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f ' THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 72 WilliamUon, Martin County, North Carolina* Thursday, September 6, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 Mobilization Groups -Will Hold Meetings Farmers Asked to Speak Qni For Or Against Programs ■—*— I'liture Farm Programs De pend Largely On What The Farmers Say As a part of a nation-wide pro gram to air out farm problems at the grass roots, farm leaders in this county will hold meetings in nearly every one of the ten townships in this county next week Farmers, those who actual ly cultivate the crops, are invit ed to attend the meetings in their respective districts and speak out for or against present farm pro grams, make suggestions or of ler any criticism that comes to their minds. It is believed that the farm pro gram details and oven the pro gram itself can and will be chang ed if the farmers speak up. There is a movement to cut tobacco acreage next year. Well, the smallest Martin County farmer at the meetings next week can make himself heard, and it is hoped that the attendance upon the meetings will be large and that Martin farmers will express them selves freely. Meetings, all to be held at 8:00 o’clock m the evening, have been scheduled in nine communities, culture, will discuss the State will be held in district school houses except three. Roberson ville farmers will meet in the Robersonville city hall Wil liamston and Poplar Point far mers are to meet in the court house, and Williams farmers are to meet in the county house near No. 90 station. Three meetings will be held next Monday night at 8:00 o'clock in Bear Grass, Jamesville and Goose Nest. The second series of meetings will be held Wednes day night at the same hour at Everetts, Farm Life and Hamil ton Meetings for farmers in Rob c rsonville, Williamston - Poplar Point and Williams are to be held Friday night, September 14 Members of the Martin County Agricultural Mobilization Com mittee will eonduct the meetings, it was announced by Roy T. Grif fin, chairman. The members assigned to con duct the forums include: J. C. Eubanks, C. U. Rogers, T B. Brandon, R. S Everett, L. D Hardison, H F. McKnight, S. A Tuten, R T Griffin, Milton Ben nett, C A. Roberson, D. W Brady, T B. Slade, and C L. Keel. During the meantime, county farmers are invited to attend a special meeting in the county courthouse Friday night of this week at 7:80 o'clock when John (Continued on Page Eight) Sanitarians To Meet Tomorrow Sanitarians from the various counties in the Northeastern Dis 11 u i of the State wiif hold a meeting in the American Legion Hut here tomorrow morning, be inni' -’at 10:00 o'clock The meet ing will discuss school sanitary nodes and various school officials throu^hotS^ trk-e- d-erntory art be ing invited to attend. •Robert L. Caviness. State san itarian for the North Carolina State Beard of Health of Raleigh, and W. C. Lackey, district sani tarian of Murfreesboro, are to lead the discussions, it was an nounced. H Suffers Broken Leg I In l ull From House i ! Guy Thomas, local barber, suf fered a broken leg just below the knee and other injuries in a fall from the roof of his home on Simmons Avenue here early last evening Mr. Thomas was repair ing the roof when his foot slip ped and he fell. He suffered a seven-inch cut in his head, but was reported to be getting along very well in Brown s Community Hospital this morning. j QUICK ACTION In times past officers have reported many unusual ways ( employed by alleged illicit liquor dealers in destroying damaging evidence. The most unusual way of them all was explained in the county court this week. Ceamon Sherrod had a pint of white liquor in his hand at Oak City. Officer Wiley Craft saw Sherrod with the liquor, and Sherrod saw the officer closing in. Sherrod, finding no other solid object in reach, just cracked him self over the head with the bottle, breaking the container and allowing the liquor to trickle down his neck and face, .............. . There was little tangible evidence to be offered, but Sherrod went ahead and pleaded guilty and was fined $10, plus costs. Report Submitted On Present Town Sanitary Program More Than Spvoii Hundred Units Not Connected \\ il!i Sewer Lines ! There are nearly HOO homes and places of businesses in Williams ton that are not being served by the town's sanitary sewer system, according to a preliminary report filed with the commissioners by County Sanitarian W B. Gaylord, Jr., at a meeting of the board held Tuesday evening. The report, based on a survey completed August I, shows there are 408 homes and business hous es without connections although the sewer system is immediately I available. Mr. Gaylord said that | 292 of the units on the lines but not connected have ordinary privies, that the remainder or i 116 units on the lines and not j connected, have septic tanks. The sanitarian went on to ex j plain that 273 houses o. units , wth privies are not now on the sewer lines and that 26 others i having septic tanks and not now on the lines, can be included in the present system by individual extensions. For instance, it was explained, that several hundred feet of sewer line were laid by town forces just recently to ac