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fHE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES William »ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, Murcli 1. /9;j] VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 18 ESTABLISHED 1899 County Court Fines Total Almost $1,000 Eighteen Cases Heard By Judge Johnson Monday ——»— Allowed Liquor Law Viola tors Account for Most Of The Income -« The Martin County Recorder’s Court literally hit big pay dirt last Monday when fines, amount ing to $990, were imposed. Most of the amount was accounted for by alleged liquor law violators. Judge R. T. Johnson and So licitor Clarence Griffin handled eighteen cases, clearing the dock et before noon. Caught manufacturing illicit li quor at a large plant in Griffins Township a short time ago, Knee zer and David Williams were each fined $300, plus costs. Twelve month sentences were suspended upon the payment of the fines, and the defendant are to violate no liquor laws during the next five years. The fines were first fixed at $400 each, but Judge Johnson reconsidered and lopped off $100 for each of the defen dants. Other proceedings in the court last Monday: Charged with being drunk and disorderly, carrying a concealed weapon and discharging firearms, l.evi Council pleaded guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and ‘we* lined $50, plus costs. The case charging W’illiam Earl Clark with non-support, was nol pressed. Charged with violating the school attendance law, Essie ®Nkn»Jiam was found not guilty. Judgment was suspended upon 'he payment of the costs in the tase in which Leamon Roebuck was charged with operating a mo tor vehicle without a driver’s li cense. Charged with hit-and-run driv ing and operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes, Isaiah Per kins pleaded guilty of operating the vehicle without proper brakes and was fined $5, plus costs. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Dennis Taylor was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with being drunk and disorderly and an assault, Charlie Whitehurst pleaded guilty of be ing drunk and disorderly and sim ple assault. He was fined $10 and taxed with the costs. Pleading not guilty of forcible trespass, Elmer Rogers was found guilty and drew twelve months on the roads. He appealed and bond was required in the sum of $500. Adjudged guilty of drunken driving, Clyde R. Edwards was fined $100 and taxed with the costs. He appealed and $200 bond I was required. ! Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Tom Armstead was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $200 fine and costs. The defendant is to violate no liquor law for two years. Daultry Armstead, a second defendant in tin- ease, was adjudg ed not guilty. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case charging Paul Harrell with operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license. Charged with failing to yield (Continued on page sue) Farm Bureau Will Meet Here Friday Meeting in the courthouse Fri day evening of this week at 7:30 o’clock, the Martin County Farm Bureau will discuss the tobaccu and peanut situation, and hear a report on the State Convention held last month in Asheville. In a letter received this week, Congressman Herbert Bonner said he expected the passage in the House of a bill allowing an increase in the acreage to be planted to edible peanuts. How ever, the proposal faces strong opposition in the Senate. He add ed that passage of a bill could be expected wi'hin fifteen or twen ty days. INSTRUCTIONS r ■N N. J Special notices are being received by forty Martin * County young men, instruct ing them to report for final induction on Wednesday, March 14. Seventeen of the young men are in the Williamston area. Some of the others have scattered all over the country since their pre-induction tests some weeks ago. Senate Committee Inspects Stale's Mental Institution — <t'~—— Deplorable Conditions Are Found During llnan non need Inspection By Becky Sumners Raleigh—We don't need more buildings for our mental patients, we need trained personnel and ' adequate treatment. With these, enough patients'ean be eured and sent home to give room to take care of new patients. That's what Dr. Leslie Hohman of Duke Hospital, a consultant at the State Hospital at Raleigh— Dix Hill—told members of the Senate Committee on Mental In stitutions. The senators were making an unannounced visit to ! Dix Hill, trying to see conditions there under everyday circum stances. The bruught out several things: 1. Wc are sponsoring “super i jails” to take care of mental pa tients. giving mostly custodial care and following the medieval practice of merely locking men tally ill awuv from their fellow man. 2. Despite more than $10,000,000 appropriated for permanent im provements at Dix Hill, many of the quarters are in disgraceful disrepair. 