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* THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bf OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 27 William»ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tnt'sday, April I, 1930 ESTABLISHED 1899 Asking $l,5(Rl.OO .In Marlin County For Cancer Fund —«—— Plan* Complete for Canvass*! Here: Plans for County To Be Announced Plans for handling the annual cancer fund drive in Williamston were announced complete yester day by Mrs. Herbert Whitley and Mrs. Neil Ripley, co-commanders, #nd County Campaign Chairman C. B. Martin of Robersonville is rapidly completing arrangements for extending the drive into other areas, it was explained. Mr. Martin is succeeding Rev. N. J. Ward, Williamston minister, who explained that other duties and his health made it impossible for him to head the drive. Martin County is being asked raise $1,500 as its part in the relentless fight against cancer. While much of the money goes into a research fund, the Ameri can Caiicer Society in coopera tion with the State Board of Health is operating two cancer clinics in this section of North ; Carolina, one at Elizabeth City and one at Rocky Mount. Already a goodly number of people from ?his county have attended the clinics. Recognizing the need for more j work in the tight against cancer, quite a few volunteers will handle the solicitations in this commun ity, and others are certain to carry the appeal to others throughout the county. Canvassers in Williamston in clude, Mesdames Chas. 1. Harris, ^has. H. Manning, Robt. Montieth, Bill Sessoms, N. C. Green, L. T. Fowden. Jr., S. H. Grimes, Irving Margolis, Alice Dunning, G. P. Hall, Reg Simpson, J. T. Llewel lyn. M. M. Levin, J. L Harris, Ji„ Ben D. Courtney, John H. Gur ■anus, W. O. Griffin, Noah E. Hardison, M. D. Wilson, Joe' G. Corey, John L. Goff, R. H. Smith, Janie Knox, R. L. Coburn. J. C. %\nderson and J. W. Watts, and Misses Mai jorie Lindsley, Irene Tetterton, Mary Taylor, Agnes Beale, Mis. Stuart Davis and Mrs. Tom Skinner. The colored citizens have ac cepted $150 as their share in the, drive and Mrs. Nora Slade will direct the canvass. In West End, Mis. George Co rey is heading up the drive, and j Bie is being assisted by Mes i, dames J. B. Taylor, Neal Jones, Grady Luffman, R. H. Bell, David Keel and W. J. Francis. Library Group HoldsJdeoiing Meeting in the crowded library j room Inst week, members of the j I board of directors of the local li brary discussed the ever-growing problem—insufficient funds and inadequate housing. However, the group ruled against a public drive at this time, but urgent ap peals will be directed to individ uals by letter, pointing out the great need for increased support of the library. It was pointed out that the li brary is hardly more than a stor g age, that there isn't sufficient working room. However, it was explained that despite crowded conditions, the library was lend ing more bfeoks to more people than ever before. A committee, including D. V. Clayton, chairman, Mayor Robt. Cowen and Mrs. F. M. Manning, was named to investigate the pos sibility of housing the library in the Christian church building on _ Smithwick Street when it is va * cated. f FARM BtlKKAU J Officers and directors tor the coming year will be elect ed at a meeting of the Martin County Farm Bureau to be held in the agricultural build ing Friday night of this week * at 7:3# o'clock, it was an nounced by Secretary Mayo Hardison. Plans for the annual barbe* cue meeting will be discussed and a report on the State convention will be submitted. The barbecue is to be held on May 5. ♦ To Manage Frank Graham Campaign In This County ■ -• W. C, Manning, publisher of. The Enterprise, has been named i to manage Frank P. Graham's campaign in this county for the United States Senate, it was an nounced over the week-end by members of a volunteer steering committee. No format statement has been issued by the new manager, but every effort will be made to car ry the cause of Frank P. Graham, the Champion of Democracy, to the Reople of this county, the manager declaring that once the solid facts are placed before the people they will rally in support of and give to Senator Graham a great vote. During the meantime, Manning referred to Graham’s pronounce ments offered by the Senator in an address at Fayetteville last week-end: “We do not expect the support of those . . who seek for them selves special privilege or mon opoly of power," Graham said in i his address, and continued: j ‘ Those persons opposed the prin ciples of a free and competitive capitalism whose opportunities •were open to all.” Graham said he had been de nounced by isolationists, commun ists and imperialists, 'but the peo ple of North Carolina and the free peoples of the earth arc on the side of the principles for which we stand . . . “We stand for an America strong in agricultural, industrial and commercial power; strong in military, technological and sci entific power; strong in freedom, democracy and spiritual power; and strong in leadership in the United Nations ... to prevent a third world war and, under God, save freedom and peace for all the peoples of the