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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE£ VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 23 William*ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 21, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Nimocks In Address To Grand Jury On Monday . • Court Will Start Trial Of Civil Calendar First Of Next Week m ^ Presiding over, the current term I of the Martin County, Superior Court. Judge Q. K. Nimoeks of | Fayetteville in his address to the | grand jury frowned down on ly i ing and urged the jurors to coop | crate with officers in bringing law | violators into court. Nine new members were added to the jury, the new shift succeed ; ing nine others who had served , #>n the body for twelve months. ! The new group, headed by Law rence G. Lindsley, foreman, in i eludes Wm. H. Griffin, N. M. Hy man. D. A. Brown, Eli D. Rogers, Sidney Beacham, Roy Hardison, R. M. Quinn. R. J. Allen, Archie W. Barber, T. H. Brown, a patient in the hospital, was excused along with D. O. Weaver who last year completed an assignment on the •jury. Mrs. L. A. Shaw, the first woman drawn for grand jury in \ this county, was also excused. In his charge. Judge Nimoeks said that there is a tendency on j the part of some grand juries to I rush through their work as quiek ; ly as possible and do as little as they could. "The grand jury is j the most powerful of any of the groups or organizations in this Estate, and can be of inestimable value to Martin fountv and every citizen in it,” the judge said, urg ing the jurymen not to overlook a single duty. Pointing out the duty of the grand jury in making present • ments, Judge Nimocks said that it had been known in some counties where the gamblers, liquor deal ers and prostitutes would close up ^ when the grand jury was in ses sion because they were afraid, and that they would reopen as soon as the jury recessed. “Some may wonder why the police do not act in such cases,” the jurist said. "In many cases | the officers realize that it would I be of no use to make arrests be f cause the violators might be turn ) ed loose in court, that it is diffi i •'uIt to prosecute a case when so I and-so reports a violation and * that so-and-so will not have his name mentioned in its connection. | Some of the criticism directed against officers may be justified, but most of it is not justified,” the jurist declared. Continuing, he said, "If you see lit to do so you can be of untold benefit to the county and its peo | pic. There are eighteen of your I body, and I feel certain that no f real law violation can go on with i out one of you knowing about it. i Some grand jurors say ‘we have a | sheriff, a police department, con i' stable and patrol officer. They j are sworn and paid, so let them | do it.’ I tell you it is just as I much vour sworn duty to check [ law violations as it is the duty of any officer to bring a violator to i justice.” I Pointing out that all grand jur nrs are sworn to secrecy, Judge Nimocks frowned on the practice of a juror revealing what went on in the grand jury room, that one should not hesitate to act in support of the law. Striking at falsehoods and ly ing, the jurist turned to the wit (Coniinueit on page six) Ij IJKCEIVT APPEAL | Garland G. Woolard, fund drive chairman for the Am erican Red Cross in this chap ter, today directed an appeal to all persons, earnestly urg ing them to support the wor thy cause during the few re maining days of the drive. About half the reports are in from the canvassers, Mr. Woolard said, adding that hardly half the quota had been raised and reported. The chairman urged the peo 1 Pic to rally behind the or ganization, pointing*put that less than $2,800 was being asked, and that that amount was cheap insurance against I tornadoes or other catastro f phies, to say nothing of the ordinary day-by-day service offered by the Red Cross. i First Bond Money Coming To This County For Roads The first money from the 200 million dollar bond fund is head ing into Martin County, accord ing to plans announced by the North Carolina Highway and Public Works Commission. Some money nas been spent widening and improving some of the roads, but the first money for surfacing will be released within the next few weeks, it has been announc ed. It is proposed to surface ap proximately sixteen miles of road from Bear Grass via Everetts to Spring Green, and from Gold Point via a point near Hassell to Oak City, and from Conoho Church on Highway 125 to what is known as the River Road or road from Hamilton to Palmyra. Spe cifications have not been released, and the routing is not definite at this time. However, that route was suggested and approved some months ago. Other road construction is well advanced in various sections of the county. Several roads have been widened and improved. Work is going forward rapidly on structures and preparations for surfacing the link between James ville and the Beaufort County line on 171. The project is partly fin-' anced with federal funds and is not a bond project. That portion of unpaved road from Holly Springs to 171 has been widened and being made ready for surfac ing, but the State is handling the work. Other projects are in the making. # r WELL SATISFIED Meeting as a board of equalization and