3. We are providing very little ! treatment for patients and for ; trained personnel—most of the workers being mere caretakers, i or watchdogs. I 4. There is practically no recrea | tion, not even checker boards, for 1 most patients.* 5. They can be cured—at least a big percentage of them—and | sent back to society to live near normal lives. The last is the most important of all. Legislators orate about leaving mentally ill in jails and appropriate more money to build more rooms at a sort of "central prison’ for the mentally sick. But Dr. Hohman says that 25 to 40 percent of patients can be cured, either with modern me thods of shock and other treat ment or by surgery. When wc arrived, unannounced, at the Hospital, breakfast was over and the wards were getting their daily cleaning—bed linens, ; bathrooms and floors. • The buildings are kept clean, hut the men’s quarters are in dis graceful disrepair. The floors are all concrete, for sanitary reasons. But most of the male patients were barefooted. I know it is impossible to keep shoes on a lot of the boys, but it i breaks your heart to see them wandering over cold, sometimes . damp, concrete floors barefooted. ! This, however, is a very minor thing compared to the conditions of the mattresses, the walls, and the boys themselves. The mattresses and bed linen are kept clean. But the mattress es are mere thin cotton wads not much thicker than an old-fash ioned quilt—or two new ones. (Continued on page eight) Town Board Will Hold Regular Meeting Monday -v Meeting in regular session next Monday evening, Williamston's Town Commissioners will make arrangements for holding the biennial primary and general I election for the selction of town officials for the new term begin ing in June. Little other business is on the calendar at this time. Large Boat Docks At Local Whari With Fertilizer —«— Former Great l-4ik.es Pass enger Vessel Converted To Freighter -♦ The Vermont, one of the largest boats ever to come this far up the Roanoke River, unloaded a 1,500 ton fertilizer material cargo at the plant of the Standard Ferti lizer Company here this week, setting a new delivery record. The one-time palatial passen ger boat >vas converted by its present owners into a cargo car rier after service on the Great Lakes. Owned by the W. E. Val liant Company of Cambridge, Maryland, the boat now is in op eration between Savannah, Geor gia, and Baltimore, handling spec ial cargoes between the two points. Scheduled to dock at the Georgia Point the latter part of this week, the boat picked up its fertilizer cargo in Baltimore and pulled out of the harbor there at 6:00 o'clock last Saturday evening. Waiting four hours in Albemarle Sound for day to break Monday, the captain admitted it was a ra ther hectic trip up the Roanoke with the large boat. After straightening out a few curves a bit, the boat docked at the fer tilizer plant about noon that day. Employees of the plant worked around the clock unloading the cargo, and the hoat pulled out early yesterday morning for the Georgia port where it will pick up more than a thousand tons of paper. Officials of the company had a survey made of the river, and the captain said he bring the boat in all right. He made the inward trip all right, but no report on the outward run could be had immed iately,. The boat, measuring 261 feet in length and 36 feet in width, offers navigators a problem when they ply the Roanoke in it. However, H. M. Sherman, pres ident of the company who met the bout here this week, said they (Continued on page six) -», Men From County Entering Service —»— Corpora) Clyde L. Quinn of the 1!. S. Army and U. S. Air Force recruiting service stated today that two men have volunteered for the service from Williamston and vicinity recently. Samuel