earth.” APPROVED A decision in the Oak City* Parmele colored school dis pute is expected tomorrow when the State Board of Edu cation holds a meeting in Ra leigh. As far as It could he learned a special survey of the terrtiory has been com pleted and all necessary facts will be laid before the board at the meeting. Plans, advanced by the county board and State Plan ning Commission, for the con struction of a high school in Oak City were virtually blocked by opposition in other areas, and the issue, de veloping into a hot one, fin ally found its way into the lap of the State board. Nominate County Girls For "Miss Fashion Plate" MIkm'k Taylor and KubanLi Named At WC, UNC, In Greensboro Miss Mary Anna Taylor, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Taylor of Williamston, and Miss Ellenor Eubanks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eubanks of Hassell, have been nominated for the title “Miss Fashion Plate” of 1950 at Woman’s College of the Universi ty of North Carolina. Greensboro. ■ M is-f -Tfry ks.—ki a class of '51 The contest, being conducted by College Sales &i Research in coop eration with Revlon Products Cor poration, New York, is in progress on leading campuses throughout the country. Selection is based on beauty and charm, fashion knowl edge and dress, personal groom ing, personality and poise. A board of selection composed of campus leaders nominated nine other candidates for the campus title and the entire student body will vote for the winner. Each of the campus winners throughout the country will enter into the nation-wide competition for the title, “Miss Fashion Plate” (Continued on page seven) -- Bed Cross Fund Well Over $2,000 —•— After dragging along for weeks, the Red Cross fund has grown to •more than $2,190 in this chapter, Chairman Garland Woolard an nounced yesterday. The- drive, however, is about $600 short of its goal. Chairman Woolard explained that several canvassers have not yet reported, that the late reports will add much to the total, but it is fairly certain that the goal will not be reached this year. Tentative reports show the fol lowing amounts collected and sub mitted: Williamston, $1,502.07; Bear Grass, $131; Griffins, $170; James ville, *199.50; Williams, $57 25; Colored citizens, Bear Grass, $15; Jamesvflle, $24.20; Williamston, $91.41. Comiiieemen Go i Before Education Board Monday ■ i » Renovation Projects Dis cussed for Janiesville And Oak City The urgent need for improve ments or extensive renovation projects at Oak City and James vilie were discussed by members of the Martin County Board of Education in session Monday, but the plans never got out of the dis cussion stage, it was learned. Oak City committeemen ex plained that conditions there were bad, that while the present facili ties offered ample room, the i buildings needed extensive re pairs, and that new equipment was also needed. Similar condi tions exist at Jamesvillc, and the board called for a survey which is to determine actual needs and estimated costs. Representatives from the Farm Life local committee appealed to the board for a teacher of com mercial subjects. No action was taken on the request. Committeeman E. C. Harrison and Principal H. V. Parker also appeared before the board and discussed the possibility of enlarg ing the gymnasium at Bear Grass. One report said no official action was taken. Plans fer the construction of a duplex house in Jamesvillc for school personnel were discussed, vVvation body went be I fore the county commissioners | seeking aid. The education board j chairman, J D. Woolard, explain | cd that it would be a self-liquidat I ing project. Action on the part of the commissioners was delayed. All members of the board, in cluding the chairman, Ferd Holli day, Geo. C. Griffin, Cecil Powell and Ernest Edmondson were pre sent. i Woman Assaulted On County Road —•— Gladys Harris, young colored woman, was painfully but ap ' parently not seriously hurt, when James Edward Savage, 19-year old colored man, fired a load of No. 6 shot into her hip and let's with a shot gun as she walked along the highway between Hamilton and Palmyra about 8:00 o’clock Monday morning. Arrested about two hours later by Deputies J. H. Roebuck and Raymond Rawls and Constable Wiley Craft, Savage admitted the attack but no motive was es tablished immediately. The wea pon was recovered, and at a hearing before Justice J. Ben Whitfield in Oak City Monday night, Savage was bound over to the higher courts under bond in the sum of $500. The case was sent to the county court for trial. Savage admitted that he se creted himself in the Williams family cemetery and fired >:pon the victim at a distance of about 35 or 40 yards He was heard to have remarked some time ago that if he ever got the chance, he would kill the woman. Joe Everett Ends ' Life At His Home I In Robersonville 1 ■ o Tell Khuhii Salesman Had 1 Been In 111 Health For a Number of Year* -«— Joe Everett, well known sales man ami popular young man, end- j ed his life at his home in Ttobor- j sonvillc at 11:15 o'clock last Sat- | urdav morning. Using a .16 gauge j gun loaded with No. 1 buckshot, j he shot himself in the heart, death | following