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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 17 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 2fl, 1030 ESTABLISHED 1899 .Call For West End Annexation Election Elections Board To Fix Date And Register Voters Representatives at Meeting; Last Evening; Prediet Defeat for Plan Citizens living in that area ly- ' ing to the south and west of the present town limits will have an opportunity to say whether they i will or will not cast their lot • with the town of Williamston in an election to be held during the course of the next two or three months. Meeting in special ses sion last night, Williamston’s : town commissioners, after dis- S cussing the plan less than fifteen minutes, ordered an election held. The Martin County Board of Elections will be notified to pro- i 0 ceed with the plans, but no action is anticipated until the elections board is named and its organiza tion is perfected. The State board 1 is to meet early next month and name a county board. According to law, notice of registration must be given thirty days in advance. Three weeks must be set aside for registration and the fourth Satur- ( day following the first registra tion day, the books are to be • opened for challenge of any names placed there. The election is to folow on the fifth Saturday after the registration books are first opened. ll is planned to hold an elec tion m North End first, but final I dates and registration and voting places will be fixed by the county board of elections who will also name the registrars, judges of 9 election and poll holders. At the meeting last night, two representatives from West End presented the petition and par ticipated in the discussion. It was their opinion that a majority will oppose the annexation plan. How ever, as Commissioner H. L. Barn hill explained a week before, it was thought advisable to let the people go ahead and vote on the proposal so that a record could Tie had to guide future action. » The petition, calling for an elec tion, carried the signatures of 1 153 persons living in West End, the number being far greater than the 15 percent necessary to place the matter to a vote. Town officials last night reiter- j Bted their stand, explaining that they would like for the people in the two affected areas to study the proposal carefully and vote ^ accordingly, that it was entirely up to the people, and that H had never been and is not now pro- j posed to use foree to effect an nexation of either area. Decide Oak City Project Thursday —$—. A final decision on the Oak • City Negro High School construc tion project is expected on Thurs day of this week when the State Board of Education meets in Ra leigh. Opposition developed to the plan, calling for a high school there and conferences and hear- ! ings have been held in the gov- ! i rnor’s office and before the State ! building committee. More re cently representatives of the State ^ Board made a field survey and ! their findings will be placed be fore the Thursday meeting, it was reported. -o Missionary Will Speak In County C. Manley Morton, missionary, w ill speak in the Everetts Chris • tian Church on Thursday eve ning of this week at 7:30 o’clock, and m the Hassel Christian Church Friday evening at the same hour. Mr. Morton has been a mis sionary to Pureto Rico for a num ber of years and will bring a time lv meassage. The public is cor dially invited, the pastor. Rev r ROUND-UP i 1 Six person^,, charged with violating various laws, were rounded up and jailed tem porarily in this county Satur day and Sunday. However, officers, including members of the highway patrol, report ed little activity on the crime front during the week-end. Three were jailed for drunkenness, and one each for non-support, larceny and forgery. One of the six was white, and ages of the group ranged from 23 to 40 years. Two Injured In Road Accidents During Week-end —*.