THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT*1
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
_ )
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Si
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
V OLUME LIII—NUMBER 89
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 9, 1950
ESTABLISHED 1899
Voters Oi County
« Favor Changes In
The Constitution
I’rclimiiiury Reports Imli
rate All Proposals Ac
ceptor In tlie State
Proposed changes in North Car
olina’s State Constitution were
given strong support by Martin
County voters Tuesday. The vote
U ranged from almost three-to-one
to nearly six-to-one. The proposals
also were supported throughout
the State, acording to preliminary
reports.
The proposal to give the State
legislators reasonable pay for
their time finally was approved,
but not until after it had been
battered and beaten on at least
^ two previous occasions. Instead
of receiving ten dollars a day
for sixty days, the legislators are
to receive $15 a day for a maxi
mum period of ninety days.
Only one precint, Gold Point, in
this county rejected all five
amendments. Voters in Williams
and Hassell opposed the No. 1 pro
posal, and Hassell went on to op
pose the No. 5 plan. Popular Point
divided evenly on the No. 1 and
^ the No. 4 amendments.
The total county vote on the
amendments was:
No. 1, permitting any person,
when represented by counsel, to
waive indictment in all except
capital cases, 549 for and 207
against.
No. 2, securing and safeguard
ing the funds of the Teachers' and
State Employees’ Retirement Sys
069 for and 143 against.
No. 3, allowing limited neces
sary compensation of members of
the General Assembly, 675 for
and 221 against.
No. 4, permitting the General
Assembly to prescribe the number
of regular superior court judges
in eaph judicial district, provided
each district has one, 593 for and
172 against.
No. 5, transferring to the Chief
* Justice of the Supreme Court the
authority now exercised by the
(Continued on page eight)
--
Offer Extension
Course In County
^ Dr. Orval Phillips, Director of
Field Service, of East Carolina
Teachers College will be in the
Williamston Elementary School
next Monday, at 4 P. M. to dis
miss extension work. If twenty
oersons are interested ‘ in the
work, the time will be used to
i boose a course which may be
suitable for all. Credit may be
used towards degrees or for the
renewal of certificates.
CONCERT
_ j
Ervin Laszlo, 18-year-old
pianist of international re
nown, will appear in the Wil
liamston High School audi
torium next Wednesday eve
ning at 8:30 o’clock in the
first of a series of community
concerts, it was announced to
0 day.
The Martin County Concert
Association is supported by
approximately 500 member
sliips entered last week. If
tickets are not made avail
able by next Wednesday, ad
mission will be by member
ship card stubs, it was an
nounced.
Republicans Scored Major
Victories In The Election
The Republicans broke out and
went to town in the Tuesday elec
tion, pushing President Harry
Truman and his supporters in the
legislative halls into a doubtful
corner with the certainty that la
bor and farm legislation is in for
tough sledding.
The Democrats lost six and won
one senatorial contest while the
Republicans asserted themselves
to gain thirty-one seats in' the Na
tional House of Representatives
and reduce the Democrats’ ma
jority to a mere twenty votes.
Oil interests in California pour
ed barrels of oily money into Cal
ifornia to defeat Mrs. Helen Doug
las and place Richard M. Nixon
in the U. S. Senate. Senator Scott
Lucas of Illinois was defeated to
threaten the Democrats' top lead
ership. Assistant Leader Francis
J. Myers of Pennsylvania was
also defeated, but James H. Duff,
former governor and the winner
of the Senate seat, is widely
known for his work against the
old crowd in Pennsylvania. El
bert D. Thomas of Utah, a great
champion of the common man
for years in the Senate, was de
feated. Thomas' victorious oppon
ent is Wallace F. Bennett, former
president of National Association
of Manufacturers. Senator Mil
lard Tydings of Maryland who
held close to such Republicrats
as Byrd, Hoey and Company but
who challenged McCarthvism,
went down. Herman Welker, Re
publican, moved in to successfully'
claim one of Idaho’s Senate seats.
