THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY **
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES
VOLUME LII—NUMBER 87
THE ENTERPRISE
Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 3, 1919
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WESY
ESTABLISHED 1899
Detailed Inspection
Of All School Busses
Patrol Officer
Says Mechanical
Condition Good
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Frills HeltHWithin Allowed
Maximum; Curves Clear*
etl Of Obstacles
“The school busses in this coun
ty are in the best state of repair
I have ever known,” Corporal T,
Fearing of the State Highway Pa
trol, said this week following a
minute inspection of the vehicles
a short time ago.
Mechanically, according to the
patrol officer, only two busses
were ordered in for repairs. The
rear end of one needed attention,
but its condition was not danger
ous. The other bus was a bit hard
to steer, the officer explaining
that it was a bit too tight. Minor
light defects, confined mainly to
brake lights, were found on four
busses, but the mechanical condi
tion on all the others in the fleet
of forty-nine busses was rated as
“good.”
"We did not stop after inspect
ing the busses and examining the
most important mechanical parts,”
the corporal said, adding that he
and his men drove the busses,
tested the brakes, steering appar
atus, signals and other operations
on every one of the machines.
After a thorough check of the
busses, the patrolmen talked with
the drivers, cautioning them
against traffic hazards and check
ing on the loads. Only two buss
es were found to have been car
rying in excess of the listed maxi
mum capacity, and in his report
to his superiors the corporal
pointed out that bus routes had
been rearranged or altered to hold
the loads within the maximum.
It is understood, however, that
while loadings are now heid with
in the maximum allowed, most of
the busses are carrying a number
in excess of the rated capacity.
For instance, a bus with a rated
capacity of 411 children may car
ry sixty as its maximum. Two
busses with rated capacities of 63
children may carry up to and in
cluding 79 and still be within the
law.
It is fairly evident that more
busses are needed-in the county
if loads are to be held to rated
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Farmers Eligible
For Housing Loan
The Housing Act of 1949 went
into effect November 1, and eligi
ble farmers may now receive
loans to enable them to construct,
improve, alter, repair, or replace
dwellings and other farm build
ings on their farms. Such loans
will be made to provide owners of
farms, their tenants, lessees,
sharecroppers, and'laborers with
decent, safe, and sanitary living
conditions and adequate farm
buildings.
Loans also rnay be made for the
purpose of onlaiging and improv
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vide additional income sufficient
to support decent, safe, and sani
tary housing and other buildings
and to encourage adequate fam
ily-sized farms.
Farm Housing loan repayments
will be spread over a period of 5,
10, 15, 20, or 33 years depending
upon the probable debt-paying
ability of the borrower, but not in
excess of the useful life of the im
provement. Interest on these
loans will be charged at the rate
of 4 percent per annum on the un
paid balance of principal.
The Farmers Home Administra
tion has been charged witn the re
sponsibility of carrying out the
Farm Housing program, and in
terested farmers may contact the
county office, which is located on
the second floor of the Martin
County Courthouse, and Mr.
James C. Eubanks, County Super
visor, will be glad to discuss fur
ther the provisions of the pro
gram with them, and to assist in
placing an application if they de
sire to.
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CONSTRUCTION !
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Meeting in special session
in the county grand jury
room here yesterday, mem
bers of the Martin County
Board of Education, it was
unofficially learned, recom
mended a school construction
program.
No priority was mentioned
and no dates for starting con
struction could be learned.
According to unofficial in
formation, five projects have
been recommended, including
a second story on the white
high school building in Wil
liamston, a colored high
school in Williamston, a gym
nasium in Robersonville, a
colored high school in Oak
City, and addition to colored
school building in Roberson
ville.