— Four Vcliii le* Involved in Aeeident On No. 125 Monday Morning Two persons were painfully but believed not seriously hurt in a series of three accidents reported on the highways in this county over the week-end. Property damage was estimated at more than $1,000. One of the accidents, according to reports, resulted when a thoughtless motorist fail ed or refused to dim the head lights on his vehicle. Swerving to miss a hog, Watts Rhodes, 44-year-old Jamosville colored man, ran his car into a ditch and turned it over on a dirt road a few miles out of James ville about 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Rhodes and his com panion, Columbus Hopkins, were not hurt, but patrolmen estimated the car damage at $450. Driving on the River Road be tween Hamilton and Palmyra near Smith Brothers’ store about 10:00 o’clock Sunday night, Les ter Harrell, Jr., of Oak City, was blinded by the lights of a vehicle he was meeting, and ran his car into a canal. Harrell, his head badly cut and suffering body bruise3, was removed to a Tar boro hospital for treatment. Pa trolman R. P. Narron, making the investigation, said that no esti mate on the property damage could be had, but that possibly it' would run between $50 and $l/'0. The four-vehicle accident was reported on Highway No. 125 at Ernest White’s station in Poplar Point Township Monday morning about 9:00 o’clock. Julius Edmondson had parked his 1940 Ford pick-up off the highway in front of the station, and Chester Whitehurst parked a 1947 Chevrolet panel truck be longing to the Home Laundry be hind the pick-up. Nazareth Lee, (Continued on page eight) Japanese Student Will Speak Here — Mr. Junichi Makamura, a Jap | a nest; student at Duke University, I will hold a study class on his | country “Japan” at the Williams ! ton Christian Church at 7:30 on ■ Thursday night of this week, March 2, it was announced this morning by Mrs. G. G. Woolard, 1 president of the Woman’s Council I of the church. Mr. Nakamura is attending Duke under the sponsorship of I the Methodist church of the Unit ed States and has been making lectures and talks on his country as a means of supplementing his income to take care of expenses I not included in his arrangement | with the Methodists. He will be | in Greenville Thursday afternoon and come here Thursday night. It was planned by the council to have the local Methodist Church I membership join in the study class but a conflict in plans will likely prevent this. However, a large group is expected to hear the young man tell about his country which is at present the subject of study by the Woman's Moore Fnneral Held Saturday In Church Here -- Native of Town Died At His Home In Winston-Salem Thursday Morning Funeral services were conduct- j ed in the Church of the Advent here last Saturday morning at 11:00 o’clock for Clayton Moore, member of a family long promi nent in the history of this county who ended his life at his home in Winston-Salem at 8:00 o’clock last Thursday morning. The rec tor, Rev, Thomas L. Hastings, and the Rev. Edwin Moseley, former rector of Kinston, conducted the service and interment was in the family plot in Woodlawn Ceme tery. Mr. Moore, retired jurist of the North Carolina Superior Court bench, former State lawmaker and for many years a leading fig ure in religious circles, had been in declining health for some time, but his condition was not consid ered serious. Only last Decem ber while on a brief visit here, he said he was looking forward to retirement as a membei of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company legal staff in Winston-Salem and his return to his old hometown where he could spend the remain der of his days -with old friends, hunting and fishing, and really enjoy life to its fullest. And his return was keenly anticipated by his old friends. Unable to get plane reserva tions immediately, his daughter, Susan, an art student in Paris, is expected home the latter part of this week. Other members of the judge’s family, Mrs. Moore, Miss Jane and Clayton, Jr„ returned to their home in Winston-Salem Sunday. The church could not accommo date the friends who came here from many sections of the State to pay tribue to his memory. Among those from out of town attending the last rites were, Messrs. Gilbert Peel and son, Dallas, Dick Stokes, W. L. Whed bec, J. Con Lanier, J. S. Ficklen, Sr., A. C. Ruffin, Stuart Ficklen, Stuart Carr, and James Ficklen, Jr., of Greenville, Congressman Herbert Bonner and Attorney Ed win Gill of Washington, D. C\, Judge Donnell Gilliam and Attor ney Henry Bourne of Tarboro, Mr. John D. Dawson of Kinston, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Everett and L. L. Davenport of Nashville, Judge W, H. S. Burgwyn and son, William, of Woodland. Solicitor E, H Tyl er of Roxobel, Miss Elizabeth