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., was
succssful in claiming a U. S. Sen
atorial seat held by a Republican
in Missouri.
Just about all the red baiters,
bitter Truman haters, including
Robt. Taft of Ohio, Bourke Hick
enloopcr of Iowa, arc returning
to the Senate.
William Benton, in his bid for
the Senate from Connecticut, is
barely holding on with a few
hundred-vote margin.
S OPERATIONS I
v_.
Idle fur the past few weeks
while new machinery was in
stalled, the plant of the Mar
vil Package Company here is
expected to turn on the steam
this week-end and start turn
ing out plywood early next
week.
Discontinuing the manufac
ture of containers, for the
present at least, the plant will
make veneer products, but
full operations will hardly
get under way until later in
the month, it was learned un
officially today.
Three Deaths In
Family Rear Here
—«—
Death struck three times in one
family over in the Williams Town
ship last week-end, running the
count to five within the past
month in the same neighborhood.
Noah Thomas Spruill, 76, died
at 8:00 p'clock last Friday even
ing after a long period of declin
ing health. His wife, Virginia, was
taken a short time later and died
before midnight. Her brother,
Sylvester Jones, ill for months,
was taken worse that night and
died late the following day.
A double funeral was held Sun
day for Spruill and his wife, and
last rites were conducted for
Jones Monday. All were buried in
the Whitley cemetery.
Georgia Cotonch, said to have
been more than 100 years of age,
died in sight of the Spruill home
about three weeks ago, and Mollic
Lanier, also a neighbor of the
Spruills, died within the past
month.
Minister Improves
In Local Hospital
—_<*,—
A patient in Brown's Hospital
here for about two weeks, Rev.
W. B. Harrington, Baptist minis
ter, was reported improved today.
"I hope to be out in a day or two,”
the popular minister said.
While he is not expected to be
able to meet his religious appoint
ments this week-end, the minster
said arrangements had been made
for services at Piney Grove Sat
urday and Sunday morning and at
Riddick's Grove Sunday evening
at 7:00 o'clock.
Boys Taking Life
In Army Without
Too Much Fuss
Army Not As Bu«l As Some
Hud Been Led To Be
lieve It Would Be
In a letter to the Martin County
Draft Board a few days ago, Bal
let S. Davis, Jamesville boy who
answered the first induction call
on October 27, said:
“Well, we have finally reached
Ft. Jackson, and we find our
selves very sad tonight.
“We reached Fayetteville, Fri
day about eleven o’clock and had
another physical examination. Af
ter the examination we were
sworn into the Army and then we
were on our way to Ft. Jackson.
We arrived here about three
o’clock Saturday morning. After
we arrived we were issued some
clothes and assigned to a barrack
"Ft. Jackson is only a pro
cessing center and no men will
be trained here. -Everything is
overcrowded with men and we
will be here for about two weeks
taking examinations (physical
and mental) and medical shots
for different diseases. After this
we will be shipped out to differ
ent training centers. Men art
here from, Virginia, North Caro
(Continued on page eight)
/• — .. ,
| MAJORITY
vt
Country-side observers, ad
vised that the Democrats hold
49 seats in the II. S. Senate
as against 47 hy the Republi
cans, explain that situation
exists only in theory, that in
reality the Republicans have
a comPrtable majority. They
point out that Byrd and Hoey,
traveling with Taft hereto
fore, will continue and that
they will be reenforced by
Willis Smith who proudly
pointed out some time ago
that he would Jump every
time Hoey Jumped.
The same observers declare
that the commentators can
talk about Korea and the isms
all they want to, but that
what is actually happening Is
a return to Hoover days with
entrenched wealth in the
driver’s seat.
Legionnaires Of
District Meeting
Friday Aiternoon
-S' —
Event To Re Held In Legion
Hnt Following Parade
At 3:15 O’Cloek
-—c
Thu John W. Hassell Post of the
American Legion will be host to
legionnaires and their wives of
the third district rally here to
morrow afternoon.
