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p the enterprise is read be OVER 3,00$ MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 4 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 12, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Former Local Boy * Hero Of Picture “12 O’Clock High" ■ <3* 1 Premier Iw Hollywood Re cently Big Affair In The Movie World Frank Armstrong, U. S. Air Force General who made his home in Williamston during his youth with his grandparents, the |g late Clerk of Court arid Mrs. J. A. Hobbs, is the hero of a recent mo vie, according to Hollywood Mo vie News appearing in one of the New York papers last week. Commenting on the picture, the Movie News said, “Lots of ‘class’ and Air Force Brass combined to make the Hollywood premiere of ‘Twelve O’clock High' a really glamorous night to remember. 9 General Curtis LeMay flew in from Washington just for the do ing, and then, right out again. But the real hero of the picture and the evening’s festivities was beloved General Frank Arm strong, who is the central charac ter in the film and whose real life role is played by Gregory Peck. Reviewing the premier, Time ♦ Magazine had the following to say: Next to the annual Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full blown premiere (pronounced pre meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of ] its own contender, Darryl F. Zan-1 uck’s war. film. Twelve O’clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treat ment. For weeks, 23 studio employees i had labored over a six-page blue- j print of arrangements budgeted at $30,000. They sent out 2,000 seven-inch gilded tickets to Who’s Who in Hollywood, taking pains to give choice locations to the 4) elite and to keep known enemies and recently divorced couples seated apart. From the coopera tive Air Force they got an impos ing turnout of brass, a 67-piece band and a flight of bombers. From the Los Angeles police they got 100 cops to keep a crowd of 6,000 open-mouthed fans in check. From Fox s own studio wardrobe, I they supplied attending starlets g|With full finery, including ten gowns, eight fur coats and two 1 " mink stoles. As the big event began, the usual klieg lights wrnre dimmed by ten antiaircraft searchlights lhat threw 15-rnile beams up over Grauman s Chinese Theater. \ Snappily uniformed attendants parked the arriving Cadillacs (many rented for the evening at $25). From the red-carpeted curb, past an awed crowd of sand “ wich-munching fans in bleachers around the entrance stepped I scores of stars into the arms of 14 pressagents, who whisked them to a platform for an amplified in troduction. The standard re sponse: “I hear this is one of the greatest pictures . . .” Inside were 32 special usherettes and four ex tia theater managers from other Fux cinemansions. \ After ward came the studio’s ) biggest protocol headache: a par ty at Mike Romanoff’s restaurant, I which can hold only 250—of the j very best people, of course. When , it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to I fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to com ment on a bad new movie: “What a picture! What a performance!’’ Fox figurecT that, all in all, it was • well worth the $30,000. PROGRESS % L I Construction work' on the new hospital here is going: forward rapidly. Starting work about two months ago, the builders are planning to complete the main walls within a week or ten days, weather permitting. Part of the roof Is being placed, and a greater part of the building has partition walls. No completion date has been mentioned, but building superintendent, R. J, Brock, said that construction is well ahead ot schedule. Fifty - Seven Cases In County’s Court PRESIDENT G. P, Hall, Williamston’s fire chief, was elected by un animous vote at-a quarterly meeting in Edenton Tuesday evening president of the East ern Carolina Firemen’s Asso ciation for the current year. Twenty-Eight In Court Monday On j Speeding Charges Several Exeeeil Limit In 35-1 Mile Zone; Fine* Total More Than #400 -- Motorists, traveling under the name of speeders, had a big re , union in the Martin County Ke corder’s Court last Monday. ; Twenty-eight were booked,for ex ceeding the speed limit, including quite a few who were charged with running within the prescrib ed limit but in excess of the rate allowed in speed zones. Several of the defendants liter ally howled against the fixed cast of $22.05, but once the defendants pleaded guilty or were adjudged guilty there was little the court could do but tax them with that amount of cost, plus the statutory fine of $15. Asked what would happen if he refused to pay the fine and costs, one defendant, ad mitting he was guilty, decided to pay off when it was explained that the alternative was so many days in jail. Fines, averaging a little more than $15, amounted to $430. Harry Clayton Roberson of Rob ersonville and Joseph Cotton of Bethel were each fined $15 and taxed with the costs for allegedly running 50 miles an hour in a 35 mile limit zone. Pleading