comodate houses on New' Street. Of the 764 homes or business places w'ithout sanitary sewer connections, only 57 cannot be in [ eluded in fhe system as it is now | constituted. The area that can not be included in the present system is located southeast of Washington Street and more de finitely centered along the James ville road Engineers say that to solve the problem there, a new' outfall line will have to be laid or a lift station installed. The cost of either one will run into big money. For the present, at least, there is no relk^jossibjio^ .1—was out Since tile survey was complet (Continued on Page Eight) Place Assailant Under $100 Bond i Lou vena Roberson, Pitt Coun ty colored woman, was bound over to the county court by Jus tice Chas. R. Mobley at a prelim inary hearing held here yester day for assaulting Lessie B. Cher ry, also of Pitt County, near Has sell last Sunday afternoon. Suffering an eighteen-stitch cut under her left shoulder, the victim attended the hearing and apparently is getting along all right. The attacker and the victim ex plained to the trial justice that there was no malice behind the attack, making it appear that it would have been too bad had there been any malice. The case was scheduled for trial October 1. Twenty-two Cases Heard Monday-In Recorders Court Fines Imposed By Judge R. T. Johnson Amount To Nearly $500 Judge R. T. Johnson and So licitor Clarence Griffin handled twentv:two cases in tnc Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday when fines were impos ed in the amount of $460 and sev eral road sentences were meted out. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, James Jennings, Jr., was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Charged with speeding 75 miles an hour, Archie Benjamin Hard ison was fined $50, plus costs. Thomas E. Dunbar, charged with drunken driving, waa found not guilty. Dunbar, officers said, was asleep under the wheel and part of his car was parked on the highway. Counsel maintained that he was not seen driving, and the defendant maintained some one drove him there and left, that he crawled under the wheel Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Ellis S. White was charged with speeding. Charged with assaulting a fe male, Russell Thompson was found not guilty. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Willie Cortez Hop kins was charged with an assault. Jeff Slade was sentenced to the roads for thirty days when he pleaded guilty of destroying per sonal property. In a second ease in which he was charged with non-support, Slade pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty, he was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the sentence to begin at the expiration of the first. It was brought out in open court that the defendant was given a two month suspended sentence on June 25, 1951, that he violated the terms of the suspension and the sentence was invoked, mean ing that he is to serve that time also. Smith Roberson was sentenc ed to the roads for six months when he pleaded guilty of non support. The road term was sus pended upon the payment of the costs and a guarantee to support his family adequately for five years. Pleading not guilty, William Council was adjudged guilty of careless and reckless driving and was fined $50, plus costs. He was also directed to pay $10 damage done to shrubbery in the John A. Ward yard. Adjudged guilty of drunken driving, Jafus Mabry was fined $100, taxed with the costs and loses his license to operate a mo tor 'vehicle for twelve months. Oma R. Bullock was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Roy L. Watson was taxed with the court costs for speeding. Pleading guilty of careless and reckless driving, John Wesley Andrews was fined $50, plus costs. Charged with violating the li quor laws, Leamon Sherrod plead >ed^u^lty and wa« fined ciO, plus costs. Paul P Powell, pleading gui! ty of speeding, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Walter Jones, colored of Rob ersonviiie, was found not guilty of non-support. Facing the..court (Continued on page eight) | LIBRARY MEETING The Martin County Negro I.ihrkrv Association will hold an important meeting; in the home agent’s office in the ag ricultural building in Wil liamston next Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Principals of the Negro schools, communi ty leaders and other interest ed citizens from over the county are invited and urged to attend. Progress is being made to locate and maintain a library on a county-wide basis, and its cause will be further ad vanced at the meeting next Monday, it was announced. Tobacco Sales Went Over Three Million Mark Today After coasting along durirg most of the two weeks of the current season, tobacco sales are now in full stride on the local market, a report from Supervi sor Henry A. Johnson stating that the three million-pound mark was passed in a breeze to day with thirty or forty thousand pounds to spare. And the good part about it is the upward trend in prices accompanying the in creased poundage. Yesterday’s sale of 338,302 pounds brought the second high est price average of the season, trailing the peak reported on Au gust 23 by only a few points, and boosting the poundage to 2,696, 520 with a