Warren of Washington, Mrs D. C. Barnes and Miss Helen Barnes of Murfieesboro, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Cone of Abingdon, Va., Mr. Ben Franklin of New Bern, Mrs. J. T. Barnes, Jr., and Mrs. S. S. Law rence of Wilson, Messrs. P. Frank Hanes, Henry Ramm, W. A. Good son, Charles Joyce, R. G. Van Landingham, H. N. Hardy, Wm. Lybrook, W. A. Goodson, Jr., Earl MeMichael, Buck Harrison, Bud dy Payne, “Tag” Montague, Claude B. Strickland, Jr., and Mr. Cunningham of Winston-Salem, Mr. J. M. Covington of Richmond, Mr. Jack Swanner of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Hassell Thigpen and Mr. Clayton Thigpen of Tar boro, Mrs. Hattie Thigpen of Scotland Neck, Mrs. E. T. Strick land of Wilson, Mrs. Robert Mitchell of Belhaven, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swanner of Washing ton, Mr. James Thigpen of Wash ington, D. C., Mr .and Mrs. John Henry Thrower of Littleton, Mrs. Edwin Moselev of Kinston, Rev. and Mrs. Matthews of Washing ton, Miss Annie C. Glasgow, Mrs. Ella Paxton, Mis. Smith wick, Mr. James Smithwick and Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Wolfe of Jamesville, Mr. and Mrs. Kim Saunders of Washington. Firemen Answer Three Calk Here Local firemen answered three calls during the past three days, including two to grass fires on West Main Street. This morning the firemen went to the B and S Body Shop just back of Br. W. F. Coppage’s office on North Haugh ton Street. Some one left a can of gasoline near the heater and I it caught fire, scorching and . Will Open Red Cross Fund Drive March I NO SESSION / s. J The regular session of the Martin County Recorder's Court was called off Monday when Judge Chas. II. Man ning was held to his home by illness. There were about twenty five cases on the docket for trial, including a dozen charging the defendants with speeding. All the cases were continued until next Monday. County Native Is Killed Friday In Engine Explosion JuliHM Hupo ('arson Buried In Robersonvillc Ome lery Last Sunday Julian Hugo Carson, Parmele native, and two other men were j killed instantly when a train en- | ginc exploded near Tarboro last Friday evening shortly after 6:00 o’eloek. Carson, a brakeman on the Atlantic Coast Line freight operating between Rocky Mount and Willinmston, was riding in the engine cab with the engineer, Charles Klvin Boyette, 37, and : Bud Tillman, fireman, the other I two victims. Conductor Howard 1 Gunn and H. R. Speight, riding in the caboose of the 23-car train, were not injured. The explosion, separating the boiler from the engine and blow ing the victims in several direc tions, is being investigated, lnit not findings have been made puh lie. Carson, employed by the Coast Line for a number of years, was born in Parmclc thirty years ago, the son of Mrs. Martha Carson and the late William H. Carson. He attended the schools there and in Robersonville. He had been i unning between Rocky Mount and Williamston for some time, and had many friends all up and down the line. He was transferred to Rocky Mount in 1643, and had lived there since that time. He was a member of the Men’s Bible Class of the First Methodist Church of Rocky Mount and had been ac cepted for memberciiip in the Rocky Mount Masonic Lodge, He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He was married to Janie Thompson of Kinston in 1942, who survives with a son, Donald Wayne, two daughters, Martha Jane and Gwendolyn A. Carson, all of the home; his mother, Mrs. Martha Carson of the home; and two brothers, Willard Carson of Rocky Mount and Howard Carson of Pittsburg. Funeral services were conduct ed for the young man at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the home, 600 S. Washington Street, Rocky Mount, by his pastor, Dr. T. M. Grant of the First Methodist Church there, and by Rev. J. M. Perry, pastor of the Robersonville (Continued on page eight) * -£ Asks Chapter To Raise $2,872 Forj The 1950 Budget •—<*>— Chairmen Named To Ad vaiu'e Fund Drive* In Five* Townsliips Plans were just about complete : tliis morning for launching the annual Red Cross Fund Drive in the Martin County Chapter to morrow, Chairman G. G. Woolard announced, and an earnest appeal : is being directed to canvassers and contributors to cooperate and work for a quick goal. The chapter, made up of James ville, Williams, Griffins. Bear Grass and