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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN, COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE TnE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 93 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 21, 1919 ESTABLISHED 1899 To Load Friendship Train Car In County People Asked To Deliver Corn To Receiving Points Humanity Calling for 40, 000 Pounds of Shelled Corn In County After enjoying a great Thanks giving day, citizens of Martin County are being called upon to day to pitch in after a liberal and willing fashion and help fill a box car with shelled corn for those who knew no Thanksgiving in the devastated areas across the seas. County Chairman Mayo Hardi son is calling a meeting of his committee members for 7:30 o’clock Friday night in the court house to make final plans for launching the corn canvass in this county next Monday. It is hoped tlicit the task can be completed within just a few days. In addi tion to the corn collection, the committee members will accept cash contributions, the chairman explaining that some money will be needed to pay the freight. It is planned to center the corn collec tion in the rural areas and ask those citizens in the town to make cash contributions. Any cash col collected in excess of the freight, will be converted into corn. Several counties in this area have aready loaded carloads of corn and other foodstuffs, and Chairman Hardison is confident Martin County will not fail in the voluntary movement which is be ing advanced in the name of suf fering humanity. The following township com mittee members were named some time ago and they will head the canvass: Jamesville, J. I.. Knowles and Carl Griffin: Williams, Mrs. R. J. Hardison and Chas. L. Dan iel; Griffins. W. B. Harrington and B. R. Manning; Bear Grass, H. U. Peel and Sidney Bcacham; Wil liamston, Mrs. Johnn> Gurkin and M. Luther Peel; Cross Roads, Gar land Forbes and Paul Bailey; Rob ersonville, Mayo Little, Sherwood Roberson, Reuben Everett and Sam T. Everett; Poplar Point, Mi s. L< Roy Taylor and Dock Hoi lis; Hamilton, J. II. Lillard and Calvin Oglesby; Goose Nest, Van Nory Smith and John Leary Has sell. Martin County is being ask'ul to load at least 40,000 pounds of corn in the ear. It was reported that the people of our neighboring county of Pitt crumpled nearly 80,000 pounds of corn into one car. If Pitt, ordinarily a corn buying county, can fill two cars with corn, Chairman Hardison feels that there’ll be no trouble in packing one to the roof in this (Continued on page six) -j---—— Governor Issues A Proclamation 1 urge all North Carolinians to loin in ti: 1 ■■! 'NO'1 the groat ^?W^?fifgucT -it !ui.> k more than nine hundred of our citizens in the past twelve months. Medical Science lias been suc cessful in finding the cause for Tuberculosis C-'.ns’aht research is discovering and perfecting cures for the various types and stages of the disease. Therefore, death from Tuberculosis is need less. It is our duty to provide the fi nancial means for educational programs, field work, early diag nosis, adequate and immediate treatment, and extended research. It is our responsibility to banish this killer from our own and fu ture generations'. Please do your share and more in buying and selling the Tuber culosis Christmas Seals, the sole monetary source for this tremend ous task. We can win the fight by zealous supoort of the 1949-50 con centrated campaign between now and December 25. May your Christmas be merrier because coil have helped in this way to banish sulfering and sor row from the world. W. Kerr Scott, Governor. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists on Martin County highways and streets really scored in a big way last week end when they chalked up six accidents, injured three seri ously and added more than $2,000 to property damages. 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. 