resulting average right at $50 per hundred. It is difficult to say that prices have increased since the quality o s controls the aver age to a great extent. However, farmers appear better satisfied than they were iast Thursday and Friday when averages dropped to the lowest points recorded this season. The market has been in a block since last Friday, and no one will offer a guess when the block will be cleared. It is possible that the opening of the schools and the withdrawal of the youngsters from the packhouses will slow down marketing, but no immed iate block clearance is expected. At the present time full sales are being placed on the floors a day in advance with a little "piling up" one day for sale two days later. The upward price trend was no ticeable today, and it is expected to continue. Enrollment Gains Reported By Most Schools In County Twenty-Pupil Increase In l.ocal Schools Firsl Day Of The New Term Preliminary reports unoffic ially gained here this morning pointed to substantial Rains in most of the county schools. The local colored high school was literally packed from wall to wall, and several grades being housed in outside quarters until the new high school building is completed. Similar reports were received from several other schools while others reported normal enrollments. Following heavy enrollments on opening day, Tuesday, the colored schools came back yesterday with re ports showing additional gains In the Williamston white' schools, the over-all enrollment j figures did not measure up to ex pectations. The elementary count | dropped from 811 to 800, but reg | istrations yesterday afternoon in I the high school school were in creased by twenty over the 224 count recorded on opening day last year. It is quite likely that the enrollment will reach and pass the 1,100 as the term pro gresses. All teachers were at their posts in the local white schools when the term was officially opened at 1:30 o’clock, including, It. G. Ste wart, principal; Miss Anna Belle Privott, mathmatics; Miss Mar garet Maud Thomas, social stud ies; Jack Butler, band; Mayhuc Edwards, commerce; Douglas Joyner, science; Mrs. Selma Bunt ing, Freneh-English; Mrs. Sallie R. Walters, English; Miss Jean DeWitt, science and mathmatics; II L. Austin, agriculture; Miss Margaret McDaniel, home eco nomies; W Carroll Blackerby, Jr. physical education; Miss Velma Collins, librarian; Miss Anne Roy ster, public school music; Misses Anne F. Carson and Mary G. Whitley and Mrs. Charlotte Aber nathy, eight grade; Miss Mildred Byrum, Mrs. Edna M Joyner and Mrs. Sophia W. Criteher, seventh grade ;Mrs. Erma B. Taylor, Miss Marital E:-' and Mrs Martha \ Tarkmgton, sixth grade; Miss Alice R. Berry, Mrs. Velina H. Coburn and Mrs Mil dred T. Crawford, fifth grad*; Mrs. Sara E Cherry, Miss Sue Henderson and Mrs. Alma J •PmcAJf? -fourti. grarirr MiarRtrer Manning, Mrs. Mary E. Gaylord (Continued on cage eight) Birthday Event For Hospital, -to The annual celebration of the I opening of the Brown Commun ity Hospital here which was post poned because of the tobacco harvesting season will be held next Wednesday, September 12th. Congressman Herbert Bonner has been asked to speak and he will be introduced by the Mayor Bob Cowen. Refreshing drinks will be serv ed and friends of the Hospital are invited to bring baskets and participate in the fellowship of the special occasion. INDUCTION Seven young Martin Coun ty men, including four vol unteers, are slated to an swer a final army induction call next Tuesday morning, it was announced this week. They are to report to Fort Bragg and will make the trip by regular bus schedule. Sirengthening Of Family Farms In The United States —•— Plans Arc llriiij! IVImlc To llolil Mcclinus In Kvery Section | A lot <>f people are looking at America's family farms and at the United States Department of Agriculture. Farmers, professional agricul tural workers, bankers, and bus inessmen interested in agriculture are reviewing the programs of the Department of Agriculture to de cide if these programs are ade quately serving family farms and what changes or improvements should be made. The occasion is the USDA Fam ily Farm Policy Review. In each county in the United States the County Agricultural Mobilization Committee is seeking opinions on family farm policy. Through this review USDA expects to get a clearer idea of what farm people think of its present agricultural research, extension .production I adjustment, price support, credit and other programs. Ideas on what a family farm is are usually a little vague, but USDA has suggested a brief defi nition A family farm, it says, is one which provides the main source of income for the farm family, on which tin farmer and ^ his family make most of the man agerial decisions, and for which 1 the farmer and his family provide a substantial part of the labor. I This definition includes about 98 percent of the commercial farms in the United States, and commercial farms produce most of : the farm products and sold in this country. Si ■ ’/era! ad van ■■ V '' nod for family farms Some of them ! arc economic, and some relate to social and political attitudes. Family farms arc usually pro * gressive. A farmer working for himself, as an owner or tenant, is