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 22 William tton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 16, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty-One Cases >On Criminal List In Superior Conri Judge Q. K. (Niniocks Slat-j * ed To Preside Over the j Two-Week Term j' -.»-• i Twenty-one cases have been ], placed on the criminal docket for j, trial in the Martin County Super- j ior Court during the two-week . I term opening here next Monday j morning at 10:00 o’clock. None ol the cases is of any great public in terest. and the court is not expect ed to attract very much attention. Quite a few cases, including sev eral in which the defendants are charged with drunken driving, were appealed from judgments imposed in the recorder's court. Theft and robbery cases are • more numerous this term than at any other time in recent years. Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fay etteville is to preside over the two-week term, making his first, appearance here in about five j years. All of the criminal cases have been docketed for trial during the first three days of the term. If! the criminal docket is cleared in • the allotted time, the court is ex pected to recess until the follow ing Monday when divorce and civil cases will be called. Several of the cases were con tinued from previous terms. The docket lists the following cases: The case charging O. K, Harri son with abandoning a crop, has been pending in the courts since last June. Appealed from the county court, the case charging Harold Homer Chaunce.v with drunken driving w’as continued since the last September term along with another case in which Irving Rid dick is charged with the same of fense. James Willis Lloyd and N. S. Nichols are charged with the rob bery of $12 from the person of • John Clay in Williamston last Oc tober 7. Charged with drunken,driving, J. Haywood Crisp appealed from the county court and the case was continued last December. Robert Jasper Rogers, charged with non-support, appealed from the county court and his case was continued last December when time ran out. % Charged with issuing a worth ^ less check, John E. Walker ap pealed from the county court and his case was continued last De tember Jake David Spruill, charged ivitn violating the motor vehicle laws, appealed from a county court judgment. (Continued on page eight) -o • Dr. Erwin Speaks Ai Robersonville Principal B. G. Stewart of the Williamston schools announced this morning that the Williamstor Parents-Teachers Association hac been invited to be the guests oi the Robersonville P.-T. A. nex1 Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the to Robersonville grammar school when Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state superintendent of public instruc tion, will make an address. Dr. Erwin is a forceful speakei Iand it is expected that he wil bring a message dealing with the complex problems facing teacher! and parents in the schools today While all members of the loca organization are urged to attene the meeting at Robersonville, ii was noted that this does not take * the place of the March meeting here which is. scheduled for Mon day night, March 27th. POTATO SEED V- - Assistant County Agent J. W. Sumner announced yes terday that he( had available a limited quantity of certified % potato seed, and asks farmers interested in procuring the No. 1 seed to contact him at once or not later than 10 o’clock Saturday morning of this week. The seed, meeting all re quirements, sell for $4.50 per bushel, f. o. b., Morehead _ City. Purchase Biggs Land Here [ For County Health Center » Meeting in special Session here a esterday morning, the Martin ^ 'ounty Board o{ Commissioners ,v , 1: >urehased for $1,000 an acre of he Biggs land on Beech and Har- e ell Streets for a new Martin a bounty health center. a J. W Griffith. Greenville archi- v ect, was employed subject to ap proval of the North Carolina Med- r cal Care Commission, to prepare! f he building plans and supervise i :he construction of the center. j s No other business was handled j 1 it the meeting, but the commis-11 doners will return next Monday c morning at 9:30 o’clock to meet ■ 1 Howard Gaylord of James* ville, former school teacher, president of the Martin Coun ty Baseball League and per sonnel director for the North Carolina