46th Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam’ge 1049 6 3 0 $ 2.040 1948 2 0 0 100 Comparisons To Date 1949 123 54 5 $27,075 1948 127 71 2 30,135 Mrs. Robert Brown Dies At Hamilton Mrs. Emma Neil Brown, 73, died at her home near Hamilton last night at 6:30 o’clock following a week's illness. She was the wife of Robert C. Brown. The daughter of the late Albert and Eugene Allsbrook Neil, she , was born in Goose Nest Township on July 11, 1876, and spent all her life in that section of Martin County. j Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p. m. Sunday from Merritt’s Chapel Holiness Church with the : Rev. W. K. White and Rev. O. C. | Cowan officiating. Interment will j lie in the family cemetery. >’ Suiviving are five sons, Robert, Jr., Arthur, Frank, Pete and Paul Brown, all of Oak City; three dau ghters, Mrs. Kattie Whitfield of Halifax and Mrs. Mary White hurst and Miss Martha Brown, 1 both of Scotland Neck, and 18 grandchildren. Justice Hears Two Cases Here —$— Little activity was reported in the justice of peace courts here [during the past few days. Justice It. T. Johnson, hearing I the case in which Clyde Silver thorne was charged with disturb ing the peace, sentenced the de fendant to the roads for 30 days, suspending the term for six j months upon the payment of a $5 fine and costs. Charged with improper parking on the highway, Asa Tom Lanier was fined $5 and taxed with $5.85 I costs. C.arolina Engineers to llenr Talk (hi River Project Mr. Erie W. Rodgers will discuss , the Roanoke River Valley devel opment at tiu A*ivet*da r 30 meet ' mg of the East Carolina Engineers j Club in Taiboto. Mr. Rodgers is secretary and treasurer of the Roa iwr.c R.vei lJastri A - </< laiion, ; River Flood Control Committee. Construction Is 111 Progress Now On Several Homes Work Well Advanced On New Private Hospital And a New Church - Construction work, barely hold ing its own during most of the year, is now pushing to a new high peak here, Building Inspec tor G. P. Hall said this week. No accurate figures could be had. but the building program now under way here will cost an estimated quarter million dollars, according to the inspector. Construction work is either well under way or just being started on ten new homes, and re modeling on a rather extensive scale is being advanced on two others. Work is well advanced on the new Pentecostal Holiness Church on North Haughton Street, and most of the first floor walls for the new hospital on Lib erty Street have been completed. An addition to Jack Daniel’s ser vice station, corner of Washing ton and Jamelville roads, was re cently completed along with a large storage house for the Marvil Package Company near the river, A six-room frame home for Mr. and Mrs. R. D Davis on Lee Street is almost complete. Work is well advanced on a sev en room house for Mi. and Mrs. Rupert Cowen on East Main, and the foundation is being laid across the street for a five-room house for the John Cookes. A permit was recently issued to Mrs. Winifred Spruill for a five room house on Harrell Street, and the Buntings are building a 6 room house on Ray Street. Harry Jones is building two ten ant houses on West Church Street. The foundation is being laid for a nine-room house for Mr. and Mrs Chas. H. Godwin, Jr., on the corner of Liberty and Lee Street, diagonally across the streets from the new hospital. The H. O. Peels are building a brick veneer home on Franklin Street, and Abner Brown is build I mg a six-room dwelling on School I Drive. Several prospective builders have recently purchased lots on Franklin Street and Woodland Drive and other sites on the Rhodes property, but they do not plan to start construction within the near future. Farm Life Club Adds 10 Members Its charter only a few weeks old, the Farm Life Ruritan Club is growing rapidly. At the meet ing Tuesday night of this week 10 new members were added to push the total to 61. The new members are Harry Peel, Thomas Tice, Tilmon Lilley, Lawrence Lilley, Howard Col [train. Leslie Hardison, Evan Li 1 - ! je.i, Raleigh Harrington, No, man I Washington, and Ben R. Manning, i The Junior class of Farm Life ' High School served the club’s I meal. Committees, 14 of them, j *'xil i I nature of their duties. Dairying Gradually Gains Footlwld In Martin County Dairying, neglected for the most part all these years, is gradually coming into its own in this coun ty, according to Assistant County Farm Agent D W Brady. “The movement is another step in Mar tin County’s diversified farm pro gram,’’ the agent commented At the present time, two main j dairy establishments are in opera tion, the farm agent explaining that several farmers are now de livering milk to the Taylor’s Dairy plant in Williamston, that several others are completing plans to en ter the dairy field and still others are considering going into the business. There is a possibility that regular milk routes will be established in the county within the near future, according to the agent. At