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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ RY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ Bt OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ■VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 55 Williamiion, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 12, 7957 ESTABLISHED 1999 fifteen Cases In Recorder's Conri Al Recent Session Johnson Imposes $ 1-30 Fines And Meles Out Road Sentences —* tiiteen cases were handled by fudge R. T. Johnson and Solicitor [Claiencc Griffin during a session [lasting until almost 1:00 o'clock in the Martin County Recorder's -ourt last Monday. Fines were imposed in the amount of $430, land several road sentences were |meted out. Vigorously denying lhat he was •ruel to an old mule which fell in a pond and drowned, Johnnie rilliams of Goose Nest was found guilty and was fined $25, |plus costs. The case in which Raymond E. [Evans was charged with operat ing a motor vehicle without a Irivcr’s license was nol pressed. Charged with drunken and' .artless driving, Wilton Lavcrne [Godard pleaded not guilty. Ad judged guilty of illegal parking on a highway, the defendant was lined $15 and taxed with the costs. Carroll E. Price, charged with public drunkenness pleaded not iuilty. He was fined $10 and re quired to pay the costs. Simon D. Moore, charged with an assault, was adjudged guilty if a simple attack and was fined 15, plus costs. In a'second case, loore was charged with an as sault with a deadly weapon. He was adjudged guilty over his plea k»f innocence, and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road sentence upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs and on condition that Ik’ remain of good behavior for ix months. He appealed and $100 bond was required. Pleading not guilty of violating the liquor laws, Clyde Coburn was found guilty and drew six months Ire—rrrads- .Tire- m iuspended upon the payment of a »75 fine and costs. The defendant to violate no liquor law during le next two years. Willie Williams, pleading guilty >f operating a motor vehicle with mt a driver’s license, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of carrying a concealed weapon, Willie Briley was fined $50, plus costs. Charged with an assault, James C Powell pleaded guilty and drew ninety days on the roads. The road term was suspended up on the payment of a $25 fine and (Continued on page six) Club Perfecting Its Organization Chartered only a short time ago, the local Rotary Club is rapidly completing its working organiza tion and plans are being advanc ed for active participation in the over-all programs, President Chas. I. Harris said during the regular meeting held on Tuesday of this week. Chairmen and committee mem bers have been named, and the first regular meeting of the board of directors is scheduled next Tuesday night in the home of President Harris. Edgar Gurganus was named chairman of the club service committee: John Miller, Jr., heads vocational service com mittee, and Dan Shatpe is to chairman the international ser vice committee. Past District Governor H. P. Spruill of Windsor and Governor 0.1 in Broadway of Henderson at tended the meeting this week, j -a, Delay Observance Of Anniversary —•— Planned arid handled exclusive ly by friends, the annual anniver sary celebration of the opening of Brown's Community Hospital liere 12 years ago, has been post poned from the last week in July to the 15th of September. Mr. Pave Daniel, one of the original sponsors of the annual event, pointed out that the celebration was deferred owing to the busy season now being experienced by the farmers in this section with the harvesting of the tobacco crop. Constructiug Ma ny Tobacco Barnsln County This Year According to unoffici?' reports, Martin County tobacco i'aimers are building a record number of curing barns this year. It has been conservatively estimated that more than 350 new barns will be made ready for use in handling the current crop, beginning next month. While a few of the barns are replacements, most of them are being built to care for the acreage increase allowed this year The new barns are scattered all over the county from the lower part of Jamesvillc to the upper part of Goose Nest Township. Some farmers arc building as many as three new barns, but single units are predominate in the current building schedule. Costs are said to be varying from $750 for the cheapest and I smallest type to $1,500 or more for .he largest and latest models, including curing equipment. A few