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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN cbUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 70 Williamtton. Martin County, North Carolina. Thursday. 1upu.it .'10, 1051 ESTABLISHED 189f 26 Schools In County To Open .Next Week Negro Schools To Open Tuesday and White September 5 Approximately 8.000 Pup. ils Expected To Attend The Coming Term Martin County’s twenty-six schools—nine white and seven teen colored—are opening the 1951-52 term next week, the col ored schools on Tuesday, Scptcm br 4, and the white schools on September 5. It is expected that right at 8, 000 children—3,650 white and 4. 200 colored-will attend the twenty-six schools during the coining term. All teachers arc under contract and plans for opening the term 1 are just about complete. Colored teachers are to report to their respective schools Tues day morning, September 4. for conferences with the principals. The children are to report at 1:30 o'clock that afternoon when they will be registered and given in structions. The schools will open at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday morn ing, September 5, and recess for tlie day at 1:00 o’clock, The col ored teachers will hold a county wide meeting in Williamston at the colored high school on Satur day, September 8, beginning at 9:30 o'clock a. m. Preparatory to opening the; white schools on Wednesday, September 5, at 1:30 o'clock, all , white teachers in the county are I being asked to attend an introduc tory meeting next Monday eve ning at 8:00 o'clock in the Wil- i liamston High School. Next Tuesday, the white teach- | ers will hold a conference at 9:30 in the Williamston High School, followed by a luncheon in the grammar school lunchroom at 1:00 o'clock. Edmund Harding, noted humorist, will address the lunch eon group. The teachers will meet in their respective schools with the prin cipals next Wednesday morning, September 5, at 9:00 o'clock The white children are to report to school at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon for registration, in structions anil explanation of fees. Next Thursday, there’ll be only ii half-day session, beginning at i!:30 a. m. and ending at 1:00 o'clock p. m , followed by a full lay schedule on Friday, Septem ber 7 No lunches will be served the children until Friday, Sep- ! Lember 7. Musses, serving me coioreci schools, will be delivered to the drivers Monday morning That af- j ternoon busses will be delivered to drivers serving the schools at Jamcsville, Farm Life, Bear Grass and Oak City. Busses for the Wil liamston, Robersonville, Hassell, Hamilton and Everetts schools will be delivered to the drivers next Tuesday. Thursday and Friday, Novem ber 22 and 23, have been si t aside for Thanksgiving holidays. The schools will close for Christmas at noon December 21 and reopen January 2. Easter Monday, April 14, 1952, will be observed as- a holiday AH other week days, weathci permiting, arc to be de voted to hard work until nosing time next May. One colored school, Cross,Roads )n :ng consolidated, leaving on ly 17 colored schools in the coun ty compared with thirty-four a few years ago. I I -- Maty Recruiter Is /Voir Located In Washington Chief, A. E, Cahoon, Navy Re cruiting Officer for this area has announced that he will be at the Post Office in Washington, N. C.. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week for the purpose on interviewing and enlisting qual ified applicants in the U. S_. Navy, this includes women also. He further states that the 31st of August is the deadline for men who have passed their physical for the the Selective Service to be enlisted in the Navy, and he Urges all men in this category who wish to enlist, contact him at the Post Office in Washington no later than today. MEETINGS —s I The Martin County Board of Commissioners will meet as usual next Monday^ Labor Day and first Monday, to handle routine business. No special matters are on the agenda for consideration at this time, Clerk to the Board J. Sam Getsinger said today. • Williamston's town com missioners will not hold their regular meeting until next Tuesday night at 8:00 o'clock. Clerk Marion Cobb announc ed, adding that important business is to be discussed. The county court will sit as usual next Monday. Rev. N. J. Ward Transferring To New Bern Church I* Bring: Surrwilrd Lorally By Tlio Rev. K. W. Down ing Of New Brrn -fv Following a successful four-year pastorate here, the Rev. N. J, Ward of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, is being transferred to the New Bern Church, it was an nounced this week hv the