not guilty, Cotton was adjudged guil ty. Running 55 miles an hour in a 35-mile limit zone, McDonald Dixon of Elizabeth City, was fined $15, plus costs. Charged with speeding and op erating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Marvin B. Stew art of Vanceboro was fined $40, plus costs. Pleading guilty, each 0f t^e fol lowing defendants was fined $15 and taxed with $22.05 costs: Ernest Jenkins of Robersonville, Elmer Murry Leggett of Williams ton, Walter Willoughby of Green ville, Joseph M. Terry of Wil liamston, William Nathaniel Tay lor of Williamston James Henry Jonts of Williamston, Cleaster Co burn of Robersonville, Ned Ran dolph Charles of Dania, Florida, Moe Abrams of Brooklyn, Janet West of Mansfield, Pa., Charles Fuller of Arvene, N. Y., Herbert Lee Harris of Greenville, Titus W. Harrison of LaGrange, Erwin Ros en burg, Brooklyn salesman; Paul S. Rosenberg, private detective of Brooklyn; David Woodstein of Ne wark, N. J., Daniel J. Ferioli, con tractor of West Springfield, Mass.; Norman Harris, dry cleaner of New Rochelle, N. Y.; John Wesley Davis, minister of Tyner, N. C.; Leon S. Brown of Stokes, Frank Clay Cox, service manager of Daytona Beach; Glen Howard Ste wart of Vanceboro, Samuel Katz of Millburn, N. J., and Neshan K. Havligian, a tailor from New York. ' Fines Imposed At Monday’s Session Amount To $1,055 Alleged Liquor Law Violat* on Find Sledding Tough in Court Fifty-seven cases were handled i in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday in a session lasting until almost dark. Twenty eight of the cases involved alleg ed speeders who paid a total of $430 in fines into the court. The twenty-nine regular cases ac counted for $625 in fines, boosting the total take for the day to $1, 055. Several defendants were giv en time on the roads to meditate over their erring ways. Alleged liquor law violators found the sledding tough in the court, their fines, substituted for road terms, accounting for much of the cash income for the day. Proceedings: Charged with violating the li quor laws. Willie Whitaker plead ed guilty and was fined $50, plus costs. Clebourne D. Shores of El Cen j tro, California, and Colgate, Qkla i homa, was fined $100 and taxed with the costs for drunken driv | ing. His license to operate a mot or vehicle was revoked one year, according to law. Entering no plea in the case in I which he was charged with lar j ceny, C. B. Biggs was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs and $6 for the auto battery. The defendant is not to violate another criminal law. Pleading not guilty, Willie Stokes, Jr., was adjudged guilty of an asspult with a deadly weap on and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. Roosevelt Carney was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Adjudged guilty of bastardy, Willie Gorham was sentenced to the roads for six months. Execu tion of sentence was suspended upon the condition that he pay the court costs and three dollars a week for the support of his illegi timate child during the next two years. Fate Coffield, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of the costs. He is to violate no criminal law during the next two years. The case charging Billy Gene Tetterton with being drunk and disorderly, was remanded to a Jamesville justice of the peace for trial and judgment. Pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, Thelma ed to jail for three months to serve at the county home. The jail term was suspended upon the payment of the costs, a $25 fine and $37.75 for Willie B. Jackson’s ! doctor’s bill. W. B. Boyd was found not guil ty of an assault with a deadly weapon. Pleading not guilty, James Sta ton, colored, was found guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to the roads for (Continued on page eight) Hold Holliday Funeral Today Funeral services were conduct ed in Kecoughtan, Virginia, this morning at 10:00 o’clock for Gainer R. Holliday, native of this county who died in Veterans Hospital there last Saturday eve ning. Interment was in the cem etery there. Mr. Holliday, a native of the Jamesville section, suffered a stroke at his home in Hertford County a few weeks ago and en tered the hospital soon thereaft er. He was a veteran of World "WarT Justice Of Peace Hears Nine Cases In Court Recently —«— Several to Be Trier* for Vio lation of Compensation Laws Of State Nine cases were handled and several others were sent to the higher courts by Justice R. T. Johnson in his court here this week. No other justices reported any proceedings in their courts, but Justice Chas. R. Mobley is scheduled to hear several cases, charging violations of the unem ployment compensation law. The cases are tentatively scheduled for Friday of this week. [ Proceedings in Justice John Json’s court: Publicly drunk, Allen Rascoe was taxed with $5.85 costs. Lillie Berry, a fairly frequent visitor in the courts either as a defendant or prosecution witness, was sentenced to jail for ten days for being drunk and disorderly. She appealed to the higher