review, the Martin County Commission ers Monday received only two complaints against property assessments for taxation. Judging from the small num ber of complaints, Martin County property owners ap parently are well satisfied with their tax assessments. Finding the assessed values a bit out of line as compared with other near-by listings, the board dropped the values on the J. C. Kirkman resi dence in Jamesville from $S, 448 to $1,948, and the value on Annie Worsley’a residence on Main Street, Wllllamston, from $1,100 to $900. No other business was be fore the meeting. Boy Appeals For Driver's License His driver’s license revoked for three years by Judge Leo Carr in I the Martin County Superior Court last December for three years as a result of a fatal automobile acci dent in Hamilton last September, Ernest Wilson Bunting, young Oak City boy, this week appealed to the North Carolina Safety Di vision of the Highway Patrol to have his permit reinstated. Evidence was heqrd in the j courthouse Monday morning by j L. F. Wetherington. supervisor of i highway safety in this section of | the State. His findings and rec ommendation will be submitted to Chief Hearings Officer L. R. Fisher and he is expected to hand down his decision within ten days or two weeks. Should the de cision be against the boy, he may appeal to the superior court. At the hearing Monday morn ing, Witnesses A. K. Hale, H. M. Ainsley, N. W. Johnson and W. Edmond Early said the boy had a good reputation, that he attends Sunday school “pretty good for a young boy.” It was pointed out fhat the boy was working with the telephone company in Fayetteville and that his promotion was blocked be cause he had no driver’s license, that he was receiving only $28 a week, and that he had to pay off a heavy court judgment. Officers said that the boy had been arrested twice, once for vio lating the rules of the road and the second time following the last" September wreck which cost Ous Bryant his life. Robert Reynolds Slops In County Making a hurried trip, branded as a good will tour, Robert R. Reynolds, candidate for the U. S. Senate, chatted with friends ano acquaintances for a few minutes here late Sunday afternoon after conferring with the Turner boys in the upper part of the county. He was en route to Elizabeth City where he was to hold a busi ness meeting. Reynolds had very little to say about his campaign, and discussed no current issues, as far as it could be learned. Ho said that he would be back, but mentioned ! no return date. • I Candidate Issues Statement to The Voters 0! County • — » ■ - ■ Luther Hardison Takes Stand Against Liquor Vote, Auto Inspection In a statement issued this week, Luther Hardison, announced cani date for the State House of Rep resentatives, called for land im provements and took a definite stand against submitting the liquor question to a vote of the people and added that he is not in favor of reviving the motor vehicle inspection law. Altough the State, the candidate points out, has assumed as much indebteness as wc can afford to carry, Mr. Hardison said he would favor a bond for drainage in Mar tin County. His statement, addressed to the voters and the public in genera), follows: “I will say in the beginning that 11 fully realize the responsibilities that will rest on my shoulders if I should be nominated and elect ed, and 1 promise that 1 will do my best at all times to carefully consider all things that I may be called on to pass my judgment. “I don't think that I need any introduction to the people. I have lived all my life in Martin County and love every square foot of my native county and State. Aside frbm one trip to see my sons in New York from Saturday " fifth i; the following Friday I have not: altogether spent more than ten days out of State. I am familiar | with almost every family in the ' county and do not plan to make 1 any housc-to-house canvass or ask anyone to vote for me against their free will. I fully realize that there arc dozens of men in Mar tin County that are more capable than I am, and if I am not nomi nated and elected I will not be disappointed, and will have no hard feelings against anyondt Dis appointments, for the most part, are hard to take, but I have had my share and one more will not make so much difference. " I am now and have always been interested in all public or private improvements and for the betterment of all the people. I am > not altogether familiar with all the many civic clubs and other organizations, but I do know many of them are doing much worth work and I rejoyce in it. However, I regret to say that I do not think our county is any thing near keeping pace with our sister counties. When I go into other counties I see drag line machines and bulldozers cutting canals to drain their farms. It (Continued on page ait) r CORRECTION Listing (be candidates for places on the Martin County Board of Education, The Kn terprtoe was in error when it said that board member CctU Powell’s term expired next year. Mr. Powell’s term ex pires In 1953. The terms of three members. Geo. C. Grit- { fin, Ernest Edmondson and Perd Holliday, expire next year and the three men along with Howard Gaylord are in the race for the three places on the board. < Handle Criminal Cases Yesterday In Superior Court —•— Body Urged To Cooperate In