farmers are building what have been termed experi mental barns where hot air is forced into the top of the curing room. Most of the barns arc being equipped with oil burners, but a few farmers are still holding to the old type where wood is used in the furnace. At least seventeen curing barns were destroyed by fire in this county last season. COMPLETED The tobacco acreage check has just about been complet ed In this county, and unoffi cial reports state that approx imately 300 farmers exceeded their allotments, the excess averaging from one-tenth to about one acre. Most of the farmers, or about 225, are cut ting down the excess while the others are planning to pay the penalty. A few farmers, having no allotment, planted tobacco this year, knowing their poundage would be subject to the penalty. Need For Blood Donors Is Urgent While the response from var ious eivie organizations in the chapter, including Ruritan, Ki wanis, Lions, Jaycees, Women's and Rotary clubs, is very encour aging, comparatively few indlvid give a pint of blood when the Red Cross Bloodmobile makes its second visit to Williamston on Thursday of next week, according to Recruiters V. J Spivey and Wheeler M. Manning. Last March, 185 pints of blood were put into the blood bank. A large amount of that has been returned to this chapter for use in emergencies in several cases and much has been sent to Korea. Those who donated a pint of blood in March can give another pint without any strain, it was pointed out. They are asked to support the cause along with new volunteers. By supporting the bloodmobile program, any person in the chap ter is eligible to call for as much blood as he may need and with out cost. The blood is not only available to those who donate a pint or more but it also may be had by any person in the local Red Cross chapter, it was ex plained. The value of the program has been firmly established, and it is hoped that between 250 and 300 persons will support the pro gram next Thursday. County Girl On Television Show —«— Miss Hazel Mobley, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Leonard Mobley of Bear Grass and a student nurse in n Baltimore hospital, recently appeared on a "Nurses’ Talent Tussle" program arranged by Sta tion WAAM. Dressed in a cow-girl outfit, she played a guitar and sang Beautiful Brown Eyes.” A few [days later she was recalled and sang "On Top of Old Smoky”, re ceiving the grand prize, a costly wrist watch. Recruiting Office Open Until 8:00 —» The recruiting sergeant will re main at the Williamston Post Of fice until a o’clock Thursday, July 12th, for those who have had pre induction exams and want to en i list before the July 15 deadline. ' j These enlistees must be on their ! i way to Raleigh Friday morning to j | beat the deadline as the 15th is ■ on Sunday and the Raleigh office I will be closed, and’none of this type of enlistment will be accept ed Monday, July 16th. Large Decrease In Yam Acreage i The smallest sweet potato crop since 1G81 is indicated for North Carolina this year. Based on reports as of July 1, the cooperative Crop Reporting Service of the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture yes terday estimated this season's sweet potato crop at 4,400,000 bushels, a drop of 35 per cent from last year’s production, and 39 per cent less than the 1940-49 average. Growers indicate only 40,000 acres of sweet potatoes will be harvested in the State this year, which is 41 per cent less than the 1940-49 average of 67,800 acres, and the smallest acreage devoted to this crop since 1868. Difficulty in disposing of last year’s crop, disappointment with prices received, and increased acreages for cotton, tobacco and peanuts, are the reasons cited for the sharp decline in sweet pota to production this year. A yield of 110 bushels per acre is in prospect, compared with 115 •fctichcto per- • —her vested last year. Local Group Make* Good Catch Monday -* Going out in the Gulf Stream off Morehcad City last Monday, a group of local fishermen made a nice catch. They landed 60 king mackerel, 1 nmberjack, 5 bonita and black fish. They were aboard the ‘‘Sea Raven,” Captain George Purifo.v. Included in the group were K. P. Lindsley, Sr., K. P. Lindslcy, Jr., J. W. Watts John Watts, J. S. Whitley and John Whitley. Jos. D. Nanning Funeral Tuesday Ai Falkland Home Native of This (Jointly Died i Sunday Afternoon In Pitt County Joseph Daniel Manning, native of this county, died at his home I near Falkland in Pitt County at 7:45 Sunday evening. He had been in declining health for about two years, but