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g=-1-=E-J=g»S= --58 XIIE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 4.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK fairiir—"" •--■=Aa=gFrY THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER- IfiM M:\RTIN COCNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 10 ESTABLISHED 1899 Williamttan, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 2, 1950 Twenty-Six Cases Tried In County's Court On Monday -» — .Several Kmo! Sentences i \re Imposed Along With 1 S iO.J In Fines Handling twenty-six cases in its regular session last Monday, the Martin County Recorder's Court started switching from V tines to road sentences. It is not yet quite clear whether the eco nomic situation had anything to do with the shift or whethei the court decided to try out the phy sical punishment in an effort to curb crime in the county. Any way, one defendant drew six months on the roads for stealing chickens, and others were booked for work on the roads for fight p in;?, fussing and feuding. In addition to the road sen fences, the court imposed fines in the sum of S405 before quitting for the day shortly after 4:01 o'clock. Non-licensed motor ve hicle drivers were again in the court, the word apparently hav ing reached some that it is un lawful to operate a motor vehicle without a driver's license, that it caught, the line is $25, plus $22.05 ® costs. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of violating the health iavv.>, James Bussed Cioni mons was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court sus pending the road term upon the payment of the costs The defend ant is to take prescribed treat ments. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Kov Hankins with operating ft motor vehicle without a driver's license. The case charging Clyde Tynet with an assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed. Lafayette Pearsall, defendant In a goodly number of criminal rases in recent months, was sen tenced to the roads for assaulting Walter Freeman with a deadly weapon. Adjudged guilty of bastardy, Kussell Bullock, colored, was sen t< need to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon tlic payment of the costs and $3 a week for the support of his child during the next two years. Pleading not guilty of an as sault with a deadly weapon, ^George Owens was found guilty j and drew three months on the j ii.diii. Tne road term was sus-! pended upon the payment of the costs and a $25 fine The defend ant is to be of good behavior during the next three years. In a j,econd ease in which tv was charged with assaulting a female, Uv.rn? was fined $25, plus costs. Jack Bridges was fined $*5, plus costs, for assaulting a fe male. ( Charged with drunken driving, Willie Davis Hassell was found guilty of careless and reckless driving, failing to stop at. a road sign and ignoring a siren. He was fined $50, plus costs. Charged with operating a mot or vehicle without a driver’s li cense, Junior Wynne pleaded guilty and was fined $25, plus costs. Pleading guilty of speeding, Ce I dl Bennett Savage was fined $15 and taxed with the costs. Willie Williams, pleading guilty of stealing chickens, was sentenc ed to the roads for six months. Pleading guilty of operating motor vehicles without driver's li censes, Lester Brown, Jr., and Russell Armstrong were each fin ed $25, plus costs, Charged with allowing an un licensed driver to operate a mot or vehicle, Ben Wiggins pleaded g guilty and was fined $25 and re quired to pa> the costs. M. C. Lawrence, pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle w ith out a driver’s license, was sen tenced to the roads for three months. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs William Victor Andrews was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding James Turner, pleaded guilty of operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license, was fined $25 and taxed with the .costs. Pleading not guilty. Clarence Bowen was found guilty and was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding. Robert Purvis was found not guilty of violating the liquor laws. [ ..