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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ II OVER 3,0M MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES 3 VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 97 Williamston, Marlin County, North Carolina, Thursday, Devemhrr 7, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1899 twenty Cases On * The Docket For Trial Next Week Jnd^if* Walter J. It'Mie Tti I’renidr Over Short Term Of Superior Court Twenty criminal cases have beer placed on the docket for trial dur ing the one-week term of the Mar 0 tin County Superior Court open ing next week. In addition to the criminal docket, the court plan* to call a lew civil cases, including two or three divorce actions. It i.1 quite likely the court will be in session most of the week. Judge Walter J. Bone is to preside. Cases tentatively scheduled foi trial include the following: Appealing from a lower court judgment, Thomas Kirkman is to face trial on a non-support charge Oliver Peel and Earl Goodwin are charged with assaults with deadly weapons with intent to kill. i Willie Moore is charged with an assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and robbery of the person. John Bradley is booked for be ing drunk and disorderly and (^leaking and entering. Van R. Page is to go on trial again for breaking <,nd entering and larceny. His case was called last term, but a technical error in the warrant caused his trial to be delayed. Page gained little by the maneuver because he has continu ed in jail and peace and quiet have reigned on the crime front in the county, for the most part. Frederick H. Sayre, Jr.. Sum mit, N J., youth is booked for the larceny of an automobile from Augustus Harris near Williams ton on November (j. R. L. Sikes is charged with is suing a worthless check in the sum of $300 to Chas H Ayers on Nov ember 21. He appealed from a lower court judgment. Appealing from a county court judgment. General Columbus Freeman will face trial before Judge Bone on a drunken driving charge Jake Woolard, adjudged guilty and fined in the county court for cruelty to animals, appealed to the higher court. James A Warren is charged with violating the liquor laws. — Robert Savage is charged with breaking into the home of Willie Spruill in Goose Nest Township on September 30 and carrying away $4.23 worth of groceries and $11 in cash. Lmwood (Dummy) Speight, vvi: *4'**-. 4-»«V'V*4 verdict of not guilty in Judge Bone s court in September when he was charged with breaking into the Gulf Filling Station here, is back in court. He is charged with breaking into the Mad White home on Sycamore Street here on Sep tember 19. Judge Bone had not had time to leave town before Speight was in jail again. Geo. Clemmons is charged with transporting $05 worth of tobac co. knowing it to be stolen. ( harged with firing woodsland in Robersonville Township last April, Murray Boyd, young white 1 man, was convicted and fined in the county court. He appealed to the higher court, but did not re port for trial last September. He (Continued on Page Eight) Holiday Lights On Streets Here I Unable to get all the equipment that had been ordered, the com mittee went ahead this week and turned on the holiday lights, hop ing the remainder of the equip ment will reach here shortly. The number of stars is to be doubled if the wiring and sockets can be had. The stars have been made and are ready for the light ing material. While the lights are not as I bright as those of past years, pos sibly they are more decorative with the evergreen. A few store and office windows are displaying special Christmas scenes. Harrison and Carstarphen were among the first to equip their window with a special dis play aside from the regular store windows. I New Home Of The Roanoke Chevrolet Company Pictured above is the new and modern home of the Roanoke Chevrolet Company here on the corner of Washington and Sycamore Streets. Cost ing approximately $75,000, the new home will display the new 1951 Chcv j rolet models on Saturday of this week when open house will be held from }!.()() a. in until 6:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is being extended the pub lic to attend and inspect the new car models and the company’s new home. Valuable door prizes will be awarded and there’ll be refreshments, sup ported by a warm welcome on the part of the management and all the employees. New Team Scores In Drive \ On Illicit Liquor Business Martin County s alcoholic bev erages control board's new en forcement team—Deputies Joe H. itocbuck and Cecil Bullock—real ly scored in the relentless drive against the illicit liquor business in this county last month. Aided at time by other officers, the two-man team wrecked thir ty-one distilleries during Novem ber to set a record for recent ac tivities in the enforcement work. At least nine of the plants were equipped with copper kettles, in cluding a 200-gallon kettle. The officers poured out 7,050 gallons of suger mash and more than fourteen gallons of white liquor. Four persons were arrested and formally charged with violating I the liquor laws. Only one was Carried into the courts duriny the period, and he drew twelve months on the roads, suspended upon the payment of a $100 fine and costs. Nearly half or twelve of the plants were found in Jamesville Township. The operators of sev eral of the plants successfully concealed the kettles, but equip ment and mash were destroyed. Six plants were found and wreck ed in both Robersonville and Hear Grass Township, five in Hamilton, and one or two in Cross Roads Township. Since last Friday, the officers have conducted successful raids and arrested at least one man at a still. I CHEEK PLANS i v-/ Preliminary reports reach ing here indicate that (pUte a few civic clubs in the county • in a- Christ mas Cheer Program this year. Toy collections have been advanced in several commun ities, and other plans are be ing made to remember the less fortunate. Clubs and organizations are already at work in the James ville, Bear Grass. Williams ton and Robersonville com munities, it was learned. | ' ^ Delegates Leave For Convention .