Roebuck enlisted in the 1J. S. Army for ,three years and was sent to Fort George E. Meade, Maryland for basic training. Rob ert E. Swain enlisted in the U. S. Air Force for four years and was transferred to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas where he will receive indoctrination in to the Air Force. Corporal Quinn said anyone wishing to volunteer for the Air Force should see him and get their name on the Air Force list as soon as possible. Corporal Quinn further stated the need for young women of the ages 18 to 34 in the Woman’s Ar my Corps and Women of the Air Force. Members of these branches mav receive Technical School Training in such career fields as Weather Observation, Finance, Stenography, Photography, Lab oratory Technicians, Dental Lab oratory Technician and many other career fields. If you are a high school graduate, with no de pendents less than 18 years of age of high physical and moral qualities contact Corporal Quinn at the Post Office in Williamston from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. on Mondays and Fridays for further information. | GOOD FISHING | s_' Good fishing is being re ported at Janesville, an in direct report received here late yesterday stating that the fishermen were taking np to 150 herring in their drift nets. C. C. Fleming, fishery op erator, is making ready to start seine fishing possibly some time about the middle or latter part of this month. Fishing at this point was re ported a bit slow Tuesday eve ning and yesterday. Will Ask Bids Shortly For National Guard Building Bids on the construction ot a motor storage building for the! Martin County Unit of the Na-! tional Guard will bb asked shorti Iv, acording to unofficial infor mation received here this week. It was learned from State officials of the National Guard that money is available for the project. The building, measuring 52 by 92 feet, will be constructed on concrete blocks. It was explained that the structure is for storage only, that an armory possibly will be con structed at a later date. Title to a five-acre site on the south edge of the town has been transferred to the State, and it is likely that construction bids will be ask,cd just as soon as at torneys can check and verify the RAINFALL | t -> Decreasing rainfall, noted in January, continued in Feb ruary with the total precipita tion holding to about half the average for the two months. Although rain fell on tw'elve different days in February, the total fall measured only 1.16 inches, including two snows. The official record shows 2.1 inches of snow on Febru ary 3 and 2.5 inches on the ninth. So far this year only 3.04 inches of rain have fallen at this point, as compared with 0.43 inches in January and February of last year. Fnrniiure Firm To Make Change Leasing the building formerly occupied by the ltoanoke Chev rolet Company on Washington Street, the D. C. McLawhorn Fur i niture firm will move to new quarters just as soon as an ox i tensive renovation project can be completed, it was learned this I week. Outgrowing its present build ing on Main Street, the firm is finding it necessary lo move to ■ larger quarters. The interior of the building will be completely renovated, includ ing the removal of partitions. Stor age will be provided on the sec ond floor. Several months’ time will be needed to complete the re novation, the company planning to move to the new location some time during the summer. -1—1 Tuberculin Tests Made In Schools Making a survey in the colored schools at Williamston and Par mcle recently, county health au thoties found a number of tuber iculosis cases, the rate ranging up to 27.5 percent in the Wil liarnston school. Of the 320 pupils tested in the school here, 83 of them or 27.5 i percent were affected. Approxi mately 33 pupils or 14.4 percent of those tested in the Parmele school were effected by the di stase, according to Health Of ficer John W. Williams. It was pointed out, however, that only thirteen out of the 549 pupils examined had advanced cases of tuberculosis, that ten had moderate cases. The disease was in its beginning in the other cas es, it was explained, Firemen Gel Two Calls Last Night Volunteer firemen were called to the home of Officer and Mrs. Willie Modlin on Park Street last evening at 0.33 o'clock when soot in a chimney caught fire and threatened