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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT? FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE TIIE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK OLL VIK 5 XVilliamslon, Martin County, lS‘orth~Cdrdlina, Tuesday. January Id. i*J52 ESTABLISHED 1899 N$4h» ln$n J la, Six A'tElb* Wrecks Id Marlin County Properly Damage Estimat ed At $2,065 During Past Week-end - ft No one was injured but proper ty damage figures popped up in a series of automobile accidents reported on county highway and town streets during the past few days. At least half of the accidents were centered at street intersec tions in Williamston and Rober sonville, one'report said. In the first of the series of ac cidents, William L. Rodgers of Rocky Mount lost control of his f truck when two rear tires blew’ out at the same time on Highway 125 within the town limits of Oak City. The truck, loaded with dairy products, turned over, causing about $300 damage to the machine and cargo. Rodgers was not in jured, Patrolman R. P. Narron said following an investigation. Damage, estimated at about $200 by Chief Wm. Smith, result ed with the cars of Donnie G. Rob erson and Ellis Ray Stokes crash ^ed at the stop light intersection in Robersonville about midnight Saturday. Roberson was said to have been driving north on Mam Street and Stokes, driving east on Highway 64, was said to have crashed the light, striking the Roberson 1947 Mercury in the left rear. Stokes’ 1940 Chevrolet went out of control, tore down a road sign, hit a tree and came to a stop m Vance Roberson’s vard t A few minutes later the 1950 Chevrolet driven by James Hud gins and a 1949 Pontiac, driven by O. D. Woolard, crashed at the in tersection of Wililamston’s Mam and llaughton Streets, injuring no one but causing damage estimat ed by Officer Willie Modlin at $1,200, $400 t i the Chevrolet and $1100 to Woolard’s Pontiac. Hud gins, traveling east on Main Street was struck by the Woolard car v hich was traveling north on % Haughton. The Woolard car turn ed around twice in the interesc tion. No one was hurt, officers said. Driving east on Highway 64 Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, Booker T. Crandall stopped his 1947 Chevrolet fui « red light at the Main Street intersection in Rubersonville. Charlie Sheppard, traveling in the same direction, crashed into the rear of the Cran ^ Hall car, causing about $150 dam C: his car and about $.4/1 .damage lo Crandall's Chevrolet, accord ing to a report released by Chief William Smith who made the in vestigation. SuiiuSy alVemoun ai i.Ou o clock J It Crandail lost control of his 1937 Chevrolet on a sharp curve on the Claude Green Road near Robersonville and ditched the ma chine, causing damage estimated at $50 by Patrolman Narron who made the investigation. ♦ The last in the series of six accidents was reported Monday morning about 8:30 o’clock when Milton M Hefner, marine sta tioned at Camp Lejeune plowed into a trailer attached to a trac tor on Highway 17 near Mace donia church. Both vehicles were moving south and Hefner started to pass in his 1949 Ford. Appar ently misjudging the distance of approaching traffic, Hefner found . it necessary to pull back into his t line of traffic to avoid a head-on collision. Jasper Woolard, riding ■“ **'. aiter; a feet into the air and landed on his back, but he was not hurt, ac cording to Patrolman R. P. Nar ron who made the investigation < Gainor Edwards, driving the trac tor, was not injured. Damage to Hefner’s car was estimated at $100 and that to the trailer at about $25 by Patrolman Narron. ROUND-UP v Comparatively few arrests were reported by county and local officers last week-end, the records showing that only four persons were detained in the county jail during the per iod. Two were charged with public drunkenness and one each with drunken driving and an assault. Two of the foar were white and ages of the group caused from 21 to 59 years. -Mass X-niy-&itrvey Off-Fa ’Splendid Staff In. Cowin' The mass X-ray survey to ferret out tuberculosis was of, to a splendid start in this county last week-end when 1,534 persons fif teen years and older had chest X-ravs made in various commun ity centers. Last Friday, the first day the X-ray mobile units were in oper ation, X-rays were made as fol lows: Gold Point, 140; Williams ton, 434; Everetts, 152; West End, 85, a total of 812 On Saturday, the units reported