courts. Publicly drunk, James Mullen was required to pay $5.85 costs. Charged with operating a mot or vehicle with improper lights, Jack Welch was taxed with $5.85 costs. In the ease in which Harry D. Wooten was charged with the im proper registration of a motor ve hicle, the defendant was taxed with $5.85 costs. The cases in which Alfred Hol lis and Rudolph Goff were charg ed with operating motor vehicles with improper lights were nol pressed or dismissed. Artist Leo Barnes, charged with failing to stop at an intersection, was taxed with $5.85 costs. Ray Clark was required to pay | $7.85 costs on a drunk charge. Farm Bureau To Meet On Friday The Martin County Farm Bu reau will hold a special meeting in the county courthouse Friday night of this week at 7:30 o’clock, Secretary W. M. Hardison an nounced this week. Delegates to the national Farm Bureau Federation convention held in Chicago last month will report to the membership at the meeting. Delegates to the State conven tion to be held in Raleigh Febru ary 12 to 15 will be named. All members of the organization are invited to attend. Special Program In Local Church Three widely known person alities will appear here for one night only at the Methodist Church, Williamston, N. C„ on Thursday, January 19, 1950, at 7:30 o’clock. Pat B. Withrow, Jr., noted speaker, humorist, and song lead er, will head the unit and present • - —.,»•*»■**» . "nr a full hour of music, dramatic ex perienees, and entertainment. Mr. Withrow will lead you from laugoter and tears, from sober re flection into a stimulating spirit ual experience you must not miss. The program will also feature the talents of Ivy and A1 Walsh. Many have heard these artists ov er ABC on the Studebaker Pro gram. They have devoted their lives to bringing enrichment and enjoyment to others, They sing solos and duets accompanied by Ivy’s Frontalini accordion. This happy couple can bring you the cleanest entertainment you have ever enjoyed. A1 was the winner o( a four year scholarship to Rolins Col lege, and was a veteran of World War II, having served in the Pa cific Theatre with distinguished service in the U. S. Army. Ivy has thrilled many audi ences, large and small, with her beautiful soprano voice, und everyone is amazed at the case with which she handles the ac cordion and sings simultaneously. These artists are appearing here in the interest of Veterans Hos pital Programs, now in its 4th year of continuous operation. This is a non-profit organization de-1 (Continued from page fiveiu*-''"} Guard Members to Undergo Physical Exams This Week Sixty-seven Sign Up In The Nntionul Gnurtl Unit; Room For More With at least sixty-seven sign ed up, the Martin County Nation al Guard Unit is now rushing to meet the inspection deadline on January 24, Commanding Officer E. S, Peel, Jr., said this morning. Announcing that the membership had exceeded the fifty-man mini mum. the officer explained that there arc still openings for other recruits, that unless membership is taken before the January 24 in spection, a waiting list would have to be encountered. Addi tional men can be taken into the unit only as replacements or until such time as the National Guard increases the quota. At the pres ent time the quota is 120 men and four officers. Arrangements have been made with Drs. Rhodes and Harris to handle the physical examinations in the Martin County Health of fices tonight and Friday night, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Mem bers of the unit are asked to re port for the physical tests on one of the two nights since other ap pointments could possibly be de layed. The minimum membership fig ure was passed at a meeting of in terested young men in the Legion Hut here Tuesday evening, and yesterday several youths in the Jamesvillc area signed up. Plans are being completed to day for housing the unit in the old water plant on Sycamore Street until permanent quarters can be provided either in some other building or in an armory. (Continued on page five) Democratic Party Officials To Meet -» Members of the Martin County Democratic Executive Committee are being called into special ses sion next Monday night at f!:00 o'clock to handle special business, Chairman Elbert S. Peel announc ed today. The committee in cludes the chairmen of the thir-1 teen precinct committees, county ' chairman, secretary and treasur-1 er. Democrats in this county are j being asked to raise $300 for the j party this year, and plans for the canvass will be formulated at the meeting. The important busi ness scheduled for consideration will be the selection of a chair man of the Mai tin County Hoard of Elections to succeed Mr. Syl vester Peel who faithfully served the county for a long number of years until his death last year. While the committee is not em powered to name the chairman, its recommendation is tantamount to election by the State Board of Elections. Vice President Of Southern Dairies —•— J. O. Bowen, who married Miss Emma Ilobcrtson of Williamston and who has visited here often in