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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT"'
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Hi
OVER 3,MO MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES
I VOLUME LIU—NUMBER 96
Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 5, 1930
ESTABLISHED 1899
Nominate Men For
PMA Places In the
County This Week
Vlnsi of Nominating
ing> Will B<> Hold W<>«l
iu‘»«lay F.yening at 7
Meeting in twelve centers in
the county this week, Martin
County farmers are scheduled to
nominate men for community
• committeemen and delegates to
the county convention in accord
ance with Production-Marketing
Administration regulations.
The first of the meetings are be
ing held in Robersonville Town
ship Tuesday evening, hut most
of the sessions are scheduled for
Wednesday evening at 7:00
Jk clock.
Scheduled to nominate ten men
lor the five places on the commun
ity Triple A or P.-M. A. commit
tees, the meetings will also nomi
nate two delegates and two al
ternates, one of whom will rep
resent his respective community
at the county covention to be held
on December 15.
Fourteen names will be on each
community ballot to be placed be
lli e the farmers on December 14.
There arc to be at least two nom
inees for each of the positions, in
cluding community committee
chairman, vice chairman, regular
member, first alternate and sec
ond alternate, and as delegate
and alternate to the county con
vention. The meetings this week
will determine whose names are
t> go on the election ballot. The
greetings are open to all farmers
and all farmers are asked to at
tend and participate in their re
spective meeting.
It was pointed out that a com
munity committee nominee may
be also nominated as a delegate or
alternate to the county conven
tion,
The nominating meetings will
be held at 7:00 o’clock p. m., as
•Hows:
December 5: Robersonville 1
and 2, high school building in
jlHobersonville.
; December 6: Bear Grass in
Ischonlbouse, Cross Roads in Geo.
Taylor's store at Everetts. Goose
Nest l and 2 in agriculture build
ing at Oak City, Griffins in Farm
Life school, Hamilton in Hassell
.- hijol, Jamesville 1 and 2 in high
siTiool at Jamesville, Williams in
county house, and Poplar Point
and Williamston in tax collector’s
oil ice in the oounty courthouse.
Wm. Hodges With
Inperiat Company
William P. Hodges, son of Mr.
I W. J. Hodges of Williamston, was
recently elected vice president
nnd general manager of the Im
perial Life Insurance Company
with headquarters in Asheville,
according to a recent issue of the
Imperial Indicator. The former lo
cal man will move his family to
Asheville soon.
Following his graduation from
Wake Forest in 1928, Hodges
practiced law in Raleigh several
years before going with the State
Insurance Commission as deputy
iqissioner from 1942 until 1949
miss-ioner form 1942 until 1949
when he resigned on June 20 to
go with the Continental Life In
surance Company of Washington,
1). C , now merged with South
land Life Insurance Company of
Dallas, Texas. He resigned to re
turn to North Carolina.
TlltkKY SHOOTI.M;
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Sponsored by the local Ki
wanis Club in the name of
undcrpriviledged children, a
turkey shooting will be held
near the plant of the Stand
ard Fertilizer Company on
Roanoke River here Friday.
December 8 and 15 between
(lie hours of 7:00 p. m and
gfc 10:50 p. m. The sponsors will
furnish guns and ammunition,
and the best marksman will
be awarded claim checks re
deemable at any store or by
a turkey raiser.
The shots sell for 81 and it
lurkev will be awarded eve^
ry 25 siiols.
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Santa Gets Great Weleome Here
Making his annual pre-Christrr.as visit, Santa Claus was greeted by a large crowd
here last Wednesday afternoon. Pictured above with his back to the camera, Santa is
addressing a number of the several thousand persons who were on hand to greet him.
Hundreds of letters were received by the merry ole gentleman and hundreds of free
favors were distributed during the brief visit. (Photo by Royal Photographic Center)
Water Line Extensions To
Be Limited To Town Itself
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Receiving a request fur a water. I
line connection, requiring a sever-!
al hundred-foot pipe extension!
outside the town limits, the lo ah
town commissioners last evening
tabled the request. "We are ad- |
vanning a $1)0,000 expansion pro-!
gram in the water department, j
and until full coverage is had
within town, 1 don’t think we
should provide further extensions
outside,’’ one of the bojud mem- ,
bers commented. He added that it |
there arc any funds led after the!
program is completed in town,1
possibly outside lines could be ex-j
tended, or possibly potential cus- j
turners could provide their own!
lines, but the present problem'
centers in those eases where there
are lines and the demand is ex
feeding the capacity of the system.
There was little business before
the regular meeting, the commis
sioners limiting their discussions
mainly to the scheduled bond sale
this month.