least three county farmers, Mayo Hardison of Poplar Point, W. A. Manning of Griffins and C. E. Jenkins of near Williamston and J. S. Whitfield of Roberson ville are making regular deliv eries to the plant. J. Linwood Knowles of Dardens and J. A. White of near Williamston are completing the construction of 6 cow dairy barns and will enter the market shortly. Although more milk is being produced in the county, Van Ralph Taylor, operator of Taylor's Dairy plant in Williamston, point ed out that a considerable amount of milk is still being imported, that it could be produced profit ably right here at home. Farm ers interested in entering the mar ket will find Agept Bradv and Mr. Taylor ready to work with them on their plans. , Santa Claus Will Receive Letters On Visit Thursday Making a visit to Williamston on Thursday of next week, Santa Claus will receive letters directly from the kiddies, it was announc ed today by his representative, A1 Sweatt, director of the Williams ton Boosters. All kiddies are ask ed to get busy with their letters, listing their Christmas plans and have them ready for Santa when the jolly ole fellow comes riding J into town at 4:30 o’clock on the afternoon of December 1 on one of the town's fire trucks. Mr. Santa Claus is making the visit at the special request of the Williamston Boosters, and his ar rival will be highlighted by a spe cial concert by Professor Jack Butler and his High School Band. It'll be an enjoyable event for the kiddies, and adults, too. A special invitation is being extended to all the little folks in this entire sec tion to be present and deliver their letters in person to Santa. Id the event any child can't get here for the event, he is invited to mail his letter direct to Santa, care the Boosters, Williamston, or send it by a relative. While the town is gradually tak ing on a holiday air, the season will be opened in a big way next Thursday when Santa comes to town and when the Christmas lights go on. More details about the program, including the home decoration 1 contests, will be announced short ly Two Die In Fire NearWilliamston Two small children, Charlotte Ann, 2, and Sallie Patricia, 4, i daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ru dolph Joyner, lost their lives early Tuesday afternoon when fire burned their tourist cabin home at the end of the Roanoke River fill in Bertie County about four miles from Williamston. Only parts of their charred bodies were recovered. Williams ton’s firemen were called there to wet down tlie ashes so the remains I could be raked out of the smould j ering embers. | The father was away from home at the time, and Mrs. Joyner, after putting the children to bed for their afternoon nap, went to her father-in-law’s filling station. She had been there only a few min utes when a colored pedestrian gave the alarm. Rushing to the house, the mother found it in flames but she tried to enter and was forced back by the others. In the attempt to save the children, she was painfully burned about the face, it was reported. One of the children had tried to get out the window, its little charred body I having been found at that spot. ! Investigating the tragedy, Ber I tie County’s coroner ruled the | deaths were accidental and order 1 ed no formal inquest. | The victims were the grand children of Mr. Marcus Joyner | who has worked in the Jenkins Barbershop at Williamston for several years. -o--— Four Injured As Car Hits House —»—. Four young colored men from 1 Beaufort County were injured, I two of them seriously at 11:35 last ! night when they drove out of the I Farm Life road too fast to turn into Highway 17 and side-swiped , the front of the Old Mill Inn, tear ing off the porch and wrecking their 1937 Ford tudor completely. According to Patrolman John T. Rowe who madi the investigation I James Rufus Barrow, 21-year-oiu 'colored man from Washington, 1 was driving the Ford which car I ril’d Virginia license plates. Bar l on then way toward Williamston j from the Farm Life section when | they faiied to make the turn into Highway 17. The car skidded aerotr the highway and struck the end of the porch of Old Mill Inn. Moving on across tin front of the house the car tore the porch off before coming to a halt. Damage to the house was estimated at $500 and tiie car was listed as a total loss at $300. Barrow, a student, suffered a broken pelvis and possibly other injury to his back. Earl Harris, 21, laborer, of Washington, was badly cut on his