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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LII—NUMBER 89 Williamston, Martin County•, North Carolina, Thursdays 7io vatii lu-t " ■ :^STABliSllLlI i«y<). Plead For Early Action On School Expansion Project Crowded Condition Cited In Report Released Re cently By The P.-T. A. Finding the problem of over- i crowding in the Williamston schools growing more rapidly than the means of meeting it, the district school committee and re presentatives of various organiza tions in town as well as interested patrons of the school, will appear before the Martin County Board of Education at its next meeting to plead for early action on an approved plan offering additional classroom space. Its teaching staff increasing from 25 to 36 while only four new classrooms were being added, the school is finding its facilities far from adequate to take care of the thousand odd students now on its rolls. If it had 131 more pupils it could claim a third of the white school children in the entire coun ty. Conditions at the elementary school are bad but thp high school situation is worse because the fa cilities there are being taken up more and more by transfer of the elementary grades until the high school department is being almost pushed uut of the house. There are now nine (9) sections of the ele mentary grades housed in the high school building. The decision to go before the Board of Education was made at a meeting of a score of representa tives of the P.-T. A., the /lvic clubs, services groups and others in the High School Library room one night lust week. The de cision to do this was reached when a canvass of the situation revealed, among other things, that one third grade section is using one end of the cafeteria; one sec ond grade section is using a sub standard room made from the first aid roomi'a cioset'aiid a"i5art oi arr adjoining room; there is no longer a central elementary lib rary because the room has to be used as a classroom; there is only limited use of the high school library because it has to be used for study halls and home room during every period of the day; ihree high school courses are being taught in the auditorium which is also the only place the public school music teacher can handle her work. (The cold forc ed transfer of three classes from the gymnasium to the auditorium last week.) Here, as in the band room, there is no support for writ ing other than the knee of the student. One home room has 54 high school students using it. The public school music teach er has no place at all to work. Children at the high school building have to travel two thirds of a city block over rough terrain to reach the small cafeteria, with out benefit of shelter anywhere along the way. The small child ren in one of the buildings at the! grammar school also have a short! ctrrjm': ’> ->***»•••&> ------- yf- L cafeteria in the other building. Questioned as to the number of rural or suburban children at the school Principal B. U. Stewart checked his records and found 450 bus children on the rolls of the Williamston schools. County Superintendent of Schools J. C. Manning told a member of the committee after the meeting that one of the big gest factors behind the classroom shortage is the reduction of the teacher load by state school auth orities. He said that the school board was working on the prob lem of providing adequate facili ties for the schools of the county. The committee of patrons and citizens went on record as not de siring to affect, in any way, the plans of any other schools in the county, being anxious only to^e cure the necessary relief in the or der of the urgency of it sneeds. The committee did feel that the provision of classroom space was of primary importance. There was, the committee agreed, to be no effort to put any "pressure” on anyone beyond a presentation of the facts and to make it clear that the committee and the school patrons in general (Continued on page eight) Senator Frank Graham Addresses Festival Crowd senator Frank (>raham, alter riding nearly three hundred miles at the conclusion of an address in Iredell County late the night before, is addressing the several thousand persons gather ed here recently for the town’s second annual harvest festival. The Senator is not advertising I)r. Mercer’s business particularly by pointing to the dentist's sign, but rather to “pint out" a “point”. Seated on the platform with the guest speaker are, A1 Sweatt, director of Williamston's Boosters; C. B. ('lark, Jr., presi dent of the Boosters; Elbert S. Peel, chairman of the Martin County Democratic Executive Committee; Mayor Kobt. Cowen; back row, left to right, Mayor J. ii. Itoehuck of Parmele; Coun ty Commissioners VV. M. Harrison. C. Abram Roberson (head just showing above the speaker's stand) and Henry Johnson; Mayor J. C. Johnson of Oak City. The photographer “left out” several of the mayors of other county towns. Jurors Drawn For December Term Of Court In County No Women Im lmlnl In llie List of Jurors Fulled For One-Week Term Twenty Martin County citizens were drawn by the board of com missioners in a recent meeting for jury duty during the one week term of superior court convening the second week in December. For the first time since their names were placed in the jury box about two years ago, no women were drawn for jury duty. The term, opening on December 12, will hear both criminal and civil cases. However, very few civil cases are ever scheduled for trial during the last regular term of the year, and it is very