North Carolina Conference. He is being succeeded here by the Rev. E W. Downing who has just completed five years as pastor of the New Bern church. The ministers will occupy their new pulpits Sunday and are to move next week. During Mi Ward's stay here, I the church has enjoyed a marked and steady growth, and his wolk has been valuable both in the church and the community. The membership roll was more than doubled during the four years to 126, and a new $30,000 physical plant stands as a monument to his untiring efforts and vision The minister has cooperated splendidly with the other minis ters here and in the county, and worked for the best of the com munity and all its people. "It has been a great pleasure and indeed a privilege to have lived in Wil liamston these past four years,” Mr. Ward said as he made ready to report to his new assignment. "You have the finest group of ministers in Williamston and the county 1 ever had the privilege i of working with,” the minister added. He is leaving life blessings of not only his people but also with those of in all other denom inations and walks of life. He has lived by true example in addition to bis teachings as a minister. He. and Mrs. Ward and two sons are moving next week, but it is possible that one of the boys, Royace, will try to remain and complete his high school educa lion here. The Rev. Mr. Downing, a na tive of Rooky Mount, has also been a builder, and he is turning over a new briek church to Mr. Ward. He has been in the ministry for nearly a quarter of a century and went to the New Bern church from Wilmington. He is a former railroad man but went into the ministry following an accident in which lie lost several fingers from nis right hand Hi' enters upon his new duties here highly recom mended as a churchman and lead He will move his wife and young son here next week with the ex pectation of possibly being join 'd later by two other sons who are no wen route to Korea. Local Hoy Transferred To Florida Air Base Completing his basic at Good ellow Air Base, San Angelo, rexas, Aviation Cadet Chas. B. siceloff. local boy, was recently ransferred to Bartow Air Base in Florida where he is entering pilot gaining. The young man says he likes it ill light there, but added the dis cipline is “rugged.” He'll get used (i that he explained. His address is, A/C Chas. B, Sieeloff, Jr., Stu dent Detachment, Class 52-F, Bar ow An Base, Bartow, flu. Refuses Alleged Wife Killer Bond Ai Hearing Here —#— James* Henry Williams* Will Face Murder Charge In Court September 17 Finding probable cause of guilt] at a preliminary hearing hold be-1 fore more than 150 persons in tho| courthouse last night. Justice: Chas. R. Mobley bound James Henry Williams, alias "Slick" Wil liams, over to the superior court for trial in the case in which he is charged with the fatal stabbing of his wife, Hattie Mae Williams, early in the morning of August 20. Denied bond, Williams, the third man in the county jail now awaiting trial for first degree] murder, will be tried during the week of September 17. While there is some doubt if a first degree charge can be sustain ed, Williams, pleading not guilty, was last night definitely connect ed with the tragedy by a surprise witness, Marie Griffin, a neigh bor occupying a house next to the Williams family. The witness said she heard the two fussing after they went into the house, that she rut off her radio and went to her children’s room, rais ed the shade and saw the Wil liams woman in the second room from the kitchen. According to the witness, it looked as if the victim was walking toward the front of the house, and while she did not know just what happened she saw the husband reach after the victim who fell through the door and to the floor The witness then said she saw the husband bending over his wife and work ing his arm. She said she heard him call his wife several times. The witness declared she had nev er seen the man when he was in toxicated, but did not know whether he had been drinking that riicht. Ofl'lccl' Arthur Perry, answer ing a call to the home at 117 White Street between 12:15 and 12:30 o’clock last Sunday morning, said he was told over the telephone that there had been a cutting there. He went to the home and walked into the second room where he found the lifeless body of Hattie Mae Williams lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The husband, according to the officer, tried to push his way into the room but was turned back, offer ing no answer when asked who did it. The children were brought into the house to sec their mother, the officer said, but he advised them to turn back. The