<<?onUPW«ll.Of». Sight) ...... <* (« «m»... »— ■" «*•-’ ■■ Sweet Potato Contest Winners Declared top winners in the Martin County Yam Growers Association 1949 sweet po tato growing contest, five Martin County youths, Jack Woolard. David Gurkin, Dallas Cox, William Hardison and Lewis Gurkin, with Messrs. Henry M. Covington, State Col lege extension sweet potato specialist, Jesse W. Sumner, assistant county agent, and M. M. Levin, secretary-treasurer of the association, are enjoying a trip to the big cities this week. Pictured above, the potato champs are receiving trip expenses. Fund For Paralysis Growing In County | LIMESTONE i _^ The Martin County Produc tion - Marketing Administra tion in the office of the farm agent is taking orders for limestone The lime this year carries a price of $2.40 per ton delivered to the farm or S3.25 spread in the fields. No delivery date can be guaran teed on account of weather conditions and other elements beyond the hauling contrac tor’s control, but immediate orders may be handled before spring plantings. Others will likely be handled after the fall harvest. More than 2,000 tons of lime were delivered to Mar tin farn.s last year. Facing A Second Assault Charge Lafayette Pearsall, defendant j in the various courts of this coun ty at more or less regular inter vals in recent years, is having assault charges pile up against him. After being sentenced in the county court Monday to serve sixty days on the roads for an as sault on Walter Freeman, he was carried before Justice of the Peace Chas. R. Mobley to answer i an assault and robbery charge. A retainer was attached to the commitment, and when the pres ent sentence is completed he will be returned to face the second charge. Pearsall allegedly waylaid Dos sil* Hinton just off Broad Street here last Friday night, and after beating him badly, robbed him. of ! about $13 in cash. _.__ If inner8 Announced In '"March o) Dimes’ Contest By Janice Hardison, Sec’y. i Excitement was high until the i hour hand reached 12 to show that | 11.00 o’clock had really come. Up: j until the very last we were afraid !Mis. Kimball’s third grade was going to beat us in the March of Dimes contest. Our total money collected was $09.35, and they ran us a close second. Last Saturday we held a rum mage sale for the March of Dimes. Since we were stil behind after that, the class voted to bring sandwiches to school for lunch Tuesday so that we could give our lunch money to the drive. No one person in our room brought in rny big amount, but every boy and girl worked hard.j We enjoyed a half-holiday on! Wednesday as our prize for win 150 Dimes Raised During the Drive By Little Victim ~ — , ... ■> FJve Schools and Direct Mail Contribution* Ac count for $1,820.43 After {jetting off to what ap peared to be a slow start, the an- j nual drive for the Infantile Para- ! lysis Fund really started gaining momentum during the past few days, according to a report re leased yesterday by Fund Chair man L. Bruce Wynne. "The goal of $5,000 possibly will not be reached, but five schools and di rect mail contributions accounted for $1,820.43, the chairman said. A heart-rending event marked the drive ♦his week when Little Miss Mills, a victim of the dis eases, turned in 150 dimes for the cause. The little girl whose fam i’y lives in Poplar Point, is still receiving treatment, reports stat ing that her condition is improv ing. As far as it could be learned, her illness was financed without outside help. Well aware of the meaning of the disease, the little child went all out in support of the drive in behalf of others who have fallen and others who might fall victim of infantile paralysis. Another high spot in the fund drive was reached last Tuesday when pupils in the local school ate sandwiches and contributed their lunch money to the March of Dimes. Pointing out that it will be sometime next week before all re ports can be submitted and handled, the fund chairman de clared he was well pleased with the preliminary reports. Williamston’s high school, 1 mostly the grades located in the high school building, raised $506.37, including a $100 conti ibu I tion made by Mrs. J. G. Staton and added to the fund by Student Bunting. Despite the $100 handi cap the little folks over at the : primary and grammar schools : forged ahead with $521 for the fund. The Hassell school leport ed $18.43. Williamston’s colored school j raised $121.25, and the White i Oak-Springs colored school con j tributed $10.86. | Direct mail contributions to ' date amount to $643.50, the chair man explaining that some of those to whom appeals were di rected, apparently had overlook ed the appeal and had not re sponded. Chairman Wynne would not of fer an estimate on the total | amount the drive would raise in j this county, but he was well j picked with the preliminary re. Mrs. Taylor Dies Tuesday al Home Oi Her Daughter Bom ami Beared Near WiL lianistnn. Sli«' Lived for Years In Kobersonville Mrs. Mamie Taylor. 