Bringing Law Viola tors Into the Courts Interrupted or delayed for one cause or another, the Martin County Superior Court completed its organization but cleared com paratively few cases from its criminal docket before recessipg late yesterday afternoon for the day. A report from the grand jury late yesterday afternoon stat ed that the body had just about completed its work and would have its report ready sometime to day. Judge Q K. Nimocks of Fay etteville is presiding and Solicitor George Fountain of Tarboro is prosecuting the docket. Miss Vir ginia Vincent of Roanoke Rapids is reporting the court. The case charging John J. Trna cek with non-support was nul prossed or dismissed when it was pointed out that the defendant and prosecuting witness were in court together, and that they were expecting an addition to the fam ily. • I Charged with breaking and en tering and larceny, Lester Ran dolph Meeks and Maylon Price of near Robcrsonville, pleaded guil ' ty, but the court early this morn ing had not passed judgment. It is possible that the court will con sider the tender ages of the two defendants and place them on probation. The 15-year-old lads told how they used a ladder to gain entrance through a second story window of the building housing the Robcrsonville Pool Room and how they got about $79 from an unlocked safe there. They also told how they divided the money. The jury found Lafayette Pear sall not guilty of robbing Dossie Hinton of $13. Pleading guilty of forging the name of R. G. Coburn to a check, ] David L. James was sentenced to the roads for six months. The cases in which Dave Mel- 1 ton and William Wiggins were , charged with assaults, were or dered placed on the county court j docket for trial. William Henry Peel pleaded j guilty when charged with the (Continued on page six) | Escape Injury In Sunday Aecideni m. Forrest Kornegay Register, ! young Tarboro man, and three companions escaped injury last Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock when their car, a four-door Pon tiac sedan, went out of control, tore down an embankment and turned over at Gardner’s Creek on Highway 64. Patrolman E. P. Simmons, investigating the wreck, estimated the damage to the car at $400, and said that none of the four persons was badly hurt. Register, owner and driver of the car, was charged with care less and reckless driving, and the three companions, all from Tar boro, were booked for drunken ness and possession of illicit li quor. Funeral Monday For W. R. Wyatt - o W .R. Wyatt, brother of Hugh Wyatt of Williamston and a build ing contractor, died suddenly at his beach home at Kitty Ht^vk last Saturday morning. Mr. Wy att had made his home in Wil liamston while handling several building contracts here and was well known in this section. A native of Virginia, the 03 year-old man, had made his home in Rocky Mount for the past 20 years and operated in several states. Surviving besides his brother here, are his widow, the former Miss Helen Johnson; two sons, W. R., Jr., and George Wyatt; a bro ther, George Wyatt of Fort Lee, N. J„ and a -islet, Mrs. Acidic Ramsey, of Colonial Heights, Va. Funeral services were eonditfct ed at the home in Rocky Mount yesterday afternoon and burial was in the Rocky Mount ceme tery. Five Badly Hurl In Accident On Highway No. 903 -♦ ■ ■ ■■ ■ Auto. Parked In Middle Of Road, Struck By Another Late Sunday Ni^ht Five persons were hurt, one of them critically, when their cai struck another parked in the mid dle of Highway No. 903 about four miles south of Robersonville shortly after 10:00 o’clock Sun day night. Mrs. Morris Hardy, suffering what was believed to have been a brain injury, was removed to Duke Hospital in a Wilkerson am bulance after receiving treatment in the Ward Clinic. She regained consciousness some hours later, and she was getting along as well as could be expected. She was thrown through the windshield when the 1049 Ford driven by her husband crashed into a 1941 Chev rolet parked there by Charles Curtis, young white man of Rob ersonville and Norfolk. Mr. Hardy suffered five frac tured ribs and bruises. His moth er, Mis. Hattie Hardy, was badly hurt on the head and suffered a fractured leg. Mrs. Wayne Leg gett. riding with the Hardys, was painfully cut about the face, and j her husband received a bad but | apparently not a serious head in | jury. The twins of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, while bloody almost from head to foot, went through the wreck without a scratch. Curtis, sitting in his parked car, was not hurt. Investigating the accident, the worst reported on the highways in the county so far this year, Patrolman B. W Parker said that Curtis parked his ear-in the mid dle of the highway after driving about four miles from Roberson ville in the direction of Stokes. No lights were burning on it when the Hardys, on route from Rober sonville to their home near Wal lace's store, came along and crash ed into it. Damage to the Chevrolet was estimated at $150 and that to the Ford at $200. Curtis, booked toi drunken driving and improper parking, was placed in jail by Pa trolman Parker, No hearing has been scheduled in the case, the I patrol officer explaining that ae- ; tion was being delayed pending j the outcome of the condition of 1 the injured victims May Premeasure Crop