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Ee enterprise is read Bl ER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! MILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 35 THE ENTERPRISE Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tanniny, May 2, 19.»(> THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bt OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Need For Sewer "System Extension Cited At Meeting Fight Thousand Feel Of New Territory Has Al ready Been Surveyed -<y> The crying need for an expand ed sewer system here was cited in definite terms at a regular meeting of Williamstpn's town Commissioners last evening, and while no action was or could be taken, the officials are working for a solution to the urgent prob lem. Final action, of course, rests with the people, and the size of the program rests with those people in the North and West End communities. If one or both areas vote for annexation, ) the program will be fitted to the ♦ipandcd areas. If there is no annexation then the town is ex- ! pected to meet the need within its boundaries by extending the sewer system to old and new de velopments alike. During the meantime, individ uals are confronted with prob lems. It was explained at the last night meeting that the new hospital will have to spend ap proximately $4,200 for a system M its own. Engineers are sug gesting that a system be installed to meet town standards with the possibility that it can be incor porated into the town system la ter. It was pointed out that no ac tion could be very well taken by the town until the Annexation vote is recorded and the matter placed before a vote of the peo l*. A detailed sewer system survey, financed by the federal govern ment, has been completed from Roanoke River to Highway 125 at Whitley's Canal, and work on it continues. It is estimated that the cost of the project to that point will approximate $26,700, Engineer Torn Rivers pointing out at the meeting that the construe costs along that route would run considerably higher than the remainder of the project. Engineers are to confer further with State health officials in an effort to formulate a plan where 1 by a temporally system could be installed and reduce the cost of the individual hospital project It was explained that the town could possibly finance the first unit of the sewer system, but the officials said it would not be fair *io undertake part of the project unless it could be extended to all. Handling routine business, the board agreed to allot more space to the library when and if ad ditional room is available in the town hall. The officials agreed to con tribute $150 to help finance tiie high school band on its trip to Charlotte in June. ^ Delinquent taxes are to be ad vertised this month for sale in J une. Treasurer Dan Sharpe said that $66,721.01 of the $75,394.22 levy for the current fiscal year had been collected, that the town had $18,300.21 in the bank. He ex plained that some of those 1919 water system bonds, bearing that I unholy six percent interest, were I to be paid off this month. (Continued on page eight) Enters Ralritfli Hospital Today For Treatment Mr. Jeff Ray, aged local man who has experienced failing health during the past several weeks, entered a Raleigh hospital this morning for treatment. He made the trip in a Biggs ambu lance. As far as it could be learn ed, no Democratic Party meetings were held on the precinct level in this county last Saturday. However, E. S. Peel, chairman of the county executive committee for the ^ party, is expecting represen * tative delegations from each of the thirteen precincts for the county , convention to he held in the courthouse on Saturday of this week at 12 o’clock, noon. Any Democrat in good standing is cordially invited to attend the convention and ^participate in the proreedinrs. NO MEETINGS Officials Inspect New Insecticide Plant Here Officials of the Mathieson Chemical Corporation. Balti more, are pictured above with officials of the Standard Fer tilizer Company, a division of the Baltimore firm, just be fore starting an inspection of the Standard’s new insecticide mixing plant and other properties on Roanoke River here. Several of the officials, making their first trip to the plant here, declared they were impressed by this section and its people, and before returning to Baltimore announced a plant expansion and modernization program. Pictured, left to right, arc: Woodrow Tic?, secretary of Standard Fertiliz er Company; Dr. Carl F. Prutton, vice president and re search director of the Mathieson Corp., C. (5. Crockett, Stan dard Company president; John C. Leppart, executive vice president; S. L. Nevins, vice president, and D. It Stoneleigh, director of agricultural specialties division, all of the Ma thieson Corporation; J. C. Cooke, treasurer, and K. W. Bon durant, vice president and superintendent of the Standard Company. > Cancer Fund Drive Nears Its Goal In Martin County -# The cancer fund drive is near ing its goal in this conty, accord ing to a report coming from | Chairman C. B. Martin in Rob- j ersonville. With a quota of $1,500, the county had raised and reported] early this week a total of I $1,138.53, and no reports had been received from seven of the ten townships. Williamston, Robersonville and Griffins Townships and the little town of Hassell have reached or passed their quotas. Raising $701.28, Williamston exceeded its quota by more than $200, and a few more canvassers are yet to report according to Mrs. Neil Rip ley and Mrs Herbert Whitley, commanders of the fund drive. Robersonville met its $300, and Hassell, raising $36.50, exceeded its quota by $ 1.50 Griffins, with ia $100 quota, raised $100.75. I Township Chairman Rev. W. B. ! Harrington, expressing his ap ' predating to his canvassers, Mes dames B. R. Manning, Leslie Grif fin, Bettie Coltrain and Raleigh and Kenneth Harrington, said that the people there gave liberal ly and willingly. Several other townships are making progress in the drive, but have submitted no reports. The chairman is fairly certain that the $1,500 quota will be reached and passed. Chairman Martin and the eu i commanders of the drive are anx ■ mu.