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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE| VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 88 Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 7, 1030 ESTABLISHED 1899 County Board Of . Commissioners In Regular Meeting Hutc Against Tax Exemp tions For Carnivals Re gardless of Sponsors In a short regular session Mon day, the Martin County Commis sioners handled routine matters, issued tax relief orders in quite a j few cases and ruled that no tax exemptions are to be allowed car nivals or any shows of any kind regardless of sponsorship. Re quested by the Coastal Plain Mot orcycle Club to exempt the Vir ginia Greater Shows playing in Williamston last week, the com missioners delayed action. It has been customary in the past to exempt carnivals of county taxes 6 when the shows were sponsored by civic organizations. In the fu ture county taxes must be paid in accordance with a motion made by Commissioner Henry S. John son and seconded by Commission er C. Abram Roberson and duly passed. Receiving petitions from citi zens in the two communities, the commissioners recommended that the road from Mrs. W. Hardy Har ^dison's residence in Griffins Township to N. C. 171 near Mack Roberson's residence be widened over a distance of 1.6 miles. The board also recommended widening for the road from John Swinson's store on U. S. 64 and running via Corinth Church, E. G. Waters' home and other back to U. S. 64 near Will Wotten's, a distance cf ^2.5 miles. Making his monthly report, Tax Collector M L. Peel said that $123,298.77 was due on the $335, 462.07 levy for 1950, that there was an unpaid balance of $12, 267.71 due on the $313,314.06 levy for 1949. All but $6,972.98 of the $284,357,55 levy for 1948 has been collected, and there is a balance of $3,675.90 due on the 1947 levy of $235,185.59 * Tax relief orders were allowed on taxes levied as far back as 1928, the county attorney explaining that the properties had been dou ble listed or other errors had been made at the time of listing. -In other cases the towns in the coun ty had taken in the property for taxation. The amounts were lim ited to less than $5 in most cases ftand were only a few cents in other vases. Relief orders were issued as follows: Ruffin James Heirs, Goose Nest (Continued on page eight) Methodist Church Assigns Pastors •—$— With one exception, Methodist ministers serving churches in this county are returning to their posts for another year, saccording to a report released following the an nual North Carolina Methodist Conference held in Kinston dur ing the week-end. Rev. E. R. Shuller is returning to Williamston for his fourth year. Returning to the Roper charge, Rev. B. E. Bingham will pastor the churches in Jamesville and at Siloam. Rev. W. B. Sherman is return ing to Battleboro and will again serve Williams Chapel near Pal myra, it was reported. Rev. W R. Johnson is succeed ing Rev. Hilary Worthington at Robcrsonville and will pastor the Robersonville, Parmele, Hamilton and Vernon churches. Takes Road Term For Wife Attack Adjudged guilty of assaulting his wife, John H Hay man, aged white man, was sentenced to the roads for six months in the county court on Monday of last week. The sentertce was suspended upon the condition that he pay the cost, remain sober and not attack his wife for two years. Later in the week, he reported ] to the sheriff and insisted on theji road sentence. Having violated no i provisions of the court judgment, 1 the Roberson ville man had his 1 sentence reduced from six to four months which he is now serving. < Crowds At Harvest Festival Here Pictured above is a small segment of th? estimated 15,000 persons in attendance upon Williamston’s recent annual harvest festival. Observers declared there were more than 1,000 persons in the parade itself. (Photo by Royal Photographers). Town to Crack Down OnDelinquentT axes NO COURT f No session of the Martin County Recorder’s Court was held this week on account of the illness of the judge. Most of the defendants, witnesses and lawyers were notified, but a few who could not be tcacAed rtuo.rted from as far away as Norfolk. The judge, C'has. H. Man- j ning, has ivy poison and is confined to his home on Franklin Street. With two jury trials slated along with a big carry-over, a big court is certain Monday. William Jenkins i Died Saturday In Durham Hospital Fnnrrul Held Monday At Hi* Home Near Hamilton William Orlando Jenkins, a na tive of the Parmelt section and a building contractor, died in a Durham hospital last Saturday af ternoon at 3:30 o’clock. He had been in declining health for many months, but he contineud at his work until almost the time he left for the hospital about two weeks ago. He