Acreages Farmers may have their 1950 J cotton and tobacco acreages prc measured if they so desire, ac cording to an announcement com ing from the Triple A office in the county this week Any farther desiring his acre age measured before planting time, is directed to file applica tion for the service with the r -M. A. office 111 the agriculture building on or before March 31. A charge of 90 cents per acre will be made for farms where the acreage is 4.5 acres or more, and a minimum of $4 for farms where the acreage is 4 4 acres or less The farmers may have either his i cotton or tobacco land measured, j but he will be required to furnish stakes and assist the work Prc- ! measurement is not required, and the lands will be checked after crops are planted, it was learned. , Purebred Swine Sale March 24 A purebred hoy sale will be held Friday, March 24, at 1 o’clock in WilJiamston at the New Caro lina Warehouse. A total of 20 Duroc hogs will be offered, II boars, 7 open gilts, and 2 bred gilts. Good quality hogs will be offered and prices are expected to be very reasonable. This sale is being sponsored by the Martin County Purebred Swine Breeders Association in cooperation with the N. C. Exten sion Service. Each hog to be sold is guaranteed to be a breeder and is from a*me of the best blood j lines of the state. j Everyone is invited to attend I tliiy aalc. I Anderson Entering Race For The House Jimmy Wallace Is Still Considering Entering Contest - ♦ Uiieoiifirnied Reports l)e rlare Ollier ('ondidate Will Him for Sheriff Interest in county politics! mounted over the week-end when a third candidate announced for the Stale House of Representa tives and unconfirmed reports de clared that a third and possibly a fourth candidate would enter the race for sheriff. During the meantime, Jimmy Wallace, Rob ersonville school man and native of James ville, stated he had reached no decision as to whether he would enter the race for repre sentative. "I plan to make up my mind within the next twenty four hours,” Wallace said late yesterday afternoon. The big development on the political front was reported yes terday when E, G (Andy) Ander son, prominent county business man and tobacconist, announced his candidacy for the legislature from this county. It was also an nounced that Robt, Cowan, Wil-i liamston mayor, would not be a candidate. At the present time, three candidates are in the race tor the House, A. Corey, the in- i cumbent, Luther Hardison, native | of Griffins and a resident of Jamesville for many years before locating in Williamston, and Mr. Anderson. Reports on the sheriff's field w'ere still vague late yesterday, but it was declared that a Wil liamston man was considering en tering the race, and that a man Irom in or near Robersonville had been mentioned as a potential candidate No names were dis closed. In making his announcement yesterday, Mr. Anderson offeied a brief statement, explaining that hi' was a candidate for the office) of Representative of Martin Coun-! t.V in the 11)51 General Assembly, subject to the Democratic primary on May 27, that if nominated and elected, he promised to serve the people of the county to the best : hi.-, ability. (Continued on page six) Superior Court Asks More Jurors Although more jurors than usual were drawn by the com missioners last month for the cur icnt term of superior court, a call for more was received Mon day, and the commissioners In a special meeting, drew fifteen more, six for the current week and nine for next week, as fol lows: First week—Henry White, Jr., ol Bear Grass, H. M. Ayers of Cross Hoads, John W. Cherry and Abner Bland of Hamilton, and M. H. Robinson and Z. 0. Cox of Goose Nest. Second week Garfield Mobley, ■C H. Ange and Clyde Glass of Jamesvilie, Wendell Griffin of Williams, Clyde M. Lassiter of Griffins, J. D, Lilley, Jr., and J. C Manning, Jr , of Williamston, Elwood Ayers of Hamilton and Henry Pitt of Goose Nest. ROli!NIMJP J Last week-end was a busy period for law enforcement officers here and in the coun ty. Fourteen persons were arrested and placed in the county jail. Ten of the four teen persons were white, in cluding several young men. Nine of the cases involved li quor, such as drunken driv ing, public drunkenness and possession. One of the vic tims was found lying stretch ed out on the highway, re ports stating that one car missed running over him by a matter of inches. The ages of the group rang ed from 13 to 48 j ear^. CANDIDATE Announcing His candidacy for Martin County represen tative in the State General Assembly, Luther Hardison today issued his campaign statement. WHS Does Well AlGreenville The Wiiliamston High School I Senior Mixed Glee Club won a | superior rating and the Green . Wave Hand of the high school | won an excellent rating in the district music contests staged at East Carolina Teachers College in j Greenville last week-end. I Head majorette of the Green jWave Band, Mary Lou Lee, won | a superior rating in the twil ling I contest with ease. Her routine | was cut short because of the late ness of the hour and the cold, I the judges already having decided that she should go to the state contest at Greensboro where a heavy rain last year knocked her out of a chance to put on her routine for the state judges. The glee club was one of three | mixed groups to