X-rays in the following centers: Gold Point, 131, a total of 722, or a grand to tal of 1.534 the first two days. The units were not in operation yesterday, but the survey is be ing continued today and health officials are again appealing to every person in the county fifteen years oid and older to have chest X-rays made. No report is yet available on the findings during the first two days of the survey, but it is fairly certain that somewhere in the group a few cases of tuberculosis, unknown to the victim, will be found. The survey is to continue through Saturday, February 2. Check the survey schedule and have a chest X-ray made either in your own community or any place it is convenient to have it made. Only a couple of minutes are needed to have a chest picture made and determine your health standing. Wins By One Vote In Janiesville Election PROTEST According to unofficial but reliable information received here shortly before noon to day, at least one and possibly others low in the voting, will protest the municipal election held in Jamesville yesterday. No specific acts have been in mention, but alleged ir regularities in and around the polls likely will be charg ed. The appeal will go to the county board of elections where the allegeation.s are to be weighed. Losers were said to have contacted local attorneys to day. Named Chairman Bank Directors li G. Harrison, Sr., a Martin County man, was named chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Henderson last week. He was also named to the position of chairman of the board of the bank officers. Mr. Harrison has been with the Hen derson bank for a number of years ably serving it as executive vice president for a long time. in his annual statement as ex ecutive vice president to share holders of the First National aBnk, Mr. Harrison described the year 19,r>! a* one of the best in the bank's history. Reporting a num ber of new depositors during the year, he declared deposits increas ed fifteen percent over the year 1950 Profits were listed as the best in years. As of the close of business De cember 31. J 951, a report of the bank’s condition showed resourc es totaling $6,077,708.00. Cheek Announces For Re-Election Politics is coming gradually out of hibernation on the State front with the announced cadidacies of several seeking office anew or re election. The latest to enter the race is ^Wa]do-^.f'hcck. an able official, who seeks re-election as Com missioner of Insurance. Justice Itimous Valentine of the State Supjreme Court announced his candidacy some time ago. There are three candidates for governor with W. B. Umstead holding the spotlight at the pre sent Brandon Hodges has an nounced to succeed himself as •Sfrnte Trcasurcr.^_^^__ Officers Wreck Still In County —*> .... Raiding in Williamston Town ship not far from the town of Williamston, ABC Officers J. H. Roebuck and Cecil Bullock Mon day afternoon wrecked a small liquor distillery and poured out about 200 gallons of inferior mash The plant, the sixth one wreck I ed in the county so far this year, ! was equipped with an old oil drum which was used lor a still. A. Wallace Lilley Nominated Mayor; New Board Named Tilmau Collrain Leads The Ticket In The Field Of Kleven Candidates JamesvUle voters, participat ing in a spirited and one of the closest elections possible, nomi nated a new mayor and a five-man board of town commissioners in a court-ordered primary Monday. Tlu- approximately 170 electors out of a registration field of 183, gave Arthur Wallace Lillcy 83 votes and Leslie W. Hardison, in cumbent, 82 votes for mayor. It was reported that approximately five of those participating in the election cast no votes in the may or’s race. In the field of nine candidates for town commissioners, Tilman Coltrain led the ticket with 149 votes. P. C. Blount was second with 97 votes. O. W. Hamilton fol lowed closely in third place with 93 votes. J. Oscar Davenport was fourth with 90 votes, and Royal Gurganus rounded out the board nominees in fifth place with 87 votes All the five men got clear-cut majoi ities or mori than 77 votes which were necessary to nominate. The four other candidates failed to poll sufficient votes to contest the election, according to the Staff election laws. Other candidates for commissioned and their vote were, as follows: Benny Styon, 7G; L. H. Hardi son, 75; Edward L. Martin, 56; and James Smithwick, 53 votes. As far as it could be learned late last evening no