Town automobile tags, the board
ruled, must be displayed on or
before next February 1, or court
action can be expected, the board
ruled.
Treasurer Marion Cobb reported
that $47,000.76 had been collected
in 1050 taxes, that there,was a cash
balance of $27,149.76 on hand, that
the parking meters last month
netted $917.70, and the sewer rent
al amounted to $634.60.
SUPPLEMENT
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Martin County's more than
200 school teachers will re
ceive a total of $55,024.18 as
their share of t/ie salary sup
plement provided far by the
last State Legislature. Ap
proximately $7.2 million is to
be paid the teachers in this
State next Monday.
The white (etchers in this
county are to receive a total
of $26, 19.0a and $29,104.23
will go to the colored teach
ers.
Education Board
Asking For Bids
In an gular meeting Monday the
Martin County Board of Educa
tion called for bids on the con
struction of three building pro
jects—a gymnasium in Roberson
vilie, an addition to the white
high school in Williamston and a
new Negro high school also in
Williamston.
Tne bids will be opened at a
special meeting of the board to
be held on Tuesday, January 9,
at 2:00 o’clock.
The board is also advertising
school property for sale, includ
ing the Old Oak City teacherage
and site, old Bear Grass colored j
school and site', the old Manning I
school and site near Fairview,]
and the old Corey school building
n Griffins Township. The Corey
school site goes back to the Corey
heirs, the deed providing for its
return when the site was no long
er used foi a school.
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Three County ('.iris Arp
Members College Chorus
Tin ee Martin County girls,
Misses Norma Fagan and Venetia
Stallings of Jamesville and Lou
ise Stewart of Hamilton will ap
pear with the Meredith College
Chorus in a program of Christ
mas music Sunday afternoon at |
4:30 o’clock in the college audi- j
t’lyum, Raleigh !
Three Accidents
On County Roads
During Week-end
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No Oik* Hurl lint Properly
Damage Kstiniateil At
$1,750.00
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While one person was fatally
injured in this eountv hist 'week
end in a freak motor vehicle ac
cident it was not on a highway,
the location cheating the highway
death column of a fourth entry.
Highway patrolmen said Monday,
that all parties-involved rode out
three accidents on the county
highways without injury, several |
barely escaping, however.
The first in the three-wreck j
series was reported on a curve
just beyond Gardner's Creek
bridge on Highway f>4 last Friday
morning at 11:00 o’clock. Jesse
Clyde Cannady, 112 N. Summit
Street, Greenville, was driving a
bread truck belonging to the
Waldesian-Pitt Bakery east on the
highway when the steering ap
paratus came loose, causing him
to lose control of the 1941 inter
natoinal machine. The truck went
down an enbankment and turned
over, causing damage estimated at
about $700 by Patrolman J. T.
Rowe who made the investigation.
Sunday morning at 3:30 o'clock,.
,J. Edward Midgett was driving
Nieey Buflalo’s 1948 Hudson west)
on U. S. 84. About one and one
half miles west of Jamesville, the 1
car ran off the road, Midgett lost 1
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( START WORK I
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The first pipe in the town's
expanded sewer line system
was laid yesterday just off
Woodlawn Drive by the con
tractors. Just as soon as wea
ther permits and materials
are delivered, work will be
started on the big out-fall
line, engineers said.
Tobacco Glowers
To Get Dividend
In Early January
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Approximately $2 1.000 To
Hr Haiti In County By
Stuhili/.atioii Unit
More than 2115,000 grower
members of the Flue-Cured To
bacco Cooperative Stabilization
Corporation from Virginia to
Florida will receive $4,195,416.15
—the net gain from 1947 crop
loan operations, General Manager
IL. T Weeks, Raleigh, announced
[this week. Averaging about $14,
the dividends will Amount to
about $21,000 in this county.
Distribution of the dividend
from operations covering 292,000,
000 pounds of tobacco, Weeks
said, will begin early in January
and run for a month or six weeks.
He added that this is the first
such dividend paid since opera
tions began in 1946.
"Deliveries on 1947 tobacco tak
en under loan were completed
about 10 days ago," the Stabiliza
tion official said. “The $4,195,
416.15 represents approximately
five and one-half percent of the
amount paid for the tobacco when
received by the Stabilization Cor
poration
'More than livi . pel cent of the
amount paid to growers will m
distributed to them in cash, while
about one-half of one percent has
been authorized by the Board of
Directors for a revolving fund,
allocated to individual growers on
the corporation's books.”