r-iUjerrt-- Mv•<•/:, and / ■< w me I thods. He tries for high levels of [efficient production, and this not only makes his own income larger but provides more farm products for tin use of city people. On the social and political side, family farms help to build strong communities. Their operators are interested in churches, schools, and other community activities. In family farm communities a devo tion to democratic principles is likely to be strong. Family farms have many prob lems, and there are several USDA programs to help farmers meet them. The problem of getting a large volume of production is an im portant one. Many family farms arc too small and produce too lit tle to provide much of a living for (Continued on page six) Town Planning io Add Another Well To Water System -4 Difficult To Maintain An Adequate Supply lit Face Of (proving Demand Meeting in regular session last I Tuesday evening, Williamston's board of town commissioners made preliminary plans for add ing another deep well to bolster the local water supply. The su perintendent of the water depart ment was instructed to prepare specifications and call for bids, and immediate action is expected to follow. Anticipating the need for an other well, the commissioners ap propriated $15,000 and included the item in the 1951-52 budget. Preliminary surveys indicate that the added water supply can be made available for an amount slightly below that figure. It is proposed to locate the new well in one corner of the present plant site. According to the officials the water demand is growing so rap idly that th(> present source is hardly adequate to meet current needs. The new well unit will be the eighth for the system. Three of the seven were abandoned seven years ago, and a fourth one had to be deserted when the salt content reached alarming propor tions, leaving the town depen dent upon three wells. The town's new 300,000-gallon capacity water tank is almost completed, but there is some doubt if it can be filled in less tha nthroc or four days from pre sent sources and at the same time meet the current demand It was pointed out that the wells could be damaged if an attempt was made to fill up tin* tank straight 1 running while meeting the cur rent needs. i The abandoned well at the courthouse produced at the rate of 1 about 50 gallons per minute while those still in operation are supplying on an average between 250 and 300 gallons each per minute. | The board voted to have the old 75,000-gallon capacity tank re paired and painted by the com pany installing the new tank i The town has a cash balance of $25,096.33, including $2,134.00 in the special sewer tax fund, Trea (Continued on page eight) Young Bemocrais Elect New Officers Meeting at the Switch Tues day evening, representative young Democrats perfected their organization for the coming year and elected delegates to the State convention to be held at Caro lina Beach next week Pete Rogers of Bear Grass suc ceeds LcRoy llai risen also of Bear Grass as president of the I county unit, and Clarence Grif 1 fin was elected vice president. C. K. Martin of Robcisonville was re-elected secretary and treasur er. The group raised the $10 affil iation fee and the delegates, Mr. Rogers and Attorney Kdgar Gur ganus, were instructed to support B;i Staton of Sanford fv., president! The d« a'gates’ 'are' To pay their own convention expens (■s. mm i; is on With preliminary plans completed and canvassers set to complete their round-up by next Tuesday, the annual drive lor funds for the Wil liamston Mich School (ireen Wave Hand is on in full force this week. As evidence that the hand not only goes places hut re turns with proof that it cave the town a good representa tion on its travels, trophies have been added to the dis play in the store window on Main Street where they may be seen by those who have not had a chance to sec them in the trophy case at the high school. Contributions will be accepted at the store where the display is located or at local banks. > Annexation Project Officially Accepted t---\ NO SUCH LAW v_/ Fishing has become such an extensive hobby in this sec tion that "foreigners" appar ently can't understand what it's all about. A Yankee tourist, most ser ious, stopped here a few days ago and asked if North Car olina law required operators to carry two fishing poles on cars. Assured there was no such law, the tourist, still deadly serious, said he did not know but what there was such a law because every car he had passed between Wil liamston and Fdenton had two fishing poles on it. Reviews Rai And Mosquito Control Programs in Town --■*>-• Potential Typlms Vreu Is Found During Hal t’.on Irol Drive Here Appearing before the local town cumissioncrs in regular meeting Tuesday evening, W. B Gaylord, Jr., county sanitarian, reviewed the mosquito and rat, control programs advanced here during the first eight months of this year The review attracted considerable attention when it was pointed out that a potential typhus fever area had been found, the sanitarian adding that steps had been taken to reduce the danger to an absolute mini mum. Telling about the work done to reduce the mosquito menace, Mi Gaylord said that every swamp area, starting in the Skewarkey section out of town and running