request for a recount is being made in the may or’s race, and the nominees will go into the general election on February 5 with little or no op position anticipated in the form of an independent ticket or write ins. The general election next month is regarded, more or less, as a formality. Today, some of the losing caididates were said to be considering a protest. The present officials, Mayor L. W. Hardison and Commissioners James Long and L. H. Hardison, are to continue in office until their successors a1^"WTfy"T1WFed next month, it is understood. The election Monday was not without its pranks, but the voting was orderly and friendly, reports declared. One of the town's larg est industries was reported to have suspended operations for the day in the interest of the elec tion, and there were few parking places on the old Main Street poihng place ihc vote was being tabulated between 6:30 and 8:00 o'clock. No regular election was held last year in accordance with a special legislative act passed by the 1951 North Carolina General Assembly, and the one Monday was created by court order. It is understood the voters will be giv en another opportunity to vote on candidates in a regular primary in April of next year, meaning that those elected next month will serve about sixteen months before they will be called upon to oiter again for election. Slory-Si-Marsfc ‘Oftimes Is Yoiih Al Cherry Point —<*— Little Fellow There Is Now Recovering From At taek Of Paralysis Cherry Point.—Little Donald Tooley. of Havelock, N. C., is'a lively, typical youngster today— but at this time last year he was waging a battle for his health and perhaps his life. His fight was against infantile paralysis, the dreaded crippler and killer that all too often picks on little boys and girls like Don aid. Donald seems to have won his battle now. Nothing more than a few weak muscles remains to re mind him and his parents, Major and Mrs. J. J. Tooley, of last year's crisis with polio. The disease struck little Donald in November, 1950, some five months before his third birthday. If there hadn’t been a strong friend ready and willing to help, his story might not have the hap py ending that it does. The friend that stepped in to insure happiness instead of possi ble tragedy was the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, working through the Craven County Local Chapter. The Crav en chapter's personnel knew what to do when they learned about Donald's case, and Major and Mrs. Tooley firmly believe that the prompt action by the chapter gave Donald his chance to regain his health and to be able to run and plav like other children today. It was on a Sunday afternoon in November, 1950. that Donald developed a slight fever, which his parents thought was a symp tom of a cold. He was taken to the base infirmary for a check-up I and treatment the next day. By j the end of the day, Donald was 1 limping. By Tuesday he couldn’t walk. j "To our dread, his illness was 1 diagnosed as probable polio,” Mrs. Tooley recalls. ‘The Medical Qf i ficer advised that he be moved to a hospital for more definite tests and treatment.” Mrs. Tooley called the Craven County local chapter that night to seek advice. The local chapter immediately investigated Don ald’s case, arranged for treatment, and by Wednesday morning the boy was a patient in Central Car olina Convalescent Hospital, where competent, trained doctors and nurses began helping him back to health. "He received only the best of care,” Mrs. Tooley said. “Natural ly, we soon became worried about the tremendous cost of treatment, hospital care, and the services of doctors and nurses. But when we contacted the Craven County lo cal chapter again and offered to begin monthly payments toward the expense, we were told that every cent would be paid from funds raised in the 1950 March of Dimes.” Major and Mrs. Tooley agree with thousands of other parents that it’s a wonderful feeling of se curity to know that an organiza tion like the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis stands ready to protect anyone afflicted by polio, especially since its vic tims are so often small children. Funds from the National Foun dation provided the latest scien tific equipment and treatment for Donald, including the famous Sis ter Kenn.v treatment and physio ' didn’t, have to. live in an iron lung during his treatment, but one of the miracu lous machines would have been provided if needed. "We could not