face, 10 or 15 stitches being required to close the wound. James Grice, also a laborer, from Chocowinity, had a severe cut on his hand and numerous bruises and abrasions. Jasper Simmons, 23, Washington, sustained a crack ed vertebrae and other injuries. Two of the six in the car at the time of the accident were not in jured. According to reports from those gathering at the scene of the wreck, one of the passengers in the car was thrown into the creek (Continued on page six) Beer Hanks Ki«*ht With Bijr Business In Martin County lOstimutf'd $100,000 Spent For Bi'vmint' During Tlu> Pawl Year Boor sales in Martin County have moved into the class of big business, according to reliable es timates based on a distribution of profits from the sales. Martin County and its nine towns received a combined total of $19,540.23 in so-called profits from beer sales for the twelve months ending in last September. The profits were divided as fol lows: Martin County, $13,702.2-1; Jamesville, $377.44; Williamston $2,999.89; Everetts, $200.45; Rober sonville, $1,084.26; Parmele, $315.42; Hassell, $113.46; Hamil ton, $379.79, and Oak City, $387.28. The sales in the State were about one fourth less than they were in the previous 12-month period, but amounted to $2,123,296 in the 96 counties where beer was sold. Williamston received about $400 less in profits from beer sales than it did the year before. While the beverage is consumed by a small percentage of the popu lation in the county, the imbibers bought an estimated 1,563,20(1 bot tles of beer, or nearly 60 bottles per capita. To get $19,540.23 in “profits” the consumers spent an estimated $390,800.00, most of the amount going to the brewers in Wisconsin. Of the $2,999.89 received by Williamston in profits, the sale of wines accounted for only $125 34. The county and towns receive one and one quarter cents on each bottle of beer sold. The distribu tion of profits is based on populr turn and not on places wher e the beverage is actually sold and con sumed. According to the distri bution plan, approximately two thirds of all beer sold in the coun ty is sold outside the nine towns, when, in reality, possibly more than two-thirds is sold within the incorporated limits of the nine towns. . .. Figuring only beer and wine sales by licensed dealers and li quor' sales in the four legal liquor stores, Martin County’s beverage Vl'lC Wtivv '»■»»'.'!}t i C .<»g last September stood right at a cool million dollars. Today’s Education Topic lor R-T.A Today’s Education will be the general topic for the program of the Williamston Parents-Teachers Association at the ri gular meeting in the Grammar School Audi torium next Monday evening at 7:30. An interesting program has been planned with Miss Lassie Pearce in charge. Visual aids to education will be demonstrated and a special film will be shown, featuring “Trees for Tomorrow.” Considerable interest has been shown in the work of the P.-T. A. this year and the programs have been well-planned. With a drive for a larger membership just be ing concluded a large attendance is anticipated for Monday night. | A meeting of the Band Parents Club is scheduled to followed the j P.-T. A. program. *»-v»W'X> i- vwn«^ *a»\ w>ri. Superior Court In Recess Until Monday Morning % r' Fr« (la.'ics am (’Irarrtl from Calendar Heforr (ionrl Onil WVdiirsilav -*_ After clearing a few cases from j the calendar, the Martin County j Superior Court recessed Wednes j day afternoon for Thanksgiving until next Monday morning. Other than half a dozen di vorces, the court handled only two damage suits, and heard one mo tion. Most of the cases, scheduled for next week, are of no great im portance and the court is expect ed to attract very little attention from the public. In the $800 damage suit brought j by George C. James against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company as a result of a fire last year, the jury awarded the plain tiff a judgment in the sum of $234. The damage was fixed at. ! $6 per acre on thirty nine acres of woodland. Work was started on the case Monday morning and the jury reached its verdict at noon Tuesday after deliberating the is sues for about forty-five minutes. Tuesday afternoon, the court heard a motion in the ease of Joseph L. Godard and others against J. Sam Godard and others. A hearing was held before Clerk L. 15. Wynne on October 28, and at that time an order was issued, di recting the commissioners to sell the property for