to Koanoke River had been spray ed four times prior to August 1, that 46,000 lineal feet of ponds and ditches had been sprayed al so. Seven barrels of DDT were used in controlling the mosquito in its breeding places. The sani tarian said that 350 homes and seventeen business houses, form ing more or less a ring around the town proper, had been spray ed. The control work was most ef fective during most of the sum mer, but the work was curtail ed by a labor shortage, and its effectiveness was lessened be cause it could not be handled at the most advantageous times. Up until a short time ago, the inns quito was held in check very well. Outlining the work handled in controlling rats, Mi Gaylord said that 550 pounds of red squill had amounts of uthei poisons. More than 500 rats were trapped alive, been used along with goodly and nearly 100 of them were cheeked for diseases. In one small area just off Washington Street and extending back to Wilson, rats were found to have been infested with the dangerous (Continued on Page tight) 9s I Mother 01 Local ! Resident Passes Mrs Norma Pritchard Pierce, mother of Mr- G P Hughes of Williamston and widow of J I5 Pierce, died at her home in Wind- I sor this morning at 1:00 o'clock,, following a long illness, the last , several months of which were I spent in bed. She was born in Bertie County Soptcmbei 27, i072, and was a member nt the Republican Bap tist Church. Surviving besides her daughter here are two sons, W. I. Pierce of Lewiston and James E. Pierce of Aulander; four daughters, Mrs. Clara Ward of Greenville, Mrs E. 1) Saunders, Mrs. Janie Russell and Miss Lillian Pierce, all of Windsor; a step-daughter, Mrs. E B. Hughes of Windsor; eighteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted at the home Friday after noon at J 00 o'clock. Town Population Figure Now Well Over 5,000 Nark Services Ordered Extended To New Territory In Western Seetor Nineteen families and approx imately 71) acres of territory were added to the town last Tuesday night when the board of com missioners officially accepted an annexation project centered in the western sector. The added area, including about sixty per sons, boosts the town’s popula tion figure to a point well over 3,000, it was conservatively es timated, , While certain town facilities had already been extended into the area, the officials ordered other services made available to all the new territory immediately. Today, the garbage collection trucks are making their first trips into the annexed section. Street lights were ordered in stalled as soon as possible on Park Drive at the Speight, Critch er and Corey corners. Owners of private water lines in the new area are to be refunded, the board ruled Street maintenance was also ordered for Park Drive, part of Sunset Avenue and a small portion of a street yet un named was ordered. All proper ty m the new territory is within reach of fire hydrants, but stan dard mains are to be extended in I the future, it was planned. | The annexation climaxes a long period of planning but fall* far short of the program out lined about four years ago. The extension of the town limits to include most if not all of West End and also North End was dis cussed, but the proposal was re jected by a recognized vote. The annexation officially effected Tuesday of this week was by petition, and the area while hav ing definite metes and bounds is marked by irregular lines. The annexation on the south side of West Main Street or that portion lying to the left side of Highway l>4 looking toward Eve retts, begins at the old town line at Park Drive near the Speight home and runs up to Sunset Ave nut, Frank Weaver's corner. Tha line then runs the length of tha Weaver property and .takes <| sharp left turn, running 200 feet east. From that point the ling runs 30 feet in a southerly direc tion to leave out four homes. The line goes from there 200 feet to Sunset Avenue and across that street 200 more feet before mak ing a right turn and running 000 feet m a southerly direction to a point where it makes another turn and runs 1,420 feet to a cor ner, a post and thence 201 feet to the old town limit in Perry Street The territory includes the Speight, Taylor, Weaver, Wool aid, Williams, Criteher, Price, Forbes, Corey and Brown homes. On the other or north side of West Main Street, the added ter ritory begins near the Jas. B. Peel home and runs up the street Avenue, excluding the corner" property It runs from the exclud ed lot a northwesterly direction 1,145 feet to a point in the een ti r of the A C. L. railroad track. From that point the line goes north .68 ao,4.J5to ... ... connect with the old town line. The territory includes the Wiar, John T Williams, Riddick, Wynne, Curtis, Powell, Corey, Wilhfui d and Prquhart homes. Start ( onstruetiun M ork On Several !\eiv Humes -$ t onstruction woik on several new homes here was started dur ing the past lew days, Dr. and Mrs. W F. C'oppage are building on School Drive, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Gurganus are budd ing on the corner of School Drive and Vance Street. Work has been resumed on the large Brock house on Vance Street by the Coulbourn Lumber Company. Construction work is nearing completion on a number of new homes.