have borne the (Continued on Page Six) VANDALISM Two or more vandais raided the Burroughs-Spring Hill colored schoolhouse not far from Vernon Church last week-end and did consider able damage. Several windows, including glass and sash, were knocked out, but propoerty on the in side was not damaged. An estimate on the damages could not be had immediately. The damage was found Monday morning when Pro fessor James Buffalo went mere to open school. Officers Rounding Up 125 Citizens for Special Jury Duly —»— Order Issued Late Moudajy Afternoon By Judfie j Clawson Williams One hundred and twenty-ifve Martin County citizens are being summoned today to report to Washington Wednesday morning at 9:30 to form a jury to hear the first degree murder and kidnaping charges against Lafayette Miller, 22-year-old Negro man, who shot and killed Harvey Boyd, 21 and then kidnapped Mrs. Boyd at Chocowinity last Thanksgiving Eve. Miller, not too long paroled from prison, was arraigned in the Beaufort County Superior Court Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. An indictment for kidnapping was not preferred against Miller im mediately, but if prosecution on the murder charge fails, then it is fairly certain he will be charg ed with the second crime. Miller, after killing Boyd, took Mrs. Boyd and forced her into the trunk of her husband’s automo bile. Patrolmen making a routine check, found her and arrested Mil ler a short time later. The special venire was drawn this morning shortly after 9:00 o’clock, and includes: Jamesville Township: Mi*s George L. Cooper, Llewellyn Bar ber, Dempsy Williams, Alva R Roberson, James K Williams, Bonine L. Ange, J. C. Kirkman, L. C. Gardner, David Mizelle, A R Hardison, L. D Ange, John H. Cabarrus and O. W. Hamilton. Williams Township: Vernon W. Griffin, R. J .Hardison and At wood Gurganus. Griffins Township: John A. Griffin, J. Eason Revels, J. Le Roy Griffin, Roland B. Lilley, David E. Griffin, N. T Daniel, S. D. Roberson, Bruce L. Peel, Gilbert H. Ward, and R. Sherrod Corey Bear Grass Township: Leonard Bennett, Clyde Revels, Frank Holliday, William J. Sheppard, Dalton Roberson and Ophus Bail ey. Wiliiamston Township: Leslie K. Roberson, W O. Griffin, Jes sup Harrison, John Evans, S. C. Bailey, II L. Allen, Roosevelt Ruffin, D. I). Stalls, Jr. C. E. Jen kins, Jesse H. Rog< <h Brown, A P Purely, Robert L. Harris, C. Fisher Harris, Sam Pate, Delores Long Bcaird, Fer nando G Bowen, James Arthur Gurganus, C I). Bullock, Hoke S. Roberson, Hewett Edwards, W. O, Abbitt, Cross Roads Township: Roose velt Crandall, J Marion Griffin, Elisha Crandall and W. C. Faulk ner. Robersonville Township: Claude Jones, J. Henry Roberson, W. T Hurst, Charles Carraway, Paul T. Norwood, W. C. Chance, James II Highsmilii, James A Roberson, James H. Gray, Jr., James E Bullock, Will L. Spruill, B. L. Stokes, Walter L Baker, Maggie Ward, Harvey Warren, J. H. Col train, Hassell Warren, R. H. Ed mondson, R. K. Adkins, John Pitt G..JL, WHson—W- and Tom Clay. Poplar Point: J. S. Beach. Hamilton Township: Leslie Salsbury, Richard Raynor, N. D. P .ach, Rufus T. Chance, Neil (Continued on Page Six) -- Firemen Get Call •~SattndayNrjfirt -4b Willinmston's volunteer fin men were called cut a* fi:00 o’clock last Saturday evening when an automobile caught fire in the 100 block on South Haugh t<>n Street. Rudolph James ex plained that he had unconscious ly driven the Plymouth car with I he emergency brake on, that the car ran hot and caught fire. The owner and companions had the fire out upon the arrival of the fire-fighting equipment and little or no damage was reported. Call Seventy-Four Men for Pre-Induction In February With its manpower supply just about exhausted, the Martin County Draft Board is making unusually heavy pre-induction calls the latter part of this month and in February Thirty-seven men are being notified to report on January 28 for their pre-in duction tests, each for thirty-sev en men. One group is to report on February 7 and the other is to leave on February 2(ith. A final induction call has been received for ten men to report on Febru ary 12. There is some doubt il the final induction call for ten men on the 12th can be met. Twenty percent of those being notified to report for the pre-in ] duetion tests on the 28th of this | month are to come from the 4 II I list. Tljcy are to be re-examined I County Offices Report Income The foe system, including fines in the county and superior