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the enterprise is read by OVER 3,MO MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK * THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEB VOLUME L1II—NUMBER 71 Wdliamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, Septemher 7, lf)50 ESTABLISHED 1899 Thirty-One Cases Heard Monday In The County Court Several Get Time on Roads; Fines Imposed Amount ed To Over $300 Thirty-one eases were cleared from the docket In the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday when the tribunal was in session until about 4:00 o’clock. Several defendants received road sentences and fines, imposed dur ing the long session, amounted to $330. Alleged to have deserted his wife and three children, James Roy Moore was picked up when he rode down from Brooklyn in a new 1950 Buick car. He plead ed not guilty when charged with non-support. Adjudged guilty, he g| was sentenced to the roads for two years. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of the costs and $40 a month for the sup port of his family during the next two years. Charged with drunken driving, Nathaniel Augustus Mobley was found not, guilty. Final judgment was entered in the case in which Albert Williams was charged with drunken driv ing. The defendant paid a $100 fine and the costs. Pleading guilty of an assault, Willie Frank Dean was fined $5, plus costs. Charged with bastardy, Hay wood Harris pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of (he costs and $10 a month for the support of his child during the next two years. Pleading not guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, Paul Man ning was found guilty of simple assault and was fined $10, plus costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the ease charging Melvin Ward with assaulting a female. " Chaiged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Johnnie Matthews Williams pleaded not guilty. Ad judged guilty, he was sentenced to the road for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $15 fine and costs. He is to remain sober for two years. Judgment was.suspended upon ^ho payment of the costs in the ease ir. which Johnnie Godard was charged with assaulting a female. Pleading guilty of careless driving, Ben Long Stevenson was Irtied $10, plus costs. Entering a plea of not guilty, Henry William Bowen was ad judged guilty of drunken driving and was fined $100, plus costs. Anna Woolard pleaded guilty of violating the liquor laws and was sentenced to Woman's Prison, Ra * leigh, for six months, the court suspending the prison term upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. She is not to violate any liquor law during the next five years. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the ease charging Lee Andrew Hardi son with failing to repor; a motor vehicle accident. ^ William Henry Harrison, charg ed with careless and reckless driv ing, pleaded guilty and was sen tenced to the roads foj- six months. The sentence is to begin at the expiration of a two-year term im posed in Pitt County where he M as convicted of stealing an auto mobile some time ago. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the ease charging David Stancill with an assault with a deadly weappn. Stancill, pleading not guilty, was (Continued on page six) -»-— Marriage Licenses Issued In County Marriage licenses were issued in tins county during the past few days to the following: • Simon E. Perry, Jr., and Mil dred Moore of Williamston; David Rhodes Rogerson and Polly Rach el Peele of Williamston; Joseph E. Wynn and Emma Jean Bowen, both of Williamston; and David Brown and Edna Strickland, both of Robersonville. Tobacco Sales Near Four Million Mark Average Of $57.05 Reported For The First Twelve Days J. P. Taylor Company Back On Market After One Day Absence Tobacco continues to bring the high dollar on the Williamston market, late figures showing that the price average is holding above the $57. per hundred-pound fig ure and that daily averages are holding firm. The market Tuesday sold 304, 638 pounds for an official aver age of $58.15. Sales yesterday a mounted to 283,584 pounds and the official average was $57.40. More inferior tobacco was on the saie yesterday .accounting for the slight variation in the average price figure. Through yesterday the market had sold 3,580,364 pounds for $2, 042,770.21, or an average price of $57.05. At the close of the sales today the poundage will fall un der the four million mark by a little more than 100,000 pounds. The market will go over the four million figure early Friday morn ing, reports from Sales Super visor Paul Page state. The J. P. Taylor Company, the large independent buyer, was not on the market here or any of the others in the belt Tuesday. Buyer Thomas was missed, but the day’s average held firm, and things were sailing high and fast when the selling organization was re stored to its capacity yesterday. The Taylor company , reported that tobacco was accumulating so rapidly at its its plants that it could not be handled, that much of the tobacco is damaging. With a day's holiday and the reduced selling time the glut is being cas ed. It could not be learned when the five and one-half-hour sell ing period would be restored. Farmers do not agree on the amount of tobacco that has been marketed. Some say it is about | (Continued on page six) Reopening Cancer Detection Center Dr. C. W. Bailey, chairman of! the public relations committee for ' the Edgecombe-, ash Medical So-! ciety, today announced that the regular weekly Cancer Detection! and Diagnostic Clinics would bei resumed Wednesday, September! 