Williamston Town ships. is being asked to raise $2, 872 for the budget this year, the amount being less than was actu ally raised a year ago. Jamesville, Griffins, and Bear Grass are be ing asked to raise $250 each, Wil liams, $50; Williamston, $1,012, j and the colored citizens in all five j districts are being asked to raise j $400. Mrs. Camille Fleming Rawls is | again heading the drive as chair man in Jamesville Township. Mrs, Irving Roberson will handle it in Williams, and Mrs. J. Eason Lil ley, connected with every drive in Griffins for the past ten years or more, has accepted the chair manship there. The ladies are I turning the task in Bear Grass ! over to A. B, Ayers, Jr. The fund j drive chairman, G. G. Woolard is I naming his workers for Williams- j ton. V. J. Spivey is handling the territory outside the town N. C. Green is heading the special gilts committee, and the various prin cipals in the several colored | schools will direct the canvass in their respective communities, it was announced. The special gifts committee, startings its advance work yes terday ,was reported to be mak ing very good progress with the possibility that ,its work can be completed today or early tumor i ow. Our people, never having failed to meet a Red Cross fund goal, are urged to maintain that good (Continued on page eight) HYBRID SEED 1 v—-/ Several Martin County far mer,s will be asked to con duct demonstration tests with hybrid seed peanuts this sea son, Farm Agents T. li. Hran l don and Jesse Sumner said following a meeting held in Italeigh this week. Hybrid seed peanuts have been tested only in experi ment stations where favor able results were obtained. The tests are now being ad vanced under actual field conditions. Seed are not yet available for commercial use, and only twenty pounds will | be made available for the | demonstration tests in this county this year, it was ex 1 plained. Liquor Manufacturer A nd Retailer Taken In County A heavy blow was landed on the illicit liquor business by county officers last Sunday after noon when they wiped out one retail outlet and went on to wreck an illicit manufacturing plant on the Daniel farm near Roberson ville. Going to the Noah Stancill home, the officers found two quarts of illicit liquor, one in a kettle parked in the stove oven, and the other quart packed away with preserves in a carton. Stan cili's wife, Rosanna, w'as booked for possession, Several large jugs and a number of glasses were found. Working on supplied inlorma tion, the officers picked up a trail they found Stancill engaged in manufacturing. Stancill attempt ed to take French leave, and De puty Roy Peel gave chase. Twice Stancill ran out of the hold the officer had on him, but the third grasp was firm and Stancill was returned to his house about 500 yards from the manufacturing plant. Stancill, booked for possession! of illicit liquor and manufacturing white lightning, and his wife were given a hearing before Justice Henry S. Everett in Robersonville that afternoon He was placed under bond in the sum of $300 and she was required to furnish a $100 bond.' They are scheduled to ap pear in the county cvruvt next, Mrs. Trulah Keel Died Suddenly ai Oak City Monday Funeral Will Be Hold at Her Daughter's Home Here Wednesday Mrs. Trulah W. Keel. well known and greatly beloved cit izen of this county, died at her] home near Oak City Monday aft ernoon at 2:10 o'clock of a heart attack, death coming within thirty minutes after she was stricken. Apparently in her usual health, Mrs Keel visited in Williamston last Saturday, greeting old friends in the cheery fashion that had en deared her to so many When she did not feel so well the fol lowing day she visited her doctor in Roborsonville and was advised to rest However, her condition was not considered serious and she returned to her home and apparently was getting along all right until she suffered the fatal attack. The daughter of tire late James L. and Mary Andrews Ward, she was born in Bethel 71 years ago on April 14, 1878, and spent her early life there. In early woman hood she was married to James H. Page, late sheriff of Martin Coun ty, and lived in Stokes for a few .'