to spread to the roof No damage resulted. At 7:25 o’clock last evening the firemen were called to the Staton home on W’hite Street where an oil stove had exploded Thu own ers and neighbors put the fin out and there was only minoi damage. Forming long parades, motorists : blocked firemen answering both I calls. title. The site was purchased for $2,500 against $10,000 paid for sim ilar acreages in other towns in the county. Reviewing the activities of the National Guard unit here, officers said that 79 of the 84 members fired the .30 caliber carbine at the State Highway Patrol's firing range on W. G. Pecle’s farm near the river last week-end. There are three more scheduled firings, two with the carbine and one with the Thompson .45 caliber submachine. The practices, to be completed by the end of thij> month, are a part of the National Guard's program of increasing the extent and effectiveness of its training during the present un settled world situation, it was ex plained. Reviews Work In The Legislature Early This Week Dill Culling for A $ 1,000 lloinl For Justirr of tin* IVurt* Delayed Raleigh- The Senate Monday gave the kiss of death to a hill calling for fire protection for prisoners in jails. The state-wide hill had passed the House despite attempts there I to exempt a number of counties i In the Senate, a fourth of the | counties had asked exemption j last week, hut action had been postponed until tonight When it came up Monday, Sen ator llarvey Morris of Meeklcn burg made a motion to defer ac tion until Thursday night, hu’ that motion was beaten 21-20 Morris then moved to table the bill and all amendments- killing the bill, for all practical purpos es—and that motion carried unan imously. The hill provided tha someone should be kept "at 01 near” all jails to protect prison ers in case of fire. The Senate passed a resolutioi j suggesting that each session o the United Nations “be openec with a prayer for Devine Quid ance.” This resolution was spun sored by Senators Hardy Talton ol Wayne, Adam Whitley of John ston, and L. H. Fountain of Edge ( combe. Action in the House was jus1 . about as limited. A bill outlawing ' use of lewd and profane languagi 1 to a woman on the telephone wa: amended to include men anc children and passed on seconc reading. The amendment, sent in by Hep linger Kiser of Scotland, wa: termed “impractical” by Ref Fred Royster of Vance, and Hit bill was held over for third read ing after objection by Rep. Bot Lassiter of Mecklenburg. A Senate bill prohibiting for tune telling, palmistry and phren ology was umended to apply onl> to Halifax county. After more than 20 counties asked to be pul under the bill—originally a state wide measure—it was re-refer red to the Committee on Propo sitions and grievances. A bill requiring all justices ol 1 lh< peace to furnish ft.WMl Uv-m ' for “faithful performance of tin ii duties” was about to be amende! to death by exempting counties when it w'as re-referred to !li< Committee on Courts and Judi eial Districts. New bills introduced include! ones to: Allow municipally owned mo tor vehicles to use sirens anc ! other warning devices outside thi (Continued from Page Six) | ItLOODMOlllLE 1 v - The Armed Forces require great quantities of whole blood for immediate use in combat areas and military hospitals . . . And as thou sands ol' units of Plasma and other blood derivatives as a sustaining reserve for the fu ture. Half-way measures won't do the job. We must all do our share. Call your Red Cross and make arrange ment for a blood donation when the Bloodniobili comes | to Wiiliamston, March 30. City - Town Street Hearing Tuesday Before Committee , --sjfr——. l*ro|M>Mil Would Outlaw I'uri-Miitnri Hrttiut: At IIiut Tracks —<*.