Preprarations are being made
for a large number of delegates
from the third district which is
comprised of Martin, Washington
and Tyrrell Counties and for num
erous dignitaries of the Legion.
Among the honored guests will be
Department Commander, Honor
able Hugh Alexander of Kannap
olis, former senator and represen
tative of Cabarrus County; Vice
Commander J. C. Lamb of Wilson;
Vice Commander Jack Wall of
Fort Bragg and several past state
officers of the Legion. Mrs. E. P.
Rhyne, Sr., of Hickory, Depart
ment President; Miss Arelia Ad
ams, Department Secretary and
Treasurer of Raleigh; Mrs. E. S.
Pugh of Windsor Department
Vice President and Mrs. G. R.
Motzno of Woodland, member of
the Girl’s State Committee, all
prominent figures in the work of
the American Legion Auxiliary,
will attend.
A place of registration will be
set up in the Legion Hut and be
ginning at 2 p. m. a committee will
register all legionnaires and wives
attending.
At 3:15 legionnaires and post
firing squads will parade along
with military units, boy scout
troops and high school bands
down Main Street to Watts and
then to the Legion Hut.
The local Auxiliary will enter
tain the honored guests at a rc
■ ception in the Hut at four o’clock.
At. 5:30 there will be a dinner
j for all at the Legion Hut. All vet
jerans, holding their 1951 Legion
cards, will be served free and all
! ladies with 1951 members will be
served for a charge of 75c pci
j plate.
I At 7 p. m. Department Com
1 mender Hugh Alexander will ad
[ dress the delegates and trophies
will be awarded.
! Concluding the afternoon’s ac
tivities will be a Legion Bull from
9:30 until 1:30 at the Planters
Warehouse with Dick Leven and
his State College Orchestra fur
nishing the music. Admission t<
the dance which is open to thi
public will be $1.00 per coupk
for Legion members, $1.00 each
1 for other dancers and 50c foi
spectators.
Thirteen Drawn
! For Jury Duty
Thirteen Martin County citizen:
were drawn by the county com
missioners in their regular Mis
sion this week for jury in th(
county recorder’s court next Mon
day when two drunken driving
cases are scheduled to be heard.
The names of those drawn are
Williams Township: Jos. H. Per
ry
Griffins Township: R H. Peel
and Marion F. Hodges.
Bear Grass Township: W. C
Bailey.
Williamston Township: Reuben
C. Williams, J. Frank Weaver and
George W. Corey.
Robersonvillc Township: Lester
L. Everett and J. R. Nelson.
Popular Point Township: Jim
mie Rogers.
Hamilton Township: R. H. Eve
rett and Guilford E. Furlough.
Goose Nest Township: C. W
Copeland.
Martin County Follows The
Democratic Line In Election
Has Question And1
Answer Service In
City oi New York'
AgtMicy Thrives on Ignor
ance of Ollier People To
Time of $250,000.00
-*
New York.—-Pierre Marquis
thrives on ignorance —oihcr peo
ple's.
In the last 14 months, starting
with $1,500 orginal capital, he's
I built up a $250,000 a year busi
| ness because people don’t know
such things as:
i The New York cash price of
i Iranian camel's hair.
The 1949 dollar volume of Rus
sia's hog bristle manufacture, and
j The U. S. horse population today
compared with 1900.
I (The answers, respectively: 40
j cents to $1(10 a pound: $1)00,000;
j 13,537,534 and 6,007,000.)
Mr. Marquis, a 28-year old lavv
I ver, is president of the fast-grow
ing New York City company call
ed Facts, Inc. The company spe
cializes in telling people what they
don't know, at the rate of siync
! 500 questions and answers a day.
Facts, Inc., caters to individuals
and companies alike, for a fee.
Right now, Mr Marquis’s outfit,
is enlightening about 3,250 indi
| viduals, at $15 a year each, and
‘some 500 business firms, at $150
a year each. For their fees, they
can ask an unlimited number of
questions, providing that getting
the answers doesn't take more
than an hour apiece. For answers
to abstruse questions requiring
longer research, there’s an extra
charge.