recent years, was recently made vice president of Southern Dairies, one of the largest hand lers of dairy products east of the Mississippi. In charge of operations in the South for a number of years with headquarters at Miami, Mr. Bow en is now stationed in Washing ton, D. C. [ hoc; killings j Hog killings are the order of the day on farms in this county. There's at least one hog killing in nearly every community daily. Premliminary reports indi cate that Martin farmers will kill an ample supply of meat this year with some to spare. Weather conditions have not been very favorable tor meat packing, but many farmers ha><rpacked their meat in cold storage plants. Will Submit Corporate Limit Extension Plan To The People Start Drive For Infantile Paralysis Fund Next Week — - ■ » The annual drive to raise be tween $4,000 and $5,000 in this county for the infantile paralysis fund will get under way next Monday. Chairman L. B. Wynne announced today. The school children, white and colored, will spearhead the drive, while direct appeals will be made by letter to quite a few in the county, the chiarman explained. Last year, $4,470.52 was raised I for the fund in this county. While the local need has lessened some what, the disease reached epi demic proportions iqft other sec tions of the country and the need is great. Several states have con ducted special fund-raising cam paigns since January of last year, and since Martin County and North Carolina have received far more from the national fund than has been paid in by them, it is farily certain that our people will show their appreciation and meet the solemn obligation. Last year in this county, $1, 755.25 was spent in caring for one new case and several old ones, and half the amount collected was forwarded to the national fund, leaving a balance of $470.30 in the county treasury. Should the dis ease strike even one child in the county this year, the available money ih the fund would not be sufficient to meet the emergency. It is hoped by the chairman and others that the good people of this county will support the drive and build a fund large enough to meet any and all emergencies The money is made available to all infantile paralysis cases. Local Office Earns First Class Rating Receipts Amount To $40,703.89 In Year Just Ended -\*>— i’oxlniaslrr W. 10. Dunn l.s Very <)|iliini>|ie Over Outlook for I*>50 Handling a record volume of business, Wiilianiston's post office squeezed into the first class group with a little to spare in 1949, Post master W. E. Dunn announced yesterday. Receipts, amounting to $40,703.89, were increased by approximately $4,000 during last year over those of 1948 to put the office in the top rating group. While increased postage rates | helped account for part of the in | crease, Postmaster Dunn points I out that the gain ratio was about | the same as it has been for the I past several years and that tin | volume of business reflects a j growing town and an increasing [ j patronage. That the postage rate I boost did not have too much to do I in supporting the rating is evi | dent ed by the quarterly gains, the record showing that the first quar ter receipts were almost $1,500 greater than they were in the cor | responding period in 1948. The gain in the second quarter was ne gligibly, but the third period showed an increase of more than $1,100, while the fourth quarter income was hardly $1,000 greater than it was in the last three months of 1948. Commenting on the new rating, Postmaster Dunn said that it would make available to the of fice greater requisitions and a larger stock, that the personnel could be increased to meet the needs. Small increases in salaries accrue to the postmaster and his assistant, F. E. Wynne, but the sal ary schedule for clerks and other employes is not affected. The financial section handling money orders, bonds and other I instruments will open at 9.00 a. in. | and close at 5:00 p. m. except on 1 Saturdays when the office closes at noon time. It is estimated that the office sold one and one-third million stamps or their equivalent during last year to annex the enviable rating, the postmaster explaining that income is based almost en tirely on stamp sales. While income from stamp sales showed a healthy increase, money order business fell from $269, 667,31 in 1946 to $265,540.05 last year. The money order window started off with a fairly big bang in the first quarter of the year, gaining about $4,000 over the total for the first three months in 1948. It lagged a little in the second Quarter, and then in the third (Continued on page eight) TAX LISTING f J Fairly complete reports from most of the ten town ships state that 1950 property listing is progressing very well. "Most of the list-lak ers state that the work is much farther advanced this year than at the same time ft»r 1949,” Supervisor M. L. Peel said yesterday. While the list-takers in most districts are fairly busy there's little waiting. Ilow1 ever, a last minute rush is very likely, and properly owners will find it to