Pulp Company, this week announced his candi dacy for a place on the Martin County Board of Education. Red Cross First Aid Course Here ■.. • ■— W H. Carstarphen, chairman of the Martin County Red Cross Chapter announces that there will be a First Aid Instructor's Course i held in the courthouse in Wil ; liamston beginning April 3 and running through April 14. These classes will meet from 7:30 at night until 10:30 five nights a week. Monday through Friday. Mr. Ellis Fysal, Safety Service Field Representative of the ! American National Red Cross, will be the instructor for this course. Anyone 20 years of age or older who is interested in tak ing the instructor’s course should contact Mrs. Edna Bondurant, ex ecutive secretary of the local Red Cross chapter. This course is free of charge. There has already been approximately 20 people to sign up for the course and it is hoped i there will be others. Former first aid instructors in Martin County whose instructor's certificate has expired, are urged to be present , on April 3 at the first class meet j ing to discuss getting their in I structor’s certificate renewed. | They will be able to do this by | attending classes one week during | this course. -o-—— Special Driving Tests In County 11 Students in the Bear Grass and j Robersonville High Schools will ,' have an opportunity next Wed nesday to see for thennseives how the false impression and sense ol security that a driver of a mod ern automobile gets, can and does, ! often lead into the danger zone and trouble when the participate in a series of driving tests and witness a special movie entitled “Driving to Kill”. The Farm Bureau insurance companies are bringing to Bear Grass that morning at 10 o’clock and to Robersonville that after noon at 1:30 special equipment foi conducting the tests, it was an nounced. Similar tests have been con ducted in more than 3,000 high schools inroughout the nation ir the interest of greater safety or the highways. s a Board of Equalization and! eviow, Sszscc- no real properties1 ■ere revalued for 1950, it isn’t kely that there’ll be many ap-1 eals from the new listings. How ver, the commissioners will sit s an equalization board to hear ny complaints about assessed alues for taxation An application for funds to fi ancc the health center is being j repared, and work on the project 5 expected to get under way hortly. The cost of the building ias been reduced from approxi nately $50,000 to $36,000, the ounty paying $9,660 in addition o the $1,000 paid for the site. Mrs. Martha Ange Died Late Monday; Rear Jamesville —*— Funeral Services Conduct ed at Home in Ange- I town Yesterday ut 3 -• Funeral services were conduct- ■ ed at her late home in the Ange- i town Community of Jamesville , Township yesterday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Mrs. Martha E. j Ange who died there Monday eve ning at 9:30 o’clock after two, years of declining health. Her i condition had been critical for nl j most a month. She was a mem ber of the Mt. Olive Free Will Baptist Church in that section for many years, and Rev. Frank But ler of Washington, Rev. W. L. Moretz of Swannanoa and Rev. W. A. Hales of Norfolk officiated and interment was in the Ange family cemetery near the home. The daughter of the late Wil liam Calvin and Sarah Elizabeth Hardison Mlzollc, she was born in this county 75 years ago on December 22, 1874, and lived in that section of Jamesville Town ship all her life. She was promi nent in church circles and was held in high esteem by all who knew her. In early womanhood she was married to Henry Blount Ange who died eight years ago. Surviving are four sons, An drew W. Ange of Plymouth, Wil mer C., Bonnie and H. David Ange, all of Jamesville; three daughters, Mrs. Bertha M. Ange of Nashville, Tenn., Miss Vannic Ange of Jamesville, and Mrs. An nie D. W'illiams of Scotland Neck; I a brother, Delpheus Mizelle of Plymouth; seventeen grandchild ren, and one great-grandchild. Slightly Injured In Car Accident Mrs. C. B .Clark, Jr., and little daughter, Katherine, were slight i ly injured when their car, a Buick ! sedan, went out of control on slip pery pavement between Leggetts and Rocky Mount last Monday af ternoon. Both were badly bruis ed and the daughter lost one of her front teeth. Mrs. Clark, accompanied by her daughter, was driving