66-vear-old Robergonville resident and wife of the late John L. Taylor, cl• d Tuesday, January 31, at 12:20 p m., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bruce Everett. llei death followed several months' declin ing health and a week of critical illness. The daughter of the late Bill and Sallic Gray Riddick, she was born and reared near Williamston on the Washington highway. For the past 25 years she resided in Robersonville where she was a popular, well loved member of the community and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church Both she and her late husband were members of prominent Mar tin County families. Funeral services were held in the Robersonville Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Rev. Ralph Fer guson, her pastor, and Rev. J H. Worthington of the Methodist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Taylor Cemetery near Williamston. Surviving are one son, Jeff Toy lor, of Norfolk; one daughter, Mrs. Bruce Everett, of Robersonville; one sister, Mis. W. T. Lamm, of Wilson and six grandchildren. ISortli Enil (iron/i Petition* For Foie (hi Annexation — — - — A petition, carrying the names of 102 citizens, has been present ed to the town, calling for a vote on tht proposal to extend the town limits to include waht is known as “North End". The paper was not returnable until February 20. The proposal is being con sidered further in West End. No Extension Likely For Listing County Property While final action will await a discussion in their regular meet j ing here next Monday, the county ; commissioners are not expected | to extend the time for listing pro perty for taxation in this county for 1950, according to information coming today from unofficial but reliable sources. It was indicated that about 95 percent of the properties had been placed on the books, that the list-takers would place the names of the late listers on the books i during the next few days or bc I fore they start work on the new j scroll books. Listers after that jtime are subject to penalties as j provided by law. To fh< second oh i ' ’i . ■' the. 'new calendar year, tha.jajMnty commissioners next Monday are tentatively scheduled to consider a plan for promoting sweet potato production in this county. It has been proposed for the counties of Martin, Pitt and Edgecombe to employ a sweet potato specialist to confine his work to the task ih the three counties. Pitt County, it is reported, has already appro priated its share of the cost, and the proposal calling for a $1,000 appropriation in each of the coun ties will be considered in Edge combe and Martin next Monday. In addition to handling routine duties, the commissioners in this county are to draw jurymen for the March term of superior court and possibly consider other new bikini..., in■ ■ ■ .1 • o'.ci .for.tJa*1 ,f,'ouiit,.-,„hcal..tJb./J.ej’|ft:,J.Uenf.. Beloved Citizen Dies In Sleep Ai Farm Life Home —#— Funeral Services In (.tif fins Township Totlav for Mrs. Burk Roberson Mrs. Maggie Getsinger Rober son, beloved citizen of Griffins Township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Asa Hardison, in the Farm Life Community yes terday morning at 6:30 o'clock. ( She had been in declining health for several years, but was able to be up until about three weeks ago ; when she suffered an attack. Her condition had been serious for several days, and death came peacefully in her sleep. The daughter of the late Con rad and Sarah Brown Getsinger. she was born in Griffins Town slop 711 years ago and lived there all her life. In early womanhood she was married to Buck Rober son who died about ten years ago. She had made her home with her daughter since that time. Mrs. Roberson was a faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Smithwick Creek for thirty years, adhering closely to the tenets of her faith and em bodying those principles in her daily walk through life. Her life, while humble and simple, was ' marked by kindness and sym pathy and goodness, and in it she set the example so worthy of ! others to follow. i Surviving besides her daughter j are two brothers, Elder P. E. Get singer and Martin County Regis ter of Deeds J Sam Getsinger. Funeral services are being con ] ducted at her daughter's home ; this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Elder J. B. Lee of Four Oaks and | Rev W. B. Harrington, Baptist I minister. Interment will be in ' the family plot in *hc Roberson | Cemeterj in Griffins Township. Youths Having A Big Time On Trip - No late reports could be had, but information coming from Congressman Herbert Bonner’s office stated that Martin Coun ty’s five winners in the recent sweet potato contest were having a great time in Washington day before yesterday. Leaving Wash ing that day, the boys. Lewis and j David Gui kin, Jack Woolard, Dallas Cox and William Hardi son, moved on to Philadelphia and were in New York this morn ing. They were tentatively sche duled to return home today, but the report from Congressman Bonner’s office maintained that they were returning to Washing ton tomorrow to see the Senate in session and visit more points of interest. Meyt"1 Levin, with Jesse Sum ner and Henry Covington, is a long on the trip and he was to ad vise the progress of the tour, but possibly the ole man is finding it about all he can do to keep up with the boys, leaving no time for reporting. While in Washington earlier in the