instantly. He was dressed in his pajamas and was sitting on the edge of the bed when he committed the tragic act. Members of the family and friends were in another part of the house. Investigating the tragedy, De puty Coroner Billy Biggs ruled no I inquest was necessary, that it was suicide. A representative of the Watkins Products Company, Mr. Everett had been in declining health for a long time. He had had a leg am putated. undergoing about a doz en operations. Some time ago, he underwent a major kidney opera tion and he was stricken with the same ailment last week. He was quoted as saying some time ago that he could not go through an other operation, intimating that he would take his life. However, that wasn’t construed to mean that he was contemplating ending his life, and the deed came with out warning. He had made many friends here and throughout the county where he called on the people, listening to and consoling them in their troubles. A son of Mrs. Sally Barnhill Everett and the late James By num Everett, he was born near Robcrsonvillc 42 years ago on March 22, 1908. He was married to Miss Hazel James on Septem ' ber 20, 1931, and was a member ' of the Christian church in Rober sonville. Surviving besides his mother and widow are a son, Donnie; three sisters, Mrs. Walter Baker and Mrs. Harvey Warren of Rob erson ville and Mrs. Guy Powell of Parmele; and three brothers, Bill and Jack Everett of Rober sonville and Heber Everett of Stokes. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Christian church Mon day afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. J. M. Perry, as sisted by Rev. Ralph Ferguson, ■ Baptist minister. Interment was in the Kobersonville cemetery. -— Firemea Called — ; To Country Fire The local volunteer fire depart ment vas called out at 12:30 o’clock Friday morning when fire destroyed a barn and threatened other buildings on Simon A. Per ry’s Longfield farm near Wil liamston. The barn and nearly all the contents, including several thous and feet of timber, ten stands of lard, a quantity of potatoes and more than 100 small chickens, were burned. About 75 biddies were saved, it was reported. It is believed that the file start ed when sparks from a stove lo cated on the lower floor spilled through a thimble on the second floor. Making Progress On Census Survey The 1950 “nose counting” job was oft to a good start in this county last Saturday, Evan Grif fin, crew leader, adding that the public is cooperating splendidly Mr. Griffin explained again that all information given the census takers is confidential and is not to be used for taxation or regula tion purposes. Mr. Griffin also pointed out the importance of the census, stating I that representation in the nation al congress is determined by the population, count, that develop j ments for schools, factories, farm , markets are closely associated | with the statistics gathered by the | enumerators. Town Authorities I In Regular Session Here Last Night Call For I'lxlmilril Wiilrr , Lint's To Arroiuniotlatt' ( Manx New Homes Meeting in regular session last night, the local town commission ers heard right many requests for services, including water line ex tensions, curb and guttering, pav ed sidewalks and street lights, Making his monthly report, Treasurer Dan Sharpe stated that approximately 83 percent of the 1949 taxes or $62,306.97 out of the $75,394,22 levy had been col lected. Of the $1,844.33 paving assessments for the same period, $1,220.64 had been collected. At the present time, the treasurer said, the town has $16,976.42 in cash, including $4,109.16 in the i special sewer account. Approxi mately $560 was collected in the parking meters last month. Residents on Lei' Street, repre senting more than aa percent of the property, petitioned the board for curb and gutter and paved sidewalks between Liberty and Franklin Streets. A petition was also presented, asking for a similar service on Park Street between Warren Street and Mar shall Avenue. It was expained that other petitions were on file for paving, that the service would be provided in order and just as soon as money was available. Property owners along Syca more Street asked for improved drainage to take care of surface water at the intersection of that street and the Washington High ; way. The project is to be con sidered as a permanent improve ment later. A committee was instructed to have needed repairs made to the town hall. Quite a goodly number of cit izens asked for a street light on Faulk Street. A water line extension off Washington Street two blocks down Morrison Street was asked, the petitioners explaining that four new homes are being com pleted there and two others are to be constructed. A complaint about penning hogs in town was received, and the clerk was instructed to ask the owner to cooperate in re lieving the problem. Taking issue with a rather sar castic article written about the town and appearing in an eastern North Carolina afternoon paper, the commissioners expressed their regrets and decided to forget it. Radio Engineers Work On Station Jim Fields, radio engineer asso ciated with Williamston’s new ra dio station, WIAM, is completing plans for