— f, — Four Martin County farmers, Chas. L. Daniel, Reuben S. Ever ett. S. T. Everett and G. H. Forbes, plan to leave tomorrow afternoon for Dallas, Texas, where they will represent this county at the American Farm Bureau Federa tion convention. Mis. Reuben Everett and Mrs. Hugh Bennett plan to accompany the group. Mr. Daniel, president of the county organization and promi nent in the State Farm Bureau, has been named a voting delegate to the convention and his expenses will be paid by the national or ganization. The recognition is a real honor in that there are only six voting delegates in North Car olina. Mr. Reuben Everett goes as a special guest of the State Farm Bureau, and Messrs. S. T. Everett and G. H. Forbes, leaders in the membership drive, will have part of their expenses paid by the county organization, it was explained. The delegates will board a spe cial train in Raitigh early Satur day morning and reach Dallas Monday. They are to return Sat urday of next week.. Drainage Project Bids Opened Here — •*— Martin County Drainage Di« I net Nil i ./pevs''"\v i,> the offices of Attorneys Mai tin and Griffin here this morning, but action on letting the contract is being delayed. Swain Drainage Service of Co lumbia, N. C., was low bidder with an over-all contract price of $49,3150 90. The bid was figured at 14 9 cents per cubic yard foi 237,204 cubic yards of excavation and $123 per acre for the 112 ii | acres to be cleared. J. S. Mill of Washington was j next with a bid of 15 cents pei cubic yard for excavations, and $130 per yard for clearing. Clark Construction Company ol Greenville was third with a bid I of 111 cents for excavations and $105 an acre for clearing. The bids were said to be below engineers' estimates, and as fai as it could be learned at noon to day, the district plans to go aheae with the project which is one of the largest of its kind ever under taken in this county. Loses Fingers In Saw Tuesday Farmer Noah Daniel Griffin lost jusf about all of three fingers from his right hand in an accident on his farm near here last Tues day afternoon. Using a skillsaw, Mr. Griffin [said he can’t recall .just how he got his fingers caught in the ma chine. He was using the saw ir his left hand and thinks the saw pinched and kicked out and hop ped on his fingers. He suffered right much, but hi; condition is much improved anc he plans to leave the Martin Gen eral Hospital shortly. Name Nominees Ai Conventions In Martin County ~ * — ! Klrvliuii Will lt<> 11«■ I<I In County On Tlmntilay Of Next Week Meetly in community centers throughout the county this week, farmers selected their nominees for places on the P.-M A. com |munity committees and delegates to the county convention. The nominees, numbering at least two for each committee place and for delegate and alter nate to the county convention, will be voted upon in an election I to he held Thursday of next week. Complete reports on the nomi ating meeting could not be had up until noon today, but re ports from several communities listed their nominees. The names are listed two for each place for 1 community chairman, vice chair man, regular member and first wind second alternates, and for delegate and alternate, in order, Jarnesvdlc No 2 |( Co burn, Sherwood Davis, Edward Ange, V. H. Davis, it. C. Sexton, Bonnie Ange, Marvin Junes, E. i N. Modlin and Dennis iloberson; delegate: C. G. Gurkin, Seth Dav i is, Arthur Ange and Bert Lee Roberson. Williams: C L. Daniel, It J Hardison, Paul Harrington, Ho ward Tyre, Walter Gardner, James Perry, Joe L. Coltrain, Grady Godard and L. J Hardi son; Delegate: Paul Harrington and Grady Godard. Bear Grass: E C Harrison, H G Harrison, H. V. Peel, Elmer Griffin, Opheus Bailey, Ralph Mobley, Marvin Cowan, J. T. Har ris, and Chesley Jones; Delegate: iC. U. Rogers and E. C. Harrison. Robersonvillc No I: R S Eve rett, S. T Everett, J It Daniel, (Continued on page eight) Improving After Logging Accident Suffering a crushed ankle in a logging accident a few days ago, Palsey Corey was reported to lie improving in Brown’s Hospital this morning. He plans to return to his home in Farm Life shortly. The young man was cutting down a tree and it lodged and kicked back, the butt striking and crushing his ankle. Alone in the woods at the time, lie man aged to free himself and started crawling out of the woods. He was only able to get part of the way out before he became ex hausted. He was found some time j later. Keport; state that it will Im possibly six months before lie'll be able to pul any weight on the foot. Calling For