underwent a major opera tion there and little hope was held for his recovery. The son of the late Allen and Allie Coburn Jenkins, he was born near Parmele 64 years ago on October 23, 1886, and spent his early life there, engaging in farm ing. He traveled around for sev eral years and located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about 1927. After a stay of about eight years he returned to his native county in 1935 and made his home near Hamilton, engaging in building construction work. Surviving are his widow, the Former Mrs. Chessie Thomas : stalls; a son by a previous mar- ! riage, George C. Jenkins of Wil mington; two brothers, Claude E. i Jenkins of Williamston and Fred I ( Jenkins of Charlotte; and onefl aalf-brother, Woodrow Jenkins of i Ureenville. Mr. Jenkins was a member of < :he Cedar Grove Free Will Bap list Church. He was a splendid :itizen, an accommodating work- ' nan and a friend to his fellow nan. Funeral services were conduct ed at the home Munday afternoon it^:00 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. 1 Marshall Joyner of Winterville as- ( listed by Rev. E. R. Stewart, Ham- i Iton Baptist minister, and Elder \ C. C. Stevenson, Primitive Bap- i ist minister, also of Hamilton i nterment was in the Hamilton j v emetery- |c Carnivals To Pay Regular License Taxes In Future Board To Meet anil Cunvuio New Sewer Projeet Bid* On November 15 Studying the tax picture at their regular meeting last night, thi local town commissioners ordered a "crack down” on delinquent tax acounts. The study revealed thal a few owners had paid their real property taxes but were running a year, two years and in a few in stance more than two years be hind in their personal property taxes. Payment is to be demanded by order of the board, and collec tions are to be made in accord ance wdth those laws allowing virtual confiscation of personal belongings and wages, if neces sary. The treasurer reported that 1950 tax collections amounted to $44)574.21, that the sewer tax last month amounted to $643.70 and that the parking meters net ted $701.01 In accordance with the custom of long .standing, the board ex empted the Costal Plain Motor cycle Club of license taxes on the carnival that played here last week. The action was taken after representatives of the club ex plained what they were trying to do and pledged the officials their cooperation in every way possi ble. Following the lead taken by the county commissioners in their session earlier in the day, the own board pussing a ruling de nying tax exemptions on carni vals in the future regardless of .vho sponsors them. Holiday lighting plans were liscussed and a committee, com posed of Commissioners N. C. Ureen and K. D. Worrell, was tamed to work with the Boosters n promoting the project. Petitions were received for curb ind gutter and sidewalk on Park street from Marshall Avenue to barren Street. A petition was ilso received for curb and gutter ind a sidewalk on School Drive rom East Grace Street to Sim nons Avenue, Extended. The board is scheduled to meet in Wednesday morning of next veek at 11:00 o'clock to canvass lew bids on the proposed sewer (Continued on page aiz) CONTINUES ILL Hev. W. B. Harrington, popular iaptist minister of this county, ontinues ill in Brown's Commun ty Hospital here. He wasn’t so veil during the week-end, but vas reported improved this morn rig, the report declaring that he ,’as talking about his next Sun ay church appointments. Home Clubs Hold Achievement Da] program Frida] Prcttidenl of Slate FihIcm lion iVildrt^M'd (>roii|» In Oak Oily -—# By Miss Elizabeth Parker J Martin County Home Agent The Martin County Home Dem t onstration Clubs held their annua Fall Achievement Day Friday, No vember 3rd in the Oak City lligl School Auditorium, The Oak Cit; land Williams Chapel Clubs wer joint hostesses for the meeting I Mrs. Walter Wynne and Mrs. Car 1 rol Fagan, County Council pres 1 ident and secretary presided ovei I the meeting. The devotional foi 1 the afternoon was conducted b.\ the Kev. E. K. Stewart, Haptis minister from Hamilton. Mrs Julian Mizelle, Williams Chape I Home Demonstration Club, gavt the welcome and the response was given by Mrs. Garner House, pres ■ ident of the Robersonville Club 1 As the secretary called the clut rolls, the secretary from each ol j the respective clubs gave the 1 achievement report for the year ' It was a pleasure to have the 1 district agent, Miss Lnrna Lang ley of Raleigh, with us fm the , day. Miss Langlev brought gleet lings from the state office and in , troduced the guest speaker, i’he i speaker for the occasion was Mrs. I P P. Gregory, President of the j N. C. Federation of Home Demon stration Clubs. Mrs. Gregory has i recently returned from an eight ! weeks tour