Fourteen Cases
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In County Court
| Monday Mornin
i Fine* Impos'd At Regular
I Session This Week
Amount To $410
j Judge Chas. H. Manning and
Solicitor Paul D. Roberson
handled fourteen cases in the
Martin County Recorder's Court
last Monday during one o( the
shortest sessions held by the tri
bunal in recent weeks. The court
completed its work and quit be
fore lunch time, after imposing
i fines in the amount of $410.
j The case in which Joe Beach
! was charged with beating his wife
presented a problem that would
have perplexed Solomon. While it
had been reported to the solicitor
that the frail little woman had
I been abused and assaulted, the
evidence offered in the courtroom
did not support the charge, and
the action was dropped after the
prosecuting witness was taxed
with the costs. The defendant,
already under suspended sen
tence, went forward to pay the
costs, and the judge warned in
open court that it could be a dif
ferent story if the defendant is
, brought before the court on a sim
[ ilar charge in the future,
i A meaningful drive against the
illicit liquor traffic is still being
maintained, the records showing
that Lucious James Chancy,
charged with violating the liquor
laws, was fined $100 and taxed
with the cost. A six-month road
sentence was suspended, and the
defendant was warned to have no
liquors in his possession during
the next two years.
Entering no plea in the case in
which he was charged with vio
lating the liquor laws, Dennis Earl
Andrews was adjudged guilty and
was fined $50, plus costs.
The case charging Joe and Lucy
Capitoia Bullock with an "affray
was dismisse J after pending trial
in the court for several weeks. :
Adjudged guilty of bastardy
• au hi* idea >>f innocence W"
ham R. Goodman, Jr ,, was sen
tenced to the roads for six months,
the court suspending the road
term on condition that he pay
the costs, $30 now and $15 every
month for two years for the sup
port of his child.
James Long, pleading not guilty
of assaulting a female, was found
guilty and was fined $25, plus
costs.
Facing the court in two cases
in which he was charged with as
saults, James Long was fined $25
in one case and adjudged not guil
ty in the other.
Charged w'ith seriously cutting
Warren Chesson to climax a pok
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Firemen Called Tn
Hamilton Road Home
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Firemen were called to the
Clayton Crofton home on the
Hamilton Road Igte yesterday af
ternoon when fire, starting in a
wood pile, caught the shed. Vci yj
little damage was done. 1
Spectators Crowd Street At Harvest Dance
Pictured above are several hundred of the approximately
1,500 to 2,000 spectators who crowded Washington Street for the
round and square dances and jitterbug contests during the
opening night of Williamston's second annual harvest festival.
In the background are Billy Peel and his musicians. The crowds
extended a greater part of the way out to the railroad, stretch
ing their necks to see the dancers.
Issue Twenty-Six
Marriage Licenses
In Martin County
Number Largest For Any
Month This Year But
Below 1948 Count
Twenty-six marriage licenses I
were issued by the office of Reg
ister of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger in
this county last month. While the !
issuance is the largest for any j
month this year, the count is six
below the October, 1948, issuance,
and the marriage business contin
ues to trail that of the first ten
months of last year.
Licenses were issued to sixteen
white and ten colored couples last
month, as follows:
White
William Howard Cherry of Wil
liamston and Ada Elsie Peadcn of
Faulkland.
John Arthur Sibert and Susie
Elizabeth Tice, both of Virginia
Beach.
Joseph Edward Williams of Au
lander and Carthine Shaw Daigle,
RFD 3, Wiliiamston.
Robert H. Williams of Hartford,
Conn., and Emeline Roberson of
Robersonville.
Henry Fred Bullock and Ruby
G. Lawton, both of Robersonville.
Calvin L. Warren of Roberson
ville and Mary Frances White
hurst of RFD, Wiliiamston.
Robert Wright Newell of Reids- .
vdle andSylvhmElizabeth Green j
William Albert Rawls and Er
nestine Davis, both of Roberson
ville.
.Jrfi'-lad »iw ■iriJjfrfrwt
land Neck and Beatrice Manning I
of Gak City.
Curtis Beach of Robersonville I
and Marjorie Stalls of Oak City.
John W. Drake, Jr., of Scotland
Neck and Marjorie Gray Dunn of
Wiliiamston.
Emmett Wynn Burden of Au
lander and Lila Rook Sumrell of
Raleigh.
Thurman Stalls and Fiances
Hazel Brown, Both of Roberson
ville.
Robert Ellison Knowles, RFD 4.