In the last year Facts has an
swered some 250,000 questions
and, Mr. Marquis conceded shyly,
failed to answer another 100 to
which answers were theoretically
possible, Mr. Marquis says his
company will answer, or try to
answer, any question subscribers
want to ask unless they’re seeking
advice on law, medicine or taxes
Hut if we want to know how
much Americans spent last year
Ion beer anil liquor, Facts will an
Iswer: $4,500 million on each.
Mr. Marquis founded Facts on
'September 19,1949, after return
to this country from France,
! where he worked for an export
import house. The idea for Facts,
|originally called Facts on Dial,
i came from a French company
I called "S'11 Vous Plait,” which
performs the same services as
I Facts but on a broader scale.
|S. V P., for example, wili not
only tell you the number of
square miles in Pushtoonistan,
but will also get you hotel reser
(Continued on page eight)
f HOLIDAY
\j
Saturday of this week,
Armistice Day, will he obser
ved as a holiday hut on a lim
ited scale, (ieneral business
will continue, as usual, but the
two local hanks, post office,
liquor stores and |>ossibly a
few other places of business
will close for the day. The
peanut market will remain
open.
Postmaster IV. K. Dunn
said that mail and parcel post
will be delivered in town, but
that the office windows will
be closed and there'll be no
deliveries in the rural areas.
\ WINNER ]'
V — - i J |
I
Miss Lynette Haislip, dau
ghter of Mr. It. A. Haislip,
former Martin County Com
missioner, and Mrs. Haislip of
Oak City, recently won a $100
scholarship offered by the
Farm and Home Electric Con
gress, and sponsored by the
Virginia Electric and Power
Company and other electric
utilities in North Carolina.
Small Vote Cast
In This County
—■-*—
While it was 117 larger than the
total east in the 194(1 off-year elec
tion, the total vote in this county
Ion Tuesday of this week is rated
|among the smallest reported in
recent years. It was 3,520 votes
below the total east in the last
May Democratic primary in this
county.
The Republican vote jumped
from 10 in 1940 to 52 this week,
a large percentage gain but still
nut a threatening one. Ratcliff,
running against Herbert Bonner
for Congerss, increased his vote
from lit in 1940 to 23 this week.
The total vote—1,493— was re
ported unofficially, by precincts,
as follows:
Jamcsville, 130; Williams, 51;
Griffins, 143; Bear Grass, 103;
Williamston No. 1, 100; Williams
ton No. 2, 20!; Cross Roads, 112;
Robersonville, 235; Gold Point, 42;
Popular Point, 50; Hassell, 31;
Hamilton, 80; and Goose Nest, 105.
The 900,000-vote prediction in
North Carolina failed to material
! ize by more than 400,000 votes,
according to incomplete reports
| icaching here early this morn
i ing
Youth Borrows
Auto For Trip
Starting out from his home in
Summit, New Jersey, last week
end to join friends in Florida,
Frederick Hen. Sayre, finding the
burning special running too slow,
I tucked his thumb in his pocket
and "borrowed” Gus Harris’ 1938
Ford here last Monday evening.
About three hours later he had
made Wilmington and met mem
bers of the highway patrol.
Returned here yesterday, the
lad was given a preliminary hear
ing before Justice (.’has It. Mob
ley who fixed bond in the sum of
$400.
Advised of their son’s arrest,
Mr and Mrs. Sayre came down
from New Jersey, reaching here
'before the boy was returned.
Limited Interest
Shown In Contest
In Martin County
Nearly Half of the Thirteen
Precincts Reported No
Repuhlieau Votes
Come high water or low water,
Martin County voters are follow
ing the Democratic Party line, a
review of the Tuesday election re
turns showing that while only a
limited interest was shown in the
contests, the Democrats led by
just about twenty-six to one in
the five races with no opposition
whatever for most of the State
and county offices.