it was thought his con dition was little changed when he suffered an attack and fell out of a chair in the yard at his home about 5:00 o'clock Sunday after noon. He was born in Williams Town ship, this county, 63 years ago, the son of the late Joseph and Nannie Stewart Manning, and spent the early half of his life on the farm there. He moved about thirty years ago to Greene Coun ty, and after farming and engag ing in the timber business, he made his home in Wilson and Edgecombe Counties, locating near Falkland about seven years ago. About twelve years ago ho was married to his brother’s widow, the former Daisy Walker of Wash ington, Surviving besides his widow are four step-sons, Eugene Manning of Tarboro, William W. Manning of Old Sparta, Roderick Manning of Charlotte and Linwood W. Manning of Rocky Mount; two step-daughters, Lucille and Rach el Warren Manning, both of the home; two brothers, John and William L. Manning, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Reddick, all of near Williamston. He was a member of the Bap tist Church and the Rev. Mr. La nier, Tarboro Baptist minister, conducted the funeral at the home Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Interment was in the Tarboro cemetery. ' .'BOUNTIFUL.". ---/ What is believed to have been a record .yield in this county, forty-eight bushels of wheat were produced per acre by Farmer L. P. Llndsley on his Conoho farm this year. The yield, reported follow ing the harvest last week, averages about 26 bushels per acre more than the State pro duction. The farmer planted sixty acres to the crop and harvested right at 2,880 bush els. Sues To Recover $7,500 Damage To His Racing Dogs Several Divorce Ca»en Filed In Superior Court Dur ing Past Few Days -P Claiming three of his greyhound racing dogs were injured in an automobile accident in front of the Central Filling Station on Main Street here last May 21, T. J. Daniel, former Florida resident, this week filed a damage suit in the Martin County Superior Court to recover $7,500. A suit was started by the plain tiff's wife a short time ago to re cover $15,000 damages alleged to have resulted when the car in which she was sitting was struck by another driven by Harvey Saul Cohen. The dogs were riding in a special trailer attached to the car in which Mrs. Daniel was a passenger. In the $7,500 suit, the plaintiff asks $5,500 damages dune to his dog. This Is My Money”. He is asking $2,500 damages resulting to his dog, "Hen Sumner' and $1,500 for a third dog, ‘‘Tiny Alice". It is said that the owner refused $7,000 for the first dog while rac ing down in Florida last winter. The plaintiff claims that tin first two dogs were so badly in jured that they had to be killed, that ‘‘Tiny Alice", once valued at $2,000 is now worth no more than $500. Daniel, with his wife and dogs, was driving north on May 21 when he stopped his car at tin filling station at 4:20 o'clock that morning. He got out of the car and started into the station when Cohen, driving a Chevrolet, crash ed into the Daniel car, injuring Mrs. Daniel and several of the dogs. Daniel is now a resident of Cur rituck County, and Cohen is at tached to the U. S. Naval Sta tion, Charleston. In addition to the $7,500 dam age suit, several divorce actions were filed in the court during the past few days. Based on two-year-separation grounds, divorces are being asked in the following cases: John L. Austin against Lucy May Austin, James Biggs against Mary Lee Biggs, and James E. Godard against Barbara Godard. Marlin County Scouts ff ill lloltl Stcim Meet The Boy Scouts of Martin Coun ty will participate in a swim meet Friday night at !! o’clock in the local pool. |New Construction At High Peak Last Year Eighty-Two New Homes Are Built Here Last Year Hip; l* lfr|»orlr«l III CoiiHlriH'tion of Homes Karly This Y«*ar Building construction, holding to a fairly steady increase down through thy years with the excep tion of the World War II period, is believed to have broken all rec ords here last year, accord ing to a report released this week by Williamston’s building inspector, G. P. Hall. Few contracts were let and it is impossible to get accurate fig ures on the construction costs However, Mr. Hall estimated the total figure at $672,100. including the cost of 82 new homes and apartments and fifteen commer cial buildings. Home construction costs were estimated at $410,350. The cost of the fifteen commercial build ings was estimated at $256,750 The Texas Company's terminal on Roanoke River topped the list of commercial projects, the con struction costs