Adopts Program The Council of Europe, in ses sion in Strasbourg adopted for discussion a nine-point program under which it hopes ultimately to bring the war-torn countries of Europe into a United States of Europe. The program, as sum marized in Associated Press dis patches to the American news papers, is as follows: (1) The council’s role in eco nomic matters, taking into ac count the Marshall-plan organiza tion already set up. (2) The council’s role in social security. (3) Cultural co-operation among the twelve member na tions ■'A > ■ vkviKieal changes ncc\ sc.ry to greater unity among council members. (5) Measures to maintain hu A'AitP.tights.and..fi4'.),-binu.n|i:,l doms. (6* Proposals to create a com mon European nationality and a European passport. (7) A common patent office. (8) A joint public-works pro gram (which might include a tun nel under the English Channel). (9) Measures to pool material resurces and technical man pow er in scientific research. Cull For I olunteers To lleaiilijy Cemetery A call for volunteers is being is sued by Chairman Geo. C. Griffin to help clean up and beautify the Tice Cemetery in Griffins Town ship Saturday morning of this week. All persons with relatives and friends buried there are ask ed to report there at 7:30 o’clock that morning, Bringing the neces sary tools and equipment for the task.
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