> to complete the di ivc, and arc asking the various township chairmen and canvassers to sub I mil their reports by the latter ■ part of this week, if possible. ROUND-UP Little heard of for several years, larceny is fast break ing into the lead among law violations in this county. Ten persons were arrested and jailed here over the week end. Seven of the ten stand charged with larceny, two with public drunkenness and one with non-support. . Two of the ten are white, the ages of the group run ning from 16 to 62 years. Make Transfer In Camp Personnel —«— Captain John Deibridge, popu lar and efficient head of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission prison camp near here fop more than four years, has been transferred to the camp in Nash County, just a short distance from his home. He is being succeeded here by Captain Pace who man aged the camp near Nashville for a number of years. Captain Delbri .gc made many friends during his stay in this county, and considered the trans fer for some time before reaching a decision. Captain Pace, an able adminis trator, and Mrs. Pace are moving here today and are to make their home in West End... County Board In All-Day Meeting ! Studying Budgets . • ~ | Welfare Department Budg et Return To Office For Some Adjustment* -« After coasting along for several months with little business on their monthly calendar, the Mar j tin County Commissioners struck I a row of hard stumps in their re gular first Monday meeting and I plowed all day long, the group j quitting shortly before 6:00 I o’clock with the understanding ■ that a special meeting is to be called later in the month. More ' budget figures will be studied at that time. 1 Discussing the welfare budget figures for the new calendar year, the board ordered it returned to the department for adjustments, one report stating that every ef I fort will be made to hold requests to the 1949 figures. The school budget was submit ted by the Board of Education | members in a body, but no final | action was taken. The budget calls i for approximately $100,000 for | capital outlay. It was explained that delegations had been before j the education authorities that day, that improvements requested by the groups were needed. The bud (Continued on page eight) Superior Court In Final Meeting Oi Term Thursday Judge W. H. S. Uurgwyii Sets Another Venliet Aside During Term After clearing a record number of cases from the calendar, the Martin County Superior Court last Thursday noon folded its tent and quietly stole away, ending a two-week special term called for the trial of civil cases only. Adjournment was rushed along; when the case of William M. Jones against Bill M. Jones was :sci.i. I by agreement, '"he plain j tiff alleged tnat he entered into !a contract to rent a farm from the defendants for a period of three years, that at the end of the first year he was forced to move. He asked for $500 damages, but in the settlement he received approxi mately $160, the defendant also paying the court costs A rather involved case was that of Mamie C. Campbell of Rocky Mount against W A. Campbell of South Carolina The two were married in 1933 and separated in 1936. A separation agreement was entered into at that time, the hus band agreeing to pay $40 a month for the support of the wife. They went back together in 1930, the 'court explaining in the charge to i ithe jury that the separation! agreement was nullified by that 1 act. They separated a second time in 1040, and the defendant paid! ! $40 a month until 1945 when the 'payments dropped to $2 a month. ! During the meantime, the de | fendant, a nephew of the late ' Henry D. Peel of this county,' shared in the estate along with 1 twenty-five other defendants, i Court action followed by the j plaintift who claimed she was en- j titled to $20 a month foi 50 months for the support of the 14 year-old daughter. The jury, after hearing the lone witness, Mrs. Campbell, took the case at 11:40 o’clock Thursday morning and after deliberating the single issue thirty-five min utes returned a verdict, allowing : the plaintiff $225. Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn, pre siding, made little comment other 'than to say that the decision was M contrary to the greater weight of ail the evidence and ordered the verdict set aside. (Continued on Page Eight) MISSID." "S I J Any citizen in this census district who \v;is not counted ! by tire enumerators in the re cent census round up is asked to write the District Supervis or, l!. S, Bureau of the Cen i sus, Room 210, Rost Office Bldg., W ashington, N. giv ing name of each person whose usual place of resi dence was in the household on April 1, 1950, relationship of the person to the house hold, such as head, wife, son, roomer, etc., whether male or ! female, color or race, and age at last birthday. Connly Will Have Rabies inspector Strict enforcement of the* law requiring the vaccination of all dogs against rabies is expected to follow a conference held by coun ty officials, representatives of the sheriff’s office and l)i. W F. Cop page in the commissioners’ room Monday. Explaining to the board that only d.iiUU dog had been vaccinat ed, the veterinarian said in order to give the people of tins county maximum protection against at tacks by rabid dogs In* would be willing to have the county hold i back a sufficient amount of his I fees to pay a rabies inspector. In fairness to those who had j their dogs vaccinated and to pro I vide maximum protection to the people, the county board accepted ; the proposition, and instructed | Sheriff M. W. Holloman to ap I point a special inspector, Jt is es timated that between 800 and 1,000 dogs have not been vaecinat j ed in the county so far this year. In accordance with State law, the special inspector 01 deputy will make a county-wide check of i vaeeihations. Owners of those | dogs not yet vaccinated will be ] advised to have it done within ] five days or face indictment. Where the owners of dogs cannot be found, the dogs are to be piae (Continued on page eight) ConlinuPM (Juitf III In It unhin^Um lloaftilal -* Suffering with a heart condi tion, Mr. Herbert I), Peel eon itinues quite ill in a Washington hospital where he has been a I patient for several days. Expect Thousands Here For Annual Farm Bureau Meelinis o Prolonged Dry Season Is Broken by Week-End Rains -. ♦ The long dry season, setting a I new reword for April, was liter ally washed out over the week end when weleomed showers fell in the county. All parts of the county had a good "season", some having a bit too much while oth ers were to be in need of more rain. Up until Sunday night, less than an inch of rain—.93 of an inch, to be exact—had been re corded by Hugh Spruill at the Roanoke River Bridge here. A bout one-quarter of an inch fell last Friday night at this point, but other sections, especially in the Oak City area, had rain Thursday evening, followed by move on Friday and then Sun day. Just about one inch of rain, or more than the total for the 1 remainder of the month, fell here Sunday night. A few sections found the ground to wet. yesterday to carry j on farm work, but in other areas : where plants were available, to bacco transplanting got under j way here and there throughout the county. Crops especially irish potatoes' and corn, are looking fine, and | farmers are more encouraged | than they were a week or ten days ago when winds were sweeping their top soil away in large quan tities. Five Road Wrecks In Martin County In Past F ew Days No One Badly Hurt; Three Of Accident* Happen On Street Here No one was badly hurt and property damage was not very large in a series of five highway and street aeeidents in this coun ty during the past week-end. The first in the series was re ported on the Prison Camp Road last Thursday morning about 9:00 o’clock. Furney Keith James, driving Herbert L. Roebuck’s I I34fi Ford in the direction of Cross j Roads started to pass Jesse Archie Council .just as Council made a left turn into A. C. Bailey's gar- : age with a 1930 wrecker truck. | No one was hurt and damage to j the Ford approximated $325, ae- | cording to Patrolman B. E. Bur ton who made the investigation. A freakish but near serious ac cident was reported about a mile [east of Jamesville on Highway 04 last Friday about 0:20 o’clock. |Zeh Vance Price was driving a truck loaded with logs when he heard a noise and applied the brakes on the 1948 Ford vehicle | suddenly. The quick stop started I the log., moving forward, and ! Price, realizing what was about j to happen, shot the t^as to the en ! gine and literally ran the truck from under the load ol logs, caus ing damage estimated at $130, ac cording to Patrolman M. F. Pow ers who made the investigation. Friday evening while the lights were out, William Robert Respass and his family were on their way to their home in South Norfolk. A Wilhamston Oil Company truck was parked on the main street here with its body extending into the street just across from the po lice station. A light rain was fall ing and a ear was moving up the main street Mrs. Respass, driving the ear, got a little too fur to the right and struck the truck body, upping away most of one side of the Respass ear. Mr Respass, riding in the front seat, was slightly cut abouj^ the forehead. Witnesses to the accident estimat on that damage at $350 or $400. Saturday night, a hit-and-run driver struck a ear on the main •slid here, knocking it across the curb. Damage was slight and no one was hurt, and the driver con tinued unmolested. Witnesses got the wrong license number and po lice were thrown off the track. A minor accident was reported Sunday on East Main Street. Just a lender was ripped off a ear and no one was hurt. No one was hurt and property (Continued on page eight) Responding To Treatment In Rocky Mount Hospital Entering a Rocky Mount hos pital last Thursday, Mr. J. Eason l.iliev. prominent county citizen farmer, was reported this morn ing to Lie responding to treat ment, but that he would likely he in the hospital for about twu more weeks. | REGISTRATION | v* Registration lor the May 27 Wemocratic primary was off to a fairly good start in the two local precincts, according to reports coming from Regis trars Wendell