toward ! Rocky Mount when the car struck a slippery place on the highway and went out of control. The car did not turn over, but both front | wheels were damaged when the car struck an embankment. THE RECORD SPEAKS a a a No one was hurt on the highways and streets in this county during the tenth week of the current year, and prop erty damage was held to less than $400. Yet, the 1950 re cord is way ahead of the 1949 figures. The following tabulation* 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. IMh Week Accident* InJ'd Killed Dam’ge 1950 2 0 0 $ 375 1949 2 2 0 1,520 Comparison* To Date 1950 28 15 0 $ 6,215 1949 23 11 0 4,500 ---\ 11 NOT A CANDIDATE | i Alter serving more Ilian live years without missing a single session, Paul l>. Rober son announced this week that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself as solici tor of the Martin County Re corder's Court. The Robcr soiiville attorney said he is retiring at the end of the cur rent term to devote more time to his law practice. Funeral Service For Mrs. Mercer Friends from her native and idopted communities and from jther towns in the State and Vii jinia filled the Memorial Baptist Church here yesterday for the funeral of Mrs. W. C. Mercer. The service was conducted hy her pas tor, Rev. Stewart B. Simms, and Rev. Oscar Creech, a former pas tor of Ahoskie, and interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery here. The high esteem in which Mrs. Mercer was held was manifested in the extensive floral offering. Among those from out of town paying tribute to her memory at the service were: Mr. and Mrs. Story Cutchins arid Mr. and Mrs. William Holland of Franklin, Va., Mrs. Thornton Ndrtheutt of Winton, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs, C. W. Hughes, Rev. and Mrs. Os car Creech, Mrs. Ruth Curtis, Mrs. May P. Greene, Mrs. Hallie Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin T Eley, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts Jetni gan, Sr., Miss Margie Evans and Mrs. J. P. Nowell of Ahoskie, Mr and Mrs. Isaac Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sessorns, Mrs. T. R Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mon tague, Mrs. Duke Spruill, and Mrs. Richard Askew of Windsor Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Britton, Mr and Mrs. C. W. Beasley, Mis. Cc oil Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. Harlunc White, Mrs. C. E. Wade, Mrs. M Ji. White, Mr. and Mrs. Cyri Smith, Mrs. W. E. White, Mi air Mrs. J. R. Callis, and Mrs. Way (and Barnes of Colerain, Mrs. M S. Crisp of Greenville, Miss Edith Bradley of Asheboro, Mr. C. B Taylor of Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs Julian Hassell of Jamesville, Mrs A. P. Barnhill of Everetts, Mrs J. K. Coggin of Cary, Mr Ernes Etheridge of Plymouth, Dr. J. M Kilpatrick, Miss Peggy Gray anc Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Carson o Robersonville, Miss Mary Payne | Miss Frances Freeman, Miss Mar jtha Rogers, Mrs. Walter Curry | Miss Dawson Millikin, Mrs. Jame: | Rollins, Mrs. J. T. Worthington Mrs. Walter Hudnell and Di and Mrs. B. F. Beasley of Kin ston, Mrs. W. H. Mercer, Mr. ant Mrs. Marvin Mercer, Sr., Mr. ant Mrs. Marvin Mercer, Jr., Mrs. E B. Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. Denni Mercer, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Beas ley, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Foun tain, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Mei cer, Mrs. Hugh l>gles. Mrs. Wy ley E. Yclverton, Mr" s'. E. Tie vathan, Mrs. David Harris am Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Gay of Foun tain, Mr. and Mrs. Ab Parke and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parke of Macclesfield, and Mrs. Marti Walston of Pinetops. *- 15, it was announced this week by Dr. J. K. Long, registrar. Miss Madaline Davenpe:' Oak City completed her maa* i of arts degree in elementary ad ministration. Miss Louise Hinei of Williamston is to receive the bachelor of science and Javan H Rogers of Bear Grass has earner the bachelor of arts degree Of the fifty students eompletim i their work on degrees at the enc oftbe winter quarter there, thirty seven were young men. Fliird Political Race Created [n Martin County This Week ichool Band And T Glee Club Enter j'j Greenville Event | ingcrs \|i|)rar