Windsor, and Lillian Blanche |
Smith of Robersonville.
William Bryant Rogerson and J
Lola Amelia Peele, both of Wil
iiamston.
Jather McCoy Stotesbury of
Pike Road, N. C., and Ramona
Ange of Jarnesville.
Colored
Rudolph James and Roas Whit- *
field, both, of Wiliiamston.
Willie James Chance and Esther 1
-lemmons, both of Robersonville |
Walter Brown, Jr., and Joyce' |
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Special Commission
To Make Study Here
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
The last week in October is
a dangerous week to travel,
according to the records. In
that period during the past
five years there have been no
fewer than five accidents and
three injured with property
damage ranging as high as
$3,500 but fortunately no
deaths.
The following tabulations
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend: first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
43rd Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam'ge
1949 7 3 0 $ 950
1948 5 3 0 3,500
Comparisons To Date
1949 112 49 5 $24,235
1948 111 61 2 28,475
Sherrod Farm Is
Sold At Auction
According to unofficial reports
reaching here lute yesterday, farm
prices continue to hi.dd burly firm !
in this county. The Sherrod larm,
just out of Hamilton on N. C.
Highway 125 and one of the last
sizable old .'arm landmarks in this
si.-cv.2vi;
yesterday for a reported price of
approximately $84,200. About two
years ago the property was offer
'd for sale at auction, the bids ap
aroxirnating $92,000 at that time.
Shortly after the auction, a tract
.vas sold privately for a reported
;um of $7,000 which w'ith the yes
;erday’s auction price places the
sale value right near the figure of
ered about two years ago.
Farmer Dan Roebuck bought all
he land on the right side of the
oad going toward Hamilton for
ipproximately $30,000. F. D. i
dudgins, who has been managing
he farm for several years, bought 1
he home tract, including the old
mine and 107 acres, about 60 of i
vhich are cleared, for a reported ;
um of $18,000. Other buyers (
vere L. G. Taylor, £. G. Ander- I
on, Jim Gray and Bryant Taylor, t
Several hundred people were 1
iresent, most of them timing their 1
resence during the barbecue din
er hour. The sale, starting that I
norning, continued until well <
fter the middle of the afternoon.! 1
Commission Will
Inspect Streets
Here This Month
Thirty Towns Expected To
SoimI Kcpicsciilutivcs
lit re For \lccling
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Created by the last North Caro
lina General Assembly, the State j
Municipal Roads Commission willj
inspect Williamston’s streets and
study municipal street problems
here with representatives from
thirty or more town in this sec
t.on of the State on Wednesday,
November Hi, it was announced
today by Mayor Robt. Cowen.
The special commission mem
bers, accompanied by George
Franklin and S. Leigh Wilson, J
field consultant for the North
Carolina League of Municipalities,
will travel by special bus from
Tarboro, reaching here about
11:20< o’clock on the morning of
the 16th,
The twelve-member commis
sion, accompanied by league and
municipal officials, will make a
tour ol the town, getting first
hand information us to the condi
tion., y.t 'i'he commis
Sion will also note those street.-,
. arrying regular highway traffic.
It is to determine how the streets
we; ; Icrs;; ) J either b" high" . '"i
of the highway and town Follow !
ing the tour, the visitors will have
lunch and continue to the court
house where a study of street
problems will be made; beginning ^
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Turns Car Over
Twice Near Here;
Mareellus Brown, young color
’d man and a companion riding
vith him, were not hurt when
frown’s old model Plymouth
vent out ol control and turned
iver twice near the Eli Bowen
tore on the newly surfaced Bear
Jrass Road. Brown declared that
he left wheel on the eat locked,
hat the car went to the right and
hen swerved to the left before
urning over beside the road.
Investigating the accident, Pa
rolman John T. Rowe said the
lamage would amount to about.
200.
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Young Man Held
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Burglary Charge
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Washington Man NuiimmI
IVrsnloiil of lh«* Now
Organization
Charged with breaking into Or
mond Hall near Woodlawn Ceme
tery here last Friday night, Albert
Green, young colored man, was
denied bond by Justice K. T.