courts, added a tidy little sum to the Mar j tin County treasury last month, according to reports filed by Reg ister of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger. Clerk of Court L. D. Wynne and Sheriff M W Holloman. ; The .sheriffs office collected and turned ovei to the county $275.50 in fees, derived mostly from ar rests and papers served. Register of Deeds Getsinger re ported $591.70, derived from re cording papers, issuing licenses and various certificates. Clerk of Court Wynne reported a total of $4,427.23 to boost the total for the month to $5,294.43. The clerk of court’s office ae eounted for $2,360.00 in fines and $1,689.20 in costs from the county recorder’s court. Fines and costs from the Deefcmber term of the superior court amounted to only $71.15, and miscellaneous fees to taled $306.88. Report Openings In Civil Service pgjfW F.C ..Civil S 1'i'viiT [Regional Office, Washington, D. |C„ needs Civil Service Investiga ! tors to conduct personal investi 1 gations for loyalty, suitability and l security in connection with federal employment. Entrance salaries arc $.r).0(i0 for Investigatm and $4,205 for Investigator (Trainee) Train ees will be promoted to the higher salary upon satisfactory comple tion of one year of service Duty stations are in Washing ton, D. C , and throughout the States ol Maryland, North Caro lina, Virginia and West Virginia, and considerable travel may be involved. A written test is required. Ap plieants are being accepted by tin Fourth Umtj d States Civil Sei vice Region, Temporary "K" Building, 3rd and Jefferson Drive, S. W , W.ohingtofUiV D. C. A p () 11 c a'TTonnfffflffun U' e on i p i e t e information may be obtained from Julian Jackson at the local post office. Drainage Group Meets Wednesday ., Medina bo-t Friday momjtyL representatives of the Martin County No. 3 Drainage District commission took no action, look ing toward the advertising for bids on tlie drainage project lo cated for the most part in Rober son ville Townshp It was agreed at that time to hold another meet ing in Williamston Wednesday evening of this week at 7:30. The commission, composed of Messrs. J. K Winslow, Henry Rob erson and Rufus Taylor, will dis cuss the project with engineers] and -consider advertising for bids on thu. project, it walearned, I with the possibility that many, if not most of them will be accept ed for service. When the February calls are an swered, fifty percent of those go ing for the preliminary examina tions will come from the 4-F group, according to unofficial in formation received a few days ago. Those registrants whose draft status has changed since they reg istered and they have not notified the draft board of those changes, such as additions to the family, arc again warned to do so without further delay. Birth certificates are necessary to establish proof of a change in draft status. Those registrants who have moved and did not notify the draft board of a change in address, are advised to do so or be declared delinquent. FOHKSTin I'ltOIKCT James II. Phillips, District Extension Forestry Specialist, will conduct a forestry plant ing demonstration on the farm of i\1r. It. A. Ilaislip, Oak City, commencing at 2:00 I*. M., weather permitting, Thurs day, January 17th. A p p r o x i in a t e I y three fourths of an acre will he set with red cedars. The planta tion will be a 4-11 Club For estry Planting Project which is being conducted by Miss Eynette Ilaislip. Anyone interested in for estry planting is invited to at tend. Mr. Ilaislip’s farm is located about two and one half miles southeast of Oak City on the Oak City-llassell road. Austin Successor In School Named —■» — Lurry Hodges, u native of Stokes, was named by the local school committee last Friday eve ning to succeed Pete Austin as head ol the vocational department in the Wililamsloii High School, it was learned yesterday. Mr Hodges, a graduate of Stokes High School, recently ■com pleted his degree work at State Cuhege m rtdleigh anu Uiu m. prictice teaching at Middlesex Ih was m tlie service forty-two months during World War JI. lie will report here the latter part ot this week, and Mrs. Hodges, now employed in Kaleigh, will join him within a short time. They will make their home in the teacheragc. Professor Austin tendered his resignation a short time ago to become effective next Monday. Coming here in July, 1950, he has ably led the department and his resignation was accepted with re gret Mi Austin