starting construction on the station’s plant about three miles from here on the Hamilton Road. Mr. Fields, a native of Jackson ville, Fla., and associated with radio stations in Florida for two years before coming to North Car olina, said yesterday that they planned to have the new station ready for operation in about six or eight weeks. Broadcasts and studios will be centered at the station site for awhile with tin possibility that studios will be opened up town later. The station, having 1,000-watt power, has been assigned a fre quency of 900 kilocycles. Mr. Fields, World War 11 veter an, is now with Fuquay’s station, WFVG, but plans to move his family Jiere just as soon as he can locate an apartment or home. Messrs. Adcock and Davis arc associated with Mr. Fields in the project here which will cost an estimated $50,000. ! ROUND-UP l Kxcept fur a fairly serioua theft flare-up, flip crime front in this county was fairly quiet last week-end. Only five per sons were arrested and jail ed, three of them for being drunk and disorderly and two for assault. All of the prisoners were colored and their ages rang ed from 21 to 54 yean. Highway Work Goes Forward In County -# Receive Low Bids On 16.1 Niles Oi Black Top Roads Work Started Or To Get Under Way on 70 Miles Of Roads Soon Thu 1200 million dollar road pro gram approved by the people of; North Carolina last spring is be- ] ginning to spread in this county; fairly rapidly, an unofficial sur- ! vey last week-end showing that approximately seventy miles of road are being improved, includ ing a number of miles of surfac ing. Low bids were received last week for the surfacing of lti.l miles of road, the State forces are preparing to black top 8.8 miles, and the contractor is al ready well advanced on about 10 mile surfacing project. Ap proximately 38 miles of road have been widened, drained and stab ilized or work is now getting un der way on that phase of the pro gram. The Brown Paving Company of I Lexington was low bidder—$165, , 142.70—on 16.1 miles of road to be J surfaced. The project includes the road from Everetts to Spring Green, from Gold Point via Has sell to Oak City, and from Con oho Church to the Hamilton-Pal myra or River Road. J. S. Hill Construction Com pany is making progress on the paving project on 171 from at point near Jamesville to the Beau- 1 , fort County line, a distance of ap proximately ten miles. State forces are making ready l to surface the Holly Springs-Farm Life Road, and the one from Bear! Grass to the Beaufort County line, j | Material for the project is being ; unloaded, but completion is not [expected before June. Two and two-tenths miles of the Manning Road from Highway 171 to Deep Run has been widened. ! graded and drained for surfacing. j Approximately 2.5 miles of road from Robersonville via Claude Green’s to a cross roads is in line; for surfacing shortly. Stabilization work has either been completed, or now under way or is slated to get started im mediately on a number of pro jects. Included in the list is the read from Nurnev’s Store on Highway I 64, via Fail view Church to High way’ l 7'i, dlstanCf' tjf t r The Pulp Mill road, about 3.1 miles, has been stabilized but has not been scheduled for paving. The Bailey Road, from Highway 64 near Everetts to the Prison Camp Road, and road from the Bailey Road to Cross Roads have been widened, graded and drained for stabilization, a distance of about 5.7 miles. The McCaskey Road from Rob erson's Slaughter House to High way 125 has been widened, graded and drained and stabilized, a dis tanee of 3.6 miles. Forces are now working on 4 7 miles of road from Highway 64 between Everetts and Roberson vilie via J. R. Winslow’s to Gold Point for stabilization. Four and five-tenths miles of road from the Sherrod farm on Highway 125 into Poplar Point lias been widened, graded and drained for stabilization. The road from Highway 125 be tween Hamilton and Oak City to the River Road is to be widened and stabilized. Work is being centered on the widening and stabilizing of 2.9 miles of road between Highway 125 and the River Road, known as the Iron Mine Road. Beyond Parmele, highway force: are improving 1.1 miles of road off Highway 64, one end running to the Edgecombe line and the other branch running to the Pitt County line. Highway forces are stockpiling approximately fifty carloads of rock for the Bear Grass-Beaufort line and the Holly Spring-171 projects, and large quantities of | material is being unloaded in I Williamston for the stabilization I work. CANDIDATE j Herbert Roebuck, promi nent Cross Roads farmer and a leading county citizen, was the first to announce his can didacy for a seat on the board of commissioners, lie files for the seat allotted the Rob sonville-Cross Roads district. Daring Thieves Operating Again In This County -»- — - l)oz<*ii llo^ and a Large Niinilier of ChirkniH Sto len In l*a«t Few Days -c* Idle, for the most part, for months, daring thieves are oper ating again in this county, a re port from the sheriff's office stat ing that two hog lots and a chick en coop were raided during recent days in Robersonvillc Township. The first strike was made week before last when thieves