■ears before locating in William ston in 11)01, Mr. Page dying here in 1919. Following her marriage to Mr W. Gray Keel, she had made her home near Oak City. Mrs. Keel was a faithful mem-1 her of the Primitive Baptist] Church, holding membership at I Skewarkey for many years, find ) ing peace and contentment in its service. She was devoted to her j family and home, and enjoyed a wide circle of friends in her na tive and adopted communities. Always cheerful and thoughtful of others, Mrs. Keel put much in to life and seemed, in return, to get so much out of life. (Continued on page eight) Ruritans Meet In Farm Life School Holding their regular February meeting last week, Farm Life Ruritans heard a detailed account of expenditures for schools in this county, the speaker, Superin tendent J C Manning going on to outline the tentative program fm s- hoo! plant expansion in the future under the twenty-five mil lion dollar budget. The school head, members of the County Boaid of Education and the school faculty were guests of the club. Henry Leggett reported as a delegate on the national conven tion held a short time ago at Myr tle Reach, and six new members, B. F. Lilley, Sr., John A. Griffin, Dallas Griffin, Leslie Griffin, Car roll Cnltrain and Asa Hardison, were received into the club. The organization now has 72 mem bers and is one of the largest in the State. Wives of the Ruritans, headed h.y Mesdumes Louis Roberson, James Harrington, Urban Lilley, Arthur and Saunders Revels, J. It. Griffin, Marvin Lilley and Kenneth Harrington, served a de licious fish dinner, contributed $10a to the club treasury and supplied enough food to the lunchroom to feed the children next day. The wives and other friends of Ruritans donated chic kens The chickens were sold and fish were bought, leaving the $ 105 balance It was a unique plan and one the club greatly appreci ates, Secretary Felton Daniel de clared. ISmv I’alrolmun Hill Itr Slutiunrd in JumvHvillv ■■ ■ • Bidd E. Burton, a new Slate Highway Patrol recruit, is being stationed in Jamcsville, it was an nounced by patrol headquarters in Raleigh this week. Completing a special training school in Chapel ilill last Friday, the new recruit along with thirty four others will subscribe to the patrol oath in the llali of the House of Representatives in Ra leigh Wednesday. Patrolman Burton, a native of Highlands, Macon County, is suc ceeding Patrolman E. P. Simmons ’-"ho is being transferred to Le-j Three Announce For Board Of Education TAX ROUND-UP ~1 x__/ The annual income lax round-up is moving into the home stretch, and State De puty Collector E. Ross Fronc berger will be in his office in the Martin County court house the next two Satur days from 8:30 a. m. until noon, and from 8:30 to 5:30 on March 13, 14 and 15 to as sist State income taxpayers in filing their returns. Single persons making in excess of $1,000 and married persons making $2,000 or more are to file returns. Sixty - Nine Apply For Census Jobs In Martin County Examination* for Enumer ator* To Be Announced Sometime In March Applicants for employment as enumerators for the 17th Decen nial Census in Martin and adjoin ing area will be required to pass oral and written tests to demon strate their ability for the work, it is announced by F. Webb Wil liams, District Supervisor for the United States Bureau of the Cen sus. The tests will indicate which applicants can best comprehend and follow the detailed and exal t ing written and oral instructions given to enumerators as they train for their assignment, To date, Supervisor Williams stated, about 60 applications have bebn received for the 32 enumer ator positions to be filled. Among these are a considerable number of war veterans who will be giv en preference for appointment over non-veterans provided they meet other qualifications. Applicants must be United States citizens of good health and character, have completed high school or have comparable experi ence, be between 21 and 65 years of age, preferably between 25 and 45, and be financially able to sus tain themselves for four weeks before receiving their first salary check. Persons arc ineligible for consideration n they draw Feder al retirement pay (other than So cial Security), are State or local government employees, law en forcement officers, officers of political organizations, individu als engaged in political activity or contemplating such activity during the Census taking period. Close relatives will not be consid ered for employment in the same locality in this area. Dates for enumerator examina tions