division. The de fense appealed, after virtually agreeing that the land could not be partitioned without injury to some or all of the interested parlies. Judge W, 11. S. Burgwyn, presiding over the term, upheld the clerk's order, stipulating that the land should be sold in separate tracts. It was indicated that the Continued on pagp eight) --,r> — rii Seal Sale Is Under Way Today The annual sale of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals Mot underway to day. Approximately lflOO letters are being mailed directly to indi victuals in every section of Martin County. Each letter carries an appeal and 200 T. B. Christmas Seals Those receiving the direct appeal are urged to submit $2.00 in the return envelope addressed to their township chairman. Very few of the seals mailed last year were returned and Charles H. Manning, the county chairman is again anticipating a favorable re sponse. A special feature of the tuberculosis drive in this county is the bond sale which hgs met with much success in previous years. Bonds ranging from $5.00 to $25.00 will be offered for sale in the campaign against tubercu losis. There are 27 active eases of tuberculosis in Martin County, of this number 35 are being treated in sanatoi iums. At present, 8 wo men and 5 men are being eared for m the county sanatorium. The Health Department reports that an average of 75 free chest X rays are given pel month. Film for purchasers of seals and bonds. Young Man Fatally Hurt Here Tuesday r v. oi lI I HOI SI)A\ Although there w as a hunt ing accident on one side of the town in the morning and an automobile accident on the other side late that night, the Thanksgiving holiday passed Quietly in the tow n and coun ty for the most part. Officers of the town and county re ported all was uuiet. A large number of friends attended the funeral of Jef frey Michaud (Little Bear) in the afternoon and at night many football fans journeyed to Plymouth for the game there. Thanksgiving services at the Memorial Baptist Church were well attended. JiuiHNs II. Ward Is Widrntallv Shot While 11 mi tin" _ p \ cuing; Smi I'irrs .22 Kiflc NX liilr < lirckiuir To S*‘«* II Salcly Is Working Seriously wounded when his sun accidentally discharged his .22 automatic rifle while checking the safely during a hunt in Conine Swamp about noon Thanksgiving day, James Herbert Ward under went an operation for removal of the bullet yesterday afternoon at Duke Hospital and his attending physician reported that if no com plications set in his recovery could be expected. Hunting with Bennie Baldree, Ira Harrison, Charles Peele and Ins 11-year old son, Mr. Ward had warned his son to keep the safety on his rifle in position and the boy, the last in a line of three go ing through the swamp, touched the trigger to cheek the safety. The gun fired once, sending a bul let into the father's left hip. The ■small bullet struck the plate hone, glanced off and moved up through the small intestines, missing the kidneys and spine and coining to rest a quarter of an inch from the main artery to the heart. Nut considering himself too seriously wounded, Mr. Ward re peatedly urged Ins son not to wor ry, that it was an accident and no one could be blamed and walked 150 yards nut ol the woods to the highway with has arms over the shoulders of Ira Harrison and Charles Peele. Reaching the high way, the hunters stopped a car driven by Buck Saunders and he rushed the wounded man to the local hospital. After taking two x-ray pictures, Di. Brown advised the family to take the patient to Duke Hospital immediately as the bullet was too close to the spine and heart to make an operation here advisable'. The accident occurred at 11:50 a, m. arid by 1:30 p m., Mr. Ward was en route to Durham in a Biggs ambulance. The operut'on was reformed during the late alter noon (he head surgeon reporting . >. * (Continued on page eight) New Strains ()f 7obacco 7 o j />t’ Released For Next Year —— There are four new .strains of tobacco being considered for re lease for the lOfiO crop. The new strains haven't been named yet, but go by an experimental test number. Expt rimental test num ber 8213 is resistant to Black Shank and Granville Wilt. The yield has been on the average bet ter than Oxford 28 and about as good as Oxford No. 1. Experi mental test number 8259 is highly resistant to Black Shank and Granville Wilt. Yields are about the same as Oxford 28 and the proportion of cigarette grades is high. Experimental test number 