Peel and S. II. Grimes. Thirty-six names were added to the books in the two precincts. No official reports were received from other precincts, but the regis tration was believed to have been limited in most of them. The books will be open for new names next Saturday and the following Saturday. Citizens on the south side of Williamston's Main Street | and Highway 64 are register ing with Wendell Peel at the courthouse each Saturday, and those citizens on the | north side are registering i with S. H. Grimes at his of fice back of the Central Cafe. Lightning Fires Large Farm Barn Started by a bolt of lightning, fire destroyed the large stock barn and jus? about all the con tents on the farm of Mrs. Lester Keel, near Oak City early Sun day night. Eight mules were turned out, but the feed and i other contents were lost Neighbor:: ralied there and working in mud and lain fought the fire back until Robersonville's fire truck reached there, the com bined forces confining the fire to the one struture. It looked as if the fire would spread to other buildings at one time, but the volunteer fire fighters held it in check. The two-story barn had a value of possibly more than $ti,000 or $7,000. It could not be learned im mediately if the property was in sured. Last Friday evening about 6:30 o’clock, lightning struck and fired a barn on the D. Cox farm near Oak City. The fire was put out before much damage was done, .nit the lightning killed three small hogs and injured a mule Educalion Board Holds Meeting Holding a regular meeting Mon day, the Martin County Boat'd of Education spent a greater part of the day listening to delegations from several towns, including Bear Grass, Oak City, Jamesville and Hamilton. The remainder of a long session was devoted to a study of the new budget figures land their presentation to the Board of Commissioners, Representing a special commit tee, Principal H. V. Parker asked the board to provide a commercial teacher for the Bear Grass School. An Oak City delegation repeat ed its request for a new teacher age and the renovation of the old building there. Hamilton citizens asked for a lum hroom for their school, it was explained. Annual Fat Slock Show Thursday, Barbecue Friday Approximately #750 Heinfi Offrrcil In Prize?' At llie I'al Stork Show Ranking as the biggest farm event of the year, the Martin County Fat Stock Show will open in the New Carolina Warehouse in William.ston on Thursday after noon of this week for a two-day run, followed by the big annual Farm Bureau pa nic Friday after noon. Plans for the big show and meeting are ,just about complete, j and more than 2,000 farmers and other members of the farm or I gani/.ation are expected to attend | the show. ! Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi will address the an nual farm meeting Friday after noon at 5:00 o'clock in the high school auditorium. A member of the House subcommittee on agri j cultural appropriations, the speaker is in a position to give a ! good picture of the farm situation. ! He is a forceful speaker, and will ! be accompanied to the county by ! Congressman Herbert Bonner. An ample supply of barbecue i> i to be supplied, and tickets and in vitations to the meeting have been placed in the mails Sponsored by the Farm Bureau and civic clubs in the county, the seventh annual fat stock show is expected to break all records Ap proximately $750 is being offered in prizes, and for the first time in several years the show will be open to adult farmers as well as elub boys and girls. However, the adult entries will not be in com j petition with those of the club | members, Assistant Farm Agent j Sam A. Tuten declaring that i there'll be plenty competition ! within the groups. Twenty-nine steers are to be ex hibited by nineteen Hub members. | The animals are to be in place at j noon on Thursday of this week and the judging by representa-, tives of the Extension Service and . the packers at 1 lit) o'clock that afternoon. Exhibitors of animals grading choice or prime will rc 1 reive $10 prizes anil ribbons. Those whose animals grade good are to receive $8. and those whose : animals grade below good will re eievt $0 prizes Forty-five Huh members and Future Farmers of America are to display ninety hogs in the show. The swine are to be in place by 0:00 p. in. Thursday. Judging will get under way Friday morn mg at 0:00 o’clock, and the big sale of everything is scheduled for 1:00 o’clock Friday afternoon In the junior division, $10 first prizes will be offered for individ ual hogs weighing not less than 180 and not more than 2-40 pounds each, and hogs weighing not less than 1141 nor more than 270 pounds. Other prizes in that class run from $8 for second place down to $2 for tenth place. In the (Continued on page eight) -- Continuea Quite III It Home Near Janiesville -- Quite 111 for some time, Mr. Jesse Martin, well-known farmer and citizen of Jamesville Town ship, was reported slightly im proved last evening He under went treatment in a Rocky Mount hospital a short time ago. | TOBACCO PLANTS i I v' Following n survey, Mr. Johnny Gurkin, local iarmer warehouseman, said today that a plentiful supply ot to bocco plants is available in Georgia. Farmers, interested in procuring plants, may get the details by contacting Mr, Gurkin. During the meantime, the plant situation is gradually improving in this county antF quite a lew farmers are busy transplanting their crops.
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