Weeks said distribution will be
made on a dollar-value basis of
tobacco received by the corpora
tion. Due to address changes, he
said, many checks will probably
be returned, so all growers who
have had an address change since
1947 are urged to notify the Sta
bilization Corporation, 522 Fay
etteville Street, Raleigh, N C., to
asurc receipt of their check,
assure receipt of their check.
The General Manager said a
statement of 1947 crop loan oper
ations, showing total amounts of
money involved, and a lettc with
general information about the
corporation will accompany tile
checks.
"In addition,” Weeks said, "new
plastic Identification Cards will
be sent to growers to replace
those issued when the producers
paid their $5.00 membership fee
and received a certificate for one
share of common stock The new
card will prove more serviceable
and all growers are urged to keep
it as its proper use will insure
correct identification for any fu
ture distribution of net gains.”
Weeks pointed out that any
distribution from 1940, 1949 and
1950 operations would have to be
determined when the handling of
tobacco from each of those years
is completed.
The Stabilization Corporation
began operations on August 12,
1946 Since that time it has re
(Conlinuvd fioii, i,sge seven)
County Officials
Accept Oaths At
Monday Meetings
Reorganization am! Ap
pointments Hamlieil amt
Work Started (Jniekly
Without too much pomp or
ceremony, Martin County's offic
ials accepted oaths of office,
cleared the old term business
sheet and settled down to work
quickly Monday morning.
Justice John L. Hassell report
ed to the courthouse at 8:30 to
hear Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne
subscribe to the oath of office.
About an hour later, Clerk Wynne
swore in the other officers. Sher
iff M. W. Holloman was first to
subscribe to the oath. He was
followed by Deputies Jos. H. Roe
buck, Cecil Bullock, W. Raymond
Rawls, Roy A. Peel, Dennis A.
Roberson in a group. T. V. Davis,
deputy assigned to the pulp mill,
was next. R. T Johnson, newly
elected, then subscribed to the
recorder’s oath..
Oath taking was temporarily
suspended while the old board of
county commissioners—John H.
Edwards, C. C. Martin, W. M.
Harrison, C. Abram Roberson
and Henry S. Johnson—held a
short meeting to clear the old
calendar. After the brief meeting,
Commissioner Roberson took
leave of absence, turning his
chair over to Herbert L. Roe
buck, newly elected to the board.
Withdrawing as a candidate for
the post after fourteen years of
faithful service as a member of
the board, Mr. Roberson said it
had been a pleasure to sit around
the table with his fellow officers
for fourteen years, that while
maybe the right, thing was not
j done every time, he had done his
best to serve his counjty. “I’m go
! ing to miss the meetings, but it
' is time for younger men to take
over, and I trust all will be well
for you,” Mr. Roberson told the
new commissioners as he depart
ed with best wishes from them.
Chairman John H. Edwards, H.
S. Johnson, M. W. Harrison and
I Herbert L. Roebuck -immediate
1 ly entered upon its new duties.
I Reorganization of the board was
| perfected in short order when
! Commissioner Martin nominated
Commissioner Edwards for chair
man. The nomination, seconded
by Commissioner Johnson, was
supported by a unamimous vote. I
Mr. Edwards, expresing a will- |
ingness to turn the chairman’s |
duties over to another, declared >
he would serve to the best of his |
ubility. I
The first act of the new board
was to appoint Clarence Griffin
solicitor of the county’s record
er’s court upon the motion of
Commissioner Harrison and a
second by Commissioner Martin 1
The newly appointed solicitor
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Holiday Lights
Go On Tomorrow
Delayed by one thing or anoth
er, workmen are now rushing to
complete the installation of the
town’s holiday lights with the
possibility that the main business
areas will be lighted tomorrow
evening.
The decoration scheme is in
marked contrast with that employ
ed for several years. Evergreens,
laurel and pine, are br ing used
this year for the first time. Strings
of lights have been installed on
either side of the street and about
a dozen stars are being placed in
the middle of the street.
Power interruptions were ex
perienced today when larger
transformers were installed.
I PREPARATIONS
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The Koanoke Chevrolet
Company management and
employees are making exten
sive arrangements for the for
mal opening of their modern
building, corner of Washing
ton and Sycampre Streets, on
Saturday of this week. Open
house will be observed that J
day. The new 1951 Chevrolet
goes on display, and special
prizes are being offered, Man
ager John H. Edwards an
nounces ,.f
County Board Hears
Many Road Requests
Commissioners In
First New Term)
Oi Fiscal Period
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Perfect Reorganization anti
Complete Work Karly
Monday Afternoon
Making quick work of their
reorganization, Martin County's
new board of commissioners
Monday were literally swamped |
with requests for more roads,
wider roads, stabilized roads and
paved roads, but the requests !
along with other business on the |
calendar were handled with dis
patch and the meeting was ad
journed early in the afternoon
before lunch.