their advantage to list without further delay. Plans Go Forward For Now Church —•— The Church Board of the- Wil liamston Christian Chuivh met in its regular monthly meeting Monday evening. The building committee made its report and re commended to the board and Church that the ground breaking for the new Church home should be made not later than Easter Sunday. The board accepted the report and recommendation of the building committee with com mendation for its fine work. The board then considered this recoin- , mendation and approved it en thusiastically. The board is now | making plans for a congregational j meeting on Suufav. , Jaauat.v 22,! at the morning worship hour to ! secure its approval. Letters will go out to every member of the church acquainting them of this meeting and urging their attend ance. The plan of building will be along the general line suggested by the architect of the Brother hood of the Disciples of Christ and will be built on the lot ac quired several years ago from the W. C. Manning estate. It is alto gether fitting that the new church home of the Williamston Chris tian Church should be built on the land of one of the outstanding leaders of the local Church and the Brotherhood of the state, Brother W. C. Manning, who for many years was president of the North Carolina Christian Mission ary Convention and an elder of the local church.—Reported. f'Viriii Lifo Ruritun* Meet Next Tuvstluyj The Farm Life Ruritan Club will hold its first regular meeting of the new year next Tuesday night at 7:00 o’clock in the school lunch room there, it was announc ed today. An able speaker has been book ed for the event, and all members i are asked to be present. To Discuss Flan At Open Meeting On January 23rd Town l>oar«t lit Delayed Re gular Meeting Handles Business Last Night Looking forward to meet the needs of a growing town and community, Wiliiamston’s town commissioners in a delayed regu lar session last night- made ar rangements to submit to the peo ple plans for extending the in corporated limits. A public meet ing was scheduled for Monday night, January 23, at 8:00 o'clock when the plans will be mutually discussed by the town officials and any interested parties. The law for extending incor porated limits as explained at the meetings, makes it possible to annex territory without a formal election, but not unless the plan is agreeable to more than 83 per cent of those affected. In other words, if fifteen percent of the voters sign a petition and call for a detection then the proposal will have to be submitted to a vote of the people, including those inside as well as those outside the present limits. Two proposals for extending the limits are being advanced, one for West hind and the other for North End. If fifteen percent of the people in the West End area desire to carry the matter to a vote, then the petition must be prepared and submitted to the town officials at a special meet ing to be held in the town hall on February 13. If fifteen per cent of the people in North End desire to vote on the proposal then a petition is returnable at a special meeting of the town of ficials to lie held on February 20. The board last nigh* passed a resolution, calling for a full ex planation ot the annexation plan, a detailed description of the ter ritory subject to be annexed, and a full discussion of what can and cannot be expected. A full explanation of the pro posal will be reviewed just as soon as liners are established and a detailed study of the program can be made. It was explained, however, that a survey of need ed public facilities within the present town limits and those outside the limits is in The ntak ing. If the extension is voted down then it is proposed to go ahead with the facilities expan sion program within the present limits. Plans for the survey are about complete, but no action can be taken until it is determined whether those people in West End and North End wish to be included. It was pointed out that while they would be glad to see the town grow and all w# together T-ho-awer'mission era made it plain that the action rested entirely with those peo ple living outside the present town limits, that the proposal should be studied from every angle and a decision reached only after careful consideration. In addition to discussing the extension of the town limits, the board directed the street and water departments superintend ent to go ahead with plans for housing the Martin County unit of the National Guard in the old water plant on Sycamore Street. (Continued on page eight) PLAINT BEDS Farmer Tuba Bowen out in Hear Grass has started tobac co seed a ll) in’, reports stat ing that he was among the first, if not the first, to start the 1950 tobac io crop. While many farmers have prepared their seed beds, few have sown the seed. More farmers are using special chemicals to cheek weed growth this year than ever before, and quite a few are planning to sow special disease redstautmentr. --n-. . „aa£
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