Friday and j Band Plays at 9:00 On | | Saturday Moriiiiip: Tlu- Williamston High Si'hool ; | reen Wave Band will appear in j ie district music contest at i rcenville Saturday morning at , o’clock while the Glee Club of I tic school will appear Friday at I :30 p. m. A brass sextet from j tic school band will appear atj :52 Saturday afternoon and at, :04 will be the twirling contest in j rhich Mary Lou Lee is entered. Only the senior mixed group of Jlee Club is being entered by 1 drs. Beecher Patterson, public nusie instructor of the school, vith 32 scheduled to take the j rip. They will go over in the norning to hear the solo groups n.the contest and will travel in , ocal cars. The school band will leave at'^ 1:30 Saturday morning on a bus! md private cars and all those j :oing on the trip are being asked :o carry their own lunches. Ar- j angements were being made to lay for a patrol escort for the | ijroup. Professor Jack Butler, the . band director stated. Sickness has cut into the plans j if both Mrs. Patterson and Di rector Butler but they expect to present good programs in spite of the handicaps. The Glee Club will sing two numbers: "Fog” by Christie Goodell, and "Sing This Blessed! Morn," a French carol of the 13th century as arranged by Scholin. There will be no entries from Williamston in the solo groups. Playing Grade 2 music the high (Continued on page eight) —-1 Shed Apartments Burn Last Night -». — A fairly large lumber shed, housing two apartments, on the Williamston Lumber Company mill yard was destroyed by file early last evening along with just about all the earthly possessions I of two tenant families. Twelve or more persons were lext home less, the group claiming the clothes they were wearing as just . about all their earthly belongings. Starting from an oil stove in the Fred Smith apartment, the fire was soon out of control and the one-story frame building was about to cave in by the time an alarm was sounded. Firemen, answering the call, could only keep the fire from spreading to a large saw' dust pile and one or two nearby buildings. Navin Howard, occupying with his wife the second apartment in the building, tried to put out the fire and while making the futile attempt he lost the chance to re move his furnishings from the burning building There are a bout ten in the Smith family. No insurance wras carried on either the building which was valued at about $2,00, or the con tents. 1! IN ION J The Albemarle Union Mis sionary Union, N. C. Churehes of Christ (Disciples of Christ) will convene in the Rober sonville Christian Church on Wednesday, April Slh, The meeting has been called for 10:30 with the following speakers participating: Dr. D. if Uindley, President of At ! itic Christian College; Dr. J din A. T>te, President In ternational Disciples of Christ and State Secretary of the Virginia Chn iian Mission ary Society. Fifty-nine t sureties in east ern Carolina are affiliated with the Union anti all the churehes arc expected to have delegates present at the meet ing. ANNOUNCES K Senator Sam !YI. Campen. Pamlico County farmer and business man, this week an nounced his randidacy to suc ceed himself as State Senator from this, the Second dis trict. lames S. Cowan • Dies In Bertie y1 B ft o it V s< C ] n N I i'i c 11 ti James S. Cowan, father of Mr. v tupert E Cowan of Williamston * ind a representative of the Wil-i iamston Peanut Company, died'j iuddenly at his home in Powells- s rille early yesterday afternoon of ( i heart attack, lie was 56 years c jld. ' c Mr. Cowan, a business man and ( farmer, was well known here i where he was closely associated i with the peanut market and other I interests, including membership \ in the Skewarkey Masonic Lodge. I Surviving besides his son here I. arc his widow, the former Miss i Myrtle Myers; three sons, R. L. 1 and J. A. Cowan of Powellsville, I and L. K. Cowan, student at Win gate Junior College; a daughter, . Mis. O. R. Cockrell of Wilson; three brothers, W. S. Cowan of Windsor, A. E. and D. E. Cowan of Ahoskic; . five sisters, Mrs. J. M. Stallings of Zebulon, Mis. i George Mizelle of Windsor, Miss t Nona Cowan of Raleigh, Mrs. i Rose McCarthy of Norfolk and Mrs. Rachel Winbrowe of Dur ham. Funeral services are b. ing con ducted in the Powellsville Baptist ji Church this afternoon at .1:00 