of Europe. While she j was abroad she attended the Tri Annual Meeting of the Associat i ed County Women of the World, held in Denmark. Mrs. Gregory told of some of her experiences abroad. It was very interesting and she pointed out that we just don't realize how fortunate we are to be living in America. A Dress Revue was held in con nection with the Achievement day program. The winners were: House Dress Division - Mrs. Grover Haislip - 1st place; Mrs. Helen Anerews - 2nd place Street Dress Division - Mrs. Ar chie D. Coltrain - 1st place; Mrs. W. C. Bullock - 2nd place; Mrs. Paul Allen - 3rd place. Children’s dresses - Alice Col train and Sue Peele. The following women were rec ognized as outstanding clubwomen of the year: Mrs. Helen Andrews, Mrs. T H. Wynne, Mrs. W. S. Gur ganus, Mrs. H. Z Hyman, Mrs. J. B. James, Mrs. Thomas House, Mrs. Jugh Bennett, and Mrs. Ar chie Coltrain. The Community Club is the outstanding club in the county during 1950. The attendance gavel was won by the Everetts Club. Sixteen reading certificates were awarded and twenty-two perfect attendance certificates The meet ing-was adjourned by repeating the collect of the Club Women of America in unison. There were one-hundred and twenty-five in attendance. Series Of Wrecks On County Roads In Past Few Days -^-. I’ulrolmru Say No One Bad ly Hurl; Our Arrt'slcd For Druukrii Driving Two persons were hurt and ! property damage, estimated at $775, resulted in series of five motor vehicle accidents on Mar tin County highways during the past few days. One of the wrecks was deserted, and few particulars could be had immediately. Witnesses said that possibly one person was hurt in in the accident. One driver was detained for drunken driving in another accident, members of the patrol said. The first in the more recent series of wrecks was reported at the intersection of Highway 17 with the Farm Life or Griffins Township Road at Old Mill Inn last Wednesday afternoon. Sgt. George Grimes was driving his brother's 11)41 Chevrolet out of the county road into the highways. According to Patrolman M. F. Powers who made the investiga tion, Grimes stopped at the inter | section and seeing no one, started [ across the highway. Just as he en tered the main road, Grimes said r he saw a 1950 Plymouth, travel ing South, bearing down upon f him. He turned to his left and was sideswiped bv the Plymouth driv en by Solomon Rothcltfld of Rich . mond. The Rothehild car made a complete turn. No one was hurt and damage to the Plymouth ear was estimated at $150 and that to the Chevrolet at $100. Driving east on 04 Friday eve ning at 7:30 o’clock, Alfred Uriah Leggett, Jr., of Parmele, started 1 to pass a car about one mile west - of Robersonville. He ran off the , concrete onto a bad shoulder and lost control of the ear which turn ed over. Leggett, slightly injured, I was treated* in Ward’s Clinic. In • iVestigating the accident, Patrol man. W. Parker estimated damage . to the ear at $150. Sunday evening at l>:45 o’clock, ' Henry Bl own, Jr., was driving | his 15)41 Buick toward Everetts bearing down on him. Brown told Patrolman B. W. Parker that he moved as far to his side of tie road as he could and stopped. Levi Jones, driving a 1931 B Mod el Ford toward Bear Grass, crash ed head on into the Brown ear, in ! iuiing no one and causing about j $25 damage to his and about $50 | damage to the Buick. "If the i lights had not blinded me, I'm (sure I could have made it a.- far as Bear Grass," Jones told the, officer who booked him on a drunken driving charge. Bond in the sum of $150 was arranged for Jones. Shortly before 7:00 o'clock Sun day evening, a 1939 Oldsmobile, belonging to James D. Hudson, 120 Morris Circle, Edenton, turn ed over on Dead Man's Curve just east of Gardner's Creek on High way 04. Damage to the ear was estimated at $200 by Patrolman J. T. Rowe who made the inves tigation. The operator and pas sengers left the scene of the acci dent, but it is believed one of them was hurt. Blinded by light, Sam Wheeler Collier of Hassell lost control of his 1930 Chevrolet on a dirt road just west of Oak City at 7:30 o’clock Sunday night. The ma chine struck a ditch and somer saulted, coming to a stop with its wheels in the ah'. No one was i hurt and damage to the car was | estimated at $100*by Patrolman (Continued on Page Eight) Eight persons were rounded up and temporarily detained in the eounty jail by local, county and State officers last week-end. Three were hooked for pub lic drunkenness, two for drunken driving, two for as sault, and one for carrying a concealed weapon. Three of the eight were white and the ages of the group ranged from 19 to 41 years. ROUND Ul* . • Concert Membership Sale Successful In The County Nearly five hundred Martin County