81 1950; after being suspended! during the month of August. These clinics will be held each Wednesday afternoon from 1:00 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. on the second floor of the Municipal Building. Registrations are held on Wednes day morning. These clinics are being held by the Edgecombe Nash County Medical Society, in cooperation with the State Board of Health and the local chapter of the American Cancer Society. Residents of this section of North Carolina are urged to attend these clinics. Those persons liv ing beyond 20 miles from Rocky Mount can secure priorities by writing to the Cancer Control Center, Municipal Building, Rocky Mount, N. C,, which will assure them of an examination the day they attend. All persons 40 years of age and over are eli gible to attend this clinic without charge. [ PAYING UP Reports from the court house and lending agencies clearly indicate that Martin County farmers are moving to wipe out debt. J. Sam Get singer, register of deeds, says they are cancelling on an av erage twenty credit instru ments daily. M. L. Peel, tax collector, says collections are far ahead of those for the cor responding period in 194*. Lending agencies declare their collections are “good.” DELINQUENTS Five Martin County young men were announced delin quent by the draft board this week, one report stating that their names are being turned over to the District Attorney General’s office for investiga tion. Some of the men have been delinquent since Febru ary of last year. The names of those listed as delinquent are: Willie Lee Williams, Octavious Robert son, Lester Williams, William Berry and Willie Crandall, Jr. The young men can save themselves serious trouble by contacting the Martin County Draft Board office im mediately. Wm. Henry White Died At His Home Early Wednesday I Funeral Al Macedonia This Afternoon For Retired Farmer-Merchant William Henry White, retired farmer-merchant and well known county citizen, died at his home in Bear Grass Tpwnship at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. He had suffered heart trouble for almost two years and his condi tion had been critical for about one week. The son of the late John Robert, and Fannie Lassiter White, he was born in Bear Grass Township 58 years ago on September 28, 1891, and spent most of his life there on the farm. In later years he en gaged in the mercantile business. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Flossie Velma Peaks; one daughter, Mrs. Claufia Rawls of Bear Grass; two sons, William Henry Rawls, Jr., of Bear Grass, and William Ronald White of Princeton, N. C.; three brothers, Albert, Lonnie and Johnny White all of Danville, Virginia; three sisters, Mrs. Mamie Wobbleton of Williamston, Mrs. Hattie Rober son of Danville, and Mrs. Annie Ayers of Bear Grass Township. Mr. White was a member of the Church of Macedonia for a number of years and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. Funeral services are being con ducted at the church this after noon at 3:30 - lock by his pastor, Rev. P. E. Cayton of Edenton, assisted by Rev. W. B. Harring ton, county Baptist minister. In terment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery here. enrollment About Same In Schools . Opening-day enrollment figures in the local schools yesterday held to about the same level re ported a year ago, according to a report released by Principal B. G» Stewart. The count this year was only thirteen larger than it was at the beginning of the 1949-50 term. Enrollment figures in the ele mentary school dropped from 024 last year to Oil this year, but the high school figures jumped from 198 to 224. The first grade count did not come up to expectations, Princi pal Stewart pointing out that only 108 pupils reported and that sev enteen of them were repeaters. A heavy enrollment—113—was reported in the second grade. While it would appear that the enrollment has about reached or possibly passed the “saturation” point, the prognosticators main tain that the peak in the nation will not be reached until next year or the following year. No reports on opening day en rollments could be had immedi ately from the other schools in the county. An unofficial report stated that quite a few colored pupils, not used to riding to school, missed the bus the first day Tuesday, and that they are still counting. Sixty County Men To Report Monday For Examinations Two Bus Loads Scheduled To Leave Here For Cen ter at Fayetteville -4 Sixty Martin County young men are scheduled to report here Monday morning for a trip to an Army receiving station in Fay etteville where they will be giv en physical examinations. Leav ing here at 7:00 o'clock that morn ing, the registrants are slated to undergo the examinations and re turn that evening. It is possible that a few out of the city will ask for transfers at the last minutes, meaning they will go to a receiving station from another section later. No detailed information could be gained