THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BE
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEH
VOLUME LI I—NUMBER 90
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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
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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<lf»on Died at Home
In Poplar Point Sunday
Mrs. Annii' Wynne Edmondson
well-known resident of Poplai
Point Township, died at her home
| there at 2:00 o'clock Sunday
' morning She had been in declin
| ing health for a long period but
her condition was not regarded
serious until a few days before
■ when she suffered a stroke of
paralysis and never regained con
1 sciousness.
The daughter of the late Samuel
and Esther Linda Purvis Wynne,
she was born in this county 62
years ago on March 22, 1887. In
early womanhood she was mar
ried to Julius Edmondson who
died six years later, leaving three
children by the union, Mrs, Fate
Roebuck, Luther Edmondson and
Mrs. Ida Belli Roebuck, all of
near Williamston. In 1911 she
was married to Manc.y Edmond
son who survives with four sons,
Willie B. Edmondson of Hamilton,
Charlie and Lanier Edmondson,
both of the home, and William Ed
but speed rehabilitation and build
a better world. Especially needed
are grains, soybeans, livestock,
dairy products, dried fruits, nuts,
raw if11in. and wool.
‘ When you are approached to
assist in this program, either as a
solicitor or foi a donation, remem
ber that Uv..m of your ef
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pitals, homes for the aged, sani
toriums, orphanages, dispensaries,
displaced persons camps, refugee
camps, child feeding programs,
pre-tubercular clinics, student re
lief centers, church institutions
and broken homes. •
The Lord will bless you in
your mercy for he tells us—
“ inasmuch as ye do unto one of
the least of these, my brethren, ye
do also unto me.’ ”
The former officer had shown
much improvement but more re
cently something gave way and
he was forced to take up his
crutches again.
Oak City Man Scheduled
for Another Operation
■ Suffering a broken hip when
attacked by a man he whs arrest
ing in Oak City about two years
ago, Edmond Early, former Oak
City officer, is scheduled to und
ergo another operation in a Dur
ham hospital soon. The pins us
ed in holding the bones in his hip
together have slipped, it was ex
plained, vand the new operation
calls for a graft and more pins,
Maintain Drive On Illicit
j Liquor Business In County
Continuing without let-up ir
their drive against the illicit li
quor traffic, both manufacturing
and retailing, Martin County offi
cers last week wrecked a large
distillery and carried tw»o cases in
to the courts.
Possibly completing a vacation
owners of a plant started to re
sume operations at a plant in Bear
Grass Township, not far from the
Harris Millpond, when ABC Offi
cer J. H. Roebuck and Deputy Roy
Peel interrupted the* plans las!
Friday. The 100-gallon copper
kettle, used previously, had just
been bricked up again, the offic
ers stating that the brick mortar
was hardly dry. Capturing the
still, the officers wrecked six 50
gallon fermenters and found 1OQ
pounds of corn meal and 100
pounds of rye meal.
Switching to the retail end of
the illicit business, the two offic
ers went to the home of Oscar i
Higgs just off Highway 17 in thej
newly paved Bear Grass Road andj
found a goodly number of
'"drunks” and confiscated three
'and one-half gallons of raw li
quor. Higgs and his wife, Amanda,
are to appear in the county court
on December 5.
While the ABC officer and de
puty were working near Williams- j
ton, Sheriff M. W. Holloman and J
Deputy Raymond Rawls invaded j
Parmele and booked James Arth
ur Perkins, colored, for allegedly
operating a gambling house and
possessing illicit liquor. !
OPENINGS
Its ranks reduced to a mini
mum by deaths and address
changes, the Williamston Fire
Department is receiving ap
plications for membership.
Anyone interested in rend
ering a public service without
little or much hope for pecun
iary reward may procure an
application form from Fire
Chief G. P. Hall or Depart
ment Secretary Julian Har
rell
Native Dies At
Virginia SFaeii
Dahna Mobley, native of this
county, died at hi.s home in Vir
ginia Beach Saturday morning at
B:30 o'clock, the victim of a heart
attack.
The son of Mrs. John Lilley of
this county and the lute Chas.