Five Precincts, Williams, Grif
fins. Cross Hoads, Gold Point,
Popular Point and Hassell did not
report a single Republican vote.
Popular Point scored a perfect
bull's eye when it cast a total of
fifty votes without a scratch of
any kind
Sheriff M. W. Holloman led the
county ticket with 1,43t> votes,
and Judge R. Hunt Parker held
the on the State ticket with 1,396
votes. E. L. Gavin, opposing Wil
lis Smith for one of the State’s
United States senatorial seats, led
the Republican ticket with 52
votes, the greatest support accord
ed a Republican by Martin Coun
ty voters in twenty-two years. The
Republicans in this county have
never been able to assert them
selves in fairly sizable numbers
since the Herbert Hoover election
in 19211 when they cast 411 votes
as compared with 2,1117 cast by the
Democrats.
There were only five contests on
all the tickets combined, and vot
ing was reduced to almost a for
mality in this county. One vote
was written in at Hassell for
Frank Graham for the U. S. Sen
ate and Clyde Silverthorne got a
write-in vote for Williamston
Township constable against Chas
R. Moore. The official vote can
vass hud not been completed
shortly before noon today, and it
was rumored that there were
other write-ins for Williamston
Township constable. Such votes
were not included in the unoffi
cial returns released Tuesday
night other than the one for Sil
verthorne.
Those Democratic nominee on
[the State ballot without Repub
lican opposition polled the follow
]ing vote in this county:
Walter P. Stacy for Chief Jus
lice of the North Carolina State
Supreme Court, 1,383.
Emery B. Denny for Associate
Justice of the North Carolina
State Supreme court, 1,377
Waldo Cheek for State In sur
anee Commissioner, 1,385.
For Superior Court judges:
third district, R. Hunt Parker,
1,306; fourth district, Clawson L.
Williams, 1,385; seventh district,
W. C. Harris, 1,380; eleventh dis
trict, J. H. Clement, 1,374; thir
teenth district, F. Donald Phillips,
I. 371; fifteenth district, Frank M.
Armstrong, 1,372; sixteenth dis
trict, Julius C. Rudisill, 1,370;
seventeenth district, Julius A.
llousse, 1,380; eighteenth district,
J. Will Pless, Jr., 1,372; nine
teenth district, Zeb V Nettles,
1,372; and twentieth district, Dun
K. Moore, 1,371.
In the several townships where
thi- names of constables were on
the tigket was:
(Continued on Page Seven)
Sixteen Marr;?"e
Licenses Issued
In Marlin County
-- $
Draft lias Had Compara
tively Little Kffeet On
Work in Lirenw Bureau
Sixteen marriage licenses were
issued in this county last month,
the number dropping ten below
the issuance for October, 1949. Ap
parently the draft has had little
effect on the work in the marriage
license bureau in this county
while there has been a decided in
crease in other counties and states
since the outbreak of the war in
Korea. During the first ten months
of this year, 179 licenses were is
sued, 84 to white and 86 to colored
douples, as compared with 172 is
sued in the first ten months of last
I year.
Licenses were issued last month,
ten to white and six to colored
couples, as follows:
White
David Newborn, HKD 3, Wil
: liamston, and Louise Simpson of
I Williamston.
Larry James Bullock and Jessie
1 Mae Melsoti, both of Williamston.
j Russell Ward Clark and Eve
i lyn Rodgers, both of Williamston.
| Vance L Peele, Jr.. RFD 3,
I Washington, and Lena Elizabeth
Price, RFD 2, Williamston.
Joseph Warren Whitehurst and
[Shirley Stevenson, both of Rob
j evsonville.
Rudolph Holliday of Aulander
and Nellie Blanche Stubbs of RFD
1, Williamston.
Carlton Ray Warren of Rober
isonville and Mary Ann William
; of Williamston.
Ollis Franklin Li 1 ley and Latin
; Frances I'eele, both of RFD 1, Wil
j liamston.
Earl DeForrcst Arp of Akron,
Ohio, and Virginia Harrison Mob
ley of RFD 2, Williamston.