about the registrants slated to report to the center next Monday. It is believed, however, that about two-thirds of them are young white men. It is also be lieved that about five out of six have reported for physical exam inations on previous occasions. Several of the group are known to have served in the armed for ces since 194t>, but they are sub ject to recall since they served less than twelve months. While most of those called to report come from the 24- and 25 year- old groups it is understood that several 22-year-old men are being included in the first con tingent to move out of this county in about five years. Ten-Year Period Personal Savings Americans since 1943 have been saving a smaller percentage of their income, the last reports 'available showing that in 1949 only 2.2 cents were saved out of each dollar of disposable personal income. In 1940, the American people laved 4.3 billions of dollars out of a personal income of 75.5 bil lions. In 1941, the savings amount ed to 10.2 billions, or about 11 percent of the personal income for that year. The savings peak was reached in 1943 when 39.1 billions of dollars were saved out of a total personal income of 132.4 billions, the savings ratio running up to 29.5 percent. Last year there was a personal income of 191.2 billions, but the people saved only 4.3 billions, or a mere 2.2 percent and the a« mount saved in 1940. t~"-—N ! POSTPONED | v _J A special meeting of Martin County’s young democrats, scheduled in the courthouse last evening, was postponed when the “youngsters” failed to show up and establish an operating quorum. Five faith ful followers or leaders in the party were at the meeting, and they decided to call an other session for next Monday nifht at 7:30 in the court house. All young democrats are in vited to attend the meeting and participate in the business program, including the elec tion of officers and delegates to the State meeting in Ashe ville the latter part of next week. To Close Registration Books Saturday For Bond Election Authorities Point Out The Need For System Expansion i Town Will Either Go For ward Willi Program or Backward Without It Registration books for the spec ial $200,000 bond election on Wed nesday, September 20 will close on Saturday of this week. It is not necessary for anyone who has voted in a town municipal elec tion since 1921 to register again. The registration, however, should not be confused with the general State registration. In other words i one could have voted for county lor State officers and would slill be inelligible to vote in the bond election unless he participated in a town election or had his names ! on the town registration books. Registrar John E Pope said late yesterday that only three new names had been placed on the books since the registration period opened last week. Those who wish to participate in the bond election and are not certain their names are on the books will find it advisable to cheek with Registrar Pope at his office on Washington Street not later than Saturday of this week. Those who have never registered for a town election and wish to vote in the September 20 election may get their names on the books by visiting the registrar’s office not later than Saturday of this week. In their meeting this week, Williamston's town commissioners prepared an appeal to the people of the town, explaining in so many words that the town will either go forward with the pro posed program or go backward without it. It has been pointed out that the need for an enlarged water and sewer line system is j urgent. At the present time, raw j sewage is being dumped into open 1 ditches, and in numerous eases! owners are having trouble with their septic tanks. Conditions as they now exist are creating a ! hazard, and the water storage capacity is dangerously inade quate. A recent study of the town’s bonded debt and the proposed improvement program with rep resentatives of the North Carolina Local Government Commission shows that the $200,000 bond is sue will not call tor an increase | in ad valorem tax rate. The sew ir rental fee will go a long wa\ in meeting the bond costs, and the j expanded system will add about ! one-third more customers, it was ! explained. At the same time the | current bonded debt of less than $197,000 gradually will be reduc ed It is estimated that the bonds can be sold for less than three percent, or about one-half the rate of interest most of the old bonds are bearing. When the present system was installed, it was designed to ac comodate a town of 1,000 people. As late as 1933, the town was ser ving fewer than 300 water cus tomers as compared with nearly 1,200 at present. Additions have been made to the system from time to time, but the plant itself has not been enlarged. Just re cently the water system was pumping about one-third of a million gallons of water daily, most of it never finding time to get into the storage tank. In other words most of the water is be ing pumped from the ground di rectly to the users, and in case of an emergency the storage would prove inadequate and dan gerous Thousands of dollars are spent each year, adding a few hundred feet to the water and sewer lines, but new master lines arc now im perative if the service is to be made available to every home and [ business in town. The