likely that the sessions will be limited to the first two or three days of the week. Judge Leo Carr, returning to this county in September of this year after an absence of about five years, is slated to preside over the December term. During the meantime, Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn is scheduled to preside over a two week term, opening on .November 21 lor the trial of civil cases only.. ™ 1 1 1 u * Names of citizens drawn for jury duty during the December (page eight) Cheek Flasher To Face Trial Here Alleged to have issued two worthless checks in this county, a young soldier by the name of Aman is being returned to this county from Fort Knox, Kv., to face trial in the recorder’s court. Said to have given two checks, amounting to more than $100, to an operator of a boarding house in Robersonville almost a year ago, Aman took French leave from this section, later entering the service. Deputy Raymond Rawls left Tuesday for the man and is ex pected here tomorrow or Satur day. While Deputy Rawls is return ing with the alleged check flash er, Deputies J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel are delivering Moses James, another alleged check flasher, to a hospital in Roanoke, Va., today. The two deputies plan to return tonight. Building A nd Loan Now In The Million Dollar Class Starting out with a few share •ho-ldc» comps atiyely few shares of stock in force back in 1910, the Martin County Building and Loan Association recently de veloped into a million dollar insti tution, it was announced by the treasurer, Mrs. Vella A. Wynne, this week. Capital gains were compara tively slow for a number of years, but during that period a firm foundation was laid and taking step with the progressive march, the association has had an impor tant part in the rapid growth of the town and community in re cent years. At the present time ,the associa tion is financing home uwncr.s and others to the tune of almost a mil lion dollars with well over $100, 000 in liquid assets. Approxi mately $41,000 is now pending in new loans. The association has undivided profits in the amount of $26,000.00 .1 nrl a contingent re serve of $50,000. During its existence, the asso ciation has financed a large per centage of the new homes built here, and possibly twice as many as all other lending agencies com bined. Reviewing its activities for the past ten months, officials said that a quarter million dollars had been advanced, mostly for new con struction and repairs, and about $50,000 for homes already built. Nearly $15,000 in profits, includ ing dividends on various types of stocks invested by its members, was paid out during the period, it was announced. The 787 members, holding 9,356 shares of stock, are scattered over six states, North Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Illi nois and Georgia. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . • Oniy two vehicle accidents weie reported in this county dtfi Jlig the -Min""*?!*.;, 'Out Martin County people darted into Bertie and Beaufort to iverck ’em, No one was badly hurt in the two wrecks re potted in this county, but five oi six county citizens were in jured in two accidents outside the county. 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. 44th Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam’re 1949 2 1 0 $ 325 1948 520 525 Comparisons To Date 1949 114 50 5 $24,500 1948 110 03 2 27,950 Improi'infi At Ilia I Ionia In Oak City Mr. Wilbur Worsley, veteran postal employe, is recovering from an illness he suffered about three wpeks ago while on duty After receiving hospital treatment he returned to Oak City a few days ago and is now able to be out. Reports reaching here stated ho was able to drive his car. Dr. Elhardt Will Speak in County I Sunday, November 12, the Ilev. j Dr. George B. Elhardt will speak | lor tire CnaTge i'o' | Hamilton Methodist Church. At j eleven o’clock, Dr. Elhardt will ' 1. milton Methodist church, in the afternoon at 2:30 Dr. Elhardt will speak at Rober son ville in the Methodist church. Mr. Elhardt is Librarian at Duke University Divinity School. Dur ing the summer he directs activi ties in the Divinity School as well as serving as librarian. He has recently preached in churches in St. Louis, Atlanta, and Nashville besides other well known churches in Eastern United States. Next year Dr. Elhardt is scheduled to speak at Oxford Uni versity in England. Dr. Elhardt is one of the best konwn and best loved speakers among Methodist ministers in the Eastern United States and the lo cal congregation is happy to have him as the first speaker for the church year. Residents of the county who are within reach of Hamilton at 11:00 o’clock and Robersonville at 2:30 p. m. will be inspired by at tending these outstanding serv ices. Everyone is urged to wor ship with the congregation Sun day, November 13. World War Ended Thirty-one Years Ago November 11 —«— Kv«‘iils L«‘adin^ t |i in Arm iwlicr l{< \ irwcil lly IVi'hh Srrvirr of Army By Armed Forces Press Service It was 5 o'clock in the morning on November 11, 1918—31 years ago that representatives ol' tier many signed an armistice in the headquarters of Marshal Foch, commander of the Allied Armies. The armistice provided that six hours later—on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month hostilities of World War I should j end. This week the world observes that anniversary the end of the war to "make the world safe for democracy." The world now knows that it lost the peace gain ed then, and since has fought World War II The