have not been set, but will be announced within the next few days. Unofficial reports state that the exams will be given be tween the middle and latter part of March, that a training school is to be held. Examinations for crew leaders were held in Washington, N. C., last week, and quite a few from Uus county took that examination. Canvass Teachers' Vole In the County Voting by secret bullot last week, Martin County teachers gave almost all-out support to Mrs. Margaret McDermott for president and A. B. Gibson for vice president of the North Caro lina Education Association, it was announced by Professor George McRorie Monday. Mrs. McDermott of Winston Salem received 10!) votes and C. M. Abernathy of Lenoir was giv en Mi votes in the presidential race. In the race for vice presi dent, Gibson, Laurinburg school man, received 110 votes and fif teen votes went to C. E. Shankle. The vote was canvassed Mon day in Everetts by Principal Mc Rorie, Mrs. Josephine Bullock, Mrs. Graces Ayers and Mrs. Mar garet Roberson and is being e-sg Only One Race In County So Far For May 27th Primary Five Kilter Rare for Short Term In the United Stall's Senate Limited to one actual race in the county so far, politics are be ginning to take shape fairly rapid ly, anil a full slate of candidates is expected within a matter of a few weeks. The latest development on the political front in this county came this week when Ernest C. Ed mondson of Hassell, Geo. C. Grif fin of Griffins and Ferd VV. Holli day of Jamesville announced their candidacies to succeed themselves as members of the Martin County Board of Education. While mem bers of the board are actually ap pointed by the State Legislature, candidates generally enter the i primary and the wishes of the : people there are recognized by the legislature. Mr. Edmondson was appointed in 1946 to fill the unexpired term of Leslie Hardison, and in 1947 ! was named for a 4-year term. Go ing on the board in 1935, Mr. Grif fin was reappointed in 1945 for a 6-year term. Mr. Holliday start ed a 2-year term in 1945 and was reappointed for a 4 year term in 1947. Chairman J D. Woolard and Member Cecil Powell have two more years on their current terms. Reports indicate that the race for sheriff between M. W. (Buck) I Holloman, the incumbent, and Henry A. Johnson is gaining mo mentum. Clarence Griffin, county attor ney, has announced for solicitor I of the Martin County Recorder s Court. The incumbent, Paul L). Roberson, is expected to make an (announcement within the next lew days. While the office of solicitor is subject to appointment by the board of county commis sioners, it has been customary for years for candidates to net the approval of the people in the pri mary. While all county offices v ill bo j wide open except that of register of deeds in the May 21 primary, there jiave been no preliminary political developments in those (except for sheriff, solicitor and ■ board of education. ! On the State front, the race for ] the short term in the United 1 States Senate is getting hot. There ( are five candidates in the field so far, including Dr. Frank P. Gra ham, the incumbent; Manley R. Dunaway, Charlotte realtor; Rob ert R Reynolds, Asheville and ! Washington, D. C , playboy; Olla ; R. Boyd, Pinetqwn farmer-swine raiser, and Willis Smith, insur ance and corporation lawyer of Raleigh. A. Corey, while making no def inite announcement as yet, is bid ding for a return engagement in the State Legislature as county representative. Hugh G. Horton, Williamston attorney, is a candi date for the State Senate from this, the second district. Raise $580 For Boy Scoot Fund ■—#— Up until yesterday afternoon $580.13 had been raised here for the Boy Scout Fund, the chair man explaining that only about j one-half the reports had been re ceived. A complete report on the dirve is expected tomorrow or l Thursday. A special Kiwanis Club commit - tee raised $423, as follows: D. R. Davis, $148; W. H. Carstarphen, $75; John H. Gurga.ius, $77.50; Gene Kimball, $32.50; J. C. Man ning, $50, and F. J. Margolis, $40. The report from the Kiwanis was said to be fairly complete. Only four canvassers had re ported for the Jaycees. The four reporting $88, as follows, James Builuek, $5; Ernest Mears, $15; J. D. Baldree, $30, and Eli Gur ganus, $38, J The Den Mothers raW\-8®M% %
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