proposed fprogram will meet every need of the town at present, but it will not care for any territory that might be added in ihe immediate future. The matter has been given close study and it has been discussed with engineers, health’authorities (Continued on page six) Establish Lead In Filling Station Safe Robbery Case While no formal charges have been preferred against any one. Sheriff M. W. Holloman said last night that a lead had been estab lished in the Mobley and High smith filling station robbery case near Robersonville. Five colored men have been arrested for ques tioning, the officer reporting that fingerprints found on the station cash register were described as | those belonging to W. B. Boyd, of ! Edgecombe County. Boyd is be i ing held in the county jail. Van R. Page, Junior Grimes and Irving Brady were carried to Ral eigh yesterday afternoon where they were subjected to the lie de tector test. A report last night at 9:30 o’clock said that the tests had not been completed and the results could not be obtained. During the meantime officers questioned W. B. Boyd in the county jail. A lead was established when the cars of Page and Brady were seen operating near the filling station on the Robersonville Stokes Highway last Saturday morning between 3:00 and 4:00 o’clock. A small iron safe removed from the building and contain ing about $100 in cash and checks, not to mention, accounts valued at several thousand dollars, has not been recovered. Grimes was said this morning to have admitted taking the safe, but up until shortly before noon he had told few of the details. BICYCLES Bicycle traffic on the side walks in the business districts is devloping into a big prob lem, according to Chief John Roebuck. It is unlawful for one to ride a bike on the side walk, but the officer says he hesitates to chase the little riders into the street. The on ly solution to the problem is for the riders to dismount and push their bikes, the officer explained. Number Oi Cases In Local Courts In Past Few Days Fi^hliu', I'Vmlin' ami Cut* tin' Aired Before Jiin ti<*es of llu* Peaee Fightin’, feudin’ and cuffin' are back in style according to reports coining from local justice of the peace courts. One defendant wad ed into a club here on Washing ton Street a short time ago and wielded a meaningful knife, rip ping open one victim and clean ing house. Another defendant, .starting out with a pitchfork, changed to a knife and scored bad gashes in his victim. Another case, involving a fam ily spat, blew up when the prose- | euting witness backed water and! would not testify against her hus band. Justice R. T. Johnson handled the following cases: Charged with operating a motor vehicle on the wrong side of the i road and chasing other motorists j off the highway, Robt. Andrews, Jr., was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper licenses an defective lights, Elmer High Boyd was found not guilty on the first count Adjudged guilty on I the second count, he was taxed with $5.85 costs Melvin Moran was fined $10 and required to pay the costs for op erating a truck with improper lights. In the case charging Elijah I tContinucd from Page Six) I William 0. Donald Died Early Today In Hospital Here Farmer-Builder Fame To County From South Carol iua William Oscar Donald, build in*; contractor and a native of South Carolina, died in a local hospital at 4:45 o'clock this morn ing after a short illness. He was taken ill on Monday of last week, suffering partial paralysisi. His condition became worse and he entered the hospital here last Sun day, death resulting from a heart condition. Associated with the Litley Manufacturing Company here, he was active until his last illness. The son of the late William Alexander Donald and Ezella Dawson Donald, he was born in Cherokee County, South Carolina, 5ti years ago on December 25, 11193, and spent his early life there. He came to this county in 1921 with the J. P. Dicus Con struction Company, highway builders, and wras married to Mat tie Moore in 1924. He continued with the construction company, living in Greensboro and Enfield until 19211 when he returned to this county and located on a farm between Williarnston and Eve retts. A gifted mechanic, he built a number of homes in this section. IU‘ was a member of the Everett Baptist Church, serving as deacon there for a number of years. Surviving are his widow; two sons, William O. Donald, Jr., of Winston-Salem, and Whit Moore Donald; three daughters, Nancy Ezella Donald, Clellc Elizabeth Donald and Marguerite Donald, all of the home; three brothers, L. A. and W. E. Donald, both of Converse, South Carolina, and C. E. Donald of Clifton, S. C.; two sisters, Mrs. Mamie Wood of Gaff ney, S, C., and Mrs. Sibbe Lee of Clifton, S. C. Funeral services will be conduc ted in the Everetts Baptist Church Friday '.fternoon at 3:30 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. E. R. Stewart, assisted by Rev. J. M. Perry, Rob ersonville minister. Interment will be in the Everetts cemetery. The body will be carried to the church from the home one hour before the service. County Farm Bureau Opens A nnualMem bership Drive . -4 Meeting in the county court house recently, farm leaders, in cluding a number of women, for mulated plans for advancing the annual Farm Bureau membership drive. Alonza