Johnson at a preliminary hearing
held in the courtroom this week.
The case is slated for trial in the
suprrioi court next month.
Occupants of the house were
■laid to have been unable to iden
tify the man, but bloodhounds,
landled by Captain Sessoms from
the prison camp near here, picked
ip a track and went to Green's
tome where he was found in a
oom with two other men. His
ihoes were a bit wet and officers
looked him.
In another breaking and enter
ng case, Justice Johnson placed
,'ornelius Jones, colored youth,
mder a $300 bond for his appear
inee in the superior cour^ nex*
nonth. Jones denied the charge,
leclaring that he attended the
picture show on th; night of the
illeged crime, explaining that he
walked by the home of the prese
nting witness while en route to
lis own home.
George F. Green, charged with
issaulting Rufus L. Knight and
olli. ring a 21 -stitch
n his arm, was bound over to the
•ounty court by Justice Johnson
’or trial next Monday.
_ H .nulling- a siinpie as.-„uit case
igamst Lavu'ne HotrefsonTTSIoi’
'I youth, Justice J I,. Hassell fin
'd him $5, plus $5.50 costs.
Charged with disorderly eon
luct anrl using profane language
n public, Floyd anti Anthony La
uer were each fined $10 and tax
'd with one-half of the court costs
n Justice C. R. Mobley’s court. i
In another case, Justice Mobley ■
equired $100 bond of P. E. Odom, (
barged with speeding at 55 miles
n hour on North Haughton i
itreet. <
Other cases handled by Justice
ohnson:
James Osar Bland, charged
ith operating a motor vehicle
'itli no rear light, was taxed with
5.85 costs.
Judgment was suspended upon
ie payment of $5.85 costs in the
ise charging Samuel Morris
eacham w'ith operating a motor
chicle with improper lights.
Herman Andrew Dickerson was
rud $10 and taxed with the costs
n allegedly operating a motor
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Illicit Liquor Traffic
Increases In County
I COUNTY BOARD
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Holding their regular Nor
ember meeting here next
Monday, the Martin County
Commissioner* are scheduled
to draw a jury for the Decem
ber term of superior court
and make a study of the last
fiscal year audit. A final set
tlement of 1948 taxes is due at
that time, it was reported.
It isn't likely that the board
will consider revaluing prop
erty for 1950 taxation.
Very little new business is
on the calendar and the board
members are expected to have
a short session, beginning at
9:30 o'clock that morning.
District Laymen’s
League Formed by
Group Last Night
Number of Ollier Canes Be'
fore Juntiees Of Peace
In Past Few Days
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Meeting in the Woman's Clul
hall here last evening, a group ol
nearly 100 men from a dozen or
more churches perfected a district
laymen's league of the Disciples
of Christ and heard an appeal
from Mark Rutherford, layman
leader for the brotherhood from
Indianapolis. E, Leon Roebuck
of Washington was named presi
dent, J. C. Manning of Williams
ton, vice president; Charles Wil
son of Robersonville, secretary
treasurer; R. E. King of Washing
ton, program committee chair
man; E. H. Liverman of Plym
outh, activities committee chair
man; Bernard Voliva, Belhaven,
attendance committee chairnjan;
and Ernest Edmondson of Hassell,
finance committee chairman.
Rev. Cecil Outlaw of Pantego
convened the session and called
for a report from the steering
committee which was rendered by
Mr. Roebuck of Washington. He
outlined the objectives of the
league and called for laymen’s
support of Sunday observance as
the Lord’s Day, the completion of
the Crusade goal by next July,
and for a greater part in the as
sembly ground at Black Moun
tain.
Mr. Rutherford of the National
Department of Men’s Work in the
Disciple Brotherhood, was intro
duced by Rev. Elmore Turner of
Washington. A druggist by pro
fession, Mr. Rutherford told of
the work handled during the past
eleven years among laymen by
Harry Hines of Texas, adding that
the brotherhood had full-time di
rectors in nine states, that organi
zations were going forward in
thirty others.