negotiations which led to the signing of the armistice 31 years ago actually stemmed from a statement made June 24 of that year by a German foreign minis ter. lie stated the war could not be won by arms alone and that peace would come only through negotiations. i5l7r*uT^^vffl^^T|jTun. Tbeli,“ol* October 5, of that year, the US made public a message of peace from Prince Max of Baden, a mod •m.O-iUn-il' ‘ F >M e Max accepted, as a basis of peace talks, the "14 points” of the late President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson replied October fl and negotiations continued until Oc tober 27, when Germany officially requested proposals for an armis tice. The request was referred to Marshal Foch. Things began to move rapidly toward a climax. Bulgaria capitulated. Austria initiated separate proposals for an armistice and hostilities ended on the Austrian front November 4. Germany notified the Western Allies on November 7 that her peace representatives had been appointed and were about to leave Spa, Belgium, the German gener al headquarters. Foch received them at his headquarters the next day and handed to them the arm istice terms—35 clauses, the most severe and drastic ever demanded from a world power. But not un conditional surrender. After several days of delay and parley, the Germans signed. To all intents and purposes, the war (Continued on page eight) Call Twenty-Six-4 Cases On Monday In Comity Court Finos Amount To 5H>5 In Tlic Session Last ins: Most Of The Day Evc'n though there was a fairly i large docket and the trials eontin- | ued a greater part of the day, I comparatively few people were in , the Martin County Recorder’s Court for the Monday sessions. | Judge Chas. H. Manning called twenty-six cases, and imposed fines amounting to $4(55. Proceedings: Charged with non-support, James Riddick, pleading inno cence, was adjudged guilty of not supporting his two children. He was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspend ing the term upon the payment of the costs and $5 a week for the support of the children. He was also directed to curtail an existing hospital bill. ! Johnnie Jenkins was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Malilon 11. Graham, charged with speeding, pleaded guilty and was fined $15, plus costs. Adjudged guilty of larceny and receiving, Sam Manning was sen tenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $10 fine and costs, and he is not to be con victed of larceny during the next five years. Pleading not guilty of an assault ] with a deadly weapon, Zeno Brown, Jr., was found guilty and was fined $50, plus costs. Robert Jasper Rogers pleaded not guilty of non-support. -Ad judged guilty ho was sentenced 1 to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road term, and the defendant is to pay the court costs and $20 a month for the support of his two children for the next two years. Pleading guilty of issuing a worthies., check, Arthur M. Wool aid was directed to pay the court costs and the amount of the check. William Brown was found not guilty of violating the health laws. Pleading guilty of violating the health laws, Jimmie Felton, Rob ,ert Bonner and Constant Little I were sentenced to the roads for three months. The sentences were suspended upon the payment of the costs and on the further condi tion that they meet health re quirements. John Daniel Mason, pleading guilty, was fined $25 for operat ing a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Pleading not guilty of passing a school bus while the bus was not running, J. P. Hodges was fined $50 and taxed with the costs. Charged with careless and reck less driving, Mareellus Brown was found not guilty. Jesse Bland, Jr., was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor {Continued on page eight) Seven Cases In ~ '-irsstit ir Courts Justices R. T. Johnson and Chas. j H. Mobley handled several eases in 11I'u ic ‘clu*frig* ‘ the past few days. Charged with following too closely behind a truck, Braxton M. Dunn was fined $10 and taxed with the costs by Justice John son. Willie Ross, charged with dis orderly conduct, was fined $15, plus $5.85 costs. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper lights, Fel ton Parker was taxed with $5.85 costs. The case charging Simon J. Perry with operating a motor ve hicle with improper equipment was nol prossed or thrown out of court. Fined $10 and taxed with $5.85 costs for operating a motor ve hicle without brakes, Thomas James appealed. It. B. Spruill was fined $1(J and required to pay $5.85 costs for op erating a motor vehicle with im proper equipment. Charged with drunken driving, I James D. Davis was bound over to | the court under $150 bond by Jus tice Mobley. Peaimts Moving -To - Market After Rains OBSERVANCE Local people are being ask ed to Join in a moment of si lent prayer in observance of Armistice Day tomorrow. Meeting earlier this week, the local ministerial association planned the brief observance and the public is asked to i pause one minute at 11:00 i o'clock. The Huptisl Church chimes will broadcast one verse of “America," and the music will be stopped on the 11:00 o'clock hour, marking the | time for the silent observance. Funeral Thursday At Arlington For Jamesville Youth S/Spl. William J. ltnrnrllc lost Mis |,ifr In Italy February 28, 1915 Funeral services will be con-1 ducted next Thursday afternoon j November 17, at 2:00 o'clock in' Arlington National Cemetery for S/Sgt. William James Burnette, j Jamesville young man who lost his life in action over Italy on j February 28, 