week, the sweet potato grow ing champs heard part of the House debate on pending farm legislation. The boys and their companions are traveling in two ears with special airplane trips included for some of them Enforcement Officer Files Annual Report Wreck 126 Stills In Nartin County During Past Year Kqnipinent anil Materials Taken Are Valued At More Than $13,500 An effective work was carried on against the illicit liquor traffic ( in this county last year, according | to the ISM!) report released a short j time ago by ABC Officer Joe H. j Roebuck to the Martin County Al coholic Beverages Control Board. However, despite a lower price trend and the certain risk, quite a few persisted in the illicit li quor manufacturing business and traffic, law enforcement officers declaring* that the operations I j could hardly be justified econotni- | i cally, not to mention the moral i equation, The officer's report shows that 12(1 liquor stills were confiscated I and destroyed last year, Officer j Roebuck stating that about three S fourths of them were copper ket tles with an average value of about $25 each. The raiders pour ed out 37,650 gallons of mash or beer. The mash, if it is not too common or sloppy, is valued at 25 cents per gallon, the lot pour ed out being figured at $9,412.50. The 200 gallons of white liquor poured out by the officers had an estimated value of $6 per gallon j or $1,200 for the lot. | Sixteen persons were arrested land charged with violating the li quor laws. Thirteen were tried and convicted. Fines imposed in tiic county court amounted to $1, 700.00, and the road sentences counted up to eighty four months. Assisted for the most part by Deputy Roy Peel, ABC Officer Roebuck traveled 14,355 miles making his investigation and handling the raids. . While more stills were wrecked ! last year than in 1948, the gal 1 lonage of mash was less, the of , ficer explaining that the business • was advanced on a smaller scale. The figures for the past several I! years would seem to indicate that the business is about holding its own with a slight decline being , noticeable. In 1947, 142 stills were wrecked, while the year be . tore only 136 plants were dc tjstroyed. Approximately 120 , plants fell before the raiders in t! 1938. In addition to holding the illicit hquor business to a fairly low minimum, the enforcement divis ion of the county’s alcoholic bev erages control system added a fairly sizable sum to the law en | forccmcnt fund reserve. A report, having to do with the liquor business and racket in the nation, as a whole, was released a few days ago and reads, in part, as follows: While many prices are drop ping, don't be surprised if appli ance prices moved back up again soon. The major appliance indus try is still trying to keep prices down, but higher steel costs may force some increases. Liquor levies are sparking a comeback for bootleggers. Dur ing the fiscal year qf 1049, 8,008 stills and 3,801,432 gallons of mash were seized by authorities, compared with 8,757 stills and t, 710,033 gallons of mash seized in 1948. According to New York li | quor administrators, these figures | indicate that while consumers de j mand alcoholic beverages - and | arc willing to buy legal liquor at ; high prices when they can afford to — they will also buy illicitly produced, untaxed products when i it comes down to a choice of ab j stineiice or excessive prices. I Spinal Meninfiitis Victim Continue* III In lloHpUal Taken ill early Tuesday morn after attending the loeal school the day before, Earl Pate, sixth grade student and son of Mr and Mrs. Sam Pate of near Wiiliarr,stori, continues in a ser ious condition in a Washington hospital, reports stating that he , — if! fallen victim of spinal men CHAMPION v j Lewis Taylor Cjurkin, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence (>urkii\ of (iriffins Township, is the champion sweet potato grower in Mar tin County, having produced more than (00 bushels on an acre of land last year. It has not been definitely establish ed, hut it is possible the youth is the champion grow er in North Carolina and the entire nation. Hamillon Section Plagued By Fire During January -«— Several Fires Keporletl In Ollier Seelions of The Fount) Fast Month Hamilton and community as well as rural areas in other parts lot the county have been plagued i by fire recently, reports showing that three or more fires were re j ported last month in rural areas, | including one near Hamilton. The second home fire of the ■month was reported in Hamilton ■arlv this week when the home | of Khoden Cireen was burned. The family had finished the evening meal and were in the front part of the house when they heard the fire burning in the kitchen. Most of the contents were saved No estimate on the loss could be had but it was said that $1,000 insur ance was carried on the