— Raleigh—The Powell bill hand ing municipalities some $5,000,000 in street-building cash is headed for its next-to-last round next Tuesday. House Appropriations Commit tee Chairman Lurry Moore of Wil ! son said today that a public hear j ing on the bill would be held by his committee that day. The bill—introduced by Sena tor Junius Powell of Columbus and 38 other senators —has passed two committees in the Senate, has been okayed by the Senate it self, and has drawn a favorable report from the House Finance Committee. Since all other municipal street-aid lulls have been defeat ed, the Powell bill undoubtedly will get another rubber stamping by the House Appro priations Committee Tuesday, no matter what anyone might have to say at the hearing The Senate Committee on Hanks killed the bill calling for outlawing non-par banks—those which make a charge for cashing cheeks. Representatives of small banks in the State argued at it ; public hearing this morning that such a law would either put them out of business or force them to become federal reserve banks I and thus become no longer taxa ble by the State House action was minor, but the Senate passed a lull calling 1 for a state-wide vote on allowing i counties to raise their land tax limit from 15 to 20 cents per $100 valuation The bill already had I passed the House. New hills in the House would: ■ Authorize the University of North Carolina trustees to issue $150,000 m revenue bonds in or der to build a baseball field and bleachers S Outlaw pari mutal betting ma chines in North Carolina thus eliminating legal gambling at the two dog race tracks in the State, at Moyoek and Morchcad City. Authorize use of $35,000 con l tingcncy and emergency funds to j finish buying land for the restora tion of Tyron’s Palace at New 1 Bern. i New Senate bills would: Authorize construction of emer gency landing strips for planes | along highways. | Control commercial entrances I to highways Adjust apportionment of high way funds to municipalities to take care of cities or towns in corporated after taking of the last census. Define North Carolina "resi dents" foi motor vehicle registra tion purposes Authorize establishment of pei - m a n <• n t v. eigning stations throughout the State for check ing weights of trucks using the highways. Allow matress manufacturers te pay a $500 manufacturer's license tax m lieu of a stamp tax. Another tax-raising amend ment was offered in the Joint Finance Committee session todaj by Rep John Uinxhnd of Oran.'11 11 would raise tin maximum sale; tax from $13 to $30 on a single article purchase. Revenue De partment officials estimated tin; would bring in an additional $2, 853,645 per year THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists reduced the num ber of accidents by almost |. two-thirds on the highways i and streets in this county last week, hut they injured just twice as many, one of them badly. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and fur each year to the present time. 8th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1951 2 2 0 $ 150 1950 :i 1 0 750 t'ornparisoiu To Date 1951 4iJ 12 0 $ 9,915 | 1950 25 12 0 4,140 Red Cross Drive Off To A Splendid Start TOBACCO 1 I Given a fourteen percent increase in their allotments, Martin County farmers are expected to plant right at 13,000 acres of tobacco this spring. A nine percent acre age increase was allowed some time ago, and this week another five percent increase was announced by the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture. Last year, Martin Farmers planted 11,451 acres of tobac co, the 1,603 acre increase boosting the total up to 13.054 acres. Issued Nineteen Licenses To Wed In Martin County — .-*■ UMinuce N About [Norninl Si/.r For Tiu* Mouth Of February -- Nineteen marriage licenses were issued by tin- uffice of Reg ister uf Deeds, J Sam Gelsinger er in this county during February. The issuance is about normal for the month of February. Licenses were issued to ten white and nine colored couples during the period, as follows White Cleveland David Griffin of Jamesville and Sophia June Beacham of HKD 2, Williamslon Alton Benjamin Stallins of Spring Hope anil Rachel Louise Stevenson of Hamilton. Arthur Maehuc Bailey and Peg gy Jane Mobley, both of RFD 2, Williamston Dewey Huston Whitehurst and Madge Lassiter, both of Edenton Francis Carroll Keel of Oak City and Cornelia Gertrude Mc Luwhorn of Williamston James Wilford Griffin and Mary Dean Hardison, both of Williams ton. William J B. Reason, Jr, of Jamesville and Mary Gladys Long of RFD 1. Williamston Linwood O Price and Mollie O’Neil Padgett, both of RFD 1, Jamesville Bill Robinson and Louise Hollis, both of Williamston. Ben 11 Grimes of Salisbury arid I Dora O Neil Bailey ot Everetts. Colored Harry Clinton Stokes and Helen Scott, both of Williamston Arthur James and Evelyn Ho ward, both of Williamston. Callsie Lynch and Beulah La tham, both of Williamston