Special Term Superior Court In County rainy certain there wont be sufficient time in the regular term ul court scheduled for next week, the Martin County Commission ers, upon the recommendation of Resident Judge Walter J. Bone, are calling for special term of the superior court to be held in this county on or about January 22 for a hearing relating to Martin Coun ty Drainage District No. 1. Attor neys in the ease presented their problem to Judge Bone in his chambers at Nashville Tuesday evening and the jurist explained that similar eases require several days or more, that it is hardly likely that the court will find time | to hear the eases next week. | The petitioners, numbering al most 100, are appealing from find ings by the clerk of court, and are anxious to have the cases cleared so work on the project can be launched. Bids on the drainage project were received here this morning. A resolution, requesting the governor to call a special session of the court in January, hHd not been formally passed this morn ing, but action is expected shortly. | The twelve or more respondents are opposing the drainage project, I maintaining their lands will not be jbenefitted by it. Post Office Asks For Cooperation Pull cooperation on the part of the public will have a great ileal I to do with the .successful handling l.uf tlic heave mail loads this holi day season, postal autiau Hies, point out. Postal employees are being increased to help handle tin 1 business volume and the local ot I lice will maintain window service ] each week day, including Satur day afternoon through the 23rd, ! Postmaster Dunn said. It was pointed out that time can be saved by the purchase of an ample supply of stamps at one tiirg. . All mail should be properly ad- 1 dressed as to box, rural route or J street number, the postmaster ex | plaining that this is vitally neces sary when new carriers are em ployed to help handle the rush. It is suggested that Christinas i greetings be sent first class with the unde rstanding that, they will | be forwarded, il necessary, may contain written messages and of fer other advantages. Unsealed greetings cards are handled as third class and must wait theii turn without forwarding privi ieges. .,4H Parcels should be carefully packed and wrapped and must be limited to 70 pounds and must not be more than 100 inches in length and girth combined. Mailings for distant states should be started in advance of December 10, and the 15th has been mentioned as a late; date for local mailings. lt(jlM)IN(i GHOCKIIV ( onstruction work is going along rapidly on a building for Archie Percy’s grocery, corner of Liberty and Houghton Streets. ILL AT lloMK IIKitK P! a! his home on Academy Street here for about two weeks, Mr C. B Clark was reported to be feeling better this morning. J Kit; K1JSII J Tlir hig: rush hy II, S and Y drivers is un in this county for operator's licenses. The examiner yesterday had his busiest day of the season and found it impossible to handle '•the rush. Two dozen or more gave up and Jeff, but they ex plained they would he hack early next Wednesday more* ing when the examiner re turns. Those whose sur-names be gin with It, S or T and who have not procured them, have until the last day of this month to get their licenses. exonerate Driver Oi Death Auto Arthur (Hud) Nicholson, driv r of the cur that crushed into nd fatally injured his tincle, din Ungers, 75-year-old colored nun, at Ihr Ungers home near tobcisonvillc last Friday aflei loon, was exonerated by a cor Tier's jury following an inquest u Id on Tuesday of this week. The jury, after examining the •ody of Ihc victim, talked with (cigars' widow. She declared that he was satisfied Nicholson did lot intend to hurt or kill her lusband, that it was an accident. Wccpling the evidence, the jury uled that Rogers came to his lealli hm the result of an "un voidable accident”. The action ly the jury apparently closes the :ase. Nicholson, coming from .Spring lope a few weeks ago to live and cork with his uncle, left soon fter the accident. Last reports caching here said he had not re urned. Serving on the jury were, K. ). Worrell, Ben D. Courtney, Uonza Bland, Gaylord Harrison, iarvev Baggett, Elmer Modlin. Funeral services for the ucci lent victim were held Tuesday iteration. New Officials Hold First Term Of Court I V TOY (OLLFTTION 1 Advised that the need Is greater than was first antici pated and believing that there are more toys local people would like to share with the less fortunate little tots in this community, the Jaycees are planning a second town-wide collection Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Those who have a surplus toy that is servirable and who would help make Christmas bright for some little tot are asked to place the toys on their door steps Sunday. The Jaycees are opening a toy work shop in the old I Roanoke Chevrolet building and will receive toys there any night neat week. Rapisl-Killer To Be Relumed For Trial In County FBI To Turu Norman Worn ley Over To Authorities At Uoekv Mount -4— I Norman Worsley, 37-year-old colored man wanted in this coun | ty for alleged rape and murder, is ! to be returned to this county for 1 trial next week, according to ten tative plans made by Sheriff M. W. 1 Holloman yesterday. Arrested by the Federal Bureau i of Investigation last week in New ; York City as a fugitive from jus tice, Worsley offered to fight his return to North Carolina. The Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped in and advised Sheriff Holloman that he would be brought to Rocky Mount by one of its agents the latter part of this week. "We hope to get him back to this county in time for trial next week," the sheriff said. Pre j liminary plans for prosecuting the , man are being made, and if he j reaches here not later than Sat urday the trial will be held in the superior court next week. It was learned unofficially that Worsley had admitted the rape i charge and also admits the assault | resulting in the death of Lawrence I Andrews in Parmele the latter 1 part of 194(1. I Worsley allegedly raped An i d 1-•,-»'•>?