John Wesley Conner of RFD 1,
(Continued on page eight)
Farm Bureau Is
Nearing Quota
The Martin County Farm Bu
i reuu is nearing its 2,000 member
ship goul, according to u report
I released this week by President
Chas. L. Danniel
I The drive is 433 members short
of the quota, but many members
have been written since the re
port was prepared and it is ex
pected that the drive will show
continued progress by the time
the membership committee meets
tomorrow evening at 7:00 o’clock
in the courthouse here.
Turn is short for completing
| the drive, President Daniel ex
plains and he is hopeful Martin
County will maintain its splendid
i record in supporting the organiza
tion.
f MOYlIN't; I ASI I
vJ
Reports from the local mar
ket late yesterday stated that
peanuts are moving rapidly,
, that the market here is hand
ling between six and eight
thousand bags daily.
The price was said to he
about the same as it was ear
lier in the week with a fairly
strong trend existing.
No confirmation could hr
had immediately, hut one lot
of peanuts were said to have
sold yesterday for thirteen
and one-half cents a pound.
Most of the sales are quoted
between twelve and thirteen
cents a pound.
Vote - Senators, Congressman, Court Justice
The following are the votes east, by precincts, in Martin County for United States Senators. Con
gressmen and Associate Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court:
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Hear Grass
Williamston !
Uslliamston II
Cross Roads
Robe r^onville
Gold Point
Poplar Point
Hassell
Hamilton
Goose Nest
For U. S. Senate
Hoey Leavitt Smith Gavin
110
49
138
97
181
233
78
218
40
50
28
84
103
2
0
0
2
2
15
0
12
0
0
0
106
49
138
97
156
223
77
207
50
50
27
84
102
2
0
0
2
7
22
0
15
0
0
0
1
3
Congress
Uonner Ratcliff
110
49
140
99
156
240
80
210
42
50
30
83
100
0
0
0
2
2
6
0
12
0
0
0
1
0
Court Justices
Ervin McNeill Johnson Weaver
105
49
137
97
139
234
77
211
40
50
29
83
102
1
0
0
2
1
11
0
10
0
0
0
1
2
127
51
141
95
163
240
76
227
40
50
30
84
102
4
0
0
0
2
7
0
8
0
0
0
1
3
Totals _.... 1389
36 1356
52
1389
23 1373
28
1426
28
Unofficial Vote For District And County Officers
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Hoar Grass
Williamston 2
Williamston 2
Cross Roads
Roberson ville
Gold Point
Poplar Point
Hassell
Hamilton
Goose Nest
TOTAL
Solicitor State Senator House Clerk Sheriff Treas. Judge Coroner Surveyor
County Commissioners
Fountain Horton Campen Anderson Wynne Holloman Smith Johnson Higgs Roberson Edwards Roebuck Harrison Martin Johnson
112
49
13!)
99
194
231
77
221
40
50
31
85
94
119
49
142
9!)
199
254
79
229
40
50
31
85
93
1411 1433
102
49
138
97
159
239
75
211
40
50
31
83
91
1365
114
49
139
100
199
244
79
225
40
50
31
84
93
1414
113
49
140
99
194
234
80
229
40
50
31
84
94
1424
117
49
140
103
195
239
80
229
40
50
31
83
93
111
49
139
98
199
254
80
225
40
50
31
84
93
113
49
139
101
195
252
80
225
40
50
31
84
93
113
49
140
99
195
253
80
225
39
50
31
84
93
1436 1420 ! 1422 1423
110
49
139
98
194
248
77
212
39
50
31
84
93
1394
108
49
138
99
194
249
79
219
40
50
31
84
92
1402
109
49
139
98
191
231
80
221
40
50
31
84
92
1405
108
49
138
99
191
250
77
219
40
50
31
84
92
1398
114
49
139
99
16t
247
78
219
40
50
31
84
92
1903
108
49
138
98
190
249
78
219
40
50
31
85
93
1.398