there running in excess of $75,000. The insecticide mill and storage at the Standard Fertilizer plant possibly held sec ond place while the new home of ! the Roanoke Chevrolet Company j was listed above the average. In addition to the new construc tion, residential and commercial repairs to old structures were es timated to have cost $5,000, push ing the grand total to $672,100 for 1950. j Since World War II, construc tion advanced at the rate of be ■4wen $250,000,.and.iuOf—tmUiao. dollars annually, the inspector stating that 1950 was about the first time that the total construc tion had exceeded $670,000. Commenting on the prospects for 1951, Mr. Hall said that up un til this week, all records had been broken, but he hastened to ex plain that uncertain conditions and the almost certain shortage in some materials are definitely going to cause a marked reduction in building activity on the home and commercial front from now on out. Through June 30 of this year, permits had been issued for the construction of thirty new homes and six commercial structures which with repairs represent an estimated expenditure of almost one-half million dollars A greater activity in building construction is reflected in the permits issued during the first six months of this year than during any six months in the history of the town, but with building limitations now in effect, it is fairly certain that the year, as a whole, will not measure up to the 1950 total. Most of the permits issued during the first half of 1951 were recorded in January and February. No official figures are available but the thirty homes, ranging in cost from $1,000 to $25,000, rep resent an estimated cost of $235, 700 The six commercial buildings, ranging from $4,500 to $105,000, represent an estimated expendi ture of $yn<i.->on Other types of buildings and repairs are figured for the firsi six months of this year at $4,750. The largest expenditure in the commercial or non-residentiai list (Continued from Page Six) THE KKCOKI) SPEAKS . . . Motorist on Martin County highways and streets during the past one-week period end ing last Sunday chalked up possibly the most tragic re cord recorded in any corre sponding period in years and years. The last words of a dying child were: “Daddy, please don't drive so fast." Five lives have been sac rificed in the wake of the motor vehicle in this county so far this year. Nothing will bring them back, but there are nearly six months left in 1951 to drive carefully and protect human life, limb and property The following tabulation* offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 27 th Week Accidents Fnj’d Killed Dam'ge 1951 5 ti 2 $ 1,200 1950 3 1 0 625 Comparison* To Date 1951 125 56 5 $28,870 1950 73 38 0 16,775 Make Changes In Faculty Personnel — »—^ ■■■■■■ — Several more changes have been made in the local teacher personnel, it was announced this week by Principal B. G. Stewart. Mrs. Ann Beach, seventh grade teacher, has resigned and Mrs D. G. Glisson has been elected to succeed her. Mrs. Glisson came ! here iT'OTTi WjrstiriTRTt>Tr~WtrcTT ftirq Glisson accepted a position with the soil conservation service. Orville Robinson of Wilmington has been elected to the vacancy in the science department of the high school department. He suc ceeds A. J. Abdalla of Selma who resigned at the close of the school term this spring. The new teach er was a member of the faculty at Southport for the past two years and is a graduate of Wake Forest where he received his B. S. degree. Twenty-five years of age, he is now working for his master's degree at East Carolina, Reviews Publie Health Work In County By John W. Williams County Healtp Officer Locution—Martin County - An 85rf. agricultural county, in the Coastal Plans of Eastern Carolina. Population 28,000, nearly half of whom arc colored There arc nine schools for white and nineteen for colored. The central office for the Mar tin County Health Department is in Williamston. Furnished substa tions are in Hamilton, Jamesvillc, Oak City, and Robersonville. Personnel—Eight, five of whom are natives of Martin County. The health officer is from the adjoin- ' ir.g county but spent half of his ! professional life in this pounty. j They are as follows: Trolah Bailey, graud.ate of Wil liamston High School and titled by the Merit system Examination : as Typist Clerk. Mary Louise Taylor, high school j graduate, trained in the Emcr- : gency Hospital, Washington, D. C,' with affiliations, during training, for obstetrics and pediatrics, six months schooling at State Univer sity and