Edwards, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, and John I. Eagles, former assis tant farm agent in this county and now field, representative of the organization, briefly address ed the meeting, pointing out the accomplishments of the federa tion and the need for a strong organization. Signing up more than 11,300! members last year, this county is ■ being asked to sign up only 2,000 members this season. The drive ■ is on with most of the old canvas sers on the job with several new ones. Heading the drive are, C. L. Daniel, Mayo Hardison, Lester Bryant, D. V. Clayton, Reuben Everett, S. T. Everett, Geo. Grif fin, E. V. and E. T. Smith, Dewey Edmonson, Marion Griffin, Gar land Forbes, J. B, Whitfield, E. H. Harrell, Elmer Modlin, J. H. Eve rey. and Mrs. Johnny Gurkin. Others unable to attend the meet ing pledged their efforts and suc cess ,for the drive is predicted, for the first time since it was j organized back in the thirties, j the organization is to have ja women’s division in tiiis county, Mrs. Johnny Gurkin was named president at the recent meeting and Miss Elizabet.'i Parker is ser ving as temporary secretary. Minor Accident Near Everetts -4- - No one was injured and damage was small when a truck skidded into the right side of the car driv en by Miss Jean Mobley of Rober sunville Monday afternoon at 6:00 about half mile west of Everetts. Miss Mobley, driving a 1940 Mercury, had stopped on the high [ way to drop off some friends. A ! ! truck coming up behind attempt ed to stop. Miss Mobley swung her car over onte the shoulder on. the right side of the highway. At the same time the truck swung over to the right shoulder in an attempt to avoid hitting the car. The truck hit the right side of the Mercury, denting a front fender. Town Board Holds Lengthy Hooting Tuesday Evening Handle Routine Matters; Fix Police Salary Sched ule; Diseuss Rond Issue Holding their regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening, the lo cal town commissioners discussed various problems for about three hours before clearing the calen dar. In addition to preparing an ap peal for support of the proposed water and sewer system expan sion program, the authorities han dled routine duties, fixed salary schedule for the police depart ment personnel and handled a few other matters before adjourn ing at 11:00 o’clock. The police department salary schedule allows $(10 a week for the chief, $52.50 for the assistant, $50 for patrolmen, and $40 for the desk man. The salaries of only two members of the department were affected, the board upping the pay of those two from $47.50 to $50 a week to conform to the new schedule. The action was taken after a study of salary schedule in effect in other towns in this section, one report point ing out that the pay here was in line with that received by of ficers in other towns. The town's inadequate water and sewer system supported new problems. Approximately 750 feet of additional water lines are to be laid from Sycamore Street down Wilson Street to form a loop in the system at Railroad and Pearl Streets or Railroad and Elm Streets. The territory is wttn out adequate fire protection, il was pointed out School signs were ordered plac ed at various street intersections, and parking only on one side of Stnithwiek Street near the tennis courts is to be allowed. [ To give the National Guard unit more room, the board order ed the old and unused pumping equipment in the municipal water plant building sold. Jumping for the two parking spaces vacated by the city bus op erators on Mam and Washington Streets, local cabbies are to us« the space temporarily. Following the more than two inches of rain that fell Monday afternoon, the town received a number of complaints about flootf waters. A study is to be made oi the problem, looking toward a so lution. A light is to be installed m the second block on Morrison Street along with three others, one on West Main at the railroad bridge and two in the new development just off Jamesville Road. Treasurer C. Marion Cobb rp (Continued on page suO More Hospitals For War Veterans Tlie Veterans Administration expects that six new hospitals will open their doors to veteran-pa tients by the end of September, setting a new record for activa tion of VA installations. The new hospitals, totaling 1, 450 beds, come at a time when they’re particularly needed, the VA aid. Recently, at the request of the Department of Defense, the VA stopped admissions of veterans to all Army hospitals within the United States, except for emerg encies. The move, it was explain ed, was caused by the Army's need for more hospital beds due to the Korean Situation. The six new hospitals represent half of the dozen hospitals the VA expects to open before the end of the year. The remainder have a total of 2,075 beds. In addition, it is expected that 20 new hospitals will be complet ed during 1951 and another six during 1052. Altogether, the VA has 55 new hospitals just opening or under contract for construction at the present time. Two of the new hospitals ■will be in North Carolina. The 500 bed hospital at Durham, now un der construction, is expected to be completed by September 1951. Construction also has begun on the 1,000-bed hospital at Salis bury which is slated for comple tion about January 1952.