8259 is resistant to Granville Wilt. The performance of this strain thus far shows that it is highly resistant to Granville Wilt, has! medium tall growth habits withj a lung, wide leaf broadly rounded at the tip and spaced medium wide on the stalk. . Exper mental test number Mc27 is highly resistant to Fusarium Wilt. This county has not had much of this disease so far. The new strains are being pack aged in one half ounce packages. In case the varieties are released, a farmer will be eligible for one half ounce package of the variety he needs insofar as the seed sup ply will permit. Price of seed is $1.50 per half ounce package. Far mers are urged to make applica tion for these seed at the County Agent’s Office before December 4th. Seed are ordered direct from N. C. Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., in Raleigh. The county agent’s office will send the orders m for those farmers wishing seed. Bov Scout Leader Strikes Truck On East Main Street I'Miirra! Servier Tinir-ilay \l Hu|>ti»t Clnireh \t l<‘inl«‘<l Ity Hundred* Jeffrey Michaud, known as "Little Bear,” was fatally injured when he crushed into the rear of a parked truck with his little mot or scooter on East Main Street here shortly before (LOO o'clock Tuesday evening. Suffering a skull fracture, the 24 year-old Boy Scout leader died in the local hos pital about two hours later. He never regained consciousness. Investigating the death, officers from the local police department and Coroner S. R. Biggs said that it was accidental No formal in quest was held and no charges were preferred against the truck | owner, Rov Edward Eubanks of i Apex. Working out of the local post office, the young man was on his I way down the rive r hill to deliver several special delivery letters, j Without a windshield or any pro tection, Michaud apparently held | his head down to shield his face j from the cold wind, hospital at taches explaining that the frac ture was on top of his head, that jthe face was not touched except ; for two minor cuts 01 scratches. Investigating officers said thal , Eubanks, accompann d by Jot i Seagrovcs, also of Apex, hail park I cd his truck on the right side ol j the street to unload bricks for tht I Rupert Cowan home. Facing to I ward the river, the truck was found to be well lighted, that warning lights were burning at the time all across the back of the trailer body and on top of the truck cab. It is thought that the young man, holding his head down, did not sec the lights. The front whe< 1 of the scooter ran un der the body of the trailer and struck tiie left outside rear tire, breaking the frame on the little machine. Ike rulers head struck the frame of the parked vehicle. The victim was removed to the hospital in a Biggs ambulance, and officers immediately started an investigation. j Quite a number of parents, whose children had been organiz ed into scout dens by "Little Bear”, went immediately to the hospital, remaining there until j the end. He was born in Lewiston, Maine, the son of Romuald Adel i ard Michaud and wife, on May 2ti, 1 1S)25. He told friends here that j he was not happy at home, that j when seventeen years old he ent jert'd the Marine Corps at Augusta, Maine, on February 2a, 1943, Shot ■111 one leg and one arm, he was I discharged on December 7, 1945. Returning to Marne he remained <h‘"e a short time and traveled south to visit a war time friend in or near New Bern. Planning to i seek a job in Norfolk, he was bumming hr; y ,tv n.: <i; ■ w,,..> . r hum E. Jenkins picked him up at the edge of Washington in early spring pf 194k. The young man explained that ho was bumming because his money was running short. .Ms. Jenkir offered to give him uppei and lodge him for the night. When Mr. Jenkins informed him that he lived in the country, "Little Bear” said that suited him fine, that he loved the country. When Mr. Jenkins ex plained that Farmer Dennis Mud lin needed a man on the old Whit aker farm, "Little Bear" accepted and went immediately to the farm. A few months later he mov ed to town, rooming and working in the veterinary office of Dr. W. E. Coppage, He attended school and met King White. Taken sick, "Little Bear was given a home by Mr. and Mrs. Palmer White on Beech Street, and soon was recog nized as a member qf the family. While he worked at various jobs, he had handled special de liveries for some time, taking a leave of absence last summer to serve as a camp councillor near (Continued on page eight)