The smooth working organiza
tion, characteristic of the govern
ing body for years, was maintain
ed when Herbert L. Roebuck,
newly elected member of the
body, fitted perfectly into retir- j
ing commissioner, C. Abram Rob
erson's seat, and picked up to 1
carry on where the retiring mem- ,
her left off.
Elbert S. Peel, upon a motion
of Commissioner H. S. Johnson
and a second by Commissioner
W. M. Harrison, was reappointed
county attorney. Taking his first
official step as a member of the
board, Commissioner Herbert L.
Roebuck nominated John W.
Hland for superintendent of the
Martin County home. The motion
was seconded by Commissioner |
Martin and Mr. Rland's election
followed. M. L. Peel was reap- |
pointed tax supervisor, all of the
appointments being for one year.
Bonds were reviewed and ap
proved, as follows: clerk of court,
$10,000; sheriff and deputy sher
iff, $5,000 each; treasurer, $40,
000.
Branch Bank, Guaranty Bank
at Williamston and Robersonville
and Edgecombe Bank and Trust
Company were designated as
county depositories.
Robert H. Cowen, Williamston
mayor, was named a member of
the Beaufort-Hydc-Martin Re
gional Library Association to fill
the position made vacant by the
death of Dr. John D. Biggs.
An appropriation for the pro
posed county health center was
increased by $1,787 05 to $11,-1
IMS), to offset increased costs. The1
State and federal governments
are to pay the remainder of the
$43,500
Constable H. E. Leggett of Ham
ilton had hi: $500 bond approved
in his report, Tax Collector M
L. Peel said that $104,967.33 of the j
$335,462.01 tax levy for 1950 was
due and unpaid. All but $11,124.61
of the $313,3)4.06 levy for 1949
has been collected. There is a1
balance of $6,666.34 due on the
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Game Broadcast
Boosts FH Sales
Learning that Ihe Bessemer
City-Williamston championship
football jjumt would be broadcast
by a Rocky Mount station, people
here literally cleaned out dealers
of FM radio equipment. One re
port declared that not a single
FM radio was left in the stores,
that a goodly number of special
at rials were installed at the last
minute.
While the broadcast was inter
rupted as a result of a line failure
for some minutes, the main prob
lem centered around plans for
the hook-up. The station opera
tors declared they encountered all
kinds of obstacles. There was lit
tle or no cooperation on the part
of the telephone company. “We
were advised that no line was
available, but the Bessemer City
principal volunteered the use of
the school telephone,” the station
owner explained. It was also
pointed out that the radio station
forces had to climb trees and
string several thousand feet of
special wire to effect the hookup.
The broadcast, heard through
out this section of North Carolina,
was sponsored by Williamston
firms
I WELCOME
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Williamston’s championship
football team and Coach
Stuart Maynard were given a
warm welcome upon their re
turn from the west by fans
and other friends here last
Saturday evening.
Escorted into town by po
lice and highway patrol, the
large football special was
stopped in the Main street,
traffic was routed around,
and a great time was had by
all. Speeches were called for
and the roach and the boys
responded over the Roanoke
Realty Company’s sound sys
tem. While the boys did not
say much about their achieve
ment. they expressed hope
and determination to carry on
ne»t year. The reception cli
maxed a highly successful, in
fact a perfect season for the
Green Wave.
Seventeen Leave '
For Army Center
Monday Morning
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Group Is Third To Make
Onr-lt ay Trip From
County So Far
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Seventeen Martin County
young men — twelve white and
five Colored left the county
Monday for Fort Bragg where'
they were to enter the service.
Captained by James Dillon
Cherry, the group with one ex- |
ception traveled by regular bus.
The exception left by motorcy
cle'.
The group is the third to leave
the cdunty for final induction in
to the armed forces in recent
months. t
Two or three special registrants
arc scheduled to report for pre
induction examinations at Fay
ettevilleville on Friday of this
week. Forty regulars arc sched
uled to report for pre-induction
on December 20. There is no call
pending for final induction, it
was learned, and none is expected
until January or possibly Feb
ruary.