hus band's clothes were bloody all over the front and there was blood on his face and hands, the officer said Officer Willie Modlin, the next witness, said he accompanied Of ficers Perry and Wilson Wiggins to the home, that he saw Williams sitting on a studio couch in the living room in a relaxed position, his clothes all bloody. Williams made no statement The room where the body was found had been disturbed very little, but there was blood on the floor in an adjoining room toward the kitch en. He said that Minnie Eubanks, a neighbor occupying the other side of the duplex, gave him the death weapon, a paring knife, ex plaining that Williams had given it to her. Coroner W W. Higgs testified ti'.nt there whs about a thre< - quarter-inch cut in the left side of the victim's neck, that she was dead when he reached there. Minnie Euhanks, the third wit ness. said- she and the victim were sitting on the Euhanks porch when Williams came up about 12:15 o’clock, that his wife called to him and he answered and then spoke to her. The wife followed the husband into the house and when they reached the kitchen she heard them start fussing all at once. The wife and children were hollering and she heard the victim say, "Don’t cut me.” The fussing continued until they reached the third room where the victim hollered a last time. The witness said the children continu ed to holler, and a short time lat er she heard Williams calling his wife's name. "When he received no answer, he called me,” the wit ness said, adding that she went there and was asked to call a doc tor. According to the witness, she asked Williams what he had done (Continued on page eight) Tobacco Market Observing Labor Day as Holiday Here Williamston’s tobacco market is pushing on toward the two mil lion-pound mark with the ex pectation that it will just about reach that figure by late tomor row. There'll be a holiday for the tobacco markets throughout the belt on Labor Day, next Monday. While prices continue to hold about the same, offerings of “un wanted" lugs in fairly large quan tities are holding the general aver age down. But tips are in favor, observers declaring that they are selling higher this season than in many years. “Last year the companies appa rently wanted light tobacco," an observer declared yesterday. “There was not so much of that type,” he ,,ddcd. Then the ob server explained that tips were not wanted and there were right many of those last season, "This year we have light tobacco in quantity and comparatively few heavy tips," he said, adding that the demand had shifted with the price trailing along. Tuesday, the market here sold 141,542 pounds for an average right at $50 per hundred. Yester day, the sales climbed to 249,048 with the average just about hold ing its own. So far this season, the market here has sold 1,374,496 pounds for $683,604 or an average of $49.73. Sales are much larger today, and still heavier sales arc expect led tomorrow and all next week. Law Cannot Bring Cordial Relations Among The Races -% Relation* In Comity Now Al Par With Expectancy, Speaker Say* That t ho petition, signed by twenty-one Martin County Ne groes anrl presented to the board of education demanding that sor reRation in the schools be abol ished, is without support of recog nized leaders, is further evidenced by an address over Radio Station W1AM last Sunday. W, T. Alexander, retired school teacher, made the following talk at that time: Ladies anrl Gentlemen of the Radio Audience, it is my opinion that when measured by the com mon standard of other social groups, the race relationship in Martin County is favorably at par with normal expectancy. The story of organized society shows that rhinority groups are seldom satisfied at their plight. 1 am a member of the minority group in Martin County. As such, I am ex tended a few social courtesies that are not to be enjoyed by some of my less fortunate group mem bers. Yet, I am not satisfied with my plight. My group, although en joying a social set-up far super mi to the hundreds of other mi nority groups we read about, yet we are not satisfied. Now, when individuals or groups become dis satisfied at the conditions of things in their social set-up, it is incumbent upon them to let it be known. And the most direct way to let it be known is to sav it in words to the social unit. Rut it follows that manner and meth od of letting it be known is an important factor, and is in itself an art. To illustrate this statement 1 make a slight disgression from my subject. Of three outstanding characters in American Negro world, one was a radical and an apostle of drastic demands. The