«old daughter in Edgecombe County, but so far, ac cording to unofficial reports reaching here, little or no action has been taken to prosecute the ease there. The murder ease had its origin hack in late December, 194(1, when Worsley, alias Cherry, accom panied by the young Andrews girl, went to Tarboro to carry the girl's sister. After the sister was put out of the ear in Tarboro, Worsley drove out on a little-used road and allegedly assaulted the girl. The next day when the father reman (Continued on page eight) Calendar Carries Two Civil Cases Two civil eases are on the cal endar for trial in the superior court next week, both of them having been given precedence by agreement at the special Novem ber term. Several divorce eases are to be placed on the calendar for next week, but they had not been listed shortly before noon today. John A. Revels is suing Paul Birdsong for $375, plus interest from September 15, 1941) The plaintiff alleges a contract was entered into whereby the defen dant was to guarantee a satis factory supply of water. He al leged the defendant did not live up to the contract terms. In the ease of Lucy Bryant against F. B. Harrell, adnunstra tor of Johnnie Jones, the plain tiff says she eared for Jones dur ing fourteen months just prior to his death. She alleges she was never remunerated for that care, and that she is entitled to re cover $1,000 from the estate. Forty Cases Are Called By Judge R. T. Johnson Solicitor (ilarriMT 4>riffiii Pnwociilt'H Itig Docket In All-Day Meet Picking up where Judge C. H. Manning and Solicitor Paul D. Roberson left off, the Martin County Court's new officials. Judge Raymond T. Johnson and Solicitor Clarence Griffin measur ed out justice in certain terms and with dispatch last Monday. Feeling their way along through a crowded docket that had ac cumulated cases during the two weeks the superior tribunal was supposed to have been in session, the new judge and solicitor solved the problems as they went along. Judge Johnson, it was noted, took a definite stand against carving with pocket knives and razors, but, according to some report, held to the lenient side where liquor law violations were involved. Working until dark, the court handled forty cases. Several road i sentences were imposed, one for an assault with a deadly weapon i Fines, imposed during the day. amounted to $735. No session ol the court will be held next Mon day when the superior court con venes for a week session. Proceedings: The case charging William Jones with being drunk and disorderly, was nol prossed or dismissed. Pleading guilty of failing to yield right-of-wav, Isaiah Hill was taxed with the costs Adjudged guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon, Mayo Sim mons was sentenced to the roads for three months. The sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. The de fendant is to violate no criminal law for six months. Pleading guilty of bastardy, Leo 1 Long drew six months on the road, suspended upon the payment of the costs and $3 a week for the support of his child during the next year. Ernest Bridges and Grover Dix on both pleaded guilty of assaults with deadly weapons and were sentenced to the roads for six | months. The road terms were sus pended upon the payment of costs and $25 fines The defendants are to WuiJte no . . 4',v»»il«Kflg the next twoyears. Robert Latham was sentenced to the roads for four months in the case charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon. ('has. Grimes was fined $10, plus costs, for being publicly drunk. Pleading not guilty of non-sup port, Thos. kirkman was adjudg cd guilty and drew six months on the roads, suspended upon the payment of the costs and the con dition that he pay $10 a week for the support of his family. He appealed and bond was required in the sum of $100. Clarence Purvis was fined $25 plus costs, for careless and reck less driving. Jasper Purvis was fined $25 and taxed with lire costs for op erating a motor vehicle without (Continued on page eight) Improving From Attack By Bull N. 1). Griffin, Jr., is improving following treatment in the Mar tin General Hospital for injuries received when attacked by a bull on his father’s farm near Wil liamston The youth was walking near a fence in the lot when the animal approached from the rear and knocked him down. An ugly gash was made on t>ne leg when the animal stepped on him. He was also bruised about the body before he could craw) to a gate a few feet away and escape. While recovering in the hospital lie was joined by his father who lost three fingers from the right hand in an accident Tuesday aft ernoon.