Those making the trip Monday
were:
White: Milton Bennett Wynne,
HFD 3, Williamston; Rufus Man
ning, RFD 1, Oak City; Mack Hy
man Warren, RFD 1, Roberson
ville; Harry Calvin Ayers, RFD
2, Williamston; James Davis M(F
!in, JamesvilU ; A. E Manning,,
.'amesvilic and Hopewell, Vu.,
Horace Edwin Coltrain, RFD 3,
Williamston; William Earl Meeks,
RFD 1, Robersonvillt; James
Dillon Cherry, RFD 2, Williams
ton; Eurl Milton Coburn, Jr.,
Robersonville; Ervin Eugene
Hinson, RFD 1, Oak City; Vernon
Carlyle Suits, RFD 1, Oak City.
Colored: Clarence Howard
Wiggins, Williamston; James Ed
Ewell, RFD 3, Williamston; An
drew Wallace, RFD 3, Wtlliams
ton; Octavious Roberson, William
ston; Lester Williams, RFD 2,
Robersonville. Roberson and Wil
liams were once listed as delin
quent with the draft hoard and
they were finally contacted and
forwarded to the center without
undergoing pre-induction exami
nations. Another listed delin
quent, Clarence Rudolph Co
field of RFD 3, Williamston, was
transferred to Philadelphia tor
tinal induction.
TB Seal Sale Is
Going Forward
The annual sale uf little tuber
culosis seals is going forward in
this county, Sale Chairman W.
G. Peele said yesterday.
No complete reports have been
received, but in Williamston
where the drive is nearing com
pletion, approximately $1,000 has
been raised. Preliminary reports
from several of the township
chairman in other parts of the
county are encouraging, and pro
spects are that the $2,000 goal
will be reached possibly in record I
Lime this year. 1
Aged Nan Fatally
Injured In a Freak
Accident Friday
Jifii Roger*, 75, Crushed
Between Car and Steps
[Near Robersonville
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Jim Rogers, 75-year-old colored
man, was fatally injured in a
freak accident at his home near
Robersonville late last Friday af
ternoon. His left thigh broken in
two places and suffering internal
injuries, the aged Negro farmer
died about three hours later at
8:00 o'clock at his home.
Friday morning, Rogers had
traded his old car for a 1947 model
and he, his wife and nephew, Ar
thur (Bud) Nicholson, were at
home talking about the ear. The
old man is said to have asked the
nephew if he could drive a car.
Assured that he could handle it,
the nephew either asked permis
sion or was intsrueted to turn the
machine around in the yard. Rog
ers was sitting on the back door
steps when the nephew got into
the car and literally whirled i*
around, missing a tree and head
ing toward his uncle, Instead of
applying the brakes, Nicholson
apparently became excited and in
creased the speed, crushing the
victim between the car and door
steps.
Investigating the accident, Cor
orner S. R. Biggs and Patrolman
D. W. Parker said that an inquest
will be held. The steps were
wrecked and part of the porch was
torn away, the officers said.
Nicholson, whose home is in
Spring Hope had been working
with his uncle a few weeks. Soon
after the accident, he told some
one ho was going to his home ia
Spring Hope, explaining that he
would return Saturday or Sun
day. He had not returned late
Monday.
The victim was treated at home,
and it was planned to remove him
to the hospital the next day. Rog
ers was very feeble, so feeble, in
fai t that he could not move when
the car moved down upon him,
and the shock was too great for
him.
Local Girl Sees
Picture Filmed
Among those to attend the mo
vie, 711 Ocean Drive" when it
appears at the Viccar Theatre
here on Thursday and Friday of
this week will be Miss Edna Barn
hill of the V. E. P.
Miss Barnhill, on a visit to
Boulder Dam, California in Oc
tober of 194!), witnessed the film
ing of the last part of the picture
which was made there. In speak
’«£' »( her experiences on the lo
cation while fh< shooting ui the
film was in progress, she said
that she is particularly interested
n comparing the movie shots
.vith the snap shots she made at
he same time and also to see if
icr car could be seen in a scene
jf the cars and crowds they shot
while she was there.
In the motie around 200 local
people and the local policemen
were used. Miss Barnhill said that
>n the day she was there the di
rectors asked all those visiting
to return the next day for a
crowd scene, but she and her
friends spent only the one day
at Boulder Dam.
Firemen In- Culled Out
FI ere Friday Afternoon
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Firemen were called here last
Friday afternoon when a grass
fire threatened a fence near the
grammar school. Volunteers had
the fire out and damage was neg
ligible.
EXCHANGE
The North Carolina Em
ployment Security Commis
sion will maintain a landlord -
tenant exchange in its offices
here in the Tar Heel build
ing, nest to the Central Cafe,
tomorrow from 9:M a. m.
until >KM p. m.
Tenants, looking for crops,
and landlords, lotting for
tenants, will find it conven
ient to report to the offiee
either on Wednesday of this
week or Wednesday of next
week.