receive a super- j ! ior rating and was invited along i with the others to remain over for a program Friday night when a special concert was given. The groups from Greenville and New | Bern were the other two invited i to return. The only band to receive a su 1 ! perior rating was the Greenville i Hign School unit Wiiliamston | and Elizabeth City received ex cellent ratings, it has been learn ed here but the exact ratings of I the other tin its has not been an nounced except that none of them got better than excellent. Hamstrung by illness and other mixups for the past six weeks or more the band went into the con test under a handicap but receiv ed a more favorable criticism this year than last although the rat ing was the same. The musical presentation was complimented by the judges but technical items were the things that hurt, it was indicated. This condition was a result of luck of practice, the Wii liamston band going into the event with less practice per month than any other entrant had in a week The band, as it always has, was a favorite of the public up the street and received many compli ments on its uniform, discipline and appearance of its individual members. The glee club is under the di rection of Mrs. Beecher Patterson, instructor in public school music at Wiiliamston High and the bund was under the direction of Prof essor Jack Butler, civics teacher and band instructor. The brass sextet which had been entered in the contest by the Wiiliamston Band had to be can celled because of the illness of one of its members. sritlNliTIMK Tile calendar makers and the weatherman cooperated splend idly in ushering in Miss Spring time. Last night at 11:38 o’clock the calendar maker announced the arrival of spring. This morn ing the weather man, while a bit uncertain, turned on the sun and pushe dthe mercury up into the withies. Specialist Gives Timely Notes On Sweet Potatoes Plan Meeting Willi Farmers In Oak (lily Thursday Night, March 2‘.i J. W. Sumner Sweet Potato Specialist There will be a sweet potato meeting at the Oak City High School Thursday night, March 23, at 7:30 p, m. All farmers in the Oak City area planning to grow sweet po tatoes are urged to attend. The counties of Edgecombe, Martin and Pitt now have an as sistant county agent t<> advise farmers on proper sweet potato production. My aim as your sweet potato worker is not to sell the farmer on the idea that all he has to do to get rich is plant sweet potatoes. Mv aim i^ to work with the farmers who want to grow potatoes and help them grow better quality potatoes that can be marketed at a profit. Each week I shall try to bring you a tew timely sweet potato notes. No one can expect to harvest and sell a better crop of potatoes than the seed he starts with. The first requirment for a good har vest is to start with good seed. The variety to plant is North Carolina or Louisiana strain of Porto Rico. Home grown seed may be planted I'm commercial purposes if they were grown from certified stock and arc free from black rot, stem rot (wilt), scurf, internal cork or decay, Hand select sound potatoes that are typ ical of the variety and have a copper colored skin and salmon pink flesh color. Flesh color may be determined by making a small smooth chip slightly more lima skin deep about one inch front the stem end of the potato. Dis card any that does not have a sal-, mon pink flesh color. Size of Potatoes to Bed: Use uid.y No. 1 oi huger size of seed. The minimum No. 1 is 1 3-4 inches in diameter. Large seed produce fewer sprouts per bushel, but they are larger and more vigorous than those from strings (slips). Thus, large plants will live and grow under adverse weather conditions immediately following planting where weak plants produced from strings may die Seed Stuck Requirements One acre of sweet potatoes planted on mice ami one imil toot rows spac ed 12 inches apart wall lequne 12,500 plants. One bushel of seed will produce 1500 to 1750 plants in three pullings. Then seven to eight bushels arc needed to plant once acre. Seed Treatment: Immediately before bedding disinfect them by dipping for one minute in a solu tion of Semesan Btl made of I lb. to 7 1-2 gallons of water A 55 gallon drum or similar size wood en barrel may be used to a good advantage. Drain thoroughly in the shade and bed. The purpose of this seed treatment is to kill any live organisms on the surface of the potatoes. This will not kill the organisms inside a diseased potato, therefore, it is important io throw out any diseased or sus (Continucd on page six) ! KuxrrioNs ijoaiu) >— -- ('. 1). Carstarphen, Wll liamston man, was appointed and Hassell Worsie.v of Oak City and Wade Vick of Rob ersonville were reappointed to the Martin County Board of Elections by the State Board of Ejections in Raleigh last Saturday. Mr. Carstar phen ,vas named to fill the position made vacant by the death of Mr. Sylvester Peel who had served the county hoard for nearly a quarter century. Mr. Vick, represent ing: the Republican party, has been a member of the board for a number of years, aud Mr. Worsley is completing; his first term. The county board is sched uled to meet on Saturday of this week, perfect a reor ganisation aud make plains for the registration and May 37 primary election.
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