policies he advocated, went down in ignominous defeat at Atlanta. On the other hand, the othci two made not drastic demands upon society, Out they got what they wanted. And it was the diplomacy of Washington at Tuskeegee, the strategy and suavity of Shephard (Continued on page six) Terribly Burned Early This Week Little Mi.ss Ruth Lila Lamb, 8- ' year-old riaughl< > of Mi and Mrs. . Cat Hon Lamb, wss terribly burn- . ed from her waist to her feet in a freakish accident at her home at West End late last Monday. Re ports from a local hospital where she was carried for treatment stat ed today ttiat she was netting along as well as could be expect ed. Playing with Priscilla Daigle, she was wearing her sister’s long dress in the back yard. The two built a small fire in a hole in the ground and the dress caught fire. She ran screaming to the house where her mother met her and tore most of the burning clothing away. Cpi. R. H. Chadwick, liv ing nearby, rushed there and smothered the remainder of the fire with a blanket and carried I her to the hospital where the burns ranged from first to the third degree. THE RECORD ^SPEAKS ... Accident figures continue to climb at dizzy pace on the streets and highways in this county, and with the patrol forces reduced to a skeleton force in this county just about all the highways have been made into speedways. The following tabulations 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. 34th Week Accidents lnj’d Killed Dam'ge 1951 7 2 0 $ 2,110 1950 0 0 0 00 Comparisons To Date 1951 159 72 5 $37,315 1950 92 43 2 20,755 Make Plans For School Opening With an expected enrollment of nearly 1,100, the local white schools are rapidly completing plans for the fall term opening next Wednesday afternoon at 1 HO o’clock. All teachers arc under j contract, and Principal 1>. G. Ste I wart is expecting a successful | opening. Students arc to report at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, September 5, for registrations. School busses will start their runs in time to get the children from the rural areas by that time. First graders are to report to Mrs. Ma rion Saunders, second graders to Mrs. John Pope, Jr., third graders to Miss Hutli Manning, fourth graders to Mis- Sue Henderson, and tiic fifth graders will report to the grammar school auditorium for registration and room assign ments. Grades ti through 12, are to report to the high school build ing. Student fees for grades 1 through the fith arc $2.50 includ ing insurance. The insurance fee of 75 cents is not. compulsory and those who do not take it will pay a fee of only $1.75. The high school fees are: Books, library and science, $4.fit); insurance, 75 cents; typewriting, $!l; agriculture, $3, and home economics, $2. The in surance fee in high school is not compulsory. All must pay the ba sic $4.60 fee in hiph school, but only those taking typewriting, ag riculture, and home ec will pay the added fee. On t/ie second day of school, the session will run from 11:30 a in until 1:00 p. in. and no lunch will be served that day. A full day schedule, <1.30 a. m. UYiti'i 3:15 p, m., will be in effect on Friday, September 7, wha n lunch will be served in the cafeterias. Painfully Hurt In Car Accident Laura Ewell Brown, about five years old, suffered a broken left in an automobile accident in front of her father's store on Wash ington Street at .r>:3() o'clock Tues day afternoon. The child, witnesses said, start ed across the heavily traveled street and walked into the right rear fender of a lfMH Chevrolet being driven by William Charlie Ellis, Jr. The little victim was removed to a local hospital where she was reported today to be getting along very well. Twenty-One Cases In Martin County Recorder's Court Court Will Be Held As Us ual On Labor Day Next Monday Judge It T. Johnson and Solic itor Clarence Griffin handled twenty-one ciwscs in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday, but they had to work un til 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon before clearing the docket set for the day. Fines were imposed in the sum of $310. but payment of a $100 fine was thwarted when the defendant appealed to the higher courts. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of reckless driv ing, Isaac G. Whitley was sentenc ed to the roads for ninety days, the . court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. The road sentence was suspended on the further con dition that he voluntarily surren der his driver's license for six months. Mrs. O. G. Bowen, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, pleaded not guilty. Adjudged gui! ty, the defendant was sentenced to jail for ninety days, suspended upon the payment of the cost and good behavior for two years. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which James M Carr was charged with allowing an unli censed driver to operate a car. Vcrline Alston was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Albert Williams was fined $10, plus cost, for assaulting a female. The prosecuting witness failed to appear last week when the case was scheduled for trial and she was fined $10 for contempt of court. The case charging George Bryant with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, was nol pressed. Robert Martin was fined $10 and taxed with the costs for vio lating the liquor laws Charged with assault with a deadly weapon, Andrew Spruill was adjudged guilty and Luke Thomas Knight pleaded guilty Each was directed to pay one half the costs Pleading not guilty of an as sault, Edwin Davenport was ad judged guilty of simple assault and was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. The road sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $125 fine and costs. The de fendant is to remain of good be havior for twelve months /.el) Brown was fined $20 and taxed with the costs for violating the liquor laws. Adjudged guilty of forcible trespass, Hen Higgs was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road term upon the condition that the defen dant pay a $100 fine and court costs and remain away from the premises of Virginia Hunter for two years. He appealed and bond was required in the sum of $200 Charged with bastardy, Wil liam Odom pleaded guilty and drew six months on the roads. The road sentence was suspended upon the payment of the court costs and $5 a week for the support of his child. Oliver L. Anderson was taxed with the <'<>s• s for speeding Lenvorl I,. Kittle was fined $10. plus costs, for spi•• 'din g. Andrew Harrison, pleading Hot guilty of violating the liquoi laws, was.aditidecd ginIty_and w^s,fined $15, plus costs. Pleading guiliy of violating the { liquor laws, William Stokes was fined $50, plus costs. Charged with speeding, Comer Day Parker pleaded guilty and was taxed vAth the costs. Kelly Myrick, charged with be ing drunk and disorderly and an assault, was sentenced to the roads for ninety days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $10 fine and costs, lie is to violate no criminal law for two years. The case m which Jas Oscar Wiggins was charged with non support, was nol prossed. LeRoy Leggett was taxed with the costs for speeding. Having failed to comply wilh a judgment handed down in the court in June of last year, Jesse (Continued on page eigbt) Official Says Patrol * Radio Remains Here ! LlivilTKI) HOLIDAY ~~j While quite a leu places of business, including the tobac co market, will close there'll he no general holiday here next Monday, Labor Day. Stores and offices will be op en for business as usual and industry will continue opera tions, it is understood. The post office, banks and federal and state offices will be closed along with a lew other establishments. Officers Recover Lifesavings For Two Aged People Frans. 50. For Tlufi of #1,160 From Wifipins Family James and Alice Wiggins, aged couple of near Hamilton, were last night openly rejoicing the recovery of their lifesavings stol en from them last Tuesday after noon. And happiness was reflect ed m then smiles today when they came here to bank the sav ings Denying themselves and even foregoing many of the necessities of life, the aged couple down through the years had put aside $!,!HO in cash, mostly bills of small denominations and a lone silver dollar. They had made a bag from an old apron, placed the money in it, sewed it up and into the mattress Some time ago they took in a boarder, George Evans, who worked at a saw mill When the mill moved, Evans, originally front Halifax County, volunteer ed to help prepare tobacco for market Tuesday afternoon the trio was grading tobacco on the back poridi, and Evans asked per mission to turn on the radio in the couple’s bedroom. While m the room he removed the money front the sack, hiding the cash in a crack over the door. He then went into a nearby cornfield When the radio volume increased, the aged wife went to cut it down and saw the bed had been tamp ered with She called her husband and they went for Hill Hollis. He with two colored men went to the I home and found and held Evans 1 Officer Wiley Craft of Oak City and Deputy Sheriff It K Rawls were called and part of the mon ey bag was found on Evans' per son He was jailed that afternoon, but denied taking the money At a hearing before Justice ,1 