THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEH VOLUME LI I—NUMBER 90 I 4 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bl OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 15, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1899 Series of Wrecks On County Roads During Week-end IN<> Our Builly Hurt and Loss To Property Small, Patrolmen Say No one was badly hurt and pro perty loss was held to a fairly low figure in a series of motor vehicle accidents on the highways in this county during the week-end. Driving on the Bear Grass Road about 6:00 o'clock last. Friday eve ning, Willie Lilley, Jr., 22, ran into and knocked Hildreth Roger son's cow and calf into a ditch. Reports state that the animals were not hurt, but damage to the car approximated $200, Patrolman M. F. Powers reported Sunday morning about 2:00 o’clock, Oliver Harrison, Jr., was driving on a dirt road about two miles north of J. D. Leggett’s home in Bear Grass Township when one of the front wheels locked and caused the 1042 Dodge to turn over. Damage to the ma chine was estimated at $100 by Patrolman J. T. Rowe who made the investigation. No one was hurt. Driving east on Highway 64 Sunday evening, Clarence Taylor of Plymouth started to make a left turn into a driveway just outside of Dardens with his 1937 Ford pick-up truck. Chas. W. Blount, Jr., of Mackeys was meeting him, and unable to turn to the left be cause another car was approach ing, Blount plowed his 1948 Chev rolet into the rear side of the truck, causing aoout $100 damage to the car and about $25 damage to the truck, according to Patrol man M. F. Powers who made the investigation. A colored boy whose name could not be learned immediately (Continued on page eight) Governor Pleads For Food Train In an appeal to all North Caro linians, Governor Kerr Scott re cently pleaded for support of the 194!) Friendship Train which is now being made up in this Sta.te. Dates for loading a carload of corn in this county have not been an nounced by Chairman Mayo Har dison of Poplar Point, but the ground work for the task has been laid, and the leaders are waiting for the signal. Governor Scott's plea, address ed to the citizens of North Caro lina, reads as follows: ‘ The Lord has again blessed us with a bountiful harvest for which we are humbly grateful. Our first thought is to share our good fortune with others; in some instances with our neighbors and friends and oftentimes with our fellowman across the seas. ‘ We are fully aware of the un told agony and suffering experi enced by the aged, the ill, the des titute and the hungry in war torn countries. We want to help them and find that the first coordinated relief program of Catholics, Luth eranr and other Protestant churches is a sure method of our cue/ .iffiT-Ttie i i . needy regardless of race or creed This nationwide projectis CROP, the Christian Rural Overseas Pro gram. Its sponsors are Church World Service (22 Protestant de nominations), National Catholic Rural Life Conference for War Relief Services, and Lutheran World Relief. “The plan is that American far mers donate their surplus in kind, that it be collected county by county, state by state, and finally shipped in bulk from a national center to the 43 nations served by CROP. Commodities that sustain life will not only feed the hungry, mondson of near Williarfiston. Mrs. Edmondson was a member of the Cedar Grove Baptist Church for many years, remain ing faithful in its service and re gular in attendance upon its meet ings as long as she was able to be up. She was held in high esteem as a friend and neighbor. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Cedar Grove church Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by her pastor, Rev. Marshall Joy ner. Interment was in the Leg gett Cemetery near the home. Jitterbuggers At Harvest Festival Here Pictured above are a few of the dancers participating; in the jitterbug; contests held during a harvest festival dance in Wash ington Street here a short lime ago. In addition to the hundreds witnessing the special dances above, there were large crowds participating in and watching square and round dances in other sections of the same street. Hold Funeral At Cedar Grove For Faithful Member Mrs. A mi i<> Vt yiinc Eil nion r Thoughts of tlic large family at the Oxford Orphanage begin to turn towards the Thanksgiving season when thousands of Masons and other friends annually give generously of their means to the welfare of boys and girls who need and so well deserve them. This is of the utmost importance in these young lives. The Oxford Orphanage for three-quarters of a century has specialized in every phase of pro perly rearing orphaned children. Its contribution of more than 6,000 well-equipped and worthy young men and women to good citizen ship is a living testimonial to the importance and usefulness of the institution whose sole object is to serve. The Grand Lodge of Masons owns and operates the Oxford Or phanage, but has never restricted its service to the children of Mas