Buntin Randolph of Parmele and Georgians Harris of Rocky Mount. Willis Edward Franks, Jr., and (Continued on page Hx) Critically Hurt In Fall Yesterday Joe Sam Ta.t lot, ID > < ar old re lin'd carpenter-larmcr, was crit icully hurt in a freak accident at Ins home on the Joe Cherry farm 1 near here yesterday about noon Preliminary reports stated that he had suffered a fracture of the skull and a broken hack Mr. Taylor was standing on a ladder sawing off a limb. When the limb fell it struck him on thi head, fracturing his skull. He it believed to have broken his back when he fell to the ground and struck the limb He was removed to a local hos pital where his eonditioii was des cribed late yesterday as critical Little !Sru Busineta On Board'* Schedult Very little new business is ot their calendar, and the Martn County Commissioners are expect ed to have only a short meeting next Monday. The only new business on th» calendar at this time is the draw ing of a jury loi the special tern of superioi court convening n April More Than $1,000 Contributed Here In First Two Days Gliuirmun C.onfi«lent .1ST,* 650 Goal Gan Bo Reach* oil hy March 15th A preliminary report released yesterday by Chairmen John Hen ry Edwards and H. P. Mobley stated that the annual Red Cross Fund Drive was off to a splendid start in this chapter, that all indi cations pointed to a successful conclusion of the drive by the middle of this month. Seven of the twenty canvassers assigned to advance the drive in Williamston's business district had reported by late Tuesday, Chairman Edwards explaining th’at contributions up until that time were in excess of $1,000. “It is fairly apparent that Williams ton's quota of $2,500, exclusive of contributions by the colored cit izens, will be reached,” Mr. Ed wards said. Quotas, tentatively agreed upon for the other four townships in the chapter, are: Jamcsvillc, $400; Griffins, $500; Williams, $150; and Bear Grass, $500. The colored citizens in all five townships arc pledging $1,000 to the drive. Completing the drive m Wii liamston’s business district this week, the canvassers are sched uled to carry the campaign into the residential areas next Monday. Included in the list of canvass ers for Williamston’s residential areas are: Elizabeth Parker, Mat tie Willoughby, Marjorie Linds ley, Edith Stallings, Mary Taylor, Clyde Griffins, C. 1) Pittman, Ed Rowland, J D Page, Mesdames Connie B Clark, Chas Manning, W B Gaylord, Bill Abbitt, Hen ry Griffin, J 11 Edwards, Dillon Cobb, Hubert Biggs, Harrell Eve rett, Horace Ray, C. U. Rogers, I M. Margolis, Lcnnie Manning, G. 11 Harrison, II E Harrington, ■Samuel Zetnon, K. C. E Gladden, W 11 Coburn, R. L Ward, Mar vin Britton, Joel Muse, W. H. Abernathy, Jack Hardison and Reg Griffin Mis. Camille F. Rawls an nounced yesterday that her work ers in Jamesville Township in clude, Mrs. Simon Barber, Mrs. Clyde Modlin, Mrs Renda Daniel, Mrs. J C Kii kmau and Leo Gard nei Handling the drive as chair man in Bear Grass Township, A. B. Ayers, Jr, announced the fol lowing co-workers: W. C. Jones, Harry Wynne and Mesdames El bert Rawls, J Price, Hcssie Rogers, Roy Ward, Pete Menden i hall, li ving Terry, Harry Wynne, Opheus Bailey and Roland Rogers. The following co-workers are helping Mrs. J Eason Lilley, chairman of the drive in Griffins Township: Mesdames Albert Gur kin, John A. Griffin, Gabe Rob erson, Rufus Hardison, Carlyle Stallings, Robert Perry, Ben R. Manning and Leonard Coltrain. Mrs. Irving Roberson, chair man of Hi, drive in WiU\*o®S. Township, is completing a list of lici co-workers. The principals in the several colored schools are handling the drive among the colored citizens. Chairman Edwards explained. Farmers' Income Tax Information A special pamphlet entitled, "Your Questions Answered About Farm Income as Related to Slate Income Tax Liability," is avail able to Martin County farmers culling at the office of the county agent. Every person must file an in come tax return if he is single and takes in $1,000, or if he is married and receives as much as $11,000 gross income. It does . not necessarily mean that he will have to pay taxes, but those in the noted income tax bracket I must file returns. ; The special pamphlet explains all the details, listing the cxemp | Lons and pay rate v
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