people and a few in Ply mouth and Windsor took member ship in the Community Concert Association during the campaign concluded last Saturday, it was announced this week. Many of the members are young people, it was pointed out. Representa tional association said the cam paign was very encouraging, and assured the local leaders that eve ry effort would be made to bring creditable and enjoyable enter tainment to this section. While the receipts will not sup port but three concerts, one next week, another in January and still another in March, the members are assured several of the more promising artists. Next week, either Tuesday ot Wednesday, Ervin Laszlo, 15-year old pianist who has already won I international acclaim, will ap i pear in the first concert here in the high school auditorium Donald Dame it tenativelv | scheduled for the January per 1 formance. The singer is widely 1 known and is heard regularly on the Album of Familiar Music. Genevieve Howe is also tenta tively scheduled to appear here, sometime in March. Last evening a goodly number of Martin County Community Concert Association were guests of the Washington unit at a concert given in the high school auditor ium there. Mrs. Chas. II. Mobley of Wil ' liamston and Mrs. Clayton Mouse I of Hamilton led all others in pro leuring memberships, it was stated. Peanuts Moving I o Market In Volume Yield In County Slightly Belter Than a Year Ago I'riccH Kcportnl To IU* Knii){iii|{ from Ton To AIioiiI riiirlmi OiiIm Cold, windy weather over the I week-end furnished ideal condi- i I lions for peanut harvesting, and I reports . late yesterday and early i today stated that the dust was literally flying from one end of the | county to the other with the pog j sible exception of one or two I spots where the harvest was a I bit late. I Deliveries to .date have hardly I been of sufficient size to deter mine a definite trend in the mar • ket, but preliminary reports in | dicate thut prices are ranging from a low of ten cents to a high , of thirteen cents. Few sales have been made at the low figure and still fewer have been recorded at the 13-cent level. It is believed that the general average will rest between twelve and twelve and one-half cents a pound, based on preliminary reports. An unconfirmed report heard late yesterday stated that some of tiie companies had withdrawn from the market because of its I “bullish" nature. However, there1, seemed to a strong demand in ! other quarters, and unless some-j j thing blows up it is expected that I prices will establish a new high 1 record this season. An estimated ten thousand bags ( had been received by the market j here up until this morning, but] marketing is fairly certain with continued favorable weather to push neur a climax by tomorrow ' or Thursday. The harvest has hardly advanc ed far enough at this time to set a definite trend. However, pre liminary reports indicate that the yield is running from six to twen ty bags per acre with the possibil ity that the general yield for the county will hold to about ten to twelve hags per acre, or about two bags above the harvest a year ago. Few reports have been re ceived out of Griffins and parts of Jamesville Townships and it is posihle that the average will be pulled down by those areas where excessive rains all but wiped out the farmers last summer. One re port said that several farmers in the Dardens area were picking ten to twelve bags per acre, while another farmer picked only six bags per acre. There's some confusion about marketing excess peanuts, accord ing to reports heard thin week. If the farmer planted in excess of his 1950 allotment but not in excess of his 1947 allotment, he is allowed to market all his peanuts without penalty. If he planted, say, ten percent in excess of his 1950 allotment, he will market all his peanuts, but receive the reg ular market price on only 90 per cent. For the other ten percent he will receive oil prices which were slightly above ten cents a (Continued on page eight) t 1 1 I f Y ri d F r t c f / ll u h o n h Vi h g i FEW VOTING st Early reports from several of the thirteen precincts pointed to one of the smallest votes cast in a general elec tion in this county in many years. Shortly before noon today, less than two hundred votes had been cast in the two local precincts combined, and other precincts reported in about the same proportion. Unless the tempo is stepped up this afternoon well under 2,000 votes will have been cast by the time the polls close at 6:30 o’clock. Reports from Dertie state that a hot election is in pro gress there with the ammuni tion trained on the sheriff's race where sample ballots were suddenly introduced showing the voters how to write in an independent can didate. There are hot elections