1045. Those desiring to send ilowers may address them I in his name to Arlington National . Cemetery, Virginia. A son of George II. Burnette, now of Norfolk, and the late Ethel Byrd Martin Burnette, he was born in Jamesville in 1926. Grad uated from the high school there in 1943, he entered the service the following November. Within a voar he was in action over Italy as a tail gunner on a B 24. Just be fore he was reported missing, re latives were advised that he had completed fourteen missions. After he was reported missing in 1945, nothing more was heard from him, and a year later he was presumed dead. In August of this year, his father was notified that his son's body had been found m a civilian cemetery at San Pietro DiLaion, Italy, that it was being reburied in a U. S. Military Cem eter.y at Mirandola, Italy, and that it would be returned to this coun try upon the receipt of instruc tions from the family. The last journey is now being completed. His is the 32nd in the list of Mar tin County men who fell in for eign service and whose bodies have been returned for burial in native soil, and he is the second of those to die in World War II to be buried in the Arlington Cemetery. His mother, the former Miss Ethel Byrd of Mt. Olive, went to Jamesville and taught school, lat er marrying Tommie Martin. Some time after his death, she was married to Mr. Burnette. When hc>‘ *••>» died and from that time until he entered the service he made his home with Mr. anrl Mrs. Wilmer I I M > I j , ,,, I _II., — •- - Besides his father lie is survived by a half sister, Mrs. Tommie Steckel of Fort Knox, Kentucky. Painfully Hurt In Road Wreck Miss Caroline Stalls was pain fully but believed not seriously injured when the station wagon, owned by Ward’s florist and driv en by Ed Rowland, turned over between here and Windsor early last Monday evening. Miss Stalls was said to havt suffered chest in juries and shock. Miss Bernice Ward, Mr. Rowland and Jimmy Ward suffered minor bruises and some shock, but they were able to be up and about the next day. The machine skidded off the hardsurface and went out of con trol when the driver tried to steer it back off the shoulder to the hardsurface which was several inches higher than the dirt. The machine was wrecked al most beyond repair. Small Deliveries Reported Durin Past Several Days l nofficial Reports Declare Hullisli Market Is Now Fairly Evident CTQ Interrupted for more than a week by heavy rains, activities are being resumed on the peanut markets in this section, and heavy deliveries are in the offing, weath er conditions permitting. Idle for more than a week, a few pickers were placed in opera tion Monday, the number gradu ally increasing as the week pro gressed until today the threshing task is underway on an extensive scale. Deliveries have been fairly light so far this week, the supply being too small for full-scale operations in all the mills. It was estimated that between 2,500 and 3.000 bags of till' goobers reached the market here yesterday, and it is likely that the mills will be on a full time operating schedule begin ning tomorrow. While the market is holding fairly close to government grades, prices have been bullish this week and quotations well above eleven cents have been reported with only a few sales falling be low nine and one-half cents. Whether the bullish market is I only temporary remains to be seen, but some observers reason that since the crop is short de mand will hold from fairly steady to strong. It is also indicated that comparatively few peanuts will go into government storage this seas on. Farmers, questioned on the market during the past few days, explain that quality is. fair, but that production is indeed disap pointing. Farmer Jimmy Bowen picked f!4 bags from eight acres this week to hit what is likely U be about an average for the coun ty. Production has been report ed as high as eighteen bags pet acre, but there are those farmers ■ m the areas where heavy rains fell with an average of only six or seven bags per acre. Four established buyers are on the market here at the present time with the possibility that others will enter the market later. Quite a few of the deliveries re ported here so far this season have been made from farms in adjoin ing counties. Farmers are watching the mois ture content and while a few sales have been delayed a few days only a few lots of peanuts have been rejected outright. In one in stance the moisture content was light at seventeen percent. A farmer from a distant county encountered considerable diffi culty when he presented a red card. No provision had been made to handle penalty peanut^ at j the time, and it was reported that [' ft ’A• fore reaching the one here. -- Srnalur rniovril Brief Visit Here Writing to Mayor Kobt. Cowell and members of the Williamstcn Boosters, Inc., Senator Frank P. Graham expressed his apprecia tion for the invitation, declaring that he enjoyed his brief visit here during the recent harvest festival The Senator's letter reads, in pa rt: "This little note ts to thank you for your invitation and the oppor tunity to be in Williamston on such a memorable occasion. I en joyed every minute of my visit there and deeply appreciated the hospitality and the courtesy of all of you. "You certainly had a marvelous crowd for the annual farm festi val It renews your faith in your country and the future* to be in such a meeting. "Please thank your committee and those who attended the lunch eon for their hospitality and for their part in arranging for the memorable day. . . ”