is going with the Hoik-Tyler Company as assistant manager of the company’s store here lie and Mrs. Austin are now at home m the Harris apartment on North Watts Street. There's still much moving in are yet unceitain, it was learned. Miss Della Lilley Died Here Sunday Miss Della Gray Lilley, 32, died at the home of her brother, J. Darned Lillev^j^jmth 1 Ijun'fr ton Street here Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock, ller condition had been critical only a lew days. However, she had been an invalid all her life and blind since she was four years old. The daughter of the late George Stubbs Lilley and Lvda Lilley, she was born near Williamstnn in June, 1919, and had made her home here with her brother fol lowing the death of her parents some years ago. Surviving beside;-, her brother is a sister, Mrs. Maurice Gardner, of Jamcsvillc, Politics - Economy UrFKey Words In ' The New Congress legislation Between Mow \nd Ne\t June To den ier Around Polities -A. By Stanley James Washington—Politics arid econ onmy will apparently be the key words in the second session of the Eighty-second Congress, which is getting under way here now. "Cor ruption will be heard often, too. Every one of the 435 members of the House, and more than a third of the 9fi Senators, must face the voters this year and all are keenly aware that there will be r presidential election, also, in No vember. So they will guide their votes accordingly. This indicates that C- ngress will: 1 Try to eut President Tru man's budget, even some of the previously saeronsanet items of defense. 2. Try to avoid raising taxes or running into the red ink. 3 Grant only the foreign aid as will be proved absolutely neces sary, and that with strings attach ed, requiring the European recip ients to do more fo rthemselves. 4 Possibly renew the price, wage and rent controls, but with weaker enforcement powers in stead of the stronger ones request ed by Mr. Truman. 5. Talk a lot about civil rights for political purposes, but proba bly pass nothing, since the South ern Democrats arc openly avow ing their detivmina*i n to filibus ter any such hi!1:; to death The Southern Democrats and the Republicans ar ■ in control of the Congress as tightly as they were in the first session. They will certainly bottle up most of the "Fair Deal" legislative propos als of the President. However, most of the Southern ers support the administration’s foreign policy, and so do many of thi' Republicans, and the result will be a continuation of the aid to Europe, tlv North Atlantic Treaty powers' military build-up plus a stronger front in Asia. Markers of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio want to make foreign policy an issue in the campaign, but they are staging an up-hill fight. The supporters of General Dwight D. Eisenhower tor President will have to back up the administration’s actions in Eu rope, because tho'e are Ike’s ac tions, too. Out* thin" all Republicans car. agree on, from the left wing of Senator Wayne Morse to the right wmifffl* Senator Jur McCarthy, is the issue of corruption. They are all agin’ it. Tin . are against sin, and for home, mother, and the flag. So are the Democrats. Mr. Tru man, after defending some of his erring brethren, has turned around now and declared his in tention to clear the rascals out. So there is a great race on, now, to see whi ther Mr Truman can clear them out before the Repub licans get a chance t> do it. The Democrats apparently think that if they can remove the source of the odors before election day. the voters will forget the smell. Then the Democrats can ham mer home their theme song—that only the Democrats arc the “Pos perity party.” They would like to couple “Pv ace” with "Prosperity .-hilt,, of course, this cannot be done un til there is at least a truce in Ko rea. No matter what its official name, the wai in Korea is consid ered a "war ' by the voters, and any attempt to call it something (Continued on Page Six) MARINES v: "N I About two-thirds of the young men who left this coun ty last week for final induc tion into the armed services, went into the Marine Corps, according to reports reaching here this week. It could not be learned immediately where the seven men chosen for ser vice in the marine corps are receiving their basie training. Most, of not all the other six teen men are at Fort Jackson for their basic training, U w as learned. *
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