S. Ayers last night Evans broke down, admitted the theft and showed the officers where the | (Continued on page eight) "Spills" Fourteen Pints Of Blood —*—— (Robei sonvillc Weekly Herald) III li<>111 having too much blood, Mi .1 C. Martin, local builder and cool i actor, received a very favorable report from bi< pin m cian, I)i John tl Smith in Rocky| Mount this week The letter from the physician to ^ Mr Martin is a. follows' "Vour) blood counts show up better this I ‘isni than ever la fore, by a far margin. Accordingly 1 am having you return Tuesday, September 11th, three weeks from your pre vious visit.” Fourteen pints of blood have I been drawn from Mr. Martin since , May 3rd. Evcrvllx Hoy (trailnalril From Tank Frailer School -*>—— Knit Knox, Ky., — Pvt. Whit field K. Mallory, 21, son of Mrs. Bessie Mallory, Box 112, Everetts, N. C., is one of the recent grad uates of the Tank Leader Course at the Armored Sehool here. The course includes both class room and field instruction in con trol of the individual tank and of small tank units. Pvt. Mallory entered the ser vice in April ol this year. Two Garages Will Be Maintained In Patrol Division -* Report* That I’airol Would (Hose Station Here Are Denied I Reports maintaining that the North Carolina State Highway Patrol planned to close its garage here and move it along with the radio station to Greenville were denied bv Colonel L. C. Rosser, commissioner Department of Mo tor Vehicles, Highway Patrol, dur ing a conference held in Governor Scott's office with local represen tatives last Tuesday morning. The patrol official declared the high way patrol radio station here and all its personnel would be retain ed intact, that only a repeater sta tion would be maintained in Greenville. Colonel Rosser did say that two garages would be maintained in this patrol division, one here and one in Greenville. The new gar bage m Greenville is to handle ma jor jobs such as overhauling en gines, while the garage here will handle minor repairs, it was ex plained. "We have never planned to move the radio station from Wil liamston," the official said, "and you can be assured that the sta tion will be maintained as one of the major units in the system,” ha added. Some time ago money was ap i nropriated for the construction of I Troop Headquarters in several sec tions of lb State, m eluding a pro j posed $75,000 building in Green* I ville According to reports com ing from Greenville, the radio sta tion here was to be transferred there with the exception of the radio transmittei Broadcasts, so the reports maintained, would originate in Greenville and the station here wa. to be handled by remote control or by special leas ed wire, leaving only one main tenance man at this point. When the rumors were first heard a year or more ago, local people were assured that no plans had been made or were being I made to move the garage or the broadcasting station. Everything remained quiet for some time, and last June the rumors were heard and on the very day that a letter was received from a highway pa trol official, assuring the people that the garage would not be mov ed, an investigation showed that everything had been moved to Greenville, even to the fixtures and the smallest wrenches. A few days later, one man was returned to the garage here. Colonel K isscr, during the eon frn nee, told how long troop head quarters had been maintained in Greenville and how considerate the people there had been to the patrol. The colonel apparently overlooked the fact that officials in this county have been very con siderate and cooperative with the patrol, leasing it all the land it needed and providing free office space Because the headquarters had been located in Greenville all these years and even though it is not the center of the district, somebody proposed to spend $75, 000 more in Greenville while the properties here were allowed to (lett i loratc. While tin patrol proposes tty spend $75,000 on a new headquar ters building in Greenville, it is believed that half that amount could be spent on renovating and enlarging the present plant here and give the patrol adequate headquarters, A contract for the Greenville building is to be let early in Sep tember. Plans for the structure and some other details could not be learned immediately. Expeclinn To do To European Area Soon Spending <1 few days in the county with relatives, Pvts. Hen r> Roberson, Carl Johnson, Jesse Gray LiUe.v and Russell Roberson of Camp Pickett, Va., are expect ing to po to Germany in early Oc tober. They are returning to their stations tomorrow.
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