The speaker, fitting the laymen
nto the religious picture, asked,
What is thd mission of the
Jhurch? “Seek anrl save those
•hiring that laymen must direct
lieu program around that objec
tive. Then he asked, What is the
-heat! -l^ong'.c urge in the mind
>i miiflfruiC,"*,Tri?^prak. f ‘saict.l
‘Life,” explaining that life is the
mly thing man will give all that
le has to keep.
"Why does a man want to live?”
le asked. "Some live because
hey are afraid to die. We don’t
ive just to get up in the morn-)
ng, eat, go to work and go to
leep at the end of the day," he
leclared.
Continuing he said, "The great
notive for living is happiness,
iome go around the world in
earth of happiness. Some visit
he clip joints, the dives, all look
">g for happiness. But their
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nut all Salf-Svrvicp
Syatom In Grocery
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Purchasing the interest of Jack
dmondson in the E. and W. Gro
-ry and Market, James H. Ward
lis week installed a self-service
/stem. The stock is being enlarg
1 and a modernization plan is be
ig continued.
Officers Wrecked
Fourteen Plants
In Martin County
Nearly Seven Thouaautl
Gallon* of Beer Ma»h
Poured Out
The illicit liquor business, hold
ing to fairly low production re
cords for several months, is appar
ently on the increase in this coun
ty, according to a report coming
from the office of ABC Enforce
ment Officer Joe H Roebuck. It
was pointed out that there was al
most a 100 percent increaes in the
business and that indications
pointed to an even larger scale of
operations for the weeks ahead.
Last month the enforcement of
fice, handled in the main by the
ABC enforcement officer and his
assistant. Deputy Roy Peel,
wrecked fourteen illicit liquor
plants and poured out 6,450 gal
lons of sugar beer or mash and
twenty-three and one-half gallons
of white liquor. Other materials
and equipment, including oil,
some sugar, axes, buckets and
containers were confiscated.
Two of the plants were equip
ped with copper stills of 150 gal
, Ion capacity. A third plant was
equipped with a large submarine
type still and vats large enough
to hold several thousand gallons
of mash or beer.
In September, the officers
wrecked eight illicit distilleries
and poured out 2,700 gallons of
beer mash.
Most of the business gain came
in the last week of October when
eight plants were wrecked in the
Free Union section of Jamesville
Township. Four plants were de
stroyed in a single day the early
part ol the week. One of the four
plants was equipped with a large
copper kettle, large doublers and
coolers, 300-gallon fermenter. The
officers poured out 200 gallons of
beer and two and one-half gallons
of liquor.
At the second plant, the kettle
j was missing, but before the offie
! ers withdrew they found scatter
l ed on and around the premises of
Jethro James a large cooler, 300
gallon fermenter, 200 gallons of
beer, still worm and cap and fif
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Announce Better
Methods Winners
Lynette Haislip, RFD 1, Oak
City, and William Taylor, RFD 1,
Robersonvilie, has been judged
winners in a county-wide 4-H
Better Methods Electric Contest,
according to an announcement
today by Assistant Home Agent
Agnes Beal and Assistant County
Farm Agent J. W. Sumner.
Both winners have been award
ed free trips to the 4-H Club Bet
ter Methods Electric Congress to
be held in Raleigh November 7th.
and 8th, where they will compete
for territorial honors and the state
championship. College scholav
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awards will be given, and the
state winner will get an all-ex
penses trip to Chicago for the Na
tional 4-H Club Congress.
The contest is an annual event
conducted on a state-wide basis
by the North Carolina State Col
lege Agricultural Extension Serv
ice in co-operation with the West
inghouse Educational Foundation
and local power companies,
which, in this area is Virginia
Electric and Power Company. Ob
ject of the program is to encour
age wise use of electricity on the
farm and in the farm home
through the development of pro
jects of their own choosing by 4-H
members.
In Martin County alone 20 4-H
boys and girls entered the 1949
contest. As her project Lynette
Haislip selected electric heating
jf water for household use. Wil
liam Taylor won first place in the
soys’ division on electric watering ‘ f
jf chickens.
The winners with the agents,
cave Sunday tor Raleigh.