from time to time has j spent periods of training in V. D. ■ and T. B. Centers. She has been with the department since 1942 with 2 years spent'in the army. Mrs. Ethel Moore W'orks as clerk to V D. investigator and assists in ! filing. Mijdred Floyd, colored, | registered nurse in Public Health, trained in Wilmington is a grad uate of Williamston High School and has special training in Dur-’' ham in Public Health work and ; ane week’s special work in V. D. j 1 Mrs. Leona DeCato graduate of 11 Jamesville High School, trained 1 is nurse in Roanoke Rapids and j Vds been with Martin County since 3 1946 after her .service of two years in the army. She has, as all the nurses, taken the various short courses of post graduate work such as orthopedic clinic, nutri tion .tuberculosis, etc. She obtain ed her public health training in the Goldsboro Health Department. W. B. Gaylord, Jr., graduate of the Jamesville High School and Campbell College, and completed course in Public Health in 1938. He has had five years experience in sanitation, has taken several short public health courses, served 'four years in the ''irmy, and has! j been with the Health Department, j since 1946. Vvendell Maddrey.l graduate of the University of North Carolina, and a native of Seaboard, N. C„ was loaned to us by the United States Public! Health Service, as V D. Inves tigator This typo of service we have had for the past couple of years. Dr. John W. Williams, grad- j uatc of the University of North Carolina and Maryland in Medi cine. After ten years practice in i Martin County he moved to Beau fort County and entered the Pub- i lie Health field. He had one year;; at Hopkins, where he received a ’ Masters Degree in Public Health. 1 At this time he moved to Louisi-! | ana, and returned to this state fif- l teen years ago. During his 20 years he spent five years as Health Of- < ficer in Asheville and ten as 1 Health Officer in Martin County i and five years in Beaufort. He has s had short courses in different t branches of work too numerous t to mention. I a Work with Premature Infants—! a Number taken care of: 6. One that > 1 was born in the Martin General Hospital remained there. The six eases we took care of seems a small number and an item that could be easily dispensed with. It is law that the midwife or phy sician report the birth immediate ly to the Health Department if the baby weighs less than five pounds. It then becomes our duty , to take over and use every effort I to get the baby and a member of the household to the hospital des ignated as being equipped to han |dle eases of this nature. Phone j calls are put in to the different hospitals to one there is a vacancy. Nurses call at the home with incubator, proper1 linen, and enough oxygen to last the trip. Winston Salem has been the longest distance we have traveled. Detailed history is tak en from the accompanying mem ber of the household at the hos pital. On the return, inspection is made of the home to see that pro per facilities are available for the care of the child on its return from the hospital, which is gen erally from eight to ten weeks at a cost of thirteen dollars per day. This is paid by the Children’s Bureau. These babies are visited frequently by our nurses to see that orders are obeyed. Midwifely control.—There are] eighteen midwives registered and have permits to practice in the county. While they are a neces sary evil, they are at the .same time a very vital part of our coun ty life. Unfortunately, they are old ] and feeble and require a vast I amount of supervision. Once a year they are asked to come to the! land class instruction. This year |four of them received "A" Certif icates, nine “B” Certificates, and i five “C” certificates. At these meetings, lunch is served and they arc transported bark to their homes. One hundred and eight visits were made to the midwives I and many times they were off on calls which required repeat visits. Maternity—Number of Pre-na | tal cases to the clinic: 248. At the clinic the patient’s blood pressure is taken, urine examined for su-j gar and albumin, and all the dan-1 gor signs of pregnancy hy-ked <>. j The patient is advised how to re-I cognize untoward symptoms and I now to report them, xnc'rc were 148 nursing visit., made The pur- j pose of these nursing visits is to I j see that directions given by the j I clinician tire being t,imc,1 C/Ul j to get cases in, who have never] been to a clinic. Infants—-Eight hundred and six ty children visited the clinics which are held in conjunction with the prenatal clinics. The | child