up State, and in several of the states. Absentee Ballots | Issued In Countyi Six absentee ballots were is- j ued by Elections Board Chair-1 nan C. ?) Carstarphen to ‘•h.i ors who are participating in thej [encral election today. Most of those issued when to j lersons who live in the District of 'olumbia and who have to vote at heir home addresses. One ballot vent to a service man. According to a list of absentee oters posted by Chairman Car tarphen, the following are vot ng the special ballot today: Helen 11. Hassell in Williams on No. 2, J. Elwood Everett in lamilton, Fannie Roberson in amesville, Amazon E. Turner nd Virginia IV Turner in Goose Jest, and Maxine Stevenson in tobersonville. I ill Trantfer 'Vo Parent (orporntion l)cc. IT* Mr. It. C. E. Gladden, salesman jr Marvil Package Company with i eadquarters here for some lonths, will transfer to the sales epartinent of Atlas Plywood, the arent corporation, on or about •ecember 15, it was announced ns week. Mr. Gladden anil his family will intinue to make their home here, ir the time being. —1 ■ o— iremen Hulled Out Here Saturday Night Fire men were called out here ist Saturday evening when an nattended electric iron burned a ole through the floor and fell n the ground at the home of Em ia‘Lou Wilkins on Faulk Street. No one was at home and the .•ated iron gradually burned its ay through the floor, filling the!1 juse with smoke but causing no 1 eat damage. Woman Victim Oi Terrible Attack on Sunday Afternoon • —■$— Common-l,aw lliisltuntl He iiiK II«‘l«i In Tlir Martin (luunty Jail Ella Williams, Charleston col ored woman, was unmercifully beaten by Earl Goodwin, 40, here last Sunday afternoon. Stabbed in several place's and beaten over the head with a stick and later with a piece of timber measuring about two by six inches and about two feet long, the wom an is expected to recover, but one report said that her head was swollen almost double its normal size. Coming here some over a month ago with a construction firm, Goodwin, said by police to be the woman’s common law husband, first attacked her with a stick at their rooming house on Washing ton Street. The stick, a small piece of scantling, was spotted with blood, officers said. Moving from the rooming house, the couple showed up near the new Texas terminal about 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. He al legedly beat her there with the heavy timber, officers declaring that the skin had been ripped from the palm of her hands when she tried to hold the board and protect herself. Apparently the at tack was unnoticed in its begin ning, but finally a report reached the police department. Officers from the department and mem bets of the highway patrol an swered the call and trailed the couple from the oil terminal across the highway and to the edge of a woods a quarter of a mile away on the Wilson farm. Possibly two hundred or more persons gathered to assist or watch the hunt When found the victim was beaten into exhaustion. She was removed to a local hospital for treatment. At a preliminary hearing be fore Justice Chas. R. Mobley that afternoon, Goodwin was ordered held in jail, pending the outcome of the woman’s condition It was reported by police that Goodwin was an escaped convict, that he was wanted in South Car olina. Willie Roebuck Dies In County Willie Roebuck, retired farmer and prominent citizen of the Oak City section, died at Ins home there Sunday evening at 7:00 o’clock after several years of de clining health. The son of the late Simon and Etta White Roebuck, he was born in this county 52 years ago, and spent all his life in the farm. He was a member of th cOak City Baptist Church Surviving are lu> widow, the former Miss Ida Edmondson; five daughters, Mrs Leon Warren of llobgood, Miss Etta Marie Roe buck of Robersonville, Mrs Elsie Thomas and Misses Helen Eliza beth and Linda Ann Roebuck, all of the home; six sons, Jack, George M., William, Billy Saund ers, Julius and Donald G. Roe buck, all of the home; four bro thers, Linton Roebuck of Wil liumston and Jasper Roebuck of Scotland Neck; and one sister, Mrs. Blythe Pierce of Popular Point Funeral services arc being con ducted in the Oak City Baptist Church this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. Mr. Sexton. Interment will be in the Hamilton Cemetery. Funeral Thursday For Clyde Brown Fueneral services were conduct 'd last Thursday afternoon at the home in Jamesville for Mr. L. Clyde Brown who died suddenly last Tuesday night. Rev. Harold Tyre of Bath ;uid Rev. Frank But ;er of Washington conducted the ast rites. Interment was in James .’ilie's newly opened cemetery ust off N. C. Highway 17!. The rites were largely attend ed by friends from over the eoun y, and the floral offering was ex ensive.