invaded Farmer Willie A. Strickland’s lot near Roberson's Bridge in Rober sonvillc Township and loaded two nice live hogs and hauled them away. A week later to the day, thieves raided the farmer's chick en coop and carried away ap proximately fifty chickens, or everyone the farmer had. The night 1 aiders, operating while the Stricklands were away from home, apparently used sacks and curried them to their ear which! was parked nearly 200 yards from I the house. The two hogs werel taken from a pen beside the road.j !y.. h<* • midnight, rogues made a telling; raid on Farmer Tom House's hog I pen and hauled away ten top hogs, weighing between 200 and 200 [pounds each. Charles Highsmith, [living nearby, beard hogs squeal ing and went to his porch in time | to see the thieves drive awa.y j Mr. House counted his hogs about 10:00 o’clock Saturday morning and missed ti n The sheriff's of fice was notified, and Sheriff Hol j Ionian and Deputy Rawls worked on the case all during the week lend, hut up until this morning they had been unable to establish a lead in either of the thefts. There was much straw scattered on the ground around the pen and no vehicle trucks could be cheek ed. Mr. House is posting a $100 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves. Anyone who can throw any light on Hit- (licit is asked to contact either Mr. House near Robersonvillc or the sheriff's of fice. I Painfully Burned Working on Radio —t— H. K. DeFord, operator ia the local Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration office here, was severely burned while working on a radio at his home just off Pine Street yesterday morning shortly before noon. The burns were centered on the hands and arms, reports stating that possibly 3,200 volts struck him and that he narrowly escaped electrocution. He was treated in a local doc-1 tor's office. County Board Of Commissioners In Meet On Nonday Four Mcmhers Vmimiiur Tlifsr <To Sii«‘c»m*jI Tiu'iiiM-lvos Tin' regular April meeting of the Martin County Board of Com missioners discussed many prob lems but took no final action in but a very few instances. A permit to sell medical pro ducts in this county was granted to W S. Griffin of Greenville. Appointed architect for the pro posed health center in the county, J. H. Griffith discussed plans for the project with representatives of the board. Plans are to be sub mitted within a few weeks, and it is expected that work will get j under way on the building some \ time during the early summer. Asked to consider underwriting a loan for a self-liquidating pro ject for housing Jamesville school personnel, the board took no ac tion. In his report to the board, Tax Collector M. L. Peel stated that $41,537.2fi of the $312,285.26 levy for 1949 had been collected, that, there was a balance of $8,751.57 uncollected from the $284,204.02 levy for 1948, and that of the $235,086.08 levy for 1947 all but $4,354.66 had been collected. The political line-up for the board of commissioners took fair ly definite shape at the close of the meeting when four of the old members, Messrs. John H. Ed wards. C. C. Martin, W. M. Harri son and Henry S. Johnson, Jr., fil ed their candidacies to succeed themselves. Commissioner C. Abram Roberson, after almost twelve years of able service as a member of the board, announced that he would not announce tu succeed himself, adding that Rob et Sonville had been represented directly on the board for almost twelve years. Herbert Roebuck, Cross Roads citizen, last week an nounced his candidacy for a place on the board, assuring the board a full personnel slate. One Person Hurt In Road Accident One person was painfully but nut seriously hurt when two ears crashed and turned over between Robersonville and Parmele last Tuesday morning about 11:00 o’ clock Willie Jones, Robersonville col orcd man, was driving his taxi toward Robersonville and start ed to pass a 1939 Ford The rear uTieefx oi the taxi .kidded on the wet pavement and struck the Ford, throwing both cars out of control. The 194) Crevrolet taxi went over an embankment and turned over. The Ford ran off the road, clipped a telephone pole in two and then turned over, in juring the driver painfully about the shoulder. VndvrgovH O/H’iulion In Durham Hospital Monday Undergoing a major throat op oration in Duke Hospital, Dur ! ham, yesterday, Mr. Henry Handy, well known local man, was reported to be getting along 1 very well. A direct report front I the hospital about 10 o’clock to t day suit! he had a "good night” and was resting comfortably. It j was said that Ins condition was I "satisfactory”. Mr. Handy was not in the op j crating room "too long”, his special nurse said , DECISION Tentative plans fur enlarg ing the unc-story high school building in YVilliamston and fur the construction of a gym nasium in IlobersouvHle were tentatively approved by the State Planning Commission in Italcigh last Friday. Plan details are to be made immediately and while no de finite dale was fixed for let ting the contracts and start ing work, school authorities are hopeful the projects can be launched about the time school is out for the summer
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