is stripped and examined by physician and although it is a well baby clinic ,the mother is urged to inform us of anything that is worrying her as to the progress the child is making Cod livci oil is furnished and if any little irregularities are found drugs are prescribed and formu las corrected. Immunizations are begun at the age of three months when they receive whooping cough and diptheria vaccine. The 800 means different children seen; it does not include the subsequent Continued on Page Five) Firemen Called To Burning Truck -—_ Just how it started could not bo learned, but fire did consid erable damage to a pick up truck belonging to the Williamston Sup ply Company at 2:55 o’clock here Tuesday afternoon. The truck, used for hauling wood, was traveling across South Sycamore Street when it caught fire. Damage was centered in the cab and arnnd the wiring system. The fire was brought under con trol with an extinguisher and wa ter from a small hose line. Working For Code Oi Ethics In The U. S. Governaeni - ImHciiliou* There Are Too Many Seeking Private Gain In WaHliington -9 Congress has made innumerable 1 investigations, but one of the strangest started last week. A Senate Labor subcommittee head 1 rd by Senator Paul H. Douglas (Dcm., 111.) began hearings in an attempt to develop a “Code of Government Ethics.” The committee struck “pay dirt" immediately in a statement by Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren who—first as a leading member of the House, and since then as the "watchdog” for Con gress over government expendi tures—has had an exceptional op portunity for close observation of both the good and bad in govern ment. “The problem of ethics in gov ernment," Warren told the com mittee, "is as old as government itself. "The rigors suffered by our troops at Valley Forge did not stop a member of the Continental Congress from joining in an at tempt to corner the market on desperately needed flour. “During the Civil War, ‘Harp er’s Magazine' pictured Army con tractors and speculators at ‘a ban quet of abundance and delight,’ and Army officers and Treasury agents profiting from the oppor tunity for graft. “After the Civil War, the activi ties of the ‘Whiskey Ring’ and other nefarious groups touching the executive branch of the gov ernment wen1 equaled only by th« j legislative activities of the rail I road lobbyists. "Most of us are too young to re | member the odor of the embalm ed beef of the Spanish-American War, but we still have vivid mem ories of the Teapot Dome scandal •j-rrf-thv ——-— —— — ! “World War I brought the curse of cost-plus contracts. While de feating the Kaiser, we enriched hundreds of contractors who saw | nothing ignoble in wasting mil lions of the taxpayers’ dollars to inflate then miserable 10 per eent.” Despite all this, Warren said, he did not until recently put much stock in the idea of a "code of ethics." It seemed to him that the only real remedy was to put hon est men in the government and watch them to make sure they stay honest. But he has found that "the pro blem of morality in government grows acute during periods of war and big spending Sheer size leaves knavery obscured and un detected The false card is lost in the shuffle. "This was certainly borne out by the things we in the General Accounting Office saw during World War II. I do not pose as any crusader or reformer, but I could not help being disillusioned by the shockingly low moral stan dards exhibited by some of those connected with war contracts, on the side of both the contractors and the government. "The overwhelming majority of government people are honest, ca pable and conscientious, especial ly the oldline career employees. "Likewise, many who come to i'ense crises are honorable and pa triotic. But it is in this class that wi find fly-by-night people who come into government for private Washington during war and de (Continued on page six) Over Twenty-One Niles Of Streets An engineer's check, recently completed, shows 21.0 miles of streets in Williamston, exclusive of those thoroughfares in the ter1 ntory to be annexed just west of the present town limits. There are (< 37 miles of nnsur faced streets, 7.43 miles of black trip streets, 3.30 miles of concrete paving, and 3.73 miles of high ways inside the present town limits. A county road extension is three-quarters of a mile in length. It is estimated that the town will receive sometime this fall approximately $15,000 as its share of the Powell Bill money for the maintenance ot streets.
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