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. T. H.1 Williams, assisted by Rev. John L. Goff, pastor of the Christian church here. Interment will be in the Ahoskie cemetery. To Draw Members For Grand Jury With nine members retiring aft er serving a year, replacements 1 will be drawn for Martin Coun ty’s “permanent" grand jury next j Monday. The following men are retiring, including Foreman Marion Cobb: W R. Banks, J W. Hollowell, Jr., Wm. Hadley, Frank Holliday, D. O. Weaver, Andrew Mobley, N. J. Ellis and Warren Bailey. The following members, drawn last September, are to serve six more months: Lester Brvant, Lawrence G. Lindsley, J. B. Bai ley, Ernest Capps, Ophus Bailey, H. A. Sexton, A. C. Harrison, W. Dewey Hurdison and John Leg- i gett. Many Elanninfi To Enter W'asliiniilon Talent Slioir -^— Quite a few Martin County am ateurs have signed up for the Washington Kiwanis amateur tal ent show to be held in the John Small High School, Washington, on March 24 and 25. Others may enter the competition, but they are advised to mail their entries not later than next Monday .ad vising what features they will of fer and which night they prefer to participate in the program. Cash prizes arc being offered to tlie winners each night, it was an nounced. loward Gaylord ,n The Race For Education Board mi r.ainjM‘ii ViinoiiiH'fH To Crrale C.ontest to Senatorial District Politics continue to rapidly ape up with the certain possi itv that a formidable slate of ndidates will be placed before o voters in this county and dis ct in the democratic primary May 27. A third contest was developed ithin the county this week when award Gaylord of Jamesville inounced his candidacy for a ace on the Martin County jard of Education. Gaylord, a inter school teacher, president the Martin County and Albe arle Baseball Leagues, Jarrtes ille P.-T. A. president, is per nnel director for the North arolina Puip Company. An iuncing his candidacy this week, r. Gaylord said that he would ■ lease a statement later. Education board members are tosen on a county-wide basis, mt is. members are not appor oned to districts as is the case ■ith the county ’commissioners, hree places will be open at the xpiration of the current terms of ,oard Member? Ferd Holliday of amesville, Cecil Powell of Rober mville and Ernest Edmondson f llassell. All three of the in umbents have announced theif andidaeies to succeed themselv While their office is not lill d by popular vote, it has been ustomary for the candidates to go icfore the voters in the primary chore the winners are recognized i.v state legislative authorities. With a race already assured fur ounty representative in the 'lorth Carolina General Assem )l.v, there's still something brew ng in connection with an enlarg 'd contest for the position. The neumbent, A. Corey, announced lis candidacy a short time ago, ind Mr Luther Hardison entered he race last week. No final do •ision as to their intentions in onnection with entering the race or the house has been made other by Robert Cowen, Wil. iamston’s mayor, and Jimmy Wallace, Robersonville school nan It is -till predicted that one >1 the two, and possibly both Will oss their hats into the ring. The third race, that foi tlu- uf ice of high sheriff in the county, jot off to an early start and con inues to gain momentum undqv (Continued on page eight) To Address Farm Life Rurilan Club —-&— — District Highway Commissioner Henry G. Shelton and Division Engineer W. L, Spruill of Ahoskie are slated to address the tegular monthly meeting of the Farm Life Ruritan Club next Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. The highway of ficials are expected to review the Scott Road Program to date, and outline plans tor tin: future. The meeting will be held in the Farm Life school lunchroom and the secretary is calling upon all members to be present. OPENING A $Jt,300-a-year job, plus regular National Guard pay, is open to a young man, in side or outside the local or ganization, who ean main tain equipment for the Guard. The work will be similar to that of a motor sergeant in the army, and requires a cer tain amount of mechanical training, and is based on a 5-day week, eight hours a day. Anyone interested in the opening is asked to contact Elbert S, Peel, Jr„ or Thad llarrison at the Guard head quarters in the old munici pal water plant here.