ons. Eighty-nine percent of the children in the institution are of non-Masonic parentage. At Ox ford the question of parentage yields to the need of the child. That is the decisive argument. c \ 1 \ F t i a C c J1 0 I t l e a 1 s t t f r c t r F t q c t fc t 0 8 f< S v V fl i no need oi urpnanugcs today for greater support is pressing. They must have more money—or else. You know what that means. Superintendent Gray is forced by circumstances to stress increas ed donations this Thanksgiving. The expense of operating the Ox ford Orphanugi has been grutv' ing every year and now is at a peak. When one thinks of the multiplicity of service the institu to open the hearts and purses of benevolent men and women. Here is a partial list of the kinds of ser vice imperatively demanded: shel ter, clothing, food, recreation, heat, light, books, school supplies, health programs, athletic equip ment, staff of trained workers, vo cational training in several de partments, laundry, repairs and Upkeep of grounds, buildings and equipment, experienced case work, and so on. There is no economy in neglect. When wc do not pay from the heart, often we have to pay "through the nose.” Juvenile de linquency is an acute problem of the times. Its prevalence is de plorable. The Orphanage helps materially in the solution of this social problem by rearing and training children who otherwise would not have a chance. If it did no more than this, the Orphanage would justify its existence. As a tax payer and public-spirited citi zen you are vitally interested in it. "Gratitude is a species of jus (''ontinued on page eight) M e *4 \A \A b P v c it a t; h N ir H S \ G b< h ir fh Pi w S. nt cl bi oi lii in to til wt.v? : *rv."4»'iiiST«» . Reactionary Work L)f 80th Congress Checked Recently —» I in man \\ in> Foreign Pol* icy anil Advances On The Domestic Front By Alfred M. Green Congress has adjourned. Its members, most of them at least; re at home to get the lowdown rom their constituents, or trying ). President Truman had a word ' f praise for them when they ad mrned Even his foes conceded re session was far from being jtal loss from the administration land point. When the ballots were counted ist November, the returns show d that in a "miracle election” ’ruman had won out and the Jemocrats had recaptured control f both houses of Congress. It ras thought the President would >e able to put over the program .'hich had been promised to the eoplc. But within a few weeks after re solons settled down in Wash rgton, the Taft Republicans, with n overwhelming majority on the I. O. P. side of both House and enate, and the Byrd-Democrats ad formed a coalition. This gave them an actual ma >rity in both houses, and control f many important committees in [ouse and Senate. This must have been a shock ta re gentleman in the White House, »ut he refused to yield an inch; rstead he insisted on pushing very phase of his program, f’oi time he didn't make much prog css, and the followers of Taft unii lyrd cheered lustily when thej uececded in blocking repeal u! lie Taft-Hartley Act. But after a while the tide began i turn, and when the final gavel ell this was the score: t'us the field in which Congress lade its best showing, approving Yuman’s policies in practically a lean sweep, from ratification of he Atlantic Pact in the early ninths of the session to appro riating on the closing day funds j help our allies. What the Farmers Got — Ade uate price supports for farm raps were assured, at least for le immediate future, in the farm ill passed in the closing hums ol le session, hut there were many then important enactments. One of the major crimes of the 3th Congress, a crime for which irnicr Congressman Roger C. laughter, Missouri Republican, as said to have been well paid, as corrected when government mds were provided for grain oragc facilities. Payment of ipport funds is limited to grain in storage” and lack of storage nice meant many growers had to 'll last year’s crop for what they mid get. That is just what the rain gamblers and millers, for horn Slaughter was working, anted. The lilst Congress also author ed loans to expand rural tele hone service, and for construc on and repair ot (arm homes; mtinued and expanded the crop isurance program; continued ithority to control imports of HowWorkevs Farad--The "Un :>ly Alliance” of Southern and orthern reactionaries succeeded i preventing repeal of the Taft artley Act, and delayed a Social county reform measure for this (Continued on page eight) Gainfully Hurt In Peanut Picker Hildreth Rogerson, young Bear rass farmer, was painfully but dieved not seriously hurt when s arm was caught in the maeh ery of a peanut picker on his ther’s farm last week. The young man reached into the eker to clean out some trash lien the machine was idle, imeone, not knowing he was ar the picker, started the ma ine. His shoulder was injured, it he was able to snatch his arni t without serious injury to the 11b. After receiving treatment Brown’s Hospital, he returned his home Thursday, but con* lues in bed. e