Mobley, he was born in this coun
ty 33 years ago. For the past
eight years he made his home in
Virginia Beach where he was em
ployed by a taxi company.
Surviving besides hi.s mother
are one sister, Miss Marie Mobley
of Williamston; a brother, Gilbert
Mobley of Plymouth; a half-sister,
Miss Louise Ray Lilley, and a
half-brother, John Lilley, Jr., of
this county.
Funeral services were conduct
ed in the Fairview church in Wil-;
liams Township Sunday afternoon I
at 3:00 o’clock by the pastor, Rev.1
Preston E. Cayton, assisted by!
Rev. W. B. Harrington, county '
Baptist minister. Burial was in;
the Siloam Methodist Church
Cemetery in Williams Township, i
: Short Course For
Farmers In State
Beginning early in January,
State College, Raleigh, will offer
a four-week course in dairy, cat
tle and crop production, Assistant
Farm Agent I). W. Bradv an
nounces. The courses are open to
any farmer who lias had eight or j
more years of schooling and the
cost, covering board and room and j
incidentals, will be limited to '
$07 00. I
Agent Brady, pointing out that
the course offers a splendid op
portunity to every farmer who
"VjjiJflC t’.’.kf- adv ^
struction and practical experi
ence, is receiving applications.
GI’s will be extended aid and ap
plications must be filed not later
than December 15.
Several young farmers are plan
ning to attend the course and
others interested in the program
are directed to contact Agent
Brady. I
Organizing Junior
Order Lhapler Here
Lt. McColl, national field repre
sentative of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, is
here working to reactivate a chap
ter here, it was announced yester
day. A free supper meeting for
those interested in the organiza
tion will be held some time dur
ing next week when officers are
to be elected.
A patriotic fraternal organiza
tion, the JOUAM is numbered
among the oldest orders in the
country. Persons, over 16 years
af age and who are of good moral
character, and believing in a Su
preme Being, are eligible for
membership in the organization.
Big Black Bear
Invades Hamilton
A block bear, described as a '
hunt animal, invaded the out
skirts of Hamilton Monday morn
ing about 8:30 o’clock, and appar
ently got the scare of his life along
with members of Howard Wil
liams’ family.
Two children, playing in the
yard, supposedly were chased into
the house by the bear. The chil
dren reportedly did not tarry long
inside, hut moved out and toward
B. B. Taylor’s filling station, fol
lowed closely by their mother and
five or six other children It was
a hectic time there for a while,
and some minutes were said to
have passed before an account of
what happened could be told.
The hear had wandered around
the barn about 25 yards from the
house, but when lie saw the chil
dren running out of the house he
moved away ahead of the towns
people who hurried there for a
hunt.
Ilndios of Fnthor And
Son Rohnriod Rooontly
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The bodies of Mr. Jesse Clark
and his son, Henry Norman Clark,
were moved from the family plot
on tin' Clark farm near Everetts
recently and reburied in Wood
lawn Cemetery here.
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( lull Mooting Tonight
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Mrs Charles Cl. Doak, executive
secretary o) the North Carolina
Federation of Woman’s Clubs, will
address a joint meeting of the lo
cal and Jaine: viile Woman s Club-,
m the i Iulj i i c Vii... cvcn.u^
at 8:00 o’clock.
I.oral (iirl lias Part
In (lollrffr ('.lull Ploy
Miss Burnell White, local girl, is
playing a leading part in Shake
speare's comedy, "Twelfth Night,”
in the A. C. College auditorium
this week. Active in dramatics
since she entered the Wilson col
lege, Miss White scored a hit when
she played in "The Glass Mcn
igene” at the college last year.
I ROUNIMJP
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Although officers were ac
tive in various parts of the
county and one or two fights
were unofficially reported,
few persons found their way
into the county jail during the
week-end.
Only five persons yvere de
tained, one for issuing a
worthless check and lour for
public drunkenness. One of
the five was white, and the
ages of the group ranged
from 2(1 to 37 years.