property. RobersonviHe's volunteer firemen answered the call. Shortly before noon Tuesday, fire burned the old home on the Biseoe Sherrod farm now owned by Jim Staton Ayers between Hamilton and Oak City. Starting when an oil stove went out of j control in the kitchen, the tire i could not be checked, and de | stroyed everything belonging to j the family of Johnny Hoggard ex | cept the clothes they were wear ing at the time. The loss, running i well into the thousands of dul i lars was partially offset bv insur ance, but the Hoggards had no in surance on their household goods. The old home, a two-story wood structure, was built by the Sher rods about 110 years ago, it was said. Roberionville and Williams ton firemen weie called there, but it was little they could do. In addition to the fires in the Hamilton area, a packbarn burn ed on the Woolard farm on the Washington Highway early Sun day morning, and a tobacco barn and peanut picker was burned on the Keith farm owned by M. 1,. Peel near Wiiliamston Monday, SPECIAL MEETINti Titpresentutives of the N. C, State Labor Department will dis cus sthe new wage and hour law j in the courthouse here this eve ning it "s 00 o'clock. The. public [is invited to hear the discussion. Oak City School Issue Aired At Raleigh Hearing Faction:' I’leasl Before Stale 1$tiil<iiri'r (iommittcc; No Decision I milled ialelv Raleigh, Feb. 2.—(Special to Ihe Enterprise).—The Building Committee of the Stale Board o£ Education devoted a good part of its meeting time yesterday after noon to the matter of a requested high school for Negroes at Oak City. One delegation, headed by C. C. Chance, principal of the Parnvale Negro school, opposed the pro posal on grounds it would draw so many students from the pres ent high school, result in loss of teachers and otherwise depreci ate efficiency so that instead of one good high school there would be two poor and understaffed units. It. was pointed out that the Pannele High School lias an en rollment of 203. The proposed Oak City school would start with not more than 73, must of whom would come out of the Parmele enrollment. S. G. Burnett was chief spokes man for the group of thirty pa trons of Oak City Junes. Wbich ard-James Salsbury and Hamil ton Elementary Schools, seeking establishment of the high school at Oak City. He was supported by Rev. R. L. Lynch, Amos Spruill, M. H. Hyman and Alma Purvis. They cited the long dis tance many of their children had to travel, having to walk several miles to catch a bus before day light and getting home well after dark, the menace to both health and morals of the children undel these conditions. The Purvis vvo> man said she paid a dollar a day to have three children transport ed by Ricks bus because they eould not get to the school bus route. Questions by board members indicated interest in whether bet ter school bus service would solve the problem. The patrons thought not, but insisted if they couldn't | get anything else they wanted j better bus service. Enrollment in the elementary i schools in the area, which is ap proximately 1,100 for Parmele j and BOO for Oak City territory, is i sufficient to justify two high schools, according to one leport. Howevei, the sentiment of ilu board obviously leans toward tig new high school, although final action may not be taken for sev eral weeks. -V A state' press report had the fol lowing to say, in part: Pleads for Oak City S G. Burnett said ho was not interested in interfurring with Parmele's progress, but rather was making a plea for a Negro high sehool in or near his com munity, which is some 35 miles by bus route from Parmele. Burnett took the occasion to make a charge that Principal C. C. Chance, veteran Negro educa tor with nearly -10 years’ service, promoted dissention instead of harmony between the races. Burnett asserted that Chance taught that any show of friend ship by whites to Negroes should be regarded as hypocritical; that whites merely were "using” Negroes when they extended a helping hand. He accused Chance of trying to "mislead you gentle men." Burnett became emotional in 1 pleading with the committee to i recommend a high school for the I Oak City area, declaring that the ! long hours girls and boys spend i en route to and from Parmole school was a menace to their physical and moral health. "Some of our girls have to get on these busses before daylight in winter months, and it's long after dark when they get bojTte,” he said, his voice breaking with emotoin. "We ask you to help us change this situation." Principal Chance, who was heard first, and before Burnett and his delegation were ushered in, was accompanied by only a few supporters. Burnett, on the other hand, had some 30 people with him, all supporting the ! move for a high school in or near !.(Continued.un safe eight)
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