Peanuts Moving to Market
In Quantities This Week 1
Delayed by rains earlier in the
season, peanut marketing is rap
idiy getting under way here, un
official reports stating that ap
proximately nine thousand bags
were delivered to millers and
other buyers here yesterday. A
peak in marketing activities ordi
narily is reached with the daily
delivery of about 18,000 to 20,000
bags of the goobers. However,
marketing is advancing a little
more slowly this year, but even
then it is possible to handle be
tween 14,000 and 15,000 bags daily
without too much delay.
While the market today is hard
ly as “bullish" as it was the mid
dle and latter part of this week,
prices are holding strong, and
buyers appear anxious for the
crop.
As more and more farmers com- r
plete the threshing of their crops,
reports on the yield become more
disheartening with some few ex
ceptions. In some areas, the crop
borders on failure, the yield ex
ceeding no more than three or
four bags per acre. In other areas, ;i
the yield is holding up, while on f
the Taylor Boys' farm near Wil- t
liamston, 25 bags per acre were ,
picked from one crop. It is liber- j
ally estimated that the crop for t
the county will average hardly t
more than ten bags to the acre. s
Quality, however, is coming up to
expectations with very few of the 1
goobers being rejected on account t
ot high moisture content. ’
El). IN. I lardison
Dies In Hospital
Monday Morning
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Funeral Al Home Tuesday
Afternoon at 2:.'{()
Near Jaiuesville
Ebenezer N. Hardison, well
known farmer of Jamcsville
Township, died in Brown's Com
munity Hospital Monday morning
at 3:BO o’elock after a long period
of declining health. His condition
had been critical following a
stroke suffered at his home not
far from Jamcsville six weeks
ago. Since that time he was a
patient in the hospital, but little
hope was held for his recovery
from the beginning of his last ill
ness. lie never regained consci
ousness.
The son of the late Thomas and
Mary Griffin Hardison, he was
born in this county 72 years ago
on August 17, 1877. A farmer all
his life, he was a diligent and hard
worker. Humble in his walk
through life, Mr. Hardison was not
at all pretentious, valuing the
trust and friendship of Ins fellow
man and lending a helping hand
to others.
In early manhood he was mar
ried to Miss Della Gardner and
she survives with six children,
Mrs Noah Hardison and Miss Ann
Hardison, both of Williamston,
and Mrs. Willie 11. Modlin and
Mrs. Dennis Modlin, both of near
Williamston, and a son, Howard
II. Hardison of near Jamcsville.
Miss Isolene Gardner of Williams
ton who entered his home when a
small child at the death of her
mother, was reared as one of his
own children.
Mr. Hardison was a member of
the Cedar Branch Baptist Church
and his pastor, Rev. W. B. Har
rington, will conduct the service
at the home near Jamcsville this
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Inter
ment will be in Williamston’s
Woodlawn Cemetery.
Elect Additional
Primary Teacher
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Mrs. J. H. Saundt rs, Jr., was
!.jj. H’W days ago breach
^xotTiin section oi the
in the local schools. She is ten
tatively scheduled to enter upon
her new duties within about a
week oi' ten days.
Holding an A certificate, Mrs.
Saunders taught a few years in
the Mississippi and Louisiana
schools before going with the Civil
Aeronautics Administration. At
the present time she is an opera
tor in the CAA office here.
The first grade has an enroll
ment of 137, or almost 4fi pupils
for each of the three teachers.
Even with the creation of a fourth
section, the per-teachcr load will
continue to hold to a high figure.
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Stare Celebratiiiff
•10th Annivvrsury
Margolis Brothers, operating
he town’s oldest established mer
•antile business, are celebrating
heir 30th anniversary with a spe
•ial sale, begininng tomorrow and
asting for eleven days.
Marked reductions have been
ffected and the store owners are
nviting the public to celebrate
he event.
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PROGRESSING
Started just a little over a
week ago, work on Williams
ton's new It bed hospital is
progressing rapidly. The con
crete foundation has been
completed, but late delivery
of briek is delaying work on
the walls temporarily. Con
siderable amounts of other
building materials have been
placed on the lot on Liberty
Street near the high school,
and the delivery of thousands
of brick is expected momen
tarily.
Orphanage Appeal
For Thanksgiving
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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.
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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.
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Reactionary Work
L)f 80th Congress
Checked Recently
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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.
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